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  <row Id="1" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47" CreationDate="2010-07-26T19:18:41.313" Score="12" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO has quite a few questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot;&gt;[latex]&lt;/a&gt;. Is it considered acceptable to go through those and reask the best ones here, or is that sort of question importing frowned upon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T14:51:48.973" Title="Importing questions from SO" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="2" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T19:24:48.460" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think yes. In fact, I’ll go ahead and ask one from Super User which hasn’t really been answered satisfactorily there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T19:24:48.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="3" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T19:25:22.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think so, provided they were not answered there - either of the Trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T19:25:22.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="4" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9" CreationDate="2010-07-26T19:46:25.693" Score="32" ViewCount="2980" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I understand, if you want to ask a question you know the answer to, you should at least give other people a chance to try and answer. This might bring solutions you hadn't thought about, but also it seems very stupid to ask a question and less than a minute later post your own answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why people should post questions and immediately post the answer to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-10-05T23:46:24.957" LastActivityDate="2012-10-05T23:46:24.957" Title="Asking a question and answering it yourself straight away" Tags="|discussion|faq|answers|asking-questions|policy|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="5" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-26T19:52:58.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll have to agree that people shouldn't answer their own questions immediately (or perhaps even at all). That sort of defeats the point of asking in the first place, even they already know the answer and it's for content building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T19:52:58.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="6" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-26T19:57:04.827" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two reasons, IMHO, that people should answer their own question - either they found out the answer meanwhile, or that they think the answer is very useful for other people, and want to share the knowledge. I have no problem with either, though I think you should give time for someone to perhaps provide a better solution/explanation that yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T19:57:04.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="7" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T19:57:42.513" Score="14" ViewCount="2020" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/181/can-we-turn-off-math-tex-please&quot;&gt;Can we turn off math-tex please?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1272/why-doesnt-maths-render-as-maths&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t maths render as maths?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but, until we get it, I have created a GreaseMonkey script for use here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/81977&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/81977&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use the script, simply enclose the markup in dollar signs like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$\frac{1}{2}$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script has some severe limitations in that it does not do recursive decent parsing.  As such, it cannot handle this format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;$ \text{ &lt;i&gt;$&lt;b&gt;content&lt;/b&gt;$&lt;/i&gt; } $&lt;/Pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is primarily of use for math markup, but will work for anything supported by these seven rendering services:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/formulas.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Charts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&amp;amp;chf=bg,s,FFFFFF00&amp;amp;chl=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;$\frac{1}{2}$ http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&amp;amp;chf=bg,s,FFFFFF00&amp;amp;chl=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.72pines.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;72 Pines&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.72pines.com/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;$\frac{1}{2}$ http://tex.72pines.com/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CodeCogs.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;$\frac{1}{2}$ http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathtran.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MathTran.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathtran.org/cgi-bin/mathtran?D=1;tex=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;$\frac{1}{2}$ http://www.mathtran.org/cgi-bin/mathtran?D=1;tex=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MimeTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mimetex.cgi?%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;$\frac{1}{2}$ http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mimetex.cgi?%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MathTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/cgi-bin/mathtex.cgi?%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;$\frac{1}{2}$ http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/cgi-bin/mathtex.cgi?%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sitmo.com/latex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Simto Equation Editor&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sitmo.com/gg/latex/latex2png.2.php?z=100&amp;amp;eq=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;$\frac{1}{2}$ http://www.sitmo.com/gg/latex/latex2png.2.php?z=100&amp;amp;eq=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-03-17T13:18:02.620" Title="We need Tex markup" Tags="|feature-request|beta|markup|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-03-22T20:40:35.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T19:58:55.990" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of the trillogy sites' content is licensed under the CC Wiki, Attribution, which means that this usage is encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, however, remember to link to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T19:58:55.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="9" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:03:19.880" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just asked a stack of questions to which I knew the answer --- in fact, I asked them by going through my preambles looking for anything strange!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're being answered as we speak, which is great. I plan to come back tomorrow to fill in any answers that weren't given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's best to let other people answer your questions, even earlier on, but it's better to answer your own question than to leave it unanswered or not ask it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T20:03:19.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="10" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:04:14.230" Score="37" ViewCount="1017" Body="&lt;p&gt;For syntax highlighting, StackExchange uses a general-purpose syntax highlighter (probably something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;prettify&lt;/a&gt;?), which guesses what to highlight based on the most common languages: C-like languages, Python, etc (and often gets highlighting of other languages wrong, e.g. when you have a Haskell function with a &quot;prime&quot; in it, everything after the &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; is highlighted as if quoted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this TeX.SE, it seems worthwhile to use a syntax highlighter that is more tuned to (La)TeX. How could we go about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A toy example of something that ought to be highlighted correctly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{enumerate}&#xA;  \item This is # not a comment&#xA;  \item This is % a comment&#xA;\end{enumerate}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good syntax highlighter would recognize which lines are comments, and also probably do something with 'begin', 'end' and 'item' (as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Formatting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX Wikibook&lt;/a&gt; does).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It seems a weaker version of this has been asked before as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/981/syntax-highlighting-hints/&quot;&gt;Syntax Highlighting Hints&lt;/a&gt;, and there's even a somewhat simple hack that is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/41419/allow-class-attribute-for-code-tag/41434#41434&quot;&gt;not implemented&lt;/a&gt;. Irrespective of all that history, consider this another request for TeX-specific syntax highlighting on this website, not necessarily using any of the more general solutions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T10:20:16.293" Title="Syntax highlighting" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="12" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:09:04.920" Score="67" ViewCount="1336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a moderator from MathOverflow, and this &quot;question&quot; is actually unsolicited advice, based on our experience from the initial launch of MathOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We should encourage everyone to vote positively as often as possible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every Stack Exchange site will eventually end up with a different &quot;base level&quot; of voting --- that is, the expected number of upvotes for a question of a given level of excellence. (This effect occurs because people see a good question, but already with a certain number of votes, and think &quot;oh, I would have upvoted this, but it already has enough&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easy for us to affect this &quot;base level&quot; by encouraging high levels of upvoting now. We're setting the standards, and this really will have an effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(On MathOverflow, we were very active about this early on, specifically encouraging all the initial round of users to vote early and often. You can compare statistics, and see that the average vote total for a MathOverflow question is much higher than on any of the other SE 1.0 sites.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case it's not obvious: the rationale for wanting this base level to be high is that it provides better positive feedback to good contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T13:19:28.987" Title="Vote early and often!" Tags="|discussion|voting|community|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="13" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:15:17.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this is that people using other browsers (like IE or Safari) see what looks like line-noise (although raw TeX markup is more acceptable on this Stack Exchange than on others).  A better solution may be to use a service that compiles the equation to PNG and then host it using a service like &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinypic.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TinyPic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/what-typographic-support-is-available-to-support-display-of-statistical-formula/30#30&quot;&gt;put together a list&lt;/a&gt; of such compilation services on the statistical analysis stack exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way everyone gets to see what the equation looks like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:10.007" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T20:15:17.357" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="14" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:16:29.663" Score="20" ViewCount="1074" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/519/write-an-elevator-pitch-tagline&quot;&gt;Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Note:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; wrong question. See this blog post for details: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/domain-names-the-wrong-question/&quot;&gt;Domain Names: Wrong Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're going to keep the name tex.stackexchange.com. But we WILL be setting up redirects from the more &amp;quot;popular&amp;quot; domains names (e.g. seasonedadvice.com to cooking.stackexchange.com, basicallymoney.com to money.stackexchange.com, and others as we go through the list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New question: &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Write and Elevator Pitch / Tagline!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/519/write-an-elevator-pitch-tagline&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click here to contribute ideas and vote.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[original message text below]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, so I'll get the ball rolling by asking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-10-09T01:02:17.787" Title="What should our domain name be?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2010-10-09T01:02:29.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-26T21:36:27.687" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="15" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:18:57.033" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;texoverflow.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obvious choice would of course be &lt;code&gt;texoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, which happens to also be available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T12:46:53.267" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T12:46:53.267" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T20:26:06.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="16" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:23:55.323" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with people that say you shouldn't ask questions you know the answer to; for content-building purposes it's very useful, but even on the established sites people ask questions they know the answers to if the question hasn't been posed before and they think other people might run into the problem in the future. I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; like when people ask and immediately answer the question, as it discourages other people from answering, but certainly post your answer after a certain amount of time if nobody else gets there first&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T20:23:55.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="17" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:26:30.683" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although something in imitation of Stack Overflow (&lt;em&gt;a la&lt;/em&gt; Math Overflow) is possible, in Joel Spolsky's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/domain-names/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;post on domain names&lt;/a&gt;, he recommends choosing something meaningful to the community, just as Stack Overflow means something to programmers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want to stay with the overflow theme with a TeX twist, though, I suggest: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;overfull hbox&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="48" LastEditDate="2010-07-26T23:17:31.163" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T23:17:31.163" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T15:17:32.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="18" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:28:37.387" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeXnicians.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(or something similar). Taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC, Knuth mentions the word &quot;texnician&quot; near the beginning of the TeXbook, where he explains how to pronounce TeX (asking &quot;texnician&quot; or &quot;texpert&quot;?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="110" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T21:45:34.183" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T21:45:34.183" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T15:17:32.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="19" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:29:58.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;badness10000.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T20:29:58.210" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T15:17:32.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="20" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:43:48.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;GetTeXnical.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Available, topical... snazzy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T20:43:48.240" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T15:17:32.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="21" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:45:50.107" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeXSupport.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;eh? eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has a default install of IIS7 on it, looks like it is a home PC, or something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I just noticed that this works whether or not you know how to pronounce &quot;TeX&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noobs will get the name of the site right. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="110" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T23:48:30.770" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T23:48:30.770" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T15:17:32.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="22" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-26T20:47:26.000" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeXnologists.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Though, I fear that this excludes Scott Hanselman...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T20:47:26.000" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T15:17:32.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="23" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T21:01:28.260" Score="3" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the obvious question: TeX/LaTeX isn't &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; about design and typography, but -- shall we say -- the conversation does tend that way quite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good design is first off about being functional (function over form, and all that), but I think a site like this can perhaps get away with being more obviously, or more self-consciously, stylish than others in the same stable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Myself, I'd go for wall-to-wall Helvetica and oodles of white space.  But opinions may reasonably differ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T12:52:04.850" Title="What should the site design look/feel/smell like?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="24" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-26T21:18:56.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find sometimes that while I'm asking a question, I'll realize the answer. If something like this does happen that the question can still be worthwhile, because it's possible there's a better answer, or an improvement to your own solution. Many of my own questions on sites like stack overflow are I did X like this, could I do this better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T21:18:56.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="25" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-26T22:02:41.067" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeXnocracy.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's available, and it also subtly hints at Scott Morrison's elitist vision for the site (which I suppose is either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your viewpoint).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T22:02:41.067" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-26T22:02:41.067" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="26" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-26T23:32:16.303" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;See also this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56511/tex-latex-questions-on-this-site-and-the-proposed-site-at-area51-for-the-same&quot;&gt;meta thread on stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; (and I apologize for being impatient in the first comment there:))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T23:32:16.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="27" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T00:04:15.027" Score="7" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;if appropriate, should we tag questions with the name of the relevant command (eqnarray, align) as well as the general topic (equations) ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-11-28T16:45:47.460" LastActivityDate="2011-11-28T16:45:47.460" Title="How to tag a question about a specific command" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="28" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34" CreationDate="2010-07-27T00:15:02.900" Score="6" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will it be appropriate on this forum to discuss LaTeX editing issues that are editor specific? For example, the two responses to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/100/tool-for-cleaning-latex-code&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; are Emacs specific. While AUCTeX and RefTeX make Emacs-based LaTeX editing a dream, I imagine that the majority of the community might not be interested in arcane discussions of font customization in AUCTeX to make things like nice, etc., etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T03:01:29.030" Title="LaTeX editing discussions that are editor specific" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27" CreationDate="2010-07-27T00:28:55.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say yes, when there's a particular command that the question is actually about, rather than the principle or the kind of output. If a particular command only appears in an answer, even the accepted answer, I'd still be hesitant to tag the question with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T00:28:55.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="30" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2010-07-27T01:04:39.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the status on web fonts? Latin Modern would be an obvious font choice, given its ubiquity in LaTeX documents, assuming there's a portable way to make it available in visitors' browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing screams LaTeX like that font. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T01:04:39.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="31" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T01:15:28.630" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeXnique&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;TeXnique.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love the TeX/Tech play on words. At least &lt;strong&gt;this one is available&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T01:15:28.630" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T01:15:28.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="33" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T01:18:55.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeXAnswers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;TeXAnswers.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes,  &lt;strong&gt;available!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Infinitely memorable. Direct and to the point.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Even if you don't know the correct pronunciation, you're going to &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T01:24:09.543" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T01:18:55.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="34" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28" CreationDate="2010-07-27T01:38:56.030" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;For any given question, the majority of the community will not be interested in it. Everybody has their own particular interests that generally span only a small part of the topic area of the site. So I'm inclined to say that editor-specific questions are okay, as long as the question relates primarily to *TeX and is not just a general question about an editor that someone happens to be using for *TeX editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editor-specific answers to an editor-independent question (as in the example you linked to) are kind of a separate issue, but I'd say they're also okay. Some people will be amenable to using any editor that gives them access to a particular feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T01:38:56.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="35" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T01:48:58.923" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeXnobabble.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't blame me; I was solicited to post this by somebody not in the private beta!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T01:48:58.923" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T01:48:58.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="36" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T02:42:56.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;texmf-qa.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;available&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Word play on texmf install trees. This reflects on expert side of customising and advanced usage of all things &lt;em&gt;TeX&lt;/em&gt; world. The non-standard -qa suffix reflects the purpose of the site and welcomes beginner users to ask basic questions as well. &lt;strong&gt;QA&lt;/strong&gt; stands for &lt;em&gt;questions &amp;amp; answers&lt;/em&gt; as well as &lt;em&gt;quality assurance&lt;/em&gt; bridging the gap between novice and experts in the typography field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T12:01:44.503" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T02:42:56.127" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="38" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="154" CreationDate="2010-07-27T03:49:32.867" Score="11" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/238/list-of-useful-external-tools&quot;&gt;List of useful external tools&lt;/a&gt; has triggered a discussion about the kinds of questions that should be allowed on the site. Specifically, how do we handle questions that are intended to just accumulate a list of tool/editors/commands/packages/whatever? I think we can all agree that some people would find them &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;, but is it really a good idea to have these giant lists? It seems to me that it would be better to keep questions tightly focused. Anything that would be a good answer to one of the list questions will probably also make an appearance on a more focused question where it is more relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, what do you all think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T16:44:58.837" Title="Should we allow &quot;summary of information&quot; posts?" Tags="|discussion|community|lists|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="39" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38" CreationDate="2010-07-27T03:55:00.353" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it a really bad sign that we didn't even make it a day into the beta before the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot;&gt;[subjective]&lt;/a&gt; tag was created. We should try to decide earlier rather than later what the stance should be on compilation questions like this; they were popular in SO's early days but generally aren't tolerated now, which leads to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People closing questions that are years old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other people complaining that those questions should be open because they're years old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People posting more questions along the same lines and citing the earlier questions as justification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm personally of the opinion that they absolutely shouldn't exist; they're not what the SE engine was designed for. They don't answer a specific question, they aren't helpful for people searching for answers to a given problem, and they tend to vastly skew metrics (viewing the top-voted SO posts (even in a given tag) is useless, because they're all poll questions). I thoroughly enjoy these questions, just not on SE sites; they belong on sites like Reddit that are formatted for that sort of thing, and people tend to have trouble differentiating &quot;this question is good&quot; and &quot;this question is good &lt;em&gt;on this site&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably sound a bit intense, but I'd very much like to avoid another issue like SO's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57363/concerted-efforts-to-close-hidden-features-of-x-language-type-of-question&quot;&gt;Hidden&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56669/should-hidden-features-of-x-be-removed-closed-locked&quot;&gt;Features&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52456/new-hidden-features-questions-coincidence-copycat-or-sock-puppet&quot;&gt;insanity&lt;/a&gt;; for a while we couldn't go a day without those questions coming up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T04:00:32.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="40" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41" CreationDate="2010-07-27T04:55:04.697" Score="5" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there some linkage in reputation between the meta site and the parent site ? my meta.tex rep is tracking my site rep, without any apparent new activity in meta. I actually like this, but haven't seen this behavior on meta.SO and SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T07:30:40.203" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T07:30:40.203" Title="Reputation linkage between main site and meta ?" Tags="|discussion|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="41" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40" CreationDate="2010-07-27T05:08:03.880" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your reputation on meta is the same as your reputation on the normal site- it is updated every hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complete information is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;contained in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T05:08:03.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="42" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38" CreationDate="2010-07-27T05:12:27.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see what is wrong with questions which are attempting to get a list of tools/packages, as long as they're classified as community wiki. I have learned a fair amount from such questions being posted on StackOverflow and gauging what people think based on the up-votes of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/205/what-graphics-package-do-you-use&quot;&gt;what graphics package people use&lt;/a&gt; in an attempt to be made aware of anything out there that is better than TikZ, or that might be good for particular applications, and it was commented upon negatively as &quot;I think we should discourage very open ended questions like this one&quot; and it had a few votes to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd personally like to see questions in the community wiki like 'What latex resources do you find indispensible?' or 'What packages could you not live without?' which both have counterparts on StackOverflow. Of course, the community might decide they don't like these types of questions and they will simply not get up-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T05:12:27.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="43" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T07:34:27.303" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeXHelp.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple, and very similar to TeXSupport, but I think it won't encourage people to ask about TeX installation problems. We offer help, not technical support :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T07:34:27.303" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T07:34:27.303" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="44" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T09:13:49.380" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;ten.pt&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notwithstanding the suggestion that &lt;code&gt;.com&lt;/code&gt; domains should be preferred, &lt;code&gt;ten.pt&lt;/code&gt; has a sly reference to typesetting, and would certainly be memorable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no A record attached to the domain, though it does appear to be registered as an SOA record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be other problems, since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ccTLD&lt;/a&gt; has some restrictions on second-level domains.  If this were attractive, though, I'm sure these could be investigated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T09:13:49.380" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T09:13:49.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="45" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7" CreationDate="2010-07-27T09:26:00.043" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do we need TeX markup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, what is usually meant by this is &quot;We need TeX &lt;em&gt;mathematics&lt;/em&gt; markup&quot; rather than the full power of TeX.  That's subtly different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, what benefit would that bring to this site?  I can't actually think of one, but I can think of several reasons why it would be a bad thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might interfere with quoting TeX markup that is meant to be left alone (it can quickly get annoying to have to put every TeX command in backticks)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whatever method is used, it is likely to have its own idiosyncrasies and so it could become hard to distinguish errors due to TeX from errors due to the conversion method&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If people need to show something that's compiled to demonstrate an error, then they should link to a PDF where they can be &lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt; sure that what everyone else is seeing is what they mean them to see&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For comments on actually implementing this, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/129/embedding-latex-equations-into-a-webpage/310#310&quot;&gt;my comments&lt;/a&gt; to this question on the main site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T09:26:00.043" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="46" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T09:29:18.453" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Everything.You.Ever.Wanted.To.Know.About.TeX.But.Were.Afraid.To.Ask.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(sorry, sorry, I'll hide back in my cave again)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T09:29:18.453" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T09:29:18.453" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="47" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T09:34:08.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are also a few on mathoverflow that could also be imported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose the following guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only ask the question &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; when reading it you think, &quot;Hmm, I'd like to know the answer to that one too.&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only ask the question if it hasn't been satisfactorily answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-ask the question rather than just cut-and-pasting it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link back to the original question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, for a really great question these could be broken.  The point of 1 and 3 is that if, as an answerer, I want to clarify some details before posting my answer then I don't want to go back to the original site and ask them there.  I want to leave a comment and get some meaningful response from you, the asker.  So 1 and 3 are there to ensure that I don't get the response &quot;Dunno, I just copied this from SO.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T09:34:08.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="48" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49" CreationDate="2010-07-27T09:38:47.160" Score="12" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems, from the reference linked to my right as I type, that to put in code snippets I need to indent everything at least four spaces.  Is there some easy way to do this automatically for a large block?  I imagine that SO would have solved this since that's a site about coding, but I can't see how it's done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(MarkdownExtra solves this by allowing &quot;fenced&quot; code blocks: pre- and append the block with a line consisting of three (or more) tildes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T13:49:47.837" Title="Is there some trick to writing code snippets?" Tags="|feature-request|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="49" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:05:33.637" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can select the text you want to convert to a code snippet and press the &lt;strong&gt;Code Sample button&lt;/strong&gt; in the bar above the text area (or, alternatively, &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;). Is that what you want or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastEditorUserId="165" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T10:25:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T10:25:07.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="50" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:16:57.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides using that 101010 button on the toolbar, you could just use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Like&#xA;    this.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; there will be no code highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T10:16:57.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="51" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:24:17.320" Score="19" ViewCount="498" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an increasing number of questions on the parent site which are being tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;tex&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;latex&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Although the second one could be justified in some cases, the first one doesn't have any sense in a site specifically devoted to TeX questions (it is like tagging a question &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;em&gt;maths&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net&quot;&gt;mathoverflow.net&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;strong&gt;I think the &lt;em&gt;tex&lt;/em&gt; tag is redundant and should be removed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:22:38.260" Title="Avoid using the &quot;tex&quot; tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="52" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:35:16.140" Score="8" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there someone with the power to merge tags?  If so, I propose merging &quot;macro&quot; and &quot;macros&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally, should we prefer singular or plural tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T23:11:11.457" Title="Can someone merge tags? (and singular versus plural tags)" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="53" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:40:50.597" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of &quot;horses for courses&quot;, is the SE software the best platform for the &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; site?  At MathOverflow, they use a traditional forum for the meta site and I feel that it works very well.  Things on meta don't always coalesce into straightfoward &quot;question and answer&quot;; sometimes a discussion is warranted, sometimes a post is simply for information - as an example, I just posted a proposed tag merge; on MO there is a permanent thread where people can post such proposals meaning that it doesn't bother anyone else and the moderators have a single place to check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does anyone else think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add a couple of points in favour of a traditional forum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt; of the meta site is to deal with issues arising from the main site.  From experience at MathOverflow (the most successful of the first round SE sites), these are often issues where there is some disagreement and where it is important to be sure that different viewpoints are heard.  So discussions are not just encouraged, they are necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The comparisons with how it works on SO are invalid.  The SO trilogy is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; community led in the same way as this site is community led.  The SO trilogy has a (benevolent) dictatorship and so the dynamics of SO are different to the dynamics here.  On SO it's much more &quot;What's the rules on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; or &quot;How do I do &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; whereas here it's going to be &quot;What should the rule on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; be?&quot; or &quot;Should we ask SE for the ability to do &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;.  For example, after spending yesterday on tex and meta-tex, I have no clear idea of who's &quot;in charge&quot; or even if &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; is &quot;in charge&quot;.  MathOverflow [MO] also has a benevolent dictatorship, but many of the early users &quot;out-ranked&quot; said dictator in real life and so felt no compunction about speaking their mind!  So, I feel, the comparison with MO is much stronger than with SO and having a traditional forum for meta has really helped us shape MO to the useful tool that it is for mathematicians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The canard about forums being a disaster area is also not relevant.  My experience of forums (fora?) is entirely positive &lt;strong&gt;because&lt;/strong&gt; (I think) those forums exist for something outside of themselves.  The nForum (which I run) exists to serve the purpose of the nLab, and so it's easy to identify inappropriate behaviour.  Similarly meta.MO exists to serve MO and again it's easy to identify inappropriate behaviour.  A meta.TeX forum would have the same link.  No &lt;em&gt;sane&lt;/em&gt; person would &quot;hang around&quot; on meta.TeX just to troll it.  Even the insane ones (and we get plenty of those in mathematics) tend to keep away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once saw a picture on Jeff Attwood's blog where he drew a Venn diagram with wikis, forums, and blogs as three big circles whose intersection was SO.  I completely agree with that diagram, but I draw a completely different conclusion from it.  The SO software combines features of all three, but also loses features of each of them.  So if you want the features that SO provides, it's fantastic.  But as soon as you need something a little more like one of the other three types, the SO software creaks at the seams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's not a &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt;.  As a die-hard Linux user, that's just how the best systems work!  Lots of small programs, each doing one thing and doing it well, add up to a global system that doesn't just beat the competition, it beats it, whips it, and puts it in the oven to make a delicious cake out of the pieces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T07:21:10.287" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T12:42:20.110" Title="Is SE the right platform for the meta site?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="54" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:42:58.173" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;If one could guarantee that the 'tex' tag was used to mean 'this is a question about the bowels of TeX, if you don't know the difference between &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\edef&lt;/code&gt; then don't read any further' then I would argue that there was a place for it.  However, the parallel universe where that happens is nowhere near this one so I second the proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T10:42:58.173" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="55" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:52:58.083" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the sentiment that the SE software is not a great place for these lists.  In addition to the other reasons given, I'd add that the lists so compiled are never complete.  They attract a lot of answers when they first appear, but then very few people go through and answer them later on, meaning also that they quickly get out of date.  The voting system also doesn't work with these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given that these are inevitable, I would like to suggest a Third Way (I am British, after all).  I think that &quot;Let's have a big list&quot; can easily be turned into an acceptable question, along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can someone give me a link to a list of graphics packages for LaTeX, preferably one that lists the main features (and disadvantages) of each?  If not, is there an obvious place where could I start one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(tag suggestion: reference-request)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the answer to the first is &quot;No&quot;, the person can start a list and include the link in the question in a later edit.  Inevitably, some answers will contain actual graphics packages, but then the questioner can copy those across to the list.  Note that the questioner - and only the questioner - gets notified when a new answer is posted so it's easy to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T10:52:58.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="56" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:56:36.330" Score="16" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the seven essential questions is: what goes in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should bear in mind that no-one ever reads these things first off.  Their purpose is so that when someone takes some action (like closing a post) then they can point to the relevant place in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what should go in the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FAQ entries in other questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several FAQ entries were proposed in other questions. Here is a list of them (please add any new questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;Minimal Examples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340/1235&quot;&gt;Editing etiquette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/227/quality-standards-for-answers&quot;&gt;Quality standard for answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/598/1235&quot;&gt;How do comment notifications work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/863/how-do-i-mark-inline-code&quot;&gt;How do I mark inline code?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/374/link-to-editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/294/about-meta-tagging&quot;&gt;About meta-tagging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302/our-set-of-tags&quot;&gt;Our set of tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336/faq-request-encourage-use-of-big-list-meta-tag&quot;&gt;The &lt;code&gt;[big-list]&lt;/code&gt;-tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/365/what-to-do-with-the-latex-tag/366#366&quot;&gt;The &lt;code&gt;[latex-*]&lt;/code&gt;-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/219/which-questions-should-be-marked-community-wiki-which-ones-should-just-be-clos/250#250&quot;&gt;Community Wiki questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197/so-versus-mo-model-possible-faq-entry&quot;&gt;SO versus MO model&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-02-13T17:09:37.363" Title="What goes in the FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|faq|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T17:59:40.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="57" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:58:13.333" Score="6" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got the &quot;Hello Robot&quot; screen, typed in the two words, noticed I'd mistyped one but my finger hit return too quickly for me to stop, and yet it got accepted!  The mistyping was that I missed the last letter of the second word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T07:29:44.510" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T07:29:44.510" Title="Who's a robot? Not me!" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="58" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-07-27T10:59:35.610" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I think should go in is a tagging guide with a list of what are considered the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; tags; that is, the tags such that every question should have one of - whatever they may be!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T10:59:35.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="59" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="57" CreationDate="2010-07-27T11:07:11.477" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;That’s by design – the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reCaptcha&lt;/a&gt; technique works by displaying two words that were scanned from a book: one of the words had already been recognized, the other not. Thus, reCaptcha checks whether you’re a bot by seeing if you typed the already known word correctly. The other input will be accepted at face value since reCaptcha &lt;em&gt;doesn’t&lt;/em&gt; know yet whether it’s correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the input is used to train the word recognition software, so with time it gets better at recognizing scanned words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T11:07:11.477" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="60" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-07-27T11:14:24.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I’m for plurals. This is the established usage on Stack Overflow, compare &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50088/official-repository-of-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Meta: tag synonym repository&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators (which will be voted for some time in the public beta, I think?) will have the power to merge tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T11:14:24.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="61" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2010-07-27T11:29:46.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like the current construction paper look very much. If at all possible, I’d propose using it for the final site. There may be no direct connection to TeX but there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; one to layout and design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T11:29:46.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="62" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-27T11:33:07.910" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting FAQ-style questions with answers was actively encouraged in the early phase of Stack Overflow. After all, the purpose of the site was to create a knowledge base. It has become less common since, but it’s still acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t see why we should deviate from this: &lt;strong&gt;Answers are good&lt;/strong&gt;, no matter who posts them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people use this to spam the board with useless content, the voting system will take care of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T11:33:07.910" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="63" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-27T12:11:13.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;How else would you earn the self-learner badge?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T12:11:13.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="64" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2010-07-27T12:19:35.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never used plain TeX, only LaTeX. Maybe the tag should be &lt;strong&gt;plain-tex&lt;/strong&gt;? For those who are not using any metapackages, or what to do something cool using plain TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T12:19:35.200" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="65" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7" CreationDate="2010-07-27T12:23:30.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;#latex&lt;/code&gt; channel on irc.freenode.net has tex, latex and context bots which can generate pngs and svgs. I would be great when explaining and showing the differences between suggested approaches, as sometimes it is very subtle and not obvious from the markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. explaing \phantom is best with two small samples/images then by saying ``it's like invisible ink&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T12:23:30.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="66" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="68" CreationDate="2010-07-27T12:27:42.297" Score="-7" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great for &lt;code&gt;latex, tex and context&lt;/code&gt; and similar words be automatically converted to &lt;code&gt;LaTeX, TeX and ConTeXt&lt;/code&gt; preferably even with proper baselines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T14:22:44.703" Title="Automatic capitalisation and typesetting correction for TeX, LaTeX and FrieNds." Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="67" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2010-07-27T12:34:22.143" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Precision, Quality, Beauty&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO these are the main goals behind TeX typesetting, hence these qualities should scream. It would be amazing to generate all graphics for the website using *TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.texample.net/tikz/&lt;/a&gt; because it has nice curly graphics, sharp aesthetic lines and TikZ related line decorations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T12:34:22.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="68" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="66" CreationDate="2010-07-27T12:43:50.563" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not when it refers to a command name!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T12:43:50.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="69" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2010-07-27T12:45:01.437" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think the &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; tag is the useless one. Most users coming to this site are probably dealing with LaTeX and, by default, our answers should be as most LaTeX-friendly as possible, using robust macros and packages. And &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; if the question is tagged as &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; (or maybe &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt; or maybe &lt;code&gt;macros&lt;/code&gt; or maybe something else?) we know that the poster has some TeX experience and is confident with using low-level commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T16:02:51.087" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:02:51.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="70" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="53" CreationDate="2010-07-27T12:58:33.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it works for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; and its &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; site. And about the example you mention, you can open a &quot;question&quot; about merging tags where each &quot;answer&quot; is a proposal that can be discussed in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T12:58:33.467" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="71" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38" CreationDate="2010-07-27T13:03:02.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with &quot;lists of somethings&quot; as long as they are CW and the &quot;somethings&quot; is somewhat specific: e.g. graphic packages, or sites with BibTeX citations. However asking for a list of &lt;em&gt;external tools&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;em&gt;Anything&lt;/em&gt; could fit in there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some list-of questions it might also be useful to revise the answers from time to time and include the seemingly best solutions into the question itself, so that people googling can quickly find the information they're looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T13:03:02.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="72" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-07-27T13:18:25.267" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's another thing that's just occurred to me: the SE platform is extremely good at what it does, but is completely rubbish at what it isn't designed for (seems obvious, really).  However, one common experience from MathOverflow is that when closing questions that don't really fit the platform, the questioner complains &quot;Well, where &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; I have asked it then?&quot;.  So I think that in the FAQ there should be a list of other places to find resources on TeX etc (or, a list of a few of the most likely and a link to a longer list).  I'm not sure what those are, presumably others do.  Linking to CTAN is an obvious one, as is tugboat and the TeXFAQ.  The tex-users mailing list should probably also be on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T13:18:25.267" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="73" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T13:54:06.740" Score="45" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the answers will probably be of the form &quot;Use package &lt;code&gt;whatever&lt;/code&gt; to solve your problem.&quot; Wouldn't it be nice if we have some light syntax to make &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;whatever&lt;/a&gt; point to the appropriate package in the CTAN catalogue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T14:42:31.520" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:53:37.490" Title="Automatic links to the CTAN catalogue?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="74" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T14:08:01.060" Score="4" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just hit the reputation cap (been a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time since I did that on MathOverflow) so all my incentives for answering or asking questions today have just defenestrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flippancy aside, when is the &quot;day&quot; calculated from?  At what point can I start accumulating reputation again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T17:42:48.087" Title="What day is it today?" Tags="|discussion|request-for-information|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="75" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2010-07-27T14:08:25.363" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea. The same would be nice for core (La)TeX macros, too. Especially since some of them aren’t that easy to google for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T14:08:25.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="76" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="110" CreationDate="2010-07-27T14:10:40.303" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I regard it as a particularly major bug ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T07:31:19.763" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T07:39:33.363" Title="Advertising info link points to the current url" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="77" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T14:46:30.890" Score="6" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I've been voting on stuff posted in the beta (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12/vote-early-and-often&quot;&gt;early and often&lt;/a&gt;), I'm getting a message about nearing my daily vote limit. When we're intentionally trying to seed the site with content, we shouldn't restrict the number of votes that early users are allowed to cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T18:19:55.843" Title="Why a daily vote cap on a new beta site?" Tags="|discussion|beta|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="78" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T14:51:48.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think questions tagged [tex] or [latex] from other SE sites should actually be moved over here. If the goal of an SE site is to be &lt;em&gt;the place&lt;/em&gt; on the Internet with answers to questions about X, then the collection of SE sites should be managed as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T14:51:48.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="79" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2010-07-27T15:08:26.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Playing with the Developer Tools in Chrome I just edited the css of the site to change the font to Helvetica. It does look nice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G30HT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Site in Helvetica&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T11:51:37.763" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T11:51:37.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="80" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T15:08:34.550" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;BoxesAndGlue.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my favorite features of TeX layout!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T15:08:34.550" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T15:08:34.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="81" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="53" CreationDate="2010-07-27T15:33:39.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm happy with a SE-based Meta site. A &quot;traditional&quot; forum leads to so many problems of its own, and I feel that it encourages discussion more than necessary. Just because it's a meta site doesn't mean &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; on it should take the form of a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer sticking with SE for Meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T15:33:39.140" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="82" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2010-07-27T15:37:19.377" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is either of them useless?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I want to ask how to do X in LaTeX? I'm not interested in answers talking about how to do it in regular TeX, or LyX or any other variants, just LaTeX. How should I tag it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, what if I'm interested in how to do the same thing in TeX specifically? A LaTeX answer is no good to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aren't both the tags justified then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem obviously becomes enforcing this discipline (so &lt;code&gt;[tex]&lt;/code&gt; doesn't end up on &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps we should use [latex-only] and [tex-only] to indicate questions about those specifically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T15:37:19.377" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="83" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2010-07-27T15:41:23.153" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another idea, as TeX is all about care for the smallest typographic detail, it would be nice if &lt;code&gt;&quot;quotes&quot;&lt;/code&gt; would automatically typeset educated “quotes” instead of the boring &quot;quotes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T15:41:23.153" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="84" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="97" CreationDate="2010-07-27T15:47:08.987" Score="31" ViewCount="868" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scott Morrison made a few comments in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14/what-should-our-domain-name-be/19#19&quot;&gt;the domain name thread&lt;/a&gt; calling himself a &quot;shameless elitist&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's a good question to ask then:&#xA;how &quot;elite&quot; is this site? Do we aim for &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; kind of TeX question? Is it going to be experts only? For package developers/maintainers only? For LaTeX3 developers only?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is someone who just enrolled at University, and has to figure out how to write his first assignment in TeX going to be welcome on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't followed MathOverflow closely, but it's my impression that they chose to go aim for a certain minimum skill level, excluding a lot of beginner questions. That probably makes sense for their domain (to avoid it getting flooded with second-graders asking for help with questions about subtraction). But what's our policy going to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should follow a similar policy to StackOverflow, that no question is too simple. I certainly want expert users to use the site, but I &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; think a big part of its value is that it might provide a useful repository for beginners and for people just trying to get simple tasks done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's throw it out in the open and see what everyone else thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T18:28:37.597" Title="How &quot;elitist&quot; should the site be?" Tags="|discussion|community|policy|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="85" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38" CreationDate="2010-07-27T15:52:33.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in general alignment with much of the spirit of the question. I do, however, bristle a bit at &quot;should we allow&quot;. I vote for &quot;allow, but use the voting mechanism, and comments to strongly discourage.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not allowing would involve deleting, I'm strongly opposed. Since there is a clear constituency for such &quot;list all X&quot; questions, leaving some such questions on the site with downvotes and rationales will serve to convey to (at least some of the) newcomers who want such questions that that's not quite how the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: In light of @ShreevatsaR's useful comment, I change to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I vote for &quot;allow, but use the voting mechanism, the ability to close, and comments to strongly discourage.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="93" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T16:19:20.230" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:19:20.230" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="86" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-07-27T16:00:25.940" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely agree with your position. We all know that (La)TeX has a steep learning curve, and getting useful help when one is a beginner is crucial to decide if someone will just go back to Word or stay as a happy TeX user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should therefore also pay attention on the kind of answers we provide and make sure they match the level of knowledge of the one who is asking. Also for entry level questions, we should aim at giving simple answers that &quot;just work&quot;, and not bothering users with lower level details or wars on &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;latex + dvips + ps2pdf&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:00:25.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="87" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2010-07-27T16:01:07.827" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is true that most questions will be LaTeX related. (I've tagged some things with the latex tag, but not without some concern.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the tex tag &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; needed, I think. I answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/299/how-to-get-long-ttext-sections-to-break&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in LaTeX terms, then saw the tex tag, and deleted my answer. I've also commented on two other answers along the lines of &quot;LaTeX answer to TeX question&quot;. I wasn't sure that it was a TeX not LaTeX question until I saw the tex tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:01:07.827" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="88" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-07-27T16:09:44.327" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Scott's position is a good one w.r.t. MathOverflow (it's clear there's a need for quite technical maths questions, not catered for elsewhere), but there's a need for an arena for the &lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; range of LaTeX questions, from 'what package does X?' to questions about &lt;code&gt;\afterassignment&lt;/code&gt;. Indeed, the top end of that range is potentially best catered for by comp.text.tex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c.t.t is full of really good stuff, and some &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; knowledgeable people, but although folk are generally polite, it's a rather forbidding environment for someone who just wants to know how to format their thesis to match their local regulations.  Here, we're unlikely to get schoolchildren asking about their LaTeX homework!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've adapted this response from a comment in the originating thread)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:09:44.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="89" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-07-27T16:13:18.410" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think all level of TeXpertise ought be welcome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MathOverflow people have to contend with the issue that huge swaths of people have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; connection to mathematics and they really do need a Q&amp;amp;A venue for those who read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springer.com/series/136&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yellow books&lt;/a&gt;. By contrast, anyone embarked on learning TeX or LaTeX is already reasonably elite for having taken that route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, being &quot;the site that really helped me get my LaTeX skills&quot; is a great way to ensure that a newly minted elite user comes back to ask and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="93" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T22:00:59.667" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T22:00:59.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="90" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-07-27T16:22:08.713" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;As amazing as Math Overflow is, I don't think there's much scope for an expert-&lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; website here. For one thing, there's no clear way to set a minimum level (unlike &quot;graduate-level mathematics&quot;). For another, seemingly trivial questions can sometimes require expertise over intricate details, and vice-versa — it's hard to tell when asking a question. And well, purely academic discussions about TeX aren't all that interesting even to most TeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow model, where all programming questions are welcome with no minimum level, makes for a website that is useful to the greatest number of people. (Incl. beginners, those who arrive through searching on Google, etc.) There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; some advantage to the MO model (experts are more likely to visit and look at all questions, if they know all questions will be nontrivial), but SO does seem to get quite a few experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for better or for worse (mostly for the better!), I think we've got to go the StackOverflow way where all levels of questions are welcome, with whatever side-effects it implies. (Questions and answers of broader interest will sometimes/often get more upvotes than more &quot;expert&quot; questions etc. But this is inevitable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:22:08.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="91" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2010-07-27T16:22:38.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the existing answers I propose to have the following tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;tex-hacks&lt;/code&gt; for meaning &quot;I know about &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\edef&lt;/code&gt; so TeX hack-ish answers are fine&#xA;for me. But hey, I'll also welcome any LaTeX answers too!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;plain-tex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;context&lt;/code&gt;, etc. for meaning &quot;I only care about answers for this&#xA;particular set of macro extensions. Don't bother me with anything outside of this scope!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lone &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; tag should then be ditched and replaced with a more specific one, i.e. either &lt;code&gt;tex-hacks&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;plain-tex&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:22:38.260" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T16:22:38.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="92" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-07-27T16:34:10.717" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should try to preempt questions about how to typeset specific characters (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/396/&quot;&gt;Does LaTeX support the sarcmark?&lt;/a&gt;) by putting links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Detexify&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comprehensive Symbol List&lt;/a&gt; in our FAQ (and encouraging people to consult those first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:34:10.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="93" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="77" CreationDate="2010-07-27T16:41:41.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely agree! I see no reason for a vote limit, and even if there is one, 30 votes per day seems too restrictive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T16:41:41.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="94" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T17:21:07.747" Score="12" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;As pointed in the comment below there are two =) I wish for Knuth to pop in here one day ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-10-02T07:13:47.747" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T07:13:47.747" Title="How can we attract experienced TeX hackers to participating on this website?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|community|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="95" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="74" CreationDate="2010-07-27T17:42:48.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the same as all the other sites, UTC. You can see the current time on the &lt;strong&gt;Recent Activity&lt;/strong&gt; page (the envelope icon next to your name), at the bottom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all times are in UTC; the current time is 2010-07-27 17:42:32Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/27199/when-does-a-day-start&quot;&gt;When does a day start?&lt;/a&gt; on the SO meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T17:42:48.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="96" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="94" CreationDate="2010-07-27T18:11:16.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Knuth has a mathoverflow t-shirt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T18:11:16.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="97" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-07-27T18:14:25.993" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the quoted &quot;elitist&quot;, I want to point out that I agree with everyone else here: we should cater to everyone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;At the same time&lt;/em&gt;, we should be thinking about how to make the site appealing to real experts! (I'm definitely not one, but I want them around for the rare occasions I have a good question!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T18:14:25.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="98" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="77" CreationDate="2010-07-27T18:19:55.843" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like the vote cap, even now in private beta. It gives me something concrete to aim for, but also tells me it's time to go do some maths again. That said, I second the suggestion to ask this on meta.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T18:19:55.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="99" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="53" CreationDate="2010-07-27T18:21:59.753" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer a traditional forum for meta, based on my MathOverflow experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T18:21:59.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-27T19:48:42.703" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeXperts.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like it at least in part because of the site that shall not be named.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T19:48:42.703" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T19:48:42.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="186" CreationDate="2010-07-27T21:35:22.530" Score="3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the default for a new site is to enter bootstrap mode, which is a state where reputation limits are relaxed while the site revs up. From the SE description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bootstrap Mode helps to shape the&#xA;  community before the site is released&#xA;  to its full audience.   Reputation&#xA;  requirements are relaxed in bootstrap&#xA;  mode. All users can:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Post Questions  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Post Answers  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Comment  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Create Tags  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Re-Tag Questions  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Vote  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You'll earn reputation normally, but&#xA;  you won't be hampered by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5352/what-are-good-metrics-to-decide-when-to-move-from-bootstrap-to-launch/5356#5356&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on the meta.se question &quot;What are good metrics to decide when to move from 'bootstrap' to launch&quot;, the general rule is to wait until there are enough high-rep core users to perform basic moderation functions, and to wait while the activity level is low enough that spam and abuse can be caught by the administrators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many sites, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/bootstrap&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.unity3d.com/bootstrap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;answers.unity3D&lt;/a&gt;,  and &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/bootstrap&quot;&gt;chiphacker.com&lt;/a&gt; appear to be in bootstrap mode semi-permanently.  Unity Answers permanently &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4054/how-to-remove-bootstrap-guide-or-at-least-the-link-to-it&quot;&gt;removed&lt;/a&gt; the Bootstrap box while leaving it enabled because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...the restrictions when not using&#xA;  bootstrap mode are too aggressive for&#xA;  our needs, so bootstrap mode is the&#xA;  best option until better customization&#xA;  of reputation requirements come&#xA;  along.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will our needs be well-served by Bootstrap mode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is taking off quickly enough to surpass the numerical bootstrap requirements when it opens.  However, we could get a little more core-user boost by leaving it on longer (It's much easier to gain rep with it on).  Or, we could &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84/how-elitist-should-the-site-be&quot;&gt;discourage elitism&lt;/a&gt; permanently by enabling new users to be more active on the site.  What's the consensus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:29:54.500" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T22:51:12.503" Title="How long should the site remain in Bootstrap mode once it leaves Beta?" Tags="|discussion|community|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T21:35:22.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2010-07-27T21:57:26.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having reputation requirements for things isn't to be elitist, it's to try and prevent spammers from abusing things. The more reputation something requires, the worse it would be for a spammer to have access to it -- spammers downvoting posts all over the place isn't a big deal (but still bad enough that there is a small rep requirement). Being able to edit posts, close them so people can't answer, and delete them altogether are increasingly dangerous for a non-trusted user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this site is probably unknown enough to survive in bootstrap mode when it hits public beta (voting to close is the only really dangerous 1-rep thing people can bot), and that's preferable as long as we can get away with it. We can always reevaluate that if it turns out we're getting hit by spammers as soon as they're allowed in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T21:57:26.797" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T21:57:26.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-07-27T21:59:26.423" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd very much favour something like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;include a minimal example&quot; injunction&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/a&gt; tries valiantly to enforce. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I do, however, absolutely see that this is partly a matter of taste, and that some will think minimal examples heavy handed even for many syntax-related questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T21:59:26.423" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T21:59:26.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-07-28T01:00:10.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with all that has been said already.  I think that there should be some minimum requirement, and that is at least a passing familiarity with TeX.  So questions along the lines of &quot;I just installed TeX on my system, now what?&quot; are out of scope, but specific questions, even if very basic, are acceptable.  In other words, beginners should put in at least a bit of effort before turning to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T01:00:10.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="94" CreationDate="2010-07-28T03:41:57.747" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think building up the reputation of this site as a - nay, &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; - place to get high-quality answers to *TeX questions will be a major factor. Any experts who are interested in answering questions at all will probably want to be associated with the best site out there. And any experts who aren't interested in answering questions, well, we weren't going to get them anyway. Obviously, we're not going to spring out of private (or even public) beta with that reputation already built, but what we need to do now is make the decisions that will guide the development of the site in such a way that we're setting it up to be the best resource on its topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, it's probably mostly a matter of using our connections. As mentioned, there are a couple of real live LaTeX hackers registered and perhaps they know other people who would be interested in a site like this. Many of the rest of use are probably in academic environments, which means we're likely to have a lot of contact with other people who use *TeX and perhaps even have written packages for it. They'd be valuable resources for the site, if they're interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T03:41:57.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-28T07:02:40.240" Score="3" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to be able to see/display any comments on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a setting I can change, a feature or a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--EDIT--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question it says &lt;strong&gt;add / show 5 more comments&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking that link causes it to disapear, but the comments don't show up, as they would on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T17:44:44.403" Title="Is displaying comments disabled?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2010-11-02T20:41:37.147" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="106" CreationDate="2010-07-28T07:22:08.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean on the listing of all questions?  If so, that's by design.  You only see a bit of each question there and have to click on the question itself to see any more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T07:22:08.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40" CreationDate="2010-07-28T07:30:20.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/new-per-site-metas/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/new-per-site-metas/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq on this very site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T07:30:20.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="76" CreationDate="2010-07-28T07:31:37.563" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;fixed, feel free to contact us for advertising rates at &lt;em&gt;fantastic&lt;/em&gt; discounts now! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T07:31:37.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="112" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-28T08:14:59.440" Score="3" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the only of the new round of SE sites that I'm involved in (quite possibly the only one I'm interested in) and my main experience of the SE/SO architecture comes from MO [mathoverflow] so I'm aware that there's a lot going on that I don't understand.  Is there somewhere that I can find out information about how it works (the setup, not the software) and details about stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of the sort of thing I'd like to know: someone remarked that everyone starts with reputation 101.  I definitely didn't; which is fine, but suggests that there are different &quot;levels&quot; of membership even in the private beta.  Are there people with more status than others?  (I don't mean in terms of numerical reputation, more important is the question as to whether there are people who the SE/SO team regard as &quot;speaking for tex.SE.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I would like to make clear that I have no problem with their being a hierarchy of any sort, I just like to know if one exists (formally or informally) and know my place in it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I guess that there's some central location where I can find out all this stuff and I'd find it useful to know where it resides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T11:26:51.550" Title="How do I find out more about &quot;public beta&quot;?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27" CreationDate="2010-07-28T08:24:55.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced that this would be useful tag information.  I would be surprised if there was anyone who &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; sought out questions on a particular command to answer (one use of tags is help people easily find questions that they might be able to answer).  Similarly, anyone looking to see if someone's asked a question on a particular command before is far more likely to search for it than to look through the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if there is a major command that attracts a lot of questions then I can see it might be appropriate (say, &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt;, but even then I'd tag it &quot;macros&quot; since I see no reason to differentiate &lt;em&gt;by tags&lt;/em&gt; between questions about &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\edef&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\gdef&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\xdef&lt;/code&gt; and so forth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For any tag, the question has to be &quot;Does this tag add anything to the question?&quot;.  The key there is &quot;add&quot;: if there's an obvious keyword already in the question, then the argument for having as a tag is weakened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must confess that I'm not a great user of tags, but what I find them useful for is to help decide whether or not a question is worth reading.  On MathOverflow, if the title looks interesting but the tag says &quot;algebraic-geometry&quot; then I know that there's no point looking at it.  On the other hand, if the title looks obscure but the tag says &quot;differential-geometry&quot; then I still take a look just in case the real question is more interesting than the title suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T08:24:55.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-28T08:30:56.300" Score="24" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's good to get etiquette established early.  I'd say that one big lesson from MathOverflow is that for people unused to the SO framework, getting a &quot;vote to close&quot; is like getting a kick in the face.  So I'd like to encourage people who vote to close to leave some explanation in the comments.  On MO, we try to do this even if the reason is really obvious (usually for those we can point to something in the FAQ).  Of course, if there's a reason there already then simply voting for the reason is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had a few debates about the etiquette of voting to close on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.mathoverflow.net/&quot;&gt;meta.MO&lt;/a&gt; which may be worth a quick read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:04.767" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T19:32:04.310" Title="Etiquette (particularly on voting to close)" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-28T10:49:54.573" Score="21" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is, if a question is about a particular LaTeX package, or the accepted answer is, should that question be tagged with the package name as tag? I think this could be a good habit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="193" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-09-04T22:18:05.083" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T22:18:05.083" Title="Should we use package names as tags?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="371" CreationDate="2010-07-28T10:59:24.340" Score="9" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted an answer and wanted to include a figure I made for it. I ended up putting it on my institutional account, but I realize that this is not ideal (since the account will probably be closed in the next year). Is there a standard solution for this? Where should one place figure files for answers and questions for this site? The best place would be on the site itself since they would &quot;live&quot; exactly as long as the site does, which is of course the optimal timespan. But how to upload figures, and how to avoid spam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should probably have a good solution and guidelines for this so that images do not start going stale and the questions/answers that contain them, with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One solution I can think of is to have the website download the image and place it internally changing the link to point to the copy. This solution would mean that even if I link to an image on Wikipedia or some-such, and then the article changes, the image remains here (As it should) with no extra work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, there's a post over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/433/add-integrated-image-hosting-for-se-sites/6420#6420&quot;&gt;StackExchange Meta&lt;/a&gt; regarding this exact issue. it is quite old already and I don't know if anything is happening about it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T15:12:50.230" Title="Where should images go?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|files|images|guidelines|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="112" CreationDate="2010-07-28T11:26:51.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mathoverflow is a stand-alone community. This site has been create as part of the area51 and stackexchange 2.0 &quot;family&quot;. Hence this site has relationship with stackoverflow, superuser, serverfault, area51 and in the near future all the other beta websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; for tex.se.com it mentions that if you have 200+ rep on the &quot;siblings&quot; websites you get a sign-up bonus rep. This is done to bootstrap the rep system and acknowledge previous contributors to other similar sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T11:26:51.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="53" CreationDate="2010-07-28T11:48:31.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't know until we try =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do metas are working out for other area51 beta sites? they seem to work out well enough. And aren't we having a discussion here and right now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T11:48:31.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2010-07-28T12:18:51.623" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;yep (15 chars padding)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T12:18:51.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-28T12:34:42.620" Score="15" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could be quite nice for newcomers and also when wanting to respond to a question with typesetting one could see how they did it and imitate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;markdown guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, but seeing something you like and copying it is much easier than reading through a manual. Also, this is in line with how I learn LaTeX, see something nice, read the code, and incorporate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/941/approximation-symbol-is-3-14-equal-to-3-14&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on math.SE about a strange equal sign that I have no idea how the person wrote. It would be nice to be able to see how it was done (somewhat like in MediaWiki where you can &quot;view source&quot; even if you cannot edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addition:&lt;/strong&gt; I've added a [feature-request] in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/68731/view-source-link&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; for a &quot;view source&quot; button. If you have an opinion about this, please vote or comment or answer over there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:08.057" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T21:30:44.937" Title="Is there a way to see how someone typeset their question in TeX.SE?" Tags="|feature-request|editing|markdown|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2010-07-28T12:36:10.403" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but IMO only if the question is also tagged with the appropriate tags for what the package does (i.e., [graphics]) so that you can find it in a search (i.e., so you wouldn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to know the name of the package to find the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T12:36:10.403" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="53" CreationDate="2010-07-28T12:42:20.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think SE meta is the best option.&#xA;Because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't have to learn a new interface.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't have to maintain a new system (this is for the admins, but still).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you see a question (or a discussion) you immediately see the most important post/ most agreed upon opinion, which is preferable to a forum when you have to read EVERYTHING to get to the important part - this is the biggie folks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an issue is resolved, you can see it immediately (accepted answer).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tagging.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can vote on discussion points and cases (answers) - this is GREAT, because there aren't hundreds of &quot;I agree&quot; posts like would happen in a forum.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It makes people discuss things in a practical, pragmatic tone (no philosophy discussions with no point).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CW helps us write FAQs, etc. by community editing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all I can think of off the top of my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T12:42:20.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="119" CreationDate="2010-07-28T12:46:53.627" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an important feature request to Stack Exchange sites in general (but I think posting it here is fine for the moment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, images are an important part of the content and relying on storage elsewhere is a very frail solution. I predict that very soon (if not already!) many Stack Exchange answers will have image dead links, due to the short-livedness of the web. Not a good prospect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sooner or later, this &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T12:46:53.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="119" CreationDate="2010-07-28T12:59:16.033" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about this: Images have first to be hosted on external sites and, if their parent answer/question gets enough votes, then the image is cached by the site and the link moved to point to the cached version. We prevent abuse as only images with significant votes from the community will get to be saved, useful images are never lost, and it's pretty much automatic! No explicit moderation or anything like that would be required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T12:59:16.033" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2010-07-28T13:06:15.553" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a completely satisfactory answer, but if you have enough rep to edit questions then you can see the source via that route (pretend you're editing it and then don't).  Or if a question has already been edited, then you can click on the &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; it was edited to see the history to see the revision history and there's a &quot;view source&quot; link there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, looking at the web address for the source in the revision history, I can't see how to guess that address for a question that hasn't yet been edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NB I think this works equally well for answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, this isn't completely satisfactory for several (hopefully obvious) reasons.  I would like to see a proper &quot;view source&quot; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T13:06:15.553" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="145" CreationDate="2010-07-28T13:47:48.673" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few cases where someone asks a question about doing some rather specific task A with some rather specific tool T and then an answer is provided which maybe doesn't quite do A (but probably also solves the problem of the OP) or doesn't use the tool T (but solves the problem anyway!). The answer, anyway, could be very useful and, in some cases, perhaps people having a similar question will also think that it's better to use this answer that to pursue &quot;trying to do A with T&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a specific example, in a question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/463/graphing-sine-function-in-metapost&quot;&gt;Graphing sine function in MetaPost&lt;/a&gt; an answer was given using TikZ, which I think many people would find just as useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this isn't the best example, but specifically for TeX/LaTeX, very commonly I've found people asking me how to do some rather specific hack H. When I ask why do they want to do this, I figure that they don't really need to do H, but there is another simple solution (usually a package) that solves their problem without the need of any hacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we deal on this site with these out-of-the-box answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T17:02:50.327" Title="Thinking out of the box?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="129" CreationDate="2010-07-28T14:13:13.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the author of the cited answer, I can say that uppermost in my mind was that my answer might be useful to someone asked an almost identical question but without the meta-post restriction.  I should also say that I was completely aware of the fact that this could be viewed as borderline for what is a clear and useful answer and that by posting it I was intending on people wondering about its suitability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that in this case, I was on the right side of the line.  As anyone from MO (mathoverflow) will know, my views are pretty hardline on making sure that answers answer the &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; question.  But I think that this is one situation where the lower barrier-to-entry here compared to MO makes me more inclined to be relaxed; I hope that people will try to make their questions here focussed so that &quot;I want to do A with T&quot; is typical of the type of question we get.  But I suspect that many people will not be aware that &quot;S&quot; is possible and so although their question specifically says &quot;T&quot;, the answer with &quot;S&quot; will be fine.  So that people who post answers aren't scared of posting such modifications, I would like to think that such answers are viewed as acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there clearly must be a line.  It would be inappropriate to say &quot;You asked about LaTeX, here's how to do it in ConTeXt&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people agree with me that slightly out-of-the-box answers are acceptable, then for the actual line we can let the community decide.  However, I would say that it's our responsibility (as early users) to set the tone that these, in moderation, are acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone answering a question with an out-of-the-box solution, I would say that honesty is the best policy.  Acknowledge that it may not answer the direct question, but that you hope it might be useful to others looking at that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general policy, I dislike doing things whose &lt;em&gt;sole&lt;/em&gt; motivation is for &quot;future questioners&quot;; but I'm quite happy to make minor modifications in my behaviour to help these future ignoramuses (of whom I will probably be one!) if the gain is sufficiently large.  My opinion was that this was one of those cases, but others may, of course, disagree!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T14:13:13.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="129" CreationDate="2010-07-28T14:20:44.320" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question about how to generate font metrics for TTF fonts to use with pdf(la)tex get &quot;shot down&quot; with &quot;don't waste time use XeLaTeX&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm somehow sceptical that there will ever be a step-by-step guide / elaborate answer of what needs to be done to make tex, latex, pdf(la)tex recognise TTF fonts, weights, and styles. The best reference so far deal with raster fonts on MikTeX without giving a clue how to do on TeXLive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand &quot;it is easier and quicker to do it with xelatex&quot; but on the other hand &quot;out of the box&quot; asnwers can &quot;water-down&quot; the expert quality of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T14:20:44.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="66" CreationDate="2010-07-28T14:22:44.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be fair this is a duplicate of &quot;we need latex processing engine / embedder&quot; on the website. Since any such solution would be able to handle \latex and friends ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T14:22:44.703" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-28T14:35:10.477" Score="13" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;This follows on a bit from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/114/etiquette-particularly-on-voting-to-close&quot;&gt;etiquette (particularly on voting to close)&lt;/a&gt;.  I got a down-vote to my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/448/how-to-automatically-resize-the-vertical-bar-in-a-set-comprehension&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should probably make clear at the outset that I &lt;strong&gt;really don't care&lt;/strong&gt; about getting a down-vote, even one without a comment.  I'm an adult, I can bear the shame and ignominy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think that this is the type of answer that should garner down-votes, at least beyond 0.  It was an answer that solved the question in good faith, but because I didn't know about the &lt;code&gt;\middle&lt;/code&gt; command, it was not the right answer.  The point is that there are so many obscure commands and packages that no one person is going to know all about them.  I'd rather people were encouraged to be helpful - as I was trying to be - than to hang back and wait to see if someone knows of a neat command already out there that does the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't something to legislate on, but rather something that &lt;em&gt;by our behaviour&lt;/em&gt; we can encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NB Regarding the time-line on that answer; when I &lt;em&gt;started&lt;/em&gt; writing it, there were no other answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T15:13:50.140" Title="Down-vote etiquette" Tags="|discussion|voting|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="143" CreationDate="2010-07-28T14:36:30.427" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to stackoverflow. Do I have enough karma to offer bounty on a question? How do I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T16:59:08.710" Title="Can I set bounty on a question? How?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="133" CreationDate="2010-07-28T14:40:20.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see your point. But imagine this question gets brought up in google search result 6 months from now. The up/down votes will be a clear indication the user what is &quot;the TeX way to do it&quot; and what is &quot;a hack to bend TeX into doing something&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm ok for &quot;Darwin&quot; selection of answers even at the early stage of the site and particular question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T14:40:20.823" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="119" CreationDate="2010-07-28T14:57:09.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A link can be to any image. Hosting images locally will imply license restriction and permission not obtained from the author. I hope the images here will be generated by the site users. For TeX an image can be great but if the code is not available to regenerate it, i don't see how it can still be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is wikimedia commons, and tex examples website as well as many &quot;image pastebins&quot;. But with all of these can be &quot;outlived&quot; the the stackexchange question as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm trying to say is that a reference to a figure from wikimedia commons, texsamples and texdoc might be better then turning this site into TeX-flickr. For figures that demonstrate particular aspects it is best to provide code on how to generate the figure hense hosted compiled images might be better (since local installation can be customise to a point of compiling non-standard files) similar to the arXih reference below (i haven't used that service before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal position is that we should use link/api type of thing to embed latex code which gets generate server side (either on this stackexchange server or using other providers). It might be hard to show the difference of processing same syntax using different version of, e.g. TikZ. In that case posting picture to something like yfrog will be sufficient as these differences will become unimportant with time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be easy to upload huge graphics in one click for embedding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="137" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T15:50:07.370" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T15:50:07.370" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="133" CreationDate="2010-07-28T15:13:50.140" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I do things on SO and SU is to downvote things that are actually wrong, don't work, etc.  Things that will work, but aren't optimal or have a better way to be accomplished just aren't voted up.  Since Google will return the entire page with all of the answers, the best should naturally rise to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T15:13:50.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2010-07-28T15:23:30.257" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There’s a simple hack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always access a detailed view of a post’s revisions by going to the link &lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/&amp;lt;ID&amp;gt;/revisions&lt;/code&gt;. From there you can chooise the link &lt;code&gt;show source&lt;/code&gt; of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/455/revisions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/455/revisions&lt;/a&gt; leads me to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/6da5772e-36c4-405d-b3ca-36d0c638879d/view-source&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/6da5772e-36c4-405d-b3ca-36d0c638879d/view-source&lt;/a&gt;, which is the source of the posting with ID 455. The ID of a posting can be discovered by inspecting the direct link to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T15:23:30.257" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="140" CreationDate="2010-07-28T15:39:25.720" Score="9" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/419/how-to-set-up-inverse-search-with-okular-and-kile&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; is very specific to OS, editor &amp;amp; viewer inverse search integration. Is this appropriate question for this site? Should this be on superuser instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T12:05:36.827" Title="Are questions about related applications ok?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2010-07-28T16:13:46.153" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think these questions are totally fine. If you want to find the people that had to go through this to setup their own (La)TeX development environments, this is probably the site where you're most likely to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T16:13:46.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-28T16:25:42.523" Score="-1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/328/can-we-get-smartypants&quot;&gt;Can we get SmartyPants?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples that have been proposed is to be able to type ``quotes'' for educated “quotes”, as well as -- and --- for en- and em-dashes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note this would be &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of any specialized parsing/evaluation of TeX markup as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7/we-need-tex-markup&quot;&gt;suggested  in another thread&lt;/a&gt;. My suggestion here is to add &lt;strong&gt;some very light markup&lt;/strong&gt; to use when editing the main text of the questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I should have added that this comes from other suggestions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23/what-should-the-site-design-look-feel-smell-like&quot;&gt;in another thread&lt;/a&gt; about the look/feel of the site, and we thought it was important to stress the fact that, in this site, &lt;em&gt;we do care&lt;/em&gt; about typography. That's why easier methods to input educated quotes and dashes should be welcomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this should not interfere with other TeX markup, which should be probably clearly delimited by &lt;code&gt;$...$&lt;/code&gt; or some other kind of markers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T20:25:06.663" Title="Augment the markdown syntax with some lightweight TeX-ish conventions" Tags="|feature-request|markup|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2010-10-18T06:13:05.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2010-07-28T16:46:37.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;These types of questions are fine for the site.  If they don't get asked here, I'm not sure where else they would get answered.  This is what the tagging system is intended for.  You can easily highlight tools/environments that you are familiar with, and hide stuff you don't want to see.  After the site gets up and running fully, I hope that there are more questions than one would want to read.  That the sign of a healthy, robust, inclusive community.  It also means that &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; obscure question is more likely to be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T16:46:37.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="134" CreationDate="2010-07-28T16:59:08.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work/16067#16067&quot;&gt;FAQ link&lt;/a&gt; reemrevnivek provided, only questions older than 2 days are eligible for a bounty. So far, no such questions exist, so you will not see the option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T16:59:08.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-28T16:59:25.107" Score="10" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;This thread is for nominations to be a temporary moderator to help the community get started.  See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog Post&lt;/a&gt; for more details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Selection Criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent participation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show an interest in their meta’s community-building activities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their fellow community members in everything they write.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus points for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Members with participation in both meta and the parent site (i.e. interest in both community building and expertise in the field).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Area 51 participation, social network referrals, or blogging about the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Members who have already shown an interest or ability to promote their community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To nominate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each nomination should be a separate answer. Link the name to the user’s profile (parent and meta) so we can see their activity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The nominee should indicate their acceptance by editing the answer, adding that they accept the nomination. Optionally they can write something about themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self nominations are okay, and even encouraged. Most sites have not had sufficient time for many users to stand out. Self nomination is simply a way to say, “I’m interested. Let my record speak for itself.” Links to other activities may be helpful: Area 51 participation, participation in other sites, blog posts reviewing or announcing the site, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T20:35:52.470" Title="Moderator Pro Tempore Nomination Thread" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T21:09:47.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="129" CreationDate="2010-07-28T17:02:50.327" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that ask &quot;How can I do X with Y?&quot;, when in fact you only care about doing X (or possibly even Z) and not necessarily with Y, are extremely common when asking questions on the internet. (Sometimes called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;XY problem&lt;/a&gt;, examples &lt;a href=&quot;http://infotrope.net/blog/2007/06/20/os-switching-and-the-xy-problem/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It remains a matter of judgment whether it's better to answer to the letter of the question or the spirit (answering the question you think they &quot;intended to ask&quot;), and whether doing the latter is being helpful or presumptuous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think answers that &quot;think out of the box&quot; and answer the (presumed) &quot;real question&quot; should be welcomed — the alternative way may not have occurred to the questioner — unless the questioner explicitly makes it clear that s/he is aware of the other sort of solution and specifically wants a solution using the mentioned tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T17:02:50.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-07-28T17:30:16.147" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another suggestion is to ask users writing answers to provide enough information &lt;em&gt;in the answers themselves&lt;/em&gt;. I've seen many answers of the form of &quot;The solution to your problem that has been posted at this other random blog, here is a link.&quot;, and I think it's great to &lt;em&gt;attribute&lt;/em&gt; where the solution comes from, but enough information should also be given &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; the proposed answer so that even if the external resource is gone the solution can still be reproduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very closely related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119/where-should-images-go&quot;&gt;the need to store images&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; the site itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T11:04:55.093" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T17:30:16.147" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="141" CreationDate="2010-07-28T18:27:56.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't add anything that tries to parse Tex-like markup. It will interfere with Tex code in questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T18:27:56.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2010-07-28T18:57:55.180" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/42/konrad-rudolph&quot;&gt;Konrad Rudolph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/42/konrad-rudolph&quot;&gt;(meta.tex)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:1968+%5Blatex%5D&quot;&gt;(latex on SO)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T19:12:01.890" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T20:13:45.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2010-07-28T20:10:43.670" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I very much agree with this. However, ultimately we can’t &lt;em&gt;force&lt;/em&gt; high-reputation users to adhere to these guidelines. Now that’s no reason not to mention them in the FAQ (or elsewhere) but we have to be realistic … and my experience on Stack Overflow shows that some users are quite devoutly closing (and deleting) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has already been discussed on Meta Stack Overflow ad nauseam, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56669/should-hidden-features-of-x-be-removed-closed-locked&quot;&gt;Should ‘hidden features of X’ be removed/closed/locked?&lt;/a&gt; where I’ve also added &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56669/should-hidden-features-of-x-be-removed-closed-locked/56858#56858&quot;&gt;my opinion&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’m a bit fed up with these deletionists […]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And although the rant is mainly about excessive deletion, the same is true for closing …)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T20:10:43.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-07-28T21:18:07.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;UseTeX.org&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short, I own it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T06:30:37.853" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T21:18:07.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2010-07-28T21:37:08.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uhh, I'm pretty sure bootstrap mode is something for SE 1.0 sites, and is irrelevant here. Definitive clarificationof this would be great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T21:37:08.110" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T21:37:08.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38" CreationDate="2010-07-28T22:24:29.833" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could copy the [big-list] tag from Math Overflow; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/143/about-the-soft-question-and-big-list-tags&quot;&gt;my summary&lt;/a&gt; from math.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that don't look like they will have a single, correct answer should be tagged either [soft-question] if that's because the question isn't precise enough, or [big-list] if that is because we expect the question to invite many different, incomparable answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These questions should be made Community Wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T22:24:29.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-07-28T23:11:11.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Konrad already pointed to the related question in meta.SO.&#xA;I guess we should keep it the same way, thus &lt;strong&gt;plurals should be preferred&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning it may help to &lt;strong&gt;manually merge the tags, by re-tagging&lt;/strong&gt; some of the questions. As long as there are not that many questions and no moderators, this can help to avoid usage of the wrong tag. It is more likely that people will use existing tags, so re-tagging all questions from &lt;em&gt;macro&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;macros&lt;/em&gt; would lead to higher usage of &lt;em&gt;macros&lt;/em&gt; and avoids confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you may have noticed, I have already merged the &lt;em&gt;macro&lt;/em&gt; and macros &lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T23:11:11.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-07-28T23:55:28.637" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that whatever the image storage solution ends up being, we should have the recommended behavior mentioned in the FAQ. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, since there is no better solution than having to put the image online somewhere and then link to it, we should say that this is the situation, and give 2-3 free and stable sites for people who have no other option (and perhaps even for people &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; another option). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(currently stable image hosting sites that don't require registration and with which it is easy to upload images include imageshack.us and imgur.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="117" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T00:43:58.680" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T00:43:58.680" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-28T23:55:28.637" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-07-29T00:02:10.637" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ should include commenting etiquette, for example the fact that preceding the post with a @: will effectively notify the user of that comment is subtle and might not be noticed by a beginning SE'er. Is it true? are there other mechanisms that cause the envelope to change color? What I am  and someone writes @First: ? what about @first:? @firstlast:? etc. can I &quot;pull in&quot; someone unrelated by sticking their username in the begining of a post? Seems a little strange to me..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="117" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T14:56:15.083" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T14:56:15.083" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T00:02:10.637" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="158" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-29T00:52:28.663" Score="31" ViewCount="862" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead (or in addition) to having TeX markup eventually, we could also have a little LaTeX/TeX sand box apear on every page (possibly with a way to hide it) in similar style to LaTeXit! on mac. This would allow people who do not have a working solution to try out a small bit of LaTeX without going the trouble of creating a temporary file on their computer, figuring out the preamble and then remove said files...it would also help in writing answers for same reason, you think you know what you want to write, plop it in the box, hit a button (or not!) and see immediately if the result is to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, if I understand correctly, for someone with power to make this happen, this idea had better be popular...please vote up or down accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make this post go somewhere, I would like to suggest that people list here posts that would benefit from a good solution to this problem. It already is CW, and I'll start it off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1260/drawing-arrow-heads-without-the-tails-in-tikz&quot;&gt;drawing arrow heads without the tails in tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1232/difference-between-big-and-bigl&quot;&gt;difference between big and bigl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1223/is-there-a-test-for-the-different-styles-inside-maths-mode&quot;&gt;is-there-a-test-for-the-different-styles-inside-maths-mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1238/better-way-to-calculate-coordinates-in-tikz&quot;&gt;better-way-to-calculate-coordinates-in-tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;... almost any question/answer so far that required an image to be included.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T18:39:57.237" Title="LaTeX sand-box?" Tags="|feature-request|images|sandbox|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T00:52:28.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="158" CreationDate="2010-07-29T06:48:59.220" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I second this idea. Moreover, if it is possible to include not only the code, but also its rendered form as an image, then we would also get a fairly decent solution to most of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119/where-should-images-go&quot;&gt;image hosting&lt;/a&gt; problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T06:48:59.220" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T06:48:59.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2010-07-29T07:20:19.320" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the shameless self-promotion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/169/juan-a-navarro&quot;&gt;Juan A. Navarro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/169/juan-a-navarro&quot;&gt;(meta.tex)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enthusiastic TeX/LaTeX user. Runs a small site for LaTeX beginners in spanish: &lt;a href=&quot;http://navarroj.com/latex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX Fácil&lt;/a&gt;. Once very active at &lt;a href=&quot;http://listserv.rediris.es/cgi-bin/wa?A0=ES-TEX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;es-tex&lt;/a&gt;, the mailing list of spanish speaking TeX users, and on a few occasions contributed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/search?q=juan+navarro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T07:20:19.320" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T07:20:19.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2010-07-29T09:06:35.040" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/148/jalf&quot;&gt;jalf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/148/jalf&quot;&gt;(meta.tex)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A top contributor during the definition phase in Area51, he promoted the site &lt;a href=&quot;http://jalf.dk/blog/2010/06/texoverflow-com-sounds-good/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in his own blog&lt;/a&gt;. That's love! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T23:05:47.487" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T09:06:35.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2010-07-29T09:17:19.993" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;(meta.tex)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Accept&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/users/45/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;top contributors of &lt;strong&gt;MathOverflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and since the beginning of this private beta he has been following closely the evolution of this site and its community, contributing with questions and answers on the parent site and proposing features in this meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T20:35:52.470" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T09:17:19.993" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-27T00:40:01.400" Score="2" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that it would be great to make a compilation of external TeX/LaTeX tools available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll update this post as people answer and vote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happy texing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146" OwnerDisplayName="YuppieNetworking" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T21:00:43.673" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T21:00:43.673" Title="List of useful external tools [closed from site]" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T00:40:01.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="163" CreationDate="2010-07-27T00:41:20.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dextify&lt;/a&gt; lets you doodle a symbol and it will tell you which command does it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146" OwnerDisplayName="YuppieNetworking" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T09:20:43.443" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-27T00:41:20.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-07-29T09:30:48.053" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's another one: it's partly etiquette, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite a few answers are going to be of the form &quot;run &lt;em&gt;this command&lt;/em&gt; on your output&quot;.  I've given a couple of those so far and gotten the response &quot;how exactly do I do that?&quot; in the comments.  I actually started writing out instructions on one before I realised the impossibility of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like it to be clear in the FAQ that exact details of how to run a command are difficult to give and not really appropriate to ask for (going &quot;beyond the call of duty&quot;, as it were).  That, of course, does not preclude anyone from giving help when asked for it.  Making this clear from the outset will, I hope, mean that people are more likely to contribute answers of this type and that people won't feel guilty (or get voted down) when they &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; respond to such requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T09:30:48.053" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T09:30:48.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="167" CreationDate="2010-07-29T09:32:19.317" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;thought&lt;/em&gt; that there was a question on punctuation and maths on the main site; however, when I went to look for it I couldn't find it.  Has it been deleted, or did it get lost in the database swindle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T18:17:06.967" Title="Was there a question on punctuation?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="166" CreationDate="2010-07-29T10:00:24.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original link to that question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/431/should-one-punctuate-after-an-equation&quot;&gt;Can super/sub-scripts bind more tightly than macro expansion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A totally different question is pointed by that same link. I'm afraid that the original question is now lost in the realm of lost questions :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T10:00:24.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-29T11:10:36.393" Score="11" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Test one&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The test is to render a backslash in code block:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Transcript:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;....\\....\(KKK\)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rendering  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\\\(KKK\)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Test two&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The test is to render a backslash in `backquotes`&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Transcript  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;`\\\`..&#xA;`\(KKK\)`&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rendering:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;\\\&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;\(KKK\)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now performing the same in the comments (see below) and the rendering is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ps. In transcript &lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; means &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;space&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-21T21:33:54.887" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T21:33:54.887" Title="Backslash in ticks in comments" Tags="|bug|status-completed|markdown|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2010-07-29T11:30:16.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's part of the Markdown syntax, personally I'm not thrilled about it either (specially within backticks), but that's how &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#backslash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it's documented&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I was just writing a comment and it took me ages to figure out how is one supposed to enter a &lt;code&gt;coded&lt;/code&gt; line-break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Here `\\` works&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on a comment I had to type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;On a comment `\\ `, because `\\` doesn't work!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;inconsistent and not practical at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T11:59:40.117" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T11:59:40.117" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2010-07-29T11:34:16.963" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;So is it different in comments and answers?  If I do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`\( ... \)`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then it works as I expect: &lt;code&gt;\( .. \)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Okay!  So that's an inconsistency between the two and I'd rate that a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T11:34:16.963" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="166" CreationDate="2010-07-29T11:49:09.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the author of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/431/should-one-punctuate-after-an-equation&quot;&gt;one question about puctuation&lt;/a&gt;, and did not delete it! Surely something weird has happened there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T11:49:09.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-29T12:43:43.740" Score="17" ViewCount="581" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess this is the counterpart of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84/how-elitist-should-the-site-be&quot;&gt;elitist question&lt;/a&gt; but asking about the other side of the spectrum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How friendly should the site be to complete LaTeX and even operating system (say command line) beginners?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question came out after some discussion of currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/452/how-can-i-create-a-pdf-document-exactly-as-big-as-my-tikz-picture/455#455&quot;&gt;the most voted answer here&lt;/a&gt; where the OP further asked how is she supposed to &lt;em&gt;run&lt;/em&gt; some command. Are we supposed to answer this kind of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I was playing roles and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/565/how-can-i-get-rid-of-indentation-after-an-equation&quot;&gt;pretending to be a beginner&lt;/a&gt; to see the kind of responses I would get. With some early disappointment. I was given an answer but no knowledge as to why this was an answer, even though I was clearly confused (in my role) and had no clue about what I was doing. (I have to admit, maybe the whole role-playing thing also confused the people answering my question as they assumed that I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know at least the basics of LaTeX). But the point is that, in the end, I was given a fish when probably what I needed was to learn how to fish for myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually think this is a rather big problem with the TeX/LaTeX culture at large. The web is plagued with lots of snippets of TeX hacks and the like, which people have been happily copy/pasting for years without knowing what they're doing. This results, as I've mentioned in that thread, in really lots of people scattering &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;'s and &lt;code&gt;\noindent&lt;/code&gt;'s everywhere in their documents. Once I've been an editor for the proceedings of a small conference, I don't want to tell you about the kind of horrible code abuses I saw there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from the beginning I had been trying to push forward this TeX-StackExchange initiative because I think this could be a solution to that problem. Because here we can edit and keep the answers current and up to date (some people out there are still using &lt;code&gt;eepic&lt;/code&gt;!). Because if someone has a question about an existing answer he can ask and get a clarification. And that's why I also think, particularly when the question is asked by a clear beginner, that we should make the extra effort to be more friendly and educate the people who will be later also asking and answering the questions of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Just to clarify, I'm not suggesting that we should babysit new LaTeX users, neither we should tolerate lazy users who can't botter to read or follow instructions. Probably all that we need to provide is just enough information that an unexperienced but diligent user could use in order to figure out the way by themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-11-20T12:35:29.713" Title="How newbie-friendly should the site be?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2010-07-29T13:37:13.290" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the guilty party in both cases, I'd like to say that I suspect that I was being over concise in both cases but through thoughtlessness rather than deliberately.  On your question I will admit to being a little confused by the claim of being a newbie and disregarding it.  Had it been &lt;em&gt;Ola Nordmann&lt;/em&gt; then I would have been more expansive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that, for me, it is because I'm unconciously acting as I do on mathoverflow, where the baseline for participation is much higher and someone asking &quot;What is 'x'?&quot; would get (politely!) referred elsewhere.  I agree (as it seems most here do, including Scott Morrison!) that there is enough of a barrier to wanting to use (La)TeX in the first place that we don't need any more here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think that we should draw the line somewhere it starts to get towards &quot;How do I run that command?&quot;.  The problem with that is that to answer it helpfully requires knowing a lot about the person asking and their computer, and the number of variations is so large that trying to anticipate them is impossible.  I should (and will) go back and edit my answer to the picture question to include (something like):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On a unix system, you would run&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdflatex myGreatPicture.tex&#xA;pdfcrop myGreatPicture.pdf&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and a link to pdfcrop in CTAN could be useful, but more than that I think is over the line.  In particular, going on to explain (in detail, I would mention the commands that I use if ask) how to turn the pdf in to a png (for example) is something that I wouldn't expect to see here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The underlying principle that I'm trying to apply here is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maximum help for minimum effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first part is obvious, but the minimum effort might need explaining.  The point is that for (almost?) all of us, this site isn't our day job.  It's part of a key resource (ie (La)TeX) and something we really value, but we should (to be fair to our employers, if no-one else) only take a small part of our day for helping out here.  So if it takes a lot of time and effort to answer questions here due to the amount of information I need to give, then I'll not be able to participate at the level that I would like and the level that this site needs us to in order to have a critical mass of people willing to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T13:37:13.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38" CreationDate="2010-07-29T16:23:10.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over at Chiphacker.com, we &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/966/which-electronics-components-should-i-always-have-on-hand&quot;&gt;have&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/3161/long-lasting-electronics-items&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/3501/what-is-a-general-set-of-components-for-a-robotics-hacker&quot;&gt;number&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/869/personal-electronics-tool-kit&quot;&gt;of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/3382/what-equipment-for-electronics-should-i-always-have-on-hand&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/3644/best-electronic-kits&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;.  They're all community wiki, and they've been useful.  Meta SOFU sites also have lists frequently.  I agree that the list has to be manageable (Less than, say, 50 answers expected), and &quot;useful external tools&quot; certainly does not fit that description. However, there are many good questions that would be well served by a community wiki list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the meta.SO questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/&quot;&gt;what are community wiki posts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55888&quot;&gt; when to mark the community wiki checkbox on a new question&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;for the official stance on CW posts - The MO community takes a slightly different approach here, which is OK, but we need to decide for this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant to this question are the following excerpts (But you should read the whole thing):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Community Wiki posts help enhance the&#xA;  wiki aspect of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is supposed to have a wiki type aspect - Every question does not have a single correct answer!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They make the post easier to edit and&#xA;  maintain by a wider group of users &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW posts can require maintenance, as a list would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The FAQ says, &quot;this is a place for&#xA;  questions that can be answered&quot;, but&#xA;  it doesn't forbid questions which have&#xA;  more than one answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List questions inherently have more than one answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think that we should allow wiki-type (aka &quot;summary of information&quot;) posts, because &quot;wiki&quot; is an element of StackExchange:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/venn-diagram.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Venn diagram w/ blog, wiki, forum, reddit http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/venn-diagram.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;* = StackExchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:29:54.500" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T16:44:58.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-29T16:41:57.780" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, even in the private beta phase, the reputation threshold to edit other people's posts is 2000. While I've been doing my level best to try to get there :-) looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Users Page&lt;/a&gt;, it isn't obvious that anyone (perhaps other than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph&lt;/a&gt;) will get there much before the private beta stage is completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the threshold ought to be a bit lower. There are a few posts that I've been itching to edit, and I think that the edits ought to be done before the public beta stage. As one example consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301/how-can-i-produce-exercises-in-one-part-of-a-latex-document-with-selected-answers/311#311&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. I'd really like to link the package name to the CTAN page, but can't. I'm also avoiding the temptation to request the edit in the comments, as I've already put some meta discussion in the comments, and more wouldn't look so good once we go public. Likewise, they are (as is inevitable) lots of silly typos across various pages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a good thing if we could establish best practices in our questions and answers early on. Allowing edits sooner would help that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just so it is clear: I don't mean to pick on the user whose post I cited. There's other examples of a need for edits across the site and I am sure some of them are in my posts, too. It is only that I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; edit my own, so if I became aware a need for editing, I've done it already.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T01:44:20.287" Title="Should the reputation threshold to edit other people's posts be lower during the private beta?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2010-07-29T17:49:22.510" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any objection to us explaining things like how to run a shell command in the comments, as long as we're not explaining the same thing to the same person over and over again. Basically, if someone happens to lack a particular small piece of prerequisite knowledge needed to use an answer, it seems silly to refuse to provide it on principle. But if someone asks an actual question that boils down to &quot;how do I use the command prompt?&quot; we'd be justified in closing that because it's really about a general way to use computing tools, not a question specific to TeX usage. Those sorts of things could perhaps be referred to Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T17:49:22.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-29T20:13:56.347" Score="2" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be interesting to get some markdown to write LaTeX as it is meant to be in any self-respecting LaTeX document (\latex) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/7/b/e/7be0306dab21c82f7a1e81a4ecfdb49e.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T21:18:08.000" Title="Feature Request/Discussion - Markdown to write stylised LaTeX" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|markdown|stylised-latex|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="177" CreationDate="2010-07-29T20:19:19.547" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't like this idea. The LaTeX logo looks great when it's font and style neatly matches the surrounding text. Which is nearly impossible to achieve on a web browser where you don't even know in advance which actual font will be used to render the page. The nice LaTeX logo sitting in the middle of a totally different font just screams &quot;I'm out of place!&quot; and breaks the flow of the text you're trying to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T20:19:19.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-29T20:41:56.357" Score="4" ViewCount="539" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been seeding some questions to the site, sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/565/how-can-i-get-rid-of-indentation-after-an-equation&quot;&gt;pretending to be a beginner&lt;/a&gt;, sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/604/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;pretending to have some (nonexistent) problem with my thesis&lt;/a&gt;. I've written the questions in this way (and purposefully not answering them myself!) hoping they would be some useful reference questions when the site eventually goes live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter one, in particular, is about building minimal examples which, I thought, could be really useful to link from our FAQ and where to point users that might need a bit of help when we eventually ask them (and we will!) to provide minimal examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However all this pretending from my part seems to be confusing people trying to answer the questions. Should we somehow make it explicit when we're seeding in order to avoid the confusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T08:32:15.973" Title="Under construction: Seeding is going on!" Tags="|discussion|beta|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="179" CreationDate="2010-07-29T21:11:29.017" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's any need to identify the &quot;I'm wearing a novice hat for this question&quot; stance; I take it as read during the beta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also asked some low-hanging fruit questions (though, early on, I did not demonstrate your restraint in not answering them). These seem absolutely essential if the site is ever going to get more than a tiny trickle of people in from google hits. I think I'd be doing less for the site right now were I to spend my effort on writing up a couple of real questions I've got on the back-burner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T21:11:29.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-29T21:13:38.783" Score="26" ViewCount="3843" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/565/how-can-i-get-rid-of-indentation-after-an-equation&quot;&gt;How can I get rid of indentation after an equation?&lt;/a&gt;, the code block has had the bit between the dollars turned in to an image.  Looking at the javascript scripts loaded via firebug, I notice one called 'math-tex'.  I'm guessing that this is the culprit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could whoever decided that this was a good idea please turn it off.  The question linked to above demonstrates all the reasons why this is a Very Bad Idea.  I'd also like to point out that my answer to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7/we-need-tex-markup&quot;&gt;We need Tex markup&lt;/a&gt; is the only one with net (strictly) positive votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless, of course, this is some subtle plan to encourage everyone to write their source code properly (ie using &lt;code&gt;\( ... \)&lt;/code&gt; instead of dollars) in which case I whole-heartedly approve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T16:09:40.280" Title="Can we turn off math-tex please?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="179" CreationDate="2010-07-29T21:17:04.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also don't think it's that confusing, especially when the question is just copied over from one of my comments!  :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do feel strongly that (1) FAQ type questions (Like the MWE question) should be moved over to Meta, (2) they should be CW, and (3) there should be a CW with a list of these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/the-official-faq-for-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;official SOFU FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T21:17:04.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2010-07-29T21:54:58.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A comparison might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-community.org/forum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The LaTeX Community&lt;/a&gt;, where there are a lot of beginners. As a result, I tend to aim to be more 'helpful' there than on c.t.t, where the general level of TeX knowledge is higher (particularly with the regulars).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T21:54:58.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2010-07-29T22:07:09.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I don't think that in-site support for this is a bad idea, but pastie.org has support for &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastie.org/l/tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX syntax highlighting&lt;/a&gt; in the meantime. Of course, the original question should include the code so that we don't loose everything if pastie.org goes down, and then just add a link to the same code on pastie.org that says [highlighted] or something like that at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T22:07:09.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="181" CreationDate="2010-07-29T22:12:29.547" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was also surprised that my code was rendered on a different question, but I think that a rendering service is very useful.  Whether it's as a LaTeXit style box in the sidebar, or as a mouseover-to-view-source service (my personal preference), it needs to be present in some form.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not always at a computer with LaTeX installed (and even if I am, this site is for TeX, LaTeX, and Friends, many of which I don't have or want to install).  It takes far longer to copy, compile, and preview a piece of code than it does to view it in my browser.  I expect to see new, confusing code, possibly with subtle bugs on this site, and I'm not going to be able to do the compilation in my head every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, the default for any inlined or blocked code should be syntax highlighted text, and it should be able to be toggled to render on a mouse action.  Can we do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T22:12:29.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2010-07-29T22:51:12.503" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bootstrap mode does not &lt;strong&gt;strictly&lt;/strong&gt; exist for SE 2.0 sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its been replaced with the Area 51 creation process and reduced rep requirements keyed to beta &quot;stage,&quot; which in the end looks and acts quite similarly.  Although the &quot;seeding&quot; which bootstrap mode is supposed to encourage is instead assumed to have occurred upfront as a consequence of having committers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep requirements for most site activity have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;reduced to 1&lt;/a&gt; for this site, which is in private beta.  Webapps (the first SE 2.0 site to launch) has entered public beta, and had its &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;reputation requirements&lt;/a&gt; increased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;reputation requirements&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow (the oldest of sites in the network) are higher still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is expected that reputation requirements will be raised, yet again, should this site survive public beta.  The exacts levels will be determined at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T22:51:12.503" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T22:51:12.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="179" CreationDate="2010-07-29T23:11:29.273" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could tag &quot;seed&quot;, just to avoid confusion, and once the site goes live, have an admin  delete that tag from all the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T23:11:29.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="175" CreationDate="2010-07-30T00:17:43.287" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you understand correctly. The reputation requirements are in beta are very reduced, right now they're at:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  1      Vote up  &#xA;  1      Leave comments  &#xA;  1      Vote down (costs 1 rep)  &#xA;  1      Edit community wiki posts  &#xA;  1      Vote to close, reopen, or migrate your questions  &#xA;  1      Create new tags  &#xA;  1      Retag questions  &#xA;  1      Vote to close, reopen, or migrate any questions  &#xA;  15     Flag offensive  &#xA;  200    Reduced advertising  &#xA;  1000   Show total up and down vote counts  &#xA;  2000   Edit other people's posts  &#xA;  10000  Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll go up once we hit public beta, and again once we release.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/101/how-long-should-the-site-remain-in-bootstrap-mode-once-it-leaves-beta/186#186&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; and the links in the question for a little more info.  It appears that reputation requirements are configurable, I'm just not sure by how much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, though, I'd say that we don't need to reduce those numbers.  There will be moderators and admins, so the users who have moderation powers won't be necessary while the number of users is under control.  Until we have enough users to generate some 2000- or 10,000-rep people, I don't think that they'll be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T00:17:43.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="194" CreationDate="2010-07-30T02:01:05.363" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to know what needs work at-a-click.  Where can we read, gather, and/or store such information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that we're moving from the answer-the-seeded-questions stage to another, less purpose-driven stage.  There are a lot of questions with submissions but no answers - &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?page=3&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;Just go to the list, back a few days, and scroll through.&lt;/a&gt;  Lots of questions haven't seen activity since the first hours they were asked, and &lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt; don't have answers!  That's bad for a beta, right?  Or, do we want to leave questions open for new answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T09:03:07.413" Title="Where can we find statistics about the site's progress through beta?" Tags="|feature-request|beta|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="189" CreationDate="2010-07-30T02:02:39.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick stats (as of 7/29), compiled by hand :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total: 105&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;With &amp;gt;101 rep: 56&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Committed: 376&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Active in the past 48 hours: ???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is sad - I thought committing meant more than this.  Is there any way to email-blast the committers list again, or would that not be profitable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total: 169&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Total &amp;gt; 48 hours old: 118&#xA;With zero upvoted answers: 13&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;With zero upvoted answers, &amp;gt; 48 hours old: 8&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Without a selected answer: 108 (*1)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Jul 26: 50&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Jul 27: 29&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Jul 28: 14&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Jul 29: 15&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gives an asked/answered percentage of a blazing 33% for questions over 2 days old.  That is simply unacceptable for a site to be useful. It appears that many of the questioners are high-ranking, so I'll request that everyone who reads this goes to their user page and check all of their questions for answers, and accept one (the check mark under the voting arrows :) if it's acceptable!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Tags:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total: 231&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;With &amp;gt;1 use:  81 (*2)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;With &amp;gt;2 uses: 39&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Badges:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Less important than the above...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total badges awarded:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Bronze: 253&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Silver: 0&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Gold: 0&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Badges awarded to at least one user:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Bronze: 14&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Silver: 0&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Gold: 0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that this helps us get some perspective on the work that's left to be done at the moment!  However, a page where we could view this would be much better.  Something like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/bootstrap&quot;&gt;bootstrap counter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*1 - IMO, anything over 2 days old should either be bumped because the existing answers are insufficient, or have an answer selected. Please comment.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;*2 - No tags are used only once.  This is weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T02:02:39.507" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-30T02:02:39.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="181" CreationDate="2010-07-30T04:44:49.493" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also agree. If there is one Stack Exchange website on which TeX math markup should be displayed exactly as typed, it's this one. We mostly want to discuss TeX itself here, not mathematics, so it's almost always better to show TeX source rather than render it as mathematics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be some benefit sometimes to being able to show how some bit of code is rendered in TeX — BTW, the output of Google Charts or MathJax may not always be up to the task here — but if such a feature exists, it should come into effect only when explicitly asked for, not automatically.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T04:44:49.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="181" CreationDate="2010-07-30T05:48:30.203" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have removed TeX processing for now.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T05:48:30.203" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="189" CreationDate="2010-07-30T06:47:30.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also get some basic statistics at the &lt;strong&gt;Area51 site&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148/tex-latex-and-friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;169 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;436 answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;92% answered&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;212 users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3,700 views/day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've been 3 days in &lt;strong&gt;closed beta&lt;/strong&gt;. So far, we've done 56 questions/day and 145 answers/day. I don't know if these values are promising or not for a site at the beta stage like this one. The only way I can imagine to interpret this values is comparing them to other sites in &lt;strong&gt;Area 51&lt;/strong&gt;. Let's take a look at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/57/web-applications&quot;&gt;Web Applications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which is one of the most successful SE sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1,319 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3,464 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;93% answered&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3,310 users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2,340 views/day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They've already been 29 days in &lt;strong&gt;open beta&lt;/strong&gt;, which translates to 45 questions/day and 119 answers/day. By this data, it seems we're doing a little better than our competitors :P. I expect that the number of new questions and answers per day will slow down in the next few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T06:47:30.583" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-30T06:47:30.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-30T08:25:42.090" Score="5" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm writing this message under the alias of 'qbi', but that is not my name and not my alias, but the ID that I get shown when I visit meta.tex.stackexchange.com (due to a cookie, I assume). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I registered on meta.tex.stackexchange.com some days ago under the alias of 'lexu' and even posted a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/106/is-displaying-comments-disabled&quot;&gt;Is displaying comments disabled?&lt;/a&gt;, that is now associated to the 'qbi' alias, but an 'answer posted' email was sent to my email account. The original 'lexu' alias on meta.tex... is gone, but still exists on tex.stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anyone else see similar 'confusion'? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't assume any wrong doing on anyones part, btw, I'm just confused .. and assume the beta DB might be too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--- &lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; --------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile I've logged out of all StackExchange sites and tried to re-register. No can do, my opendid (user lexu on tex.stackechange.com ) is somehow associated with qbi's account here on meta or his with mine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mixup also makes meta.tex.stackexchange act very strangely: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't logout, this logs me out of tex.stackexchange instead, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't seem to see portions of the site &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't see the preview of this message I'm editing &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't login from my iPAD (all system type links from meta.tex.stackexchange.com seem to perform their functions on tex.stackechange.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- &lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2&lt;/strong&gt; ---------------------&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in reply to reemrevnivek's answer, I cannot add a comment to his answer, as stated above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I follow the link you provide I get qbi's user page ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/201/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/201/&lt;/a&gt; ) on text.stackexchange. Thankfully I cannot edit it! My user on that page is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/209/lexu&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/209/lexu&lt;/a&gt;, I seem to have registered some time after qbi... somehow my openid gives me limited access to this (qbi) account &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no, it's not mine (I'm lexu, not qbi), it's qbi's! I wouldn't edit it on tex.stackexchange.com even if I could, I feel bad enough stepping on his feet here in meta, by editing this message under his alias .. but I cannot seem to fix the links. My goal is to be able to work on meta as 'lexu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LATER:&lt;/strong&gt; Editing my (lexu) profile on tex.stackoverflow.com results in a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:&#xA;    * unusual error updating your profile -- please try again!'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-08-23T08:41:54.910" Title="User Table scrambled?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="179" CreationDate="2010-07-30T08:32:15.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this question here is sufficient notice.  I wouldn't like to have a load of stuff on the main site that needed changing when it went into public beta.  Everyone active in private beta &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be at least keeping an eye on what's going on here so this really ought to be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should perhaps explain that I don't have too much of a clue as to what is or isn't supposed to go on in private beta.  Whenever I went over to area51 I could never find any explanation for all the different phases and what was supposed to go on there.  I decided that this model would work really well for TeX and friends and that it had a high chance of working so thought I'd show my support and I'm doing my best to follow through on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So sometimes I don't quite know what's going on and just need clarification!  I guess I should have asked over here rather than leaving a comment in public; Juan, shall we delete that exchange (leaving just your comment asking for clarification as I think that that's an example of good behaviour on both our parts (your asking rather than just going away in a huff, and my providing the details))?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS If there is a good place to read about what's going on, please tell me!  So far, all the links I find take me to various SO posts and blogs and while that helps, it's not a concise &quot;document&quot; laying it all out clearly.  Plus there's seems to be an underlying assumption that everyone's coming from SO and knows the system from there, including all the conventions that aren't inherent in the actual program.  Actually, that last point is probably worth a separate meta question ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T08:32:15.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-30T08:45:11.933" Score="11" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that we'll get a large contingent of people here who are already familiar with the SO software, but as the SO/SE empire expands then these people may have different codes of behaviour.  In particular, there appear to be some differences between how things are done on SO as to MO [mathoverflow] [1].  As a frequenter of MO, but only just dipping my toe in the water at SO, my default behaviour is that of an MO user &lt;em&gt;because I don't know any different&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let me make one thing clear before I go on.  Whatever the differences are, I would tend to favour the SO one over the MO one for here because I think that the relationship between the subject and the users is closer to that on SO than MO.  However, having experience only of MO then I don't know what the differences are.  This came up in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/553/what-packages-do-people-load-by-default-in-latex&quot;&gt;CW question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have a question and a suggestion.  My underlying question is probably unanswerable (what are the differences?) so I shan't answer it.  To make an answerable question, let me ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should someone coming from MO know about the etiquette here before jumping in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or more specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where have the current MO crew here shown behaviour that doesn't fit with the current behaviour patterns on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps (thinking of a current question on the main site):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you spot an MO user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;strong&gt;suggestion&lt;/strong&gt; is that something should be put in the FAQ about this.  Not a huge swathe detailing every difference, but an acknowledgement that there are differences and that we follow the SO model where there are such differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In time, I'm sure we'll evolve our own culture, but I think it can be useful to align ourselves correctly at the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Incidentally, I don't expect everyone who comes here from MO to read the FAQ before jumping in.  I think that it takes some of the heat out of the exchange when someone does something wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Version 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A does something wrong&#xA;B points this out&#xA;A storms off in a huff saying &quot;How was I supposed to know?  And who set you up as judge and jury?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Version 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A does something wrong&#xA;B points this out &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; refers to an entry in the FAQ&#xA;A says &quot;Oh right; guess I should have read that first.  Sorry.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that in version 2, A bears no grudge against B since B (hopefully) never expressed a personal opinion on A's behaviour.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Added&lt;/strong&gt;:) In the comments, Suresh asked for an elaboration of my comment above about the relationship between the subject and the users.  I've written out my thoughts at some length &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.math.ntnu.no/~stacey/CountingOnMyFingers/MOversusSO.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T13:25:07.807" Title="SO versus MO model (possible FAQ entry)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2010-07-30T08:56:01.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Julian Lamas-Rodriguez&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/165/julian-lamas-rodriguez&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/165/julian-lamas-rodriguez&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was his idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T08:56:01.377" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-30T08:56:01.377" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2010-07-30T09:00:17.763" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Scott Morrison&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/77/scott-morrison&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/77/scott-morrison&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/users/3/scott-morrison&quot;&gt;mathoverflow&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderator on MathOverflow, where I think he's shown all the qualities required in a moderator (and more!).  In particular, he's &lt;em&gt;visible&lt;/em&gt; without being &lt;em&gt;overbearing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T09:00:17.763" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-30T09:00:17.763" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="189" CreationDate="2010-07-30T09:03:07.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to interpret those statistics, in particular whether they are good or bad.  However, I would sound one note of warning to those who want to put some weight on it: it is the middle of the summer holidays when academics (probably one of our larger arenas) all zoom off round conferences and beaches and probably don't have much time for asking and answering questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T09:03:07.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-30T09:56:45.657" Score="7" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an etiquette question where I feel that my default MO behaviour might lead me astray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/565/how-can-i-get-rid-of-indentation-after-an-equation&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  Mine, and caramdir's.  I think it's fairly indisputable that mine is the better answer (at least, now that I've edited it to contain the explanation).  But caramdir's adds a small, but significant, modification that I overlooked.  It's actually not directly referred to in the question, but the mathematician in me screams out that the &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; answer ought to include caramdir's addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, both have gotten about the same number of votes.  My gut feeling is that my answer ought to be accepted (assuming that an answer is to be accepted) and there the matter should stand.  My reasoning being that someone reading the answers should read &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the answers and notice caramdir's addition.  However, I have a feeling that the SO route is that the accepted answer should be complete and that it should not be &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt; to read the other answers (though of course it's a good idea).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what is the correct etiquette here?  I could incorporate caramdir's addition (with attribution) in to my own with the simple addition of a '%' (it appears that the debate as to whether &quot;blank comment lines&quot; are &lt;a href=&quot;http://ncatlab.org/show/evil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;evil&lt;/a&gt; or not does not involve caramdir and that caramdir, from the first comment, regards the two answers as synonymous at least as regarding the implementation of the solution).  If I do this, should it be CW as, technically, more than one person contributed to it (I would regard this as somewhat extreme since tracking down and properly crediting the true source of many answers would be a Herculean task!)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually would prefer to be able to leave things as they stand (possibly with mine accepted).  I would read that as saying &quot;Here's the answer, but the other highly voted answers might add some additional information that is worth reading.&quot;.  Thus answers are not in &lt;em&gt;competition&lt;/em&gt; with each other, but each is voted as to its merits in and of itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(While I'm talking about that particular question; I really hope that the two answers are not being used as a contest to decide whether it's best to remove blank lines or insert %s.  That really would be detrimental, particularly as the question is (supposedly) by a newbie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T21:18:37.583" Title="Etiquette on more than one correct answer" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="201" CreationDate="2010-07-30T10:34:02.973" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just fix your answer and add a short note (in the end of the answer) in which you give credit to Caramdir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should aim at providing the &lt;em&gt;best possible answers&lt;/em&gt;, give credit to those who deserve it, and stop worrying too much about the reputation score. With newbies it's more important that you give them the &quot;fair&quot; share of reputation (to make them feel more welcome and to enable them to use features such as commenting more quickly), but in this case both of you have &gt; 500 points, so I wouldn't worry about that. Earning more reputation isn't that critical for either of you any more, you can already use most features of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T10:34:02.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="201" CreationDate="2010-07-30T13:26:16.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, I have a feeling that the SO&#xA;  route is that the accepted answer&#xA;  should be complete and that it should&#xA;  not be necessary to read the other&#xA;  answers (though of course it's a good&#xA;  idea).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both your post and Caramdir's post provide different ways of solving the problem.   Caramdir could edit his and provide more information about why the lines need to be removed, but that's his choice.  I don't think that this is the SO route - except for FAQs, which should have an official answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3371255/writing-unit-tests-in-python-how-do-i-start&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; hour-old SO thread about unit testing in python.  There three answers which provide a package, a tutorial, and a book, respectively, which are more highly voted than several others.  These are three equally valid and useful answers.  The questioner will select the answer which is most applicable to his problem and learning style, and the others will be highly voted alternatives - honorable mention, if you will.  If this were a mature question, I'd read these three and ignore the 0- and 1-vote noise below.  In contrast, &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/questions/33788/does-the-ideal-class-of-the-different-have-a-functorial-square-root&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on MO which has a single answer which is provably correct.  Perhaps that kind of question has determined MO behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this site, some answers may be provably correct.  However, this is likely to be the exception, rather than the rule.  IMO, questions which (1) have answers which cannot be compiled by a single user (&quot;big-list&quot;), or (2) which should have official answers (FAQ and policy-determining questions) should have one community-wiki answer including all agreed-upon points, and maybe some dissenting opinions if appropriate.  Most answers should not include all the possible answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T13:26:16.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="195" CreationDate="2010-07-30T13:28:35.160" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to your user page on the parent site (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/201/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/201/&lt;/a&gt; for you). At the top of your profile, it should show something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Registered User         **edit** | add openid&#xA;name            reemrevnivek&#xA;member for    4 days&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to change your username by clicking the 'edit' option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will also change your meta user profile.  Your meta and parent user profiles are identical. This is in spite of the fact that information about questions, answers, and comments for the meta or parent page are only shown on their respective user pages.   Reputation is shared on both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this does not work, then this deserves the 'bug' tag.  If this behavior is not what you expect, perhaps it should be better documented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T13:28:35.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="119" CreationDate="2010-07-30T13:51:21.983" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just put an answer to the Sand-Box question, that is also appropriate for this question. Instead of duplicating the answer, I'll just link to it: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/158/latex-sand-box/159#159&quot;&gt;LaTeX sand-box?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T13:51:21.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="158" CreationDate="2010-07-30T13:53:45.830" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could have an input box available for playing around, a sandbox (at the left border of the page? or at the very bottom?). It should probably have a few options like LaTeX, TeX, etc., and hidden or shown preamble. Of course a &quot;Type-Set!&quot; button which causes an image to appear under the textbox (or error messages). This image appears with a local link (possibly only if it is small &quot;enough&quot;), which can then be copied into an answer/question/comment if desired. If the link is used within a few days/hours/minutes after creation, the image is saved forever, if not, the image is deleted, so as to not accumulate all the sand-box castles that are created. In addition, hover-text of the source can be created automagically, since we have all the information on the generation of the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should allow users to play around with *TeX, images (of TeX'ed results) to be included, which seems to satisfy most image uses at the moment. For other images, this will not provide a better solution than the current one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I just realized that I included Juan's answer into mine without proper reference. Clearly this answer is the embodiment of Juan's idea with a few extra implementation details tacked on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="117" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T14:42:55.743" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T14:42:55.743" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-30T13:53:45.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-30T14:28:29.430" Score="27" ViewCount="2319" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the SO question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (if you want to know how they did something there, take a look at the source, as per the hack documented &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/24400/view-source-link-on-all-questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), I suggest that this (CW) question be used for testing purposes. Feel free to edit this question, add answers, experiment with deletion or markdown or what-have you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown Editing Help reference&lt;/a&gt; as a guide, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this tome&lt;/a&gt; if you want to know every detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll take this question down if the community thinks that it is inappropriate, but if it is appropriate, we could have something like it pointed to in the FAQ and in the markdown manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2022-11-30T13:24:20.857" Title="Formatting Sand-Box" Tags="|support|markdown|sandbox|formatting|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-30T14:28:29.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="212" CreationDate="2010-07-30T15:22:09.223" Score="21" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few questions where an answer has been accepted really quickly. In at least one case, the question got an answer after 20 minutes and had an accepted answer less than 30 minutes from being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm all in favour of accepting answers. (I've accepted an answer in 10 of the 11 I've asked and haven't yet got to trying the various answers on the 11th, but will accept one when I have.) But, such quick turnarounds from asked to accepted don't seem a good thing to me. It will surely result in better answers not being accepted. Yes, that's inevitable as part of the SE design, but very quick acceptances make it more likely. They also may reduce the likelihood of a better answer being offered. Some may not bother to answer if the &quot;prize&quot; is already gone. Others, viewing the questions, might think that if an answer has been accepted, then the question has been dealt with and never get as far as seeing that the better answer in their head hasn't made it on to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T20:12:48.750" Title="Should we wait a bit before accepting answers?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|accepting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-30T20:44:49.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="209" CreationDate="2010-07-30T15:42:58.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;2 things: You can change your mind on the answer, and a good answer carries a bigger &quot;prize&quot; than the accepted one, since it will get lots of up votes, I think that the up-votes are an equivalent reward than the acceptance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend accepting a correct answer when it appears. but going back to see if a better one was given every now and again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T15:42:58.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="211" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-30T15:58:40.617" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this on meta rather than starting a question such as I have in mind to see what people think, first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are resources and packages that are of high relevance to subsets of the LaTeX community where those subsets are largely defined by academic discipline. For instance, Peter Smith's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.logicmatters.net/latex-for-logicians/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeX for Logicians&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent resource for those working in logic, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.localhost.net.ar/help/Catalogue/entries/feynman.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;feynman&lt;/a&gt; package would be of interests to physicists. I assume that there are like resources for chemists, and probably packages of interest to those who work in Category Theory that are not of general interest to mathematicians, etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would people think about community wiki questions like &quot;What resources and packages do I need to know about as a working X&quot; for various values of X?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T18:43:43.187" Title="Would domain specific &quot;must have&quot; resources and package community wiki questions be appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="209" CreationDate="2010-07-30T16:11:17.267" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it's a &lt;em&gt;good idea&lt;/em&gt; to wait. Accepting answers gives the &lt;em&gt;appearance&lt;/em&gt; that the question has been resolved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Got my answer! No more help required, thanks.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right or wrong, that is the perception. So, by accepting an answer too quickly, &lt;strong&gt;you are depriving yourself&lt;/strong&gt; of potentially better answers, more content for those who come after, and reputation from the activity you ended prematurely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T16:11:17.267" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="211" CreationDate="2010-07-30T18:43:43.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, why not? But I'd prefer to have &quot;real&quot; question: ask this question for a particular value of X only if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; are interested in the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T18:43:43.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-30T19:58:32.217" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is considered perfectly OK on StackOverflow.  Some relevant meta questions from there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2706&quot;&gt;Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/27360/how-do-you-stop-people-from-asking-and-answering-their-own-questions-en-masse&quot;&gt;How do you stop people from asking and answering their own questions en masse?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12513/should-i-not-answer-my-own-questions&quot;&gt;Should I not answer my own questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why give other people a chance to answer before you post the answer if you already know it?  The point of the site is not to create busy work for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T19:58:32.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="209" CreationDate="2010-07-30T20:12:48.750" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-what-is-it-all-about&quot;&gt;official FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, guidelines for accepting answers are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Guidelines&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't hesitate to accept an answer that is well-written, suggests a good&#xA;practice and works for you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is generally accepted that you should wait 24 to 48 hours to let a&#xA;bunch of people have a chance to&#xA;answer your question. A question with&#xA;an accepted answer may deter people&#xA;from looking at a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure that besides working for you, the answer is really good&#xA;practice. Sometimes after the answer&#xA;gets accepted, another comes in,&#xA;uncovering the fact that previous one&#xA;was in fact a bad hack.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These all seem quite reasonable.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/209/should-we-wait-a-bit-before-accepting-answers/212#212&quot;&gt;Robert&lt;/a&gt; appears to have come up with #2 spontaneously!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should adjust the 24 to 48 hours guideline for the beta, but I think this should be our eventual goal.  We could adjust it longer because we're seeding questions hoping to attract people who like to give answers, or shorter because we're seeding information to make this a valuable site.  There are arguments for both sides, support one or another in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T20:12:48.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="224" CreationDate="2010-07-30T21:24:44.920" Score="7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/686/how-to-get-rid-of-navigation-symbols-in-beamer&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; a few moments ago and someone answered straight away. Then, a while later someone else proposed an alternative way of doing the same thing. The answers are not all that different and both are correct and will get me to the same place. For some reason, I much prefer the second proposed way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my problem: Should I accept the first proposed answer because it was proposed first or is it OK to accept the second way because I prefer it, even though the solutions are pretty similar and will both get me where I want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-03-17T17:01:55.773" Title="(Further) guidelines on accepting answers" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|accepting|guidelines|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="216" CreationDate="2010-07-30T22:40:56.070" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you can accept any answer you like better. Yes, that is totally subjective (and up to you!). The community, of course, is free to vote on whatever answer they better like themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've seen so far, the answer chosen by the community is always shown first, while your accepted answer (if it's not the same one) will be the second no matter how many points it has. I might be wrong about this, though, as I'm new to these SOish sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T22:40:56.070" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="201" CreationDate="2010-07-30T23:00:19.867" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another comment as the one who asked the original the question, for a long time I was actually reluctant to accept either answer because (please don't shoot!) I didn't liked either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't like Caramdir's answer because it's not complete, and I didn't like Andrew's because of the series of &lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Second Edit&lt;/strong&gt;'s. A pet theory I have is that so many people like Caramdir's answer because it just gets to the point, even if Andrew's answer is better people just don't want to read the whole saga of how the answer was improved over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was planning to eventually ask this as another question but here it goes, do we really need to keep visible the history of how the question has been edited/improved? Isn't it fine to just edit the answer to keep it complete but concise? (Of course with a small disclaimer at the end with attributions to the people who helped improving it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T23:00:19.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="219" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-30T23:37:21.693" Score="18" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the few things that always annoyed me on StackOverflow: people use CW as a kind of catch-all options under which &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; is allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's any kind of controversy about a question, it's marked CW and then it's supposed to be ok, even  if the question is entirely worthless. If there's the slightest hint of subjectivity or open-endedness to a question, people will post comments DEMANDING it be CW'ed. And then we all pretend that doing so actually solved a real problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But those policies/traditions don't have to apply here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question: What are &lt;strong&gt;we&lt;/strong&gt; going to use CW for? How widely should it be used? For example, should subjective questions be CW'ed, closed or left alone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask &quot;what is the best package to use if I want to do [X]&quot;, or &quot;which editor do you use to write your LaTeX documents&quot;, should those be CW'ed? Closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I ask &quot;how do you structure a large (150+ pages) document so it's easy to work with?&quot;, or &quot;what is the most popular documentclass&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What (if anything) should be CW'ed? Which kinds of questions should be closed outright? And why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2010-08-20T18:58:28.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T18:58:28.440" Title="Which questions should be marked 'Community Wiki'? Which ones should just be closed?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2010-07-30T23:38:54.780" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, I've always tried to follow the policy that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the main effect of CW is that contributors gain no rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep is supposed to indicate a users' level of knowledge and helpfulness in the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;therefore, a question should be CW'ed &lt;em&gt;if and only if&lt;/em&gt; answering it says nothing about your skill level or contribution to the community. Poll questions are obvious candidates for CW. Regardless of what you answer, your rep shouldn't be affected. You haven't contributed anything of distinct value,  you just answered a poll. But to be honest, I can't think of many other kinds of question that deserve to be CW'ed, which makes me wonder if the CW option is useful at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; think subjective or open-ended questions are grounds for CW. Subjective questions and answers can still indicate valuable knowledge and contributions, and if an answer contains useful information, its author deserves the rep when it is upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People also say that CW posts are supposedly &quot;owned by the community&quot;, which is misleading, because &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; on the site is owned by the community. It's made available under a Creative Commons license and everything. I believe this notion to be a leftover from the old days before the Meta sites were created. Back then, CW was useful for &quot;off-topic&quot; or &quot;meta&quot; content, like policy discussions or guides on how to use the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But today, when a meta site exists to carry the &quot;off-topic&quot; content, I really can't see much purpose for CW, and it wouldn't bother me at all if the CW checkbox on a question was removed entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T23:38:54.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2010-07-30T23:43:05.757" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should ever &lt;strong&gt;accept&lt;/strong&gt; your own answer immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether it's ok to post an answer immediately, I think it depends on how open the question is. If you're asking a question in the form of a discussion (say, asking about best practices), there isn't going to be one single correct answer, and so posting your own answer immediately is fine, I think. It doesn't mean others are prevented from contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if there is obviously going to be one &quot;best&quot; answer, others might be discouraged from answering at all if they see you answered your own question. They might feel there's not much they can add, or that you prefer your own answer and won't accept theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T23:43:05.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2010-07-30T23:54:43.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should allow for TeX beginners, but not beginners at everything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't know how to run a shell command, you need to ask elsewhere (SuperUser, for example). But if, for example, you're confused about basic syntax of invoking &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;, I think you should be able to get it clarified here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we can't, and shouldn't &lt;em&gt;enforce&lt;/em&gt; this kind of helpfulness. People answer with the level of detail they want, and put as much effort as they want into their answers. I don't want to give people a guilt trip over not being helpful enough when answering a beginners' questions.&#xA;I expect that a lot of users here are only going to bother answering more advanced questions, or if they answer beginners questions, they'll do so very tersely. And that's ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't want us to start closing questions for being &quot;too basic&quot; either. As long as the question is TeX-related, I think it's fine, any anyone who cares can answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T23:54:43.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="201" CreationDate="2010-07-31T00:08:54.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original and &quot;official&quot; SO policy is like you say, to make sure the accepted answer is as complete as possible. It is pefectly ok to edit in information taken from other answers (preferably with a note crediting the author).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively (if the amount of content you'd have to insert is significant), you might just add a note suggesting the reader also check caramdir's answer. But there is nothing wrong with adding information to your own answer, even if it is taken from a &quot;competing&quot; answer. It results in a better answer than we'd have gotten otherwise, and that is what matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, a reader shouldn't need to read &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; answer. The accepted one should be the best, and most complete one. Reading the others is often a good idea as well, but readers won't always do that, or they may find it hard to distinguish between good and bad information if they have to correlate 8 contradicting answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T00:08:54.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="216" CreationDate="2010-07-31T00:23:13.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the criteria for acceptance are entirely at the discretion of the asker. If speed makes an answer better in your eyes, then reward the quickest answer. If speed doesn't enter into what makes you think an answer best, then don't consider speed when deciding which answer, if any, to accept. (Of course, in the case at hand, I'm obviously trying to bend your will and so ought to be ignored.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T00:23:13.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="216" CreationDate="2010-07-31T01:03:28.480" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should accept the best answer. It makes no difference which order they were posted in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, the first answer gets the most upvotes, simply because it gets a head start, and that usually leads to it being shown above later answers, which gets it more reads and more upvotes. but that doesn't mean you should &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; favor the earlier question when accepting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also perfectly acceptable to &quot;un-accept&quot; an answer if a better one shows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, when accepting an answer, your only responsibility is to pick the most useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T01:03:28.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2010-07-31T01:26:57.517" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with &lt;em&gt;explaining&lt;/em&gt; why we vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But perhaps another part of the answer might be to revise the close reasons themselves. Here are the two big ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Subjective and argumentative&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's impossible to objectively answer this question;&#xA;questions of this type are too open ended and usually lead to confrontation and argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one has always bothered me because it indicates that subjective questions are bad. That's nonsense. Many subjective questions are perfectly acceptable and should not be closed. For example, something like &amp;quot;what is the preferred way to handle Unicode text in TeX&amp;quot; is subjective, but it's also a real question where the answers can contribute useful information. It doesn't matter that the question can't be objectively answered, as long as subjective answers are &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the text was revised to emphasize the &amp;quot;argumentative&amp;quot; aspect, which &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be avoided, and &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a valid reason to close, we would probably get more disciplined close behavior as well.&#xA;Subjectivity is only bad when it leads to argumentative questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Not a real question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here.&#xA;This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one has the problem that closing the question might not be the best way to go. Perhaps the question can be edited or revised, either by the OP or by any high-rep user. Again, this wording might encourage excessive closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is a point at which a question gets so nonsensical or vague that there is no way it can be salvaged. but this close reason in its current form seems to encourage us to close &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question that starts out vague or ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can narrow down the actual close reasons themselves, we could probably avoid a lot of the cases where a newcomer gets a &amp;quot;kick in the face&amp;quot; close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T01:26:57.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-07-31T11:14:08.293" Score="27" ViewCount="728" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should probably be added to the FAQ at some point, but I think it merits a bit of discussion first. What should we expect for answers to be regarded as &lt;em&gt;great answers&lt;/em&gt; on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a list of some of the qualities that a great answer should have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Correct&lt;/strong&gt; – if the proposed solution does not work, its value is limited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concise&lt;/strong&gt; – answers should strive to quickly get to the point, without lengthy explanations or unnecessary details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Complete&lt;/strong&gt; – although we value brevity, a great answer should still provide enough information so that even an inexperienced (but diligent and motivated) user can reproduce the solution just by reading the answer, and possibly following some instructions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instructive&lt;/strong&gt; – whenever possible, answers should teach users the rationale behind a solution: why does it work? This is most valuable when the question suggests that the user misunderstands some of the basics of TeX/LaTeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosted &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; the site&lt;/strong&gt; – the solution should be entered in the text of the answer itself. Attributions to external sources are fine – and encouraged! – but just linking to solutions posted elsewhere &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of the site should be discouraged.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Considerate and sensitive&lt;/strong&gt; – the answer should not be harsh.  No matter how obvious it may seem to you, the questioner is here because they want to learn the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a community wiki so feel free to edit the list above to expand or clarify these items as consensus among the community is built. If you think some particular quality merits further discussion please also open a new answer bellow so that we can discuss specifically about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-04-20T22:50:51.433" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T22:50:51.433" Title="Quality Standards for Answers" Tags="|discussion|faq|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-31T11:25:43.017" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3225" CreationDate="2010-07-29T19:53:01.543" Score="349" ViewCount="176418" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was posting some question about this strange thing LaTeX is doing when I try to compile my thesis. Someone asked me to &lt;strong&gt;provide a minimal example that reproduces the problem&lt;/strong&gt;. My thesis is now a few hundred pages long and spans along ten different source files! How am I supposed to know what or where is the cause of the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any hints or ideas on how should I go about producing such a small example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reference:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6255/4301&quot;&gt;Why does TeX require such elaborate MWE's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" OwnerDisplayName="Juan A. Navarro" LastEditorUserId="4301" LastEditDate="2022-02-04T19:16:37.763" LastActivityDate="2024-03-07T04:08:48.140" Title="I've just been asked to write a minimal working example (MWE), what is that?" Tags="|support|faq|mwe|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T21:34:58.653" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2010-07-29T20:01:23.257" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you can't just post your whole thesis and expect people to debug it for you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shouldn't be that hard to know which part of your thesis is causing the problem. Error messages should help you pinpoint which section of your LaTeX code is the problem - they usually include a file name and line number. You can then copy and paste it on here without any doubt that it will get solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" OwnerDisplayName="JCL" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T18:58:54.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2010-07-29T20:02:10.837" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully if your thesis is a few hundred pages long, you haven't been experiencing the problem you're asking about since you began it!  If you &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; having the problem the whole time, then you could probably construct a minimal example basically by pretending to start a new thesis in the same way you started your existing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the more likely scenario that you've just encountered a new problem, the best approach I've found is to start commenting out the newest pieces you've added one at a time and seeing when the problem goes away.  At that point, you can try to make a new minimal document containing only the part you had to remove to make the problem go away -- if all goes well, you'll be able to make the new (much smaller) document reproduce the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually not uncommon to end up finding the solution yourself when you start trying to construct a minimal example, but if that's not the case then once you have it you can add it to your original question to find help here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" OwnerDisplayName="Michael Underwood" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T18:58:54.223" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2010-07-29T20:18:40.513" Score="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most questions about code are made more answerable by the addition of a &lt;strong&gt;minimal working example&lt;/strong&gt; (MWE) or &lt;strong&gt;short, self-contained, correct example&lt;/strong&gt; (SSCCE).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question may have an obvious answer, or it may not.  You the questioner probably do not know the difference between the two!  So think about it from the point of view of the answerer.  To ensure that the answer she provides is sound, she will probably want to create a sample document, make the changes she recommends, and check that it works.  If she &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; she knows the answer but doesn't have the time to create a sample document, she may in the interest of quality control refrain from answering at this time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So make it easy for potential answerers!  Give them a block of code that can be copied, pasted directly into a file, compiled, tweaked, corrected, and pasted back.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here &lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt; means that the problem is isolated and there is nothing in the sample that distracts from the error you have or the effect you desire.  &lt;em&gt;Working&lt;/em&gt; doesn't mean the problem is solved &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;, it means the code sample can be copied-and-pasted and directly compiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site &lt;a href=&quot;http://sscce.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sscce.org&lt;/a&gt; is dedicated to the topic.  There are also several articles on the topic as it applies specifically to LaTeX:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/minexample/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“Creating a LaTeX Minimal Example”&lt;/a&gt; from Dr. Nicola Talbot's LaTeX resources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“How to make a ‘minimum example’”&lt;/a&gt; from the UK TeX FAQ&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“What is a minimal working example?”&lt;/a&gt; from the de.comp.text.tex newsgroup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Errors&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't see your question, but I'm guessing that you got some error you haven't seen before, and said something to the effect of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I tried to compile, but I got the error `Undefined control sequence.'  How can I fix it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is next to impossible to answer, unless you expect only answers from psychics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, look at the line numbers, and post that paragraph or sentence, depending on the scope of the error.  You'll have to add any referenced packages or other components which are critical to the compilation of the section, but make it as focused as possible on the part which is the source of the error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are no helpful line numbers, (make a backup and then) begin removing things you added after the last successful compile.  If you remove everything you just added, perform a binary search by removing halves of the document until you can narrow it down. Then, post the section which caused the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Often, this process will help you to discover the problem and solution yourself!&lt;/em&gt;  If this happens, please still post your minimal example, add your solution as an answer, and accept it later.  This way, future readers can benefit from your work (and you can get a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/14/self-learner&quot;&gt;self-learner&lt;/a&gt; badge if your solution was novel enough to get some upvotes!)&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A better approach to the &quot;I tried to compile...&quot; example above would be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am trying to typeset the following equation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}  &#xA;\begin{document}  &#xA;Alpha particles (named after and denoted by the first letter in the&#xA;Greek alphabet,\[\alpha\]) consist of two protons and two neutrons bound&#xA;together.&#xA;This means that an \[\alfa\] particle is a helium nucleus. &#xA;\end{document}  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But when I compile it with LaTeX I get this error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[22]&#xA;Undefined control sequence:&#xA;\alfa&#xA;`An \[\alfa\] particle is a helium nucleus.`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What am I doing wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Enhancements&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions are not related to errors, but to a desired effect that the user wants to achieve, of the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to put (thing) at (place).  How do I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MWE in this case should: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be a full document including &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt;, a preamble, &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;include enough dummy text to make the document look like the one you're writing.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/kantlipsum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;kantlipsum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/blindtext&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;blindtext&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; packages are helpful here in that they provide macros to make lots of text without actually having to type lots of text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have your best-so-far implementation of the desired effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to keep your vocabulary accessible—do not assume that because many experts in your field use TeX that all TeX users are familiar with your field.  A question about typesetting affine Dynkin diagrams will not get answered until you find someone who knows TeX &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; math.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough reputation to include images, please do.  Images of both the desired effect (mocked up or copied from another document), and the result of your best-so-far implementation.  If you do not have enough reputation to include images, upload to &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com/&lt;/a&gt; anyway and post the links (an editor will include the images for you).  If you do not have enough reputation to post links, enter the bare URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" OwnerDisplayName="reemrevnivek" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T21:45:27.877" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T21:19:05.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2010-07-29T20:42:37.743" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several TeX-specific pieces of advice exist. I'd start with the UK TeX FAQ: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" OwnerDisplayName="Joseph Wright" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T18:58:54.223" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2010-07-29T21:54:26.873" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What is a minimal working example?&lt;/a&gt; is a work of some regulars of &lt;a href=&quot;http://news%3ade.comp.text.tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;de.comp.text.tex&lt;/a&gt;. Here they describe in detail, how to produce a minimal working example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="201" OwnerDisplayName="qbi" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T18:58:54.223" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-29T21:54:26.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="201" CreationDate="2010-07-31T21:18:37.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to respond to some of the points raised, particularly in Juan's answer, as I think that this issue has exposed some of the underlying assumptions of those coming from SO as opposed to those of us from Elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &quot;edit history&quot; in my answer, I put this in for two reasons.  On MO, we have had the following situation: someone asks a question that has a trivial counterexample; someone else posts an answer pointing out the counter-example; the question is then modified to remove that case; whereupon everyone who looks at the question &lt;em&gt;afterwards&lt;/em&gt; votes down that answer since it is now explicitly excluded by the reformulated question.  This can be more subtle than I've laid out, so I've gotten in the habit of essentially keeping the edit history visible when I'm making substantial changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The underlying assumption that Juan makes, backed up by ShreevatsaR, is that someone taking a look at the question-and-answers is going to go to the trouble of looking at the history, checking the order of events, and voting or commenting accordingly.  This also assumes that &lt;strong&gt;they know how to do this!&lt;/strong&gt;.  I remember that it took me quite some time before I realised that I should click on the word &quot;edited&quot; to see the history - this is not at all obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second reason that I kept the history is that the exchange felt like a conversation.  Juan (playing a role), was asking for clarification.  At that point, I have two options: to fold the extra information in to the answer or to ensure that the extra part is clearly signposted.  The point that I wish to make is that the &lt;strong&gt;latter&lt;/strong&gt; is the most useful to the original questioner, since that person knows what I originally wrote and is only interested in seeing what has been added (or altered).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The underlying assumption here is that when answering, one should always have an eye on the future.  What will be most useful to someone &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt; reading this question-and-answer?  For me, this isn't even of secondary importance.  The &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; thing that matters when answering a question is: does it help the original questioner?  Everything else is a side benefit.  Of course, we anticipate that there will be such benefit - that's the basis of this framework, but to alter our behaviour to maximise it is wrong, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is for asking questions and getting answers.  The fact that we learn from watching each other is what brings answerers back to the site again and again.  But what draws questioners is the prospect of getting their questions answered.  The questioners are our &lt;em&gt;primary&lt;/em&gt; resource, and so we must make sure that nothing we do hinders the process of questioners getting answers.  And I really do mean questioners, not questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a question has been satisfactorily answered, then one can ponder whether or not it could do with tidying up.  I agree that a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; person coming to that question doesn't want to read through the history.  However, that cleaning up is the responsibility of the community &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the questioner is satisfied.  Ideally, the original answerer (me, in this case) should clean up their answer, but anyone with enough rep could do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I feel that when Juan says that he didn't like my answer, I think he's not being quite fair!  The Juan that doesn't like my answer, is the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; Juan; but the Juan who asked the question is not that Juan, but a pretend one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We, as the ones committed to this site, should have an eye on building up a good resource.  But we should not expect Joe Public to &lt;em&gt;actively&lt;/em&gt; take part in that.  We want Joe to answer the question and go away again with a warm glow of having helped someone who needed it, so that he keeps coming back to see if anyone else needs help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've gone on long enough.  Let me close with this thought: for me, for this site to be successful, it needs to be more than just the 'tex' tag on SO.  It needs to attract people that aren't used to SO at all.  I said elsewhere, that between the MO model and the SO one, I prefer the SO one for here.  But we need to remember that many people coming here won't have any experience of that model (as I don't, really).  Although we can lay this out in the faq, what will really make the difference is how we react to people.  If we say, &quot;That's not how things are done.&quot;, then they'll leave.  If we say, &quot;We've found it best if we do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; not &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; then that's alright.  But best is to say, &quot;That's a great answer (or whatever)!  Do you mind if I edit it a little to make it clearer for people stumbling on this question in 6 months' time who haven't been following the discussion?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T21:18:37.583" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="350" CreationDate="2010-08-01T10:01:38.983" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should we do about dupes of SO questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt;? Link to original question? C/P the answer from over there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T21:54:25.810" Title="Dupes of SO questions?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-01T10:02:13.913" Score="4" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both questions and answers often need to be edited. In this case there seem to be three different behaviors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing the question/answer to make it look like the new version was here from the beginning;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing the question/answer to make it look like the new version was here from the beginning and leaving a comment what was changed;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clearly marking in the text what was edited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the preferred behavior and why? Should this be included into the faq?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I open this question, because of the discussion that started in the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/201/etiquette-on-more-than-one-correct-answer&quot;&gt;Etiquette on more than one correct answer&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. In particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/201/etiquette-on-more-than-one-correct-answer/218#218&quot;&gt;Juan's&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/201/etiquette-on-more-than-one-correct-answer/234#234&quot;&gt;Andrew's&lt;/a&gt; answers already express opinions on this topic.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T11:39:22.080" Title="Should the editing history be visible?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-01T10:07:01.507" Score="10" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I'm not alone in having &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/latex&lt;/code&gt; bookmarked. It's the only part of SO I use (I'm not a programmer, so most of the rest is over my head.) It would be nice if a little banner appeared on that page, and at the top of any question tagged &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; that informs SO users of this site's existence. After all, the SO latex tag is going to be less used now that this site exists, I expect...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit: I have asked the same question on SO meta. Now all we can do is wait for public beta...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="215" LastEditDate="2010-08-03T15:02:17.100" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T15:02:17.100" Title="Can we get automatic advertisement on the SO latex tagged page?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2010-08-01T10:41:39.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I must say that do not have much experience with SO. I followed MO a bit (not really actively participating) and used SO only via google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For minor edits (spelling, etc.) I think we can agree that no particular marking of the edit is necessary. So the following only concerns major edits (like adding new information or major reformulations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually I not just want the solution to a question, I also appreciate any surrounding information, that technically does not belong to the question. For example on the question &quot;How do I underline text?&quot; there is a simple technical answer. However, someone might write a comment that one usually shouldn't underline text (and explain why). For this reason I usually also read at least the upvoted comments and some additional answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine the questioner has some really good reason for wanting to underline text and edits this into her questions without marking the edit. When I come along and read the question and comments, I'll be rather confused why somebody recommended not to underline the text when there is a really good reason stated right in the question. Sure I could read through the editing history, but how often do really do that. More importantly, how many people that find the question via google know that there is an editing history and how to access it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same goes for clarifications in the question when it already has answers. Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/656/how-to-create-acknowledgements-in-the-report-class&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and Will's answer (which currently is the most upvoted one). Without the &quot;EDIT&quot; in the question anyone coming along now will probably be quite confused by this answer as it does not answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this reason, I usually appreciate it when (major) changes to a question and answer are clearly marked; either directly in the text or as footnotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly this does not necessarily lead to convoluted and unreadable answers. Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/565/how-can-i-get-rid-of-indentation-after-an-equation/566#566&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; by Andrew. First (nearly) the original answers which just gives the solution. Then the first edit, two paragraphs with an explanation. Then the second edit, a paragraph with additional information. So it is a well-structured answer where the most important information comes first and not just a wall of text. (I'd only change the two headlines to &quot;Edit: Explanation&quot; and &quot;Edit 2: Additional Information&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T10:41:39.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="237" CreationDate="2010-08-01T15:54:19.373" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking the same thing.  And maybe a box that pops up when you tag a question &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; on SO that it might be better asked here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You should probably ask this on meta.stackoverflow.com since its something that will need to be done there.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T15:54:19.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="237" CreationDate="2010-08-01T22:20:36.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not until we are at least in public beta =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T22:20:36.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2010-08-01T22:27:43.123" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The editing history is always available to someone who looks for it (by clicking on the &quot;edited [time]&quot; at the end of an edited answer), so your question is: Should we make the edit history explicit in the answer itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. Simply folding the edits appropriately into the answer makes for less clutter, and a better, concise answer. This is useful to everyone, both the original questioner and those who arrive at the question in the long term, and (to borrow Juan's phrase) &quot;people just don't want to read the whole saga of how the answer was improved over time&quot;. &lt;sub&gt;(Disclaimer: This here is a remark about hypothetical excesses of historiography, not about the fine answer that provoked the previous thread.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in order to be fair, it's good to briefly mention your edit whenever (1) you borrow or steal from another answer — so that it doesn't seem the other answer was redundant, and to give credit, or when (2) you edit the question to invalidate one of the answers previously posted — so that their answer doesn't seem unduly inapt. Most edits are not of this form, though, and I feel that when they are, a brief but clear mention of the change suffices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew suggests it's better to preserve edit history by marking off edits separately, &quot;since that person knows what I originally wrote and is only interested in seeing what has been added&quot;. This is a nice idea, but I'm unconvinced. Whom does it help? Someone who&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reads the answer in the interval after it was originally posted and before it was edited, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;visits the thread again after the edit, and looks at this particular answer, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remembers what was written and doesn't want to reread it, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;knows to look for &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; to see what's new.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not very frequent, in my view. Certainly, you must mark edits when you make a major change, something that may easily be missed by a reader of the previous text &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; which is substantial and important enough that a previous reader's attention &lt;em&gt;ought to&lt;/em&gt; be drawn to the new material with a bold &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (e.g. you remove something bad, or when your original answer was so long that it won't be reread unless you draw attention). But in most cases, this is not necessary, and even when this happens it's good to eventually go back and clean up the answer to remove 'history clutter'. (Also, when the changes introduced in the edits are logically distinct from the previous, it's better to eventually use descriptive titles like &quot;Explanation&quot; or &quot;Caveat&quot; rather than &quot;Edit&quot; and &quot;Second Edit&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T22:27:43.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="243" CreationDate="2010-08-01T22:32:06.237" Score="8" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't sure about this question over &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/771/how-can-i-efficiently-convert-tei-documents-into-latex/796#796&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was about TEI xml markup of books and the question was how to automatically process it to latex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about processing docbook, texinfo, sphinx and other xml stuff into latex, fine here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we more about &lt;em&gt;hand-written&lt;/em&gt; latex and advanced knowledge of LaTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or questions &quot;I have $x generate beautiful LaTeX processed pdf NOW!&quot; are fine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T09:23:13.620" Title="Are &quot;How to convert &lt;format&gt; into &lt;latex&gt;&quot; ok questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="242" CreationDate="2010-08-01T22:44:08.767" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I think they're ok; I don't see why not. There are only finitely many such questions, and when we've answered all the corresponding questions for the popular formats, we'll be done. (Perhaps I'm too optimistic, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T22:44:08.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="242" CreationDate="2010-08-02T06:11:10.867" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;These seem like perfectly cromulent questions to me.  We'll never &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; be done with them, though, since new versions of M$ Office, OpenOffice, etc. will keep coming out, conversion software will get updated, people will try new ways of mixing TeX with webpages, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T06:11:10.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2010-08-02T08:56:56.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think that there is a case for making the edit clear when not doing so would lead either the original questioner or a casual browser (ie one not inclined to click &quot;edited&quot; before making their judgement) is likely to come to the wrong conclusion as to how things have developed.  Given that people generally don't read the full history before voting, I'd like to avoid the situation whereby people vote down an answer that was initially helpful.  Although the reputation system shouldn't be taken seriously, it is part of the system and helps impart that warm glow of knowing that you've helped someone so it shouldn't be ignored.  Getting an &lt;em&gt;unjustified&lt;/em&gt; down-vote for one of one's first answers can easily deter someone from using the site.  I want this place to have a reputation for friendliness as well as for usefulness!  (Compare with the reputation of MO!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I probably did go a bit overboard in my answer that provoked this whole discussion.  I've cleaned it up a little, whilst preserving the overall structure.  I wonder if that is now to everyone's liking or not!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T08:56:56.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-02T12:31:08.983" Score="10" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Apparently, the question I'm asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a heads-up on the fact that, according to our page on Area51, this site will go into Public Beta in 6 hours' time (at time of writing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ... I'm guessing we should try to promote this site in all the places we &quot;hang out&quot; on the internet.  In addition to the usual blog posts that hopefully everyone will do (who has a blog), I suggest the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People active on SO keep an eye out for questions that would work here and politely (!) suggest that they ask them here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ditto on MO and math.SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be a good idea to spread the word around a bit in the TeX community, though we should be careful not to tread on toes there.  My personal opinion is that initially, any announcement should come from people already active in those communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2010-08-20T15:45:45.170" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T15:45:45.170" Title="Go back to your constiuencies and prepare for public beta!" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="256" CreationDate="2010-08-02T12:40:12.897" Score="9" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is starting to puzzle me a bit: I've asked 2 questions which have gotten a combined 11 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made 10 answers, for a total of 25 upvotes. (Some of them in CW threads, but not all)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why do I have only 131 rep? Is this a bug or some hidden feature I'm not aware of? Is rep counted differently on &quot;meta beta&quot; sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm tagging this as &lt;code&gt;[bug]&lt;/code&gt; for now. Feel free to retag it if there's a sane explanation for my missing rep)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-11-28T17:05:43.620" LastActivityDate="2011-11-28T17:05:43.620" Title="Where does all my rep go?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-02T12:41:26.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="247" CreationDate="2010-08-02T12:57:20.883" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation isn't counted on meta.  Your reputation score on meta is that from the main site (slurped in every hour, I think).  Looking at your profile there, I'm figuring that you started on 101 (do you have a decent reputation on SO?) and then got three upvotes for your answer.  Hence 131.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NB This is just about &lt;em&gt;reputation&lt;/em&gt;, I think.  Badges are separated, as is the '% acceptance' bit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T12:57:20.883" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-02T12:57:20.883" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2010-08-02T13:11:17.183" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd add an additional situation in which CW can be useful: sometimes questions essentially ask for a brainstorming session (I'm thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/698/how-to-encourage-tex-as-a-homework-medium&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; as an example).  In that case, I would make it CW to encourage people to come up with wacky ideas.  The point being that someone shouldn't be penalised for trying to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience from MO, people are quite happy to answer CW questions.  Indeed, most people on MO seem to regard the reputation system as just a silly game &lt;em&gt;until&lt;/em&gt; they get voted down for something that they think is a reasonable attempt at answering the question.  Then the cry of &quot;Hey!  Why the down vote?&quot; echoes down the halls (I've done it myself!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the sentiment that &lt;em&gt;just because&lt;/em&gt; a question is subjective, doesn't mean that it's a bad question or an automatic CW question, and that we ought to think of how to make CW work best for us.  I'd make the entry in the FAQ (or wherever) highlight the positive aspects of a CW question and hope that that way, we could avoid the situation whereby CW is a last-ditch attempt to rescue a question that really shouldn't be here.  Indeed, on this site (rather than MO), I think that there's quite some potential for beneficial CW questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll make a separate answer as a draft FAQ section on CW.  It's separate because I want to make it CW itself, but as this answer is my personal opinion, that wouldn't fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T13:11:17.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2010-08-02T13:20:26.680" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Draft section on Community Wiki for FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Community Wiki Posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question or an answer can be designated &quot;Community Wiki&quot; (CW).  In practice, this means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Almost everyone on the site can edit it,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No-one gains (or loses) reputation from it,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; is made CW then all answers to it are automatically made CW.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus you should make a post CW if you think that for that post, the advantages of the above outweigh the disadvantages.  For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You post an answer that you suspect is only partially right and that others will be able to improve upon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You post a question where you think that that no-one should gain &lt;em&gt;or lose&lt;/em&gt; reputation by answering; for example, a poll question, or a question trying to get a broad range of ideas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You post an answer whereby you feel that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; should not gain or lose reputation from it; for example, an answer summarising some of the other answers, or an answer that essentially copies something written by someone else found by an easy search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T13:20:26.680" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-02T13:20:26.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="246" CreationDate="2010-08-02T13:51:20.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I proposed &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148/latex&quot;&gt;the site at &lt;strong&gt;Area51&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I made &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/23c40e924b3ebab1/3a1da7e734cfa2d4?lnk=gst&amp;amp;q=area51#3a1da7e734cfa2d4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an announcement&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics?pli=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (appart from my Twitter and Facebook accounts, but that's another story). For someone like me, who doesn't participate in that list, the announcement got a pretty good number of answers. Some people appreciated the idea and started to follow the proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when the commitment phase began, I made a second announcement. An interesting debate began among some members of the mailing list, and a few more users committed to the site, which made me quite happy :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now, here we are, only 5 hours to go! My idea was to promote the site again at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics?pli=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; newsgroup, but if someone more active and famous than me in that list wants to take my job of promoter, I'll very much appreciate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will also announce the open beta using my Twitter and Facebook, and even my blog (although my audience is very very small). Hey! I was thinking of sending a mail to my coworkers. If anyone wants to join the fun and promote this site using any media at his disposal (&lt;strong&gt;mailing lists&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;websites&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;podcasts&lt;/strong&gt;, you name it) that would be great! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T13:51:20.177" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="246" CreationDate="2010-08-02T15:36:06.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to mention this in my blog (texdev.net), which seems to get at least some readers interested in things. I've been holding off unit the beta becomes public, as I think it might be frustrating for other people otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T15:36:06.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="246" CreationDate="2010-08-02T20:53:36.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Go back to your constituencies...&lt;/em&gt;: you mean we have to wait another thirty years to get into a coalition with someone?!  There's a cheerful thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean for things like the site's domain name, and design, and FAQ, and so on?  Does it mean that the site will definitely come out of beta and become a first-class Stackexchange site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T20:53:36.253" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2010-08-02T22:58:48.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;code&gt;big-list&lt;/code&gt; questions are an example of reasonable for CW as long as they have a well defined topic. As I've said before, asking for packages or tools to do graphics/letters/slides/cv's etc, a question for each such topic is fine. But open-ended topic-less questions should, in my opinion, be closed. Examples of this are the question we once had about &quot;external tools&quot; and now the question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/782/what-are-the-available-documentclass-types-and-their-uses&quot;&gt;document classes&lt;/a&gt;. I think &lt;code&gt;big-list&lt;/code&gt;'s by topic are useful because people search by topic. If I want to write my thesis I will probably search for something like &quot;LaTeX packages for thesis&quot;. I find it hard to think that someone will be searching for &quot;list of latex document classes&quot; There are far too many! And for many different purposes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T22:58:48.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="246" CreationDate="2010-08-02T23:37:27.353" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beta begins at 0:00 UTC, August 9, 2010, which is in half an hour. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/42179&quot;&gt;The SE day&lt;/a&gt; begins at 0:00 UTC.  For me (Eastern US time zone), this is at 8:00PM. &#xA;Click the envelope left of your name in the top bar, and look for the text, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all times are in UTC; the current time is 2010-08-02 23:27:48Z&#xA;  to see what time it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also when the reputation cap resets, if you're affected by that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T23:37:27.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="247" CreationDate="2010-08-02T23:45:32.410" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visit these sites:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;to view your reputation audit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/43005#43005&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, the numbers can be interpreted as follows: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;first number&lt;/strong&gt; is the vote type, where common vote types are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 = accepted answer (to or from you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 = upvote (to you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 = downvote (to or from you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 = bounty grant (from you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 = bounty award (to you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;16 = edit suggestion approved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;second number&lt;/strong&gt; is the post ID that the vote was on. Remember that votes on community wiki posts do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; generate rep, so those votes will not appear here. (Note that some vote types like offensive, spam, and bounties apply to any post regardless of its community wiki status)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;third number&lt;/strong&gt; is the value of the vote. Note that the value may be capped if you reach the daily upvote reputation limit. If the value is capped, it will appear in brackets like &lt;code&gt;[3]&lt;/code&gt; so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;date boundaries&lt;/strong&gt; are printed whenever your reputation changed in a given day(s). It contains the current date, the amount your rep changed (up or down) since the last time, and the total amount of rep you have earned to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-11-28T16:59:37.407" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-02T23:45:32.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2010-08-03T09:44:22.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Vivi&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/14/vivi&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/14/vivi&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very active on the main site (less so on meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main reason for proposing her is as a way to ensure that there is an &amp;quot;outside&amp;quot; voice at the heart of the community here.  By &amp;quot;outside&amp;quot; I mean someone not used to the SO framework and someone (as she admits herself!) not all that expert on the nitty-gritty of (La)TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:44:22.963" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-03T09:44:22.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2010-08-03T09:47:02.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Caramdir&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as his activity on both sites, I've been impressed by his politeness (not sure if that's quite the right word, but hopefully it's close enough).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:47:02.410" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-03T09:47:02.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2010-08-03T11:39:22.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always go for readability first and foremost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So usually, I try to edit new information seamlessly into the post (if I want to notify people that I edited the post, I post a comment under it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, the edit is in direct response to a comment or such, in which case I might put it in a separate paragraph at the bottom, following an &quot;*Edit: *&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never mark specifically &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; has been edited. It's not really relevant, and if people want to see that information, they can check the post's edit history anyway. Posting that information just clutters my post, making it less readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I find my post is more readable when I integrate edits seamlessly. Sometimes, it is important to make the distinction that &quot;this was edited in afterwards&quot;, typically because it is in response to some other answer or comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the edit history should &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; be there, and the explicit &quot;edit&quot; indication should only be there when it makes the post clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that the SE software already marks your post as &quot;edited X hours/days ago by Y&quot;. Readers can easily see that you edited, even if you don't point it out. Often, that is all they need to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T11:39:22.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="246" CreationDate="2010-08-03T19:33:59.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's great to read that the site is public now. I've announced the launch of the new site on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX blog&lt;/a&gt;. As its news posts usually appear also on other sites I expect the information to appear also on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-community.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=section&amp;amp;layout=blog&amp;amp;id=1&amp;amp;Itemid=111&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeX-Community.org News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.golatex.de/news.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;goLaTeX.de&lt;/a&gt; (already there), &lt;a href=&quot;http://komascript.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;komascript.de&lt;/a&gt; (visible if logged in) and some feed aggregators like on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/community/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;texample.net&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T19:33:59.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-03T20:42:59.600" Score="12" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've just closed &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/895&quot;&gt;Class for Curriculum Vitae&lt;/a&gt; as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80&quot;&gt;LaTeX template for resume/curriculum vitae&lt;/a&gt;.  The text says &quot;This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; its answers &lt;strong&gt;may be merged with another identical question&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;  (emphasis mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How, exactly, do we do that merge?  In this case, there's no point in leaving both lying around and a couple of the answers on the closed question don't appear on the still open one so merging seems a good plan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-10-31T19:00:34.253" Title="How do we merge questions?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2010-08-03T23:00:07.320" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7270/merge-question-after-finding-it-as-a-duplicate-feature-request&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Meta.Stackoverflow question and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They say it is a moderator only tool, but I don't know whether this would be slightly different here as we are still in beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T23:00:07.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-04T10:44:47.910" Score="12" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Case study: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/994/how-can-i-typeset-the-date-time-at-compile-time&quot;&gt;How can I typeset the date/time at compile time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A perfectly good answer was left, but without a MWE (minimum working example).  It looked easy enough to do, so I figured I'd try to augment the answer with such.  It was a bit long for a comment, so I left it as an additional answer (making it clear, I hope, that it was based on the original answer).  In working out the MWE, I did add one minor bit of information (a recommendation to use the latest version of one of the packages).  As I see it, I had the following options here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment asking the original answerer to add a MWE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit that answer including the MWE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do as I did (leaving a separate answer), but make my answer CW&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do as I did (leaving a separate answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the best situation is where the original answerer includes a MWE &lt;em&gt;in the first place&lt;/em&gt;, so this is in the situation where that hasn't happened.  Here's my thoughts on my options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This puts the onus on the original answerer to make it clearer.  I'd rather have the convention that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; information is potentially useful and that people should not feel that they have to put in a MWE - I think that making this a &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt; requirement will put people off answering.  Of course, it's &lt;em&gt;desirable&lt;/em&gt;, but we want the &quot;barrier to entry&quot; to be as low as possible.  In this case, working out a MWE was fairly simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is actually the ideal situation and is what I would like the convention to be.  However, given that people tend to be a bit possessive of their answers, I'm hesitant to promote this as a first line.  Perhaps a combination of this and the above: leave a comment saying, &quot;Do you mind if I add a MWE to your answer?&quot;.  The problem with this (and answer 1) is that it puts a delay in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 and 4 are pretty similar.  The issue here is in deciding when a fresh answer adds sufficient information to warrant it not being CW.  Perhaps doing a MWE is enough to warrant the extra credit since it can take a few minutes to iron out the wrinkles, or figure out the dependencies.  I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly, I'd like the environment here to be such that we do take a look at people's answers and look for ways to tweak them to be better; but I would like it to be the case that that is interpreted as meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Good answer!  Let me tweak it a little to make it a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hmm, along the right lines.  If you do X, Y, and Z it might just be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remembered another example where I wanted to edit a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/968/passing-options-to-the-newenvironment&quot;&gt;passing options to the newenvironment&lt;/a&gt;, in that case, I left a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T09:17:00.137" Title="Etiquette: when is it acceptable to edit anothers' answer?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-04T10:51:01.487" Score="11" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Case study: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/991/how-to-obtain-perfect-greyness-with-tex&quot;&gt;How to obtain perfect greyness with TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question makes absolutely no sense to me.  I left a comment asking for clarification.  On MathOverflow, I would vote to close with little hesitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's our convention going to be here?  How long should I wait before voting-to-close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear (just in case that question does make sense to someone), I'm asking about the case where the question, as far as I can see, is so vague or contentless as to be impossible to even know where to begin (the one answer so far starts with &quot;I guess you mean ...&quot;).  To make it into a proper question would involve completely rewriting it so there's nothing really lost in closing it and the person asking it again more clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T23:37:10.800" Title="Etiquette: how long do we wait before voting to close?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="263" CreationDate="2010-08-04T11:33:54.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably, (2) is the best (generally, I'm not too comfortable with someone editing my answers, but just &lt;em&gt;adding&lt;/em&gt; MWE or something is certainly OK). But this is an option only for high-rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for everyone else I'd suggest (4'): posting a separate answer with MWE if/after OP (or anybody) requests it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T11:33:54.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="263" CreationDate="2010-08-04T11:41:28.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'm also often left wondering about this. In fact I just edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3/compiling-documents-online/6#6&quot;&gt;the accepted answer here&lt;/a&gt;, and it wasn't even me the one who came up with the additional information! I stole it from a comment Dima left on the question because I thought it was an important enough clarification to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the site develops we will probably figure out where is the &quot;line&quot; for acceptable edits, but these are my thoughts as of now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we can get away with a minor edit, or even just a comment, then that should be &#xA;the preferred solution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the required edit is slightly mayor, then editing and then adding a comment along the&#xA;lines of &quot;Hey, good answer! Hope you don't mind I added XYZ to make it clearer/more&#xA;complete/whatever&quot;, so that no feelings are hurt and also we don't have to wait for&#xA;the changes to happen. Moreover, as far as I understand, the person posting the original&#xA;answer keeps the rep. points if the answer gets accepted/upvoted. (Which is actually the&#xA;reason why I was hesitant to accept your answer on the datetime question, he was first&#xA;and he had a good answer!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the answer is completely different and would require a complete&#xA;rewrite then a new answer is the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T11:41:28.773" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="227" CreationDate="2010-08-04T12:12:43.140" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another thought for the structure of a great answer. There is obviously a tradeoff between trying to provide a &lt;strong&gt;concise&lt;/strong&gt; and a &lt;strong&gt;complete&lt;/strong&gt; answer. I think a good idea to have in mind is, similar to the &quot;Cookbook Series&quot; from O'Reilly, is to shoot first with a quick sentence or a line of code that solves the problem, and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; give the complete explanation, examples, and anything else that one might want to add to an answer. Thus experienced users can simply grab the solution and stop reading, while everybody else benefits from the loger explanation afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-08-04T14:13:23.670" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T14:13:23.670" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-04T12:12:43.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="106" CreationDate="2010-08-04T16:26:50.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be a silly question. I am unable to find the comment link on any question or answer other than my own answers, even if I click on the question and go to the respective long version of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="342" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T16:26:50.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="271" CreationDate="2010-08-04T17:19:00.210" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;What did you have to do to get the &lt;code&gt;beta&lt;/code&gt; badge? I thought I was fairly active, albeit only for the last couple of days of the private beta (holiday got in the way)... I'm just curious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the beta badge for the math site, and I don't think I was any less active here, which is why I ask&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T17:45:18.517" Title="What constitutes active participation in the public beta?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="269" CreationDate="2010-08-04T17:42:12.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The requirements are pretty minimal: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gadgets.stackexchange.com/users/96/larry-wang&quot;&gt;I got one for 2 questions, 3 answers, and 1 vote on gadgets&lt;/a&gt;. However, the process that hands out beta badges is run manually, so you will not see it appear immediately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T17:42:12.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="269" CreationDate="2010-08-04T17:45:18.517" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vaguely remember that when committing on area51 one commits to asking or answering three questions in the private beta. I think that is is minimum for the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T17:45:18.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="272" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-04T18:05:34.143" Score="29" ViewCount="1148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1044/why-does-the-less-than-equal-to-symbol-not-appear-as-intended-in-the-following-co&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; turned out to be about text versus maths mode, it could so easily have been about something specific to MathJaX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is probably inevitable that we'll get questions about TeX spin-offs, should we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tolerate them - there won't be &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; many&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tolerate them, but leave notes to the effect of &quot;Probably not the best site for this question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actively discourage them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2022-09-25T21:29:36.370" Title="How do we feel about MathJaX/jsMath/other spin-offs?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2010-08-04T19:39:07.690" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think (2) is the best balance. They are within the 'TeX, LaTeX and Friends' area, I guess, but probably outside of the experience of many people here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T19:39:07.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7" CreationDate="2010-08-04T20:03:53.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with every solution other than server-side TeX rendering is: this is a site about TeX and friends and examples should be generated by TeX and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is a slight problem: it's not only about equations, which can be rendered without a hinch as images. Most problems people have are those of positioning. That actually means that every example marked as &quot;complete&quot; in some way (i.e. not an excerpt) should be rendered on server to some sensible format, stored on some statically-deployable subdomain and made available in at least two formats: original rendering and a PNG thumbnail, the latter being a reduced rendering of a complete page in output format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementing this stuff would probably begin with an installation of current TeXlive on some server. Each user should be able to mark some code as &quot;to be rendered&quot; and probably also specify the engine (ConTeXt, LaTeX, XeLaTeX, etc.) The following edge cases should be considered though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;My DVI is broken but PDF using pdflatex is ok&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This code used to work with MikTex version X, but doesn't on TeXlive 2009&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easiest would probably be to go with the 80/20 rule and exclude such questions from being rendered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T20:03:53.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="264" CreationDate="2010-08-04T22:22:03.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in question seems acceptably non-vague to me now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But anyway: in general I would say that if it seems like the question could be edited to make sense, I'd leave a comment asking the poster to do so. Otherwise, there's no point in waiting to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T22:22:03.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-04T22:50:06.973" Score="3" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;I committed to 'TeX, LaTeX and Friends', so could anyone point me how to fulfill that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="379" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-04-30T21:40:56.030" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T21:40:56.030" Title="How to fulfill my commitment?" Tags="|support|beta|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="276" CreationDate="2010-08-04T23:49:15.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the commitment was for the &lt;em&gt;private&lt;/em&gt; beta, and you missed that by a week. However I don't think stackexchange will come and arrest you because of that ;). So if you want to see this site flourish, just actively use it now and in the coming months of public beta (and if every thing works alright on the finial site after the beta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T23:49:15.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="276" CreationDate="2010-08-05T02:35:22.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57876/commitment-fulfilled-seems-to-act-erratic-on-area-51/57878#57878&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; on meta.SO says you need 10 posts (questions or answers or a mix). I don't think they need to be in the private beta, you could start posting now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T02:35:22.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="264" CreationDate="2010-08-05T11:02:22.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question could have been better phrased, yes, but given that you know what 'greyness' refers to, it seemed to be to be acceptably easy to understand what was being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term is a jargon word, of course, but in the context of this site only moderately arcane, and omitting an explanation of the word is at least defensible.  Do you mean, Andrew, that you were familiar with the term but thought the question was sufficiently ill-phrased to be closed?  If not, then I think that simply not understanding a term is an inadequate ground to vote to close a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T11:02:22.313" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="276" CreationDate="2010-08-05T13:25:31.113" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;, click on one of the proposals in commitment stage, and click on commit, it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I commit to participate actively in [site] for at least three months, especially during the private beta, and to ask or answer at least ten questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T13:25:31.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-05T15:48:35.953" Score="6" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi and thank you for this wonderful site, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you planning to add RSS support to be more reactive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="439" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-02-07T21:01:04.850" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T22:54:57.503" Title="Feature request: RSS support" Tags="|feature-request|rss|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="281" CreationDate="2010-08-05T16:07:20.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is RSS support as far as I can see: both the parent site and the meta offer a feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T16:07:20.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="281" CreationDate="2010-08-05T17:14:48.270" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The situation is even better than Joseph hints add.  There are feeds &lt;em&gt;all over the place&lt;/em&gt;.  There's one for this specific question, should you so desire.  On any page that you want to follow via RSS, scan down to the bottom and look for the feed symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T17:14:48.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-05T17:16:54.680" Score="4" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gather that users who register on this site who already have a certain amount of reputation on StackOverflow get a &quot;starting bonus&quot; to their reputation here. Is there a good reason why this can't also be done for users coming across from MathOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="232" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T21:15:04.023" Title="Can we &quot;import&quot; reputation from MO?" Tags="|feature-request|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="284" CreationDate="2010-08-05T17:29:22.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;MO is a 1.0 site, using an earlier version of the SE software. There have been numerous discussions on this topic at meta.stackoverflow (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/53796/should-rep-from-other-non-trilogy-se-1-0-sites-count-for-commitment-phase/53799#53799&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for example), and the short answer is that for technical reasons this cannot happen unless MO becomes SE 2.0 compliant, which itself is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/454/linking-in-with-stackoverlow-al/&quot;&gt;something under debate&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T17:29:22.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="284" CreationDate="2010-08-05T21:15:04.023" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the bonus is only 100, I think we should regard it instead as a compliment to the MOwers: obviously the SE team think that any MOwer coming here will do so well that they don't need a start-up, whereas those coming from SO need all the help they can get!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T21:15:04.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-06T07:01:29.950" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I went to the main page this morning, the &quot;Welcome to our site&quot; banner (or whatever it says) obscured the top panel containing the &quot;log in&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was on Firefox 3.6 (technically speaking, Namoroka) on Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-08-10T00:19:42.840" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T00:19:42.840" Title="Welcome banner on main page obscures top panel" Tags="|bug|status-deferred|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="287" CreationDate="2010-08-06T07:04:41.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd noticed that too: I wonder if it is a bug of a 'feature'!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T07:04:41.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2010-08-06T12:02:11.637" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you and the other MO users are really the best candidates for writing this FAQ entry. You know which cultural differences, conflicts, disagreements and surprises you've encountered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a SO user, I know plenty about SO etiquette, but I don't really know where MO has diverged, or which areas are likely to cause confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I've only noticed some very slight differences:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Note that this is just my impression based on the discussions and questions brought up here on Meta, so take it with a grain of salt ;))&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MO is an experts site, where SO is for &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;. Could this lead to some MO users being less inclusive, or less willing to tolerate beginner questions? (Open question, I'm not saying I've noticed anyone actually behaving like this :))&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MO users seem to be less willing to prioritize/accept answers in cases where &quot;they're all good&quot;. On SO the common etiquette is to always accept &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; answer (unless the only answers you get are 100% useless, of course), and to try to pick the most complete one. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MO users seem less willing to edit their own answers to include information from others. On SO there is nothing wrong with editing your answer to be more complete, by adding in information first brought up in another answer. (Although honesty is still appreciated, of course. Don't just steal content and pretend you came up with it. Attribution isn't strictly required, but what you edit in should be something you &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have posted in the first place (if it suggests using a package you've never even heard of, don't pretend that you suggested it)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MO, it seems that the canonical answer to a question is the &lt;em&gt;set&lt;/em&gt; of all answers given. You're supposed to read them all to understand the solution. On SO, the idea is that the accepted answer should be sufficient, which should be kept in mind both when answering and when choosing an answer to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never used MO, so I can't really judge all the differences. But so far, I haven't noticed any big clashes or problems occurring because MO users failed to follow SO protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2010-08-06T18:00:31.110" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T18:00:31.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="263" CreationDate="2010-08-06T12:20:02.817" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always just followed my gut feeling on this, so I'm not really sure how to spell it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO at least (and I assume on all SE sites, but I haven't checked), there is a bit of advice in the right sidebar when you edit someone else's question. Among other things, it says to &lt;em&gt;respect the original author&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I tend to edit when I can (if I have the rep for it), and if the answer is small and noncontroversial and is what the original author wanted to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For something like adding a minimal working example, I'd make a separate answer (I don't think I'd CW it either), and for completely pointless typos (teh-&gt;the, or other stuff that doesn't really affect the meaning or readability) it just feels too &quot;grammar nazi&quot; to edit it, so I just leave it. I don't want anyone to feel they have the grammar police hot on their heels, eager to call you out the moment you make the slightest misstep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For minor typos or errors that actually disturb the meaning of the answer, and where I know the author would agree with the correction, I just edit it and leave a comment explaining what I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO, where code snippets are common, people often make minor errors in their sample code, and so editing it seems the simplest course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this site, I'd edit something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{tabular*}&#xA;....&#xA;\end{tabular} // oops, missing *&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because it's clear that the author just made a mistake, he intended to write it correctly, but made a typo, which might confuse the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm not 100% sure what they meant to write, I add a comment pointing out the error, suggesting a fix, and asking if that is what they meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wouldn't edit a MWE into their post, because that's kind of intrusive, putting words in their mouth. I'd make my own answer instead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T12:20:02.817" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7" CreationDate="2010-08-06T13:18:48.007" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having now used the site a little, I can see that there is a case to be made for a way to included rendered TeX.  I would argue that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has to be &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; TeX.  Otherwise, we can't be sure that what we're seeing isn't some artifice of the method used to render it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has to be &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; selected for.  Otherwise, it's confusing for newcomers to have their code suddenly converted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has to be easy to separate from the Markdown markup.  Otherwise, it gets confusing remembering what needs to be escaped and what not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's a suggestion: a web-server that has a standard installation of TeXLive 2009 that can call tex, or one of its variants, on files uploaded.  Somewhat similar to that done at the arXiv.  But to encourage people to provide &lt;em&gt;minimum&lt;/em&gt; working examples, there should be a quite low limit on file size.  I would consider putting a limit on the number of pages rendered, perhaps 2 as sometimes issues are about differences between one page and another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would then have the server &lt;em&gt;cache&lt;/em&gt; the result, either as a PNG (if small enough) and/or a PDF, and return a link to that cache, maybe using &lt;code&gt;md5sum&lt;/code&gt; or something to generate a unique URL that isn't too bad.  This could then be included back in the question/answer using the usual Markdown image syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as a file upload method, there could be a short-cut whereby the contents of a textbox gets processed inside some standard setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T13:18:48.007" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="276" CreationDate="2010-08-07T07:04:53.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You missed a badge, and opportunity to &quot;reclaim&quot; commitment to commit to another area51 site. You need to wait until end of public beta now for the &quot;reclaim&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T07:04:53.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-07T08:19:06.237" Score="7" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;recent blog post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/strong&gt; explains their new policy about meta-tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;From this point on, meta-tagging is explicitly discouraged.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, what's a meta-tag? How do you differentiate a meta-tag from a normal, innocent tag? Jeff gave two conditions to identify a meta-tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably&#xA;  a meta-tag.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every tag you use should&#xA;  be able to work, more or less, as the&#xA;  only tag on a question. Meta-tags,&#xA;  like [beginner], [subjective], and&#xA;  [best-practices], are useless as&#xA;  single tags on a question. By&#xA;  themselves, they tell you nothing at&#xA;  all about the content of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the tag commonly means different things to different people,&#xA;  it’s probably a meta-tag.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a cruel,&#xA;  ironic twist, the meaning of the tag&#xA;  [subjective] itself … is actually&#xA;  subjective. Ditto for [best-practices]&#xA;  and [beginner]. Best practices to&#xA;  whom? Beginner by what criteria? These&#xA;  tags are impossible to define by&#xA;  anything remotely resembling an&#xA;  objective metric. In comparison, the&#xA;  the meaning of tags like [java], [c#],&#xA;  and [javascript] are crystal clear to&#xA;  all but the nuttiest of nutbags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;parent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; site has already its own set of meta-tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot;&gt;[subjective]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beginners&quot;&gt;[beginners]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot;&gt;[best-practices]&lt;/a&gt;,... &lt;strong&gt;What should be our stance about meta-tagging?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T18:21:42.047" Title="About meta-tagging" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="294" CreationDate="2010-08-07T09:56:21.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, at least now, it's not cristal clear that all of these so-called &quot;meta&quot; tags are useless. I agree that some like &lt;code&gt;[subjective]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[soft-question]&lt;/code&gt; we could get rid of, but probably some other &quot;meta-tags&quot; &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have a clearer meaning in the (La)TeX community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example we all know about LaTeX's steep learning curve, and I kind of think that a tag such as &lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be made useful in that context. The &lt;em&gt;&quot;could&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is because us, the community, have to make sure that this is the case. But I imagine a new user stumbling with the site being able to click on the &lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt; tag and find a set of questions/answers about how to install the system, how to learn the language, some common pitfalls to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could also make a case for &lt;code&gt;[best-practices]&lt;/code&gt;, which in the LaTeX world also has a somewhat &quot;clearer&quot; definition, e.g. what &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l2tabu.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;l2tabu&lt;/a&gt; tries to achieve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T09:56:21.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="294" CreationDate="2010-08-07T10:55:27.333" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the lists of questions tagged with various meta-tags it seems that they are already used inconsistently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beginners&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: One of the questions is something I didn't know (though I guess I should have), one is a discussion, two are actually beginners questions and one is a proposed faq entry. While in theory a &lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt; tag could be useful, I do not see any chance of it being consistently used. People in general do not want to identify themselves as beginners and retroactively tagging something as &lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt; might be seen as an offense by the original author. However, I'd suggest a &lt;code&gt;[basics]&lt;/code&gt; tag for the purposes Juan sees in the &lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt; tag. I think less people are offended by that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[subjective]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Two out of four questions are closed, one is (in my opinion) off-topic and one is actually an on-topic subjective but useful question. I think this tag is superfluous.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[soft-question]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: I don't know what is &quot;soft&quot; about the package question. The other two are fine. The tag might be useful to for marking questions that are related to latex, but do not need any technical knowledge about LaTeX to answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[best-practices]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: The &quot;professions&quot; question seems a bit odd in &lt;code&gt;[best-practices&lt;/code&gt;], the others are okay. However, all answers should be best-practices so I don't know when to use this tag. There are lots of questions not tagged with the tag, that should arguably be tagged with it if wee keep the tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T10:55:27.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="294" CreationDate="2010-08-07T12:20:01.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A second more radical thought. Yes, lets get rid of all those nasty meta-tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[subjective]&lt;/code&gt; questions shouldn't be asked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt; should instead be tagged as &lt;code&gt;[installation]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[learning]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[best-practices]&lt;/code&gt; (or at least part of its meaning) &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be saved to mean something like &quot;l2tabu&quot;-ish advice. I was thinking something like &lt;code&gt;[pitfalls]&lt;/code&gt; but this could have a negative connotation if a question is retroactively tagged like that. Any ideas for this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[soft-question]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[big-list]&lt;/code&gt; shouldn't be used, they are tags about the question. A tag about the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt; of the question should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T12:20:01.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="294" CreationDate="2010-08-07T13:21:31.350" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took me a few minutes to really get the point behind that blog post, but I think I get it. It's not that &quot;best practices&quot; shouldn't be asked, or that &quot;subjective&quot; shouldn't be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just that adding those &lt;em&gt;tags&lt;/em&gt; to the questions adds nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;[subjective]&lt;/code&gt; tag just means that I can click on the tag and get a list of subjective questions... What am I going to do with that? How is it helpful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on the &lt;code&gt;[LuaTeX]&lt;/code&gt; tag is useful, because it gives me a list of questions about a specific subject that I might care about or know a lot about (I don't, but that's not the point ;))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same is true for &lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt;: who would want to click on the &lt;code&gt;[beginners]&lt;/code&gt; tag and get a list of beginners questions? Why? Do we have any resident experts on beginners questions who might want to track those questions specifically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is subjective, or is asked by a beginner, those things are typically obvious from reading the question itself. When someone asks &quot;how do I get started with LaTeX&quot;, we know they're beginners, we don't need a tag to tell us that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he might be right, maybe we should just discourage all metatags. My litmus test is &quot;would anyone have a reason to click on the tag or follow its RSS feed?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one does that for &quot;beginners&quot; or &quot;subjective&quot; or tags like that. So why do we have them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T13:21:31.350" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-08T11:55:00.950" Score="4" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether it has already been asked - couldn't find it. But what about Latex render support for Markdown? Imagine a question asked like the following&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello all, why is this text not printed bold-italic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;$$\bf\it Hello world$$&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder whether one could make this show the latex formatted code by default, and clicking on it would render it inline. Or do you have some other idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="580" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T11:55:00.950" Title="Latex render for Markdown" Tags="|feature-request|markdown|stylised-latex|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2013-03-08T09:13:05.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="301" CreationDate="2010-08-08T16:50:32.923" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are still many questions in SO being asked that are tagged [latex]. Should we advertise this site over there? In a comment perhaps? what is the official take on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T18:37:55.727" Title="What should we do (if anything) about [latex] tagged questions in SO?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="300" CreationDate="2010-08-08T18:09:16.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237/can-we-get-automatic-advertisement-on-the-so-latex-tagged-pag&quot;&gt;our wishes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59452/banner-for-tex-and-latex-tags-when-tex-stackexchange-com-goes-public/59472#59472&quot;&gt;the official answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: Nothing while we are in beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T18:09:16.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-09T07:17:32.117" Score="19" ViewCount="817" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a few questions about tags, meta-tags, what is valid and what should not, I thought it would be useful to keep all of this information in one place. Eventually this will be also useful to populate our FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a CW so everybody is free to edit. Let's keep the general guidelines in the question, and discuss about issues with specific tags on individual answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Recommended Tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following kinds of tags are recommended:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formats, compilers, and tools e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luatex&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt;, ... (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt;, see below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Package and class names, e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hyperref&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hyperref&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hyperref&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amsmath&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amsmath&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amsmath&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Command and environment names, e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/itemize&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;itemize&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;itemize&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hbox&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hbox&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hbox&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Specific topics, e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/errors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;errors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;errors&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;, ... &lt;em&gt;(Note: prefer plural nouns)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Specific actions, e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/installing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;installing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;installing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compiling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debugging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debugging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debugging&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;citing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt;, ... &lt;em&gt;(Note: prefer -ing verb form)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following math related tags are recommended:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/math-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;math-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;math-mode&lt;/a&gt; for questions about typesetting the content of math formulas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/equations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;equations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;equations&lt;/a&gt; for questions about how to include equations in a document&#xA;(e.g. the &lt;code&gt;equation&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;gather&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt;, etc. environments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt; for queries about how to produce specific symbols. But only if&#xA;the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/comprehensive.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comprehensive list&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;detexify&lt;/a&gt; online tool can't answer your&#xA;question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions such as &lt;em&gt;What is the best book to start learning LaTeX?&lt;/em&gt;, where many good answers are expected and none will be the right answer, should take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; tag, and should normally be marked &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Discouraged tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meta-tags, i.e. tags about the kind of question or the person asking the question,&#xA;but not about the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt; of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subjective&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subjective&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beginners&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beginners&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beginners&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;best-practices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;best-practices&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A special exception is made for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; tag, which is a meta-tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex2e&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex2e&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex2e&lt;/a&gt; tags. Questions are, by default, assumed to be about&#xA;the LaTeX language/system. Unless your question is &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; about another&#xA;format (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt;) or &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; about a TeX compiler (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt;),&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;you don't need to specify you're using LaTeX&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex&lt;/a&gt; tag. If your question is specifically about TeX primitives or the TeX&#xA;system (as opposed to LaTeX), &lt;strong&gt;use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt; instead&lt;/strong&gt;. If your question is about&#xA;using low-level TeX commands to define a macro then use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-10-23T16:47:04.960" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T16:47:04.960" Title="Our set of tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T07:17:32.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-09T07:29:33.740" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should we do about the &lt;code&gt;[latex]&lt;/code&gt; tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51/avoid-using-the-tex-tag&quot;&gt;earlier discussion&lt;/a&gt;, but I really think there was no consensus. Moreover, now that the site has been running for a few days we can see how these tags have been used so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now, the &lt;code&gt;[latex]&lt;/code&gt; tag is completely useless. The large majority of questions in the site are about LaTeX anyway, but only a few of them are tagged so. Even worst some questions are &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; tagged &lt;code&gt;[latex]&lt;/code&gt; which is, in my view, completely useless. So I would also suggest in this case to &lt;strong&gt;discourage&lt;/strong&gt; using the &lt;code&gt;[latex]&lt;/code&gt; tag, since it is the &quot;default&quot; topic, unless another (&lt;code&gt;[plain-tex]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[luatex]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[context]&lt;/code&gt;, etc.) is specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:37:28.270" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T07:29:33.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-09T08:25:31.657" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Concept&quot; vs &quot;command&quot; tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to your list for packages/commands that are named after concepts, we should have two tags: The command name (usually singular) and the concept name (in plural form). E.g. we have the &lt;code&gt;[matrix]&lt;/code&gt; tag (for the environment), but questions about matrices (with various commands) should be tagged &lt;code&gt;[matrices]&lt;/code&gt;. What should we do about those tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T11:34:19.210" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:34:19.210" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T08:25:31.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-09T08:26:01.437" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discourage the use of the &lt;code&gt;[tex]&lt;/code&gt; tag, use &lt;code&gt;[tex-core]&lt;/code&gt; instead.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since “Plain TeX” seems to denote something else than TeX, let’s have the following tag alias:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; =&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be easy enough to find. I would very much like to set up the synonym while the &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; tag is still only scarcely used. Once it’s used more often, setting up the synonym will be impossible, since the &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; tag will appear more often than &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt; (and the Stack Exchange app then prevents setting up the synonym).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve introduced the synonym. &lt;strong&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=tex-core&amp;amp;sort=info&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;vote for it&lt;/a&gt; so that questions will be retagged automatically!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:36:17.757" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T08:26:01.437" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="294" CreationDate="2010-08-09T08:38:43.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely disagree with Jeff’s decision. I think it was short-sighted and wrong. I think that meta tags &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; add valuable information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the [beginner] tag – of course most people (but perhaps some?) won’t search for questions using that tag. On the other hand, the tag gives a valuable hint about the skill set of the user, and can be used to formulate the answer accordingly. Not using the tag would mean either  of two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The users get a bunch of highly technical, unintelligible, effectively useless answers, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The users have to specify &lt;em&gt;in the question&lt;/em&gt; that they’re beginners, using a full sentence (e.g. “please use plain English, I’m just a beginner.”).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, first of all alternative 2 is actively discouraged on SO. Many questions are purged of such phrases. Furthermore, just specifying the tag is &lt;em&gt;so much easier&lt;/em&gt;, both for the question asker and for potential answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That said&lt;/strong&gt;, I don’t think we should deviate from other sites’ policies. I.e. meta tags should be discouraged, and they should be removed from questions, provided this leaves the question intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T08:38:43.403" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-09T08:52:45.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about math related tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another question: What is the tag for math mode. E.g. if someone asks about a symbol for use in an equation, there are currently several possible tags to choose from: &lt;code&gt;[math]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[mathmode]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[equations]&lt;/code&gt; and of course no tag i.e. only &lt;code&gt;[symbol]&lt;/code&gt; (which btw should be plural?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T11:33:33.097" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:33:33.097" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T08:52:45.820" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-08-09T10:46:49.897" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn’t it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/03/whos-your-arch-enemy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;perfectly obvious&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;expertexchange.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;alternative spelling:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;exper-texchange.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, everything else would disappoint me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(No, not a serious suggestion!)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T10:46:49.897" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T10:46:49.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-09T12:47:33.853" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;The page for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;tag synonyms&lt;/a&gt; is a very useful place to see which synonyms are being proposed and vote for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, right now, it seems that you have to go into each individual info page of each synonym in order to vote. Would it be possible to allow voting right from the page listing all pending tag synonyms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T18:31:32.073" Title="Vote for synonyms on the synonyms page?" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="309" CreationDate="2010-08-09T16:00:42.777" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that there are less than 10 users that can currently vote on tags, perhaps it would be prudent to wait with this retagging effort. I know that it can be changed in the future, but these type of things seldom are. (I might be biased since I do not have the required rep to vote...) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T16:00:42.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-09T17:29:54.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest &quot;compilation&quot; as a synonym of &quot;compiling&quot;, but this doesn't seem to be possible, as &quot;compilation&quot; is more common than &quot;compiling&quot;. Now what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example: &quot;template&quot; as a synonym of &quot;templates&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T17:29:54.663" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T17:29:54.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="294" CreationDate="2010-08-09T18:21:42.047" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My sympathies are more with Konrad on this one.  On &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; issue, I think that we're closer to the MO model than the SO model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if Jeff had said &quot;let's get rid of &lt;em&gt;useless&lt;/em&gt; tags and &lt;em&gt;ambiguous&lt;/em&gt; tags&quot; then I wouldn't have had any argument with him; of course, there'd've been a discussion about which tags were useless or ambiguous, but that's at a lower level than simply decreeing all &quot;meta-tags&quot; (what they?) as &quot;to be discouraged&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that Konrad makes a very good point in his comment on Jeff's blog: that tags are not &quot;one thing&quot; but serve several purposes.  Here's where I think that we'll be closer to MO than SO.  On SO (I imagine), almost every question should get a &quot;language&quot; tag.  Indeed, the few times that I've been to SO, I've almost immediately gone to the &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; tag.  I do that because &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; there do I have a hope of contributing, so why would I look anywhere else?  (Of course, if I have a question then it might be about, say, PHP and then I'll search within the PHP tag to see if that question has already been asked.)  On MO, we have certain &quot;top level&quot; tags which correspond (almost exactly) to the classifications on the arXiv.  However, I don't use that to filter the questions.  I will scan through &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the questions on the main page, and often click through to questions that aren't tagged 'at.algebraic-topology' because there are often questions in other areas where I may be able to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the difference between MO and SO, and why are we more like MO?  In short, the boundaries are not so well-defined and that's MO behaviour, not SO.  It's hard to think of any tags that we could have that would match the &quot;language&quot; tags on SO.  They would have to fulfil the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A questioner should know &lt;em&gt;from their question&lt;/em&gt; which of the major tags to use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answerer should know &lt;em&gt;from their expertise&lt;/em&gt; which of the major tags they can contribute in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A browser should know &lt;em&gt;from their interests&lt;/em&gt; which tags to browse through for interesting questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any here that match those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One oft-cited use of tags is as a way of filtering out the stuff you don't want to see.  That's certainly true of my use of tags, but because of the lack of definition in the boundaries, tags are simply suggestions and can be freely ignored.  Thus I can't trust the RSS feed for a given set of tags simply because I'll miss so much: both opportunities to help and chances to learn.  If I ignored all questions tagged &quot;luatex&quot; (since I don't, at present, use it) then I'd miss out on the opportunity to learn about it and learn why I should use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So thinking about Jeff's criteria for &quot;what is a meta-tag&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, &lt;em&gt;that's&lt;/em&gt; ambiguous.  What does that mean?  I could tag a question &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; and that would &quot;work&quot; because the question is about latex, but it doesn't &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt; anyone so it's a useless tag.  On the other hand, &lt;em&gt;in conjunction&lt;/em&gt; with other tags, &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; could help a lot: it says &quot;much as I would like to learn how to do this in ConTeXt, I really only want a LaTeX solution&quot;.  Why should tags stand alone?  Why can't they build on each other and modify each other?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the tag commonly means different things to different people, it’s probably a meta-tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, that's just a bad choice and so is &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather say: each tag should slice out an area of the &quot;designated field&quot; of this website.  An ambiguous tag is one that slices out an area with a fuzzier-than-usual boundary, and a useless tag is one that doesn't do any actual slicing.  But note that both depend a bit on other tags.  Clearly, both &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; on a question is redundant, but both could stand alone &lt;em&gt;and be useful&lt;/em&gt; in the right context.  To be even shorter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A good tag is one that helps a potential answerer come to the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; conclusion as to whether or not they should look at the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, I would rather the discussion be about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Identifying useless tags and dealing with them.  If it's a tag that is sometimes used incorrectly, then we (the higher rep users) simply need to be vigilant about them.  If it's a tag that is used incorrectly much more often than not, then there's a case for actively discouraging it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Identifying ways to make the tagging system clear (particularly to newcomers): it's purposes (note the plural) and tips for how best to use it.  In particular, if a tag is getting abused, but is still felt as potentially useful, we can consider how to discourage people from using it (perhaps as simple as renaming it).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Figuring out exactly what those purposes are.  As I've tried to argue (perhaps a bit rambling), here's one area where importing stuff as-is from SO ain't gonna fit, and we should think a bit more carefully about what would make this site the best &lt;em&gt;for the target audience&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T18:21:42.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="309" CreationDate="2010-08-09T18:31:32.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a place to discuss &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I'm not sure about the 'ams -&gt; amsmath' suggestion.  The AMS has more packages than just 'amsmath', in particular they have their 'amsref' stuff.  I would regard the 'ams' tag as ambiguous, and so not as one that is synonymous with another tag.  Rather, whenever 'ams' rears its ugly head, it should be retagged to an &lt;em&gt;appropriate&lt;/em&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand on that, synonymous tags should really be synonymous.  I think that the most obvious examples being singular to plural, or no-hyphens to hyphens.  Where a tag is ambiguous or just plain useless, the questions should be retagged and the tag effectively dropped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T18:31:32.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="300" CreationDate="2010-08-09T18:37:55.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that those of us who are active on SO should keep an eye on the &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; tags and simply suggest, via comments, that they try their question here.  Nothing heavy, just a suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone spots a question there that makes them think, &quot;I'd really like to know the answer to that.&quot; then I see no harm in reposting it over here (with due attribution) and putting a link in a comment to the question on SO.  But I'd recommend only doing it for questions that you feel you are able to make your own question (so that, for example, you would feel no hesitation about accepting a particular answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T18:37:55.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-09T19:12:27.620" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should hyphenation be encouraged or discouraged?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the suggested tag synonyms there is &lt;code&gt;[math-mode]&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;[mathmode]&lt;/code&gt; but &lt;code&gt;[tableofcontents]&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;[table-of-contents]&lt;/code&gt;. This feels rather inconsistent, especially considering that the command is named &lt;code&gt;\tableofcontents&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T19:12:27.620" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T19:12:27.620" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-09T20:33:48.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;AMS tags&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the 'ams -&gt; amsmath' suggestion.  The AMS has more packages than just 'amsmath', in particular they have their 'amsref' stuff.  I would regard the 'ams' tag as ambiguous, and so not as one that is synonymous with another tag.  Rather, whenever 'ams' rears its ugly head, it should be retagged to an &lt;em&gt;appropriate&lt;/em&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand on that, synonymous tags should really be synonymous.  I think that the most obvious examples being singular to plural, or no-hyphens to hyphens.  Where a tag is ambiguous or just plain useless, the questions should be retagged and the tag effectively dropped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T20:33:48.670" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-09T20:33:48.670" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-09T20:43:16.777" Score="8" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;We appear to be in the midst of discussing tags and the issues surrounding them, so it seems an apposite time to bring up the tag wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming from MO, this is new to me (actually, MO may well have them - I don't know!), so I don't know what the procedure is.  According to the stock message, I have enough rep to edit them but there's another condition regarding being in the &quot;top 20&quot; on that tag.  I would consider it a reasonable &quot;support task&quot; to get some of these filled out a little.  So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First question: is there an easy way to find out which tags I fulfil the necessary conditions so that I can edit the wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the expectation that not many can edit that wiki as yet, but that there are many people who would be able to do so, I would also suggest that we use the answers to this discussion (with the exception of any answer to the question above) as preliminary wikis.  That is, we can shape &quot;tag wikis&quot; for the common tags in CW answers here, and then those with The Power can copy them over at their convenience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Second question: Compose a suitable &quot;tag wiki&quot; for your favourite tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I realise that I shouldn't ask two questions in one place, but I'm guessing that there'll only be one answer to the first one and only the Men In Cyan will be able to answer it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T09:17:00.477" Title="Editing the tag wikis" Tags="|discussion|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-09T20:49:21.707" Score="-1" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a proposal for a sort of a middle ground between the image hosting and the LaTeX sandbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have lots of bits of LaTeX code lying around in my files, and every-so-often a question evokes an answer from it which I sometimes accompany by: &quot;I could provide more details if asked&quot;; by which I mean, &quot;I've got the code, it's a bit of a mess, I've been meaning to clean it up, and if someone provided the incentive by actually asking then I'll clean it up and make it public.&quot;.  Normally, &quot;make it public&quot; means &quot;stick it on my website&quot; since nothing is really enough to fit into a Proper CTAN package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, once or twice, a question gets me interested beyond the initial answer and I wonder, &quot;What is really the best way to do that?&quot; and I end up with something a little more complicated than I would really want to put in an answer, and it wasn't necessarily quite what the original questioner asked for, but still would be useful to someone interested in the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd guess I'm not alone in that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wonder what people would think of the idea of having a drop-box of some sort somewhere where people could stick snippets of code that didn't quite fit in an answer for some reason, but were still relevant in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In all fairness, I should say that I'm not completely convinced myself; but I can't think of a definite reason either way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T11:02:24.697" Title="Shall we have our own mini-CTAN?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="287" CreationDate="2010-08-10T00:19:31.403" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design -- if the greeting is 2 lines wide (depends on length of message being presented), it has to be larger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just click the [x] to close it and proceed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T00:19:31.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="195" CreationDate="2010-08-10T00:24:04.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, I can't understand your bug report at all. I have read it three times, and I still am unclear what is happening, or if anything is still wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you clear all your domain cookies and try again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T00:24:04.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="318" CreationDate="2010-08-10T07:20:26.220" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a first thought, I don't think this is a good idea. If it is not &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; material (but more of an &quot;addendum&quot;) then I think there is little incentive to host it in the site. Also I don't think there is any strong reason or necessity to persist packages or files have not been &quot;properly&quot; prepared, tested and so on; and if they have then they should go to CTAN. For a &quot;semi-official&quot; publication probably the best/most sensible solution is just to host the files on our personal websites, as many of us probably already do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T07:20:26.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="317" CreationDate="2010-08-10T07:24:21.327" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag wiki for: macros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with the &lt;code&gt;[macros]&lt;/code&gt; tag are about defining new commands and environments. Often these require low-level TeX primitives, but answers using LaTeX alternatives are also welcome and encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no need to add a &lt;code&gt;[tex]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[tex-core]&lt;/code&gt; tag to a question about macros. This is implied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T07:24:21.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="317" CreationDate="2010-08-10T07:25:19.563" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag wiki for: mathmode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;[mathmode]&lt;/code&gt; are about how to typeset the mathematical content in a document. For example how to produce specific mathematical constructs, or how to tweak the appearance of spacing and symbols in a formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=equations&amp;amp;sort=info&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;[equations]&lt;/a&gt; tag for questions about how to include an equation in a document (e.g. about the &quot;wrapper&quot; environments such as &lt;code&gt;equation&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;gather&lt;/code&gt;, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T07:25:19.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="317" CreationDate="2010-08-10T07:37:19.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First question: is there an easy way to find out which tags I fulfil the necessary conditions so that I can edit the wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sort of, but not really. The easiest way is to look on the bottom of your profile, where there’s a list of all tags that you’re active in, sorted by frequency. This already gives a hint in which tags you’re active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By clicking on any of those tags, you’ll get a list of all the contributions you’ve made to that particular tag, along with &lt;strong&gt;your number of votes for a tag&lt;/strong&gt; (for example, here’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:42+%5Bpackages%5D&quot;&gt;mine for the tag &lt;code&gt;[packages]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). Unfortunately, this doesn’t include a total but you can easily sum the votes yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, there’s the “tag homepage” – here, for example, for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[packages]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. By clicking on the “Stats” tab, you get some &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=packages&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;statistics for that tab&lt;/a&gt;. There you’ll see the &lt;strong&gt;highest voted users for the chosen tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T07:37:19.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="318" CreationDate="2010-08-10T08:01:32.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Juan, with slightly different reasons/priorities: setting up the software and maintaining the directory will be &lt;em&gt;a lot of work&lt;/em&gt;, even if we do the minimal amount possible, and I’m not sure of the benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I’m not convinced of the need, since there are alternatives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For small snippets, I use a pastebin application such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastie.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pastie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For larger things with a potentially longer half-life, I suggest using an open source hosting service, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/projecthosting/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Code&lt;/a&gt;. Hosting code there is incredibly easy once you know the absolute basics of version control systems, and the code will be very accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, if the code happens to be useful, such a project hosting provides the perfect runway to launch the project in earnest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(My own package, &lt;code&gt;minted&lt;/code&gt;, is actually hosted on Google Code, although for me the order was reversed, I first submitted to CTAN and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; set up the Google Code project.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T08:01:32.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="318" CreationDate="2010-08-10T08:28:07.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any compelling reason to re-invent a wheel that has already been implemented by online pastebins.  The only benefit I can think of is that hosting a CTAN-like archive would provide opportunities to index and tag the code snippets and make them searchable- but this is already done to a large degree by the StackExchange questions they are associated with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, if I have some code to share, I try to put the main points in code blocks within the question.  Anything longer, such as complete compilable examples, that contain lots of boilerplate unrelated to the question/answer at hand I stash in a pastebin and then provide a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like GitHub's &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gist&lt;/a&gt; because it is a complete versioned git repository that can be cloned or forked by other interested parties and easily migrated into a full-blown project at GitHub or any other service that supports a tool which can import a git repository.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T08:28:07.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="318" CreationDate="2010-08-10T11:02:24.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, we should collect these website suggestions in our FAQ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T11:02:24.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-10T12:06:50.327" Score="5" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so being a (La)TeX fan (most days) I'm also kind of a typography freak and I feel dirty when answering questions and typing boring &quot;quotes&quot; instead of the “educated” ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is software that could automatically do this in the text, for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SmartyPants&lt;/a&gt; from the very same guy who created MarkDown, without messing with the code entered in questions/answers. I've also recently stumbled with &lt;a href=&quot;http://v.cx/2008/bettertype&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BetterType&lt;/a&gt; which also sounds like a reasonable alternative. Either of these do not only do quotes but also dashes and ellipsis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As a side note, being on a Mac, I've just discovered that it's possible to type key combinations of &lt;code&gt;Option [+ Shift]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt; to get all kinds of quotes. But still it would be nice to have this consistently applied over all answers and questions on the site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-10-17T15:13:37.093" Title="Can we get SmartyPants?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="329" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-10T12:19:27.820" Score="1" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; there are some tags that have little icons in them ([Android], various Adobe related tags, etc.) which are both annoying (why should Adobe get extra advertising for free?) and nice (easy to understand quickly what the tag is about).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should have a little discussion about some of our tags being augmented with graphics. I can think of a few: [latex] (the typeset \latex ofcourse), [mathmode] (a $-sign?, or a formula e^{i \pi}?) [symbols] (one of the crazy math symbols), [debugging] (a little red ladybug?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;anyhow, maybe this is too early, silly, not important...that's why I'm asking what people think!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T09:24:35.480" Title="What about these stylized tags like SO has?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2010-08-10T12:33:15.450" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I loathe this sort of thing!  Whilst it may look pretty, it causes a great deal of pain when doing cut-and-paste.  That's slightly mitigated by the fact that most cutting-and-pasting will be of code, but still often one wants to quote something from the question in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T12:33:15.450" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="329" CreationDate="2010-08-10T12:47:06.780" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone gets advertising for free. As far as I know, these decorated tags are &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; Adobe paid for it. I also think they're ugly as hell, and unless it's an important source of income, I'd rather avoid them.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T12:47:06.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="329" CreationDate="2010-08-10T21:48:34.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're the opposite of free; they're &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; a company paid to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/30187/what-do-icons-on-the-tags-mean&quot;&gt;sponsor&lt;/a&gt; them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T21:48:34.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-12T07:51:55.787" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I select the &quot;Unanswered&quot; group I get a lot of questions that have one or more answers. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/106/is-displaying-comments-disabled&quot;&gt;Is displaying comments disabled?&lt;/a&gt; is answered last month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of &quot;Unanswered&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="593" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T09:44:11.227" Title="Why do I see questions answered, when I chooses &quot;Unanswered&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2010-08-12T09:44:11.227" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Unanswered' means that the question has no upvoted answers. You can see this &quot;definition&quot; in the side bar, after you click 'unanswered'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T09:44:11.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-12T09:49:42.490" Score="12" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/294/about-meta-tagging&quot;&gt;The &lt;em&gt;About meta-tagging&lt;/em&gt; qn&lt;/a&gt; tried to help us reach a policy on meta-tags.  I'm not convinced by Jeff's argument, but I'm relaxed about losing most of them, with the single exception of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[big-list]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example: on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-beautiful-typography-done-in-latex&quot;&gt;the &lt;em&gt;Showcase of beautiful typography done in LaTeX&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Cartaino commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you are asking users to contribute to a list of answers, the question should be marked &#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt;. I have converted this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions have a special status, as experienced SO and MO users will know.  It is good and not harmful to tag these questions [big-list], as is common practice on MO but not SO, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It helps beginners understand what is expected of questions if we have this tag;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In case there is resistance to CW-ifying such a question, it helps to be able to point at the questions covered by the [big-list] tag;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not (unlike the examples Jeff gave) subjective in its application, rather its application is crystal clear;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I often find it useful on MO in searching to restrict searches so that they either include the tag or exclude it, and I expect other MO users find this useful too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I propose that we explictly encourage applying [big-list] to this sort of question in our FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;, even if our FAQ ends up discouraging all other meta-tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T18:57:43.960" Title="FAQ request: encourage use of [big-list] meta-tag" Tags="|feature-request|faq|tagging|big-list|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2010-08-12T12:55:12.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two differences in how we run the site compared to MO seem to follow from differences in their nature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[soft-question] isn't really an appropriate tag for here.  That's because this site, like SO, generally looks for problem-solving answers, whilst MO generally is after scientific answers, and particularly sharp ones at that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should have +5 rep for upvotes questions here, as opposed to the +10 on MO.  Mathematics has a culture of the question that doesn't translate to here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T12:55:12.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-12T15:33:32.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I may have invented the [best-practices] tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/577/best-practices-references&quot;&gt;Best practices references&lt;/a&gt;.  Note than in this particular case, [best-practices] was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a meta-tag, since best practices were precisely the topic of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T15:33:32.120" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-12T15:33:32.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="263" CreationDate="2010-08-12T18:30:45.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The crucial convention on SO is, as jalf says, &lt;em&gt;respect the original author&lt;/em&gt;, and I think what Andrew thought of &amp;amp; Juan did is a kind of interventionism that is generally avoided on SO.  We can consider edits on a scale from conservative: fixing typos, putting in &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; tags, indenting code examples; to interventionist, where one substantially rewrites part of a question, say, to turn a subjective and argumentative question into a productive question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While SO's culture avoids interventionist edits,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The harm done by even very interventionist edits need not be so very high: users always have the power of rollback with their own questions and answers.  If you are doing something interventionist with a user's content, you can explain why you thought the edit was helpful, and point out the rollback option in a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are bounds to respect: you don't need to bend over backwards to avoid annoying people, if you think your edit makes the question/answer clearly more readable.  From the SO FAQ: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited, and all edits are&#xA;  tracked. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers&#xA;  being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can easily move the boundaries here on tex.sx by making it policy.  Adding hyperlinks is normally considered to be conservative editing on SO; we can say that adding examples is conservative editing here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a question on MSO that I found helpful, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40427/what-to-do-when-people-with-very-high-rep-are-completely-changing-the-meaning-of&quot;&gt;What to do when people with very high rep are completely changing the meaning of a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T09:17:00.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-12T21:49:24.073" Score="44" ViewCount="1634" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sort of ironically, this question has been left unedited for a while, even when there seemed to be some consensus in the answers below of the kinds of edits that are acceptable and those that are not. So I'll do my best to update it with what seems to have been the consensus in the end. As usual feel free to edit and open new answers to discuss any new issues.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the discussion on deciding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263/etiquette-when-is-it-acceptable-to-edit-anothers-answer&quot;&gt;when is it acceptable to edit others' answer?&lt;/a&gt;, this question is an attempt to summarize the consensus reached by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acceptable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add links and references.&lt;/strong&gt; This includes fixing links pointing to broken/obsolete content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fixing tags.&lt;/strong&gt; To use more clear or precise tags, or to remove the use of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302/our-set-of-tags&quot;&gt;discouraged tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To improve formatting.&lt;/strong&gt; For example badly formatted code, URLs pasted in the text without a description, or in general incorrect usage of markdown formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding pictures.&lt;/strong&gt; This is particularly useful when a question/answer can be made clearer by compiling the example code provided by the original author, and then adding a picture that shows how the output looks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fix typos in the code.&lt;/strong&gt; Repair minor typos in the code of an otherwise well written question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unacceptable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To change the original meaning.&lt;/strong&gt; It is unacceptable to edit someone else's&#xA;question/answer and, in doing so, change its meaning or intention (e.g., what is discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40427/what-to-do-when-people-with-very-high-rep-are-completely-changing-the-meaning-of&quot;&gt;the Meta Stack Overflow discussion about abusive editors&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a corollary, one shouldn't edit the question if one is unable to understand the meaning of the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding new information.&lt;/strong&gt; Particularly for an answer, additional information that&#xA;could improve it should be added as a comment (which can be upvoted!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a significant amount of information that you wish to add, consider adding a new answer instead and credit any previous information you take from other existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fixing typos or grammar errors.&lt;/strong&gt; Editing a question/answer for such small&#xA;issues has the undesired effect of bringing the question back to the homepage, which can&#xA;become a nuisance for frequent users of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two obvious exceptions for fixing these types of errors: 1. you are editing for one of the acceptable reasons anyway; 2. the question is near to the top of the active questions anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2023-09-14T04:28:06.423" Title="When is (and isn't) it acceptable to edit?" Tags="|discussion|faq|etiquette|editing|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="25" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-12T21:49:24.073" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="341" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-13T06:45:55.830" Score="7" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been more or less accepted that &lt;code&gt;big-list&lt;/code&gt; questions can be useful and are welcome in the site. But I think we should try to define some guidelines on how these questions should be handled by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see basically two kinds of approaches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One item per answer&lt;/strong&gt; (example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/553/what-packages-do-people-load-by-default-in-latex&quot;&gt;What packages do people load by default in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One answer with all items&lt;/strong&gt; (example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/162/what-are-other-good-resources-on-line-for-information-about-tex-latex-and-friend/1621#1621&quot;&gt;What are other good resources on-line for information about TeX, LaTeX and friends?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the questions, ¿Should we try to prefer one style over the other? And, if so, ¿which one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I think any such question &lt;strong&gt;has to be made Community Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;. First there is no “right” answer, &lt;code&gt;big-list&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;means&lt;/em&gt; many answers are expected. Moreover, the answers are likely to change over time (new packages coming making some old obsolete, new online resources showing up some going out). And I say this because the later example is not, yet, CW. (Does anyone has the power to do this yet? Or do we still need a moderator?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the advantage of “one item per answer” seems that we can discuss and vote answers individually. Which I think has been proven quite useful in the first example, so most common (useful?) answers naturally flow to the top. And it's easy to &quot;amend&quot; new or additional information to each answer as comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see the appeal of “one answer with all items”, it's all just &lt;em&gt;right there&lt;/em&gt;, much less clutter, can be organized much more nicely. For example in the question about on-line resources, Stefan Kottwitz split his answers by Newsgroups, Webforums, FAQS, ... Which is impossible to do with the alternative approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I think the “one answer with all items” has its problems. First, and that's why it should be CW, for ‘the’ answer there should be no &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-it-and-isnt-acceptable-to-edit&quot;&gt;editing etiquette&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; way to add new information is to edit said answer. For example, &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; answer for the online-resources doesn't mention resources in spanish, if the answer were to be made complete I should be able to add them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the problem is then that there is no way to “moderate” (as a community) the answers or the edits made to the “big-answer”. How can we know, from all the individual items, which ones are popular? which ones are more useful? But even worst, what happens if we all go an add all the links for all the (La)TeX online resources out there (the big and the small) in all the languages spoken in the world? Wouldn't just the answer become an useless bloat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T18:57:57.613" Title="How to manage big lists?" Tags="|discussion|big-list|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="341" CreationDate="2010-08-13T08:41:53.853" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a radical suggestion: maybe we should allow &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; types on our site.  This could get quite confusing, but if the &quot;old hands&quot; keep their wits about them and keep a close eye on big-list questions then it might be manageable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one-item-per-answer is good for sorting answers so it seems best for when although there is no &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; answer, each answer could survive as the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; answer or where there is some sort of natural competition between the answers.  The &quot;which packages&quot; question fits this as it is a bit of a popularity contest.  One common characteristic of this is where the question is actually quite focussed (despite being big-list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one-answer-to-rule-them-all is good for when the answers complement each other.  There's really no way to compare the texample site with the uk tug site, for example, as both do completely different things and Joe TeXer should know about both.  In this case, it's more important to know the classification (as in Stefan's answer) than to know what other people think is the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there will be questions that are between the two.  But that's where the beauty of &lt;em&gt;accepting&lt;/em&gt; an answer comes in to play.  By accepting the &quot;one-answer-to-rule-them-all&quot; answer, it stays at the top where it's most useful and the other answers then have a competition for second place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To work, it would need people to keep a close eye on a question to ensure that it's clear which type of big-list question it is, and to point out the guidelines (CW, accepting the main answer) to the original questioner.  But the pay-off is a good resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the example of adding other languages and so forth, the issue of overcrowding an answer is something to think of, but if you added them in their own section, clearly marked, then it would be easy to find and easy to ignore for those that didn't speak that language.  If it's well organised, I think that length isn't going to be a problem.  If it does, then perhaps there's a better place for it than here and we can just link to that better place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T08:41:53.853" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2010-08-13T09:48:31.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our top voter, and only Civic Duty badge winner, is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/93/vanden&quot;&gt;vanden&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T09:48:31.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-13T16:02:30.583" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really a question, but an observation designed to reduce frustration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just went on a tag pluralization spree, converting &lt;code&gt;list&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;big-list&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;lists&lt;/code&gt; as appropriate and &lt;code&gt;footnote&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;footnotes&lt;/code&gt;. Following the model that others have started, I then tried to suggest &lt;code&gt;footnote&lt;/code&gt; as a synonym for &lt;code&gt;footnotes&lt;/code&gt;. This was disallowed as I'd managed to purge all &lt;code&gt;footnote&lt;/code&gt; tags from the system. This surprised me a bit and even once I'd purged, it seemed useful to introduce the synonym for future proofing the use of the singular form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I went back and reverted one of my retags. I still couldn't suggest. I remained puzzled for a bit. I then noticed that @Juan had reinstituted my change to &lt;code&gt;footnotes&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moral? 1) @Juan, no, I wasn't in the grips of transitory insanity. 2) If going on a &quot;tag sweep,&quot; suggest synonyms before done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T16:47:20.510" Title="Oddity with tag synonym interface" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="344" CreationDate="2010-08-13T16:47:20.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that if moderators do this tag merging then it happens without bumping everything to the front page.  Not much of a bother now, but later on I think that these retagging sprees will get a bit irritating so perhaps the best strategy is to have a permanent discussion here on meta where retagging proposals can be raised and discussed (MathOverflow has this on its meta site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T16:47:20.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2010-08-14T14:52:23.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://qbnz.com/highlighter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GeSHi&lt;/a&gt; is a generic syntax highlighter for PHP. It can be customized for using it with LaTeX code. There exist LaTeX language files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the example above with the default LaTeX syntax highlighting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GLNzS.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it could be adjusted to the requirements and the design of our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T14:52:23.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2010-08-14T15:59:24.023" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a very good idea. Some of us might have typed &lt;code&gt;http://ctan.org/pkg/&lt;/code&gt; hundreds of times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A minimally-invasive way would be adding a CTAN button: clicking that button makes the highlighted &lt;code&gt;packagename&lt;/code&gt; into an url &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/packagename&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;packagename&lt;/a&gt;. This encourages writers to provide links and the readers benefit from that comfort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A more reliable solution would be using a special markup like mentioned in the comments. This has an advantage: if CTAN would change the path or the way how to access the package information, for instance by a paramater like this link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=packagename&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;packagename&lt;/a&gt;, the whole site could respond accordingly. If a site would completely rely on a link structure to another site, it might end in hundreds or thousands of dead links some years later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T15:59:24.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="281" CreationDate="2010-08-14T17:34:43.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm missing a RSS feed for the &lt;em&gt;newest&lt;/em&gt; questions. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds&quot;&gt;recent questions feed&lt;/a&gt; seems to provide the active questions but not the newest. So it contains a lot of older questions with recent answers. But that answer is hidden while the older question is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I like the feature to get informed about any activity, and feeds for tags and specific questions are great, I would like to see the newest questions in another feed additionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T17:34:43.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-14T17:59:23.517" Score="17" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a reminder: remember to leave comments when voting down or voting to close (or vote up a comment that's already there if you agree with it).  If you don't think much of a question or answer, it's helpful to the community (and the original poster) to know why.  It also lessens the sting a little for those not so au fait with the SO way of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T17:59:23.517" Title="Remember to comment" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="235" CreationDate="2010-08-14T21:54:25.810" Score="7" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recommend giving a&#xA;profound and satisfying answer to&#xA;the question on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site. This&#xA;might be sufficient to convince the&#xA;questioner to come back here for TeX&#xA;related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A link to the question on&#xA;SO should be provided, for&#xA;transparency and to avoid redundant&#xA;effort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T21:54:25.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-15T08:30:27.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tagging &lt;code&gt;header-footer&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;versus&lt;/em&gt; separate &lt;code&gt;header&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;footer&lt;/code&gt; tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that several questions are tagged &lt;code&gt;header-footer&lt;/code&gt;. To me, these feel like two separate tags, although I can also see that they often go together. Is the general feeling that we should always pick &lt;code&gt;header-footer&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; discourage &lt;code&gt;header&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;footer&lt;/code&gt; separately)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-15T08:30:27.323" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-15T08:30:27.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3700" CreationDate="2010-08-15T11:46:25.457" Score="16" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably very obvious, but if you vote to close a question which is subsequently edited to improve it (say to clarify how it's different from another one), how do you cancel your vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T14:44:14.030" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T02:46:21.543" Title="Cancel asking to close?" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-08-15T12:46:29.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a comment to the TeXnique.com answer, John Gietsen wrote: &lt;em&gt;This domain name is now taken... BY STACK OVERFLOW INTERNET SERVICES!&lt;/em&gt; .  Is that good or bad? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started a new answer mostly to push this question up in the 'active' list, but also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&#xA;TeXnicians.org&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is free at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89" LastActivityDate="2010-08-15T12:46:29.040" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-15T12:46:29.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="352" CreationDate="2010-08-15T13:47:34.183" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed at meta.stackoverflow.com: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;Can we have the ability to rescind a close vote before it closes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been tagged &lt;em&gt;status-declined&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-08-15T13:47:34.183" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="352" CreationDate="2010-08-15T16:33:18.037" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the light of Stefan's answer, we should have the convention that if you would rescind your vote-to-close then you should leave a comment to the effect saying &quot;I voted to close on an earlier version of this question, I now consider it worth keeping.&quot;.  We could have the convention that someone else who &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; thought it worth closing then left a comment saying &quot;I'm taking over &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;'s vote to close.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MO, on any question where there's some disagreement, or something a little out of the ordinary, we start a discussion on meta so that people can make their case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-15T16:33:18.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-08-16T00:32:54.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeXy.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX is sexy, and the site's name should reflect that sentiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T00:32:54.687" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-16T00:32:54.687" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-16T01:22:14.420" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at the FAQ but couldn't quite tell if this question is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to ask for advice on how to fix TexWorks on my computer. I installed Miktex which came with TexWorks, but tried to update to the newer version of TexWorks. It installed, but cannot compile any tex commands. I can't find much in the way of documentation to fix this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, sorry if this is completely inappropriate, but I figured it would be better to ask on meta first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I have solved the problem, but I am still curious if the question is still appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-08-16T09:24:17.007" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T09:28:44.107" Title="Is this question about TeX software appropriate" Tags="|discussion|request-for-information|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="357" CreationDate="2010-08-16T02:30:20.157" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most appropriate place for help concerning difficulties after installing a piece of TeX-related software, like TeXworks, is probably the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texworks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mailing list&lt;/a&gt; for that software.  You will reach the greatest amount of experts in that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have found what you think is erroneous behavior, filing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bug report&lt;/a&gt; is probably the best thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that the resolution to these issues is highly specific to either the way your computer is configured or the way TeXworks installs.  Using the project-specific mailing list or bug tracker will put the issue and its resolution at a location that specifically focused on these issues.  This is a more relevant place than a Q&amp;amp;A site that operates under the wide umbrella of &quot;questions about TeX and friends&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T02:30:20.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="357" CreationDate="2010-08-16T07:47:06.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see that this is quite a tough one to be definitive on. There are questions that do fit (such as 'how to install TeX on ?') and some that are at least getting answers ('How do I do X in editor Y?'). That said, the editor-specific mailing lists are going to have much higher chance of people having come across a particular editor-related issue. I think we have to be flexible, and try to be helpful while suggesting alternative routes for support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T07:47:06.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="357" CreationDate="2010-08-16T09:28:44.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139/are-questions-about-related-applications-ok&quot;&gt;similar question&lt;/a&gt; some days ago. The answer then was that, yes, this questions are fine. But as other guys have already pointed out, you'll probably find more prompt/helpful advise by contacting the mailing-list or the developers of the application in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, I've just created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot;&gt;[scope]&lt;/a&gt; tag so that we can group together and quickly find these “Are question about [...] OK?” more easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T09:28:44.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-16T13:29:33.903" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[compiling]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[compile]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[compilation&lt;/code&gt;] (and similar tags)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the suggestion in the original post here, we should have &lt;code&gt;[installing]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[compiling]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[debugging]&lt;/code&gt;, etc. There are currently the following suggestion of tags synonyms open: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[compiling] -&gt; [compilation]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[installation] -&gt; [install]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[print] -&gt; [printing]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really mind which form we take, but we should at least try to be consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T13:29:33.903" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-16T13:29:33.903" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-17T13:54:56.853" Score="10" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators Pro Tempore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pleased to announce that these members have stepped up and generously volunteered their time to help us assure that each community’s issues are properly addressed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRFSL.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ShnR.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C3kHQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Obl44.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RJAnp.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want to make this site a huge success, and these members are great examples of exactly the type of people we need to make this site succeed. Please welcome them for the hard work and time they contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Did I overlook anyone?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost certainly. There are members who are actively involved and very deserving of recognition. My failure to account for everyone this early on is in &lt;em&gt;no way&lt;/em&gt; a slight against them. Ideally, Moderators are elected by the community and that's why &lt;strong&gt;you'll have your elections in several weeks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of all, be respectful and understanding of the Moderators Pro Tem. Members of your community are volunteering their time and learning on the job. It’s a learning experience for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T02:09:07.177" Title="Moderator Pro Tem Announcement" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-02-03T16:26:13.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-17T15:23:20.843" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have moderators we can merge duplicated questions.  If a question is closed as a duplicate, should it be automatic that the questions be merged?  Should there be a delay of a day or so to allow for anyone to protest (and/or vote to reopen)?  If it has a vote to reopen, presumably it shouldn't be &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt; merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have about a few current cases where questions have been closed as duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1688/using-latex-how-can-i-restate-a-theorem-with-the-same-theorem-number-later-in&quot;&gt;Using LaTeX, how can I restate a theorem, with the same theorem number, later in a paper?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1833/filter-bib-file-for-items-that-are-actually-used-with-cite-closed&quot;&gt;Filter .bib file for items that are actually used with \cite?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1560/what-are-the-most-popular-latex-packages-closed&quot;&gt;What are the most popular LaTeX packages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1534/are-there-any-other-packages-defined-to-create-a-cv-except-the-moderncv-package&quot;&gt;Are there any other packages defined to create a CV except the &amp;quot;moderncv&amp;quot; package?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/895/class-for-curriculum-vitae-closed&quot;&gt;Class for Curriculum Vitae&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82/is-there-a-makefile-system-for-latex-etc-closed&quot;&gt;Is there a makefile system for LaTeX, etc?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I may have missed some!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T17:27:07.070" Title="Merging questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2010-08-17T15:41:09.010" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say we should presume that dups will be merged after a 'suitable' delay. So the question is what is 'suitable'. I'd say at least 48 hours, provided there are no reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T15:41:09.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-17T15:43:48.433" Score="4" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we now have moderators, it's probably a good time to address the 'latex' tag. There are a few questions where this does seem to make sense (such as LaTeX &lt;em&gt;versus&lt;/em&gt; ConTeXt &lt;em&gt;versus&lt;/em&gt; plain &lt;em&gt;versus&lt;/em&gt; ...). However, the general feeling seems to be that the tag shouldn't be used for most questions simply as they are about LaTeX. So do we retain it for those cases or drop it entirely, and if so is there a good replacement for the cases which are about LaTeX in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I wanted to bump this question to raise again the issue of how can we finally get rid of this tag. Me (and probably some others) have been (according to the discussion bellow) slowly fixing &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; tagged questions while trying not to flood the front page with these questions. So how should we go about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we keep doing this micro-edits and try to keep an eye so that new questions are tagged appropriately?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we request the feature of a tag kill-switch available to moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or should we ask for a feature where some edits can be marked as “minor” so that they don't promote questions to the front-page again?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts on how to proceed? - Juan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T11:20:21.473" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T11:20:21.473" Title="What to do with the 'latex' tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2010-08-17T15:55:39.520" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a question about LaTeX in general this tag is appropriate, but it seems too natural to choose a [latex] tag for a more specific question as well. We might avoid it by introducing a [latex-general] tag for such general discussions. Its intention is very obvious and [latex] could be dropped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T15:55:39.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-08-17T20:32:39.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should probably say that answers involving a LaTeX package should always link to the package on CTAN. As discussed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73/automatic-links-to-the-ctan-catalogue&quot;&gt;Automatic links to the CTAN catalogue?&lt;/a&gt; it would be nice to do this automatically, but for the moment we should encourage answers to include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[`package-name`][1]&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://ctan.org/pkg/package-name&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the first time a package is mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T20:32:39.500" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-17T20:32:39.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-17T21:43:08.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have moderators, could someone also rename &lt;code&gt;[error]&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;[errors]&lt;/code&gt; and leave &lt;code&gt;[error]&lt;/code&gt; as a synonym?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T21:43:08.230" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-17T21:43:08.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2010-08-18T12:52:57.417" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd greatly prefer links into the &lt;code&gt;/tex-archive/&lt;/code&gt; (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry/&lt;/a&gt;) hierarchy to ones into the &lt;code&gt;/pkg/&lt;/code&gt; hierarchy (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/geometry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;/pkg/geometry&lt;/a&gt;, which is what &lt;code&gt;/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=geometry&lt;/code&gt; aliases to).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Makes automation that bit trickier, of course...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T12:52:57.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2010-08-18T13:33:15.130" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It serves a purpose to keep closed, duplicate questions lying around: it makes the questions easier to find the next time a would-be duplicate question is being composed, with more good search fits, more &quot;slots&quot; in the possibly related list, and several alternative phrasings of the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO, duplicates are rarely deleted or merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T13:33:15.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="119" CreationDate="2010-08-18T15:12:50.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For everyone who has not seen it yet: As of today there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official support for image uploading&lt;/a&gt; in the stackexchange software. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T15:12:50.230" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-18T19:24:51.553" Score="6" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;A moderators-only issue, and tiny but still there. From the 'mod' page, if I choose 'flags' then the other options all vanish. So I have to go back to get at them, whereas if I pick another option ('links', for example) I can still flick straight across to another choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="740" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T12:41:16.207" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T12:41:16.207" Title="[Mod page] Choosing 'flags' means that other option vanish" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="375" CreationDate="2010-08-18T21:02:20.680" Score="33" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;[This would probably cause some controversy, but let's see what people think. I am certainly in a conflict of interest when asking this, but I try to be fair.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm all for receiving good answers to questions, and I appreciate the effort of the people that stepped up for moderation, but as a new user I've had quite a lot of &quot;Oh, I know this one&quot; moments when browsing through the questions, just to see it first answered and accepted (correctly, no less) by a community member that has reputation in the 4-digit range, with other good and helpful answers by not-so-prominent community members that have only a few answer bumps, and rarely do those get accepted. Of course, that is a feature of time-spending on the site, but still there's a feeling of being at a disadvantage, especially if you only check for new questions occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question (or rather, topic of discussion) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Should top members of the community refrain themselves from answering easy and obvious questions, giving a chance to the others to show their skills?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's probably no way to enforce this, but it's a matter of self-policing. I would suggest a &quot;grace&quot; period of, say, an hour or two, when top contributors should not answer beginner questions, and after that it's fair game for everybody. In this way, questions will still get good answers in a timely manner if nobody steps up to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-10-12T21:18:00.590" LastActivityDate="2011-10-12T21:18:00.590" Title="How to promote good answers from new or unpopular community members?" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-18T21:25:57.220" Score="10" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asking a question, a sidebar provides an editing quick reference, and clearly points to the full manual.  When answering a question, the &quot;?&quot; visual icon leads to the manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this site (as apparently with other StackExchange sites) the manual is available at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt; but I couldn't find a link to it anywhere on the site itself.  The MO FAQ points to the editing manual, and I found this useful.  I tend to ignore small visual icons, instead focusing on the textual elements, and didn't immediately see how to find editing help when composing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could a link be added to the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T21:25:57.220" Title="Link to editing help?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="373" CreationDate="2010-08-19T00:31:22.937" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good point! I find myself spending much time on the site - and because solving problems and talking about TeX is fun, I'm quickly working on a new answer. I guess I have to restrain myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some time, when the site has grown, questions may occur more frequently and in higher number, much do deal with. Today, in beta time, many experienced users have found the way to this site, perhaps not yet so many questioners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what could we do today? Some thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask interesting questions.&lt;/strong&gt; For everybody there might be an interesting question, even if he could figure it out himself in some time. Questions don't compete the way answers do, and good questions will be voted up. And rightly so. They lay the foundation for good answers, building our knowledge base.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use up your vote limit.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12/vote-early-and-often&quot;&gt;Vote early and often&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the questions of today and the previous 4 days, all of them are voted between 0 and 9, mostly in the lower range. I suppose if a reader of a question would think it's worth that he would answer, he would vote the question up, even if another user already answered. @mindcorrosive: you've used 8 votes until now: how many of them to questions, how many did you find interesting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's vote for interesting questions.&lt;/strong&gt; Perhaps look backwards, are there well-formulated questions to interesting subjects worth another vote? This also encourages other users to write good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote for answers that contain good points.&lt;/strong&gt; Not just for the best. Even older questions might have got further valuable answers - look out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Scott said, we're still in beta and setting the standards for voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could I do further? I'll try to slow down. I'll try not to compete for easy questions as long as they get profound answers in a timely manner. And of course, I'm daily giving my votes, giving rep for good contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T00:31:22.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="377" CreationDate="2010-08-19T07:16:42.257" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you take a look at the list of badges, several of the more challenging ones need an awful lot of votes/views/whatever. I guess that the values were set for SO, but wonder if they are likely to be appropriate here. On the one hand the badges need to mean something, but on the other they should be attainable. In particular, I notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Popular question' needs 1000 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Notable question' needs 2500 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Famous question' needs 10 000 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Stellar question' favourited by 100 people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the likely size of the community here will is in line with these values. For all I know it will, but I'm just wondering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T07:29:58.637" Title="Numbers required for the 'difficult' badges" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="376" CreationDate="2010-08-19T07:29:58.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there are about 200 users with reputation&gt;1 currently, so of course those numbers are way out of our league. But I suggest we wait until the end of beta (and even a few months after the official launch) before we evaluate this, after we get a &quot;feeling&quot; how large the community will become, and how fast it grows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T07:29:58.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="341" CreationDate="2010-08-19T08:49:22.503" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators, can we now please throw the wiki-hammer on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot;&gt;relevant big-list questions&lt;/a&gt;?? :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T08:49:22.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="373" CreationDate="2010-08-19T09:18:02.563" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not much to add to Stefan's answer. This is mostly what I wanted to write yesterday. I (and probably also the other four-digit rep people) wanted to make this site attractive for question-askers by quickly answering questions, but haven't really realized that this will make the site &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; attractive for new question-answerers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To second Stefan: &lt;strong&gt;Vote often&lt;/strong&gt;. I think the number of votes questions and answers get has actually declined since the start of the beta. If an answer says something useful (and on-topic), vote for it, even if it is not a complete answer in itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as a question-asker, &lt;strong&gt;do not accept answers immediately&lt;/strong&gt;. Lately I have seen several answers with a suboptimal accepted answer. Questions with accepted answer are ignored by many people. This is bad for the question-asker because they miss out on better answers and more upvotes. It is also bad for the question-anwerers who add a better answers because they will get less upvotes. (Yes, I was previously of the opinion that answers should be accepted soon, to avoid wasting brainpower, but I see now that at least at the current stage this is not optimal.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T09:56:06.657" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T09:56:06.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="341" CreationDate="2010-08-19T09:21:09.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another idea that combines what @Andrew Stacey proposed: Have one big accepted answer that contains the good stuff, and the rest could be used as a comment/new suggestions/edits area, one item per post, and could be trimmed periodically when the info is incorporated in the main answer. This way, non-eligible users could also contribute (remember, you need 100 rep for CW edit). There shouldn't be &quot;competition&quot; between the non-accepted answers, but rather serve as a draft of what could be added/improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T09:21:09.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="386" CreationDate="2010-08-19T12:51:21.350" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not 100% sure this is the place to ask this, but what tools (notifications over RSS, email, desktop widgets, browser plugins or something else entirely) do you use to keep track of what happens on this site (or any StackExchange site). By &quot;what happens&quot; I mean - new questions, new answers/comments to a question of yours, new meta discussions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen anything that's worth attention, so I thought there might be something useful in this area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T20:39:38.033" Title="How do you keep track of your StackExchange involvements accross different sites?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="373" CreationDate="2010-08-19T13:34:41.397" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to record my support for this.  For this site to survive, it has to be one where the same group of people who ask questions are also those who answer them (broadly, that is).  If only a small group of people are answering all the questions then it becomes more like an &quot;ask an expert&quot; site and I don't think that that's the intention for the SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the very early stages, the primary aim was to populate the site to make it look like what is was meant to be: a place to ask and answer questions.  Maybe now we're into the &quot;community building&quot; phase were we have to think a little more about what our actions (as high-rep users) say about this place and how we can make it as welcoming as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to add one thing.  I certainly wouldn't class myself as an expert, I'm just a problem-solver.  If you ask me a problem (or even mention it in my site) and it catches my interest, then I just like solving it.  Because it's &lt;strong&gt;fun&lt;/strong&gt;!  From my reputation, it may be that that's indistinguishable from expert so I'll try to hold back a bit.  I certainly don't want me having fun to stop anyone else from joining in.  I'll even let Caramdir answer a few TikZ questions ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(added) I meant to say: it's important that we have experts here, but they should be more like a safety net.  So, in my opinion, the site is working well when there are lots of people answering lots of questions and lots of the answers get &quot;that's just what I would say&quot; from one of our resident experts.  Knowing that there are people who know more than I do means that I can risk being wrong - if I am, then someone else will come along and say so.  And when I feel safe with being wrong, then I'll be right more often - if that made any sense!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T14:12:28.640" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T14:12:28.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2010-08-19T13:50:05.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everybody who thinks a question should be CW might say this in a comment to this question. The questioner himself may be convinced and could change his question to CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this comment gets a reasonable amount of upvotes this would show the desire of the community, so the moderators could act accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T13:50:05.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2010-08-19T14:42:58.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second Civic Duty badge has been awarded to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/100/jukka-suomela&quot;&gt;Jukka Suomela&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T14:42:58.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="387" CreationDate="2010-08-19T20:29:43.503" Score="32" ViewCount="586" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow I get the feeling that the influx of new (and good) questions is rather slow. So I have a few suggestions here for you that might give somebody a good idea how to spend a useful hour building the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clean up and improve community wiki questions, especially those tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/341/how-to-manage-big-lists&quot;&gt;How to manage big lists?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; has good suggestions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask a good question yourself, even if you know the answer. For example, from @Caramdir, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2044/how-to-install-a-current-version-of-tikz&quot;&gt;How to install a current version of TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Help with unanswered questions (old questions without upvoted answers).  You can even place a small bounty to rub people the right way into providing a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggest, approve, edit and extend tag wikis. Some popular tags will certainly appreciate more love.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retag (carefully) old questions to better reflect our current tagging policy. (Take it easy though, as retagged questions are bumped to the top of the queue.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Improve the formatting of new questions (code, images, links).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nag &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; and staff with our favourite &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot;&gt;feature-requests&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot;&gt;bugs&lt;/a&gt;.  For example, if you can suggest a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5262/competition-time-design-an-error-page/&quot;&gt;404/captcha image&lt;/a&gt; (also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/656/404-captcha-error-images&quot;&gt;on meta&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Promote the site to attract new users, and by extension, questions.   Some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Run a poll asking &quot;Where did you learn about TeX &amp;amp; Friends?&quot; This is to see whether the website has a sufficient exposure besides the broad SO/SE community. I would guess that basically everybody came from there, which neatly leads to...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Do you have a friend or relative that frequents CTAN mailing list, or an IRC channel dedicated exclusively to LaTeX? Invite them today and win bonus 50 reputation!&quot; (okay, probably without the fake rep award). But you get the idea. There are communities that already serve a similar goal as TeX-SE (I used to ask non-obvious stuff on #latex on irc.freenode.net) Perhaps some of them will be interested to give it a try and see whether they like it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inexperienced users are also likely to be interested in what we try to do here &amp;mdash; it's no big secret that hunting info on some obscure package/style file, or trying to find a package that &quot;does foo with bar&quot; can be daunting for TeX beginners.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Share a question on Twitter to spread the word.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have more ideas, please share them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T20:19:15.863" Title="Things to do on a slow day at TeX-SE" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="381" CreationDate="2010-08-19T20:39:38.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some guy &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/users/5/george-edison&quot;&gt;George Edison&lt;/a&gt; over at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; SE made a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.quickmediasolutions.com/stackapplet/stackapplet_1.2.0_all.deb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNOME applet&lt;/a&gt; that shows your reputation and comments that you get. Can be used on any SE/SO site. I've tested it, and it seems to work (never got a comment in the meantime to see whether this functionality works, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/18/stackapplet-monitor-your-reputation-and-get-notified-of-comments&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the original post at the Ubuntu meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T17:33:46.010" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T20:39:38.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="385" CreationDate="2010-08-19T20:43:02.907" Score="23" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go through old unanswered questions &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;the default view&lt;/a&gt; is ordered by votes, which is a good place to start &amp;mdash; and see if there is something you can do to move the questions towards resolution.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange defines unanswered questions as being not just questions with no answers, but questions with no upvoted or accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Encourage new users with attention.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;The review page&lt;/a&gt; shows activity (e.g., first answer, first question) by new users: provide them with advice, up votes, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T09:28:12.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-19T21:07:18.280" Score="5" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joe TeXer comes to TL&amp;amp;Co and asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why doesn't feature X work on my computer? I've been trying to do this for hours, and my thesis is due tomorrow! Help!!!1!1!1!!!1111one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, to give adequate suggestions, we need more information, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX distribution used&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Packages loaded&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Operating system&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;Minimal, complete example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would save a lot of time both of the users and the submitter, if the submitter is asked to supply this information in advance (because for non-trivial problems people will ask for clarification anyway). Hence, the request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we have some sort of template for questions of the type &quot;Why doesn't X work?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, this could find place in the FAQ as well. Let's be realistic though, people will most likely first ask a question, and then, possibly, browse the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have absolutely no idea how this could be implemented in practice, or whether it's even a viable option, but perhaps somebody could shed some light on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T16:16:32.653" Title="Template for (some) questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|asking-questions|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-20T15:57:06.157" Score="19" ViewCount="427" Body="&lt;p&gt;What can we do to promote our site? All ideas would be very welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew already suggested something in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246/go-back-to-your-constiuencies-and-prepare-for-public-beta&quot;&gt;Go back to your constiuencies and prepare for public beta!&lt;/a&gt; Let's extend it and continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post news about the site in your blog.&lt;/strong&gt; Post again, if new things happen, like finishing of beta, getting the domain name, reaching a number of 1000 users and so on. I've seen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texdev.net/2010/08/02/a-new-place-for-tex-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A new place for TeX questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texdev.net/2010/08/17/places-for-questions-again/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Places for questions (again)&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex-archive/online/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX, LaTeX and Friends - a new Q&amp;amp;A site&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-my.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-l-t-e-x-q-site.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New (La)TeX Q&amp;amp;A Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link to the site.&lt;/strong&gt; If you own a web page, maintain a link list or a blog roll, you could add a link to our TeX site to show where you discuss and where you support LaTeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mention the site in forums dealing with LaTeX.&lt;/strong&gt; But be tactful, there shouldn't be the impression that we entice away their users. It might be that users &lt;em&gt;additionally&lt;/em&gt; join our site, with no harm to the other forum. Many maths, physics, chemistry or operating systems discussion boards have subforums dealing with LaTeX. There it wouldn't be a competition with the main board. At last, why shouldn't TeX interested users know about a new site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I posted a news message on the german LaTeX forum &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.golatex.de/news.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;golatex.de&lt;/a&gt;. Not yet in other forums because of the thoughts written some lines above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kindly invite LaTeX users on related sites&lt;/strong&gt; like for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3513118/latex-how-can-i-disable-the-linking-for-figures-in-lyx&quot;&gt;here on SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get other bloggers interested.&lt;/strong&gt; Perhaps tell them the news in a comment on their blog.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inform about the site in journals.&lt;/strong&gt; For instance in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/pracjourn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PracTeX journal&lt;/a&gt; or in the journal of the german usergroup &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de/DTK.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DANTE e.V.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Submit our site to Web catalogues&lt;/strong&gt;. I would have submitted it already to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Typesetting/TeX/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Open Directory project&lt;/a&gt;, but keep waiting for the final domain name. There are further catalogues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use social networks.&lt;/strong&gt; Perhaps you're active on Facebook or Twitter or microblogging sites like identi.ca.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spread the news locally.&lt;/strong&gt; For instance there are monthly meetings of TeX friends in many cities, perhaps you already visit one of them. Tell your friends in TeX user groups. The students at your university might be happy to hear about a place that helps them solving LaTeX problems with their writings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link to our solutions.&lt;/strong&gt; If you see a problem in an online discussion, it would help the questioner to find the solution here. Perhaps he would come back here helping other users or discussing more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Think about events on our site.&lt;/strong&gt; Perhaps there could be a contest in article writing, in finding a solution for an existing problem, in raising the best idea on a certain suject, or making the best design for a TeX mousepad with reference sheet or a cup or the like. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post interesting questions&lt;/strong&gt;. That makes our site and its content more attractive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T06:40:51.487" Title="Promoting TeX, LaTeX and friends" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|social-networking|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2010-08-20T18:10:52.903" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wondered about a poster that could go up in people's departments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the success of MathOverflow, I think that we should think carefully about how to promote this site to academics, particularly ones that would hesitate at joining some mailing list or forum about TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that we should try to be an academic-only site, just that I think that there are certain aspects of the SE system that might work well for them and as lots use TeX this site could be very useful to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T18:10:52.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="396" CreationDate="2010-08-20T18:57:23.293" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an author or moderator would change a question to &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt;, already existing answers would'nt be converted automatically. Should we convert also the existing answers? All, or just the top answer, or should a separate summarizing CW answer be created without touching other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question especially targets the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot;&gt;[big-list]&lt;/a&gt; tagged topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T21:36:31.327" Title="When questions are converted to communiti wiki - how should we treat existing answers?" Tags="|big-list|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2010-08-20T19:03:07.900" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Stefan's suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link to our solutions.&lt;/strong&gt; If you see a&#xA;  problem in an online discussion, it&#xA;  would help the questioner to find the&#xA;  solution here. Perhaps he would come&#xA;  back here helping other users or&#xA;  discussing more questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is the best. Nobody on another forum will be unhappy to be directed to a place where their question is already answered, and they will hopefully be impressed by our high-quality answers and stick around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="627" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T19:03:07.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="399" CreationDate="2010-08-20T19:11:15.697" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment we've got 62 questions tagged with [discussion] on meta. I believe that this tag is insignificant and should be avoided if not even removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The main purpose of the meta site is discussion, so that tag is not very differentiating.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can see some discussion-only tagged questions regarding community wiki, badges, comments, questioning, answering, quality, FAQ or SO. They're hard to find if I look for the subject as long as they don't get the subject as tag but remain merged to discussion only.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with just a single tag [discussion] should get a tag describing the topic of the discussion, at least if it's not too uncommon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I can see that [discussion] is marked as required tag. Perhaps this might be changed technically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2010-08-20T21:41:41.167" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T08:55:08.307" Title="Should we avoid the [discussion] tag?" Tags="|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="393" CreationDate="2010-08-20T20:01:32.943" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.  Thought the &quot;tag&quot; box here says something like &quot;must have one of bug|feature-request|support|discussion&quot; so I've been using &quot;discussion&quot; to mean &quot;none-of-the-above&quot;.  If that list weren't there then perhaps we wouldn't have so many tagged as &quot;discussion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T20:01:32.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2010-08-20T21:31:54.620" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will probably have some discussion about support sites at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.tug.org/2010/08/15/elections-agm-birmingham-meeting/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;UK-TUG AGM&lt;/a&gt;, which is likely to be on the 16th of October. Our current chair is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/176/jonathan-fine&quot;&gt;Jonathan Fine&lt;/a&gt;, who has been very keen on getting this type of site going. I guess either he or I will talk about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Shameless self promotion: the AGM is open to all, so feel free to come along if you are in the UK even if you're not currently a member.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T21:31:54.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="391" CreationDate="2010-08-20T21:36:31.327" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very good question. My initial assumption would be that if a question is CW then it's answers should all be as well. I'd assumed that this happens automatically if the question is changed: is this not the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T21:36:31.327" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-21T04:54:52.540" Score="1" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;While traversing the site, I had, on numerous occasions, an urge to share an idea, or to ask a short question that's not worth enough to make a separate post out of it. I know this is what &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; is supposed to be used for, but I feel bad for polluting the main stream. Most of the time I need a comment or two to figure out whether it's stupid, or an idea people like. Hence, the suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Should we have a post here on meta for sharing of short ideas, requests for clarification or just some observations?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers should be itself formulated as questions, and people would express opinion in the comments. If a person gets a satisfying answer (regardless good or bad), he could just delete the post and take further action (e.g. write a proper question, or forget about the whole thing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good rule of thumb would be that if it's more than a few sentences long, or the answer you're expecting could be, it's probably better to make an ordinary question out of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T13:48:46.540" Title="A place for short questions and small ideas/suggestions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-21T04:54:52.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="397" CreationDate="2010-08-21T05:00:26.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shall we have promote posts we think are important (mostly CW questions, probably --- e.g. those about LaTeX editors, why-do-you-use-LaTeX, collections of external resources) that could be easily visible by all, especially new visitors? Not sticking them to the top of the stream forum-style, but maybe having a special tag and make them prominent on the side somewhere near the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T05:00:26.667" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-21T05:00:26.667" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="393" CreationDate="2010-08-21T08:55:08.307" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two points to the discussion tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It means nothing needs to be done with this question, from a site-maintenance point of view.  Because Meta is the non-developer issue-tracking database, it makes sense to enforce that there are a set of tags that non-moderators need to choose, and then you need a non-issue tag.  There could be many non-issue tags, but that risks confusion for new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It emphasises that Meta is not a Q&amp;amp;A site in the way that the parent site is. Discussion is bad thing on the parent site, it's fine here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthe to issue tracking, it is often hard to distinguish [discussion] and [feature-request]s, except by the tag.  It's crucial there to the significance of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T08:55:08.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-21T21:19:34.883" Score="12" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've got some tags with command names like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input&quot;&gt;input&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/noindent&quot;&gt;noindent&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newline&quot;&gt;newline&lt;/a&gt; and more. Do we need a preceding backslash in those tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Commands always begin with \ and are a common subject for questions, at least where a concept tag doesn't fit well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We could distinguish commands from environments, concepts and packages. centering is a concept, &lt;code&gt;\centering&lt;/code&gt; not. &lt;code&gt;\cite&lt;/code&gt; means a command but not the cite package, the same applies to the newcommand package and &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The backslash might be a problem in URLs, but that could be solved somehow. If necessary, the site could use a tilde ~  instead of \ or do something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or the backslash could just be shown on the tag like those small icons on other tags of other SO sites (like the icon on the [android] tag). Everything is without backslash like entering and URL, but the image of a command tag has the \ on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A technical discussion might come later if we desire it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would look strange if I omit the \ in writing. Telling that &lt;code&gt;newpage&lt;/code&gt; breaks a page and &lt;code&gt;newline&lt;/code&gt; does it for the line, while &lt;code&gt;linebreak&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;pagebreak&lt;/code&gt; behave in a slight different way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing a command in a tag the way we do in LaTeX makes it clearer and avoids confusion. A book index would do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T14:34:13.927" Title="Backslash in tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-21T21:33:24.657" Score="18" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest we introduce tags clearly showing that a document class is concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-class&lt;/a&gt; would be clearer than just &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; and would not interfere with questions regarding books - those made of paper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/letter-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;letter-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;letter-class&lt;/a&gt; could be distinguished from questions regarding letters as such.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/slides-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;slides-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;slides-class&lt;/a&gt; shows that the class is meant and not the concept &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/slides&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;slides&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;slides&lt;/a&gt; including beamer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A first glance at the tag shows that a class is meant. We could omit a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass&lt;/a&gt; tag usually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I would get some positive comments and the question, let's say, 10 upvotes, I would create the [tag:*-class] tags plus some synonyms. For instance, beamer would be a good synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beamer-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beamer-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beamer-class&lt;/a&gt; but &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/slides&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;slides&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;slides&lt;/a&gt; perhaps not for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/slides-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;slides-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;slides-class&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-01-26T21:00:05.957" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T21:00:05.957" Title="Tags for document classes" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="413" CreationDate="2010-08-21T21:47:53.247" Score="1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we introduce { and } in tags, if it's possible, technically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to mark environments, like {itemize}, {center}, {table}. We could distinguish {table} environment questions from such regarding tables like tabular constructs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be meaningful to see when a tag means an environment (center, quotation, quote) instead of a concept (centering, quoting)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As some other questions show, I'm thinking about a clear understanding if a tag means a concept, class, package, environment or command - a lot of names are very similar. I made separate questions because a feature request like \ in tags is different than just to agree in tag names like [book-class] or discussing how environments should be handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another drastic way would be tagging like book-cls, cite-pkg, center-env, cite-cmd, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other ideas or sugegstions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2010-08-24T15:30:26.207" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T08:45:23.173" Title="How to mark environments in tags?" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-22T00:28:25.977" Score="8" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen many questions using the word &lt;em&gt;command&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;commands&lt;/em&gt;. There are also questions writing &lt;em&gt;macro&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;macros&lt;/em&gt;. Regarding tagging, which should be the master and which the synonym mapped to it? Until now, the tag [macros] is widely used. But it won't be a problem to merge it with [commands] if we desire. Or do you think, those terms may be separated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pro [commands]:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;searching for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=commands&quot;&gt;&quot;commands&quot;&lt;/a&gt; gives 19 pages, searching for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=macros&quot;&gt;&quot;macros&quot;&lt;/a&gt; just 2. The latter is a result of the &quot;macros&quot; tag. (The search feature switches to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot;&gt;tag search&lt;/a&gt; automatically.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.de/search?q=LaTeX+commands&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.google.de/search?q=LaTeX+commands&lt;/a&gt; gives 3.100.000 results, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.de/search?q=LaTeX+macros&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.google.de/search?q=LaTeX+macros&lt;/a&gt; gives 251.000.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;LaTeX &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a macro language. Does [macros] tell anything specific? Though we could distinguish between commands, environments, lengths, counters, ifs and more. I prefer to have [commands], [environments], [lengts] and so on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For questions or searches regarding &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\providecommand&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\renewcommand&lt;/code&gt;, the number of arguments, starred forms and so on I believe the conceptual tag [commands] would seem more natural than [macros].&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't wish to make a great fuss about just one tag, though commands and macros are a very basic concept and I'm interested in opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you agree, please vote the question up or tell it by a comment or an anwer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree, please tell it in an answer (or comment) which may be voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T14:29:38.690" Title="Which expression is more common and defining for LaTeX commands - command or macro?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="404" CreationDate="2010-08-22T07:17:01.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, a &lt;code&gt;macros&lt;/code&gt; tag would imply that the submitter has a question regarding a custom &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt; that he\she is constructing, and it doesn't work as expected (does that happen often?). Otherwise, if said user has problems with an &quot;official&quot; command from widely available third-party package, a &lt;code&gt;commands&lt;/code&gt; tag would seem more natural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think &lt;code&gt;macros&lt;/code&gt; should stay, but its intended use should be clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T07:17:01.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="410" CreationDate="2010-08-22T07:38:54.030" Score="8" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many meta questions related to the various tags. I don't understand why they're useful in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two situations: 1. the question author uses a descriptive title and so the tags are essentially irrelevant; or 2. the question author uses a poor title, &quot;Why does this happen?&quot; springs to mind, and then even with good tags, there's still no good way to know what the question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly the point of the tags isn't to tell you what the question is about, but a way to look at all questions with a specific tag. I feel like search engines have solved this problem (none of them look at the keywords meta tag any longer). Why not leverage this power and simply omit the tags? No more worrying if a question should be tagged with &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;macros&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;packagename&lt;/code&gt; or any other tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to entertain the idea that I'm missing some legitimate use for tags. Feel free to enlighten me (and point out how foolish I am for missing the blindingly obvious).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2010-08-25T13:56:34.997" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T13:56:34.997" Title="Why so much concern over tags?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-22T07:40:08.210" Score="4" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have two tags which apparently address the same object --- &lt;code&gt;figures&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;diagrams&lt;/code&gt;. While there's a semantic difference between the two (in content/representation), it's all the same for LaTeX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we use &lt;code&gt;figures&lt;/code&gt; for questions related to external stand-alone files (e.g. PNG, PDF, EPS) that you cannot edit within LaTeX, and to use &lt;code&gt;diagrams&lt;/code&gt; for those that are produced by e.g. &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;psticks&lt;/code&gt;, or whatever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, we can just use &lt;code&gt;diagrams&lt;/code&gt; tag as a synonym for &lt;code&gt;figures&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T14:41:21.040" Title="Merging `figures` and `diagrams`?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2010-08-22T07:51:06.580" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are supposed to help your search for an answer when it's hard to write a short question, or when a question is asked in different ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, suppose there is already a question &lt;em&gt;How do I change link styles in hyperref?&lt;/em&gt;. If you have the same problem, you're most likely to search for words like &quot;colors&quot;, &quot;hyperlink&quot;, &quot;change default colours (note the different spelling!)&quot;, &quot;hyperref&quot;, and probably some more. You'll probably never search for &quot;style&quot;, or simply &quot;link&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what's the probability that you'd find this particular question if there are tens of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging helps when &lt;strong&gt;the question has not been asked in the most straight-forward and obvious way&lt;/strong&gt;. Haven't you experienced the same yourself when using your favourite search engine with a rather long query, and get only useless results? Then you change some wording and you get exactly what you need on the first hit. This is where tagging comes into play --- to reduce your search space as much as possible before you've ever written your query, so that there's a chance you'd find existing poorly worded posts instead of writing your duplicate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T07:51:06.580" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2010-08-22T10:33:48.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could someone with enough rights please remove the &lt;code&gt;beginners&lt;/code&gt; tag from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/604/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that-closed&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/604/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T10:33:48.557" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-22T10:33:48.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2010-08-22T10:49:12.097" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags help to &lt;strong&gt;find unanswered questions that you can answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you are the author of the &quot;foo&quot; package, you could add &quot;foo-package&quot; to your list of &quot;interesting tags&quot;. Then you can easily see questions related to foo highlighted on the front page. Even better, you can go to &quot;Unanswered / My tags&quot; and quickly see all unanswered questions related to foo. Or you can subscribe to the RSS feed of the &quot;foo-package&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone has time to have a look at the full list of questions regularly. And Googling for &quot;foo&quot; just returns old questions, most of which have already been answered. This site works only if people get &lt;em&gt;good answers fast&lt;/em&gt;; tags can help tremendously in catching the attention of the right people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T10:49:12.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="407" CreationDate="2010-08-22T11:55:29.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Commonly, questions regarding figures deal with including, floating, captioning, referring, sizing and positioning and the like, typically involved packages are float and graphicx. However, if questions concern diagrams I believe it's mainly dealing with producing them. Until now, all questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot;&gt;tagged with 'diagrams'&lt;/a&gt; are about typesetting and drawing, without mentioning the word 'figure', typical packages are TikZ and PSTricks, like you said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'd like to create a diagram, perhaps not sure which package I should use, I would be glad to have a &lt;code&gt;[diagrams]&lt;/code&gt; tag to browse such questions. They don't get lost among questions concerning prefabricated figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[figures]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[diagrams]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are not even related, as I can see on the side bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I believe we should not merge those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T12:03:30.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2010-08-22T16:15:28.983" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;They build relationships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags group questions into well-defined categories.&lt;/strong&gt; We could use them to refine a search, connect them with users. Connect ourself with a tag where we're specialized in, subscribe to a tag. That's much easier than doing full text searches each day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags point out relations between subjects.&lt;/strong&gt; For each tag we can see which other tags have often been used together with it. So, the top entries in the &quot;Related tags&quot; list might be interesting as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T16:15:28.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="403" CreationDate="2010-08-24T10:51:25.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;{..}&lt;/code&gt; would be a Good Thing if it worked, although I don't particularly care about well-typed tags: do we really care about distinguishing questions that use the tag matching the package &lt;code&gt;alltt&lt;/code&gt; from the questions that use the tag matching the environment &lt;code&gt;alltt&lt;/code&gt;?  Generally, we don't need the kind of indexing scheme that make librarians happy, but having &lt;code&gt;{..}&lt;/code&gt; available, perhaps for both packages and environments, would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question should be asked on meta.SO about possible issues with &lt;code&gt;{..}&lt;/code&gt; tags.  The dev team might be planning to use {} in search operators, for all we know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2010-11-30T08:45:23.173" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T08:45:23.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="403" CreationDate="2010-08-24T11:19:44.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;An idea, which doesn't touch input, handling or links of tags would be just a visual tag shape. I introduced the idea in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/401/backslash-in-tags&quot;&gt;Backslash in tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means, environment tags have &lt;code&gt;{    }&lt;/code&gt; on the tag symbol, command tags have a &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; written before the command name. Does it seem too strange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first idea came because commands without backslash look really strange to me. Besides commands, all other code-tags concern environments I guess. So, we would get correct commands on tags and even further all code tags (\centering, center-environment, \draw etc.) are distinguished from concept-tags (centering, drawing). packages names may remain like normal tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-08-24T11:19:44.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="404" CreationDate="2010-08-24T17:41:52.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;code&gt;[command-creation]&lt;/code&gt; or something similar that contains “command“ but is more specific than &lt;code&gt;[commands]&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-08-24T17:41:52.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-25T08:28:07.257" Score="2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;My email address is soonhui.ngu@gmail.com, and my &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3834/ngu-soon-hui&quot;&gt;SO profile&lt;/a&gt; here. But I am identified as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/972/user972&quot;&gt;user972&lt;/a&gt; here at Tex SE site!! I think something went wrong with the account association when I first registered my email with this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: The reason why my display name is now synch with SO profile is because I manually changed the display name. However, other information were not changed manually, as you can see by comparing the two links above.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="972" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:19.567" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T08:44:52.547" Title="This SE Site Can't Identify Me" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2010-11-15T10:07:16.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="416" CreationDate="2010-08-25T09:13:47.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO or SX is confused, as you guessed: try clearing all your account associations on your pages both here and on SO, and seeing which the sites can find.  Then add them back again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible you used a different Openid provider to your other accounts?  If so, I don't think you will be able to associate them, but you will be able to create a new account that can be associated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T09:13:47.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="416" CreationDate="2010-08-25T09:14:38.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, you're not the first to experience this here. Take a look at this discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/195/user-table-scrambled&quot;&gt;User Table scrambled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T09:14:38.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="404" CreationDate="2010-08-25T09:41:11.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two points of programming language terminology:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not all commands are macros: &lt;code&gt;\input&lt;/code&gt; is a command, but as a Tex primitive, it is not a macro.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not all macro uses are command invocations: you can assign contents to macros, and use them with &lt;code&gt;\ifx&lt;/code&gt; conditionals without ever expanding them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second seems a rather thin point: macro expansions are (potentially imperative) command executions, and &lt;code&gt;\ifx&lt;/code&gt; can be seen as an introspective equality test.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, commands are macros plus primitives.  And so the case is strengthened that [macros] should be a synonym for [commands]. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T09:41:11.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="421" CreationDate="2010-08-25T11:15:34.917" Score="6" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The faq claims that at 750 rep, one can see the total up and down votes. I don't see that when I look at questions. Where is this information displayed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="110" LastEditDate="2010-08-25T13:31:20.973" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T13:31:20.973" Title="Show total up and down votes" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="420" CreationDate="2010-08-25T11:22:46.300" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to click on the total number of votes, whereupon it magically splits into a green number above a red number.  I'm guessing that the green is good and the red is rubbish (though it might be green for garbage and red for rather spiffing), but this particular question has garnered no votes as yet so I just see two zeros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T11:22:46.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="416" CreationDate="2010-08-25T11:25:23.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Caramdir's comment is correct.  Can you take a look at your profiles again now and see if there's anything still wrong?  I'm seeing the same information here, at the main site, and at SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, the names fooled me.  Apologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's not a lot that I can see to do from this end as we have no access to the SO user account stuff.  Are you absolutely sure that you used the same openid on both systems?  If you used a different one on SO, try setting up a new account here with the same openid as the SO and then I (or one of the other mods) can merge them.  Or, as the account here hasn't done anything yet, I can delete or destroy it (not sure what the difference is) and you can start again and see if it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it needs anything that actually involves SO then you need to mention this on meta.SO.  We only have access to our user tables, so can't force an association with an SO account (at least, as far as I can see from the tools.  The only one that I don't understand that might help is &quot;clear sessions&quot; but as I don't know what it does, I'm reluctant to try in case it's dire.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2010-08-25T17:09:12.943" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T17:09:12.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2010-08-25T12:26:30.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't view a vote to close as a kick in the face. In fact, does a user even know that there was a vote to close unless someone comments on it or it is actually closed? Someone voted to close of my questions and the only reason I know that is someone else disagreed in the comments. It certainly didn't hurt my feelings...this is the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T12:26:30.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2010-08-25T12:48:19.370" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As your question isn't really a question, I'll make my answer be a question. What is the advantage of the &quot;vote early, vote often&quot; advice? All it seems to do is raise the base level for questions and answers. I'm not sure that I agree that it provides &quot;better positive feedback to good contributors&quot; since everyone ends up with higher levels regardless of how good the contribution was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up votes only seem to increase the up-voted user's reputation, but it's not even clear to me why that's so important. Once I reached the reputation to leave comments, I was satisfied. I guess it's sort of neat to see the number of up and down votes, but I'm not sure why that should be tied to any reputation level. It seems rude to edit another user's posts or retag their questions (they might have had a good reason for the tags they chose!) so that doesn't seem particularly useful. I guess my &quot;reputation is dumb&quot; rant should be saved for another time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I up vote questions and answers I think are deserving–and do so pretty frequently—but I don't see any reason to just up vote every question/answer I read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This doesn't really reflect my opinion any more. I've edited posts, maybe even retagged questions, and voted often enough to get the Electorate badge. I do note that there are some users with high rep who have never or almost never voted. I wonder if they see little value in it (as I did when I wrote this post originally) or if they really think no questions/answers are good or bad. Probably the former.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="647" LastEditDate="2011-01-03T09:24:40.260" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T09:24:40.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="427" CreationDate="2010-08-27T11:26:43.543" Score="8" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like simply changing the tags for a question shouldn't cause it to be active for three reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There isn't really any activity on the question. Some metadata that I suspect most people don't even read changed, but nothing important. (I realize some people think tags are of supreme importance, but hopefully you'll agree that they're not integral to asking and answering questions.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It allows &lt;em&gt;gaming&lt;/em&gt; the SE system whereby a poster can mistag (or add nonsense tags to) a question and thus potentially have the question reappear at the top of the active list once someone retags it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is really annoying to see a huge list of old questions scroll the new questions off simply because they were retagged, as &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; happened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-10-16T08:12:02.347" LastActivityDate="2019-07-31T01:45:35.847" Title="Changing tags causes questions to be active" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-27T11:30:24.200" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/425/changing-tags-causes-questions-to-be-active&quot;&gt;Changing tags causes questions to be  active&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the tag is really metadata, a question should not be shown as edited simply because it has been retagged. This is really a different bug from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/425/changing-tags-causes-questions-to-be-active&quot;&gt;that one&lt;/a&gt;, but I suspect that fixing this one would fix that one as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T08:12:25.370" Title="A question that has been retagged is listed as being edited." Tags="|support|status-bydesign|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2010-08-30T11:13:09.653" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="425" CreationDate="2010-08-27T12:18:10.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is [status-bydesign], I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Activity: the issue is that tagging is itself something that plenty of users want to keep track of.  I'd like to see there being a user-local option to not have these edits cause bumps, but there isn't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gaming: This is why a question can only be edited a limited number of times before it gets changed to CW.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mass retaggings should be done by synonyms, which I think do not bump the questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retaggings aren't smaller edits that, say, changing punctuation or spelling.  Wikipedia allows editors to mark their edits as minor, here we can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T12:18:10.070" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="426" CreationDate="2010-08-27T13:01:09.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't consider this a bug, but a feature :) Tags are part of the question, as the text itself also is. In addition, being able to see how moderators change the tags of a question can be a valuable lesson about how questions should be tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T13:01:09.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-08-28T07:41:24.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mods can now edit part of the FAQ page, but only the top section 'What kind of questions can I ask here?'. So I guess we need to decide what goes there specifically, rather than the entire page in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-28T07:41:24.880" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-28T07:41:24.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-28T11:31:58.633" Score="192" ViewCount="35605" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some replies that are used quite often. For example, the first reply to many questions is a demand for a minimal example. These replies should typically include a link with additional information. So I thought that it might be useful to collect some standard replies for quick copy&amp;amp;paste. This “question” is community wiki, so please feel free to add blocks and improve existing ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;There is also a useful script solution on stackapps.com, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2476&quot;&gt;this answer by Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Useful Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[TeX.SX starter guide](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[minimal working example (MWE)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[minimal working example with bibliography (MWEB)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4407)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Follow-up questions](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[How to Ask](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[marked as a code sample](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1192)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[mark your inline code](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/863)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[My question was closed as a duplicate, but I still need help. What can I do?](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1015)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[How do you accept an answer?](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1852)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[MathJaX Help Forums](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mathjax-users)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;New users&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Welcome&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at [our starter guide](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) to familiarize yourself further with our format.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Minimal examples&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) Please help us help you and add a [minimal working example (MWE)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with `\documentclass{...}` and ending with `\end{document}`.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In case the OP posted some code that isn't an MWE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it with `\documentclass{...}`, the required `\usepackage`'s, `\begin{document}`, and `\end{document}`. That may seem tedious to you, but think of the extra work it represents for TeX.SX users willing to give you a hand. Help them help you: remove that one hurdle between you and a solution to your problem.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alternative slightly less wordy version.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) Please don't post code fragments. Instead, put your fragments into a complete compilable document that shows the problem.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In case the OP posted a MWE that's not minimal:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Thank you for posting a working example! At the same time, much of your code does not seem to be relevant to the question you're asking here. Please limit the example to only the code required for your issue to appear. You can have a look at [this guide for how to prune your code](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3225) for this purpose.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More emphasis on why MWE should be a complete example&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unlike any other programming languages, it makes a lot of difference if you change the preamble of your document in terms of the output, such as clashing packages or page settings changed by some detail in the code and so on. That's why we need to have a complete example together with the relevant parts of your preamble included. Otherwise we might not be able to reproduce your problem.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Multiple, unrelated questions in one&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) You seem to be asking two [or more] unrelated questions, here. On TeX.SX, we try to keep unrelated questions on separate pages. If you have multiple questions that are unrelated to one another, you should ask each in a separate TeX.SX &amp;quot;question&amp;quot;. You'll stand a better chance of getting a satisfactory answer to each of your questions.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Non-answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow-up questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) Your question won't be seen by many people here, so it would be best to repost it as a fresh question. [Follow-up questions](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117) like this are more than welcome! Please use the &amp;quot;[Ask Question](//tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask)&amp;quot; link for your new question; there you can link to this question to provide the background.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Thank you” by user (≠ OP) rep &amp;lt; 15:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Instead of posting a “Thank you” as an additional answer, you should give feedback clicking the 'up' arrow you can see above each answer's score. Once you’ve gathered 15 reputation points on this site, you’ll be able to [upvote answers](//tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/vote-up) to contribute to this score. We want to keep the answer space reserved for actual answers, so this non-answer will be removed from public view soon.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Thank you” by OP rep 15+:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Instead of posting a “Thank you” as an additional answer, you should thank [user] by upvoting [his/her] answer (with the upward pointing arrow to the left of it; you need 15 reputation points before you can upvote) and accepting it (by clicking on the checkmark ✓). We want to keep the answer space reserved for actual answers, so this non-answer will be removed from public view soon.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you comments instead of upvote/accept&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;If you like my answer and it was helpful, please consider [upvoting](http://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/vote-up) (by clicking on the arrows next to the score) and/or marking it as the [accepted answer](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/1852) (by clicking on the checkmark ✓).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additional information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Instead of “answering” your own question, you should comment on [user]'s answer or edit the original question to include the additional information.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;And optionally: &lt;code&gt;(You may have to register at tex.sx in order to do so.)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer edited into question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;We'd like to keep answers separate from questions, so you should write a separate answer instead of editing your answer into the question. Self-answers are perfectly admissible, and a well-written answer may earn you additional reputation.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Migrated questions/answers/users&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) Your post was migrated here from another Stack Exchange site. Please register on this site, too, and make sure that both accounts are associated with each other (by using the same OpenID), otherwise you won't be able to comment on or accept answers or edit your question.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;I want to do something very complicated: &amp;quot;Just do it for me&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) On this site, a question should typically revolve around an abstract issue (e.g. &amp;quot;How do I get a double horizontal line in a table?&amp;quot;) rather than a concrete application (e.g. &amp;quot;How do I make this table?&amp;quot;). Questions that look like &amp;quot;Please do this complicated thing for me&amp;quot; tend to get closed because they are either &amp;quot;off topic&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;unclear&amp;quot;. Please try to make your question clear and simple by giving a [minimal working example (MWE)](//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228): you'll stand a greater chance of getting help.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively &lt;em&gt;(too long to add the &lt;code&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX!&lt;/code&gt; block, but this could be posted before as separate comment)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Your question leaves all the effort to our community, even typing the essentials of a TeX document such as `\documentclass{}...\begin{document}` etc. As it is, most of our users will be very reluctant to touch your question, and you are left to the mercy of our procrastination team who are very few in number and very picky about selecting questions. You can improve your question by adding a [minimal working example (MWE)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) that more users can copy/paste onto their systems to work on. If no hero takes the challenge we might have to close your question.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Minimal effort / homework questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hi [user] and [welcome to TeX.SX](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436). In its current form, your question might not receive many answers. Please take a look at the [How to Ask](//tex.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask)-page and try to improve your question according to the guidance found there. This may require you to show some effort on your part in terms of attempting a solution. If you have questions about what to do or if you don't quite understand what this means, please ask for clarification using the `add comment` function.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot;Just do it for me&amp;quot; graphics questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) Questions about how to draw specific graphics that just post an image of the desired result are really not reasonable questions to ask on the site. Please post a minimal compilable document showing that you've tried to produce the image and then people will be happy to help you with any specific problems you may have. See [minimal working example (MWE)](//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) for what needs to go into such a document.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Marking code&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Code blocks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, they'll be [marked as a code sample](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1192). You can also highlight the code and click the &amp;quot;code&amp;quot; button (with &amp;quot;{}&amp;quot; on it).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inline code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) A tip: You can use backticks `\`` to [mark your inline code](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/863) as I did in my edit.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Code blocks &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; inline code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) A tip: If you [indent lines by 4 spaces](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1192) or [enclose words in backticks `\``](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/863), they'll be marked as code, as can be seen in my edit. You can also highlight the code and click the &amp;quot;code&amp;quot; button (with &amp;quot;{}&amp;quot; on it).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Intro / closing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) You don't have to sign with your name since [it automatically appears in the lower right corner](//tex.stackexchange.com/faq#signatures) of your post.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) It's not necessary to sign your questions (as [there is already a box with your username below it](//tex.stackexchange.com/faq#signatures)) or to begin them with a greeting.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) Usually, we don't put a greeting or a “thank you” in our posts. While this might seem strange at first, it is not a sign of lack of politeness, but rather part of our trying to keep everything very concise. [Accepting and upvoting answers is the preferred way here](//tex.stackexchange.com/about) to say “thank you” to users who helped you.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And optionally for all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;A suggestion: Do us a favor and change your username to something more telling than &amp;quot;user1234&amp;quot;.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Merging accounts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;It looks like you've got two separate accounts, which means you cannot edit your original post or leave comments. The Stack Exchange staff can [merge them together for you](//tex.stackexchange.com/help/user-merge).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions solved by updating&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;This behavior is due to a bug in `&amp;lt;name-of-package&amp;gt;` which is fixed in the `&amp;lt;date/version&amp;gt;` release. Where possible, you should [update your TeX distribution](//tex.stackexchange.com/q/55437) to install the current release. If this is not possible, for example if you want to change only this one package or where you do not have the privileges to update the entire distribution, you will need to [install the package locally](//tex.stackexchange.com/q/1137).  This option should be considered a last resort, since for more complex packages there may be package dependencies that will make local installation more complicated and error-prone.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible duplicates&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See discussion in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2770&quot;&gt;Closing questions as exact duplications: 'best practice'&lt;/a&gt; for notes on these messages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For new(ish) users whose question looks like it might get closed as a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) This question is very similar to [link]. Please take a look at it as the information there might help you. If so, that's great, and we'll probably close this question as a duplicate just to keep the place tidy and to help people find answers quickly. If not, please edit your question here to explain why so that people can better focus their attention to help you.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On casting first dupe vote on a question where the OP has not said 'Oh yes, it's a dupe':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;I've voted to close this as a duplicate because currently, the question looks very similar to [link]. Note that closing a question is not final. If you feel that this question is not a duplicate you can edit it to add more information, in which case it may be reopened.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For questions that are likely to be closed&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;If your question is closed and you still need help, don't worry, [here you'll find help on what to do next](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1015).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, for already closed questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;If the linked question doesn't solve your problem, please edit your question to explain why and we'll reopen it. Closing as a duplicate is just a way of ensuring that people who find this question easily find the other one.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MathJax questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;While [tag:MathJax] uses LaTeX syntax, it uses JavaScript and HTML's DOM model rather than TeX technology, making it mostly off topic for this site. You might try instead searching among the [questions tagged with mathjax on Stack Overflow](//stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mathjax), or in the official [mathjax-users](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/mathjax-users) Google group.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Please ‘accept’ an answer below&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/209&quot;&gt;wait a day&lt;/a&gt; before leaving this comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Since you have some responses below that seem to answer your question, please consider marking one of them as ‘Accepted’ by clicking on the tickmark below their vote count (see [How do you accept an answer?](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1852)). This shows which answer helped you most, and it assigns reputation points to the author of the answer (and to you!). It's part of [this site's idea to identify good questions and answers through upvotes and acceptance of answers](//tex.stackexchange.com/about).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in case of a self-answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot;&gt;one &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to wait 48 hours (after the question was posted) before accepting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How to look up a symbol&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Have a look at [“How to look up a symbol?”](//tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14) for ideas how you can easily find a particular symbol.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Do not use Debian packages (For the future, as for now it has TL 2012)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Debian (except unstable) and Ubuntu still contain TeX Live 2012. Many packages have been significantly improved since then. I would recommend installing TeX Live directly from [TUG](//tug.org/texlive/) instead of using the Debian packages. That way you can always get current package versions by running `sudo tlmgr update --all`.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Upload images only over the official interface&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Please make sure that all images are uploaded using the official Stack Exchange interface, i.e. the image icon on top of the text field (shortcut: Ctrl+G). This ensures that all images will always be accessible and won't expire.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;As new user without image posting privileges simply include the image as normal and remove the `!` in front of it to turn it into a link. A moderator or another user with edit privileges can then reinsert the `!` to turn it into an image again.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reminder for being clement&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Please don't downvote below a score of -1, even if the question in its current form needs some improvement. A score of -1 is enough to show that the question needs work, anything below that is of no use. Also, if you downvote or vote to close, please leave a comment explaining why you did so, but wait at least 24 hours after asking the OP for improvements to the question before voting to close.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optional addition: &lt;code&gt;Don't forget, it's a new user!&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;This should not have been closed. Please wait at least 24 hours after asking the OP for improvements to the question before voting to close. Also, if you downvote, please don't forget to revert the vote after the question is improved.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enhanced version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;This should not have been closed: The question has been improved significantly from its first version. Please wait at least 24 hours after asking the OP for improvements to the question before voting to close. Also, if you downvote, please don't forget to revert the vote after the question is improved.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Packages for creating MWEs&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;(The [lipsum](//ctan.org/pkg/lipsum) package is only used to add some dummy text to the example.)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;(The [blindtext](//ctan.org/pkg/blindtext) package is only used to add some dummy text to the example.)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;(The [kantlipsum](//ctan.org/pkg/kantlipsum) package is only used to add some dummy text to the example.)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;(The filecontents environment is only used to include some external files directly into the example, so that it compiles. It is not necessary for the solution.)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;For moderators&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Just a note to confirm _X_'s comment, this ought to be reposted as a question for you to get the best chance of it being answered. Also, it's a little confusing to have fresh questions in the _answers_ section, so this answer will be removed from public view in _N_ days.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reasons for close voting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;This site encourages [specific questions](https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask) accompanied by a [minimal working example (MWE)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228). Questions in the format of »What do you recommend?« are off-topic as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. I'm therefore voting to close.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="95441" LastEditDate="2022-01-19T16:54:12.580" LastActivityDate="2022-01-19T16:54:12.580" Title="Text building blocks" Tags="|discussion|comments|new-users|big-list|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="14" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-28T11:31:58.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="56" CreationDate="2010-08-29T14:04:24.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll make a start with the first FAQ section. Here is my proposal, following the FAQs of SO related sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tex.stackexchange.com is for TeX and LaTeX enthusiasts and users. If you have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX or any of its descendants like LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX distributions like TeX Live, MiKTeX or MacTeX,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(La)TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, viewer and converter software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... then you're in the right place to ask your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best questions contain &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;some code&lt;/a&gt;. Their answers will most likely give concrete code back to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ continues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please look around to see if your question has already been asked (and maybe even answered!) before you ask...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I omitted the word 'expert', as I believe this site &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/172/how-newbie-friendly-should-the-site-be&quot;&gt;supports new users as well&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, I know that this site is not the perfect place for very specific questions regarding a certain editor or software. Though possibly help is available here because many of us use some of the common editors and tools. It might be hard for a new user to find the correct forum, mailing-list or wiki for a very specific piece of software. If a question is hard to answer here, we know where to lead the questioner as we know the resources. That's the reason why I included such related software: we don't sent the questioner back just because his question concerns a LaTeX IDE feature but not LaTeX itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another FAQ entry or link could write that clearly. Remember the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/skins/sketchy/img/venn-diagram.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;venn diagram&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt;: if the sets stand for TeX, LaTeX and friends: related software, then tex.stackexchange.com could be the tiny asterisk in the middle, their intersection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-08-29T14:04:24.640" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-29T14:04:24.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="438" CreationDate="2010-08-30T15:54:13.527" Score="8" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;This topic belongs to the more general discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56/what-goes-in-the-faq/&quot;&gt;What goes in the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll make a start with the first FAQ section. Here is my proposal, following the FAQs of SO related sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tex.stackexchange.com is for TeX and LaTeX enthusiasts and users. If you have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX or any of its descendants like LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX distributions like TeX Live, MiKTeX or MacTeX,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(La)TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, viewer and converter software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... then you're in the right place to ask your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best questions contain &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;some code&lt;/a&gt;. Their answers will most likely give concrete code back to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ continues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please look around to see if your question has already been asked (and maybe even answered!) before you ask...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I omitted the word 'expert', as I believe this site &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/172/how-newbie-friendly-should-the-site-be&quot;&gt;supports new users as well&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, I know that this site is not the perfect place for very specific questions regarding a certain editor or software. Though possibly help is available here because many of us use some of the common editors and tools. It might be hard for a new user to find the correct forum, mailing-list or wiki for a very specific piece of software. If a question is hard to answer here, we know where to lead the questioner as we know the resources. That's the reason why I included such related software: we don't sent the questioner back just because his question concerns a LaTeX IDE feature but not LaTeX itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another FAQ entry or link could write that clearly. Remember the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/skins/sketchy/img/venn-diagram.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;venn diagram&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt;: if the sets stand for TeX, LaTeX and friends: related software, then tex.stackexchange.com could be the tiny asterisk in the middle, their intersection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-09-02T12:27:45.930" Title="First FAQ section: What kind of questions can I ask here?" Tags="|discussion|faq|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-30T15:54:13.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="452" CreationDate="2010-08-30T20:10:51.307" Score="12" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a code snipplet included in the original question is &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; working, but not quite, and only requires a small fix. But sometimes it is important to show contextually where this fix goes (rather than just say &quot;substitute X with Y&quot;). As an example, in one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2543/multiply-defined-labels-warnings-with-frame-labels-in-beamer-with-againframe/2546#2546&quot;&gt;my recent answers&lt;/a&gt; the &quot;fix&quot; is only 11 additional characters out of more than 100. I think it will increase clarity if the differences are highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a easy way to high light code differences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because in a &quot;code&quot; block, the &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;italics&lt;/em&gt; mark-ups are ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T05:39:42.153" Title="How can I highlight code differences" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2010-08-30T20:34:56.173" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to reiterate the points I made in comments to this on the &quot;What goes in the FAQ&quot; question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree with dropping the word &quot;expert&quot;.  I can see that it might help attract experts to the site, but I think that the negative in dissuading non-experts to sign up is greater.  I would expect an expert to be able to assess the site without worrying about individual words much more than a non-expert.  So I think that a non-expert would notice the word &quot;expert&quot; much more than an expert would notice that it wasn't there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do want something about &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; questions high up in the FAQ and not relegated to lower down.  I think it's an important part of what will make this site work.  It won't work if it's just &quot;Ask Stefan&quot; (just since you're currently top of the board!), or at least it won't achieve it's true potential if it is.  So I want the expectation to be clear right from the start that people shouldn't just come to ask a question but also to have a look at other questions to see if they're about to answer them or to learn useful hints and tips about other bits of TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But maybe that belongs more on a &quot;welcome&quot; page (can we have one of those?).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T20:34:56.173" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-30T20:34:56.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="425" CreationDate="2010-08-31T05:24:22.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, the behavior is (slightly) irritating. But, if the site gets big, I think it would be welcome, at least for tag additions. If you didn't see a question that you might well be able to answer when it was first posted, perhaps in part because it was poorly tagged, having it appear as active now that it has that shiny new tag that will catch your eye if only you notice that the activity has occurred is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="93" LastEditDate="2010-09-04T17:18:12.693" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T17:18:12.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2010-08-31T08:39:37.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm less sure about just dropping talk of experts here: certainly we don't want people to think they are not welcome if they are not experts, but it is attractive to say that the site has experts who answer all kinds of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might work best if we combine it with Andrew's request to encourage answering. How about something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?  Who will answer them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tex.stackexchange.com is for TeX and LaTeX enthusiasts and users. If you have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX or any of its descendants like LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX distributions like TeX Live, MiKTeX or MacTeX,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(La)TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, viewer and converter software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... then you're in the right place to ask your question!  These questions get answered by other enthusiasts and users, like you, from new users who have recently figured out the answer to your problem themselves, to well-known experts in the world of TeX who know the software inside-out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not beautiful prose, but I think it conveys the general idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T08:39:37.083" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T08:39:37.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2010-08-31T10:21:13.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestions about acceptable reasons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fix typos in the code.&lt;/strong&gt; – Typos in the code are not all that code: nearly everyone cut&amp;amp;pastes.  In any case, I think that they should not be fixed, but the problem drawn to the posters attention in a comment: how do you know the typo isn't responsible for the difficulty the questioner raises?  What is a serious problem is unreadable code, usually because the poster does not fully understand the use of &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt; tags (I know it took me a while).  So I think we should replace this case by &lt;strong&gt;Repair badly formatted code&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fix typos in the text&lt;/strong&gt; – I'm astonished by the energy that people pour into this.  I  avoid these kinds of edits, except to eliminate obvious cases of serious unintended ambiguity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To make an answer more complete&lt;/strong&gt; – Great answers are great, but I think you should ask for permission before doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To make a question/answer look better&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;For example ... turn Latex into LaTeX&lt;/em&gt; – Do people really keep typing in capitalisation monstrosities like &amp;quot;ConTeXt MkIV&amp;quot; or do they have keyboard macros for this kind of thing?  I object to wacky capitalisation of brand names - no one is paying me to make their products stand out in my writing - and if I know why Tex has its funny typesetting, isn't it actually incorrect to render the contents of the macro &lt;code&gt;\LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; LaTeX, rather than L&lt;sup&gt;A&lt;/sup&gt;T&lt;sub&gt;E&lt;/sub&gt;X?  No, that's not right either...  I'm not otherwise concerned about this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To make a question/answer clearer&lt;/strong&gt; ... &lt;em&gt;These are probably the most controversial&lt;/em&gt; – A high proportion of my hundreds of edits to non-CW posts on SO were to questions that were asked, mostly by non-native speakers, that I did not fully understand the first time I read.  Typically these edits were far from conservative, often involving a complete rewriting of the question, and inserting or replacing the first sentence by a new sentence bring to the top a summary of the information.  I don't recall anyone ever having objected to my edits, and I do think they made a difference to the number, if not quality, of answers received (these were often questions that had lain about unanswered for days, and received answers only after my edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With answers, I don't think editing for clarity is so important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two further points: first, in my opinion, repairing formatting of code, and making questions clearer are what make editing non-CW posts worthwhile.  Otherwise, I think we would be better off disabling the feature.  These two points should be first&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, be clear in your edit summary as to what the benefit of your edit is.  If you can't quickly type in a few words making this clear, perhaps the edit isn't worthwhile.  &amp;quot;Make question clearer &amp;amp; more attractive to answerers&amp;quot; is maybe actually nice for a non-native speaker of English to read in an edit summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T10:21:13.663" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T10:21:13.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2010-08-31T11:54:38.320" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tex.stackexchange.com is for &lt;em&gt;enthusiastic users of TeX, LaTeX and related systems&lt;/em&gt;, people who love to create well-structured and beautifully typeset documents. If you have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX or any of its descendants like LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX distributions like TeX Live, MiKTeX, or MacTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(La)TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, viewers, and converters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... then you're in the right place to ask your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are answered by other enthusiasts and by experts in the world of TeX, who are happy to share their techniques and expertise with others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help people answer your question quickly and precisely, remember to ask clear questions and, if possible, to include &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;a small example of code&lt;/a&gt; that shows the problem that you want to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-09-02T12:27:45.930" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T11:54:38.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2010-08-31T12:10:58.043" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll try to add more structure to the discussion by having individual items that seem controversial, then let's vote on them. Please up-vote this answer if you agree with it or down-vote if you disagree. In either case leave a comment explaining why.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It is acceptable to edit questions/answers to do small repairs&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes fixing typos in code, text, and small stylish fixes (e.g. Latex -&gt; LaTeX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T12:10:58.043" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T12:10:58.043" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2010-08-31T12:12:39.473" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll try to add more structure to the discussion by having individual items that seem controversial, then let's vote on them. Please up-vote this answer if you agree with it or down-vote if you disagree. In either case leave a comment explaining why.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It is acceptable to edit questions/answers to improve formatting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example to fix badly formatted code, or in general incorrect usage of markdown formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T12:12:39.473" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T12:12:39.473" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2010-08-31T12:14:40.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll try to add more structure to the discussion by having individual items that seem controversial, then let's vote on them. Please up-vote this answer if you agree with it or down-vote if you disagree. In either case leave a comment explaining why.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It is acceptable to edit answers to make them complete&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, to turn good answers into great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T12:14:40.153" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T12:14:40.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-31T12:52:33.713" Score="5" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the definition of the site in Area 51, this kind of questions were actually an example of &lt;strong&gt;off-topic questions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bring up the topic because we've just got a question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2468/how-to-compile-dvisvgm-with-texlive-2009&quot;&gt;compiling dvisvgm in TeXLive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the feelings of the community about this type of questions? Would it be better asked at SO or some other site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T14:34:47.093" Title="Are questions about building binaries of (La)TeX tools acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2010-08-31T13:10:16.323" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding pictures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often find myself compiling example code from questions/answers to see how the output looks. It is then trivial to produce a screenshot of the rendered output (for me that is just holding the super key and selecting the area). How do people feel about these screenshots being added to their questions/answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T13:10:16.323" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T13:10:16.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="442" CreationDate="2010-08-31T13:13:00.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should probably distinguish between &quot;building/compiling&quot; in programming, and &quot;building/compiling&quot; in LaTeX sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're talking about the latter, SO/SU will be of no use, regardless of the vast audience there. Even for the former there's not high chance that somebody could be of assistance (that is not already on TL&amp;amp;F), unless the problem is clearly [programming] compiling-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, this category of questions fits somewhat in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/432/first-faq-section-what-kind-of-questions-can-i-ask-here&quot;&gt;FAQ description&lt;/a&gt;, point 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T13:13:00.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2010-08-31T13:24:20.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about questions about typography and style? This category is somewhat orthogonal to the topic of the site, but is still relevant (although possibly subjective). Certainly not many people would be able to answer expert questions, but perhaps the community could be of assistance with recommendations about good style and formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T13:24:20.823" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T13:24:20.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="442" CreationDate="2010-08-31T14:34:47.093" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely, yes.  Having everything under one roof is one of the main ways this site is better than the SO/SU model we had before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T14:34:47.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="407" CreationDate="2010-08-31T14:41:21.040" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was satisfied with Stefan's answer, but I think we should revisit this issue, as there are several somewhat related tags that should be disambiguated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal is to keep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[diagrams]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for  typesetting/drawing typically with e.g. TikZ or other packages. The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picture&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[picture]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (which should anyway be &lt;code&gt;[pictures]&lt;/code&gt;) should be added as a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[graphics]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for external files (e.g. PNG, JPEG, etc.) inserted in documents. The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/images&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[images]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; should be made a synonym. (If you like it &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/graphics/synonyms&quot;&gt;vote for it&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[figures]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the environment used to include a captioned diagram or graphic in a document.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T14:41:21.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="433" CreationDate="2010-08-31T20:49:14.140" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might use comments in your code like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% Look! Here is what I changed!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that it doesn't sound like an elegant solution, but so far the SE engine doesn't include a &lt;code&gt;diff&lt;/code&gt; tool :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T20:49:14.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="433" CreationDate="2010-08-31T20:56:33.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Foo &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;bar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; baz&#xA;Foo &lt;s&gt;baz&lt;/s&gt; bah&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T20:56:33.277" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T20:56:33.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="453" CreationDate="2010-09-02T09:03:08.647" Score="4" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;A trickle of questions is appearing concerning how to write Latex (not yet Plain Tex or Context) in conformance with some journal or book publisher's style:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2642/using-ama-reference-style-while-using-the-achemso-sty&quot;&gt;using AMA reference style while using the achemso.sty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2628/how-to-apa-6th-in-latex/&quot;&gt;How to APA 6th in LaTex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2050/biblatex-mla-for-official-reports-and-websites&quot;&gt;Biblatex / MLA for official reports and websites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's advantage, I think, in trying to have two tags each for these sorts of question, perhaps a [style-guides] tag for all of them, plus the specific tag for each.  A way of distinguishing them is to use a contraction of the style text, so, e.g., [ama-manual], [apa-manual], or [mla-handbook].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The disadvantage is that one burns through the five available tags quickly.  If we tag all qns concerned with class files [documentclass], then a simple question about making hyperlinks in references conform to a style where the user might have a problem with a conflict between the {apa} package and {apacite} might have six or more obviously desirable tags: e.g., in this case [apa apacite apa-manual documentclass hyperref references style-guides].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Postscript&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a first step towards Juan's suggestion, I've created an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apa-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apa-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apa-style&lt;/a&gt; tag, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/apa-style/synonyms&quot;&gt;given it two tag synonyms for it&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apa&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apa&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apa&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apalike&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apalike&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apalike&lt;/a&gt;.  These might need moderator actions to go through, since voting for a tag synonym requires at least five upvotes in the tag, so maybe it's best if we discuss the idea a little further here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-12-21T20:27:21.850" Title="Tagging of questions concerned with publisher style guides" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="450" CreationDate="2010-09-02T11:08:06.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the convention should be that some of these imply others?  So apacite would imply apa?  The corresponding tag wiki could contain the information: &quot;If you're searching for 'apa', consider also searching for 'apacite', or more generally for 'apa*'&quot; (or however wildcards are done in the searches).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-09-02T11:08:06.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="433" CreationDate="2010-09-03T05:39:42.153" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Jukka forgot to include the &lt;em&gt;source code&lt;/em&gt; for his answer, here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;Foo &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;bar&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; baz&#xA;Foo &amp;lt;s&amp;gt;baz&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt; bah&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="941" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T05:39:42.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="450" CreationDate="2010-09-06T09:33:03.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about just keeping &lt;code&gt;apa-style&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ama-style&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;mla-style&lt;/code&gt;, etc. And none of the more specific?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T09:33:03.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="166" CreationDate="2010-09-06T18:17:06.967" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're not going to repost it, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/questions/6675&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1035" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:58:46.990" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T18:17:06.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="457" CreationDate="2010-09-08T10:27:18.387" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ states that at 2k rep, one may delete closed questions and access moderation tools. Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/420/show-total-up-and-down-votes&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I don't see anything new that would indicate that I have additional access. What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T13:59:13.330" Title="Where are the moderation tools?" Tags="|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2010-09-08T12:05:36.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the criterion for whether these questions are acceptable is whether there is some specifically (La)TeX related content to the question. For example &quot;How do I add a keyboard shortcut for a spellchecker in Emacs&quot; would not be appropriate, even if the documents the OP wants to spell check are .tex files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But questions like the one you linked to, where TeX is integral to the content of the question should be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T12:05:36.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="455" CreationDate="2010-09-08T13:58:27.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at the top, there should be a link &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; left to &lt;code&gt;parent&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;faq&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T13:58:27.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-09T12:32:34.210" Score="6" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title really says it all...how is this number computed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T02:21:23.490" Title="What is &quot;% accept rate&quot;?" Tags="|support|reputation|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="458" CreationDate="2010-09-09T18:21:37.780" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason and implementation for the &amp;quot;Accept Rate&amp;quot; is covered in this blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Question Asker Features&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to increase engagement between the people asking questions and the rest of the community, we’ve rolled out two new features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is a “batting average”, if you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below the question owner signature block, for non-community-wiki questions, we show the percent of accepted answers for that user. It won’t always appear, though. The following rules are used in the calculation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must be more than 3 days old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must have at least 1 answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There must be at least four eligible questions as determined by the above rules, otherwise the statistic will not appear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T02:21:23.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-10T10:30:43.703" Score="12" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;After I up- or down-vote something/someone, I notice that I can't later change my mind. Why is this? I've certainly had reason to have a change of heart!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T09:17:59.413" Title="Why can't votes be changed after making them?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="401" CreationDate="2010-09-10T11:29:33.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One problem if we decide for &lt;code&gt;[foo-cmd]&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;[\foo]&lt;/code&gt; might be searchability:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new user might be tempted to search for &lt;code&gt;\foo&lt;/code&gt; and tag seach is actually much more specific than normal search, so a search for &lt;code&gt;[\foo]&lt;/code&gt; should &lt;em&gt;imperatively&lt;/em&gt; find the relevant tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it’s quite important to distinguish this from a search for &lt;code&gt;[foo]&lt;/code&gt;: the search of the OS X PDF viewer “Preview.app” does this, i.e. a search for “\foo” invariably resolves to “foo” and renders the search results completely useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T11:29:33.650" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-09-12T20:56:16.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeXknowledge.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A wordplay on technology, easy to remember and descriptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1035" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T20:56:16.000" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-12T20:56:16.000" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="317" CreationDate="2010-09-14T20:10:14.083" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm adding a couple more tags, so that we can talk about issues of consistency.  First from Will Robertson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/tex-core/info&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tex-core tag refers to questions that are independent of formats and macro packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tex-core tag refers to questions that are independent of formats and macro packages. Such questions usually relate to low-level TeX programming, since only TeX primitives can be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that even Plain TeX is a format in itself; users who wish to ask questions about creating documents in Plain TeX are advised to use the plain-tex tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T09:17:00.477" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-16T09:17:47.777" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="317" CreationDate="2010-09-14T20:16:23.867" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Second from me.  The styles of this and for [mathmode] and [tex-core] are all a little different: suggestions of what to do are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/bibtex/info&quot;&gt;bibtex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions that concern Oren Patashnik's BibTeX program and its use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bibtex tag covers (i) the BibTeX program written by Oren Patashnik, (ii) its widely used source representation of bibliography entries in *.bib files and the corresponding output representation in *.bbl files, and (iii) use of these in creating documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BibTeX was written for use with LaTeX where it is most widely used, but support for it exists in Plain Tex and ConTeXt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-09-14T21:15:04.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="467" CreationDate="2010-09-16T13:59:51.310" Score="10" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about a possible bug in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3146/647&quot;&gt;hyperref&lt;/a&gt;. Looks like this bug is likely to disappear in a few days, rendering this question pretty worthless except for the few people who installed TeX Live 2010 during the time frame of the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I delete this question now? When the bug is fixed? Some point after? Never?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T22:23:50.060" Title="Deleting a question that's likely to be unimportant very soon" Tags="|discussion|deleting|too-localized|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="466" CreationDate="2010-09-16T14:41:47.623" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’d not delete it, as it might be helpful to someone (I think most people don’t update their TeX installation regularly). When the fix is released, please add (and accept) an answer with info in which version it was fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2010-09-16T15:04:22.710" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T15:04:22.710" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="466" CreationDate="2010-09-16T14:42:36.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say never. Distinguishing a &quot;worthless&quot; question from a nice/good/great one can be done by comparing their respective upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T14:42:36.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="466" CreationDate="2010-09-17T01:03:19.967" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say delete it when the bug is fixed. The sigal/noise ratio is important: I was trying to find an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/312/1035&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on the net, and all I could find were references to old url and hyperref bugs. I was confused until I figure that they referred to another problem, but nonetheless I just couldn't google for the right question, as there were so many wrong ones. In the end I gave up and discovered the answer experimenting by myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1035" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-09-17T01:03:19.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-17T10:20:40.473" Score="6" ViewCount="442" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most folk seem to prefer tex.se to tex.sx as our interim name, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.se is an actual country code and .sx is not any kind of top-level domain; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tex.se is a registered, though unused domain: &lt;pre&gt;state:            active&#xA;domain:           tex.se&#xA;holder:           tradee0702-00002&#xA;admin-c:          -&#xA;tech-c:           -&#xA;billing-c:        -&#xA;created:          2003-04-26&#xA;modified:         2010-04-10&#xA;expires:          2011-04-26&#xA;nserver:          -&#xA;dnssec:           unsigned delegation&#xA;status:           inactive&#xA;registrar:        SE Direkt&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really trivial, since there's no real risk of ambiguity, but for some reason using tex.se agitates me...  I'd be more grateful than I should be if we could favour tex.sx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T12:00:41.560" Title="Trivial point about tex.se vs. tex.sx" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="470" CreationDate="2010-09-18T12:00:41.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guilty as charged, and being resident in Norway I Should Know Better.  I hereby resolve to Change My Ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T12:00:41.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-21T11:50:03.220" Score="4" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to say that I don't like it.  It feels too specific.  The question in question is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3293/is-it-possible-to-compile-a-tex-document-with-a-single-command&quot;&gt;Is it possible to compile a *TeX document with a single command?&lt;/a&gt;.  I think that in this case, there's no need for an extra tag.  In general, I'd like something a little more descriptive (though I'm having trouble thinking of one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T10:47:57.363" Title="New tag: write18. What's the consensus?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="472" CreationDate="2010-09-21T15:58:12.950" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have &lt;code&gt;filesystem-access&lt;/code&gt;, so how about &lt;code&gt;shell-access&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-09-21T15:58:12.950" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="472" CreationDate="2010-09-22T06:13:16.920" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should either be &quot;shell escape&quot; or &quot;write18&quot;. That's simply how it's referred to, and it's how you enable it on the command line: &lt;code&gt;-enable-write18&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;-shell-escape&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm generally not in favour of being too prescriptive about what tags should be in use, although I'll concede that a tag for this idea won't be used too often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-09-22T06:13:16.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="476" CreationDate="2010-09-27T06:34:16.610" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;That &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3506/is-anybody-using-tex-for-business-reporting/3507#3507&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; is wrong about using ConTeXt in a commercial environment. Now there are several options: a) post a comment below that this is not true, b) edit that community wiki post to delete that comment, c) edit the wiki post and say [edit: this is not true] or d) ...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your opinion on that subject?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-09-27T11:28:32.557" Title="Opinion on editing community-wiki posts" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="475" CreationDate="2010-09-27T11:28:32.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reputation system works pretty good in this respect -- if people think that a particular answer is wrong, they should downvote it, and that basically solves the problem. If the answer does have a grain of truth and only some of the facts are wrong (i.e. the post does not have misinformation intent), then editing should be a better solution. Commenting always helps, though, and that should be used in any such case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-09-27T11:28:32.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="485" CreationDate="2010-09-27T14:01:40.773" Score="3" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3524/label-numbering-gone-crazy&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; in which I included a small excerpt of my code that wasn't a standalone example, but enough to see the context (at least I thought so). In a comment*, I was asked to provide a &quot;minimum working example&quot; - I thought that was what I did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize there is a difference between a few lines of code and a fully working example, and that it's not always possible to find the problem with just a small part of the entire code - but is it reasonable (or relevant) to force every question to be accompanied by a fully working example? Or is that threshold to high?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; in response to some of the answers:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The reason I'm asking this question is not because I don't see the benefit of a MWE. However, I have experienced (or so it feels) a lean towards not even looking at the problem if there is no MWE posted with it. This, I feel, is an unwanted development, since it puts a very high threshold for newcommers to the community on their first posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is apparently not always a need for a full working example when discussing many other programming languages (see for example the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;original SO community&lt;/a&gt; where many questions are asked and answered with no more than a couple of lines of code).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discussion we need to take here is: is this relevant for the TeX family as well? I can see a point in the fact that there are so many packages and compilers that no code (at least not from the preamble) is really irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is a MWE more or less required for the question to be well posed, or does that set a too high threshold for newcomers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*) There was a few typos in the original post. Was it just those that caused that comment, or was my example too small even with those corrected?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="223" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T18:58:42.837" Title="Should minimal examples be required, or just encouraged, for questions to be answered?" Tags="|discussion|code-example|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2010-09-27T15:09:55.047" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you have seen from the answer to your question, the &quot;relevant context&quot; is not the same for you and for the person who tried to help you. Minimal examples are needed for two main reasons, one psycological, and one technical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Saves time for people to see the result from the code provided, and hopefully, the problem. If you don't include a fully compile-able excerpt, then not many people would have the incentive to fill in the missing bits to have it compiled and examined. This is a courtesy to the others, since all people here are donating from their free time to contribute. Besides, this lowers the barrier of entry for people to give it a shot -- if I see a full example, I can  simply copy/paste it quickly before I've even examined it, just to see what happens, and proceed to debug it from there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And second, but not less important, the technical reason -- there are many TeX distributions and packages, each with their quirks and idiosyn-crazy-es. Most of the time it's important what other packages are you using, which compiler do you use (latex, pdfLaTeX, XeTeX, or something completely different), and so on. Narrowing down the problem to a small portion of the code helps a lot in debugging. This is an important principle in software testing as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when people ask for &quot;minimum working example&quot;, they mean an example that can be compiled without modifications. That is -- add the relevant preamble stuff, narrow down the packages that seem to be the problem, etc. Most of the times preparing a minimum example will actually help you see the problem for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2010-09-28T18:58:42.837" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T18:58:42.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2010-09-27T17:36:14.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see from Geoffrey Jones's answer, most likely the problem is elsewhere, not in the particular code fragment that you have included in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you had provided a minimum working example, I guess your problem would have been by now already solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-09-27T17:36:14.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="481" CreationDate="2010-09-27T20:14:24.543" Score="15" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is obvious, but I'm new here. I see the term &quot;community wiki&quot; bouncing around a lot and have no idea what it means.  Maybe my reputation is not high enough to have access to community-wiki features?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="987" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T07:08:57.477" Title="What does &quot;Community Wiki&quot; mean?" Tags="|support|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="480" CreationDate="2010-09-28T07:08:57.477" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community wiki is just a way to let (almost) everyone edit questions and answers. There's a check box at the bottom of the question and answer input box to select community wiki. Currently, you don't have enough rep to edit community wiki posts, but that will change very soon. See the faq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other feature of community wiki is that no one gains reputation for questions or answers marked community wiki (which makes sense since multiple people can edit it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community wiki is especially useful when a question has no real right answers. For example, this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3395/which-packages-can-you-use-to-improve-the-typographic-quality&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; is community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T07:08:57.477" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="486" CreationDate="2010-09-28T08:47:36.020" Score="11" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all, really. Why I'm asking is because I've seen some questions with accepted good answers, but there are better ones -- more accurate, and probably with higher scores. This is particularly evident for the type of questions that recommend a certain package to do the job -- most of the times there's a package that supersedes another one, is better maintained, etc. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/522/best-way-to-typeset-micrometers&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to reiterate: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Can somebody else besides the inquirer change the accepted answer, and if yes, what's the policy on that?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7572/why-do-incorrect-answers-keep-getting-accepted&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; on meta.SO that is somewhat related to the issues of this question, particularly accepting wrong answers. Some opinions are worth reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T10:16:56.940" Title="Can moderators change accepted answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="482" CreationDate="2010-09-28T09:02:35.620" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think nobody else should ever change the accepted answer, regardless of whether it's possible or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think the &quot;wrong&quot; answer was accepted, just upvote the &quot;right&quot; answer. (If the accepted answer is extremely bad, you can downvote it, too, and leave a comment explaining why it is bad.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the concept of accepted answers, just ignore it and always read the top-voted answer. It is listed right after the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T09:02:35.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="482" CreationDate="2010-09-28T16:25:52.333" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good idea to think of the &quot;accepted answer&quot; as the short-term answer and the &quot;most voted for&quot; answer as the long-term answer.  It's important to remember that someone asked the question wanting an answer, and often wanting an answer right now.  Accepting an answer is the questioner's way of saying, &quot;That's the one that worked for me when I asked the question.&quot;.  But questions also have a long-term lifetime and are a useful resource for others (I've just directed someone to the question on &quot;How to draw a torus&quot;).  The most voted for answer is likely to be the best that someone &lt;em&gt;stumbling upon&lt;/em&gt; the question is likely to want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if our aim was just to build up a long-term resource, the site wouldn't work.  We have to satisfy the short-term goals of the questioners and encourage people to answer &lt;em&gt;the actual question that was asked&lt;/em&gt;.  The long-term archive of good resources is a by-product of that short-term Q&amp;amp;A system.  An extremely valuable by-product, and one that is really crucial to the sites' worth, but focussing on it to the exclusion of the short-term won't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T16:25:52.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2010-09-28T16:39:51.420" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I think that this is a very good question.  Those of us who've been around the site for a while have learnt the value of MWEs, but we could probably be a little gentler on saying &quot;Please provide a MWE&quot;.  Perhaps, &quot;This question looks interesting, but to be able to help you I need to have some code that I can just cut-and-paste to see the problem.  Otherwise, it's hard to know even where to start.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MindCorrosive's first point is a very important one: people who answer questions are doing so from their own time and own resources with no real thought of reward (other than to make this a great site from which they will, hopefully, benefit).  So when you ask a question, you are asking someone to do your work for you.  That's the point of the site, so that is not meant as a disincentive to asking a question, but is intended as guidance on why we ask for questions to be as detailed and complete as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/questions/40291/operad-automorphism&quot;&gt;this question on MO&lt;/a&gt;.  There's no context, no background, no motivation.  Why should I even try to understand the question, let alone provide an answer?  Contrast that with &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/questions/35868/fundamental-group-of-lie-groups&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.  It's not much longer, but explains the context and background and shows what led the person to ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we &lt;strong&gt;encourage&lt;/strong&gt; MWEs because it makes it easier to answer the question, and experience has taught us that questions with MWEs get better and quicker answers than those without.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your point about SO, the inhabitants of SO are, by and large, people whose jobs involve programming.  If I'm typical of the users here, then this is not true here.  I think I know a bit about LaTeX and some of the things, but it's not &lt;strong&gt;directly&lt;/strong&gt; part of my job so often the things I've found out are as a result of just tinkering.  So if you want me (and people like me) to help you, you need to phrase your question in such a way that I can look at it using that method: just tinkering.  An MWE is the simplest way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite that, I wouldn't go so far as to &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; a MWE, and perhaps the &quot;standard&quot; way of saying &quot;Please provide a MWE&quot; could be a little gentler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:58:46.990" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T16:39:51.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="482" CreationDate="2010-09-28T18:20:58.917" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I don't really like the proposed idea (moderators changing accepted answers), I do like the sentiment behind it. As Andrew has nicely spelled it out, this seems to be an issue of balance between the short-term goal of “I want an answer to my question, now!” (and acceptance of an answer means fulfillment of this goal), and the long-term goal of keeping a database of usable answers for people later searching-for/stumbling-with a page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that most people around think that the short-term goal is all that we should care, and the long-term goal is simply a “nice” by-product. However I'm one of the few who disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least for me, trying to build a mostly correct and up-to-date source of answers for (La)TeX questions is one of the reasons that got me motivated to participate and spend some of my time in this site. &lt;strong&gt;The web is already &lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; with incorrect and outdated information about (La)TeX&lt;/strong&gt; which is only kept alive because people searching for solutions on the web keep stumbling with the old and obsolete answers. From the beginning I thought that this site could finally be a solution to this problem, and that's why (for example) I tend to be more keen on heavily editing answers “for the future”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not suggesting, of course, that we should have to police around the site and have this long-term goal in mind all the time. Perhaps I would consider checking from time to time the most voted/viewed questions for sanity. But the ideal would be that we don't have to do much more for the site to be able to fulfill the long-term goal as well as the short-term one; and so, for the particular issue raised by the OP, this is my suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How about requesting a feature where the most-voted answer (perhaps after a certain threshold of votes) gets to be shown &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T18:20:58.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2010-09-28T18:32:44.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the short answer is: &lt;strong&gt;No, you don't &lt;em&gt;have to&lt;/em&gt; provide a minimal working example.&lt;/strong&gt; In fact, I think most of the questions in the site do not provide such examples (just have a look around). But if people trying to answer your question are asking you to provide a MWE is, most likely, because they weren't able to answer your question without you giving them more details and that's what a MWE is good for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T18:32:44.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="482" CreationDate="2010-09-29T09:10:37.783" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mindcorrosive asks, in response to Jukka's answer: &lt;i&gt;But what happens when the the accepted answer is not relevant anymore (for example, package changes, fixed workarounds, obsoleted packages)?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the following suggested on meta.so: ask a new question, referring to the old question and saying its assumptions don't apply anymore, and ask for a better answer.  Then have the old answer closed as a duplicate of the new answer (really, it seems to me it should be &quot;too localized&quot;, but that doesn't give you the nice link).  This kind of thing can be coordinated here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T09:10:37.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="508" CreationDate="2010-09-30T01:49:59.077" Score="17" ViewCount="461" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have observed several posts that say &lt;a href=&quot;http://here&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://there&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://everywhere&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, which I find quite annoying since it requires the reader to click or hover over the link to find out what the author was referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have guidelines on this in any of the Stack Exchange sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="791" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T17:42:08.910" Title="Can we have some linking etiquette and guidelines?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="489" CreationDate="2010-09-30T05:29:27.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually find this kind of linking better, because it doesn't disturb the normal read flow, especially if the URL happens to be long and hairy. I wouldn't need to click on a link most of the time, especially when only browsing through questions and not looking for something in particular. If I want an answer, I'm going to click anyway, and the browser does good job letting me know where I will land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIR, there was a blog post or a discussion over at meta.SO or blog.SO, where this is recommended (I can't remember where exactly, if I manage to find the link, I will post it, ironically, in an edit later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, you are referring to putting the solution in your post instead of just linking to it, I am all for that, and this is also kind of a recommendation from SO (although I am myself guilty of doing the opposite).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T05:29:27.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-30T08:43:38.703" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3602/an-example-of-changing-kerning-of-a-font-in-lualatex&quot;&gt;this sort of question&lt;/a&gt; is discouraged, I'm not sure that a two-day wait before bounties can be set is really that sensible. Why not let users burn their rep if they so desire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T15:30:18.013" Title="How's about removing the 2-day wait before bounties?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="491" CreationDate="2010-09-30T09:08:11.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One reason against this is that questions with an open bounty cannot be closed. Relieving this would offer the possibility of basically buying a closing protection for one week despite the possibility that a question might be a duplicate, off-topic, subjective etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason is that a question should be well-posed enough to get answers without a bounty. Adding a bounty should not be used by default, since it should be judged by the community (and possibly refined) first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T09:08:11.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-30T09:14:17.743" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry to drag the discussion back to figures...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that many questions and answers would be assisted by the inclusion of an appropriate figure or two. A rendering of the latex or a screen capture from a different program or whatever. However, in the rush to provide a fast answer, I think that people often skip the several steps required (write a file, compile it, view it, screen grab, save relevant part to disk, upload with the excellent no-so-new button), due to the time/effort it takes, or because they are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with part of the process (heck, I myself sometime can't be bothered). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that it is a problem and I would like to solicit feed back on two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you think? is it a problem? Should we somehow promote the inclusion of figures in answer and questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you think that the answer is yes, perhaps you can also answer the second question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can we do it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some ideas, but I will first open the floor to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T13:32:39.723" Title="Back to figures" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="491" CreationDate="2010-09-30T15:30:18.013" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason bounties has a waiting period is because they are only supposed to be used &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; you &lt;strong&gt;put the effort into getting the question answered yourself&lt;/strong&gt;. If you don't get an immediate answer, you are expected to improve, clarify, and document your continued efforts. These activities bump your question to give it more exposure. Bounties are an escalation of that process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, after 2 days, you still don't have an answer you like, you can  offer a bounty. Slice off a bit of your own hard-earned reputation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When bounties were introduced, there was a concern that an &lt;strong&gt;expectation would develop&lt;/strong&gt; where you could only get good answers to your questions if you &quot;paid&quot; someone to answer it. Not so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when all other efforts fail, &lt;strong&gt;bounties come to the rescue... later&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T15:30:18.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2010-09-30T19:54:30.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't know that you can easily upload figures just like that. I though you'd have to upload a figure somewhere else and then use HTML code to refer to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3Vbj.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess the first thing to do is to advertise that this feature &lt;em&gt;exists&lt;/em&gt; and is easy to use!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T19:54:30.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-30T22:56:12.253" Score="3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about this for some time, and Will Robertson seems to have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3602/an-example-of-changing-kerning-of-a-font-in-lualatex&quot;&gt;similar idea&lt;/a&gt; to get stuff done by others, rewarding them with reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short: &lt;strong&gt;part with your hard-earned reputation to organize a mini-contest with a bounty prize on a topic/package you are interested in&lt;/strong&gt; -- as Will did, for improving a piece of documentation. It's not like people have a use for their reputation after they gain access to moderation tools, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep the spirit of the SE platform, the contests should be in the form of a question that can be more or less objectively answered. This could be tricky for some tasks, but I think is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For fun, there might also be Tikz contests for complex non-trivial drawings, with an award for a clean and efficient solution. Scientific writers and researchers high up in the food chain might find a way to &quot;outsource&quot; the boring work of preparing diagrams to somebody willing to earn some extra rep (not that undergrads are in short supply, but that smells a bit like exploitation to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: The guys at SO already have something like this -- the competitions are marked with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf&quot;&gt;special tag&lt;/a&gt;. They have some ground rules on e.g. how often those should appear, who could ask them, to prevent abuse. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/24242/acceptable-level-of-code-golf-questions&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; on meta.SO for some idea how the rules could look like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T09:30:46.120" Title="Idea for TeX, LaTeX &amp; Friends contests" Tags="|discussion|contests|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="496" CreationDate="2010-09-30T23:28:30.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need to be careful not to abuse the platform too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SE platform is developed for Q&amp;amp;A sites, and it has been used extensively to implement Q&amp;amp;A sites, and everything (including the reputation system) is fine-tuned so that it serves that purpose as well as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't really designed to be an outsourcing platform, and I think nobody is using it as an outsourcing platform. If you tried to do that, you may encounter unexpected problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To give a simple example: if it may take a lot of time to develop a solution, the system should provide some kind of coordination mechanisms that help to avoid doing too much overlapping work. For example, it should be possible to &quot;claim&quot; a task to let others know that you are developing a solution. But then it shouldn't be possible to claim too many tasks simultaneously, and the tasks should be automatically released if you don't submit a solution reasonably quickly. And these are just technical aspects; I'm afraid we might also have social/community aspects to deal with, and extra work for our moderators.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T23:28:30.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-01T08:21:18.623" Score="1" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7/we-need-tex-markup&quot;&gt;We need Tex markup&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have the option of rendering particular snippets of (La)TeX code? I think it would greatly help beginners with associating commands with the expected output. For example (forgive my example, I'm a beginner):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;code here&#xA;code here&#xA;code here&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The last line causes the paragraph to indent too much to the right, which looks ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having an on-the-fly LaTeX parser would allow us to see what the asker or answerer sees firsthand. The author can choose which part of the code to parse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine a two-column layout where the left side displays the code in &lt;code&gt;this style&lt;/code&gt;, and the right side displays the output. Repeatedly seeing a command with the expected output can help in drilling down the basics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T08:50:41.283" Title="Can we have an on-the-fly LaTeX parser?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2010-10-17T14:46:26.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="498" CreationDate="2010-10-01T08:50:41.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very much in favour of this. Other Stack Exchange sites already have this. I think it was already enabled here once, but was disabled due to problems. I don’t recall what these problems were, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T08:50:41.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="502" CreationDate="2010-10-01T14:20:41.133" Score="49" ViewCount="143519" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've notices several times people have been using &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{lipsum}&lt;/code&gt; in answers as a space filler.  While this is great for demonstration purposes when the document is going to be immediately rendered, I doubt that most users go to the trouble of copying and pasting these examples and the compiling them.  Moreover, I think it is confusing to the casual user or &quot;googler&quot; who arrives at the site.  What does the community think about this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that most of &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; will copy and paste text and compile it directly.  The reason I raise the point is that on the first answer I received on this site, I saw the package and thought &quot;Hmmm, that must be doing what I want, and I bet the rest of that stuff is filler just to make this a complete example.&quot;  Fortunately, rather than jumping to insert &lt;code&gt;\lipsum&lt;/code&gt; calls throughout my document, I looked up the &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; package first, and then I realized what the real content of the answer is.  All I'm saying is you could instead just literally type &quot;Some filler text here.&quot; instead, or at least put a parenthetical statement at the end of your answer saying something like &quot;(the &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; package is just for generating filler text)&quot;.  (Alternatively, you could just put &lt;code&gt;%generates filler text&lt;/code&gt; above the &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; command or something)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, my point is not that this confuses me or even most people who would read this particular question, but casual nonmembers reaching this site from Google could end up on hour-long detours because of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all of the discussion. (Also, I agree this is not really all that big of a deal; just thought I'd throw my opinion out there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1031" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-09-09T20:05:18.050" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T20:05:18.050" Title="Usage of the lipsum package in answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|code-example|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-01T14:20:41.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="500" CreationDate="2010-10-01T14:23:42.483" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the point of &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; will be clear if one posts not only the source code but also a screenshot that shows the output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T14:23:42.483" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-01T14:23:42.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="500" CreationDate="2010-10-01T18:09:28.290" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually add a LaTeX comment that mentions the lipsum package and &lt;code&gt;\lipsum&lt;/code&gt; command simply generate filler text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that providing compilable documents makes it lot easier for the reader to test the code to see if it has desired effect.  Providing a complete, well-documented example often makes the usage of a macro or code more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T18:09:28.290" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-01T18:09:28.290" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2010-10-02T11:36:30.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had exactly the same problem in a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3490/bad-spacing-of-math-letters-within-italic-text/3496#3496&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer to a question of mine, and it's a real pain. Is there any hope that this bug gets fixed in the near future? (I know that answers are not really a place to ask questions, but my aim is just to give the original post here some more emphasis.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This now &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79546/can-we-please-have-a-place-where-changes-to-the-markdown-syntax-are-documented/79981#79981&quot;&gt;got implemented as follows&lt;/a&gt;: Backslash escaping in inline code in comments is disabled, except for a &lt;em&gt;backtick&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; within &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; backticks &lt;code&gt;`...`&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;For the two examples: &lt;code&gt;``\\\``&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;\\\&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;`\(KKK\)`&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;\(KKK\)&lt;/code&gt; (note that there are no line breaks and hence no code blocks in comments). For details &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/863/how-do-i-mark-inline-code/864#864&quot;&gt;have a look here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T06:30:50.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="500" CreationDate="2010-10-02T18:32:26.263" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;I doubt that most users go to the trouble of copying and pasting these examples&quot; — I disagree. I almost always start from an example when solving a problem or debugging. Unless the way that I do things is rather different to the norm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, who doesn't know what &quot;lipsum&quot; is, in general? If they don't, it's not a difficult concept &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in many cases the lipsum text is added to show behaviour across pages or demonstrate a design that needs context with text on the page—I'd say it's often a necessary part of seeing how the solution works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-10-02T18:32:26.263" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-02T18:32:26.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="500" CreationDate="2010-10-03T07:35:16.553" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Will: I also use copy and paste &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; for this site. However, I only learned about the lipsum package a few days ago because it was included in some MWE. (I've known the lipsum &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt; for a long time.) There is one thing I don't like about the package: It includes &lt;code&gt;\par&lt;/code&gt; at the end of the paragraph, and this is sometimes undesired. With &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3579/1235&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, it took me quite a while to understand why in the output there was so much white space between the text and the equations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-10-03T07:35:16.553" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-03T07:35:16.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2010-10-04T13:32:39.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could have an easy button suggesting (with a vote perhaps?) that this question/answer would greatly benifit having a figure (or more) uploaded. This would then appear on the user's page and they would be informed of the public opinion next time they visit....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps, we could advertise with a banner or with a popup box that uploading images is now super-easy, and link to a FAQ entry about it....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T13:32:39.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-06T16:28:12.337" Score="7" ViewCount="3130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have several TeX vs. troff/groff questions and surely there are experts on here that would know both.  Not wanting to have a question rejected/closed due to the *roff nature, are these acceptable questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1313" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T14:33:26.827" Title="Is troff/groff a &quot;friend&quot; of TeX" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="489" CreationDate="2010-10-06T22:49:13.140" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know of an existing guideline, but as a general good practice for writing web pages, I've heard that the text of a link should be an indicator of what the link is pointing to. In other words, if you just take the displayed link text out of context and ignore the rest of the content on the page, it should tell you what you'd see if you click on the link. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Wikipedia page on hyperlinks&lt;/a&gt; for more information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess one way to do this would be to do your writing at first without any hyperlinks, and then go back and add in the links in appropriate places without changing your wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2010-10-06T22:49:13.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="507" CreationDate="2010-10-07T12:13:48.637" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There being people here who will be able to answer your question doesn't make it a good question.  But that's not to say that it &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be acceptable.  I don't know the answer to that one.  I would try an experiment.  Pick one of your questions and ask it.  In the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Explain that it's an experiment and that people are encouraged to discuss whether or not it is acceptable here (link to this specific question).  That shows, amongst other things, that you're trying to play by the rules but aren't sure what the rules are, rather than are trying to game the system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Try to make your question as TeXy as possible.  Try to make it so that someone who &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; know about troff/groff could still learn something from the answers to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T12:13:48.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="507" CreationDate="2010-10-07T12:29:50.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is a TeX question, and you want an answer, then the question is on topic. Otherwise you will get downvotes. I cannot see what a &quot;TeX vs. troff/groff&quot; question is, perhaps you should explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your *roff implementation is based on TeX, then the answer is &quot;yes&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="243" LastEditDate="2010-10-07T14:37:11.627" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T14:37:11.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="511" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="514" CreationDate="2010-10-07T16:10:52.803" Score="3" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just used this image &lt;img src=&quot;http://mathurl.com/332t642.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; in a question, and I think you'll agree that it would look much better if the image was lowered a bit. I tried the html code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://mathurl.com/332t642.png&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:-5px&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but this didn't work: The image just didn't show up. (The 5 pixel adjustment I obtained by testing in a separate html file.) Is there another way to vertically align the image?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T07:37:51.387" Title="How do I vertically align an inline image?" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="511" CreationDate="2010-10-08T07:37:51.387" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a list of what HTML tags and attributes are allowed on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.  The allowed attributes on images form a rather small set; I don't know if playing with the height or width would help, but that's all you've got, I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T07:37:51.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="489" CreationDate="2010-10-08T15:06:20.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've actually edited a few questions/answers that just pasted url's with no indication of what were they pointing to. Do people think this a kind of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-it-and-isnt-acceptable-to-edit&quot;&gt;acceptable edit&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2010-10-09T07:18:55.307" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="177" CreationDate="2010-10-08T17:22:54.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;But wait; is &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LKB0B.png&quot; alt=&quot;Latex&quot;&gt; the name or the logo?  If it's the name, then the font is not part of the name and &quot;LaTeX&quot; should be rendered in the current font with the lowercase letters replaced by the raised/lowered smaller caps, an easy CSS job (maybe less so if you're really minding the kerning).  The result is IMHO no uglier than CamelCase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(to be clear, I am voting for the feature, implemented in this fashion, not with an embedded png)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T17:22:54.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="177" CreationDate="2010-10-08T21:18:08.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Others have written this in css. I'm aware of two implementations. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://edward.oconnor.cx/2007/08/tex-poshlet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; and a later one based on it &lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.ucsd.edu/~scheckow/TeX.css&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; as used &lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.ucsd.edu/~scheckow/papers/tex2010.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like a hassle to type by hand&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;tex&quot;&amp;gt;L&amp;lt;span class=&quot;raise&quot;&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;T&amp;lt;span class=&quot;drop&quot;&amp;gt;e&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;X&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but it appears to render appropriately in browsers that don't support css as LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T21:18:08.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="507" CreationDate="2010-10-08T23:25:34.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX and *roff aim to accomplish similar goals: typeset output. They both use macro packages and a &quot;plain text&quot; mark up syntax to accomplish their goal. But you wouldn't be able to run a file marked up for *roff through TeX and come out with anything usable.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1222" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T23:25:34.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-09T01:00:43.667" Score="3" ViewCount="1250" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We closed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14/what-should-our-domain-name-be&quot;&gt;domain naming thread (click for details)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, &lt;strong&gt;let's start with a killer &amp;quot;elevator pitch!&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Joel will be blogging about the elevator pitch approach to naming, but to get you started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Elevator Pitch&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't as easy as it sounds. Imagine the user who will never read your FAQ and you have two seconds to grab their attention. It should be catchy but descriptive. It should be thoroughly clear but painfully concise. &lt;strong&gt;Make every... word... count.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some creative examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gawker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gawker&lt;/a&gt;: Daily Manhattan media news and gossip. Reporting live from the center of the universe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;: The gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it’s unnatural.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.autoblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Autoblog&lt;/a&gt;: We obsessively cover the auto industry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dumblittleman.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DumbLittleMan&lt;/a&gt;: So what do we do here? Well, it’s simple. 15 to 20 times per week we provide tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.needcoffee.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Needcoffee.com&lt;/a&gt;: We are the Internet equivalent of a triple espresso with whipped cream. Mmmm…whipped cream.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Use it as a Tagline&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A shorter elevator pitch &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be used as a tagline — something you can display in the header at the top of the page. If it doesn't fit, consider shortening it or creating a separate tagline. Here are some great examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt;: News for nerds. Stuff that matters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lifehacker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lifehacker&lt;/a&gt;: Don’t live to geek, geek to live!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesimpledollar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Simple Dollar&lt;/a&gt;: Financial talk for the rest of us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Motto (don't forget your logo)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A logo begs for it own little, short tagline — like a motto. Maybe the tagline inspires the logo; Maybe it's the other way around. Mottos make good t-shirt, bumper stickers, and other marketing material. Either way, you'll recognize a good motto when you see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just do it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Think Different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Uncola.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intel inside.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Like a rock.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The king of beers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…and perhaps all this leads to a proper name and domain for your site… &lt;em&gt;eventually&lt;/em&gt;. So let's start from the basics. &lt;strong&gt;Come up with a killer elevator pitch, tagline, and/or motto!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-10-26T11:12:13.983" Title="Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-10T15:20:20.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="507" CreationDate="2010-10-09T21:37:44.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding (which may have been incorrect) was that &quot;friends&quot; in the site name was intended to refer to all the different variants and distributions of TeX and its derivatives (Context, Luatex, XeTex, tetex, etc. etc. etc.) as well as programs that are specifically designed to be used along with them, e.g. BibTeX, compilation managers like Latexmk, or editors like TexShop or Kile. From what I've heard about *roff, it does not fall under that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, just because a question happens to involve some subject matter besides *TeX itself doesn't automatically make it inappropriate. I'd agree with Andrew Stacey's advice about trying one as an experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2010-10-09T21:37:44.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="507" CreationDate="2010-10-10T12:00:00.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's put it this way: There isn't going to be anywhere desperately more appropriate, except perhaps the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1370" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T12:00:00.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-10T15:39:36.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kind of liked the originally “chosen” domain name. So here it goes a suggestion for something like a ... tagline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TeXnique for your typesetting needs.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T15:39:36.200" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-10T15:39:36.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-10T16:43:06.737" Score="10" ViewCount="831" Body="&lt;p&gt;We only have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot;&gt;eight questions that are tagged &lt;code&gt;[context]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I thought ConTeXt was more popular than that. There even seem to be more questions relating to “pure” TeX and Plain TeX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ConTeXt is less popular than I think it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ConTeXt is so easy that no Q&amp;amp;A site is needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ConTeXt documentation is so good that there are fewer needs for questions or there are already widely used ConTeXt Q&amp;amp;A sites (I don’t use it myself).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ConTeXt users are more tech-savy and find answers themselves&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Word of tex.se.com hasn’t spread to ConTeXt users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our policy of LaTeX-by-default is discouraging ConTeXt questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the last two points are the most likely causes. Where do you think the problem lies, and what—if anything—should we do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Just to be clear, I was not implying that we should promote the use of ConTeXt over the use of other TeX variants (as I don’t have any experience with it, I have no idea if that would even be a worthwhile endeavour). I was merely wondering, if we are missing some of the target audience of tex.se. Also: Please don’t turn this into a flame war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T16:42:31.647" Title="Why are there so few ConTeXt questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2010-10-10T19:00:51.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What can we do about it? I'd ask to rename the site to &quot;TeX and friends&quot; or something similar (i.e. no explicit mentioning of only one macro package) and to re-introduce the LaTeX tag for LaTeX specific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cause? Sites like tex.se (your last point) share the tendency among most LaTeX users to make TeX==LaTeX. Look at the questions on SE. There are questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3964/mathematical-symbol-for-disjoint-set-union&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, where users don't even think about that there could be a non-LaTeX solution space. Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3910/how-to-keep-up-with-packages-and-know-which-ones-are-obsolete&quot;&gt;that one&lt;/a&gt; which is just labeled [packages], as if this applies to all TeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as long as we don't break the TeX==LaTeX &quot;equivalence&quot;, we won't attract any ConTeXt users. Let's help the rather young community around ConTeXt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T19:00:51.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2010-10-11T10:49:41.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the LaTeX by default policy and how does it discourage ConTeXt questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that part of the answer to your question is option 1. Maybe you think ConTeXt is more popular than it is because of confirmation bias. (Or maybe I think it is less popular for the same reason.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I note that the irc channel #context on Freenode contains fewer than 10 people (and three are the same person/bot) whereas #latex contains about 180 right now. It's just a single data point, but it seems fairly telling. (Yet another instance of confirmation bias?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T10:49:41.917" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2010-10-11T11:29:18.603" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my own biassed opinion the lack of ConTeXt questions is due to 1, 4 and maybe 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed the &lt;strong&gt;large&lt;/strong&gt; majority of people using a TeX-related system are most likely using LaTeX. But the problem is that most them don't even have a clear idea of what is the difference between TeX and LaTeX. And this was causing a situation where most questions were miss-tagged as “latex” even when they didn't have anything specific about LaTeX, even worst, for some questions “latex” was the only tag given which was kind of useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there was the idea of introducing the tag “latex-general” for things that are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX, but I'm starting to worry that new users will also often misuse this tag all the same. So I agree that the current tagging policy is not optimal, and any suggestions are more than welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I don't see how the tagging policy could discourage ConTeXt users about asking questions in the site. Do they come here and have a look at the set of tags before deciding whether to ask a new question? I think probably the best to do is promote the site on exiting hubs where ConTeXt users can be already found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, about the name of the site. Well, “TeX, LaTeX and friends” was just a temporary name for the site proposal; but now is the time to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/519/write-an-elevator-pitch-tagline&quot;&gt;propose better ideas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T11:29:18.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2010-10-11T12:37:26.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our policy of LaTeX-by-default is discouraging ConTeXt questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, “LaTeX-by-default” is actually the norm &lt;em&gt;everywhere&lt;/em&gt;. To be honest, I’ve only heard of ConTeXt relatively recently (this year), having worked with LaTeX (sporadically) for six years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even CTAN pitches “TeX, LaTeX, and friends” – it doesn’t get much more official than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think when wondering why so few ConTeXt questions are asked on tex.se, the elephant in the room is probably reason #1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T12:37:26.037" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-11T19:34:38.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeXnique.com:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Finest quality in typesetting. Techniques for typography gourmets.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Techniques for typography gourmets. Dotting the i's and crossing the t's since 2010.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2010-10-11T22:22:30.670" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T22:22:30.670" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-11T19:34:38.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-12T07:48:43.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TeXnique – How to create beautiful documents&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1376" LastActivityDate="2010-10-12T07:48:43.843" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-12T07:48:43.843" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-12T15:45:10.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This'll wind up all MetaPost and ConTeXT devotees, and probably a few others, but it's just a silly suggestion for a motto:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;TikZ, Toc, TeX&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure how to turn it into a tagline, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TikZ, toc, TeX.SX: the site that makes your documents run like clockwork&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TikZ, toc, TeX.SX, and makeindex: Make your documents run like clockwork&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="117" LastEditDate="2010-10-13T14:53:38.267" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T14:53:38.267" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-12T15:45:10.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2010-10-12T15:58:11.437" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess 1,4,5.  Certainly, there is no 'LaTeX-by-default' policy.  So #6 is out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth thinking for a minute about who is the target audience for tex.sx.  Maybe this is worth a question of its own, but let me outline my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real hard-core TeX users (of whatever variant), already know how to find stuff and are on all the mailing lists.  The slightly savvy ones are similarly fairly used to finding out information via CTAN or search engines or whatever.  Also, more computer-wise users don't shy away from joining mailing lists and so forth, and there are plenty of those on TeX and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are loads of people out there who use TeX and friends in their jobs, but not as the front-line component.  So they come up against stuff now and then, but not often enough to warrant joining a mailing list and wading through all the other 1000 questions.  So they find a hack, they pad their document with &lt;code&gt;~&lt;/code&gt;s to get the spacing right, and though they know it isn't right, it's not important enough to spend a long time trying to work out the right way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are the people that tex.sx should be aiming at because of the low barrier-to-entry of tex.sx, and the fact that people can &quot;come for the answer, stay for the questions&quot;.  You don't have to wade through everyone else's questions, or length discussions on the merits or otherwise of LaTeX versus ConTeXt.  The SE engine is perfect for this lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to most of them, TeX &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX.  So we assume &quot;latex by default&quot; simply because that's the assumption of most people coming in.  And they don't want to be browbeaten with people insisting that they Get It Right.  But if someone comes along and says, &quot;I know you asked about LaTeX, but here's how you would do it in ConTeXt&quot; then after seeing that a few times, they might think, &quot;Hmm, maybe there's something in that ConTeXt stuff.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't stress about the number of ConTeXt answers.  If you want to promote ConTeXt, go ahead and add ConTeXt answers everywhere.  So long as you don't come over too heavy, no-one's going to vote you down (at least, they shouldn't).  I do that with TikZ: even if the question says &quot;xymatrix&quot;, I'll put up a TikZ solution.  Sometimes the person says, &quot;Thanks, but no thanks&quot; but sometimes they say, &quot;Hey, that looks great.  I've always wondered what the fuss about TikZ was about, now I can see a reason to look at it.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my reasons for spending time on MathOverflow is recruitment.  Not particularly of graduate students, but of ideas.  I try to get my ideas out wherever I can, so that more people are aware of them and more people are thinking about them.  I look for places where I can say, &quot;You think you mean to ask about &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;, but actually if you think about it like this, then you'll see that you're really interested in &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;.  So long as it's done politely, there's no harm in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So see the lack of ConTeXt questions on tex.sx as an advertisers dream.  You get to pitch ConTeXt to the rest of us and &lt;em&gt;show&lt;/em&gt; us why we should switch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just realised I wrote &quot;you&quot; a lot, but the question was asked by Caramdir who confesses ignorance.  The &quot;you&quot; is really the ConTeXt crowd.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-10-12T15:58:11.437" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2010-10-12T16:42:10.727" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the name TeX, LaTeX, and Friends does hurt a little, but it is not the main reason. There are very few questions about context on comp.text.tex (which has no naming bias). Apart from the (comparatively) small user base for ConTeXt, the other reason is that context mailing list is newbie friendly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2010-10-12T16:42:10.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="507" CreationDate="2010-10-13T06:29:53.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;troff/groff is a small little format =) it is possible to take troff process it to get tex, and then typeset that. E.g. similar to docbook XML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were already a few publishing / workflow / XML questions. So I think any troff/groff questions will fly by just fine =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T06:29:53.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="536" CreationDate="2010-10-13T13:10:29.740" Score="8" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say that someone only gives a hint and someone else, perhaps even the asker, then creates a full solution based on it. Which of the answers should be the accepted one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, it should be the full solution because it is the solution and should be marked as such, on the other hand, the original insight deserves credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check my question for a specific example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3993/listings-different-counters-for-different-listing-environments&quot;&gt;Listings: different counters for different listing environments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1433" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T14:10:39.050" Title="Which answer to accept if the answer with solution is based on an answer with the important insight?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|accepting|guidelines|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="535" CreationDate="2010-10-13T13:47:38.093" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Giving credit is done by upvoting. An answer has to be selected as accepted because it is the most complete answer, not the first with the nice insight. My 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1463" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T13:47:38.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="535" CreationDate="2010-10-13T14:10:39.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Joris: one of the mechanisms built in to SE software is that an accepted answer will appear at the top of the list when one opens the webpage. So for the sake of people who searched on Google or on this website and found the question, the &quot;best&quot; answer (as in most complete, or most applicable to the actual question asked, or with the most detailed example) should be the one accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T14:10:39.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-13T14:35:45.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riffing off a couple of similar suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TeX &amp;amp; Friends: beautiful documents, semantic markup.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps instead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TeX &amp;amp; Friends: sensible markup for beautiful documents&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the adjective &quot;beautiful&quot; here but I cant think of a good alternative. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastEditorUserId="179" LastEditDate="2010-10-14T14:55:17.590" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T14:55:17.590" CommentCount="12" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-13T14:35:45.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-13T14:54:50.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;motto:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Got TeXnique?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T14:54:50.370" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-13T14:54:50.370" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-14T07:54:10.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, this doesn't look so good written down as when it was in my head, but maybe someone else can improve on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;tex.SX: the site that helps you make your paper look as good as its contents.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Beautiful documents for your smart ideas.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(although with TeX&amp;amp;co. it's often more like &lt;strong&gt;“Ugly hacks for your beautiful documents”&lt;/strong&gt; :P).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-10-14T14:25:50.297" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T14:25:50.297" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-14T07:54:10.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="496" CreationDate="2010-10-14T07:58:55.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst I agree with Jukka on the &quot;outsourcing&quot; (horrible word) part, I think that the competition bit has merits.  Questions like the torus one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/348/how-to-draw-a-torus&quot;&gt;How to draw a torus&lt;/a&gt; or the snake one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3892/how-do-you-draw-the-snake-arrow-for-the-connecting-homomorphism-in-the-snake-le&quot;&gt;How do you draw the &amp;quot;snake&amp;quot; arrow for the connecting homomorphism in the snake lemma?&lt;/a&gt; have a bit of a feel of a &quot;let's see what you can do&quot; competition.  And as it's primarily for fun, it seems to be to fit in with the &quot;community building&quot; part of the SE idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone agree or disagree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T07:58:55.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="542" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-14T08:06:34.990" Score="6" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even more important than &quot;Elevator Tag Lines&quot; (what's an elevator?), are ideas for reaching TeXers no other site has yet reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm probably biased here, but I think that one great segment of TeX users for us to get would be those who use TeX as part of their job, but aren't so keen on asking questions on forums or mailing lists.  I think that the easy entry and ability to focus just on the interesting questions are specific benefits that will appeal to such users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a suspicion that there are a large number of academics in that category.  So telling them about tex.SX would be a great way to promote the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as that community is not so au fait with the internet (by definition!), simply posting adverts on forums and blogs and mailing lists is not the best way to reach them.  I thought that having a poster that can be shown at conferences would be a good way to do this, but I'm open to other ideas of course!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a poster, then obviously it has to be prepared with TeX and in &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; it should be neutral - but the neutrality should be by mentioning stuff rather than avoiding mentioning stuff[1].  Stuffiness should also be avoiding, lots of eye-catching graphics and phrases, maybe some questions taken from the site, and some answers as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is a Call for Suggestions, as well as a Is This a Good Idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1]: There's a hilarious spoof episode of the radio soap &quot;The Archers&quot; that ran during an British Election season wherein, due to the BBC's strict neutrality policy, if a political party was mentioned by one of the characters then &lt;em&gt;every single other party&lt;/em&gt; had to be mentioned as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T08:06:34.990" Title="Ideas for Outreach" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="545" CreationDate="2010-10-14T08:37:35.597" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okey I am a bit new to this whole thing and at a loss. I have have made a question, someone has answered and then someone else who doesn't have enough points to comment on that answer makes a new answer which infact should be read as a comment to an answer to make sense. The question is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4019/no-indentation-at-the-beginning-of-environment&quot;&gt;No indentation at the beginning of environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do? Reading this question and the answers are breaking down with answers answering other answers while moving up and down in the list depending on their votes. It's already becomming a mess if you ask me. Is this perhaps just business as usual?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T10:21:25.523" Title="How do I handle answers that should be comments?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="543" CreationDate="2010-10-14T09:36:18.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the commenting threshold is at 50 rep, which shouldn't be hard to come by. If you're already on another SE site with at least 200 reputation, then you'd get bonus 100 points on each site you sign on afterwards, which is sufficient for commenting right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; annoying that users with low reputation cannot comment on questions, but I guess that is by design (comments cannot be downvoted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T09:36:18.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="543" CreationDate="2010-10-14T10:21:25.523" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under the assumption that it is a good comment (as it was in this case - but then I have to say that as the user in question has Serious Powers on my local computer network), here's my recommendations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote up the answer.  If enough people do this, that user will get over the threshold and the problem won't arise again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment on the answer that it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have been on saying, &quot;Note X's comment on this.&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a comment that really ought to be read at the same time as the other answer, then it ought to be folded in to that answer, so in the comment left on the other answer, say, &quot;I think you should included X's answer in this.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; a mess, answer the question yourself, folding in all the pertinent points from the other answers, and then accept that answer.  Make sure you explain what you're doing and make that answer CW.  (You might have to wait a little before accepting it, I don't remember if there's a time delay.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As the Norwegians say, &lt;em&gt;slapp av&lt;/em&gt;.  Namely, relax.  It doesn't happen that often that it's annoying and specific instances can always be sorted out on an individual basis.  Moderators can edit &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; so if no-one else edits their answers or whatever, you can flag it for Moderator attention and ask them to clean it up a little.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T10:21:25.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-14T11:02:19.893" Score="6" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is really &quot;For Your Information&quot; rather than a question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Area51, we're 11 days out from &quot;being evaluated&quot;.  You can see our current rating &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  We get 3 &quot;okay&quot;s and 2 &quot;excellents&quot;.  Comparing us with some of the other sites on Area51 makes it look as though that's &quot;okay&quot; - only math.SX gets 5 &quot;excellents&quot;, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, perhaps it's worth thinking about what we can do to make the site more active if/when it launches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T20:29:47.520" Title="Nearing the end of public beta ...." Tags="|discussion|beta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="774" CreationDate="2010-10-14T15:50:03.887" Score="24" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;With all the talk about branding I wondered what the new user greeting on our site is. So I logged out and was greeted by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Q&amp;amp;A for expert users of TeX, LaTeX and other related typesetting systems -- check out the FAQ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which I think is fine and means that the site is identifiably even if the name is changed to something that does not contain LateX or TeX (I hope ConTeXt users are okay with being a “related typesetting systems”. ConTeXt is mentioned explicitly in the faq).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But: Could we have the “--” replaced by an en- or em-dash (there are HTML entities and Unicode entries for them). This is about typesetting after all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-12-14T09:13:43.133" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T16:55:06.937" Title="New user greeting." Tags="|feature-request|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-14T23:18:44.953" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anything that you think should be done with questions like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4085/how-can-i-change-the-legends-location-in-a-pgfplot&quot;&gt;How can I change the legend's location in a pgfplot?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which turn out to be answered by the questioner and for which the correct response is totally unrelated to the question? Such questions are pretty much useless for archiving purposes — I'm not saying it was a bad question, just a question that won't come in handy for anyone in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I'm largely thinking about editing the title and retagging the question based on the actual answer rather than the original thought behind the question. What do you think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-10-17T13:29:09.447" Title="Questions turning into non questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="547" CreationDate="2010-10-14T23:27:02.417" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmmm, I think the whole thing could be improved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q&amp;amp;A isn't a thing to be welcomed to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you don't have to be an expert user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ConTeXt should be mentioned&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think a polite request to read the FAQ before posting would be more my style than an imperative command to &quot;check it out&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, here's a possible replacement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to our Q&amp;amp;A site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems. Before posting, please read the FAQ for guidelines on how to ask and answer questions. Have fun!    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comment:&lt;/em&gt; I hope the original author of the message does not take offence to my suggestion here; I am fully aware that just writing the message was the important thing to do in the beginning and I suspect there's a good chance the author isn't a native English speaker—please accept my comments as friendly suggestions only and not criticisms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastEditorUserId="179" LastEditDate="2010-10-19T03:05:00.320" LastActivityDate="2010-10-19T03:05:00.320" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="416" CreationDate="2010-10-16T08:11:04.390" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We no longer infer usernames from OpenID URL strings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a bad idea and had a number of long term negative effects, such as, nobody could reply to you because you had no real username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T08:11:04.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="548" CreationDate="2010-10-17T13:29:09.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m all for editing the title and retagging. I can’t cite an example but this is done sometimes on Stack Overflow and I guess it’s the sanest course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it shouldn’t be offensive to the OP, i.e. it’s an acceptable edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-10-17T13:29:09.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-17T14:39:46.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe in simplicity and directness. Therefore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Motto:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Typesetting TeXt&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, alternatively:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Typesetting TeXniques&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Obviously, both should be using the actual TeX logo, not some ASCII convolution.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagline / elevator pitch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to create beautiful documents using TeX and friends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Hat tip to @domwass)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2010-10-21T08:06:19.620" LastActivityDate="2010-10-21T08:06:19.620" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-17T14:39:46.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7" CreationDate="2010-10-17T14:59:48.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fee that &lt;strong&gt;this is a pretty important feature for the site&lt;/strong&gt;, which is why I’m pushing the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Andrew’s request would be the ideal, I believe that even an approximation would help a lot (and is more realistic to get). I’d like to point out that two of the potential problems he pointed out are trivial to solve:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown can easily be extended to generate some kind of “TeX environment”, like the current code environment. There are tons of possibilities, the simplest being a dedicated &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tex&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; pseudo-HTML tag. This would be completely unambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few posts that would benefit from some kind of rendering, just on the current top page of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4213/how-to-deal-with-bibliography-items-containing-long-urls&quot;&gt;How to deal with bibliography items containing long URLs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4194/how-to-typeset-haskell-operator-and-friends&quot;&gt;How to typeset Haskell ++ operator and friends?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4192/bad-positioning-of-math-accents-for-the-beamer-standard-font&quot;&gt;Bad positioning of math accents for the beamer standard font&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4062/space-between-emphasized-word-and-parenthesis&quot;&gt;Space between emphasized word and parenthesis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Indeed, most of my own posts contain images of rendered LaTeX which are hosted off-site and might accidentally be taken offline by me in the future (I’m sloppy with my web resources).&lt;/del&gt; (Issue fixed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-10-18T09:21:16.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="403" CreationDate="2010-10-17T15:05:41.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it be meaningful to see when a tag means an environment (center, quotation, quote) instead of a concept (centering, quoting)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely – but I think the separation is already clear. Consider your example: &lt;code&gt;center&lt;/code&gt; vs. centering, &lt;code&gt;quote&lt;/code&gt; vs. quoting, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, there’s the convention of using plurals where it helps, e.g. “tables” vs. &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; etc. This should probably go in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-10-17T15:05:41.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2010-10-17T15:13:37.093" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to voice another opinion, I’m for this. Just about every blog software has it, so why not a site about typesetting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m already annoyed at the fact that negative votes on SE are displayed using a hyphen &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; instead of the correct character. It would be nice to provide a minimum of nice typesetting to the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike feared by Andrew, this doesn’t pose &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; technical problems (neither with cut&amp;amp;paste nor any other feature of the site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-10-17T15:13:37.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="559" CreationDate="2010-10-20T01:32:51.217" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to answer a question multiple times, or should that be discouraged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I have multiple answers to a question, I tend to just edit my answer and provide them (or sometimes I'll delete an answer and then later provide a new one if the first one misunderstood the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T08:05:15.413" Title="Multiple answers to the same question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="556" CreationDate="2010-10-20T07:01:18.433" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, one should not give multiple answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think multiple answers are appropriate (and encouraged) in big-list CW questions. Often it is best to give one &quot;thing&quot; (one tool, one package, etc.) per answer, so that people can rank them by voting up/down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T07:01:18.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="556" CreationDate="2010-10-20T08:05:15.413" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I somewhat prefer one person, one answer, and don't like the &quot;everyone post one answer for each package&quot; type questions.  But it's not an abuse of the system to post multiple answers.  An old question, from before the days of meta.so, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/60445/is-it-ok-to-post-multiple-answers-to-a-question&quot;&gt;Is it OK to post multiple answers to a question?&lt;/a&gt;, received a nice answer from Shog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;On questions with multiple specific but distinct answers:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If both answers are valid, then sure, although I would probably edit my original answer to provide both (along with pros / cons / my preference) rather than posting a new answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you suspect one answer might be preferable to the other, but don't really have a good feel for why or how, then by all means post them separately - the voting and comment system are designed for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;On questions with multiple broad but distinct answers:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These tend to be discussion questions. Write an essay, touch on both answers, detail your thought process. The exception would be &quot;poll&quot; questions, in which each answer should be a single concept (and, marked Community Wiki).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people are concerned that multiple answers to non-wiki questions can be a form of gaming, because a single person can award more upvotes.  My impression is that doing this reduces total upvotes, compared to making the effort to craft a single comprehensive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T08:05:15.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="546" CreationDate="2010-10-20T12:44:37.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down to 1 excellent, 4 okays, I think because something about answer ratio changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/please-do-not-close-gis-se&quot;&gt;Please do not close GIS SE&lt;/a&gt;, Joel Spolsky reiterates the point that answer quality is key:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;as long as the content on the site is high quality and people can get answers to their questions, you shouldn't worry about the site actually being closed. In the meantime you should be voting a lot to help build up the number of users on that site with moderation privileges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and incidentally reminding us of &lt;em&gt;what we can do to make the site more active if/when it launches&lt;/em&gt;.  You can earn &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/60/suffrage&quot;&gt;the suffrage badge&lt;/a&gt; right now, if you haven't already...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T12:44:37.183" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="507" CreationDate="2010-10-20T14:33:26.827" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like both troff/eqn and Postscript to be in a special category of questions that are narrowly speaking off-topic but welcome here because we are friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might have a section in the FAQ along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: I know my question about digglefying grobnits is off-topic, but I can't think of anywhere better to ask it.  Can I ask it here, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: It sounds like it isn't really in scope, but since it seems to be to do with DIY-ethic document preparation, we will probably like answering your question anyway.  To be more specific, we are happy to adopt troff/eqn and Postscript questions, and probably many other questions, but you will have to make allowances for our Tex-centric preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T14:33:26.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-20T21:37:25.837" Score="7" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a question and there are there was one answer that mostly solved the original problem. In the comments to the answer, I asked how one would fix the remaining problem. It was answered but in a different answer. Both are very helpful and together they accomplish exactly what I wanted to when asking the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to make it so that the question is answered (it will help many researchers writing papers in my field), but I think most would like the complete answer rather than just parts. As this was my first question, what is the ``correct&quot; course of action in the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1536" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T07:22:55.557" Title="What to do if two answers together answer the original question?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="562" CreationDate="2010-10-21T07:40:07.303" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry too much. Just accept whichever answer gives you more of what you were looking for, or the one that took the longest to answer, or the fastest answer, or whatever—you could even suggest that someone write an amalgamation of the two answers and accept that instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-10-21T07:40:07.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="562" CreationDate="2010-10-21T08:08:22.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally accept the one that I consider the most useful answer for future readers interested in the question to read first.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people on SO like to write postscripts to their questions in situations like these, explaining what they got out of the answers, and maybe explaining their choice of accepted answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-10-21T08:08:22.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-21T12:29:19.973" Score="13" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I read a question and want to take a stab at answering it, the first thing I do is create a *TeX file.  I copy the original post's snippets into the file, as well as some information about the question -- the URL and sometimes the poster's question itself -- commented out.  That way I can keep it on file.  I don't know if I'll ever use it again, but saving it makes it more worthwhile (to me) than just creating a temp file and throwing it away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like this would be a worthwhile feature for the site.  Users could download a question as a tex file, with the snippets included and some metadata (e.g., question URL, author username, etc) commented out.  The cleaned-up question as it appears in the URL makes a good filename.  The question itself could go either in the comments or formatted as TeX code in the example file.  The latter would be prettier, but it might actually get in the way of solving the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously not every file produced like this is going to be immediately processable.  If the question is about latex and the OP didn't put a &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; in their example, it would have to be added to make sure the example file is a latex file.  Similarly for questions about pgf/tikz: they would need to ensure those packages are loaded.  The exporter could glean some clues from the tags, and leave it up to the prospective answerer to correct the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be an incentive for people who'd like to poke at the issue to see if their impulses are reasonable.  It might result in more answers, more &lt;em&gt;working&lt;/em&gt; answers and fewer &quot;You could try something like this (untested)...&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="1402" LastEditDate="2010-10-22T14:27:12.360" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T14:27:12.360" Title="Can we export questions to TeX?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="562" CreationDate="2010-10-21T14:33:48.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask one or both who answered to edit in the other answer so you can accept a complete answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2010-10-21T14:33:48.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="565" CreationDate="2010-10-22T01:28:33.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a bad idea. I imagine it working by having a separate text field labelled &quot;minimal working example&quot; (or whatever) that, if entered, would be used to populate the actual TeX document to be created. Then users could continue to ask questions as they currently do with simple snippets in the question itself, but for questions with a complete example you could have a link to download/open the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T01:28:33.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="562" CreationDate="2010-10-22T07:22:55.557" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;you could even suggest that someone write an amalgamation of the two answers and accept that instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I would suggest that you, the questioner, do this.  If you really feel that accepting one answer would do a disservice to the other, then you can write the amalgamation.  You should ensure that the attribution is clear and, briefly, say why you're writing the amalgamation.  Then make it community wiki and accept it (there may be a time limit on when you can accept it - so you may have to wait a day or so).  This doesn't give anyone the 15 rep for having an answer accepted, but anyone who sees your answer is likely to then go and vote for the other two (indeed, you can say, &quot;If you felt like voting for this question or this answer, please also vote for the two answers that this is the amalgamation of) so it all balances out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T07:22:55.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="576" CreationDate="2010-10-22T08:51:02.360" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt; from this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/247/where-does-all-my-rep-go/256#256&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;. It shows that I have 541 total votes. My user page shows 844 votes. There are 536 lines in the reputation page showing my reputation earnings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this number actually refer to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T18:04:46.630" Title="Total votes don't match" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="569" CreationDate="2010-10-22T09:50:50.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your user pages shows total votes cast, while IIRC, it's the votes received on the reputation page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T09:50:50.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-22T13:15:01.973" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for the motto:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Every TeX counts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, to give the idea that this site is about &lt;strong&gt;TeX&lt;/strong&gt;, La&lt;b&gt;TeX&lt;/b&gt;, Con&lt;b&gt;TeX&lt;/b&gt;t,... Can you see the pattern? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T13:15:01.973" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-22T13:15:01.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="569" CreationDate="2010-10-22T19:00:24.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have something similar: the top of the page shows 299 total votes for. I have 180 &quot;votes&quot; that earned reputation (category 2), and around 17 &quot;accepts&quot; (category 1). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the difference is due to votes which does not earn you reputation? I have, for example, 8 upvotes received for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/782/what-are-the-available-documentclass-types-and-their-uses/785#785&quot;&gt;What are the available &amp;quot;documentclass&amp;quot; types and their uses?&lt;/a&gt; but didn't gain any rep because it was community wiki. They are certainly not listed in the list of reputation changes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T19:00:24.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="573" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-23T10:18:43.023" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering whether a question on the benefits of a TUG membership for students and people's experiences is something that would fit on tex.stackexchange.com. It obviously has no real answer, it's just people's opinions, so Community Wiki seems a good idea but the practice doesn't seem popular here, unlike StackOverflow where open questions such as this one are quite common. And I'm not sure whether a question not directly related to the actual producing of documents is allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: do topics like the one I suggested have a place on the frontpage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already some Community Wiki questions on the front page, but I believe this one differs from instances like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3395/which-packages-can-you-use-to-improve-the-typographic-quality&quot;&gt;Which packages can you use to improve the typographic quality?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/162/what-are-other-good-resources-on-line-for-information-about-tex-latex-and-friend&quot;&gt;What are other good resources on-line for information about TeX, LaTeX and friends?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="210" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T15:40:01.123" Title="Are open questions like many Community Wiki questions on StackOverflow allowed?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="573" CreationDate="2010-10-23T15:40:01.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Not really an answer but everyone should see this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, community wiki questions have now been switched off on all SE/SO sites.  Moderators can still make questions CW but only after they've been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more, start with: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67581/community-wiki-checkbox-missing-in-action&quot;&gt;Community Wiki checkbox missing in action&lt;/a&gt; and follow the links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T15:40:01.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-23T17:54:18.703" Score="10" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lockstep brought up an interesting idea in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it perhaps possible to either create a page or a section in the FAQ the explains the common diagnostic tools?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By diagnostic tools, I mean things like &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt;. This might come shocking to Will Robertson, but not everyone knows what &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; is =). Granted, the concept of the diagnostic tools is easy enough to understand. But for new users of this site, it may not be immediately obvious that some parts of the proposed solution is just meant for illustration that the solution works, and is not actually necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know that it is unrealistic to expect all users to have read the FAQ in detail, but this way at least we can throw the FAQ at them when questions come up, or better yet, do so preemptively when using these packages in an answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that such a page may be useful, please also answer with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What packages/tools would you include in such a page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2010-10-24T10:03:42.817" LastActivityDate="2010-10-24T10:03:42.817" Title="lipsum, filecontents, and friends." Tags="|discussion|feature-request|faq|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-25T07:53:39.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="569" CreationDate="2010-10-23T18:04:46.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link you posted shows the real reputation, calculated accounting for all the rules in place. The reputation shown on the user page only shows an approximation that is stored in the database and continually updated but can get out of sync with the real reputation. Once in a while it’s synced back with the real reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can the real-time reputation get out of sync? One reason is when an old question where votes were acquired gets deleted. This won’t immediately reflect on the real-time reputation count (stored in the database). There are some other operations which may similarly modify the reputation without updating the database-based count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this behaviour, as far as I understand it, is pure performance. Since the Stack Exchange software is a web application, it (usually) only runs whenever a user requests a website from it. This should of course be responsive. Performing time-intensive operations such as deleting a question and updating all its related database rows would directly reflect on the website’s response time, which is not what users want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the time-consuming tasks are deferred, instead only a perfunctory delete (or whatever) is performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, the Stack Exchange team is currently trying to fix this behaviour by running such time-consuming tasks either in a background thread or on an unconnected service on the server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T18:04:46.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="578" CreationDate="2010-10-23T19:15:19.040" Score="13" ViewCount="567" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of tex.stackexchange questions deal with citations and/or bibliographies. Sometimes an answer will be provided that uses the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package although the enquirer has not specifically addressed &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt;. (The latest example of such a question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4461/is-there-a-bibtex-style-that-sorts-references-in-reverse-chronological-order&quot;&gt;Is there a BibTeX style that sorts references in reverse chronological order?&lt;/a&gt;) Is it permissible to add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biblatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biblatex&lt;/a&gt; tag to such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I will (for the most part) follow Jukka Suomela's advice - that is, I will only add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biblatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biblatex&lt;/a&gt; tag to questions where an answer involving &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; became the accepted one. I have retroactively retagged the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4259/natbib-in-a-different-language&quot;&gt;natbib in a different language?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2828/get-the-annote-field-of-a-bib-file&quot;&gt;Get the &amp;quot;annote&amp;quot; field of a .bib file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T19:52:07.400" Title="Adding tags to a question in accordance with a provided answer" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="577" CreationDate="2010-10-23T19:57:03.517" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would hate it if someone edited my question like that. It's like adding insult to injury: first someone gives the &quot;wrong&quot; answer and then because of that someone else edits my question and adds the &quot;wrong&quot; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be ok to edit tags so that they reflect the packages in the answer that was &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt;, but even in that case I'd recommend that you just leave a comment and suggest that OP might want to edit the tags accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T19:57:03.517" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="575" CreationDate="2010-10-23T20:12:49.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comment Willie Wong mentioned, I wanted to provide a link to a topped thread in a German-speaking forum, but couldn't figure out how to put links into comments. So &lt;a href=&quot;http://mrunix.de/forums/showthread.php?t=66921&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's&lt;/a&gt; the example I was thinking of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the non-German-speaking (probably the majority), the linked thread deals (among other things) with the following error-avoiding LaTeX issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple compilation;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deletion of auxiliary files;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Package load order;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fabricating minimal examples, with special how-to's for including external graphics, using the filecontents package and checking the version of used files.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T20:12:49.573" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-25T07:53:39.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="546" CreationDate="2010-10-23T20:29:47.520" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing around the SO blog and other related stuff, it appears that &lt;strong&gt;voting is the key&lt;/strong&gt;.  Or rather, the number of high-rep users, but we only get those by voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ... go back to your constituency and &lt;em&gt;vote&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T20:29:47.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="582" CreationDate="2010-10-24T12:50:16.807" Score="3" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least two comments I left today have disappeared. For the first, I figured I just forgot to submit the comment, but it seems extremely unlikely that I'd have forgotten to submit two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One was a comment on Will's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4485/how-should-one-use-write18-with-bibtex/4488#4488&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to one of my questions. The other was a comment on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4473/whats-a-good-way-to-write-x-does-not-divide-y/4476#4476&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T19:44:57.127" Title="My comments are disappearing" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2010-11-23T21:31:07.353" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="581" CreationDate="2010-10-24T19:39:12.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/datacenter-migration-oct-23/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;moved datacenters&lt;/a&gt; so it's possible, albeit strange, that some of your comments would go to the old datacenter instead of the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you can leave comments at all, that implies you are at the new datacenter -- the old sites are read only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-10-24T19:39:12.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-24T20:51:16.003" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Texnique.com: DIY Document Preparation for the Connoisseur&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't quite hit the sweet spot for me &amp;mdash;words like connoisseur, discriminating, &amp;amp;c. have slight unwanted associations&amp;mdash;  but I'm keen on the idea of combining both DIY and superior results into the tagline, if it can be done well.  This way, it becomes a pitch for what makes us care about Tex at the same time as being a memorable phrase for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Take 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TeXnique.com: DIY Document Preparation for both Connoisseur and Apprentice.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added some extra in the end to stress on the non-elite nature of tex.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2010-10-25T08:35:03.837" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T08:35:03.837" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-24T20:51:16.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-24T22:50:36.823" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question today, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4522/is-ctan-broken&quot;&gt;is CTAN broken?&lt;/a&gt;, and was &quot;told-off&quot; for asking a transient question. So, I put it to us, users of TEX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should transient questions (questions involving the moment, that might not be relevant in less than a day even) be allowed here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the usual rules are that arguments for or against are given as answers, but the voting on my &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; collects the votes, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T10:01:32.530" Title="Should transient *TeX questions be discussed here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="584" CreationDate="2010-10-24T23:02:40.880" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this kind of questions make a lot of sense in the site as, I would say, they don't have a “unique” or correct answer. Or, put it another way, the answer to the question will change from day to day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I wouldn't mind about this kind of questions being asked in meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do other people think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2010-10-24T23:02:40.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="584" CreationDate="2010-10-24T23:52:54.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have several (though admittedly not many) questions whose answers are time-dependent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4495/is-beamer-safe-to-upgrade&quot;&gt;beamer-upgrade-safty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4491/what-is-the-status-of-pdfsync&quot;&gt;status-of-pdfsync&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2016/will-latex3-have-proper-support-for-hooks-does-luatex&quot;&gt;future-status-of-latex3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3602/an-example-of-changing-kerning-of-a-font-in-lualatex&quot;&gt;example-of-kerning-in-github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention many questions concerning current tools/upgrades/versions that may cease being interesting in a few months. Clearly, the status of CTAN can change within hours, but where is the crossing line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should not TEX.SE be &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; place to go for &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; things *TeX related? Should this not include transient blackouts of services that are important to *TeX users? Why not use the many eyeballs of *TeX users for this purpose as well? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Formally, there is nothing in the guidelines that requires the question to be timeless. It is objective, it is about TeX related repository (a tool). It isn't about TEX.SE, so it should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be in the meta. There may be people who don't care about the running of TEX.SE meta who could answer this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have these transient questions tagged [transient] or similar so that it would be easy to purge them or filter them or whatever, but I don't see the gain in hiding them while they are relevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here I am, 10 hours later, still not able to download anything from CTAN. I see the directory listings, I can navigate them, but whenever I ask for a specific file that requires that I download from a mirror, I time-out on the request. Perhaps my mirror is down? how can I find out? How can I ask to use a different mirror? Can someone tell me if they have similar problems? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By asking the questions here, in an answer I am trying to show that the original question (that was closed, and I think should be reopened and given an answer) has a large component that is as important to the general and timeless *TeX community, and does not pertain to the specific blackout that I am still suffering from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T10:01:32.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="620" CreationDate="2010-10-25T00:00:40.777" Score="5" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I click on my total reputation score in the status bar next to my username &lt;em&gt;while in meta&lt;/em&gt;, I get to a &quot;missing page&quot; page. In the parent site I get to a page that explains my privileges, and the ones I do not (yet) have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-11-04T08:07:44.067" LastActivityDate="2010-11-04T08:07:51.120" Title="clicking on rep score while in meta leads to &quot;page missing&quot; page" Tags="|bug|status-completed|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-25T00:02:36.093" Score="6" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got docked -2 for two down-votes I did in meta. Is this by-design? I thought that meta activity was divorced from rep score (I don't care much about rep, let alone two points of it, but I'd like to know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="25639" LastEditDate="2013-07-10T13:53:08.650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T13:53:08.650" Title="rep score changed due to activity in meta?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|reputation|voting|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="584" CreationDate="2010-10-25T03:31:18.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Transient questions are fine if they are relevant for more than a single day, or hour. But if CTAN is down, which is certainly possible, you can be 99.999% confident that it &lt;em&gt;won't&lt;/em&gt; be down some short time in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T03:31:18.167" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="588" CreationDate="2010-10-25T07:14:42.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least in the meta-faq it says &quot;Votes here do not affect your reputation in any way&quot;, and &quot;Reputation here is entirely derived from the parent website&quot;, so this should indeed not happen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T07:14:42.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="588" CreationDate="2010-10-25T08:09:26.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta keeps track of reputation changes, as seen on, say your &lt;em&gt;Recent&lt;/em&gt; reputation report from 1st Sep to today at (substitution your user id number for $YOURUSERID):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/recent/$YOURUSERID?StartDate=2010-9-01&amp;EndDate=2010-10-25&amp;tab=reputation&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but this earned reputation has nothing to do with your effective reputation, shown on the top line and which determines your privileges here: that is, as TH. says, just copied from the parent site &amp;mdash; although it is not quite identical, as you will often see a small time lag for earned reputation at the parent site to ripple through to here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, although it is peculiar to see a -2 reputation on the &lt;em&gt;Recent&lt;/em&gt; report when there is supposed to be no penalty for downvotes, there actually is no penalty to your effective reputation, so this is all [status-bydesign].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cf. the message on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;your meta reputation breakdown&lt;/a&gt;, and maybe also your &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;parent site breakdown&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T08:21:06.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2010-10-26T11:05:36.430" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Texnique.com: Freedom from Adobe and Office&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Second try&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inspired by Jeff's message, &lt;em&gt;if you have an arch-enemy – the more ... larger-than-life the better – consider yourself lucky&lt;/em&gt;, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/03/whos-your-arch-enemy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coding Horror: Who's Your Arch-Enemy?&lt;/a&gt;.  Don't vote this up unless you've thought about the risk of groupthink and alienating exactly the people we want to attract.  Jeff's comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have absolutely nothing against Experts-Exchange. Realize that I've been a fan of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000630.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;smackdown learning model&lt;/a&gt; for a long time; it's like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kayfabe&lt;/a&gt; in professional wrestling. There are no hard feelings; this &quot;rivalry&quot; is mostly useful as a way to explain what it is we do. This internet is certainly big enough for the both of us – big enough, in fact, for hundreds of Q&amp;amp;A websites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems to be a wise counter to that risk; if we use this tagline, we'll need a carefully worded section in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Alternatives&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Texnique.com: Writing without the help of Office or Adobe&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First try, too wordy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2010-10-26T11:12:13.983" LastActivityDate="2010-10-26T11:12:13.983" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-26T11:05:36.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="596" CreationDate="2010-10-27T08:26:07.117" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4597/1235&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question was asked by Kit, an answer was given by Willie Wong a short time later, and immediately after that, Willie Wong added a comment to his answer. That's all the activity I see on this question. Nevertheless, on the list of active questions it says (right now) that the question was modified by Geoffrey Jones 16 hours ago. How can this happen? (I think I saw this strange behaviour before, but I don't remember the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jukka's answer made me understand this. So it's not really a bug, but probably by design. Somehow I would like it if the software would not only remove the answer but also the recent edit marker. The only benefit of leaving the &quot;recent edit by Geoffrey Jones&quot; in the above example is for those few who saw the answer and then saw it disappear. This benefit is rather temporary ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-10-27T14:59:30.043" Title="Question marked as modified by a user that didn't ever modify it" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="595" CreationDate="2010-10-27T09:27:41.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually this happens in the following case: someone writes an answer and deletes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2010-10-27T09:27:41.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="599" CreationDate="2010-10-27T11:57:05.480" Score="27" ViewCount="3761" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often I want to address a comment to a specific user. How can I do that? I've seen that I've got to use the @ symbol for this, but I didn't find the exact rules in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;. Can I notify any user? Do I have to put the full user name after the &quot;@&quot;? And what happens if the name contains a space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as an example, if I want to notify TH., should I use &quot;@TH&quot; or &quot;@TH.&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T21:54:44.230" Title="When writing a comment, how do I ensure that the person it is addressed to gets notified?" Tags="|support|faq|comments|notifications|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="598" CreationDate="2010-10-27T12:41:25.500" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;The shorter, incomplete, but easier-to-digest-first rules as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/35913#35913&quot;&gt;described by Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;but with an update due to changed behaviour:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. &lt;em&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/em&gt; @ab will &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; give a match if the third letter of the displayname is a non-letter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the most recent John to comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These older rules don't include some later features: now the look up for names tries to look in more places for a match and tolerates omitted spaces. And: anyone who &lt;em&gt;edits&lt;/em&gt; a question or answer is also on the list of people who are considered possible matches for notification. Hence, the official rules, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/35913#35913&quot;&gt;described on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notifications apply to the author, commenters, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36052/allow-post-editor-to-see-comments-directed-at-him/36055#36055&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt; of the question or answer that you are commenting on—users not in that list cannot be notified.  The question and answers are all considered independently.  For example, if Alice was the author of, commented on, or edited the question or her answer, then you cannot notify her by commenting on Bob's answer (unless Alice &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; participated in that answer), and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must include &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt;, where &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; is a reasonable match to a user's current display name.  Users who have not set a display name in their profile are not notified.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the first word in the display name is at least three characters long, then there must be a starts-with, case-insensitive match of at least three characters in the display name.  This means &lt;em&gt;@a&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;@ab&lt;/em&gt; will never match anyone, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/61960/allow-for-comment-reply-to-usernames-with-less-than-three-characters-in-first-wor/75809#75809&quot;&gt;unless&lt;/a&gt; a user uses a first word that is only two characters. Like: &lt;em&gt;@Jo&lt;/em&gt; will notify Jo Miller, but not John, and @B. will notify B. Gates, but not B.Gates. If there are more than three characters in &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt;, then all given characters must match (neither &lt;em&gt;@alix&lt;/em&gt; nor &lt;em&gt;@aliceinwonderland&lt;/em&gt; will match user Alice).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if five people named John are participating, &lt;em&gt;@john&lt;/em&gt; will match the most recent John. (Use the next rule to differentiate.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces are removed from the display names for matching purposes, so to match Peter Smith you may use &lt;em&gt;@pet&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;@peter&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;@peters&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;@petersmith&lt;/em&gt;.  The last two are useful if Peter Jones is also participating. Single quotes, dots, dashes and underscores should &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51911/the-dot-in-username-within-first-3-character-preventing-from-comment-replies/51913#51913&quot;&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Special characters &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48968/peter-works-for-peter/49409#49409&quot;&gt;are replaced&lt;/a&gt; with their simple equivalent. To reply to Piëre you can use both &lt;em&gt;@piëre&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;@piere&lt;/em&gt;. And to reply to Jörg you could use &lt;em&gt;@jorg&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89051/joerg-works-for-jorg&quot;&gt;but not&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;@joerg&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments containing more than one &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/should-we-discourage-the-user-of-multiple-redundant-username-pings/2615#2615&quot;&gt;are blocked&lt;/a&gt; unless they contain a backtick.&#xA;  In the latter case, only the first name mentioned using the &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; syntax will be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment/35914#35914&quot;&gt;notified&lt;/a&gt;. For example, &lt;em&gt;@alice @bob Hi!`&lt;/em&gt; will notify Alice (if she has participated in that post), but not Bob.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An exception is the case when the first &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; either matched nobody, or matched the post's author (and thus isn't necessary); in this case, the next &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; will be checked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When editing a comment within its limited editing period, if you change or add &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40989/will-edited-comments-reach-addressees/74781#74781&quot;&gt;the notification may or may not reach the new recipient&lt;/a&gt; depending on timing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first author of the question or answer will always be notified of any new comment. There is no need to use &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; to notify them. (You may still use it for clarity, if needed; however if only you and the author have been commenting on the post so far, the &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; will be automatically removed from the beginning of the comment, as it adds no value.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The notification must begin with a space or be at the start of the comment. For example, you &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/39/whats-your-favourite-quote-about-programming/1079#comment-19850&quot;&gt;cannot use markup&lt;/a&gt; such as italics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Single trailing punctuation such as a dot, comma or colon is ignored. Like &lt;em&gt;@name, yes&lt;/em&gt; works, but &lt;em&gt;@name... no&lt;/em&gt; does not. (Though a dot is valid in a username, the last dot &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75811/using-user-name-colon-to-refer-to-a-user-in-comments/75812#75812&quot;&gt;is removed for matching&lt;/a&gt;. Adding excessive dots is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88631/why-was-i-not-notified/88639#88639&quot;&gt;not supported&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The notification only works for the username that &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/481203#481203&quot;&gt;is current&lt;/a&gt; at the time the comment is submitted, not any previous username(s) the target may have had.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of supported notifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name some text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name: some text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name. Some text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name, some text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;some text, @name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;some text, @name, more text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Some text, @name.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples that will &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; trigger notifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name...&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;abc@name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*@name*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*@name:*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[@name](http://some-url)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@[name](http://some-url)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:32:00.817" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T10:00:13.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-28T09:29:44.610" Score="9" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;This topic has already been discussed over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/q/984/2575&quot;&gt;math.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;, and it might be reasonable that we discuss it here, too. The most important changes in the reputation thresholds are, in my opinion: You need&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2000 instead of 1000 rep to edit other people's posts;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;3000 instead of 500 rep to vote to close, reopen, or migrate any questions (huge change);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;10000 instead of 2000 rep to delete closed questions and to access moderation tools (nobody here has 10000 rep so far).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm not really having problems with this, although I've already used the priviledge of editing a post. There are enough users with 3000+ rep, so the first two points might be irrelevant. I'm just a bit concerned about the last one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T18:41:44.353" Title="Are we prepared for the new reputation thresholds when we leave beta?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="603" CreationDate="2010-10-28T11:48:26.313" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3866/whitespace-brace-indentation-conventions-for-latex-programming&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4495/is-beamer-safe-to-upgrade&quot;&gt;few&lt;/a&gt; questions for which there are no single &quot;right&quot; answers.  Accordingly, I have marked them as community wiki (or requested that they be so marked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now every time I check my profile stackexchange nags me to select an answer or offer a bounty for the CW questions.  I thought this was antithetical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the correct interpretation of the selected answer in a CW question?  Is it the one that the OP found most useful/informative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T14:16:52.037" Title="answers for community wiki questions?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2010-10-28T11:57:48.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a post I wrote to the pgf-users mailing list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subject: Invitation to join tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear pgf-users,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Congratulations to the developers on a&#xA;  new release of PGF.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hope developers and all users will&#xA;  consider joining the growing community&#xA;  at the &quot;TeX, LaTeX, and Friends&quot; site&#xA;  on StackExchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;StackExchange is specialized&#xA;  StackOverflow, which is a social&#xA;  website for programmers. &#xA;  StackExchange sites offer moderated&#xA;  (like digg), tagged (like delicious)&#xA;  questions and answers (like&#xA;  traditional mailing lists and forums).&#xA;  Plus avatars and badges for additional&#xA;  fun. For me, StackExchange works really well for&#xA;  answering what I can and learning from&#xA;  the experts when I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Signing up is easy--you can link to&#xA;  your Facebook, Google, or OpenID&#xA;  account so no need to remember another&#xA;  username and password.  The TeX SE&#xA;  site is in public beta now and could&#xA;  benefit from more users, more&#xA;  questions, and more answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's a good question about PGF 2.10&#xA;  if you're interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4622/what-is-new-in-pgf-2-10&quot;&gt;What is new in pgf 2.10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hope to see you there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only trouble is that because of spamming it takes human intervention to get subscribed to the list, and I'm currently unsubscribed.  :-(  Once I get back on I'll send it.  In the meantime, feel free to edit and adapt my elevator pitch and send it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-10-29T12:37:41.157" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-28T11:57:48.157" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="601" CreationDate="2010-10-28T14:16:52.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen the following suggested on meta.SO for similar situations (I can't find the link ATM, but it should be one of the most-voted questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question and there are more than one useful answers (i.e. both of them contributed to your solution, or you found them to solve the problem independently), you could ask one of the contributors to combine the answers into a new CW-ed answer, which you could mark as accepted. Better yet, write such an answer myself (I was in a similar situation a few days ago, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4548/how-to-track-changes-between-pdfs&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community wiki bit is to avoid conflicts who should get the bonus rep -- by not giving it to anyone, but still recognizing their contribution. The answers of individual contributors would be voted up anyway by the others (and yourself!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a reasonable compromise, and in fact serves a long-term goal of having good and up-to-date answers to the questions, as the CW threshold is quite low and the answer can be improved and enhanced in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T14:16:52.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="600" CreationDate="2010-10-28T18:41:44.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules on when we leave beta aren't all that clear, but the &lt;em&gt;impression&lt;/em&gt; that I get from reading the blog and meta.SO is that one necessary thing is that we have enough high ranking users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we won't leave beta until this problem is less of a problem, and thus to accelerate our progress out of beta we should &lt;strong&gt;get voting&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't advocate voting for someone just to get them over a threshold; rather, vote for anything you think a positive contribution to the site and that'll lift everyone, hopefully)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T18:41:44.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-29T12:43:23.170" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two things about TeX.SE and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ams.org/meetings/national/jmm/2125_intro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joint Mathematics Meetings&lt;/a&gt; in January in New Orleans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else besides me going?  Interested in a meetup?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TUG often has an exhibitor's table.  It might be good to have something there that would promote the site.  Whether it's a flyer, a card, or some trinket.  Your thoughts on the feasibility of that?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T12:16:03.260" Title="Tex.SE at the Joint Mathematics Meetings" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="610" CreationDate="2010-10-30T09:59:36.890" Score="2" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of you will probably know about &lt;a href=&quot;http://tlcontrib.metatex.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tlcontrib&lt;/a&gt; already. I would like to ask for new volunteer members to register and upload extra packages, but I am not sure whether something like that is appropriate, as it is a question without any real answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89" LastActivityDate="2010-10-31T01:27:28.760" Title="Are advertising / crowd-sourcing questions acceptable or not?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="605" CreationDate="2010-10-30T12:16:03.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Promotion: if you are happy spending the time, it can only do us good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TCS site has been energetic in promoting their site, and one thing they did that might work here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/457/nominations-for-publicity-poster-at-focs&quot;&gt;assembling a list of questions&lt;/a&gt; to put on a poster that shows off the value of the site.  Their bait is different they want to show that &quot;Science You Don't Want To Miss Out On&quot; is being done on their Q&amp;amp;A, but the poster idea might work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:13.810" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T12:16:03.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-30T16:16:36.857" Score="6" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't realize it before, but it seems that we have a chat-room dedicated to us....so an obvious question is....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we talk about in the chat room? What is appropriate for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:48:36.823" Title="We have a chat room now!" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="607" CreationDate="2010-10-31T01:27:28.760" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, those types of solicitations, as well-intentioned as they are, would be considered spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think it through a bit, you begin to see the problem: Everyone thinks their services are useful and of interest to this community. They may be but, if you use &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; as the criteria, this site would quickly fill up with advertisements, solicitations, and spam. So we really cannot allow that type of activity on these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastActivityDate="2010-10-31T01:27:28.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="613" CreationDate="2010-10-31T20:57:06.743" Score="12" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;This came up in the comments of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4746/same-height-for-list-of-comma-separated-vectors/4748#4748&quot;&gt;this question.&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The OP asked how to fix one thing and gave an example where the problem arises (vectors with different components have different height). In that example the OP wasn't careful about other things: text in mathmode was not upright, and some braces were not scaled to encompass their contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my answer I concentrated on the question at hand: how to make the vectors have the same length and I ignored the &quot;problems&quot; that the OP's MWE had. some of the comments I got seems to suggest that I should have corrected these issues in my answer (which used the MWE and fixed the relevant part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be our approach? when someone asks about A and has issues B &amp;amp; C in the example, should we fix A, B, and C, or should we answer the question as it is posed? Perhaps we could comment on the original Question with regards to B and C instead of correcting it in the answer? Should we have a unified approach to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T18:25:13.477" Title="Should we evangelize &quot;correct use&quot; in our answers?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="611" CreationDate="2010-10-31T22:56:23.817" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case I would just silently “correct” the other things without drawing special attention to it. So that the answer contains what you would type in a document without directly criticizing the OP. (I only added a comment to the question, because the comment might be misleading.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the issues B and C are more important than just missing &lt;code&gt;\left&lt;/code&gt;s I think it is useful to tell so somewhere. Depending on how directly they are related with issue A this might be in a comment or in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-10-31T22:56:23.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="611" CreationDate="2010-11-01T09:01:03.447" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a judgement call.  It may be that in their haste to provide a minimum working example, the questioner got sloppy.  It may be that they really got it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important thing is to answer the actual question.  The danger in correcting B and C is that the key change needed to correct A may get lost.  However, I don't think that B and C should be ignored either: correcting those will also help the person asking (and anyone else who stumbles on the question).  In an ideal world, I would probably try to phrase my answer like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's how to solve A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I found that I got a nicer-looking result if I also did B and C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that takes a little longer to do and if time and effort is short, just do A.  The &quot;incidentally&quot; can also be a comment on the original question (or your answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If answering a question that wasn't asked (as in, if correcting something that the questioner didn't ask about), the most important thing is to be polite, which usually (and particularly when it comes to style) means: don't be dogmatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-01T09:01:03.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="611" CreationDate="2010-11-01T13:33:56.060" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two distinct questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we evangelise proper LaTeX usage? (prefer &lt;code&gt;\[&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;$$&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we evangelise good typography? (don't typeset your thesis in comic sans)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer to both is &quot;yes but...&quot; and endorse the suggestions in the other answers, which seem to apply to both&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2010-11-01T13:33:56.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="616" CreationDate="2010-11-02T11:33:49.090" Score="19" ViewCount="938" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4652/215&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and the package author replied. Someone suggested that this &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to be the right answer. By definition, almost! But there's a bounty on this question, and it seems a shame that lockstep's work at hacking together a working solution goes unrewarded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any advice on who should get the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T15:12:35.057" Title="What to do when the package author responds?" Tags="|discussion|package-authors|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="615" CreationDate="2010-11-02T11:55:44.490" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luck of the draw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I submit a hacky answer to something then I know that I'm running the risk that someone's going to come along and say, &quot;Just use package &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; with option &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; and it all works Just Right.&quot;.  Then all my hackery is for nothing.  Except that it's not, I'll've learnt something by doing the hack, and there's a sizeable chance that there &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; such a package, and even if there is if the person needs an answer Right Now then waiting for Package Right to come along may take too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I make it a personal policy to vote up &quot;hacks&quot; even when a later answer supersedes them.  If we get to the point where we're all waiting for an &quot;Expert&quot; to drop by then the site will stagnate and die.  But when an expert &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; drop by with what is without-doubt the right answer, then we commiserate with the unlucky loser and say, &quot;Better luck next time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that you should only accept the answer &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; the update is on CTAN!  If it doesn't get updated in time, lockstep gets the bounty as that's the most &lt;em&gt;usable&lt;/em&gt; solution at the time that the bounty is awarded.  And if the package maintainer gets the bounty, that's quite a nice &quot;welcome package&quot; that will encourage him to check the site again from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T11:55:44.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1451" CreationDate="2010-11-02T16:11:34.147" Score="16" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just fully trusting what was written there, I marked Joseph's first comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4828/a-stacktrace-for-errors/4837#4837&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer as a &quot;great comment&quot;. Now Ulrike's comment told me that the first comment wasn't that great after all (no offense meant ;-). How can I get rid of this upvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T00:06:52.883" Title="Can I undo marking a comment as a &quot;great comment&quot;?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="598" CreationDate="2010-11-02T20:46:28.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regard to the FAQ bit, I suspect that we've sort of lost a bit of steam there.  It may partly be to do with the fact that we can (at the moment) only edit the first part of the FAQ so suggestions on what goes in the rest is a bit like arguing over what colour the deckchairs should be on the iceberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T20:46:28.407" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="615" CreationDate="2010-11-02T22:02:22.680" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;My solution was hacky, and I don't think Phil Kime will use it as a base for patching biblatex-apa. Therefore, I concur with Andrew Stacey: If biblatex-apa does get updated in due time, the bounty should be awarded to Phil Kime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T22:02:22.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="587" CreationDate="2010-11-04T08:07:51.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been removed from child metas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-11-04T08:07:51.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-05T13:12:47.493" Score="4" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created a small Stack Exchange tag set for Latex &amp;amp;c questions that are not this site, which I've called &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/tagsets/334/texmf-tex-sx&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;texmf -tex.sx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-01-05T14:30:53.297" Title="Tex &amp; friends abroad" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="623" CreationDate="2010-11-06T09:49:01.130" Score="7" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a questioner deletes his/her own posts, shouldn't we respect that and not vote to undelete?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to provide an example, but presumably the questioner had a reason to delete the question, so I won't draw further attention to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2010-11-06T14:33:41.343" Title="Undeleting posts deleted by questioner" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2010-11-06T10:40:29.200" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's usually very bad to vote to undelete qns and answers that were deleted by the original poster.  It can be some sort of attack on the dignity of participants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff wrote, in a comment on the meta.so qn, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/53402/allow-25k-community-moderators-to-undelete-self-deleted-questions&quot;&gt;Allow 25k+ community moderators to undelete self-deleted questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I will only undelete something deleted by a user, when I think it was deleted in bad faith, and the underlying content adds a lot of value,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;clarifying that by bad faith he had in mind such things as &quot;sometimes users just get pissed off and decide to delete all their content out of spite.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-11-06T14:33:41.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="621" CreationDate="2010-11-06T13:27:28.400" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several of the questions tagged with this tag have also been duplicated on this site. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/4107694/219352&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/4098356/219352&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; have both also been asked on the tex.se site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose of this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2010-11-06T13:27:28.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-06T18:38:39.757" Score="20" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to post a solution to a problem. The solution includes a large .bst file that is 32K on its own. So I was unable to actually post that file as part of my response. Of course I can put the file online somewhere and give a link to it, but that seems like it's much less stable, and likely to break in the future.  I can post a diff, but that may be harder for other people to use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the recommended way to include large files that are necessary for an answer?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to retag this, I am not sure what the best tags are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2010-11-09T12:12:12.370" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T20:57:11.557" Title="How to post long files?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|etiquette|files|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2010-11-06T20:32:18.067" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A similar &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15821/stackoverflow-etiquette-for-sharing-files-and-resources&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on meta.stackexchange suggests using &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pastbin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://rapidshare.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rapidshare&lt;/a&gt; or similar sites for sharing. (upload the file and then post the link in the question.)&#xA;I see no reason we could should behave differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This of course runs the risk that sometime in the future that hosting company will be defunct...there doesn't seem to be much we can do about that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-11-06T20:32:18.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2010-11-07T13:15:59.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you've already outlined all your options.  Since you can't post it here, you have to post it somewhere else.  If you are concerned about persistence, either host it on your own website or host it somewhere else and use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://purl.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;purl.org&lt;/a&gt; URL to change its location if you need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like your diff/patch idea as well.  It would be polite to give specific advice on how to use it.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_%28Unix%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page for patch&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://linux.die.net/man/1/patch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;man page for patch&lt;/a&gt; might be good resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So do both!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2010-11-07T13:15:59.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="466" CreationDate="2010-11-08T03:32:14.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;keep it!&#xA;bug history is useful for those who do not update, or do it out of time. add an update with link for update and describe the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mateus Araújo remark has a point!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;don't if this is possible - but add to the question tittle the time frame or the update for which the answers are useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1713" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T03:32:14.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2010-11-08T15:05:57.047" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best solution might well be a StackExchange branded &quot;pastebin&quot; type facility. Several other SE sites would also benefit from the possibility of dumping log files and the like somewhere and then linking to it. So how about we bring it in-house?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked about this on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/70043/144964&quot;&gt;meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;, as the comment suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T11:24:23.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="880" CreationDate="2010-11-08T18:11:51.507" Score="10" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;This comes up from a moderators perspective, but affects the entire way the site operates so seems sensible to bring up here. The moderators can see the e-mail address given when a user registers, which can be used if there is a need to get hold of someone directly. This might happen if a question or answer is flagged, for example. However, it's quite possible to register without giving an e-mail address using the OpenID system. Now, this poses a challenge if there is a need to send a message directly to a user. The only way is to do so 'in public', say as a comment to a question. How do people feel this should be handled? One option is to take the attitude 'no e-mail, no notice of any moderator actions', but to me this seems a bit heavy-handed. On the other hand, posting a public message also seems a bit off. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T18:12:14.393" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T14:20:06.997" Title="Contacting the 'uncontactable'" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-08T21:25:55.700" Score="11" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose the following tag synonyms, where the parentheses show the current number of questions under that tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/pdftex/synonyms&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt; (10) &amp;lt;- pdflatex (48)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/xetex/synonyms&quot;&gt;xetex&lt;/a&gt; (26) &amp;lt;- xelatex (17)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/luatex/synonyms&quot;&gt;luatex&lt;/a&gt; (7) &amp;lt;- lualatex (4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning is that what's important about the tag is the engine behind it, and we already have tags &amp;mdash;[latex-general], [plain-tex], [context]&amp;mdash; to talk about formats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-11-14T10:01:20.637" Title="Folding tags about various Tex engines" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2010-11-08T21:38:44.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to speak in generalities about something that is usually handled on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emails are usually a courtesy to notify someone so that questions/people/livestock don't simply disappear without a trace. But if someone does not provide contact information, they can't be contacted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a communication is inherently private, I would not make it public simply because the user did not provide the means of that private communication. But it's hard to say how to handle any particular situations without specifics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T21:38:44.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="639" CreationDate="2010-11-09T14:49:50.337" Score="5" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are we close to getting out of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember when it started private beta, the Ubuntu SE beta started around the same time, and now it's been out of it for a few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are we waiting for? I'm just curious, not trying to push anyone to work faster or harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastEditorUserId="10" LastEditDate="2010-11-09T20:24:00.477" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T20:56:49.807" Title="When will the tex SE go out of beta?" Tags="|discussion|beta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2010-11-09T14:58:06.683" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've wanted more than once on a SE site to send a user a message for private reasons and tracking them down is not always easy! (Indeed sometimes impossible.) I would strongly support being able to &quot;private message&quot; a user through the SE system, although I don't know if anyone here has the power to add such a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T14:58:06.683" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="633" CreationDate="2010-11-09T15:16:46.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;[here be 99% accurate crystal ball predictions]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd venture a guess that we're close to leaving beta. Tex.SE currently gets two Excellent scores on &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;area51&lt;/a&gt; (on number of users and percentage answered questions) -- and by a large margin. Two stats are close behind (number of questions and visits/day). Of those, the visits/day stat has been climbing steadily for the last few weeks. We used to have excellent rating in &quot;average answers per question&quot;, but fell behind by a small bit. FWIW, this last stat is probably not very applicable to TeX.SE, where there's usually one preferred way to skin a particular cat (unlike, say, programmers.SE or gaming.SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm fairly convinced we're going to launch in a few weeks. (At least, I hope so!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: &#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Powers That Be&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/when-will-my-site-graduate/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s no harm in staying in public beta far beyond the initial 90 days, so long as the quality of the Q&amp;amp;A is high and it’s not a ghost town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have extraordinary signal-to-noise ratio (in a highly-&lt;em&gt;scientifique&lt;/em&gt; experiment, I counted only 55 or so questions of zero or less score (some of those are just too obscure to get upvoted), and answers are rarely voted down -- because they are relevant. TeX.SE is not attractive to spammers, promoters and vandals -- seriously, what can you sell to {Con|La|Lua}TeX{t} users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2010-11-09T15:38:18.373" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T15:38:18.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="633" CreationDate="2010-11-09T17:12:45.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;More futurology...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is ready to go live, and I'm guessing that it is between GIS and this site as to which will be next:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GIS is solid, but it lies behind us in terms of the profile of higher rep. users.  It may be the case that the SX team want to hold GIS back a little more before unleashing it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Home improvement sits between GIS and us in terms of reputation profile, but they have a very low number of hits per day.  Maybe that doesn't bother them, maybe they want to launch sites that will make a bit more of a splash before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rate that sites go through is limited by tasks the SX team must do for each launch, most importantly graphic design.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ubuntu was an exceptionally strong proposal, and deserved to get through quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My poorly justified prediction: we'll be launched by the end of the week, as will GIS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T17:12:45.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2010-11-09T19:07:18.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;(More of a comment than an answer, but we're on meta so who cares?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing (as I do) a little of what prompted this, I'd like to rephrase Joseph's &quot;question&quot; a little:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please supply an email address in your &quot;profile&quot;.  This can only be seen by moderators so it's reasonably private.  It's useful because sometimes the moderators might want to contact you privately about something.  Two possibilities are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You did something that needed moderator action: the moderator might want to email you to explain what they did and why so that the situation can be avoided next time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You asked a moderator to look in to something: the moderator might want to email you to say that they were following it up, especially as these things can take a little while to sort out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So if you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; supply an email address, then you accept that we can't contact you and either must explain things in public (in the first case) or you must just trust us to be doing our job (in the second).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(apropos of nothing: &quot;must just trust us&quot; is a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; phrase)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T19:07:18.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-09T20:54:26.063" Score="29" ViewCount="1932" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all. I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/our-designer-in-residence-jin-yang/&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt;, and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites will share quite a bit of common elements so they feel like they're part of the Stack Exchange family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've started brainstorming about the design for the TeX/LaTex site. I thought about going with a minimalist design like I did with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;statistics site&lt;/a&gt;, but as I research deeper on the subject of TeX/LaTex, I feel a different design may be more appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki entry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;When the first volume of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming was published in 1969, it was typeset using hot metal type set by a Monotype Corporation typecaster with a hot metal typesetting machine from the 19th century which produced a &quot;good classic style&quot; appreciated by Knuth.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;The letters of the name are meant to represent the capital Greek letters tau, epsilon, and chi, as TeX is an abbreviation of τέχνη (ΤΕΧΝΗ – technē), Greek for both &quot;art&quot; and &quot;craft&quot;, which is also the root word of technical.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the overall design should give a &quot;Good Classic Style&quot; feel, while the content area is clean and easily readable. The more visually heavy sections would be in the header to offset the text heavy content section. Some visual elements I think that will  convey the feel: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vintage paper texture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Letter-pressed effects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Serif typeface&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this look works well because it pays homage to ancient typesetting techniques that paved the way, and make this site stands out from the rest of the TeX/LaTex sites design wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the logo, I'm thinking about using curly brackets around the logo type, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;{TeX/LaTex}, and the favicon/Appple-touch icons would simply be a stylized &quot;{ }&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me know if you have any thoughts on the design direction I'm going with. I'm hoping to launch the final site very soon, so early grats!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H2&gt;Update: Design &lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all the helpful suggestions. Here's the initial design. While it doesn't have all the site element and details, it should give you an idea of the over all look and feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;click on image to see full resolution version.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5zLy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5zLy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the logo typeface, I used &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100010&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hoelfer Text&lt;/a&gt;. Charles was right about my original choice of Trajan being too thin for the &quot;E.&quot; The serif for the main navigation links, section header text and question titles is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Palatino&lt;/a&gt;(Georgia for fallback in CSS). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The header background image is a montage of various shapes and equations produced by TeX. (Fourier Transform, Euler's Identity to name a few). I'm using them very very faintly. I want people to know they're there, but not get in the way. I also think the faint coloring works well against the paper texture. The serif typefaces and white space provide the beauty, and the subtle geometric shapes signify precision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overall color palette is a warm one. I feel it works well with classic look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the page design is pretty straight forward. It has much familiarity from the Beta Sketchy theme, so existing users don't have to relearn the UI. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;What's not shown is the Question page. It will have the same &quot;shell&quot; as the homepage. The Question/Answer/Comment body text will be a sans-serif font. I'm thinking about Helvetica Neue with Tahoma for fall back.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update 2: Question Page Design&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uV1YK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uV1YK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to go with Lucida for the sans-serif typeface choice instead of Helvetica in the previous Homepage mockup, with Tohama for fallback. As @lockstep pointed out, Helvetica is a bit overused, plus I feel Lucida mixes better with Palatino. I made the lines in the badge icons fainter, as Charles suggested. The goal for the Question page is to be clean and readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me know what you think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:00.337" LastActivityDate="2010-11-11T19:03:35.303" Title="Site Design Ideas (updated with mockup)" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="633" CreationDate="2010-11-09T20:56:49.807" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very soon! I just made a post on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/638/site-design-ideas&quot;&gt;design ideas&lt;/a&gt; for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T20:56:49.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2010-11-09T21:34:38.933" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi Jin,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good to meet you! I think we're all quite excited at the prospect of &quot;graduating&quot;.  I'm equally sure that you'll get lots of opinions on design since, as you saw, good design goes right to the heart of what TeX is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing that springs to mind is the name and logo.  We're down-playing the &quot;LaTeX&quot; in the title a bit.  In brief, although the majority of the questions tend to be LaTeX-oriented, we definitely don't want to give the impression that LaTeX is the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; TeX-extension allowed.  So since LaTeX is the de facto default, it's important not to make it the de jure default as well as that could easily lead to this site being LaTeX-only and that is definitely not what we want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would go for just {TeX} for the Logo (could the &quot;TeX&quot; be typeset correctly as well?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to say that I do like the idea of using the &quot;special characters&quot; as part of the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, just my first thoughts.  I'm sure others will have more to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T21:34:38.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2010-11-09T21:54:43.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Collecting some ideas from an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23/what-should-the-site-design-look-feel-smell-like&quot;&gt;earlier thread&lt;/a&gt;, some of the key points that the look of the site should convey are: &lt;strong&gt;precision&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;quality&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;beauty&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we all would appreciate a style that, as you suggested, is clean and easily readable, with lots of white. People also suggested TikZ as a source of inspiration, in particular I would recommend to have a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pgf.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TikZ Manual&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt; website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A serif font for the logo, title, headings, etc. is a very good idea. But for the particular font used in the body of the site, people seemed to be keen on having a sans-serif font because it does tend to look better on screen, while serif fonts usually look better when printed on paper. I think that the “classic” think about TeX is not necessarily the use of serif fonts, but its obsession about the correct use of typography for clarity and ease of reading. There were suggestions about using Helvetica, but also concerns about the font (or decent alternatives) being available on most web browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, about the logo, most people seemed to like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/519/write-an-elevator-pitch-tagline&quot;&gt;TeXnique&lt;/a&gt;, or something along those lines, to identify the site. What about having something like &lt;code&gt;{TeX}nique&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;{TeXnique}&lt;/code&gt;? And indeed, please don't use LaTeX in the logo/title because we want the site to be open and welcoming to people using any format and not just LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I also like the idea of letter-pressed effects in the title, headings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T21:54:43.100" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2010-11-09T22:42:19.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Restricting my thoughts to fonts; I agree with Juan's remarks about logo and that the theme should reflect &quot;precision, quality and beauty.&quot;  Sorry for all the scrolling that the following requires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of &quot;good classic style&quot;, and raced off to look at some of Hermann Zapf's efforts (Zapf worked with Knuth for a patch, on Knuth's maths fonts).  Something like Zapfino Ink (rom &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEP/Article/28799/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEP/Article/28799/&lt;/a&gt;):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vsKYQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is attractive, and the swashes and flourishes are showy, but it makes me wonder if there is a danger that this kind of thing would make the site look somewhat antique and not being all that focussed on precision?  This seems to be a danger with any of the more flowery fonts.  Fitting the serif theme is the very modern Linotype Didot (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linotype.com/13354/linotypedidotroman-font.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.linotype.com/13354/linotypedidotroman-font.html&lt;/a&gt;):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UAoM7.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linotype Didot is somewhat reminiscent, to me at least, of Knuth's Computer Modern, but with the decorative elements being more bold where CM can be a bit fussy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think serif is probably alright, but might Zapf's not-very-serif Optima work?  (From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linotype.com/12540/optimaroman-font.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.linotype.com/12540/optimaroman-font.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Es3L1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other two points: &quot;vintage paper texture&quot; - it's a great idea, but I wonder about the antique association again.  Maybe just paper texture would work with a more up-to-date look?  I'm very happy with &quot;letter pressed effects&quot; - this emphasises that we care about text that are held in the hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T22:42:19.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2010-11-10T10:04:33.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m loving the sound of this. It seems to capture the essence of TeX very well indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think most people agree that the standard TeX fonts (Computer Modern …) aren’t the most elegant. On the other hand, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319&quot;&gt;Showcase of beautiful typography done in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; thread refers to some beautiful LaTeX documents that could be used for inspiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;About the title. There was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/519&quot;&gt;a pretty strong consensus &lt;strong&gt;against&lt;/strong&gt; “TeX, LaTeX and Friends”&lt;/a&gt; since that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/524&quot;&gt;puts a special emphasis on LaTeX while unduly de-emphasizing similar tool sets&lt;/a&gt; that play an equal role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the tag line (if any) should be placed prominently, in particular if the site name is going to be a bit oblique. For example, I really love the site design of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;CrossValidated&lt;/a&gt; – but there’s &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; indication that this is a site about statistics! I had to look at the URL to see that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really like Charles’ first suggestion of using the Zapfino font in the design, e.g. the logo (even though Charles himself has doubts). I believe using a Zapf font would be very fitting; not only is Hermann Zapf kind of the ultimate font designer, he also worked very closely with Knuth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The perceived danger that this would make the site look too antique, and not enough focused on precision could be mitigated by “resolving” the strokes into vector outlines or guide lines, like in this picture:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWdRb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;FontForge logo&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this is rather too specific and I’m not a designer. I just wanted to mention that I think a font like Zapfino &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be made to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, I’m very excited to see the final layout!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T10:12:43.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="645" CreationDate="2010-11-10T17:50:37.867" Score="8" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, it looks like moving out of beta will happen soon (based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/638/site-design-ideas-updated-with-mockup&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, for example). So I wonder what happens about the moderator situation: do we have an election for moderators at some stage? After all, the current team were appointed &lt;em&gt;pro tem&lt;/em&gt;, and I guess that there may be others who wish to put their hats into the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T18:40:26.073" Title="When will there be a 'proper' moderator election?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="644" CreationDate="2010-11-10T18:40:26.073" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64592/is-there-a-time-when-we-elect-non-temporary-moderators-on-an-se-2-0-site/69361#69361&quot;&gt;“Is there a time when we elect non-temporary moderators on an SE 2.0 site ?”&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The nominations for moderator elections will start about 30 days after a site graduates from beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T18:40:26.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2010-11-10T21:39:04.733" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments on the current mockup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know I'd gotten the Enthusiast badge!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find the geometric shapes behind the {TeX} a bit crowded.  It looks as though that triangle from texample is in there, but as it gets truncated and hidden behind the logo then I feel it gets a bit lost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a little bit of inconsistency in the faint equations on that banner.  The Fourier Series one uses italics but the others are typeset in upright shape.  Most TeX output puts the mathematics in italic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; unhappy with the statement of the Fourier Series!  Where did that come from?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But those are very minor quibbles.  Overall, it looks very nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T21:39:04.733" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2010-11-11T16:06:41.173" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jin, a very good design! I'm happy to see that. The letter-pressed effects are great and I like the warm colors. I'm just not so much happy seeing the red, yellow and blue colors on the left of a question. For instance, the yellow favourite symbol could be a bit warmer fitting to the paper-like background. The highlighted voting triangle could be filled with a darker color from the warm paper-like palette. It doesn't need to be red to be distinguishable from the not-filled voting symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rectangle badges look a bit boring to me. Some fancy ideas could be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a lying book with the badge name on its spine, like a leather bound book with gold, silver or bronze decoration&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a calligraphy pen with the badge name, the tip color gold, silver or bronze&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or the upvoting and downvoting buttons could be a calligraphic pen tip pointing up or down. TeX deals also with beauty of fonts, so why not use a pen tip like seen in Charles' answer regarding Zapfino Ink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Curly braces around the tags are a nice idea since they are for grouping in TeX. Similar with the logo, thus the logo {TeX} looks like a general tag for the complete site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the header: I think there's too much math in the header. Perhaps it could indicate other uses like a nice scientific table (bootabs), a letter beginning (Dear ...) or a stock phrase hinting a book text like &lt;em&gt;Once upon a time&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;... and they all lived happily ever after&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2010-11-11T16:22:47.720" LastActivityDate="2010-11-11T16:22:47.720" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2010-11-11T16:12:47.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the curious with screens that fail to resolve the subtle color difference, here is what the header currently looks like after moving some sliders in Gimp to make things more visible. (Click for full size view.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mTAJ9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mTAJ9.png&quot; alt=&quot;header&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the formulas seem to be typeset with Euler Math fonts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-11-11T16:12:47.650" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2010-11-11T17:39:26.793" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Collection of possible header images&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is CW, so feel free to add more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General resources&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-beautiful-typography-done-in-latex&quot;&gt;“Showcase of beautiful typography done in LaTeX?”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texshowcase&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The TeX showcase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chemistry&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FZ1Qr.png&quot; alt=&quot;oxidation and reduction&quot;&gt; adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/oxidation-and-reduction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://caramdir.at/uploads/tex.SE/reduction-oxidation.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is a pdf.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Math&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3892/how-do-you-draw-the-snake-arrow-for-the-connecting-homomorphism-in-the-snake-le/3894#3894&quot;&gt;The Snake Lemma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Physics&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something form the Maxwell equations, e.g. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c8Wcg.png&quot; alt=&quot;faraday induction&quot;&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://caramdir.at/uploads/tex.SE/maxwell.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is a pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Philosophy&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H8Ru8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus &quot;&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Text and fonts:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once upon a time ... and they all lived happily ever after. (Maybe in Zapfino or a fraktur font?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tengwar: &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5WL9d.png&quot; alt=&quot;one ring&quot;&gt; from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/tengwar.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX showcase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ligatures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Glyph metrics&lt;/a&gt;, boxes  (not free, but for the idea: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.datadeluge.com/2010/04/anatomy-of-utopia.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Utopia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/boxes.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Boxes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-11-11T19:03:35.303" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-11-11T17:39:26.793" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-11T21:15:30.663" Score="22" ViewCount="485" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your helpful &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/638/site-design-ideas-updated-with-mockup&quot;&gt;design input&lt;/a&gt;. As you can see, the new design went live, grats!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any CSS/Styling issues, please &lt;strong&gt;start a new question&lt;/strong&gt; for the bug report, and tag it with &quot;Design&quot; and &quot;Bug.&quot; It will be a lot easier for me to track new questions than reading the comments replied to this thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The favicons may be cached by your browsers, to see the new ones, load the following URL in your browser's address bar and hard refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/tex/img/favicon.ico&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/tex/img/favicon.ico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/texmeta/img/favicon.ico&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/texmeta/img/favicon.ico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the header background montage, I have used some of your suggestions. I'm still keeping it very subtle, since it's used for pure decorative purpose only. The content of the background image isn't final, I'm always up for suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Designing this site has been an educational experience for me. I've learned quite a bit about what TeX can do! Thank you for such a wonderful community and congratulations on the launch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: I'll be hanging around the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41&quot;&gt;TeX chat room&lt;/a&gt;  you can catch me there for design discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T08:32:24.583" Title="New Design Launched" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="650" CreationDate="2010-11-11T21:35:43.407" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, I like it. Looks great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2010-11-11T21:35:43.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="661" CreationDate="2010-11-11T21:54:19.553" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found something that looks like a small glitch in the new design. First, I didn't know that for quotations one could use either the markdown &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or the html &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. But anyway, this is what they seem to produce&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is some test quote using markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;This is some test quote using html markup.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least to my taste, the one above leaves too many whitespace bellow the quote, while the other one leaves too little. Maybe a more symmetrical alignment above and bellow would be preferable? Or is this intended by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-11-12T10:30:03.050" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T10:30:03.050" Title="Inconsistent spacing in quotes" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="650" CreationDate="2010-11-11T22:19:19.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very, very nice. What about a new favicon though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1517" LastActivityDate="2010-11-11T22:19:19.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="660" CreationDate="2010-11-11T22:53:22.263" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;When composing a message, the font is like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yjsPE.png&quot; alt=&quot;composing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the posted question it is like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zy5DZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;question page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-11-12T10:29:40.400" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T10:29:40.400" Title="Font sizes on question preview and the question page don't match." Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="650" CreationDate="2010-11-12T02:37:05.357" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lovely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is one thing that felt strange right away, the tags. Is it just me or are they much harder to spot/read now? They seem to blend in too much with the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more general and offtopic note (sorry I couldn't avoid it), I am totally hyped about the official launch of the TeX stackexchange, and in fact the whole stackexchange suite in general. The time when I worked without using these sites seems to be years away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T02:37:05.357" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-12T05:41:13.360" Score="18" ViewCount="711" Body="&lt;p&gt;I knew I forgot something right before the new design launch today. I didn't get a chance to create custom images for the 404/Captcha/error pages on the TeX site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any suggestions?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few examples from other sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooking site's 404:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bSQ7c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gaming site's CAPTCHA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PFoPH.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Photography site's 404 (Normally for Captcha, we do a &quot;robot&quot; theme.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EE8PW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to have these images somewhat light hearted, and reflect the theme of the site. What are your suggestions for this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T15:02:52.103" Title="404/CAPTCHA/Error images" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="659" CreationDate="2010-11-11T23:29:50.250" Score="9" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the one right in the split bar, below the 'E' in 'TeX'...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="877" OwnerDisplayName="Hugo S Ferreira" LastEditorUserId="117" LastEditDate="2011-11-01T16:14:47.313" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T16:16:06.967" Title="Where can I find a font/vectorial version of the ornament used in TeX.SE?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="657" CreationDate="2010-11-12T01:16:40.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess, jin will give the answer. In the meanwhile I suggest at least one source for such ornaments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an ornament font called Web-O-Mints which has been created by George Ryan. It contains typographic decorations inspired by historical sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/webomints&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Web-O-Mints on CTAN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.galapagosdesign.com/original/webomints.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Homepage and free download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/galapagos/web-o-mints-gd/webomints-gd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Browse examples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lkpl2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" OwnerDisplayName="Stefan Kottwitz" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T06:09:54.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="657" CreationDate="2010-11-12T05:08:46.143" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The font is &lt;a href=&quot;http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/letraset/type-embellishments-one/type-ornaments-one/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Type Embellishments One&lt;/a&gt;. The ornament below the logo is &quot;8&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" OwnerDisplayName="Jin" LastEditorUserId="117" LastEditDate="2011-11-01T16:16:06.967" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T16:16:06.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2010-11-12T07:42:44.393" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have put in a fix for this, it will be in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T07:42:44.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="652" CreationDate="2010-11-12T07:44:38.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have put in a fix for this, it will be in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T07:44:38.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="656" CreationDate="2010-11-12T09:04:54.560" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a 404, there could be a play on some of most common TeX error messages. I think the &lt;strong&gt;Undefined control sequence&lt;/strong&gt; is most appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for an image, something simple like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\404{Page not found}&#xA;&#xA;! Undefined control sequence.&#xA;l.6 \404&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or some variation thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably rendered in different styles, to distinguish user input from TeX complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T09:04:54.560" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-11-12T09:04:54.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="656" CreationDate="2010-11-12T09:15:23.347" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badness 10000!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T09:15:23.347" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-11-12T09:15:23.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2010-11-12T12:42:18.347" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already something matching what you're looking for: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Github Gist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are already oneboxed in chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They make a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; git repository for each post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They allow editing posts (which translates to a &lt;code&gt;git commit&lt;/code&gt; behind the scenes).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They allow anonymous posting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They do syntax highlighting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They allow multiple files.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They allow comments with Markdown syntax.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/631092&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a complex example.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1559" LastEditorUserId="1559" LastEditDate="2010-11-20T10:53:44.210" LastActivityDate="2010-11-20T10:53:44.210" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="670" CreationDate="2010-11-12T23:03:07.590" Score="0" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;The newly designed icon {} did not make it to the flair picture. Or maybe I need to update it somehow, and do not know how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmmm. Here's mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/117/yossi-farjoun&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/flair/117.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for Yossi Farjoun at TeX - LaTeX, Q&amp;A for expert users of TeX, LaTeX and other related typesetting systems&quot; title=&quot;profile for Yossi Farjoun at TeX - LaTeX, Q&amp;A for expert users of TeX, LaTeX and other related typesetting systems&quot;&gt; &#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T20:02:32.870" Title="Flair for TeX only still uses old icon" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="673" CreationDate="2010-11-12T23:08:04.063" Score="21" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I could eventually figure out that I was in Meta and not Parent, I found myself wondering for a few seconds....I think that the design should specifically include the word meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hereby suggest paying our homage to Knuth by using META with the METAFONT font: &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lm6mf.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2010-11-15T21:30:56.317" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T21:30:56.317" Title="Nothing indicates that the meta site is meta...." Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="656" CreationDate="2010-11-13T00:07:44.963" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sNAqQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know how you arrived in room 404, but we have been working for a long  time to correct all bugs! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T00:07:44.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="666" CreationDate="2010-11-13T00:42:47.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, good idea -- we usually do update the logo to include the word &quot;meta&quot; so we can use whatever font you like!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T00:42:47.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="665" CreationDate="2010-11-13T05:11:52.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you talking about the user flair like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QByE5.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing the latest favicon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T05:11:52.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="665" CreationDate="2010-11-13T08:00:28.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can take up to 24 hours for flair to update, so you may need to be a bit more patient..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T08:00:28.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="650" CreationDate="2010-11-13T16:43:36.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really beautiful. Congratulations to everyone who contributed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only, very small, &quot;but&quot; is that it doesn't include a Feynman diagram...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T16:43:36.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="650" CreationDate="2010-11-13T20:35:52.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think this design is beautiful, elegant and subtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1706" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T20:35:52.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="666" CreationDate="2010-11-14T07:54:46.490" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have updated the Meta header, the change will be in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what it's supposed to look like, in case you get a cached old version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VRYYs.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to put it in the same position as Parent site's fleuron, this way when you switch between the parent and meta, the {TEX} logo stays at the same location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-11-14T07:54:46.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="631" CreationDate="2010-11-14T10:01:20.637" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that a few days have passed, with only positive feedback, and I have conveniently acquired the req. reputation, I've made tag synonym requests to xetex and luatex.  The synonym to pdftex, though, I can't create, because pdflatex has far more qns than pdftex: this will need a moderator action, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-14T10:01:20.637" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-15T12:31:53.563" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted a new answer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5309/how-can-i-replicate-affine-dynkin-diagrams-in-kacs-textbook/5394#5394&quot;&gt;the question on dynkin diagrams&lt;/a&gt; and was asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it OK for me to include [the diagrams] into the paper on this subject?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is, of course, &quot;Of course&quot;, and I directed the person to the link at the foot of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the links myself, it seems that we need to decide what &quot;proper attribution&quot; is for such things.  I would hazard a guess that we'll actually want to define a few different levels of attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very minor stuff, such as what package to use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stuff that actually involves putting in some code, but is &quot;low level&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Really obvious stuff, like diagrams and complicated layouts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm tempted to say that for (1), attribution isn't required, though a nod to tex.SX in the acknowledgements would be nice, whilst for (3) I'd go for something more formal.  Of course, the real question is where to draw the boundaries!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as credit-where-credit's due, there's also the principle of attribution-as-advertising, so although we don't want to cripple someone's paper by requiring every last hack to be properly attributed, we'd still like a mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Suggestions on format, citation type?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T22:29:36.543" Title="What's our &quot;required attribution&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2010-11-15T16:11:13.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the acknowledgements, one could put a text like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This paper was typeset using TeX, the typesetting program developed by D. E. Knuth, and various extensions thereof. The author(s) would like to acknowledge the help received from various users on TeX.SE (tex.stackexchange.com), specifically the following questions were instrumental in providing the typesetting tricks used in this paper: blah, blah, blah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would that be enough? or should there be a direct link? Is the last phrase actually needed? It might be too specific...CW, so people can change if they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="117" LastEditDate="2010-11-15T22:29:36.543" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T22:29:36.543" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-11-15T16:11:13.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2010-11-15T19:12:07.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've assumed that the same approach applies as on c.t.t =&gt; if you post it, you accept that people can do whatever they fancy with it. Perhaps this is just me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T19:12:07.537" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2010-11-15T20:56:36.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the license obviously only applies to things that are covered by copyright at all. This might of course vary by the country in which you are. For example US copyright law has a big fair use exemption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any even sligthly reasonable¹ copyright law will not apply to (1) and probably also not to isolated usage of (2) or even (3). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the footer already has a link on „attribution required”: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&lt;/a&gt; which is fairly specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ I don't want to get into a discussion of what a “reasonable” copyright law is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T20:56:36.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="680" CreationDate="2010-11-16T20:54:26.160" Score="23" ViewCount="430" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5473/producing-quality-figure-and-graphics-which-edward-tufte-book-should-i-read&quot;&gt;JCL asked a question about Edward Tufte books&lt;/a&gt;.  It's definitely not about &quot;TeX or any of its descendants … TeX distributions … [or] (La)TeX related software&quot;, to quote the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and so it'd definitely seem to be off topic.  On the other hand, typographical concerns are near and dear to TeX, and consequently to many of its users as well.  I imagine that a number of us would care about the answer to this question, or be able to provide a good one.  All the same, just because something has no place elsewhere doesn't mean it belongs here, but I share Tomas Lycken's concern that we'd suffer question drain to a hypothetical &lt;code&gt;typography.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;.  So what should be our policy on such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1425" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T09:28:01.520" Title="What should the policy be on typography/design questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="679" CreationDate="2010-11-17T10:24:46.713" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to have at least &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; connection to TeX in the question.  I agree that it's something a lot of TeXers would be interested in, and is close to the spirit of the site, but I don't like the slippery slope.  I think that questions at the boundary have to pass a higher level of &quot;question quality&quot; to pass, and at the very least explain why Joe TeXer would be interested in the answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I believe that there are LaTeX classes based on Tufte's designs (ikke sant?), so the question could easily be made into a question about those classes and the books that they were based on.  The questioner could look at the output of those classes, say which one they like, and so make it even more specific.  Or could ask about how to implement some aspect of Tufte's designs in ordinary TeX (ie without loading one of the special classes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-17T10:24:46.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="686" CreationDate="2010-11-17T12:21:56.317" Score="5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;When referring to a LaTeX package I like to codeify the name, i.e., I write &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; to make a distinction with normal text. Now when you want to link to the CTAN page of this package, you write&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[`amsmath`][1]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;resulting in &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/amsmath&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. As one can see, no visual clue of it being a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong to do this? In the light of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73/automatic-links-to-the-ctan-catalogue&quot;&gt;Automatic links to the CTAN catalogue?&lt;/a&gt; I feel that it might be a good idea though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: To make it a bit clearer: this is a feature request, as in (if it is not deemed an inappropriate use of &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; and links) a change to the stylesheet. This could do the trick I guess&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a, a code&#xA;{&#xA;    color: #145680;&#xA;    text-decoration: none;&#xA;    cursor: pointer;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;a:hover, a:hover code&#xA;{&#xA;    text-decoration: underline;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;a:visited, a:visited code&#xA;{&#xA;    color: #3989bb; &#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if my CSS isn't too rusty. I'm not sure though whether &lt;code&gt;a:hover code&lt;/code&gt;, i.e. the &lt;code&gt;:hover&lt;/code&gt; acting as a parent element's pseudo class selector works good in all browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="210" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T19:11:15.600" Title="Formatting of linked inline code" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-17T13:49:50.673" Score="6" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joseph made the qn &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5511/good-practice-on-spacing&quot;&gt;Good practice on spacing&lt;/a&gt; CW, which was more or less within the bounds of Stack Exchange de facto practice before the Great CW Policy Change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does seem kind of hardline now: it's not in the less focussed half of the [best-practices] posts, and the question passes my &quot;does it seem not too unlikely that someone could come by and sort out all the issues in one answer?&quot; - I imagine that either Joseph or Will could, without breaking a sweat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a criterion for when the moderator wikify power should be exercised?  IIRC, Jeff said something to the effect that questions that looked like they should be CW nearly always should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T13:25:16.600" Title="Wikification policy" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|moderation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="682" CreationDate="2010-11-17T17:48:59.340" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understand was that CW should be used for real on-topic questions where there will be a range of possible answers, none of which will necessarily be 'correct'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-11-17T17:48:59.340" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="682" CreationDate="2010-11-17T18:57:25.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeff said something to the effect that questions that looked like they should be CW nearly always should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is why, I think, that the ability to make things CW got removed.  However, there is clearly still some purpose in having CW questions as mods can make things CW.  The point (again, as far as I can tell) of taking away the ability to post CW questions from the off is so that the true purpose of CW questions can stay, but the misuse of it (namely as posting questions that really ought not to be there) goes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we should have some criteria under which a question is made CW.  Joseph's answer goes a long way for me, but I can imagine other possibilities.  The key words in Joseph's answer (for me) are &quot;real on-topic&quot;.  Whether or not a question is CW is not part of the criterion for being acceptable on this site.  It &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; has to be a good question, and only then should it be considered whether or not to make it CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-17T18:57:25.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="690" CreationDate="2010-11-17T20:50:28.130" Score="6" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has just been a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5541/&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; which was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5543/&quot;&gt;repeated&lt;/a&gt; almost immediately due to a user account issue. In general, we've agreed not to delete or merge duplicate questions, but in this case the two versions don't add anything at all (I think). Would a bit of moderator 'cleaning up' be appropriate here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T11:43:31.347" Title="Deleting really exact duplicates" Tags="|discussion|moderation|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="681" CreationDate="2010-11-17T21:55:22.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can make code link text to be the same as regular link's. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X1nyU.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it'd be as simple as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a code { #83741E; }&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-11-17T21:55:22.757" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="693" CreationDate="2010-11-18T05:18:57.647" Score="16" ViewCount="452" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit: No one complained about the German question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/61549/natbib-biblatex-styling-help&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/61549/natbib-biblatex-styling-help&lt;/a&gt; for two hours, so I'd like to clarify what our position is (the votes below aren't enough to interpret them as consensus).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5478/using-function-calc-in-tikz&quot;&gt;“Using function calc in TikZ”&lt;/a&gt; doesn't seem to speak English well enough to ask an understandable and coherent question. I was tempted to ask him to pose the question in Portuguese, and then have have google translate (or someone on this site who speaks Portuguese and English) translate it. However, since this might set a precedent, I wanted to ask first what you think about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we accept questions in languages other than English? What is the stack overflow policy on that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Let me rephrase that question, so that it is less broad: If we get a question in English, were it is impossible to understand what the problem really is, is it acceptable to ask for an &lt;em&gt;additional&lt;/em&gt; explanation in the native language of the user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-29T06:35:21.307" Title="Non-English questions" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="687" CreationDate="2010-11-18T06:29:22.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TeX community tends to be fairly multilingual, so there's no reason not to do this if English just doesn't work. I can't imagine it will catch on especially, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T06:29:22.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-18T06:42:32.553" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty unclear which tags people should be using for referring to graphics problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;graphics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;graphicx  (a package)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;images&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;external-images&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;diagrams&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;drawing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;picture   (an environment)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some consolidation would be good, I think. (&lt;code&gt;graphics&lt;/code&gt; is also a package but I've never  seen it used.) Then we should create tag wikis so we can tell people which to use when.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest keeping &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;graphicx  (a package)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;picture   (an environment)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for obvious reasons, and then defining tags specifically for the following meanings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;drawing packages, programmatic and GUI-based &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;including external graphics such as eps/pdf/jpg/png/svg/etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest just using the ‘graphics’ tag for both of these, actually, but if you wanted to split then up then maybe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;graphics-drawing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;graphics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2011-01-17T08:31:34.393" Title="Graphics/images tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="685" CreationDate="2010-11-18T08:10:25.880" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, it seems like the best answer here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag up that one of the questions will be deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait 24 hours for any objections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actually do the deleting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T08:10:25.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="689" CreationDate="2010-11-18T08:12:25.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that also &quot;diagrams&quot; might be worth keeping, but otherwise I totally agree. (Posted as an answer so that you can downvote.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T08:12:25.333" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="687" CreationDate="2010-11-18T08:49:47.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a serious problem with having questions asked in languages where there are no moderators, or even 3k+ users, that read and write it.  The moderators speak, at least, English, Spanish, and German.  And Norwegian, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that English, Spanish, and German are also the languages that there is more than a slight chance of getting useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested policy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close qns asked in languages other than English, Spanish, and German (or whatever we figure are the languages that don't put us completely at sea) as &quot;too localized&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put in a comment for qns in Spanish and German that the site has English as its official language, and that qns that can be understood by everyone are best for the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closed qns that some kind soul appends an English translation can be reopened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T08:49:47.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="687" CreationDate="2010-11-18T12:50:15.387" Score="21" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we accept questions in languages&#xA;  other than English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not, at least in my opinion. I totally agree with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official Stack Overflow policy&lt;/a&gt;, and I think this policy should be enforced in this site as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would accept that if a user fails to explain himself in English because he is not a native speaker, he might edit his question to include a brief explanation in his mother tongue. This explanation would help a moderator to edit the question as well and rewrite the English version so it makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T12:50:15.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-18T15:52:56.373" Score="11" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened over to SO today and saw that there are still a fair few TeX questions being asked (and answered!) there.  I left a few &quot;try this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&quot; comments, but I feel that those work best if they are added very soon after the question is asked (and before any answers are posted).  So those who are a bit more regular visitors to SO might want to look out for such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also just asked about formal migration on meta.SO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70466/can-so-questions-on-tex-be-migrated-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Can SO questions on TeX be migrated to tex.SX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if anyone has a good comment that we could adopt as a default for leaving on such questions, please let us know (and format it suitable for cut-and-pasting, so ensure that URLs are fully visible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T09:08:01.587" Title="Keep an eye on SO" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="694" CreationDate="2010-11-18T18:10:46.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/tagsets/334/&quot;&gt;this tag set&lt;/a&gt;, of Tex&amp;amp;friends qns outside this site, with exactly this purpose in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T18:10:46.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="694" CreationDate="2010-11-19T12:51:42.153" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I browsed the tag-set. and posted a few comments. one &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/9421/is-there-any-online-tex-editor-and-previewer&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; asked something that we had already answered quite fully here. In cases like this, I suggest that we give a reference to the question on TeX.SE, so that we also demonstrate that the answer already exists, and not only that TeX.SE is a good place to ask the question..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:57:25.327" LastActivityDate="2010-11-19T12:51:42.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-19T13:21:06.533" Score="9" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it would be helpful to have some of the extreme power users explain some of the finer points of TeX in some more expository questions.  Something like Andrew's nice question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/451/when-to-use-edef-noexpand-and-expandafter&quot;&gt;When to use &lt;code&gt;\edef&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\noexpand&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;\expandafter&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  The top-voted accepted answer there is very helpful, despite the final statement of the answerer that it's often better to learn this kind of thing through examples.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like &quot;When should I use &lt;code&gt;\futurelet&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; could be met with, &quot;You'll know when you need to,&quot; but that might make the questioner feel like they have to wait for a higher state of enlightenment before they deserve an answer.  Would a question such as &quot;What is a good real-word example of &lt;code&gt;\futurelet&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; be appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T19:32:28.377" Title="Should we have some more expository questions?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="694" CreationDate="2010-11-19T13:28:31.963" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;You can find an entire community on the [TeX StackExchange](http://tex.stackexchange.com/), where no TeX-related question is too small.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not say &quot;You should ask this question elsewhere.&quot;  It does not say &quot;People who use TeX should use the TeX SE instead of SO&quot;.  It just says that if you are looking for a focused TeX group it's there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2010-11-19T13:28:31.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-19T19:05:49.043" Score="1" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/181/can-we-turn-off-math-tex-please&quot;&gt;Can we turn off math-tex please?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1272/why-doesnt-maths-render-as-maths&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t maths render as maths?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to be having difficulty using MathJax or TeX or LaTeX or whatever it is. when I try to type something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$\sin^2 \theta$ &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it just shows up as that text and not as an equation... (I have not posted a question before, so perhaps it only appears that way in the preview, in which case what would be the point of the preview??). Anyway sorry to be so clueless, but if anyone could clue me in that would be great, right now my impressions is that dollar signs &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt; are the beginning and end of 'equation strings' or whatever the correct term is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in general, would it make sense that all the other strings only start to be rendered after I downloaded and extracted protex? According to the MathJax website, you just need JavaScript enabled...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="luke" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-03-17T13:16:22.997" Title="Why does TeX not show up in my question (at least in the preview)?" Tags="|feature-request|markup|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2012-03-22T16:49:34.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="697" CreationDate="2010-11-19T22:01:48.917" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly think it would be good if answers that involve a certain amount of TeX hackery came with a little bit of explanation about how the hack works. I know it's more work, but it really is added value to the answer if it explains what it's doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this is actually orthogonal to the issue of more expository &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2010-11-19T22:01:48.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="679" CreationDate="2010-11-20T06:07:29.707" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think that we should try to allow typography questions, at least provisionally, for 2 reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) One should never make a rule or regulation unless, and until, it's needed. It's not clear to me that it's needed now. Are there a million typography questions per hour? Or 5 per year? Do we need a rule before a problem exists? My opinion is that we don't. I believe in fuzziness for things like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The connection between typography and TeX doesn't have to be in the question; it's in &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt;. We use TeX, and we're here to learn how to use it better (or partly that), and knowing a bit, or a lot, about typography helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was fascinated reading the 'memoir' docs precisely because the entire 1st section is about typography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that's me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2003" LastActivityDate="2010-11-20T06:07:29.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="611" CreationDate="2010-11-20T06:20:24.657" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I agree with Andrew that the one thing that must happen is that the person's question should be answered. The rest is optional, but nice if you have time. Presumably the person is using *TeX because he wants more beautiful documents, so he would appreciate some typographical advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2003" LastActivityDate="2010-11-20T06:20:24.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="705" CreationDate="2010-11-20T12:17:59.590" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the absence of an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/73/215&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, what is the best practice when linking to a package on CTAN? I have an irrational dislike of the CTAN &quot;catalogue&quot; version, so I tend to link to the actual CTAN page. However, the catalogue is more user friendly. Or should we link to package documentation by default?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think should be the standard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2010-11-20T14:54:55.070" Title="Linking to CTAN best practice?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2010-11-20T12:35:29.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a comment of part of the original question. Although there are many people on this forum who know much more than I do about the inner workings of *TeX, I doubt that there are many who have actually transitioned as many people as I have from, say, MS Word to *TeX. Our lab instituted a policy 5 years ago that all documents we produce are LaTeX documents. It fell on me to make this happen since I was the only one who knew LaTeX. I developed a system of gradual immersion whose goal was to make the learning curve as flat as possible. This meant tons of cutting and pasting and almost no understanding and learning &lt;em&gt;at first.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the key. Make them LaTeX &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; first, and later LaTeX programmers. Users don't have to understand, they just have to know what to cut and paste where. Here's the typical transition flow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) horror at having to abandon Word and having to learn a (gasp!) programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) relief that most of the work has been done for them and all they have to do is write stuff, cut and paste some code for some things like figures and tables, and learn some basic math commands which he can find on the lab wiki easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) amazement at how beautiful their doc looks, and how really &lt;em&gt;easy&lt;/em&gt; it turned out to be. They just, basically, write text. They realize how much time they used to spend screwing with the formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) the desire to do something beyond what they know, so I teach them some basic macro programming. This is where most start to really like *TeX. Suddenly they're programmers. Many start writing macros relentlessly for every little thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5) They've reached a competency level where they feel easy about using *TeX and will tell others that it's not that hard, and the docs look much better, etc. They're over the hard part and a good percent go on from there on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that's my experience. If we're serious about expanding the user base for *TeX, we have to create a transitional method that focuses on a flat learning curve for beginners by reducing the amount of learning and programming a newbie has to do to make nice docs. It's not a question of WYSIWYG or editors or TeXnicCenter. They don't address the main problem. It's having downloadable templets, example files, and simple instructions on how to use those things after you cut and paste them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This hasn't been done in the past because there's been this feeling that using *TeX without understanding is bad and wrong. I disagree with this for newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2003" LastActivityDate="2010-11-20T12:35:29.713" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="703" CreationDate="2010-11-20T14:54:55.070" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The standard practice, such as it is, does tend to be to use the catalogue links. I guess this is because they are relatively easy to type. I always go for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[`somepackage`][1]&#xA;&#xA;[1] http://ctan.org/pkg/somepackage&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which also seems to be the way a number of other people handle things. Now, whether this is the 'accepted' approach I wouldn't like to say. I guess the best plan is to see what alternatives come up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-11-20T14:54:55.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-21T02:10:52.010" Score="12" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forgive me if there already is such a place on stackexchange. I'm new here and definitely don't really have the hang of the place as yet. But I haven't found such a forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think would be helpful (for me) isn't really appropriate for a 'question', unless the question is &quot;what do you think of this code?&quot; which seems inappropriate. I'd like to be able to post some code that is as good as I can make it and get feedback and suggestions from all the folk here that know a lot more than I do. This would accelerate &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; progress quite a bit, and might be useful for others as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm speaking of writing macros, packages, and classes, not layout questions or questions that can be answered by reading one of the commercially available books.  As far as I know, there is no place on Earth where such a *TeX code review process happens, and it seems like this is the natural place for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2003" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T19:43:35.173" Title="Should there be a code-review forum?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2010-11-21T08:16:40.727" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd normally ask on c.t.t. in these cases&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-11-21T08:16:40.727" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2010-11-21T20:10:19.007" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bev,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, welcome to TeX&amp;amp;Co., enjoy your stay, and help yourself to some questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been some discussions recently on meta.TeX (can't find the question right now) about a similar issue. AFAIR, the general agreement was that these are okay, as long as they are &lt;strong&gt;formulated as [meaningful] questions&lt;/strong&gt;. In your particular example, it could look something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to do [foo] in my thesis, and I tried the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;decent amount of black magic code and helpful comments&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That works all right, however, my [bar] is not exactly [squiggle], so I tried then packages &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; (people always suggest this), and [shnoo]. I couldn't make this work, so I'm looking for help on how to typeset my [bar]. Also, I would want to do this in {Con|Lua|La|Xe|XeLa}TeX{t|}, but I'd settle for a TeX solution as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we had some discussion lately on whether answerers should try to improve submitter's code beyond what she requires -- fixing obsolete packages and commands, for example, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/611/should-we-evangelize-correct-use-in-our-answers&quot;&gt;general consensus&lt;/a&gt; seems to be that it's perfectly okay, if the time permits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-11-21T20:10:19.007" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-22T00:07:57.910" Score="2" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very happy with the design of the site. Which is why this tiny little thing is bugging me a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The up-vote triangle for comments have a hand-drawn look, slightly reminiscent of the beta design. Everything else in the site has such clean, crisp lines, I don't understand the logic of having these as the icons. I understand that we want to distinguish between the main voting icons and those for comments, and I like triangles....but why not use clean crisp ones? If we want something tex-related, we could use \shortuparrow or \Uparrow...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do other people think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2010-11-29T16:58:46.897" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T16:58:46.897" Title="voting arrows on comments have &quot;hand-drawn&quot; look" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2010-11-22T00:17:53.143" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be a good use for chat....(since we still haven't found one for it...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T00:17:53.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2010-11-22T04:29:42.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;After looking through some discussions on meta.so (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28540/is-stack-overflow-an-appropriate-place-for-simple-code-reviews&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1957/should-so-allow-give-me-some-feedback-questions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;), I think the policy there is that code reviews are okay if used in moderation. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1957/should-so-allow-give-me-some-feedback-questions/1960#1960&quot;&gt;key paragraph&lt;/a&gt; seems to be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As long as there isn't a super massive&#xA;  chunk of code and the author of the&#xA;  post is pretty clear about what areas&#xA;  he is looking for critiques on, I&#xA;  don't see a problem with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People there are also suggesting to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Refactor My Code&lt;/a&gt;, but that doesn't have a TeX category, so it doesn't apply to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, IMO posting short bits of code and a description what it should do and then asking something like “Is there a better way to do this?” is acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T04:34:53.047" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-22T18:26:15.273" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I hover my mouse near the tag list at the bottom of a question, I get a link &quot;edit tags&quot; that allows me to &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; edit the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who else can see this?  Is it a moderator thing, or a reputation thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I edit said tags, it still bumps the question (which, I believe, is status-by-design) &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; (more importantly) there is no indication that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; I did was edit tags.  This, to me, seems a reasonable thing to have since then all those retaggings wouldn't be quite so irritating as it would be really obvious that all that was edited was the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this sound reasonable? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, it's worth transferring to meta.SO, but I thought I'd find out what the feeling was here first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Closest I could find on meta.SO was: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29514/edited-by-versus-retagged-by&quot;&gt;Edited by versus Retagged by&lt;/a&gt; but that's over a year old)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T11:22:28.860" Title="Can anyone else see the &quot;edit tags&quot; link?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="712" CreationDate="2010-11-22T18:35:46.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer to the first question: &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; don't see this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2nd question: Yes, this sounds very reasonable, in particular if one sees that on the parent site a lot of retagging has been going on recently. I was slightly annoyed having to look at all those &quot;bumped up questions&quot; just to see if anything &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; happened. More importantly, it also makes the new questions and answers move away too fast, in my opinion. So I'm very much in favour of making this a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for this abuse, but there is only one reason for this edit: To say that I find this business very urgent now. No offence meant, Stefan, but at the moment I'm more than slightly annoyed by this feature that retags bump questions up. At this moment, 11 out of the 15 most recent questions are &quot;modified [n] minutes ago&quot; by Stefan, and I didn't even check if &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of them are retags. Even though I don't use the tags often, I can see that they are useful, so on the one hand this retagging improves the site. On the other hand it's making it worse since it makes it a lot more difficult to find the new stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="1235" LastEditDate="2010-11-23T19:03:18.023" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T19:03:18.023" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="697" CreationDate="2010-11-22T19:32:28.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make up for bumping the question with a fairly pointless edit, here's an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not like to see a question whose only &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; answer was expository.  I promote the principle of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maximum benefit from minimum effort&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So having a question that &lt;em&gt;requires&lt;/em&gt; an exposition is forcing someone who wants to be helpful to take a long time to answer your question.  Better to allow people to pick and choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it is nice seeing such posts so expository &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; should be encouraged.  And I wouldn't object to asking politely for more detail (even in the original question) just so long as it was possible to give a decent short answer too.  I wouldn't mind someone making a list somewhere of answers-that-really-teach-you-something so that we can all go and look and read them.  If that happens, then the fantastic answers will get lots of votes, the answerer will get a warm glow of happiness, and will feel encouraged to dispense more of their wisdom elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T19:32:28.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2010-11-22T19:38:10.840" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhat in common with the other answers, my initial reaction is against the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My difficulties start around about the question of differentiating between a clear case of &quot;I've gone as far as I can, what else can I do?&quot; and &quot;Here's some junk I threw together.&quot;.  If &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; tex macro files are anything to go by, they are a complete mess of half-hacks and &quot;cargo cult programming&quot; held together by the flimsiest &lt;code&gt;\if&lt;/code&gt;s and &lt;code&gt;\of&lt;/code&gt;s to ensure that nothing conflicts with anything else.  I'd would &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; to have someone take a look at that and (gently) point out all my mistakes, but I feel that that really would be a waste of their time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Far better would be for me to identify the weak point in my code and ask a very, very specific question on that.  I could include a little context, and thereby allow for someone to say, &quot;By the way, you can collapse those twenty &lt;code&gt;\expandafter&lt;/code&gt;s to one &lt;code&gt;\noexpand&lt;/code&gt;.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So try to identify a task in your code, say, &quot;Here's how I do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;.  Is there a better way?&quot;.  Then you're not asking someone to rewrite your entire code, but just to give you a helping hand along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE is optimised for short, concise answers to focussed questions.  It took me a while on MathOverflow to realise that, but now that I have then my life on the SE sites is a lot more relaxed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing.  You comment about different methods of learning.  Absolutely, there are many different ways of learning something.  However (and this is why I don't really participate in math.SE), I'm not paid to teach you (or anyone else) anything here.  To properly teach something where you aren't already most of the way there, I'd have to know a lot more about your background, what you already know, more about what you're trying to achieve, and so forth.  That is too much information for the amount of time I have to spend on these sites.  I'm happy to help, to share what I've learnt, but to a fellow traveller, not to someone at the start of their journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may read harsher than it actually is.  There's a heck of a lot that one can learn just by having someone, at the crucial time, say &quot;Go left at the crossroads.&quot;.  The SE architecture is set up (it seems to me) to help us identify those crossroads and stand there saying, &quot;Go left here.&quot;.  If lots of us are standing at lots of crossroads, then that's almost as good as having a guide for the whole route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2010-11-22T19:43:35.173" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T19:43:35.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="719" CreationDate="2010-11-23T04:27:42.533" Score="11" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag-wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz&lt;/a&gt; currently states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions tagged with [tikz] are about&#xA;  the higher-level drawing language&#xA;  Ti&lt;i&gt;k&lt;/i&gt;Z built over the PGF&#xA;  graphics framework. Questions&#xA;  specifically about the PGF layer&#xA;  should be tagged with [pgf] instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is nice in theory, but in reality the tags are somewhat randomly applied to questions. Should we make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgf&lt;/a&gt; an synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz&lt;/a&gt; (or vice-versa)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-11-25T04:52:52.717" Title="Merging [tikz] and [pgf] tags?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="712" CreationDate="2010-11-23T06:57:37.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a 10k tools thing: see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/new-10k-feature-inline-tagging/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the announcement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T06:57:37.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2010-11-23T07:02:38.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The case I see for not doing it is that PGF isn't just the plumbing of Tikz, it's also the plumbing for Beamer, so some PGF questions aren't Tikz questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty marginal objection in practice, Will is right, we should merge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T07:02:38.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2010-11-23T08:51:40.773" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is one of those ones like the &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; tag.  It's misused so much that &lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt; isn't a suitable tag.  Whilst I can imagine a question being pure &lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt; (for example, something using the maths parser or a package like &lt;code&gt;pgfpages&lt;/code&gt;), these are probably drowned in the morass of &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution for &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; is probably applicable.  There should be a &lt;code&gt;pgf-core&lt;/code&gt; tag for questions that are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; about pgf and not about tikz, whilst &lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt; itself should be merged with &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address Will's point: I would look at a &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; question expecting to be able to make a contribution (meaning that I would reckon on being able to say something sensible more than 50% of the time), but with a &lt;code&gt;pgf-core&lt;/code&gt; tag then I would look expecting to learn something from those more advanced in the Dark Arts than me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combining this with Stefan's idea, this looks like a good idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rename &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merge &lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt; into &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt; synonyms of &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create &lt;code&gt;pgf-core&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2010-11-23T19:08:46.140" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T19:08:46.140" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="694" CreationDate="2010-11-23T09:08:01.587" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply redirecting people to this site saying &quot;maybe you can find an answer here&quot; is incredibly unconstructive and should imho be avoided. Such advertising (I'd call it advertising, yes) is not appreciated by those running the site nor those who are asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd rather suggest is that links to this site should be included as a helpful addition to an already posted answer, around the lines of &quot;should you need more help, you are welcome to use SE's LaTeX site as a compliment&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1549" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T09:08:01.587" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2010-11-23T17:21:47.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would create a general tag &lt;code&gt;{tikz-pgf}&lt;/code&gt; suggesting to make both &lt;code&gt;{tikz}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;{pgf}&lt;/code&gt; synomyms to it, then merge (the popular frontend as first name part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pgf core questions should not get the tikz (frontend) tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;though tikz questions would fit into a pgf category the tag &lt;code&gt;[pgf]&lt;/code&gt; doesn't seem natural to  frontend user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The documentation (manual) is a merge as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T17:21:47.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="709" CreationDate="2010-11-23T22:22:00.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have updated the image for the comment voting arrow. It will be in the next deployment tomorrow. Since it's part of the sprites.png, it may be cached by your browser. Make sure to hard refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-11-23T22:22:00.477" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2010-11-24T19:38:22.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I've done it, but it was the first time that I've used the tag moderator tools so I may have messed up.  In particular, there didn't seem to be a &quot;rename&quot; tool so the person who got the TikZ-taxonomist badge may just have lost it (except that I don't think badges can be lost).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one bit I haven't done is create the tag &lt;code&gt;pgf-core&lt;/code&gt;.  Of course, anyone can do this: it just involves finding (or asking) a question that is pure pgf and tagging it appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-24T19:38:22.600" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2010-11-25T04:52:52.717" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that there has been a TikZ tag wiki entry - now it's gone. Perhaps anybody does remember the text and could recreate it including an update regarding &lt;code&gt;{pgf}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;{pgf-core}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-11-25T04:52:52.717" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-26T18:31:31.430" Score="5" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed the following difference in font sizes, using Firefox 3.6.12 on Windows Vista:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D8Kzq.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a design decision or a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-11-30T10:45:09.863" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T11:30:32.330" Title="Font sizes of inline code and code blocks don't match." Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="729" CreationDate="2010-11-28T17:00:51.473" Score="18" ViewCount="535" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the proper way to deal with an incorrect answer from a new user? For example, this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4756/typesetting-of-negative-versus-minus/4760#4760&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; is incorrect. At the time, I was tempted to not respond because I didn't want to discourage the answerer from participating here in the future. Nearly a month has passed and it seems that ofer has not returned to the site. I wonder if the down-votes and my comment were responsible. (I never down-vote a first time questioner/answerer for exactly this reason.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the right way to handle this situation in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-11-07T07:17:13.030" Title="Inadvertently driving off new users" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2010-11-28T17:45:32.763" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I should think that at some point, this is bound to happen. I don't think that we need to change the way we treat incorrect answers from users if they have low reputation. As the site grows bigger (mods: any insights on our growth rate?), inevitably it will attract more people that are considered novice in all things TeX, and might have incorrect understanding of how things work (it's not exactly Java). So in the name of having high-quality answers, I think there shouldn't be any special treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing the problem on the other side, I'd be happy to be corrected if I answer wrongly to a question -- after all, StackExchange, and tex.SE by extension, is not a competition for gaining as much rep as possible for a unit time. It's the learning process that matter. So if a user sees this as a punishment instead of an opportunity to learn something new, or to straighten out a misconception -- I say, good riddance. Of course, there are bad ways of showing mistakes, but basically everybody on TeX.SE is tolerant enough to point them out calmly and without derision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-11-28T17:45:32.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2010-11-28T18:50:18.973" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I spot an answer that is clearly incorrect and has a positive or zero upvote/downvote total, I will downvote it. However, I will refrain from downvoting if the answer score is already below zero. Looking at TH.'s example, I think there was no need to vote ofer's answer down to -5 - this bears resemblance to punishment, and ofer may very well have perceived it as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2010-11-28T18:50:18.973" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2010-11-29T19:32:56.400" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the anti-piling on sentiment.  If an answer is already below zero then I'll not vote it any further.  I'll try to leave a comment explaining why I don't think it's a useful answer.  Indeed, if I feel that an answer is an honest attempt to answer the question, then even if it's wrong I'll not vote it down, trusting rather to comments and voting for other answers to differentiate.  I tend to reserve my down votes for answers that are clearly pointless and don't even have the defence of being an honest attempt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I'm only one person so if I don't vote against something that doesn't stop a few others voting against it.  But if I leave a comment saying, &quot;This doesn't answer the question because ...&quot; then I think that people are inclined to vote &lt;em&gt;up&lt;/em&gt; the comment rather than vote &lt;em&gt;down&lt;/em&gt; the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to encourage friendly behaviour, I'd encourage everyone to leave comments as much as possible - friendly comments, but to the point.  That way, there's a middle path for those that want to register that they don't like the answer, but also don't like the whole &quot;voting down&quot; part of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tex.SX seems like quite a friendly place so far, I'd like to keep it that way.  I think that tex is a bit unique in that we don't need any barriers to keep time-wasters out.  On the whole, time-wasters won't come here.  So I'd like us to be friendly by default and only use the negative aspects of the site if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MathOverflow, a common thing is for people to start meta discussions on questions or answers where they feel that they'd be inclined to vote against it but they aren't sure, so we discuss it a bit first and that tends to soften things a little.  (That is a part that I feel really does work better with a genuine forum than the SE architecture, but that's a battle for another day.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T19:32:56.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-29T19:45:11.900" Score="17" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6107/how-do-i-make-the-arrow-using-xymatrix&quot;&gt;How do I make the arrow --&amp;gt;-- using xymatrix?&lt;/a&gt; got an answer from one Ross Moore.  I'm pretty sure that he's one of the maintainers of xy-pic.  As part of his answer, he wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BTW, the list Xy-pic@tug.org is the best point of contact for Xy-pic related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to which I replied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hope you don't mind if we try to prove [that] wrong ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a LaTeX-package &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt;, I feel that I'd much rather ask my questions here than on individual mailing lists.  So I'd like to collect a list of why package maintainers might like to encourage people to ask their questions &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; rather than on specific mailing lists.  Feel free to chip in, or to argue the other side.  Ideally, I'd like this to be a post that when a package maintainer does turn up, we can point them here to encourage them to stick around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why should package maintainers use tex.SX instead of a mailing list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People like me are more likely to use tex.SX than a mailing list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't have to wade through long lists of everyone else's questions in my email each day - I can filter questions by taste.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't have to join a separate mailing list for every package that I use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The probability of me actually being able to contribute is significantly higher than on a package-specific mailing list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wider exposure of the package: since people come here looking for solutions to specific problems without necessarily having a package in mind, it is a chance to advertise your package and say, &quot;Have you thought of using my package &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; for that?&quot;.  On a mailing list, people have to know about the package before they join.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other people answer questions: as a package maintainer, most of the time all you'd have to do is say which answer you regard as the &quot;best&quot;.  Sometimes you might even learn something about your own package that you didn't know ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can get a wider sense of who uses your package and what for.  By looking at what questions turn up relating to your package, you can get a sense of what type of problem people are trying to solve when using it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm going to make this CW as I'd like it to be &quot;from the community&quot; rather than just from me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-12-02T18:59:12.413" Title="Message to package maintainers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-11-29T19:45:21.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="730" CreationDate="2010-11-29T23:03:33.957" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the use of mailing lists for support is only viable for large packages such as xy-pic (and pgf, etc.). For certain types of discussion a mailing list is indeed a better forum, but for general user support I agree that a site like this is better than a mailing list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T23:03:33.957" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-11-29T23:03:33.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2010-11-29T23:34:24.677" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with others that downvoting past &lt;code&gt;-1&lt;/code&gt; isn't usually necessary except in obvious cases of abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly prefer being downvoted when I'm wrong, though, so I really don't think there's anything you can do about this. People don't come back to forums all the time—I wouldn't take it personally in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T23:34:24.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="725" CreationDate="2010-11-30T08:38:10.277" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue seems to be resolved, but for posterity's reference value, the code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Your attempt with `\leftskip` didn't work because you need to end the paragraph before ending the group with `}`. The following works:&#xA;&#xA;    {\addtolength{\leftskip}{1cm}This has an increased left margin.\par}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your attempt with &lt;code&gt;\leftskip&lt;/code&gt; didn't work because you need to end the paragraph before ending the group with &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt;. The following works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{\addtolength{\leftskip}{1cm}This has an increased left margin.\par}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-11-30T10:44:17.117" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T10:44:17.117" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-11-30T08:38:10.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-30T11:39:43.627" Score="15" ViewCount="893" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6204/is-it-actually-illegal-to-tex-texbook-tex&quot;&gt;Is it actually illegal to TeX `texbook.tex`?&lt;/a&gt; is (I'll even admit to voting for it initially), I'm no longer convinced that it is a suitable question for this site.  There are two parts to the question: is it &lt;em&gt;legal&lt;/em&gt; to TeX the TeXbook and is it &lt;em&gt;moral&lt;/em&gt; to TeX the TeXbook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first of these certainly has a definite answer (well, one per country), but no-one on this site is &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; qualified to give it.  I don't see any country's courts accepting the plea: &quot;I read on tex.SX that it was probably okay so I TeX'd the TeXbook.&quot;.  The point I wish to make is that an answer on tex.SX ought to be &lt;strong&gt;easily verifiable&lt;/strong&gt;.  There is no &quot;minimum working code&quot; that I can run on my computer to check if it is legal or not for me to tex the TeXbook:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdflatex -only-if-legal texbook.tex&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;fails for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second does not have a definite answer (at least without assuming the Axiom of Choice[1]) and will vary from person to person.  It will probably also vary significantly by whether or not the condition is Knuth's or the publisher's.  In the mathematics world there has recently been a considerable amount of discussion on a very similar incident (look up &quot;Grothendieck&quot; if you're interested).  I'm not sure that this kind of discussion is really edifying for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the precedent to consider.  For the above reasons, I don't think that I would like to see more questions on copyright and legal issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I can't &quot;vote to close&quot; without being dictatorial.  So consider this a virtual &quot;vote to close&quot; to see whether or not I'm being too British[2] or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] Sorry.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[2] The stereotype being that the Brits are the only ones in the EU who actually obey the rules, I think that this originates with Yes, Minister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T14:31:58.780" Title="TeXing the TeXbook ... is it a question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="734" CreationDate="2010-11-30T11:49:31.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even as I took part in the discussion I became more aware that it drifted away from TeX...However, I think that as a &quot;funny friday&quot; (I know what day it is today...) post, it's not so bad. I'd vote to keep the post with the stipulation that we do not want to have many such posts here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T11:49:31.513" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="734" CreationDate="2010-11-30T12:40:35.513" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a discussion with some useful content, but we aren't a discussion site and it's time to close it.  But to split a couple of hairs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a fair few users of this site whose day job is related to the publishing industry.  As a copy-editor, I've carefully read the parts in &lt;em&gt;Chicago&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Butcher's&lt;/em&gt; about what authors and editors need to know about copyright.  I reckon that makes my opinion worth 1/750th of a lawyer in such matters...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General legal questions are one thing, but legal questions about the Texbook are another...  Of course, that makes closing it that much stronger a statement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm voting off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2010-11-30T14:41:38.130" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T14:41:38.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="740" CreationDate="2010-11-30T13:45:24.113" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the requisite reputation for voting for close during the beta phase (according to the reputation page, my rep exceeded 500 on Nov 2, while the official launch was around Nov 11, when the privilege cap was raised to 3000). I distinctly remember exercising it once during the beta.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I noticed I no longer have the privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this &lt;code&gt;[status-by-design]&lt;/code&gt;? I was under the impression that privileges are not taken away once they are obtained. Perhaps this has already been answered on meta.SO, but I wasn't able to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T16:28:05.497" Title="Missing vote-to-close privilege after beta?" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="741" CreationDate="2010-11-30T13:59:38.040" Score="4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just answered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6215/external-scripts-when-using-texshop&quot;&gt;question about TeXShop&lt;/a&gt; and I noticed that there's no TeXShop tag.  Before creating extraneous or discouraged tags I went over to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302/our-set-of-tags&quot;&gt;the tag CW post on meta&lt;/a&gt; and it says that &quot;Formats, tools, compilers, etc.&quot; should get tags.  The examples given are &lt;code&gt;[luatex]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[pdflatex]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[context]&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;[bibtex]&lt;/code&gt;, which are two compilers, one format, and one external tool, I think.  Editors aren't listed here (there is an &lt;code&gt;[editors]&lt;/code&gt; tag though), but  MikTeX and AucTeX do have tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the course of preparing this question I've pretty much decided that an editor is a &quot;tool&quot; and each should get its own tag.  But I thought I'd get a second opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; My comment to Martin's answer explains my rationale for creating the tag, which I've gone ahead and done.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This brings up the topic of what &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/406/why-so-much-concern-over-tags&quot;&gt;tags&#xA;  are for in the first place&lt;/a&gt;. The&#xA;  top-voted, accepted answer is that&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;tags are for finding questions you can answer&lt;/strong&gt;. If so, people will get&#xA;  more use out of a tag for a specific&#xA;  editor that they know well, rather&#xA;  than all editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T16:20:45.197" Title="Should we have a tag for TexShop?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="738" CreationDate="2010-11-30T14:13:13.117" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, I think we shouldn't introduce new tags that will only be used for a few questions. The &lt;code&gt;[editors]&lt;/code&gt; tag currently has only 26 questions, and it should be able to accommodate quite a few more before new tags will be needed to help with the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, we already have &lt;code&gt;[texlipse]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[texniccenter]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[texmaker]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[lyx]&lt;/code&gt; and probably some more, and basically all are used 10 times or less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclosure: I am actually guilty of using one of the editors tags from above just today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T14:13:13.117" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="737" CreationDate="2010-11-30T14:51:50.260" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that this is &quot;by design&quot; since one of the criteria for getting out of beta is having enough users with enough power and the discussion always centred on the power that users will have &lt;em&gt;after the beta ends&lt;/em&gt;.  So I think that you have to re-earn these higher privileges.  Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T14:51:50.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="738" CreationDate="2010-11-30T15:39:36.490" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your comment that &quot;people will get more use out of a tag for a specific editor that they know well&quot;. So yes, IMO, specific editors should get their own tags so that people can ignore questions on editors they don't use and highlight those that they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T15:39:36.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2010-11-30T15:51:40.507" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer has kind of a personal touch, hope that's OK. I can't really add anything new to what Andrew wrote, but I'd like to expand a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do actually downvote (rarely), but first I leave a comment in the way Andrew suggests, then I wait at least a day, and if there is no reaction to my comments, then I feel free to downvote. One reason for this is that one can't always be sure who's right: It may well be that the answer was OK although I thought it was wrong; maybe I just misunderstood something, or I was wrong myself. So when I leave a comment, that's friendlier and more useful (I think) than just downvoting, and it gives the chance to clarify things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for the personal part of my answer: One reason for following the above procedure is that I don't like getting downvotes myself (unless there's a good reason). I got a downvote on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6087/two-letter-variable-names/6089#6089&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; although there's nothing wrong about it. Obviously, many people &lt;em&gt;thought&lt;/em&gt; I was wrong, and this is not so surprising since you have to read Appendix G of the TeXbook &lt;em&gt;really extremely carefully&lt;/em&gt; to see that my answer is correct. Thus, leaving a comment like &quot;I think you're wrong&quot; is good, but I'm not so happy with &quot;I think you're wrong, so you get a downvote&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T15:51:40.507" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="737" CreationDate="2010-11-30T16:28:05.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the private beta, everyone has rights to edit and close/reopen; they only miss the 10k-tools rights.  And then nearly everyone loses these rights.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very much [status-bydesign]: the need for enough 200, 2k and 3k rep. users was emphasised in the desiderata for graduating sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T16:28:05.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-30T21:54:34.773" Score="5" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site's &lt;code&gt;404 not found&lt;/code&gt; image is not unique. It's shared with Cross Validated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/404&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/404&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.stackexchange.com/404&quot;&gt;https://stats.stackexchange.com/404&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's entirely possible that this is intentional, but since most sites don't have the same image, I thought it was reasonable to suspect that it was a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sister bug report:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/660/the-404-not-found-image-is-not-unique&quot;&gt;on Meta Cross Validated&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:00.337" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T15:03:39.900" Title="The 404 not found image is not unique" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="745" CreationDate="2010-11-30T22:45:20.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 404 image is not yet decided and designed, have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/656/404-captcha-error-images&quot;&gt;404/CAPTCHA/Error images&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T22:45:20.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2010-12-02T13:35:46.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm proposing this resolution for debate rather than declaring it.  I'd like to hear comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It is acceptable to edit abuses of markdown syntax&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed some questioners (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6330/animating-protocols&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, for instance, not to single out anybody but just to provide an example) using the quote environment to highlight parts of their question.  This isn't &quot;bad&quot; formatting since the answer is still readable but I would call it &quot;unpleasant.&quot;   And if a machine were trying to process the document it would be confused since this text is put in a &lt;code&gt;blockquote&lt;/code&gt; element and it isn't a quote of anything.  Mainly, I think it indicates the question could be written better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2010-12-02T13:35:46.483" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-02T13:35:46.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2010-12-02T14:32:27.520" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It is acceptable to edit a question to improve clarity, but usually not to edit answers for clarity&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hoisted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-it-and-isnt-acceptable-to-edit/437#437&quot;&gt;my other answer&lt;/a&gt;, because that was rather cluttered, and this is the most important point.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because&lt;/strong&gt; questioners are petitioning the readers of the site to provide answers.  Making their questions more attractive to potential answerers is a service to the questioner &amp;mdash;it helps them find the answers they want&amp;mdash; and to the readers, because it makes understanding the question easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answerers, on the other hand, are providing a service.  They are more likely to feel slighted when having their answers 'improved', and with justice.  Unless there is some signal that they would like help in improving their answer, such as them marking their answer CW, editing answers for clarity should be avoided.  Instead, it is fine to create a new answer that explains what another answerer failed to properly articulate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-12-02T14:32:27.520" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-02T14:32:27.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="730" CreationDate="2010-12-02T18:59:12.413" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt;.  Who doesn't love badges? &lt;code&gt;:-D&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2010-12-02T18:59:12.413" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-02T18:59:12.413" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-05T18:24:05.960" Score="16" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the last few days, the list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; has grown a fair bit. Some of the questions with no satisfactory answer are about specific IDEs, so it is somewhat expected that they don't get a fast answer. But recently there also seems to be a fair amount of poorly asked questions without enough context or a clear formulation of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When new users on stackoverflow ask their first question, they are greeted with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;“How to Ask” page&lt;/a&gt; (see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/asking-better-questions/&quot;&gt;the SO blog&lt;/a&gt;). This might make at new user stop for a short time and think about how to formulate the question. Such a page seems to be a useful thing (though I have no idea how well it works on SO). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we get a similar page. If so, should the text differ from the SO text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:57:52.297" Title="Can/should we get a “How to Ask” page?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="752" CreationDate="2010-12-06T07:29:28.540" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though it is not 100% true, I believe that increasing the bounty can stimulate others to help. :-) Is it  possible to increase the bounty being offered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" OwnerDisplayName="xport" LastActivityDate="2010-12-06T09:10:20.393" Title="How to increase the bounty being offered?" Tags="|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2010-12-06T09:10:20.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not possible to increase a bounty. Though only one bounty may be active, it's possible to add another (possibly higher) bounty to the same question after the previously active bounty ran out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See Jeff's blog post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Improvements to Bounty System&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-12-06T09:10:20.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="754" CreationDate="2010-12-06T11:04:00.580" Score="4" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot seem to re-tag the tag &lt;code&gt;xetex&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt; even though I was able to add a tag on another question. How come?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2010-12-06T17:24:43.737" LastActivityDate="2010-12-06T17:24:43.737" Title="Re-tagging xetex as xelatex" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="753" CreationDate="2010-12-06T12:03:07.067" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because &lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt; is a synonym for &lt;code&gt;xetex&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/xetex/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/xetex/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should search the posts here on meta for the exact reason for this synonym being made.  In this case, it is most likely because having the two tags separate wouldn't actually be reflected in the usage: a newcomer to the site wanting to ask about something to do with &lt;code&gt;xetex&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt; probably wouldn't realise the distinction.  Moreover, there are probably very few people who would like to, say, make &lt;code&gt;xetex&lt;/code&gt; one of their favourite tags whilst ignoring &lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-12-06T12:03:07.067" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="756" CreationDate="2010-12-08T17:10:37.700" Score="10" ViewCount="568" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, the tagging approach regarding &quot;references&quot; (in the broadest sense) seems to be as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about cross references (dealing with &lt;code&gt;\label&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\ref&lt;/code&gt; &amp;amp; friends) will consistently be tagged as &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about bibliographic references (dealing with &lt;code&gt;\bibliography&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\cite&lt;/code&gt; &amp;amp; friends) will normally be tagged as &lt;code&gt;bibliographies&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A minority of questions about bibliographic references features the &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt; tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only rarely does a question feature both the &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt; and the &lt;code&gt;bibliographies&lt;/code&gt; tag (and then sometimes only because of retagging by a high-reputation user).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the current situation is undesirable because the &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt; tag may stand for two related, but distinct topics (cross references vs. bibliographic references). I suggest the following change (with two variants):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about bibliographic references currently featuring the &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt; tag should be retagged to &lt;code&gt;bibliographies&lt;/code&gt;. (The questions concerned will have to be sorted out by hand.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like 1, but in addition the &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt; tag should be renamed to &lt;code&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/code&gt; (with &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt; as a tag synomym).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As no one objected and Stefan has already started retagging, I'll consider my proposal as accepted. For now, I suggest that any question about bibliographic references that features &quot;special tags&quot; like &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;natbib&lt;/code&gt; doesn't need a &lt;code&gt;bibliographies&lt;/code&gt; tag (just as questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt; don't feature the &lt;code&gt;graphics&lt;/code&gt; tag). IMO, &lt;code&gt;bibtex&lt;/code&gt; should also be regarded as a &quot;special tag&quot;, e.g. for questions regarding the &lt;code&gt;bib&lt;/code&gt;-format or programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retagging some of the &lt;code&gt;(cross-)referencing&lt;/code&gt; questions to &lt;code&gt;bibliographies&lt;/code&gt; will flood the start page to a certain extent, but I don't see how this can be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: The &lt;code&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/code&gt; tag needed to be removed from nine questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-03-13T12:00:55.523" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T12:00:55.523" Title="Cross references, bibliographic references, and the &quot;referencing&quot; tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="755" CreationDate="2010-12-08T17:48:06.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that bibliography questions should not have a &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt; tag. I think that restricting that tag to cross-referencing only (&lt;code&gt;\label&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\ref&lt;/code&gt; and variants) would be ok. Renaming the tag to &lt;code&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/code&gt; would support that. The already existing &lt;code&gt;cite&lt;/code&gt; tag (hm, I would like to rename that to &lt;code&gt;citing&lt;/code&gt;) covers bibliographic referencing well enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw. I worried more about seeing reference book questions tagged this way, but fortunately I can see that such questions are well tagged with &lt;code&gt;documentation&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;manual&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;books&lt;/code&gt; though sometimes carrying &quot;reference&quot; in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As agreed, I changed &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt; into &lt;code&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/code&gt; since I'm sure this term is the better naming. You may compare &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cross-reference&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/References&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;References&lt;/a&gt; in the Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I've written a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/cross-referencing/info&quot;&gt;cross-referencing wiki entry&lt;/a&gt; which explains the tag, mentions the standard commands &lt;code&gt;\label&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\ref&lt;/code&gt; and further related packages with links, noting that questions about citing or bibliographies belong to the bibliographies tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt; I created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/bibliographies/info&quot;&gt;bibliography tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T18:48:14.697" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="761" CreationDate="2010-12-09T00:27:17.173" Score="12" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a facebook or twitter user, and this question might be a reflection of that, but I wonder if people like the little share links near every question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this question will have several parts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Design: do we need to have these ugly (IMHO) icons blatantly located near the &quot;action&quot; (the voting and favorite buttons)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do people use these links or are we polluting our retinas for nothing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did twitter and facebook get selected? I mean there must be tens, if not hundreds of these things now...why choose two? why these two? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps a different design? how about a &quot;share&quot; link that opens (upon hover or click) to show a grid of possible social networking sites? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-10-09T09:47:13.193" LastActivityDate="2011-10-09T09:47:13.193" Title="Do we like the share buttons? Do people use them?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|design|hyperlinks|social-networking|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="757" CreationDate="2010-12-09T02:17:15.840" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hadn't noticed them until now. Personally, I don't like them and wouldn't use them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T02:17:15.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="757" CreationDate="2010-12-09T10:20:02.700" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Facebook and Twitter are fairly good when you need to share the latest funny picture of your cat, have found an ostensibly hilarious video that you absolutely need to show to everybody, or post an update what you had for breakfast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to imagine that the same audience will appreciate a question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6685/does-tikz-use-the-same-internal-mechanism-as-pstricks-to-produce-vector-based-pdf&quot;&gt;&quot;Does TikZ use the same internal mechanism as PSTricks to produce vector based pdf outputs?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and be able to elaborate on the fine points of, say, &lt;code&gt;dvips&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt; differences. It's just not the right kind of media for the stuff we're dealing here, and definitely not the right audience. Those might work for other SE sites (can't imagine which, though), but not for us. So, as Will says -- ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of LinkedIn persuasion (or other professional networks, local interest groups etc.), question sharing could be beneficial, but SE doesn't support anything like that currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure: I use both Facebook and Twitter occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T10:20:02.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="757" CreationDate="2010-12-09T11:49:25.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Putting these buttons —often called social bookmarking tags, but let's call them &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.textproof.com/chronicle/The_Web_Reading_Experience.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;syndication bullshit&lt;/a&gt;— on everything is current SEO best practice: gathering &amp;quot;organic&amp;quot; links is crucial to any web-centric business, and Twitter and Facebook are two of the most important sites for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're not very obtrusive.  Be thankful that there are no Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Blink List, Stumble Upon, &amp;amp;c., buttons.  Stack Exchange is VC funded, and I wonder if there might be more pressure in the future to crank up this aspect.  I note that SO doesn't have the buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good question.  I guess some people must do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The other sites are not as big.  Not even close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That's common.  It gives a more complex UI, which the Stack Exchange team don't like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T12:22:13.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="757" CreationDate="2010-12-09T18:05:56.583" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are there to help to promote the site. Granted, not every user will use them. We chose Facebook and Twitter because they're the two most popular ones. I frequently search Twitter on mentions of the Stackexchange sites. People do use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think these two icons are obtrusive. However, I'm open to change the styling of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;It's hard to imagine that the same audience will appreciate a question like &quot;Does TikZ use the same internal mechanism as PSTricks to produce vector based pdf outputs?&quot;, and be able to elaborate on the fine points of, say, dvips and pdflatex differences. It's just not the right kind of media for the stuff we're dealing here, and definitely not the right audience.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I respectfully disagree. When it comes to Twitter, most follow the circle of people who are in the same interest group. Imagine if &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/textip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@textip&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/TeXtip/status/11819061604257792&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tweeted&lt;/a&gt; a TeX.se question, it'd be beneficial to his 1100+ followers. Also the TeX.se will gain some potentional users too. There are many people on twitter who tweet TeX related things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure: I'm an avid Twitter user. However, it took me a long time to &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; Twitter. All social media sites are what you make of them. When it comes to Twitter, if you find the right people to follow, it's very very beneficial.&#xA;It may take some follow/unfollow to get to a comfortable point though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T18:05:56.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="763" CreationDate="2010-12-10T14:01:24.550" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just opened up my user page on TeX.SE, and lo-and-behold, my list of tags appears in an interesting layout. Is that supposed to happen? (Can anyone reproduce?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OS: Scientific Linux&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browser: Firefox 3.6.11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WAKfZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T01:20:38.833" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T01:20:38.833" Title="Is the list of tags supposed to be slanted?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="762" CreationDate="2010-12-10T15:01:12.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this in the morning and talked to Jin about it. Apparently it's a known bug and will be fixed in the next deployment (which will be in a day or two, I believe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T15:01:12.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="764" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-10T15:15:02.420" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sweave is a NoWeb style method of using LaTeX in reproducible computational research. Should I ask questions that I have about Sweave here or at SE? Why or which ones? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1783" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T20:22:11.823" Title="Are questions about Sweave more appropriate for tex.SE or SO?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="764" CreationDate="2010-12-10T20:22:11.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know anything about Sweave so can't really comment on this case itself, but I recommend that you read some of the discussions we've had on other &quot;not quite TeX&quot; topics.  For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/507/is-troff-groff-a-friend-of-tex&quot;&gt;Is troff/groff a &amp;quot;friend&amp;quot; of TeX&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357/is-this-question-about-tex-software-appropriate&quot;&gt;Is this question about TeX software appropriate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, we're happy to have questions related to stuff near TeX, but there's also the question as to where you are most likely to get an answer to your question.  If it really is about the TeX side of things, then probably here.  If it's more about the statistical stuff, then maybe on the stats site.  Not knowing anything about the program, I can't be more specific than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing to do is just to try asking a question, explain that you're not sure if this is the right place, and link to this discussion for feedback on that issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T20:22:11.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="770" CreationDate="2010-12-12T20:54:45.897" Score="9" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that technically &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt; are two different things, but more often than not the terms are used interchangeably (as UTF-8 is the de-facto standard Unicode file encoding). Should we merge the tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2010-12-12T21:04:50.760" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T14:30:08.357" Title="Merging {unicode} and {utf-8}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="768" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-12T23:06:33.167" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry for cluttering meta, with a second tag merging proposal today. Should we merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/localization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;localization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;localization&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;language&lt;/a&gt;. Also, should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;language&lt;/a&gt; be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T06:45:47.027" Title="Merging {localization} into {language}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="768" CreationDate="2010-12-12T23:17:40.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using plural is good. Further I think that merging &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/localization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;localization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;localization&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt; would be fine as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are just two questions tagged with localization, dealing with Cyrillic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T23:17:40.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="767" CreationDate="2010-12-12T23:27:21.097" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;code&gt;utf8x&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;ucs&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;unicode-math&lt;/code&gt; ... but I think it would be ok to let &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt; act as a synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt;. This way these closely related subjects could be easier found in order to answer or to look-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a single &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt; question has been tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt; too, and the other way round. That's a sign for me that they are regarded as either being interchangeably or as unrelated - the latter is not the case. A misleading consequence is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt; is not even mentioned in the list of related tags to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt;, on the right sidebar, if you filter by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt;! And the other way round as well - as if they were totally unrelated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up, I would say: let's merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt; as main tag because it has a broader meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I merged the tags and created an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/unicode/info&quot;&gt;Unicode tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T14:30:08.357" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="768" CreationDate="2010-12-13T06:45:47.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think not, for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/localisation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;localisation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;localisation&lt;/a&gt; is a more important tag than the number of questions here suggest, and we may be happy in the future that we had the distinuguishing power.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag has cross-site meaning, unlike &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt;: see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/tagsets/930/localization&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/tagsets/930/localization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52/can-someone-merge-tags-and-singular-versus-plural-tags&quot;&gt;The consensus&lt;/a&gt; is for plural tags, so we should rename the language tag to languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T06:45:47.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="547" CreationDate="2010-12-13T15:12:13.080" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This now even made it into &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997691&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hacker News&lt;/a&gt; (mentioned by Jin in the &quot;chat&quot;). There someone wrote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fact that they still haven't replaced the double-hyphen in the n00b banner with a proper en-dash is a painful irony on a site devoted to TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the welcome banner for quite some time -- I've looked at it now, and he's right, it's painful. Incidentally, the &quot;--&quot; I just used is also painful ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updated EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff added a &quot;status-completed&quot; tag, but this is misleading: The dash is nice now, &quot;expert&quot; has gone, and &quot;ConTeXt&quot; has come. Will's other suggestions are missing. As Jeff says, Will's text is too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd suggest: If it still fits, replace at least the slightly awkwark &quot;Q&amp;amp;A&quot; with &quot;our Q&amp;amp;A site&quot;, as Will suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="1235" LastEditDate="2010-12-14T16:55:06.937" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T16:55:06.937" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2010-12-13T18:40:19.510" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a look at the prettify, and despite my rexp-fu is seriously lacking, I pulled together something:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// PR_(STRING|KEYWORD|COMMENT|TYPE|LITERAL|PUNCTUATION|PLAIN|TAG|DECLARATION|SOURCE|ATTRIB_(NAME|VALUE)&#xA;PR.registerLangHandler(&#xA;  PR.createSimpleLexer(&#xA;    [&#xA;      ['opn', /^(?=[^\\])(?:\{|\\\[)/, null, '{['],&#xA;      ['clo', /^(?=[^\\])(?:\}|\\\])/, null, '}]']&#xA;    ],&#xA;    [&#xA;      [PR.PR_TAG, /^\\(?:text|math)?(?:rm|it|sl|tt|sc)\b/],&#xA;      [PR.PR_KEYWORD, /^\\(?:[^\\])\w*\b/],&#xA;      [PR.PR_COMMENT, /^(?=[^\\])%[^\r\n]*/],&#xA;      [PR.PR_PUNCTUATION, /^(?:\\\\|\\;|\\,|\\!|~|\ |\^)/],&#xA;      [PR.PR_PUNCTUATION, /^(?=[^\\])(?:\$){1,2}/],&#xA;      [PR.PR_PUNCTUATION, /^(?:\\\[|\\\])/],&#xA;      [PR.PR_LITERAL,&#xA;/^(?:by|at|to|spread)? ?(?:-)?(?:\d+)?\.?\d+ ?(?:true)? ?(?:pt|pc|in|bp|cm|mm|dd|cc|em|ex|mu|\\fil)\b/],&#xA;      [PR.PR_LITERAL, /^(?=[^\\])#\d?/],&#xA;      [PR.PR_LITERAL, /^(?=[^\\])[&amp;amp;_]/]&#xA;    ]),&#xA;  ['tex']);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the accompanying colours from the site-design:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/* CSS */&#xA;.prettyprint { display: block; color: #393318; padding: 2px 4px;&#xA;  border: 1px solid #efefef; background-color: #f6f0df; }&#xA;.kwd { color: #8a4a0b; }&#xA;.com { color: #868686; }&#xA;.lit { color: #953838; }&#xA;.opn, .clo { color: #145680; }&#xA;.pun { color: #145680; }&#xA;.tag { color: #4c9067; font-weight: bold }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know, something to get this train running!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I made liberal use of the &quot;PUNCTUATION&quot;, &quot;LITERAL&quot;, etc. because I'm not sure what they are corresponding in TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a pretty picture:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmJ1I.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="3323" LastEditDate="2011-09-30T10:20:16.293" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T10:20:16.293" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-13T19:08:13.353" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="547" CreationDate="2010-12-14T16:02:51.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The greeting has been changed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Q&amp;amp;A for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems — check out the FAQ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T16:02:51.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="767" CreationDate="2010-12-14T20:54:16.487" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last time I checked UTF-8: meant an encoding that depends on unicode, which &lt;strong&gt;implies&lt;/strong&gt; unicode &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; being used or present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but what about the poor soul who is complaining about his UTF-16 problems and has the unicode tag present&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1244" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T20:54:16.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="650" CreationDate="2010-12-15T08:32:24.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very nice job, as well as for the other sites. And I just noticed that you used one of my drawings ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T08:32:24.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2010-12-15T09:56:04.697" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like most of you here, I would simply respond with a comment and not a down-vote. I'm new myself and I've been picking up quite a bit of the etiquette on this site. Personally, I would hate to receive a down-vote, and I think an appropriate and thoughtful comment would be most appreciated. Also, I think it's nice that users explicitly state their reasons for down-voting (or, less commonly, up-voting) a particular answer by using &quot;+1&quot; or &quot;-1&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I fell into the unfortunate situation of expressing my disagreement with an answer posted by another new member to this site. I did not down-vote, though, but someone else did so without leaving a comment. Now I feel bad because the poster may just think I'm belligerent or just plain unwelcoming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite interesting to see that feelings are as easily affected in cyberspace as they are in real life! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2269" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T09:56:04.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="734" CreationDate="2010-12-15T14:31:58.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well. There &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have been an answer to the question if, for example, someone qualified (= a lawyer, or Knuth) had already answered it somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question should perhaps been formulated differently. I agree that it’s off-topic in its current form for the reasons you offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T14:31:58.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2010-12-15T16:34:57.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;SE is using &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Code Prettify&lt;/a&gt; (as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72082/changes-to-syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;mentioned on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;), which doesn't yet support TeX. So the easiest way to get highlighting for this site is to add support in code prettify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T16:34:57.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-16T16:12:45.663" Score="5" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the design of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;photography etc.&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and I love the idea of a weekly image. I was wondering if it would work here, and if people would like to have such an option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest the following: We have a weekly contest, like in photo.SE voted and commented (and ofcourse, saved for posterity) any TeX related entry is accepted with the following condition: Source code must be included, and right for reuse must be as liberal as the rest of the content for the site. I expect that most of the time we'll get TikZ...but that's fine. We should perhaps have some rules regarding size or aspect ratio that should be upheld. Every week, the winning entry from the previous week takes the stage with a brief explanation, a longer one could also be accessed (along with the source code ofcourse!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is that most of the entries we have, have to do with stuff that doesn't work, and we hardly get to see stuff when it works and is nicely polished. It would be really nice (I think) to have a post saying something like &quot;I needed this, but didn't know how to do FOO so I posted THIS question got a reply by BAZ and here's the result!&quot; (of course, images do not have to be the result of a posting here....)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would only be the explanation of the typeset image, but the image itself would/could/might appear alongside the top of the page, or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you people think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start with, and see if we even have sufficient entries for such an ongoing competition, we could leave the design alone and simple have a page dedicated for such distractions....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:44:06.107" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T20:03:07.477" Title="How about a &quot;Featured TeX&quot; post?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="780" CreationDate="2010-12-16T17:53:19.617" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's interesting. However, on our site it might be much harder than on a photography site, where each user may have hundreds or thousands of photographies readily available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a TeX showcase with several competitive contributions each week seems hardly possible to me, at least long-term. A monthly TeX sample sounds more realizable. Instead of comparing very different contributions, like a TikZ example vs. a nice table vs. dynamic pdf content, there could be one topic for each month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How may it work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There could be a monthly posting on meta: What shall be this month's topic? Users could post suggestions which are voted on, as usual.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion with the most votes will make it to the main site: a call for contributions to this month's topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The contribution with the most votes will get a prominent place on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who has got very nice examples, may always suggest it for a month, perhaps promoting it by some information. Of course suggestions may be repeated, especially if they just did not make it in a previous month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.SE is still a Q&amp;amp;A site. However, the competition consists of questions asking for good solutions on certain topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The results may contribute to the promotion of our site, and a high-quality TeX showcase could grow month by month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2010-12-16T18:08:56.913" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T18:08:56.913" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="780" CreationDate="2010-12-17T17:43:17.577" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yossi, currently the design for the TeX isn't set up to do this. For the Photography site, I simply used the site message box to display the weekly photo descriptions. And the rotating photo is actually the background image of the header. I manually update every Sunday night. I think in the future, we'll come up with something more dynamic and automated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But first, maybe find out if there's enough interest for this. I think a monthly event would be good. I suggest have the site message on parent TeX linking to this post, or a separate poll one to see what people think. Only a small % of users actually visit Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T17:43:17.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-18T13:45:45.600" Score="5" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7340/1235&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on the parent site there's the following blockquote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;! LaTeX Error: File `hypernat.sty' not found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, while I'm typing, it's correctly shown in the preview. After posting, however, it seems that the &quot;!&quot; marks the blockquote as class &quot;spoiler&quot;, so it's only visible on mouseover (and the &quot;!&quot; doesn't show up anymore, of course). I'm curious if the same will happen here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I didn't ask a question so far, I think I don't break the &quot;one question per post&quot; rule if I ask this related question &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;: What is the &quot;correct&quot; formatting here, blockquote or code block?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;updated&lt;/em&gt; EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, Caramdir, so it's a feature (something similar has also been discussed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/q/1349/2575&quot;&gt;math.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;). Even though it is, &lt;em&gt;do want it here on tex.sx?&lt;/em&gt; At least I can't think of any situation where we'd care about spoilers. So I do ask two more questions, sorry: Is it possible to turn this feature off on tex.sx, and if so, do want it turned off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T08:58:34.473" Title="Blockquote doesn't show if it starts with an &quot;!&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="783" CreationDate="2010-12-18T15:12:55.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a feature, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1191/add-a-spoiler-tag-that-makes-hidden-until-you-click-text/71396#71396&quot;&gt;see meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;. For your question: I'd use code formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T15:12:55.750" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="783" CreationDate="2010-12-18T19:38:35.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;feature&quot; is a CSS feature: the text changes colour on hover.  In the CSS, I see the lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.spoiler, .spoiler a {&#xA;    color: #F0F0F0;&#xA;}&#xA;.spoiler:hover {&#xA;    color: #333333;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so changing the CSS so that the &lt;code&gt;#F0F0F0&lt;/code&gt; was &lt;code&gt;#333333&lt;/code&gt; and removing the hover line would fix this.  As this is CSS, it should be site-specific and I agree that there's no reason to have &quot;spoilers&quot; on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T19:38:35.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="780" CreationDate="2010-12-18T20:03:07.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is where I wish we had a proper forum for discussion as this would work better in that format ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there are three separate proposals here.  The overall proposal is finding a way for us on this site to &quot;celebrate TeX&quot; (and TeXnicians); namely to have our own showcase of TeX.  Where the triple separation comes in is what to celebrate it and where the samples come from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Featured answers&lt;/strong&gt;: One of the easiest things to do would be to have a &quot;featured answers&quot; section.  Voting is one thing, but every now and then there's an answer that really everyone ought to read, either an answer that shows something beautiful or something that teaches something fundamental about TeX (or some macro package).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Competitions&lt;/strong&gt;: This would also be quite easy, given a sufficient source of competition ideas (easiest would be graphics but I'm sure that there will be others).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;External examples&lt;/strong&gt;: This would be &quot;real world&quot; examples that showcase particularly amazing things to do with TeX.  TeXample.net springs to mind as the sort of thing that this might be like (only for all of TeX, not just TikZ).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two wouldn't be too hard to do because the things that we would showcase would already be formatted correctly for the site.  The third feels the most like what happens on the photography site, but there the similarity ends.  A photograph is self-contained and doesn't require extra explanation.  Whereas &quot;real life&quot; examples of TeX tend to be included in much longer documents, and the key part of the source may be difficult to extract.  Also, many may not be immediately obvious what they are doing: getting the spacing right in some complicated piece of mathematics may be something that everyone should see, but something that takes time to appreciate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm in favour of 1 or 2 (or both) and whilst I'd love to know if there's a place for 3, I don't think it would be easy to fit in with the design of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T20:03:07.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="783" CreationDate="2010-12-19T00:23:42.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;Caramdir&lt;/a&gt; pointed out, this is a relatively &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1191/add-markdown-support-for-hidden-until-you-click-text-aka-spoilers/71396#71396&quot;&gt;new feature&lt;/a&gt; of the entire network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is technically possible to disable it explicitly for TeX, its a question of whether its such a hassle to deal with that new users coming from other StackExchange sites should have to deal with the hassle of its absence (as it would remain on every other site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative to using &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; for things that start with ! that you would otherwise &lt;code&gt;blockquote&lt;/code&gt;, you can use the raw HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;As in:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;!This would normally be a spoiler, but....&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yields&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;!This would normally be a spoiler, but....&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Another workaround I had forgotten about:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! This would be a spoiler&#xA;&amp;gt; but I broke it into multiple,&#xA;&amp;gt; subsequently collapsed, lines.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yields&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;! This would be a spoiler&#xA;but I broke it into multiple,&#xA;subsequently collapsed, lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T08:39:02.550" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="789" CreationDate="2010-12-19T09:52:14.963" Score="6" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following on from the discussion about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/783/&quot;&gt;block quotes and text starting with &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I think it might be a good idea to look at how best to format messages, &lt;em&gt;etc&lt;/em&gt;. For actual TeX code, life is clear enough (mark up as code), but for messages from software we can either use code mark up (as it's terminal output) or blockquote mark up (as it is something 'said' by the software). To date, I've always marked up messages as code, but obviously this is not true of everyone. How do other people see this: is there a consensus for one or other approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T12:31:53.677" Title="Mark up for info/warning/error messages" Tags="|discussion|markup|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="788" CreationDate="2010-12-19T12:31:53.677" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be a good idea to use code blocks. I can't find the example any more, but once I changed a blockquote to a code block where something like this happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LaTeX Error: File &lt;code&gt;articl.cls' not found.&#xA;  blah blah&lt;/code&gt;something else' with quotes `' around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This looks very bad in a blockquote; it's supposed to look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;LaTeX Error: File `articl.cls' not found.&#xA;blah blah `something else' with quotes `' around it.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T12:31:53.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="790" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-19T15:07:01.653" Score="18" ViewCount="927" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I noted in an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/783/1235&quot;&gt;earlier question on meta&lt;/a&gt;, blockquotes starting with a &quot;!&quot; are rendered as spoilers. It happened in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7340/1235&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on the parent site before I edited the post and changed the blockquote to a code block. Here I don't want to talk about when to use which of these two; that's the topic of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/788/1235&quot;&gt;another question on meta&lt;/a&gt;. For those who wonder why I ask a very similar question as in my previous post: The question in that one is effectively locked by the &quot;status-bydesign&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For completeness I repeat the &quot;spoiler&quot; effect here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;! LaTeX Error: File `hypernat.sty' not found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see that the text only shows up when the mouse hovers over it, and that the &quot;!&quot; has gone: This is a new feature that &quot;!&quot; introduces a &quot;spoiler&quot;. In the above example, the &quot;spoiler&quot; effect clearly is not desired. So I'd like to know if others agree that we want the feature turned off on tex.sx. Personally, I see no reason why we would want this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/783/blockquote-doesnt-show-if-it-starts-with-an/787#787&quot;&gt;his answer to my earlier question&lt;/a&gt;, Kevin Montrose wrote that I&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;will need a corpus of posts demonstrating that this feature is an actual problem, and not a theoretical one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He noted himself that I won't find many posts where this is an issue. My point is: I think that the one example I gave is quite sufficient; it took me some time to find out what happened, and is was a &quot;naturally occurring&quot; thing as TeX error messages &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; start with a &quot;!&quot;. And I'm sure it &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; happen again that users post error messages in blockquotes. I think we don't want our users to learn all the features of the software before they can format and post a decent question, so even if a blockquote isn't optimal for error messages, it's OK for an inexperienced user to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possibilities of turning the feature off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Turn it off completely, so using &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; won't cause the paragraph to be marked as &quot;spoiler&quot; class at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Change only the CSS of our site, so the html still shows that the paragraph is &quot;spoiler&quot; class, but let it be rendered like a usual blockquote. This has the drawback that the &quot;!&quot; gets eaten, but I think that's not a big deal. One will still immediately see that the blockquote is an error message.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do others think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-12-23T12:46:07.203" Title="Do we want the &quot;spoiler&quot; feature turned off?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2010-12-20T07:36:12.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently the spoiler effect doesn't affect blockquotes that were baked in before the feature came into effect.   So, e.g., Sharpie's question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3422/can-miktex-texmf-trees-contain-the-equivalent-of-a-symbolic-link&quot;&gt;Can MikTeX texmf trees contain the equivalent of a &quot;symbolic link&quot;?&lt;/a&gt; has a !-begun blockquote, which renders as a spoiler if you look at the source, but as intended if you don't.  Presumably if the question were edited without touching the block quote, the spoiler effect would be activated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the second of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22LaTeX+error%22&quot;&gt;27 search results for &quot;LaTeX Error&quot;&lt;/a&gt;; I expect there are a fair few more examples.  I think this shows there is a significant reoccurring problem here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how Kevin balances &lt;em&gt;local convenience&lt;/em&gt; against &lt;em&gt;sitewide consistency&lt;/em&gt;, but there already is markup variation with respect to rendering maths.  We could have a list of markup properties that vary, and put the local settings in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2010-12-20T13:59:40.713" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="794" CreationDate="2010-12-20T17:31:56.833" Score="8" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;The unregistered user &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2611/petra&quot;&gt;petra&lt;/a&gt; tried to remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3161/tikz-how-to-draw-an-arrow-in-the-middle-of-the-line/7451#7451&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; as it really isn't an answer. However, it seems that unregistered users don't get to see a &quot;delete&quot; link below the post. Is this a bug or a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-12-20T19:45:15.503" Title="Who is allowed to remove his/her own posts?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="792" CreationDate="2010-12-20T18:50:13.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the answer to the actual question, but moderators can delete posts.  So if this arises again, flag the post for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I just left a note on that answer saying that I'd delete it once you and Petra had seen my note saying that I'd delete it...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2010-12-20T18:50:13.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="792" CreationDate="2010-12-20T19:45:15.503" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Shog's accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that-actually-mean/5222#5222&quot;&gt;What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When can't I delete my own post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't delete your answer if it has been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't delete your question if it has more than two answers, if an answer has a score &amp;gt;= 2, or it has been closed less than 48 hours ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't delete any of your questions or answers if you haven't registered your account (associated an OpenID with it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2010-12-20T19:45:15.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="796" CreationDate="2010-12-22T11:55:12.470" Score="10" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;is it appropriate to tag a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7496/&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; [ipython]? I understand that the question had to do with ipython, but in-fact it was a question about code listing and verbatim (both tags are there). The specific ipython tag seem to be irrelevant for this website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this question has two parts: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we remove the ipython tag from that question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whats the general approach to over-specification of tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T11:22:34.087" Title="an ipython tag? really?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="795" CreationDate="2010-12-22T12:04:35.280" Score="11" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove the tag. It seems silly to tag every listing with the name of the language in the listing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2010-12-22T12:04:35.280" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="795" CreationDate="2010-12-22T19:22:14.357" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, it is strange to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ipython&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ipython&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ipython&lt;/a&gt; without &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/python&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;python&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;.  The general question is, do we want specific programming language tags just for listings?  Obviously, languages like C, Lua, R, and Pascal, are relevant here for other reasons, and a code question might be relevant for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could make the tags for some programming languages into synonyms for a generic code markup tag, say &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code-layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code-layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code-layout&lt;/a&gt;.  If we did this, it might be nice if we could try to make it so that all code layout questions had one from a limited list of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Postscript&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It occurs to me that there is a benefit to having lots of language-specific tags, even if they have only one or two questions falling under them, namely, they are visible and relevant results for SX-wide tag sets, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/tagsets/188/tagged-questions&quot;&gt;python jython&lt;/a&gt;.  These could conceivably attract many people to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2010-12-27T23:23:03.263" LastActivityDate="2010-12-27T23:23:03.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2010-12-22T22:03:42.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed, and is being declined.  Let me explain why, exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After doing an exhaustive search (looking at all posts that match &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;\s*!&lt;/code&gt; † anywhere in their entire history) I found that the following posts contain the spoiler syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3422/why-is-the-mactex-distribution-so-large-is-there-anything-smaller-for-os-x&quot;&gt;Can MikTeX texmf trees contain the equivalent of a “symbolic link”?&lt;/a&gt; (*)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4085/how-can-i-change-the-legends-location-in-a-pgfplot/4134#4134&quot;&gt;An answer to&lt;/a&gt; How can I change the legend's location in a pgfplot? (*)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4268&quot;&gt;“inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8” error while trying to write a degree symbol (invisible character)&lt;/a&gt; (*)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4723&quot;&gt;“TeX capacity exceeded” because of a couple of raiseboxes in a \section…?&lt;/a&gt; (*)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/7340/revisions&quot;&gt;A revision of&lt;/a&gt; MiKTeX 2.9 Does NOT Support `hypernat`&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on how you want to count (affected, or potentially affected) this is either 0.01% or 0.07% of all posts to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope it's clear (and not contentious) that this is a very rare problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Posted prior to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1191/add-markdown-support-for-hidden-until-you-click-text-aka-spoilers/71396#71396&quot;&gt;spoiler feature being added&lt;/a&gt;, so not &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; affected, but could potentially be if a non-trivial edit is made (and the editor ignores the preview).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;†This would grab everything that even &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; trigger the spoiler code.  The results were then checked by hand to find the true matches.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; a problem which should be addressed.  I'll touch on why the solutions proposed here are unacceptable, and then go into what has actually been done to alleviate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simply turn spoilers off&lt;/strong&gt; - this would make Tex.SE's markdown syntax (negatively) distinct from every other SE's.  Assuming non-trivial cross pollination of users (that is, new users who are familiar with some other SE) this is potentially confusing.  Given how rare the &quot;accidental spoiler&quot; problem is, I call this a wash** at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tweak the spoiler CSS&lt;/strong&gt; - most obviously, posts would still lose &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; when they tripped over the spoiler syntax which would just lead to more bug reports.  Less obviously, this would be an irreversible change; if spoilers were to become a desired feature (something that can't be discounted, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1191/add-markdown-support-for-hidden-until-you-click-text-aka-spoilers&quot;&gt;given&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/736/provide-a-markdown-extension-to-hide-text-anti-spoiler&quot;&gt;its&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/192/should-we-worry-about-spoilers/193#193&quot;&gt;popularity&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/1349/re-spoiler-space&quot;&gt;as&lt;/a&gt; a [feature-request]), we couldn't re-enable it because doing so would &lt;em&gt;retroactively&lt;/em&gt; hide text in old posts.  Its worth noting that (in supporting browsers) a user can use User CSS to do this client-side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;**The only markdown feature not on &lt;em&gt;everywhere&lt;/em&gt; is LaTeX rendering (which is on for &lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;CSTheory&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Math&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt;).  This is because the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathjax.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MathJax&lt;/a&gt; library is so large (and cpu intesive) that it has a deleterious effect on page load.  It is also &quot;additive&quot; with regards to our baseline markdown, making it less dangerous in my opinion.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, now for what has actually been done to mitigate this (already, vanishingly rare) issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of the only truly affected post's creation, the preview pane wasn't rendering spoilers.  This could definitely hit TeX harder than other sites, and upon discovering that it (already being [status-planned]) was kicked up on the schedule.  You can go &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/derobins/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;take a look&lt;/a&gt; at the renderer to see why this took a bit, but its out there now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It should be more or less impossible&#xA;  to &lt;em&gt;accidentally&lt;/em&gt; post a spoiler now,&#xA;  as the preview pane will show it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would still leave the problem of generating a spoiler unintentionally (even though it probably wouldn't go so far as to actually be posted).  So, to mitigate that, the &quot;quote&quot; button on the post editor will no longer generate spoilers***.  This was already pretty tricky to do accidentally, as only very short messages would be placed on a single line in a quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The quote button will no longer&#xA;  produce spoilers, regardless of the length&#xA;  of the selected text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a less technical note, there was some confusion as to how the spoiler syntax actually worked.  &lt;em&gt;I blame me&lt;/em&gt;.  I thought my &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1191/add-markdown-support-for-hidden-until-you-click-text-aka-spoilers/71396#71396&quot;&gt;initial post&lt;/a&gt; was clear, but then again of course &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; knew how it worked.  Props to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/175&quot;&gt;Charles Stewart&lt;/a&gt; for drawing my attention to it with his &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72877/whats-the-exact-syntax-for-spoiler-markup&quot;&gt;meta.SO post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72877/whats-the-exact-syntax-for-spoiler-markup/72878#72878&quot;&gt;explanation&lt;/a&gt; of the spoiler feature has been improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;***This is true for all sane input (where sane ~= contains some whitespace).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a vanishingly rare problem, the proposed solutions have downsides out of proportion with what they're trying to solve (especially in light of its rarity), and steps have been taken to mitigate the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:16.797" LastActivityDate="2010-12-23T07:40:42.503" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2010-12-22T23:12:05.573" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have implemented this prettify plugin and will enable it on the next deploy (tonight).  If there are changes required please update this post so we will be sure to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-12-22T23:12:05.573" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-23T08:31:04.247" Score="16" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;When one votes to close a question as being a duplicate, a comment is automatically added of the form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;possible duplicate of Other Question Here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's good that something appears, but the capitalization and punctuation should really be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;possible&quot; should be removed as well. If one is voting to close a question on this basis, it makes sense to make a stand and declare that the question is a duplicate. I see no need for weasel words here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-06-29T11:45:44.607" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T11:50:39.300" Title="&quot;possible duplicate of&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ClosedDate="2014-02-04T15:03:48.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2010-12-23T12:46:07.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have another suggestion that could solve the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Change the syntax of the spoiler block &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;across the board&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the desire to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt;, but in light of the clash with TeX error would it be really difficult to change this to a &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!!&lt;/code&gt; ? For old spoilers this could be done retroactively, (not on TeX.SE...) and the feature is relatively new, so that it should not be a difficult learning experience, For the people who actually use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2010-12-23T12:46:07.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-23T21:22:00.463" Score="4" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user flagged a post letting us know about issues with the layout of the comments area which sometimes gets broken. I was able to reproduce the problem so here it goes. A screenshot bellow which shows the problem on the page where it was reported. And the first comment to this question is the text that seems to trigger the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6wkMC.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able to reproduce the problem both on Chrome (8.0.552.231) and Safari (5.0.3) on OSX (10.6.5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2010-12-24T04:32:54.477" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T05:37:57.927" Title="Text flowing out of the comments area" Tags="|bug|status-deferred|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="802" CreationDate="2010-12-23T22:59:43.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correct -- because the comment area is variable width (depending on whether votes are present, whether you are logged in, and how many votes there are), there is no way to prevent text from overflowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See here for more details:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5460/post-overflow/42662#42662&quot;&gt;Post Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2010-12-23T22:59:43.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="800" CreationDate="2010-12-24T05:36:24.507" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design; that's not a sentence in the same way the tab headers are not sentences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Antal, when you edit that comment you are preventing those comment(s) from being auto-deleted in the event the question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2010-12-24T05:36:24.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="806" CreationDate="2010-12-28T11:18:04.183" Score="7" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown seems to duplicate empty lines in listings that appear inside a list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Single empty line is duplicated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Single empty line below:&#xA;&#xA;Single empty line above.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two empty lines display correctly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Two empty lines below:&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;Two empty lines above.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When not inside a list, this works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Single empty line below:&#xA;&#xA;Single empty line above.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/0e5065a1-d762-4fe8-936b-e0da938b8a74/view-source&quot;&gt;View source code of this posting&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2010-12-29T02:51:57.727" Title="Markdown adds redundant empty lines to listings in lists" Tags="|bug|status-deferred|markdown|lists|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="805" CreationDate="2010-12-29T02:51:35.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, this is a &quot;feature&quot; of most Markdown implementations, and ours is no exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19624/markdown-formatting-bug-with-code-blocks-in-lists/19799#19799&quot;&gt;Markdown formatting bug with code blocks in lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2010-12-29T02:51:35.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-30T00:11:29.440" Score="10" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to public mailing lists, other than those at my workplace. I was browsing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=pgf-users&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;pgf-users&lt;/code&gt; mailing list&lt;/a&gt; and I find that many of the questions come from end-users. Such questions perfectly fit the StackExchange format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if anybody ever sent out invitations to join TeX StackExchange. I don't know what the social implications will be to the traditional mailing list community. I mean, why would I opt for the mailing list when there is StackExchange which is suitable for end-user questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, to start off, I think the mailing list is still a good tool for focused developer groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="791" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T21:01:21.290" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T21:01:21.290" Title="Convert mailing list users to the Stack Exchange engine?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|new-users|publicity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="810" CreationDate="2010-12-30T11:11:32.740" Score="3" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain how does this silly code markup behave? Help is insufficient, because I'm &lt;strong&gt;absolutely unable to create a line break&lt;/strong&gt; in marked code block, whether in regular 4 spaces indent, whether in inline code markup - and it looks &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7966/aligning-text-vertically-in-tikz/7975#7975&quot;&gt;nasty&lt;/a&gt;!. Help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1996" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T12:21:12.917" Title="Absurd &quot;code markup&quot; behavior..." Tags="|support|markup|code|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="808" CreationDate="2010-12-30T11:32:35.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really see there is an issue. For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{something}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;The next line is empty (not even four spaces)!&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T11:32:35.913" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="808" CreationDate="2010-12-30T12:21:12.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Formatting as code sample doesn't seem to work immediately after bulleted lists. I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7966/aligning-text-vertically-in-tikz/7975#7975&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; the respective post and created &quot;faked&quot; bulleted lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T12:21:12.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-03T13:37:04.883" Score="8" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comments to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8171/86&quot;&gt;Why duplicate symbol commands&lt;/a&gt; there is the following exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;according to the moderator here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8021&quot;&gt;Is there a (La)TeX distribution running on iPad?&lt;/a&gt; Please don't use quote (&amp;gt;) markup for emphasis. That's not what it's for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI, in the brotherhood of this forum (cstheory.stackexchange.com) we nearly always use such a mechanism to highlight the question :D. This is more like highlighting rather than quoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that this isn't a full reflection of the exchange and the tone may come across other than it did in the original.  Also, the attributed remark was incorrectly attributed as a moderator, though it did garner a few votes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MathOverflow, I often use quotation blocks to highlight the actual question.  This is because I like to provide background and motivation for those that want it to make the question itself clearer (and thus what would constitute a good answer clearer), but that can make it hard to see at a glance what the actual question is.  On a short question such as the one I've linked then there's no need to mark out the question, but on longer questions it can be useful to do this.  So, my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is an acceptable way of making the actual question stand out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A suggestion is to use bold, so here's bold text, with a little bit of fluff beforehand to make this line into a reasonably sized paragraph, otherwise it isn't a fair test.  What more can I say to fill in this paragraph?  Not a lot, it's probably time that I stopped this nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is an acceptable way of making the actual question stand out?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other suggestion is to use italic, so here's italic text, with a little bit of fluff beforehand to make this line into a reasonably sized paragraph, otherwise it isn't a fair test.  What more can I say to fill in this paragraph?  Not a lot, it's probably time that I stopped this nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What is an acceptable way of making the actual question stand out?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for completeness, here's bold &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; italic, again with a little bit of fluff beforehand to make this line into a reasonably sized paragraph, otherwise it isn't a fair test.  What more can I say to fill in this paragraph?  Not a lot, it's probably time that I stopped this nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is an acceptable way of making the actual question stand out?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(With facetious reference to a recent discussion, perhaps the syntax &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;?&lt;/code&gt; could be introduced which converts to a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;question&amp;quot;&amp;gt; ... &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and thus can be appropriately CSS styled.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-01-05T10:29:17.607" Title="Emphasising the actual question" Tags="|discussion|markup|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="812" CreationDate="2011-01-03T18:57:49.100" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used bold in questions to highlight the actual question and in answers to highlight the one sentence answer where there the rest of the text is explanation. I don't see anything wrong using quotes for it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T18:57:49.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="815" CreationDate="2011-01-04T17:59:51.407" Score="8" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;An unregistered user just &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8264/1235&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; and soon after that posted an &quot;answer&quot; that should have been a comment. Usually, the system asks you quite clearly if you're really sure that you want to answer your own question. Here, the mechanism doesn't work as the user created a new (unregistered) account for the &quot;answer&quot;. I've got two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it of any use to leave comments to the &quot;answer&quot; in this case? Unregistered users can't delete their answers anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to make it harder for unregistered users to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to show that this is not a singular occurence, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7105/1235&quot;&gt;here are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7843/1235&quot;&gt;a few&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7977/1235&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5582/1235&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-01-04T18:52:51.137" Title="Unregistered users tend to post &quot;answers&quot; to own questions that are not answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="814" CreationDate="2011-01-04T18:52:51.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually leave a comment pointing out that they should register, and then ask the mods to do a merge. It is a bit frustrating, I agree. (I've done some mod work on the examples, as these might otherwise get forgotten. Non-answers shouldn't really be left as 'answers' for too long, I think.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-01-04T18:52:51.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="819" CreationDate="2011-01-05T18:49:18.390" Score="13" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is very much related to my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/814/1235&quot;&gt;previous post&lt;/a&gt; about new users who post non-answers. I'm just looking through my comment history and see some comments on &quot;answers&quot; in which new users asked new questions or left comments. I advised to use the &quot;Ask Question&quot; link, but apparently the &quot;answers&quot; are still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct procedure here, should I flag for moderator attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T08:23:12.510" Title="Should I flag for moderator attention if a new user asks a question in an answer?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="816" CreationDate="2011-01-05T19:36:04.680" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that you (1) make a comment pointing out the 'correct' approach and (2) flag the 'answer'. That way, the user gets some feedback, and there is some record of the issue (it will sit in the list the mods can see). We can then give the user some time to see the comment and react (I'd suggest a day) before deleting the 'answer' to keep the site ticking over nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-01-05T19:36:04.680" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-06T04:06:47.663" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is inspired by a mistake that I did here &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8316/the-number-of-pages-contained-in-a-document-called-by-includegraphics&quot;&gt;How to know the number of pages in a PDF file?&lt;/a&gt; (see the comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally find that the editor's avatar and name tend to distract. Should the details of the editor be displayed in smaller letters and with no avatar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T04:06:47.663" Title="Should the avatar of the person that edited a question be displayed?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="816" CreationDate="2011-01-06T08:16:50.687" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment thread on Joseph's answer is getting a little long and there's an extension of Joseph's proposal in there that I'd like to draw to everyone's attention.  The full proposal is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experienced user spots an &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; that isn't really an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experienced user leaves a helpful comment explaining what best to do with that answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experienced user flags the answer for moderator attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assuming that the moderator agrees, the moderator then leaves a comment whose content is designed to indicate that Experienced User was acting in accordance with the site etiquette and that after &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; days, this answer will be deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; days, the answer is deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: nothing prevents anyone reposting the &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; themselves as a comment or question if they decide that it is something that they themselves would have said or asked if only they'd thought of it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also suggest that there be a basic template that can be used for the comments.  This can be ignored, but I find it helps to have something to fall back on.  It should be polite and it should indicate why it is in the best interests of the original poster to repost their answer as a comment or a question.  Here's my proposals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Experienced user's comment (on something that should be a question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hi, welcome to tex.SX.  Your question won't get seen by many people here so it would be best to repost it as a fresh question.  Follow-up questions like this are more than welcome!  Please use the &amp;quot;Ask Question&amp;quot; link for your new question; there you can link to this question to provide the background.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderator's comment (on something that should be a question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Just a note to confirm _X_'s comment, this ought to be reposted as a question for you to get the best chance of it being answered.  Also, it's a little confusing to have fresh questions in the _answers_ section, so this answer will be removed from public view in _N_ days.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I said &amp;quot;removed from public view&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;deleted&amp;quot; deliberately, others may think I'm being overly polite there!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; should best be left as a comment then there's the problem of reputation.  If it's the poster's own question then the above can be adapted, but if it's a different question then the poster may not have the reputation to comment, in which case I would say that the automatic deletion be put on hold until the comment is either irrelevant or the user has enough reputation to repost as a comment.  If the comment is particularly pertinent, the &amp;quot;Experienced User&amp;quot; could post it (with correct attribution).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(CW so that anyone can edit the comments, and propose modifications for separate cases.  My idea is that these be easily cut-and-pasted with only minor editing to make it easy for all to do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T09:44:30.070" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-06T08:16:50.687" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="816" CreationDate="2011-01-07T08:23:12.510" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that moderators now have the power to convert answers to comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35175/should-moderators-be-able-to-convert-answers-into-comments&quot;&gt;Should moderators be able to convert answers into comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So flagging for moderator attention is definitely the Right Thing to do.  So the &quot;answer to question&quot; still needs to be done via comments and (eventual) deletion (and I wouldn't support an automatic answer-to-question conversion since the question almost always needs more information), but &quot;answer to comment&quot; can be done by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T08:23:12.510" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-07T13:53:38.190" Score="33" ViewCount="1306" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be cool to right click anywhere in a code block and have the option &quot;copy code block to clipboard&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="14100" LastEditDate="2012-08-15T04:10:15.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T21:03:48.423" Title="Easy way to copy code block?" Tags="|feature-request|code|user-interface|user-script|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-07T18:25:13.033" Score="6" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember well the times when there used to be a yellow envelope left of my user name, showing that I have new replies. This was really convenient as it showed me that I've got replies to something &lt;em&gt;on the site I'm just on&lt;/em&gt;, as opposed to the red disc that tells me I've got replies &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;. It's been a long time that I've seen the yellow envelope. Where has it gone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4dhPg.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, when I took that screenshot, I did find a reply after clicking on the non-yellow envelope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, the answers make clear that this is not a bug but a feature. Still I think the &quot;bug&quot; tag is justified as the &lt;em&gt;implemention&lt;/em&gt; of the feature is strange: If I hover the mouse over the envelope, it says &quot;you have no new replies&quot; although I do have new replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T19:03:08.280" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T19:03:08.280" Title="Where is the yellow envelope?" Tags="|support|notifications|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="822" CreationDate="2011-01-07T20:12:52.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been changed about two months ago. See, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/68387/the-envelope-icon-driving-me-mad-with-false-positives/69680#69680&quot;&gt;the announcement on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T20:12:52.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="822" CreationDate="2011-01-07T21:19:40.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is still present and works, but it tries not to double-notify you of things that the network-wide global inbox already told you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T21:19:40.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="826" CreationDate="2011-01-07T21:29:31.090" Score="18" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;using either firefox or ie on a windows xp workstation, i've tried to print out the full entries for several questions.  however, any entry that was longer than could be accommodated by one side of a sheet of paper was truncated, and if i duplexed the job, the first line(s?) of the entry were missing from the top of the second page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i actually reported such a bug several months ago -- directly to the management, before i had an account and could actually post questions -- and thought it had been fixed.  but it seems to have resurfaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as keeper of the bugs list for the ams-latex macro/style collection, full documentation of bug reports is important to me. having a &quot;local&quot; copy is essential, either paper or electronic, although a link will be checked later during the implementation. i will probably end up cutting and pasting the entire content of the relevant questions, but that surely isn't the best or easiest approach. is there a better way that i'm just overlooking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-01-07T21:35:51.973" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T07:52:04.153" Title="How to print out a full q/a entry? Or forward it outside the stackexchange site?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="825" CreationDate="2011-01-07T21:35:45.313" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend &lt;strong&gt;using StackPrinter for printing duties&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackprinter.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackprinter.appspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was built using our API at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com&quot;&gt;http://stackapps.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it was a contest winner too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/stack-exchange-api-contest-winners/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/stack-exchange-api-contest-winners/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T21:35:45.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="846" CreationDate="2011-01-09T22:18:27.367" Score="13" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;On an empty tag wiki page (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/latex-general/info&quot;&gt;e.g. here&lt;/a&gt;) it says that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tag wikis can be edited by users with&#xA;  more than 1500 reputation, provided: They are in the top 20 answerers for this tag or they hold the bronze tag badge for this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a tag wiki page with content (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/pdftex/info&quot;&gt;e.g. here&lt;/a&gt;, provided that you don't have enough rep to edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt;), it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To edit this wiki, you must have at&#xA;  least 2000 reputation and hold the&#xA;  bronze tag badge for this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;privileges page&lt;/a&gt; says that one needs 1500 rep and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;either be in the top 20 answerers for the tag, or have a total score of 100 or more for the tag in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last clause is not quite equivalent to a bronze tag badge (which also says 'in at least 20 non-CW questions').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly inconsistent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-10-13T14:54:18.627" Title="Tag wiki editing policy inconsistencies" Tags="|bug|status-completed|tagwiki|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="834" CreationDate="2011-01-09T22:40:38.947" Score="9" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the moderators don't vote to close off-topic very often. Presumably this is because they don't want to exert (or seem to exert) and undue influence on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like this is a mistake. They should either just close the question, or they should have two types of close powers: &quot;vote to close&quot; and &quot;close right now.&quot; Since they don't currently have two types, I'd prefer that they simply close questions they feel should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T21:22:48.047" Title="Mods don't vote to close" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="829" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-09T22:40:55.903" Score="10" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of yesterday, hovering the mouse pointer over a tag will show (amongst other info) the tag wiki excerpt. This makes the tag wiki content more prominent on the site. Unfortunately, the tag wikis of most of our tags are empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that you can now make tag wiki suggestions directly on the the wiki. If you do so, please remove the tag from this list afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of tags from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;the first tag page&lt;/a&gt; that do not have a description (when directly editing a tag wiki page, please remove the tag from the list). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xetex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xetex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xetex&lt;/a&gt; (has an entry, but is very short)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt; (excerpt, but no wiki)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertical-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertical-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertical-alignment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compiling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/numbering&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;numbering&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;numbering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-general&lt;/a&gt; (excerpt, but no wiki)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/color&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;color&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;color&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captions&lt;/a&gt; (excerpt, but no wiki)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/templates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;templates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;templates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/programming&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;programming&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;programming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-breaking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;line-breaking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;line-breaking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tools&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tools&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paragraph&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paragraph&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paragraph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-breaking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-breaking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-breaking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conversion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conversion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conversion&lt;/a&gt; (excerpt, but no wiki)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/labels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;labels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/matrices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;matrices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;matrices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/two-column&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;two-column&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;two-column&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/counters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;counters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;counters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T19:16:57.140" Title="Let's write some tag wiki entries" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-09T23:46:55.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-09T22:43:54.870" Score="13" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mouseover information for tags included with the &lt;code&gt;[tag:...]&lt;/code&gt; syntax on Meta is not pulled from the main site. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; should have a tag wiki excerpt and one subscriber. Also the “Help us edit this wiki” link goes to the tag wiki on meta, not on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="25639" LastEditDate="2013-07-11T13:02:41.207" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T13:02:41.207" Title="Mouseover tag information is incorrect on Meta" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="828" CreationDate="2011-01-09T22:51:31.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is better for mods not to immediately close the question. Most of the closed questions here are duplicates, but what might seem to be a duplicate for someone, might not be a duplicate for the question-asker. The current closing process gives the asker some time to respond with a reason why they think it isn't a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, for obviously off-topic questions (like the Word question that like prompted this request), I wouldn't mind if a mod closes them immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-01-10T00:28:09.653" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T00:28:09.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="829" CreationDate="2011-01-09T22:59:11.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texlive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texlive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texlive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is used for questions relating to TeX Live, a widely used TeX distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Live&lt;/a&gt; is TeX distribution that is mostly used on Unix-related operating systems like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt;. It is, however, also available for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows&lt;/a&gt; (where &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/miktex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;miktex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;miktex&lt;/a&gt; is commonly used). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions concerning Mac TeX, which is a based on TeX Live, use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mactex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mactex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mactex&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Copied to Tag Wiki on 2011-01-12.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T00:30:31.427" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T00:30:31.427" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-09T23:00:56.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="828" CreationDate="2011-01-09T23:44:54.763" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until now, questions are mostly closed because they are duplicates, sometimes not very clearly. I prefer to let several members vote and decide instead of closing a question just by myself, if it seems ok to give some time. So it happened that I closed as third or fourth voter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like it that active members can do moderation tasks like this. I would even support this instead of just quickly do moderation like I think. SPAM or offensive posts in contrast require immediate action, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T23:44:54.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="828" CreationDate="2011-01-10T07:38:34.507" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be reaching out to the +3000 rep users (with close abilities). There are a lot of them and it appears they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; actively engaged in the care and operation of this site. It's not the job of the moderators to routinely close posts. &lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt; of the closing should be the result of voting… by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are only supposed to step in where the community cannot (or will not) act on their own. Having said that, it's okay for moderators to act in the most egregious cases, but what you should be shooting for is an active community getting involved in the operation of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Addendum:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tantamount to this answer is &amp;quot;Why aren't there already more +3000-rep users to help close questions?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is exactly why people need to participate more and vote! Award reputation for great content. See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/when-will-my-site-graduate/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/when-will-my-site-graduate/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T21:22:48.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="836" CreationDate="2011-01-10T19:48:38.023" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site's data explorer is now available:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that there's a mistake: TeX meta has been chosen instead. Both &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&lt;/a&gt; and &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/texmeta/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/texmeta/queries&lt;/a&gt; should be available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="1211" LastEditDate="2011-01-11T04:16:49.883" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T04:16:49.883" Title="TeX.SE data explorer" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="835" CreationDate="2011-01-11T04:16:39.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;k ... this should be fixed now &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1211" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T04:16:39.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="837" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="841" CreationDate="2011-01-11T22:39:26.877" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag marks questions which are&#xA;  about packages in general, for&#xA;  instance about installing, using or&#xA;  writing packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have 6 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt;, none of which is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; tag redundant and should be merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;? Or should we remove the ”writing”-part from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;? Or should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; be a tag that can be applied in addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, current usage seems to be tag requests for a package that does something specific with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;. Should there be a separate tag for these kinds of question? (We had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-hint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-hint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-hint&lt;/a&gt; tag, but I was only used by one question. )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T18:21:52.723" Title="{packages} and {package-writing} tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="842" CreationDate="2011-01-12T12:10:08.013" Score="16" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I see a spam answer, I flag it for moderator attention. Should I also downvote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-06-02T10:22:29.373" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T10:22:29.373" Title="Should I downvote spam?" Tags="|discussion|voting|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="829" CreationDate="2011-01-12T12:23:30.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; is a package that provides advanced features for typesetting computer code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/listings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package extends LaTeX's &lt;code&gt;verbatim&lt;/code&gt; features. A variety of syntax highlighting options are available. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the unrelated concept of list structures, use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lists&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lists&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt; tag or the tag corresponding to a specific list structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T00:35:01.563" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T00:35:01.563" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-12T12:23:30.097" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="838" CreationDate="2011-01-12T13:10:23.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  If something gets &quot;enough&quot; spam votes then it gets automatically deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/how-does-the-spam-flag-work&quot;&gt;More details on meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oops, that wasn't quite the right answer.  Sorry.  Still, I think that that link is useful to know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that there's also a mechanism whereby if something gets enough downvotes &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt; enough then it will also be locked and deleted, but I can't find that information on meta.SO right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason for downvoting (and commenting) is that if it really is spam, this highlights the fact to other (non-mod/non-10k) users who can participate in getting the spam off the site as fast as possible (the point being that only mods/10k users can see the spam flags and so get notified of potential spam).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T13:10:23.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="837" CreationDate="2011-01-12T18:21:52.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; should be preserved because creation and writing is very different to usage. Package writers should be able to find specific questions instead of looking them up among a huge amount of choosing and using questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the general tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt; is mostly used for requests regarding recommendations of packages, I would not introduce another tag for that. Renaming or a synonym would be possible. But I don't see a need for that action. For specific questions there might be tags created, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-options&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-options&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-options&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-installing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-installing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-installing&lt;/a&gt; if meaningful. It's good to differentiate. I just don't see the need to retag 50 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt; questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-hint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-hint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-hint&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would edit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt; wiki to clarify that for questions about writing the other tag should be chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T18:21:52.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="838" CreationDate="2011-01-12T18:26:53.807" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting it is not absolutely necessary since the question would be deleted soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it's fine if you downvote SPAM &quot;questions&quot;, to quickly mark them as not useful, so other site users could see that it's not worth opening and reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T18:26:53.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="850" CreationDate="2011-01-14T16:26:07.307" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340/1235&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about editing etiquette. Well, I could easily &lt;em&gt;enter&lt;/em&gt; the editing page, do my edits and check with the preview that everything was OK. But on &lt;em&gt;submission&lt;/em&gt; I got the message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because: 'discussion faq etiquette editing' contains a tag reserved for moderator use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat annoying: Why didn't the system tell me in advance, when I hit the edit link, that I can't edit the post anyway? It would be very nice if this could be implemented. By the way, this was already the second time that it happened to me; the first time was when I tried to edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/783/1235&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; after the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; had been added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much for the feature-request, let me add the question: For the question about editing etiquette, do you think it's OK that only moderators can edit it? I think yes, since this is really an important faq entry and not a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T08:19:10.517" Title="Edits to questions can't be submitted if there are tags for moderator use only" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1769" CreationDate="2011-01-14T18:15:37.350" Score="19" ViewCount="725" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked this question at &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/970/accepted-answer-checkmark-color&quot;&gt;meta.programmers.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; when I realized I have the same problem over here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question (and every answer has a check mark next to it for me to select one as my accepted answer), it's very hard for me to tell the difference between the check mark that I've checked, and one that I haven't checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you either use a darker green for the one that I've checked, or make the unchecked ones appear as an outline like on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1846" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:26:47.003" LastActivityDate="2011-09-22T16:34:50.413" Title="Accepted answer checkmark color" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="843" CreationDate="2011-01-14T19:28:04.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see the logic in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; questions being only editable by moderators, but I think that the locking being done by a tag is a bit low-key!  It should be obvious to all (and I didn't know about it until just now) that this is the case, and so the procedure for getting edits in to the entry more formalised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T19:28:04.107" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="827" CreationDate="2011-01-16T22:19:20.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just updated all these spots, thanks for bringing them up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to the req, we require the bronze badge for tag wiki editing (if you are not in the top 20), the missing req is now documented&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1211" LastActivityDate="2011-01-16T22:19:20.380" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="849" CreationDate="2011-01-17T07:38:07.717" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ encourages editing one's own question &quot;to provide status and progress updates. [...] This will naturally bump your question&quot;. However, what is our stance on additionally labelling the edited question as &quot;UPDATED&quot;, as has been done in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9095/biblatex-customization-author-name-format-defined-by-hyphenation-localization&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; case? Personally, I regard such labelling as somewhat cluttering up the site, and I would undo the changes to the question title either immediately or at least as soon as an answer has been acccepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-01-17T20:56:43.410" Title="Policy on labelling questions as &quot;updated&quot;" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="847" CreationDate="2011-01-17T20:56:43.410" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have removed the label &quot;UPDATED&quot; from the respective question and left a comment explaining my motives. (Hopefully, the comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-01-17T20:56:43.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="843" CreationDate="2011-01-18T09:00:20.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff just left the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; tag. I tested what it means: It means that, for example, I can edit my above question although it carries the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; tag. Great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T09:00:20.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="903" CreationDate="2011-01-18T11:36:20.887" Score="11" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;When one writes code in a question or answer, the live preview treats the # character as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VW5jc.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x4LxY.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is screenshot taken while asking a new question. The second is a screenshot taken of an existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on meta, there is no formatting at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m8plI.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\def\foo#1{xxx}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-11-03T06:43:35.743" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T06:43:35.743" Title="Preview treats # as comment" Tags="|bug|status-completed|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="851" CreationDate="2011-01-18T12:04:15.857" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The preview of code blocks is completely messed up as it doesn't know that you're typing some version of TeX. Please have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10/syntax-highlighting/799#799&quot;&gt;Geoff's comment&lt;/a&gt; to his answer about syntax highlighting. If you want to know what I mean by &quot;completely messed up&quot;, have a look at my comment to Geoff's answer and follow the link I put there. This is what I got in a preview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/48Cj1.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T12:04:15.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="851" CreationDate="2011-01-19T00:09:37.127" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe preview uses &quot;generic inferred&quot; syntax highlighting, whereas the final posts should use &quot;we assume all code posted to this site is Tex&quot; syntax highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(yes, this also means if you use a code block that does not contain TeX you will get bad results. I recommend using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; instead, but be aware that you have to escape any &amp;lt; or &gt; within.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T00:09:37.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="855" CreationDate="2011-01-19T17:14:04.073" Score="8" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list-of-figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list-of-figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list-of-figures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list-of-tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list-of-tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list-of-tables&lt;/a&gt; be merged? After all, their implementations are pretty similar and questions and solutions applying to one of them typically apply to the others as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T06:44:26.567" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T06:44:26.567" Title="Should {list-of-figures} be merged with {table-of-content}?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="854" CreationDate="2011-01-19T18:02:25.267" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that would be ok. Even somebody browsing old list-of-figures questions could benefit from the other questions and answers regarding the table of contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though being able to distinguish different concepts is important, TOC, LOF and LOT aren't really different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T18:02:25.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="854" CreationDate="2011-01-20T10:56:51.010" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this might be confusing for casual users of the site.  That the implementation is similar is less visible than the difference in semantics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see who would benefit from this synonym.  People with a special expertise in these macros looking for questions to answer?  People wanting to earn tag badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T10:56:51.010" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-21T08:08:00.830" Score="9" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;If in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9363/1235&quot;&gt;this recently migrated question&lt;/a&gt; I sort the answers by &quot;active&quot;, then I get the same sorting as for &quot;oldest&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Incidentally, how come that this old question with no recent answers was migrated? It looks a bit out of place on tex.sx, with 58 upvotes on the top voted answer ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-07-07T15:33:44.823" Title="Active view on migrated question is broken" Tags="|bug|status-completed|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="857" CreationDate="2011-01-22T01:17:23.183" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last activity date for migrated answers was being set to the time of the migration, busting the &quot;active&quot; sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fix to retain source answers' last activity date will be pushed out tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T01:17:23.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-22T19:19:56.247" Score="24" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is something a bit wrong with the comment formatting; it seems to be like this now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\interpretCommentMarkdown{#1} - \userLink{#2}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it should be more like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\interpretCommentMarkdown{#1} -~\userLink{#2}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, there should be a &quot;tie&quot; between the hyphen and the link to the commenter's profile, so that we don't see things like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6lrbX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of where there should be a tie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastEditorUserId="10916" LastEditDate="2014-04-22T23:52:07.060" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T23:27:52.920" Title="Missing tie in signatures of comments" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|design|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-22T21:13:14.747" Score="13" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;I visited the &lt;a href=&quot;http://english.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://english.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; recently and I couldn't but feel jealous at the nice italic font used over there. At this site, which is much closer to typography  we have a &lt;em&gt;slanted&lt;/em&gt; font! Can the designers reconsider?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastActivityDate="2012-02-05T17:15:43.957" Title="Can we have proper italics rather than slanted text?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="862" CreationDate="2011-01-23T10:30:51.687" Score="9" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please forgive me that this has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/46078&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1577&quot;&gt;multiple times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/73924&quot;&gt;on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;. I'm bringing it up here for two reasons: 1. The problem doesn't seem to be resolved, 2. I'm not sure if the tex.sx community is aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't happen too often on tex.sx, but today it did happen:&#xA;TH saved an edit of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9517/1235&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with the time stamp &lt;code&gt;2011-01-23 02:11:49&lt;/code&gt;; then lockstep saved an edit with the time stamp &lt;code&gt;2011-01-23 02:12:01&lt;/code&gt;, so 12 seconds later. Both edits were to mark a code sample; TH's edit actually involved one more change than lockstep's, but this got overwritten by lockstep's edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make things worse, I made another edit (hours later). &lt;em&gt;Why worse?&lt;/em&gt; &amp;nbsp;There's a little known (I believe) feature on stackexchange that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts/11741#11741&quot;&gt;frequent edits of a post make it CW&lt;/a&gt;, namely 5 edits by different users or 10 edits by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So having multiple users edit one and the same post has two downsides: 1. Only the edits of the user who save his edits last take effect; thus the effort of the other users is wasted. 2 There's the danger of making a question CW shortly after it has been posted (so far not a great danger on tex.sx).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1577/notifications-for-concurrent-changes-when-editing-posts/28119#28119&quot;&gt;some warning implemented&lt;/a&gt;, but this doesn't seem to suffice. I've got two completely different suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I hit the &quot;edit&quot; button shortly (let's say &amp;lt;5 minutes) after another user, the system shows a message like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another user may currently be editing this post. Do you want to proceed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/73924&quot;&gt;this proposal&lt;/a&gt;; should the name of the other user(s) be given?).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I hit the &quot;Save Edits&quot; button, the system shows a message like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another user has edited this post while you were editing. If you proceed to save your edits, his edits will be lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This could still be improved a lot, see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1577/notifications-for-concurrent-changes-when-editing-posts/1625#1625&quot;&gt;this old suggestion&lt;/a&gt;, but my present proposal would be simpler to implement.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe my points 1. and 2. could/should both be implemented? (Of course I can't judge if the implementation is possible at all in the current framework.) I'd like to know what others think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T13:28:46.173" Title="Can we get a warning &quot;this post is being edited&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="861" CreationDate="2011-01-23T11:17:33.410" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already exists -- the system pings the server every 45 seconds once an edit is initiated -- if another revision happens while you are editing, you will be notified of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will think about #2 but I have serious concerns about good edits being thrown away just because they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; (A version of) #2 has now been implemented. Citing Jeff from meta.SO (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1577/notifications-for-concurrent-changes-when-editing-posts/28119#28119&quot;&gt;Notifications for concurrent changes when editing posts&lt;/a&gt;, 2011-03-30):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, we now prevent edit collisions on &lt;strong&gt;save&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you click &quot;Save Edits&quot;, if the post changed while you were editing, we now return:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{username} edited {tags / body / title} of this post; try refreshing this post and editing again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is specific to the area in question, so one user can edit body and you can edit tags without conflicting. (Or title, etc). It's only when you both edit the same field at the same time this error is returned on save.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T13:28:46.173" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="864" CreationDate="2011-01-24T16:15:58.740" Score="23" ViewCount="8888" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I mark my inline code in questions and answers, and how can I mark code in comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T21:31:26.797" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T21:31:26.797" Title="How do I mark inline code?" Tags="|support|faq|markdown|code|code-example|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-24T19:17:47.420" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="863" CreationDate="2011-01-24T16:16:49.287" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest way is to surround the inline code by backticks &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;: To get the output &lt;code&gt;\section&lt;/code&gt;, just type &lt;code&gt;`\section`&lt;/code&gt;. If you don't like typing backticks, you can also highlight the inline code and hit &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; (or click the &quot;code&quot; button, with &quot;{ }&quot; on it), but this doesn't work in comments. In &lt;strong&gt;questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt;, there are only two (quite rare) cases where things might go wrong (see below for backslash escaping of backticks in comments):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You need a backtick in the inline code. Then you can &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; use double backticks &lt;code&gt;``&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&amp;nbsp; to mark your code. For example, both &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;``\catcode`@=11``&lt;/code&gt; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\catcode`@=11&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;give &lt;code&gt;\catcode`@=11&lt;/code&gt;. Another example: &lt;code&gt;`` &quot;` ``&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;&quot;`&lt;/code&gt; (note the spaces!).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You want spaces in the beginning and/or the end of the inline code, or you need multiple spaces within. Then you have to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;a &amp;amp;nbsp; test&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives &lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;a &amp;nbsp; test&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;, which has 3 spaces between &quot;a&quot; and &quot;test&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is an alternative for backticks, but it behaves differently: You can use HTML entities such as &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; inside. For example, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;, whereas &lt;code&gt;`&amp;amp;nbsp;`&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a rule of thumb, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; only as a last resort. And then be aware that you can run into trouble if you try to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; inside: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;b&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt;! The way out: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;a&amp;amp;lt;b&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;a&amp;lt;b&lt;/code&gt;. Moreover, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;a &amp;lt; b&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;a &amp;lt; b&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until 20 February 2011, markdown in &lt;strong&gt;comments&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/168/1235&quot;&gt;was quite a hassle&lt;/a&gt;. Now the rules are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79546/can-we-please-have-a-place-where-changes-to-the-markdown-syntax-are-documented/79981#79981&quot;&gt;almost the same as for questions and answers&lt;/a&gt;. These are the differences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to mark inline code doesn't work in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you need a backtick in inline code in a comment, you can (and must) escape it (doesn't work in questions/answers!): &lt;code&gt;`\catcode\`@=11`&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;\catcode`@=11&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;#2 means that &lt;code&gt;`\\`&lt;/code&gt; will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; give &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; because the second backslash is interpreted as an escape for the subsequent backtick. This can be solved by using double backticks &lt;code&gt;``&lt;/code&gt; if the inline code ends with a backslash: &lt;code&gt;``\\``&lt;/code&gt; gives &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is not possible to have spaces in the beginning and/or the end of inline code in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more important recent change: Inline code in comments can now be followed by a letter. For example, &lt;code&gt;`\vspace`s&lt;/code&gt; now renders as &lt;code&gt;\vspace&lt;/code&gt;s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T10:40:54.927" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-24T17:43:57.883" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-25T00:07:34.127" Score="15" ViewCount="1190" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/656/404-captcha-error-images&quot;&gt;post by Jin&lt;/a&gt; asking what we should do for the captcha/404/etc. images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was followed up by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5262/competition-time-design-an-error-page&quot;&gt;post to main&lt;/a&gt;, in which we seem to mostly agreed that it would be really cool if we could get some illustrations done by Daune Bibby, who illustrated the TeXbook and made &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/lion.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this cool illustration&lt;/a&gt; for CTAN, among other things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/lion.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ruYjr.png&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;CTAN Lion&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, someone just needs to make it &lt;strong&gt;happen&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T14:42:18.713" Title="Still missing illustrations from Duane Bibby" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="866" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-26T08:29:32.260" Score="9" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/stack-exchange-2011-elections-begin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reading between the lines&lt;/a&gt;, it doesn't look like it'll be long before we get our proper moderator elections.  I don't hang around much on the other SE sites so I can't be sure of this, but I have a suspicion that tex.SX is towards one end of the spread of SE sites in terms of what moderators are called upon to do.  So I thought it might be useful to have a tex.SX-based description of the role of a moderator to help people decide whether or not they would be willing to put their names forward for election (note that the process is by self-nomination only).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm putting this up now so that I and the other mods have time to think about this before answering rather than feeling that we have to write something straightaway, and to give others who might be thinking of putting themselves forward (or who are just curious) time to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T09:06:04.783" Title="Moderator Job Description" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="866" CreationDate="2011-01-26T21:03:10.043" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is about moderating {TeX}, but I think an answer needs to start with the general Stack Exchange model. The approach is that most things can be done by people with sufficiently high reputation (the important lines are 2k and 10k, I think). In particular, members with reputations over 10k get access to most of the tools that the moderators do. The idea is of course that most 'moderation' is actually done without any intervention from Moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We currently have a pretty small number of 10k users, although that will grow over time. At the same time, there are a small number of things that only moderators can do or see. For example, moderators can see people's registered e-mail addresses, and so can try to contact them directly if necessary. So there is a need for moderators to do some tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, the number of things that have needed moderator attention have been pretty small. A number of these have been 'backing up' comments from others, or deleting 'answers' which are not really answers. The approach the &lt;em&gt;pro tem&lt;/em&gt; moderators have taken has been pretty 'light touch', only using the moderator 'powers' sparingly. That's been helped by the rarity of times when they've been needed. I hope that this situation continues after the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that moderating {TeX} should be something that is mainly about being an active member of the community. So if you visit the site most days, answer some questions (perhaps avoiding the 'low-hanging fruit' to allow lower rep. users to answer), edit tags and typos, and comment on questions when appropriate, then you should consider yourself as a potential candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking through the election posts given by candidates on other Stack Overflow sites, I see that time zones come up a lot. That's quite interesting mainly because I don't think it will be an issue in the {TeX} moderator election. The approach that's been taken by the &lt;em&gt;pro tem&lt;/em&gt; moderators is to check on questions for moderation and in most cases to leave a comment in the first instance. The convention that's been adopted is to first allow the user in question to take action, and only to step in after some time has elapsed. The net result is that 'rapid moderation' is not really needed, and so the fact that all of the &lt;em&gt;pro tem&lt;/em&gt; people are in Europe has not been an issue (at least I don't think it has).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-01T20:11:48.717" LastActivityDate="2011-02-01T20:11:48.717" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="865" CreationDate="2011-01-27T15:07:50.770" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duane works on a commission basis. AFAIK we don't have a budget, so this would be pretty much out of the question unless we go looking for sponsorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T15:07:50.770" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="875" CreationDate="2011-01-28T16:07:29.633" Score="14" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the recent days there has been a (thankfully) small trickle of questions migrated from Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are two that I stumbled upon, probably there are more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9363/how-does-one-insert-a-backslash-or-a-tilde-into-latex&quot;&gt;How does one insert a backslash or a tilde into LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9852/what-is-the-difference-between-page-break-and-new-page&quot;&gt;What is the difference between “Page Break” and “New Page”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I'm a bit unsure why these have been migrated here. They both seem to have good and accepted answers, although some responses are of dubious value at best, and are of the &lt;code&gt;answers-should-be-comments&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;not-really-an-answer&lt;/code&gt; variety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, the second question has already been asked and answered here in the olden days of TeX.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/736/pagebreak-vs-newpage&quot;&gt;\pagebreak vs \newpage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even going to discuss the reputation these questions have accumulated, that would be another question entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm asking is really summarized in the title, but here are a few more points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the policy on migrating questions from other StackExchange sites, particularly related to Tex.SE?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why old and answered questions are migrated here, when the original inquirer is long gone, and we have better alternatives?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we going to see this continuing in the future, and if yes, is this a Good Thing (tm)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I'm missing the point of migration, but I always thought it should be for (challenging) questions that are better answered somewhere else, not when they already have good and accepted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-04-11T01:39:04.170" Title="Policy on migrating questions from another StackExchange site?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="869" CreationDate="2011-01-28T16:28:48.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only say that I also find it rather strange that these old questions with no recent activity are migrated here; in fact, I mentioned the issue in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/857/1235&quot;&gt;this question on meta&lt;/a&gt;. It's good that you're bringing it up as an issue of its own, but I'm not sure if there's anything we can do about it. So I can only answer the last question: I fear that we'll continue to see this, and no, it's not a Good Thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T16:28:48.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="869" CreationDate="2011-01-28T16:41:43.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally I don't think it is going to be a big problem, as long as we do some cleanup. It would probably be useful if mods/high rep users get notified of migrated questions in order to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the questions are duplicates, we should simply mark them as such (in the present case it is a bit hard to tell which question is a duplicate of which, as marking the newly migrated question as a duplicate of the old one, will make them reference each other in a circle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are bad answers or comments, or comments that do not fit anymore after migration, they should be mercilessly deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the questions are badly written (or written with a different audience in mind), we should simply rewrite them. Same goes for answers. Especially if the posters aren't TeX.SX users, that won't hurt anyone and might even give us good questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-01-28T16:47:48.673" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T16:47:48.673" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="872" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="876" CreationDate="2011-01-30T00:16:30.600" Score="5" ViewCount="485" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9893/how-to-rotate-text-in-table-across-column-spanning-many-rows/9895#9895&quot;&gt;Herbert answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9893/2975&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;if a code block contains &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; directly followed by a text then the syntax highlighting marks it as macro.&#xA;This is quite irritating and should be fixed. Most likely the regular expression for macros misses a look-behind instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example where the regular expression should be improved, &lt;em&gt;added by Hendrik:&lt;/em&gt; In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7574/latex-errors-requirepackage-or-loadclass-in-options-section-and-file-arti/7577#7577&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; it is probably hardly avoidable that &lt;code&gt;\MikTeX&lt;/code&gt; is interpreted as a control sequence, but at least the &lt;code&gt;2.9&lt;/code&gt; shouldn't be part of the control sequence. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9897/1235&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, where it looks as if &lt;code&gt;\ifnum0&lt;/code&gt; was the control sequence. Or is this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposed Solution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I updated the JavaScript syntax file for LaTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/attachmentText?id=115&amp;amp;aid=8755870892943144368&amp;amp;name=lang-latex.js&amp;amp;token=6213cce870fbc48eaf596afc04164c2b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New Version&lt;/a&gt;) which now&#xA;highlights word with starts with &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; and are followed by a-z, A-Z and &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;OR followed by any other &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; character (e.g. &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\_&lt;/code&gt;) as macros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here an example result (as slightly magnified image):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iJeGR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of new syntax highlighting&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would ask people to &lt;strong&gt;vote&lt;/strong&gt; on this version, so that it can be installed on tex.sx and maybe also on meta. See my answer below for further information and the discussion on the previous versions of the above file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T10:45:39.187" Title="Text immediate following double backslashes is highlighted as Macro inside a code block" Tags="|bug|status-completed|code|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-30T00:37:13.663" Score="12" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted, in Meta, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/872/2975&quot;&gt;bug report&lt;/a&gt; about wrong syntax highlighting on the main site. However, my example code showing the wrong behavior is not very useful because there seems to be no syntax highlighting on Meta itself.&#xA;I would like to suggest that it is added for such cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example code which shows status of syntax highlighting on Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;Syntax highlighting? \relax &#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2019-01-23T10:54:05.077" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T21:57:49.603" Title="There is no syntax highlighting on Meta" Tags="|feature-request|meta|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="872" CreationDate="2011-01-30T06:52:21.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Prettify&lt;/a&gt; with a hint for the Tex language:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre class=&quot;lang-tex prettyprint&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have implemented TeX prettify highlighting using a user contributed plugin found &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/attachmentText?id=115&amp;amp;aid=7911114425991426027&amp;amp;name=lang-latex.js&amp;amp;token=f0f153280f0fe2c829a7288dff59ccbc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  A previous discussion on how this was done can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10/syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  We have &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/detail?id=115&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; this issue so hopefully a contribution will be made that will resolve it soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T07:04:03.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="869" CreationDate="2011-01-30T09:20:37.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions should only be migrated if they are off topic.  If the question would benefit from the input on another site, better, I think, to ask the question there again.  Remember that the person who asked the question may not be interested in this site outside of that question, not have an account, &amp;amp;c., and there are SO participants knowledgeable about Tex&amp;amp;c who are not active here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Existing discussion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration and the on/off-topic question has been discussed on meta.SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12918/can-we-have-a-ruling-on-latex-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Can we have a ruling on LaTeX on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt; - which counts as a sort of plebiscite saying questions about writing Latex are on topic for SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70466/can-so-questions-on-tex-be-migrated-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Can SO questions on TeX be migrated to tex.SX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76702/should-we-migrate-old-questions-to-new-se-sites&quot;&gt;Should we migrate old questions to new SE sites?&lt;/a&gt;, where Grace Note observes &amp;quot;remember that migration is primarily a tool to move questions that &lt;em&gt;don't belong on the current site&lt;/em&gt;, not to move them to the more appropriate site&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and meta.SU:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/1556/are-tex-latex-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are TeX/LaTeX questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Recommendation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-ask the questions, or link to existing equivalents, and make sure each question links to the other.  Again, only migrate questions that are off topic where they are now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T09:55:19.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="872" CreationDate="2011-01-30T15:31:53.363" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I now modified the mentioned plugin by myself and uploaded it to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/detail?id=115&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;issue tracker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed the regular expressions for macros from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PR.PR_KEYWORD, /^\\[^ \r\n{}\[\]=]+/],&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PR.PR_KEYWORD, /^\\(\\|[^ \r\n{}\[\]=]+)/],&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so telling the prettifier that &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; is a macro by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please update it on tex.se. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I updated the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/attachmentText?id=115&amp;amp;aid=6433373786140659013&amp;amp;name=lang-latex.js&amp;amp;token=1f9ffc82d7e710f9cebb0f190067ff80&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;plugin as requested&lt;/a&gt; with only letters, '@' and also ':' for macros plus single character sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/attachmentText?id=115&amp;amp;aid=3849660016172502405&amp;amp;name=lang-latex.js&amp;amp;token=3346fd68bcd90dfbdd1f46a6183ad23f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;additional alternative&lt;/a&gt; also adds special highlighting for declarations and the &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/attachmentText?id=115&amp;amp;aid=-1166743303320393442&amp;amp;name=lang-latex.js&amp;amp;token=bcc69c563a93e05f35c5dd7026c32dc1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bugfixed version of plugin with extra highlighting&lt;/a&gt; Fixes wrongly highlighted macros which start with &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Demo version&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now wrote a small &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; script (a firefox plugin which allow you to run your own JS files on websites you visit) to enable the new syntax highlighting. If someone has interest to try it out, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scharrer-online.de/raw-attachment/wiki/Software/files/new_syntax_highlighting.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here is the script&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;It also works on meta and in addition on inline code tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T11:31:01.773" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T11:31:01.773" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="877" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-31T22:02:13.463" Score="12" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aux-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aux-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aux-files&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/temporary-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;temporary-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;temporary-files&lt;/a&gt; talk about the non-input/output files used by &lt;code&gt;*TeX*&lt;/code&gt;.  I propose that we have one, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auxiliary-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auxiliary-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auxiliary-files&lt;/a&gt;, with two synonyms, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Texbook talks, I think, only of input, log, auxiliary, and dvi files.  Thus talk of temporary files is not classical.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Besides also not being classical, &quot;aux-files&quot; suggests that we are talking only of files with a &lt;code&gt;.aux&lt;/code&gt; extension, while the Texbook uses auxiliary files generally for files output to for later input from by the Tex engine, including with the &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; extension.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A minor issue: things like log files and .bbl files may commonly be referred to as auxiliary files, but they are, respectively, not input to and not output from the Tex engine, so they don't fit the above definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tagged the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auxiliary-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auxiliary-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auxiliary-files&lt;/a&gt;, which did not have related tags beforehand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8345/include-aux-file-in-tex-source&quot;&gt;Include aux file in tex source?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6512/best-script-for-automatically-copying-references-from-a-centralised-bib-file-base&quot;&gt;Best script for automatically copying references from a centralised bib file based on aux file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2977/bundle-tex-output-in-a-directory&quot;&gt;‘Bundle’ TeX output in a directory &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4807/problem-with-special-characters-in-toc-files&quot;&gt;Problem with special characters in .toc files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have enough upvotes in any of these tags to propose or vote on these tag synonyms, and I think few enough people have that it would need moderator action to realise my suggestion.  So, should we merge the tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T00:17:00.120" Title="Tagging questions about .aux, .log, .bbl, &amp; similar files" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="877" CreationDate="2011-02-01T10:19:14.147" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems pretty sensible to me. If the question gets a few more up-votes, and nobody raises a concern, I think any of the moderators we could add the proposed synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I've just added these synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2011-02-04T11:05:23.477" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T11:05:23.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="889" CreationDate="2011-02-01T19:54:11.497" Score="10" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, there are 90 question tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;, i.e. dealing with matters of &quot;macro programming&quot; (as in section R of the UK TeX FAQ). The site also features 37 questions tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt;, covering the do's and dont's of creating new commands (and modifying existing ones). But wait ... this is macro programming, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having tried to come up with a sensible distinction between the two &quot;tag areas&quot;, I do believe there is none. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt; tag probably was created because &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt; is the first thing a nascent macro programmer will encounter, although &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt; is the general term. In accordance with that, the &quot;harder&quot; programming questions (the ones that e.g. Joseph Wright and Will Robertson excel in answering) tend to be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;. (That &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a distinction, but not a sensible one -- we don't feature tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf-easy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf-easy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf-easy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf-hard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf-hard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf-hard&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to define &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt; as a tag synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;, i.e to merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/macros/synonyms&quot;&gt;tag synonym suggestion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: As an amendment, I propose to define &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/commands&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;commands&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;commands&lt;/a&gt; as a tag synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;. Please consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;voting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T17:11:32.153" Title="Merging {newcommand} into {macros}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2011-02-02T14:20:06.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that private moderator messages have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/moderator-messages/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;just been enabled&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe a moderator can confirm this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T14:20:06.997" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-02T14:20:06.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="869" CreationDate="2011-02-02T14:22:03.603" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I concur with Caramdir that notifying mods/high rep users of newly migrated questions would be useful - not only because there may be duplicate questions or badly written questions/answers, but because nearly every migrated question will have to be retagged. (I myself have removed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; tag from such questions at least two times.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T14:22:03.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-03T16:31:43.530" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never provide CTAN links to packages I recommend.  However, some people clearly think it's a good idea, (given the discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73/automatic-links-to-the-ctan-catalogue&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). I really question the usefulness of adding links to package suggestions, and in fact think it might be detrimental.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most, if not all packages that we&#xA;recommend are included as part of&#xA;TeXLive and MikTeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Giving links to packages gives the false impression that people need to install them themselves, which given (1), is incorrect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A consequence of (2) is that people may, as a result of our advice, be installing local versions of packages they already have (which then leads to those packages effectively  never being updated.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T01:58:16.513" Title="Usefulness of links to packages" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-03T18:25:38.837" Score="6" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not obvious from the tag name that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; as about books &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; TeX and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-design&lt;/a&gt; is about creating books &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; TeX. Accordingly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is frequently misused. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; to something more descriptive? One possibility is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books-about-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books-about-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books-about-tex&lt;/a&gt;, but that would make it strange for questions about books about, e.g., MetaFont. Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make matters more complicated, we also have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-02-03T18:30:51.967" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T11:16:22.063" Title="The {books} and {book-design} tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="882" CreationDate="2011-02-03T18:48:14.400" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding your points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although packages may be part of a TeX distribution, not everybody installs the complete distribution. There are minimal and basic options.  And Linux versions often differ even if they base on TeX Live. Further, CTAN may provide a more recent version.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In that case such people don't know their distribution. If one would have a very brief look at a readme file or distribution manual, they would know that there's a package manager. So if you mean user who just install but don't read anything - if they would encounter the challenge of installing a package they would soon learn that there's the easy distribution way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a user installs a local version besides the distribution at all, he could have the advantage of having a version that's newer than that of the distribution. If a user updates a distribution, he would use the distribution resp. package manager which makes the point obsolete that he installs packages manually because he doesn't know about the managing tool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Links are good. That's the foundation of the web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;CTAN is in general the best place to point to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Linking is friendly gesture, giving a convenient way to read the package info and to quickly access the documentation. That's usually the point, but not the installation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer convenient information over forcing the reader to look for himself. I know: one person writes but many users might read it. It takes the author just seconds to create a link once, but many users might read and use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T18:48:14.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2011-02-03T20:25:11.120" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I noticed the ambiguity of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag, I created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-design&lt;/a&gt; tag for the sake of clarity. Further I talked about that in the tag wiki. I think that's sufficient, at least if we would correct a misused tag from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is just a fine tag for books about TeX, LaTeX and related software, brief and concise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; is good to refer for general documentation, most notably electronic documentation such as package manuals, not as good for real books which might be distinguished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-03T20:31:36.707" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T20:31:36.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2011-02-03T20:33:30.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all very confusing, admittedly. I think we can remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; in favour of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt; (there are only 10 questions marked with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, and those can be retagged painlessly a few at a time in the course of several days), and keep the rest as they are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; tag is applied somewhat inconsistently currently, &#xA;I'd imagine it to be mostly about package documents (hah!) that describe in detail provided commands, available options, behaviour and implementation details, most likely including source code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/float/float.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;float&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package, TikZ-pgf manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt; is a good tag for any sort of higher-level user guide to a certain broader topic (e.g. typesetting mathematics, a TeX-derivative, or general introductory material), without describing every package, tool and command under the sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;em&gt;The TeX Book&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;ConTeXt, an excursion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T20:33:30.827" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="879" CreationDate="2011-02-03T20:38:10.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt; marks questions about defining macros with LaTeX, meaning also certain restrictions.&#xA;In contrast, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt; is about creating and using TeX's macros in general. So, perhaps this could remain distinguished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I admit that I thought the same when looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt; tag, also because I prefer descriptive tags over command name tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T20:38:10.600" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2011-02-04T11:16:22.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about renaming &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reference-books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reference-books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reference-books&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also add a synonym from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;, but that's because I can't see much difference between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T11:16:22.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="879" CreationDate="2011-02-04T11:21:18.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having enough votes in the question and the proposed synonym too, I've taken the liberty to approve this synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T11:21:18.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="882" CreationDate="2011-02-04T13:31:48.197" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; useful to paste links since they can be used to lookup the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lengthy discussion below the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/882/3334&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; claiming that you don't need to search the documentation online as long as &lt;code&gt;texdoc&lt;/code&gt; is available on a certain system. But I claim: &lt;strong&gt;the presence of &lt;code&gt;texdoc&lt;/code&gt; on a system doesn't matter at all in this case&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Justification: When you're asking a question on any of the Stackexchange sites, you're using your browser to do that. Why on earth would you want to open a second or third tool to gather information that can also be obtained without switching tools?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you're using your smartphone when you read the answer and just want to have a glimpse on the documentation before you head over to your workstation and install the package there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, again, &lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt; we need hyperlinks when we are using the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3334" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T13:31:48.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="821" CreationDate="2011-02-04T19:55:25.670" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I now programmed this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scharrer-online.de/raw-attachment/wiki/Software/files/select_code.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey script for Firefox&lt;/a&gt; to add a '&lt;em&gt;select code&lt;/em&gt;' text below every &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt; tag. If clicked the tag content will be selected and the user can copy it using CTRL+C or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a full solution yet (only work with Firefox) but could be expanded to all browsers and included in the site javascript files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GIBMb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-02-04T23:04:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T23:04:07.613" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="877" CreationDate="2011-02-05T00:17:00.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Juan added the synonyms, I made the merge, now there are 7 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auxiliary-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auxiliary-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auxiliary-files&lt;/a&gt; questions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aux-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aux-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aux-files&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/temporary-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;temporary-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;temporary-files&lt;/a&gt; remain to be synonyms but don't tag a question any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T00:17:00.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="893" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:08:49.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;{tagging} is about choosing, using and merging tags and about tag synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-01-17T21:28:22.363" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T21:28:22.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="894" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:08:49.293" Score="0" Body="{tagging} is about choosing, using and merging tags and about tag synonyms." OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-01-17T21:28:59.880" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T21:28:59.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="895" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:15:22.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is for question about etiquette in questions, answers and comments of this TeX site. This subject is closely related to the general &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Netiquette&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T17:33:15.020" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T17:33:15.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="896" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:15:22.090" Score="0" Body="This tag is for question about etiquette in questions, answers and comments of this TeX site. This subject is closely related to the general Netiquette. This word might be looked up in the Wikipedia." OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T17:33:15.053" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T17:33:15.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="897" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:16:47.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why should an answer be accepted, when and which one? This tag is for questions about such issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T16:16:47.563" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T16:16:47.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="898" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:16:47.563" Score="0" Body="Why should an answer be accepted, when and which one? This tag is for questions about such issues." OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T16:16:47.563" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T16:16:47.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="899" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:18:44.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have a question specifically about this meta site? In that case, mark that question with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'meta'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T16:18:44.470" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T16:18:44.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="900" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:18:44.470" Score="0" Body="Do you have a question specifically about this meta site? In that case, mark that question with the {meta} tag." OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T16:18:44.470" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T16:18:44.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="901" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:20:43.657" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is moderated by users, depending on their reputation, and by moderators. For questions about moderation tasks, choose this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T16:20:43.657" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T16:20:43.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="902" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-02-05T16:20:43.657" Score="0" Body="This site is moderated by users, depending on their reputation, and by moderators. For questions about moderation tasks, choose this tag." OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T16:20:43.657" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T16:20:43.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="851" CreationDate="2011-02-05T18:49:55.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can be fixed by added the CSS classes &lt;code&gt;prettyprint lang-tex&lt;/code&gt; to all &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt; tags in the preview. This should be configurable in some template. The &lt;code&gt;lang-tex&lt;/code&gt; class is normally added by the following tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;div style=&quot;display:none&quot; id=&quot;prettify-lang&quot;&amp;gt;lang-tex&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment it is still set to &lt;code&gt;default&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;div style=&quot;display:none&quot; id=&quot;prettify-lang&quot;&amp;gt;default&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T18:49:55.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="904" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-02-05T19:30:05.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prettify&lt;/a&gt;, a JavaScript library, for syntax highlighting of code blocks across the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Improvements to the highlighting for any specific language are most readily obtained by submitting patches to &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;prettify's Google Code project&lt;/a&gt;, then (once the patches are accepted) requesting that SE update to a revision of Prettify that includes them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Improvements to the way Stack Exchange sites integrate prettify may be requested on meta and given the tags &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For information on available languages and how to use syntax highlighting, see&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184108/what-is-syntax-highlighting-and-how-does-it-work&quot;&gt;What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T00:29:14.173" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:29:14.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="905" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-02-05T19:30:05.480" Score="0" Body="The {syntax-highlighting} tag is for issues with the syntax-highlighting of *TeX or other types of code." OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T00:29:14.173" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:29:14.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-07T13:44:58.213" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just recently saw the buttons (active, oldest, votes) on the askubuntu.com website and realized that I didn't recall seeing them on TeX.SE. Presumably they were there for a while, but I simply didn't seem them. This leads me to the obvious question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are these buttons clear enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if not, perhaps we should think about modifying their design so that they are still unobtrusive, but not as obscure as I find them to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: there seems to be some confusion as to what buttons I'm referring to (probably corroborating the fact that they are obscure...) so here's a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/um48E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="117" LastEditDate="2011-02-08T13:14:33.643" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T17:15:01.627" Title="Are the buttons for selecting the order of the answers clear enough?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="906" CreationDate="2011-02-07T14:33:00.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess the main issue you have with those is that they don't really look like buttons, but more like a text label or link. On askubuntu.com they have a more button-like look (see screenshot), with shades and are visually distinct from the remainder of the layout. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jbtdt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ubuntu question sort buttons&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I don't see any (big) problem with that, but I guess it's just me being used to the design of TeX.SE and the general layout of SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T14:33:00.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-07T17:57:04.727" Score="6" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the rules about linking to external pages, which might be commercial?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I referenced &lt;em&gt;The TeXBook&lt;/em&gt; and wanted to link to it, so that people who don't now it can find it better. The name is to close to &quot;textbook&quot; which confuses search pages. But what link would be acceptable? Can I link directly to Amazon, which might be understood as advertising (such links could include Amazon partner IDs to receive a commission) or only to Knuths website for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to other books and commercial software related to LaTeX.&#xA;What would be still acceptable and whats not? Are there pre-defined rules from SE for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I just bring this topic up for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T10:53:31.217" Title="Rules about linking to external pages" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="908" CreationDate="2011-02-07T18:38:57.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The basic policy is in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May I promote products or websites I&#xA;am affiliated with here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be careful, because the community&#xA;frowns on overt self-promotion and&#xA;tends to vote it down and flag it as&#xA;spam. Post good, relevant answers, and&#xA;if they happen to be about your&#xA;product or website, so be it. However,&#xA;you must disclose your affiliation in&#xA;your answers. Also, if a huge&#xA;percentage of your posts include a&#xA;mention of your product or website,&#xA;you're probably here for the wrong&#xA;reasons. Our advertising rates are&#xA;quite reasonable; contact our ad sales&#xA;team for details. We also offer free&#xA;vote-based advertising for open source&#xA;projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say it's pretty reasonable, and AFAIK we never had problems with this on TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In relation to linking to books and other commercial resources -- I don't mind being referred to Amazon or other authoritative source where said books/manuals/software is available. I won't buy from there in a whim without seeing other options anyway. The only thing I'm against is when the submitter generates profit or other benefit for themselves through linking (affiliation programs, or advertising). Moderate promotion of your own software is fine, especially if it is under open-source license or otherwise freely available with few restrictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T19:00:34.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-07T19:39:05.120" Score="9" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;Says opps instead of oops.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/error&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;not saying I don't think it is kinda funny, I was just looking at all the stackexchange error messages for some breaktime amusement and noticed it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T10:20:59.440" Title="Is error message a joke or typo?" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="908" CreationDate="2011-02-07T21:00:04.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For books, you could link to Wikipedia's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3aBookSources&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;“Book sources”&lt;/a&gt; page (at least if you know the ISBN). For the TeXBook this would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3aBookSources/0201134489&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This page then has links to various online catalogs, libraries and book sellers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For commercial software usually have a web site and I think it is fine to link there (as long as the software is relevant to the question, of course). Alternatively, you could link to Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T21:00:04.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1492" CreationDate="2011-02-07T22:12:04.650" Score="13" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have enough score to suggest a synonymous, but I think that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apple&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apple&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apple&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; tags on parent should be either synonymous, or simply merged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="877" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-02-07T22:49:48.960" LastActivityDate="2011-07-02T13:19:25.067" Title="Merge apple and osx tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="917" CreationDate="2011-02-08T15:38:58.113" Score="5" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw that we have 2 (now 3) questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overlays&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overlays&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overlays&lt;/a&gt; and 8 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overlay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overlay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overlay&lt;/a&gt;. Is this by intention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T19:26:15.710" Title="Do we want both and &quot;overlay&quot; and an &quot;overlays&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="910" CreationDate="2011-02-08T16:34:53.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;OPPS.&quot; It's a typo. Also It was meant to be a temporarily place holder image. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now may be a good opportunity to ask, is it OK if I create the official 404 image from the highest voted answer on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/656/404-captcha-error-images/662#662&quot;&gt;404 image post&lt;/a&gt;? If so, what type setting etc should I use? It'd be great if one of you can show me exactly how it should be presented, so I don't come up with something not authentic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T16:34:53.527" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="906" CreationDate="2011-02-08T17:15:01.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a possible design option for the buttons that we already use! in the user profile page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TdcSi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this design is much more clear and yet still unobtrusive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T17:15:01.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="656" CreationDate="2011-02-08T17:36:43.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use one of Don Knuth's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/diamondsigns/diam.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Road Signs&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.truetex.com/db.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dangerous Bend Sign&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AWWnJ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Dangerous Bend&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3417" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T17:36:43.013" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="913" CreationDate="2011-02-08T19:26:15.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it should only be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overlays&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overlays&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overlays&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T19:26:15.710" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="656" CreationDate="2011-02-08T20:59:14.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's with something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*\show\page&#xA;&amp;gt; \page=undefined.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe in combination with an assign tracing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{changing \error=0}&#xA;{into \error=404}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T20:59:14.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="882" CreationDate="2011-02-09T01:58:16.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is for (2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think giving the link is helpful. It is also more helpful to say that it is included in the default (MiKTeX/TeXLive/ConTeXt) installation, so that users will know what to &lt;code&gt;texdoc&lt;/code&gt; right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="791" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T01:58:16.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-09T10:13:06.167" Score="4" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;there is now only &quot;verbatim&quot; and it should make sense to have the short form &quot;verb&quot;. &quot;verbatim&quot; is more general for a lot of verbatim environments and the problem having verbatim code as arguments. &quot;verb&quot; is a specific tag for inline verbatim material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2478" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-09T17:40:05.780" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T23:53:11.460" Title="New tag &quot;verb&quot; in difference to &quot;verbatim&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="920" CreationDate="2011-02-09T23:53:11.460" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally prefer tags that are about a &lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt; to tags for a specific &lt;em&gt;implementation&lt;/em&gt; of the concept. The exception is when the concept is to large as to be useful; then specific subtags are in order (e.g. the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; tag and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt; tags; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fontspec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fontspec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fontspec&lt;/a&gt;). Also I prefer tags about &lt;em&gt;packages&lt;/em&gt; to tags about &lt;em&gt;commands&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that tagging should primarily help in finding information. If there are too much questions per tag, sorting by tag doesn't help much. If there are only very few questions per tag, then there are too many possible tags to look up and information gets distributed across too many places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotal evidence has show that users don't particular care about which verbatim implementation does the job and are often unaware that there exist several implementations. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/verbatim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;verbatim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;verbatim&lt;/a&gt; is a relatively low frequency tag, I don't see a reason to split it into implementations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, to avoid confusion, it might be sensible to rename so that it is clear that it is about the concept of verbatim input (maybe to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/verbatim-text&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;verbatim-text&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;verbatim-text&lt;/a&gt;?).&#xA;Then if the need ever arises, we can easily add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/verb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;verb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;verb&lt;/a&gt; sub-tag. (Though I doubt that that need will arise anytime soon: there are currently 5 questions that would be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/verb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;verb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;verb&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T23:53:11.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="872" CreationDate="2011-02-10T00:37:58.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I think there are no objections, could someone in charge please add Martin's code to the site. TikZ code still looks horrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T00:37:58.847" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-10T10:33:15.423" Score="5" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that TeX.SE is not the right medium for news, announcements, conference calls, etc., but in the recent days there have been some interesting bits of information that popped up in the chat that might be of interest to the general public of TeX.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is to draw somewhat wider attention to this topic, as the chat is definitely not the most used feature on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is the QuickLaTeX WordPress plugin with some interesting functionality, by Pavel Holoborodko: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-quicklatex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-quicklatex/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Detexify seems to be in need of additional support: &lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.posterous.com/detexify-needs-help&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://detexify.posterous.com/detexify-needs-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Martin Scharrer announced a handy reference sheet of LaTeX macros intended for package authors: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scharrer-online.de/raw-attachment/wiki/LaTeX/files/macros2e.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.scharrer-online.de/raw-attachment/wiki/LaTeX/files/macros2e.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a very good use of chat, which has been basically deserted since its introduction here, and those kinds of information does not fit even on meta, but could be of interest to the general public of TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could use the chat primarily as message board, with discussions in-place related to the announcements? The announcements themselves could be starred for visually distinguishing them from the surrounding discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2011-02-11T04:58:13.793" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T04:58:13.793" Title="TeX &amp; Friends announcements in chat?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="928" CreationDate="2011-02-10T10:59:41.327" Score="10" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got notified just now (red banner at the top of the page) that I had gained the privilege to vote down and 1 other privilege. Trouble is, vote down requires 125 rep and I passed that point back in October! I don't think I have gained any new privileges since I passed 3000 rep, back in mid-December or so. Maybe this is just a random hiccup. Do others see this happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1424" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-02-10T21:34:55.143" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T21:34:55.143" Title="Extremely delayed notification of privilege" Tags="|support|notifications|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="924" CreationDate="2011-02-10T14:24:14.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a badge for flagging a post (&quot;Citizen Patrol&quot;?), and I didn't do any flagging recently, so there must have been a database glitch that cause it for both of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Y. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T14:24:14.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="930" CreationDate="2011-02-10T15:37:57.543" Score="8" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;the list of feature changes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2011-02-09: Migration now does tag&#xA;  checks. During migration, tags will be&#xA;  checked (and replaced if found) for&#xA;  tag synonyms on the destination site.&#xA;  Tags that do not exist on the&#xA;  destination site will be stripped from&#xA;  the question. If the previous steps&#xA;  leave a question with no remaining&#xA;  tags, it will be closed as off-topic&#xA;  on the original site and not migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most questions we receive are only tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt;, and we don't have that tag. Does that mean that migrated questions form SO or SU will now never arrive here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T16:45:28.443" Title="Problematic migration change" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2011-02-10T18:24:46.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be the logical consequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though we could fix that by introducing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; as synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-general&lt;/a&gt;. I know that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; has been dropped and replaced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-general&lt;/a&gt;, but this could be ok, keeping the meaning of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-general&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, we then should look at such &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-general&lt;/a&gt; tagged migrated and created questions to check if a more special tag fits better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T18:24:46.163" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="924" CreationDate="2011-02-10T21:34:36.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were some significant changes to the privilege system, so you may have gotten re-notified this once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T21:34:36.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="923" CreationDate="2011-02-10T21:47:17.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could use the chat primarily as message board, with discussions in-place related to the announcements? The announcements themselves could be starred for visually distinguishing them from the surrounding discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that can be OK as long as the titles are useful. This post's title is not useful.. should it be &quot;Monthly Tex Announcements - Feb 2011&quot;? &quot;Quarterly Tex Announcements - Q1 2011&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that chat is stateful, so the chat archives exist forever, and they are searchable. That said, in a busy chat room it is often hard to find things between all the conversations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be OK to do it in both places, but I think you need to structure the meta posts so they are infrequent enough that they don't come to dominate meta, as it was not intended primarily for &lt;strong&gt;announcements&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T21:47:17.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2011-02-11T02:01:24.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think this is a valid concern.  There are some sites in the network where a tag could apply to all questions on the site.  This needs to be taken into account when considering migrations.  This means that a question could be migrated here without any tags, but having an untagged question is better than not having the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1816" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T02:01:24.283" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2011-02-11T08:29:04.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/migrated&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;migrated&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;migrated&lt;/a&gt;!  That way it would be very easy to see which questions have been migrated or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm, maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-migrated&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-migrated&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-migrated&lt;/a&gt; would be better.  Then someone typing a new question here trying to tag as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; would see both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-general&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-migrated&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-migrated&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-migrated&lt;/a&gt; in the suggestions and (hopefully) figure out which one to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(On the other hand, and being a bit cheeky, having these questions being blocked wouldn't be too bad.  If a question is to be migrated here, then the person doing the migration should have the ability to edit the tags on the question as it migrates to make them appropriate for this site.  That way, the migrator has to have some knowledge about the site that they want to migrate a question to and it makes the process more of a &quot;There's a better place to put this&quot; than &quot;We don't want this here (so we'll dump it on another site and let them deal with it).&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T08:29:04.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="866" CreationDate="2011-02-11T09:06:04.783" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the date set for our elections is approaching fast, it's about time that I answered this question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll start by saying that I think that the word &quot;moderator&quot; is ambiguous.  On the internet, it can range from &quot;administrator&quot; to &quot;janitor&quot; to &quot;police&quot;.  I think that we see the whole range on the various SX sites.  Jeff, Joel and the SO team are clearly &quot;administrators&quot; whilst over on Math.SX they seem more in need of &quot;police&quot;!  Here, I think we're more towards the &quot;janitor&quot; end of the spectrum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's no bad thing!  I think it means that our site runs itself fairly well, and that the community is doing the majority of the work (in so far as it is allowed to via the reputation system).  But no matter how smoothly run the event, every now and then someone needs to know where the keys are kept to that strange storage cupboard where the extra chairs are stored, and needs to sweep up in the corners that everyone else has overlooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking back over the &quot;actions&quot; that the moderators have taken (with sincere apologies if I've missed some of the hard work that my fellow mods have been doing without my noticing them), I'd say that they fall in to the following categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Polishing the site.&lt;/strong&gt;  Tag synonyms and merging, merging user accounts, writing tag wikis.  This sort of stuff needs to happen, some of it high-rep users can do, but as we don't have many of those yet then we need moderators to bypass the reputation system and get these things done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcoming people.&lt;/strong&gt; Often, new users get a little confused by the interface and need to be (gently) told how it works.  The community is extremely good at doing this, but with the extra tools available to mods then they are the backup-team that (try to) ensure that no-one goes unnoticed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wielding the black diamond.&lt;/strong&gt; As I said, I think we're more like the &quot;helpful team of volunteers at an event&quot; than the actual organisers, but if you're wearing the &quot;Welcome to TeX.SX&quot; t-shirt then sometimes you get mistaken for someone who Ought To Know, and then when you say something everyone listens and accepts it (even if they disagree).  That's quite useful.  It can be a bit annoying to come to a new site, try to contribute, and then have Joe User say &quot;That's not how things are done here, read the FAQ!&quot;.  But if Jo Moderator says it then it comes across as less pretentious and condescending (in my opinion).  Also, when a community member does write some constructive criticism, it can take the sting out for a moderator to come along and (effectively) say, &quot;This isn't Joe User picking on you, it's just how things are done here.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one thing that &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; on my list is &quot;making decisions&quot;.  I'll admit that I've been fairly vocal in how I think that the site should be run: if there's a question on meta about &quot;Should we do X or Y?&quot; then I'll happily weigh in.  But I regard that as orthogonal to my role as a pro-tem moderator.  And I'd like to think that it's my arguments (plus a bit of my reputation) that gets my voice heard, not that black diamond next to my name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should we look for in our next team of moderators?  Here's my list; it's not necessary that all be in each of the moderators, but that all be covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commitment to the site.&lt;/strong&gt; I guess this is obvious, and I'd be surprised if someone put themselves forward who didn't want the site to succeed, but I'll say it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regular visitor.&lt;/strong&gt; The janitor needs to be there most of the time.  A lot of the time, she can sit in her office drinking tea, but when she's needed it shouldn't be too long before she responds.  I wouldn't say that we need &lt;em&gt;continual&lt;/em&gt; coverage here.  Even the threatened LaTeX vs ConTeXt war didn't amount to much!  But we do need regular coverage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Broad knowledge of TeX.&lt;/strong&gt; The clean-up stuff needs to be done by person or persons who know what they're doing.  I haven't written any tag wikis simply because I haven't a clue what should go in them.  But they need to be done, and since we don't have many high-rep users to write them, then the task falls on the mods.  Similarly with cleaning up the tags.  (This is one where that knowledge needs to be present in the moderators &lt;em&gt;as a whole&lt;/em&gt; rather than in each moderator individually.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A good community member.&lt;/strong&gt; This goes in hand with the second trait.  If you're going to be on the welcoming team, make sure you're someone who naturally smiles a lot!  On the internet, that translates into being someone who can write something critical but in a way that comes across as being constructive.  Given that we've built up a list of &quot;cut and paste text blocks&quot; this doesn't mean that you yourself have to have the gift of the gab, but at least be able to appreciate the need for it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's about it.  I think that TeX.SX is doing a remarkable job at running itself, and I'd like to see the next team work on keeping it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T09:06:04.783" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="656" CreationDate="2011-02-11T15:02:52.103" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possibility is this variant on Martin Tapankov's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\cdiv{Page not found}&#xA;&#xA;! Undefined control sequence.&#xA;l.6 \cdiv&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if this mystifies you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1424" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T15:02:52.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="942" CreationDate="2011-02-11T22:19:11.203" Score="8" ViewCount="5796" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could someone please enlighten me what the difference between &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quote&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quote&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation&lt;/a&gt; is. Should they be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, recently there were some questions about quotation marks, that used one (or both) of these tags. Should we add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotation-mark&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation-mark&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation-mark&lt;/a&gt;, or is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt; enough (or maybe add a synonym?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-26T16:40:32.350" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T16:40:32.350" Title="{quotation} and {quote}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="934" CreationDate="2011-02-12T00:48:53.990" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they are just two different notations of the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipaedia page&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;quotation&lt;/em&gt; says the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;quotation&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;quote&lt;/strong&gt; is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people just used the first and others the second form and once both tags existed they popped up automatically when someone write &lt;code&gt;quo...&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;Tags&lt;/em&gt; field. Most people don't know the difference as well so they tag their questions with both, just to be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say they &lt;strong&gt;should be merged&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quote&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quote&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; as synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt; should be enough. Questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotation-mark&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation-mark&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation-mark&lt;/a&gt;s can simply be  tagging with both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-02-12T15:49:38.970" LastActivityDate="2011-02-12T15:49:38.970" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-12T08:36:32.860" Score="3" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the comments to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/872/text-immediate-following-double-backslashes-is-highlighted-as-macro-inside-a-code/874#874&quot;&gt;this answer on meta&lt;/a&gt;, Martin's improved syntax highlighting is installed now. Somehow it happened that not the most recent version got installed (or it didn't get installed &lt;em&gt;as is&lt;/em&gt;). The effect is that &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt; and friends get a colour doesn't fit into our design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus my question: Do we want an extra colour for those commands at all? (I don't.) If yes, maybe Jin can have a look what colour would fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing: &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; also get coloured (which I like), but also this colour is slightly obtrusive in my opinion. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T09:57:08.907" Title="Colours in syntax highlighting" Tags="|discussion|design|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="936" CreationDate="2011-02-12T12:54:53.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/attachmentText?id=115&amp;amp;aid=8755870892943144368&amp;amp;name=lang-latex.js&amp;amp;token=6213cce870fbc48eaf596afc04164c2b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;latest version posted&lt;/a&gt; the syntax highlighted was disabled by commenting the &lt;code&gt;PR_DECLARATION&lt;/code&gt; line out. Maybe the comments have been removed. I got a little carried away when I added it. I agree, it's not really needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colors are defined completely separate from the highlighter plugin using CSS. The purple color for &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt; and friends is really unpleasant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue colors of the &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;, but also for &lt;code&gt;{ }&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;( )&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;PR_PUNCTUATION&lt;/code&gt;) should really be changed to something more fitting to the page.&#xA;I think &lt;em&gt;brown&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;red&lt;/em&gt;-ish colors are more suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T09:57:08.907" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T09:57:08.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="936" CreationDate="2011-02-12T13:05:21.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are also three related issues I like to list here again for clarity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The units for dimensions are not properly separated, e.g. the &lt;code&gt;1in&lt;/code&gt; in &#xA;&lt;code&gt;\csname#1input\endcsname&lt;/code&gt; is highlighted as a number. I saw this in one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2334/include-without-pagebreak/10833#10833&quot;&gt;Herberts posts&lt;/a&gt;. I think I can fix this easily in the related regex.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The syntax highlighting in the edit preview is still not working correctly, i.e. set to &lt;code&gt;default&lt;/code&gt;, which renders &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; as a comment character.&#xA;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/851/preview-treats-as-comment/903#903&quot;&gt;fix&lt;/a&gt; for this requires a minor change in the HTML code of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/873/2975&quot;&gt;no syntax highlighting on meta&lt;/a&gt; itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could fix these issues (at least 1&amp;amp;2) in one go with the colors in order to bother Geoff Dalgas♦, or whoever is in charge for that, only once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-02-12T13:05:21.717" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="940" CreationDate="2011-02-12T14:57:59.373" Score="5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was there a change in the privileges recently on the main side and meta or is it me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came recently over 3k reputation which made me visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt; page again. There are now two additional entries for &lt;em&gt;protect questions&lt;/em&gt; (15k) and &lt;em&gt;trusted user&lt;/em&gt; (20k) which weren't there last time.&#xA;Are they new or are they just displayed for people with enough reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, did the reputation changed to edit tag wiki pages on meta? I was able to create the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/syntax-highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax-highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax-highlighting&lt;/a&gt; a short while ago, but now it tells me that 20k are needed to change it. (I just wanted to remove the back-ticks from the excerpt.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;: You can &quot;approve tag wiki edits&quot; on the main site with 5k now, but I couldn't find the limit for the actual edit. Maybe you have to approve your own edits then :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-02-14T09:17:47.370" Title="Recent change in privileges" Tags="|support|tagging|reputation|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="939" CreationDate="2011-02-12T15:09:39.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll find the answer to all questions of this type in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/59445/155585&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; over at meta.stackoverflow. And yes, the new privileges were introduced on the 9th of February.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-02-12T15:09:39.833" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2224" CreationDate="2011-02-12T17:56:21.030" Score="10" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;review page&lt;/a&gt; does have a “flag for attention” link, but clicking the link seems to immediately flag the post without possibility to choose a reason. It would be nicer if the usual dialog with the choice of different flags pops up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T21:02:58.153" Title="Flag for moderator attention on review page." Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="934" CreationDate="2011-02-13T15:02:54.500" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;quotation&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;quote&lt;/code&gt; are names of LaTeX enironments. They are different, though closely related. Nevertheless, I don't think it's worth to distinguish. Though I would not pick one and convert to other one into a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we use the concept tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quoting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quoting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quoting&lt;/a&gt; similar to our other concept tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compiling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/installing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;installing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;installing&lt;/a&gt; etc. and convert &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quote&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quote&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation&lt;/a&gt; into synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quoting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quoting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quoting&lt;/a&gt;, which now covers further quoting environments and packages. Also by this, we would merge, so questions with both tags would keep only &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quoting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quoting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quoting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-13T15:02:54.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-14T20:00:05.020" Score="8" ViewCount="430" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T20:17:09.863" Title="2011 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderation|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-14T20:00:05.020" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="945" CreationDate="2011-02-15T04:10:14.987" Score="5" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can we only nominate ourselves and not others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T05:34:19.920" Title="Why can we not nominate others?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="944" CreationDate="2011-02-15T05:34:19.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/1303/what-is-the-reason-for-insisting-on-self-nomination/1305#1305&quot;&gt;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/1303/what-is-the-reason-for-insisting-on-self-nomination/1305#1305&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T05:34:19.920" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-15T12:43:47.283" Score="7" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question came up in chat yesterday evening, but I think it would be good to have it down here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could I ask the current &lt;em&gt;pro tem&lt;/em&gt; moderators to describe how long they spend on their moderating duties, and on what exactly moderating involves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators on other SE sites should feel free to comment too, but please make sure you make it clear that you are commenting on experience on another site. I imagine size and audience makes a difference to how much time moderating takes (the gaming site gets a heck of a lot more spam, for instance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T09:50:56.967" Title="How much time does moderating take up?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2011-02-15T12:47:51.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the &lt;em&gt;pro tem&lt;/em&gt; team, I find that there is not a lot of work to do in moderating &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;. There are only a small number of flagged posts each day, and so it does not require a lot of effort to look through them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I think that the moderators do need to be active members of the community, which means voting, editing, answering and so on. That doesn't require moderator privileges but does take some time. However, I'd say that all of the people I'd imagine as potential candidates are already doing those things. So the additional load for being a moderator should be pretty small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T12:47:51.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-15T20:06:01.650" Score="6" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;At present, some of the election rules seem a bit diffuse. For example, it seems likely that we'll skip the 'primary' stage if there are not 30 volunteers, but that is not really explicit anywhere. What is not at all clear to me is what happens if we have less nominations than vacancies: this does not seem to be mentioned anywhere. Is there a formal list of the election rules anywhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T23:30:47.813" Title="Election rules in full?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-15T20:16:03.380" Score="13" ViewCount="531" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's try to get this election finally started. If you have any questions you want to ask all the candidates (I hope there will be more soon!), please do so here, so that we can keep things organized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T20:08:26.547" Title="Questions for moderator nominees" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T09:04:57.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="948" CreationDate="2011-02-15T21:05:31.980" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best description of the process that I can find is here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/trilogy-2011-elections-begin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/trilogy-2011-elections-begin/&lt;/a&gt;. It seems they have changed things a bit though: The minimum rep requirement is 300 and not 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T21:05:31.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-15T23:09:44.153" Score="5" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any kind of sensible difference between the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/braces&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;braces&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;braces&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brackets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brackets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brackets&lt;/a&gt;? If not, probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brackets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brackets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brackets&lt;/a&gt; should be made a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/braces&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;braces&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;braces&lt;/a&gt;; if so, the wikis need to explain it better, especially due to the ambiguity/regional variation in the meaning of &quot;brackets&quot;: it can refer not only to &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[]&lt;/code&gt;, but also to &lt;code&gt;()&lt;/code&gt;, or even &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;(!) (but hopefully not here, as we have the proper &lt;code&gt;\langle&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\rangle&lt;/code&gt; at our disposal). (For U.K. readers: mentally rearrange the appearances of the delimiter pairs above to suit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-11-01T11:22:38.877" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T11:22:38.877" Title="Retag? (&quot;braces&quot; and &quot;brackets&quot;)" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="951" CreationDate="2011-02-15T23:21:12.220" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/braces&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;braces&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;braces&lt;/a&gt; was originally created for things like &lt;code&gt;\underbrace&lt;/code&gt; or big braces next to text. As such I think we can make it as synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brackets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brackets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brackets&lt;/a&gt;, but I would keep the tag about typesetting braces/brackets/parentheses/...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the TeX source code symbol (that you are describing in your proposed tag wiki edit), maybe we should introduce &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grouping&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grouping&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grouping&lt;/a&gt;? That would cover the catcode 1 and 2 symbols, as well as &lt;code&gt;\bgroup&lt;/code&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T23:21:12.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="948" CreationDate="2011-02-15T23:30:47.813" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it says here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/trilogy-2011-elections-begin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/trilogy-2011-elections-begin/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note: If there are 10 or less candidates at the end of this phase [nominations], we skip directly to Election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll make sure the sidebar on the election reflects this, it does not currently. Sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T23:30:47.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2243" CreationDate="2011-02-16T00:15:11.247" Score="10" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, this text is off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;Sometimes people use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brackets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brackets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brackets&lt;/a&gt; instead of this tag, though that can also refer to the delimeter pairs `[]` (in the U.S.) and `()` (in Britain), or even to any paired delimiters of this type. (We hopefully know better than to include `` among their number in these parts; as such usage is generally a corruption of `\langle` and `\rangle`, yes?)&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm. And is &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to nullify the backticks-for-code markdown? Because, well, it is doing that, and the Bird-feet (originally &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Literate_programming#Bird_Style&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;named after Richard Bird&lt;/a&gt;) (well, Bird foot) aren't (isn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brackets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brackets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brackets&lt;/a&gt; instead of this tag, though that can also refer to the delimeter pairs &lt;code&gt;[]&lt;/code&gt; (in the U.S.) and &lt;code&gt;()&lt;/code&gt; (in Britain), or even to any paired delimiters of this type. (We hopefully know better than to include &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; among their number in these parts; as such usage is generally a corruption of &lt;code&gt;\langle&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\rangle&lt;/code&gt;, yes?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the obligatory screenshot, with the obligatory freehanding (that arrow on the left):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J70Zq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Note for the Uninitiated&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In TeX, &lt;code&gt;\baselineskip&lt;/code&gt; is the vertical distance that is supposed to separate one baseline from the next. That is, TeX tries to make the baseline of each box (normally a line of text) added to a &quot;vertical list&quot; (typically &quot;the page&quot;) exactly this distance below the baseline of the previous one; however, if this would leave the top edge of the new box within &lt;code&gt;\lineskiplimit&lt;/code&gt; of the bottom edge of the previous box, &lt;code&gt;\lineskip&lt;/code&gt; of &quot;glue&quot; (potentially-stretchable space) is used to separate them instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I believe that the &quot;brackets&quot; box is &quot;too tall&quot;; in this case, the problem seen is actually caused by what TeXnicians call the &quot;depth&quot; of the box (it extends too far down). Curiously, the analogous problem with the &quot;height&quot; (how high the box extends above the baseline) does not occur here: for example, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem occurs on other sites, too, but naturally, this is almost certainly the most typographically nit-picky of the bunch, and the headquarters of the whitespace police. (Also, SO's design, for example, might &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; that size of box, since the box is itself is visible there; we just have a couple of curly braces and a different font!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Further Details&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking a closer look in firebug, it looks like the value of the CSS &quot;margin-bottom&quot; property for the element in question is too large (6) due to a &quot;.post-tag&quot; rule; the same problem does not occur with the line above because the value of the &quot;margin-top&quot; property (2) is just small enough not to matter. (The distance marked &quot;too big&quot; above being exactly 4 pixels more than the normal distance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps inline tags should belong to a different (additional?) CSS class?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-02-07T22:56:07.300" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T22:56:07.300" Title="Inline [tag:foo] syntax causes lines to exceed \baselineskip" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-02-16T00:48:21.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SamB&lt;/strong&gt;: Why haven't you volunteered yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Andrew Stacey:&lt;/strong&gt; Since this question clearly makes no sense for someone who &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; nominated themselves, I'm going to answer it even though I'm not and am not going to be a candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two reasons, one for the benefit of the site and one for me.  I'll start with the answer for the benefit of the site.  I think that the ideal new team would comprise of a mix of the pro tem moderators and new moderators.  Unfortunately, we're going from 5 pro tem mods to 3 mods, so even if we had no new people two of the pro tems would have to step down.  (Ideally, I'd go for 4 moderators with 2+2, and while I'm wishing I'd like a pony too).  I consider myself as the least able of the pro tems &lt;em&gt;in terms of moderating activity&lt;/em&gt;: I've not written any tag wikis, rarely done any tag clean-ups, and when there's a flag then by the time I get there then someone else has almost always taken the appropriate action.  So if there are to be some pro tems in the new team (as I hope that there are), I don't think that I should be one, and I don't want to risk dislodging one of the others or pushing out someone new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reason for myself is that I feel I've put quite a bit of time in to this site at the start, and I'm pleased with how it got off the ground (I'm not implying direct causality there!), but now it's time to scale back a bit and be just an ordinary member of the community, just answering questions that catch my interest rather than feeling that I should read most of them.  I'm sure I'll still be as vocal on meta as ever, and hope to be as useful on the main site (I doubt that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the TikZ/PGF questions have been asked yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up, what this site needed at the beginning was largely enthusiasm and time.  What it needs now is a broader view of TeX and how this site can benefit the TeX community.  That is something I certainly don't have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matthew:&lt;/strong&gt; I didn't volunteer until now because I consider the pro tem moderators to be doing a great job already, and was kind of hoping they would continue.  Also, I was (perhaps vainly) waiting for someone to bring it up as a possibility.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stefan:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; When there's time given for making important decisions, I tend to use it. Also, I hesitate to speak a lot about myself. Since my feeling clearly says I would like to volunteer, I should write something now. So, see you later on the election page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1235/hendrik-vogt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hendrik:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I feel honored that people tried prodding me, and I'm still somewhat tempted to nominate myself, and if it was only for getting the power to edit old comments &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt; However, my feeling is that being a moderator implicates some responsibility, and at the moment, 1/3 of the responsibility is just too much for me. (By the way, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/155585/hendrik-vogt?tab=activity&quot;&gt;I &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; been relatively active on meta.SO recently&lt;/a&gt;, and I'll probably continue being active there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Konrad&lt;/strong&gt;: Two factors: one, I am currently &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; hard pressed to meet my (extended) deadline for the master thesis. Two, I actually think that the already nominated candidates are more than adequate and I’m not sure that my contribution will be all that useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T20:04:48.483" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-16T00:48:21.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-02-16T08:53:51.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charles Stewart&lt;/strong&gt;: For non- pro tem moderators: Do you&#xA;  see your involvement with the site&#xA;  changing if you were elected?  For&#xA;  instance, would you use chat more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Tapankov&lt;/strong&gt;: Absolutely. I'd like to be more active on the site organization front -- cleanup, merging questions (where necessary), composing comprehensive CW answers, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I think the chat has been sadly underused since its introduction, and I can see how it can be of utility for various small support questions, TeX-related announcements, light troubleshooting, short-term issues and of course a bit of idle chat in between. I've seen some instances where a question or an answer has started long and interesting discussions between people, often going beyond the topic of the question itself, and these are ideal uses for chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caramdir&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: It probably wouldn't change too much. With enough rep, users can do most of the housekeeping stuff without moderator intervention, and being here since the start of the private beta, I always had a chance to build up enough reputation before the reputation requirement increases (i.e. at the end of the private beta, and at the end of the public beta). The biggest change seems to be that instead of flagging post for moderator attention, I'll have to react to flags (or just do the work whenever I find it). Maybe participation in meta will increase a bit, but not too much—there is no need to flood it with posts by moderators. And I'm sure, I'd still draw lots of TikZ pictures. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ad chat: I don't see any direct relationship between the chat and moderation. Anything that needs moderator attentions should usually be either flagged or discussed on meta. That said, the chat has been more active lately and I suppose it will stay so in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matthew&lt;/strong&gt;: I think I spend quite a bit of time around here anyway, depending on the sports and political seasons, so I don't think I will be here significantly more.  But I will make a point of paying more attention to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lockstep&lt;/strong&gt;: I would have to shift some of the time I spend answering questions of marginal (for me) interest to &quot;janitorial&quot; activities. As for the chat, it's obviously great when elections are up, but I'm still undecided about its general utility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: I think I'm already very much involved with the site. However, with the power and the accompanying responsibility of a moderator I will pay more attention to the issues of other people and other outstanding or arising issues. I will have to browse Meta more thoroughly than up till know. I like the chat for quick conversations. Larger or longer lasting things should be discussed on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seamus&lt;/strong&gt; I'd check the new questions page more regularly, and look at more questions even when they don't interest me. I'd do more to help new users ask better questions: suggest they add MWEs, change the title if it's not clear... I'd do more housekeeping things like that, I guess. And I would continue to try and improve the tag wikis (which I've only recently started doing.) I think another thing I was thinking of was offering small bounties on long-unanswered upvoted questions in the hopes of stimulating some activity. (This sounds like a bribe, so I promise to do this whether or not I am elected)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T14:49:30.317" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-16T12:02:48.440" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2011-02-16T09:50:56.967" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm broadly in agreement with Joseph's answer, but I think there's a little more to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there are two parts to a moderator's role here.  There's the &quot;up front&quot; side of moderating, which involves keeping an eye on the main site, welcoming new users, sorting out duplicates and non-answers.  As Joseph says, this doesn't add much time to someone already active on the site.  The only significant addition is the responsibility to check the site regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other side is the stuff like sorting out the tags and the tag-wikis.  These are things that don't usually need immediate work, but it would be nice to get done and I think that moderators should regard themselves as the ones who do this if no-one else does.  Again, for someone already doing this sort of thing (in so far as is possible, there are a few things only the mods can do) then there may not be a huge addition of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all in all, for an active member of the community then I wouldn't say that there was a huge addition in time spent, but that there is an addition of responsibility (obviously!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T09:50:56.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-16T18:00:18.357" Score="11" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt; seem to demand answers in plain TeX (or at least plain TeX macros + some extensions as required), even if the same solution is entirely applicable in LaTeX, ConTeXt or some other situation. In questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11184/&quot;&gt;reversing the order of expansion&lt;/a&gt;, we (currently) have one answer using expl3 and a second which loads some pre-packaged material to do the job. Both are good answers, but I wonder how other people see this. Should we encoruage answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt; which are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plain TeX (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; they finish &lt;code&gt;\bye&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stand-alone (no pre-packaged code used)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because if people really want to learn TeX internals then they'll need to have things demonstrated in primitives (or at least primitives plus a small set of basic macros such as &lt;code&gt;\@firstofone&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T20:18:04.043" Title="Should {tex-core} questions always have stand-alone answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="943" CreationDate="2011-02-16T20:08:03.663" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it only for me, or has the election link on the main site vanished?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T20:08:03.663" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-16T20:08:03.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2011-02-16T21:23:52.343" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;My two cents: In the same way as a we want ConTeXt answers to LaTeX specific questions, I see no harm in non-plain-TeX answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T21:23:52.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="981" CreationDate="2011-02-17T00:24:58.053" Score="4" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Badges&quot; page states that the requirement for earning the &quot;Talkative&quot; badge is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more&#xA;  starred, in chat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that I fulfilled this requirement about 48 hours ago -- at the moment, I'm at 26 messages, with 1 starred (the &quot;Herbert Voß comparison&quot; one). At first I suspected that the badge would be awarded only with some delay (e.g. like tag badges, which seem to be awarded on the following day), but in the meantime other users (Joseph Wright, Andrew Stacey) have earned the &quot;Talkative&quot; badge, apparently shortly after getting their first starred chat message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a glitch in the badge award mechanism or did I miss something regarding the requirement for &quot;Talkative&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As I'm now a candidate for community moderator, I checked the &lt;a href=&quot;http://se.awio.com/election.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;candidate statistics site&lt;/a&gt;, and it also doesn't list my (duly awarded) &quot;Sportsmanship&quot; badge. This looks more and more like a bug in some database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Okay, scrap that &quot;Sportsmanship&quot; problem. But I'd still like to be &quot;Talkative&quot;. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="2875" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T13:46:27.760" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T13:46:27.760" Title="Why didn't I earn the &quot;Talkative&quot; badge?" Tags="|bug|support|status-completed|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2011-02-17T07:03:07.450" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To agree with Hendrik, it is good to see alternative ways of doing things and having Context/expl3 answers increases the reference value of the Q&amp;amp;A thread.  But such answers should advertise that they do not meet the exact requirements the question was after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T07:03:07.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2011-02-17T07:16:45.560" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt; refers fairly specifically to low-level TeX functionality (such as the behaviour of primitives) and it's not necessarily appropriate to ask ‘how can I program this complicated thing’ as part of that — I don't think it's that helpful to spread around lots of code written only in TeX primitives since as far as I know no-one is writing packages for iniTeX only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when a programming question comes up in this scenario to ask, say, ‘is it possible to expandably do some things?’, I think it's perfectly acceptable to say ‘yes—here is how expl3/ConTeXt/etoolboox does it’. Maybe in some cases it's helpful to restrict an answer to plain TeX only, but it shouldn't be mandated in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T07:16:45.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="965" CreationDate="2011-02-17T11:05:20.340" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed yesterday that the election link is no longer featured on the main site. Is this [status-by-design]? As far as I remember, this link has been present on all SE sites that underwent election until their conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link is still present on meta, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79644/election-link-missing-from-tex-se-main-site&quot;&gt;Link to the meta.SO question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T19:37:05.797" Title="Election link missing from the main site" Tags="|support|bug|status-bydesign|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="964" CreationDate="2011-02-17T12:48:57.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Got an answer from the meta.SO question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is by design. Election notice only lasts for 48 hours after the start of each phase on the parent site, but you'll notice that you still have one on the Meta site. If your pro tems are up for it, they can re-enable the system message, but this is typically discouraged. Keep in mind, also, that during the final election phase, there is also a pop up banner given to all eligible voters to pester them, and it does not time out like the system message does. – &lt;strong&gt;Grace Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T12:48:57.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-17T14:30:11.787" Score="7" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;As everybody knows, we have copious amounts of graphics-related tags on TeX-SE. I've been thinking for some time to try and write up a tag wiki for at least the popular ones, but that seems to be quite tricky as some of the tags are applied inconsistently at times. Actually, having a set of well-defined wikis will also help with the (re)tagging policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the number of tags is quite long, I think we might have one CW post per tag, so that there is place for comments on each answer. Also, since it's going to be different to judge when a tag wiki is good enough, &lt;strong&gt;vote&lt;/strong&gt; for a tag wiki &lt;strong&gt;only when you are satisfied with its content&lt;/strong&gt;. Vote count of something between 5 and 10 votes should be enough indication that the tag wiki is generally good, and the moderators (or those of sufficient privileges) can approve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following template seems reasonable: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag name&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;sub&gt;(use also the &lt;code&gt;[tag:foo]&lt;/code&gt; syntax to have it as a link directly to the tag in question on the main site)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags, in no particular order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strike&gt;approved&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strike&gt;written&lt;/strike&gt; submitted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphicx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphicx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphicx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strike&gt;written&lt;/strike&gt; submitted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drawing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drawing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drawing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related and not-so-popular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nodes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nodes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/node-connections&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;node-connections&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;node-connections&lt;/a&gt; (do we need this?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-images&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-images&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-images&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/includegraphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;includegraphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;includegraphics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfigure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfigure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfigure&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfloat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfloat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfloat&lt;/a&gt; (to be merged?) written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/positioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;positioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;positioning&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/placement&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;placement&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;placement&lt;/a&gt; (ditto)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have probably missed some as well, feel free to edit them in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2011-02-21T12:22:32.147" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T12:41:27.007" Title="Tag wikis for graphics-related tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2011-02-17T14:43:47.763" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Figures  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This tag is to be applied to floats created with the &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; environment, and deals with issues such as positioning, labelling, captioning, indexing and listing of said floats. Similar issues, but  with custom defined floats should be tagged with {floats}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; environment in LaTeX is a common way to include various graphics such as external images, and provides the means to specify their position (or rather, specify &lt;em&gt;preferred&lt;/em&gt; position) as well as captioning, labelling and indexing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simplest syntax is shown below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{figure}[&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;] % &amp;lt;p&amp;gt; can be one of h, t, b, p, H&#xA;    % figure definition should be somewhere here&#xA;    % ...&#xA;&#xA;    \label{fig:myfig}&#xA;    \caption{My figure}&#xA;\end{figure}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The figure label and caption are not strictly necessary, but are probably desired most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of all figures in the document can be included as well, by using the &lt;code&gt;\listoffigures&lt;/code&gt; command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2011-02-21T12:34:08.087" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T12:34:08.087" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-17T14:47:27.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2011-02-17T14:52:18.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Graphics &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/strong&gt; Use the {graphics} for general questions regarding inclusion of graphical material in your document, usually from an external file. If you'd like to discuss vector graphics created programmatically inside a TeX document, use the general {diagrams} tag, or preferably the tag for the vector graphics package you use (e.g. {tikz-pgf} or {pstricks}).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2011-02-17T16:19:32.130" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T16:19:32.130" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-17T14:52:18.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2011-02-17T16:08:33.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Diagrams &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/strong&gt; The {diagrams} tag should be used to all sorts of plots, schematics, diagrams, graph trees, etc. that are in the form of a vector graphics. If your diagram is created using {tikz-pgf} or {pstricks}, use these tags instead. For raster graphics, such as photos and illustrations, use the {graphics} tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;While technically in the same category as graphics, diagrams in TeX &amp;amp; Friends are created using specialized languages or sets of macros that allow programmatic manipulation of the elements of the diagram. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the most popular alternatives are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TikZ/PGF (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PSTricks (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MetaPost (&lt;a href=&quot;http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/metapost/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the exception of EPS, TeX &amp;amp; Friends have limited support for other vector formats, such as SVG. Diagrams in these formats can be usually converted readily into either PDF or EPS and be included in the document as graphics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T16:08:33.823" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-17T16:10:55.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2011-02-17T16:54:56.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Floats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/strong&gt; The {floats} tag concerns custom-made floats in addition to those already provided by the TeX macro package you use, and concerns issues such as positioning, labelling, indexing, captioning and listing. Use the {tables} or {figures} tags when asking questions about the standard LaTeX floats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;LaTeX offers a few predefined floats, such as tables and figures. There are, however, some cases when one would like to define their own custom float type to distinguish them from the built-in ones, and to provide specific formatting, positioning or captioning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A common usage scenario is to have a document with several code listings, which are to be referenced in the text as if they were figures, and to provide a list of the code samples in the beginning of the document for easy reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the  &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/float/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;float&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package can be used to define a new float as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% usage: \newfloat{&amp;lt;type&amp;gt;}{&amp;lt;placement&amp;gt;}{&amp;lt;ext&amp;gt;}[&amp;lt;within&amp;gt;]&#xA;% Define a new float named Program, which can be placed either in the top, the bottom&#xA;% or on a special page, use the .lop extension for the float file list, and number&#xA;% them separately for each section.&#xA;&#xA;\newfloat{Program}{tbp}{lop}[section]&#xA;%...&#xA;&#xA;% Here goes the custom float environment:&#xA;\begin{Program}&#xA;    % You can do whatever you like inside, like include some specially formatted text:&#xA;    \begin{verbatim}&#xA;        from __future__ import braces&#xA;    \end{verbatim}&#xA;&#xA;    % .. label it for future reference.. &#xA;    \label{prg:myprog}&#xA;&#xA;    % .. and give it a caption&#xA;    \caption{An important program} &#xA;\end{Program}&#xA;&#xA;% finally, you might want to include a list of all your glorious code snippets you made:&#xA;\listof{Program}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other packages that can be used to define or modify floats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dblfloatfix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dblfloatfix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dpfloat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dpfloat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/endfloat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;endfloat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/floatrow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;floatrow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hvfloat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hvfloat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/morefloats&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;morefloats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/nonfloat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;nonfloat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/rotfloat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rotfloat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/subfloat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;subfloat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/topfloat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;topfloat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/trivfloat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trivfloat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2011-02-21T12:19:32.927" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T12:19:32.927" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-17T16:54:56.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-17T17:39:21.497" Score="11" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in part a public service announcement and in part an invitation for discussion (see also the comments on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election#post-11164&quot;&gt;Martin Tapankov's nomination&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First the announcement: &lt;strong&gt;everyone with at least 3000 rep can cast close votes&lt;/strong&gt; on questions. In particular, if one thinks that a question is an exact duplicate, one can mark it as such by using the close button (it will then ask for a link to the duplicate question). This will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; immediately close the question—it only closes when five people have cast close vote. It is not considered as an offense to the poster to cast a close vote (but you might want to add a comment in addition to the automatic one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for the discussion: How aggressive should we be in closing posts as duplicates? I have noticed several times now that someone posts a comment pointing out a duplicate that gets upvoted several times, but (almost) nobody casts a close vote. Is this because people feel that we shouldn't close duplicates, or because they don't know that they have the power to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T11:43:11.033" Title="Duplicates and closing questions." Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|duplicates|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="971" CreationDate="2011-02-17T17:46:23.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing this up; I've observed the same. In my opinion, posts that came up to 2 close votes should usually have been closed, but the problem is that for users with &amp;lt;10000 rep it is not always obvious that there are already close votes: It just says &quot;(2)&quot; after &quot;close&quot;. If &lt;em&gt;one of the first&lt;/em&gt; comments explains why the question should be closed as a duplicate, then this helps, and I hope that the question here helps some more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 1: When I write &quot;posts that came up to 2 close votes should usually have been closed&quot;, then I also mean that I don't think that many &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; than those should have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Here's one of the problems (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11411/1235&quot;&gt;example post&lt;/a&gt;): There comes a question, not too hard to answer, and before you find the duplicates and post a comment, there's already an answer (or several answers). The more answers there are, the more the attention is distracted from the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T13:59:04.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2011-02-17T17:52:57.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Subfigure  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfigure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfigure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfigure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/strong&gt; The {subfigure} tag should be applied to questions about composite floats with separately labelled and captioned components, such as arrangement, labelling, positioning, captioning, referencing and indexing. Use the tag for all packages and environments that provide similar behaviour (such as &lt;code&gt;subfigure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;subfig&lt;/code&gt;, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Sometimes when creating a figure, one would like to have a few graphics laid side-by-side, each of them captioned and labelled, with a separate caption for the whole figure. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subfig/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;subfig&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package and its predecessor &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/macros/latex/contrib/subfigure/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;subfigure&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (now obsolete) are commonly used, with some extra help from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/caption/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package for subcaption customization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a sample of some general usage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{figure}&#xA;    % Usage: \subloat[&amp;lt;list entry&amp;gt;][&amp;lt;subcaption&amp;gt;]{&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;}&#xA;    \subfloat[First subfigure]{\label{fig:subfloat-2} ...}&#xA;&#xA;    % you can optionally use all sorts of horizontal or vertical white space here: &#xA;    \hspace{1mm} &#xA;&#xA;    \subfloat[Second subfigure]{\label{fig:subfloat-1}...}&#xA;&#xA;    % You can have a caption for the whole figure ...&#xA;    \caption{Figure with two subfigures}&#xA;&#xA;    % .. and a label to reference it&#xA;    \label{fig:composite}&#xA;\end{figure}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T17:52:57.320" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-17T17:52:57.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="971" CreationDate="2011-02-17T18:12:41.143" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I said in my nomination, I think we should get a bit more aggressive towards closing duplicates (&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; deleting them), and referring to single authoritative answers that are updated regularly. Now, since such answers could become quite long, some people might not want to read through them all, so a short CW answer (that the submitter can accept) and a link to the question should suffice. The submitter will hopefully take the time, if interested, to read the long version, and learn a new thing or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official policy&lt;/a&gt; to tolerate some amount of duplication, but I think this is mostly applicable to a monstrosity such as SO (we have around 500 times less questions than they do). For a smaller site like ours, people can usually read through most questions popping up in a day (at least the titles) without a problem, so pointing out duplicates (essentially, remembering that somebody asked the question earlier) is easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your last question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this because people feel that we shouldn't close duplicates, or because they don't know that they have the power to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there might be a third reason -- people wouldn't vote to close if they have already answered the question, or intend to do so, for the fear of losing (or not gaining enough) reputation. I'm not sure there's anything to do if that is indeed the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T18:12:41.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-18T12:10:00.190" Score="2" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you read meta or not, but you left the comment &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip;interesting by the way, that you only down voted &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis yours) and then deleted your answer while I was responding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted only your answer down because it was the only one that was incorrect that I could see. I don't know why that is interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've mentioned before on meta, I don't normally vote down answers to questions I answer, but when I voted on your answer and left the comment explaining why, I had no intention of answering the question myself. A few minutes later, I remembered &lt;code&gt;\@outputpage&lt;/code&gt; and thought it was worth mentioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I truly hope you don't think I'm going around down voting your answers because we've disagreed in the past. You frequently give very good answers (as is obvious by your meteoric rise through the user list) and, from my perspective, are a definite benefit to the site as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To everyone else: I apologize for the noise. I don't know another simple way to respond and maintain my anonymity. Hopefully, this doesn't count as &quot;too often&quot; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/597/comment-overflow-lockstep-and-i-argue-about-biblatex&quot;&gt;Andrew&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T12:10:00.190" Title="Response to Herbert" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2012-12-29T18:37:28.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-02-18T15:43:00.950" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seamus&lt;/strong&gt;: Do you see it as the job of the moderator to &lt;em&gt;write&lt;/em&gt; tag wikis, and not just approve edits suggested by other users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Tapankov:&lt;/strong&gt; I see it the responsibility of top users in a tag (mods or not) to provide good tag wikis and approve changes. I don't think there should be a distinction in this context. Having at least an excerpt helps during (re)tagging and tag organization (usually performed by mods anyway), so the moderators have some extra incentive to establish some guidelines when a specific tag should be applied or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matthew&lt;/strong&gt; No.  And if you are looking for a moderator to make significant contributions in this regard, do not vote for me because I will disappoint you.  I am happy to keep contribution to questions and answers and being a camp counselor but I don't want to tempt myself into spending a lot of time writing tag wikis.  I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; seek out and recruit tag wiki authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lockstep:&lt;/strong&gt; For subject areas where they are knowledgeable, community moderators have a higher-than-average responsibility for writing (and revising) tag wikis. For other areas, they should rather pester the &quot;top users&quot; to get some wiki entries started. Once the initial work is done, moderators may suggest possible additional content and act as copy editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caramdir&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: No. That is the responsibility of all users who have been here sufficiently long to know what the various tags are about. On the other hand, I think the mods have a higher than average responsibility in &lt;em&gt;editing&lt;/em&gt; and improving the tag wiki pages (e.g. by correcting spelling and trying to keep them consistent), as the list of recent tag wiki changes is only visible with the mod/10k tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: The moderators should make sure that important tasks on tex.sx are getting done. Tag wiki pages are IMHO important. As I already wrote in my candidature post I would like to encourage &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; users to provide good tag wiki suggestions. I made many tag wiki suggestions already in the past and as moderator I will continue to do so even more. I would like to get every user to make suggestions for the tags they are most knowledgeable in. Some tags still need some clarification. Sometimes I'm not sure which area they exactly cover. This things can and should be discussed on Meta. A have the idea to compile a list of to-be-edited tag wiki pages for the more important and frequently used tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Moderators are high-reputation members of the community in most cases, and so do have a place in writing tags where they do know about them. However, that's purely a member of the community, not as a moderator &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;. So I would not expect any additional responsibility on moderators in respect of tag writing. (My answer is therefore very similar to several of the other candidates: whether you regard this as a good thing I don't know.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Writing tag wikis is a joint effort. I assume mainly tag specialists would edit wikis where they are the experts or propose edits. Moderators could help and keep looking at it in order to keep a good standard. I edited a number of tag wikis, but feeling as a user, not as a moderator. However, moderators could show ideas. For example, I can imagine tag wikis for broad tags being like a good structured mini web site: starting with a description, showing a list of related packages and listing remarkable question on this site, sorted by sub topic, further showing sub tags and closely related tags. This is an idea for the future when we will have to manage a huge amount of material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seamus&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, I think that moderators should have more responsibility for the tag wiki than the rest of us. That doesn't mean that they should write tag wikis for tags they aren't familiar with, that would be counter-productive. But they should make sure the wikis are well structured, clearly written with working links. And if the moderators also happen to be experts in some tags, they certainly should take it upon themselves to write them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T14:43:02.270" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-18T15:43:00.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-18T17:06:42.360" Score="4" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, if you were me, you could go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/recent/1189?StartDate=2011-02-18&amp;amp;EndDate=2011-02-18&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/recent/1189?StartDate=2011-02-18&amp;amp;EndDate=2011-02-18&lt;/a&gt; and see a recent comment by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/711/martin-tapankov&quot;&gt;Martin Tapankov&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election#post-11164&quot;&gt;his self-nomination&lt;/a&gt; which was addressed to me. But, instead of a link to that post, you would see ... well, nothing. (It just says &quot;commented on &quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T17:34:51.143" Title="Election comments don't get linked right in &quot;recent activity&quot;" Tags="|bug|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2011-03-22T07:11:13.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-02-18T18:53:30.920" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;(In a desperate attempt to find some difference between the candidates)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/strong&gt;: I think that tex-SE is doing very well, and is on a good track.  But I'd like to see it going further, with positive second derivative as well as first.  What would you like to see the community doing that it isn't currently doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that I'm not necessarily asking for what you &lt;em&gt;yourself&lt;/em&gt; would do (though you can answer that), but what you would look to encourage the community to do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; One area that I think would help the moderators is more voting to close, &lt;em&gt;etc&lt;/em&gt;., by high-reputation users. The model for SO is that most things happen on a community basis, so as we get more high reputation users then there should actually be &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; for the moderators to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess one thing I'd want to avoid is 'mission creep'. The SO model works well for what it does: answering specific questions. However, there are other places to hold general discussion or to run a 'curated' FAQ. The {TeX} site is good, but it's not a panacea and I would not like to see this as the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; place for TeX-related support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caramdir&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: The most important part is simply having good answers and easy to find knowledge. Then Google (and so on) will keep new users flowing in. Moderators are playing an important role here (though the majority of the editing/organizing work is of course done by the community as a whole). Improving questions is helping a lot for getting the search engines to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that, I liked some of the ideas discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/780/how-about-a-featured-tex-post&quot;&gt;How about a &amp;quot;Featured TeX&amp;quot; post?&lt;/a&gt;. Featured answers could potentially increase answer quality (simply by pointing out what a good answer looks like) and some typesetting competitions can increase the amount of community involvement (and get some more people to read meta more frequently).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matthew&lt;/strong&gt; I like the idea of featuring some longer contributions.  Although we're good at answering many questions, we are answering some of them several times (&amp;quot;What is &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; for?&amp;quot;) still and perhaps featuring some of our most popular answers will get those frequently asked questions a bit less frequently asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there should be some more &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; questions as well, perhaps on meta.  I understand on StackOverflow Fridays are a day to ask more free-form questions and it would be enjoyable to shoot from the hip once in a while.  As long as it's vaguely TeX-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also considered a bit more active recruitment.  Currently our questions are very findable so googlers are reaching us.  But we could also make an effort to invite package developers and mailing lists users to join the site.  I had even proposed a flier or trinket to distribute at meetings where a lot of TeX users attend (e.g., the Joint AMS/MAA Meetings).  Where we would get the funds for that kind of thing is a another question, but it's an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lockstep&lt;/strong&gt; At the moment, the vast majority of questions is about specific, sometimes pressing issues (like &amp;quot;Why is symbol xy not showing up?&amp;quot;). I'd like to see the community ask more questions about broader issues (best practices, pros and cons of different approaches to solve a problem). An excellent example is Seamus' question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5599/theorem-packages-which-to-use-which-conflict&quot;&gt;Theorem packages&lt;/a&gt;. It probably makes our site more prominent at Google, but above that, it's a great resource for &amp;quot;power users&amp;quot; and developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Tapankov:&lt;/strong&gt; Collaboration. Although CW posts are used sometimes when answering questions (I do when summarizing answers from my questions), it is rare that somebody comes along and decides to edit and append the post instead of adding their own. I understand that people do this out of respect towards others' work (and sometimes to get some rep themselves), but when I mark a post CW, I'd very much like somebody to come along to improve it, if they deem necessary. I think we can do more to promote collaboration on (some aspects of) the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;Like Andrew said, the site is already doing very well. In some points it might be (even) better organized. For example I &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/79977/156875&quot;&gt;miss a site-map&lt;/a&gt; here which tells you about all the links and pages which exist. Some of them can't even be reached through hyper-links on the site and others are difficult to find.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Other things were already mentioned, like &lt;em&gt;tag wikis&lt;/em&gt; and close votes.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I could also imaging some form of &lt;em&gt;polls&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;surveys&lt;/em&gt; on meta. On &lt;a href=&quot;http://perlmonks.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://perlmonks.org&lt;/a&gt;, a perl user site similar to SX but written of course in Perl, these surveys are interesting and/or funny. This could be done on Meta quite tidy in one thread (aka question) with small surveys as &amp;quot;answers&amp;quot;. The real survey answers are then pre-defined comments anyone can up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea for improvement popped into my mind several times while seeing some bad user code on this side is to create more community wiki pages which describe some common errors and best practices. Maybe an own small version of LaTeX tabu and some small How To's. These pages make then excellent link targets from other questions. Google favors this site and therefore these pages will be found quickly by people which looking for it. In my opinion the community wiki format gives an excellent platform for these kind of shared posts. As moderator I like to encourage the creation and maintenance of these pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T10:15:49.320" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T09:04:57.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="971" CreationDate="2011-02-18T20:26:26.030" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicates are often created by new users, naturally. Closing, which is a standard procedure, might feel harsh for users who yet don't know that site's practice of doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to new users I would not close aggressively. It's nice to say &quot;hey, welcome, have a look &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;, those answers might be a great help&quot; perhaps additionally inform &quot;and by the way, we usually close duplicate questions to keep the site tidy, don't be puzzled then&quot; together with a vote to close. This way the user get's a warm welcome, we can close the duplicate soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if a duplicate happened to a well known regular user, it's perfectly fine to say &quot;hey fellow TeX friend, it's a duplicate to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;, let's close it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The friendly atmosphere here is just more important to me than a well-oiled machine closing as quickly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T20:26:26.030" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-02-18T22:08:36.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alan Munn&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt; in chat said the following: I think for a moderator I'd want&#xA;  someone who participated in all&#xA;  aspects of the site, and that includes&#xA;  asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question to candidates is how important do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think one's&#xA;  having asked questions is to being a&#xA;  moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/strong&gt; That is a good, tough, question. I'm a pretty experienced LaTeX user and TeX programmer, so have relatively few questions that really fit the site (so far I've only asked one). (The few things I do ask about tend to go to c.t.t, where there are some &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; experienced TeX programmers.) I hope that has not made me a bad moderator, as in the past I've asked enough questions elsewhere to know &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to phrase a good question. So I'd say that asking lots of questions here is not crucial to being a good moderator. What's needed is patience with new members of the community and the ability to explain what &lt;em&gt;makes&lt;/em&gt; a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lockstep&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't think having asked many questions is important for qualifying as a moderator. Stefan Kottwitz and Joseph Wright IMO have been performing excellent as pro tem mods while asking only 4 resp. 1 question(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; think, though, that Andrew hit on something important in his chat remark: I wouldn't vote for a mod candidate who only seldom or never casts votes on question/answers. Separating the wheat from the chaff (so to speak) and making the best questions highly visible is a core aspect of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caramdir&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: I guess it does certainly help to know the site from both perspectives, but as the pro tem moderation team has show that it is not strictly necessary. More important is to know &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to ask a good question and to have some patience with new users that don't know that yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matthew&lt;/strong&gt; I was first drawn to this site by a question, and I've definitely asked my fair share and upvoted hundreds of answers.  As a I moderator I would obviously draw upon that experience and treat all users, especially n00bs, with respect.  I can't say that it would make me a better moderator than Joseph (just to use an example of someone who admits he hasn't), but it would make me a better moderator than a version of myself without the experience of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: I think that active participation and knowledge of all aspect of tex.sx is important for a moderator. Asking questions is important, but might be one of the lower priorities a moderator should concentrate on. However, asking the right questions which aren't discussed yet, even if the answer is already known to this person, could help to make this site even more valuable then it is right now. Also I can fully understand that some power users, especially well known Gurus, do not come into the situation to need to ask (real) questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To pick up the other topic lockstep already mentioned above: I also think &lt;em&gt;voting&lt;/em&gt; is a much better indicator of the community involvement of a moderator-to-be. This sites lives from votes! Not only to distinguish the good answers from the less good ones, but also to elevate the good users and give them the privileges they deserve and need to participate even more. Votes are our form of &lt;em&gt;spice&lt;/em&gt; and as we all know &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_spice_must_flow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The spice must flow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Tapankov:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think the two are related. As already pointed out, our current moderators weren't the most avid question askers, but did a commendable job nevertheless. The moderators should know how to tell a good question apart from a bad one, and how to deal with substandard ones (comment, edit, close, delete). Tolerance and &quot;human touch&quot; towards new users is far more important&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I think it's important to get familiar with all aspects of the site. This includes the experience of creating one or more questions with our site interface but also dealing with the answers: voting some up or down, how many, which one to choose for accepting, giving feedback in comments, receiving comments and reacting to that. It took me some time to figure out some own questions, because I know how to find answers myself and I'm used to that. But I wished to try posting questions and so I found some which were interesting for me, real and not just for testing--respecting answering TeX users and appreciating their feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seamus&lt;/strong&gt; I ask a lot of questions, but I don't think that qualifies me to be a good moderator. I obviously think the questions I ask are good questions and I don't think they should ever require moderator attention. I suppose one aspect of asking questions that is relevant to moderating is thinking carefully about whether a question is a duplicate. I suppose that if you weren't in the habit of asking questions regularly, you might have a different attitude towards this issue. I think when you're learning this stuff, there are questions that seem quite distinct that are obviously the same question to experienced users. So perhaps my having asked a lot of questions makes me more lenient on duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T13:56:37.280" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T09:04:57.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="961" CreationDate="2011-02-19T09:53:52.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that some of the behind-the-scenes code here is trying to use your network-wide unique identifier - but because you only have an account on tex, your unique identifier isn't published anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly an oversight; this is absolutely a scenario we fully support. I'm working on a fix; there is a fairly obvious workaround (visit another SE site), but I'd &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; rather you didn't - it would be nice to check the fixed code finds you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2875" LastEditorUserId="2875" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T10:16:06.480" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T10:16:06.480" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="989" CreationDate="2011-02-19T12:44:24.430" Score="7" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've stumbled across what seems to be a (small) bug regarding the calculation of upvotes for specific tags. Sometimes (probably because of tag merging), a question will exhibit the same tag &lt;em&gt;twice&lt;/em&gt; -- e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1050/whats-the-difference-between-newcommand-and-newcommand&quot;&gt;What's the difference between \newcommand and \newcommand*?&lt;/a&gt; is tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt; (one of these very likely was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt; before). Upvotes for answers to these questions will correctly be counted only once for the calculation of the &quot;top users&quot; (and potential tag badge earners) of this tag, but they will be counted twice in the tag upvote statistic of one's user profile. For example, compare the number of upvotes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/macros/topusers&quot;&gt;top user&lt;/a&gt; Joseph Wright (186) with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt; upvotes on his &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;user profile&lt;/a&gt; (214).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T21:04:51.900" Title="Bug in the calculation of upvotes for specific tags" Tags="|bug|status-completed|tagging|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="977" CreationDate="2011-02-19T14:44:37.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that candidates itself do not get notifications for comments below their nomination posts. I at least didn't got one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got now one for the second comment, but like the OP said, their is no hyper-link or any other reference that this comment is about the nomination page. It just says &quot;commented on&quot; and then nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-02-19T17:00:46.593" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T17:00:46.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="982" CreationDate="2011-02-19T17:05:48.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not perfectly clear to me that it is exactly the same problem, but from meta.SO, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20929/why-are-there-questions-with-duplicate-tags-once-in-a-while&quot;&gt;Why are there questions with duplicate tags once in a while?&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So the next time there's a duplicate tag problem, just flag one of them for moderator attention and we'll run the tag deduplicator page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if any moderators should happen to read this, ones who happen to know what the tag deduplicator page is, maybe they will know if it is the tool for the job or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T17:05:48.230" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-02-19T17:22:17.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charles Stewart&lt;/strong&gt;: One statistic relevant to evaluating&#xA;  moderators that can't be seen from &lt;a href=&quot;http://se.awio.com/election.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yi&#xA;  Jiang's candidate statistics&#xA;  page&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  is involvement with the &quot;root&quot; meta,&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; -&#xA;  activity there I see as a proxy for&#xA;  lively interest in the Stack Exchange&#xA;  technical infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you been active on meta.SO?  If&#xA;  not, how do you keep aware of current&#xA;  developments in Stack Exchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Postscript&lt;/strong&gt; - You can see the kind of activity that I regard as a model of engagement in this respect on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/138421/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey's meta.SO page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caramdir&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;No, I haven't been active on meta.SO, mostly because it would be another time sink, and I'd rather use the time for tex.SX. Of course I use it passively from time to time (e.g. to find out how some feature works). To keep up-to-date with recent developments, I regularly read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;“Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange”&lt;/a&gt; and read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SX blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The number of posts on the main SO site and on meta.SO makes it impractical to 'watch' it just to pull out the few things that are relevant to us. I already watch quite a lot of TeX-related places, as well as doing LaTeX programming, and I think that's where I'd rather spend my 'TeX time'. I have taken to reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SO blog&lt;/a&gt; recently, as there are some useful announcements there: in many ways it acts as a 'filtered' version of meta.SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/711/martin-tapankov&quot;&gt;Martin Tapankov&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I don't check meta.SO often (the signal-to-noise ratio is too low to be of much use), but I'm following the StackOverflow blog for announcements of recent changes. I usually ask support questions in our meta, as well as metas of a few other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;I'm using meta.SO to check up on changes which affect me and to report issues, like the one about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/961/2975&quot;&gt;missing &lt;em&gt;Sportsmanship&lt;/em&gt; badge&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://se.awio.com/election.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;candidate statistic page&lt;/a&gt;, which got resolved very fast after adding a comment on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75454/moderator-nomination-possibly-useful-statistics/75726#75726&quot;&gt;related &quot;answer&quot; on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;. As moderator I would like to keep close ties to our &lt;em&gt;&quot;landlords&quot;&lt;/em&gt; from SO and keep informed about all pending changes to the site and its interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lockstep&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: At some point in my tex.stackexchange career, I faced the question &quot;What is this 'Suffrage' badge and why did I earn it?&quot; So yes, I occasionally check the &quot;Recent feature changes&quot; site, but no, I haven't been active on meta.SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seamus&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not totally sold on the idea that involvement with meta.SO is a relevant metric. Of course, moderators should understand the site they are nominally in charge of, but does that really mean involving oneself with the meta.SO site? I check the SO blog once in a while, and if there were some issue that wasn't tex.sx specific I suppose I'd ask it in its rightful place, but other than that, I'll pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T14:54:34.433" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T17:22:17.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-19T18:36:23.387" Score="11" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.  I am working with the candidates to find a time that allows the most participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Town Hall Chat will take place on Thursday the 24th at 7pm UTC, 2pm EST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&amp;amp;day=24&amp;amp;year=2011&amp;amp;hour=19&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(view in other timezones)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/299/tex-town-hall-chat&quot;&gt;(click here to join)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the details so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have coordinated with the candidates and done the best I could with a best fit match.  &lt;s&gt;I would like to schedule this towards the beginning of the election phase, so I am looking at the 22nd-24th.  As soon as I coordinate with the existing moderators and candidates, I will edit this post with details on the &quot;when&quot;.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Town Hall Chat will be a one-hour event using our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;chat platform&lt;/a&gt;.  You can register for the event &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/299/tex-town-hall-chat?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The format will be an open discussion.  Users are encouraged to pose questions to the candidate regarding their thoughts on moderation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the chat session, the transcript and a summary will be available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1816" LastEditorUserId="1816" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T19:01:17.840" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:32:54.067" Title="2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat:  7pm UTC on the 24th (2pm EST) - now!" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-02-19T19:58:26.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alan Munn:&lt;/strong&gt; Here's another &quot;does it matter&quot;&#xA;  question. Among us there are both what&#xA;  we might call &quot;power users&quot; and&#xA;  &quot;TeXnicians&quot; (which is obviously both&#xA;  a caricature and a continuum). You can&#xA;  identify yourself on this continuum by&#xA;  the number of questions you answer&#xA;  with answers that involve&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;\makeatletter ... \makeatother&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;  instead of &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{}&lt;/code&gt; :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm assuming a continuum that is&#xA;  roughly &lt;em&gt;beginner - normal user -&#xA;  power user - TeXnician&lt;/em&gt;, but all of&#xA;  the moderator candidates presumably&#xA;  meet the &lt;em&gt;power user&lt;/em&gt; threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And while the difference between&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;power user&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;TeXnician&lt;/em&gt; is partially a difference in &lt;em&gt;knowledge&lt;/em&gt;,&#xA;  I also see it much more so as a&#xA;  difference in &lt;em&gt;attitude&lt;/em&gt; toward&#xA;  solutions than actual knowledge per&#xA;  se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, where do you fit on the continuum, and how important do you think it is&#xA;  that the moderators &lt;em&gt;represent&lt;/em&gt; the&#xA;  continuum, rather than be stacked up&#xA;  at one end or the other of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; As I'm a member of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/latex3.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX3 Project&lt;/a&gt;, I guess I'm firmly at one end of that spectrum (beyond &lt;code&gt;\makeatletter&lt;/code&gt; and all the way to &lt;code&gt;\catcode`\@=11\relax&lt;/code&gt;), but my focus as a developer is mainly on making life easier for users. So I'd rather be able to provide an easy-to-follow pre-packaged answer than 'show off' with a long piece of code (depending on the question of course). Now, does it &lt;em&gt;matter&lt;/em&gt;? That's back with 'what should a moderator do?', where the key thing is to know how to &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; questions. I guess in an ideal world we want a balance, so that the moderator team can bring experience of different parts of the TeX world to the site. But that should not be the over-riding criterion: being a good moderator is much more about the community side than the technical detail of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caramdir&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: I'd put myself somewhere below power user. However, my knowledge of (La)TeX has increased quite a lot in the last few months, simply by reading lots of questions and answers on this site. In my answers I typically prefer simple prepackaged solutions, except when it is unavoidable (which, for drawing pictures, it often is). Does it matter for moderation? I don't think so. The job of moderators isn't to write answers. When they write answers, they do so as normal members in the community. Of course a fair knowledge of the field helps to judge what a good question/answer is and thus should help with moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;Where I fit on the continuum? Mmmm, I'm more a TeXnician than a power user. I keep coding more LaTeX packages than writing actual content. :-) However, I find it important that good answers are given which can be grasp by beginners or normal users. I don't like it when someone just posts some code without &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; explanation. These good answers should be based on existing packages whenever possible and reasonable, or mention these as alternatives.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Moderators should have a good knowledge about (La)TeX but I don't think their &quot;rank&quot;, TeXnician or power user etc., is very important. Interest in this site and bringing in drive, responsibility and time are the more important properties. If you are now a total geek or an occasional user doesn't matter that much for the daily moderator's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/711/martin-tapankov&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Tapankov&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I guess I'm somewhat above normal user level, but I wouldn't call myself &quot;power user&quot;. I have learnt a lot from reading questions on the site in the last months, but still I have a long way to go. I have a practical disposition and try to answer questions a bit more thoroughly than what is necessary, in the hope that the answer will be a learning experience for the user instead of a prepackaged copy-and-paste solution. I like it when others do that as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the question about the continuum: For me there is no direct correlation between qualities that make a good moderator and those of a TeXnician. That being said, there are some moderator tasks that can benefit from expert knowledge and insight (tag organization, and wikis come to mind). I think time spent on the site and positive attitude are more important for moderators than the amount of &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;s in their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lockstep&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; On the continuum, I would classify myself somewhere between normal and power user (my answers occasionally involve &lt;code&gt;\makeatletter&lt;/code&gt;). My &quot;power user&quot; knowledge is for the most part concentrated in the bibliographies/biblatex subject area; apart from that, it's rather my curiosity than my actual LaTeX knowledge that distinguishes me from a normal user. (And the TeX command I use most is &lt;code&gt;\hyphenation&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important that at least one community moderator is at the &quot;TeXnician&quot; end so that bad questions/answers about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt; and the like will get identified and sorted out. For the other mods, &quot;normal user&quot; knowledge and a keen interest in the site should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seamus&lt;/strong&gt; I am emphatically a &quot;normal user&quot;. But you need normal users to answer normal user questions. If someone's question is &quot;Why doesn't &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; display an ampersand?&quot;, giving them an answer that involves changing the catcode of &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; and then redefining it as the unicode character for ampersand would be silly. (OK, that would be a silly thing to do regardless of what the question was, but... whatever). I don't think the level of TeXnical ability has much to do with ability to moderate this site. I think, in a way, having at least one moderator who &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; a TeXnician would be valuable: those of us closer to the ground have more understanding of new users' weak little minds. (This is obviously patently unfair: the top users on this site are all phenomenally helpful and patient with new users)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Konrad&lt;/strong&gt;: I am a power user in that I use LaTeX for almost &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of my document work. But on the other hand, I’m not very proficient and I have (to date) not read a single LaTeX book from cover to cover. I &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to use LaTeX “the right way” but I’m much less proficient than all the other candidates. I don’t think it’s that important that the moderators represent the continuum, though: even the best have at one point been beginners, and they hopefully remember how inadequate they felt. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T20:08:26.547" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T19:58:26.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2011-02-19T20:18:04.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use your judgement. If someone is asking how to do something fundamental in a fairly format-agnostic way, giving them an answer only in terms of expl3 is probably not the best way to go (assuming you want your answer accepted!), but it won't likely cause much harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering in terms of e.g. &lt;code&gt;manmac.tex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;texinfo.tex&lt;/code&gt; would probably be better, though; they have much less code (or at least a smaller number of files) to wade through in order to see how something works. And, being basically self-contained packages, there is a much smaller amount of patching than in LaTeX; what remains consists mostly of overriding/renaming stuff from &lt;code&gt;plain&lt;/code&gt;, and is greatly simplified by not having to worry about stepping on other packages' toes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the question is really about something big and complicated, suggest whatever you think best! ConTeXt, LaTeX3, even using LuaTeX to invoke METAPOST in-process, if that's what it takes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course, if the question makes it clear that the asker really just wants to know how to do something in LaTeX, maybe the &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt; tag should just be removed?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T20:18:04.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="982" CreationDate="2011-02-19T21:03:52.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, good point. I removed all the duplicate tags across the SE 2.0 network just now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should probably change tag renaming and merging so it doesn't create duplicate tags on posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T21:03:52.230" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2011-02-19T21:13:03.047" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;So do we want a link to here from the answer-posting interface somehow? Hmm, not exactly sure how that would work; there don't exactly seem to be any boilerplate text boxes in the neighborhood...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T21:13:03.047" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:13:03.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="992" CreationDate="2011-02-19T23:55:18.987" Score="4" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use firefox (mainly on linux but also on windows), and I have it set up to delete cookies and browsing history every time I exit.  Despite this, every time I come to tex.stackexchange.com, I am recognized a few seconds after I connect.  How is this done without cookies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2754" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T01:33:58.183" Title="How does StackExchange recognize me every time I browse here?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2011-02-20T00:59:18.880" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Traditional browser cookies &lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/09/evercookie-escalates-the-zombie-cookie-war-by-raising-awareness.ars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;are by no means the only way to store tracking information&lt;/a&gt;. For example there are also cookies stored using Adobe Flash (use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site to configure flash storage&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: My original guess turns out to be wrong. They seem to use HTML5 local storage, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/global-network-auto-login/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;described in a blog post&lt;/a&gt;. One way to somewhat reliably remove tracking information is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BetterPrivacy Firefox addon&lt;/a&gt; (I haven't tested that extensively, but it seems to work for stackexchange).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-02-20T01:33:58.183" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T01:33:58.183" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="986" CreationDate="2011-02-21T07:28:13.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will be travelling on the dates in question and won’t have an internet connection so unfortunately I can’t participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand we already have a few good candidates lined up and I wouldn’t vote for myself anyway (can we even do that?) so I don’t think my candidacy is at all crucial. I don’t think I’m a very good candidate anyway since I almost never visit the meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T07:28:13.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="971" CreationDate="2011-02-21T10:05:23.637" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree entirely with Stefan, and I think maybe an example will illustrate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top-voted question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80/latex-template-for-resume-curriculum-vitae&quot;&gt;LaTeX template for resume/curriculum vitae&lt;/a&gt;, and there are three question closed as being duplicates of it, all of which come above it in a search for &quot;cv&quot; ordered by relevance.  The questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9548/writing-a-cv-in-latex&quot;&gt;Writing a CV in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1534/are-there-any-other-packages-defined-to-create-a-cv-except-the-moderncv-package&quot;&gt;Are there any other packages defined to create a CV except the &amp;quot;moderncv&amp;quot; package?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/895/class-for-curriculum-vitae&quot;&gt;Class for Curriculum Vitae&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking over the askers of the first two questions, I'd say their overall experience was very similar, and while both got useful information from us: both asked their CV question, which was closed with no upvotes, asked sometime later another question which got one upvote and two useful but not welcoming answers, and then didn't interact with the site again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've given a late upvote to both these questions now, because I think that we should be generous upvoting any acceptable activity from very low reputation users, say up to reputation 50 (needed to leave comments).  When closing such questions by new users, we should generally try to &quot;compensate&quot; them with an upvote to +1 and a friendly comment to the effect of, e.g., &lt;em&gt;I think you'll find Herbert's answer useful, do ask another question if that's not quite what you were after&lt;/em&gt; (which Joseph did do with the first question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I'll note that the first question asks for an example CV in Latex, which is not explicitly asked for in the &quot;LaTeX template&quot; question, and takes a bit of digging to find in the answers.  Although the asker was happy for Joseph's comment, the question was not an exact duplicate, and an answer that pointed to the template question and either linked to an example CV or, better, pasted some Latex code in, would have made this site just that little bit better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T12:00:50.050" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2011-02-21T12:41:27.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Drawing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drawing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drawing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drawing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/strong&gt; Use the {drawing} tag when asking questions how to create a particular type of scheme, diagram, notation, or graph. Consider adding a tag for your preferred drawing technology -- {tikz-pgf}, {pstricks}, {xy-pic} etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T12:41:27.007" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-21T12:41:27.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2250" CreationDate="2011-02-21T12:46:18.483" Score="4" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;It recently happened to me a couple of times that I want to add a tag wiki suggestion, but only get the general &lt;em&gt;Opps&lt;/em&gt; error page &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; submitting the edit form. The tag wikis is question were previously empty. It happened just now with the &lt;code&gt;url&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between these occasions I was at least once able to submit one successfully, so it doesn't seems to be a permanent error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anyone made the same experience? I wonder if this is a real error or just some funny &quot;access denied&quot; message. Maybe there is already a suggestion for this tag wiki in the queue or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This morning (22th Feb) it worked again. I will wait until it reappears before reporting it to the SO/SX people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T10:46:57.213" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T11:01:34.063" Title="Error page when making tag wikis suggestions" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1060" CreationDate="2011-02-22T09:46:21.400" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;The excerpt text box is too long, and it runs underneath the &quot;How to edit a tag wiki&quot; box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6EFOi.png&quot; alt=&quot;bug picture&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is on ubuntu 10.10 with Firefox 3.6.13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-03-01T03:32:51.627" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T03:32:51.627" Title="Tag wiki text box goes under the &quot;how to edit a wiki&quot; box." Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-23T13:22:19.537" Score="21" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I recently learned about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;review page&lt;/a&gt;. What other unlinked goodies pages exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-08-23T16:15:27.757" Title="StackExchange secret pages" Tags="|discussion|big-list|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-23T18:15:16.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1001" CreationDate="2011-02-23T13:26:34.977" Score="14" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See a breakdown of your reputation: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User ranking per week, month, year and all time (not exactly secret, but not linked from here): &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/week/tex&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/week/tex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A little known feature -- formatting key combinations: &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Meta&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;X&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Ctrl&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; + &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Meta&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; + &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;X&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you click on the &quot;days&quot; against the &quot;visited&quot; field in your user profile, you can see when exactly you failed to get your daily fix on TeX-SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags on meta can also be linked: &lt;code&gt;[tag-meta:status-bydesign]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T13:47:29.340" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-23T13:26:34.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="489" CreationDate="2011-02-23T13:28:32.570" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to add this suggestion to linking guidelines:  When linking to another question on TeX SE, the link text should have the question title in it.  Compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for more&#xA;  information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;&quot;I've just been told I have to write a minimal example, what is that?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second indicates where the link is going and gives important information about why it's relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is boilerplate so there's no reason it can't be detailed.  For more general use, copy both.  (There exist Firefox addons such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://akkartik.name/firefox.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Copy with URL&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/debate-copy-the-minimalist-seamless-reading-experience-firefox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Debate Copy&lt;/a&gt; which add a feature when you select linked text to copy both the text &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the URL.  It's in the contextual menu that appears after selection.  So when linking to a question page, select the document title (which contains a link to the page itself), select &quot;Copy with URL&quot;, paste into your answer, and reformat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For Mac users, TextExpander + AppleScript + Curl can do this for you automatically with any URL, but let's not go there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited&lt;/strong&gt; I now noticed that in answers SE URL's get their question titles inserted as the link text automatically.  So to achieve the above output, it's easiest to type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;See &quot;&amp;lt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&amp;gt;&quot; for more information.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is needed because of the quotes. Note that the quotes won't be part of the link with this method. Moreover, this doesn't work in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T17:42:08.910" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1001" CreationDate="2011-02-23T13:42:25.860" Score="10" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;tag synonyms page&lt;/a&gt; is a useful list of suggested tag synomyns, alread mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309/vote-for-synonyms-on-the-synonyms-page&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;{TeX} site data explorer&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/texmeta/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;{TeX} meta site data explorer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/inbox&quot;&gt;Inbox page&lt;/a&gt; gives a list of comments and chat messages for the user. Besides messages from the {TeX} site, its meta site and its chat it lists messages from all the stackexchange sites including SO.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pages, for which I suggest we should edit them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to ask&lt;/a&gt; (pointing to minimal working example, perhaps to 1-2 excellently written questions as examples)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to answer&lt;/a&gt; (mentioning screenshots, linking packages to CTAN, pointing to excellently written answers as examples and to answer style discussion on meta)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two pages could be linked from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T09:35:40.843" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-23T18:15:16.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1001" CreationDate="2011-02-23T14:09:16.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get a data dump from your reputation at: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;ninja search options&lt;/em&gt; are listed under &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&lt;/a&gt; which also appears on an empty search text. It's not really hidden, but I just found it recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a secret page but useful to know: If the mouse pointer is placed above the post date, i.e. the &quot;answered &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;em&gt;unit&lt;/em&gt; ago&quot;, the full date and time is displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List of suggested tag synonyms: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T22:53:45.993" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-23T14:09:31.713" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1008" CreationDate="2011-02-23T16:51:16.783" Score="9" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the respective tag wiki entries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The {floats} tag concerns custom-made floats in addition to those already provided by the TeX macro package you use, and concerns issues such as positioning, labelling, indexing, captioning and listing. Use the {tables} or {figures} tags when asking questions about the standard LaTeX floats.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The {tables} tag deals with tabular and array environments and related packages. If your question is about floating or placing, use the {floats} tag instead.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;This tag is to be applied to floats created with the &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; environment, and deals with issues such as positioning, labelling, captioning, indexing and listing of said floats. Similar issues, but with custom defined floats should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words: The wiki entries for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; contradict each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The underlying problem seems to be that we never properly differentiated between floats and the possible &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; of floats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Floats could be categorized into tables, figures and other (custom-built) floats.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Typical float content would be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt; environment or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; tags are in accord with the float/float content distinction. On the other hand, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki actually describes &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt;&amp;amp; friends, and the questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; cover this particular float &lt;em&gt;as well as&lt;/em&gt; its typical content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please suggest measures to get out of this tagging mess. Note that tag badges have been already awarded for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;, but not for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-03-15T15:25:01.050" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T15:25:01.050" Title="Contradictory tag wiki entries: {floats}, {tables}, {figures}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-23T17:39:00.667" Score="12" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been adding some tag-wiki entries, (e.g. for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memoir&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memoir&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memoir&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/polyglossia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;polyglossia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;polyglossia&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linguistics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linguistics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linguistics&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texshop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texshop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texshop&lt;/a&gt;).  I'm happy to add more, but I'm wondering whether what I've done matches what people have in mind for a tag-wiki entry.  Clearly there are different requirements for an entry on a topic (like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linguistics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linguistics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linguistics&lt;/a&gt; entry) and an entry for a package like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memoir&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memoir&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memoir&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/polyglossia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;polyglossia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;polyglossia&lt;/a&gt; entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the entries don't get any feedback (other than a mod approving them) it's hard to know if this work is useful or elicits a kind of &quot;well it's not very good but better than no entry at all&quot; response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what makes a good tag-wiki entry? (Also, is there a way to make the examples listed appear in the html as an actual tag would?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-02-23T21:31:58.683" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T21:31:58.683" Title="What makes a good tag-wiki entry?" Tags="|discussion|editing|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1006" CreationDate="2011-02-23T17:52:38.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer tags meaning actions or topics resp. objects, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compiling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/printing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;printing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;printing&lt;/a&gt; resp. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibliographies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibliographies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibliographies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;. Naturally, commands and environments often have such descriptive names, this might cause a bit confusion of how to use a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; are in my opinion tags for such objects, not for those environments (which sound similar, just are singular).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not very meaningful to decide between figure and table environments as such. They are both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; with a very small difference. Sticking to environment names for those three tags would lead to merge all three together to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; and to creating a rather content related tag such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular-array&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular-array&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular-array&lt;/a&gt;, we already have content related &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That's why I would use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; for questions about &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; environments as such, which means floating and placing and if we didn't have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captions&lt;/a&gt;, also captioning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I keep seeing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; for table objects such as tabular like environments and arrays. Not for the &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; environment in function as environment. With this intention I had written the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; remain for figures, however done, not specifically for floating behavior of the &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; environment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it may cause some confusion. A tag wiki must clarify that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such posible confusion between topics and environments resp. commands lead me to the questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/how-to-mark-environments-in-tags&quot;&gt;How to mark environments in tags&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/401/backslash-in-tags&quot;&gt;Backslash in tags&lt;/a&gt; (for specific command tags) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/402/tags-for-document-classes&quot;&gt;Tags for document classes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T17:52:38.217" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1007" CreationDate="2011-02-23T18:01:22.043" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for a good tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A brief introduction&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further explanation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Links to related packages and classes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What the tag is not about: links to tags which might be a better choice in some circumstances&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A link-list of closely related, but more specific tags, which might be a good specific choice&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Links to highly voted questions resp. answers on the site, like a tag FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T18:01:22.043" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1012" CreationDate="2011-02-23T22:56:15.163" Score="13" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11854/typeset-references-without-newlines-between-entries&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; as my first question. It's been marked a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5571/reduce-bibliography-to-one-line&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. However, I'm having trouble with the answers on the original, and I would like to get some clarification on that question's page. Unfortunately, since the duplicate was my first question on the site, I don't have sufficient reputation to comment on the original question, which is presumably where such discussion is supposed to take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not at the level where I can hope to accrue reputation by answering questions — most of this stuff goes way over my head!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: what do I do next? Is there any way round this other than trying to find low-hanging fruit to answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And my suggestion is: users with &amp;lt;50 reputation should be able to comment on questions they've duplicated! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3782" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T09:18:36.730" Title="My first question was marked a duplicate, but I still need help. What now?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1010" CreationDate="2011-02-23T23:28:02.270" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello Mike, and welcome to TeX-SE!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, I'd like to apologize for your (seemingly) negative first experience with the site -- I can assure you we're a civilized bunch, and (I hope!) are considerate with new users which are not sure how Stack Exchange sites function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that you edit your question (you should still be able to do that, even when it's closed), and include a link to the question that was marked as a duplicate to yours, and request specifically a clarification how the suggested answer works, or mention whether for some reason the solution doesn't work for you, and why. In this way people would know that you've done your due diligence and tried to work out a solution on their own and failed to do so -- hence the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the question what to do next -- I can certainly understand your frustration. Here on TeX-SE there are questions of any level, from cookie-cutter beginner questions (and I don't say that derisively) to arcane TeX voodoo incantations. However, I personally learned a lot from reading questions and answers, and trying to learn something new all the time. At some point, you will be more confident and try to answer a question on your own, or contribute a useful remark. Ask some other questions you might have (do a quick search in case they have been already answered). Take it easy, and definitely don't get desperate that you can't understand what some questions are really about! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you can always drop in the chat (you do need a tiny bit of reputation, but not that much) for a quick short question if something is unclear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, we're always happy to help people that would like to learn more about TeX and friends. Enjoy your stay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T23:28:02.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1010" CreationDate="2011-02-23T23:29:31.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you lack the reputation to comment everywhere, one route would be to post an additional &quot;answer&quot; to the question you can't comment on. Indicate that you know that your &quot;answer&quot; normally should be a comment, but that your rep is too low. (Your &quot;answer&quot; probably will be converted into a comment at a later point by a moderator.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second approach is to frame your request for clarification into a new question that provides a link to the original question. A follow-up question won't be marked as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As I was the person who cast the first closing vote on your question, let me add this: Your question was good and deliberate -- it just happended to &quot;cover the same ground as an earlier question&quot;. I knew this because I provided one of the answers to this question (the one using biblatex). Stefan Kottwitz was the author of the &quot;non-biblatex&quot; answer (this is the way you seem to prefer), and I'm sure he will be extremely helpful when you post a &quot;comment answer&quot; or ask a follow-up question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-02-23T23:56:15.420" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T23:56:15.420" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1010" CreationDate="2011-02-24T09:18:36.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One other thing that I think is worth pointing out is that questions that are closed needn't stay closed.  So editing your original question to explain why the answers on the duplicate don't help you is a good thing to do as it can lead to your question being reopened.  If you think that you've edited it enough to be distinct from the duplicate, you can flag it for moderator attention and one of the moderators can reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The community also has the power to reopen it, it takes 5 votes to do so or one from a moderator.  Given that people are probably less aware that a question is awaiting being reopened than they are of one that is in the process of being closed, I think that flagging for moderator attention is absolutely fine in this case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice that you now have 56 reputation so you should be okay to comment on the duplicate if all you are looking for is clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, your suggestion of people with low rep being able to comment on the duplicate is a good one.  But here isn't the place to make that suggestion.  So I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/80488/138421&quot;&gt;posted it on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T09:18:36.730" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-24T10:26:56.493" Score="13" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over on MathOverflow's meta, there's a sticky &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/13/featurerequestsbugreports-you-should-vote-up-on-metasoe/#Item_0&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; that is basically a list of all the feature requests that are relevant to MathOverflow (either suggested by users, or that users have found and think particularly great).  I'd like to create such a list here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please list here feature requests that you make on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot;&gt;meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; or that you find there and think are pertinent to this site.  Listing a request here does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; imply any endorsement on anyone's behalf, indeed it may be that a particular request would be an absolute disaster for us here (for example, site-wide enabling of MathJaX).  The point is purely to bring these to people's attention who might not otherwise spot them.  I hope that people are intelligent enough to make up their own minds on whether they should vote for the feature request or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80488/feature-request-low-rep-users-being-allowed-to-comment-on-duplicates&quot;&gt;Allow low rep users to comment on duplicates&lt;/a&gt;.  Following on from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1010/my-first-question-was-marked-a-duplicate-but-i-still-need-help-what-now&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; where a new user's question was closed as a duplicate but they wanted more information than the parent question supplied.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70466/can-so-questions-on-tex-be-migrated-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Give us a great say in migration&lt;/a&gt;.  Migration should have a &quot;pull&quot; factor to match the &quot;push&quot; factor.  A high-rep TeX user saying &quot;This should be on TeX-SX&quot; should carry some weight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/80990/153603&quot;&gt;Can we get a preview of tag descriptions when tagging questions?&lt;/a&gt; This would provide authors/editors with excerpts from the tag wikis in the question editing window to coach better tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/83408/138421&quot;&gt;Can “Improve” edits not count towards the CW count?&lt;/a&gt; Because often when one sees an edit suggestion, one also sees a few more improvements that could be made, but these shouldn't count towards making the question CW.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/83286/155585&quot;&gt;Can more of the functionality of the old envelope be added to the new drop-down menu?&lt;/a&gt; They keep improving the new drop-down menu, but it's not yet a full replacement of the old envelope.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1661/155585&quot;&gt;Shouldn't a rep-less newbie at least be able to upvote a good answer to his/her own questions?&lt;/a&gt; (not tagged as &quot;feature-request&quot;, however)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/90958/138421&quot;&gt;Would a “this edit is being improved” notification be useful?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T11:23:08.620" Title="Relevant feature requests on Meta.SO" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-24T10:27:02.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1017" CreationDate="2011-02-24T13:08:22.600" Score="10" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question has been closed as a duplicate. However, I'm having trouble with the answers to that other question. What can I do now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2011-03-01T19:17:52.120" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T19:17:52.120" Title="My question was closed as a duplicate, but I still need help. What can I do?" Tags="|support|faq|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-24T15:15:34.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1015" CreationDate="2011-02-24T15:17:24.970" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that are closed needn't stay closed. You're encouraged to edit your original question to explain why the answers on the duplicate don't help you; this can lead to your question being reopened. If you think that you've edited it enough to be distinct from the duplicate, you can flag it for moderator attention and one of the moderators can reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The community also has the power to reopen it: it takes 5 votes to do so or one from a moderator. Given that people are probably less aware that a question is awaiting being reopened than they are of one that is in the process of being closed, I think that flagging for moderator attention is easier and absolutely fine in this case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="1235" LastEditDate="2011-03-01T18:23:06.520" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T18:23:06.520" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-24T15:17:24.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="986" CreationDate="2011-02-24T16:33:49.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with the other town hall chats, &lt;strike&gt;I will be creating a &quot;digest&quot; version for the TeX Town Hall Chat&lt;/strike&gt; Rebecca has created a &quot;digest&quot; version of the Town hall chat for us (thank you!). This will be posted as one large Meta question. The digest will contain all the questions and their answers, with none of the other conversation from the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77831/how-can-we-improve-the-town-hall-digests&quot;&gt;the meta post about Town Hall Digests&lt;/a&gt;. Or for an example, look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/948/2011-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-digest&quot;&gt;AskUbuntu Town Hall Digest&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1759/2252&quot;&gt;Gaming Town Hall Digest&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also discuss these digests with me in chat, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/352/town-hall-discussion&quot;&gt;the Town Hall Discussion room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/145982/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; has created the digest for us, and Andrew Stacey helped me post it. A giant thanks to both of them! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1024/2011-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-digest&quot;&gt;Here is the chat digest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:32:54.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1006" CreationDate="2011-02-24T17:22:47.513" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is sort of a follow-up on @Stefan' s answer, on which I mostly agree with and which I have accepted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like @Stefan (and in accordance with @Caramdir's &quot;tags about concepts&quot; comment) I think that the way to go is three (general) tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;, which would cover floating, placing and (together with the respective special tag) captioning of &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and custom float environments;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;, which would cover &lt;code&gt;tabular&lt;/code&gt; &amp;amp; friends (i.e. the content of a &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; environment);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One or more tags that would cover graphics, figures, pictures etc. (i.e. the content of a &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; environment).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These tags would also correspond to chapters 6, 5 and 10 of the LaTeX Companion: &quot;Mastering Floats&quot;, &quot;Tabular Material&quot;; &quot;Graphics Generation and Manipulation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion for the tag wiki entry for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The {floats} tag deals with the floating environments &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; as well as with custom-made floats, and concerns issues such as positioning, labelling, captioning, indexing and listing of said floats. If your question is speficically about formatting a float caption, consider to use the {captions} tag.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that a multitude of question would have to be retagged to conform with such a wiki entry (and with Stefan's entry for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;, which I deem perfectly appropriate). I'm aware of the problems caused by a &quot;retagging spree&quot; (@Andrew Stacey) and eager for suggestions how to proceed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike Stefan, I'm not sure that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; tag will still have major applicability in addition to the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pictures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pictures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pictures&lt;/a&gt;. In this regard, I will post a question on meta before long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T17:22:47.513" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1021" CreationDate="2011-02-25T09:19:42.750" Score="20" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a situation I observed some time ago, and didn't think much of it. After some time, I stumbled back to it and thought this would make an interesting discussion for would-be mods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A hypothetical situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adam and Bill are both valuable users on TeX-SE, answering questions, helping people around and whatnot. Once, Adam answers a certain question, spending some time to prepare a good minimum working example (which the submitter didn't do), with added explanations of what is going on. Bill, apparently unsatisfied with Adam's answer (which is a perfectly valid solution), takes most of the code that Adam has written, makes a few changes, and posts an answer of his own, without mentioning the code came from another person. Now, this only happens in the course of an hour, so to a casual observer after a day they both seem to be posted at basically the same time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens is that Bill's answer gets a decent amount of upvotes and is accepted (in part due to the reputation delta between them), but Adam, who wrote the original MWE, got only one or two sympathy upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should Bill credit Adam for the code he reused?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this behaviour acceptable?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the answer to the above be &quot;no&quot;, what steps the moderators should take to rectify the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand it's going to be difficult to judge without seeing the actual question, but I ask you to state your opinion based on my (unquestionably biased) description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably goes without saying that these particular Adam and Bill are fictitious, but are based on real users on the site. I implore you not to look for them -- this is not meant to be a frame-and-shame post, but to spur a discussion on the topic in general. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T00:07:52.940" Title="A case of intellectual honesty" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1020" CreationDate="2011-02-25T10:22:33.203" Score="17" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should Bill credit Adam for the code he reused?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this behaviour acceptable?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the answer to the above be &quot;no&quot;, what steps the moderators should take to rectify the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it may be accidental.  So the current moderator style of &quot;softly, softly&quot; should be taken.  I'd leave a comment along the lines of &quot;Hi Bill, great answer.  I notice that it's an improvement of Adam's answer, in which case it'd be polite to acknowledge the source.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no response to this, then I'd be tempted to leave it at that since the desired outcome has actually now been achieved: that the link between the answers is explicit.  If Adam requests a higher profile acknowledgement, or Bill responds badly, then I would consider taking action with an aim of getting the acknowledgement in the actual answer - first by trying to persuade Bill but ultimately editing the answer if necessary.  But this would only be a last resort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the main thing to do is to create an environment wherein it is perfectly acceptable to improve on other's code, and where it is the standard form when doing so to put in something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is an adaptation of Adam's code because it doesn't do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;.  If you vote for this answer, you should also vote for Adam's answer since this is based on that one.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, it's no skin off my nose if someone else's answer gets voted for along with mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking a little more, since the question is about an &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt; situation, I would also hesitate a little before taking any action at all.  I would try to gauge whether or not it is better to let sleeping dogs lie in a specific instance - it may be that Adam isn't particularly bothered by the situation in which case it's not worth resurrecting it.  Such situations are unfortunate, but we have to allow for mild unpleasantness since the only way to truly remove it is to remove all possibility of people interacting at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify that last point: there is a big difference between taking action when the event initially occurs (time frame of a day or so) and going back to an old situation and taking action there.  In the former, because it is &quot;live&quot;, people will be more forgiving of mistakes and more ready to correct impressions that have caused unpleasantness.  In the latter, since the assumption will be that you have had plenty of time to think what to do, you had better ensure that you take that time and that you know &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the facts - including the answer to whether Adam is actually bothered at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2011-02-25T11:47:11.853" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T11:47:11.853" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1020" CreationDate="2011-02-25T13:16:13.033" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andrew is right, of course.  A further point: the standing of Adam and Bill matters to the seriousness of the incident.  Consider the following scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adam is high rep. (and for simplicity's sake, assume Bill is not a moderator) — then it is probably a good idea for everyone else to ignore the situation since Adam knows how things work, and is well-placed in the tex.sx community;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both Adam and Bill are low rep. — A gentle intervention along the lines of that described by Andrew is just the ticket.  Note that while high rep. users can and probably should be blasé about rep., it is much more important to the site that low rep. users get the up votes they deserve;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bill is high rep., Adam low rep. — Like #2, but more directness is called for as the unacceptability level is higher, though I hope that occasional stupidity is a more common affliction among us high rep. users than malice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave the permutations involving middle rep. users and moderators as an exercise to the moderator candidates, to be handed in by 10:00 UTC on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2011-02-25T13:48:21.857" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T13:48:21.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1041" CreationDate="2011-02-25T17:37:51.293" Score="4" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming the retagging proposal regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1006/contradictory-tag-wiki-entries-floats-tables-figures&quot;&gt;{floats}, {tables} and {figures}&lt;/a&gt; is implemented, questions about the &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; environment should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;. This begs the question what (if any) area of application remains for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The graphics-related tag with the most questions attached to it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;. Its &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/graphics/info&quot;&gt;wiki entry&lt;/a&gt; says: &quot;Use the {graphics} tag for general questions regarding inclusion of graphical material in your document, usually from an external file. If you'd like to discuss vector graphics created programmatically inside a TeX document, use the general {diagrams} tag, or preferably the tag for the vector graphics package you use (e.g. {tikz-pgf} or {pstricks}).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pdf&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt; seem like good choices to me. On the other hand, I noticed that while the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; tag features 27 questions at the moment, only one of them is also tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;. I take that as a hint that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; is rather used as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; and could be merged with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picture&lt;/a&gt; tag (14 questions). There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; -- 86 questions at the moment, but prone to twindle because of the upcoming retaggings to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;. And there may be even more graphics-related tags I've overlooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please provide input as to which graphics-related tags you view as essential, and which as dispensible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T22:08:39.023" Title="{graphics}, {figures} &amp; friends: Do we need all of them?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-25T18:58:56.583" Score="5" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is a &quot;digest&quot; version of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/986/2011-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-7pm-utc-on-the-24th-2pm-est-now/&quot;&gt;2011 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat&lt;/a&gt;. The format, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77831/how-can-we-improve-the-town-hall-digests&quot;&gt;as described on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, is one &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to this question &lt;em&gt;for every question&lt;/em&gt; asked in the Town Hall, containing all the candidate's answers to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To view the digest chronologically, please sort the answers by &quot;oldest&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have questions or comments about this, &lt;strong&gt;please do not answer this question&lt;/strong&gt; as the answers are designed to be used for the questions from the Town hall itself. Instead, please ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77831/how-can-we-improve-the-town-hall-digests&quot;&gt;the parent question&lt;/a&gt; or in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/352/town-hall-discussion&quot;&gt;the Town Hall Discussion Room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A big &lt;strong&gt;THANK YOU TO REBECCA CHERNOFF for organizing these town halls&lt;/strong&gt; and a huge &lt;strong&gt;THANK YOU TO &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/145982/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; for compiling this digest for me&lt;/strong&gt; as I have been unable to do so this week. Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt; for helping me copy and paste these in here!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any corrections which need to be made to this digest, or if you were a candidate who was unable to attend the town hall and would like your answers included, please @Josh me and let me know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-03-27T20:38:41.703" Title="2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2011-03-27T21:07:46.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T18:59:41.013" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571053#571053&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; How much time do you anticipate spending on the site? How much of that would be &quot;moderating&quot;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571068#571068&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I tend to check in regularly through the day, but very little is 'moderating' as there is actually not that much to do, at the moment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571079#571079&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I spend about an hour to an hour-and-a-half per day checking in, answering questions, and voting.  I don't think that would change as a mod.  I would probably reduce the number of answers I gave if moderating took too much time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571083#571083&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek About as much time as in the last weeks, which may be too much. ;-) I can't give a percentage rate for &quot;moderating&quot;, but I'll skip some user question I would have tried to answer before and will play janitor instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571085#571085&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I'm checking the site several times a day (actually too often). I will do the moderating as it comes. I don't think it will be so much, at least not to much more as I do a lot of editing and flagging messages already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3803" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T18:59:41.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:04:47.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/be3b138352dc100c9459e612b275b413?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Tapankov&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/97/martin-tapankov&quot;&gt;Martin Tapankov&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571086#571086&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Is there a feature of TeX-SE that you are unhappy with, and would like to develop, change or promote?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571093#571093&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MartinTapankov One issue I guess is that new users can't comment and can't post to meta so tend to post 'answers' to get noticed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571096#571096&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MartinTapankov This is rather SO general, but I don't like zero-score accepted answers. Accepting an answer should also mean upvoting it, even for low-rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571112#571112&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MartinTapankov I really like the SE engine; it's so much different than other support systems (mailing lists, wikis, etc, so it's hard to say.  I think there can be some growth on article-type pages for reference.  CW questions are good but they don't always develop into informative, &#xA;cohesive articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571120#571120&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MartinTapankov I would like to have some more javascript based features, like a Select code button I suggested on meta. A automatic LaTeX preview would be cool, but I don't think it will be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3803" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:04:47.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:13:56.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/21dbec80bdec6009c755fac40d734741?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Lev Bishop&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/304/lev-bishop&quot;&gt;Lev Bishop&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571116#571116&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Where do you stand on the populism vs elitism scale?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571148#571148&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop Both should be allowed side-by-side and are important. On the other hand I see a lot of beginner issues which could be addressed with some good CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571164#571164&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop I wouldn't want to be elitist even if I complied with the requirements. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571178#571178&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop I wonder exactly what you mean: a good answer is a good answer, I'd hope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Above expanded on in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571220#571220&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571220#571220&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:13:56.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:15:29.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/21dbec80bdec6009c755fac40d734741?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Lev Bishop&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/304/lev-bishop&quot;&gt;Lev Bishop&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571202#571202&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; @JosephWright For example if someone asks a question that is perfectly answered in the UK-tex-faq. Should we reproduce that answer here and try to hope that the stackexchange model will lead to it improving over time? Or should we just point to the FAQ (with a summary) to teach the new user where to look in the future.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571220#571220&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop I'd favour a complete answer (taking the point that {TeX} is intended to 'stand alone' in that sense) but also a link to the FAQ when appropriate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571227#571227&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop The FAQ should be definite linked too, but tex.sx should stay on its own feet, so summarizing as much as possible is important&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571234#571234&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop There should be two answers: the first one a quick link to the UK TeX entry, the second a more complete one with sample code.  Both are useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571251#571251&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop IIRC, I have written quite a few &quot;pointer-plus-summary&quot; answers. But my main area of expertise is biblatex, and the FAQ doesn't tell much about this package (and still refers to it as beta version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:15:29.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:16:50.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d8c43bb4c449d8054aebdd4ad98c6f6c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Rebecca Chernoff&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/23/rebecca-chernoff&quot;&gt;Rebecca Chernoff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571262#571262&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571271#571271&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff This community is very friendly so I think a simple meta question could resolve it.  If not, I guess that's why there's an odd number of moderators. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571274#571274&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff Discuss it with him and/or on meta. This isn't a big problem here on tex.sx so far I see it. Only few questions are getting closed and these are always duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571277#571277&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff It's not happened to date, partly because the existing team has been very much responsive to the community. I hope that the incoming moderators will take the same approach. I'd also go with the meta approach if the need arises&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571287#571287&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff If our difference of opinion would be about a duplicate-or-not close call, I would discuss it on meta. But as far as I know from skimming meta, this problem is a rather abstract one on tex.sx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:16:50.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:17:03.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571286#571286&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571299#571299&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek Another abstract one at present. I guess I'd talk to the other moderators about a strategy, then probably make contact with the user directly using the messaging system available to mods&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571304#571304&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I would ask him via mod channels to be more civil towards fellow site-users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571308#571308&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek Tough one.  Again, we are lucky in this community that we don't have such users.  This might be a good application of gallery chat (Do we still have that?).  I didn't know about the messaging system @JosephWright mentioned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571318#571318&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek As I see that there wasn't a case like that so far here. People which are very knowledgeable in TeX are normally quite grown-up. If it happens the user should be contacted to stop/reduce the behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:17:03.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:18:03.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d8c43bb4c449d8054aebdd4ad98c6f6c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Rebecca Chernoff&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/23/rebecca-chernoff&quot;&gt;Rebecca Chernoff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571327#571327&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What do you plan to do to assist the site outside of responding to flags and standard close/delete maintenance?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571333#571333&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff I'm a fanboy for the site by promoting it to my colleagues and mentees.  I will continue to do such, mod or no&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571336#571336&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff I like to encourage the creation of some key material as CWs, like best practice, common errors and a sitemap. As well as some javascript based extra functionality (which I might program by myself). And yes, more &amp;amp; better tag wikis!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571340#571340&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff Like @MatthewLeingang, promotion seems like a good idea (I link handy questions from my blog when appropriate). I guess also the occasional sweep through the unanswered questions is a good idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571344#571344&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff Refining the system of tags -- especially thinking hard about where one tag area ends and another one starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5189e1b440ba4f13f878b18db7c88bf0?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Stefan Kottwitz&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1285/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571584#571584&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff Besides janitors work mods should assist with helpful comments, that's what I like to do and what I see as responsibility--being a guide to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:18:03.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:18:57.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c9359d5d299cd6f7b0bf8cc123c69234?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Andrew Stacey&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/98/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571343#571343&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Has being a candidate for moderator changed how you think about the site?  (follow-up: if yes, would that go back to how it was before if you don't get to be a moderator)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571356#571356&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey Err, no :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571365#571365&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey I don't think so.  I mean, I hang out here because I like it, not because I want to change it.  And to be honest, I have lots of other commitments that I should be spending my most creative energies on.  So I think the same about it as I did before, and will after the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571370#571370&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey No, I still think the site is awesome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571383#571383&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey I'm more aware of the &quot;maintenance part&quot; and how valuable the work done on meta is. If I'm not elected, my interest in meta will stay about the same (rather than mount further).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:18:57.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:19:22.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571401#571401&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571414#571414&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I guess it might be more helpful in the long term if the diamonds were 'static', as if we look really long term then the moderators will change over time. That said, if you are a polite person then there should be no issue. (Also, if you end up as a mod you can go back and edit comments !)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571419#571419&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I will feel somewhat awkward about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571431#571431&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I can only think of a few times when I said something I've regretted.  So I don't have a problem standing behind the majority of my acitivity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571436#571436&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I don't think the attitude of other users will change toward us. Here mostly shown knowledge and effort is important. New moderators just have to be careful to adept to their new power (so that a single close vote closes a question, isn't it?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5189e1b440ba4f13f878b18db7c88bf0?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Stefan Kottwitz&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1285/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571453#571453&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek The diamond reminds me that my messages might seem as somehow official. I will remember that and mark very subjective messages accordingly. However, past questions, answers and comments and those in the future I see in the same meaning as of a member of the community, if moderator or not, not yet or not any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:19:22.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:19:57.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c9359d5d299cd6f7b0bf8cc123c69234?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Andrew Stacey&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/98/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571418#571418&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Okay, next question: What ideas do you have to ensure that the majority of running the site remains with the community? (as opposed to people thinking, &quot;We have new moderators, let them do it all&quot;)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571442#571442&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey One interesting part to this is 'what exactly is the community'. If you look through the user list, there is a long tail. As more people gain enough rep. to vote to close, 'proding' them to use these powers may be necessary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571458#571458&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey One idea would be to capture the energy in users who arrive and quickly shine.  Train them on good tagging and be an example for good question/answer coaching.  Then your replacements are in wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571464#571464&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey The number of 2k users which can edit posts etc. is not that high and people which got used to edit and flags thing will, I think, keep doing so. If this is not so and starts to be a problem a simple meta thread should be enough for this community to get things rolling again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571485#571485&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey I'm not in the least afraid that the other users would leave the community mods high and dry. Also, the number of high (say, 3000+) reputation users who are particularly able to assist the mods has been steadily rising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5189e1b440ba4f13f878b18db7c88bf0?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Stefan Kottwitz&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1285/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571512#571512&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey I like it to post a constructive comment instead of just taking action. Such as &quot;hey, doesn't this look like a duplicate to this or that? Do the answers there help?&quot; This still allows meaningful answers which might add more to the other answers and it points people to vote to close if they agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:19:57.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:20:23.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c9359d5d299cd6f7b0bf8cc123c69234?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Andrew Stacey&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/98/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571511#571511&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Do you think that competitions are a Good Thing, Bad Thing, or Other? There was some talk in the early days of having competitions, maybe best design of some graphic, or best solution of some complicated codey thing.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5189e1b440ba4f13f878b18db7c88bf0?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Stefan Kottwitz&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1285/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571526#571526&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey If competitions are fun and belong to the TeX subject, I like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571552#571552&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey Provided they are on-topic I think it's fine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571589#571589&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @AndrewStacey They could be very enlightening, but should not be overused or to aggressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:20:23.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:20:52.510" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ad0d03aec03eb09398cb09cea2bcb6cd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Yiannis Lazarides&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/804/yiannis-lazarides&quot;&gt;Yiannis Lazarides&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571515#571515&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Mods need patience with new users do you guys have it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571530#571530&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @YiannisLazarides I like to think so - the pro tem team have taken a 'slowly, slowly' attitude to closing, merging, etc. and I think that's worked well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571534#571534&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @YiannisLazarides Mods do not need patience as much as they need a text file (or starred meta page) with a standard list of canned comments that sound patient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571541#571541&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @YiannisLazarides (There was some comment on this on the &quot;teacher's' lounge&quot; chat site - I suspect other sites expect a much more 'rapid' moderating approach&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571557#571557&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @YiannisLazarides My reply to the first person who wanted to prod me to nominate myself was &quot;I'm not patient&quot;. But I'll try to improve, I promise. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571567#571567&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @YiannisLazarides I think so, at least the PC interface allows me to overcome my anger before I answer :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5189e1b440ba4f13f878b18db7c88bf0?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Stefan Kottwitz&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1285/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571696#571696&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @YiannisLazarides I've seen that all candidates are patient and friendly like most of our fellow members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:20:52.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:21:41.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/21dbec80bdec6009c755fac40d734741?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Lev Bishop&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/304/lev-bishop&quot;&gt;Lev Bishop&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571542#571542&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Do you notice any trend for certain attitudes, or types of questions [answers] here that you feel should be discouraged from this site? I don't mean obviously offensive or unreadable or wrong stuff that can be closed (and maybe deleted), rather stuff that takes the site into a direction that will potentially make it &quot;worse&quot; in the future.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571568#571568&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop No, I think we've been pretty lucky in this respect&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5189e1b440ba4f13f878b18db7c88bf0?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Stefan Kottwitz&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1285/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571621#571621&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @LevBishop I don't like the attitude of posting just a solution without any explanation. That should be discouraged, in my opinion. I don't like that some users, who contribute a lot of useful answers, don't even upvote the well written interesting questions they answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571629#571629&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @StefanKottwitz Yes, I have to second that. It's not very helpful or polite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:21:41.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:22:17.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/be3b138352dc100c9459e612b275b413?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Tapankov&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/97/martin-tapankov&quot;&gt;Martin Tapankov&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571724#571724&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Okay, a bit too late, but still: We have the usual &quot;long tail&quot; of users, i.e. the vast majority of registered users have low reputation, indicative of low contribution to the site. What do you think can be done to increase the number of people giving back and helping around?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571730#571730&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MartinTapankov Related to what @AndrewStacey asked earlier. As I said there, I think we can give good answers and hope that people get engaged. We also need to 'prod' higher-rep users who don't regularly vote (on questions, to close, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5189e1b440ba4f13f878b18db7c88bf0?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Stefan Kottwitz&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1285/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571750#571750&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MartinTapankov Vote up well written clear questions! Say &quot;thank you&quot;, if they post their own found solution. Encourage their progress with comments and votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e15dcfa86e0fc18072f9f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5885/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571763#571763&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MartinTapankov I think it will be difficult to bring the I-need-help-with-my-thesis-First-time-latex-user to participate more in the site. We should make sure that everyone known about existing and potential privileges, like voting and the existence of meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571784#571784&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MartinTapankov I don't see a contradiction. Low-rep users will always constitute a high percentage rate, but at the same time the absolute number of high-rep users will rise (or at least I hope so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:22:17.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2011-02-25T19:41:19.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Closing thoughts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f7fcaff250a59d98130d234846e60ae6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Matthew Leingang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1008/matthew-leingang&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571603#571603&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd love to stay but I have to go check and see if my rep has increased.  And then get back to work. :-P  Let me say in closing that it's an honor to have been encouraged to nominate myself.  And I want to thank the pro tem mods for setting such a good example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b03f5bc06e8f0abab0061774a597df9b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Joseph Wright&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/881/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571885#571885&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff All of the candidates offer great skills for the position of moderator, but please do vote - the community is the key to the site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5189e1b440ba4f13f878b18db7c88bf0?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Stefan Kottwitz&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1285/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571890#571890&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I hope the activity will continue at this high level also after the election, in chat as well as on the meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/810cc3ba0a6fd32fba93bf8d146b2fa2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;lockstep&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1004/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571928#571928&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I wish for a record-breaking voter turnout as a sign that this is a healthy community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/571935#571935&quot;&gt;The discussion continued&lt;/a&gt; but as the official town hall ended here, so too does the digest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3803" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T19:41:19.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2011-02-25T21:40:27.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picture&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;unnecessary, can be removed from basically all questions without loss of context &lt;/strike&gt; removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;synonym to {floats}&lt;/strike&gt; EDIT by lockstep: Questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; will be retagged manually.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; - keep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drawing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drawing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drawing&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;seems redundant mostly, but could be made a synonym to  {diagrams}&lt;/strike&gt; removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplots&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;not very familiar with this, but seems that {tikz-pgf} should cover this already.&lt;/strike&gt; Apparently this tag has a  merit of its own, so it should stay as it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfloat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfloat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfloat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfigure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfigure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfigure&lt;/a&gt; - merged, possibly with a new name &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfloats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfloats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfloats&lt;/a&gt; ✔&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/includegraphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;includegraphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;includegraphics&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;synonym to {graphics}&lt;/strike&gt; removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphicx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphicx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphicx&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;synonym to {graphics}&lt;/strike&gt; removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not agree that the taggers use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; -- for me the fact they are not used together is that askers and taggers feel they are covering different grounds. The questions currently marked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; are usually in the form of &quot;How to create &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;diagram-type&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;?&quot;. For me, these are conceptually different from what is cover by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; by virtue of the method they are being created (programmed by a macro language inline vs. inserted from an external image).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2011-03-04T21:42:47.320" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T21:42:47.320" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1020" CreationDate="2011-02-26T00:07:52.940" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A post with reused code should contain a note pointing to the original author, especially if Bill reuses the solution of Adam. If Bills code just contain non-relevant but similar standard additions to make a compilable example out of it, I guess it doesn't matter much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be a situation when it happened that Adam and Bill found two different solutions, and both added some lines around to make a minimal compilable example for it, just for the convenience of the reader. Since both, as frequent posters, are versed in creating minimal examples, they do it in a very straightforward way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;specify a document class&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;load the involved packages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;put in the questioners problem, who didn't post a compilable example himself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;built in the respective solution&lt;/em&gt; (that's the intellectual point)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add some dummy text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;finally add &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the result can look very similar. I can even remember such a post myself, where I looked at the choices&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to remove the naturally added lines to make it compilable, this way the good habit of giving a convenient compilable example would not be respected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to do something fancy to make it different to a straightforward creation of an MWE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or let it stand there, with similar standard flesh around the solution, so the different solutions are comparable, at least.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think points 1-3 and 5-7 are pretty standard. Posting MWEs instead of one-liner should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I thought back to remember a post where I could feel as Bill next to Adam, but with the thoughts written here above, I noted that I've also been like Adam next to Bill ;-) the same persons but places swapped. My (short) solution appeared a few minutes later extended to a compilable example. I know for completely sure it's just a coincidence. So I removed my shorter solution, added a positive comment to the longer and better example and voted it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If both codes are similar just in standard code but not relevant the solution, I guess it's a matter of tact to say if the example has been made similarly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The author of a solution should receive credit, if it's copied and possibly modified.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T00:07:52.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="934" CreationDate="2011-02-26T15:57:46.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like there is consensus. Could some mod please merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quote&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quote&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quoting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quoting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quoting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-02-26T16:20:18.397" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T16:20:18.397" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1001" CreationDate="2011-02-26T16:06:43.433" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://&amp;lt;site&amp;gt;/posts/&amp;lt;postid&amp;gt;/timeline&lt;/code&gt;. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/1001/timeline&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/1001/timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="627" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T16:06:43.433" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-26T16:06:43.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-26T17:04:38.913" Score="6" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;In total defiance of Stack Exchange rules, here are eleven questions compressed into one: what to do about the following tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/look-and-feel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;look-and-feel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;look-and-feel&lt;/a&gt;: What does this tag mean?&lt;/strike&gt; (removed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/foreach&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;foreach&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;foreach&lt;/a&gt;: used for the PGF command. Merge into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loops&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loops&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loops&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-file&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/write-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;write-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;write-file&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auxiliary-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auxiliary-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auxiliary-files&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filesystem-access&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filesystem-access&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;filesystem-access&lt;/a&gt;: Should those be combined in some way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-lookup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-lookup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-lookup&lt;/a&gt;: What does this tag mean?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-history&lt;/a&gt;: merge into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-general&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt;: merge into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt;? Does anyone have a good description of these tags?&lt;/strike&gt; (renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format-files&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;: same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/online&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;online&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;online&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strike&gt; (retagged so that only questions about WEB are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;: what does it mean (we also have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt;: should it be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax-highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax-highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax-highlighting&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/preamble&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;preamble&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;preamble&lt;/a&gt;: do we need it, and if so how do we ensure that it is used more consistently?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-03-13T20:56:45.493" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T20:56:45.493" Title="Some tagging questions" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1045" CreationDate="2011-02-26T17:17:23.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web&lt;/a&gt; tag seems to be used of WWW related posts, which should be retagged to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/online&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;online&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;online&lt;/a&gt; and also for Knuth's WEB programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also this &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=559489#559489&quot;&gt;short discussion&lt;/a&gt; in the tex.sx chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T17:17:23.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1045" CreationDate="2011-02-26T17:24:52.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/look-and-feel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;look-and-feel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;look-and-feel&lt;/a&gt;: meaningless, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typography&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typography&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-design&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-design&lt;/a&gt; would be more appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/foreach&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;foreach&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;foreach&lt;/a&gt;: perhaps change into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/for-loops&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;for-loops&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;for-loops&lt;/a&gt;. Besides PGF, there's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/forloop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;forloop&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package. Not merging into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loops&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loops&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loops&lt;/a&gt; preserves the ability to distinguish it from &lt;code&gt;\whiledo&lt;/code&gt; loops.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-file&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/write-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;write-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;write-file&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auxiliary-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auxiliary-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auxiliary-files&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filesystem-access&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filesystem-access&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;filesystem-access&lt;/a&gt; Yes, in some way. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auxiliary-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auxiliary-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auxiliary-files&lt;/a&gt; should not be touched. Merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-file&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filesystem-access&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filesystem-access&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;filesystem-access&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/write-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;write-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;write-file&lt;/a&gt; doesn't cover read access.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-lookup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-lookup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-lookup&lt;/a&gt; is for &lt;code&gt;kpsewhich&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;kpathsea&lt;/code&gt; in general.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-history&lt;/a&gt;: I would not merge into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-general&lt;/a&gt;, since history doesn't mean TeX code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;merge into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt; I guess &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt; is pretty useless, we could get rid of it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt; could mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format-files&lt;/a&gt; (fmt)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;: see Martins answer. I would reserve that for the WEB language, questions about online/html should be retagged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; is pretty vague. I suggest merging &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source-code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;should it be renamed into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax-highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax-highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax-highlighting&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt; one could ask about highlighting words in normal text, so it doesn't need to mean syntax.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-26T17:40:07.430" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T17:40:07.430" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1049" CreationDate="2011-02-26T19:51:53.117" Score="12" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some answers consist of a block of code (and maybe a picture) with little or no explanation. For example, I know I'm guilty of sometimes answering a &quot;How do I do X?&quot; question with &quot;Here's one way,&quot; followed by code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to encourage people writing answers to include explanations of what their code does? If so, is there a way to do so without giving an appearance of criticizing the answer or appearing unappreciative that the person took the time to write an answer? Or is it best to let the questioner ask for an explanation if one is needed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T06:19:22.357" Title="Encourage explanations" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1048" CreationDate="2011-02-26T20:17:46.070" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should encourage people to include explanations. Besides the questioner there are further readers, people come here via search engines with possibly a similar problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid the impression of just criticizing: if we see the solution is good, the code works well, the problem seems to be solved - let's write it first in the comment. That's a good start for encouraging an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a small example where I commented earlier today with this in mind: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11556/how-to-break-a-line-in-a-table&quot;&gt;How to break a line in a table&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T20:17:46.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1050" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-26T20:24:31.480" Score="9" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;For 10k users and mods, whenever the queue of suggested edits is non-empty, the following sign pops up in the bar at the top:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hVEug.png&quot; alt=&quot;suggested edits indicator&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That counter looks out-of-place compared with the rest of the design. For example, the featured questions indicator looks like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hbViz.png&quot; alt=&quot;featured questions indicator&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would look better if the suggested edits indicator (also the on on &lt;code&gt;/review&lt;/code&gt;) had the same design as the other indicators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T20:24:31.480" Title="suggested edits counter graphic" Tags="|feature-request|design|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1048" CreationDate="2011-02-26T20:28:36.070" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would add a comment in the form of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;great solution -- but I'm not sure how and why this works. Can you elaborate a bit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T20:28:36.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1048" CreationDate="2011-02-26T20:49:43.490" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I agree that explanations are really helpful, I worry about too much commenting by people other than the original questioner about explanations. Even when combined with a &quot;nice answer&quot; comment, asking an answerer to add an explanation might easily make people feel less inclined to post their next answer.  This is especially the case when the posted answer is perceived as pretty self-explanatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially if the explanation is quite simple, it might be nicer to add the explanation with the &quot;nice answer&quot; comment itself, and maybe suggest to the answerer to add it to their answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T20:49:43.490" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2011-02-26T20:57:09.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask a moderator to do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drawing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drawing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drawing&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt;; ✔&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfloat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfloat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfloat&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfigure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfigure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfigure&lt;/a&gt; into a new tag {subfloats}; ✔&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/includegraphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;includegraphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;includegraphics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphicx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphicx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphicx&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;. ✔&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; tags will be retagged manually within the next few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-28T19:24:18.340" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T19:24:18.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1055" CreationDate="2011-02-27T00:55:35.903" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard that moderators can merge user accounts. Should this be true I like to request the merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/823/user823&quot;&gt;user823&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3860/frank&quot;&gt;frank&lt;/a&gt;. The first one includes all the activities of this user but the second one is connected to his other SO/SX accounts. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12162/how-to-switch-from-using-color-graphics-to-grayscale-graphics&quot;&gt;the comments to this questions&lt;/a&gt; he suggest the creation of the &lt;em&gt;user823&lt;/em&gt; account is a SX bug, i.e. somehow this account didn't got connected to his other accounts on creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T01:40:34.287" Title="Merge user accounts" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2011-02-27T01:40:34.287" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I merged the two accounts to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3860/frank&quot;&gt;Frank&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T01:40:34.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-27T02:37:19.553" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just made a tag-wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt; without realising that there is a very similar one for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;.  Should these be merged or one made into a synonym of the other (are these independent?).  I had assumed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; was about floating tables, but now I realise that there was discussion here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1006/contradictory-tag-wiki-entries-floats-tables-figures&quot;&gt;Contradictory tag wiki entries: {floats}, {tables}, {figures}&lt;/a&gt; assumes otherwise, given the range of questions assoiated to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T09:53:46.950" Title="{tables} and {tabular} tags" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1048" CreationDate="2011-02-27T06:19:22.357" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would distinguish between two types of question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions answered with a variation of &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{spam}&lt;/code&gt; or another well-documented solution (e.g. CTAN, TUG-UK, DANTE or what have you). In any case, a brief explanation should suffice, provided that a link to the e.g. package documentation or the authoritative solution is given. There is little incentive (or benefit, for that matter) for anyone to repeat what has already been done elsewhere, and probably explained better and in more detail.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Homegrown solutions: basically everything else. Here I'm talking about stuff like arcane TeX wizardry, specific bibliography request, creating special TikZ diagrams and so on. The answerer should be expected to provide more details on parts of the solution if/when requested, but that shouldn't extend to &quot;go through the code and explain every line in a 5-sentence paragraph&quot;. I'd imagine that in most cases a brief explanation of the tricky part should suffice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A somewhat tangential suggestion: new TeX users often find it challenging to contribute back to TeX-SE if they are not very well-versed in the typesetting system yet. I've seen at least a few users which were interested in participating, but were frustrated that they cannot even understand what some of the questions are about. Encouraging them to expand on a question that can be answered in a few lines, going from &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{spam}&lt;/code&gt; and a CTAN link to producing a full (not necessarily minimum) working example will go a long way to retain them as regular users in the future. They will also build up some reputation this way, and as we all very well know, this is the perfect gateway drug into TeX-SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way TeX-SE could get both quick answers (usually by some of the old-timers), which are later elaborated into a more comprehensive example by users new to TeX for a long-term benefit. This could benefit old questions with already accepted answers as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T06:19:22.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2011-02-27T16:24:49.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I decided to use the form of an answer in response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1023/graphics-figures-friends-do-we-need-all-of-them/1053#1053&quot;&gt;locksteps post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My first check for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drawing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drawing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drawing&lt;/a&gt; showed that the questions are not only about diagrams but also about drawing shapes and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Merging is ok. However, subfigures don't necessarily have to float, imagine the &lt;code&gt;subcaption&lt;/code&gt; package used with &lt;code&gt;minipage&lt;/code&gt; environments. That's why I prefer the master tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfigures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfigures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfigures&lt;/a&gt; for the merge instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subfloats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subfloats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subfloats&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is mixing a command, a package and a concept together. I think it goes too far and takes us the possibility to distinguish grapics inclusion from graphics creation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T16:24:49.697" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1045" CreationDate="2011-02-28T05:09:32.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; I see six uses.  Two are about the source code of TeX the program and MetaFont the program.  Three are about typesetting code listings.  One is about TeXShop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could reserve &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; for questions about TeX and friends source code.  The three about typesetting listings should probably be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listings&lt;/a&gt; instead.  The one TeXShop question should probably not have a tag about source at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T05:09:32.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1000" CreationDate="2011-02-28T05:30:02.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T05:30:02.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-28T08:14:00.980" Score="10" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;With great power comes great ... etiquette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new system whereby people without enough reputation to edit stuff can still do so if someone with enough reputation approves it is intended, I suppose, to encourage polishing of entries.  I find I'm broadly in favour, providing people stick to the editing etiquette that we've already established (in brief, that the edits should be polish and not substance), as it can only improve the site and also by increasing the number of edits ought to get people over the &quot;Hey! Someone's just edited my stuff!&quot; barrier a lot sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are some new etiquette issues brought up by the new system.  The one that I've just encountered - and there may be more - is what to do if I see an edit suggestion that is a definite improvement on what went before, but which I can see how to improve it even further.  There is an &quot;Improve&quot; link on the panel so clearly I'm supposed to be able to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example: Martin's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12247/checking-whether-a-file-is-empty/12249#12249&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to Yossi Gil's question &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12247/checking-whether-a-file-is-empty&quot;&gt;Checking whether a file is empty?&lt;/a&gt; &quot;.  Yossi suggested an improvement, but I could see some further improvements, so I did them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the history of this question, I see that one of my worries is allayed: Yossi's edit is in the history with mine on top, so it would &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; as though &quot;edit - improve&quot; is the same as &quot;edit - approve, re-edit&quot;.  Looking at Yossi's reputation, I think that he has also gained the 2 points for the edit (which is as it should be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still something feels not quite right, and I'm not sure that I can put my finger on it.  I feel as though I'm stealing something ... intangible ... from Yossi here since he was the one who spotted the need for an edit in the first place but my name is the one that ends up on the question.  Also, it seems easier to reach the &quot;automatically convert to CW&quot; threshold this way so perhaps improvers shouldn't be so ready to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know.  So, questions: does anyone else feel that there is something in this, or am I being over sensitive?  If the former, does anyone have any suggestions?  Also, is there any aspect of the new system that we would like changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T08:37:33.530" Title="Improving editing suggestions etiquette" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1064" CreationDate="2011-02-28T18:36:14.157" Score="15" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/685/deleting-really-exact-duplicates&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, Joseph writes &quot;In general, we've agreed not to delete or merge duplicate questions.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that, when was this agreement reached, and do we still follow that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side question, is there a waiting time after a question is closed before the delete link appears?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T20:28:47.730" Title="Deleting duplicate questions" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|questions|deleting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1063" CreationDate="2011-02-28T18:43:16.980" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO in the case 100% identical questions, i.e. accidental double posts maybe in connection with a migration from SO, one should be deleted. If one of them has already comments and/or questions it should stay and the other one should be &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt;. I don't think there is a reason for not deleting it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If both have already non-trivial comments and answers a merge would be adequate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T18:43:16.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1063" CreationDate="2011-02-28T18:52:53.063" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a rule of thumb I'd say: If it's an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12319/how-to-set-the-chapter-style-in-report-class-closed&quot;&gt;or a follow-up&lt;/a&gt;) of &lt;em&gt;the same user&lt;/em&gt;, then it's good to delete to keep our site tidy. If it's a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; user, don't delete; at the moment, I can't think of a delete reason in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T18:52:53.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1063" CreationDate="2011-02-28T20:10:16.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A waiting time between closing the exact duplicate and removing is good. Once the question has been closed, it's protected and pointing to the right place. The questioner is still able to read the comments to the closed question for understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see harm in letting a closed question still remain some time for the benefit that the questioner and involved commentators are still able to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question which prompted the meta question was an extended duplicate with a clearer meaning than the original before it's been closed. I had copied the additional explanation to the original question. I planned to delete the (now exact) duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Now I've deleted the concerned duplicate--finishing work before the mod pro tem time ends in some hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-02-28T22:56:13.937" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T22:56:13.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1068" CreationDate="2011-03-01T12:45:47.823" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm viewing the site on my mobile right now and it doesn't have any of the custom styling. It's all gray with generic fonts. I was on my desktop an hour ago and it looked fine. Is there a stylesheet that's gone missing or is this by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwLwl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of mobile site with no styling&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; I'm back at a desktop and it looks fine.  I think it's really a mobile issue because when I used Safari on the Mac and changed the user agent to iPhone there again was no style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resolution&lt;/strong&gt; Hendrik points me in the right direction below.  It's not a bug; it's a feature.  Mods, if you could tag this status-bydesign that would be best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-03-01T17:28:23.790" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T23:26:00.433" Title="Fancy site style has vanished (iPhone/iPad)" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|markup|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1067" CreationDate="2011-03-01T15:08:59.747" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a bug, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/896/mobile-iphone-optimized-version-of-so/50689#50689&quot;&gt;it's a feature&lt;/a&gt;. In general it's always good to have a look here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T15:18:22.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-01T20:15:22.040" Score="7" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Raw output from MeekSTV voting (I hope):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;OpenSTV version 1.7 (http://www.OpenSTV.org/)&#xA;&#xA;Suggested donation for using OpenSTV for an election is $50.  Please go to &#xA;http://www.OpenSTV.org/donate to donate via PayPal, Google Checkout, or&#xA;Amazon Payments.  &#xA;&#xA;Certified election reports are also available.  Please go to &#xA;http://www.openstv.org/certified-reports for more information.&#xA;&#xA;Loading ballots from file election-results.blt.&#xA;Ballot file contains 8 candidates and 96 ballots.&#xA;No candidates have withdrawn.&#xA;Ballot file contains 96 non-empty ballots.&#xA;&#xA;Counting votes for TeX - LaTeX Moderator Election 2011 using Meek STV.&#xA;8 candidates running for 3 seats.&#xA;&#xA; R|Seamus         |Matthew Leingan|Konrad Rudolph |Stefan Kottwitz|Caramdir       |Joseph Wright  &#xA;  |               |g              |               |               |               |               &#xA;  |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------&#xA;  |Martin Scharrer|lockstep       |Exhausted      |Surplus        |Threshold      &#xA;  |               |               |               |               |               &#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 1|       2.000000|       4.000000|       4.000000|      28.000000|      12.000000|      26.000000&#xA;  |      13.000000|       7.000000|       0.000000|       5.999998|      24.000001&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count of first choices. Candidates Stefan Kottwitz and Joseph Wright have reached the&#xA;  | threshold and are elected.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 2|       2.142857|       4.406589|       4.681316|      24.791212|      13.186804|      25.318682&#xA;  |      13.934060|       7.395601|       0.142879|       2.181332|      23.964281&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the&#xA;  | threshold: Stefan Kottwitz, 0.857143 and Joseph Wright, 0.923077.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 3|               |       5.549446|       4.681316|      24.791212|      13.186804|      25.318682&#xA;  |      14.934060|       7.395601|       0.142879|       2.181332|      23.964281&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after eliminating Seamus and transferring votes. All losing candidates are eliminated.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 4|               |       5.727259|       4.936555|      24.455258|      13.661977|      24.214077&#xA;  |      15.299266|       7.534158|       0.171450|       0.755059|      23.957138&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the&#xA;  | threshold: Stefan Kottwitz, 0.828553 and Joseph Wright, 0.873698.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 5|               |       6.727259|               |      25.388459|      13.959726|      25.387360&#xA;  |      16.299266|       7.705605|       0.532325|       3.041981|      23.866919&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after eliminating Konrad Rudolph and transferring votes. All losing candidates are&#xA;  | eliminated.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 6|               |       6.999909|               |      24.396760|      14.714326|      24.356357&#xA;  |      16.796386|       7.960415|       0.775847|       1.141039|      23.806039&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the&#xA;  | threshold: Stefan Kottwitz, 0.778898 and Joseph Wright, 0.821373.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 7|               |       7.106332|               |      23.989418|      15.001404|      23.987736&#xA;  |      16.985164|       8.059016|       0.870930|       0.412618|      23.782268&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the&#xA;  | threshold: Stefan Kottwitz, 0.760039 and Joseph Wright, 0.802815.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 8|               |               |               |      24.899326|      16.241365|      24.790551&#xA;  |      17.225125|       8.298977|       4.544656|       3.962203|      22.863837&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after eliminating Matthew Leingang and transferring votes. All losing candidates are&#xA;  | eliminated.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA; 9|               |               |               |      26.569272|      18.241365|      25.593366&#xA;  |      19.705047|               |       5.890950|       7.108112|      22.527263&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after eliminating lockstep and transferring votes. All losing candidates are eliminated.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA;10|               |               |               |      23.456946|      20.083794|      23.507748&#xA;  |      21.184125|               |       7.767387|       2.848386|      22.058154&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the&#xA;  | threshold: Stefan Kottwitz, 0.644414 and Joseph Wright, 0.706638.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA;11|               |               |               |      22.454266|      20.841763|      22.363926&#xA;  |      21.769620|               |       8.570425|       1.103404|      21.857394&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the&#xA;  | threshold: Stefan Kottwitz, 0.605987 and Joseph Wright, 0.663064.&#xA;==================================================================================================&#xA;12|               |               |               |      21.990282|      21.137315|      21.982661&#xA;  |      22.000378|               |       8.889364|       0.640341|      21.777660&#xA;  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the&#xA;  | threshold: Stefan Kottwitz, 0.589879 and Joseph Wright, 0.648046. Candidate Martin Scharrer&#xA;  | has reached the threshold and is elected.&#xA;&#xA;Winners are Stefan Kottwitz, Joseph Wright, and Martin Scharrer.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T17:28:57.970" Title="Election results 2011" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1069" CreationDate="2011-03-01T21:37:30.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting: the &lt;a href=&quot;http://se.awio.com/election.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;election statistics page&lt;/a&gt; by Yi Jiang shows a different result, at least for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T21:37:30.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1069" CreationDate="2011-03-02T06:50:52.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final and official results are in: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winners are Stefan Kottwitz, Joseph Wright, and Martin Scharrer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&#xA;   &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/flair/213.png&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/flair/73.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2975.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;411 voters were eligible, 142 visited the election, and 96 voted&#xA;                &lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T06:50:52.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1069" CreationDate="2011-03-02T17:28:57.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you all for your confidence!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The many great candidates show that we are an outstanding community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T17:28:57.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-02T22:21:08.347" Score="10" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some time ago I had &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/496/idea-for-tex-latex-friends-contests&quot;&gt;a proposal&lt;/a&gt; for having contests on the main site. The original idea had a somewhat of a lukewarm support, but mostly because the idea was to stretch TeX-SE into something which doesn't really fit the Stack Exchange model. However, there's now a &lt;a href=&quot;https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Code Golf&lt;/a&gt; site on the SE network (with somewhat disappointing stats currently), so the Powers That Be are not against the idea in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently the topic was raised by others in chat and in random comments here and there, so I thought I'd give it a second go and see how far it will go this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try to lay out some sensible rules to keep it in line with the official policy, as well as checks and balances to prevent abuse. In no particular order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frequency.&lt;/strong&gt; Not too often so that the normal operation of the site is not disrupted. Once per month is probably frequent enough. Something of a predefined schedule would be a good idea.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Previous discussion&lt;/strong&gt;. A discussion on meta before announcing the contest on the main site should help spotting some problems in the question-to-be-contest (such as level of interest, difficulty level, real-world applicability).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Content&lt;/strong&gt;. Real-world problems should be preferred, to provide something more than pure entertainment value for the contestants and the by-standers. Besides, this lines up with the official SE stance on this. At any rate, non-obvious useful challenging problems that would require a few hours of work and some ammount of thinking should be preferred.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eligibility.&lt;/strong&gt; The contests should ensure as broad participation as possible, so the questions preferably shouldn't be focused on using a specific technology. Some less used typesetting systems, macro packages and languages would bring extra flavour and interesting solutions to the challenges.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Judgement&lt;/strong&gt;. This is somewhat tricky, as the rep contributor is the only person that can give the award. At any rate, some more formal evaluation of the entries is desirable, to avoid bias towards e.g. uses of certain technologies (For example, I have basically no knowledge about ConTeXt, so I would not be in a position to say how good a given answer is, and I'd rather award the prize to a solution that uses a familiar technology). An appointed jury of three would work best here, but it will be a stretch of duties to ask the moderators to do the job. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zero tolerance for violating the rules&lt;/strong&gt;. The moderators and high-rep users should close as off-topic all attempts to announce a bounty on a question with the intent to spur a contest without jumping through all the hoops.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any sort of feedback is welcome, especially the deeply criticizing kind. Additional considerations I haven't thought of are also appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:39:29.237" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T11:22:17.280" Title="TeX-SE Contests revisited" Tags="|discussion|contests|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1067" CreationDate="2011-03-02T23:26:00.433" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correct, we are starting with some basic designs to test mobile rendering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The /minimal style is the &quot;hello world&quot; of mobile designs, it is the absolute minimal CSS and images necessary to render the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will be improving this over the next few months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T23:26:00.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1090" CreationDate="2011-03-03T14:06:04.503" Score="8" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over on main we had a question: &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12555/1402&quot;&gt;pstricks and beamer compilation with xelatex results in xkeyval error&lt;/a&gt; &quot; and the questioner requested the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkeyval&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkeyval&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkeyval&lt;/a&gt; be created and placed on his question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the philosophy outlined in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302/our-set-of-tags&quot;&gt;Our set of tags&lt;/a&gt; I went ahead and did that.  It says packages and classes should get their own tags.  xkeyval is a pretty big package and despite the fact that we have had no questions about it yet I think it's merited.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say you, metafolk?  Is the linked meta post still policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it turned out the question was unrelated to the use of xkeyval; that was just the package that threw the error (it was a symptom, not a cause).  So I detagged the question and xkeyval is currently an orphan.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T08:05:51.567" Title="Revisiting tag policy: xkeyval tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1074" CreationDate="2011-03-03T15:08:16.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they can be a good idea for many reasons. My primary reason for supporting these is for educational fun. I view them as being of the type of question that someone needs to do some thinking as well as know the programming side of things and possibly have to spent 2-3 hours to provide a reasonable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are lucky that the Site has attracted some of the most knowledgeable people in the TeX/LaTeX community and their answers can form a very valuable pool of resource.  It is also a way of some of the high rep users to redistribute some of their reputation for the enrichment of the Site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T15:08:16.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1076" CreationDate="2011-03-03T15:27:29.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although our tagging practice is not consistent in this regard, I think that &quot;tags for packages and classes&quot; is still -- and should be -- our policy in force. Tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tocloft&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tocloft&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tocloft&lt;/a&gt; may not be that important for prospective respondents (who will typically browse questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt;), but they are servicable for questioners who look for specific advice on, say, &lt;code&gt;\cftXfont&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a questioner uses a particular tag which later turns out to be irrelevant for his/her problem, it is perfectly fine to remove the tag. If this turns the tag into an orphan (for now), then so be it. Tags for very small or specialized packages may be dispensable, but I reckon too that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkeyval&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkeyval&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkeyval&lt;/a&gt; deserves its own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T15:27:29.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-03T16:36:24.043" Score="6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/publishing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;publishing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;publishing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/journal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;journal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;journal&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/journal-publishing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;journal-publishing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;journal-publishing&lt;/a&gt;. (That last one was me, this afternoon, after &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/604949#604949&quot;&gt;discussion on chat&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we think we should do with them? I would suggest merging journal into journal-publishing at least. What the publishing tag is for, I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T17:14:27.220" Title="Publishing, journal-publishing and journal tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1079" CreationDate="2011-03-03T16:48:16.453" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't really follow the recent tagging discussions, so I'm not an expert. But I wouldn't merge; at least this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/journal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;journal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;journal&lt;/a&gt; tagged question has nothing to to with journal-publishing: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8996/taking-notes-while-reading-a-journal-paper&quot;&gt;Taking notes while reading a journal paper&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T16:48:16.453" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1079" CreationDate="2011-03-03T16:50:36.240" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/journal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;journal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;journal&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/journal-publishing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;journal-publishing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;journal-publishing&lt;/a&gt; (or make synonyms)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/publishing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;publishing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;publishing&lt;/a&gt; tag for some inconsistent tagging (seems to be superfluous in places).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the problem that preparing a journal publication could be similar to preparing a conference paper -- many conferences have their own fair share of idiosyncrasies as to how the submissions should be formatted. So if this seems to generate confusion, a {conference-publishing} tag may be made as a synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/journal-publishing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;journal-publishing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;journal-publishing&lt;/a&gt;, but only if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T16:50:36.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1074" CreationDate="2011-03-03T16:51:57.727" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer is just trying to get a handle on the kind of contest questions we'd be asking. (Hence CW for suggested questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simple reimplementation of &lt;code&gt;framed&lt;/code&gt; package in LaTeX3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I get the background colour of my beamer presentation to change slowly through the course of the presentation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Hint: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/scmbradley/Beamer-colour-change-project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I solved this one for myself&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make some nice looking documentation for the &lt;code&gt;moderncv&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one might not be great...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Write a tutorial on how to define new beamer blocks templates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this one is half-solved thanks to Caramdir's stirling work &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11211/215&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Define a macro that draws a regular polygon with a specified area&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T11:22:17.280" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-03T16:51:57.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1084" CreationDate="2011-03-03T17:36:57.107" Score="6" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a situation today regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12559/proof-split-over-two-pages&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. (See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/12559/timeline&quot;&gt;the timeline&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The submitter asked a question with a code excerpt only, without making a compileable minimum working example (MWE).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question was edited and some fluff was added to illustrate the problem (full disclosure: it was me who did the code edit changes).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone added an answer based on the MWE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turned out that the proposed solution was breaking other things (that the OP didn't mention, so the real document had to be referenced via a link to figure out what's really the problem).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A completely different solution was offered that solved the issue the submitter had. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the submitter had made an effort to create a MWE the extra work could have been averted (I apologize to Martin Scharrer for the time he had to spend on this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should incomplete code be edited in the question for the benefit of the user (and potential responders), or should this be the sole responsibility of the original poster?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a few pros and cons for editing user's code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the time it works, and everybody's happy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The edit might be just what's needed to attract some quick replies, as the code can be copied and compiled without modification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No time is lost in back-and-forth communication between the OP and the potential editor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No duplicate posts (there has been a similar situation recently, when a new user didn't notice they can edit their own posts, and created a duplicate, which was promptly closed).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When it doesn't work, this results in some extra effort to people trying to solve the wrong problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time is lost when figuring out what's actually wrong, which could have been averted if the OP was asked to provide a MWE by themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Original submitter might be frustrated that people meddle with their stuff, playing &quot;smart guy&quot; (although with good intentions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the extra editing helps in most of the cases, but when it fails, it does spectacularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other opinions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; It seems most think that it shouldn't be done in general, or if done, should be careful and clarified. Although I reserve a somewhat dissenting opinion, I understand the arguments of everybody, and will refrain from such editing in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T12:41:44.227" Title="Should minimal examples be completed for the submitter if they only provide a code excerpt?" Tags="|discussion|policy|code-example|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1083" CreationDate="2011-03-03T17:57:51.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion this depends a lot on the question. In many cases, making the code compilable is really helpful, but I think it should only be done in really obvious cases. In the case in question, the answer depended a lot on the context; then one should better ask the OP to complete the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T17:57:51.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1085" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1089" CreationDate="2011-03-03T18:02:07.903" Score="6" ViewCount="634" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm an adherent of &quot;broad&quot; concept tags because I believe that a tagging system that is based on a few dozen well-chosen &quot;high-level&quot; tags faciliates (if only indirectly) ferreting out questions that cover specific problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One subject area with a quite unambiguous definition -- at least in my opinion -- are &quot;headings&quot; or, as the &lt;em&gt;LaTeX Companion&lt;/em&gt; calls them, &quot;sectioning commands&quot;. This area is about &lt;code&gt;\part&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\section&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\subsection&lt;/code&gt; &amp;amp; friends. (Even about &lt;code&gt;\paragraph&lt;/code&gt;, although this is exhibit no. 1 for &quot;LaTeX macro name capable of being misunderstood&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that the current coexistence of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; on the one hand and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections&lt;/a&gt; on the other hand is yet another example of early-adopted macro name tags not scrutinized up to now. Looking at questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections&lt;/a&gt; vs. ones tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt;, the classification seems to have happened as luck would have it. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; questions are tagged in a more systematic way, but I still think that a separate tag for &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt; that replaces the &quot;broad&quot; concept tag is, on balance, undesirable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore propose to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt;. As a variant that would avoid the danger of confusion with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt;, the (from now on unmated) concept tag could be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Did I mention that this would involve no manual retagging? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Proposal changed significantly, see my answer below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2013-02-24T13:10:51.143" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T13:11:11.393" Title="{headings} vs. {chapters} and {sections}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1083" CreationDate="2011-03-03T18:20:04.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Full disclosure: It was me who approved @Martin Tapankov's code edit changes. I did this only after spending a few minutes to check that [besides the also missing &lt;code&gt;document&lt;/code&gt; environment] only packages were added that were necessary to create a MWE.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the later discussion revealed that the MWE-based answer broke other things in the questioner's real-world document, Martin's efforts sped up unearthing the actual problem and were -- in my opinion -- a valuable service for the questioner and the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T18:20:04.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1083" CreationDate="2011-03-03T19:31:23.417" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually I do not think that it is helpful to &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; to a MWE. Wasting the time of people answering the question based on wrong information is worse than slowing down the answering progress by requesting a complete MWE. There are so many ways to produces bad/wrong TeX code that it is generally impossible to say what the OP has done. Additionally, there are often more than one package that implement a certain command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that &lt;em&gt;subtracting&lt;/em&gt; from code in the question is often fine, as long as it stays a WE (and gets closer to a minimal one).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T19:31:23.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1085" CreationDate="2011-03-03T20:10:41.187" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest we preserve these three tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if we merge? In some years we could have 500 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; without any tag that allows distinguishing chapters, sections and parts. Seems like a mess to me. If I've got a problem with chapter heading spacing or with part page design, I would have to use full-text search or scroll through hundreds section related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part headings have their own style, often on a dedicated page. Chapter headings are special, bot in output (displayed label) and in implementation (spacing, special macros for making the head). In contrast, sections, subsections and subsubsection are often done by &lt;code&gt;\@startsection&lt;/code&gt; and can be treated similarly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have 5 possible tags for each question! That's not designed for using just broad tags. It allows a broad tag, another tag nearly as general, a concrete tag and up to two related tags. Why not use them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've got a tag navigation on the right. When I'm browsing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/a&gt; questions, I can see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; tag and switch to that for finding broader solutions and packages. If I feel lost among 500 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; questions, I look at the right and pick the related tag which matches better: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/section&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;section&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;section&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/part&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;part&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;part&lt;/a&gt; - it's even a filter: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; may match my question perfectly. Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-design&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; leads me to those plain pages questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest, let's keep both general and specific tags. I don't see a problem if we would even have some more tags. It allows specific search. Just broad tags should be used as well then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's preserve these tags to the point and let's allow fine filtering with tag combinations - for the future of our growing site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T20:10:41.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1085" CreationDate="2011-03-03T21:29:20.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is a reply to Stefan's answer, but too long for a comment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stefan is correct that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; tag could feature hundreds of questions in a few years -- right now, the tag with the highest number of questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, is already at 318 questions. Stefan is also (obviously) correct about the availability of tag navigation and the fact that a question can feature up to five tags. But my proposal was motivated by the very aim that is also important to Stefan: ease of access to particular questions. So let's take a second look at the current tagging situation for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt;, Stefan has a point in that this macro is implemented in a different way, and that this fact is mirrored in numerous question tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/a&gt;. Here's an example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6227/chapter-starts-on-right-hand-side&quot;&gt;Chapter starts on right hand side&lt;/a&gt;. On the other hand, there are questions that offer advice which is also valid for lower-level sectioning commands. Again, an example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6862/how-can-i-display-a-short-chapter-name-in-the-header-and-a-long-chapter-name-in-t&quot;&gt;How can I display a short chapter name in the header and a long chapter name in the TOC?&lt;/a&gt;. Note that this question does not featute the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; tag, presumably because the questioner was not aware of its more general nature. My point: Even if an additional &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/a&gt; tag may well have merits, &lt;em&gt;the &quot;broad&quot; concept tag should not be omitted&lt;/em&gt;. (Note: Everything I said about &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt; is also valid for the &lt;code&gt;\part&lt;/code&gt; macro, which has not necessitated a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parts&lt;/a&gt; tag up to now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/a&gt; tag should be preserved does not equal preserving the current situation as a whole. I still maintain that the breakdown of questions into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections&lt;/a&gt; happened by rolling the dice, and that a special &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections&lt;/a&gt; tag is a stumbling block for accessing relevant answers about headings in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My revised proposal thus is: Merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; into a new concept tag called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt;. Keep the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; tag, but add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt; tag to every question tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; because numerous of these questions are also relevant for lower-level sectioning commands (and because &quot;normal&quot; users cannot assess if this is the case for their particular question about &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt;). And yes, add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parts&lt;/a&gt; tag. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Used &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt; as new term for the broad concept tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Changed &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/part&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;part&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;part&lt;/a&gt; to the plural form &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 3: I ask a moderator to do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/headings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;headings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;headings&lt;/a&gt; synonyms of the new concept tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt;. (I have already created this tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it can be done automatically, add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt; tag to every qestion tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;but do not remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt; (I suspect this will have to be done manually in the course of the next weeks.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 4: The latest proposal, which will be implemented by manual retagging in the next few weeks, is a general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt; tag plus the specific tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chapters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chapters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chapters&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections-paragraphs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections-paragraphs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections-paragraphs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 5: Also, some of the questions currently tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paragraphs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paragraphs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paragraphs&lt;/a&gt; (which deals with &lt;code&gt;\par&lt;/code&gt;) will have to be retagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sections-paragraphs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sections-paragraphs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sections-paragraphs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 6: Moderators: The question can be tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T13:11:11.393" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1076" CreationDate="2011-03-03T22:32:32.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags for packages are fine. Besides the package tag, I suggest adding the respective concept tag, also if you note such an existing question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, for example, you would see a question with only&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tocloft&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tocloft&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tocloft&lt;/a&gt; tag, add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/natbib&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;natbib&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;natbib&lt;/a&gt; tag, add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibliographies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibliographies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibliographies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cleveref&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cleveref&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cleveref&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/varioref&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;varioref&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;varioref&lt;/a&gt; tag, add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cross-referencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cross-referencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, if you write a question, choose your tags wisely: specify&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a concept tag: what are you &lt;em&gt;doing&lt;/em&gt;, whats desired&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a package tag: what are you &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt;, which is the specific context&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a class tag: but only if you know your question deals with features or options of &lt;em&gt;this class&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T22:32:32.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1076" CreationDate="2011-03-04T08:05:51.567" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One reason for tagging with packages is that it would be useful for the package maintainers.  I wrote in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/730/message-to-package-maintainers&quot;&gt;Message to package maintainers&lt;/a&gt; that I think that this place would be great for package maintainers to find out about how their package is used and so forth.  So to make the place as easy for package maintainers as possible, tagging questions accordingly makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And note that this is beneficial to the questioner as well, since who better to answer a question on a particular package than the person who wrote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T08:05:51.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-04T08:51:42.387" Score="1" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12554/submitting-a-journal-article-as-a-single-tex-file&quot;&gt;Submitting a journal article as a single tex file&lt;/a&gt; is potentially a great question (it already has 10 upvotes), but I think it could do with a little polishing.  I don't want to send it to CW inadvertently, and I want to check my edits with the original author, so I'm using this place as a &quot;sandbox&quot; to test my edits.  Others are welcome to edit as well - I'm making &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; copy CW!  If we can come up with a version that captures the original spirit and focusses the question, and the original author is happy with, then someone can copy it across to the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although many academic journals readily accept submissions in some format of TeX, indeed some enlightened ones &lt;em&gt;insist&lt;/em&gt; on it, it is rare that one can simply send exactly the same document that one has been working on as a submission.  Most journals insist on authors using their &quot;house class file&quot;, and some have specific style files that define &quot;common macros&quot;.  Some journals further make one or both of the following demands:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That the submission be a single file,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That all unnecessary macros be removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/~florea/research/ftp/readme.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BioMed Central TeX template files&lt;/a&gt; (the linked page seems to be an unofficial copy, but I could not find an official one online), Sections 2.2 and 2.3 say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.2:&lt;/strong&gt; In order to submit a manuscript as a&#xA;  .tex file to BioMed Central, you must&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;use the BioMed Central template&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;format your references with BibTeX using the bmc_article.bst style file&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;not rely on any non-standard macros, classes or files&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.3:&lt;/strong&gt; Make sure that you only a single .tex document for the entire&#xA;  manuscript, as you will need to upload&#xA;  it as a single file (together with its&#xA;  associated formatted bibliography&#xA;  file). Do not use the \input command&#xA;  to include other .tex files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, some journals adhere to these more strictly than others and the first thing to do is to determine whether these requests are enforced or not (and what, exactly, is considered &quot;non-standard&quot;).  So let us suppose that this has been done and the answer is: yes, these are enforced.  Then the question is: how does one do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all likelihood, there is not a simple answer, in which case it will be extremely valuable to know what strategies and workflows others have employed.  (But &lt;strong&gt;please&lt;/strong&gt; do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; name-and-shame journals who make these requests.  It may not be the journal but the publisher, and I'm sure that the journals could provide equally horrific stories of the TeX-mangling that they've received.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to take note of is that the additional files may not just be style files or bibliography files but images as well.  For example, in the BioMed instructions given above, the reason given for this request is that the upload is to be a &lt;em&gt;single file&lt;/em&gt; (and let us, for the sake of argument, assume that archived files are not allowed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus we can divide this in to various scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The journal asks that the submission contain only one &lt;strong&gt;TeX file&lt;/strong&gt;.  So image files and bibliography files are fine as extras.  We assume also that it is possible to identify which extra files should be included, but they may be a combination of user-written style files and packages downloaded from CTAN.  The task is to fold all of these in to a single file.  &lt;strong&gt;How do we make these in to a single file, and what pitfalls are there to be aware of?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The journal asks that the submission contain only one &lt;strong&gt;file&lt;/strong&gt; in total.  Now we wish to embed non-standard type files into our TeX file.  &lt;strong&gt;Is this possible?&lt;/strong&gt;  and if so, how, and what pitfalls are there to be wary of?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The journal asks that &lt;em&gt;unnecessary&lt;/em&gt; macros/commands be removed.  Are there any strategies for going through a document and identifying those commands which have been defined but never used?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T13:53:28.933" Title="Submitting a journal article as a single tex file" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-04T08:53:11.533" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1083" CreationDate="2011-03-04T11:14:08.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that there is a difference between &lt;strong&gt;completing&lt;/strong&gt; code to a MWE and &lt;strong&gt;adding&lt;/strong&gt; a MWE.  In the first case, the original code is hidden but in the second it is still there.  For example (although it doesn't qualify as a MWE), I added something to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11698/pdf-inclusion-found-pdf-version-1-5-but-at-most-version-1-4-allowed&quot;&gt;PDF inclusion: found PDF version &amp;lt;1.5&amp;gt;, but at most version &amp;lt;1. 4&amp;gt; allowed&lt;/a&gt; to try to reproduce the error.  I think that that was helpful, but the original post is still clearly visible and it is clear what I've added, so that if someone answers then they will know (and be able to say) whether or not they are answering the original question or the modified version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T11:14:08.467" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1079" CreationDate="2011-03-04T17:14:27.220" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issues surrounding how to use latex for submitting an article to a journal (eg, how to deal with disallowed packages, journals with postscript-only workflows, bundling files together for submission) and how to use latex to publish a journal issue (eg, how to combine possibly conflicting from multiple submissions, how to extract metadata and abstracts, how to generate PDF/X or PDF/A, font licensing and embedding for publication, etc) are pretty distinct. Self-publishing a book is different again (eg, which print-on-demand printers will accept latex-generated pdf, how to deal with bleeds and colour profiles and page imposition and such). Placing a TeX manuscript into a traditional publishing workflow is different again (I have no experience, but things like dealing with copyeditors, indexing professionals, book designers). I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/publishing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;publishing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;publishing&lt;/a&gt; is too vague and could be broken down into {self-publishing} etc, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/journal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;journal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;journal&lt;/a&gt; could be more obvious like {journal-submission}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="627" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T17:14:27.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1100" CreationDate="2011-03-04T19:23:24.590" Score="5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12610/debugging-runaway-argument-file-ended-while-scanning-use-of-pginfo&quot;&gt;Strange persisting error, even after removing the code.&lt;/a&gt; closed without comment? Did the OP request it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a great question, but I'd have rather rewritten it to be more general („my file doesn't compile, but when I copy the code to a new file it compiles”) than close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T00:17:36.817" Title="Why was this question closed?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-04T20:29:41.907" Score="7" ViewCount="482" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few (new) users have unusual names like &quot;LaTeX&quot; or &quot;google&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think we should not allow such names i.e. tell this users to rename their accounts, because they are just confusing in comments. Imagine someone writes &quot;The solution given by LaTeX&quot; or &quot;As stated by google&quot; inside a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think users should not be named using &quot;reserved keywords&quot; (like they would be called in a programming language), i.e. TeX executables, package names and TeX primitives as well as well known software or web applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T18:09:25.107" Title="Unusual user names" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2011-03-04T20:48:36.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think forcing a change of one's username should be reserved for drastic cases, such as hate-speech and obscenities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree to some extent it could be confusing, with the proper context (and as Caramdir said, with &quot;@&quot; in front), there will be little room for confusion, even for the casual observer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For context: if someone's name happens to be deeply offensive in your language, should you request that it be changed to something acceptable, even if it sounds perfectly normal to everybody else? There are a few proper names of TeX-SE users which would make me blush if I have to say them in civilized company, or write it in my language. That would be much worse for me than seeing somebody named &quot;google&quot;, &quot;ConTeXt&quot;, or even &quot;LaTeX sucks&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a slippery slope, and one that I think should be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T20:48:36.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2011-03-04T21:07:15.910" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please note that the &quot;&lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt;&quot; in &lt;em&gt;minimal working example&lt;/em&gt; means that the document should not contain &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; (yes any!) code which isn't related to the error. If a code line can be removed without changing the error/issue it doesn't belong into the example. If a non-standard class is used&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; for the original document and the error/issue still happens &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; a standard class then a standard class should be substituted. This means normally &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt; or, if &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt; is required, &lt;code&gt;report&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;not required&lt;/strong&gt; to use the &lt;code&gt;minimal&lt;/code&gt; class for a &lt;em&gt;minimal working example&lt;/em&gt;! In fact it should be avoided to prevent issues with missing definitions which are present in any real class, cf. also &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42114/why-should-the-minimal-class-be-avoided&quot;&gt;Why should the minimal class be avoided?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Standard classes are: &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;report&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;letter&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T18:40:44.867" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-04T21:07:15.910" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1099" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1151" CreationDate="2011-03-04T22:14:09.320" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit box on the &quot;flag&quot; link for a post goes outside the &quot;window&quot; borders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OFhuG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All similar flag dialogs in which there's an edit box are affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reproducible on both main site and meta, using both Firefox 3.6 and Chromium 9.0 on Ubuntu 10.10. &lt;strong&gt;Not&lt;/strong&gt; reproducible on Chrome 10/Firefox 4.0b12/IE9 on Windows 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1000/tag-wiki-text-box-goes-under-the-how-to-edit-a-wiki-box&quot;&gt;this issue&lt;/a&gt; from a week or so ago (the same pattern of OSes being affected).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T07:31:27.360" Title="Text box for post flagging dialog goes outside the dialog borders" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1095" CreationDate="2011-03-05T00:17:36.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that the error is gone for the OP (because of his comment) and that it is simply the common &quot;some stuff left in the .aux file&quot; error (because of his and our comments). Because of the specific title of the question I also saw no general value for future occasions of the general .aux file error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I just wanted to flag it as 'too localized' to notify the other mods about it, but was then surprised that this already closed it. I know that one close vote of a mod is enough to close a question, but wasn't aware the flagging does the same. After I saw that it was closed I just let it like it was. I didn't added a comment because I thought the two comments already explained it very well. (Also I had a quite busy day at work ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with reopening the question. Sorry for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I can't reproduce this error as described. The file compiles fine in the first and all future runs. I tried multiple filenames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T00:17:36.817" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2011-03-05T09:28:06.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Martin mentioned, obviously if the name is hate speech or offensive (or the gravatar for that matter) we require that it be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the only time we require username changes is when there could be &lt;em&gt;actual confusion&lt;/em&gt; that the user officially represents Stack Overflow, or could be construed by an average user to be some sort of special moderator of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose you could extend that to say that a user falsely named &quot;Donald Knuth&quot; could be an issue as well, but ... I can't think many tex.se users would &lt;em&gt;realistically&lt;/em&gt; believe that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general these cases are quite rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T09:28:06.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="829" CreationDate="2011-03-05T11:02:51.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;best-practices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;best-practices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Roughly modelled on &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/best-practices/info&quot;&gt;the best-practices tag from programmers.sx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;best practice&quot; is a technique or approach that TeXnicians recognize as  giving better results than other approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, it is widely accepted that there is value in separating commands that govern formatting from the document content &amp;mdash; this is an example of a goal that is sometimes impractical to apply, and overall best practice provides guidance on how to manage the cases where it is not practicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For another example, when writing macros for packages or modules intended for use by others, it is a long-established best practice to use the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; character for internal macro names, which do not conflict with macros in regular documents, so that users do not have to pay attention to the package internals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:32:00.817" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T20:37:51.610" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-05T11:02:51.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2011-03-05T13:31:41.783" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's appropriate to say to a user with such a name: &quot;I know you don't mean it this way, but some new users might get the idea that you are speaking as an official representative of LaTeX (TeX, google, etc.)&quot;  Would you consider changing your name to something the represents you uniquely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T13:31:41.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1292" CreationDate="2011-03-05T15:11:48.650" Score="7" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;i've been happily using StackPrinter ever since i learned about it (answer to my own&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/825/how-to-print-out-a-full-q-a-entry-or-forward-it-outside-the-stackexchange-site&quot;&gt;question 825&lt;/a&gt; in this forum), but today it is&#xA;telling me the question/answer i want to print out is &quot;not found!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the group is TeX-LaTeX and the question id is 3473.  i can access this question by&#xA;typing in the url directly, so i know i've got the number right.  i've checked in&#xA;the faq of the group where stackprinter is covered (by following links in the answer&#xA;to the aforementioned question), but can't find where to submit a&#xA;query or bug report.  i've followed links as far as github, which appears to be the&#xA;host on which the tool is maintained, but to raise an issue there, one has to log in;&#xA;i have no other reason to do that just now, so i'd rather not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where, then, is the correct place to post this report?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T16:45:57.370" Title="using StackPrinter, question id not found" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2011-03-05T18:09:25.107" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We recently had some discussion about this on MathOverflow.  You can read it at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/335/3/why-not-real-names&quot;&gt;https://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/335/3/why-not-real-names&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that &quot;real names&quot; and &quot;weird names&quot; aren't &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; the same thing, but I think that they are similar enough that it's worth at least linking to the discussion there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My position is that I would like a culture that &lt;em&gt;encourages&lt;/em&gt; real names, or at least identifiable ones, but does not enforce this (within the bounds of taste).  I like to build a picture of who people are and if there's something vaguely name-like about their username then I find that it helps me to do so, and that then helps me to answer their questions.  So it's purely for selfish reasons that I would like to encourage people to use realistic usernames: I'm more likely to try to help them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:04.767" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T18:09:25.107" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-05T19:02:28.510" Score="7" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the criteria for closing questions (exact duplicates, non-questions etc.) are clear to me. Closing a question as being to localised is the one I don't think I understand.  I suggested closing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12693/2693&quot;&gt;What could cause repeated NULL characters in an .aux file?&lt;/a&gt; in chat and in the comments Caramdir suggested that the question probably doesn't need to be closed.  That's fine with me, but it raises the question of how do we decide this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So what criteria should we use to close a question as &quot;too local&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a related question (and I know I'm not supposed to do this) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the purpose of closing &quot;too&#xA;localised&quot; questions in the first place?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T22:25:16.687" Title="What criteria should be used for voting to close a question as too local?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|too-localized|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1106" CreationDate="2011-03-05T19:13:11.947" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll repeat what I've just said in 'chat' on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing a question as &quot;too localised&quot; says, for me, that here is a question that whilst technically on topic is so unique in some fashion that we cannot imagine anyone else ever asking it or needing to refer to it.  And that it would be distracting to genuine questions or answers to have it exist on the site at the same level as other questions or answers (for example, it might keep coming up in the &quot;suggested questions&quot; list).  Of course, it &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; come up again, and it was asked in good faith, so maybe we won't go so far as to delete it, but it certainly should sink without too many traces in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T19:13:11.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="829" CreationDate="2011-03-05T21:20:39.293" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;{align}&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; is an environment in math packages that permits multiple related equations to be formatted vertically with a common reference point, usually at a sign of relation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; environment is provided by packages such as &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mathtools&lt;/code&gt;.  The alignment reference point is indicated by &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;, which should be placed just before the sign of relation or operation in order to obtain proper spacing. The end of all lines except the last is indicated by &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;.  The related environment &lt;code&gt;alignat&lt;/code&gt; allows horizontal&#xA;space between equations on the smae line to be explicitly specified.  Both&#xA;&lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;alignat&lt;/code&gt; produce equation numbers; starred versions without numbering are&#xA;provided as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sub-environments &lt;code&gt;aligned&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;alignedat&lt;/code&gt; are building blocks to be used when the&#xA;aligned component is only part of a longer multi-line structure. The width of each&#xA;component is only as large as necessary, so that it can, for example, be set within&#xA;delimiters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use of these environments is described in the &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; users guide, which on a TeX Live&#xA;system can be accessed by &lt;code&gt;texdoc amsmath&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T21:20:39.293" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-05T21:20:39.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1112" CreationDate="2011-03-05T21:32:16.150" Score="8" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my understanding, editing question titles to correct the spelling or fix the grammar is acceptable, while the substance is to be left alone. However, just now I stumbled upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12739/how-do-i-use-latex-to-create-table-of-contents-chapter-headings-subsections-etc=&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question. Its title is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I use LaTeX to create table of&#xA;  contents (chapter headings,&#xA;  subsections etc) for a set of pdf&#xA;  files which I am merging into a single&#xA;  large pdf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which takes up three lines when displayed on the starting page. I regard this as overly verbose and somewhat distracting from the other questions. Therefore, I would like to shorten the title to two lines (say, by discarding the bracket term).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I oversensitive or is it acceptable to abridge verbose question titles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T22:27:30.203" Title="Policy on verbose question titles" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1109" CreationDate="2011-03-05T21:44:42.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also think it is reasonable in this case. I would also remove the first-person reference and change 'table-of-content' to PDF bookmarks, because this is what th OP is talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;How to use LaTeX to create PDF bookmarks for a set of PDF files merged into a single large PDF?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be done after talking to the OP and explaining to him that it will improve his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-03-05T22:27:30.203" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T22:27:30.203" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1106" CreationDate="2011-03-05T21:57:31.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just posting this as an answer so that it can be voted on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that of the possible close reasons, &quot;too localized&quot; is the one we need least on our site. Even if the question mentioned in the OP is rather localized, I still don't see any harm in having it around. &lt;em&gt;Why?&lt;/em&gt; The question is formulated so that I can understand it quite well, the OP gave an understandable answer, the post as a whole look quite clean, and in fact much better than other possibly more valid questions with several answers where the OP was misunderstood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T21:57:31.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1109" CreationDate="2011-03-05T22:03:24.687" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Martin has made a good point: &quot;This can be done after talking to the OP&quot;. What I'd do (and indeed already have done) is to suggest the OP to change the title, possible with a specific formulation, and first wait some time and give the OP the chance to make the edit himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T22:03:24.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1106" CreationDate="2011-03-05T22:33:42.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that are localized &lt;em&gt;in time&lt;/em&gt; can also be considered as candidates to close. A made-up example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;What's the problem with &amp;lt;foo&amp;gt; in package &amp;lt;bar&amp;gt;, version &amp;lt;ancient|development&amp;gt;?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ancient versions could be potentially acceptable, but questions on issues fixed in newer versions of the packages are not likely to be of much value to anyone but the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T22:33:42.077" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1106" CreationDate="2011-03-05T23:13:16.467" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The issue cannot be recreated by other people&lt;/strong&gt; (with a sane effort).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This can be because a set of unknown conditions must be come together to cause this issue.&#xA;For example it really only happens on one of the computers of the OP, but not on his/her others and he/she has no idea why. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The issue will only be an issue for a very limited time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Things like: &lt;em&gt;Can't install/update TeXLive because CTAN is currently down.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(to be continued)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T23:13:16.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-06T00:15:47.230" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please how do I change my openID email address?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="994" OwnerDisplayName="Ahmed Musa" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-03-06T07:34:53.500" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T07:34:53.500" Title="Meta question: can't find meta" Tags="|discussion|openid|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1074" CreationDate="2011-03-06T13:40:35.893" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Featured questions with bounties are already contest-like. Why not use that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whoever knows a nice problem: post it and offer a tempting huge bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Everybody can contribute a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The community can vote up good answers, the best answers will go to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The author of the problem is the juror, and rightly so. He will finally award the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The solutions on the following places will be rewarded by rep coming from the upvotes by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, everybody is involved in taking part and in judging. What else is required? Really a bigger jury and more complicated rules? Such as forbidding bounties on questions just because they look contest-like? I don't think so. However, discussion of the problem before and after on meta would be great, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up: I like the idea of contests, and I suggest to start off using featured questions and bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T13:40:35.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1118" CreationDate="2011-03-06T16:25:14.267" Score="2" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is basically a reanimation of a retagging proposal of @Stefan Kottwitz in the last comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/755/cross-references-bibliographic-references-and-the-referencing-tag/756#756&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer (also from Stefan): Merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cite&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cite&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cite&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;citations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;citations&lt;/a&gt; into a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;citing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt; tag. And yes, this would involve no manual retagging. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T17:08:57.867" Title="Making {cite} and {citations} a synonym of {citing}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1117" CreationDate="2011-03-06T17:08:43.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I merged those closely related tags into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;citing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt;. Now there are 35 questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;citing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt;. I added that concept tag also to the two existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cite-package&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cite-package&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cite-package&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T17:08:43.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-07T06:45:03.187" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11539/2693&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12821/using-a-font-for-selected-text&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; are asking very similar things&amp;mdash;how does one change the font for a particular piece of text&amp;mdash;but there's a fairly crucial difference: the font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of that difference, I'd hesitate to mark the latter as a duplicate of the former since it really doesn't answer the question of how to get Chancery in particular. However, I don't think we really need two questions asking for the same basic information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Even though the two questions ask about different fonts, I feel a little bit silly for having answered a nearly duplicate question rather than voting to close. Actually, with a tiny bit of searching, I found another &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11115/typefaces-that-come-with-the-standard-latex-distribution-on-the-tex-live&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that contains the answer of how to change the font.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done here? Should I delete my answer, leave a comment with the particular font family name, and vote to close as a duplicate pointing to one of the other questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T20:20:31.287" Title="Really similar font questions but with a crucial distinction." Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1119" CreationDate="2011-03-07T07:22:19.097" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You need the techniques given in the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11539/change-font-in-a-single-paragraph&quot;&gt;Change font in a single paragraph&lt;/a&gt; to restrict the font in the way you want.  The font name you need for Chancery is pzc, so substitute that for ppl in the Tex code, which in this case gives ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;addresses just what is different about the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you do that?  Well, for one variant, I'd say leaving it open is better than closing, provided the cross-referencing is in order.  If several variants start appearing, I'd post a more general question with some wording as &quot;for typical fonts such as Chancery&quot; and explicitly ask for the names of common fonts the question.  Then the variant questions can be closed as a duplicate of the new general question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T07:22:19.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1119" CreationDate="2011-03-07T07:31:44.007" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one questions is about whole paragraphs and the other for short pieces of text. In the first an environment or &lt;code&gt;fontspec&lt;/code&gt; is used and in the second a macro. A real beginner will not be able to go from one solution to the other that easily, or know how to exchange the font. So it is good to have both question around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no much reason to close (not delete) it as duplicate except of to linking benefit it brings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T07:31:44.007" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-07T07:58:44.793" Score="4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main page right now is a link to a chat room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In which the relative merits of Word and LaTeX are discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like to see that here.  I think that we've stayed fairly civil on the relative merits of different systems: our task is to sing the praises of TeX, not to be nasty about other stuff.  The etiquette that I've seen so far has been along the lines of: &quot;Of course we think that TeX is the best thing since sliced bread, didn't you read the sign on the door?  But if you're nice to us, we'll be nice to you and we'll show you the error of your ways by example, not by preaching.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've read so far of that discussion does not follow that etiquette.  Indeed, what I've read so far is a pretty pointless discussion.  Moreover, the room seems to be closed so no new discussion can take place, and it doesn't seem to have been started by anyone from &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is it linked from our main page as if it were anything to do with or endorsed by us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please remove it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note added in edit: It occurs to me that it's not for the people here to fix this one so I've cross-posted at meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/81986/138421&quot;&gt;Why do we have a link to some bizarre chat room on the main page of tex.stackexchange.com?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T16:05:19.897" Title="Why do we have a link to some bizarre chat room on the main page?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1122" CreationDate="2011-03-07T08:10:39.117" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the question goes &quot;What kind of room is okay to create&quot;, that's up to you as a community to decide, so I'm not going to comment on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you're right, the fact that this room shows up at all even though it's frozen &amp;ndash; that should indeed not happen. This was actually two different bugs at once, and will be fixed in the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastEditorUserId="1106" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T08:55:25.703" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T08:55:25.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1122" CreationDate="2011-03-07T08:24:36.493" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is crossposted from the MSO crosspost of this question. I may not update this copy of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a discussion about TeX and LaTeX (and Word), so I reassigned it after the fact to TeX and LaTeX, rather than Gaming, on grounds of topicality. I agree it was unpleasant, but that's no ground for &quot;censorship.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I did ask for reassignment during the chatting itself, but my moderator flag has been ignored.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the room is frozen, it'll fade away soon enough. Chat more to make it go away :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, additionally. Site policy does not need apply to chat. Bad subjective content, such as polls, asking for opinion or just relaxed exchange of ideas is fine there. It also is unenforceable, because there's no way of preventing somebody from taking part into TeX chatrooms and TeX chatrooms alone, short of a chat.stackexchange-wide chat ban. That would be inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1559" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T08:24:36.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1119" CreationDate="2011-03-07T20:20:31.287" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The chancery question had some difficulties with English (which I fixed) which made it originally even harder to figure out what the intended meaning was.  Thinking more about the phrase &quot;instead of the whole document&quot;, I think TH's interpretation is correct, since loading the &lt;code&gt;chancery&lt;/code&gt; package makes the entire document &lt;code&gt;chancery&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think the question should definitely be left, since the other question assumes that the person knows the 3 letter code for the font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T20:20:31.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1056" CreationDate="2011-03-08T03:17:36.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went through all the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; and retagged the appropriate ones with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; (or similar). Baring any questions that I might have overlooked, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt; are ready to be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T03:17:36.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1056" CreationDate="2011-03-08T09:53:11.710" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I approved &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt; as synonym to the master tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; and merged it. Now we've got 190 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; questions. Some questions have a duplicate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; tag now, I asked Jeff to run the tag deduplication again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T09:53:11.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1134" CreationDate="2011-03-08T14:47:57.953" Score="5" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an appeal to users with the privilege to retag questions, i.e., everyone with a reputation of 500 or more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that reach our site via migration from stackoverflow.com will almost invariably feature the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; tag. Some of those questions will receive answers, while others will be closed as duplicates. However, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; tag should be removed &lt;em&gt;without exception&lt;/em&gt;, because even a closed question featuring this tag allows users to apply &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; to new questions which is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302/our-set-of-tags&quot;&gt;Not A Good Thing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: If you spot the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; tag, &lt;em&gt;remove it&lt;/em&gt; (and add appropriate tags instead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T10:56:27.787" Title="Questions migrated from stackoverflow.com: Remove the {latex} tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-08T18:37:09.083" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now we have two questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-chains&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-chains&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-chains&lt;/a&gt;.  I was first going to post yet another tagging meta question, but I thought I would be bold and say we do not need a tag for individual TikZ libraries.  I would suspect that TikZ experts can answer questions about tikz-chains, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't suggest the merge since I don't have a high enough score in the tag to do so (you need a 5 in tag to be merged; my bronze &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; medal is no good!)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T22:03:19.607" Title="Shall we merge {tikz-chains} into {tikz-pgf}?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1128" CreationDate="2011-03-08T19:16:53.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Hendrik says, any tag that does not exist here should be removed automatically. However, it seems like Igor recreated &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/12939/revisions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; shortly before &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12953/1235&quot;&gt;the question Hendrik mentions&lt;/a&gt; was merged and the tag wasn't yet completely removed from the database (indeed it is still available now; does anyone know how long it usually takes until a tag becomes unavailable?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should ask for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; to be completely blocked (this is possible, as far as I know). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T19:16:53.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1130" CreationDate="2011-03-08T21:32:17.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest renaming &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-chains&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-chains&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-chains&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chains&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chains&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chains&lt;/a&gt;, for questions about chains in general, such as markow chains and similar diagrams, done with pgf, TikZ, PSTricks, &lt;code&gt;amscd&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;xy-pic&lt;/code&gt; or any other drawing tool. Tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chains&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chains&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chains&lt;/a&gt; are a good tag pair on a question, better than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have got 328 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; questions after some months, I think it's good to have tags for being able to filter. If I would work on a problem with chains, I would be thankful to have such a tag for easy browsing collected questions about chains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chains mean a special kind of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't have a problem with it. They are outstanding, as the existence of the Tikz chains library indicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-03-08T22:03:19.607" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T22:03:19.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="865" CreationDate="2011-03-09T00:22:47.610" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have updated the CAPTCHA image to the lion pic. It will be on live with the next deployment. I wasn't sure if we have the rights to use the image legally. But then  I read on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/lion.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ctan.org/lion.html&lt;/a&gt; as long as we provide attribution, then it was OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI here's how the CAPTCHA image looks like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QAxnD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T00:22:47.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1128" CreationDate="2011-03-09T10:56:27.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added an intrinsic tag of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;^(la)?tex$&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Intrinsic tags are considered &quot;ambient&quot; tags that exist on every question by dint of the site topic. These tags are auto-removed on migration to a target site, but also used as a test of suitability prior to the migration, e.g. if the question on the source site does not contain at least one tag in common with the destination site &lt;em&gt;including intrinsic tags&lt;/em&gt; then the migration is disallowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T10:56:27.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1135" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1137" CreationDate="2011-03-09T20:38:39.603" Score="4" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per our tagging guidelines, tags should be plural if possible. So I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;language&lt;/a&gt; should be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(@Joseph: I think you misinterpreted my flag earlier.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paragraph&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paragraph&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paragraph&lt;/a&gt; should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paragraphs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paragraphs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paragraphs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-03-09T22:15:12.277" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T22:15:12.277" Title="Rename {language} to {languages}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-09T21:19:52.880" Score="8" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I brought that topic up &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1045/some-tagging-questions&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;, but to make matters worse, we now have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sourcecode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sourcecode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sourcecode&lt;/a&gt; too (in addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;). I'd suggest recombining these three tags into two tags: One for the source code of various TeX related programs/packages and one for inclusion of source code into documents (or are there more potential uses for these tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T16:32:58.137" Title="{source}, {code} and {sourcecode}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1135" CreationDate="2011-03-09T22:14:41.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paragraphs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paragraphs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paragraphs&lt;/a&gt; are done, keeping the singular just as synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T22:14:41.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-09T23:47:06.640" Score="6" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the following comment in chat, and it got 4 stars, so I thought I'd raise it on meta to see if we can construct some &quot;How to use the site effectively&quot; content for the FAQ.  (Which is only editable by the mods?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One thing I think the site is sorely&#xA;  missing is some information on how to&#xA;  use it effectively. For example, the&#xA;  FAQ link doesn't do what many people&#xA;  might expect it to do (compared to&#xA;  e.g. a wiki). For example, I don't&#xA;  think that many users know that a good&#xA;  first place to look is in the tags and&#xA;  that clicking on the FAQ link while&#xA;  looking at the questions associated&#xA;  with a tag is a good way to find&#xA;  answers to common questions. This kind&#xA;  of information should be somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T11:18:07.257" Title="How to use tex.se effectively (possible FAQ addition)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1141" CreationDate="2011-03-10T02:09:52.153" Score="14" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point I know how to add a clickable link in my answer, and I can create such a link to a question by copying the URL from the top of the browser. But if I want to make reference to someone else's answer, how do I create a clickable link to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2754" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-05-03T09:51:41.320" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T14:37:42.793" Title="How do I create a link to an answer?" Tags="|support|formatting|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2011-03-10T02:48:27.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The top part of the faq is editable by diamond moderators, feel free to escalate anything you feel is &quot;must read&quot; to that section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, if you feel there are changes to the /faq that would be beneficial to all network sites, we're open to that as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T02:48:27.750" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1139" CreationDate="2011-03-10T02:49:49.410" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each question and answer has a &lt;code&gt;share&lt;/code&gt; link underneath it.  If you click on that, a small box with a link will pop up. You can then simply copy that link and paste into your answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SjxlA.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture of share link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's helpful to insert the question itself as the text of the link. You do this in markup in the following way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[ text here ](link here)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the link is to a question, then the title of that question will be automatically inserted. So&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1139/83 ask about linking to answers.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will display as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1139/83&quot;&gt;How do I create a link to an answer?&lt;/a&gt; ask about linking to answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T14:37:42.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1136" CreationDate="2011-03-10T07:20:10.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We really need three tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax&lt;/a&gt; is currently often used to talk about Tex's eyes and mouth, and how to get Tex code there.  E.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7198/how-to-escape-the-ampersand-character-in-bibtex&quot;&gt;How to escape the &amp;amp; (ampersand) character in BibTeX?&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have some questions about the Latex and Plain Tex sources, which I don't see much of a tagging pattern.  E.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6550/where-is-textunderscore-defined&quot;&gt;Where is \textunderscore defined ?&lt;/a&gt;.  The sole question of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sourcecode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sourcecode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sourcecode&lt;/a&gt; is of this type;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And then we have syntax highlighting questions, which find themselves under &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;.  E.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8851/how-can-i-highlight-some-lines-from-source-code&quot;&gt;How can I highlight some lines from source code?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; are the least consistently used tags, and should be avoided.  By contrast, everyone seems to figure out how to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt;, so I think that should be the destination tag for the type-3 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sources&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sources&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sources&lt;/a&gt; seems a less ambiguous tag name for type-2 questions than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sourcecode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sourcecode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sourcecode&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;, so I recommend that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know about the eyes and mouth questions, except to say that I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax&lt;/a&gt; is not working well.  Would &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eyes%2bmouth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eyes+mouth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eyes+mouth&lt;/a&gt; be too confusing for beginners?  I guess it would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other tags should then be synonyms for these.  I don't care too much about which is which, except that we might pay attention to how these tags are used in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot;&gt;SO-questions tagged latex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T07:20:10.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2011-03-10T10:13:49.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a plan for a while to collect particular meta questions in to an &quot;Unofficial FAQ&quot; which, via the featured tag, would be linked on the main page.  A start on this has been made at: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/56/86&quot;&gt;What goes in the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hendrik and I had some discussion on this in some other question which I can't find right now ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it keeps getting put on the back burner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I've just shifted it to the &lt;em&gt;front&lt;/em&gt; burner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1144/86&quot;&gt;The Unofficial TeX-SX FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T11:18:07.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-10T11:17:00.067" Score="37" ViewCount="819" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to tex.stackexchange.com (otherwise known as TeX-SX or TeX-SE).  This is the &lt;em&gt;unofficial FAQ&lt;/em&gt; which we've put together to help you figure out how to make best use of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; FAQ, linked at the top of every page, but that one is fairly general as it (mostly) applies to all of the sites on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; network.  Although there is much that is the same across the various sites, each is also home to its own community and each therefore has its own quirks and characteristics that are useful to know about (whether or not you are familiar with other of the StackExchange sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What follows is a list of questions, answers, and other posts organised by topic that we, the more experienced users of this site, think would be useful for people to know.  As is standard on FAQs, if there's something you'd like to know that isn't here, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;just ask&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What should I know &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; asking a question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&quot;How do I ...&quot; questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/598&quot;&gt;When writing a comment, how do I ensure that the person it is addressed to gets notified?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/863&quot;&gt;How do I mark inline code?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1192&quot;&gt;How do I mark code blocks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;General formatting help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been told I have to post a follow-up question, why and how?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1852&quot;&gt;How do you accept an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2136&quot;&gt;How can I upload an image to be included in a question or answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&quot;Something weird just happened&quot; questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/59445&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/219&quot;&gt;Which questions should be marked &amp;#39;Community Wiki&amp;#39;? Which ones should just be closed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/197&quot;&gt;SO versus MO model (possible FAQ entry)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1015&quot;&gt;My question was closed as a duplicate, but I still need help. What can I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1272&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t maths render as maths?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What should I bear in mind when writing an answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/227&quot;&gt;Quality Standards for Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/598&quot;&gt;When writing a comment, how do I ensure that the person it is addressed to gets notified?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How else can I contribute to this fanTeXstic site?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/385&quot;&gt;Things to do on a slow day at TeX-SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You Can Edit Other People's Stuff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can clean up some tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/302&quot;&gt;Our set of tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For specifics on some of the above tagging guidelines, see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/294&quot;&gt;About meta-tagging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/336&quot;&gt;FAQ request: encourage use of [big-list] meta-tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/365&quot;&gt;What to do with the &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39; tag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Other resources&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7931&quot;&gt;FAQ for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; (on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2976&quot;&gt;New user asking for TeX.SX usage tips and tricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T06:04:45.127" Title="The Unofficial TeX-SX FAQ" Tags="|support|faq|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-10T14:07:43.307" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-10T11:21:54.803" Score="14" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1144/the-unofficial-tex-sx-faq&quot;&gt;The Unofficial TeX-SX FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep that one clean, this one is for discussion about it.  Things to decide upon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Layout&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formatting of the subsidiary questions (and how to keep &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; clean)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should go in it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything else anyone can think of&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the last, I took the list of links in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56/what-goes-in-the-faq&quot;&gt;What goes in the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt; and tried to divide them roughly according to category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I've asked for the main question to be made CW.  I suspect that most things aren't going to be controversial, and those that are will be &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; controversial, so there shouldn't be any danger in people editing stuff in if they think it should be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May I recommend that specific proposals get put in fresh answers to this question, whereupon forthcoming discussion on each proposal continues in its comment thread; that way we get a modicum of threading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T06:09:18.263" Title="The Unofficial FAQ - discussion" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2011-03-10T18:39:27.267" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I now wrote a JavaScript file which does link all packages written in back-ticks to the CTAN catalogue or package information page. You can use it with Firefox browsers using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; extension. If it should point to the package information page instead &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Downloads:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CTAN Catalogue&lt;/a&gt;:  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scharrer-online.de/raw-attachment/wiki/Software/files/autolink_packages.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;autolink_packages.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Links to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CTAN Package Information Page&lt;/a&gt;:  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scharrer-online.de/raw-attachment/wiki/Software/files/autolink_packages_info.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;autolink_packages_info.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this to work the package name must be written &lt;em&gt;on its own&lt;/em&gt; inside &lt;em&gt;back-ticks&lt;/em&gt;, like &lt;code&gt;`hyperref`&lt;/code&gt;. The package must be known to the script which contains the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;current list of packages&lt;/a&gt;. It should work in question, answers and comments on the main site and on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tests:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following packages should be linked once the script is installed:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;svn-multi&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following other texts in back-ticks should not be linked:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{array}&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;%^^&amp;amp;*(&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;notapackagename&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;unknownpackage&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Manually linked packages should not be changed:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latex.scharrer-online.de/svn-multi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;svn-multi&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latex.scharrer-online.de/tikz-timing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tikz-timing&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-03-11T13:53:37.490" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:53:37.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2011-03-10T19:19:07.060" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are client-side workarounds for this too.  I use TextExpander for the Mac.  I type the package name, cut it to the clipboard, type &lt;code&gt;,ctan&lt;/code&gt;, and I get the proper link. AutoHotKey for Windows does something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T19:19:07.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1145" CreationDate="2011-03-11T06:22:09.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should have a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/59445/155585&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; in the unofficial faq, but I'm not sure where. Whenever it happens that the site looks different, this is the place where on can find help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I've now put a link under &quot;Something Weird Just Happened&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T17:47:14.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="598" CreationDate="2011-03-11T06:29:53.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From meta.SO, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/82134/155585&quot;&gt;Micro-refinement to notifications for comments of others posts&lt;/a&gt;: If a user comments on their own post and there is only one person who has previously commented, then that person gets notified when the &lt;em&gt;post author&lt;/em&gt; comments even if '@user' is not specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was implemented on 9 March 2011. It is particularly helpful for new users trying to give feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T06:29:53.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1099" CreationDate="2011-03-11T10:24:45.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed as of rev 2011.3.11.9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tested in both Chromium 9.0 and Firefox 3.6.14 on Ubuntu 10.10&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T10:24:45.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-11T13:15:00.587" Score="14" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; used to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to tex.sx!  Note that it is unusual to have any greeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to put as a comment under questions which start &quot;Dear all,&quot;.  To me this comment sounds like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello.  Don't say hello.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two discussion points came up to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although I think we should encourage users to write clean questions, we also want to make them feel welcome, and I wonder if having their first feedback from the community be a reprimand for their use of a simple greeting accomplishes that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;unusual&quot; strikes me as underscoring the newbie's newbieness, since they obviously don't know what's usual.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited that block to say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to tex.sx! It's not necessary to sign your questions (as there is already a box with your username below it) or to begin them with a greeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but it could still use some work.  I left out &quot;Note that&quot; since it doesn't make any difference in the sentence and only serves to make the writer sound/seem important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Customary&quot; might be a better replacement for &quot;usual&quot;, although &quot;uncustomary&quot; doesn't really have the right connotation either.  Perhaps it's better to say &quot;It's customary around here to do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;instead of &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; rather than &quot;It's unusual/uncustomary to do &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know not all users (questioners and answerers) are native English users, so please don't take offense with my nitpicks over word choices.  But I might be tweaking the building blocks more to improve the effect they're designed for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T20:20:04.947" Title="Hello. Don't say hello." Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1152" CreationDate="2011-03-11T20:20:04.947" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#signatures&quot;&gt;this from the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Can I use a signature or tagline?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don’t use signatures or taglines in your posts. Every post you make is already &amp;quot;signed&amp;quot; with your standard user card, which links directly back to your user page. Your user page belongs to you — fill it with information about your interests, links to stuff you’ve worked on, or whatever else you like!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not explicitly mention greetings, but the same logic applies. &lt;strong&gt;You could just cite the faq&lt;/strong&gt; and leave out the &amp;quot;welcome!&amp;quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(should we update the global /faq to include mention of greetings?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T20:20:04.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1156" CreationDate="2011-03-12T17:35:57.833" Score="13" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Sorry for another complaint about a missing badge. I really seem to be dogged by bad luck in this respect.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &quot;Badges&quot; page, the requirement for earning an &quot;Enlightened&quot; badge (which can be awarded multiple times) is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First answer was accepted with at&#xA;  least 10 up votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have earned the &quot;Enlightened&quot; badge eight times so far. About 19 hours ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/guidelines-for-customizing-biblatex-styles/13076#13076&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to &quot;Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles&quot; -- the first and (so far) only answer -- had gained its 10th upvote and had become accepted. None of my other &quot;Enlightened&quot; answers had been downvoted to a score of below 10 or had their acceptance revoked, so according to the rules I should have earned a ninth &quot;Enlightened&quot; badge. This hasn't happened so far, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware of a potentially crucial facet: &quot;Guidelines to customizing biblatex styles&quot; is one of my own questions, so it was me who accepted my answer (after it had gained a score of +10). However, I rummaged through Meta.SO and didn't spot any rule or statement saying answers to own questions aren't eligible for the &quot;Enlightened&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd really like someone to shed light on this matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-16T07:04:10.727" Title="Why didn't I earn another “Enlightened” badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1154" CreationDate="2011-03-12T19:03:01.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally it takes a few hours until you get it. I get mine normally one hour after the connected &lt;em&gt;Nice Answer&lt;/em&gt; bronze badge. The badge conditions are only checked in certain time intervals by the database. However, 20 hours seems long enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really say that self-accepted answers are excluded by the badge system to prevent abuse. Ok, you still need 10 other people to vote it up ...&#xA;I wouldn't be surprised if this rule isn't explicitly mentioned. Anyway, you might want to ask the question if badges are excluded from self-accepted answers in meta.SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-03-12T19:03:01.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1154" CreationDate="2011-03-12T20:00:43.153" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Self-accepts are not eligible for this badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-12T20:00:43.153" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-12T22:00:37.073" Score="5" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please reprimand me if it's against etiquette that I'm using a particular question as a peg: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13284/1235&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was asked in good faith, but when I see the present state of it, then it seems that the OP might have lost interest in it. Martin Scharrer has asked him to post an answer, which is good, and it's also good to wait a bit so that the OP can do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: Would it be good to vote to close such questions as &quot;not a real question&quot;? As I said, it shouldn't be closed immediately, but from time to time we have questions of a similar type that stay open without answers, and I think &quot;not a real question&quot; is a close reason that makes kind of sense here. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A close reason I'm somewhat missing in this connection is &quot;OP failed to provide details&quot;. But I won't make that a feature-request; I expect the answer would be 'chose &quot;not a real question&quot; instead'.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;If we follow the time frame &quot;~ month&quot; from Joseph's comment to Martin's answer, then another question pops up: What could be the means to really &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; close some questions after more than a month? The &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; list helps, but how could we gather 5 close votes then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T20:29:36.193" Title="Should we close more questions as &quot;not a real question&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1157" CreationDate="2011-03-13T06:10:16.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been only 14 hours since the question has been asked, and the OP might have a legitimate reason not to come back to check the progress -- it's weekend after all, and people have all sorts of crazy things to do instead of earning rep on TeX-SE :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, I agree that there should be a reasonable period after which  questions without sufficient information are closed, &lt;strong&gt;provided they don't have a useful answer yet&lt;/strong&gt; (even if it's anybody's guess whether this solves the OP problem). I'd suggest something like at least a week or so, and the questions can be merely closed. If the OP comes back around and complains on meta (hopefully they will, instead of simply leaving with frustration, never to come back again), these can be reopened, edited and answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again -- being &lt;strong&gt;too&lt;/strong&gt; vigilant is definitely to be avoided. I'd hate it if TeX-SE ends up having a &quot;close police&quot; like the SO guys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T06:10:16.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1045" CreationDate="2011-03-13T19:36:11.617" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could a mod please rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format-files&lt;/a&gt;, as Stefan suggested. I retagged the other questions in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt; to more appropriate tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-03-13T20:12:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T20:12:34.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1161" CreationDate="2011-03-14T02:30:21.350" Score="3" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13272/hanging-references-using-fullcite&quot;&gt;hanging references using \fullcite&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few hours later someone else posted this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13348/fullcite-not-printing-references-in-apa-format&quot;&gt;\fullcite not printing references in apa format&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to both questions is exactly the same.  Should I post my answer in two places, or should the questions be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T10:45:47.917" Title="Different questions with the same answer" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1160" CreationDate="2011-03-14T08:22:40.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that in this case then merging seems a reasonable thing to do, particularly as the questioner in the second case says that the answer to the first solves their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I would caution against drawing a general conclusion from this specific case.  The answers being the same does not imply that the questions were the same, and I think that merging implies that they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T08:22:40.210" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1006" CreationDate="2011-03-14T08:29:28.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;All questions formerly tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; have been retagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; or whatever else seemed appropriate. This meta question can be tagged as &quot;status-completed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T08:29:28.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1160" CreationDate="2011-03-14T10:45:47.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not an an answer, but rather another case: The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13323/how-to-disable-the-prompt-on-error&quot;&gt;How to disable the prompt on error?&lt;/a&gt; looks like a duplicate and/or merge candidate of those three question to me: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5644/ignore-compile-errors&quot;&gt;Ignore compile errors&lt;/a&gt; (as mentioned by Alan), &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2584/suppressing-error-messages&quot;&gt;Suppressing error messages&lt;/a&gt; (interestingly, this one has very different answers), &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12770/how-to-prevent-pdflatex-to-stop-working-due-to-an-invalid-input-file&quot;&gt;How to prevent pdflatex to stop working due to an invalid input file?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T10:45:47.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1157" CreationDate="2011-03-14T14:55:23.353" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Posting this as an answer so that it can be voted on separately.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think if a user posts a question, then it's their duty to check on it in due time, which in &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; feeling is ~1 day, maybe even less. If the user fails to provide requested details after 1 day, then I'd find it reasonable to close the question immediately, &lt;em&gt;given that a polite comment is left&lt;/em&gt;, explaining what the OP will have to do in order to have the question reopened. I just realize that we have no proper Building Block for such a case yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T14:55:23.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-14T15:13:58.603" Score="12" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;(StackExchange thinks my question is subjective and likely to be closed. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got this comment &quot;Will upvote you once I get 15 reputation (shame that you can't even upvote an answer to your own question as a newbie...)&quot; on an answer. Is that really true? If so, it's a decidedly odd choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2013-07-12T07:21:09.480" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T07:21:09.480" Title="Does it really take 15 rep to upvote an answer to your own question?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|voting|new-users|privileges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1165" CreationDate="2011-03-14T15:29:43.530" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it does, and yes, it's odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be reasons for not allowing low-rep users to upvote each and every question/answer, but they should be able to upvote answers to their own questions. At the very least, accepting an answer should automatically count as upvoting it (which would also do away with zero-score accepted answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T15:29:43.530" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1165" CreationDate="2011-03-14T19:03:23.607" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you put your game theory hat on, I hope it's easy to see how allowing this would allow massive reputation-based exploits. Anyway, it's sort of intentional that solutions be vetted by a third party who is more objective than the question asker, or even the people answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that new users &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; accept an answer to their question, which gives them +2 rep and the target user +15 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and, they can leave comments on their question and all its answers even with 1 rep.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T19:03:23.607" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1157" CreationDate="2011-03-14T20:29:36.193" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What could be the means to really do close some questions after more than a month? The &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; list helps, but how could we gather 5 close votes then?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say what you're doing on chat or meta.  If this situation keeps cropping up, then we could have a &quot;Closing RfC&quot; thread here on meta to group them together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T20:29:36.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-15T09:31:01.473" Score="6" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is very much related to Andrew's post &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1061/improving-editing-suggestions-etiquette&quot;&gt;Improving editing suggestions etiquette&lt;/a&gt;, but with a different emphasis. Hope it's OK to have this as a separate question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that everyone can suggest edits to any post, it might be helpful to discuss how we handle the edit suggestions. The cause for my question is this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13347/use-or-redefine-a-tag-command-in-text-mode&quot;&gt;Use (or redefine a) \tag command in text mode&lt;/a&gt;. It seems that an anonymous user proposed to fix the typo in &quot;pair of parensis&quot; (which is good), and the suggestion was to change it to &quot;pair of parenthese&quot;. This &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; contains a typo and hence shouldn't have been approved, but that actually isn't the point I want to make:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the main point is that &lt;em&gt;the edit suggestion didn't go far enough&lt;/em&gt;; just this one edit couldn't really improve the post: There's inline code to mark, there are more typos, the wording could be improved. I'm not demanding that a proposed edit has to catch every single bit, but such incomplete edits don't justify bumping the question half a day later (and moving it one step closer to community wiki).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's what I propose: For &lt;em&gt;anonymous&lt;/em&gt; incomplete suggested edits, reject the edit and make a more complete edit. Same for &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; incomplete edit suggestions by registered users. If you want to give the registered user credit, have a look at the meta question mentioned above: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1061/improving-editing-suggestions-etiquette&quot;&gt;Improving editing suggestions etiquette&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Personally, I see pros and cons in suggested edits: On the one hand they can and do help improving our site, on the other hand I think it takes more effort to see if an edit was good than doing it myself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T10:14:12.567" Title="How do we deal with suggested edits?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1169" CreationDate="2011-03-15T10:14:12.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should also be (read: &lt;em&gt;there is&lt;/em&gt;) an [improve] button that allows you to &quot;edit the edit&quot; as it were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T10:14:12.567" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-15T11:18:44.783" Score="6" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had 13 new users in the two hours since &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326545&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Hacker News story&lt;/a&gt; was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should any of them chance to look at Meta, welcome to tex.sx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if Hacker News is a good place to attract Texthusiasts?  That HN link is a discussion item, which is maybe not the best kind of referral for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T14:11:46.453" Title="Welcome to new users, HN edition" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-16T01:42:07.787" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag wikis on Meta don't show the edit button to suggest edits. Empty tag wikis have a “Propose Tag Wiki” button, but it doesn't do anything. So only 20k users and mods can edit tag wikis on Meta. Is this by design? If so, then the page for empty tag wikis is misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="25639" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T10:32:53.717" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T10:32:53.717" Title="Not possible to edit tag-wikis on Meta." Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|meta|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1188" CreationDate="2011-03-16T01:45:24.367" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;On empty tag wiki pages, the following text is displayed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All registered users may propose new&#xA;  tag wikis. Click &lt;strong&gt;Create Tag Wiki&lt;/strong&gt; below&#xA;  to get started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the actual button is “Propose Tag Wiki”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-03-18T21:23:45.480" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T21:23:45.480" Title="Inconsistent wording on empty tag wiki pages." Tags="|bug|status-completed|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1172" CreationDate="2011-03-16T06:57:12.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Citing &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1789/cant-suggest-edits-to-tag-wikis-on-meta-excerpts-not-consistently-shown-on-tags/1793#1793&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer from meta.math.sx&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mess with meta tag wikis -- we plan to export all the common, standard meta tag wikis from meta.so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There might be an exception for topic specific, special per-site meta tags but these are quite rare in my experience.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definitely encourage anyone interested to assist in editing the main site tag wikis, however, particularly the page 1 tags.. please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T09:55:18.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1061" CreationDate="2011-03-16T08:37:33.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a partial answer to the &amp;quot;automatically convert to CW&amp;quot; issue. Citing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/1770/automatic-community-wikification-of-very-long-answers-with-lots-of-edits/1798#1798&quot;&gt;Geoff Dalgas' answer from meta.math.sx&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have added a feature that can be invoked by moderators to transform a question or an answer from community wiki back to personal ownership. Once this is done the post will become immune from the automatic wiki assignment due to edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This function is moderator only; when you feel a post should be immune from automatic community wikification, use the &amp;quot;flag for moderator attention&amp;quot; function on a post to let your community moderators know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T08:37:33.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-17T03:00:15.597" Score="7" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not have any idea what tag to apply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13696/crossing-out-sentences&quot;&gt;Crossing out sentences&lt;/a&gt;. So I invented &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-decorations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-decorations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-decorations&lt;/a&gt;, which would cover underlines, strike-outs, etc. Do you think this is a useful tag to keep, and if so, should we retroactively apply it to relevant questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: It seems that the general idea is accepted, but the name of the tag could be improved. The following suggestions have been made&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-decorations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-decorations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-decorations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-properties&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-properties&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-properties&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-formatting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-effects&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-effects&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-effects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;separate tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/underlining&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;underlining&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;underlining&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/strike-out&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;strike-out&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;strike-out&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T19:03:22.870" Title="text-decorations tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1176" CreationDate="2011-03-17T08:34:35.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I was tempted to create a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/underlining&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;underlining&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;underlining&lt;/a&gt; tag for another question but didn't do it because the tag seemed so petty. However, a more general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-decorations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-decorations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-decorations&lt;/a&gt; tag is a good idea. And yes, I would apply such a tag retroactively. (But then, I'm lockstep. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T08:34:35.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1176" CreationDate="2011-03-17T11:03:10.247" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quich &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=underline&quot;&gt;search for underline&lt;/a&gt; and also for underlining shows some questions - in my opinion already enough to get a tag. Many have tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-general&lt;/a&gt;--tagging could be more specific there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-decorations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-decorations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-decorations&lt;/a&gt; tag though. Does a new user with a question about underlining really find this tag? I don't have a problem with an expressive &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/underlining&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;underlining&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;underlining&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As known, retagging should be done sparingly and very discreetly if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T11:03:10.247" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1176" CreationDate="2011-03-17T12:56:33.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we did want &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; generic term to cover all these sorts of things (underlining, strikeout, osv) then perhaps &lt;strong&gt;-effects&lt;/strong&gt; is better than &lt;strong&gt;-decorations&lt;/strong&gt;.  I feel that &quot;effects&quot; is a more common term (but then I could be wrong, and I'm probably the worst person to comment on tags as I've yet to figure out what to do with them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T12:56:33.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1176" CreationDate="2011-03-17T14:18:13.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that if a tag is to be useful it has to cover a large enough but not overly large range of questions.  {text-decorations} is &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; tikz :-)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want this tag to include questions about e.g. changing font shapes/weights? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about {text-properties} (or to use a term familiar to Word users {character-formatting} (which in Word is contrasted with {paragraph-formatting}))?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T14:18:13.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-17T19:05:18.620" Score="103" ViewCount="6055" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Quick links:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LaTeX&amp;nbsp;Packages&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2484&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A-M&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2817&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;N-Z&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; ❧ &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1182&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LaTeX&amp;nbsp;Classes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; ❧ &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2486&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ConTeXt&amp;nbsp;Modules&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; ❧ &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2487&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Generic&amp;nbsp;Packages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; ❧ &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2488&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Support&amp;nbsp;Scripts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; ❧ &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2485&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Biblatex&amp;nbsp;Styles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fair few users here have written or maintain packages on CTAN, some even in the TeX Live distribution, or at the least have some official involvement with a package or packages.  I think that it would be useful to have a list of these people, ordered (in some fashion) by package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning is twofold.  Firstly, if one of these people answers a question on &quot;their&quot; package, I would hold that answer in higher regard than if Jo User answers it and would be willing to place more confidence in it.  Secondly, if a question turns up that is about that package then it might be useful to know who to nudge about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I most emphatically would not want is that regular people (such as myself) stop answering questions on packages where the maintainer is present - that would be counterproductive - so if people feel that that would happen, please vote to close and delete this!  But if people are willing to try, we could have a single CW answer to this question where people can list the packages that they are connected to (and it should be that people only answer for themselves, not for others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This question is - rightly - CW and has now been edited so much that the original author is not immediately obvious.  As it was written in the first person and contains opinions, I thought it best to make it clear that the original author was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86/loopspace&quot;&gt;LoopSpace&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2023-05-24T15:10:59.253" Title="Who are the package maintainers here?" Tags="|discussion|community|big-list|package-authors|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-17T19:29:47.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="1184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-18T17:40:59.907" Score="15" ViewCount="1960" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2046/community-promotion-ads-1h-2012&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they will appear on the main site as community promotion ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But whyyyyyyy?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scripts packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. And to click on it for great justice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1184&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T18:26:27.727" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="15" ClosedDate="2011-12-02T11:45:31.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-18T17:41:32.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-03-18T17:47:04.627" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackTex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2VnD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditDate="2011-03-18T18:13:49.490" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T18:13:49.490" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-18T17:47:04.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1187" CreationDate="2011-03-18T20:03:23.940" Score="7" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to include a link in a comment (to question 13831 -- would appreciate it if someone fixes it), and failed miserably to get it to format correctly.  the link is to a document in an &lt;code&gt;ftp://...&lt;/code&gt; area, not &lt;code&gt;http://...&lt;/code&gt; I tried to follow the help suggestion, but that didn't improve anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On earlier posts or comments the html formula &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;...&quot;&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; appeared to work (although i noticed soon after that someone had edited it but i couldn't see the underlying code).  i haven't checked the faq about this just now, but i don't remember seeing anything useful there.  the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;&quot;Code and Preformatted Text&quot;&lt;/a&gt; page &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; say that the html syntax can be used, as does the &quot;How to Format&quot; box on the &quot;ask question&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the conventions for coding in comments different than those for questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T20:30:56.010" Title="How do i code a link in a comment if the link is to an ftp:// site?" Tags="|support|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1186" CreationDate="2011-03-18T20:27:29.560" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://example.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt; produced by: &lt;code&gt;[Example](ftp://example.org)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seem to be the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that HTML that works in answers doesn't always work in comments. For example &lt;em&gt;&amp;epsilon;&lt;/em&gt;-TeX (&lt;code&gt;_&amp;amp;epsilon;_-TeX&lt;/code&gt;) doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T20:27:29.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1173" CreationDate="2011-03-18T21:23:39.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Changing it to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Click the button below to get started&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since the actual text can vary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T21:23:39.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1193" CreationDate="2011-03-22T16:31:05.257" Score="31" ViewCount="11704" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I mark code blocks, and how do I adjust syntax highlighting? Can I emphasize pieces of my code block? And how do code blocks in lists and blockquotes work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-02-03T14:53:30.143" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T16:21:07.420" Title="How do I mark code blocks?" Tags="|support|faq|markdown|code|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-22T16:44:11.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1192" CreationDate="2011-03-22T16:31:54.430" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest way is to indent your code block by 4 spaces: To get the output&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[paper=a5,pagesize]{scrbook}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;just type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;    \documentclass[paper=a5,pagesize]{scrbook}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; empty line is essential, the last one is recommended.)&#xA;If you have more than one line, then it's simpler to highlight the code block and hit &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; (or click the &amp;quot;code&amp;quot; button, with &amp;quot;{}&amp;quot; on it). This auto-indents the highlighted code by 4 spaces (and also adds the empty lines in the beginning and in the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x12Rq.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x12Rq.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;See below for code blocks in lists and blockquotes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Syntax highlighting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By default, your code gets some LaTeX syntax highlighting. (This doesn't work on meta.tex.sx, so unfortunately you can't see it here.) If you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want this syntax highlighting, you can use a special HTML comment to specify the language. For &lt;em&gt;no highlighting&lt;/em&gt;, use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    (J:\MiKTeX2.9\tex\latex\elsarticle\elsarticle.cls&#xA;    Document Class: elsarticle 2009/09/17, 1.2.0: Elsevier Ltd&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You wouldn't want &lt;code&gt;\MiKTeX&lt;/code&gt; to be highlighted as a control sequence, right?) Note that the HTML comment must &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be indented, and that the blank line between the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: ... --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and the indented code block is &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt;. For a list of supported languages have a look here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78363/manually-specify-language-for-syntax-highlighting/81971#81971&quot;&gt;Manually specify language for syntax highlighting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Emphasizing pieces of the code&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to highlight parts of your code using &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;em&gt;slanted&lt;/em&gt; text, or if you want to &lt;s&gt;strike something out&lt;/s&gt;, you have to use the HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag instead of 4 space indentation. For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;\documentclass[paper=a5,&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pagesize&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;]{scrbook}&#xA;\usepackage&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;[draft]&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;{graphicx}&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;\documentclass[paper=a5,&lt;i&gt;pagesize&lt;/i&gt;]{scrbook}&#xA;\usepackage&lt;b&gt;[draft]&lt;/b&gt;{graphicx}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84290/can-the-pre-tag-start-in-a-new-line-possible-previewer-bug/99600#99600&quot;&gt;should be on separate lines&lt;/a&gt;, without indentation.)&#xA;For striking something out, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;Using just &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; you don't get syntax highlighting, so you can use this as an alternative to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Be careful, however, to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; if you want &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks; you may also need &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; for &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want syntax highlighting &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; additional emphasis in &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;em&gt;slanted&lt;/em&gt;, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; inside the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\documentclass[paper=a5,&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pagesize&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;]{scrbook}&#xA;\usepackage&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;[draft]&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;{graphicx}&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there are no line breaks after &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and before &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;; otherwise the code block would start and end with an empty line (as the second code block in this very answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Code blocks in lists&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your code appears inside a list, you must indent a &lt;em&gt;further four spaces&lt;/em&gt; for every level of nesting. An example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. The first point I want to make&#xA;&#xA;        This is the code&#xA;&#xA;1. The second point I want to make&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first point I want to make&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; This is the code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second point I want to make&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you need 8 spaces in the first level, 12 spaces in the second level and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Code blocks after lists&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a code block immediately &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; a list, you &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3327/code-block-is-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-item/99637#99637&quot;&gt;need to put an HTML comment&lt;/a&gt; between the list and the code block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. This is part of a list&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- an HTML comment --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    This is the code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is part of a list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is the code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Code blocks in blockquotes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A blockquote is started with &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;/code&gt;, and a code block with 4 spaces, so for a code block within a blockquote you need &lt;em&gt;5&lt;/em&gt; spaces after the &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. An example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; This is (not) a quote from the TeXbook, and here's some code:&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;     \relax&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is (not) a quote from the TeXbook, and here's some code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\relax&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T16:21:07.420" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-22T16:31:54.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1145" CreationDate="2011-03-22T17:48:28.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/374/link-to-editing-help&quot;&gt;Link to editing help?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is not useful; a &lt;em&gt;direct&lt;/em&gt; link to editing help would be better. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T17:48:28.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1197" CreationDate="2011-03-22T18:14:58.297" Score="7" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some time ago, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newcommand&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/renewcommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;renewcommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;renewcommand&lt;/a&gt; tags as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/commands&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;commands&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;commands&lt;/a&gt; tag were merged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;. As a complement, I propose to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newenvironment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newenvironment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newenvironment&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/renewenvironment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;renewenvironment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;renewenvironment&lt;/a&gt; synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/environments&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;environments&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;environments&lt;/a&gt; and to merge the existing tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-03-23T22:16:31.873" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T22:16:31.873" Title="Make {newenvironment} and {renewenvironment} synonyms of {environments}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1195" CreationDate="2011-03-23T08:23:53.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question has reached a score of +4 and has some positive and no negative comments, I ask a moderator to implement my proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T08:23:53.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2011-03-24T01:31:53.430" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a huge fan of any automated &quot;one size fits all&quot; processes like this, but as an experiment to see what happens, it's OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also be interested in this script&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/pro-forma-comments&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/pro-forma-comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which would make it easier to refer and use to this set of standard comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T01:31:53.430" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-24T01:31:53.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1200" CreationDate="2011-03-24T15:34:08.157" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click on a tag on the main site, for example on the LuaTeX-Tag, I get to the page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luatex&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luatex&lt;/a&gt;. But the page is &quot;empty&quot; (no answers) except for the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;You are on the Featured tab.&#xA;There are no questions with an active bounty at the moment.&#xA;Perhaps you'd like to select a different tab?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this on purpose? I am confused by this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more on this bug (I wonder why the bug-tag was removed). The tags page remember some last visited page (featured, faq, ...) so clicking on a tag gives a different behavior in different circumstances. The URL I gave above depends on some internal state that is not visible to the user. I am pretty sure this is not the desired behavior of this SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T16:28:48.577" Title="Clicking on a tag gives no result" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1199" CreationDate="2011-03-24T15:57:18.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &quot;You are on the Featured tab.&quot; This means that you're looking at featured questions only at the moment, and there's no featured question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luatex&lt;/a&gt;. Just click on one of &quot;newest&quot;, &quot;faq&quot;, &quot;votes&quot;, &quot;active&quot; or &quot;unanswered&quot;, according to what you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T15:57:18.463" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-25T13:21:38.793" Score="9" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;So this has come up a couple of times, should we have a &quot;do not do this&quot; tag? For questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14192/215&quot;&gt;copying the .sty files to PWD&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14234/215&quot;&gt;renewing &lt;code&gt;\thesection&lt;/code&gt; to remove section number&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T01:51:28.473" Title="&quot;do not do this&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2011-03-25T13:47:43.063" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I suggested this in chat, I was being a little facetious.  I think that this comes under the same rules as &quot;best practices&quot; and similar &quot;meta&quot; tags.  If there is a situation where one thinks, &quot;Yes, that is &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; possible, but your life is going to be much easier if you don't do that.&quot;, then I think that an &quot;answer&quot; explaining why the whatever-it-is shouldn't be done would be much better.  The questioner may not have known that there was a better way and just putting &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dont-do-this&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dont-do-this&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dont-do-this&lt;/a&gt; on it would be a bit rude.  Better to say, &quot;If you're trying to achieve &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; then a better way would be &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; because &lt;em&gt;Z&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;.  That also means that you don't look an idiot when they reply, &quot;Actually, I know all about &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Z&lt;/em&gt;, but I want to do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; because of &lt;em&gt;W&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; (where &lt;em&gt;W&lt;/em&gt; is actually some bizarre but perfectly valid reason for doing &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T13:47:43.063" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2011-03-25T21:45:15.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely be ready to apply it to some of my &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; questions. Although I can understand that tagging someone else's question like that would not be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2707" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T21:45:15.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2011-03-25T22:49:12.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;diy.stackexchange has a [dangerous] tag, useful for things like: electrical work on live wiring, DIY asbestos removal, use of non-rated connectors with gas appliances, operation of chainsaws while naked, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="627" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T22:49:12.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1213" CreationDate="2011-03-26T03:17:45.607" Score="10" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;What purpose does the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typesetting&lt;/a&gt; tag serve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typesetting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Typesetting is the retrieval of the&#xA;  stored letters (called sorts in&#xA;  mechanical systems and glyphs in&#xA;  digital systems) and the ordering of&#xA;  them according to a language's&#xA;  orthography for visual display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence it is what TeX does internally, though I think the process of writing a TeX file is usually also called typesetting. Reading through the list of questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typesetting&lt;/a&gt; I see several questions that should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typography&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typography&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt;, some where &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typesetting&lt;/a&gt; is entirely superfluous and some where it is applied as a catch-all tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typesetting&lt;/a&gt; be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-03-30T11:15:34.853" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T11:15:34.853" Title="The {typesetting} tag." Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1218" CreationDate="2011-03-26T12:14:53.917" Score="5" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, at least the following tags exist in the spacing/alignment area:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spacing&lt;/a&gt; (137 questions) -- according to its &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/spacing/info&quot;&gt;wiki entry&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;[t]his tag marks questions dealing with both horizontal and vertical white space. This might be space between letters or words, or space between lines or paragraphs&quot;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;line-spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;line-spacing&lt;/a&gt; (22 questions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/setspace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;setspace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;setspace&lt;/a&gt; (for the &lt;code&gt;setspace&lt;/code&gt; package -- 7 questions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertical-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertical-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertical-alignment&lt;/a&gt; (80 questions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt; (42 questions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alignment&lt;/a&gt; (30 questions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vspace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vspace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vspace&lt;/a&gt; (12 questions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centering&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centering&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centering&lt;/a&gt; (23 questions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raggedleft&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raggedleft&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raggedleft&lt;/a&gt; (3 questions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/flushright&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;flushright&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;flushright&lt;/a&gt; (2 questions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spacing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;line-spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;line-spacing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/setspace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;setspace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;setspace&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertical-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertical-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertical-alignment&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt; alone. For the rest, I propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alignment&lt;/a&gt; should be manually assigned to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertical-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertical-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertical-alignment&lt;/a&gt; or the more general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spacing&lt;/a&gt; tag;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vspace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vspace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vspace&lt;/a&gt; should be manually assigned to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertical-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertical-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertical-alignment&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spacing&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centering&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centering&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centering&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raggedleft&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raggedleft&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raggedleft&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/flushright&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;flushright&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;flushright&lt;/a&gt; should be made synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt;, and the existing questions should be merged. The (so-far) non existing tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raggedright&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raggedright&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raggedright&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/flushleft&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;flushleft&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;flushleft&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/justifying&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;justifying&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;justifying&lt;/a&gt; (a &lt;code&gt;ragged2e&lt;/code&gt; environment) should also be made synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The (so-far) non existing tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raggedbottom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raggedbottom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raggedbottom&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/flushbottom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;flushbottom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;flushbottom&lt;/a&gt; should be made synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertical-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertical-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertical-alignment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As a week has passed and my proposal has gained some upvotes and no downvotes, I ask a moderator to create synonyms and merge existing tags according to points 3 and 4 of my proposal. (Questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alignment&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vspace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vspace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vspace&lt;/a&gt; will be retagged manually, including the modification proposed by Seamus.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T18:17:57.447" Title="{spacing}, {alignment} &amp; friends" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2011-03-26T14:33:34.853" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm against such a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not a meaningful category.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't build a relationship between subjects besides telling there's something wrong&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I doubt anybody would use this for filtering or look-up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who should be interessted in following the tag, who would use the tag to find questions he could answer?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers are more about doing sth. than questions, it's more likely that an answer might deserve such a sign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody posts a question or an answer and thinks it deserves such a sign, he could choose a symbol for that, usable both in questions and answers. Other people could suggest such a sign by writing a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example, found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Ambox_warning_yellow.svg/40px-Ambox_warning_yellow.svg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikimedia.org&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pQoYw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-26T14:33:34.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1217" CreationDate="2011-03-26T16:58:25.110" Score="5" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/bibtex/info&quot;&gt;bibtex tag wiki entry&lt;/a&gt; reads: &quot;This tag is for questions that concern Oren Patashnik's BibTeX program and its use.&quot; At the moment, there are 121 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex&lt;/a&gt;. In my opinion, they can be divided into three categories (nicely represented by the three questions with the highest vote number):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the BibTeX format -- its possibilities and pitfalls, and how to obtain/create/modify files in this format (Example question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/143/what-are-good-sites-to-find-citations-in-bibtex-format&quot;&gt;What are good sites to find citations in BibTex format?&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the BibTeX program -- how to use it, and how to obtain/create/modify &lt;code&gt;.bst&lt;/code&gt; (BibTeX style) files (Example question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/961/bibtex-style-that-groups-by-author&quot;&gt;BibTeX style that groups by author&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question that use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex&lt;/a&gt; as a complement/surrogate for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibliographies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibliographies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibliographies&lt;/a&gt; resp. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;citing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt; tags , although the problem is about formatting the &lt;code&gt;thebibliograpyhy&lt;/code&gt; environment resp. citation commands (Example question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5571/reduce-bibliography-to-one-line&quot;&gt;Reduce bibliography to one line&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest (besides retagging the third category) to split the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex&lt;/a&gt; tag into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex-format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex-format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex-format&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex-program&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex-program&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex-program&lt;/a&gt;. I do so especially for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being familiar with the BibTeX format does not equate to being versed in &lt;code&gt;.bst&lt;/code&gt; hackery. (Case in point: At the moment, I'm the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/bibtex/topusers&quot;&gt;top user&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex&lt;/a&gt; tag, and I know next to nothing about the &lt;code&gt;.bst&lt;/code&gt; format. I guess Herbert would be the top user of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex-program&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex-program&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex-program&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The BibTeX format will be supported by &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; in the future, while usage of the BibTeX program as a backend for &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; will be terminated (see PLK's comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13573/biblatex-style-with-multiple-bibliographies-in-one-document/13575#13575&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-05-15T06:27:32.427" Title="Split the {bibtex} tag into {bibtex-format} and {bibtex-program}" Tags="|discussion|status-declined|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1210" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-27T22:09:56.053" Score="20" ViewCount="773" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of you may be familiar with Detexify (http://detexify.kirelabs.org). I have a prototype of the next version online at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sketch-a-char.kirelabs.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sketch-a-char.kirelabs.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask you – the TeX-using community – if this seems to be the right direction. I will answer some questions that might come up right away:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How is this version better than the last?:&lt;/strong&gt; Users can vote for and against training samples (much like answers here on stackexchange). This should help to identify the best samples which are then used in the recognition.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why would I train a symbol and vote on samples?&lt;/strong&gt;: The recognitions gets better the better the samples are. Also you get karma points if other users upvote your samples.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I train a symbol?&lt;/strong&gt;: You need to log in (with a Twitter Account) to be able to train symbols.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I vote for a sample?&lt;/strong&gt;: You need to log in (with a Twitter Account) to be able to vote for a sample.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you want to hijack my twitter account?:&lt;/strong&gt; No – I just don't want anonymous samples. I just want to make sure that you are... someone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the most visible change is that samples are curated by the community. There are other changes summarized &lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.posterous.com/update-on-detexify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate any comment/criticism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4484" OwnerDisplayName="Daniel Kirsch" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T19:02:56.630" Title="Future development of Detexify - am I heading in the right direction?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1210" CreationDate="2011-03-29T12:13:01.573" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've played a bit with the new version recently, and got a few comments for it (the old one as well), in no particular order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I liked the idea of voting for samples, but I think it's also very subjective. There are a few samples that seem perfectly okay for me, but were downvoted. Each person's handwriting is unique, and more so are imprecise scribblings using the mouse. Frankly, I wouldn't like to have to spend too much time perfecting my alphas and omegas -- my handwriting is notoriously unintelligible, as is my mouse drawing. I think voting should only be in the negative direction, if a sample is obviously poor (spam, very bad attempt, or something that doesn't resemble at all the symbol in question).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Offline use is very nice feature, especially if there would be a way to download/update the whole sample database at once and to use it solely in offline mode. This might potentially save some bandwidth from heavy users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Integration with TeX IDEs would be definitely be very powerful (i.e. from within the UI, scribble the symbol, click &quot;Submit&quot;, and get a list of suggestions), although I don't expect you to do this. Rather, if there's an API is in place that allows communication with the client, third-party developers and power users might step in to provide plugins for their favourite editor&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some symbols might actually be drawn/rendered in very different way, depending on the font you use, and whether you scribble the hand-drawn or the typeset version. Case in point: &lt;code&gt;\delta&lt;/code&gt;. Thus, potentially different classes of samples should be accepted for some (or even all) symbols.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Selecting symbol class might also go a long way towards accurate recognition. Most of the times, one would know what kind of symbol they need -- a foreign letter, mathematical operator, dingbat, relational symbol, glyph &quot;beautifiers&quot; (diacritics, for example), etc. So, if my symbol is pretty simple in shape, chances are I will end up with a lot of false positives that are not interesting. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Already mentioned diacritics in the previous point, and although they are not all that many, maybe they could also be recognized by detexify. For example, I always forget how do I specify breve accent &lt;code&gt;\u{}&lt;/code&gt;, and have to disrupt my writing to check somewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the character description, some indication of whether it's available in math or text mode would be helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similar or counterpart symbols (mostly applicable in math mode) might also get preferential treatment. For example, if I draw the parallel sign &quot;||&quot;, showing explicitly &quot;not parallel&quot;, even if it's not with top score, would be useful. In the previous detexify version, the &quot;normal&quot; symbols were recognized easier than the negated ones (at least in my experience).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major Feature&lt;/strong&gt;: Sometimes I would see unknown symbol in written text or online document. Instead of sketching it, perhaps it would be a better idea to just provide a contrast image of it, and let detexify work its magic on it, instead of me trying to sketch it much less precisely by hand. Bonus points for uploading an image with text and making a box around the symbol that interests me instead of doing the tedious pasting-panning-resizing-saving-uploading on the desktop.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that, the sample database is currently tiny, but I don't hold it against you -- it would be a significant effort by itself to have a rich database with quality samples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this seems like an enormous list of suggestions and complaints, I can assure you that detexify is extremely helpful for a lot of people (myself included), and we certainly appreciate your effort to provide a useful service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I wonder how would that work for vi/Emacs users...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="711" LastEditDate="2011-03-29T12:28:34.833" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T12:28:34.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1210" CreationDate="2011-03-29T12:18:28.303" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any chance of an OpenID login?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't use Twitter,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  don't want to use Twitter,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  do use Detexify,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  want to use Detexify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T12:18:28.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1205" CreationDate="2011-03-29T17:03:14.433" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went through &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typesetting&lt;/a&gt; and retagged anything that is not about typography. Could a mod please merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typesetting&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typography&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typography&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt; and delete &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typesetting&lt;/a&gt; afterwards (in order to avoid future confusion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T17:03:14.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1235" CreationDate="2011-03-30T14:23:46.017" Score="15" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw that we have both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-breaking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;line-breaking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;line-breaking&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newline&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newline&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newline&lt;/a&gt;. I always used &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-breaking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;line-breaking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;line-breaking&lt;/a&gt; so far. Is there are reason why we need &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newline&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newline&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newline&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would vote for making &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newline&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newline&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newline&lt;/a&gt; a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-breaking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;line-breaking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;line-breaking&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there are objections against merging these two tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T08:15:21.643" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T08:15:21.643" Title="{line-breaking} vs. {newline}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1219" CreationDate="2011-03-30T22:53:46.163" Score="13" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conditional&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conditional&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conditional&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ifthen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ifthen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ifthen&lt;/a&gt; are used interchangeably. So I think they can be merged (I'd merge into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conditional&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conditional&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conditional&lt;/a&gt; and rename that to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conditionals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conditionals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conditionals&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-03-31T22:07:08.440" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T16:20:48.073" Title="Merge {conditional} and {ifthen}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1209" CreationDate="2011-03-31T16:33:57.040" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some pondering, I think that Alan Munn's reasoning carries the day. Even if a tagging distinction may be useful in theory, it should be dispensed with if the majority of &lt;em&gt;questioners&lt;/em&gt; is likely to be confused by the distinction and to misapply the relevant tags. The distinction between &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bib-format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bib-format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bib-format&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex-program&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex-program&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex-program&lt;/a&gt; seems to fit this description, and therefore the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex&lt;/a&gt; tag should be retained for both aspects of BibTeX. (For general questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibliographies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibliographies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibliographies&lt;/a&gt;, the tag of the same name should be used rather than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibtex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibtex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibtex&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T16:33:57.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1207" CreationDate="2011-03-31T17:06:07.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think alignment and spacing are distinct enough concepts that if the spacing tag is surviving, so should the alignment tag. While alignment might well be achieved by using spacing commands, there is a conceptual difference. What I object to is reassigning alignment questions to spacing. That seems to go against the distinction between the concepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to lockstep's comments, here's what I'd suggest. Try and retag alignment questions with either horizontal-alignment or vertical-alignment and if that fails, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/positioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;positioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;positioning&lt;/a&gt; rather than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spacing&lt;/a&gt;. This seems more in the spirit of the difference between spacing and alignment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise I endorse the rest of the suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="215" LastEditDate="2011-03-31T17:17:24.943" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T17:17:24.943" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1216" CreationDate="2011-03-31T22:06:53.837" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it's meaningful and there are some votes, I&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conditional&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conditional&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conditional&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conditionals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conditionals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conditionals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;made &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ifthen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ifthen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ifthen&lt;/a&gt; to a synonym mapping to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conditionals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conditionals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conditionals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;merged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps somebody would create or suggest a tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conditionals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conditionals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conditionals&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T22:06:53.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1230" CreationDate="2011-04-01T07:56:57.910" Score="68" ViewCount="5702" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/766853#766853&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt; that we put together a &quot;Best of TikZ on TeX-SX&quot; package.  There have been some really neat answers to problems developed on the site, and I think it would be nice to put them together in to some sort of easily usable state.  My reasons are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's easier to download a single package/style file than to cut and paste a load of code from here, there, and everywhere into ones preamble.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of the code could do with a bit of polishing (for example, putting in to a macro, hiding internal bits) that are standard when making a package, but not when posting an answer here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publicity:&lt;/strong&gt; Ideally, these would get used and the people who used them would find out about us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By doing this as a collective venture, I hope that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a real &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; project.  I'm not so naive that I think that loads of people will do the necessary work, but hopefully lots of people will see what's going on and at least feel as though it's based on the community's collective work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It isn't loads of work for any one person.  Most of the stuff I'm thinking of is already workable, so I'm hoping it won't take too much work to put it together.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is only the first of many ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that last note, I'm picking TikZ because it's the area I think I've contributed most to.  Also, there's a reasonable volume of TikZ answers here to choose from, and a good number of people contributing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Steps:&lt;/strong&gt; We need some code to put in the package, and some volunteers willing to take part.  I think that we can adapt the SE software to gather all that information here! So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you like or dislike the idea, vote on &lt;strong&gt;this question&lt;/strong&gt; accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Propose (and link to) TikZ/PGF answers on the main site that you would like to see in such a package in answers to this question, one link per answer.  Also vote for those you like (but the people who volunteer to put it together will have the final say).  Please bear in mind that to be worth putting in a package, it has to be something that you can envision being used several times.  &lt;strong&gt;Proposing your own answers&lt;/strong&gt; is not only acceptable but actively encouraged.  If, when reading an answer, something occurs to you as a possible improvement, please make a note of it (just the idea at this stage).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; answer, we can collect names of volunteers who are willing to do a bit of extra work polishing the answers.  I'll start this off, make it CW, and &quot;accept&quot; it (when I can) to ensure that it is easily distinguished from the rest.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Template for proposals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;### TikZ/PGF Answer:&#xA;&#xA;### Brief Description:&#xA;&#xA;### Possible Improvements:&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further discussion on this topic is available here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1248/&quot;&gt;TikZ/PGF answer package, Part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-03-19T11:37:26.203" Title="What are your favourite TikZ/PGF answers?" Tags="|discussion|tex-sx-package|publicity|" AnswerCount="39" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T10:49:41.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T10:18:08.983" Score="10" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14599/multiple-equation-numbers-for-a-tikz-picture/14614#14614&quot;&gt;Multiple equation numbers for a tikz picture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using TikZ is often a useful way of getting the pieces right in a complicated mathematical diagram.  If there's only one diagram, it's easy to label it by putting it in a suitable mathematics environment (&lt;code&gt;equation&lt;/code&gt;, for example).  But if there are several diagrams, and it's not desirable to split them up (mutual alignment, for example), then it would be useful to be able to label the pieces individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W4Niq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shift the actual placement of the equation numbers in to a &lt;code&gt;execute at end of picture&lt;/code&gt; routine to ensure that the bounding box used is the actual bounding box of the picture (and not a half-way stage).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow for customisation as to labels on the left and right.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow for customisation of label style (parentheses and so forth).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Status:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code: Implemented&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Files: &lt;code&gt;tikzeqnos.tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Testing: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Documentation: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T14:26:33.217" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T10:18:08.983" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T10:47:54.307" Score="14" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14225/is-there-the-easiest-way-to-toggle-show-hide-navigational-grids-in-tikz/14230#14230&quot;&gt;Is there the easiest way to toggle (show/hide) navigational grids in TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creates a &lt;code&gt;show grid=&amp;lt;options&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; key which draws a grid with configurable labels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6HmW2.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is quite useful in the creation phase of the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be converted to PGF-only code to make it also usable for &lt;code&gt;pgfpictures&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;Add an option to modify the distance between the lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-04-02T02:52:16.573" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T10:49:41.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T11:03:22.277" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10980/tikz-changing-colour-of-a-path-half-way-along/11003#11003&quot;&gt;Changing the colour of a path half way along&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brief description&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changes the colour of a path halfway along. Useful for very thick lines so that the colour changes at the bend in a consistent way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m7Eb6.png&quot; alt=&quot;split colour paths&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible improvements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needs turning into a macro and needs stress-testing. It works by clipping, so we need to make sure that it doesn't do weird things for tight angles, more complex paths and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Status&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Switched to the &lt;em&gt;arrowhead&lt;/em&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code: Implemented&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Files: &lt;code&gt;tikzcolourpath.tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Testing: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Documentation: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-06-24T07:24:15.607" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T11:03:22.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T11:10:45.380" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK this isn't so much one answer as a bunch of answers on these questions about braces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12391/215&quot;&gt;Large braces over several items in an itemize with text by the brace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1559/215&quot;&gt;Adding a large brace next to a body of text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brief description&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual functionality could be &quot;arbitrary braces&quot; or just macro-ifying Andrew's tikzmark thing. (Which might be useful more generally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRLeU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Large braces over several items in an itemize with text by the brace&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZeO4g.png&quot; alt=&quot;Adding a large brace next to a body of text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T14:29:15.413" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T11:10:45.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T11:24:44.433" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Tikz/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12010/how-can-i-invert-a-clip-selection-within-tikz/12033#12033&quot;&gt;How can I invert a &amp;#39;clip&amp;#39; selection within TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A method whereby one can specify the &lt;em&gt;inverse&lt;/em&gt; of the usual clipping method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ROPZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T14:32:57.873" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T11:24:44.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T11:34:56.997" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14512/how-to-define-a-figure-size-so-that-is-consume-the-rest-of-a-page/14514#14514&quot;&gt;How to define a figure size so that it consumes the rest of a page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;as well as&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12125/stretching-a-framebox-over-the-whole-page/12128#12128&quot;&gt;Stretching a framebox over the whole page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provides a special &lt;code&gt;text area&lt;/code&gt; node which allows the drawing/placing of elements on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WPhaX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some macros and/or environments based on this could be added, e.g. one which allows the inclusion of a box/image which fills the rest of the page. More specialized ones which generate a non-floating &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; or custom (now pseudo-)float environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also some special nodes for the header, footer and marginpar should be added. This would allow to easily draw material into this areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These solutions use TikZ/PGF but actually don't draw nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T11:28:38.803" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T11:34:56.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T11:41:27.630" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Tikz/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14061/how-can-i-set-the-background-color-of-the-rows-and-columns-of-a-matrix-node-in-ti/14092#14092&quot;&gt;How can I set the background color of the rows and columns of a matrix node in Tikz?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After setting up a matrix using TikZ, this puts nodes in each cell of the right size so that they tile the matrix.  This can be used to, for example, colour the matrix with no gaps between the cells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6UB1W.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Status&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code: Implemented&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tests: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Files: &lt;code&gt;matrixcells.dtx&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;matrixcells_test.tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Documentation: Written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T11:18:02.390" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T11:41:27.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T11:47:07.643" Score="31" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9559/drawing-on-an-image-with-tikz/9561#9561&quot;&gt;Caramdir's answer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9559/drawing-on-an-image-with-tikz/9562#9562&quot;&gt;Jake's addition&lt;/a&gt; to &#xA;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9559/2975&quot;&gt;Drawing on an image with TikZ&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allows the drawing of TikZ code over an included image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/au6C1.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adding some options to adjust the grid and the labels (maybe in combination with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1220/what-are-your-favourite-tikz-pgf-answers/1223#1223&quot;&gt;my other suggestion&lt;/a&gt;). Including a global option to switch off all grids.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could also be done as PGF-only variant&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Improved code&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I (Caramdir) encapsulated the idea into environments: &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/899107&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://gist.github.com/899107&lt;/a&gt;. Currently there is no option for grids, as Martin's grid code has no option to change the step size of the grid (a grid with lines at all integers is not very useful in this setting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-04-02T00:49:38.860" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T11:47:07.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T14:56:18.823" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Volunteers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/83&quot;&gt;Caramdir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-04-01T14:56:18.823" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T14:56:18.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T15:07:52.547" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3184/applying-a-postaction-to-every-path-in-tikz&quot;&gt;Applying a postaction to every path in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solves the problem of postactions being recursively applied in a scope. Very short code, but can be rather handy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-04-01T15:07:52.547" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T15:07:52.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T15:11:16.553" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14613/tikz-triangle-with-point-colours/14630#14630&quot;&gt;Tikz triangle with point colours&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three different solutions to drawing an “RGB triangle”. Each has its own advantages/disadvantages, so I'd add all three of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mT92s.png&quot; alt=&quot;rgb triangle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make the solutions accept arbitrary color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-04-01T15:11:16.553" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T15:11:16.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T15:14:07.083" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1943/how-to-draw-triangular-grid-in-tikz/1956#1956&quot;&gt;How to draw triangular grid in TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing a grid of triangles. Not very impressive but potentially useful and strangely absent from TikZ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vPxnw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Non-equilateral triangles. Hexagonal grid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T11:27:24.640" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T15:14:07.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-01T21:49:51.503" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14769/add-more-anchors-to-standard-tikz-nodes/14772#14772&quot;&gt;Add more anchors to standard TikZ nodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adds anchors like &lt;code&gt;north north east&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;west south west&lt;/code&gt; to the TikZ rectangle shape to augment the standard nodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the same for the &lt;code&gt;circle&lt;/code&gt; shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Status&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code: Implemented for the &lt;code&gt;rectangle&lt;/code&gt; shape.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tests: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Files: &lt;code&gt;pgflibraryshapes.tex-sx.dtx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Documentation: Partially written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-06-24T18:23:50.540" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-01T21:49:51.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1215" CreationDate="2011-04-02T11:14:03.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No objection. (This is a classic case of concept tag vs. command name tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-04-02T11:14:03.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-02T15:26:15.363" Score="20" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14283/trait-with-variable-thickness/14295#14295&quot;&gt;Stroke with variable thickness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making variable width lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ftey3.png&quot; alt=&quot;variable width line&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Connecting this with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1220/what-are-your-favourite-tikz-pgf-answers/1224#1224&quot;&gt;Changing colour halfway along path&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-04-02T15:26:15.363" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-02T15:26:15.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-04T03:16:54.867" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a variety of ways to use TikZ to add annotations to regular tables using the &lt;code&gt;[remember picture]&lt;/code&gt; method.  Here are some:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4850/highlighting-table-cells/4861#4861&quot;&gt;Highlighting table cells&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9442/how-to-draw-lines-around-multiple-table-cells/9448#9448&quot;&gt;How to draw lines around multiple table cells&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12979/how-to-format-table-with-long-column-head-entries/12989#12989&quot;&gt;How to format table with long column head entries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brief Description&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tend to think of TiKZ as a method for making drawings, but it also can be used effectively to add annotations to regular LaTeX environments.  One especially useful use of it is to add annotations to tables, such as arrows pointing to cells or geometric shapes around cells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aRhrv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Highlighting table cells&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tJsu2.png&quot; alt=&quot;How to draw lines around multiple table cells&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HXhG8.png&quot; alt=&quot;How to format table with long column head entries&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T10:07:27.603" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-04T03:16:54.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1245" CreationDate="2011-04-04T08:23:15.783" Score="6" ViewCount="1027" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-question&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-question&lt;/a&gt; tag on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean? Is it about software related questions? Or is a &quot;soft-question&quot; the opposite to a &quot;hard-question&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See first question tagged with it seems to be&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/698/how-to-encourage-tex-as-a-homework-medium&quot;&gt;How to encourage TeX as a homework medium&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question&quot;&gt;other questions tagged with it&lt;/a&gt; are all kind of unrelated to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see any reason for having this tag. At the very least its wiki page should explain what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T09:29:21.837" Title="What does the tag {soft-question} mean?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1238" CreationDate="2011-04-04T08:45:52.897" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to go on record saying that I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-question&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-question&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;em&gt;bad idea&lt;/em&gt; and should not be allowed to take hold in your community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? It's a meta tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it is &quot;inherited&quot; from the math community (math.se and mathoverflow.net) but I would view this as &quot;inheriting&quot; a genetic deficiency. Don't do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question&quot;&gt;https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:08.057" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T08:45:52.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-04T11:07:16.683" Score="6" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it ok to include an image from Wikipedia or Wikicommons directly, i.e using the &lt;code&gt;![&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;](&amp;lt;URL&amp;gt;)&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;![&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;][&amp;lt;num&amp;gt;]&lt;/code&gt; syntax?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because TeX.SX is also under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki license&lt;/a&gt; it would seem ok, but I'm not an expert in such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask was because of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14901/2975&quot;&gt;Dimensioning of a technical drawing in TikZ&lt;/a&gt; which links a technical drawing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3aDIN_69893_hsk_63a_drawing.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3aDIN_69893_hsk_63a_drawing.png&lt;/a&gt;, which might be better of be included in the question to save people the extra click and make the question easier to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T16:31:16.043" Title="Including images from Wikipedia or Wikicommons" Tags="|discussion|hyperlinks|images|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1240" CreationDate="2011-04-04T11:22:14.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Philosophically, I would say yes -- we are under creative commons by-sa-2.5 and we have not yet switched to by-sa-3.0 yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we switched to by-sa-3.0 a week ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-04-13T00:26:56.600" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T00:26:56.600" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-04T16:22:32.320" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14846/drawing-a-tree-of-grids/14849#14849&quot;&gt;Drawing a tree of grids&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adds a rectangular node with a grid inside and some additional anchors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VfzH0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Status&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code: Implemented&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tests: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Files: &lt;code&gt;pgflibraryshapes.tex-sx.dtx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Documentation: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T11:21:47.783" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-04T16:22:32.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1238" CreationDate="2011-04-04T20:41:03.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jeff, both that it should go and that it probably came from the Mathematical SE community (originally MO, possibly by way of maths-SX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MO, it means &quot;I'm tagging this 'soft-question' because I know it shouldn't really be there but hopefully by admitting that then Andrew Stacey won't immediately vote to close it.&quot;.  Of course, it actually has the opposite effect since anything tagged 'soft-question' on MO almost surely shouldn't be there and I almost automatically vote to close such questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear: I wouldn't vote to close the questions &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; that are tagged 'soft-question' (those that aren't already closed), but I agree that the tag 'soft-question' adds absolutely nothing to those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can figure out a cure, put it into a retrovirus and I'll see if I can infect MathOverflow with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T20:41:03.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1238" CreationDate="2011-04-05T06:36:20.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pace Jeff &amp;amp; Andrew, I think [soft-question] has a role on math.se and MO, since there is normally a particular level of precision expected of mathematical questions, and [soft-question] can usefully be applied to questions that are on topic but cannot be made that precise.  It is &quot;bad&quot; in that it is a meta tag, but the distinction there is pretty sharp (the appliciability of the tag is in line with other major tags) and useful to make.  So the general case against meta tags doesn't apply in this case for those sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, the questions we have are generally problem-solving questions as on SO and [soft-question] is marking an unclear distinction and so is actively harmful.  Don't use it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T06:36:20.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1238" CreationDate="2011-04-05T07:41:58.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I retagged the remaining four questions now. AFAIK the others were already retagged by Caramdir (Thanks!). Mostly I simply removed the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag is gone now I hopefully doesn't come back. If so please give me a shout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T07:41:58.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-05T10:31:35.817" Score="16" ViewCount="538" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few questions on the front page that are basically asking for advice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14994/86&quot;&gt;Local central figures repository&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14988/which-font-should-be-used-for-diagrams-graphs-flow-charts&quot;&gt;Which font should be used for diagrams/graphs/flow charts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14983/should-i-include-punctuation-marks-in-emph-or-should-i-place-those-marks-after&quot;&gt;Should I include punctuation marks in \emph, or should I place those marks after the command?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that we're the right place to solicit advice.  Whilst I think that &quot;best practices&quot; is also dubious, I think that there is a place for &lt;strong&gt;sharing ideas and experiences&lt;/strong&gt;.  So I would prefer it if questions like those linked above were rewritten to be one of the following types:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Soliciting ideas:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Template: &quot;My way of doing &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; is appalling, but I have no idea how to improve it.  What do other people do to solve the problem?&quot; (CW, of course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Soliciting resources:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Template: &quot;There's something not quite right about my documents; I suspect it's due to the fact that I haven't quite found the right shade of fuchsia (or spelling of it) for the background.  Where can I read about how colour affects readability?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Implementing advice:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Template: &quot;I was reading Mrs Cake's cookbook of typography recipes (published 2015) and came across some suggestions that look really good.  However, I don't know how to implement them.  How do I do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose I ought to have a question here somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do people agree with me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could something based on this be put in our &quot;unofficial FAQ&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T13:55:18.137" Title="Don't ask us about best practices, glom of nit, or Mrs Cake" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1246" CreationDate="2011-04-05T13:55:18.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're problematic, but if they work out well, best practices Q&amp;amp;As can be good advertising for the site – ask any SEO what linkbait means.  That said, changes in usage that reduce the signal/noise ratio in questions would outweigh the good of an increase in traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm somewhat indifferent about the problem as presented.  Only the font question is a genuinely subjective &amp;amp; argumentative, and I don't think we have a big issue here overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the solution proposed – having a guide to what questions should ask for, with examples – is good in any case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T13:55:18.137" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1248" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-07T18:08:39.543" Score="13" ViewCount="757" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a great list of packageable &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; answers at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1220/what-are-your-favourite-tikz-pgf-answers&quot;&gt;the previous thread&lt;/a&gt;. So now we need to start thinking about how we move on from here. Some points to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where do we host the code?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where should we host discussion? And bug tracking, etc. ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What coding style do we use?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self-documenting code?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Naming of internal macros?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX package or TikZ/PGF library?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All in a single file or one file per answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How should we name the package?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other things?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is now a chat channel: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/409/from-answers-to-packages&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/409/from-answers-to-packages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Launchpad page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://launchpad.net/tex-sx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T01:51:26.617" Title="TikZ/PGF answer package, Part 2" Tags="|discussion|tex-sx-package|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1248" CreationDate="2011-04-07T18:14:21.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Code hosting, I am in favor of using bzr, as that is the VCS I am usually using. I have used Subversion in the past, but find it somewhat limiting in terms of branching flexibility (though since this project is rather limited in scope that probably won't matter too much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussing should mainly happen here, in order to be visible for everyone at TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-04-07T18:14:21.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1248" CreationDate="2011-04-07T18:15:01.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;h3&gt;What coding style do we use?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I would go with a normal DTX style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;All in a single file or one file per answer?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitively multiple files. At the very least during coding.&#xA;Some of the solutions can be coded as TikZ libraries which should be a single file each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How should we name the package?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not call it &lt;code&gt;tikztexsx&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-04-07T18:15:01.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="1251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1248" CreationDate="2011-04-08T08:16:32.613" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Other things:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Developers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/83&quot;&gt;Caramdir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Testers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/215&quot;&gt;Seamus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2552/jake&quot;&gt;Jake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Documentation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;????&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T08:16:32.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1252" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-08T11:23:17.090" Score="8" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;In certain circumstances it can be useful to attract the attention of one of the moderators.  There are various ways of doing this, what are they?  Also, not all ways are equal: some require some reputation, what is this reputation level?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T12:07:07.717" Title="How do I contact a moderator?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1252" CreationDate="2011-04-08T12:07:07.717" Score="8" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;. If you'd like to point the moderator's attention to an issue related to a particular question and answer, use the &lt;em&gt;Flag&lt;/em&gt; button below every post. You might find the already predefined categories useful, but if not, use the free edit field to describe your problem. This is the method that would guarantee you the fastest reply. You only need 15 reputation in order to do this. Moderators can respond back through a message in your global inbox, or at certain isolated cases, through email. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hang out in chat&lt;/strong&gt;. If a matter requires a lengthy discussion with back-and-forth posts, this is probably the most efficient way to do it. Be sure to address the moderator with @ before their screen name, so that they would get a notification even if not in chat currently. Moderators hang out in chat often, and there are also some old-time users which might be of assistance as well. You only need 20 reputation in order to join the chat room permanently, otherwise you are restricted to only 2 hours there &lt;sup&gt;[citation needed]&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post a meta question&lt;/strong&gt;. If your issue concerns the TeX-SE community at large rather than only you personally, consider posting a question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;our meta&lt;/a&gt;. Moderators monitor meta activity frequently, and will be able to respond in due time. You only need 5 reputation to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; to attract moderator attention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not create questions, answers and comments, hijacking unrelated discussions.&lt;/strong&gt; These will be quickly closed as off-topic or thoroughly deleted, and a moderator might heed your call for attention with a gentle reminder to read the FAQ before posting in this manner. This only creates extra noise and work for everybody on the site, so avoid this practice and choose other venues to communicate your problem to the moderators.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T12:07:07.717" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-08T12:07:07.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-09T01:55:09.270" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14818&quot;&gt;Mexican hat in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Draws a mexican hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jroHL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lower part of the brim can be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3954" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T11:31:19.800" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-09T01:55:09.270" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-09T18:38:52.360" Score="66" ViewCount="2727" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the discussion about packaging some of the TikZ answers into a LaTeX package has centred on the issue of licensing the code.  Contributions here are licensed under a CC license (see links at the bottom of the page) which isn't the best for software: even the people behind the CC licenses &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;do not recommend&lt;/a&gt; its use for software.  LaTeX packages are usually licensed under the LPPL (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&lt;/a&gt;), but other free licenses such as GNU GPL (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&lt;/a&gt;) are sometimes used.  Exactly how the various licenses interact is ... complicated.&#xA;As the goons memorably quipped, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's all rather confusing, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the people who answer questions retain copyright on their material and are therefore free to relicense it as they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the ensuing discussions, some have felt that the simplest thing to do is to issue a blanket declaration saying that repackaging and relicensing of their code written on this site is allowed.  The purpose of this question is to allow people to publicly state what terms their code is released under.  Note that this is &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to the standard SE license terms and is designed to make it easier for people to repackage answers as desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many open source licenses out there.  Some useful links are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list at gnu&lt;/a&gt;, including the FSF's beliefs on which are compatible with GPL.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list at CTAN&lt;/a&gt;, including CTAN's beliefs on which are free.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some comments to bear in mind when choosing how to relicense your code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The purpose of this is to make it &lt;strong&gt;easier&lt;/strong&gt; for others to build on your work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GPL is probably the most popular for software in general, and LPPL for TeX packages specifically.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The LPPL and GPL &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;are incompatible&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is possible to license code under several licenses, with the choice of license being for the user to decide.  Indeed, any declaration here is &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to the CC-BY-SA license that the site automatically applies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the issue is too confusing, there's always the option of placing the work in to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Public_domain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;public domain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some notes on the licenses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An article on why everything should be GPL-compatible: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a separate issue of &lt;strong&gt;attribution&lt;/strong&gt;.  Many licenses require that the code be properly (and appropriately) attributed.  It is for the user (or repackager) to ensure that their reuse of code is properly compliant with the license in this, and other, ways.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When answering this question, please state the terms under which you agree to your code being reused.  Sample statements follow, though you are free to adapt them as required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dual GPL/LPPL:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on https://tex.stackexchange.com/ I hereby relicense under the [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) (version 3 or later) and under the [LPPL](http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Permission to relicense:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on https://tex.stackexchange.com/ I hereby give permission for it to be used and released under either the [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) (version 3 or later) or under the [LPPL](http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Public Domain:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on https://tex.stackexchange.com/ I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law.  Explicitly, I place it under the [CC0](http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2020-11-23T20:16:26.503" Title="Relicensing code from answers" Tags="|discussion|licensing|" AnswerCount="37" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="869" CreationDate="2011-04-11T01:39:04.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking as a new participant, for purposes of doing research, it would be helpful to have all TeX questions on the same sub-site or sub-domain. So &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;, migration is good, and it's helpful to have a record of answered questions for the long term, even when those questions may have later and better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised when my initial TeX question to stackoverflow was migrated here. Since this site exists, migration makes sense, of course, but in that case I'm puzzled as to why all the older TeX questions on the same site have &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; also been migrated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I search google using the &lt;code&gt;site:&lt;/code&gt; tag, all site:stackexchange.com entries can be searched together, but when two separate domains are involved, a combined search query is not always effective if there are a large number of hits. For instance, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`(site:stackexchange.com OR site:stackoverflow.com) xetex`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems to prefer stackexchange matter; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`site:(stackexchange.com OR stackoverflow.com) xetex`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems to prefer stackoverflow.com material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3935" LastActivityDate="2011-04-11T01:39:04.170" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-04-11T19:59:25.870" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any TeX code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law, except when stated otherwise in the corresponding answer. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; —Clemens Koppensteiner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the avoidance of doubt, this only applies to TeX source code. Any other text is not included. Also, while you are not required to do so, you are encouraged to add attribution to any code you use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-04-12T16:56:54.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-04-12T13:14:44.397" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law, except when stated otherwise in the corresponding answer. Explicitly, I place such code under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Note&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is churlish not to attribute public domain code you reuse, but quite legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T12:01:56.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1240" CreationDate="2011-04-13T07:59:31.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that while WM Commons has only CC/GFDL licensed content, WP has many images that are proprietary and used under fair use.  Look at the image page to see the status.  E.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EasyRider.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EasyRider.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;I think it would be a copyright violation on the part of either the uploader or the site to upload such fair use content, because of the license granted by the site.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this doesn't matter for images, since the image files &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;are hosted on Imgur&lt;/a&gt;, and so should not fall under the aegis of the CC-WIKI license grant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2011-04-13T16:31:16.043" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T16:31:16.043" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-04-13T09:40:34.670" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any TeX code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Note Regarding Attribution&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code that is placed in the public domain does not require attribution.  However, if you have found this site useful, the best way to say &quot;&lt;em&gt;Thank you&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is to point others to it.&#xA;So if you wish to acknowledge the source of the code, I recommend a link or bare URL text pointing to somewhere appropriate on this site: if the code came from a single answer, I would link to that answer, but if it is spread over several then a generic link to the site would suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T09:40:34.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-04-13T15:25:15.883" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T15:25:15.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-13T21:56:29.310" Score="4" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any distinction between &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/write&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;write&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;write&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/write-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;write-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;write-file&lt;/a&gt;, or can they be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T09:50:55.247" Title="Merge {write} and {write-file}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1295" CreationDate="2011-04-14T11:02:34.493" Score="8" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a follow-up discussion to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/365/2975&quot;&gt;What to do with the &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39; tag?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users keep trying to tag their normal LaTeX questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; and auto-completion of the tag input element will make that into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-general&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-general&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-general&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe renaming it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt; like suggested somewhere already might help reducing this wrong tagging significantly. It points out that the tag is about LaTeX itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T10:51:10.167" Title="Rename the {latex-general} tag to {latex-project}?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-04-14T18:48:29.527" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My code is highly unlikely to be all &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; useful, but anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-04-14T18:48:29.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-15T03:33:32.753" Score="17" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're evaluating the feasibility of &lt;strong&gt;sponsoring a member of the TeX community to speak at a conference in 2011&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking is a relatively big &quot;ask&quot;, so this needs to be planned many months in advance. Let's get started! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd like the community to establish &lt;strong&gt;where&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What relevant TeX conferences are coming up in 2011 that have open speaker slots or calls for papers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and then &lt;strong&gt;who&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which members of the community are strongly interested in being sponsored by Stack Exchange, Inc to speak at one of the above conferences in 2011?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, the speaker is free talk about anything he or she wants so long as it would be roughly on topic for this site -- with a quick acknowledgement of support from Stack Exchange and a mention of the community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-04-17T03:26:26.633" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:36:22.197" Title="Possible Conference Speaking Sponsorships -- 2011" Tags="|discussion|speakers-bureau|sponsorship|conferences|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-04-15T03:59:05.813" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attribution  via a link to the relevant answer is appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T03:59:05.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1262" CreationDate="2011-04-15T09:50:55.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mind merging them. Please vote for this answer if you agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/write&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;write&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;write&lt;/a&gt; tag as master tag and merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/write-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;write-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;write-file&lt;/a&gt; into it incl. making it a synonym. We could also create another synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/write-register&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;write-register&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;write-register&lt;/a&gt; to make sure that one doesn't pop up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T09:50:55.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-04-15T11:39:40.870" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11211/can-i-have-framed-blocks-in-beamer/11481#11481&quot;&gt;Can I have framed blocks in beamer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have beamer &lt;code&gt;block&lt;/code&gt; environments appear framed, rather than filled with a background colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, so it's not really TikZ, but it does involve some low level PGF hacking and it's a nice addition to beamer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cN7wZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Non-rounded version, thicker lines...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T11:32:11.640" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-15T11:39:40.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1263" CreationDate="2011-04-15T11:52:21.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same thought had occurred to me, though I had the idea of the tag [latex-core] which is clearly not as good a name as yours.  There seems to be no advantage at all to the &quot;general&quot; part of the tag, so I support the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T11:52:21.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1265" CreationDate="2011-04-15T15:59:45.427" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TeX Conferences in 2011&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2011/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;5th International ConTeXt Meeting&lt;/a&gt;: Bassenge-Boirs, Belgium, September 19–24, 2011&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://striz9.fame.utb.cz/texperience/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeXperience 2011&lt;/a&gt;: Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic, September 28-October 2, 2011&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de/events/mv45.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Autumn 2011 Meeting&lt;/a&gt; of DANTE, the German TeX Users Group: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, September 30-October 1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2011/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG 2011&lt;/a&gt;, meeting of the TeX Users Group: Trivandrum, Kerala, India, October 19-21, 2011&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For information only, since deadline is passed, but upcoming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/bachotex2011-en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;EuroBachoTeX 2011&lt;/a&gt;: Bachotek, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2011&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, the TUG 2011 is the most important one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2011-07-14T15:53:33.380" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T15:53:33.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1289" CreationDate="2011-04-17T12:22:40.543" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized that there's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-images&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-images&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-images&lt;/a&gt; tag with (at the moment) 16 questions. Given the definition of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{graphics} is about inclusion of&#xA;  graphical material in your document&#xA;  from an external file&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it seems that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-images&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-images&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-images&lt;/a&gt; is redundant. It should be made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;, and the existing questions should be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-04-26T09:23:08.113" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T09:23:08.113" Title="Make {external-images} a synonym of {graphics}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1273" CreationDate="2011-04-17T18:04:05.440" Score="60" ViewCount="2789" Body="&lt;p&gt;On some other SE sites, code in between dollar signs gets rendered as mathematics (using MathJaX, I believe).  This doesn't seem to work here?  Why not?  And how do I get round it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-04-19T18:02:09.417" LastActivityDate="2018-11-18T13:31:42.303" Title="Why doesn't maths render as maths?" Tags="|support|faq|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1272" CreationDate="2011-04-17T18:07:29.307" Score="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this site, we want to see the actual code far more often than we want to see the rendered output, so MathJaX is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; enabled for this site.  If you want to show the result of some input, you need to create an image of the output and upload it.  One of the simplest methods of getting an image from your code is to use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/standalone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;standalone&lt;/a&gt; package (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11866/compile-a-latex-document-into-a-png-image-thats-as-short-as-possible&quot;&gt;Compile a LaTeX document into a PNG image that&amp;#39;s as short as possible&lt;/a&gt; for more details).  To upload it, click on the &quot;add image&quot; button at the top of the text box (the box symbol next to the one with the 1s and 0s) and, if you have at least 10 reputation points, you will be able to upload the image and have it embedded in your question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-04-17T18:07:29.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1271" CreationDate="2011-04-18T00:41:25.407" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; should be broadened to include any method for getting graphics into a document, be it external (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphicx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphicx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphicx&lt;/a&gt;) or programmatic (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xy-pic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xy-pic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xy-pic&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2011-04-18T00:41:25.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1276" CreationDate="2011-04-18T18:53:32.013" Score="7" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to get an e-mail-notification on questions I marked as favourite but which are not my own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I using this &lt;em&gt;favourite-mark-system&lt;/em&gt; in a wrong way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-11-04T01:15:28.827" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T11:31:46.013" Title="Notification for questions marked as favourites?" Tags="|support|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1275" CreationDate="2011-04-18T19:25:24.140" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is not possible (as far as I know). However changes in favorites will show up in the pop-up when you hover the mouse over your name on the top bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-04-18T19:25:24.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1278" CreationDate="2011-04-19T06:15:26.667" Score="3" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1235/hendrik-vogt&quot;&gt;Hendrik Vogt&lt;/a&gt; had already earned the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/65/mathmode&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; bronze tag badge (and was the third user to do so after Stefan Kottwitz and TH.). A few days ago, his &quot;mathmode&quot; badge disappeared -- presumably because it was revoked after one of his answers tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; was voted down and his upvote/downvote score fell below +100. Since yesterday, Hendrik Vogt's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; score is (back) at +100, but his &quot;mathmode&quot; badge hasn't reappeared so far (although new tag badges have been awarded to other users). Please shed some light on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-04-19T21:30:14.210" Title="What exactly happened to Hendrik Vogt's &quot;mathmode&quot; tag badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1277" CreationDate="2011-04-19T21:30:14.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the rules here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/63835/what-are-tag-badges-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What are tag badges? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hover over his mathmode tag in the user profile you will see: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Asked 6 non-wiki questions with a&#xA;  total score of 52. Answered 19&#xA;  non-wiki questions with a total score&#xA;  of 101.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he is one answer off from the badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag badges are the only ones that are taken away regularly, by the system, due to people no longer meeting the requirements. My guess is that a retagging happened that caused him to no longer meet the requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1211" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-04-19T21:30:14.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1280" CreationDate="2011-04-20T08:35:41.300" Score="18" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've knocked a couple of questions off that list, but still, we are in a much worse state than we were when we left beta.  IIRC, we had around 40 back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for them seems to be the drive to move [latex] questions off SO if they do not involve non-Tex programming aspects.  Many of these questions are abandoned, poor quality questions that were unanswered on SO.  The typical pattern for them is that we receive them, they get a comment or two asking for clarification, but the asker never turns up here, so they languish unanswered and unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to tackle these questions.  I propose to flag for moderator attention questions of this sort with a comment based on &quot;Ill-posed and abandoned migrated text&quot;, and add a comment to them linking to this meta thread.  It would be appropriate then, assuming I am right in my assessment, for a moderator to close these questions as &quot;Not a real question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative course of action would be to vote to close these for the same ground.  The advantage of going the flag route is that the flag text marks these items out, and so allows them to be dealt with a bit more expediently.  I don't plan on spending so much time each day on these items that they would unduly clog up the 10k+ dashboard, but that might happen if several people joined me in this effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a good plan?  The prize is to have a useful unanswered-questions list again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T22:23:27.237" Title="221 unanswered questions" Tags="|discussion|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2011-04-20T10:10:56.213" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be in favor to close old and dead questions as long some caution is used.&#xA;Some parameters which should be used to decide if a question is closed could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Age of the question (e.g. 1 month period to wait for response should be not  to short or to long).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No visit by the OP for a while.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is incomplete/vague.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No response to comments asking for clarification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question was migrated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User does not have an account on TeX.SX (either registered or unregistered), but only on the original site the message.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User is unregistered and/or has very low reputation, especially for migrated questions where this is also true for the original site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to expand/edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T10:10:56.213" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-20T10:10:56.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-22T13:34:18.903" Score="12" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1279/221-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;221 unanswered questions's comments thread&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One thing to keep in mind in this context is that there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81887/what-happens-to-unanswered-questions-from-deleted-accounts/82408#82408&quot;&gt;some automatic deletion of old unanswered questions without upvotes&lt;/a&gt;. – Hendrik Vogt yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Hendrik: As we've got a policy of not down-voting, it's going to take a long time for anything to disappear that way! – Joseph Wright♦ yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Joseph: True, I just wanted to point this out to people who don't know that feature. – Hendrik Vogt yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Joseph: One way could be to do give the really bad questions a downvote when they're old enough; then the auto-delete mechanism has a chance. Or would that be too much against our policy? – Hendrik Vogt yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Joseph: we have a policy of not down-voting? – Willie Wong 18 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Willie: Around the time the site started, there was some discussion about downvoting. The conclusion was that in the main negative vote numbers were offputting. So the suggestion was that voting should be a broadly positive step. – Joseph Wright♦ 17 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we revisit this policy, if it is a policy?  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/726/inadvertently-driving-off-new-users&quot;&gt;Inadvertently driving off new users&lt;/a&gt; for some prior discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T08:48:37.497" Title="Downvoting old, weak questions" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|voting|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-22T17:09:55.623" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;In view of this recent meta-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1279/221-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, I wonder what was exactly the process when questions were migrated from other S.E. sites to this one when they concerned TeX or LaTeX. I unfortunately was not part of the original followers and committers of the TeX S.E. Sorry if this sounds naïve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-a- Were the original askers informed about this migration? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-b- Were there creation of new users in TeX S.E. from the original askers' accounts so that they own the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-c- if b) were the users notified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-d- if b) Was there migration of their email notification preferences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-e- What happened to the original questions on the original S.E. site? Closed? Deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4371" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T21:29:13.290" Title="Are original askers informed when a question is migrated to TeX S.E. ?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1145" CreationDate="2011-04-22T17:18:03.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;About presentation of this &quot;Unofficial FAQ&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that you should put the main part of the FAQ as an answer to the question itself and accept this content as the correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides being more logical, this can prevent it to appear in the &quot;unanswered&quot; list, completely avoid any lookup by the stale question removal mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am surprised this item has not been more often favorited or voted up but I think this is partly due to that situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4371" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T17:18:03.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2011-04-22T17:27:07.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not know if it is possible but it seems to me&#xA;that the best way when it is relevant is perhaps that a moderator edit slightly the oldest question (i.e. the one having answers I hope) with elements of the duplicate that would have been helpful for newcomers to find in the first place ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could increase the quality of the site and reduce clutter at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be disadvantages regarding the scoring and feedback system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4371" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T17:27:07.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1282" CreationDate="2011-04-22T21:29:13.290" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;a) Yes, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29344/notify-author-when-question-is-migrated/79450#79450&quot;&gt;this post on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) Yes a new user is created and linked to the account of the old user who stays the owner of the question (possibly this only happens once the user logs in to TeX.SX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e) It is closed and gets a &lt;code&gt;[migrated]&lt;/code&gt; appended to the title and anybody who clicks on the title in the questions list will get redirected to the new question (technically anyone who goes to the URL of the old question is redirected).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details can probably be found somewhere on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T21:29:13.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1288" CreationDate="2011-04-23T00:08:51.963" Score="5" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until just now, I'd never even heard of Chandgad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2011-04-23T10:25:39.380" Title="Why was my location changed to Chandgad, India?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1287" CreationDate="2011-04-23T09:02:21.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They did some automatic network wide &quot;improvement&quot; of user locations.&#xA;See &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/88217/155585&quot;&gt;Why does my location in stackoverflow profile change?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on meta.SO. More details can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88306/where-is-the-documentation-for-the-correct-format-of-the-user-profiles-location/88320#88320&quot;&gt;this meta.SO answer&lt;/a&gt;: The Yahoo PlaceFinder thinks that &lt;a href=&quot;http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?q=here&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Chandgad, India&quot; is a best match for &quot;Here&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-04-23T10:25:39.380" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1271" CreationDate="2011-04-24T09:16:51.363" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a week has passed and my proposal has gained some upvotes, I ask a moderator to implement it (i.e. making &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-images&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-images&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-images&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;, merging existing questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T09:16:51.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1291" CreationDate="2011-04-24T15:40:28.680" Score="8" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted the question entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/16491&quot;&gt;Aligning TikZ trees with other nodes&lt;/a&gt; when in fact it should have been &quot;Aligning one TikZ tree with other nodes&quot;. The question was answered and I accepted the answer as it solved the question (for one single tree). But now I ask myself how to align &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; TikZ trees and not just one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: should I post a new question entitled &quot;Aligning multiple TikZ trees with other nodes&quot; with a reference to the old one or should I edit the previous post and toggle it as unsolved, though the answer given was ok for that specific question ? Both ways make me uncomfortable. I guess the first one is more acceptable than the other one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/556/4735&quot;&gt;Multiple answers to the same question&lt;/a&gt; but it doesn't solve my problem as the question is not exactly the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4735" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T17:01:51.660" Title="Posting a question very close to an already solved one" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1290" CreationDate="2011-04-24T17:01:51.660" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post a new question, referencing the old one. And explain why the old solution doesn't work in the new situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T17:01:51.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1104" CreationDate="2011-04-25T16:45:57.370" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackPrinter has suffered some connectivity issues from Google App Engine to the StackExchange API; the problem is now solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For question, feedback, issues and suggestion feel free to leave a comment on the official &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/179/stackprinter-the-stack-exchange-printer-suite&quot;&gt;StackPrinter post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5096" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T16:45:57.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1281" CreationDate="2011-04-26T09:42:24.810" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that closing questions as &quot;Not a Real Question&quot; or &quot;Off Topic&quot; (not migrated) incurs a downvote from the community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even if you don't downvote, closing questions with those two specific reasons will cast one downvote &quot;for free&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T09:42:24.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1263" CreationDate="2011-04-26T15:12:08.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The job is now done: use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt; for general LaTeX questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T15:12:08.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-26T17:20:08.443" Score="15" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm anticipating a bunch of people using LaTeX for their theses and coming here for advice (kind of like the flurry of exam-related questions we had around Christmastime). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A generic CW question like &quot;I'm writing my thesis in LaTeX; what problems will I have and what advice would you give?&quot; could be used to (a) draw in googlers and (b) might eliminate some repeated questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers could contain links to other questions or other pointers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would post such a question myself but that would be all the time I would have; I can't write the answers.  So when commenting or answering this question mention how much time you could contribute to this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T22:35:10.393" Title="Should we have a thesis guide question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2011-04-26T22:23:27.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that questions closed as &quot;off topic&quot; and &quot;not a real question&quot; get a 'free' downvote from community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have automated process that get rid of lower quality &lt;em&gt;zero answer&lt;/em&gt; questions over time across all sites. If you want to expedite this process, close them as &quot;not a real question&quot; and/or downvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T22:23:27.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1296" CreationDate="2011-04-26T23:18:31.173" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two things I've noticed with respect to thesis questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;European (and possibly anywhere outside the US) requirements are generally minimal, while American requirements are detailed and awful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;American students are often using existing thesis classes/packages that vary greatly in their quality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upshot of this is that the kinds of questions that arise are quite different, and the two groups (i.e. Americans and non-Americans) tend to think that their mode is the norm, which can lead to some confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;European students have questions like &quot;What's a good package/class for a thesis?&quot; or &quot;Should I put my figures in the margins?&quot;. These are often questions about typography and layout.  Such questions are completely foreign to American students, since they are bound by bizarre typewriter-era fixed requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;American students have questions like &quot;My table of contents must have the word &quot;Page&quot; on top of the page numbers. How do I do this?&quot;  or &quot;I'm working with this (awful) package supplied by some random person at my university, and it doesn't do X correctly.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of these different requirements, I wonder whether a generic community wiki type question set is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created the thesis class that I maintain out of frustration of dealing with students who were trying to roll their own, or using existing templates of dubious quality. For American students, a question like &quot;How do I create a thesis class for my university&quot; might be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T23:18:31.173" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1281" CreationDate="2011-04-27T08:48:37.497" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that our &quot;policy&quot;[1] of not down-voting does not apply to old questions.  The purpose of that &quot;policy&quot; was to avoid discouraging people from using the site; but if someone asks a bad question which we can't make head nor tail of, and never comes back to it, then I think that it is acceptable to down-vote it and/or close it.  Once we've left that friendly &quot;Hi, welcome to tex-sx; if you want us to help you then you'll have to do X, Y, and Z&quot; note then I think we've shown that we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to be friendly but, as the saying goes, it takes two to tango so if the questioner isn't interested in putting any work in to learn the steps, I don't see why we should put up with poor quality questions.  I have no wish to dance the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Evening_Wasted_with_Tom_Lehrer#.22The_Masochism_Tango.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Masochism Tango&lt;/a&gt; on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] I put the word &quot;policy&quot; in quotation marks because I don't think that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; decision we &quot;make&quot; here on meta really qualifies as a policy.  In particular, there are no penalties for not following it.  Rather, it is a suggested manner of behaviour that some (many?) of us try to follow and we made it public in the hold that others will read it, see the sense of it, and do likewise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T08:48:37.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1315" CreationDate="2011-04-27T17:56:27.163" Score="7" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first sight, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt; seems like a useful general concept which fully deserves the 61 questions tagged with it at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On closer examination, these questions can be divided into three major and a lot of minor (tag) areas. The major concepts are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Customizing page margins -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/geometry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;geometry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;geometry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typearea&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typearea&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typearea&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Customizing headers and footers -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fancyhdr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fancyhdr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fancyhdr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scrpage2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scrpage2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scrpage2&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using multiple columns -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/two-column&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;two-column&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;two-column&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/multicol&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;multicol&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;multicol&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some minor concepts associated with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marginpar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marginpar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marginpar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/positioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;positioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;positioning&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-breaking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-breaking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-breaking&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/landscape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;landscape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;landscape&lt;/a&gt;, ... Also, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; are sometimes categorized as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, &quot;broad&quot; concept tags are useful if there are either questions that don't fit into a specific concept or package (this is the case for e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt;) or if solutions given for a specific area are likely to be applicable more generally (this is why questions about specific list environments should also be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lists&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lists&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt;). For &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt;, neither is the case. Every question tagged this way will need additional, more specific tags, and the answers of one &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt; subarea will be of little or no help in another subarea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that, after skimming through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt; questions and adding specific tags where appropriate, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt; tag should be abolished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &quot;Killing&quot; a tag (i.e., removing it from every question) can be done automatically and without flooding the start page -- Jeff Atwood did it with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picture&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-26T07:07:29.830" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T07:07:29.830" Title="The {layout} tag is redundant" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1302" CreationDate="2011-04-27T21:05:08.197" Score="11" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; recommended asking this question here.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15563/can-pdf-thumbnail-previews-in-file-explorer-be-influenced&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as off-topic because the underlying problem has been determined to be on Adobe Reader's side. Now I've tried a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fix&lt;/a&gt; for AR and it works great. I wondered if the question should be re-opened and answered accordingly, even though it's a solution outside of (La)TeX. Questions regarding other popular auxiliary tools like TeXnicCenter or Lyx are answered here, too -- so why not one on Adobe Reader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the open way I worded the question in the title and the text, the fix would definitely answer the question appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(La)TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, &lt;strong&gt;viewers&lt;/strong&gt;, and converters&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess AR is a &quot;viewer&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T07:21:41.800" Title="Re-open question with non-TeX-solution to non-TeX-problem?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1301" CreationDate="2011-04-27T23:18:42.700" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say this is within the scope of the site, albeit borderline. Some questions in the same vein which are not really about TeX, but highly voted and non-controversial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4548/how-to-track-changes-between-pdfs&quot;&gt;How to track changes between PDFs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2198/how-to-create-small-final-pdf-files-for-the-internet&quot;&gt;How to create small final PDF files for the Internet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the site has more examples non-TeX solutions to issues that seem to be solvable with TeX -- it's certainly not a panacea for any problem you throw at it, and sometimes there's just a better way to skin your particular cat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was asked in a good faith, you clearly believed it has something to do with &lt;code&gt;pdfTeX&lt;/code&gt; -- which eventually turned out not to be the case. For this reason, I think it should be allowed to stay and be reopened, you may also answer it yourself with the solution you mentioned in your comment, and that will bring the matter to a close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To all others: Although I understand the urge to reduce the number of unanswerable and off-topic questions, which are partly a consequence of our &quot;no-excessive-downvote&quot; pseudo-policy, let's try not to end up with a &quot;close police&quot; as certain other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T23:18:42.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1301" CreationDate="2011-04-27T23:53:52.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, seems fine. I nominated it for reopening. It'll take 4 other users (or a mod) to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T23:53:52.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1301" CreationDate="2011-04-28T07:21:41.800" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to point out that not all closing is meant negatively.  There was a suggestion to move this question to SuperUser.  I have no idea what happens on SuperUser, but if it were more likely that the question would have gotten an answer more quickly on SU then migration would have been absolutely the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a fine line between &quot;questions about TeX and friends&quot; and &quot;questions that users of TeX and friends may be interested in&quot;.  On MO, I'm quite hardline about this, but here I'd be more relaxed.  The &quot;asked in good faith&quot; test is a little hard to apply as it relies on a judgement of motives, but I think the rule-of-thumb that I'd use is: &quot;Is it a question that a user of TeX might come across &lt;strong&gt;when they are working on a TeX-thingy&lt;/strong&gt;?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, if we get a flood of questions about Acrobat then we might need to be a little more strict ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And I completely agree with Martin's call for &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; having a &quot;close police&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T07:21:41.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1296" CreationDate="2011-04-29T09:52:48.313" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this question related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/528/style-class-tutorials&quot;&gt;Style/class tutorials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T11:38:41.150" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-29T13:56:46.170" Score="15" ViewCount="435" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often one or more images are required in minimal working examples or as part of some example code of and answer to make it compile successful and/or give some nice visual result.&#xA;One problem is that this image can't be easily provided with the code.&#xA;While the &lt;code&gt;demo&lt;/code&gt; option of the &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; package can be used to replace the image with a demo rectangle using real images is IMHO better and more accurate if more then one &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; images are required, for example to show how to align them. (Just happened to me in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16937/placing-images-left-and-right-of-each-other/16940#16940&quot;&gt;Placing images left and right of each other&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To easy this we could have a set of official example images and promote the use of them in example code for both questions and answers. The images should be already located in some common LaTeX packages, so that most people already have them and (La)TeX can pick them up in the TEXMF tree without much hassle. A good example is the famous PostScript tiger locate in &lt;code&gt;$TEXMF/doc/generic/pstricks/images/tiger.[pdf|eps]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other suitable images provided by common LaTeX packages? Having them in both EPS and PDF format would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T23:50:51.307" Title="List of commonly available example images" Tags="|discussion|images|code-example|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1296" CreationDate="2011-04-29T19:09:00.683" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, never mind. Seems to be a solution in search of a problem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T19:09:00.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1296" CreationDate="2011-04-29T20:14:44.210" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One interesting thing could be a &quot;Thesis showcase&quot; where different solutions are shown as .tex source &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; as typeset PDF for being inspired what is possible and how it may look..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And collecting frequently asked questions of Ph. D. students could also be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for me personally:&#xA;I always find it very interesting and inspiring to see the Thesis'es of others and see their ideas for layout etc (e. g. Lev Bishops thesis: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pantheon.yale.edu/~lsb32/thesis/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pantheon.yale.edu/~lsb32/thesis/&lt;/a&gt; and his remarks about the realisation with &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;). I'd very much like to see more such examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, there are a lot of questions about the &quot;best&quot; formatting &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;font type and size in diagrams&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;font type of sections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to easily create consistently formatted diagrams with &lt;em&gt;whatever tool&lt;/em&gt; (in my case mostly &lt;code&gt;IPE&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;practical questions which are only (or especially) relevant for large documents like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;version control&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;notes and annotations (like &lt;code&gt;fixme&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;todo&lt;/code&gt; etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;compiling times and how to improve compiling speed&#xA;...?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4009" LastEditorUserId="4009" LastEditDate="2011-05-01T21:48:49.240" LastActivityDate="2011-05-01T21:48:49.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1306" CreationDate="2011-04-30T15:58:10.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;ConTeXt provides some images in the &lt;code&gt;$TEXMF/tex/context/sample&lt;/code&gt; directory: &lt;code&gt;cow.pdf&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;hacker.jpg&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;mill.png&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;spider.eps&lt;/code&gt;. But I don't think that these can used as sample images for LaTeX examples because most LaTeX users might not have ConTeXt installed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another approach followed in the ConTeXt community for dummy figures is drawing random dummy figures using metapost. For example, if you just need to draw an image that is 4cm wide and 3cm high, you can use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\useMPlibrary[dum] %This overloads \externalfigure macro&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\externalfigure[whatever][width=4cm, height=3cm]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the figure &lt;code&gt;whatever&lt;/code&gt; is not found in the current directory, then ConTeXt will draw a random figure of the requested dimensions. It is relatively straight forward to add this fallback, but I don't know if any LaTeX package does that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T15:58:10.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1306" CreationDate="2011-05-03T02:39:32.233" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for images from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.placekitten.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;placekitten.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A placeholder of arbitrary width and height can be obtained by specifying pixel values in the URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://placekitten.com/g/400/400&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://placekitten.com/g/400/400&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GjO1U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1600 square pixels of cuteness&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, we just need a &lt;code&gt;placekitten&lt;/code&gt; package that works out the details of fetching the URLs and converting them to EPS/PDF...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, omitting the &lt;code&gt;g&lt;/code&gt; from the url results in a color photo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://placekitten.com/600/400&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://placekitten.com/600/400&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DSkic.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2400 square pixels of colorized cuteness&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awww...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="17" LastEditDate="2011-05-07T23:50:51.307" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T23:50:51.307" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1306" CreationDate="2011-05-03T09:10:57.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The documentation for the &lt;code&gt;image-gallery&lt;/code&gt; class has a number of pictures as JPEGs.  Unfortunately I don't think they are accessible from &lt;code&gt;kpathsea&lt;/code&gt;, which means they can't be directly be accessed in Tex/Latex in the usual way, but they are accessible using &lt;code&gt;texdoc&lt;/code&gt;: the Bash line &lt;code&gt;texdoc -l -I image-gallery | (read -ra LINE; echo $(dirname ${LINE[1]}))&lt;/code&gt; should give the directory containing the images (&lt;code&gt;/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/doc/latex/image-gallery&lt;/code&gt; on my  main machine), which are numbered &lt;code&gt;pic001.jpg&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;pic022.jpg&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this any use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T09:10:57.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1248" CreationDate="2011-05-03T12:56:07.220" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it's not in the list, I took the liberty of adding my TQFT answer to this package.  I've yet to write the documentation, but otherwise it's ready for testing.  As a standalone style file, it can be downloaded from &lt;a href=&quot;http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tex-sx/tex-sx/development/view/head:/tqft.sty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tex-sx/tex-sx/development/view/head:/tqft.sty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a sample test file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;\usepackage{tqft}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}%[tqft flow=east]&#xA;\foreach \coord/\style in {&#xA;  {(0,0)}/{tqft view from=outgoing,fill},&#xA;  {(5,0)}/{tqft view from=incoming,draw},&#xA;  {(0,-10)}/{fill=orange,fill opacity=.5,tqft boundary lower style={draw,blue,ultra thin,dashed},tqft boundary upper style={draw,green},tqft cobordism style={draw,purple},tqft boundary style={fill=yellow}},&#xA;  {(5,-10)}/{fill=orange,fill opacity=.5,pair of pants,tqft cobordism style={draw,purple},tqft boundary style={fill=yellow,draw=green}}%&#xA;} {&#xA;\begin{scope}&#xA;  \edef\styleit{\noexpand\tikzset{every node/.style={\style}}}&#xA;  \styleit&#xA;\node[pair of pants] (a) at \coord {};&#xA;\node[reverse pair of pants,anchor=incoming boundary 1] (b) at (a.outgoing boundary 2) {};&#xA;\node[cylinder to prior,anchor=incoming boundary] (c) at (b.outgoing boundary) {};&#xA;\node[cylinder to next,anchor=outgoing boundary] (d) at (b.incoming boundary 2) {};&#xA;\node[tqft cylinder,anchor=incoming boundary] (e) at (a.outgoing boundary 1) {};&#xA;\node[tqft cylinder,anchor=incoming boundary] (f) at (e.outgoing boundary) {};&#xA;\node[reverse pair of pants,anchor=incoming boundary 1] (g) at (f.outgoing boundary) {};&#xA;\node[tqft cap,anchor=outgoing boundary] (h) at (a.incoming boundary) {};&#xA;\node[tqft cup,anchor=incoming boundary] (i) at (g.outgoing boundary) {};&#xA;\end{scope}&#xA;}&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sMPjj.png&quot; alt=&quot;tqft diagrams&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T12:56:07.220" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1300" CreationDate="2011-05-03T15:12:00.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a week has passed and my proposal has gained some upvotes and positive comments, I will start to skim through questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt;. I will only retag questions manually where other tags need to be added, changed, or deleted; when this is done, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt; tag may be &quot;killed&quot; automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I completed the manual retagging. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layout&lt;/a&gt; tag may now be &quot;killed&quot; by a moderator, i.e. removed from the 21 questions still featuring it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-05-29T17:31:46.667" LastActivityDate="2011-05-29T17:31:46.667" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1318" CreationDate="2011-05-03T15:40:14.230" Score="5" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, a question was asked about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17127/numbering-figures-and-tables-in-listoffigures-listoftables-by-their-section&quot;&gt;Numbering figures and tables by their section&lt;/a&gt;. My answer, which was accepted, used the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/chngcntr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;chngcntr&lt;/a&gt; package which allows to change the resetting of counters. I had answered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10448/continuous-footnote-numbering&quot;&gt;similar&lt;/a&gt; question some time ago, so I decided to a) provide a link to the old question b) create a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chngcntr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chngcntr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chngcntr&lt;/a&gt; tag so that potential future questioners would (hopefully) easier find the answers to their &quot;counter-resetting&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that I should have created a tag wiki excerpt right then, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chngcntr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chngcntr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chngcntr&lt;/a&gt; is sort of &quot;exhibit A&quot; for an undecipherable tag name. But besides that -- and because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/921027#921027&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; chat comment by Andrew Stacey --, I'm starting to wonder about the usefulness of such &quot;exotic&quot; package tags. Is there a lower threshold of the number of affected questions that should be respected before new tags are created? (Obviously, a tag that is used only once doesn't make sense.) Which other factors, if any, should be taken into account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T15:50:32.150" Title="Are &quot;exotic&quot; (package) tags useful?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1316" CreationDate="2011-05-03T15:48:05.460" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question is related to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/577/2693&quot;&gt;Adding tags to a question in accordance with a provided answer&lt;/a&gt;. Package tags make sense when people ask questions about packages. No one has asked a question about the &lt;code&gt;chngcntr&lt;/code&gt; package, although many answers involving changing counter dependencies will use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to me, package tags (whether exotic or not) should only be created in response to questions that ask about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, if we have a &lt;code&gt;counters&lt;/code&gt; tag, that should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T15:48:05.460" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1316" CreationDate="2011-05-03T15:50:32.150" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm personally in favor of tagging &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; which reference to a certain package with the appropriate package tag. However, tagging the question with the package tag used in one/the accepted answer is a whole different thing. The tags are for questions not for solutions. Now, I can understand the argument that the question is then found easier, but not in the highlighted case of &quot;exotic&quot; package tags which no one would use in a search expression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question might be better tagged with a general tag, e.g. if it is a &quot;counter-resetting&quot; question it should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/counter-resetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;counter-resetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;counter-resetting&lt;/a&gt; (TODO: find better name) instead. Only questions about the &lt;code&gt;chngcntr&lt;/code&gt; package should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chngcntr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chngcntr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chngcntr&lt;/a&gt; then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T15:50:32.150" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-04T10:38:53.663" Score="21" ViewCount="1049" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan from time to time to post here a few newsworthy items from meta.SO that aren't tagged [stackexchange] and so don't turn up on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/filters/6247/meta-so-for-texnicians&quot;&gt;the meta-so-for-texnicians tag set&lt;/a&gt;.  Feel free to join in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T15:13:36.457" Title="Notable Stack Exchange news" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-04T10:43:28.353" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2011-05-04T10:40:24.333" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can vote 40 times now, provided at least 10 of your votes are on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89534/separate-vote-pools-for-questions-and-answers/89547#89547&quot;&gt;Separate vote pools for questions and answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a new badge you can get, for using these extra votes: the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/88/vox-populi&quot;&gt;Vox Populi&lt;/a&gt; badge.  You can be the first to earn it, if you are fast enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T13:46:44.990" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-04T10:43:28.353" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-05T21:33:46.297" Score="13" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says, why can't a user (at least I don't) see his accept rate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that, especially for new members, it would help to remind them to accept answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1998" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T07:34:09.413" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T00:17:29.113" Title="Why can't I see my accept rate?" Tags="|support|faq|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1321" CreationDate="2011-05-05T22:08:32.850" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The statistic is only shown if there are at least 4 questions that meet the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must be more than 3 days old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must have at least 1 answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature has also been &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogged&lt;/a&gt; about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1816" LastEditorUserId="1816" LastEditDate="2011-05-05T22:58:29.720" LastActivityDate="2011-05-05T22:58:29.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-06T09:56:58.137" Score="14" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a proposed edit somewhere that would create an &quot;engineering&quot; tag.  I don't see any value in such discipline-specific tags, myself.  I suspect that at the level of creation of documents, then I (as a mathematician) could learn a lot from the chemists and others around here.  Even if I don't want to typeset H_2 SO_4 all that often, the techniques used to do it could be useful for typesetting, say, the Riemann curvature tensor (yes, yes, I know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my inclination would be to reject this edit.  However, I can well imagine that there are reasons for such tags that I've not thought of (having spent all of 20s thinking about it).  So if anyone would like to argue in favour, or more strongly against, I think it would be useful to see those arguments.  Thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a use for such tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The question in question, for those who like a concrete example, is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13933/86&quot;&gt;Drawing Mechanical Systems in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T13:39:50.747" Title="Do we want discipline-specific tags?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2011-05-06T13:14:03.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the harm?  Would you learn less from an H_2 SO_4 post if it answered a question tagged [chemistry]?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I lean towards thinking that if some engineers would not visit the site regularly except that they would keep track of the engineering tag's RSS feed and come here from that, then the tag is doing the site some good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T13:14:03.947" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2011-05-06T20:15:39.813" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think tags for less obvious fields like &lt;code&gt;linguistics&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;chemistry&lt;/code&gt; make sense since there are some packages that are very peculiar to thoses fields, or the kinds of questions are quite specifically related to things in the field itself.  On the other hand &lt;code&gt;math(s)&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;computer-science&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;physics&lt;/code&gt; etc. make little sense, since they are assumed to be the primary fields of latex usage.  So I certainly wouldn't get rid of the &lt;code&gt;linguistics&lt;/code&gt; tag (of course being a linguist, I'm biased) but at the same time I wouldn't start a campaign to add field tags to everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T20:15:39.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1321" CreationDate="2011-05-07T00:17:29.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only see it on your questions, not on your user page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rebecca outlined the specifics but I did want to clarify this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T00:17:29.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1328" CreationDate="2011-05-07T09:40:59.507" Score="7" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does this mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earned at least 200 reputation on 50 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earned at least 200 reputation on 150 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean you have to get 200 reputation on these particular days(50th or 150th day)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5149" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T14:44:02.337" Title="What is this Epic Badge? Legendary Badge?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2011-05-07T09:46:13.217" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it means you need to earn at least 200 reputation 50 or 150 times, i.e. on 50 or 150 different days, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see your number of days where you reached 200 reputation or more on the reputation dump page &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;. It isn't a normal web site but a simple listing. At the very end you find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on XX days&#xA;earned at least 200 reputation on YY days&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The YY value seems to be the important number. If it reached 50 you get the &lt;em&gt;Epic&lt;/em&gt; badge and if it reaches 150 you get the &lt;em&gt;Legendary&lt;/em&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general such question are better asked on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; site. Stackoverflow provides tex.sx and all other stackexchange sites and we can't influences things like badges and the general design and rules of the site. There are already a lot of questions about these two badges, see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52128/regarding-daily-reputation-cap-for-epic-legendary-badges&quot;&gt;Regarding daily reputation cap for Epic &amp;amp; Legendary badges&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T14:44:02.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-05-07T21:32:46.973" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the terms of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;WTFPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T21:32:46.973" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1335" CreationDate="2011-05-08T22:17:50.007" Score="8" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suddenly got 2 points of extra reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DjFDV.png&quot; alt=&quot;rep1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But looking at the itemized display, it doesn't appear (image from the same time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/945xo.png&quot; alt=&quot;rep2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the discrepancy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T17:33:03.790" Title="Where did my extra reputation come from?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2011-05-08T22:27:11.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation count is not guaranteed to be always 100% accurate. Did you removed any down-votes? Did you recalculated your reputation, because then you get previously lost points on down-voted but now deleted questions back. This points don't show up in the 'Today' section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at the reputation audit page &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt; (the last day is on the bottom) and check the number there. You can use the button there to recalculate your reputation. Then the number &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-05-08T22:27:11.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2011-05-08T22:29:19.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you've got those 2 points because you suggested an edit which has been accepted, and this is not listed in the detailed display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-05-08T22:29:19.017" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2011-05-08T23:05:15.550" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this kind of tags can be useful, as they help grouping questions and answers especially relevant for people working in the same discipline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am an engineer and I'm always interested in seeing how to use &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; for creating graphics as they are commonly used in my field of work.&#xA;(And up to now I've seen quite few examples which are really centered on technical drawing with dimensioning, sketches, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For sure, there are things that are useful to nearly everyone (equations, e. g....), but often the different disciplines have a different focus and a slightly different point of view on the same things. The same is true for conventions, e. g. technical drawings (to take an example from the engineering field).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would find it useful to tag such specific contents to be easily grouped and help people find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I suggested this &quot;engineering&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4009" LastActivityDate="2011-05-08T23:05:15.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2011-05-09T13:39:50.747" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sort of as closing remarks (posted as an answer rather than an edit so that people can vote it up or down if so desired).  In light of the answers so far received, it seems that there are people who would use these tags.  That's good to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in light of the fact that there is a limit on the number of tags on a question and that tags (particularly discipline tags) can be seen as &lt;em&gt;exclusive&lt;/em&gt; as well as &lt;em&gt;inclusive&lt;/em&gt; (so &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engineering&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engineering&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engineering&lt;/a&gt; could be interpreted as meaning &quot;Mathematicians need not apply&quot;), I would ask that discipline-specific tags be used with a modicum of caution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't want to draw up a list of dos and don'ts for these - I don't see the point.  If we get loads of them then it may be worth revisting the issue but until then, I'm happy to let it be.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T13:39:50.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2011-05-10T17:33:03.790" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Stefan's comment &quot;Perhaps somebody removed a downvote, which would add +2&quot; is the best answer you can get. I tried to verify Stefan's explanation, but that might be impossible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was that it should be possible to see from the timeline of the posts you contributed to if there was a downvote retracted. Now I had a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/3259/timeline&quot;&gt;the timeline of one of my questions&lt;/a&gt;. I gave a self-answer that got 1 upvote and 1 downvote on 22 September (the latter one can see from my comment), but the timeline shows 2 &lt;em&gt;upvotes&lt;/em&gt; on that day! (The unsatisfactory explanation: The downvote was changed into an upvote, but that happened &lt;em&gt;months&lt;/em&gt; later.) So unfortunately the timeline doesn't help here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T17:33:03.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1347" CreationDate="2011-05-11T22:06:47.893" Score="17" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently 4 questions with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harvard-referencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harvard-referencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harvard-referencing&lt;/a&gt;. Our other major bibliography style tags (apa-style, chicago-style, mla-style) all have the form &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;-style&lt;/code&gt;.  It would seem to make sense to change &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harvard-referencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harvard-referencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harvard-referencing&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harvard-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harvard-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harvard-style&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T14:41:41.623" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T14:41:41.623" Title="harvard-style tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2011-05-12T14:26:41.310" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Martin Tapankov just pointed out in the chat, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90324/should-downvotes-on-questions-be-free/90927#90927&quot;&gt;downvotes on &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; do no longer cost 1 rep for the downvoter&lt;/a&gt;. The penalty of -2 for the question asker remains. (Downvotes on answers are not affected and so still cost -1 for the downvoter.) I think this change is not that important for tex.sx, but people might wonder what's happening. I hope the change won't have the effect of more downvotes on questions (although this is the intention for SO)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T15:51:25.983" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-12T14:26:41.310" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1349" CreationDate="2011-05-12T14:27:00.157" Score="15" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been a couple of questions with titles like &quot;bibliography problem&quot; recently. Is it within the remit of those with editing privileges to change the title of the question to reflect the actual novelty of the question asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2011-05-14T08:31:46.187" Title="Editing question titles to make them less generic" Tags="|discussion|editing|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1338" CreationDate="2011-05-12T14:39:13.437" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the goal is to improve question titles generally, then I think adding a comment asking the questioner to make the title more specific might be a better tactic. It would raise awareness not only to the person asking the question, but to others who might read the question.  A direct edit doesn't achieve this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T14:39:13.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1338" CreationDate="2011-05-12T14:39:48.797" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO: If the question is actually more specific than the title makes it appear than it is OK to have that changed. It might be better to first comment on it and ask the OP to adjust it. It is still possible you misunderstand the question. However, users new to (La)TeX might not be able to scope the issue they have correctly. Sometimes new TeX.SX users have also problems with editing their posts.&#xA;If the title is really generic and not very meaningful like &quot;bibliography problem&quot; or even &quot;What is causing the following problem?&quot;, than I personally would (and do) change it very quickly to keep the standard of the site high. Waiting for the OP to edit it could take days in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the other directions: Some questions are about some solution for/using a specific thing which isn't really required. This means neither the problem nor the solution is specific for it. For example, I recently changed the title &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17845/which-auxiliary-latex-files-should-be-ignored-by-version-control-software&quot;&gt;of a question asking about a list of to-be-ignored auxiliary files&lt;/a&gt; from specifically referencing GIT (a version control software) to version control (VC) in general. The way that list is provided to the software may be different but is not part of the question (and would be off-topic anyway). However the same list can be used for many different VC software products. So if someone is looking for that list for, say Subversion, the answers will also help and so there is no reason to have to have a Git specific title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T14:39:48.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1343" CreationDate="2011-05-12T19:12:53.250" Score="14" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;We recently had a request (as a moderator flag) from the original poster of a question for it to be deleted (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18025/laying-out-an-enumerate-environment-evenly-in-two-columns-with-a-picture-in-betwe#question&quot;&gt;Laying out an enumerate environment evenly in two columns with a picture in between&lt;/a&gt;). I deleted it, but there is a suggestion that it would be better handled as a duplicate. The particular question has been 'resurrected', but it leaves the general point. Should we, and in particular the moderators, work on the basis that an OP request to delete something should normally be respected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T07:24:14.510" Title="Deleting questions in response to OP requests" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1341" CreationDate="2011-05-13T01:30:44.990" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Among some users there seems to be an aversion to having a post that is marked as duplicate. It happens from time to time that after a duplicate is pointed out, the OP deletes (or wants to delete) the question. This seems to be one of these cases (except that since there were already answers the system prevented deletion). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand if people are embarrassed about not having done a sufficiently through search before posting, but duplicate questions are generally useful (once someone has spent the time to find a duplicate—please don't take this as encouragement to post duplicates and waste other people's time). Marked duplicates provide a pointer to the other question and thus make the question's visibility in searches higher. They provide additional phrases and keywords for search engines to work with. As such they make popular questions (and duplicates are usually popular as they mean that several people have the same problem) easier to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the present case there were in addition already two answers to the question. Deleting the question would rob the site of these potentially useful contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I'm generally against deleting duplicates instead of just marking them as such, even when the OP wishes for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There are of course other valid reasons for deletion (questions containing something that should not have been posted online, spam, etc.).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T01:30:44.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1341" CreationDate="2011-05-13T07:24:14.510" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is basically the point made in the post that Rebecca links to in the comments.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting a question also deletes any answers that have been given to that question.  Therefore, once answers have been given, it is no longer just the questioner involved in the content and therefore the answerers should at least be involved in any decision to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question or answer has (positive) votes on it, then that is indicative of the fact that others have found them useful and their views could be said to be relevant as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the licence to publish material on SE is perpetual, the questioner actually has no rights at all to expect material to be deleted if requested.  Now that doesn't mean that material cannot be deleted, but that it is for the community to decide whether or not the material is useful enough to stay.  In this respect, my view is that moderators exist to expedite matters: if something is posted that &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; does not belong here then they can step in.  But if it is a grey area, the moderators should hold back and let the community decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that this is the opposite of the role of moderators on many other forums.  There, moderators step in to decide what to do in the grey areas.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once a post has significant contributions from more than one person, it ceases to be a matter for them to decide alone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a due process for deletion by the community and it should be followed.  If, as it may be, we (as a community) are not very active at following up on delete-votes, there are ways of bringing things to our attention: on meta and on chat.  Short-circuiting this process should be for occasions where it is clear what the community would decide but, for some reason, it is good to act quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Relative to other SE sites that I know of, we're quite slow-moving on community action.  I regard this as a &lt;em&gt;good thing&lt;/em&gt;.  To quote the Golden Rule of the Second Foundation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act - hesitate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T07:24:14.510" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-13T13:40:20.747" Score="10" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where do I have to go to change the settings so that I get instant email notification of replies to posts, rather than 24 hours later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T14:27:28.977" Title="Instant email notification of replies to posts" Tags="|feature-request|notifications|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1344" CreationDate="2011-05-13T13:47:49.943" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technical questions about the site which are not TeX.SX specific, i.e. affect other stackexchange sites as well, are better asked at the general meta site &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;. That's the site of the people which provide the web software for us. In fact it was already asked there: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day&quot;&gt;Notify more frequently than once a day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The outline is: &lt;strong&gt;You can't&lt;/strong&gt; and this is &lt;strong&gt;by design&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we make the email too aggressive, it's a substitute for visiting the site, and it kind of destroys the whole community aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email is for the less urgent stuff where you're busy and don't have time to check the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T13:47:49.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1344" CreationDate="2011-05-13T14:27:28.977" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could install something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/stackapplet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackApplet&lt;/a&gt; or you could just obsessively refresh the site every 5 minutes, like I do... (I bet I'm not the only one)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T14:27:28.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1336" CreationDate="2011-05-13T14:41:32.683" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I now merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harvard-referencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harvard-referencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harvard-referencing&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harvard-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harvard-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harvard-style&lt;/a&gt; but without creating a, IMHO unnecessary, synonym. I don't think the first form will come back. The auto-completion will show the new form when someone enters &lt;code&gt;harvard&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such tag renaming can be done by the moderator using one of the moderation tools and does not create new revisions for the tagged questions, which is the preferable way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T14:41:32.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2011-05-13T14:55:12.870" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flag weight history can now (since a few weeks) be seen by clicking on the flag weight display below the user icon on the user page. Flags older than the introduction of this feature are not displayed. If you want to find out if a flag was marked as correct or incorrect by a moderator than this is the place you can find it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T14:55:12.870" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-13T14:55:12.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1338" CreationDate="2011-05-14T08:31:46.187" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt;, you should edit without hesitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/in-defense-of-editing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/in-defense-of-editing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Titles are particularly important since they are the signposts that will invite (or scare away) fellow community members -- and the greater internet -- to visit and participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's better to assume up front that you are working collaboratively with the post author to &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; the post, rather than asking permission in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-05-14T08:31:46.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1351" CreationDate="2011-05-14T11:13:31.837" Score="9" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago, the former tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list-of-figures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list-of-figures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list-of-figures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list-of-tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list-of-tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list-of-tables&lt;/a&gt; were merged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt; (and kept as synomyms). Caramdir's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/854/should-list-of-figures-be-merged-with-table-of-content&quot;&gt;reasoning&lt;/a&gt; for this was that &lt;em&gt;&quot;their implementations are pretty similar and questions and solutions applying to one of them typically apply to the others as well&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same spirit, I'd like to discuss two potential merging/synonym measures:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maketitle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;maketitle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;maketitle&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titlepage&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titlepage&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titlepage&lt;/a&gt; could be combined into a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titling&lt;/a&gt; tag. (In this case, I'm not so sure if solutions are overlapping to a great extend.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/widows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;widows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;widows&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orphans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;orphans&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;orphans&lt;/a&gt; should be combined into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/widows-orphans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;widows-orphans&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;widows-orphans&lt;/a&gt;. (The TeXniques for controlling widows and orphans are the same, or at least for the most part if you consider tinkering with &lt;code&gt;\Needspace&lt;/code&gt; as a separate way to control orphans.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I ask a moderator to implement these merging/synonym suggestions. The new tag names should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt; (as suggested by Aditya) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/widows-orphans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;widows-orphans&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;widows-orphans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-05-20T22:39:23.753" Title="Two small tag merging suggestions" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1350" CreationDate="2011-05-14T12:35:15.510" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be in line with our preferance of concept tags over command tags. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maketitle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;maketitle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;maketitle&lt;/a&gt; might automatically involve further commands such as &lt;code&gt;\title&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\author&lt;/code&gt;. Often &lt;code&gt;\maketitle&lt;/code&gt; is the cause of a question but a &lt;code&gt;titlepage&lt;/code&gt; the solution. So I agree with merging into the concept tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/widows-orphans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;widows-orphans&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;widows-orphans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds reasonable for me too. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/widows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;widows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;widows&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orphans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;orphans&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;orphans&lt;/a&gt; are very often treated together, both in books and in questions. For instance, all but one &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/widows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;widows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;widows&lt;/a&gt; questions deal with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orphans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;orphans&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;orphans&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with keeping the current tags as synonyms, otherwise I would expect them to reappear soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-05-14T12:57:29.187" LastActivityDate="2011-05-14T12:57:29.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1356" CreationDate="2011-05-21T15:11:49.893" Score="5" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to say it's great to see a compilation of packages built from answers gathered in the community. Though the project goals are explicitly defined, and I quote,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The goals are to provide good quality packages for TeX and promote the website &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking it'd be nice if we could include a &lt;em&gt;tools&lt;/em&gt; section/directory. The motivation came from a tedious task in which I had to collect several files and organize the source codes into a manual. I wrote a single script/program to search for files matching a certain pattern and create a LaTeX file with references to them using the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; package. It's a pretty simple script, and I need to improve it, but I think it would help other people with similar tasks or eager to learn more about LaTeX and programming languages. As most of you guys do too, I usually make my codes available via opensource repositories (the script I just told you will be available as well), but I think some of these efforts could be directed to a &lt;em&gt;tools&lt;/em&gt; directory. I understand this sugestion is not a 100% about TeX and LaTeX, but I believe it aims at them. If you guys could provide some feedback on this, it'd be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T10:10:42.287" Title="A 'tools' section in the TeX-SX project in Launchpad" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1387" CreationDate="2011-05-22T19:04:22.553" Score="3" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Customizing the header and footer of documents consists of two tasks which are closely intertwined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Choosing the default page style (e.g. &lt;code&gt;empty&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;plain&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;headings&lt;/code&gt;) and choosing the page style for &quot;special&quot; (e.g. chapter-starting) pages. This is normally done using the commands &lt;code&gt;\pagestyle&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\thispagestyle&lt;/code&gt;. Some classes also provide macros for &quot;special&quot; page styles (e.g. &lt;code&gt;KOMA-script&lt;/code&gt;'s &lt;code&gt;\chapterpagestyle&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Customizing the chosen page styles, especially &lt;code&gt;headings&lt;/code&gt;. This is done either using the commands &lt;code&gt;\markboth&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\markright&lt;/code&gt;, or with the help of the packages &lt;code&gt;fancyhdr&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;scrpage2&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, there are 77 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt;, 26 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt; and no questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/markboth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;markboth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;markboth&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/markright&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;markright&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;markright&lt;/a&gt;. Looking at all those questions, it seems that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt; is used as sort of a general tag, i.e. also for questions that involve page styles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13307/how-to-remove-header-on-the-page-with-big-picture&quot;&gt;How to remove header on the page with big picture?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4332/how-to-change-the-position-of-the-page-number-in-the-first-page-of-every-chapter&quot;&gt;How to change the position of the page number in the first page of every chapter of a book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt; is sometimes used for questions that don't involve page styles (or headers and footers) at all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15218/the-same-height-of-text-in-a-large-document&quot;&gt;The same height of text in a large document&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7469/changing-the-paper-size&quot;&gt;Changing the paper size&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that, after skimming through the questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt; and retagging them when appropriate, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt; should be made a synonym of the more general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt; tag, and existing questions should be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T17:50:29.337" Title="Make {page-style} a synonym of {header-footer}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2232" CreationDate="2011-05-23T21:08:20.487" Score="12" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a typo, &quot;accessability&quot; isn't a standard spelling, you can ask &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/accessability?r=75&amp;amp;src=ref&amp;amp;ch=dic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dictionary.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macmillandictionary.com/spellcheck/british/?q=accessability&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Macmillan Dictionary&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accessability&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Merriam-Webster&lt;/a&gt; or whomever. Google judges 170m : 805k in favor of &quot;accessibility&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I'd be interested in a solution to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/844/accepted-answer-checkmark-color&quot;&gt;only question tagged with {accessi/ability}&lt;/a&gt; as well ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T19:13:11.753" Title="Rename {accessability} to {accessibility} (on meta)" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1353" CreationDate="2011-05-24T10:10:42.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say &quot;Yes and No&quot; to this proposal.  The &quot;Yes&quot; bit is to having a &quot;tools&quot; section.  We started with TikZ purely because it was an obvious one with lots of things to choose from so the chance of success was (I judged) reasonably high.  My next choice would probably be beamer, but there's no need for this to develop linearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;No&quot; bit is a bit harder to qualify.  As I read it, you have a useful script that you'd like to make more available.  You are to be commended for that!  But my thinking is that the proper place to do that is on CTAN.  I have never uploaded anything to CTAN myself so I may be wrong, but I get the impression that such contributions are very welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My purpose for this &quot;TeX-SX&quot; package is that all the contents be linked to this site.  So it's not a place to put random scripts or code.  Ideally, every bit of the package should be linkable to a question or answer on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, that should be taken with a grain of salt.  There are at least two cases that I know of where a question was asked &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; to get an answer so that some code could go in this package.  And if someone is working on the package and wants to include a little extra, then that's fine by me.  But whilst the boundary is fuzzy, there definitely is a boundary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just a bit wary of feature-creep.  This package is partially intended as an advertisement for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: this is all just my personal opinion and not to be taken as definitive.  Although one of the instigators of this package, I claim no ownership rights.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T10:10:42.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="844" CreationDate="2011-05-24T10:13:24.720" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support this feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we (the site users and moderators) don't have any control over the CSS so we have to wait until this is brought to the attention of the SO overlords (and Jin, the site designer in particular, I guess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T10:13:24.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1359" CreationDate="2011-05-24T16:48:40.797" Score="6" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice there are tags like &lt;code&gt;compiling&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;compilation&lt;/code&gt; which are very similar. When I click on &lt;code&gt;compilation&lt;/code&gt;, it autodirects to &lt;code&gt;compiling&lt;/code&gt;, so it seems they have been merged like some other sets of tags. However, would it be cleaner for the site if we could somehow delete one of the tags after absorbing it into the other instead of keeping both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2265" LastEditorDisplayName="user2265" LastEditDate="2012-10-30T12:15:50.267" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T12:15:50.267" Title="&quot;Compiling&quot; and &quot;compilation&quot; tags" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1358" CreationDate="2011-05-24T17:16:52.200" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the autocompletion list, it says ”compiling (78)” and “compilation (s)”. This means that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compiling&lt;/a&gt; is used on 78 questions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compilation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compilation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compilation&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym. On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags page&lt;/a&gt; both are listed and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compilation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compilation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compilation&lt;/a&gt; redirects to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compiling&lt;/a&gt;. I believe there is no other place on TeX.SX where &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compilation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compilation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compilation&lt;/a&gt; is visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag synonyms are useful for at least two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't let users recreate the duplicate tag by ignoring the autocompletion list (e.g. by just typing &lt;code&gt;compilation&lt;/code&gt; into the tag field). Similarly, they make the tag easier to find (e.g. if you start typing &lt;code&gt;compila&lt;/code&gt;, you will still get a correct autocompletion suggestion).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They provide a synonym in searches. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While having both versions in the autocompletion list and the tag list page is a bit confusing, I think that synonyms are generally useful for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T17:16:52.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-05-26T10:18:46.963" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16897/how-make-efficiently-nice-braids-diagrams/16918#16918&quot;&gt;How to make nice braids diagrams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Draw braid diagrams based on just specifying the crossings, as was done in a Metapost module by Stijn Symens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew's package shows off some PGF techniques quite nicely, so the source is well worth reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8nRs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Blog post&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/the-braids-package/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Braids Package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Requested features, implemented:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matsaya suggested some features beyond those in Andrew's original implementation, each of which has been implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;the possibility to draw horizontal braids&lt;/em&gt; – the braid options allow PGF transformations on the output;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;the possibilities to draw the &quot;floors&quot;&lt;/em&gt; – the new vertical bar syntax allows this;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;possibilities to have 2 (or more) nodes on the same floor (not really necessary)&lt;/em&gt;  – the new syntax is to connect them with hyphens;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;to color a group of floor&lt;/em&gt; – PGF styling options can now be passed for floors, both individually and collectively;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;individually choose the decoration (color, etc) of each &quot;string&quot;&lt;/em&gt; – Likewise for strands;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;possibility to label the top or bottom of string (individually)&lt;/em&gt; – Strands are labelled according to their positions, both at top and bottom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, Charles noted that the original syntax for expressing crossings was not as compact as Stijn Symens' Metapost package.  Andrew implemented a new syntax of the form &lt;code&gt;s_1 s_2^{-1} s_3&lt;/code&gt;, where the &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; isn't significant and can be anything that isn't &quot;special&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Status&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code: Implemented&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tests: None&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Files: &lt;code&gt;braids.dtx&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;braids_test.tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Documentation: Written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T11:22:51.353" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-26T10:18:46.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1363" CreationDate="2011-05-27T05:59:42.473" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why isn't there the &lt;code&gt;Edit&lt;/code&gt; button in &lt;code&gt;User Profile&lt;/code&gt; when we navigate to meta.tex.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastActivityDate="2011-05-27T07:57:42.617" Title="Why isn't there the Edit button in User Profile when we navigate to meta.tex.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2011-05-27T07:57:42.617" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your meta profile is not independent of the main user profile, but just a copy of it. You only can edit your main profile and the changes will be synchronized to meta after a short while. Same counts for the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-05-27T07:57:42.617" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1365" CreationDate="2011-05-28T08:27:37.477" Score="4" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;There does not seem to be any relevant difference of the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warnings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warnings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warnings&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warning&lt;/a&gt; and neither are heavily used. What about merging them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2011-05-28T10:49:34.947" LastActivityDate="2011-05-28T10:49:34.947" Title="Merge {warnings} and {warning}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1364" CreationDate="2011-05-28T10:32:48.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are already merged. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warning&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warnings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warnings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warnings&lt;/a&gt;. If somebody uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warning&lt;/a&gt; it would be automatically mapped to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warnings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warnings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warnings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't keep singular tags, they would possibly be recreated sooner or later and we would have to merge again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-05-28T10:32:48.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1369" CreationDate="2011-05-30T09:29:24.557" Score="8" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any guide how the title should be made to make it look compact, dense, and clear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we need to prefix the title with a tag, e.g., &lt;code&gt;XeTeX: ...&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we need to prefix the title with &quot;How to&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the title begin with a capital letter?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="2099" LastEditDate="2011-05-30T09:34:24.583" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T09:52:38.737" Title="Is there any guide how the title should be made to make it look compact, dense, and clear?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1368" CreationDate="2011-05-30T09:52:38.737" Score="7" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Special requirements should be mentioned in the title, body and tags. Now, people could argue of the use of XeTeX is special or not. For me personally it is, because I'm a &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;-only user. I remember a question about TTL fonts which only used the &lt;code&gt;xetex&lt;/code&gt; tag to indicate its usage. If the title would have contained any XeTeX reference I wouldn't even had a look on it, knowing this is not my area of expertise. However, I overlooked the tag and commented that TTL fonts are usable...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say it is needed. Question can be phrased in other ways. Having a lot of question starting with the same words doesn't make the site more readable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Definitely. Like any headline or start of a sentence they should start with a capital letter, except if they start with a package or class name which IMHO should be written all lowercase like it is used in the code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general the title should be short and meaningful, but not to short of course. People should know from it what the question is about and if it seems likely that this question can be answered or is otherwise interesting for them. The titles are used on several places and should describe the question well. Titles like &quot;Can you help me fixing this problem&quot; doesn't say anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T09:52:38.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-30T12:53:44.000" Score="8" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should I vote to close exact duplicates or flag them for mod attention or both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just voted to close a question that was asking about resuming an enumeration. We've had this before and there is nothing extra to the question. In this case, is it worth flagging for mod attention or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-06-29T11:43:39.193" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T11:43:39.193" Title="Voting versus flagging exact duplicates" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1370" CreationDate="2011-05-30T13:01:07.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say both seem acceptable. Voting to close is good as the idea is that the community as a whole should deal with issues, and that means high-rep users need to vote. Flagging for the mods is also good as it makes sure we are aware of any issues. If there is 'nothing to see here' then dismissing a mod flag is not much work :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T13:01:07.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1376" CreationDate="2011-05-31T12:22:29.737" Score="3" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;More and more questions are related to tikz/pgf and not tex in here: should not the creators of this site think of a dedicated tikz/pgf forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="371" OwnerDisplayName="pluton" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-05-31T12:54:01.947" LastActivityDate="2011-05-31T15:09:32.173" Title="External forum dedicated to tikz/pgf" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1373" CreationDate="2011-05-31T12:25:12.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;(After the migration, I rephrased (and also changed my point of view))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I agreed with the statement because there are several pgf/tikz post in this Q&amp;amp;A which are not stricly on TeX; but then, reading all other answers, I realized that the good use of tags may itself be a good alternative to a dedicated Q&amp;amp;A, as suggested in the question, which will indeed add a bit of noise to the whole system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5744" OwnerDisplayName="Helios" LastEditorUserId="5744" LastEditDate="2011-05-31T13:15:31.083" LastActivityDate="2011-05-31T13:15:31.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1373" CreationDate="2011-05-31T12:50:40.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean with &lt;em&gt;forum&lt;/em&gt; a site like TeX.SX (which is not a forum but a Q&amp;amp;A site) then you should know the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All stackexchange sites need to be officially proposed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; where they need a certain number of supporters to get the site into the beta stage. Once the beta site shows enough activity it is elevated to a full site or shut down otherwise. It isn't very easy to get so far if you don't have the right amount of supporters and your proposal can be closed as a duplicate similar to questions here. Because TikZ/PGF is for LaTeX and there is already a site for that, I can basically guarantee that such a proposal will be closed quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already a &quot;PGF/TikZ forum&quot; in form of a mailing list which is accessible under &lt;a href=&quot;http://old.nabble.com/PGF-and-TikZ-f3582.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://old.nabble.com/PGF-and-TikZ-f3582.html&lt;/a&gt;. Also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/resources/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.texample.net/tikz/resources/&lt;/a&gt; is a dedicated TikZ website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="1235" LastEditDate="2011-05-31T15:09:32.173" LastActivityDate="2011-05-31T15:09:32.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1373" CreationDate="2011-05-31T12:52:08.310" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.  Firstly, with regard to the &quot;pollution&quot;.  I'm not usually an advocate of tags, but this is one case where I think that the tag system works.  TikZ/PGF questions are easily identifiable as such and usually correctly tagged, so using the ignore or follow features of tags should actually work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, with regard to having a separate forum, I don't see any advantages to this.  The main point is that there is no clear separation of &lt;strong&gt;users&lt;/strong&gt;.  I answer quite a lot of TikZ questions, but I ask quite a lot of non-TikZ questions (and sometimes answer if they're easy enough).  For both, I'm in the same &quot;mental state&quot;.  If I see a TikZ question and I'm thinking about TeX-related stuff, then I don't have to &quot;shift gears&quot; mentally to think about the TikZ question, and vice versa.  On the other hand, if I was browsing MathOverflow and came across a TeX question then I would have to do that mental shift, showing that TeX questions don't belong there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I think that TikZ/PGF questions benefit the site.  I don't think it is big enough to lose a large section of its questions, and they do draw people here.  They also provide a showcase of things that might just make dull papers a little more interesting to read.  Think of it as a &quot;Look what I can do!&quot; (in the nicest possible way, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-05-31T12:52:08.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1378" CreationDate="2011-06-01T21:02:34.420" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;The code formatting button seems to have disappeared in edit mode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lRQQA.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Firefox 4 on a Mac)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-06-01T21:21:50.200" LastActivityDate="2011-06-01T21:21:50.200" Title="What happened to the code formatting icon?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1377" CreationDate="2011-06-01T21:21:41.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's there -- we normalized to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as the code icon instead of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;010101&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72509/change-icon-of-code-sample-button/72513#72513&quot;&gt;Change icon of Code Sample button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-06-01T21:21:41.167" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-02T17:28:22.513" Score="9" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-it-and-isnt-acceptable-to-edit&quot;&gt;When is it (and isn&amp;#39;t) acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often non-CW questions and answers are edited and corrected by users who didn't write the original text. The edits range from small fixes to, in some cases, additions that complement or change the meaning of the original question or answer — without author's consent. It is clear that there should be a limit of how much the post can be edited by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore the question is as follows: what kinds of post edits can be freely done? What edits, on the other hand, should be only suggested to the author in a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a start, let's list a few common cases in which the post can be edited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changing question tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Noticeably improving formatting and correcting many grammar mistakes at once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removing salutation and signature from the text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2011-06-02T17:28:22.513" Title="What kinds of non-author edits are welcome here?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2011-06-03T09:08:55.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1384" CreationDate="2011-06-03T05:11:56.493" Score="3" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw that for some reason we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sty&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sty&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sty&lt;/a&gt; tag with two questions. These questions should be retagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;. However, I think that it is useful to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sty&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sty&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sty&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;. So, if nobody has any objections, I ask a mod to merge the two tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-06-03T07:54:54.137" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T07:54:54.137" Title="Merge {sty} and {packages}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1394" CreationDate="2011-06-03T05:22:48.133" Score="7" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; a drop cap is a type of initial. So I think it would make sense to have the more general term as a tag. Maybe with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drop-caps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drop-caps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drop-caps&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dropcap&quot;&gt;See current {dropcap} questions.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't rename to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/initial&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;initial&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;initial&lt;/a&gt;, than I think the tag should be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drop-caps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drop-caps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drop-caps&lt;/a&gt;, per the naming guidlines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T02:06:01.307" Title="Rename {dropcap} to {initial}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-03T07:34:15.520" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been visiting the site from more than 30 consecutive days, but I haven got enthusiast badge, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also wanted to know,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the fanatic badge, its 100 consecutive days, would you get 3 enthusiast badge before getting fanatic badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5149" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-06-03T08:01:31.340" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T08:17:46.267" Title="When is enthusiast badge awarded?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1382" CreationDate="2011-06-03T07:42:03.153" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've only &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; got to 30 &lt;em&gt;consecutive&lt;/em&gt; days. The badge system can take a little while to pick these up. Wait to see what happens over the course of the next 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T07:42:03.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2011-06-03T07:54:45.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's meaningful, so I merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sty&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sty&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sty&lt;/a&gt;, keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sty&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sty&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sty&lt;/a&gt; as synomyn for the main tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T07:54:45.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1382" CreationDate="2011-06-03T08:03:09.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also note that you can click on the &quot;visited&quot; field in your user profile to get a calendar that tells you what dates you visited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gb6iF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T08:03:09.997" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1382" CreationDate="2011-06-03T08:17:46.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Enthusiast badge is awarded only once. So you would get this badge a short time after you visited for 30 consecutive days, and if you exceed 100 days you would get the Fanatic badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T08:17:46.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1354" CreationDate="2011-06-03T11:28:56.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As about two weeks have passed and my proposal has gained some upvotes, I will start skimming through the questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt; and retagging those which don't involve page styles or headers and footers at all. After that, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt; may be made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my proposal for the &quot;unified&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{header-footer} is about customizing&#xA;  the header and footer of documents.&#xA;  This involves choosing the appropriate&#xA;  page style for certain pages (e.g.&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;empty&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;plain&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;headings&lt;/em&gt;) and (for the page styles employed) placing&#xA;  information like the current&#xA;  chapter/section title and page number.&#xA;  Popular packages are {fancyhdr} and&#xA;  {scrpage2}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I have finishing skimming and (where appropriate) retagging questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt;. There are 20 such questions left; 12 of them already feature the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt; tag in addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt;. The tag wiki excerpts have also been updated (i.e. in case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt; changed to a notice that this tag should no longer be used). I now ask a moderator to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/page-style&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;page-style&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page-style&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt; and to merge the existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-06-06T19:53:03.670" LastActivityDate="2011-06-06T19:53:03.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1484" CreationDate="2011-06-03T11:45:01.260" Score="5" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking a glance at the 42 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/labels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;labels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;labels&lt;/a&gt; at the moment, it seems that they are a weird mixture of questions about labels in diagrams etc. and about the &lt;code&gt;\label&lt;/code&gt; command used for cross-referencing. I propose to embrace the following definition of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/labels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;labels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;labels&lt;/a&gt; as tag wiki excerpt (and to retag questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cross-referencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cross-referencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/a&gt; when appropriate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{labels} is about customizing the&#xA;  labels of diagrams and mathematical&#xA;  constructs like matrices. If your&#xA;  question is about \label or similar&#xA;  commands, use {cross-referencing}&#xA;  instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-09-01T22:22:56.320" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T22:22:56.320" Title="Am I wrong, or is {labels} *not* about the \label command?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2011-06-03T18:26:57.293" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add a couple of &quot;when not to edit&quot;s.  They are based on the following two side effects of editing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An edit on a question or answer bumps that question to the top of the &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An edit on a question or answer puts the editor's name as the &quot;last activity by&quot; name on the &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if either of these is not desirable, &lt;strong&gt;do not edit&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me outline a couple of scenarios where this might apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the first case, whilst it is beneficial to clean up old questions and answers, if all that they need is the edit (that is, there isn't any need for a new answer or new comment) then putting it back on the frontpage means that another question which does need more active attention is taken off.  Whilst one question isn't much, doing this for several can inhibit the normal activity of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the second case, if someone does a lot of edits (or retags) then seeing several posts with &quot;edited by X&quot; on the frontpage makes it difficult to distinguish between new posts, old posts with new answers, and old posts that don't need any further attention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are, no doubt, other scenarios where it would not be appropriate to edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My general point is that when editing, it is important to remember that a question has two (at least) stages in its life-cycle.  When it first appears on the site, then the important thing is that it be answered.  Thus edits should confine themselves to those that make the question clearer and easier to understand (with the proviso that if doing such an edit then correcting other minor issues is then made acceptable as well).  Later, when the question has been satisfactorily answered, it becomes a &lt;em&gt;resource&lt;/em&gt; and then it would be nice to fix those minor irritations to &quot;make the internet a better place&quot;.  But whilst in this stage it is more acceptable to do these minor edits, that style of editing should not interfere with questions that are still in the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; stage of their life.  Also, it is possible for a question to rejuvenate and go from the second stage to the first again (new information, new answer, and so forth).  In that case, the first set of edits apply again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, when a question is on the front page then all attention is on it and it is easy to see the errors that need correcting, and all too easy to forget them later.  Maybe we should have an &quot;editors' chatroom&quot; where people can record questions that they'd later like to go back and edit.  That would also enable others to see the proposed corrections and add their own (sometimes I see an edit and think, &quot;Oh, but you missed X, Y, and Z!&quot; but they are in themselves too minor to edit for).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T18:26:57.293" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-03T18:26:57.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1381" CreationDate="2011-06-03T20:09:36.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia version makes sense, a drop cap is an initial that extends into the line(s) below, but an initial might as well extend into the space above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the Germans among us, &lt;em&gt;initial&lt;/em&gt; might be more telling than &lt;em&gt;drop-cap&lt;/em&gt; since the German word is &lt;em&gt;Initiale&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The understanding issue Alan mentioned is interesting. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17467/initial-with-wrapfigure-other-idea&quot;&gt;only question that actually refers to this kind of letter&lt;/a&gt; is asked by an Austrian, the others don't use technical terminology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there aren't too many questions (= 3) about these matters on here, a distinction between &lt;em&gt;general initials&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;drop caps&lt;/em&gt; doesn't seem appropriate, but neither does tagging a question about an initial with &quot;drop-caps&quot;. Hence, I think renaming the tag is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T20:35:01.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1381" CreationDate="2011-06-03T21:17:16.827" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4012/doncherry&quot;&gt;doncherry&lt;/a&gt; has added his suggestion as an answer, I'll expand a bit on my comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think &quot;initial&quot; is a good candidate for a tag name. Even if the term is the more correct one, if it doesn't resonate with (average) questioners, then it either won't get used or will get used for other purposes. &quot;initial&quot; to (most?) English speakers has really only one salient meaning: words/names shortened to their initial letters.  Now granted, drop-cap is also fairly technical, but it is used in other software that people might have experience with, e.g. Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign, and therefore I think the &quot;drop-cap&quot; version is to be preferred (German speakers notwithstanding. :-).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T21:17:16.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1210" CreationDate="2011-06-05T19:02:56.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still don't get how training works in this version ... could you give precise, step-by-step instructions, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T19:02:56.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1381" CreationDate="2011-06-05T20:26:53.853" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the name could be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/initial-something&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;initial-something&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;initial-something&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; is something appropriate (not being an expert, I have no idea what the &quot;something&quot; could be).  I wouldn't realise what &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/initial&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;initial&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;initial&lt;/a&gt; was and that a &quot;drop cap&quot; was an example thereof.  Whilst &quot;drop-cap&quot; and &quot;initial&quot; may be both technical terms, &quot;drop-cap&quot; is fairly unambiguous (I guess one &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; take it to mean &quot;lowercase&quot; if one were being very obtuse) but (as has been pointed out) &quot;initial&quot; is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T20:26:53.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1381" CreationDate="2011-06-06T17:38:19.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting results seem to be inconclusive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, maybe we can rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dropcap&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dropcap&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dropcap&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drop-caps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drop-caps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drop-caps&lt;/a&gt; and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/initials&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;initials&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;initials&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Mods: Could you please do the renaming and merging (I created &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/initials&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;initials&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;initials&lt;/a&gt;, so that it can be made a synonym).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-06-14T02:06:01.307" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T02:06:01.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1396" CreationDate="2011-06-07T09:21:00.837" Score="8" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that begin with a bunch of code are not useful for readers when they are listed on the Question List. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following screenshot shows an example of question that begins with code. Does it look useful at a glance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SN8uq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we forbid people to make a question that begins with a bunch of code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least the first two line should not contain codes because these two lines will appear on the Question List.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-06-07T18:04:05.660" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T09:18:14.143" Title="Should we forbid people to make a question that begins with a bunch of code?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1395" CreationDate="2011-06-07T09:51:02.083" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea. However, I don't think we can &lt;em&gt;forbid&lt;/em&gt; people to do it, just discourage them. If the question would get summarized in the first two lines than the overview page would be much more useful. We should add this to our guidelines how to wrote posts. (There should also be one that says that edits shouldn't be marked with bold &quot;Update&quot; headlines but simply be merged with the existing text. &#xA;;-) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T09:51:02.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1395" CreationDate="2011-06-07T10:38:24.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a great idea, but I'd say &lt;em&gt;forbid&lt;/em&gt; probably is a strong word. =) Sometimes (and I include myself on that list), users face questions that should be built from the ground, starting from a basic code which is relevant to the context. As an example, one of my questions started with &quot;Consider the following code&quot; mainly because I couldn't simply tell what I'd like to achieve before providing some background. The question description, when listed in the front page, was not useful at all, but I managed to give it a good title, so the question was somehow saved. IMHO the problem raises when both title and body are not descriptive. If the title is good enough, I'd probably say to leave the question as it is. Besides, some non-native english speakers (like me) have difficulties on providing a good summary. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS&lt;/strong&gt;: I'd like to write this text as a comment, but it exceeded the maximum lenght for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T10:38:24.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1399" CreationDate="2011-06-07T13:18:06.847" Score="12" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say, over the time every piece of software evolves, new packages appear. And what if better than the accepted answer appears? I think, especially for questions that are about doing a task (making it a lot easier for example) it's important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5923" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T18:08:18.747" Title="What if better than the accepted answer appears?" Tags="|discussion|support|answers|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1398" CreationDate="2011-06-07T13:29:26.290" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a similar discussion some time ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/482/can-moderators-change-accepted-answers&quot;&gt;Can moderators change accepted answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, besides the person who posted the question, nobody can change the accepted answer, even if it is blatantly wrong. What you can do instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on the answer explaining why it is wrong, obsolete or Not The Right Thing To Do (tm). If the author of the question agrees, then he may be able to change the accepted answer. Most often, this doesn't happen if the user is not very active on TeX-SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question yourself, and contrast with the accepted answer. This will bump the question back to the top of the question list, and you'll get visibility and upvotes, if your answer is good. On top of that, there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/17/necromancer&quot;&gt;Necromancer badge&lt;/a&gt; to sweeten the deal if the question is old and you manage to get a few upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TeX-SE community is usually quick to spot problematic (i.e. wrong) answers, but unfortunately some older questions haven't been updated. So, if you see a question that can be improved (and is not community wiki), by all means, post your answer and comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T13:29:26.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1398" CreationDate="2011-06-07T18:08:18.747" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to remember here is that the acceptance of an answer does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; mean &quot;This is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; right answer.&quot;.  Acceptance of an answer means &quot;This is the answer that helped me most at the time that I asked the question.&quot;.  With that interpretation, it's clearer that another answer can be &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it isn't obvious to the casual visitor that that is the right interpretation which is why the community needs to make it clear along the lines that Martin Tapankov has said.  In extreme cases (extremely rare) the accepted answer can be edited to say: &quot;Warning: this answer is now out of date.  See &lt;em&gt;below&lt;/em&gt; for a more recent one.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T18:08:18.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1395" CreationDate="2011-06-07T18:09:45.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't edit a question &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; to deal with the first two lines (though I would if neither the title nor these two lines gave any indication as to what the question was about) but if I were editing it anyway for some other reason then making these two lines more focussed is clearly a good thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T18:09:45.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2011-06-09T11:41:39.363" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is new &quot;magic linking&quot; markup to special pages in our Markdown-like syntax for comments.  I think the most important are to link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;into the FAQ, using &lt;code&gt;[FAQ]&lt;/code&gt;, or to the specific sections, e.g., &lt;code&gt;[FAQ#questions]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[FAQ#dontask]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[FAQ#close]&lt;/code&gt;, etc.;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;the How To Ask page&lt;/a&gt;, using &lt;code&gt;[ask]&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;the How To Answer page&lt;/a&gt;, using &lt;code&gt;[answer]&lt;/code&gt;; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to our main site using &lt;code&gt;[tex.se]&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/470/trivial-point-about-tex-se-vs-tex-sx&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;feeble sigh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) from other sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is for comments only, and the main Tex site and meta will each link to their FAQ, etc.  There's more markup supported: see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92060/add-data-se-style-magic-links-to-comments/94000#94000&quot;&gt;balpha's announcement&lt;/a&gt; for the details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-06-09T11:41:39.363" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-09T11:41:39.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1395" CreationDate="2011-06-11T09:18:14.143" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely encourage people to have &lt;em&gt;excellent titles&lt;/em&gt; to their questions first and foremost. If the title is great, it might be OK for the post to start with code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T09:18:14.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1406" CreationDate="2011-06-11T09:53:07.573" Score="5" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we need to show a screenshot (pertaining to error messages for example) in comments, what should we do? Is it worth allowing us to upload images to the comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-11-28T23:12:00.423" LastActivityDate="2011-11-28T23:12:00.423" Title="Is it worth allowing us to upload images to the comments?" Tags="|feature-request|comments|images|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1405" CreationDate="2011-06-11T10:23:41.433" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are supposed to be small remarks on question and answers -- they feature a limitation of 600 characters. If you feel the need to add a screenshot to a comment, you a) are in all likelihood the person who asked the original question b) should edit your question to include the additional information (and the screenshot). If you are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the questioner and by all means need to add a screenshot, ask a new (follow-up) question with a link to the original one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T10:23:41.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1405" CreationDate="2011-06-11T11:19:38.500" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were a few instances where I did use the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page to upload an image that I then linked to in a comment, using the markdown syntax &lt;code&gt;[this is some text](http://address-of-comment)&lt;/code&gt;. But in general I agree with what lockstep says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T11:19:38.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="679" CreationDate="2011-06-11T13:36:26.047" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/5409/fonts-typography&quot;&gt;fonts &amp;amp; typography&lt;/a&gt; SE site in development phase now. I think many people here might be interested in joining it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T13:36:26.047" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1411" CreationDate="2011-06-13T10:31:14.430" Score="8" ViewCount="6691" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please kindly navigate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7199/2099&quot;&gt;Can PSTricks or others draw the 4 common tangent lines of 2 “disjoint” circles without having to do extra calculations?&lt;/a&gt; and see what happened there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/plf9s.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image Error&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure it is a bug but I chose bug tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;This issue still exists in the following questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2152/tikz-using-external-images-as-building-blocks&quot;&gt;Tikz: using external images as building blocks.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20654/length-between-nested-lists/20659#20659&quot;&gt;Length between nested lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18326/latex-math-jokes/18360#18360&quot;&gt;LaTeX Math Jokes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T17:43:24.127" Title="The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available" Tags="|bug|status-completed|images|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2011-06-13T10:47:31.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This shouldn't happen.&#xA;AFAIK stackoverflow/stackexchange has a special imgur account which has no time limit on the images.&#xA;Normally the images must be viewed at least once every six month, &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgur.com/faq#long&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to the imgur FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe these images where uploaded using a different imgur account by the users themselves? If not then some of the SO admins should have a look on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it should be best if the OP of these answers could reupload the images using the default imgur interface of TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-06-13T10:47:31.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2011-06-13T10:56:00.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can just change&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oh5Gf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oh5Gf.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fjHvG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fjHvG.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a network level &quot;pro&quot; account, so images shouldn't be disappearing, and they should be in both places actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-06-22T22:10:16.667" LastActivityDate="2011-06-22T22:10:16.667" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1414" CreationDate="2011-06-14T08:05:05.923" Score="6" ViewCount="344" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the policy on &quot;+1&quot; in comments? Should they be flagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that &quot;+1&quot; should not be included in any comment because +1 is what you do with an upvote. It is meaningful to state what you think of an answer but to also include &quot;+1&quot; is not meaningful. Every post would be cluttered with &quot;+1&quot; comments if everyone stated how they voted and that is partly what the voting function is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T08:43:24.110" Title="Policy on +1 comments" Tags="|discussion|voting|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2011-06-14T08:43:24.110" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not the +1 that is (potentially) problematic, but the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; of the comment. Comments should constructively add to the post in some way, so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;+1 awesome post dude you rock!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. doesn't, whereas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;+1 but I have also noticed that when  you frimboz the frazbot, sometimes the minmoz alignment can get out of sync.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words it can be OK to have the +1 in a comment, so long as the rest of the comment is meaningfully constructive and not a mindless &quot;thumbs up&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T08:43:24.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-14T10:54:15.963" Score="4" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;bellochio asked a question that perplexed a few here, namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/20487/175&quot;&gt;Why does MS Word&amp;#39;s algorithm for vertical positioning of super- and subscripts not conform to TeX&amp;#39;s ?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed for being about Microsoft technology, but I think that the kernel of the question is interesting, even if it's one that we are fairly likely not able to provide a good answer to, namely why do Tex and Word lay out superscripts and subscripts differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, the question referenced an NTG MAPS article, so is coming from our culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should try to make the question clearer and then reopen it, to see how we do.  The site is not in any danger of being drowned by comparative typesetting questions, so I tend to think it is healthy for us to see how we manage with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T14:47:17.820" Title="A comparative typesetting question" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1415" CreationDate="2011-06-14T12:53:34.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As can be seen, I was one who voted for closing.  I did so because there was no evidence of a link to TeX whatsoever.  The only text-processing program mentioned was MSWord.  (I view linking to an article as generally insufficient.  Something in TUGBoat would be sufficient, but all else not.  What is &quot;NTG MAPS&quot; and how should I know that it has anything whatsoever to do with TeX?)  Moreover, the question was very unclear.  The question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;why do Tex and Word lay out superscripts and subscripts differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is more focussed, but still a little &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; because it is not clear what sort of answer would be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, your plan is a good one.  If you can make it a question suitable for this site then I would vote to reopen it.  As I said in response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1301/re-open-question-with-non-tex-solution-to-non-tex-problem&quot;&gt;Re-open question with non-TeX-solution to non-TeX-problem?&lt;/a&gt;, closing is not forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T12:53:34.910" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1415" CreationDate="2011-06-14T14:47:17.820" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest we re-open it, with a slight rewording of the Title and the question. Mathematical typesetting algorithms are very interesting to many of us and are tangential to TeX. Some of our French users are very knowledgeable in this area. My personal interest is that I follow some of these algorithms as they being transformed via Javascript for the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked many questions and provided many answers. I had one question closed for being a duplicate (it was), but I nearly abandoned the site at the way it was closed. I felt at the time as if a whole pack of wolves jumped on me! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would rather keep a new user and have one tangential question than the other way round. After all, no-one knows maybe there would have been an answer closer to TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am now going to vote to open it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T14:47:17.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1419" CreationDate="2011-06-14T20:05:39.420" Score="14" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20750/changing-koma-script-font-family&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, my first impulse was to search for the countless other questions about sans-serif fonts. &quot;sans-serif&quot; yields 57 search results, yet there is no &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sans-serif&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sans-serif&lt;/a&gt; tag. Would such a tag be useful (at least for potential questioners)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texttt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texttt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texttt&lt;/a&gt; tag that features 6 questions at the moment. And no, I don't want to flood the starting page by retroactively mass-retagging old questions. But maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sans-serif&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sans-serif&lt;/a&gt; should be added to about a dozen questions with a high number of upvotes (or high-upvoted answers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T16:13:15.527" Title="Would a {sans-serif} tag be useful?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1418" CreationDate="2011-06-14T20:19:03.257" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've got 405 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt; questions until now. Regarding this and the number of your search results I think it would be useful to support font family tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sans-serif&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sans-serif&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/roman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;roman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;roman&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/serifs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;serifs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;serifs&lt;/a&gt; (synonym) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typewriter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typewriter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typewriter&lt;/a&gt; for questions which are about such a font family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texttt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texttt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texttt&lt;/a&gt; should be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typewriter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typewriter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typewriter&lt;/a&gt; to represent the topic (including the &lt;code&gt;\ttfamily&lt;/code&gt; declaration and more) instead of just a command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no hurry, we can introduce the tags and let it grow. Who knows, at some time we might have also tags regarding the shape and the weight... ok, we already see 21 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smallcaps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;smallcaps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;smallcaps&lt;/a&gt;, 16 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bold&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bold&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bold&lt;/a&gt; and 4 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/italic-correction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;italic-correction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;italic-correction&lt;/a&gt; questions, so why not tags for the broader families.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T20:19:03.257" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1421" CreationDate="2011-06-17T12:24:32.330" Score="6" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please press the edit button to bring you in preview/edit mode. See what happens in the preview area. The code markdown does not work well in case A, i.e., the first code line is not displayed as code but as normal text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case B, I insert any object between the heading and code markdowns, now everything works as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using Google Chrome and Firefox on Windows, I confirm it might be a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Case A: Heading markdown is immediately followed by a code markdown&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{minimal}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{pstricks}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;.%my code goes here&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Case B: Heading markdown is not immediately followed by a code markdown&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;=== any object can be here to make the code markdown work ===&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{minimal}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{pstricks}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;.%my code goes here&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="1106" LastEditDate="2011-06-17T18:57:12.883" LastActivityDate="2011-06-17T18:57:12.883" Title="Strange effect in preview mode if a heading markdown is immediately followed by a code markdown" Tags="|bug|status-completed|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1420" CreationDate="2011-06-17T18:56:59.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the same issue as reported &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95426/incorrect-markdown-preview-of-list-items-after-a-header&quot;&gt;in this questions on meta.so&lt;/a&gt; (and totally my fault); it's fixed in the code already and will work correctly again after the next build of the sites (we deploy at least once a day, usually more often).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-06-17T18:56:59.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1426" CreationDate="2011-06-17T22:05:43.850" Score="14" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just today there seemed to be slew of &quot;not a question&quot; flags that showed up. These were generated by various users, and as part of the mod tools (I think), &gt;10k users also get to review the flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at most of the flagged posts, it was clear that a moderator had already added a comment to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it therefore useful for me to add my own flag (which I understand to be a vote in favour of the flag), given that a mod seems to have already taken some action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind doing this, but if it's annoying to the mods, I can easily stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure what the purpose of this reviewing is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-06-17T22:40:25.050" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T11:53:18.013" Title="Utility of &quot;extra&quot; flagging" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="679" CreationDate="2011-06-18T09:28:01.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it shouldn't matter if the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; is of general nature or not TeX-related, because the questioner has posed his/her question on a TeX Q/A-site, then the &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; should be in TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T09:28:01.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2011-06-18T20:34:52.573" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only difference the number of flags makes is to determine the order in which flagged content appears in the moderation list.  On a site with the volume of StackOverflow this is very important -- it's not uncommon for the list of flags to get too long for a single moderator to address in one sitting, so floating things flagged multiple times to the top makes it easy for mods to prioritize content most in need of their attention.  TeX.SE, I imagine, has a lower flag volume, so the &lt;em&gt;number&lt;/em&gt; of flags doesn't make much difference in the grand scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of showing the &gt;=10k users this list is that with that much rep there's very little difference between you and a diamond moderator.  You're an experienced, trusted community member and perfectly capable with dealing with some of these issues if you'd like to take the time to do so.  Act on the ones you are sure about; if something is borderline or you don't know how best to deal with it, just leave it for the next person to handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2298" LastEditorUserId="2298" LastEditDate="2011-06-19T05:38:56.567" LastActivityDate="2011-06-19T05:38:56.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2011-06-19T09:27:34.350" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a personal take, but to me having one flag per issue seems best. The approach we've taken on tex.sx is that flags stay'on' for some time, as we want to allow the OPs time to come back and changes, see comments, &lt;em&gt;etc&lt;/em&gt;. There are places where a flag as a proxy for vote-to-close is useful, but as 10k users can actually vote to close that seems preferable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to remember how many flags are set at any one point, so more flagging sends me looking for new issues to read. That can be a little bit of a pain when the flag is on a question I already know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-06-19T09:27:34.350" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2011-06-20T02:57:08.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure what the purpose of this reviewing is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main purpose is to give additional visibility to problem posts that have not been handled by moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This increased visibility allows for a degree of self-service. You may for example delete a &quot;not an answer&quot; post or close a &quot;not a real question post&quot;. When this happens stuff drops of the list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you can &quot;pile on&quot; flags, or add additional information to the flags to help the moderator make an informed decision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example you could look at the post, then other posts by the user and say: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I have noticed a trend with the user his posts are generally spam and he needs to be banned&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;not a question&quot; flags are best handled by voting to close the question, once you do that - the post will &quot;vanish&quot; from your list. In this case I would not pile on votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;not an answer&quot; flags are slightly more complicated, if you are certain its not an answer and needs to be deleted, adding a flag can give moderators a higher sense of urgency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1211" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T02:57:08.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1429" CreationDate="2011-06-20T05:43:22.987" Score="9" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18658/pgfplot-axis-labels-detaching-from-graph&quot;&gt;PGFplot Axis Labels Detaching From Graph&lt;/a&gt; while ago and finally have one small example can reproduce a similar problem.  Is it better for me to post a follow up question (with a cross reference) or just add the example to that posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T06:33:51.620" Title="Should I post a follow up question, or just add more info to an earlier question that did not have a MWE" Tags="|discussion|guidelines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1428" CreationDate="2011-06-20T06:33:51.620" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the MWE illustrates the existing question, which is how it sounds, post it as a postscript to that.  If the problem raises a related but distinct question, ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T06:33:51.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2011-06-20T11:53:18.013" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really have an answer to this, but I wanted to add a bit of weight to Joseph's answer.  There is a clear distinction between:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How a feature was envisioned to be used by the SO overlords when it was put in place,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How that feature is used on the Big Sites,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How that feature is used here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, the intent of this feature is that it be a way for high rep users to play more of a role in the moderation of the site.  But to do that effectively, it should not interfere with the way that the moderators already work.  So I would use this feature as a way of getting notification of potentially problematic posts, thereby allowing us to do things that we would normally do anyway if we were aware of it (such as leaving messages, or voting appropriately) but as Joseph has said that adding more flags doesn't do anything, and can even be a minor irritant, I would not add any more flags unless I was really, really sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And as a final comment, the notion of using flags as bookmarks dates right back to the early days of the site and, from my days as a moderator, I remember it working just fine.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T11:53:18.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-20T11:55:49.510" Score="13" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not that long to our first birthday (July 26th), and it would be nice to mark it in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that there will be plenty of silly ideas - save them for &lt;em&gt;chat&lt;/em&gt;.  Let's have serious ideas here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-07-15T07:29:53.090" Title="Birthday Celebrations" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1431" CreationDate="2011-06-20T11:57:14.487" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;One that springs to mind is to get the first version of the TeX-SX-package up on CTAN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;References:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1220/what-are-your-favourite-tikz-pgf-answers&quot;&gt;What are your favourite TikZ/PGF answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/409/from-answers-to-packages&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/409/from-answers-to-packages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T11:57:14.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-20T19:37:29.667" Score="18" ViewCount="896" Body="&lt;p&gt;We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for the past few years. They may not be employees, per se, but great community moderators are why our communities are safe, sane, and worth visiting in the first place…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're a moderator on the main site, would you be interested in having your own TeX Stack Exchange contact card? Would you find it useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see them being handy to pass out during your local meetups or conferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is a mockup: (I copied the site description text from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;/about page&lt;/a&gt;. Feel free to make suggestions where you see fit. I had to shorten the front side's description is bit due to spacing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(click on image to see full res version)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWQ55.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWQ55.png&quot; alt=&quot;tex.stackexchange.com moderator cards&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course Twitter ID/phone# are optional. It can be Skype, AIM, URL etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: the text rendering in the mockup is slightly blurry. But when printed it will be crisp.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T08:32:47.260" Title="TeX Stack Exchange Moderator Cards" Tags="|discussion|design|community|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2011-06-21T09:19:31.317" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They look nice! I really like to have some. I can send my details by PM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T09:19:31.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1431" CreationDate="2011-06-22T08:27:30.713" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should make an effort to bring down the number of unanswered questions before our birthday. There's plenty of questions where answers haven't been upvoted and the OP hasn't returned since asking to accept the answer. But I'm sure lurking in that list are some questions that we can find answers to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if there are questions with answers on the list, and the answers are good, please &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; upvote them: that way, they're off the &quot;unanswered&quot; list...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="215" LastEditDate="2011-06-23T13:39:43.143" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T13:39:43.143" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-22T14:34:45.740" Score="211" ViewCount="160691" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX&lt;/strong&gt;, the free, community driven Questions and Answers site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is some information to help you get started&lt;/strong&gt; and to make your work with this site a pleasant experience for you and all other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This site is for &lt;strong&gt;Questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt; and is &lt;strong&gt;not a forum&lt;/strong&gt;. This means that there is a quite strict format enforced here. Please post an answerable &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ask Question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; button (after &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;searching for existing similar questions&lt;/a&gt; first of course) or post a solution for an existing question as an &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; post. Please &lt;strong&gt;do not start discussions&lt;/strong&gt; or ask off-topic questions. You can also post &lt;strong&gt;comments&lt;/strong&gt; to questions and answers to provide feedback. At first you can only comment on your own questions and their answers, but after you have gained a reputation of 50 you can comment everywhere. There is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;chat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for more casual posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers can receive positive and negative &lt;strong&gt;votes&lt;/strong&gt; to indicate their quality. Answers are sorted after the number of votes so that the better ones appear first. The votes that answers and questions receive also increase or decrease the &lt;strong&gt;reputation&lt;/strong&gt; of the author of the post. With increasing reputation users will receive more and more &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;privileges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to do more things on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most useful &lt;strong&gt;answer that solved your problem&lt;/strong&gt; should be &lt;strong&gt;accepted&lt;/strong&gt; by clicking the tick/checkmark symbol to the left of the answer. This shows other people that this is &amp;quot;the correct answer&amp;quot; in your opinion and assigns points to the answerer and also you. The question will then be handled as &amp;quot;done&amp;quot; which is important for the housekeeping of the site. However, new answers can still be added and the question asker can accept a different answer at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is highly recommended to add a compilable, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that illustrates your problem. This way other users can compile it themselves, analyze error messages more closely and also easily implement and test their solutions before posting them. 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Here the restrictions are lower and you are free to start discussions as long they are about how to run the site etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="27227" LastEditDate="2020-11-29T20:13:24.903" LastActivityDate="2020-11-29T20:13:24.903" Title="Welcome to TeX.SX!" Tags="|support|editing|new-users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-22T14:35:04.600" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1437" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-23T07:06:56.827" Score="9" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst browsing a question ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8528/why-cannot-i-compile-documentclassminimal-document-enddocument&quot;&gt;Why cannot I compile `\documentclass{minimal}\document . \enddocument` ?&lt;/a&gt; as it happens), I noticed that there is a spam post there.  It has been deleted so is not visible to people with reputation below 10k, but I'm not sure that I particularly want to see posts like this when browsing the forum.  The pink highlighting actually makes it &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; ignorable since it's a fairly rare thing to encounter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular post isn't offensive, just irrelevant and ugly, but I can imagine posts that would be offensive, even when outlined in pink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obvious solution would be to blank the post, leaving maybe a remark saying: &quot;This was a spam post, it has been blanked.&quot;.  The edit history contains the original post so it can be checked that it was a genuine spam post.  Anyone with the reputation to see it should know about edit history as well, so nothing is being hidden here, just tidied out of the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this sound like a reasonable thing to do?  I thought I'd find out what others thought before unilaterally doing anything myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T16:22:58.763" Title="Etiquette question: blanking spam posts" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1437" CreationDate="2011-06-23T08:50:26.127" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with blanking &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the post has been deleted as spam or if it is really offensive. Blanking it before whould hinder it getting further downvotes so it is automatically deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to mention the things again people should do when they encounter spam posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag it as spam. This will cause an automatic downvote done by the special Community user, i.e. it doesn't cost you the normal -1 reputation point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Really offensive stuff should also be flagged for moderator attention. It will be deleted automatically after reaching a certain amount of spam flags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the unlikely case that the post somehow still have a positive vote count, please downvote it yourself at least to -1 to push it downwards in the list of answers.&#xA;Then after the spam post has been deleted you can get your -1 rep for the downvote back be recalculating your rep. For this go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;, scroll down and hit the &quot;recalculate reputation&quot; button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also moderators are able to remove the user account which posted the spam. Usually they are new, unregistered accounts only used for spam.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T16:22:58.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2011-06-23T14:43:29.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found the solution to your example posts #2 and #3. What made me think is that it's both answers by Gonzalo Medina. What happened is this: Up until now, Gonzalo didn't use the &quot;add image&quot; link in the answer form, but he used the imgur homepage &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com/&lt;/a&gt;. (See the soon to be deleted conversation &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20654/length-between-nested-lists/20659#20659&quot;&gt;in the comments here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you think &quot;oh no, all his images are lost now&quot;: They aren't lost (yet), it just happened that all the imgur links with &lt;code&gt;i.imgur.com&lt;/code&gt; were &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95732/images-manually-uploaded-to-imgur-are-not-displaying/95734#95734&quot;&gt;automatically changed to &lt;code&gt;i.stack.imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. (And all the images uploaded via the &quot;add image&quot; button were copied to that domain.) So if you remove &lt;code&gt;stack.&lt;/code&gt; from those links, you see that the images are still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only wonder what the best course of action is here, taking into account that Gonzalo has &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of answers that would have to be checked. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1440&quot;&gt;How do we repair Gonzalo Medina&amp;#39;s posts containing images?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T14:56:11.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1843" CreationDate="2011-06-23T14:53:20.760" Score="14" ViewCount="792" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1409/the-image-you-are-requesting-does-not-exist-or-is-no-longer-available/1439#1439&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, all the links to images that were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; uploaded via the &quot;add image&quot; button are broken. (EDIT: See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95732/images-manually-uploaded-to-imgur-are-not-displaying/95734#95734&quot;&gt;this announcement by Jeff&lt;/a&gt; for the background.) This has the consequence that &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of the posts of Gonzalo Medina show this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tTyeu.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of the intended image. At the moment I see two possible ways to fix this, one even worse than the other:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manually remove &lt;code&gt;stack.&lt;/code&gt; from all the image links in Gonzalo's posts. This would bump all the posts; moreover, it wouldn't move the images to the &lt;code&gt;stack&lt;/code&gt; account, so they would be lost sooner or later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manually remove &lt;code&gt;stack.&lt;/code&gt; from the image links and re-upload all the images via the &quot;add image&quot; button. This would also bump all the posts, and it would be even more work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what can be done about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-10-12T14:29:48.000" Title="How do we repair Gonzalo Medina's posts containing images?" Tags="|discussion|support|status-completed|images|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1440" CreationDate="2011-06-23T15:15:45.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking on a possible solution for this issue. But since we are part of the StackOverflow framework, this idea would certainly affect the whole structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts/93989#93989&quot;&gt;this announcement&lt;/a&gt; about getting rid of salutations, we could come up with a similar RegEx pattern to automatically fix the image links. At least, here in TeX.SE. Not sure it can be done locally, though. The benefits i see from this approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't need to do anything. Posts are fixed by themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every single image that matches the pattern will be automatically fixed, not only Gonzalo's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can prevent old, current an future image issues by simply adapting the pattern rules.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, those were my 2 cents. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT1:&lt;/strong&gt; As Jeff pointed in his answer, even if the image links are replaced by the correct form (from &lt;code&gt;i.stack.&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;i.&lt;/code&gt;), the problem still remains as the images will silently and gradually disappear from &lt;code&gt;imgur&lt;/code&gt;. The &lt;code&gt;add button&lt;/code&gt; feature is linked to a SE contract with the imagehost, which garantees that the images will be preserved from an eventual &lt;em&gt;spring cleaning&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-06-24T10:27:46.260" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1440" CreationDate="2011-06-24T00:35:52.753" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm. I could easily replace the URLs on all his posts, but that sweeps one very important issue under the rug:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unless you &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgur.com/register/upgrade&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;purchase a $24.95/yr imgur pro account plan&lt;/a&gt;, images you upload to imgur may be &lt;em&gt;lost forever&lt;/em&gt; any time after 6 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, we NEED images to uploaded through the built-in image button here, because those images are guaranteed to stay around forever per our contract with imgur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These images need to be re-uploaded under our network account, and I don't have a magic tool which does that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-06-24T00:35:52.753" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1248" CreationDate="2011-06-24T07:44:21.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Status Update (2011/06/24):&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aspects that are completed or near completion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Braids; needs testing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Calligraphy; needs testing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Matrix cells; needs testing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Angled ends to paths; needs converting to &lt;code&gt;dtx&lt;/code&gt;, testing, and documentation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Labelling equations; needs converting to &lt;code&gt;dtx&lt;/code&gt;, testing, and documentation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TQFT diagrams; needs testing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soft path library (not intended for use by &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt;); needs testing and documentation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things that have been started but are a little further away&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3D perspective coordinates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paths in hyperbolic space&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Knot diagrams (no files in the launchpad repository for this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Testing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following are steps to test the code.  There are variants of these (for example, for those who know about bzr repositories), but these are as simple as I can make them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The code is located at &lt;a href=&quot;http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tex-sx/tex-sx/development/files&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tex-sx/tex-sx/development/files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select something you want to test.  If it has a &lt;code&gt;.dtx&lt;/code&gt; file, you have to have that.  If there is a relevant &lt;code&gt;_test.tex&lt;/code&gt; file, that might be useful (the &lt;code&gt;_test.tex&lt;/code&gt; files are my (Andrew Stacey) test files.).  If it only as a &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file, that's both the &quot;style&quot; and the test file (but the ones with &lt;code&gt;.dtx&lt;/code&gt;s are the more important for testing).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Run &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt; on the &lt;code&gt;.dtx&lt;/code&gt;.  That will produce the &lt;code&gt;.sty&lt;/code&gt; file &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the documentation &lt;code&gt;.pdf&lt;/code&gt; file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to set up a test document.  I'm not going to give more instructions here as ideally it should be possible to do this from the supplied documentation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is no documentation, look at the &lt;code&gt;_test.tex&lt;/code&gt; file if it exists.  If the code hasn't yet been converted to a &lt;code&gt;.dtx&lt;/code&gt; then the &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file is all there is; it will have the code and samples, but no documentation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2011-06-24T09:56:36.820" LastActivityDate="2011-06-24T09:56:36.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-24T09:20:23.717" Score="16" ViewCount="546" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent StackOverflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/blog-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; announced the lauch of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogoverflow&lt;/a&gt;: stackexchange community blogs. Do we think the TeX community wants one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know several members already have their own blogs (Joseph Wright, Stefan Kottwitz, myself and frabjous contribute to one...) but would a community one be a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are four steps to getting one started. Raising the idea on meta is step one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people think it's a good idea the next step is to define the scope of the blog: what would it be about? I guess highlighting neat hacks from the site is a good idea. It would be a place to put those bits of code you write up inspired by a question that don't make it into an answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next we'd need to recruit contributors. I guess the best way to do this would be a CW answer where people can add their name as potential contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, we'd need a schedule. I'd suggest we start with a post a week. If we develop a backlog then we could up it to twice weekly or something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what does everyone think? My concern is that perhaps there are already enough TeX blogs that anyone who might potentially contribute to this one already runs their own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-09-27T20:02:18.793" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T13:26:09.157" Title="How about a TeX.SX blog?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|blog|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1440" CreationDate="2011-06-24T14:37:59.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way to avoid the edit bumps would be the following, though it would need some action by Jeff (or another overlord).  Gonzalo could upload all of the images to imgur in one go by posting a &quot;question&quot; here on meta which included all of the images added via the correct method. Then armed with a list of the old urls and the new ones, Jeff could replace all instances of the old ones with the new ones reasonably simply.  That would get it all done in one go and would mean that no answers were bumped to the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-06-24T14:37:59.390" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1444" CreationDate="2011-06-25T23:02:12.663" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great if a TeX.SX blog would benefit from StackExchange features, such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting for blog posts&lt;/strong&gt; for finding and highlighting excellent posts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested edits&lt;/strong&gt; for correcting mistakes and improving posts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag sharing with the main site&lt;/strong&gt; and automatic links from tag wikis and tag mouseover links to blog posts, if existing for a tag&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flagging&lt;/strong&gt; for attention, at least for comments if not also for posts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closing by votes&lt;/strong&gt;, for blog posts which are off topic or which might attract a lot of unobjective comments&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supporting reputation and badge system&lt;/strong&gt; for encouraging fellow users to write&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess even if there were no such features at the beginnig, they might evolve. So why not start a blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A TeX.SX blog can become a good companion to the site. Content ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Announcements of new site features, of elections, moderator changes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reviews of the development of the site&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Essays resp. follow-ups which developed from answers to questions on the main site&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extensive answers to questions nobody asked this way yet&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts contributing to TeX or to the site, which don't fit to the Q&amp;amp;A system&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Especially interesting news from the TeX world&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are indeed already TeX blogs, also of site members. However&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By occasionally posting on the TeX.SX site a blogger can attract readers to his personal blog.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fellow users who don't have a blog yet, for example because of not having much time to fill a site themselves, would get a platform.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do contributors need to be approved? Also here, main site features can help: posting in the blog can be allowed for users with a certain reputation, or let's have a &quot;suggested post&quot; feature (like with edits on the main site) which high rep users or mods can approve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, a blog can be one additional point to the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/385/things-to-do-on-a-slow-day-at-tex-se&quot;&gt;Things to do on a slow day at TeX-SE&lt;/a&gt;. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T23:02:12.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-25T23:29:37.787" Score="6" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did you see a review of our TeX.SX site in the web?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did you read blog posts or news articles about TeX.SX?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you know that somebody wrote a report about questions or answers on TeX.SX?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then please post a link to it here. It would be nice to see who writes about TeX.SX, and what. It's also a chance to add comments on the other sites, if meaningful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This topic is Community Wiki, so feel free to edit answers adding links.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-06-26T12:31:46.497" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T17:04:48.270" Title="Online reviews and reports on TeX.SX" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-26T12:30:52.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1448" CreationDate="2011-06-26T00:23:54.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll make start with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;About TeX.SX&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Texts about the site in general&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blog posts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texdev.net/2010/08/02/a-new-place-for-tex-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A new place for TeX questions&lt;/a&gt; (Some TeX Developments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~leingang/content/tex-and-friends-get-stackoverflow-treatment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX and friends get the StackOverflow treatment&lt;/a&gt; (Matthew Leingang's blog)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-my.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-l-t-e-x-q-site.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New (La)TeX Q&amp;amp;A Site&lt;/a&gt; (Malaysian LaTeX User Group)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex-archive/online/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX, LaTeX and Friends - a new Q&amp;amp;A site&lt;/a&gt; (texblog.net)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex-archive/latex-general/tex-stackexchange-launch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;{TeX} site launched with new design&lt;/a&gt; (texblog.net)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/tex-latex-and-friends-stackexchange-site-also-looking-for-people/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;“TeX, LaTeX and Friends” StackExchange site also looking for people&lt;/a&gt; (Secret Blogging Seminar)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other texts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997691&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX/LaTeX Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; (hacker news)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/23c40e924b3ebab1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Proposal of a new Q&amp;amp;A site centered on LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; (comp.text.tex)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/3719825cf9147e57&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX.Stackexchange.com group&lt;/a&gt; (comp.text.tex)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-06-26T17:04:48.270" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T17:04:48.270" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-26T12:30:52.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1448" CreationDate="2011-06-26T10:16:44.967" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jim Hefferon has written &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb32-1/tb100heff.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an article&lt;/a&gt; in the latest &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tugboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUGBoat&lt;/a&gt; reviewing the major English-language online TeX forums. TeX.SX features as one of the big players. (Note: the article is currently available only to TUG members, but will be I open-access after 'about one year'.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T10:16:44.967" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-26T12:30:52.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="617" CreationDate="2011-06-26T11:01:53.397" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not possible to undo comment votes at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now possible, but only once, and only within a limited time window after comment upvoting. Sorry, I thought the latter part was obvious, but maybe not :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2012-08-17T00:06:52.883" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T00:06:52.883" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1444" CreationDate="2011-06-26T12:08:15.430" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Potential contributors&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This CW post is the place to register your interest in contributing to the blog, and to suggest what sort of things you might contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/215/seamus&quot;&gt;Seamus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using TeX to write a thesis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using emacs/aucTeX to write LaTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thoughts on projects to learn more about (La)TeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reports on the &lt;em&gt;From Answers to Packages&lt;/em&gt; package&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;What I've learnt about TikZ&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More generally, I feel that (partly due to this site) I'm learning a lot about LaTeX/TeX right at the moment - stuff which power users all probably think of as obvious stuff - and I'd happily share that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;News about the TeX.SX site, both&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;external, such as SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stackexchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;partnerships with TUGs&lt;/a&gt; and sites and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1448/online-reviews-and-reports-on-tex-sx&quot;&gt;TeX.SX in media&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1497/who-plans-to-go-to-the-tug-2011-conference-in-india&quot;&gt;at conferences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1460/what-would-you-like-to-read-in-a-tex-sx-blog/1533#1533&quot;&gt;internal&lt;/a&gt;, such as SE engine development with big effect on the site or SE actions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/tex-sx-t-shirts&quot;&gt;produced TeX giveaways for members&lt;/a&gt; if not visibly announced by SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1460/what-would-you-like-to-read-in-a-tex-sx-blog/1475#1475&quot;&gt;new developments in the TeX world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3094&quot;&gt;Paulo Cereda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX integration with software development&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Non-technical LaTeX case studies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Insight into TeX macro programming details&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ideas on helping new users, based on experience running &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.tug.org/2011/07/12/latex-for-beginners-course-26th-august-2011-uea-london/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;training courses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General 'TeX world' news&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/&quot;&gt;egreg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Low level (La)TeX programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Xe(La)Tex&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General typography&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX package programming and installing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Standalone diagrams&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use of version control with (La)TeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some tricky and/or interesting things to know about (La)TeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/951/raphink&quot;&gt;Raphink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX and French typography rules&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Typesetting Bible references in LaTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using Drop-caps letters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/579/barbara-beeton&quot;&gt;barbara beeton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list of published resources for how to typeset math&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T13:26:09.157" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-26T12:08:15.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1448" CreationDate="2011-06-26T12:54:08.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions from TeX.SX, reviewed and discussed on other sites&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326545&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why is TeX still used? What are some good, modern alternatives?&lt;/a&gt;  (hacker news)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2513116&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What led you to TeX and LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; (hacker news)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex-archive/graphics/tikz-questions-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TikZ questions and answers&lt;/a&gt; (texblog.net)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T12:54:08.683" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-26T12:54:08.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2011-06-26T14:11:04.330" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a nice idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see the subtle TeX design (math, chemistry, Tengwar) also behind the {TeX} logo on the card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, it would be great if those cards look somehow official, because they originate from the StackExchange company. Having a modarator.name@stackexchange.com email address instead of private/somewhere mail addresses would also support the idea of representing the TeX.StackExchange community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T14:11:04.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1444" CreationDate="2011-06-27T17:13:06.630" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to say, &quot;Sounds great, but count me out&quot; as I have enough to do as it is.  But Rebecca's comment and something I read on the Photography &quot;Shall we have a blog?&quot; thread made me think that this would be a beneficial addition to our site and I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be able to contribute from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In more detail, some of the things that I've put on &quot;my&quot; chat rooms (the &quot;Answers to Packages&quot; and the &quot;\advance\understanding&quot;) could have worked as blog posts.  There are times when I've learnt something when answering a question that wasn't directly relevant but which I thought worth sharing, so a blog would be a natural place to put that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I read on the photography site was that a blog would be a good place to highlight answers that might otherwise go overlooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It would be useful to know a bit more about how it worked ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T17:13:06.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1466" CreationDate="2011-06-27T21:26:46.680" Score="11" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX.SX community blog&lt;/a&gt; has been launched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which subjects do you suggest it should deal with? What would you like to see there? Which topics would you enjoy reading about - the site, the site's topic, its users, books, ...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make the question Community Wiki. Separate answers for suggested content and voting for them could help in choosing topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-07-30T18:11:12.703" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T18:11:12.703" Title="What would you like to read in a TeX.SX blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-27T21:27:32.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-06-28T08:55:03.480" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Case studies&quot;: Real-life (or made up, but realistic) examples of interesting TeX problems and how they were solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12554/submitting-a-journal-article-as-a-single-tex-file&quot;&gt;Submitting a journal article as a single tex file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T08:55:03.480" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-28T08:55:03.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1463" CreationDate="2011-06-29T01:10:29.150" Score="17" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is downvoting a duplicate (but otherwise sound) question a good thing to do? It seems to me that it unnecessarily alienates new users (who are probably the most likely to ask a duplicate question.)  This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/21858/2693&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/21858/2693&lt;/a&gt; got a down vote, despite my comment and a couple of close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="16227" LastEditDate="2018-01-16T11:03:42.367" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T11:03:42.367" Title="Downvoting duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|voting|dupehammer|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1462" CreationDate="2011-06-29T08:17:25.667" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks Alan for bringing this up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't downvote a question just because it's a duplicate. It can happen that a duplicate is even better written than the earlier question.&#xA;Only downvote if the question is bad or unclear, as usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially with new users it can happen that they did not find the earlier question. Then it would be great to post a nice comment pointing to the duplicate, that's friendlier than just voting to close without a word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T08:17:25.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1462" CreationDate="2011-06-29T11:53:07.663" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition what Stefan already stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially new users shouldn't be down-voted (especially not below -1!) because this repels them from this site. Point out the duplicate with a comment in a nice way and maybe also politely point them to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as Jeff mentioned already (somewhere else), there is such as thing as good duplicates (and most duplicates are actually good ones). Once marked as such they point to the other question and therefore maximize the chance that people find it, even if they use other search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T11:53:07.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1468" CreationDate="2011-06-29T12:17:58.870" Score="6" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see how to review edits. I theoretically have the &quot;privilege&quot; and I recently happened upon a question that had an edit pending, which I approved. But I don't see where a list of pending edits can be accessed. Nor do I see where pending tag wiki edits show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've tagged this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; because it needs one of those compulsory tags, but none really seem appropriate...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-06-29T13:50:14.127" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T13:50:14.127" Title="How to review edits?" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-06-29T12:40:11.573" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Highlighting really cool answers that show off a neat trick that has wide applicability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6967/215&quot;&gt;Biblatex's categories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1559/adding-a-large-brace-next-to-a-body-of-text/1570#1570&quot;&gt;this &lt;code&gt;\tikzmark&lt;/code&gt; trick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T12:40:11.573" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-29T12:40:11.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-06-29T12:41:57.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX.sx bugwatch: highlighting when bugs are found and fixed on TeX.sx (either by the authors or patches by other members of the community.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's been a few &lt;code&gt;siunitx&lt;/code&gt; bugs that have cropped up here. And a couple of &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; bugs too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T12:41:57.610" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-29T12:41:57.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2011-06-29T12:54:39.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list of edits are part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;moderator-tools&lt;/a&gt; (10k privileges). You can approve edits before that but only if you stumble over them. You can see them by looking at the &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; link below the post. If one or more edits are pending a number is displayed in parentheses behind it, like &lt;code&gt;edit (1)&lt;/code&gt;. This is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was asking about the same question, but about tag wiki edits (which didn't had that indicator then) on Meta.SX: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80709/users-with-5k-rep-have-approve-tag-wiki-edits-privilege-but-cant-see-list-of&quot;&gt;Users with 5k+ rep have “approve tag wiki edits” privilege but can't see list of suggested edits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T12:54:39.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1462" CreationDate="2011-06-29T13:57:22.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might it be possible to add to the WishList the facility for a suitably authorised person to merge a duplicate with the original, reopening the original if closed, in case further answers shed new light? This would notify the OP of the dupe that it was a dupe, and reduce the number of duplicate hits in subsequent searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="355" LastActivityDate="2011-06-29T13:57:22.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-06-30T12:45:04.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Major) updates or lesser-known features of tex.sx's functionality, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;changes and tricks in comment markup (vs. post markup), e.g. there are some (series of) characters that aren't straightforward to get.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you insert a full length link to a question in a comment, it gets shortened and the question is displayed as a mouseover-tooltip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; markup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;things listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1001/stackexchange-secret-pages&quot;&gt;StackExchange secret pages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;similarly with above link (I just noticed that): I inserted the full URL and just the question title is displayed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T12:45:04.427" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-30T12:45:04.427" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-06-30T12:47:26.767" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Important resolutions that have been agreed upon on meta concerning voting, editing, commenting, closing and other policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T12:47:26.767" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-30T12:47:26.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-06-30T14:55:18.563" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Highlighting state of the art packages and novel approaches in solving different problems. Mentioning also obsoleted packages or inferior ones - explaining problems behind using them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;τאbu (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/tabu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tabu&lt;/a&gt;) for flexible tabulars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/subfig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;subfig&lt;/a&gt; - (mostly) superseded by subcaption, which does not have hyperref problems&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5264" LastEditorUserId="5264" LastEditDate="2011-06-30T15:25:53.657" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T15:25:53.657" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-30T14:55:18.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-06-30T15:00:30.103" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pointing out interesting new packages or updated functionality of existing packages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can follow comp.tex.ctan.announce (as I do) but there usually isn't much detail in the announcements, and it would be good to have some filtering to highlight the especially interesting stuff (eg, at the level of one package mentioned per month).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="627" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T15:00:30.103" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-30T15:00:30.103" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-06-30T16:56:52.387" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unveil and explain new developments, such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;new or not yet widely known &lt;a href=&quot;http://The%20differences%20between%20TeX%20engines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX engines&lt;/a&gt;, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luatex&quot;&gt;LuaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;new or not yet commonly used TeX formats, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot;&gt;ConTeXt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TeX implementations on new hardware platforms, such as on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8021/is-there-a-latex-distribution-running-on-ipad&quot;&gt;iPad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T16:56:52.387" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-30T16:56:52.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1499" CreationDate="2011-06-30T17:11:45.243" Score="6" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussing on meta helps to improve our site. Besides askings questions and answering of course, voting is especially helpful in making decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do to encourage people to participate more? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T21:34:07.200" Title="How can we encourage people to participate in the meta site?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1478" CreationDate="2011-06-30T17:40:16.937" Score="14" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are usually very helpful and valuable. However, sometimes it happens that comments to answers or questions become obsolete, and can distract from valid comments. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments suggesting migration of a question could be removed after the migration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reminders to post a minimal example could be removed by the commenter after the question has been edited to include an example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments pointing out a small typo or mistake could be deleted after the correction has been done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A long discussion via comments, which came to a result and for example to a revision of an answer, could be cleaned up by the writers. Also, if they decided to continue in the chat, in that case a remaining link to the chat log would be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean cleaning up by original posters of comments, to remove noise and to keep the site tidy. It might be especially helpful if there are further but still valid comments. Keeping in mind not to leave gaps if there are already follow-up comments - should we encourage users to clean up a comment from time to time, if meaningful, as etiquette?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-06-30T17:46:55.293" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T10:26:33.240" Title="Should we clean up obsolete comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2011-06-30T18:07:46.933" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fully agree with deleting comments for the above reasons. This should be mostly done by the commentators itself, but might also be done by a moderator for the trivial cases, especially in longer comment threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the encourage users part. I personally don't like to constantly add comments to tell people to remove their now outdated comments. It might defeat the whole purpose if it doesn't happen and I forget to remove mine as well after a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On special thing are comments which have five or more up-votes (or are short before that and might still get more votes). These count for the silver (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/54/pundit&quot;&gt;Pundit badge&lt;/a&gt;) which requieres ten of them and I could image that users would not be happy if moderators would delete their (now obsolete) 5^ comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T10:26:33.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1476" CreationDate="2011-06-30T18:10:15.217" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Problems with meta SX sites in general are that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;People don't know about its existence.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3 links to meta is maybe not enough, but it's rather the other thing. People unfamiliar with meta may even avoid clicking such links, because not everyone is &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; curious. If there were some descriptive tooltips when you hover mouse on meta links, situation would improve a bit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;People want to have their problems solved&lt;/em&gt;, not debate over some details regarding how questions should be asked, answered, etc.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's what they think usually, but sometimes it can be &quot;fixed&quot;. The thing is to lure them here more often, bringing meta name in comments with related meta-questions, to let them understand mistakes or good common practices (and why they are good).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're in megastore, you can find an inquiry desk. Like it or not, but TeX.SX is a kind of megastore and the point is to let people understand that meta is a kind of (specific) inquiry desk which helps you at being more efficient in &lt;strike&gt;buying/selling things&lt;/strike&gt; obtaining desired/sharing sought information from/to other TeX.SX &lt;strike&gt;customers/salesmen&lt;/strike&gt; members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5264" LastEditorUserId="5264" LastEditDate="2011-06-30T18:23:43.280" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T18:23:43.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2011-06-30T21:07:49.067" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although deleting outdated comments definitely has some merits, I think that they can also serve as a useful history about how the site is supposed to operate.  So seeing a comment that says &quot;please provide a minimal example&quot;, with quite few upvotes may have a useful educational effect, even after the original question has been updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true also (but less so) for &quot;you should make this an answer&quot; type comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For other types of comments, some cleanup is probably a good idea. But I think it's tricky for moderators to go deleting comments themselves.  On the other hand, getting users to do it isn't likely to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does deleting comments bump the question to the front page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T21:07:49.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1462" CreationDate="2011-07-01T05:33:45.623" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please note that certain close types get an &lt;em&gt;automatic&lt;/em&gt; downvote from the community user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not a real question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel a duplicate question is deserving of a downvote, unless it is of extremely low quality and/or demonstrates an egregiously negligent asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T05:33:45.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1476" CreationDate="2011-07-01T05:36:30.830" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can refer to meta in comments; there is a shorthand for this. If you leave a comment like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you'd like to discuss this on [meta] with us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will turn into an appropriate link. Try it! The full documentation of shorthand links is at &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T05:36:30.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2011-07-01T05:40:17.863" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, definitely; that is why there is a specific flag reason for flagging comments as obsolete, when you click the small flag icon next to a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RPIHu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T05:40:17.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1388" CreationDate="2011-07-01T13:44:47.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with that tag wiki entry. I also support adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cross-referencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cross-referencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/a&gt; to questions regarding the &lt;code&gt;\label&lt;/code&gt; command which dont't have that tag yet or replacing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/labels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;labels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;labels&lt;/a&gt; tag on such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/labels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;labels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;labels&lt;/a&gt; is a good filtering tag supporting general tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/matrices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;matrices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;matrices&lt;/a&gt;, but not as single tag for cross-referencing. If a question is really specifically about the labels in cross-referencing, it may have the tag, why not - but it should not miss the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cross-referencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cross-referencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T13:44:47.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1171" CreationDate="2011-07-01T14:11:46.453" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, also Hacker News is a good place for linking to interesting questions on our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TeX users who don't know TeX.SX yet may visit here and join.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow-up comments on the Hacker News site can be interesting for us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I suggest to link to good stories, not to subjective discussions. Good stories can be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great and profound questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great Answers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Site news posted and discussed on the meta site&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1448/online-reviews-and-reports-on-tex-sx&quot;&gt;External stories regarding TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; you found on other sites&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the future, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1460/what-would-you-like-to-read-in-a-tex-sx-blog&quot;&gt;posts on the TeX.SX blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T14:11:46.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-07-01T19:17:45.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Illustrated?) Reviews of TeX tools and helpers like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;services like &lt;a href=&quot;http://crocodoc.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;crocodoc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;great off-CTAN manuals and introductions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting posts on other blogs (perhaps in a special, very brief format)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T19:17:45.133" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-01T19:17:45.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-07-01T19:41:35.303" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there are questions about book recommendations, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11/what-is-the-best-book-to-start-learning-latex&quot;&gt;What is the best book to start learning LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; (44 upvotes) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66/which-manuals-are-on-your-tex-reference-shelf&quot;&gt;Which manuals are on your “TeX Reference” shelf?&lt;/a&gt; (27), there could be reviews on LaTeX books on the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T19:41:35.303" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-01T19:41:35.303" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-07-01T19:46:02.740" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interviews of expert TeX users could be very interesting. Even if they are not users of our site: we can learn about them and about their role in TeX's history - and they get to know our site and might contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T19:46:02.740" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-01T19:46:02.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-07-01T22:20:10.797" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could invite authors of classes or packages to be our guest and write a text about that class or package (collection) - why it's been developed, how is the history, what is planned for the future. Just one example: there might be much to tell about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/oberdiek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;oberdiek bundle&lt;/a&gt;, which consists of 90 packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's bit similar to interviews - however, regarding specific work instead of the person itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-07-06T17:30:30.940" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T17:30:30.940" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-01T22:20:10.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1491" CreationDate="2011-07-02T02:21:56.860" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22091/using-footnotesize-in-tikz-node-labels&quot;&gt;question earlier today&lt;/a&gt;, and now when I attempt to post another question I am taken to where I would be if I were to edit my earlier question. I tried logging out and back in and that did not fix it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I edit the question, I wanted to make sure that it won't delete earlier question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-07-02T04:20:06.860" Title="Attempting to Ask a New Question takes me to editing my previous question" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1490" CreationDate="2011-07-02T03:01:37.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We store a draft of the post to the server every 45 seconds during composition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way if your browser crashes or the network fails, you won't lose more than 1-45 seconds of work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is normally cleared when the post is successfully submitted, but it sounds like that didn't work in your case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing to be concerned about. If you want to clear it, enter a few spaces then wait 45 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-07-02T03:01:37.713" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="912" CreationDate="2011-07-02T13:19:25.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. Since there are 24 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; questions and all 3 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apple&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apple&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apple&lt;/a&gt; questions deal with OS X, I merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apple&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apple&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apple&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt;. I keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apple&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apple&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apple&lt;/a&gt; as synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt;. It's not set in stone: we might change that if another OS version of Apple appears, or if iOS gets TeX support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-02T13:19:25.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2011-07-02T13:24:56.997" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an answer which can be used as sandbox answer. Feel free to edit if you wish to try markdown. Below the line would be good. So, the question doesn't remain unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a funny formatting trap: code after a list item doesn't format: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1558/2693&quot;&gt;Why do code snippets not work after lists?&lt;/a&gt;  The solution is to insert an HTML comment  between the list item and the code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A list item&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another list item with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; after it and some following code: (needs to be separated by blank lines):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sub run_command (@) {&#xA;    my $origcmdline = join(&quot; &quot;, grep {defined} @_);&#xA;    return if $origcmdline eq &quot;&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;    my $cmdline = $origcmdline;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;description lists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;dl&gt;&#xA;&lt;dt&gt;\predisplaypenalty&lt;/dt&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;penalty for page break just before a display&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;/dl&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;doesn't look very promising in preview…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TEX&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hm, would've been nice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;pre&gt;&#xA;  Some code&#xA;  &lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides...&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bla bla&lt;/em&gt; bla*.*&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Bla bla&lt;/em&gt; bla_._&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;i&gt;Bla bla&lt;/i&gt; bla&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Αθήνα&lt;/a&gt; foo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T22:50:49.900" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-02T13:24:56.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1496" CreationDate="2011-07-02T19:47:15.187" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I read Andrey Vihrov's comment on the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22160/xelatex-and-microtype&quot;&gt;XeLaTeX and Microtype&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that the tooltips of the links to other questions produced by the &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; HTML attribute are all the same, even though they refer to different questions. There seems to be a bug in the handling of automatically cropped tex.sx links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pn7ui.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;(The title of the question that I was pointing at [underlined] actually is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8122/how-to-get-hanging-hyphenation/8127#8127&quot;&gt;How to get hanging hyphenation?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The corresponding source code confirms this behavior; strangely, for every question the &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; attributes and values of the preceding &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags are added and it seems browsers just take the first attribute and ignore the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xxieq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Behavior confirmed for FF5.0, Safari 5.0.5, IE 9.0.8112.16421, all on Win7 64bit. Still, no matter what browsers do, the redundant and wrong attributes should be eliminated.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T11:12:10.040" Title="Wrong tooltip for tex.sx links within comments" Tags="|bug|status-completed|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1476" CreationDate="2011-07-02T20:13:13.667" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to regard reputation as something desirable, a kind of reward system, and not only as an index of the expertise and helpfulness that other users have attributed to this user, integrating  reputation gathered on meta might help. Afaik, currently, the accumulated meta rep is not &#xA;visible anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta rep could be displayed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on a user's meta profile,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the user info boxes of posts on meta,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;possibly even on the main user&#xA;profiles, perhaps like the flag&#xA;weight or as the link text to the&#xA;meta profile instead, that currently&#xA;only says &quot;meta user&quot; (this could be&#xA;kept as an HTML &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; tooltip).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now, there are the &quot;Convention&quot; and &quot;Quorum&quot; badges on the main site. These could be changed to or complemented by badges connected to a certain amount of meta rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges earned on meta could be displayed on the main profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-07-02T20:13:13.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1494" CreationDate="2011-07-03T11:11:36.657" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oops &amp;ndash; nice catch, thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixed in the code, so it will behave correctly after the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T11:11:36.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1498" CreationDate="2011-07-03T11:42:25.663" Score="10" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2011/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG 2011&lt;/a&gt;, this years meeting of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX Users Group&lt;/a&gt; will be in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, from October 19 to October 21.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who will to go there? Does anybody even plan to speak?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-10-19T11:21:05.390" LastActivityDate="2011-10-19T11:21:05.390" Title="Who plans to go to the TUG 2011 conference in India?" Tags="|discussion|tug|speakers-bureau|conferences|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1497" CreationDate="2011-07-03T12:05:33.853" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know yet if my time will allow it, that primarily depends on my present employer. I have been considering speaking for some time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abstract:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bringing together TeX users online - from Usenet to Web 2.0 and beyond&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It all began with the Usenet, around 1980. The online discussion board&#xA;  comp.text.tex emerged, where TeX hackers gathered and still populate&#xA;  it today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the continuously developing Internet, TeX user groups created&#xA;  mailing lists, built homepages and software archives. Web forums&#xA;  turned up and lowered the barrier for beginners and occasional TeX&#xA;  users for getting support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Today, TeX's friends can also follow blogs, news feeds, and take part&#xA;  in vibrant question and answer sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this talk we will look at present online TeX activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experienced TeXnicians and Usenet users could be introduced to the vibrant world of forums, Q&amp;amp;A sites and user (groups) blogs, whereas younger fellow TeXnicians can learn about the big merits of Usenet. All of the online projects contribute to the success of TeX today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.SX would be an important part of the presentation, being a new and distinctive TeX community project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-07-15T19:09:44.480" LastActivityDate="2011-07-15T19:09:44.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1476" CreationDate="2011-07-03T20:24:24.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;On idea would be to add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-2011&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ad&lt;/a&gt; to invite people to [meta]. This is probably a better eye-catcher than the 'Visit Meta' link just a little bit higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I added now a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-2011/1500#1500&quot;&gt;possible meta ad&lt;/a&gt; based on the meta style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T21:34:07.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-03T21:31:27.390" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BL0U6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit Meta.TeX.SX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T21:31:27.390" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-03T21:31:27.390" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-04T00:30:15.760" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qjnHU.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN -- The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-04T02:14:27.783" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T02:14:27.783" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-04T00:30:15.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="472" CreationDate="2011-07-04T10:47:57.363" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer &lt;code&gt;shell-escape&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;write18&lt;/code&gt; as synonym. Shell-escape is the correct technical term IMHO but people will often use the other one instead. The &lt;code&gt;filesystem-access&lt;/code&gt; tag is more general and doesn't cut it IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T10:47:57.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-04T11:10:21.640" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/heHCQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX.SX Meta&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T11:06:01.173" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-04T11:10:21.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-04T17:51:42.557" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5mCGh.png&quot; alt=&quot;From answers to packages&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2011-10-02T03:14:26.703" LastActivityDate="2011-10-02T03:14:26.703" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-04T17:51:42.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-04T18:44:17.690" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/70whf.png&quot; alt=&quot;UK TeX FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions and Answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T18:44:17.690" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-04T18:44:17.690" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-04T21:51:31.320" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/mactex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Jv0K.png&quot; alt=&quot;MacTeX - TeX on Mac OS X&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T21:51:31.320" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-04T21:51:31.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-04T22:23:20.823" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tahUW.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXShop - TeX editor and previewer for Mac OS X&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T22:23:20.823" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-04T22:23:20.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-04T22:31:40.520" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EP48d.png&quot; alt=&quot;Texmaker - Free cross-platform LaTeX editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T22:31:40.520" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-04T22:31:40.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1418" CreationDate="2011-07-05T16:35:24.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Stefan's answer and have accepted it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/roman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;roman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;roman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sans-serif&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sans-serif&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typewriter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typewriter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typewriter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bold&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bold&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bold&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/italic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;italic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;italic&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smallcaps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;smallcaps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;smallcaps&lt;/a&gt; seem useful tags to cover font families and font series/shapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A secondary effect of these (mostly) new tags seems to be that the scope of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt; tag is diminished: It should still be used for general questions about formatting, but may be dispensed with for questions about font families/series/shapes. I propose the following tag wiki excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt; is for general&#xA;  questions about formatting document&#xA;  elements. Use this tag in addition to&#xA;  other tags specifying what should be&#xA;  formatted. For questions about font&#xA;  families (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/roman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;roman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;roman&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sans-serif&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sans-serif&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typewriter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typewriter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typewriter&lt;/a&gt;) or&#xA;  font series/shapes (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bold&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bold&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bold&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/italic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;italic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;italic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smallcaps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;smallcaps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;smallcaps&lt;/a&gt;), use the&#xA;  appropriate tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-07-05T16:35:24.777" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2011-07-06T13:49:47.837" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For TeX code please use the code sample button (now looks like &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt;; shortcut CTRL+K). For non-TeX we previously suggested to use manual &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; .. &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; HTML tags. However a better solution is to use the code sample button as well but add a HTML comment before it to specify the language for the syntax highlighting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    some code without syntax highlighting&#xA;    note the HTML comment and the single separation line beforehand&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant languages for TeX.SX are &lt;code&gt;lang-tex&lt;/code&gt; (default), &lt;code&gt;lang-none&lt;/code&gt; (disable syntax highlighting), &lt;code&gt;lang-sh&lt;/code&gt; (shell code/scripts) and &lt;code&gt;lang-perl&lt;/code&gt; (Perl code/scripts).&#xA;For a list of all languages see: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78363/manually-specify-language-for-syntax-highlighting/81971#81971&quot;&gt;Manually specify language for syntax highlighting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T13:49:47.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="94" CreationDate="2011-07-06T16:54:25.807" Score="11" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality is attractive, make it public visible.&lt;/strong&gt; If have a blog, write about excellent questions and answers on the site, quality is attractive. You could even &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1448/online-reviews-and-reports-on-tex-sx&quot;&gt;post a story&lt;/a&gt; on hacker news, reddit, or stumbleupon. Share links to great questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seeing an own difficult question answered here, is attractive.&lt;/strong&gt; If you notice that a TeX hacker raises a question via twitter, facebook, mailing list, Usenet, or web forum and you see there's no good answer yet, post the question here. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/04/helping-the-experts-get-answers/&quot;&gt;Help her or him to get the answer&lt;/a&gt;. Of course include a link to the source.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make package authors interested&lt;/strong&gt; by questions and answers which can improve the package or the class.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Directly invite TeX experts&lt;/strong&gt;, for example as interviewee or guest author in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1460/what-would-you-like-to-read-in-a-tex-sx-blog&quot;&gt;upcoming TeX.SX blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Go where the TeX experts are&lt;/strong&gt;, show up at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1265/possible-conference-speaking-sponsorships-2011&quot;&gt;TeX conferences and local user group meetings&lt;/a&gt;, talk about TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T16:54:25.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1514" CreationDate="2011-07-07T12:29:10.627" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have many questions so having a button to show my own 50  questions per page is very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is necessary, what do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;100 questions per page might not be a big problem for the current situation where many ISP provides fast internet connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="2099" LastEditDate="2011-07-07T13:07:18.147" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T13:07:18.147" Title="I think I need a button to show my own 50 questions per page" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1512" CreationDate="2011-07-07T12:39:57.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a button to show 50 questions per page, have a look at the bottom of a browser page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wdx0k.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding a higher number, that question has been discussed on &lt;code&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13122/please-can-we-have-an-extra-button-100-for-more-questions-per-page&quot;&gt;Please can we have an extra button (100?) for more questions per page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1251/can-i-get-50-questions-on-my-front-page-please&quot;&gt;Can I get 50 questions on my front page, please?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff recommended in the first of those two topics to use tags for filtering instead of scrolling long lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T12:45:01.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1512" CreationDate="2011-07-07T13:03:10.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You apparently can't do this on the user page, but it is possible to use the search to only display your questions: use &lt;code&gt;user:me is:question&lt;/code&gt; as search term. There you can select 50 posts per page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also bookmark this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=relevance&amp;amp;pagesize=50&amp;amp;q=is%3aquestion%20user%3ame&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=relevance&amp;amp;pagesize=50&amp;amp;q=is%3aquestion%20user%3ame&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T13:03:10.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-07T13:13:02.930" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got surprised when entering edit mode for our user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No icon button for editing left. Where are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lymkp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need icon buttons to insert image, make header, make bulleted lists, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also happened in StackOverflow as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9OYDs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="25639" LastEditDate="2013-07-22T12:14:48.510" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T12:14:48.510" Title="All editing icon buttons lost when entering edit mode for the user profile" Tags="|bug|status-completed|user-profile-page|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2011-07-07T14:17:42.540" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just looked through the first questions-review section and read through a question that was perfect already, so I didn't edit anything and didn't leave a comment. This made me think though: Do we not want to welcome users that ask a formally great first question? We could add a block like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.sx!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx) Thanks for your question&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;this great question, we're looking forward to your future contributions to this Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is this missing the point of the text building blocks being time-savers for dealing with actual problems? New users probably are automatically greeted, but a personal greeting from a real community member might be nice and the new user might come across something they hadn't known on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX!&lt;/a&gt; page (unless they're automatically pointed there upon registration?). Then again, this site is really not about chit-chatting and exchanging birthday wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I'm torn, maybe there are some opinions on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T14:17:42.540" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-07T14:17:42.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1527" CreationDate="2011-07-07T14:56:20.023" Score="16" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt; tag to refer about pdf(La)TeX, but no actual way to tag a question specifically for the classic &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; compilers. For example I don't know how to tag questions ala &quot;How to use PNG images with &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt;&quot;. In contrast, a question like &quot;How to use EPS images with &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;&quot; can be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi&lt;/a&gt; would be a workaround, but after all &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt;, which is about the PDF format per se, would be wrong for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt; related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvitex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvitex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvitex&lt;/a&gt; tag or similar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;May 7th 2012:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi-mode&lt;/a&gt; with synonyms &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvimode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvimode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvimode&lt;/a&gt; (for easier typing) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-dvi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-dvi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-dvi&lt;/a&gt; (alternative suggestion). Please use it as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about the &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; compiler which outputs &lt;code&gt;.dvi&lt;/code&gt; files should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi-mode&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions in general about &lt;em&gt;producing&lt;/em&gt; DVI files should be also tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi-mode&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about the DVI format itself, like how to convert it to a different format, should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be possible to use both tags together if the question is about producing and converting DVI files etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is analog to the existing tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2012-05-07T09:13:43.693" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T09:13:43.693" Title="How to tag questions specifically about the classic DVI-producing latex compiler?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1517" CreationDate="2011-07-07T15:01:19.260" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like &lt;code&gt;{dvitex}&lt;/code&gt; since it's not used in any other context. Can we have symbols in tags?  If so, how about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;{tex+dvi}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; It appears that we can't have &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; in a tag, but we can have hyphens, so instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;{tex-dvi}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-07-07T15:40:15.250" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T15:40:15.250" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="94" CreationDate="2011-07-07T18:04:45.913" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Improve the interface. I want to see a threaded interface in date order (latest last), with topics I have read or skipped greyed out. It needs to show only the OP of each thread by default, with the conventional [+] to expand and [-] to contract. In fact, I'd like to read the site like a Usenet newsgroup :-) but keep the vote-based ranking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="355" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T18:04:45.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1534" CreationDate="2011-07-07T23:17:04.713" Score="21" ViewCount="1124" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of TeX.SX T-shirts came recently up in the chat. Would there be any interest from people to buy one? The idea is that we designed it ourselves and have it produces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just had a quick look and found an online shop which allows people to upload and sell their own T-shirts (and pullovers, etc.). When the commission you could get is set to 0 a basic printed T-shirt is around 18-20 Euro inkl. shipping (varies from country, shipped from Germany; this was based on a relative simple shirt ca. 14 Euro + 4 Euro shipping around Germany). This is nice because others websites make you buy dozens at once and then one of us would have to ship it to everyone else. This makes it also relative risk-free because we don't have any minimum number to order and uploading it is free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of &lt;strong&gt;copyright&lt;/strong&gt; came also up. Could the official stackexchange staff, which also reads this meta, please give us an idea if using the &lt;code&gt;{TeX}&lt;/code&gt; logo and the &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; URL would be any issue. I personally guess not. It's basically free advertising for them as well. We can of course use some other place as well if we find a better one (shipping to USA is for example already at 9 dollar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paulo Cereda already made an example T-shirt, so I include it as an eye catcher:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1C6wP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Example T-shirt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be happy about any feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-07-15T19:05:20.147" LastActivityDate="2011-10-26T10:57:20.143" Title="TeX.SX T-Shirts" Tags="|discussion|community|sponsorship|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2011-07-08T07:18:20.277" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The T-Shirts might be sponsored by StackExchange. I added the tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/sponsorship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'sponsorship'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sponsorship&lt;/a&gt; to make it visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert Cartaino wrote in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/a-recipe-to-promote-your-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Recipe to Promote your Site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any community that shows sufficient&#xA;  effort and innovative ideas to promote&#xA;  their site will be offered a budget&#xA;  and resources to make those ideas&#xA;  happen. Think of it as matching funds&#xA;  — except we’re matching effort,&#xA;  innovation, resources, and ideas from&#xA;  the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We can provide access to professional&#xA;  designers and design give-aways like&#xA;  t-shirts or bumper stickers for&#xA;  interesting contests and events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also solves the copyright issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T07:18:20.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2011-07-08T12:24:29.190" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a new badge in July:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/97/synonymizer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C1QGG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Synonymizer badge image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for the first approved &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;tag synonym&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T12:24:29.190" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-08T12:24:29.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1515" CreationDate="2011-07-08T14:59:45.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just checked and the buttons are there again. It might have been a temporary issue with the recent UI updates. Could the OP please check again if the issues still exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T14:59:45.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1517" CreationDate="2011-07-09T19:14:00.520" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi-mode&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today usually the DVI mode of pdfTeX is used. pdfTeX is the default engine in modern TeX distributions and capable of producing both PDF and DVI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi-mode&lt;/a&gt; makes clear that we&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't mean DVI as format, which is covered by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi&lt;/a&gt; tag,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;actually deal with a mode of a TeX engine rather than a non-pdfTeX engine. &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; as part of the name is not required on a TeX site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-09T19:14:00.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1697" CreationDate="2011-07-09T19:56:26.037" Score="65" ViewCount="1208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest Stack Exchange Inc. becomes an &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/instmem.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;institutional member of the TeX User Group&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad that many votes alread show interest in this topic. So let's work it out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the benefits for our site, for SE and for the TeX community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is required?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does it work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to add answers and also to edit community wiki answers. Especially contributions of TUG members would be much appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-09-14T22:45:42.940" LastActivityDate="2011-09-14T22:45:42.940" Title="Do we want Stack Exchange to become an institutional member of the TUG?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|sponsorship|tug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1530" CreationDate="2011-07-10T01:23:29.910" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got annoying notification again, but I cannot respond to it because I have no special privilege to see the deleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h5IS9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Herewith I want to respond the comment: &lt;strong&gt;The issue has been fixed&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have requested a feature to remove the annoying and useless notification in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/97901/151752&quot;&gt;Notifications and links associated with removed questions should be removed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T08:42:13.850" Title="A message for those asked me in the deleted questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1529" CreationDate="2011-07-10T08:42:13.850" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1515/all-editing-icon-buttons-lost-when-entering-edit-mode-for-the-user-profile&quot;&gt;All editing icon buttons lost when entering edit mode for the user profile&lt;/a&gt; question got migrated to Meta.SX but deleted there shortly after. I reopened it therefore here and was able to access it correctly afterwards. Also Stefan could access it. However, it seemed that the automatic redirection to the migrated copy on Meta.SX was still active for everyone else which is not a moderator (or maybe 10k+ user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I added that comments to the local question and you got directed to the external version of it, while I was not aware of that.&#xA;I cleared the migration connection now and I was able to access the question after an logout, so it should work for you. Feel free to accept my answer there to conclude the question officially. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T08:42:13.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-10T08:55:04.650" Score="11" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;We sometimes get questions about how to configure LaTeX to follow some given guidelines / constraints set up by the OPs University or company.&#xA;One recent example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22681/how-to-set-fixed-8mm-linespacing&quot;&gt;How to set fixed (8mm) linespacing?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should create a specific tag (maybe with synonymous) for all such questions. This allows people which have to follow multiple such constraints to find all such questions easily. The tag description can then also point out that you shouldn't await good typesetting results with that settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm struggling coming up with a good name and would be happy for any suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-08-09T11:25:57.273" Title="Tag for question about obeying specific document guidelines?" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1531" CreationDate="2011-07-10T10:57:35.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting-control&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag could mark all questions which are about following such constraints, setting spacing, font size, page layout etc. manually, having full control over each aspect of the format rather than letting LaTeX macros or packages taking care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typographic-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typographic-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typographic-control&lt;/a&gt; though, but I guess it's harder to find by a questioner and we would get further questions with the general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt; tag. If you perhaps like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typographic-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typographic-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typographic-control&lt;/a&gt; to be a main tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting-control&lt;/a&gt; a synonym for easy look-up, let us know in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T10:57:35.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1460" CreationDate="2011-07-10T13:53:01.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actions of Stack Exchange Inc. which are specifically about TeX.SX, such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Improving design and interface of TeX.SX&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1265/possible-conference-speaking-sponsorships-2011&quot;&gt;Sponsoring TeX.SX members for speaking at conferences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stackexchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;Possibly supporting TeX User Groups in the Name of TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Producing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/tex-sx-t-shirts&quot;&gt;give-aways&lt;/a&gt; with TeX.SX design&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T13:53:01.253" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-10T13:53:01.253" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2011-07-10T18:26:31.413" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have already started designing T-Shirts and Stickers for some of the SE2.0 communities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2288/gaming-stack-exchange-swag-for-top-users&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1669/programmers-stack-exchange-swag-for-top-users&quot;&gt;Programmers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1353/english-stack-exchange-swag-for-top-users&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt; etc. I'll try to finish up the swag design for all of our graduated communities this month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll send out a free swag package to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;top users&lt;/a&gt;(first 2 pages, sorted by rep). We will also have the T-shirts and stickers available in our &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange store&lt;/a&gt; later too, for those who are interested in purchasing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T18:26:31.413" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-11T11:25:56.617" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texworks.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vlukA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lowering the entry barrier to the TeX world&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-07-11T18:26:32.967" LastActivityDate="2011-07-11T18:26:32.967" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-11T11:25:56.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1431" CreationDate="2011-07-12T21:39:05.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could start the TeX.SX blog on the 1st birthday, July 26th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1444/how-about-a-tex-sx-blog&quot;&gt;How about a TeX.SX blog?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1460/what-would-you-like-to-read-in-a-tex-sx-blog&quot;&gt;What would you like to read in a TeX.SX blog?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-07-12T21:39:05.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1431" CreationDate="2011-07-13T07:42:26.410" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Martin suggests we schedule a 'party' in Chat: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1340323#1340323&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1340323#1340323&lt;/a&gt;. Seems like an interesting idea :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T07:42:26.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1539" CreationDate="2011-07-13T09:42:53.430" Score="24" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several, I think unnecessary, questions of the form &quot;How can I draw this?&quot; or &quot;How can I draw this in TikZ?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These add nothing to the site really. Sometimes there is some feature of the drawing that requires a library or some trickery and it could be rephrased. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/22948/215&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; however, doesn't seem to have any merit...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we formulate a policy on how to deal with these questions? Close as not a real question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T00:56:36.390" Title="policy on &quot;how do I draw this?&quot; questions" Tags="|discussion|questions|please-do-this-for-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1538" CreationDate="2011-07-13T10:59:42.417" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Support the OP in rephrasing the question by posting constructive comments&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Provide an answer with general advice how he can produce the drawing himself, such as recommending packages, tools or libraries&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggest creating detailed follow-up questions, if necessary&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question remains too vague, vote to close it as not a real question or too localized, depending on what fits better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rember accompanying closing votes by explaining comments, and let's be lenient towards new members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T10:59:42.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-13T16:23:44.080" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0ZM5.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T16:23:44.080" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-13T16:23:44.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-13T17:02:54.250" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mZsEw.png&quot; alt=&quot;DANTE e.v.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T17:02:54.250" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-13T17:02:54.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-13T17:09:43.120" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZEh04.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Live&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T21:27:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T21:27:11.280" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-13T17:09:43.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-13T17:20:20.553" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tUFWt.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX on Usenet&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T17:20:20.553" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-13T17:20:20.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-14T01:51:14.120" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andrew &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1431/birthday-celebrations/1432#1432&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; to release the first version of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX.SX package&lt;/a&gt; on CTAN as a birthday celebration for TeX.SX. Before this can happen there are still a few things that need to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll create a separate answer for each ToDo item. That way any potential discussion can stay localized. Whenever a task is completed, the corresponding “answer” can simply be deleted. Please add any additional things that need to be done/decided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T02:26:59.400" Title="“From Answers to Packages”: Things to do before a release." Tags="|discussion|tex-sx-package|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2011-07-14T01:52:10.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Testing&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that everything works as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T01:52:10.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2011-07-14T01:53:11.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Readme file&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add a README file, that is displayed in the CTAN listing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T01:53:11.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2011-07-14T01:56:59.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Scoping&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any private macros need to be scoped (with which prefix)? Any public macros should be named in such a way that they are unlikely to conflict with another package. The same holds for pgfkeys handlers (I'd suggest putting them into a separate folder, instead of simply into &lt;code&gt;/pgf/&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;/tikz/&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T01:56:59.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2011-07-14T01:59:42.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Documentation&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure everything is documented. Should the documentation of the individual subpackages/libraries be put together into a single file? If so, we also need an introduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T01:59:42.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2011-07-14T02:00:28.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Versioning&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Decide on a versioning scheme for future releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T02:00:28.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2011-07-14T02:02:15.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Test PGF version&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The package should test the pgf version and emit a warning if it isn't v2.10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T02:02:15.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-14T10:27:55.103" Score="5" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should the system allow the use of &lt;code&gt;{braces}&lt;/code&gt; (in addition to &lt;code&gt;[brackets]&lt;/code&gt;) to search for tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that one can limit the scope of a search to a subset of specific tags by enclosing them in &lt;code&gt;[brackets]&lt;/code&gt;, which is all fine, but as everywhere in the site the tags are displayed in &lt;code&gt;{braces}&lt;/code&gt;, my brain just automatically wants to type a &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt; instead of a &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt; when typing into the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should be fairly simple to allow both uses, as currently the braces in a search term seem to be completely ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-07-14T17:34:22.003" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T17:34:22.003" Title="Use {braces} when searching for tags?" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1552" CreationDate="2011-07-14T11:14:10.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be delighted if braces were supported as possible replacement for square brackets, since it matches the tag design, as Juan said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question is site specific, regarding TeX.SX's tag design, it's good to bring it up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this occasion I noticed that the normal search obviously doesn't look in less-frequent tags if not explicitely specified by brackets, tested with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=site-promotion&quot;&gt;{site-promotion}&lt;/a&gt; which returns 0 hits, though there are 8 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/site-promotion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;site-promotion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;site-promotion&lt;/a&gt;. I would wish that both in-text and tag hits are shown. Filtering with [tag] or +text is still an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T12:28:20.803" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-14T12:10:13.447" Score="5" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some ideas about questions specific about writing LaTeX packages, like this two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How much e-TeX should be used / relied on in LaTeX packages?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibilities to release beta/alpha versions of a package?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(e.g. use of special package option to indicate the version)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these are interesting issues and having such material here would also interest the more experienced TeX people with own packages we want to attract.&#xA;However, I'm not sure about how to handle them. I'm not sure that there are straight-forward answers for them. Instead there might be some discussions or several different valid things, both which should be on a Q&amp;amp;A site.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;So should I open these questions as community wikis or maybe not at all on this site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-14T13:00:41.840" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T13:00:41.840" Title="Package writing questions" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1554" CreationDate="2011-07-14T12:40:25.037" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should use communiy wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we expect collaboratively edited answers, allowing easy contribution and improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If somehow subjective answers or disputes can be expected, so members can post answers without fearing rep loss because of down votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to allow everybody to edit and to improve your possibly complex question, answers would be CW as well then.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When there's no straight-forward answer, but a list of options, let's use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; tag and possibly choose also CW as we discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/341/how-to-manage-big-lists&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It's meaningful if list options should be editable by all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise I would not make it CW however it can be done later if it's requested in comments. I tend to prefer non-CW, if edits are not expected, since contribitions deserve rep and allow more access to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even non-CW questions allow adding CW answers later, for example a summary CW answer editable by all, which is a useful approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T12:48:01.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1431" CreationDate="2011-07-15T07:29:53.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We also could have a special community ad on that day. Maybe showing a cake with one candle and saying &quot;Happy Birthday TeX.SX&quot; or something. It could link to some birthday announcement of meta or the birthday chat room when it is running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-15T07:29:53.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1559" CreationDate="2011-07-15T18:03:28.417" Score="20" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to insert a code snippet after a list but the code snippet is not a part of the list item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is the first item.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the second item&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\end{document}&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I always insert a rule to make it work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is the first item.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is the second item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dummy rule is added to fix this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same issue happened in StackOverflow. I have just checked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-10-04T03:23:53.163" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T19:54:18.913" Title="Why do code snippets not work after lists?" Tags="|support|code|lists|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1558" CreationDate="2011-07-15T18:05:34.857" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could insert a piece of invisible HTML code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1. This is the first item.&#xA; 2. This is the second item&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- code follows --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    \documentclass{article}&#xA;    \begin{document}&#xA;    \end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This is the first item.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This is the second item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-12-07T19:54:18.913" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T19:54:18.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-16T14:41:11.183" Score="28" ViewCount="1090" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joseph Wright &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/1363495/history&quot;&gt;suggested in chat&lt;/a&gt; that we arrange to meet regularly in chat to discuss unanswered questions. He said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does this idea sound: we agree a regular (once a month) slot to&#xA;  discuss unanswered questions here on chat? Something like &quot;First&#xA;  Wednesday in the month, 1900-2100 GMT is the 'unanswered question'&#xA;  session on chat&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this sound?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-16T14:42:17.067" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T06:57:23.507" Title="Regular &quot;Let's deal with unanswered questions&quot; chat meetings?" Tags="|discussion|chat|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1560" CreationDate="2011-07-16T19:55:16.413" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;A place to note down how this would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Date/time&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First Sunday of each month&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cycle of three time slots:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0900-1100 GMT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1400-1600 GMT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2100-2300 GMT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Approach&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderator-adjustable banner would be set ~48 h before to state that a 'unanswered question session' was scheduled on chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the session, someone (first person involved?) would pick some pages from the unanswered list: &quot;This month, let's focus on pages 4, 15 and 20 from the unanswered list.&quot; Alternatively, we could pick some of the tags from the unanswered list: &quot;Let's look at all of the &lt;code&gt;{macro}&lt;/code&gt; questions that need answering.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participants can then discuss questions that might want closing, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;, quickly without the questions being forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More experienced users might then set (small) bounties on questions which seem answerable but for which no quick fix turns up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-07-17T21:07:47.483" LastActivityDate="2011-07-17T21:07:47.483" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-16T19:55:16.413" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1265" CreationDate="2011-07-17T01:03:22.750" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for the kind offer. Here we are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Speaking at the TUG Conference 2011&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done for now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chosen the most important conference, which is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2011/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group&lt;/a&gt;, held for the 32nd time&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discussed who is interested to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1497/who-plans-to-go-to-the-tug-2011-conference-in-india&quot;&gt;go to the conference&lt;/a&gt; and who likes to speak, one of our moderators volunteered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chosen a topic which is a very good fit to represent our site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX online - from Usenet to Web 2.0 and beyond&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sent an abstract to the organisers for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2011/cfp.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Call for Papers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bringing together TeX users online - from Usenet to Web 2.0 and beyond&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It all began in the 1980s with mailing lists such as texhax and the Usenet.&#xA;  The online discussion board comp.text.tex emerged around 1990, where TeX&#xA;  hackers gathered and still populate it today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the continuously developing Internet, TeX user groups created&#xA;  mailing lists, built homepages and software archives. Web forums&#xA;  turned up and lowered the barrier for beginners and occasional TeX&#xA;  users for getting support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Today, TeX's friends can also follow blogs, news feeds, and take part&#xA;  in vibrant question and answer sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this talk we will look at present online TeX activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The presentation has been accepted and is now included in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2011/program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUG 2011 - Program &amp;amp; participants&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be a good fit to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/community-conference-sponsorships/&quot;&gt;Community Conference Sponsorships&lt;/a&gt;. It's a good opportunity to meet people of the international &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Users Group&lt;/a&gt;, of the Indian TeX users group and of River Valley Technologies, who host the conference and who also host recordings of a lot of conferences on &lt;a href=&quot;http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;river-valley.zeeba.tv&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:36:22.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-18T13:13:12.843" Score="15" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do people think of the following initiative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When someone asks a question with a simple, obvious (to us) answer, don't just code-snippet, but take the time to &lt;em&gt;explain&lt;/em&gt; what's gone wrong, or why the way the OP did it didn't work...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What prompted this suggestion was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23385/215&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm sure there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23157/215&quot;&gt;plenty&lt;/a&gt; of other &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/18157/215&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; where the answer is just &quot;Do it this way, use this package...&quot;. When these arise, perhaps we should try to say &quot;Do it this way, here's why your way doesn't work&quot; or &quot;Use this package, here's why it's hard to do without the package...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we would be building a better collection of questions and answers if the answers not only solved the problem, but helped the readers learn a little more about TeX and friends...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;OK, these are all questions I have answered, but those are the ones I thought of...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T13:16:16.643" Title="Answer simple questions with more details" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1564" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-18T16:55:43.613" Score="110" ViewCount="17862" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Welcome to the TeX.SX Community Poll thread!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This thread is used for opinion and usage polls around TeX and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX.sx&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;The poll questions are added as &quot;answers&quot; to this &quot;question&quot;. Their answers have been added as comments below them. To participate simply up-vote the comments which apply for you. If there is no suitable answer yet simply add it as comment by yourself. You can't up-vote your own comments but the comment author will be counted manually. Please do not add any other comments to these posts. General comments can be added to this &quot;question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community poll questions are placed as &quot;answer&quot; posts below. Feel free to add your own&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers to these poll questions are placed as &quot;comments&quot; below them. Because this is also an opinion poll subjective questions are welcome.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Please do not ask too specific questions and allow for multiple choices and votes, e.g. instead of something like &quot;My absolute favorite for X is ..&quot; use something like &quot;For X I often use ...&quot;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To participate up-vote the comments which apply for you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If required add a new answer as a comment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;If applicable hyperlink the entry to allow other users to learn more about it. Feel free to flag comments for moderator attention if they should be modified for some valid reason (wrong/missing hyperlink, etc.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feel free to up-vote the poll questions (&quot;answer&quot; posts) as well to indicate that you liked the question. This will push the most favorite questions to the top.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not post any other answer posts or comments. Please provide feedback and critic on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1581/discussion-about-tex-community-polls-if-any&quot;&gt;corresponding discussion thread&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Should you be affected by the &quot;Trivial answer converted to comment&quot; feature simply post a longer dummy text and then edit it down to the correct content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2023-05-13T21:54:14.340" Title="TeX Community Polls" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="44" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-18T21:05:17.853" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the TeX distribution ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T11:00:29.920" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T11:00:29.920" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-18T21:05:17.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-18T21:17:44.420" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a member of the user group...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Please add 'none, I'm not in any (La)TeX related user group.' if it applies.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T08:02:24.550" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T08:02:24.550" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T07:03:36.033" Score="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite (La)TeX editor is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T07:03:36.033" CommentCount="38" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T07:09:34.443" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mainly use the following (La)TeX compiler and tool chain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;(Feel free to add combinations like &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt;+&lt;code&gt;dvips&lt;/code&gt;+&lt;code&gt;ps2pdf&lt;/code&gt;)&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-20T09:58:16.073" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T09:58:16.073" CommentCount="16" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T11:52:51.170" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I manage my bibliography using...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T11:52:51.170" CommentCount="16" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-07-19T12:48:17.237" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1564&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WBmS9.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX.sx Community Polls&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T18:26:27.727" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T12:48:17.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T12:51:35.567" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the following TeX/LaTeX books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T12:51:35.567" CommentCount="36" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T13:38:25.457" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use (La)TeX mainly for ...&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T11:01:09.297" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T11:01:09.297" CommentCount="42" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T13:40:51.943" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use (La)TeX on the following platform(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T11:00:43.560" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T11:00:43.560" CommentCount="22" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T17:11:21.003" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have used the following packages / classes:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(more than once or twice)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;Use format:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="2099" LastEditDate="2011-07-20T14:19:38.237" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T14:19:38.237" CommentCount="167" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2011-07-19T17:24:37.877" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mobile design has been launched this week - and this is the look for TeX.SX:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zBdDn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can switch to mobile or full design by clicking a link at the bottom of a page, called &lt;strong&gt;mobile&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;full site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="1235" LastEditDate="2011-07-19T17:39:21.827" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T17:39:21.827" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T17:24:37.877" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T18:17:34.793" Score="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the following fonts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;(Please link to font's page in the font catalogue &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/&lt;/a&gt; which has examples and the necessary code, not to CTAN.)&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T11:00:09.090" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T11:00:09.090" CommentCount="34" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T18:36:20.557" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX.sx&lt;/a&gt; via...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T18:36:20.557" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T18:41:25.843" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you found an error in any of &lt;a href=&quot;http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/books.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Donald Knuth's publications&lt;/a&gt; for which you were rewarded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T18:41:25.843" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T18:42:07.897" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the following version control software for my (La)TeX files:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-20T16:53:24.890" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T16:53:24.890" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T18:57:56.707" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite aspects of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems are...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T18:57:56.707" CommentCount="19" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:01:40.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-19T18:58:00.260" Score="8" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please discuss any ideas and issues about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls&quot;&gt;TeX Community Polls&lt;/a&gt; in this thread to keep it tidy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2019-05-23T14:19:43.727" Title="Discussion about TeX Community Polls" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2011-07-19T19:03:45.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes/No questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In writing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls/1578#1578&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; I thought about whether it was OK to post yes/no questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they be allowed? If, how should they be asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T19:03:45.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2011-07-19T19:10:25.107" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Question: I've used the following packages / classes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls/1574#1574&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; spans a little to wide. Really adding &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; package you &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; used is simply to much. It should be packages (and classes) which are used on a regular base, but not necessarily for every document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other thing is PSTricks and PGF/TikZ with all there additional libraries/packages. We might move them to own poll questions like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I'm using the following TikZ libraries&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T19:10:25.107" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T19:22:15.063" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite aspects of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX.sx&lt;/a&gt; are...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T19:22:15.063" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:22:15.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T19:28:58.710" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX related releases I look forward to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2011-07-19T20:59:29.207" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T20:59:29.207" CommentCount="12" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T19:28:58.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2011-07-19T20:01:04.067" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Subjective topics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are subjective topics desired here? I would say yes, since it's a poll and we could get top lists of what is liked and disliked, in contrast to the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T20:01:04.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-19T20:04:28.527" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;What small mistakes that you have done make (La)TeX stop working?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T20:04:28.527" CommentCount="25" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-19T20:04:28.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1444" CreationDate="2011-07-19T20:10:14.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TeX.SX blog in now online, in beta phase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tex.blogoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The design will be done by Jin, similar to the main site design. After first post(s), it will be added to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, as Rebecca said in the chat. Like the main site, it will take some time to go through a beta phase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-07-19T20:23:44.977" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T20:23:44.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-20T08:10:49.317" Score="11" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog started&lt;/a&gt;, a key question is getting some feedback. I've written both the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/welcome-to-the-tex-sx-blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'hello world' post&lt;/a&gt; and something a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/a-regular-answer-the-unanswered-slot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bit more substantial&lt;/a&gt;. What to write for the blog depends on the community as a whole. So feedback on the content would be great. I guess one answer per feedback 'concept' would be best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T22:34:42.777" Title="TeX.sx blog feedback" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-20T10:09:58.840" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;What small mistakes that you have made allow (La)TeX to continue working, but produce an unexpected result?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The objective of this poll is to collect mistakes that are frequently made by us (especially for the beginner).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2012-07-02T19:24:23.247" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T19:24:23.247" CommentCount="16" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-20T10:09:58.840" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-20T10:14:16.683" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I create the diagrams for my (La)TeX documents using ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;Possible choices: TikZ, PGF, PSTricks, xypic, &lt;code&gt;picture&lt;/code&gt; environment, MS Visio, Inkscape, ...&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;Select 'PGF' if you really using the low level PGF commands, but 'TikZ' if you use that higher level interface.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T11:01:43.907" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T11:01:43.907" CommentCount="34" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-20T10:14:16.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-20T10:31:56.280" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using (La)TeX also for the following other applications besides writing actual full documents:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;Expected answers: Rendering math, creating diagrams to import into other software, ...&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T10:31:56.280" CommentCount="14" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-20T10:31:56.280" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-20T10:36:11.563" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beside TeX.sx I regularly visit/participate in the following (La)TeX related websites / blogs / mailing lists ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Please add a link and a short description.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T10:36:11.563" CommentCount="24" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-20T10:36:11.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-20T10:41:49.623" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;To a total LaTeX beginner (not TeX in this case) I would recommend to start learning LaTeX by reading first ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Books, online howtos, ... &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T10:41:49.623" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-20T10:41:49.623" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-20T10:49:52.300" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the usage of the following (La)TeX code should be avoided:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;and I'm annoyed seeing other users, especially beginners using it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Expected answers: Most content from &lt;code&gt;l2tabu&lt;/code&gt;, bad Word-like typesetting, ... &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T10:49:52.300" CommentCount="20" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-20T10:49:52.300" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1598" CreationDate="2011-07-20T11:41:01.153" Score="3" ViewCount="3101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In programming language we have a keyword to make a comment in the code.&#xA;This comment will not be compiled or rendered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this capability is also available here, we can add comments to our posts but they will not be shown on the rendered HTML. Is there a mark down to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-07-20T12:57:51.013" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T12:57:51.013" Title="Is there a mark down to hide a block of contents in our posts?" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1597" CreationDate="2011-07-20T11:45:30.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use HTML comments &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!--   ....    --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. (See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/4932c09a-9ccc-40d0-ac31-e8de503e9e04/view-source&quot;&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt; of this answer for an example). Please do not abuse this feature. Temporary disabling some parts of a post should be OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T12:04:34.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-20T11:54:08.170" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the following document viewer (to view PDF, DVI, PS and similar files)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Please link to the viewer in answers and add the platform for which it is available. This might be interesting for other people. If you use an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IDE&lt;/a&gt;'s viewer write an answer in the form &quot;the viewer of &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T11:01:26.673" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T11:01:26.673" CommentCount="23" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-20T11:54:08.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-20T13:54:16.597" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tips that may be regarded as best practices in LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="2099" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T15:39:48.357" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T15:39:48.357" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-20T13:54:16.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2011-07-20T14:59:05.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Providing choices on own polls, and making a choice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed it happens that somebody starts a poll and provides a substantial amount of choices in comments to it. I recommend to handle poll starts the same like poll votes: this can mean even if I start a poll, I don't provide several good answers (I might like) but choose the favorite, main item and start with this. For example, it's good to ask for a &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX advantage and choose one, but not to ask for any and everybody clicks nearly any item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polls are very significant if we choose one or perhaps two, but not ten items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T14:59:05.950" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2011-07-20T15:17:34.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;System Message to attract more people?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remembered that we can display system messages like we did for the election. They should be only used sparely e.g. for important announcements.  The community poll is of course much less important than the elections, but I wonder anyway if we should announce it to people in form of a system message. We don't use this feature very often and we could dust it of again for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side we already have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-2011/1570#1570&quot;&gt;Community Ad&lt;/a&gt; for it and the system message is a little obtrusive. Maybe we should also wait until the number of questions has been settled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T15:17:34.700" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2011-07-20T16:02:42.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls/1600#1600&quot;&gt;Tips that may be regarded as best practices in LaTeX.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't think this question fits the poll format. There are questions on the main site where such matters can be validly discussed, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19264/techniques-and-packages-to-keep-up-with-good-practices&quot;&gt;Techniques and packages to keep up with good practices&lt;/a&gt;. The polls are for questions with simple, undebatable, straightforward answers, answers that you don't need to think about; a prime example being &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls/1565#1565&quot;&gt;I'm using the TeX distribution ...&lt;/a&gt;. The best practices, however, need discussion; people might want to express their concern about a tip, add a little detail to an answer and so forth. Furthermore, this question doesn't really seem to have any statistically interesting value to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T16:24:54.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2011-07-20T16:06:53.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls/1595#1595&quot;&gt;introductory LaTeX reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tiny detail @MartinScharrer: The name of the document is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The&lt;/strong&gt; Not So Short&#xA;Introduction to LaTeX2e&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A (&lt;/strong&gt; Not So &lt;strong&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt; Short Introduction to LaTeX2e&lt;/em&gt;. It's a minute detail and I don't know if there's a way for you to edit this comment, I just thought I'd let you know. Never mind if it's too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T16:06:53.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1590" CreationDate="2011-07-20T16:40:54.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great to have the StackExchange login automatically transfered to the blog. Or at least to use an existing wordpress.com login.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T16:40:54.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-20T17:47:02.023" Score="10" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user avatar (the icon besides your username) is taken from the independent site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/&lt;/a&gt; by converting the given email address on the user profile and turning it into an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MD5 hash&lt;/a&gt;. A hash from the same input (here the email address) is always identical but it is not possible to calculate the original input from it. In other words: for a fixed email address you will always get the same avatar, but people won't be able to get your email address by looking at the avatar or its URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can register at gravatar.com with any email address and upload any icon you wish. If this is not done, gravatar.com will automatically produce a random avatar from the email hash, like: &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if &lt;strong&gt;no email address&lt;/strong&gt; is given in the user profile your avatar might change frequently. This has happened to two users I know of which got a new avatar daily which is quite annoying in my opinion. The main reason for the avatars is to give a visual recognizable representation of that user. A frequently changed avatar (either automatically/accidentally changed because of an empty email address or manually by the user) undermines this and should be avoided.&#xA;Therefore if you belong to the users which don't want to give away their email address then please insert &lt;strong&gt;some random but constant address&lt;/strong&gt; just to have a constant avatar. Please make sure that it is clear that the email address is just a placeholder, e.g. &lt;code&gt;noemail@notvalid.com&lt;/code&gt;, but please keep it unique otherwise you will have the same avatar like someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happy TeX'ing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T16:54:10.470" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T16:54:10.470" Title="Changing and keeping a user avatar/icon" Tags="|support|user-accounts|user-profile-page|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1590" CreationDate="2011-07-20T20:29:25.293" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that an &quot;official&quot; link has to wait for the &quot;official&quot; launch of the blog, but it does seem a bit daft that there are &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; links from the main site.  I seem to recall that it is possible for a moderator to put a banner up on the main site for a couple of days.  Maybe it would be worth doing that; perhaps after a couple of posts have gone up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T20:29:25.293" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2011-07-20T21:45:25.997" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Editing polls after they started&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest polls with votes should not be changed regarding the meaning. Edits not affecting the meaning are welcome, such as improving the form or giving further explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls/1600#1600&quot;&gt;Tips that can be regarded as best practices in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; has been changed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls/1600#1600&quot;&gt;What is your tips when writing a document with LaTeX to reduce complexity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such edits make already existing comments and votes invalid and should be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T21:45:25.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1607" CreationDate="2011-07-21T16:12:09.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ad7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ad7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; 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alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ad7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Getting a specific avatar for TeX.sx&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just figured out that it is possible to alternate one email address without making it invalid (i.e. you still get your emails):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your email address is &lt;code&gt;name@somewhere.com&lt;/code&gt; you can add some tag to the &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt; using a &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; sign, e.g. &lt;code&gt;name+tag@somewhere.com&lt;/code&gt; without changing the recipient of the email, i.e. the email still gets delivered to &lt;code&gt;name@somewhere.com&lt;/code&gt;. &#xA;This is part of the official email specification and all proper email services should handle it correctly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This allows for filtering and for a specific avatar. If you use the same email address with other sites which also use Gravatar.com you will get the same avatar. Now if you want a specific avatar for TeX.sx you could change your email address to e.g. &lt;code&gt;name+texsx@somewhere.com&lt;/code&gt; and add this email address in your Gravatar account with a different avatar image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9d7c3874e16dcfa86e0fc1807559f37d?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; 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alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T16:12:09.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1590" CreationDate="2011-07-21T18:25:26.760" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The design of the TeX.SX blog has been updated by Jin to match the main site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iVaQ3.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX blog layout&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T18:25:26.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-23T18:24:37.777" Score="6" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do people here compile/render/upload images themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to have an automatic rendering engine? (&lt;strike&gt;Something like the MathJax stuff they have on Math.SX&lt;/strike&gt;, but with some real TeX processors on an auxiliary server. Of course results can be cached.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; My proposition was suggesting an explicit mechanism to render test documents. Not an implicit one as found on Math/Physics/TCS etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6783" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T21:44:24.460" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T21:44:24.460" Title="Automatic rendering of code provided in questions/answers?" Tags="|feature-request|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1613" CreationDate="2011-07-23T19:10:13.883" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;We used to have Mathjax in the very first days of TeX.sx, but not anymore. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/181/can-we-turn-off-math-tex-please&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; and also the first answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7/we-need-tex-markup&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for some rationale. I'm almost sure there have been other discussions previously, but wasn't able to find them currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell -- there's no real benefit of having TeX rendering here. Discussions on TeX.sx are mostly focused on the actual source code or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;minimal working example&lt;/a&gt; that produce the (un)desired result, and for this reason, inline rendering is not only unnecessary, it is actively harmful (when, for example, one would want to quote a command instead of show its result). I'm not even going to mention the implications this has on page loading speed -- try it on a slow machine with older browser on one of the more notation-heavy questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast this with Physics.sx and Math.sx (and also Math Overflow) where the notation is absolutely critical to facilitating the discussion. Here on TeX.sx, the plain old source code is sufficient -- questions on aesthetics (although acceptable here) are much less frequent than those from the &quot;where's the problem in this code&quot; or &quot;how do I do X&quot; variety. If need be (or for the sake of saving time to others), the poster should upload an image or even a compiled document if the result is unexpected or non-reproducible by the others, but this happens far less often than you would think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T19:10:13.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1616" CreationDate="2011-07-23T23:40:07.673" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clicking Andrey Vihrov name brings us to his User Profile but its reputation is no longer -143. Is it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/54QSu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-07-24T22:24:51.300" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T22:24:51.300" Title="User's reputation behaves strangely" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1615" CreationDate="2011-07-23T23:49:55.627" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The users page shows the reputation amount weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and totally. -143 is for the current week only, the user has 2959 at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, he has put 300 reputation for a bounty this week, which explains the loss. Besides that bounty investment he gained reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T23:49:55.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1639" CreationDate="2011-07-24T18:25:11.967" Score="26" ViewCount="843" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initiated by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23995/how-to-iterate-through-the-list-of-predefined-colors-in-xcolor&quot;&gt;xport's latest question&lt;/a&gt;, I've gathered some statistics about xport's questions from July 1st up to today (July 24th).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In those 24 days, xport has asked 57 questions, i.e. about 2.4 questions per day and about 7.9% of all questions asked at tex.sx (724).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those 57 questions at the moment feature an upvote/downvote total of 118, i.e. about 2.1 votes per question. 13 questions (22.8%) have a score of zero.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At stackoverflow.com, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89217/50-question-per-month-limit&quot;&gt;limit of 50 questions per month&lt;/a&gt; was enacted in April 2011. One rationale for this limit was that every question draws time and attention from other users, and no one should be allowed to overstrain the willingness of others to help. Another reasoning was &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89217/50-question-per-month-limit/89220#89220&quot;&gt;&quot;If you are asking over 2 questions per day, there is a good chance you aren't putting enough time into your questions.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, the limit is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89217/50-question-per-month-limit/89222#89222&quot;&gt;&quot;only active on the trilogy sites&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (stackoverflow, serverfault, superuser). In my opinion, tex.sx would be better of too if everyone was induced to spend a non-trivial amount of time trying to solve questions by himself/herself, and to ask only those questions  where he/she couldn't come up with a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: Should SO's &quot;50 questions per month&quot; limit be enabled at tex.sx?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T15:56:37.807" Title="Should SO's &quot;50 questions per month&quot; limit be enabled at tex.sx?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|etiquette|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2011-07-24T23:34:48.913" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How many other users would be affected?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many SE 2.0 sites &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; questions, so even if the incoming questions are only &quot;Ok&quot;, a) they can be edited into shape and b) it's better to have questions for people to answer, than to not have enough.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So based on that, I'd say as long as no other users (statistically speaking) would be harmed, and you have &quot;enough&quot; questions, it's possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T23:34:48.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1619" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1622" CreationDate="2011-07-25T11:15:32.087" Score="15" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently got access to the 10k moderation tools. But I don't really understand them. What should I do with the flags page? add flags to those flags I agree with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we have a CW answer to this that is a short guide to the 10k tools? Or is there already one? (I couldn't find one after a quick search...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-07-25T17:25:34.070" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T17:07:38.513" Title="A guide to the 10k tools" Tags="|support|10k-tools|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-25T11:17:08.123" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1619" CreationDate="2011-07-25T13:09:49.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only had access to the tools for the last month of the beta, back in the days when one didn't have to work so hard for such privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only meta.SO thread tagged both [faq] &amp;amp; [10k-tools] is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4565/what-are-the-moderation-tools-available-to-high-reputation-users&quot;&gt;What are the moderation tools available to high-reputation users?&lt;/a&gt;, which seems to cover the bases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T13:09:49.383" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-25T13:09:49.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2011-07-25T15:52:06.813" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in favor of introducing such a limit here. Even 50 questions per month is almost to high. Here 30 per month should already be considered enough. (Especially if half of them are virtually about the same topic.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T15:52:06.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1619" CreationDate="2011-07-25T17:14:47.277" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;A short overview of the current 10k tools pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;stats&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;This page is mainly an overview of questions that might be worth closer inspections. I guess it is pretty self-explanatory. I usually have a look at the recently migrated questions (because they often need attention), the new tags (because they are often an indication of mis-tagging) and negatively voted questions. You can click on the triangles to expand the lists (this of course also applies to the other pages).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;migrated&lt;/strong&gt;: A list of all migrated questions. For the current amount of migrated questions per day the list on the stats page is long enough. So this page is pretty useless most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt;: Lists recent close/open votes and recently closed/reopened questions. I usually go through this list once a day and add my vote to any questions that I think should be closed (or sometimes a comment that I disagree with the votes). This makes it more likely that a question that should be closed gets five votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt;: Same as the close list, but for deleting questions (once a question has been closed for two days, you can vote to delete them). The page also lists answers deleted by mods, but does not list questions an answers deleted by their owners. I usually find this page pretty useless (though it is probably more valuable on bigger sites).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flags&lt;/strong&gt;: Lists posts that have been flagged by users or by the system. You can go through the list and add your own flags. On this page (and only here) you can also flag a flag as invalid. Adding additional flags can help the moderators to prioritize they actions (though this is way more important on bigger sites than on TeX.sx). Also SPAM posts are deleted automatically when they accumulate enough flags. The page doesn't list flags by moderators and non-specific flags (the 'other' flag) and once you took some action on a flag, the system won't show you that flag anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For posts automatically flagged by the system it might be possible to improve the post or at least add a comment to inform the user of best practices on SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;links&lt;/strong&gt;: This once had a lot more pages linked than it has now. There is a link to a list of past suggested edits, which can be interesting if you want to look something up (e.g. if you suspect some strange edit pattern), but isn't that useful otherwise. There is also an (experimental?) page that show some stats about &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98630/anonymous-user-feedback-now-in-testing&quot;&gt;feedback by anonymous users and users that aren't yet allowed to vote&lt;/a&gt;. Doesn't seem to be particularly useful at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the above pages, the 10k tools menu bar also links to &lt;code&gt;/review&lt;/code&gt;, but I think that page is accessible to all users. 10k users also get notified on the top bar of any pending suggested edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T17:07:38.513" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-25T17:14:47.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2011-07-25T18:57:44.647" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could simply use the voting system to limit low quality questions while allowing an unlimited number of good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, there could be a limit for 30 questions per month which have got less than 5 upvotes. Each good question just adds to it, so after 20 good question one still has 30 questions left. It's even is a motivation to improve own existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-07-25T18:59:36.267" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T18:59:36.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-27T07:42:04.997" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use TeX mainly in the following academic or professional field:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T11:02:07.097" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T11:02:07.097" CommentCount="32" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-27T07:42:04.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-27T18:56:29.890" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite document class is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T18:56:29.890" CommentCount="21" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-27T18:56:29.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1631" CreationDate="2011-07-28T15:08:43.780" Score="2" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are about &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot;&gt;2011 old (La)TeX related questions in SO&lt;/a&gt;. Is it necessary to migrate them to TeX.SE? Will it be a heavy task? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T10:50:48.323" Title="Is it necessary to migrate old (La)TeX questions from SO to TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1628" CreationDate="2011-07-28T15:16:19.140" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It's always been clear that the existence of new SX sites does not mean that there is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; overlap with the main site. For example, questions on the detail of LaTeX programming may well fit within the remit of StackOverflow. At the same time, it seems pretty clear that the idea was never to 'flood' new sites by migrating questions which are no longer active. There is no real gain for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T15:16:19.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-07-28T15:44:56.293" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you dislike in (La)TeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T15:44:56.293" CommentCount="18" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-28T15:44:56.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1628" CreationDate="2011-07-29T01:13:06.823" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can support this &lt;em&gt;but only if...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is not just good, but GREAT&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is STRONGLY on topic at the target site&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You feel VERY STRONGLY it belongs here&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of those criteria aren't met, it is probably best to let the question stay where it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-07-29T01:13:06.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1628" CreationDate="2011-07-30T10:50:33.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, migrating old LaTeX questions from SO to tex.sx  is a bad thing in many cases. The reason is that -- because of SO's higher number of users -- these question are on a quite different scale with regard to upvotes and number of views. Case in point: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9363/510&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; migrated question has the second highest number of upvotes at tex.sx (66), has generated the answer with the highest number of upvotes (87) and has about 39k views. (The only other question with &gt;10k views at tex.sx is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13370/510&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; one which nearly caused a flame war.) Mass-migrating of old SO questions will completely destroy tex.sx's benchmark of what &quot;Good questions&quot; and &quot;Good Answers&quot; are. Don't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T10:50:33.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2011-07-30T16:38:33.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are more new questions at the beginning of our learning and&#xA;  there will be fewer afterwards. Thus the number of questions will&#xA;  decrease as the time goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T16:38:33.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1635" CreationDate="2011-07-31T19:57:28.510" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few month ago I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19828/insert-key-words-key-phrases-into-toc&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; on this website that was answered perfectly. And a couple of days ago I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24184/hyperref-ize-the-keywords-in-toc&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; that was answered as well and that builds up on the previous one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I wonder how I could put them together in a way that other users can see both questions and answers as soon as they decide to take a look at one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shall I just copy them into one?&#xA;Shall I provide a link in each one?&#xA;Is there a certain device in this website that is made for this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For any ideas I am very thankful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4299" OwnerDisplayName="Philip" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T08:36:45.400" Title="Grouping questions (and answers)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1634" CreationDate="2011-07-31T20:26:00.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please ask questions about the site on the Meta site. You can link both questions together by placing a link on one of them to the other in the question or in an answer or comment. All linked question will then appear on top of the sidebar. Note that in questions and answer posts you can simply paste the question link into the text and it will be automatically formatted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T20:26:00.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1636" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-01T04:42:16.367" Score="3" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Through the TeX Q&amp;amp;A site, I've been learning from scratch while creating my own .tex documents. I'm doing ok and progressing slowly but I'd be glad to pay someone  more qualified than I to do this task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I find and engage with candidates from this community (especially those who answered my questions in the Q&amp;amp;A site) whom are willing to receive payment for work to create XeLaTeX documents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="6825" LastEditDate="2011-08-01T04:58:37.507" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T05:48:16.987" Title="Pay TeX expert to create XeLaTeX documents?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1636" CreationDate="2011-08-01T05:48:16.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After looking around the TeX Q&amp;amp;A website, I assume the best way to find candidates is to click on user profiles and look through their profile info or personal website to find a means to contact them and propose a possible job opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T05:48:16.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1634" CreationDate="2011-08-01T08:36:45.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand a little on what Martin said: if there are questions that you think should be connected, then the correct way is to ensure that each is linked from the other by a hyperlink.  It is a good idea to provide some context, but exactly what that should be depends on the nature of the connection.  (I haven't looked at the questions you link, so this shouldn't be taken prescriptive in any fashion!)  For example, if one question builds on another, then it can start with, &quot;Following on from my question ...&quot;.  But if a question is merely related, the link should be near the end, as in, &quot;A similar question is ...&quot; (perhaps with a sentence as to why).&#xA;The links should not be intrusive, so not cluttered with too much extra context.  Just enough so that someone can make an assessment as to whether or not to click on the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T08:36:45.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2011-08-02T02:11:15.560" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's true that questions seem to come in clusters. When someone is starting a new latex project (designing a package, writing a thesis) they tend to have a series of questions. Recent examples are: xport and Peteris Krumins. This is not a bad thing. Nevertheless, I think 1 question per day limit (averaged) is reasonable and forces people to think carefully if each question is the best it can be or is there room to improve it. For this site to continue to attract knowledgable answerers, the average level of the questions should be as high as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="627" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T02:11:15.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-02T15:49:20.390" Score="12" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/24715/2693&quot;&gt;Control start point of nested list&lt;/a&gt; was posted within minutes of the OP receiving an answer to this question  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/24712/2693&quot;&gt;Horizontal space in lists&lt;/a&gt;. Understandably, some of us (myself included) were annoyed at this, since I had explicitly mentioned in my answer to the first question that all the list parameters could be changed and pointed to both the &lt;code&gt;enumitem&lt;/code&gt; documentation and the presence of other questions on the site (although without explicit links).  The question then received a couple of downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seamus correctly points out though, that the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; itself is a reasonable one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the downvotes are trying to correct the &lt;em&gt;behaviour&lt;/em&gt; of the OP rather than being a reflection of the question content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although notice that the help popup on the downvote arrow explicitly states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or&#xA;  not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, is this kind of downvoting reasonable, and if not, are there other ways to prod users to RTFM. (I suspect that comments aren't enough.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T16:11:01.657" Title="Voting on behaviour vs question content" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1640" CreationDate="2011-08-02T16:11:01.657" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting should reflect the content. There shouldn't be downvotes because of misbehavior of somebody. Other readers might not understand that, possibly, and it's against the quality by voting system. Just because we cannot vote on users, we shouldn't transfer that on content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;commenting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editing, for quality reasons&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adding links to related questions by the user, such as in this case&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closing of questions, if meaningful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like in this case, the last point could be meaningful if there's a very similar question because the OP just didn't deal with the earlier answers: edit/extend the earlier question if necessary and comment on it and vote to close the newer question, this would be an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, no downvoting of a question just because there's been a problem with an earlier question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T16:11:01.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-02T17:49:57.737" Score="8" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions that can be regarded as FAQ as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to adjust column separation in two-column page?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to break column in multiple-column page?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to enlarge the list indentation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to make list start from zero?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to put annotations on the existing picture?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to include programming code on the PDF output?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to convert PDF to EPS?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that they should be collected and transformed into a single free LaTeX recipe book that may be collaboratively managed by our volunteers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Advantages&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Well-phrased title on the book make ones easily find what they are looking for. So it will reduce the chance of duplicate questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the duplicate question happens, we can also easily give the questioner a reference to the available solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there are volunteers with good English grammar, the sentence in the book can be phrased without ambiguities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Free! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Disadvantages&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Damage the economy of people selling commercial book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't used any collaboration system that are available on the web. Maybe someone can give me a suggestion how to start this idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope my idea is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T00:37:21.563" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T00:37:21.563" Title="Collecting FAQ on LaTeX in this site into a recipe book that is collaberatively developed by us" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1642" CreationDate="2011-08-02T18:52:18.370" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding real FAQs on our site, we have to identify them. Votes mark great questions, but not the frequency of occurence. Useful for spotting FAQs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions closed as a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The StackExchange Data Explorer:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1207/possible-duplicates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Possible duplicates v1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1449/possible-duplicates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Possible duplicates v1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The sidebar with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/new-linked-posts/&quot;&gt;linked questions&lt;/a&gt; which includes duplicates as it's bi-directional&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question without a duplicate doesn't qualify as a FAQ (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are already existing FAQ collections, from our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/162/what-are-other-good-resources-on-line-for-information-about-tex-latex-and-friend/1621#1621&quot;&gt;online resources&lt;/a&gt; post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;UK TeX FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: FAQ of the UK TeX Users Group, maintened by Robin Fairbairns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/visualFAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Visual LaTeX FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: formatting samples available through a hyperlink interface&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/mactex/faq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacTeX FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: Mac OS X specific questions and answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ams.org/authors/author-faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AMS author FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: FAQ for AMS authors dealing with AMS-LaTeX and &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; but also with LaTeX in general&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;de-tex-faq&lt;/a&gt;: FAQ of the German TeX user group DANTE e.V.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2picfaq/german&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Picture FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: How to Include Pictures, in German&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are possible competitors to the intention of this question, however I would encourage supporting existing community FAQ projects. Our site can provide good contributions. Our content is cc-wiki licensed, proper attribution on other sites leads users to our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T00:31:32.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1642" CreationDate="2011-08-02T20:43:04.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a Community Wiki post for a start, collecting frequently asked questions to one topic and listing duplicates. Feel free to edit if you like. Let's see how it works out, it should give us some material to experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest: vote for FAQs which you mean are very frequent, add another answer for another FAQ (CW). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can I limit or even suppress floating of figures or tables?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2275/keeping-tables-figures-close-to-where-they-are-mentioned&quot;&gt;Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8625/force-figure-placement-in-text&quot;&gt;Force figure placement in text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/279/how-do-i-ensure-that-figures-appear-in-the-section-theyre-associated-with&quot;&gt;How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4666/how-to-avoid-splitting-tables-between-sections&quot;&gt;How to avoid splitting tables between sections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15507/tables-and-sections-get-misplaced&quot;&gt;Tables and sections get misplaced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24588/how-can-i-force-figure-to-stay-in-section&quot;&gt;How can I force figure to stay in section&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20376/how-to-bind-figure-table-to-a-section&quot;&gt;How to bind figure (table) to a section?&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16518/positioning-figures-in-specific-places&quot;&gt;Positioning figures in specific places&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14151/subsubsection-how-do-i-ensure-that-figures-appear-in-the-section-theyre-ass&quot;&gt;\subsubsection &amp;lt;— How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11791/how-can-i-inhibit-latex-to-float-a-table-across-a-section-boundary&quot;&gt;How can I inhibit LaTeX to float a table across a section boundary?&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20602/how-can-i-restrict-the-placement-of-images&quot;&gt;How can I restrict the placement of images?&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T21:21:32.987" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-02T20:47:53.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1642" CreationDate="2011-08-02T21:03:59.287" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How can I typeset source code of any programming language with syntax higlighting?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/867/syntax-coloring-in-latex&quot;&gt;Syntax Coloring in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2037/how-best-to-include-programming-source-code-in-latex-documents&quot;&gt;How best to include programming source code in LaTeX documents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4095/how-display-latex-code-in-latex-document&quot;&gt;How display LaTeX code in LaTeX document?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7614/package-for-displaying-source-code&quot;&gt;Package for displaying source code&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T21:03:59.287" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-02T21:04:56.900" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1642" CreationDate="2011-08-02T21:10:39.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How can I deal with underfull or overful hboxes and vboxes?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/138/what-are-underfull-hboxes-and-vboxes-and-how-can-i-get-rid-of-them&quot;&gt;What are underfull hboxes and vboxes and how can I get rid of them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35/what-does-overfull-hbox-mean&quot;&gt;What does “overfull hbox” mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6237/overfull-hbox-warning&quot;&gt;Overfull \hbox Warning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13715/how-to-suppress-overfull-hbox-warnings-up-to-some-maximum&quot;&gt;How to suppress overfull hbox warnings up to some maximum?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T21:10:39.437" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-02T21:10:39.437" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1642" CreationDate="2011-08-02T21:20:06.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How can I include a raster image in LaTeX getting the best possible quality?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/165/how-do-i-insert-an-image-in-latex-so-it-looks-good-on-print&quot;&gt;How do I insert an image in LaTeX so it looks good on print?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10975/my-pixel-perfect-picture-gets-blurry-when-compiled-in-latex&quot;&gt;My pixel perfect picture gets blurry when compiled in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1162/included-png-appears-blurry-in-pdf&quot;&gt;Included PNG appears blurry in PDF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4430/how-to-embed-screenshots-properly&quot;&gt;How to embed screenshots properly?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4291/how-do-you-deal-with-fixed-resolution-screenshots-e-g-gui-screenshots&quot;&gt;How do you deal with fixed resolution screenshots? (e.g. GUI screenshots)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17897/losing-resolution-when-using-includegraphics-to-import-jpeg&quot;&gt;Losing resolution when using \includegraphics to import JPEG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17899/how-to-obtain-clear-printed-graphics-with-pctex-v6&quot;&gt;How to obtain clear printed graphics with PCTeX v6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17899/how-to-obtain-clear-printed-graphics-with-pctex-v6&quot;&gt;Blurry images in document&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T21:25:34.760" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-02T21:20:06.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-04T10:09:02.543" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that this particular one is harmless, but an edit to the answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14162/how-do-i-get-a-list-of-all-available-fonts-for-luaotfload/14171#14171&quot;&gt;How do I get a list of all available fonts for luaotfload?&lt;/a&gt; got marked as by &quot;Community User&quot;.  I'm guessing it was a suggested edit that got approved (perhaps improved?).  But there's no record that I can see of who suggested it nor who approved it, which isn't perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can moderators see what happened (actually, should I as a 10k user be able to do that from the 10k tools?)?  Whilst ideally it would be obvious to all and sundry who edited what, I'd be okay with knowing that the TeX-SX mods could see who did what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T13:00:31.087" Title="Edit marked as by &quot;Community User&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1648" CreationDate="2011-08-04T10:15:03.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was an anonymous edit suggestion.  You can verify this by looking at the revision history.  On the right, &lt;code&gt;suggested&lt;/code&gt; is a link to the details of the suggested edit, including who approved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pWYdY.png&quot; alt=&quot;revision listing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently even people without any account (unregistered or registered) can make edit suggestions. Because there is no user name to be used Community jumps in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't like it when people &quot;correct&quot; or &quot;improve&quot; technical details of answers of other people. I think these suggestion should be made as comments instead. The author of the answer can then add them if he or she finds them useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="1816" LastEditDate="2011-08-04T15:15:05.030" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T15:15:05.030" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1642" CreationDate="2011-08-04T11:16:44.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How to install a package?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm in a rush but heres &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=install&quot;&gt;relevant search&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T11:16:44.793" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-04T11:16:52.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1652" CreationDate="2011-08-04T16:19:56.677" Score="7" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says: the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conflicts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conflicts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conflicts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/incompatibility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incompatibility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incompatibility&lt;/a&gt; seem to cover the same ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T16:45:50.930" Title="Merge {incompatibility} into {conflicts}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1651" CreationDate="2011-08-04T16:31:51.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conflicts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conflicts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conflicts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/incompatibility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incompatibility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incompatibility&lt;/a&gt;, choosing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/incompatibility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incompatibility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incompatibility&lt;/a&gt; as main tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conflicts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conflicts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conflicts&lt;/a&gt; as synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I preferred &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/incompatibility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incompatibility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incompatibility&lt;/a&gt; because it has a wider meaning, covering also undesired behavior even without a conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-08-04T16:45:50.930" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T16:45:50.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1660" CreationDate="2011-08-05T05:20:10.703" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13681/highlight-an-equation-within-an-align-environment&quot;&gt;Highlight an equation within an align environment&lt;/a&gt; was migrated over before I got set up with my tex.SE account. How do I connect this to my account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful for me to have it my list of questions as I use that as a reference, and also allow me to accept the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T12:04:52.630" Title="How do I connect a question to my userid" Tags="|support|migration|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1655" CreationDate="2011-08-05T06:56:46.377" Score="10" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just recently, Joseph Wright blogged about &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/one-year-of-tex-sx/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One year of TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;, with the evident display of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/13/yearling&quot;&gt;Yearling badges&lt;/a&gt; that subsequently followed on the TeX.SX side bar. As a fairly new user to TeX.SX, I've also pursued to be an active member of the community. I was amazed at the number of questions that have been asked, the amount of answers that flow in (even on older questions) it is amazing to see the amount of new users joining the community in order to learn from the experts. Heck, there's even recent talk about a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/tex-sx-t-shirts&quot;&gt;TeX.SX T-shirt&lt;/a&gt; campaign! All this activity through posts, answers and reputation made me think that there was some form of usage statistic available to browse. Not that I've found...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the initiation of the site beta, there has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/189/where-can-we-find-statistics-about-the-sites-progress-through-beta&quot;&gt;interest in its progression via statistics&lt;/a&gt;, like the number of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions asked;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answers posted;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions answered;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;visits/day; etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the interest in this seemed to have aged with the anticipation of emerging from beta to the current site. These usage statistics would be helpful to new users, or even just for the sake of comparing it to other forums as a form of promotion. As a reference, the Usenet forum &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/a&gt; provide users with some form of usage statistic - in the form of posts-per-month&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; - on its &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wdAHO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Usenet comp.text.tex about page with usage statistics&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although some statistics are already available (like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;total number of questions asked&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;counting the number of a specific badges awarded&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag counts&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;number of unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; and even &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/week/tex&quot;&gt;weekly/monthly/quarterly reputation leagues&lt;/a&gt;, to name just a handful) there is nothing available, on demand, to the extent posted during the beta phase as far as I know..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a first question would be whether users of TeX.SX would find such usage statistics interesting, or even helpful? If this question is answered in the affirmative, the second question would be whether it is possible to add such a feature to TeX.SX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; Since the site access is public/Usenet and therefore unmoderated, these totals may include &lt;em&gt;spam&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T17:04:28.780" Title="Site usage statistics" Tags="|feature-request|site-promotion|community|reputation|statistics|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1654" CreationDate="2011-08-05T07:35:31.897" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer for TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; to get statistics about the site. Stack Exchange dumps the site's data regularly and you can run arbitrary queries on the dumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of ready to use queries such as questions per month, questions and answers per weekday and time of day, top questions/answers/users/tags, and many many more. You can even get statistics on your own user account, your reputation and badge progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T08:06:31.107" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T08:06:31.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1654" CreationDate="2011-08-05T08:28:49.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are various pieces of data available to the moderators, but we are asked not to share specifics. I guess that this has something to do with the commercial requirements of the StackExchange network: somewhere, money has to be made and the potential advertising spread is therefore commercially-sensitive. (I've no idea how that overlaps with the data dump: I guess that the same information is available, but as we can see it 'pre-processed' it is more valuable.) That said, I think we can make general statements. So for example in the last month there were over 850 questions asked, and over 1400 answers given. We don't get too many 'bad' questions or answers, so both of those should be representative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T08:28:49.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1654" CreationDate="2011-08-05T15:57:01.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are basic site stats at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites?expand=true&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/sites?expand=true&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sidebar of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29&quot;&gt;reputation league&lt;/a&gt; gives some information about the change in the user base over the selected period (time selection is at the top of the page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T17:04:28.780" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T17:04:28.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2011-08-06T11:18:08.530" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a new badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/102/proofreader&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lou1v.png&quot; alt=&quot;Proof reader badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appeared today, 5 users got it until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T14:14:28.067" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-06T11:18:08.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1661" CreationDate="2011-08-07T07:24:02.173" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&quot;&gt;image support via imgur.com&lt;/a&gt; being almost one year old, the content in both questions and answers have surely been enriched. My introduction to posting images, like with so many new users, came with my first visit, subsequent registration and post to TeX.SX, only to be greeted with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;insufficient privileges disclaimer for new users&lt;/a&gt; that doesn't allow image posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since being able to post images and also through editing other's questions/answers, I've noticed a difference in style:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inserting images as-you-type hyperlink format:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![&amp;lt;enter image description here&amp;gt;](&amp;lt;image url&amp;gt;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inserting images using the &lt;code&gt;imgur.com&lt;/code&gt; GUI click-to-insert button &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6YO9r.png&quot; alt=&quot;Imgur&amp;#39;s insert image GUI button&quot;&gt;, which leaves you with:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![&amp;lt;enter image description here&amp;gt;][&amp;lt;imgtag&amp;gt;]&#xA;&#xA;[&amp;lt;imgtag&amp;gt;]: &amp;lt;image url&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I would like to keep things organised, properly name the image to be upload and revert to the former option by copying the image hyperlink next to the markdown and removing the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;imgtag&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; - thereby keeping the image placement together with the image link. I even give a description of the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which of the above usages would be considered best practice on TeX.SX?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the use of changing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;enter image description here&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; if it is never visible to the non-editing users; not even via a tooltip text?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any advantage in giving a meaningful name to an image that is uploaded to &lt;code&gt;imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The motivations behind these questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't know whether this is sheer user preference, since organisation of a post (and the objects contained within) is subjective. That is, what I find organised may be considered unorganised by others; in true (La)TeX fashion, leaving all the actual images as &quot;references&quot; at the end of a post is just as organised as the other option.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I thought translating the meaningful description into a tooltip text would be... well, meaningful. I understand though that not many people find this &quot;editorial description of images&quot; interest or of-value, and therefore decide to leave this blank.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If someone is interested in downloading an image that was posted (for whatever reason), the downloaded image has &lt;code&gt;imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;'s &quot;short url&quot;. For example, the button image hyperlink in this post is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6YO9r.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6YO9r.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6YO9r.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T16:30:49.560" Title="Style of typesetting images in questions/answers" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2011-08-07T12:04:52.630" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally email the address at the bottom of every page for such matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reattached this question to your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T12:04:52.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1659" CreationDate="2011-08-07T16:30:49.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't matter, as long as you &lt;strong&gt;upload the image via the SE upload interface&lt;/strong&gt; (this uploads them to a special SE account that prevents them from getting deleted). I usually just leave it the way it is, because I'm too lazy to rewrite it. But if you prefer to use the other syntax, nobody will stop you from using it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This text is used in the &lt;code&gt;alt&lt;/code&gt; property of the HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag. The idea of that is that this text will be displayed instead of the image whenever the browser can't display the image. For example when imgur.com is offline, when the user has disabled images or on a slow internet connection before the image has been loaded. Accessibility guidelines usually state that all images must have an &lt;code&gt;alt&lt;/code&gt; text. (Browers used to display that text as a tooltip, but I think most modern browsers have stopped doing that.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As you noticed, imgur automatically renames the files to some unique (but nonsensical) name. I think there is no way of getting the original file name from imgur. So it doesn't matter how the file is named before you upload it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T16:30:49.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-07T18:12:14.713" Score="9" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the most frequently asked question for LaTeX: &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt;s and &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt;s are not placed where they are specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beginners have often problems understanding the concept of floats and the difference between &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\includegraphics&lt;/code&gt; as well as &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt;s and &lt;code&gt;tabular&lt;/code&gt;s. At the moment we link most of these questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2275/keeping-tables-figures-close-to-where-they-are-mentioned&quot;&gt;Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;which has some good answers, but the question also includes some &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; stuff, which makes the question less useful as a general link target. Also the OP is not active anymore and did not accept any answer (to this or any other of his questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Therefore my suggestion:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should have a good CW question for this kind of float placement. Then we can merge the existing answers to that and similar questions to it, so we have everything at one place. We should really have a good representative question plus at least one &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; and excellent answer to the &lt;em&gt;Queen of the FAQs&lt;/em&gt; :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T18:35:04.747" Title="The number one FAQ: Figures and tables are not placed where they are specified" Tags="|discussion|faq|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2011-08-07T18:35:04.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good that you brought it up, each time I've seen the question I've been thinking similarly. I removed the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; stuff in this question. The OP never responded to the comment regarding the suggestion to post a separate question for this issue. Since nearly one year, 2 days after posting that question, the OP hasn't been seen here, so I guess nobody misses the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; part, also no answer is referring to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the question is clear and specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually prefer improving real, existing questions and answers over artificially producing nicely designed question/answer pairs. This is an option for a FAQ document though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T18:35:04.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1665" CreationDate="2011-08-08T03:18:53.493" Score="7" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;My current reputation is 2347. But when I look at the reputation for the year it is 2246. I only joined in 2011, so can't figure out why that would be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-10-28T15:15:37.500" LastActivityDate="2011-10-28T15:15:37.500" Title="Yearly Reputation is off by 101" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1664" CreationDate="2011-08-08T03:35:22.363" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget you get +100 for having +200 across the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T03:35:22.363" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1560" CreationDate="2011-08-08T04:20:57.223" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first Unanswered Questions Chat was held August 7.  We started out with 252 unanswered questions, and ended up with approximately 223 by the time people quit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, I would say it was a success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who helped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T04:20:57.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1560" CreationDate="2011-08-08T09:02:02.963" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't able to make the first session (and will be unlikely to make others if they are to be held on Sundays), but I think that there's still a way to enable people like myself to be part of the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One part of the &quot;dealing with unanswered questions&quot; process is sifting out the &quot;should be closed&quot; questions from those worth spending some time on.  This is something that is easier in a crowd: by myself, I might worry that I'd misunderstood the question, but if I can check and ask people in real-time, then I'd be more confident.  What little I saw of the activity suggested that there was a fair bit of this going on in the session.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help those, like myself, who weren't there, maybe a &quot;summary sheet&quot; could be published of those questions that were considered with a &quot;status&quot;: &quot;closed&quot; and &quot;answered&quot; being two of the obvious ones, and &quot;probably should be closed&quot; or &quot;looks like it might be interesting&quot; being also useful (though snappier wording could be chosen!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also recommend that those who were there reflect a bit on which bits worked and which didn't.  Speaking from my vast experience (ie none), I'd conjecture that the process didn't actually speed up the &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; of questions, but that it was most effective in sorting out those questions that should be answered, and in getting answers &lt;em&gt;validated&lt;/em&gt;.  If I'm right, then a couple of modifications could be in order: a list of those questions to be considered could be published beforehand (as Joseph suggests) so that people can have a glance through first, and (as I suggest) a list of &quot;things done&quot; published afterwards so that others can look through and vote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, well done to those that took part, and I hope that this continues!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T09:02:02.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-08-08T10:58:37.637" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/okhma.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Exchange TeX Blog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T10:58:37.637" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-08T10:58:37.637" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-08T11:44:35.947" Score="5" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I (&amp;lt;2000 rep) wanted to edit a question, mainly to rephrase the title and to edit the tags. Since I was dealing with the question already, I fixed a few minor things in the question body  (e.g. typos, spaces, punctuation). Because these things added up to fewer than 6 characters, the edit couldn't be submitted, even though I made substantial edits to title and tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I went back and only edited the title and the tags, it was possible to submit the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the 6-character-limit is supposed to prevent the question from unnecessarily being pushed up in the list of questions and probably to avoid keeping the 10k+ users and mods busy with approving nit-pick edits. However, since this will happen anyway, I think the 6-character-limit should be suspended if the title or the tags are edited as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't know if there's a 6-character-limit for edits within the title as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: Concerning the above-quoted error message: I think &lt;em&gt;is there &lt;strong&gt;anything&lt;/strong&gt; else&lt;/em&gt; would be more appropriate than &lt;em&gt;is there &lt;strong&gt;something&lt;/strong&gt; else&lt;/em&gt;. Perhaps a native speaker opinion on this one? Afaik, &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; implies the expectation that there actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; something else, as opposed to &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;, which leaves room for either outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T11:54:35.803" Title="Editing a few letters on top of tag and title edit" Tags="|feature-request|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1669" CreationDate="2011-08-08T11:54:35.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This limit and the message comes from stackexchange itself, i.e. applies to all xxx.stackexchange.com sites and can't be independently configured for TeX.SX. At least the stackexchange admins also read this meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;general SX meta site&lt;/a&gt; which can be used for such general suggested. However, I'm quite sure there are already similar posts like that there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T11:54:35.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1672" CreationDate="2011-08-08T20:52:44.297" Score="10" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it (almost) all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If and when&lt;/em&gt; I think I have something useful to say on the blog, as a post, rather than a comment, how will I go about it? Is there a moderation process, and how do I provide input?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T21:05:33.657" Title="How can I contribute to the TeX.sx Blog?" Tags="|support|blog|contributing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1671" CreationDate="2011-08-08T21:05:33.657" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;More or less by volunteering here! Martin and I can create accounts, and once you have one then you can create posts. At the moment, we're not using it, but we can set up accounts where the posts have to be checked before they appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T21:05:33.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1673" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1674" CreationDate="2011-08-08T22:15:13.577" Score="14" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like the fact that when I add a URL form tex.SX in the question, this is automatically displayed with just the title of the question. It would be nice to have this also done in comments, as it is a lot more information to have the title there as opposed to the URL which often is truncated and only the leading part is displayed&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FMPz3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T22:29:50.133" Title="Comments should replace HTML links with title as is the case in Question" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1673" CreationDate="2011-08-08T22:24:07.143" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be great! Here are corresponding feature requests at meta.stackoverflow.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16609/feature-request-when-posting-links-to-same-site-in-comment-display-question-text&quot;&gt;Feature request: when posting links to same site in comment display question text instead of URL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77394/replace-links-with-the-current-question-title-in-comments&quot;&gt;Replace links with the current question title in comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest go there and upvote the request, perhaps additionally leave a comment there. There's already information why it hasn't been implemented yet. In short: comments are meant to be lightweight and are processed on the fly while a page is loaded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T22:29:50.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1677" CreationDate="2011-08-11T17:42:11.620" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf-reader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf-reader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf-reader&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/viewers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;viewers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;viewers&lt;/a&gt; both contain the same kind of questions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/viewers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;viewers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;viewers&lt;/a&gt; is the more general tag (also allowing for dvi and ps viewers), so I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf-reader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf-reader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf-reader&lt;/a&gt; should be merged into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, many of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/viewers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;viewers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;viewers&lt;/a&gt; questions are also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt;, which is incorrect according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki. Should the tag be removed or should the tag wiki be changed. (IMO, tagging something &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/viewers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;viewers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;viewers&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt; would make sense, so I'm for modifying the tag wiki.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there doesn't seem to be any opposition, could some mod please do the merging. I'll add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt; to the questions afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T18:16:33.457" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T18:16:33.457" Title="Merge {pdf-reader} and {viewers}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2011-08-11T17:52:30.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think either we keep the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf-reader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf-reader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf-reader&lt;/a&gt; or we encourage using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/viewers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;viewers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;viewers&lt;/a&gt; together with the format tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ps&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi&lt;/a&gt;. It should be possible to filter the the viewer questions which are relevant for the format I'm using. I vote for the second option, one tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/viewers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;viewers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;viewers&lt;/a&gt; and suggested use with additional format tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T17:52:30.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2011-08-11T17:52:47.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, combining tags for specific things like  {viewers} + {pdf} should be allowed.&#xA;We could change the last part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt; tag from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question concerns PDF reader software, choose {pdf-reader} or a reader  specific tag such as {acrobat}, {evince} or {okular}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question concerns PDF reader software, also add the {viewer} tag or  choose a reader specific tag such as {acrobat}, {evince} or {okular}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf-reader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf-reader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf-reader&lt;/a&gt; can then made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/viewer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;viewer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;viewer&lt;/a&gt;. It's a pity that it can't be made a synonym of two tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T17:52:47.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="908" CreationDate="2011-08-12T16:48:41.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would add &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&amp;amp;tbo=1&amp;amp;q=LaTeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google books&lt;/a&gt; to the suggested sites to link to, especially when it contains a preview of the book. Google books also provide BibTeX entries, albeit referring to Google books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way, a link to an Amazon site can be helpful, especially when it has a book preview, providing the links do not give Amazon partner codes (unless there is a TEX-SE or TUG partnership that could benefit from our book purchases, perhaps?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if there is a web site of the author or publisher that provides extracts, synopsis, errata or supporting materials then that may be worth a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6964" LastEditorUserId="6964" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T10:53:31.217" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T10:53:31.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2077" CreationDate="2011-08-13T04:28:42.167" Score="10" ViewCount="432" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how kosher this is for online forums and whether there will be green-erds cringing, but how about adding a feature to be able to print a question/answer or even an entire discussion? Of course, over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Math.SX&lt;/a&gt;, LaTeX formatting is interpreted to present mathematics (via &lt;code&gt;MathJax&lt;/code&gt;) as graphics in order provide a nice graphic context. But we also upload our own images (LaTeX output of MWEs, and the like) and provide formatted inline LaTeX and code snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82240/stackoverflow-qa-print-view&quot;&gt;A similar question over on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; mentions &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackprinter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;StackPrinter&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which also provides some sample Stack Exchange printable versions as a demo on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackprinter.com/export?format=HTML&amp;amp;service=stackoverflow&amp;amp;printer=false&amp;amp;question=84556&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackprinter.com/export?format=HTML&amp;amp;question=9134&amp;amp;service=meta.stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Meta&lt;/a&gt;. This is, however, not entirely integrated into Stack Exchange as far as I know. How about integrating it into the TeX.SX user interface?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Options I'm thinking of include adding that to the list of &quot;actions&quot; one can perform on questions/answers - &lt;code&gt;link edit &lt;b&gt;print&lt;/b&gt; close flag&lt;/code&gt;. This would work well for questions &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; answers. But what about if you want to print an entire discussion (question &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; answers). Well, how about somewhere in the &lt;code&gt;Tagged / Asked / Viewed / Active&lt;/code&gt; part of the right sidebar? &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/179/stackprinter-the-stack-exchange-printer-suite/876#876&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; also provides a nice view of a location for seeing a printer-friendly version of a post (question/answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FhPa7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Printer-friendly version of discussion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2019-03-30T17:07:08.330" Title="Printable version of questions/answers or entire discussion" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-08-14T10:40:28.613" Score="20" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Tikz/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25414/how-to-create-magnified-subfigures-and-corresponding-boxes-for-portions-of-a-larg/25433#25433&quot;&gt;How to create magnified subfigures and corresponding boxes for portions of a large image&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A method for magnifying rectangular sections of an image, displaying rectangles on top of the image to show which portions are magnified, and arranging the magnified portions in an aesthetically pleasing manner as a &lt;code&gt;subcaptionbox&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Options for displaying a grid over the original image to ease placing the magnifications, using coloured frames to link the magnified portions to their position on the original image, or using different black and white dash patterns for better visibility in grayscale printouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Kuxf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Support &lt;code&gt;subfig&lt;/code&gt; in addition to &lt;code&gt;subcaption&lt;/code&gt;, or optionally don't use subfigures at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add more/better dash patterns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the approach in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14225/is-there-the-easiest-way-to-toggle-show-hide-navigational-grids-in-tikz/14230#14230&quot;&gt;Is there the easiest way to toggle (show/hide) navigational grids in TikZ?&lt;/a&gt; to draw the grids&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T11:30:37.680" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-14T10:40:28.613" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1683" CreationDate="2011-08-14T14:02:28.777" Score="5" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP of the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9517/2975&quot;&gt;Why does my graphics flows out of the box?&lt;/a&gt; seems to no longer exist while there is an answer with a working solution. Therefore the question will stay open forever. This happens from time to time, and there are also one-time users which ask a single question and never return to this site to accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would resolve these questions the following way:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dummy account with an appropriate name and description should be created y the moderators. It then can be used to ask the same question again and merge the original question with it. This moves all answers to the new question while keeping all votes etc. Then the/an answer can be accepted. This effectively takes over the question to a new account. The question copy might be made CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should only be done in specific cases when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP's account got deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question got migrated here and the the OP never signed up here for a specific time (say 3 month to make sure the question is really &quot;old&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP is a new unregistered user and never really returned to the question (for again 3 month or so)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if applicable, the OP should first be contacted using a comment and asked to accept an answer or state what is still missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T14:45:55.150" Title="Resolving orphaned and abandoned questions" Tags="|discussion|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1682" CreationDate="2011-08-14T14:45:55.150" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we don't need to choose and to modify one answer as &quot;accepted&quot;. Beside that it's not &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt;, we've already got the community acceptance by votes: the best answer has been voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question with upvoted answers doesn't count as &quot;unanswered&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if we see an orphaned question with a good answer but without upvotes, I encourage upvoting the good answer. On the one hand, we would show which is a good answer and has community acceptance, on the other hand the question would be removed from the &quot;unanswered&quot; list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot;&gt;OK, Now Define “Answered”&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff in the blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/363/what-to-do-about-old-orphaned-questions&quot;&gt;What to do about old orphaned questions?&lt;/a&gt; on meta.SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40792/let-editor-admin-accept-answers-in-abandoned-questions&quot;&gt;Let editor/admin accept answers in abandoned questions&lt;/a&gt; as one example of the duplicates on meta.SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's good to talk about this topic on our site, so thanks to Martin for bringing it up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T14:45:55.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1686" CreationDate="2011-08-15T18:15:09.520" Score="11" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friends, I'd like to suggest something similar to the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/1363495/history&quot;&gt;'answer the unanswered' session&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: a &lt;strong&gt;'write a nice description for a blank tag' marathon&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;I could not think of a fancy name as cool as the other&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;Tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;tag&lt;/strong&gt; is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; useful when searching for specific topics or even to better classify our own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, a bunch of those tags have &lt;em&gt;no description at all&lt;/em&gt;. When you add a tag to a question, a short description pops up to help us decide whether this tag is relevant to our question or not. With no description, such harmless tag can mislead us to use it instead of a better one, thus requiring a possible peer retagging process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YuVsm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Yay tags!&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/POPSr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Yay tags again!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO even the self-explanatory tags deserve a description. I use to fail at tagging my own questions (&lt;em&gt;Thankfully Caramdir, lockstep and Seamus always save me&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This idea is probably low priority, since things work pretty well in here. But I think we could benefit from filling up our empty/blank tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T09:47:42.483" Title="'Write a nice description for a blank tag' marathon" Tags="|discussion|tagwiki|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1685" CreationDate="2011-08-15T18:20:14.180" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a good idea. In a chat session we can speak about how to make good tag wikis, collect new ideas regarding this, learn more about it during discussion and perhaps directly create some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link for a start:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1007/what-makes-a-good-tag-wiki-entry&quot;&gt;What makes a good tag-wiki entry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since you looked for a fancy name, here's one matching the other sessions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Describe the undescribed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-08-15T18:20:14.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-15T18:30:22.407" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a comment appear in my inbox, as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7qaQp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't see it in the concerned post. What happened to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7253" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2011-08-15T23:31:54.730" LastActivityDate="2011-08-15T23:31:54.730" Title="Comment appears in the inbox, but not in the post" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1687" CreationDate="2011-08-15T18:33:51.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user which wrote the comment deleted it again. In this cases you sometimes still get a notification. Don't worry about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-08-15T18:33:51.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2011-08-16T12:14:01.757" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are further new badges in August - bronze, silver and gold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/104/excavator&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RkRqg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Excavator badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;28 users got it when it has been established.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/103/archaeologist&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WNZAa.png&quot; alt=&quot;Archaeologist badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No user got it yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/108/marshall&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QklrW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Marshall badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No user got it yet.&#xA;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/103423/why-is-the-marshall-badge-awarded-at-a-flag-weight-of-749-and-not-at-750&quot;&gt;Why is the Marshall badge awarded at a flag weight of 749 (and not at 750)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/109/analytical&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QlBVr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Analytical badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To date, 3 users have earned this coveted bronze badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T22:27:41.380" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-16T12:14:01.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1296" CreationDate="2011-08-16T22:35:10.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's thesis season again, apparently. These questions are more or less specific to thesis formatting, and there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=thesis&quot;&gt;plenty of other recent questions&lt;/a&gt; where the word 'thesis' shows up in the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25838/how-do-i-create-an-acknowledgment-section&quot;&gt;How do I create an acknowledgment section?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25798/adding-abstract-and-acknowledgement-pages-into-table-of-contents&quot;&gt;adding abstract and acknowledgement pages into table of contents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25789/roman-numeral-page-numbering&quot;&gt;Roman numeral page numbering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be the next step if we wanted to make an all-around thesis question? Make one each for the American and European types of questions? I've got plenty of experience dealing with the graduate office at my school, and a reasonably compact style file that matches all our requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3345" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T22:35:10.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="682" CreationDate="2011-08-20T05:02:45.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have provided some additional guidance at the blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most of the time, you should be asking yourself “How can I improve this post so that community wiki isn’t needed?” Community wiki is like a cheese knife: it is a specialized tool to be used sparingly, and only in very specific circumstances.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T05:02:45.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="682" CreationDate="2011-08-20T13:25:16.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;made community wiki by its author for allowing everybody to edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;though nobody else besides the author made additions or significant changes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that situation didn't change for months&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest such posts may be de-wikified at request since it doesn't fit the original intention. Moderators could de-wiki it at request by the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T13:25:16.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1001" CreationDate="2011-08-23T16:15:27.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In comments, you can insert shorthand links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[meta]&lt;/code&gt; – link to the current site's Meta; link text is the site name  (e.g. &quot;Super User Meta&quot;). Does nothing if the site doesn't have (or already is) a Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[main]&lt;/code&gt; – like &lt;code&gt;[meta]&lt;/code&gt;, just the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[edit]&lt;/code&gt; – link to the edit page for the post the comment is on, i.e. /posts/{id}/edit. Link text is &quot;edit&quot; (capitalization is respected).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[tag:tagname]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[meta-tag:tagname]&lt;/code&gt; – link to the given tag's page. Link text is the name of the tag. &lt;code&gt;meta-tag&lt;/code&gt; only works on meta sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[faq]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[faq#anchor]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[meta-faq]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[meta-faq#anchor]&lt;/code&gt; – link to the FAQ. Link text is &quot;faq&quot; (capitalization is respected). &lt;code&gt;meta-faq&lt;/code&gt; only works    on meta sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[so]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[su]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[sf]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[metaso]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[a51]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[se]&lt;/code&gt; – link to the given site. Link text is the site name.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[chat]&lt;/code&gt; – link to the current site's chat site, the link text being &quot;{site name} Chat&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[ask]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[answer]&lt;/code&gt; – link to the &quot;How to Ask&quot; / &quot;How to Answer&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[something.se]&lt;/code&gt; – link to something.stackexchange.com, if that site exists. Link text is the site name. Use &lt;code&gt;[ubuntu.se]&lt;/code&gt; for Ask Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature is discussed at meta.so: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92060/add-data-se-style-magic-links-to-comments/94000#94000&quot;&gt;Add data.SE style &amp;quot;magic links&amp;quot; to comments&lt;/a&gt;. As a little demo, I'm adding the demo comment from that thread to this post. Its source is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;On [main], you are expected to write proper English (as advertised on [english.se]), but here on [metaso] it's more important to have freehand circles, so please [edit] your post, otherwise I'll have to flag you (see the [FAQ#flagging]). If you're unsure how to use your keyboard, [su] is the right place to ask. There's no Q&amp;amp;A site about unicorns yet, but you can suggest one on [area51.se].&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-08-23T16:15:27.757" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-23T16:15:27.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1695" CreationDate="2011-08-26T09:51:26.527" Score="11" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly sure that &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; used to be linked to in the top bar by the word &quot;blog&quot;, close to the chat link.  Now we have a supply of good content on the blog it seems to have have moved into the crowd of links at the page footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not about to file this as a bug report, since it has been the behaviour of the SOFU blogs before Blog Overflow and so I'm pretty sure is the desired behaviour.  Instead, I'd like to get some reaction here before raising it on SO meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the blog is valuable for promoting the site, and we should try to ensure that most users of the site are aware of it and can find it easily.  It has more business on the top bar than the &quot;review&quot; button, which could live next to or, with some more UI work, replace the &quot;Unanswered&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T10:17:39.087" Title="The prominent link to tex.blogoverflow.com has been buried" Tags="|discussion|design|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1694" CreationDate="2011-08-26T10:17:39.087" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The blog link appears in the main site footer at all times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only appears in the main site header when there is a new blog entry, for a duration of 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also put a blog ad in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-2011&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/a&gt;, if you like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T10:17:39.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1698" CreationDate="2011-08-26T22:55:35.380" Score="8" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3954/gonzalo-medina&quot;&gt;Gonzalo Medina&lt;/a&gt; recently discovered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21719/how-we-can-use-noend-only-in-some-places-in-algorithms/21733#21733&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21719/how-we-can-use-noend-only-in-some-places-in-algorithms&quot;&gt;How we can use [noend] only in some places in algorithms?&lt;/a&gt; was posted as Community Wiki (CW). In cases where this might not have been intended (for whatever reason), what would be the appropriate course of action to reverse this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some suggestions, but since I haven't done this before, I'm not sure whether my options are even valid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rollback&lt;/strong&gt;: Although rollback might be an option, it does not seem to be a possibility in this case by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/21733/revisions&quot;&gt;reviewing the answer edits&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;: Flagging it for moderator attention sounds like the most sensible option, yes? However, if considered appropriately flagged, any &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/108/marshal&quot;&gt;Marshal&lt;/a&gt;-hungry badge gathered might ask whether this would influence the user's flag weight; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delete and repost&lt;/strong&gt;: This would not be viable for questions that have already received any up-/downvotes without loss of reputation, I guess.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure the same recourse would hold across both questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T23:49:53.943" Title="To CW or not to CW, that's the question" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1528" CreationDate="2011-08-26T23:36:13.457" Score="27" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Benefits for the TeX Stack Exchange site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As institutional member, Stack Exchange Inc. could name eight TeX.SX members to get individual membership each. Each of those site members will:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get access to the journal &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUGboat&lt;/a&gt;, The Communications of the TeX Users Group. So they can be up to date with most recent developments in the TeX community, bringing that knowledge back to our SE site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Receive the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/texcollection/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX Collection software&lt;/a&gt;, which is an extensive ready-to-run TeX system for most Unix variants, Mac OS X, and Windows. Having that, they can support questioners regarding problems with the most modern software.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get discounted conference fees. So we can expect that more TeX SE site users go to conferences and talk about TeX.SE: on conferences we can attract experts for our SE site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are even further &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/aims_ben.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG benefits&lt;/a&gt;, such as access to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/members/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG member area&lt;/a&gt; and to TUG books online. Each of those, which firstly are of use to the TeX SE member, will bring profit to the site in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange will be named and listed as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/instmem.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;institutional TUG member&lt;/a&gt; in each issue of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUGboat&lt;/a&gt;. So each issue of the journal will contain promotion for our site. Again, we are visible for the experts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Benefits for Stack Exchange&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It will be a great story, and nice stuff for a press release. Blogs will spread the word!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It will officially connect Stack Exchange to community organizations such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG&lt;/a&gt; and other &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/usergroups.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX user associations around the world&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Benefits for the TeX community&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The existence and growth of the Stack Exchange TeX site is already a benefit. By joining as a member it helps directly supporting and promoting the use of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related systems worldwide and sponsors the development of TeX projects such as TeX Live.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are the costs?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The institutional rate is $500. This can even be tax deductible. Compare it to the benefits above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE may join online by submitting an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/forms/2011/memberapp.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;online form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or by &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/contact.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;contacting the TUG office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or just mailing to office@tug.org&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information is here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/join.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG Membership Information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For sure TUG will gladly provide information as soon as the contact has been established.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-08-26T23:42:16.290" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T23:42:16.290" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-26T23:36:13.457" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1696" CreationDate="2011-08-26T23:49:53.943" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case, where only the author has edited the answer, there's no doubt that removing the wiki status is appropriate, if requested by the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if there were already further user editing and substantially contributing to the answer, I would suggest we should keep the wiki status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar for questions: if there are no edits by other users and no CW answers yet, the wiki status may be removed. Otherwise it has to be considered carefully by moderators, in case of questions each case can be discussed on the meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T23:49:53.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-27T23:17:50.873" Score="3" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone noticed odd CPU behavior looking at this site with Chrome? Several times today I've had a thread use about 100% of my CPU; closing the TeX.SX tab solved the problem. But I haven't found a way to reliably reproduce the problem. (I'm on a Mac).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26680/followup-regarding-flexible-partial-derivative-macros&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post. Center the scrollable code in the first response on your screen. Scroll down to the bottom, and continue scrolling (so that your mouse goes out of the frame into the rest of the post). At least for me, that pegs my CPU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T03:47:15.493" Title="CPU utilization to infinity with Chrome?" Tags="|support|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1701" CreationDate="2011-08-29T15:16:29.823" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to ask a question and I get an error: &quot;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:&#xA;It does not meet our quality standards.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I know what standard exactly do I violate in order to successfully submit my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T07:17:02.920" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T07:17:02.920" Title="Question doesn't meet the quality standards" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1700" CreationDate="2011-08-29T15:52:40.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read through your question again and make sure that it is using correct use of English, with actual sentences.  Also make sure that you are providing a clear title and sufficient detail in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While exact details are not given out to prevent people working around this check, you can find a bit more information &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92074/what-can-i-do-when-getting-it-does-not-meet-our-quality-standards/92075#92075&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T15:52:40.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1704" CreationDate="2011-08-31T05:56:38.923" Score="15" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be interesting to have a tag to mark the questions that led to creating new CTAN packages? Something like a &lt;code&gt;new-package&lt;/code&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-09-07T16:10:45.443" LastActivityDate="2012-02-21T13:45:12.030" Title="Mark questions that led to creating a new package" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1702" CreationDate="2011-08-31T09:53:22.510" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this would find a better place on the blog.  Everyone who publishes a package to CTAN that started on this site should write a (short!) blog post about it (I know I'm guilty of not doing so yet ...).  We can then link from the question to the relevant blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or we can just put a comment &quot;This question led to &lt;em&gt;this package now on CTAN&lt;/em&gt;&quot; which is a little more relevant and understandable than a tag.  I think that a &lt;code&gt;new-package&lt;/code&gt; tag would be a little confusing as it is open to several interpretations.  (I don't share Jeff's hatred of meta tags for their own sake, but I despise and deplore ambiguous tags, which meta tags often are.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T09:53:22.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1702" CreationDate="2011-08-31T13:15:46.297" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: We ended up using the first variant of the box, so please use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&gt; **This question led to a new package:**  &#xA;&gt; [`&lt;i&gt;packagename&lt;/i&gt;`](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/&lt;i&gt;packagename&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question led to a new package:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/packagename&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;packagename&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a post about it on the tex.sx blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&gt; **This question led to a new package:**  &#xA;&gt; [`&lt;i&gt;packagename&lt;/i&gt;`](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/&lt;i&gt;packagename&lt;/i&gt;) — Blog: [&lt;i&gt;Blog entry title&lt;/i&gt;](http://tex.blogoverflow.com/...)&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question led to a new package:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/packagename&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;packagename&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; — Blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blog entry title&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an addition to Andrew's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a comment might not be very striking, I propose using a box like the &quot;possible duplicate&quot; box, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question led to a new package:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babyloniannum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;babyloniannum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; **This question led to a new package:**  &#xA;&amp;gt; [`babyloniannum`](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babyloniannum)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question led to a new package:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babyloniannum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;babyloniannum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; This question led to a new package:  &#xA;&amp;gt; [**`babyloniannum`**](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babyloniannum)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally like the idea of being able to see which packages originated at tex.se. With these boxes, you could just search for &lt;em&gt;led to a new package&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the general disapproval of meta-tags: I see how &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;best-practices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;best-practices&lt;/a&gt; might not be useful on Stackoverflow because there are questions on scores of different programming languages. On tex.sx, however, it's likely that an advanced LaTeX user will actually come across many matters discussed in questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;best-practices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;best-practices&lt;/a&gt; at some point or the other. Hence, it might be enlightening to read through them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beginner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beginner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beginner&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subjective&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subjective&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-question&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-question&lt;/a&gt; don't seem as sensible to me because there's no real point in gathering all these questions; but they're not really used a lot on tex.sx anyway (0-4-0 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-02-21T13:45:12.030" LastActivityDate="2012-02-21T13:45:12.030" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1706" CreationDate="2011-08-31T13:48:28.613" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, when I add a &lt;code&gt;@SomeUser:&lt;/code&gt; to the beginning of my comments, they get removed when I commit the comment. Is that normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastActivityDate="2011-11-14T17:26:03.143" Title="@SomeUser tag removed from comment" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1705" CreationDate="2011-08-31T13:53:41.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes: it's been added to the StackExchange 'back end'  to keep comments tidy. From memory, it's only applied to comments addressed 'directly' to a question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T13:53:41.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1705" CreationDate="2011-08-31T14:01:08.397" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first author of the question or answer will always be notified of&#xA;  any new comment. There is no need to use @name to notify them. (You&#xA;  may still use it for clarity, if needed; however if only you and the&#xA;  author have been commenting on the post so far, the @name will be&#xA;  automatically removed from the beginning of the comment, as it adds no&#xA;  value.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/598/when-writing-a-comment-how-do-i-ensure-that-the-person-it-is-addressed-to-gets-n/599#599&quot;&gt;Answer to&lt;/a&gt; When writing a comment, how do I ensure that the person it is addressed to gets notified?, No. 10)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T14:01:08.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1710" CreationDate="2011-08-31T20:29:05.723" Score="5" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I check into the main question area, I always note the question count and then click on &quot;questions&quot; to update the list, so I can see how many new questions have appeared since last I looked. I usually do the same just before leaving the site. Several times it has seemed to me that the difference between the two numbers has been different from the actual number of new questions. Just a few minutes ago, I clicked on &quot;questions&quot;, the number reported increased by 1, but the same question was at the top of the list as had been there before I requested an update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can this happen? Is it possible that questions get into the queue &quot;out of order&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2011-09-05T20:32:24.307" LastActivityDate="2011-09-05T20:32:24.307" Title="How can the question count increase without a new question appearing at the top of the list?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1708" CreationDate="2011-08-31T20:40:08.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A hopefully educated guess: The question counter and the main site are somewhat out of sync -- it seems that new questions appear at the top of the main site with some delay (a minute or so), while the question counter is incremented immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A related effect seems to be that whenever one edits a question (which I do quite a lot), the timestamp is updated, but the question doesn't immediately float to the top of the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T20:40:08.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1708" CreationDate="2011-09-01T00:43:05.723" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple caching issue -- if we don't cache pages for (x) minutes then update, the performance of the application would be absymal for everyone. This does mean that sometimes numbers can be temporarily out of sync, but not often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T00:43:05.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1711" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1712" CreationDate="2011-09-01T14:21:30.807" Score="8" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing through page 2 of our &quot;Tags&quot; site, you'll find the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/templates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;templates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;templates&lt;/a&gt; tag with 72 questions and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass&lt;/a&gt; tag with 70 questions. I can't name the difference between the two tags (classes are templates, aren't they?), and looking at the top-scoring questions of each tag, I can't see a distinction, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone enlighten me what is the difference between classes and templates? If there is one, is it big enough (and clear enough) to warrant two separate tags? Or would it be preferable to merge these tags into a single tag, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/classes-templates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;classes-templates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;classes-templates&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-27T14:07:20.190" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T14:07:20.190" Title="Do we need both {documentclass} and {templates}?" Tags="|discussion|status-declined|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1711" CreationDate="2011-09-01T14:42:44.123" Score="11" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Templates are built on classes, however sometimes you could switch to a similar base class. Questions about templates don't have to be class specific.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Very different templates for different purposes can use the same class.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Templates can provide additional features in different ways. I expect that questions about templates are about such additional features, not about class features.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In contrast to classes, some templates come with a prebuilt text structure, such as certain sections or chapters in a prepared order for users to fill in text. Thesis and some letter templates may be such examples.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Templates may consist of several files or even a prepared directory structure, such as a main document, a preamble file for &lt;code&gt;\input&lt;/code&gt;, chapter files for &lt;code&gt;\include&lt;/code&gt;, image directory etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding these reasons, I vote for keeping both tags which keeps the possibility to separate questions about classes from questions about templates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T14:42:44.123" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1702" CreationDate="2011-09-01T20:28:36.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest posting a question on meta and encouraging community-wiki answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which question led to creating a new package?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A package author may respond himself, or any user, writing and editing a package description, the link to CTAN, an example, perhaps supported by a screenshot, and links to relevant questions on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's a place to sum up the information, no need for meta tags. If you like just place a comment with a link. Linked questions are shown on the right sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T20:28:36.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1715" CreationDate="2011-09-02T04:38:33.937" Score="12" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; just received the first &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tag badge&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/footnotes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;footnotes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;footnotes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/24q60.png&quot; alt=&quot;Recent badges&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the tag badge description states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Dpex.png&quot; alt=&quot;Footnotes badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is clearly not the case; a bronze tag badge is awarded when the user has &quot;Earned &lt;strong&gt;100&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes for at least 20 answers in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/footnotes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;footnotes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;footnotes&lt;/a&gt; tag&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T06:42:35.390" Title="Faulty tag badge description" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1714" CreationDate="2011-09-02T06:41:31.163" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number for the gold badge slipped into the description of the silver and bronze badges. The next build will fix that. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T06:41:31.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1685" CreationDate="2011-09-03T09:47:42.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To report an interim result: As of now, every entry on the first &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; &quot;Tags&quot; pages features a tag wiki excerpt. The highest-scoring tag without wiki excerpt is now &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/algorithms&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;algorithms&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;algorithms&lt;/a&gt; (63 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T09:47:42.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-04T22:49:48.713" Score="14" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm intending this question to be a place for discussion about tag-wiki policies, which after the discussion can be included in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1007/what-makes-a-good-tag-wiki-entry&quot;&gt;What makes a good tag-wiki entry?&lt;/a&gt;. This way, that question can be kept clean and a bit FAQ-like. If you think this isn't the best discussion format, please make suggestions; I just didn't feel like asking a question on each single question was the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here are some questions I have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1. Markdown / backticks&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown isn't allowed in tag wiki excerpts (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62208/markdown-seems-not-to-work-in-tag-information-excerpts/62218#62218&quot;&gt;mod statement&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62266/tag-box-on-top-of-questions-page-doesnt-show-markdown-backticks&quot;&gt;more meta.so&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62614/tag-wiki-summary-does-not-allow-markup&quot;&gt;questions on&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/63656/allow-back-quote-code-formatting-syntax-in-tag-wiki-excerpt&quot;&gt;this topic&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen some tag wiki excerpts that still contain backticks (`) to indicate code, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt;, which imho doesn't look good, in particular considering that it's pretty clear what's code and what isn't. The same applies to question titles, and I think we discourage use of backticks in question titles. Hence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should backticks be used in tag wiki excerpts? I say: no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: There's &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/markdown&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;markdown&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;markdown&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/markup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;markup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;markup&lt;/a&gt;. What's the difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2. Duplicate excerpt in &quot;big&quot; tag wiki?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do an excerpt and the &quot;big&quot; tag wiki entry complement each other or are the independent from each other? I.e., should the &quot;big&quot; tag wiki reduplicate all the information given in the excerpt? If there's no &quot;big&quot; entry, should the excerpt just be copied there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &quot;big&quot; entry never appears on its own afaik, I don't think this is necessary. It happens frequently, though, e.g. in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/small-caps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;small-caps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;small-caps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;3. Taking package descriptions from ctan.org&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I started the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titling&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki, I looked up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titling&lt;/a&gt; and found a good and concise description of the package. Thus, I copied it and added &quot;(quoted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titling&lt;/a&gt;)&quot;. Is this ok? I just figured &quot;Why make up a new description if the package author, who probably knows the package best, has already provided such a great description?&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/etoolbox&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;etoolbox&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;etoolbox&lt;/a&gt; used the CTAN description as well and even used blockquote markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T12:59:00.063" Title="Discussion about tag-wiki policies" Tags="|discussion|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1719" CreationDate="2011-09-05T19:33:09.200" Score="5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I follow the pattern in the &quot;link template&quot; from the prompt icon, the result isn't what's expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prompt is &lt;code&gt;http://example.com/ &quot;optional title&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, which looks perfectly clear and makes sense.  But when I type in that &lt;code&gt;&quot;optional title&quot;&lt;/code&gt; it fails to do what's expected. The link is entered, but instead of a nice text string, the result is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[enter link description here][n]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This too makes perfectly good sense, and is easy to achieve, but it negates the usefulness of the &lt;code&gt;&quot;optional title&quot;&lt;/code&gt; which shows up in the draft box, but is invisible in the preview box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the method that actually works better than that with &lt;code&gt;&quot;optional text&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, since it gives me a moment to think about what I want to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it hard to believe that this hasn't been mentioned before. I looked, but couldn't find an existing question, so this may be a duplicate. Whatever, it would be nice if the feature were fixed to give only one directive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2011-09-05T20:30:50.687" LastActivityDate="2011-09-05T20:30:50.687" Title="Link template doesn't follow the pattern given" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1718" CreationDate="2011-09-05T19:55:13.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had noticed that behavior, too, but never worried about it. Just now, I researched it on meta.stackoverflow.com. It is rather a correct, but misleading or counterintuitive description: The &quot;optional title&quot; will be displayed as a mouseover-tooltip, it really is optional. It is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the link text that'll be formatted as a link and whatnot. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;This is the optional title that you&amp;#39;ll see when you point at the link&quot;&gt;This is the link text that is right where the link is entered&lt;/a&gt; (&amp;lt;- point at that!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[This is the link text that is right where the link is entered][1]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://www.ctan.org &quot;This is the optional title that you'll see when you point at the link&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MSO questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19968/optional-title-for-ctrll-hyperlink-shortcut-is-broken&quot;&gt;Optional title for Ctrl+L (hyperlink) shortcut is broken&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/100871/creating-links-popup-text&quot;&gt;Creating links popup text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find any feature-request on meta.so to change this confusing description, so you could just go there and suggest it be changed. For such features that are very likely the same on all stackexchange pages, it's usually best to go directly to meta.so because it is the &quot;parent meta&quot; and you'll find more attention and support (or discouragement) for your requests. You'll notice it's a really vivid and occasionally fun site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-09-05T20:06:47.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-09-07T08:05:21.513" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nervR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comic Sans LaTeX ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastEditorUserId="951" LastEditDate="2011-10-04T20:12:47.903" LastActivityDate="2011-10-04T20:12:47.903" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-09-07T08:05:21.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1722" CreationDate="2011-09-07T11:34:39.773" Score="63" ViewCount="2544" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX.sx occasionally inspires people to be ingeniously creative and write cool packages. Let's have a list of all the CTAN packages that originated in a question on TeX.sx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest a single CW answer for starters, listing the packages alphabetically, following this pattern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babyloniannum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;babyloniannum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/951/raphink&quot;&gt;Raphaël Pinson&lt;/a&gt; (Raphink). Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25939/typesetting-babylonian-numerals&quot;&gt;Typesetting Babylonian numerals?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;0. [`packagename`](&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;packagename&lt;/i&gt;) by&#xA;[package creator's name](link to their profile) (package creator's user name, if ≠ package&#xA;creator's name). Origin: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/&lt;i&gt;number&lt;/i&gt;/&lt;i&gt;question&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt; (template in the answer source, the numbering works automagically)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the list ever becomes cluttered, we can consider introducing categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is the realization of a suggestion to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1702/mark-questions-that-led-to-creating-a-new-package/1713#1713&quot;&gt;Mark questions that led to creating a new package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you notice a package-triggering question that hasn't been marked with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1702/mark-questions-that-led-to-creating-a-new-package/1704#1704&quot;&gt;the box&lt;/a&gt; yet, please add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A non-restricted overview of package maintainers on TeX.sx can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1181/who-are-the-package-maintainers-here&quot;&gt;Who are the package maintainers here?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2023-05-24T15:07:18.040" Title="Which questions led to the creation of a new package?" Tags="|discussion|big-list|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1721" CreationDate="2011-09-07T11:40:49.433" Score="61" Body="&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/abraces&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;abraces&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764/werner&quot;&gt;Werner Grundlingh&lt;/a&gt; (Werner). Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68526/asymmetric-overbrace&quot;&gt;Asymmetric overbrace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/aobs-tikz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;aobs-tikz&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/13304/claudio-fiandrino&quot;&gt;Claudio Fiandrino&lt;/a&gt;. Origin:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84513/highlighting-in-beamer-using-tikz-nodes&quot;&gt;Highlighting in Beamer using TikZ nodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/autonum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;autonum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/7323/mmm&quot;&gt;Patrick Häcker&lt;/a&gt; (MMM). Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55206/showonlyrefs-and-cleveref&quot;&gt;showonlyrefs and cleveref&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/babyloniannum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;babyloniannum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/951/raphink&quot;&gt;Raphaël Pinson&lt;/a&gt; (ℝaphink). Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25939/typesetting-babylonian-numerals&quot;&gt;Typesetting Babylonian numerals?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/bib2gls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;bib2gls&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19862/nicola-talbot&quot;&gt;Nicola Talbot&lt;/a&gt;. Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342544/question&quot;&gt;Is there a program for managing glossary tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-nejm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;biblatex-nejm&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5239/marco-daniel&quot;&gt;Marco Daniel&lt;/a&gt;. Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26891/biblatex-style-file-for-new-england-journal-of-medicine-nejm&quot;&gt;Biblatex style file for New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-trad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;biblatex-trad&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5239/marco-daniel&quot;&gt;Marco Daniel&lt;/a&gt;. 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Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95786/how-can-i-manually-specify-the-axis-of-a-horizontal-box-in-math-mode&quot;&gt;(How) can I manually specify the axis of a (horizontal) box in math mode?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95897/how-to-fix-the-math-spacing-when-a-lot-of-phantom-mathrlap-etc-are-used&quot;&gt;How to fix the math-spacing when a lot of \phantom, \mathrlap, etc. are used?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/unravel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;unravel&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2707/bruno-le-floch&quot;&gt;Bruno Le Floch&lt;/a&gt;. Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/61010/a-latex-log-analyzer-application-visualizing-tex-expansion/124880#124880&quot;&gt;A LaTeX log analyzer application (visualizing TeX expansion)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/xcite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xcite&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;Enrico Gregorio&lt;/a&gt; (egreg). Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27243/use-bibliography-numbers-and-citation-from-other-file&quot;&gt;Use bibliography numbers and citation from other file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/xpatch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xpatch&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;Enrico Gregorio&lt;/a&gt; (egreg). Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24245/how-can-i-use-patchcmd-with-commands-with-optional-arguments&quot;&gt;How can I use \patchcmd with commands with optional arguments?&lt;/a&gt; (now also &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/regexpatch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;regexpatch&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that will be merged with &lt;code&gt;xpatch&lt;/code&gt; in the future)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/xpeek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xpeek&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2966/j-c-salomon&quot;&gt;Joel C. Salomon&lt;/a&gt;. Origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63971/peek-ahead-for-next-token-not-in-token-list&quot;&gt;Peek ahead for next token not in token-list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/xurl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xurl&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Herbert Voß (account removed, now &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2478/&quot;&gt;user2478&lt;/a&gt;). Origin &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3033/forcing-linebreaks-in-url/&quot;&gt;Forcing linebreaks in \url&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all of them for sharing their work with the rest of the world!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2023-05-24T15:07:18.040" LastActivityDate="2023-05-24T15:07:18.040" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-09-07T11:40:49.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2179" CreationDate="2011-09-09T05:05:15.897" Score="8" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation may be viewed &quot;by post&quot; or &quot;by time&quot; (or &quot;graph&quot;): &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qDNqR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When viewing the reputation &quot;by post&quot;, multiple activity per post is expandable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5H69Y.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation view by post&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is not the case when viewing reputation &quot;by time&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dBVsw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation view by time&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this? I would think the format is easy to manage since the hook is on the post, which makes grouping an intuitive option. However, what do you group under when it comes to time? Has there been some consideration to accommodate some time-wise grouping? Or perhaps just leaving the reputation expanded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="740" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T11:17:29.553" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T11:17:29.553" Title="Inconsistent reputation detail (by post vs by time)" Tags="|support|feature-request|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-09T07:30:53.603" Score="20" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original poster of the question sometimes adds a comment to the (to-be-)accepted answer to state that it solved his/her problem. &#xA;Something in the form of &quot;Thanks, that solved my problem&quot; or &quot;Yes, that did it! Thanks.&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally actually like the explicit confirmation, but these comments get often flagged as &quot;not constructive&quot;. I'm not sure if this is the case. Also,&#xA;deleting such a comment as moderator is IMHO a little rude. They normally also don't have any real negative impact IMHO.&#xA;Of course, simply accepting the answer would technically indicate the same, but might not always (immediately) applicable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might look similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1413/policy-on-1-comments&quot;&gt;+1 comments&lt;/a&gt;, but I think in this specific case it is something different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the opinion of the community about this? It's not a big thing, but I thought I start a discussion about it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-09-09T21:51:49.870" Title="Are &quot;Thanks, that solved my problem&quot; comments from the OP constructive?" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1724" CreationDate="2011-09-09T07:49:01.170" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general model is that comments are supposed to add to the 'value' of the question/answer. The whole point of the 'accept' idea is to show that the solution works. That's my reading, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-09-09T07:49:01.170" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1724" CreationDate="2011-09-09T08:14:49.477" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like getting these comments.  I don't always notice when an answer of mine gets accepted - there's no automatic notification of that and the reputation difference is not unique.  When an answer is accepted, it reminds me that the primary goal here is to help other people (as opposed to accumulating reputation or providing popular answers) so I count an answer that's been accepted as qualitatively different to an answer that is merely popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, it's also rare that these comments come out of nowhere.  Maybe there was a bit of discussion in comments about some detail, or maybe in the answer I had to guess a few things.  Then a comment of this sort confirms that my guess or some modification was the correct thing to do, and again that gives me useful feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while it could be argued that these comments don't add value to the site in that if we took the &lt;em&gt;modal&lt;/em&gt; user[1] then they wouldn't find it useful, then they add value to the site in that they help &lt;strong&gt;me&lt;/strong&gt;, and therefore add value to the site for the &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt; user[2]!  (Assuming that to everyone else then they don't actually remove value from the site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] That is, if we grouped all the users according to &quot;Did this particular 'Yes, that helped' comment add value to the site or not?&quot; then the &quot;modal user&quot; is a typical user of the largest group.  My guess is that the largest group would say &quot;No&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[2] But if we asked everyone to assign some number: &quot;How much value did this comment add to the site?&quot; (assuming we could measure it) then everyone except me (for this particular hypothetical comment) would probably say &quot;0&quot;, but probably would not say anything negative, whilst I would say &quot;10&quot;, so the mean would be positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-09-09T08:14:49.477" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1730" CreationDate="2011-09-09T20:36:57.843" Score="15" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all for the great support for this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stackexchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;Do we want Stack Exchange to become an institutional member of the TUG?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange will join the TUG!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE can name up to eight TeX.SE members for individual membership. Each of them  will:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get a subscription to the journal &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUGboat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Receive the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/texcollection/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Collection&lt;/a&gt; software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get access to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/members/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUG member area&lt;/a&gt; and to TUG books online&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get discounted conference fees&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how should we determine these members?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-09-14T22:46:37.057" Title="How do we choose TeX.SE members for representing SE in the TUG?" Tags="|discussion|sponsorship|tug|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1727" CreationDate="2011-09-09T20:50:22.437" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, rewarding the three moderators for their work is a no-brainer (unless they're personal TUG members already and want to keep their personal membership).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-09-09T20:50:22.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1724" CreationDate="2011-09-09T21:51:49.870" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though I agree that a &quot;thank you&quot; is somehow not constructive to the thread flow, I don't believe it's off topic per se. A comment like that might not add value to the question/answer in the sense of a technical insight, but it makes the exchange more &quot;human&quot; to my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have several users who are always eager to learn techniques, procedures, or are moved solely by the inner curiosity of how stuff works. On the other side, there are questions that clearly reflect the struggle of some users in making the damn code work. Most of them, like me, are far from being TeXperts, so any kind of answer - from an elegant one to the one brought directly from the bowels of TeX itself - that effectively solves the issue, is a big reason to be happy.  For instance, we can see this through one of our users' eyes, when replying to egreg's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's freaking genius! Never thought of that! Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, I think &quot;thank you&quot; messages are harmless. I also see them as a way of saying to the answerer, &quot;thanks for your effort in helping me&quot;. We can argue that this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a Q&amp;amp;A site, straight to the point. But I also see our users answering questions because they are willing to share knowledge. And for that noble cause, I say &quot;thank you&quot; to all of them, even at the risk of sounding non constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we could encourage upvoting or/and accepting answers instead of adding a plus &quot;thank you&quot;. TBH, I prefer the verbose option. OK, we have the duty of keeping our threads &quot;clean&quot; - that might sound like getting rid of such &quot;thank you&quot; messages - but I believe we represent a community-driven Q&amp;amp;A that is technical, concise and - most of all - friendly to our fellow users. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two cents. &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2011-09-09T21:51:49.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1727" CreationDate="2011-09-10T07:13:47.830" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about self-nomination, the way we had it for the moderator elections? This seemed to work well for us, as far as I remmeber. This saves a lot of hassle with who wants to participate and who can't/doesn't, and obviously TUG membership should imply at least some involvement with TUG activities, conferences and journals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, I fully agree with &lt;em&gt;doncherry&lt;/em&gt; that the moderators should automatically receive TUG membership for the duration of their term (rounded up as necessary for billing/administration reasons). This will be an extra incentive for involvement in the meta-development of the site (although I don't think we have a shortage of people willing to do so now). And it gives certain bragging rights in your local TUG as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-09-10T07:13:47.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1732" CreationDate="2011-09-10T10:19:54.953" Score="24" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27963/why-does-the-use-of-microtype-and-xfrac-lead-to-a-high-compile-time&quot;&gt;„Why does the use of microtype and xfrac lead to a high compile time?“&lt;/a&gt; the comment seems to provide the best answer. If seen this also in other questions. What is the best way to accept it as answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-09-10T13:33:52.760" Title="What if a comment answers a question?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1731" CreationDate="2011-09-10T10:40:23.207" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual approach is to post a comment asking the person who posted the information to convert it to an answer. I'll do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-09-10T10:40:23.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1731" CreationDate="2011-09-10T11:52:18.900" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fully support Joseph's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do that, sometimes the comment poster doesn't create an answer though, perhaps because he didn't read the request or he doesn't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To not let the question unanswered, it would be ok then that anybody writes the solution as answer, after some time and referring to the commentator, which can be accepted then. We often posted such answers in community wiki mode, as nobody earns reputation and other users could easily improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such examples where I did it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15235/problem-with-ntheorem-mathtools-and-cleveref/27392#27392&quot;&gt;Problem with ntheorem, mathtools and cleveref&lt;/a&gt; after about 5 months, during an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1560/regular-lets-deal-with-unanswered-questions-chat-meetings&quot;&gt;&quot;Answer the unanswered&quot; session&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25564/missing-file-from-the-package-symbol/27455#27455&quot;&gt;missing file from the package symbol&lt;/a&gt; after some weeks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-09-10T13:33:52.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1735" CreationDate="2011-09-10T16:02:37.377" Score="11" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;quite a few questions on this meta branch are technically &quot;unanswered&quot;.  some are about general information of a durable nature, but some have clearly outlived their shelf life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is it desirable to close those questions that are no longer of interest except to a possible archaeologist?  i'm thinking, for example, of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/362/moderator-pro-tem-announcement&quot;&gt;moderator pro tem announcement&lt;/a&gt;.  many of these questions (like the present one) are tagged &quot;discussion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i'm not sure how closure would be accomplished with zero answers, but i think it's worth thinking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:08:10.620" Title="should some unanswered &quot;meta&quot; questions be closed?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2011-09-10T16:52:25.740" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's in the nature of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'discussion'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; questions that sometimes there's no real answer, which can be accepted. Sometimes just nobody joins the discussion. So regarding &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'discussion'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;, I think we can live with &quot;unanswered questions&quot;. Here the main site features cannot be applied the same, I think. Closing means nobody would be able to join discussion later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're right, it's important to be able to see unanswered questions, especially regarding the tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'bug'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'support'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'feature-request'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I agree with you, it would be beneficial if we close questions which cannot be answered, so we can see better the remaining real unanswered questions. We can vote to close similar to the main site choosing a meaningful reason. For example, the obsolete mod pro tem announcement could be closed as &quot;not a real question&quot; today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I guess often it's more preferable to change the tag to &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'discussion'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; instead of closing if we notice the tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'support'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; doesn't match the question, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T21:42:31.010" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T21:42:31.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2011-09-10T19:55:03.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could make sense to close them as &quot;too localized&quot;. Your example question fits the description that it &quot;is unlikely to ever help any future visitors&quot;. Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, closure would prevent the question from being bumped from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2011-09-10T19:55:03.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1738" CreationDate="2011-09-10T21:54:48.177" Score="12" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/40/5764&quot;&gt;Reputation linkage between main site and meta?&lt;/a&gt; - regarding the linkage between reputation on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main&lt;/a&gt; mentions a discrepancy that is resolved every hour on the meta-side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there also exists a discrepancy on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; that I cannot resolve. Consider, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764/werner&quot;&gt;my reputation&lt;/a&gt; on the main site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R0GYp.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation on main site&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, compared this to the reputation posted on chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tLEsP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where does that difference of 320 come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-09-11T01:52:30.890" Title="Discrepancy between chat and main reputation" Tags="|support|reputation|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1737" CreationDate="2011-09-10T22:00:19.513" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;chat.se&lt;/a&gt;, the reputation shown is the sum of your reputation across the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Note that chat also syncs your account information hourly, so there can also be a bit of a cache discrepancy there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1816" LastActivityDate="2011-09-10T22:00:19.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1741" CreationDate="2011-09-11T08:04:02.343" Score="11" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some features on TeX.SX are time-dependent. For example, voting and comment editing. The bronze &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/7/critic&quot;&gt;critic badge&lt;/a&gt;, however, does not fall under such time constraints. It is awarded immediately after you issue your&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/7/critic&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RMf5d.png&quot; alt=&quot;Critic badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, reversing this down vote (within the given time limit) does not reverse the awarded badge. Even the reputation loss from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;down voting an answer/question&lt;/a&gt; on TeX.SX is recovered within the time limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, perhaps this post doesn't matter at all, since&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's just a bronze badge; who cares.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone without this badge will try this down vote reversal to still &quot;stay neutral/positive on their voting&quot;, but have a +1 in the badge department.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both points, I guess, are valid, since some badges are awarded by default for just forming part of the TeX.SX community (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/2/student&quot;&gt;posting your first question&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/1/teacher&quot;&gt;answering your first question&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/6/supporter&quot;&gt;up-voting&lt;/a&gt;, etc). Also, even the bronze badge description states the obvious, and somewhat verifies point (1) above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/citWY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, does this possible &quot;loop hole&quot; constitute &quot;basic use of TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;I mention/reference &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; intermittently since I presume this is common across all StackExchange sites. I may be wrong, since I didn't go hunting myself. :-/&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-09-12T08:48:46.333" Title="Hunting for the Critic badge" Tags="|discussion|support|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1739" CreationDate="2011-09-11T10:10:19.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It by design, since awarded badges will not be removed, with rare exceptions. Hendrik's link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2137/is-the-critic-badge-badge-awarded-prematurely&quot;&gt;&quot;Is the Critic badge badge awarded prematurely?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; shows further explanation specifically for the Critic badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So once you earned the Critic badge by a downvote, it's intended to stay even if you reverse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-09-11T10:10:19.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1739" CreationDate="2011-09-12T08:48:46.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, it is intended, but why? And even in that case it could be changed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know this badge is trivial, but so is making it work right, so why not do so? It appears &#xA;  that the application of this badge is currently controlled by a flag that gets set to true &#xA;  the first time a down vote button is clicked. It can never be set back to false even if the &#xA;  user immediately undoes their down vote.&#xA;  Do away with this flag and have the code that checks for application of this badge examine &#xA;  the down vote count instead.&#xA;  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2137/is-the-critic-badge-badge-awarded-prematurely/10574#10574&quot;&gt;Is the Critic badge awarded prematurely&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-09-12T08:48:46.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1727" CreationDate="2011-09-13T05:09:26.730" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great news! I highly applaud this decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought: automatically include the moderators, and for the rest start at the top of the list of high-rep people and ask if they'd like it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not sure if I'm even in the top 10 for reputation these days but I already have membership, in case this seemed like me angling for a scheme that benefitted me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T05:09:26.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1750" CreationDate="2011-09-14T22:45:28.680" Score="17" ViewCount="707" Body="&lt;p&gt;The initiative on meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;Do we want Stack Exchange to become an institutional member of the TUG?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;got a great response. It quickly became the highest voted question on meta. This fact and the well thought out concept convinced Stack Exchange to join TUG:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/stack-exchange-is-institutional-member-of-the-tex-users-group/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is institutional member of the TUG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it's up to us to choose further eight individual members! Here we already talked about that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1727/how-do-we-choose-tex-se-members-for-representing-se-in-the-tug&quot;&gt;How do we choose TeX.SE members for representing SE in the TUG?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to answers and votes, moderators and deserving TeX.SX members seen by reputation could be these members. I think, a self-nomination list here on meta could be a good way though, since it shows really interested members who aren't already TUG members. I know some of high reputation users and moderators are. Well, it may give a very similar result!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I ask: who would like to become a member of the TUG?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I especially encourage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;moderators&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;former nominees for the moderator job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;very active users on meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users who earned high reputation because of their contributions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to step forward. Perhaps you would tell us, if you would like to join, why, and what are your ideas regarding the future of this cooperation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Btw. @all: posting ideas and comments to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/stack-exchange-is-institutional-member-of-the-tex-users-group/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;announcement on the blog&lt;/a&gt; would be great too.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be great if you all vote for deserving candidates. Let's take about a week for that. The final decision is up to Stack Exchange, who made this happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit: List completed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We now have the eight members we are allowed as 'representatives' of TeX.SX. TUG will be informed of the names pretty soon, and hopefully the new members will bring benefits to TUG and to TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-09-24T06:13:24.603" Title="Who would like to become a member of the TeX User Group, sponsored by Stack Exchange?" Tags="|discussion|sponsorship|tug|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2011-10-28T13:55:36.337" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1746" CreationDate="2011-09-15T16:15:39.023" Score="10" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I issued a bounty on a question. One answer presents all the building pieces needed to solve the problem but doesn't really actually solve it and another answer puts all those pieces together and provides the actual solution. I could either give the bounty to the answer that corresponds to the difficult work of finding the solution or I could give the bounty to the answer that parallel the boring(?) work of putting the pieces together and actually make the problem solvable. Now I wonder:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would you do, and why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would really prefer to give them half of the bounty each since in my opinion the first person who only provided the pieces only did half the job. Can I do that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastActivityDate="2011-09-16T07:01:21.157" Title="Splitting bounty? Or how to handle answers building on eachother?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1745" CreationDate="2011-09-15T18:28:45.587" Score="7" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd do like this: give the &quot;hard&quot;, answer the bounty, and accept the complete answer. This is completely fair and valid -- you don't have to award the bounty to the highest-voted answer, or to accept the bounty-rewarded answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not possible under current Stack Exchange rules. You would probably find much more information about bounties &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (bounty-splitting issue is also covered).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T18:28:45.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2011-09-15T18:31:16.757" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before joining this site, I was certainly someone who wasn't afraid of hacking (La)TeX, but my hacks were just that: hacks.  They worked, but that was about all that could be said for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before joining this site, I learnt about TeX from a mixture of internet searching and reading the source code of packages.  That's not really conducive to writing robust, simple code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, I was having fun with TeX and making it do what I wanted (rather than me having to do what it wanted).  Sometimes I'd come up with something neat that others liked the look of and I'd make my code public so that they could.  But always with a warning that the code might not be pretty!  I certainly would never have dreamt of uploading something to CTAN!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not much of a &quot;joiner&quot;, and I dislike mailing lists, so the thought of joining a community of TeX users never crossed my mind before, though I was vaguely aware of the existence of such from my internet searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of that's changed now, thanks to this site.  I feel that I have a much better understanding of TeX and LaTeX, and consequently my code has improved (I won't say that it's anything to boast about yet!).  I've even published a package on CTAN!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But most of all, participating in this site has meant that without meaning to, I've joined a &quot;TeX community&quot;.  And it's quite fun.  So I'd like the opportunity to find out if I should join a Real TeX Community(TM).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benefits For Me:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have learnt a lot through the question-and-answer format of this site, but there are things that aren't really learnable in this manner.  I feel it's time I learnt those things as well and being part of TUG would give me access to those materials in a timely fashion.  Often the difficulty with wanting to learn more about something is knowing &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; to learn: a regular &quot;magazine&quot; with topics and so forth is a good way of overcoming that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't know how the institutional membership thing works, but if chosen I would take advantage of it for a fixed length of time and use that to assess whether or not I should join as a personal member.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benefits for SE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I participate in a few SE sites (and I include MathOverflow in that) and have strong opinions on what does and doesn't work.  I think that the SE model works &lt;em&gt;really well&lt;/em&gt; for TeX and that this site is an absolutely brilliant addition to the TeX world.  I have no shame in &quot;site dropping&quot; (like name-dropping but about websites) and would continue to do so in all TUG activities.  When given the opportunity, I would gladly explain why I think that TeX-SX is a valuable resource for the TeX community At Large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disadvantages&lt;/strong&gt; (or similar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one thing about TUG that I wouldn't be likely to participate in would be the conferences.  If I were nearby, I would attend, but that's not all that likely.  I can understand that this might be an important factor so thought it best to mention up-front!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T18:31:16.757" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1745" CreationDate="2011-09-16T07:01:21.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how others would react, but this is how I think I would react/think if I were an &lt;em&gt;answerer&lt;/em&gt; in this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bounty is not significant &lt;em&gt;as a bounty&lt;/em&gt;.  When I see a question with a bounty then the amount doesn't matter.  What a bounty says is that here is a question that someone is &lt;em&gt;really, really&lt;/em&gt; interested in the answer for.  So if I answer that question then I have a chance of helping someone a little more than the average question.  That does make me more likely to answer it, but the actual bounty itself is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A similar thing goes for the accepted answer.  My goal is to help people and also help myself by learning TeX at the same time.  If my answer is accepted, then that's great and I've helped someone.  If someone else's answer is accepted, then I can look at their solution and learn how to do it better next time.  But it's nice when an answer is accepted (whether mine or not) since it then I know which of these two attitudes to adopt!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I didn't get either the bounty or the acceptance then it would still be nice to have some acknowledgement that my answer was helpful (assuming that it was).  A comment suffices for this.  Even if it turns out not to be helpful, a comment saying, &quot;Thanks for trying, but ...&quot; can soften the blow a bit!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up so far: the bounty and the acceptance are yours to deal out as you will to whatever criteria you have chosen.  So long as you are polite and explain yourself (briefly) then I certainly wouldn't get upset or feel hard-done by.  (To be clear: I'm not involved in this particular question, I'm speaking hypothetically.)  (Also to be clear: you shouldn't feel that you need to explain yourself if you think it's clear already why you are awarding things the way you are.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what would I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the &lt;em&gt;acceptance&lt;/em&gt; should go to the answer that is most complete.  If one of the answers provides code that can be cut-and-pasted into a document &#xA;then that should be the accepted answer.  Although accepting an answer is meant to be a personal matter, when divided (like this) it can help to think what would be most useful for someone else who had the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the &lt;em&gt;bounty&lt;/em&gt; should go to the answer that shows the most &quot;inspiration&quot;.  It is often the first idea that is the hardest to come up with.  Once that's in place, the rest is just &quot;grunt work&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, to conclude, the disposition is yours and you &lt;em&gt;should not feel obligated to act one way or another&lt;/em&gt;.  If you leave comments saying, &quot;This answer helped a lot but I'm giving the bounty to the other because ...&quot; then I think you'll find that others will see that and vote for that answer as well so in terms of reputation and acclamation, it's not something to worry about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And in case it's not clear, I'm agreeing with Martin Tapankov but in a long-winded way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-09-16T07:01:21.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2011-09-16T14:35:52.683" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to join the TUG. When I tried to join online, I browsed the TUG pages and I discovered the possibility of institutional membership. So I thought it would be nice to do this together with some fellow TeX friends and join with the whole SE network, so I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;posted this idea on meta&lt;/a&gt; and here we are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-09-16T14:35:52.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2011-09-16T16:04:34.557" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd happy to be one of the members representing TeX.SX in the TeX User Group. I'm planning to visit the TUG conference next year if possible and maybe present some of my LaTeX work there. It might also be good to have TeX.SX presented there so the knowledge of it is spread. This would give us a good chance to attract more (La)TeX gurus and explain that we are not just another LaTeX forum, but a great resource with a great community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-09-18T13:41:14.763" LastActivityDate="2011-09-18T13:41:14.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1751" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-17T17:19:41.037" Score="11" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment we have three tags concerning documents about TeX: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;. The only one with a wiki is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, which says that it “is for questions which deal with books about TeX, LaTeX and other topics of this site.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1960554#1960554&quot;&gt;brought this up in chat&lt;/a&gt; and the suggestion was to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; for “real” books about TeX (i.e. those with an ISBN) and merge the other two tags. Any comments on this proposal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional points to consider are the usage of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; for (rare) questions concerning writing documentation and how the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tutorials&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tutorials&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tutorials&lt;/a&gt; tag fits into the picture (my take: “documentation” is more of a reference document, while “tutorial” is something you read only once).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-11-27T13:34:29.123" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T13:34:29.123" Title="Tags about documentation" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2011-09-17T20:36:47.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for making &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;. I also agree with Caramdir's definition of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tutorials&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tutorials&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tutorials&lt;/a&gt;. With regard to questions about writing documentation: They should be tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; resp. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass-writing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T20:36:47.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2011-09-17T20:46:39.927" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; ⇒ needs ISBN sounds good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how the tags have been handled so far, but here's how I understand the three:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Documentation&lt;/strong&gt; is about how the thing works, is typically written by the author or someone greatly involved with the project, and typically includes the source code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;manual&lt;/strong&gt; tells the user how to use the thing and can be used as a quick reference. Often structured closely along the structure of the thing. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/doc/manual.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; manual&lt;/a&gt; is a pure manual without documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;tutorial&lt;/strong&gt; can be considered a sub-species of a manual, more educationally written and process-oriented, typically longer than a manual; it takes the user by the hand and leads them through the process of learning how to do something or use the thing. It might be about several topics, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These three things are not clear-cut, a lot of &quot;documentation&quot; on CTAN starts out with a manual. A &quot;book&quot; could be any of the three and very likely a mixture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I suggest the introduction of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation-writing&lt;/a&gt;, parallel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass-writing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T20:46:39.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2011-09-17T20:47:35.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with these suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;: I assume people browsing this tag look for real books, not for any possibly electronic documentation, merging would make it difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; with the latter as the main tag. They are really similar, separate tags would mean looking for documentation being harder - and I like people who are interested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tutorials&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tutorials&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tutorials&lt;/a&gt; can remain separate, as it's a special kind of documentation, usually for beginners, let's support that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding writing documentation : I guess many such questions can be tagged more specifically. I mean, most here is about writing ... For special design we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-design&lt;/a&gt; which could match sometimes: there are great examples of documentation designed like beautiful books. So, if ever needed, somebody could invent the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation-writing&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation-design&lt;/a&gt; to distinguish it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T20:47:35.853" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-09-18T17:34:58.220" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4483" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-09-18T17:34:58.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-09-18T18:15:58.450" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any LaTeX/TeX code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt; (version 1.3c or later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any Perl, Bash or other software programming language code of mine (with the explicit exception of LaTeX/TeX code) that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/a&gt; (version 3 or later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-09-18T18:15:58.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1759" CreationDate="2011-09-18T19:34:35.940" Score="8" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just visited the chat room and it is so complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain me what is happening there?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do I see so many &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; buttons and &lt;code&gt;enter&lt;/code&gt; buttons?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't this simple like other chats?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it only technical chat happening?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rxQN6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5149" LastEditorUserId="5149" LastEditDate="2011-09-19T09:02:28.827" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T15:38:31.217" Title="What is happening in Chat rooms?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1757" CreationDate="2011-09-18T19:56:24.840" Score="9" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People chatting there about TeX and other things. This is much less formal than comments (not to mention answer and comment posts).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't know exactly what you mean with &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; buttons. Simply go to the main TeX.SX chat room at &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&lt;/a&gt; and you can chat immediately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a StackExchange specific chat so it has a lot of StackExchange specific bells and whistles. Most the time they don't interfere with the normal chatting. In fact it took me a while to even see them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, you can chat about everything. Please keep it TeX.SX related in the main TeX.SX chat. You can open own chat rooms or visit other StackExchange chat rooms from other StackExchange sites as well. The chat isn't fixed for one StackExchange site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-09-18T19:56:24.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1757" CreationDate="2011-09-19T09:33:40.660" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me see if I can address these elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O9DqA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Img1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our chatrooms allow you to paste StackOverflow links and directly display a preview of a question, answer, tag or user. It's what Faheem did, you can see the title and body of the question, together with Mike's picture and the number of votes this question received until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Joseph also pointed out that certain sites are also &quot;expandable&quot;, like a Wikipedia article, an Amazon product and others. &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ok9lR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Img2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is some sort of dropdown menu, if you click it, it will expand to this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X2JOk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Img3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a permalink, which is a permanent link to that especific message.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a reply link, which adds your next message to that discussion thread.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a star, if you want to mark it as interesting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a flag, in case this user said something very bad or spam.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can also flag for a moderator review.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding item 3, if you or somebody else liked the message and marked it as interesting, you'll see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RMKAW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Img4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those three icons are shortcuts to the dropdown menu we saw earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3CDpE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Img5&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone stars a message, it will appear in the right column of the chat. If you see a number right after a star, it represents how many people starred it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yellow stars represent the ones you marked as interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0silT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Img6&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This arrow means that, e.g., Martin replied to one of Joseph's messages. You can use the reply action in the dropdown menu or use the shortcut. You can also use &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; to call his/her attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Joseph also pointed out that the arrows help you to follow the discussion thread. &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown is allowed in chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2011-09-19T15:38:31.217" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T15:38:31.217" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-09-19T09:33:40.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1762" CreationDate="2011-09-19T09:50:23.610" Score="12" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we have over a hundred questions tagged both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt;, and of the newest 15 questions, 6 concern mathematical relations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking over those 6 questions, I see one at least, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27651/symbol-about-not-orthogonality-in-latex&quot;&gt;Symbol about not orthogonality in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;, where the title would be more immediately comprehensible to me if it had been tagged something like [relation-symbols].  Likewise, I recall looking for the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4216/how-to-typseset-correctly&quot;&gt;How to typeset $:=$ correctly?&lt;/a&gt; not long ago and failing to find it, only finding it when it was referred to in a question asked since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to create this tag, unless a better name is found, and add the tag to the ten most-viewed questions that fit it.  Perhaps tags for other classes of maths symbols would also be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T16:55:04.050" Title="&quot;relation-symbols&quot; tag proposal" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-09-19T14:47:12.843" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T14:47:12.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1760" CreationDate="2011-09-19T16:30:03.693" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/relation-symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;relation-symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;relation-symbols&lt;/a&gt; would indeed encompass a dozen or even more questions, I'm all for creating this tag. However (and just in case this wasn't implied in Charles' proposal), the more general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt; tag should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be removed from questions newly tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/relation-symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;relation-symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;relation-symbols&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T16:30:03.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2011-09-19T18:52:23.757" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not among the top 30, let alone top 10 users on TeX.SX, but I'd still be interested in joining the TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't been here for very long, and I've only gotten to use extensively and hack TeX/LaTeX in the last few months, but I like to contribute when I get the occasion (and the Q&amp;amp;A on TeX.SX have already been the occasion for me to create 6 new CTAN packages -- and 2 are cooking on github, waiting for their turn). I'm not sure if my family life would let me attend conferences (but who knows, that might happen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T18:52:23.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2011-09-20T08:32:47.260" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, moderators have officially been mailed the form to obtain the cards. Stay tuned!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T08:32:47.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2011-09-20T12:44:52.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used {documentation} for my questions about documenting own packages (e.g. problems with docstrip, ltxdoc, …). May I misunderstood the tag but should’˝s there be a tag for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T12:44:52.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2011-09-20T18:39:29.227" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initially I was reluctant to put my name forward, as probably won't have the funds and time to go to TUG conferences (and represent TeX.SX there). On the other hand getting TUGboat on time would certainly be nice. So after some prodding by Stefan I'll put put my name on the list of people who would like to join the TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T18:39:29.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2011-09-20T19:32:25.943" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to be part of TUG (for one year) - I am not one of the top n% users and answerer, but I would write a TUGboat article about some nice LuaTeX hacks so every TUG member could profit from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T19:32:25.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2011-09-21T19:26:12.387" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add my name to the list of people who would like a membership.  I'm not currently a member of TUG, but I'm certainly active on the site here, and have contributed to the larger TeX community, both in terms of some packages and support scripts (now part of TeXShop.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Andrew about how great the SX site has been to the TeX world, so I'd also be happy to do what could be done to promote it (if TUG membership would help that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-09-21T23:18:06.973" LastActivityDate="2011-09-21T23:18:06.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="844" CreationDate="2011-09-21T22:22:51.337" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry I missed this request. I have adjusted the contrast between the checkmark's on and off state significantly. This change will be in the next production build. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-09-21T22:22:51.337" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2011-09-21T22:56:00.333" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested to represent tex.sx in the TUG. I won't be able to participate in TUG conferences (unless they are taking place in Austria &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;), but I think that both tex.sx and I would profit from me having immediate access to the TUGboat journal. (E.g., I'd no longer have to rely on draft versions of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94wright-keyval.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;great articles about key--value packages&lt;/a&gt; for writing my own packages.) I'd be happy to share the newest &quot;TUG expert knowledge&quot; by answering questions at tex.sx, and I'd be happy to show &quot;newbies&quot; at tex.sx (but maybe veterans at comp.text.tex and the like) that our site is developing into a valuable net resource for TeX &amp;amp; friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-09-21T22:56:00.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-22T09:52:12.200" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't latex.stackexchange.com  redirect to tex.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the title of the page says 'TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8022" LastEditorUserId="8022" LastEditDate="2011-09-22T10:46:19.680" LastActivityDate="2011-09-22T10:46:19.680" Title="Redirect latex.stackexchange.com subdomain" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1771" CreationDate="2011-09-22T10:00:17.573" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally don't think that is necessary. OK, some people only know LaTeX but have no idea what TeX is, but as the OP already says: LaTeX is in the title and the description. Also you will find the site with Google easily when you search for LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having two names will just create some confusion IMHO. Also AFAIK the Stack Exchange admins stopped allowing alternative names for SX sites a while ago. Before that we could have had a 'something.com' alias as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-09-22T10:00:17.573" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1778" CreationDate="2011-09-23T14:30:33.887" Score="9" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;i have just diagnosed a subtle but annoying bug in &lt;code&gt;makeindex&lt;/code&gt;, and have notified the maintainer who says he will try to look into it over the weekend.  i think it would be useful to announce the bug and how to avoid it/work around it, but it's not clear what is the best place to do that.  it's no longer a question, so posting a question on the main list isn't appropriate.  i suppose i could phrase it as a question, include all the details, and post a phony answer shortly thereafter, with an update when a fix is actually made, but that doesn't seem like the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2011-09-23T15:38:36.687" LastActivityDate="2011-09-23T21:57:09.937" Title="what is the best way to announce a bug found in tex-related software?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1777" CreationDate="2011-09-23T21:02:12.350" Score="12" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/community-wiki&quot;&gt;CW privilege page&lt;/a&gt; states in the second-to-last sentence that ”[CW] mode cannot be reversed”. As far as I know this is wrong; mods had the ability to reverse CWfication for some time now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T13:01:34.373" Title="Outdated information on the privileges page" Tags="|bug|status-completed|privileges-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1781" CreationDate="2011-09-23T21:06:38.897" Score="12" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are a map of our site. Tag description pages can be like small home pages, including information, internal links and links to helpful external resources. And they can be written with markdown syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users alread helped in writing wiki entries for the most used tags. What is the most impressive tag wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I encourage you to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;design a great tag wiki page and post the link here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post the tag for which you already created a very nice wiki page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;participate here also if you contributed a substantial part to an existing wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at least comment if you know a great wiki page which hasn't been mentioned yet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, couldn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, the tag for the powerful, feature-rich, comprehensive TikZ package much better? Useful reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1007/what-makes-a-good-tag-wiki-entry&quot;&gt;What makes a good tag-wiki entry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;Redesigned Tags Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question looks for some outstanding, excellent tag wikis. The best tag wiki page, posted here during the next week, may get a prominent place in a presentation about this site, for example in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1265/possible-conference-speaking-sponsorships-2011&quot;&gt;talks at conferences&lt;/a&gt;, publications and on our &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T13:47:37.530" Title="Who designs the best tag wiki?" Tags="|discussion|tagwiki|contests|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1773" CreationDate="2011-09-23T21:19:54.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally I don't think that TeX.SX (or any stackexchange site for that matter) is a good place to announce bugs. Usually the project-specific bug tracker is a far more convenient place (though unfortunately few TeX-related projects have one). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you had a specific problem that made you discover the bug, you can ask about that problem and then add an answer explaining that it turned out to be a bug a makeindex. That would fit with better with the StackExchange philosophy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-09-23T21:19:54.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1774" CreationDate="2011-09-23T21:22:27.390" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've corrected this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges/community-wiki&quot;&gt;on Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; - the changes will propagate to this site in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:39:07.617" LastActivityDate="2011-09-23T21:22:27.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1773" CreationDate="2011-09-23T21:57:09.937" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that posting bug reports per se on tex.sx is generally a bad idea, independent of the question of whether they fit into the Q/A format of the site. The reason is that since the site is intended to be a long term repository, there's a very good chance that bug report posts wouldn't get updated when the bugs are actually fixed. (I'm not saying that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't update, but that in general it's a likely occurrence if the practice of using the site to advertise bugs becomes institutionalized.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if users' questions give rise to a bug report, then a bug report is obviously acceptable as part of an answer to a question (although I always try to be sure to update such answers if I give them if the bug subsequently gets fixed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even on comp.tex.tex (and I suspect also on texhax) there seems to be some general consensus that bug reports are best reported directly to the package author(s) rather than to those forums directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time such reports make sense is when the package author has been unresponsive, or the bug has persisted for a long time (which in your specific case doesn't seem to be true.) But even in these cases I don't think that preemptive reports are necessary here.  If the bug is noticeable to enough users, the chances are that it &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; elicit a question or two independently, in which case the bug can be reported in the normal course of answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-09-23T21:57:09.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1775" CreationDate="2011-09-23T22:17:43.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly pleased with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biblatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biblatex&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-09-23T22:17:43.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1775" CreationDate="2011-09-23T22:18:55.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linguistics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linguistics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linguistics&lt;/a&gt; tag also reasonably comprehensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-09-23T22:18:55.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1775" CreationDate="2011-09-23T22:21:08.213" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;And just so I don't get accused of solely tooting my own horn :-), the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplots&lt;/a&gt; tag is really good too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-09-23T22:21:08.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1775" CreationDate="2011-09-23T22:23:59.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I extended the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki by links to internal and external resources such as packages, tutorials, special related tags and example questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-09-23T22:23:59.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1784" CreationDate="2011-09-24T18:42:49.323" Score="11" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a small question. I answered the following question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29387/equation-alignment-with-steps/29390#29390&quot;&gt;Equation Alignment With Steps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see at the moment I have three upvotes. In my profile I can't see this:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PKqaU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5239" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-09-24T21:08:19.213" Title="Upvote without getting any reputation" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1783" CreationDate="2011-09-24T18:57:37.297" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You reached the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;daily reputation limit&lt;/a&gt; of 200 plus the additional reputation of the four accepted answers, which makes 260. Additional upvotes don't add reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22447/what-is-the-reasoning-behind-the-reputation-cap&quot;&gt;What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-09-24T19:27:02.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-09-25T22:28:05.203" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any LaTeX/TeX code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the LPPL (version 1.3c or later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any Perl, Bash or other software programming language code of mine (with the explicit exception of LaTeX/TeX code) that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the GPL (version 3 or later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-09-25T22:28:05.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1788" CreationDate="2011-09-26T10:47:00.580" Score="13" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before finding this TEX.sx site, I used to search all LaTeX documentations I had in my computer and use search engines looking for the answer all around the Internet. Even I did that investigation for my questions answered here so far. It looks to me that I can get many answers promptly here without that effort. Well, I have to modify the answers for my own usages but it is much easier than those exhaustive searches. Does the community believe that it is a good practice to forward immediately any question hence arises directly to this site; searching the TEX.sx and then asking if not found, rather than using other search engines? I believe it is correct. It looks lazy, but it makes the TEX.sx richer and more fruitful for younger &quot;LaTeXers&quot; who might be at the beginning of the job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5334" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T16:13:36.867" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T16:13:36.867" Title="Can I ask any Question?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2011-09-26T11:33:49.740" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the questions here should relate to real problems you face, or help you to figure out things you were puzzling about.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to ask a problem-related question that you answered yourself but that you think it would be helpful for others to ask, then I think these questions are OK.  Asking made-up questions that aren't well-motivated, though, I think injures the quality of the site and it would be better if they weren't posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that a poor-quality site may have more answers, but the signal-to-noise ratio will be lower for most queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-09-26T11:33:49.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2011-09-26T13:48:07.480" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you stand to annoy people if you are perceived as asking questions whose answer can easily be found in e.g. the documentation for a package. The strength of the site is that a wide range of experts are willing to share their knowledge with you, but that willingness will weaken if the site seems to be the place where people just ask questions without doing &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; background research on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of related questions that also bear on the issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1617/2693&quot;&gt;Should SO&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;50 questions per month&amp;quot; limit be enabled at tex.sx?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1538/2693&quot;&gt;policy on &amp;quot;how do I draw this?&amp;quot; questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions aren't the same as yours, but they are in the same realm of &quot;types of questions that may disaffect experienced users&quot; (and therefore have potentially a negative impact on the site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-09-26T13:48:07.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-09-27T18:11:07.063" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-09-27T18:11:07.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-27T19:19:31.110" Score="12" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;following the discussion on licensing, I propose an additional field in the user-profile (this can be a SE-wide thing, or just for TeX.SE, though it would probably fit in Programming.SE as well, as an example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea would be that each user could state that his/her answers and questions would be also placed under an additional licencing agreement. This is important for TeX users since many normal licencing agreements for TeX are incompatible with the GPL, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answers&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the user profile users would see a choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;My content on TeX.SE is released under:&#xA;[ ] Dual GPL/LPPL&#xA;[ ] Permission to relicense&#xA;[ ] Public Domain&#xA;[ ] Normal GPL (default)&#xA;with the following modification: &amp;lt;free form text-box&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(with links to the definition of each licence)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other users, when looking at someones user-profile will only see the selected licence and the free-form text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my suggestion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T10:25:29.260" Title="Add an additional Licence to &quot;MY&quot; content" Tags="|feature-request|design|licensing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1793" CreationDate="2011-09-28T10:15:24.437" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can no longer click on the arrow by name to get the drop down box to appear. I can no longer comment or vote. I think an update broke something on the stack exchange website. I tried the askubuntu site as well. That has the same issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FF 6.0.2 on Ubuntu 11.04.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastEditorUserId="215" LastEditDate="2011-09-28T10:51:22.237" LastActivityDate="2011-09-28T10:51:23.687" Title="All of the drop-down boxes have stopped working" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1792" CreationDate="2011-09-28T10:51:23.687" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like a problem with your browser cache. Clear your browser cache and try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, Firefox 7 was just released, I think.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-09-28T10:51:23.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1798" CreationDate="2011-09-29T05:28:16.393" Score="14" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just remarked that some of the questions on the main page are formatted differently than others. All questions which have been tagged with &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; have a yellow background. Is this a new feature or just a browser issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TxIqs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2011-09-29T06:22:01.813" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T14:59:22.697" Title="Different formatting for certain questions" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1794" CreationDate="2011-09-29T06:05:46.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged with your favorite tags are highlighted. It look to me that your favored &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biblatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biblatex&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T06:05:46.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1794" CreationDate="2011-09-29T06:20:38.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Further to @Martin's answer: Tags can be &lt;em&gt;favourited&lt;/em&gt; by hovering over the tag and clicking the star (the number of users who have favourited a specific tag is given in terms of the &lt;em&gt;follower count&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OrYaz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tags being favourited&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking the star again &lt;em&gt;ignores&lt;/em&gt; posts with this tag (displaying the posts as almost being transparent/faded). Clicking a third time sets the tag back to &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; in terms of its appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way of accessing your tag favourites is under your user profile. Click on the &lt;strong&gt;prefs&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;tab&quot; to view your &quot;Favorite Tags&quot; and &quot;Ignored Tags&quot;. The usage and manipulation is very similar to adding tags to regular posts, and therefore should be straight forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P79ls.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tags under profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-09-29T14:59:22.697" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T14:59:22.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1794" CreationDate="2011-09-29T07:22:15.507" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the other answers. Favoring tags is one way to watch and highlight certain preferred content on Stack Exchange. The two other ways to watch content that I can think of is favoring questions (i.e. your favorite questions) and subscribing to tags by either e-mail (the subscribe link in the hover of tags) or rss (the rss link in the hover of tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T07:22:15.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1794" CreationDate="2011-09-29T08:38:39.713" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be that you favorited &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biblatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biblatex&lt;/a&gt;, as Martin explained, but it also can be that you just happened to &lt;em&gt;visit&lt;/em&gt; a lot of questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biblatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biblatex&lt;/a&gt; tag: you can have &lt;em&gt;implicit&lt;/em&gt; &quot;frequented&quot; tags. See this post on meta.SO for more details: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/96389&quot;&gt;Why are “etymology” questions on german.sx highlighted for me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T14:52:58.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1812" CreationDate="2011-09-29T20:09:16.470" Score="17" ViewCount="713" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once I posted a simple LaTeX code and the associated PDF output when I asked a question.  Few minutes later some nice person edited my post by cropping the empty area of the PDF document.  Since then I read the FAQ, went through all 88 support questions to learn how to do it without luck.  Hence the question.  Am I overlooking something simple?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-04-21T01:31:55.377" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T01:31:55.377" Title="How do you crop an attached PDF?" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-09-29T20:36:49.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They probably saved the picture of the pdf output, opened it in an image editor, cropped it and finally replaced the picture in your question with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T20:36:49.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-09-29T22:36:16.233" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdfcrop&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is very useful for cropping PDF files, capable of automatically removing all white margins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as you cannot directly embed PDF images, I guess you mean PNG images or other bitmap formats. In this case I assume, it's done using any picture editor such as GIMP (which I use), just line N.N. said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T22:36:16.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-09-30T00:46:20.600" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another way to crop an image in someone's question is to use the &lt;code&gt;imgur&lt;/code&gt; website that hosts the pictures for TeX.sx:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy the image URL of the image you want to edit (e.g. right-click on the image, click &lt;code&gt;Copy Image Location&lt;/code&gt;, in Firefox)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;paste the URL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click &lt;code&gt;Edit&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;draw a rectangle around the desired area&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click &lt;code&gt;Save&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy the URL of the edited image that's presented to you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the question, insert a new image, paste the URL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T00:46:20.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-09-30T01:06:24.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also directly take a cropped screenshot, using an appropriate tool. E.g. on Gnome/Linux you can use &lt;code&gt;gnome-screenshot --area&lt;/code&gt; to select an arbitrary rectangular part of the screen to export as a picture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T01:06:24.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1813" CreationDate="2011-09-30T03:03:34.137" Score="12" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;If one does a normal edit of a question, saves that and then does an inline tag edit, the system combines the edits and replaces the first edit summary by “edited tags”. Correctly the summary should be something like “⟨summary of edit⟩; edited tags“.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditDate="2011-10-01T01:38:57.833" LastActivityDate="2011-10-01T01:38:57.833" Title="Editing tags overwrites edit summary" Tags="|bug|status-completed|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-09-30T05:56:28.997" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use a screenshot tool called &lt;em&gt;Shutter&lt;/em&gt; under Ubuntu Linux which allows making screenshots by manual selection. I open the PDF with Acrobat Reader, start Shutter, click &quot;Selection&quot; and select the area I want. I configured it to place it as PNG in my &lt;code&gt;/tmp&lt;/code&gt; folder so I can easily access it in the image upload dialog of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative is to use the &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; class for the LaTeX document which also creates a cropped PDF. Note that imgur is able to convert PDFs to PNGs by itself, however you don't have control over the used resolution, i.e. the image might be quite small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-10-02T17:42:28.343" LastActivityDate="2011-10-02T17:42:28.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-09-30T06:30:05.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For ConTeXt examples, I normally add&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\startTEXpage&#xA; ....&#xA;\stopTEXpage&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;around the relevant code. This generates a cropped pdf page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T06:30:05.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-09-30T06:42:24.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recent editions of Windows (Vista &amp;amp; 7) is shipped with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Use-Snipping-Tool-to-capture-screen-shots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Snipping Tool application&lt;/a&gt; that allows you to capture parts of the screen through a marquee. Saving to PNG (or other image formats) is done after capturing the screen selection, without having to use other external image manipulation software applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/59445/168244&quot;&gt;Since February 2013&lt;/a&gt;, users have been able to copy-and-paste images directly into posts via the regular &quot;Insert image&quot; (or &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;G&lt;/kbd&gt;) tool. This skips saving content to file for uploading, which is much easier and faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T01:28:30.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-30T07:44:58.257" Score="32" ViewCount="620" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just stumbled across something that I'm not sure whether I like it or not. Well, actually, I know that I don't like it.  I'm just not sure whether I'm being a bit over-sensitive or not.  It seems a bit small and petty (of me), but first impressions are important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I &lt;strong&gt;really really like&lt;/strong&gt; about TeX-SX is how friendly we try to be, particular with new users.  This might be a feature of TeX itself: we all remember vividly that day when we sat down to write our first TeX document and stared in bemusement at web pages, books, or whatever as we tried to figure out what on earth was going on.  I think that that shared memory helps us with new users: a lot of stuff here is confusing and it isn't clear at the start how it works.  So when someone comes along and does something wrong, we don't jump on them but try to explain what is the best way of doing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that helps with this is our list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/86&quot;&gt;stock messages&lt;/a&gt;.  For those who haven't encountered this list, it's a list of templates that can be used in common situations, particularly with new users.  Note the &quot;can be used&quot;.  There is no compulsion about it.  The point is that these make it really easy to be polite!  If you don't have time to compose a detailed specific message, you can just copy one of the templates and know that it won't be rude or abrupt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing that helps (I think) is that we take our time.  We have the luxury of doing this because we don't get that many problem posts: TeX-SX is probably one of the easiest sites to work out if something is &quot;on topic&quot; or not.  I know that other sites have problems with this and there, of course, it's important to act fast.  But here I like to think that we give people time to correct their own mistakes.  Certainly when I was a pro-tem moderator we did this, and reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-tex-sx-moderator/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Joseph's blog post&lt;/a&gt; shows that this still continues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I saying all of this?  It's because I just spotted some activity by a non-TeX-SX moderator on the main site which whilst not going against the letter of the law, doesn't take into account our local interpretations of it.  10k users can see the original at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/26055/86&quot;&gt;Tikz figure in Beamer shifting way to the right of the frame&lt;/a&gt;.  For the rest, the story is that a new user posted a question as an answer.  This is common enough that we have a stock message for it.  Werner posted a comment that explained that the situation very nicely (this wasn't the stock message, but is at least as polite which is part of my point about these messages):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best to ask a new question, since (i) this is not an answer to the question, even though you mention it; (ii) you won't receive the attention required to answer it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got a &quot;great comment&quot; vote, though I don't know when that happened.  Shortly after this (2hrs), one of the non-TeX-SX moderators came along and posted this comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to LaTeX! If you have another question, please ask it by clicking the Ask Question button. Meanwhile, stating that you know the rule and then ignoring it shows blatant disregard for the effort of our entire community in curating this site. Please respect what we are building here -- we're not just being picky, these are lessons we've learned over years of asking and answering, and making that information as useful as possible for future searchers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as content goes, I can't fault it.  But as a &quot;welcoming message&quot; then I can.  Quite apart from the site name (I imagine all the ConTeXt users up in arms at this point!), I don't like the &quot;blatant disregard&quot;, nor the &quot;Please respect&quot; phrase (general rule of thumb: any phrase using the word &quot;respect&quot; probably isn't respectful!).  Also, TeX-SX is just a little over a year old and we're a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; community to the SE/SO one.  We're learning our own lessons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user went on to post a fresh question and left a new answer at this one saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OK, I have posted another answer. Tx,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this user didn't have the reputation to comment and is new to the site, that's not actually an unreasonable thing to have done.  It's not the right thing, but they'll learn.  The non-TeX-SX moderator then posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to LaTeX! Please don't add &quot;thanks&quot; as answers. Invest some time in the site and you will gain sufficient privileges to upvote content you like, which is the LaTeX way of saying thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this message looks just a little bit odd.  Why the &quot;Welcome to LaTeX!&quot; again?  Didn't we just have that?  And the second sentence doesn't make any sense at all.  This isn't a &quot;Thanks&quot; message.  Okay, it has &quot;Tx&quot; in it (which I guess expands to &quot;Thanks&quot;).  The last sentence is similarly brusque to the previous message.  So this one has me a little confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until I look at the time stamps on this second exchange.  The user posted their question, and their &quot;Tx&quot; message &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; the non-TeX-SX moderator appeared on the scene.  The &quot;Tx&quot; message was to &lt;em&gt;Werner&lt;/em&gt;!  So the whole situation was over before the non-TeX-SX moderator appeared, the new user had learnt about posting new questions, okay they needed to know about non-answers (but we have a &lt;strong&gt;polite&lt;/strong&gt; stock message for that too).  They had even been given an answer to their question in this time!  So all that was really needed by a moderator was to delete those two non-answers, and even that wasn't urgent as the user had learnt what to do and Werner's comment contained all the necessary information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more I look at the non-TeX-SX moderator's comments, the more they look like stock comments themselves.  If true, this would be a bit ironic given Jeff Atwood's comment on our stock comments thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not a huge fan of any automated &quot;one size fits all&quot; processes like this, but as an experiment to see what happens, it's OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I could try to contact the non-TeX-SX moderator themself.  They have asked a question (one!) here, though I don't really think that they are a member of our community yet.  Indeed, I hope that this moderator joins in this discussion.  But really I want to know what &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; community thinks of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I may be just jumping at shadows.  This may be a single event and not a precursor of more intervention from the SE team.  If so, I'll be happy.  If not, I'll be worried.  I &lt;strong&gt;like&lt;/strong&gt; our community.  It's not perfect, but it's a lot nicer than any of the other SE sites I've participated in (though photography gets close).  Of course we want to make it better, and would welcome help in doing so, but this doesn't feel helpful to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T19:45:01.660" Title="Do we like non-TeX-SX moderator activity on the main site?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1808" CreationDate="2011-09-30T08:13:44.850" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fully agree with your post (especially the sentence &quot;One thing I really really like about TeX-SX is how friendly we try to be, particular with new users.&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest contacting HedgeMage about this and inviting her to the discussion, since she is not just a non-TeX-SX moderator, but actually a  &quot;Community Manager&quot; who has recently joined the Stackoverflow team. She was introduced on the Stackoverflow Blog a couple of months ago: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/welcome-valued-associate-susan-stewart/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/welcome-valued-associate-susan-stewart/&lt;/a&gt;. She is basically a representative of Stackoverflow, so I feel it would be valuable to let her know how we feel about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T08:13:44.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1808" CreationDate="2011-09-30T17:17:04.253" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the &quot;non-TeX-SX moderator&quot; mentioned above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My name is Susan Stewart (aka HedgeMage) and I'm a member of the Stack Exchange Community Team.  You can reach me at &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;my first name&amp;gt; @stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; or, when I'm awake and online, find me in various SE chat rooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to be using TeX.SE last night while working on a small side project, saw some flags sitting there, and took a few minutes to pitch in.  That's what the Community Team does -- we shepherd new sites along, and routinely check in on the more mature ones to lend the moderators a hand and/or see that they are still moving along well.  There's no hostile takeover going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; concerned that chastising a user who took the time to state that he knew the rules and chose to ignore them raised such a reaction here.  This is day-to-day mod stuff: if we can't give a firm &quot;don't do that&quot; when someone ignores the rules (having already been educated on them) our only recourse is to let them work up to a ban.  Good parents say no sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a threat to Mom's authority when Dad says no, nor is the reverse true.  So, don't worry so much.  The Community Team is here to help, and we're certainly open to what site moderators and the wider community have to say when there's a real issue to address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2298" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T17:17:04.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1808" CreationDate="2011-09-30T19:45:01.660" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course the Stack Exchange Community Team has all rights of intervention also on this site. However one should also take into account the general atmosphere of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the six months I've been here, I've seen very few cases of misplaced question like the one in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26055/tikz-figure-in-beamer-shifting-way-to-the-right-of-the-frame&quot;&gt;TikZ figure in Beamer shifting way to the right of the frame&lt;/a&gt; and, from what I can remember, all were resolved after asking the poster to open a new question. The user in question was at his first posting here and might very well have misinterpreted the rule as just a recommendation. From the profile, that user has no accounts on other SE sites, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that less than a day is too shorter a time for deciding to delete a misplaced post. And, since we are at it, I find that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it shows blatant disregard for the effort of our entire community in curating this site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is rather rude, considering the user's inexperience. I can understand that in sibling sites with much more traffic than ours such problems have to be addressed with strength in order to keep a high quality. Our amount of messages still allows for more patience, particularly with inexperienced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good parents must say no, sometimes, but there's a way to say no to a three year old child and another one to a teenager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T19:45:01.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-09-30T23:47:54.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Mac OS,  Preview.app has a crop tool.  I usually just crop the pdf and then save as PNG. Since Preview is my default PDF viewer, it's only a few clicks/keystrokes to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-09-30T23:47:54.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1804" CreationDate="2011-10-01T01:38:47.397" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good find - a fix has been checked in and will be deployed tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2011-10-01T01:38:47.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-01T07:16:50.647" Score="14" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;Making new users feel welcome is very important, and we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/726/inadvertently-driving-off-new-users&quot;&gt;discussed before&lt;/a&gt; steps to avoid putting them off. At the same time, we want to encourage new users to follow the correct Q&amp;amp;A approach here. That shows up most commonly when a users posts an 'answer' to a question which is either a new question, is really a comment or does not really fully answer the question. Often, these 'non-answers' get flagged for moderation, and it's then up to the mod team to take appropriate action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The approach that has been taken on TeX.sx to date in dealing with flagged questions is somewhat different from other parts of the StackExchange network. This became apparent after a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1808/do-we-like-non-tex-sx-moderator-activity-on-the-main-site&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt; and some &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2065009#2065009&quot;&gt;chat discussion&lt;/a&gt; yesterday. It's therefore important to understand the two approaches, before considering whether we should modify what we do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current TeX.sx approach works broadly as follows. When an answer is flagged, the moderators of course take a look at it. Assuming it falls into the 'non-answers' category I've outlined above, either a mod or some other 'involved' user leaves a message to the poster. These are usually modelled on those from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;building blocks&lt;/a&gt; page, for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Welcome to&#xA;  TeX.sx!&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  Your question won't be seen by many people here so it would be best to&#xA;  repost it as a fresh question. Follow-up questions like this are more&#xA;  than welcome! Please use the &quot;Ask Question&quot; link for your new&#xA;  question; there you can link to this question to provide the&#xA;  background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Instead of posting a “Thank you” as an additional answer, you should&#xA;  thank [user] by upvoting [his/her] answer (with the upward pointing&#xA;  arrow to the left of it; you need 15 reputation points before you can&#xA;  upvote) and accepting it (by clicking on the checkmark). We want to&#xA;  keep the answer space reserved for actual answers, so this non-answer&#xA;  will be removed from public view soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag is then left 'on' as a bookmark, and the OP is given about a day to return to the site and make a change themselves. If after 24 h nothing has happened, then the mods do remove the item from public view, convert to a comment, or whatever seems most appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more general StackExchange model starts in the same way: see flag, look at 'answer', consider its status. The next step in the SE approach is again to leave a comment, but then to immediately remove the 'answer' from public view. The idea is that the user will still get a notification, &lt;em&gt;via&lt;/em&gt; the global inbox, of the comment, but that this will be (almost) a private message as the only people who can see the comment will be +10k users. As well as avoiding any look of 'criticism' in public, the idea is that this approach scales to very large numbers of issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I'd like to invite as answers here is views on the relative merits of the two approaches, in particular &lt;em&gt;seen from the POV of a new user&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-10-01T12:05:45.910" Title="Handling 'non-answers' from new(-ish) users" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1814" CreationDate="2011-10-01T09:28:31.490" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to understand why the current policy exists in the first place and why it works, one needs to understand the features of TeX-SE compared to other SE sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Low question volume.&lt;/strong&gt; Unlike other SE sites (Stack Overflow, in particular), one can easily read through at least the titles of all questions asked in a particular day in the space of a few minutes. On SO, the volume is a few hundred questions each and every day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Educated audience.&lt;/strong&gt; Not to sound elitist, but TeX users tend to come from the academic world, and I dare say they know how to behave. Most of the times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Troll-free zone.&lt;/strong&gt; TeX-SE is not very attractive to trolling and flaming (although we did have an incident or two in the past that ignited the passions). If one is interested in trolling, it's so much easier to do it on Programmers-SE, English-SE, or Meta-SO -- if only for the fact these sites are more discussion-y, while TeX-SE is problem-oriented.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friendly atmosphere&lt;/strong&gt;. Gentlemanly conduct is predominant -- upvoting competitive answers, giving suggestions for improvement to the best answers, acknowledging the inferiority of one's solution compared to somebody else's. I've seen quite a few enthusiastic comments from new users praising the efforts of somebody which went beyond what was necessary to answer a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Features of TeX-SE moderation policy that are often viewed as positive from the point of view of new users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderation with a &amp;quot;human touch&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; The moderators have complained in the early days of TeX-SE that they don't have much to do and practically begging us to flag stuff to justify their existence. Now, probably not so much. But the low flag volume allows moderators to spare some time to be extra nice and helpful to misguided users. Although we do have the comment templates, many people (myself included) just type a &amp;quot;customized&amp;quot; comment with suggestions for improvement instead of outright voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No-downvote policy.&lt;/strong&gt; It has been established early on that downvoting should be reserved for special circumstances (actively harmful/unhelpful answers), and that downvotes beyond -1 do not serve any useful purpose. This spares the anguish and confusion to new users which are not very clear how SE sites are supposed to work. From experience, it's not very nice to have your first question downvoted without explanation, especially when you tried to make it a &amp;quot;real question&amp;quot; and not just type a sentence or two without context, and I can definitely see how this could chase away potential contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;top voters&lt;/a&gt; have all very few downvotes, mostly around 20 or so, which is a proof of sorts that few downvotes and comments can work just as well as disciplined downvoting and closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the most important principle in studying difficult to understand and analyze systems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If it works, don't change it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-10-01T09:28:31.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1814" CreationDate="2011-10-01T11:26:07.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the focus on friendliness is admirable, it can certainly lead to a very nice atmosphere and make new users more welcome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To provide some context, I'm a moderator on Skeptics, which is probably one of the most heavily moderated sites in the StackExchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is why you have the 24 hour wait before acting on a flag, I don't see the conflict between direct action and being nice to new users. The comment you leave will still be as polite as it is with the current policy, just the non-answer and the comment will be hidden from most users. There is no reason to leave a non-answer around for everyone to see, the poster of the non-answer will still see the deleted answer and will also be notified of any moderator comment on his deleted post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing questions is also a point where often closing immediately is the better option, and not necessarily unfriendly. When a new user posts a problematic question that could be salvaged, I usually close immediately and inform the user in a comment on what is necessary to make the question viable. In those cases I explicitly mention that closing is temporary and explain how to get the question reopened after it is improved. If the intent of the asker is clear I might perform the required edits myself and not close at all, but that is often not possible without reading the askers mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind closing immediately is to prevent bad answers from accumulating. If you don't do that you might end up with and edit that clarifies the question, but invalidates previous answers that tried to answer a too vague question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One disadvantage of leaving flags around for a while is that a moderator can easily miss new flags, as you cannot rely entirely on the flags indicator in the top bar. Dealing with most flags immediately improves the response time because new flags will be obvious to a moderator just visiting the site, but not necessarily checking the flags tab directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6222" LastActivityDate="2011-10-01T11:26:07.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1814" CreationDate="2011-10-01T12:05:45.910" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Acting on a flag firstly means immediately leaving an informative comment for the poster, which also shows fellow users that somebody already cares for it. In encourages the poster to improve his/her question or answer himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see flags and somebody commented already, I respect the still existing flag as a bookmark which will be taken care of or I would do it myself after some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't worry much about an answer (which soon will be deleted) being still visible for a short time (can be minutes or hours, depending on activity, don't need to be 24), together with a friendly comment which also demonstrates a kind moderation. The important thing is, that it always will be cleaned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's more action in the future, if there would appear more flags in higher frequency, I'm sure that the time of dealing/deleting would change and the moderation could even be as strict and quick as on other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know other sites with strict and strong moderation, where I noticed experienced helpful users dropped out and new users seemed to be offended and went off. So I very much like being kind and welcoming to new users and friendly to the regulars. Better one friendly explaining comment too much than too less - it can be cleaned up later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-10-01T12:05:45.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1826" CreationDate="2011-10-02T17:03:15.510" Score="6" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ on meta.SO says &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question&quot;&gt;about closed questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a question is closed, no additional answers may be posted to it,&#xA;  although the question and existing answers can still be edited (by&#xA;  users with edit privileges) and voted upon, and will continue to count&#xA;  for badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed it when I saw the confirmation on: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28891/will-reversal-badge-be-awarded-on-closed-questions&quot;&gt;Will Reversal badge be awarded on closed questions?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I considered the same for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/62/revival&quot;&gt;Revival badge&lt;/a&gt;. Somebody could say: why to revive closed questions? However, the question must have been revived before closing of course. And as &quot;reversing&quot; counts, and the counter works for nice answer, great answer, etc. I don't see why reviving should be ignored, I guess there's something missing. I found two closed questions, where answers qualify for Revival badges but did not get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26433/the-entire-table-is-not-displayed-even-when-rotating-package-is-used/30184&quot;&gt;The entire table is not displayed even when rotating package is used&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22683/problem-related-to-hpdftex-pdf&quot;&gt;Problem related to “hpdftex.pdf”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be inconsistent, seen the FAQ and other badges. It would be great if that would be checked. As the Necromancer badge is related, it might be good to check this one as well. I post this question here on TeX.SX because I don't know if the effect has been seen on other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T10:50:14.887" Title="Why won't Revival badges be awarded on closed questions?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1560" CreationDate="2011-10-02T17:59:51.627" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sunday, 2nd October 2011, we had another &quot;Answer the Unanswered&quot; session, 21:00--23:00 GMT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we started, there were 192 unanswered questions (meaning without upvoted answers), after the session there were 157 left. Some were answered, some were closed after discussion, usually with a comment to the question. For example, we noticed some very localized old questions with insufficient information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now: 148, which means currently 1.56% of all non-closed questions are unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/conversation/answer-the-unanswered-session-4&quot;&gt;Link to the conversation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="86" LastEditDate="2011-10-03T06:57:23.507" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T06:57:23.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-03T00:12:04.317" Score="25" ViewCount="624" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-do-i-make-my-document-look-like-it-was-written-by-an-cthulhu-worshipping-madm&quot;&gt;How do I make my document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman?&lt;/a&gt; has seen a rise to fame not known to tex.sx before. It's currently the question with the second most votes and views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand mods have access to more statistical data that might explain how this stardom came to be. Is there anything (that you can share) that hints at how the &lt;em&gt;Madman Question&lt;/em&gt; became a chart hit &quot;over night&quot;? Explanations by non-mods are welcome, too, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Thank you for the answers so far, they shed some light on the issue. Would it be possible that a mod said something about referrer stats, i.e. how many users came from twitter vs. hackernews vs. metafiler vs. tex.sx itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T16:23:22.477" Title="How did the &quot;Cthulhu worshipping madman&quot; question get so popular?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|request-for-information|statistics|views|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2011-10-03T00:35:19.520" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/codinghorror/status/118039765714083840&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff wrote on Twitter about it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T00:35:19.520" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2011-10-03T01:57:24.597" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very interesting question. &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO our community is known as very technical and straight to the point. To quote Jeff himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree that TeX is so technical that nobody should really end up here&#xA;  by accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, from time to time we happen to see questions that somehow tease our senses. First of all, the title was very catchy; these three words - &lt;code&gt;cthulhu&lt;/code&gt; | &lt;code&gt;worshipping&lt;/code&gt; | &lt;code&gt;madman&lt;/code&gt; - provoked our curiosity. And now enters in action something that I find amusing: most of us come from academia, we are researchers. We look for answers, to not only ask &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, but sometimes &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;. So, when you see an unusual title standing out from the plethora of questions, you are compelled to check it out. And better, we are compelled to actually find a solution, no matter what the question is about!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;TeX.sx&lt;/code&gt; is a friendly place, and there is no place for trolling. Our humour is savvy, witty. And it's very enjoyable to read such pearls. I particulary love this comment written by percusse on Alan's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That is a very calm, professional, psychopath handwriting. Mad, angry but disciplined! :) – percusse Sep 26 at 12:32&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I came up with my own answer, the whole process was funny. From the casual visitor to the active user, from the newbie to the TeXpert, it was quite enjoyable!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a similar question, I can think of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18326/latex-math-jokes&quot;&gt;LaTeX/Math jokes&lt;/a&gt; thread. The same rule applies. And even I experienced some of this curiosity that unusual questions arouse when I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25612/adding-slurs-to-words-in-a-text&quot;&gt;Adding slurs to words in a text&lt;/a&gt;; as Jon Purdy wrote in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the title, I thought you wanted to insert ethnic slurs at random points within words throughout a text, like some bad imitation of Tourette's. The conclusions we jump to… – Jon Purdy Aug 14 at 3:17&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the chat, Andrew Stacey &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=1529830#1529830&quot;&gt;suggested a very witty question title&lt;/a&gt;. What would we do if we read a question with the following title: &lt;strong&gt;How do I swallow glue?&lt;/strong&gt; I'm sure it'd have a lot of views! &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, Caramdir pointed out that Jeff wrote on Twitter about it. We got a lot of traffic from that. Also, people in general probably got curious on this &quot;LaTeX thing&quot; and its community of Cthulhu worshipping madmen. Even the madness has its own methods. And with a beautiful typeset, that's for sure! &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T01:57:24.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2011-10-03T06:32:57.090" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was on Hackernews and made it to the front page. This usually involves a lot of traffic. &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036501&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036501&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T06:32:57.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2011-10-03T06:55:59.687" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a quick addendum to Paulo's post: it's also a very good question when assessed purely as an SE-type question.  The actual question is very clear and easy to understand, well-framed, and it is easy to judge an answer.  Many of our other highly-voted questions are a bit dubious and I'm not so happy having them as a prime example of what is a good contribution to this site, but this one is great.  It would be a good thing to do to compare this with the &quot;LaTeX Jokes&quot; one which wasn't so well formed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Patrick and Caramdir answer why this is &lt;em&gt;externally&lt;/em&gt; popular, but Paulo's answer says why it is popular to the existing users as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T06:55:59.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1819" CreationDate="2011-10-03T10:50:07.040" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an explicit &quot;is not closed&quot; check on this badge, I'm not sure of the historical reason, there may not have even been one.  It's a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; low impact change (only 5 haven't been awarded because of this on Stack Overflow), so we're making it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next build we'll start awarding revival for closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: we did look at necromancer as well to be sure, it has no closed check, so no change there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="740" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T10:50:07.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-03T16:15:43.617" Score="5" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the community on TeX.SX is growing, who would be interested in identifying themselves with it on LinkedIn by creating a group there? (There already is a Stack Overflow group for example.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Rephrased the question, in the hope to get answers :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt; If I create the group, can I use the TeX.SX logo for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-10-09T09:42:35.900" LastActivityDate="2011-10-09T09:42:35.900" Title="Who is interested in a TeX.SX group on LinkedIn?" Tags="|discussion|logo|social-networking|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1836" CreationDate="2011-10-03T16:33:47.783" Score="17" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan a presentation on a TeX conference, which should be suitable for the very experienced audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the sense of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/94/how-can-we-attract-experienced-tex-hackers-to-participating-on-this-website&quot;&gt;How can we attract experienced TeX hackers to participating on this website?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to convince TeX hackers of this site, to win new expert members, which question would you showcase? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though votes to questions show quality and popularity, I'm looking for expert-attracting content, so I look forward to reading your personal recommendations, optimally with a short reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-10-06T23:22:10.343" Title="Which question would you choose as a showcase for attracting TeX experts?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2126" CreationDate="2011-10-03T16:35:43.007" Score="14" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30326/is-tex-as-word-and-logo-a-trade-mark#question&quot;&gt;Is TeX as word and logo a trade mark?&lt;/a&gt; was migrated from Meta to the main site. However, the banner that is added says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;migrated from meta.tex.stackexchange.com x hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question came from our site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and&#xA;  related typesetting systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not really right: it should say its come from &lt;em&gt;discussion about&lt;/em&gt; TeX.sx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-12-28T10:14:28.823" Title="Migration from meta to main site gives wrong 'migration text'" Tags="|bug|status-completed|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1828" CreationDate="2011-10-03T16:54:37.720" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From seeing the discussions on the LateX mailing lists in the past, I think the discussion on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4507/avoiding-rivers-in-successive-lines-of-type&quot;&gt;river detection algorithm&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29049/how-to-define-the-badness-of-a-river&quot;&gt;defining their badness&lt;/a&gt; is a subject that might be of interest to TeXperts. There's no definitive answer just yet, but they might be interested in participating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T16:54:37.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1832" CreationDate="2011-10-03T17:04:40.817" Score="5" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at (e.g.) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;my own&lt;/a&gt; user page, I'm listed as &quot;top 0.89% overall&quot;. As I'm no. 5 of &gt;5000 users at the moment, this should be &quot;top 0.089% overall&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-02-25T22:47:28.803" Title="Sorting users by reputation: &quot;top X%&quot; is off by a factor of 10" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|reputation|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1831" CreationDate="2011-10-03T17:23:42.070" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK only users with more than 200rep are taken into account. The rest don't count yet as full site members. If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/&lt;/a&gt; you will see in the right side bar that only about 10% of the users have 200rep or more, which explains the factor of 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T17:23:42.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1828" CreationDate="2011-10-03T17:33:02.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are questions that are very edgy and lead to changes in edgy software like LaTeX3 or LuaTeX. These questions should be interesting to TeXperts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T17:33:02.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1828" CreationDate="2011-10-03T21:49:04.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one (not answered) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27998/notes-overflowing-from-marginpar-to-footer&quot;&gt;about notes overflowing&lt;/a&gt; might be interesting, too (sorry, mostly choosing from my own questions, as I know them better).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="951" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T21:49:04.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-03T23:26:56.603" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1558/why-does-code-snippet-after-list-not-work-again&quot;&gt;Why do code snippets not work after lists?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I add code listings directly after a list it doesn’t work, I guess this is a bug … cause if theres some other text between it works fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;of a list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;\documentclass{minimal}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;\begin{document}&#xA;  Some code&#xA;\end{document}&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;another list&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;with some text&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and some code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{minimal}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;  Some code&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T23:31:36.270" Title="Code following a list doesn’t work" Tags="|bug|code|lists|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2011-10-03T23:29:19.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1828" CreationDate="2011-10-04T01:18:57.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm a newbie, I still have difficulties on spotting TeX challenges, but I have a suggestion: question could be picked up based on their tags. E.g., the top 5 tags are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; - 973&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt; - 554&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; - 509&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt; - 486&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; - 480&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These tags could act as a &quot;community thermometer&quot;, because we can see what our members are looking for. We could also play with &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; and try to find any relations on questions and answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO a great showcase would be a list with all packages based on answers given here. That also includes the amazing &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;From answers to packages&quot; repository in Launchpad&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also support Raphink on all of his suggestions. And I want to &lt;s&gt;promote&lt;/s&gt; suggest my own question, which Martin Scharrer provided an amazing solution: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18969/creating-a-zebra-effect-using-listings&quot;&gt;Creating a zebra effect using &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-10-04T01:18:57.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1837" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-04T10:25:12.783" Score="48" ViewCount="1564" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a thank you for &lt;em&gt;being awesome&lt;/em&gt;, if you have at least 950 reputation and are on page 1 or page 2 of &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; we'll be sending you a little care package shortly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX Stack Exchange t-shirt in your size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX Stack Exchange die-cut, vinyl stickers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/collections/frontpage/products/stack-exchange-sharpies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange sharpie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-pens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange pen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-network-stickers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange stickers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can expect to get an email soon with details on how to confirm and provide your mailing address and size preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The t-shirt&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bSkR5.png&quot; alt=&quot;tex.stackexchange.com Tshirt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The sticker&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UHgFw.png&quot; alt=&quot;tex.stackexchange.com sticker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the items you can view in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange store&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; direct links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/collections/frontpage/products/stack-exchange-sharpies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sharpie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-pens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-network-stickers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stickers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(for anyone else who wants this swag, but isn't on page 1 or page 2 of the all time top users -- the limited edition t-shirts and stickers will be available for purchase from the store soon as well)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-02-29T01:37:32.380" Title="TeX Stack Exchange swag for top users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1799" CreationDate="2011-10-04T16:37:51.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within the TeXniverse itself there's also the &lt;code&gt;preview&lt;/code&gt; package and Martin's &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; class (which, used on its own, uses &lt;code&gt;preview&lt;/code&gt; in an easy automagic way, although this isn't the main purpose of the associated package).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6984" LastActivityDate="2011-10-04T16:37:51.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-04T21:24:46.823" Score="6" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sometimes puzzled by a question from the deep past that suddenly becomes &lt;code&gt;active&lt;/code&gt;. I've recently seen it happen with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278/can-i-use-clap-rlap-and-llap-in-math-mode&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, but I'm sure it has happened before. In this case an answer was edited and appostrophies added around a name of a latex command...In my opinion this should NOT trigger the question becoming active...though I'm not sure what is the best way of doing that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose adding a 'This is a minor edit'-tickbox when editing an answer/question (like in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Minor_edit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;) to indicate that the question should not become active, subscribers to the question should not get notified etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T02:04:29.923" Title="Minor edit checkbox?" Tags="|discussion|design|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1828" CreationDate="2011-10-05T00:03:31.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you are going to India, I would consider asking a foreign language unicode question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in order to use a &quot;Sinhala&quot; unicode font I have to use a transliteration scheme.  I use the site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/feconverter/t1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/feconverter/t1.html&lt;/a&gt; to do this and then cut and paste the unicode phrases into the LaTeX document.  This is a time consuming and frustrating process. (A simple code and the associated output is given below.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[12pt]{article}&#xA;\usepackage{sinhala1}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}&#xA;\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}&#xA;\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Hoefler Text}&#xA;\setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text]{Gill Sans}&#xA;\setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Andale Mono}&#xA;&#xA;\title{සිංහල අකුරු - Sinhala Letters}&#xA;\author{සැලෙන මනස විසිනි - by Wondering Mind}&#xA;\date{}                                           &#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\maketitle&#xA;\begin{flushleft}&#xA;අම්මා අම්මා මේ මට - Mother, mother, I am\    කියන්න ලැජ්ජ්යි තාත්තට - afraid to talk to farther&#xA;\end{flushleft}&#xA;\end{document}  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ptwfN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26683/a-file-i-compiled-under-texlive-2009-cannot-be-compiled-under-texlive-2010&quot;&gt;A file I compiled under TeXLive 2009 cannot be compiled under TeXLive 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know how to type the correct unicode directly into the LaTeX document.  (As you can see, the first line of the code is different from the output.  The typed code is incorrect, however, the output is correct.  In other words, not only I cannot type directly, but also, I have to paste the incorrect code to get the correct output. Also look at the title.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to ask this question here as I do not think there is a critical mass (of people) who uses Sinhala.  However, you may find takers in India.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-10-06T23:22:10.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1827" CreationDate="2011-10-05T14:52:03.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe.  The Latex group that exists there already is kind of lame.  I don't suppose having a Tex.sx group hurts, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be most use if we could ensure that we can find user profiles here from the list of members of the group there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-10-05T14:52:03.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1440" CreationDate="2011-10-06T13:35:53.973" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've gone through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/q/103964/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; Caramdir provided and couldn't find any more broken images. I've been reuploading the images in batches of five for the past month or so (= solution 2 of the OP), and it looks like they're all fixed now. Dave Jarvis doesn't have as many posts and just a few still needed fixing. So unless there are more users who have been sneaking around the official uploading-interface, &lt;strong&gt;this issue can be regarded solved&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-10-06T13:35:53.973" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2011-10-06T22:03:18.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because this is a cool question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Oh my. I intended that terse and sort of vacuous remark you can find above to be a tongue-in-cheek answer, on which I would then more seriously elaborate. But then I forgot to do it ;) Thanks to whoever downvoted it, as it brought it to my attention again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point about the “coolness” of the Cthulhu question is that it shows you the joy of TeX, to borrow the title of Spivak's book. Among so many “everyday” questions (including mine) of how to align something, insert something, move something, draw something etc. there sometimes pops up a question that shows you how great TeX and its friends can be (not that the “ordinary” questions can't do that). In this case, how flexible it is, i.e. how far you can get away from neat lines, perfect composition, beautiful fonts – in short, things TeX was born to deal with – to emulate the writings of a madman. And also, how much fun you can have trying to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The great reasons given here by TeXnicians largely explain why the Cthulu post got so many views. I think my answer might partly account for the huge number of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6475" LastEditorUserId="6475" LastEditDate="2011-10-21T14:52:37.773" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T14:52:37.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-10-07T00:10:39.833" Score="15" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Tikz/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29877/need-help-creating-a-3d-cube-from-a-2d-set-of-nodes-in-tikz/29882#29882&quot;&gt;Need help creating a 3D cube from a 2D set of nodes in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Macro for drawing cuboids with grids, with options for rotating and shading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CFetV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T09:54:40.740" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-10-07T00:10:39.833" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1839" CreationDate="2011-10-07T02:04:29.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is intentional and natural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Touching old questions surfaces them for the community to vet, revisit, and assist in improving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In practice there is little difference between a &quot;this is a minor edit&quot; checkbox and an &quot;I am not evil&quot; checkbox. One man's minor may be another man's total invalidation of the post.. by whose standards is this minor?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T02:04:29.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1848" CreationDate="2011-10-07T20:19:29.033" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;the question &quot;XeTeX \left and \right problem&quot; (question #30854) won't link from the main page.  (i managed to reach it by linking to the OP and then to the question, which did work.)  i think there may be unicode symbols in the title (they are certainly present in the text), and that may be part of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where and/or how should something like this be reported?  i considered flagging the question and writing a comment in the hope that a moderator would see it, but the question itself is a reasonable one, and i didn't want to give the impression that something was wrong with the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i don't think this this venue is really the correct place to report it either, but after looking through more than 300 meta questions found by a search on &quot;view question&quot; and finding nothing relevant, i took the easy way out.  (maybe i'm just not very good at thinking up suitable search terms.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-10-07T21:41:15.417" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T21:41:15.417" Title="where/how to report that a question can't be viewed from the main page?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2012-12-04T18:25:50.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1847" CreationDate="2011-10-07T20:36:23.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see it currently on the main page and the link works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GQRUg.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot excerpt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw. I use Firefox on Ubuntu Linux. It could be a browser issue on your system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T20:36:23.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-07T22:25:42.770" Score="18" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; is a great tool. I've noticed many queries regarding site statistics, top lists, and also user-specific queries such as badge progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice examples giving insights about the TeX.SX site and its content are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1650/which-country-are-the-users-from&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Which country are the users from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/316/top-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/567/most-favorited-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Most favorited questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/296/number-of-qs-and-as-per-month&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Number of questions and answers per month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/573/most-viewed-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Most viewed questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/463/total-number-of-registered-users-over-time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Total number of registered users over time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1494/top-rated-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top-rated comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought about TeX related queries, involving tags, votes, and views or even syntax for example. They could be a demonstration of how we could use the data explorer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What ideas do people have for a useful, interesting, TeX-related query?  And what queries have people created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those interested in creating queries, here's a useful &quot;question&quot; on meta.SO &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2677&quot;&gt;about the database schema&lt;/a&gt;; moreover there are quite  a few questions on meta.SO about the data explorer, they are generally tagged &quot;data-explorer&quot; so a good place to start is with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/data-explorer&quot;&gt;this search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-10-13T13:19:43.263" Title="How can we explore the content of TeX.SX?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1702" CreationDate="2011-10-07T22:28:56.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a link to a query for finding such question on the TeX.SX data explorer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/q/114585/questions-which-lead-to-a-new-package-tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions which lead to a new package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T22:28:56.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1849" CreationDate="2011-10-07T22:38:59.877" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just created some queries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1937/posts-with-obsolete-displayed-math&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Posts with obsolete displayed math&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/q/114585/questions-which-lead-to-a-new-package-tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions which lead to a new package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1938/top-posts-with-images&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top posts with images&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there could be much more sophisticated queries than these one-liners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-10-07T23:33:40.723" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T23:33:40.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1853" CreationDate="2011-10-08T17:07:46.443" Score="32" ViewCount="3589" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been &quot;accepting answers&quot; to my questions by up voting the good answers received for my questions.  However, I have a 0% accept rate. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, I do not know how to accept answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T16:38:52.063" Title="How do you accept an answer?" Tags="|support|accepting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1852" CreationDate="2011-10-08T17:17:07.097" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX.SE! you accept an answer by clicking on the green checkmark next to the answer. Voting up good answers is a way of saying it is a good answer, but there can be many good answers, but only one accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for caring!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what an unaccepted and an accepted answer looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WmNGB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8DsLI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here's that same answer before and after an upvote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3NRga.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3NRga.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jw2BX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a brief period (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/50697&quot;&gt;15 minutes&lt;/a&gt;) immediately after asking the question when you can't accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="134574" LastEditDate="2019-04-15T16:38:52.063" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T16:38:52.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1852" CreationDate="2011-10-08T17:33:10.057" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another difference between upvoting and accepting: After a short &quot;grace&quot; period, an upvote can't be undone (unless the upvoted answer has been edited). In contrast, an accepted answer can be &quot;un-accepted&quot; any time later. (A valid reason for doing so is that a new &quot;late&quot; answer supersedes the previously accepted one.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T17:33:10.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1852" CreationDate="2011-10-08T23:31:46.333" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Associated with accepting an answer (clicking on the arrow below the voting buttons) is an added bonus - &lt;strong&gt;reputation&lt;/strong&gt;! If you read the main site FAQ entry on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;What is reputation?&lt;/a&gt;, you'll note that when accepting an answer, the acceptor receives &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; in reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T23:31:46.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1849" CreationDate="2011-10-09T10:02:12.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1581/post-reputation-over-time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Post Reputation over Time&lt;/a&gt; –  average post score for each month the site has existed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/203/how-many-users-can-do-x&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How Many Users Can Do X?&lt;/a&gt; – breakdown of privileges earned, similar to the &quot;Total Reputation&quot; table on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/alltime/tex&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/alltime/tex&lt;/a&gt;, but more steps.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/316/top-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top Answers&lt;/a&gt; – I'll leave this one as a surprise ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1306/badges-to-aspire-to&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Badges to Aspire to&lt;/a&gt; – sorts badges according to how rarely they have been awarded.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1311/question-score-distribution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Question Score Distribution&lt;/a&gt; – How many questions have a score of 1, 2, 3, ...?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1313/question-score-distribution-grouped&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Question Score Distribution (grouped)&lt;/a&gt; – Same thing, but grouped scores (e.g. 6–10, 11–20).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-10-13T13:19:43.263" LastActivityDate="2011-10-13T13:19:43.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1849" CreationDate="2011-10-09T17:51:21.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps consider this CW &quot;answer&quot; as a place where non-SQL-savvy enthusiasts of TeX.SX can post their interests in possible queries that SQL-savvy enthusiast can play around with. Add a complete description of the query requirement so that it is clear what should be included in the result. Either edit this post with a link to the new query, or cut it from this post and repost as a different answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Number of votes on the site per time frame&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tally the number of votes on questions and answers in a specific time frame (say, monthly). Display fields that show &lt;strong&gt;Date&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Question votes&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Answer votes&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Total votes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amount of reputation dolled per time frame&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tally the total reputation earned/lost on the site in a specific time frame (say, monthly). Display fields that show &lt;strong&gt;Date&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;+Reputation&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;-Reputation&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Total reputation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;upvoting&lt;/em&gt; a question would add &lt;code&gt;10&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;+Reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;downvoting&lt;/em&gt; a question would add &lt;code&gt;2&lt;/code&gt; (or &lt;code&gt;-2&lt;/code&gt;) to &lt;strong&gt;-Reputation&lt;/strong&gt; while &lt;em&gt;downvoting&lt;/em&gt; an answer would add &lt;code&gt;3&lt;/code&gt; (or &lt;code&gt;-3&lt;/code&gt;) to &lt;strong&gt;-Reputation&lt;/strong&gt; (see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;FAQ on reputation&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;accepting&lt;/em&gt; an answer would add &lt;code&gt;17&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;+Reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-09T17:51:21.707" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-10-09T17:51:21.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1849" CreationDate="2011-10-10T07:24:13.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying out the explorer a little (ably aided by Paulo Cereda).  The focus of my queries is to try to build up a &lt;em&gt;profile&lt;/em&gt; of the site.  My particular hypothesis is that a healthy SE site is one where there is a single population composed of questioners-and-answerers, and that an unhealthy SE site is one where there is a population of questioners and a separate population of answerers.  To that end, I'm trying to develop a query that will give a &quot;profile&quot; of the population in terms of people's question-to-answer &quot;ratio&quot; (which I need to define).  My theory is that TeX-SX will score very highly in this regard (with a few obvious outliers .. naming no names, &lt;em&gt;*cough* egreg *cough*&lt;/em&gt;) and that some other sites with better numbers of questions and views will not fare so well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not made much progress as of yet (mainly because I find the syntax a bit opaque). You can see my &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/users/6626/andrew-stacey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list of saved queries&lt;/a&gt; on the explorer.  Not all are for this project.  At time of writing they include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1914/non-duplicated-closed-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Number of non-duplicate closed questions&lt;/a&gt;.  The purpose here is to measure how &quot;well defined&quot; a site is.  If it is clear to the casual user what is or isn't on topic, there will be a low rate of questions closed for reasons other than duplication.  We score well on this, compared to other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/mathematics/s/1866/proportion-of-answerers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Proportion of answerers&lt;/a&gt;.  This looks at all people with reputation over 1000 and looks at the proportion of those who have never asked a question.  This is a very crude measure of what I describe above.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-10-10T07:24:13.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-10T07:39:01.747" Score="16" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;The campaign to get SE to become an institutional member of the TUG (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;Do we want Stack Exchange to become an institutional member of the TUG?&lt;/a&gt;) had a very happy outcome.  From my reading here and there, I've gathered the impression (perhaps false!) that this is the sort of thing that SE in principle is in favour of.  So I have another suggestion along these lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should say before I say what it is that I have contacted &lt;em&gt;neither&lt;/em&gt; party in this regard so do not know if either side would be amenable to this suggestion.  My purpose is to determine the support from our community (the TeX-SX site) before deciding whether to take it further.  Of course, if either side stop by they should feel free to say &quot;Yes, this would be great&quot; or &quot;No, we'd never consider this&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the suggestion. The one TeX-related site that I'd say has had the most beneficial impact on the TeX scene in decades is without doubt &lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;detexify&lt;/a&gt;.  I'd be willing to bet that we send a heck of a lot of traffic to detexify.  What if there were a discreet link on the detexify site that said something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Detexify is (partially) sponsored by TeX-SX.  If you've got a question about TeX that detexify can't answer, try there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably have the syntax all wrong, but by &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/s/1942/posts-mentioning-detexify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;my count&lt;/a&gt; there are 50 posts on the main site containing the word &quot;detexify&quot;.  Given the number of times we duplicate back to the original &quot;How do I look up a symbol?&quot; I'd say this was a vast &lt;em&gt;under&lt;/em&gt; estimate of its importance on this site alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So … what do people think of this idea?  Should we pursue it?  Are there things that I've not thought of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; There's an 8 month-old post on the detexify blog that suggests that the writer of detexify would not be opposed to receiving funds: &lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.posterous.com/detexify-needs-help&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://detexify.posterous.com/detexify-needs-help&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T14:40:03.680" Title="Today: TUG; tomorrow: …" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1861" CreationDate="2011-10-10T09:50:59.370" Score="14" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens to me from time to time that I’m writing an answer at the same time with an other user, but of course I don’t know that while writing. It’s a little frustrating to see that I invested time to write the same answer as another one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you think about an „answer in progress sign“.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this could be easily done by posting &lt;code&gt;__I’m writing an answer__&lt;/code&gt; or automatically with the board software. In the first case we just have to find a community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-10-10T09:54:08.990" LastActivityDate="2011-10-10T15:09:07.503" Title="Answer in progress sign" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|notifications|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1860" CreationDate="2011-10-10T09:58:47.597" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will get notified about new answers to the question you're just writing an answer to, but this only happens every 40 or 45 seconds or so. Then you can load these answers without losing your text so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this has also be discussed on the general Meta site  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/91487/can-i-see-if-someone-is-currently-answering-a-question&quot;&gt;Can I see if someone is currently answering a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I don't think it is a bad thing to have two even almost identical answers. People should just up-vote the one they like best. The distinction should be made on quality and not on time. If a post was sent 45sec later but has another sentence in it which explains things better then it deserves more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you invest this much time in the answer, i.e. it isn't a short and quick one, I would recommend to post first the principle solution, e.g. &quot;can be done using the &lt;code&gt;xyz&lt;/code&gt; package by using &lt;code&gt;\somemacro&lt;/code&gt; ...&quot; and then update the post with the full solution a little later. This way people see your answer already and you are down as the first answerer, which is important for the &lt;em&gt;Enlightened&lt;/em&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-10-10T15:09:07.503" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1860" CreationDate="2011-10-10T10:32:47.320" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm quite happy with the idea of sketching a solution and posting that first before working on a full solution.  But I would like to ensure that the reason for doing so is clear to all: that it is to avoid duplication/waste of effort and not as an attempt to be &quot;first to post&quot;.  So I'd like to have some examples of how this could be worded (along the lines of our &quot;Text blocks&quot;, it's not that these have to be used, but that they set a baseline for politeness).  One thing I really like about this site is its collaborative nature and I would be sad to see that go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an idea for Tobi's situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My initial thoughts are that this can be solved using &lt;em&gt;Obscure Package&lt;/em&gt; together with a bit of work on &lt;em&gt;saving private macros&lt;/em&gt;.  In brief, one should be able to define a &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; macro which fixes the &lt;em&gt;lieutenant&lt;/em&gt; macro.  It'll take me a little while to work out the wrinkles to be sure that this works.  If anyone has any ideas that might help, I'll keep an eye on the comments to this &quot;answer&quot; and in the main chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an idea for where you don't have the opportunity to work on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My initial thoughts are that this can be solved using &lt;em&gt;Obscure Package&lt;/em&gt; together with a bit of work on &lt;em&gt;saving private macros&lt;/em&gt;.  In brief, one should be able to define a &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; macro which fixes the &lt;em&gt;lieutenant&lt;/em&gt; macro.  I don't have the chance to work on this right at this moment (&lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt;: I had a go at implementing this but don't have the time to finish it right now), but if no-one figures out a better solution then I'll take some time later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should emphasise that I agree with Martin that there's no problem in honestly duplicated answers, but I do sympathise with Tobi's desire to focus effort where it's needed rather than on writing the same thing as someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This answer is CW so that others can edit the sample texts.  They were just a first draft.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-10-10T10:32:47.320" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-10-10T10:32:47.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1859" CreationDate="2011-10-10T15:18:29.540" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds good to me, this would certainly attract a number new users and readers to tex.sx. I have no idea if there's more money to spend, but we could certainly offer a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-2011&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ad&lt;/a&gt;, since detexify doubtlessly is something &quot;your community would genuinely be interested in&quot; (ibid.). Seeing the high number of symbol-related questions, keeping detexify in the mind of our readers is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A combination of some text and graphic link (tex.sx logo) might be nice, e.g. down where there's already a sponsor ad to &lt;em&gt;zweitag&lt;/em&gt; (server sponsoring).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're now mentioned at &lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/symbols.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/symbols.html&lt;/a&gt;, which is not the page where you can sketch a symbol, but the one that lists all the symbols:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H0a2g.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of detexify&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/symbols.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this thanks to Paulo's request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T14:40:03.680" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1866" CreationDate="2011-10-11T01:52:05.063" Score="6" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just answered a question about labels and cross-referencing: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31180/5764&quot;&gt;Is babel breaking my labels?&lt;/a&gt; The OP thought that the use of &lt;code&gt;babel&lt;/code&gt; with Russian captions may have caused the cross-referencing to be lost. However, this was because of an incorrect order in using &lt;code&gt;\caption&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\label&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar problems to this has surfaced before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23385/5764&quot;&gt;Table numbering mismatch in caption and in text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/27888/5764&quot;&gt;Having trouble cross-referencing figures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: If a problem/question turns out to be a &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; duplicate &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; it was successfully answered, should it be merged (by &lt;strong&gt;voting to close&lt;/strong&gt;) with other similarly answer questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting to close, however, only has 5 options to choose from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;: This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be merged with another identical question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;off topic&lt;/strong&gt;: Questions on TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange are expected to generally relate to TeX, LaTeX or related typesetting system, within the scope defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not constructive&lt;/strong&gt;: This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not a real question&lt;/strong&gt;: It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too localized&lt;/strong&gt;: This question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easy answer could be: &quot;None of the above options are valid in this case (since the others are not &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicates and I doubt whether it is too localized), so there's no need to close.&quot; This might very well be the case, since the above options should be considered more rule-ish (firm) than guideline-ish (less firm), otherwise more-than-expected gray-area questions might be closed than is necessary. However, I find the only motivation for closing a problem/question as a possible duplicate is to merge posts (a combination of questions and answers) which, in this case, might be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side-note: Even though the &lt;strong&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; (firm) option when voting to close is the only one available for duplicate questions, a question that has been closed as such a duplicate only receives a &lt;strong&gt;possible duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; (less firm) stamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-10-11T07:33:36.487" Title="Voting to close a successfully answered question" Tags="|discussion|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1864" CreationDate="2011-10-11T07:06:15.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to think of &quot;Close as duplicate&quot; to mean that they are duplicates of each other in terms of their &lt;em&gt;solutions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been stated before that there is merit in marking questions as duplicates that are differently worded versions of each other, because it increases the &quot;target size&quot; for people searching for the problem. In my opinion, this merit also exists for questions that aren't just differently worded, but at first appear to be different problems altogether and then turn out to be different manifestations of the same issue. Marking these as duplicates will have the same positive effect of combining the different ways you can arrive at a certain solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2011-10-11T07:06:15.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1864" CreationDate="2011-10-11T07:33:36.487" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether I disagree with Jake on this, or it's just that I'm not sure what he means by &quot;solution&quot; in his first sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;close as duplicate&quot; I would aim for the following: it should be that if the questioner had come across the first question then they wouldn't have asked their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is that often different problems turn out to have the same actual solution, but that the problems themselves are distinct.  As a silly example, I would not close &quot;How do I get an alpha in my document?&quot; as a duplicate of &quot;How do I typeset an integral sign?&quot; (though I probably would if it were a &quot;beta&quot;) but I would close it as a duplicate of &quot;How do I find a mathematical symbol?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with this criterion is that it requires a judgement as to what a particular questioner would have done.  So actually I modify it to what &quot;a generic TeX-SX user&quot; would do (and probably a generic &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; TeX-SX user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this criterion is not reached, it is still possible to link questions very clearly.  There are lots of &quot;see also&quot; comments, and &quot;Have you looked at ...?&quot; comments which clearly indicate that another question is very closely related to the current one.  If, as in this case, the questions are almost but not quite duplicates, one can even put a link in the question itself as a comment to future readers.  For example, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/30688/86&quot;&gt;Using TiKz to draw cobordisms&lt;/a&gt; was pretty close in intent to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17031/3143&quot;&gt;Topological Quantum Field Theory diagrams with pstricks or tikz&lt;/a&gt; and anyone finding the first would probably be looking for the second, but the actual questions weren't duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, the software isn't the only way to solve this issue.  The most important thing is to ensure that everything is clearly linked so that people finding the question are led to the best place to get help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-10-11T07:33:36.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-12T20:42:46.503" Score="70" ViewCount="1013" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is meant to start a discussion on etiquette and sustainability. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very clear from looking at the answers that the first-page users are very quick to answer most questions. This of-course is because they are very knowledgeable and quick at the keyboard. I am worried about the long-term effect this behavior can have on both the newcomers &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the first-page users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I worry that first page users will get &quot;burnt-out&quot; by constantly answering &quot;easy&quot; questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I worry that newcomers who are a little slow and careful in writing their answer will feel up-started by the high-rep users and this will be a drain on their enthusiasm.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I worry about this site becoming a place to ask the gurus, rather than a community where everyone has something to give and to get.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I worry that this model is non-sustainable for the high-rep users will eventually feel that the site is taking too much time and effort since instead of focusing on the hard problems, they jump the gun on many of the questions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I worry that this model is non-sustainable for the low-rep users since they get used to only asking questions and not answering any, and this can lead to a dependent mentality which is not very health...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I feel that the site would benefit greatly if the high-rep users were a little slower at the keyboard, giving an opportunity for the less-experienced users slowly edit and perfect their answer, as you know all other things being equal, there's a great &quot;advantage&quot; in putting the first answer, in terms of reputation and motivation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, once a question has been unanswered for a while then clearly it is much better to have it answered than not...but I think we should seriously consider the benefits of making it easier for people to attempt a first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-10-12T20:47:30.337" LastActivityDate="2019-06-28T07:20:05.493" Title="Should high-rep users hang back a little?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|new-users|answers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2011-10-12T21:19:26.837" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree, and I've been thinking along similar lines recently.  I can only answer for myself and not for anyone else, of course, and only describe what I now do.  What I try to do now is make the &quot;unanswered&quot; list (and specifically those in my tags) my main point of call.  I take a look at new questions, though I try to concentrate on helping ensure that the questions are good questions (formatting, asking for clarification, and so forth).  Of course, I won't deliberately withhold an answer if I just happen to know it, but for answers that will take some thought and experiment then I try to concentrate on the slightly unusual ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing that we &quot;high-rep&quot; users can do is to encourage others.  When we see a good answer or good question (or good comment), &lt;em&gt;make sure to vote&lt;/em&gt;.  That's how low-rep users become high-rep users.  Add comments, make people feel welcome, look out for &quot;interesting&quot; new users - there's a few names that I recognise and look out for contributions by them on the list because I know it's likely that I'll see a good answer from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-10-12T21:19:26.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2011-10-13T09:15:07.777" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few different things here, and all are worth discussing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the 'high-rep' users have been around TeX for many years, and answer questions in a number of places. You can look at the first three pages of the user list, at least, and find very active TeX people. So I think 'burn-out' is unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To some extent, all Q&amp;amp;A sites or forums are 'ask the expert', as most people are coming with a question they need sorting out. A lot of (La)TeX users have reports to write, and are not so fussed about the means to do that as getting the job done. That said, we do need to have a steady supply of people graduating from 'new user' to 'helpful', and in the end to 'expert'. So it's important that we do leave space for newer users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the high-rep users do a lot of work on commenting, voting and editing. I'd encourage more of that, and also putting effort in to write a &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; answer. That should still gain votes even if it's not first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to remember that different people come here for different reasons. Some people are active in meta, voting and so on, but others are not. So I suspect there will always be some people toward the high end of the rep list who answer quickly: that's why they are here! (There's also the specific interests of individuals: for example, I tend to answer the &lt;code&gt;siunitx&lt;/code&gt; problems pretty quickly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="3406" LastEditDate="2019-06-28T07:20:05.493" LastActivityDate="2019-06-28T07:20:05.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2011-10-13T13:15:52.830" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to Andrew's and Joseph's answers -- another thing high rep users could do is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1775/who-designs-the-best-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;writing great tag wikis&lt;/a&gt;. Seeing all the knowledge that's around here, both in the questions and answers, and the expert users' heads, they could provide a great foundation and tacitly answer many questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-10-13T13:15:52.830" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2011-10-13T21:59:28.220" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a low-rep, but growing (or am I already med-rep?) contributor I only partly agree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;I worry that first page users will get &quot;burnt-out&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I worry more that some of you guys eventually get your thesis done and no longer have the time to contribute here :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(On the other hand I am pretty sure that new grad students will follow you. So I agree with Joseph that a community-wide 'burn-out' is unlikely.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;I worry that newcomers who are a little slow and careful in writing their answer will feel up-started&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that might happen. However, in my experience the downer is not so much the speed, but the fact that an even less detailed answer by a high-rep user tends to get more votes than a careful answer by a low-rep user. This is perfectly understandable (people just trust high-rep users and &quot;automatically&quot; up-vote their answers), but can appear as unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I consider as important is to generously up-vote answers from low-rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3751" LastEditorUserId="3406" LastEditDate="2019-06-28T07:18:24.737" LastActivityDate="2019-06-28T07:18:24.737" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1872" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1873" CreationDate="2011-10-14T22:15:59.747" Score="24" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/stack-exchange-is-institutional-member-of-the-tex-users-group/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post about the TeX.SX TUG membership&lt;/a&gt;, Jürgen &lt;a href=&quot;http://texandfriends.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/internetforen-zum-textsatz-mit-latex-ii/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;said in his blog&lt;/a&gt;, translated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a mystery to me how it can come about that somebody chooses a web&#xA;  forum for communication, especially about TeX, because there are&#xA;  excellent news and mail reader, providing a much more powerful&#xA;  interface than any web browser ever could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I posted an extensive comment as answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the reason why I ask: specifically comparing TeX.SX and TeX Usenet groups (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/a&gt;), mailing lists (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;texhax&lt;/a&gt;) and web forums (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-community.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;latex-community.org&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the advantages of TeX.SX for users, compared to Usenet, mailing lists and web forums?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which features are offered by Usenet or mail software that TeX.SX cannot provide?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are benefits of each communication medium, for the TeX community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I would be glad to read also about benefits of Usenet or anything! There's a great history, however at the moment I can hardly imagine how the I can research and browse 20 years of &lt;code&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/code&gt; independently of the google engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-11-01T00:32:56.077" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T18:57:48.007" Title="What are the pros and cons of TeX.SX compared to Usenet groups, mailing lists and web forums?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-10-14T22:56:04.323" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm waiting for contributions and discussions, I prepared a rough feature table. It's community wiki, so feel free to edit! Just state your reason in the edit summary field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                                         Usenet  Web forums  TeX.SX&#xA;&#xA;Availability       Redundancy               +        -          -&#xA;                   Full public archive      -        -          +&#xA;&#xA;Usability          Reading, writing         +        +          +&#xA;                   Markup                   -        +          +&#xA;                   Attachments, graphics    -        +          +&#xA;                   Deleting own posts       -        +          +&#xA;                   Common general deleting  -        -          +&#xA;                   Self editing             -        +          +              &#xA;                   Community editing        -        -          +&#xA;&#xA;Interfaces         Complete browser access  +        +          +&#xA;                   Articles, Blogs          -        +          +&#xA;                   Dynamic (mouse over)     -        -          +&#xA;                   Assisted editing         -        -          +&#xA;                   Feeds                    +        -          +&#xA;                   Twitter posts            -        -          +&#xA;                   Chat                     -        -          +&#xA;                   Comprehensive Statistics -        -          +&#xA;                   Open API                 +        -          +&#xA;&#xA;Quality            Accepted Solution marked -        -          +&#xA;                   Community quality voting -        -          +&#xA;                   Duplicate elimination    -        -          +&#xA;                   FAQ extraction           -        -          +&#xA;                   Community corrections    -        -          +&#xA;&#xA;Moderation         By moderators            -        +          +&#xA;                   Community elected mods   -        -          +&#xA;                   Moderation by community  -        -          +&#xA;                   Separation mod &amp;amp; content -        -          +&#xA;&#xA;Information access Full text search         +        +          +&#xA;                   Topic categories         -        +          +&#xA;                   Quality sorting          -        -          +&#xA;                   Complex DB queries       -        -          +&#xA;&#xA;Filtering          by predefined topics     -        +          +&#xA;                   by user-defined terms    +        ?          -&#xA;                   by consensus score       -        ?          +&#xA;                   by user-defined score    +        ?          -&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="575" LastEditDate="2011-10-15T22:59:39.350" LastActivityDate="2011-10-15T22:59:39.350" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-10-14T22:58:06.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-10-14T23:35:16.653" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The signal-to-noise ratio on TeX.SX (and other SE sites) is very good: The interface makes harder to add noise, and it is always clear what the question is and what the answers are. And the community usually removes any noise quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-10-14T23:35:16.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-10-15T00:18:38.673" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Feature of Usenet software not available on TeX.SX: Kill files (though the shouldn't be necessary...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-10-15T00:18:38.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-10-15T02:12:17.803" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;High visibility of questions and answers: TeX.SX ranks really high on Google, people looking for solutions for an issue are very likely to come across an answer on TeX.SX. Finding solutions on newsgroups is harder, you basically have to know that they're there. This high visibility can make it more attractive for people to write good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2011-10-15T02:12:17.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-10-15T08:58:31.987" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TeX.sx model is built around questions with a definite answer. The voting model means that it should be easy for the non-expert to pick out the best answer from several competing ones. The ability to mark as duplicate or merge questions means that we can avoid the 'same question many times' problem you see on Usenet, mailing lists and forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to go back and edit both questions and answers means that needing to follow through several items to find a complete view on a problem is avoided. With a threaded approach, it's common to need to look at several entries to understand the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, discussion is clearly not handled well in the Q&amp;amp;A format. Mailing lists/Usenet are clearly the best way to handle areas where you need to talk about things in an open way. That's particularly notable for development work, but also applies when a 'question' is not really clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the matter of accessibility. While many experienced (La)TeX users are comfortable with the plain-text approach in Usenet and mailing lists, a lot of newer users are not. Usenet in particular does require set up, and is not necessarily something most people are used to. (Google Groups is seen by many people as &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; interface to Usenet, and does not exploit the full power available.) In that sense, TeX.sx and forums such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-community.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The LaTeX Community&lt;/a&gt; are comparable: they have web interfaces and formatting mark up. TeX.sx is more successful as the Markdown approach is very flexible, in my opinion, that the alternative inline mark-ups used in other forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-10-15T15:33:20.193" LastActivityDate="2011-10-15T15:33:20.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-15T17:56:00.097" Score="19" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;While looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3094/drawbacks-of-xetex-luatex&quot;&gt;Drawbacks of XeTeX/LuaTeX&lt;/a&gt; I asked myself if this question is not too localized. The question was &quot;So, is there any drawback of XeTeX/LuaTeX that should stop me from switching right now?&quot; and the first answer is still valid. But it's only a matter of time when it gets invalid. What should we do with answers that will likely become obsolete at some point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2011-10-16T08:31:42.713" Title="What shall we do with future out-of-date answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1878" CreationDate="2011-10-15T18:09:36.237" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue of out-of-date answers is definitely an important one.  As TeX.SX gets a higher profile on TeX related searches, it's not good for the site to have a reputation for such answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, the dynamic nature of the site and the fact that questions and answers can be edited at least allows some degree of control over out of date information. This is in fact a big advantage that the site has over other sources of information, especially mailing list archives and newsgroups.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways we can update information in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit existing answers with &quot;Out of Date&quot; warnings.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add new answers which explicitly override previous answers making clear that the new information supersedes the old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of potential pitfalls, however, in depending solely on new answers as a way of rectifying out-of-date answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unless the OP is still active on the site, a new answer that outlines why the existing answers are no longer valid is unlikely to be changed to being the new accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Depending on the number of answers a question has, new answers may not get many votes, even if they are rectifying out-of-date information and are therefore better answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no real solution to the first problem, but it's always worth adding a comment to the question suggesting that the OP accept the new answer (if that's appropriate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the second problem, active members of the site should try to upvote new answers of this sort, so that they will float at least to second place in the list of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-10-15T20:34:05.703" LastActivityDate="2011-10-15T20:34:05.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1878" CreationDate="2011-10-15T21:03:27.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding answers that are out-of-date already: If the author of the answer is still active, my first approach would be adding a comment to the answer telling the author about the out-of-date part and asking them to update the answer. This way the answer will hopefully be updated, but until then, there's already a note about the outdatedness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-10-15T21:03:27.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1882" CreationDate="2011-10-16T17:49:40.697" Score="10" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have offered a bounty that expires tomorrow to my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30877/highlighting-line-ranges-in-a-lstlisting-partial-solution-but-expansion-issues&quot;&gt;Highlighting line ranges in a lstlisting: partial solution, but expansion issues&lt;/a&gt;, as it did not get very much attention. The bounty didn't help much, though; so I did investigate further and came up with a workaround I have posted as as an answer. So far this is the only answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that it is considered as perfectly okay to accept one owns answer (especially if it is the only answer). However, should/can I also award the bounty to myself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3751" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-10-17T04:37:41.193" Title="Is it acceptable/possible to award a bounty to one's own answer?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2011-10-16T18:02:12.763" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not possible any more. Have a look at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt; Question &quot;Can I award a bounty to my own answer?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54998/i-just-awarded-myself-a-bounty/97802#97802&quot;&gt;I just awarded myself a bounty&lt;/a&gt;, the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-10-16T18:02:12.763" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1884" CreationDate="2011-10-17T17:46:58.013" Score="20" ViewCount="17855" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very often I read a question like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I set something in LyX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I think why do you use LyX? I know the biggest advantage is &lt;em&gt;WYSIWYG&lt;/em&gt;. But people using LyX normally are not able to edit the code or to set special wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this relation I think we shouldn't recommend LyX instead we should prefer an editor like TeXStudio/TeXMaker etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you think?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most popular editors are listed in the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5239" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T18:26:27.843" Title="Is LyX an editor which should be recommended?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1883" CreationDate="2011-10-18T07:44:43.533" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's up to us to tell people what editor they should use, or to refuse giving advice if they don't agree with our choice. For new users, and especially non-programmers, LyX does have certain advantages, namely being WYSIWYG, and the more familiar formatting and editing environment similar to e.g. {Open|Libre}Office or older versions of MS Word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as training wheels - it can get you started directly out-of-the-box, but you will soon have to outgrow them if you want to perform a tricky maneuver or compete with the big boys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that a user is on the level when a new editor makes more sense -- by all means, do recommend it gently, and when answering, mention that this problem doesn't exist in editor X. But chastising people for not using a certain &quot;blessed&quot; toolset will not make them happy, especially when they are comfortable with their choice or have a valid reason to use Lyx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People should be free to shoot themselves in the foot, if they so choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastActivityDate="2011-10-18T07:44:43.533" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1883" CreationDate="2011-10-19T21:07:56.857" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO it is very important to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; consider LyX as an &quot;editor&quot; for LaTeX. It is text system in &lt;em&gt;its own respect&lt;/em&gt; that just happens to use LaTeX as back end. Thereby LyX profits from many LaTeX benefits. It also provides (via ERT, layouts and modules) an interface to directly interact with the LaTeX backend. So the connection to the topics discussed on &lt;code&gt;tex.se&lt;/code&gt; is not the front end (the editor), but the back end of LyX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have a feeling that the &quot;question behind&quot; is: Do we want to consider &lt;code&gt;tex.se&lt;/code&gt; as a forum for LyX-related questions or not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that there is a &lt;code&gt;lyx&lt;/code&gt; tag I, would say LyX-related questions are considered as perfectly okay. In this case they should be answered as that. (Even though at times I thought that the very helpful and responsive lyx-users mailing list would be a more adequate source for advice.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3751" LastActivityDate="2011-10-19T21:07:56.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1923" CreationDate="2011-10-20T18:56:57.833" Score="3" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that there was an informational message in the past few days about &lt;code&gt;imgur&lt;/code&gt; having issues. Now I see that that message is no longer appearing, but when I try to upload an image I get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Failed to upload image; the image format is not supported&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to the error message: &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JaTXa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JaTXa.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying upload PNG files from a Mac, generated exactly as I have in the past. I checked the &lt;code&gt;imgur&lt;/code&gt; web site and they still list PNG as supported format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is this an issue with imgur still experiencing problems, or is TeX.SE no longer allowing PNG files to be uploaded using the official method? If PNG is not longer supported i think a lot of Mac users are not going to be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-10-29T08:35:30.713" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T08:35:30.713" Title="imgur image hosting" Tags="|bug|status-completed|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1890" CreationDate="2011-10-20T20:26:57.723" Score="11" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering about the best way to contact an author of a package with a question or even a feature request. Just email the address in the package pdf? Ask others about it on tex.sx to make sure the feature is useful to the general public first? Or is it even rude to post &lt;code&gt;the author did not answer&lt;/code&gt;, like I did &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31734/marginfix-blockmargin&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Is there an accepted etiquette?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8631" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T12:52:25.333" Title="What is the preferred way to contact a package author?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|package-authors|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1887" CreationDate="2011-10-21T07:29:11.157" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This varies from package author to package author. If you can find a (working) e-mail address, then this is usually the best way. That can be done in parallel with a public query, for example by CCing the author on a Usenet or mailing list post, or by linking to a post here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you cannot get hold of someone, then one approach is to 'ask around' to find out if anyone knows how to get a message to them. The CTAN team are useful in this regard, as they sometimes have more up-to-date contact details than are available elsewhere. Clearly, if you've tried and failed to get hold of someone, it's acceptable to say so. That's particularly relevant if there is a need for someone to 'take over' an LPPL package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T07:29:11.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1887" CreationDate="2011-10-21T08:47:16.163" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should first check the package manual and its README file (both usually under &lt;code&gt;http://www.ctab.org/pkg/&amp;lt;packagename&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) for an email address. Many of them have it included. Some package, like mine, also have a bug tracker which should be used for bug reports and feature requests if possible. Usually such a tracker is also mentioned either in the README or the manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;marginfix&lt;/code&gt; package has a Git repository under &lt;a href=&quot;http://shicks.github.com/marginfix/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://shicks.github.com/marginfix/&lt;/a&gt;. It has a bug tracker on GitHub: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/shicks/marginfix/issues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/shicks/marginfix/issues&lt;/a&gt;. You should simply open a bug ticket there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that virtually all package authors do write these in their spare time and might be busy with their day job, so you should give them 1-2 weeks to respond, then write them a second email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several package authors are also reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.text.tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; usenet group and people often post package related issues there. However, you still should CC the author using a private email as well. He/she might overlook the post otherwise. Also it is a little rude to post it in public but not contact the author directly as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You linked post would actually be better on &lt;code&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/code&gt;. The post doesn't fit very much in the Q&amp;amp;A concept of this site. I don't think that posting the whole email to the author in full was necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-10-21T09:26:06.647" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T09:26:06.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1887" CreationDate="2011-10-21T12:52:25.333" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I couldn't come to terms with latexmk. After reading the available documentation and searching for a solution on the Internet, I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30350/use-miktex-option-through-latexmk&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; here, to make sure that I wasn't missing anything. This way, I could avoid bothering the package author with a stupid question -- turned out it wasn't: When even a bounty couldn't get me an answer that I was content with, I e-mailed my question to the author's address from the documentation, pointing him to the tex.sx post as well. I got a response within half a day, a day later a new pre-version of latexmk and another few days later, the author joined tex.sx and is now answering latexmk questions on here, which makes for a great addition to this platform. The new version of latexmk was pushed to CTAN a few days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend this way for problems of this kind; asking nicely about the problem won't hurt and everybody can benefit. Just don't get pouty if you don't get such a lightning-fast response as I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T12:52:25.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-10-21T15:05:13.680" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctanhg.scharrer-online.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gyUgM.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN HG: Mercurial Archive of CTAN&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T15:05:13.680" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-10-21T15:05:13.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1893" CreationDate="2011-10-21T15:59:25.470" Score="6" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1671/412&quot;&gt;How can I contribute to the TeX.sx Blog?&lt;/a&gt; outlines the theory of how one can contribute to the blog. How is it done in practice? I wrote a short report on snippets and their use in the typesetting process and I would like to share it with the community. I couldn't find the HOWTO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that a nice way to handle posts from members like myself (in case such a protocol is not there already), is to have some queue where one could send his/her post and after a moderator's inspection it will either be posted, or rejected, or go through some editing iterations phase. In case a method is already defined and established, I guess it should be published; in any case I could find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="412" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.643" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T19:20:22.417" Title="Posting an article to the blog" Tags="|support|blog|contributing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1892" CreationDate="2011-10-21T17:39:57.890" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contact one of the blog moderators (Joseph Wright and me) so an author account can be created on the blog site for you. You can then start to write the draft of your blog post(s) and submit it for review. The reviewing process you describe is actually already implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/884/tex-blog-editor-room&quot;&gt;TeX Blog Editor Chat Room&lt;/a&gt; which is a good place to post your intention of writing a blog post. Simply notify one or more of the blog moderators using the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-10-21T19:20:22.417" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T19:20:22.417" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-10-22T11:14:54.360" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pro SX: Every answer has a score which will be counted by up- and downvotes. This way &quot;bad&quot; answers will hopefully not be choosen by most users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contra SX: Every answer has a score which will be counted by up- and downvotes. This way most users don't even take a look at the other answers, and a different answer could be better in general, or could be better in a special case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does scoring not work reliably? Because the time period which I call &quot;active life of a question&quot; is quite short. Within the first hour the first answers will be given, and these answers will be upvoted quite fast by other users. Since the user is in wait for answers he tend to accept early ones. Answers given one week (or even more time) after the question tend to be unvalued. (Even by me, because I usually only read new questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pro SX: The user gets &quot;badges&quot; and &quot;reputation&quot; which is a motivation for answering. Since SX is based on answers, this is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contra SX: The user gets &quot;badges&quot; and &quot;reputation&quot; which is a motivation for answering. Please don't get me wrong, I do not want to blame anyone for helping. But too much motivation for answering could result in fast but not ideal answers. So I think &quot;helping&quot; should be the only motivation, and not &quot;collecting badges and reputation&quot;, so there is IMHO absolutely no need for &quot;badges&quot; or &quot;reputation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2574" LastEditorDisplayName="user2574" LastEditDate="2011-10-22T11:36:14.333" LastActivityDate="2011-10-22T11:36:14.333" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-23T18:34:56.967" Score="20" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all know extra tags need a lot of work, especially re-tagging of old posts. However there are a number of questions relating to the LaTeX kernel that do not fit in with the existing categories. In most cases LaTeX macros starting with an &lt;code&gt;\@&lt;/code&gt; would fit into this category. They are not &lt;code&gt;TeX-core&lt;/code&gt; and do not fit exactly with the &lt;code&gt;macro&lt;/code&gt; category. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-27T12:11:39.817" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T12:11:39.817" Title="Should we have a wiki tag for LaTeX core?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1895" CreationDate="2011-10-23T18:43:48.403" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in favor of such a tag. We just have to be careful that new users don't use it a general LaTeX tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions so far for the tag name where &lt;code&gt;latex-core&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;latex-kernel&lt;/code&gt;. Actually I find &lt;code&gt;kernel&lt;/code&gt; now much better because that is the term also used by the original LaTeX2e team, at least it is part of some kernel macro names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-10-23T18:43:48.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1895" CreationDate="2011-10-23T20:49:29.277" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see the potential usefulness of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-kernel&lt;/a&gt; tag. However, it should only be introduced together with a tag wiki excerpt that clearly states that the tag is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; meant for general questions about LaTeX. (As a working definition of what &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-kernel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; about, I suggest &quot;anything that requires delving into &lt;code&gt;source2e&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, e.g., my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24495/what-exactly-does-doendpe-do&quot;&gt;What exactly does \@doendpe do?&lt;/a&gt; would fit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Some questions may have to be retagged from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-kernel&lt;/a&gt;, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4790/documentation-reference-for-latex-internal-commands&quot;&gt;Documentation reference for LaTeX internal commands?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: I added the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-kernel&lt;/a&gt; tag to the first three questions and also created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/latex-kernel/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki excerpt&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T20:17:26.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1837" CreationDate="2011-10-24T11:07:59.337" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you can see the swag package. I made the photo during the TeX Users Group Conference 2011 in India, where it's been arranged on a table in a room where we met for coffee breaks during the conference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6hu1Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;swag table TUG 2011&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-10-24T11:07:59.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1883" CreationDate="2011-10-24T13:54:06.160" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;To begin by arguing with Daniel, there are use cases for Lyx, e.g., my (unanswered) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8704/can-lyx-syntax-files-override-document-class-defaults&quot;&gt;Can Lyx syntax files override document class defaults?&lt;/a&gt;, and problems arising when using Lyx, e.g., Dave Jarvis' &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6851/create-new-paragraph-style-in-lyx&quot;&gt;Create new paragraph style in LyX&lt;/a&gt;, which show Lyx to be a citizen in the land of Latex, not just a tourist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, debugging even WYSIWYG Lyx problems quite often depends on Latex knowledge, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11030/lyx-enumeration-style-from-numbers-to-letters&quot;&gt;LyX enumeration style from numbers to letters&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I do not think that we should deprecate Lyx.  What we should do is encourage Lyx users to learn about Latex, since it will help them to use this tool better, and it may make attractive the option most of us prefer, of using Latex (or Context, or Plain Tex, OWHY) directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should say, I have often used ERT boxes in Lyx to test small bits of Latex code for answers I provided here.  For some reason obscure even to me, I like organising snippets of Latex code in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-24T13:54:06.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-10-24T23:01:47.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing this as a consumer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read Usenet newsgroups in the late 80s and early nineties.  (I stopped reading them with the advent of the WWW.)  You cannot compare SX to Usenet.  (To be sure, I looked at the current state of the Usenet news group comp.text.tex.)  SX is like OS X and Usenet is like DOS OS.  SX is very &quot;user friendly&quot; and Usenet is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, not all SX sites are good.  TeX.SX is an exception.  IMHO, TeX.SX is one of the best sites on the Internet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Usenet is not free.  If you do not believe me, google &quot;Usenet&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastActivityDate="2011-10-24T23:01:47.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2011-10-25T01:33:54.557" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to start by saying how much I respect tex exchange and all of its users. I am quite often amazed by the wizardry that some people have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Werner's comment above&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, I can see a discouraged feeling when ill-commented high-rep answers (like &quot;Try this...&quot; or &quot;Here you go...&quot;) win discussion-filled and correct low-rep users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;completely sums up how I feel sometimes. As a fairly low-rep user, there have been a few instances when I have posted answers, only to have a high-rep-guru post a slightly tweaked variation that ends up outscoring my answer- sob! (I don't actually cry, don't worry.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such cases, it might be nice to make a comment saying something like, 'have you thought about using this...'. @Werner demonstrates this regularly- see the comment on @Mico's answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32402/how-to-prevent-page-breaks-in-lists-exam-class/32404#32404&quot;&gt;How to prevent page breaks in lists? (&amp;quot;Exam&amp;quot; class)&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does also seem that high-rep users are allowed to post one-line answers, and low-rep users are not. From the OP's perspective, a one-line answer is still a one-line answer, no matter who says it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-10-25T01:33:54.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-25T08:20:07.253" Score="23" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;And if so, what should we do about them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite what &quot;homework&quot; means for TeX, I don't know.  There are some places that have courses in how to use TeX/LaTeX, and presumably they assign homework, but there are a few aspects of that that make me doubtful that people would ask their homework questions here in the same way that they do on, say, Maths-SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, we do get the occasional question that has a &quot;homework feel&quot; to it in that they appear to simply state a problem with no motivation or explanation as to what they've already done to try to solve it.  An example is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32625/86&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32625/86&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't think that actual homework questions are going to be a large problem for us so I don't think that having an &lt;em&gt;official homework policy&lt;/em&gt; is either necessary or useful (and given the hassle that they have on Maths-SX with deciding and enforcing such a policy, I'd like to avoid it here).  But questions like the above need &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; action.  I'd rather treat the symptom than the cause and it seems that the simplest treatment is to have a text block that can be used to put a polite and informative comment on such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to devise such a text block, we need to identify what exactly it is about questions like this that needs improving.  Here's my initial reaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Impersonal&lt;/strong&gt;.  I like to know that I'm helping &lt;em&gt;a person&lt;/em&gt; so use of the personal pronoun is good in a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No motivation&lt;/strong&gt;. Not for the original problem, but for the TeX-related part.  What is this for?  What sort of document?  That sort of thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No work done&lt;/strong&gt;. There's no evidence of having thought how one might start, or what tools one might use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm well aware that such a question can just be a feature of someone's lack of facility with English, or with this place.  That's why I think that treating the symptoms, not the cause, is better for us: it's the same treatment whether it came from homework as from someone's Norwegian research article.  That's also why I'd like a &lt;em&gt;polite&lt;/em&gt; text block that can be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And, just to remind everyone, the text blocks are not there because they &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be used, but to provide a base-line of civility and politeness for this place.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I have to have a question ... so here are some:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does anyone have a different main outlook on the issues that I've raised?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does anyone have other characteristics of these questions that should be addressed in a text block?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does anyone have a suggestion for the text block itself?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I just tilting at windmills?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T14:35:04.957" Title="Are we starting to get homework questions?" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1902" CreationDate="2011-10-25T09:05:14.597" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess questions of this type can just be considered &quot;low quality&quot;, regardless of whether they stem from a homework problem or a lack of experience with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to Ask&lt;/a&gt;&quot; page on stackoverflow, which addresses a lot of the mentioned issues (&quot;Do your homework, be specific, make it relevant to others...&quot;). Maybe we could refer people to that site, using something along the lines of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hi ..., welcome to TeX.sx. In its current form, your question might not get many answers. Please take a look at the [How to Ask](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-ask)-Page and try to improve your question according to the guidance found there. If you have questions about what to do or if you don't quite understand what I mean, please ask for clarification using the Comment function.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T14:35:04.957" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2011-10-26T10:57:20.143" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the T-Shirt in action. The Photo has been made at the TeX User Group Conference 2011 in India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pt6z9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This photo is part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://download.river-valley.com/tug2011/album/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;32nd Annual Meeting of TUG Album&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-10-26T10:57:20.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-26T23:37:35.067" Score="27" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you organize your favorites? My List gets longer and longer and it’s hard to find the entry I’m looking for. So it would be great to be able to sort them acording to their tags or even collect them in user defined folders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-11-04T00:52:32.600" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T10:34:58.213" Title="Organize Favorites" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-27T09:40:47.593" Score="17" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion CTAN misses two important features:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;version control, automatic uploads, author's identity verification (this would simplify a lot of work for both package authors and CTAN maintainers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rating of package quality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first issue would need some heavy reorganization at CTAN end and quite some coding to do it right. Martin's &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctanhg.scharrer-online.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ctanhg&lt;/a&gt; solves the problem of archiving (it doesn't solve the original problem, but at least points to the right direction).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm writing because of the second issue. It seems to me that TeX.SX reputation scheme could easily be used for tagging and rating TeX packages in the same way as questions are rated. I'm not trying to say that coding it would be trivial, but it would probably be the first useful attempt in history trying to rate packages. I would like to see a new subdomain packages.tex.stackexchange.com, listing all of CTAN packages, with the following functionality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each user with sufficient rights may vote up or down. Maybe number of stars is more appropriate, but then it is difficult to tell what exactly two stars mean. I would like the number of votes to reflect popularity on one hand. If two people give five stars, this only tells you that the package is not really popular. Maybe 1 point for &quot;useful&quot;, 5 points for &quot;excellent&quot;, -1 for &quot;bad&quot; and -10 for &quot;very very bad&quot;. If package authors have an account on TeX.SX and if the association is made, they should be granted points from their packages to their reputation on SX.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe more than a single category for voting is needed. I would like to vote on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is package maintained? Is it up-to-date? (Does it work with XeLaTeX for example?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How buggy is it? What is the overall code quality and documentation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How important is it? (TikZ or babel are highly important, but babel is not maintaned.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ability for adding &quot;See Also&quot; with comments/reasons why.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For example: even though PSTricks is still an excellent package, one could suggest users to take TikZ instead if starting from scratch.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bib package for ConTeXt and biblatex (&amp;amp; friends) for LaTeX: each one serving a different purpose (one is not a replacement for the other), but still tightly related.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Space for general comments. (With high reputation users being able to edit, as usual.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some kind of wiki to enable community-driven descriptions of packages. Some packages on CTAN miss descriptions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why all that? TeX Live gains a few hundreds of megabytes of extra packages each year with basically zero feedback about their usefulness and popularity. Packages are taken into distribution with zero quality control and once they are in, everyone is afraid to remove them since somebody might be already using that package. With some honest feedback, this would help us make a clear picture of current package status. It would also make it easier for new users to find the packages they are looking for. CTAN offers catalogue with categories, but doesn't show you feedback: for example why some particular package did or did not solve a particular problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all package descriptions would be hosted on SX, this would also answer the questions of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73/automatic-links-to-the-ctan-catalogue&quot;&gt;Automatic links to the CTAN catalogue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Feel free to edit my post.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6367" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-10-28T16:42:44.753" Title="Using TeX.SX reputation for rating &amp; commenting TeX packages on CTAN (feature request)" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1909" CreationDate="2011-10-27T11:49:20.273" Score="6" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, I see 15 blogs listed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;. Some blogs already contain many posts, some blogs less than ours. And I think our &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX blog&lt;/a&gt; is of good quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it ready to be shown on blogoverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think can be done to bring it forward?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-10-27T14:24:51.950" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T14:24:51.950" Title="Why isn't our blog appearing on the blogoverflow.com main page?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1908" CreationDate="2011-10-27T14:21:00.207" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange Community Blogs are listed on the Blog Overflow homepage the moment their first post goes up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were several encoding errors in &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/tug-2011-day-two&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG 2011, Day Two&lt;/a&gt; that were screwing up the RSS feed.  This prevented the feed from being properly parsed and displayed on the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've fixed these errors and the TeX blog is properly listed on the Blog Overflow homepage again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1816" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T14:21:00.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1910" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1911" CreationDate="2011-10-27T15:41:55.630" Score="5" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just remarked that my flag weight is shown as &lt;code&gt;510.0000&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;510&lt;/code&gt;. Has anyone else seen the same problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/agR7d.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T18:50:44.847" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T18:50:44.847" Title="Flag weight displayed wrong" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|user-profile-page|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1910" CreationDate="2011-10-27T16:17:40.077" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag weights above 500 are by design displayed with four digits after the comma. Up to a weight of 500, a &quot;helpful&quot; flag increases the flag weight by 10, but for higher weights, the increase for a helpful flag is less than 10 -- IIRC, it is exactly 1 for a weight of 625 and 0.1 for the maximum flag weight of 750. Because of the somewhat counter-intuitive formula, a helpful flag at a weight of 500 yields &quot;510.0000&quot;, but your next helpful flag will let you advance to somewhat below 520, and the digits after the comma will become useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T16:17:40.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1910" CreationDate="2011-10-27T16:19:23.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is no bug, it is a normal behaviour. Quoting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80170/what-is-flag-weight/80178#80178&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com post &quot;What is flag weight?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Why is my flag weight not an integer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because flag weight above 500 does not increase in a linear fashion,&#xA;  decimal places are shown for precision purposes and to show you how&#xA;  your flag weight is changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T16:19:23.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1906" CreationDate="2011-10-27T17:39:14.047" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that the stack exchange model will work for TeX packages. The idea of voting for answers work because the question does not change with time (at least not drastically). But TeX packages can and do change. Imagine that I upload a package that is not compatible with &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt;, and such gets voted down very heavily. A few months later, I figure out how to make the package compatible with &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; and upload a new version. Now, the old ratings do not reflect the current state of the package. One way around this is that the reputation fades away with time that is, the current rating just depends on the votes received in the last one year (or whatever fixed amount of time) rather than votes received since eternity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is less of an issue for the big and well though out packages like &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt;. But then, users do not need a rating system to know that such packages are useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T17:39:14.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-27T19:49:15.880" Score="21" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;On November 11th, the first birthday of TeX Stack Exchange is coming up. That's the date when the site has been publicly launched, ending its beta phase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's celebrate it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have ideas for contests, rewards, or any other great activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there already were contributions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1431/birthday-celebrations&quot;&gt;Birthday Celebrations&lt;/a&gt;, for July 26th when the private beta started. Let's get bigger, let's have some fun, we even could get Stack Exchange support! Think of prizes such as TeX and Stack Exchange swag, TeX books, sponsored TUG memberships, or something you suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For inspiration, have a look at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.superuser.com/2011/08/19/super-users-2nd-birthday-super-contest/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Super User 2nd birthday contest&lt;/a&gt; (and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/super-user-1-year-anniversary-super-contest/&quot;&gt;1st one&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Webapps &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/969/celebrating-our-birthday&quot;&gt;Celebrating our Birthday&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/979/web-applications-anniversary-contest&quot;&gt;Web Applications Anniversary Contest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking forward to reading your suggestions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T14:51:46.150" Title="Celebrating the birthday of our {TeX} site" Tags="|discussion|contests|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-27T20:29:54.800" Score="28" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an overview of my attendance at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2011/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Users Group Conference 2011&lt;/a&gt;. My extensive reports can be read &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/tag/conferences-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;on our blog&lt;/a&gt;, and as there are many related meta site posts, I will&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compile a list of related internal links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show preparation, participation and post-treatment in chronological sequence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Preparation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1265/possible-conference-speaking-sponsorships-2011&quot;&gt;the offer to speaking sponsorships&lt;/a&gt;, TUG 2011 has been chosen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I asked, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1497/who-plans-to-go-to-the-tug-2011-conference-in-india&quot;&gt;who of us would go there&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prepared abstract, sent to TUG, which had been &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2011/program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;accepted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE agreed in sponsoring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1744/who-would-like-to-become-a-member-of-the-tex-user-group-sponsored-by-stack-exch&quot;&gt;Became member&lt;/a&gt; of TUG, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;together with SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self-organizing flights, hotel, visa for India, conference registration&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Involving TeX.SX users also in the presentation of our site:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Selecting a great &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1828/which-question-would-you-choose-as-a-showcase-for-attracting-tex-experts&quot;&gt;question for attracting experts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Choosing a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1775/who-designs-the-best-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;great tag wiki for demonstration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1872/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-tex-sx-compared-to-usenet-groups-mailing-lists-an&quot;&gt;pros and cons of TeX.SX compared to other systems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1849/how-can-we-explore-the-content-of-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Making use of the data explorer&lt;/a&gt; for getting data to speak about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;At the conference&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Held a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/bringing-together-tex-users-online/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;presentation about TeX online communities&lt;/a&gt; with a particular focus on TeX.SX, with a live demonstration of the site including chat and meta site, used contributions on above mentioned meta answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The talk has been live broad-casted on the Internet via &lt;a href=&quot;http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/broadcasting/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;river-valley.zeeba.tv/broadcasting&lt;/a&gt;, seen also &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/conversation/tug2011&quot;&gt;by chat users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Made clear statement during the presentation that Stack Exchange fully sponsored my attendance &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gave Stack Exchange swag to attendees (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1837/tex-stack-exchange-swag-for-top-users/1898#1898&quot;&gt;photo of swag table&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Handed TeX.SX &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1433/tex-stack-exchange-moderator-cards&quot;&gt;business cards&lt;/a&gt; over to fellow participants, got some back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Had a TeX.SX t-shirt on, also while speaking (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/tex-sx-t-shirts/1904#1904&quot;&gt;the photo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Talked with fellow participants about the site among TeX topics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;After the conference&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posted reports on the conference to our blog, already started during the conference:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/tug-2011-day-one/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Day 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/tug-2011-day-two/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Day 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/tug-2011-day-three/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Day 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Published the presentation on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/bringing-together-tex-users-online/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;our blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex-archive/online/tex-online/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;my blog&lt;/a&gt;, and on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/StefanKottwitz/tex-online-communities&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;slideshare.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Informed about reports on our TeX blog on the conference mailing list, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-community.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=413:tug-2011-reports&amp;amp;catid=44:news-latex&amp;amp;Itemid=111&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX-Community.org&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.golatex.de/news.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;goLaTeX.de&lt;/a&gt;, also going to TeX feed aggregators such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/community/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texample.net&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.dante.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;planet.dante.de&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preparing an article for the upcoming &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUGboat journal&lt;/a&gt;, the conference proceedings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggested also using the daily reports in that journal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The article will be translated for the German TeX user group journal (DANTE), either appearing soon or together with a presentation at the next DANTE conference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I prepared an about 8 pages report about the conference in German to be appearing in the upcoming DANTE journal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A video of the presentation has been published on the Internet, by river-valley.zeeba.tv, PDF slide show together with video and audio synchronized:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/bringing-together-tex-users-online-from-usenet-to-web-2-0-and-beyond/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/bringing-together-tex-users-online-from-usenet-to-web-2-0-and-beyond/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCt6ZM9Cn6A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCt6ZM9Cn6A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it's useful for somebody regarding next year's events or even as an example for other Stack Exchange sites. Answers and comments, such as what could be done better or differently, are very welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:46:01.267" Title="Going to a conference - the TUG 2011 experience" Tags="|discussion|tug|speakers-bureau|conferences|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1906" CreationDate="2011-10-28T09:02:42.790" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good idea, but I also think it would would require some specialist support to work, where I guess that the SX team will not want to do.  For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A minimum feature that such a site would need is for the tagging system to work with the tags on the Q&amp;amp;A part of the site;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't think that the SX  can support more semantics for rating that how many people here think a package is good; you would need some further peer review mechanism for that, but maybe CTAN having just a &lt;em&gt;TeX.SX Package Rating&lt;/em&gt; with link to the entry, would be enough;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aditya points out the problem that packages are targets that move rather more than questions;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It sounds as if you want the package pages not to look like or behave like Q&amp;amp;A threads.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have nothing specific to point to, but my impression of their business plan is that they want to work on a single site model that is good for everything, so that they can debug everywhere and have a very polished product.  Having a vocabulary subsite for this German-English site and a script annotation subsite for that OS site would split the efforts of the team.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, SX has teamed with other startups, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/upload/Imgur-Stack-Partnership-PR-for-IC_8-24-10_FINAL-2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imgur (PR)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=664&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Canonical (announcement)&lt;/a&gt;, to provide add-on functionality: there might be a possibility if someone else took the responsibility and initiative and came up with a suitable site.  And from what Jim Hefferon says about CTAN goals in the 2005 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb27-0/hefferon.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CTAN progress report&lt;/a&gt;, it looks possible that CTAN would be enthusiastic about such a cooperation.  And Jeff has said that SX does look for more Canonical-like tie-ups; I guess they make the whole SX network be more authoritative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A starting point would be a concrete proposal that says what each of SX and CTAN would need to do to make the site possible.  Having CTAN volunterres develop and maintain a separate site offline that is integrated with tex.sx through the SX API needs to be considered as a model; maybe SX and/or TUG would be willing to put up some funds to subsidise developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-10-28T09:02:42.790" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1914" CreationDate="2011-10-28T09:26:16.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contest suggestion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TeX.SX Screencast&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who creates a nice screen-cast introducing the features of TeX.SX? This could be a nice demonstration, with a carefully selected demo question, wiki, meta discussion and chat transcript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teamwork is possible regarding conceptualizing, screen recording, if desired separate audio recording by another good speaker and finalizing. If you would like to contribute in a team, perhaps comment to this answer, or create a TeX.SX screencast chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of recording software, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/4428/how-to-create-a-screencast&quot;&gt;on Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be worth a big prize and would be published on the TeX.SX blog and I'm sure on further places such as blogs and Youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:23:05.013" LastActivityDate="2011-10-28T09:26:16.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1914" CreationDate="2011-10-28T09:40:05.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contest suggestion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Great Blog Posts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who creates a great blog post during a contest time? It could be during possibly 2 weeks (or 11 days?) starting from 11.11.11 on. There are great answers on this site which could lead to great blog posts! Or write about new topics. Several authors could get a prize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can honor earlier contributions of our already active blog writers if we consider those additionally when looking at their contest contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1671/how-can-i-contribute-to-the-tex-sx-blog&quot;&gt;How can I contribute to the TeX.SX Blog?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1460/what-would-you-like-to-read-in-a-tex-sx-blog&quot;&gt;What would you like to read in a TeX.SX blog?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1892/posting-an-article-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;Posting an article to the blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a nice opportunity to honor authors who write blog posts, since it doesn't result in reputation score or badges on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T18:13:47.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1914" CreationDate="2011-10-28T11:12:04.963" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update: Question posted at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34482/contest-show-off-your-latex-skillz-tex-sx-birthday&quot;&gt;Contest: Show Off Your Skillz in TeX &amp;amp; Friends [TeX.sx birthday]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contest suggestion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Show off your LaTeX skillz&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show off the LaTeX knowledge you've gathered over the years, include things that a more-or-less everyday document can &lt;strong&gt;benefit&lt;/strong&gt; from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;two-page (A4 oder letter) document&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should mainly be text, but content doesn't matter -- feel free to show the most beautiful &lt;em&gt;lorem ipsum&lt;/em&gt; ever. Reuse of something you have already written earlier is fine as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include whatever visual stimuli you can think of, e.g. figures, tables, margin notes, background pictures, drop caps / initials ... but in the end, it has to look &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;, not cluttered. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it typographically, aesthetically and perhaps even funwise maximally appealing. the vote is likely to be pretty subjective at any rate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX etc. are allowed, too, but I'd like to limit the &quot;ingredients&quot; to things provided on CTAN or otherwise &lt;em&gt;easily&lt;/em&gt; publicly and freely available, so that everybody can reproduce and compile the document.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The source &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be included, optimally extensively annotated so that non-expert users can understand which package and which hack does what. This should be taken into consideration for the voting as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The source (i.e. the the LaTeX code, not necessarily the text itself) must be published under some license that allows for easy reuse -- suggestions welcome, I'm not an expert in this field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please make suggestions to these conditions! We might want to allow for more pages if a title page, ToC, LoF, LoT, an index / glossary, bibliography etc. are included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to avoid &quot;cheating&quot;, i.e. stealing other people's ideas, we have to find some way to get around this. As I think the contest will take place in a separate question on meta (or on the main site?), I suggest everybody posts their document + code, and deletes it immediately. When the deadline is over, the question gets locked and all the answers are undeleted, thus made visible again and the voting can start and users can vote for like a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My idea is to see some of the experts on here actually applying their enormous knowledge to a sort of &quot;everyday&quot; project. I'm expecting many useful packages, a number of nice hacks, perhaps some things you wouldn't necessarily include in a bone-dry scientific paper but that look nice after all. Hopefully, users will be able to draw some inspiration from these documents and improve their everyday LaTeX use a bit. In a way, this should be a very personal and subjective best of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;best-practices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;best-practices&lt;/a&gt; questions, but once again, I'd also like to encourage things that are a bit wild. We might even get new questions out of this project, e.g. &quot;How does x work?&quot; or &quot;Is it advisable to do y?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Questions:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alright, this idea seems to be decently popular. A few questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will my idea about avoiding &quot;cheating&quot; work the way I described it? 20k+ users might see deleted posts, but I'm confident they wouldn't cheat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should the contest be a question on meta or on the main site? I tend to put it on the main site, just to get more attention. I could explicitly say that that question would generally be of an inappropriate format for tex.sx, but this is an &quot;officially approved exception&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Putting it on the main site will probably give the participants a lot of reputation, but I don't think this is a problem. If it were, it could be avoided by putting the question on meta, since meta rep doesn't really matter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-11-11T14:11:30.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-10-28T13:41:23.343" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.contextgarden.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DQdPB.png&quot; alt=&quot;ConTeXt User Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6367" LastEditorUserId="323" LastEditDate="2011-10-30T18:45:34.840" LastActivityDate="2011-10-30T18:45:34.840" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-10-28T13:41:23.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="851" CreationDate="2011-10-28T15:10:20.463" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me this behavior doesn't happen anymore. Entering &lt;code&gt;\def\foo#1{xxx}&lt;/code&gt; on the main site gives me the following preview (zoomed in heavily):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LOal3.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#1{xxx}&lt;/code&gt; isn't gray anymore, so I believe this question is &quot;solved&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2011-10-28T15:10:20.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1906" CreationDate="2011-10-28T16:42:44.753" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;while there is definitely merit in the idea of rating packages, what i would prefer to see is more information concerning compatibility with other packages -- or that such compatibility hasn't been tested.  as a trouble-shooter for a production shop, information like this is vitally important, more important even than that a particular package is the best of the lot for a particular function.  for example, while biblatex provides much more extensive and flexible features than bibtex, it is not, and will not become, compatible with the ams document classes, so it's inadvisable for an author targeting an ams publication to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i'm not at all sure how a repository of such supplementary information might be implemented, but it's probably even less suited to the sx model than the ratings concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;suggesting modifications to the ctan model/catalogue is all well and good, but the &quot;staffing&quot; level of ctan is minimal, and at least partly depends on the willingness of the host sites to allow &quot;foreigners&quot; to access the machines in question with full update privileges.  the present maintainers are all employees of the host institutions, or have long trusted associations there.  gaining the necessary privileges to be able to supplement the present maintenance group would be nontrivial, i suspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2011-10-28T16:42:44.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2011-10-29T02:33:09.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now fixed and seems to be working well for several days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T02:33:09.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2011-10-29T09:23:43.697" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a (very?) low-rep user, I feel like there are two worlds - the world of mortal (wo)men with, say, less than 500 reputation, and the world of supernatural beings with the gods at over 10,000 reputation. The gods interfere too much and too quickly in the affairs of men, while we should probably be encouraged to try to sort things out on our own, helping each other. Then gradually if we don't manage, or suggest kludgy solutions, being of higher and higher reputation should begin to intervene. The intervention can also be gradual, like @cmhughes suggests, beginning with a &quot;have you considered&quot; comment in the hope that low-rep users end up writing a good solution themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pedagogy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T09:23:43.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2011-10-29T12:13:36.553" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish or have published previously on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T12:13:36.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1928" CreationDate="2011-10-29T16:10:36.973" Score="18" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that the name that appears on a question line is the name of the last person who either supplied a solution or made a comment on it.  However, (at least) for the question  &quot;Should high-rep users hang back a little?&quot; this not the case.  I failed to find &quot;Axel Sommerfeldt&quot;s comment or answer. (See attached figure.)  Perhaps, I do not know what the name that appears at the end of a question supposed to mean?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FQcx1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:39:39.253" Title="What does a name after a question represent?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1927" CreationDate="2011-10-29T16:17:29.383" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the last person to answer or edit. In the case you point to, Axel answered then deleted his answer. Only users with reputation over 10k can see deleted material. So for example I can see his answer, and thus understand what's going on, while most people cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T16:17:29.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1927" CreationDate="2011-10-30T00:57:23.470" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to @Joseph's answer, comments are excluded from this displayed name. Additionally, the displayed name may change depending on the view. For example, when viewing the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, you will see the last answered/edited user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8td1E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when viewing &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (sorted by &quot;newest&quot;) the user who asked the question will be displayed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bstLQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last view, it is clearly marked as being &quot;asked.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;Sorting by &quot;active&quot;&lt;/a&gt; shows the most recent modification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:39:39.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-10-30T13:46:49.487" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should not underestimate the fact the Tex.sx has an active and competent base community which is focused on solid answers: receiving an answer within &lt;em&gt;minutes&lt;/em&gt; without the need to register seems to be a unique to Tex.sx (at least unique compared to a couple of other LaTeX forums in which I follow posts, including comp.text.tex).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that new people receive a warm &quot;Welcome&quot; rather than complaints about their formulation or (missing) details of their question is also different from some of the other mentioned forums. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that both has a lot to do with the people who answer questions and moderate the system (thanks to you, by the way). The system of TeX.sx encourages such a motivation by means of an attractive reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to summarize: I believe that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post without registration&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a system which encourages people to assist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a community which is willing to assist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excellent response times by users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;automatic sort by scores&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;active moderation (&quot;low noise&quot; as pointed out by others)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a very simple and powerful image uploading facility&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;simple-to-use code formatting &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is what distinguishes TeX.sx from alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, I sometimes miss the ability to add a little bit of common formality (and perhaps personalization) like &quot;Hi whatever, good question blabla  Best regard XXX&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1537" LastActivityDate="2011-10-30T13:46:49.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1932" CreationDate="2011-10-31T13:18:46.493" Score="33" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if a policy exists (and if so, what it is) for retagging questions once they have been answered. To illustrate what I mean, I recently answered &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32948/draw-small-cross-at-the-center-of-the-page/32950#32950&quot;&gt;Draw small cross at the center of the page&lt;/a&gt;. It is currently tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/technical-drawing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;technical-drawing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;technical-drawing&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/positioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;positioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;positioning&lt;/a&gt; tag would have been better, but that is not the point I want to make here. The answer I provided (which was accepted) was a pure &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TikZ&lt;/a&gt; answer. Should the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; tag be added to the question based on the accepted answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, @ThorstenDonig provided an answer using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eso-pic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;eso-pic&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which is also perfectly acceptable. So should we also add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eso-pic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eso-pic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eso-pic&lt;/a&gt; tag in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose in part this question is about why are questions tagged a certain way? To make it easier for people with significant knowledge in a certain area to find the questions in order to answer them? Or also for people with a general interest in an area to find the questions? If the former is the case, tagging after a question has been answered has little use, in case of the latter it could still be valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T21:46:37.737" Title="What's the policy on retagging questions based on answers?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1931" CreationDate="2011-10-31T13:20:03.763" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, tags are supposed to be about questions, not answers. So the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; tag should be used if the question mentions or implies Tikz, but not if the answers do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-10-31T13:20:03.763" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1931" CreationDate="2011-10-31T13:34:26.273" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree fully with Joseph's answer. Tags are about the question, not the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions should be retagged if the OP used the wrong tag, forgot one or it turned out to be a different problem than expected. Like, he got an error while using macro &lt;code&gt;\foobar&lt;/code&gt; but it is actually the &lt;code&gt;barbaz&lt;/code&gt; package which causes it. Then the question should be tagged for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, there are only five tags allowed and there could be, in theory, more than four or five different answers using different techniques. You can't give tags for all answers then. (Not that this is so likely to occur).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-10-31T14:50:08.767" LastActivityDate="2011-10-31T14:50:08.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-31T18:55:34.043" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be my mistake but on the only &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4502/onlyitems-how-to-select-specific-items-from-an-item-list&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; I offered and gave the bounty went to the wrong answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, I am pretty sure that I intended to give it to one answer, but then I got a comment from the author saying that he is confused as to why I gave it to an old answer of his, rather than to the newer and better answer he wrote due to the bounty (it was the answer to which I intended to give the bounty). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is very little way for me to trace exactly what happened, and it's not cheap for me to conduct experiments, so I post here to see if others have experienced a similar event. Specifically, there may have been a confusion since the same author had 3 answers. I do not discount that I could have been confused, but if there's some sort of bug, it would be nice to find it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T10:27:00.697" Title="Bug with assigning of bounty?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1914" CreationDate="2011-10-31T21:22:22.223" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TeX.sx article/issue&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A special article/issue specially released for this great celebration. We could have short interviews with some of our members, an overview of our community, moderators analysis, chatroom pearls, LaTeX jokes&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, comments on questions, statistics, and so forth. We could also give this issue a name and publish it three or four times per year. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; We got so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can provide some illustrations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We will have a series of posts in our blog covering our birthday celebrations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can get statistics from these two resources: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls&quot;&gt;TeX Community Polls&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1849/how-can-we-explore-the-content-of-tex-sx&quot;&gt;How can we explore the content of TeX.SX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We already have lots of chatroom pearls, we just need to select them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have some (La)TeX jokes, from kittens and chickens to halloween costume suggestions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have two great interviewees: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;egreg&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 &lt;sub&gt;Something like &lt;em&gt;Why did the TeX chicken cross the road&lt;/em&gt; and others. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T20:26:28.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2011-11-01T14:51:54.170" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;What features do you miss in (La)TeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3555" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T14:51:54.170" CommentCount="31" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-11-01T14:51:54.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-01T16:09:22.403" Score="14" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;When voting on a comment, one can only up-vote once every 5 seconds. Try to vote  more often than that, and you'll get a yellow box telling informing you of this policy. However, the box is placed near the last comment &lt;strong&gt;which can be invisible to you.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the box should appear right over the comment you are trying to up-vote, since that comment should be visible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="1106" LastEditDate="2011-11-03T10:06:07.277" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T10:06:07.277" Title="Design flaw concerning the location of a notification box" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|voting|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1914" CreationDate="2011-11-01T18:11:56.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contest suggestion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The best tag wiki page&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very similar to my previous question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1775/who-designs-the-best-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;Who designs the best tag wiki?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest designing tag wikis as part of the contests, since tag wiki pages can be excellent summaries and link collections of links to resources on this site and elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1007/what-makes-a-good-tag-wiki-entry&quot;&gt;What makes a good tag-wiki entry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;Redesigned Tags Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very nice example wikis: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/pgfplots/info&quot;&gt;{pgfplots}&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/biblatex/info&quot;&gt;{biblatex}&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/mathmode/info&quot;&gt;{mathmode}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is another possibility for honoring activities which are great without resulting in reputation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-11-01T18:11:56.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1940" CreationDate="2011-11-02T19:04:37.977" Score="9" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I downvote an answer or a question my reputation will be reduced by 1. In the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/838/should-i-downvote-spam&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should I downvote spam?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the message is bold =&gt; &lt;strong&gt;downvote to help &quot;normal&quot; users&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the benefit of downvoting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I downvoted a spam answer in the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33455/check-if-next-char-is&quot;&gt;Check if next char is {&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5239" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-11-02T19:28:51.127" Title="What is the benefit of downvoting whereat the reputation is reduced?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2011-11-02T19:28:51.127" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason down-votes exists is similar to the reason up-votes exists. The total sum of votes should indicate how good an answer is perceived by the community. Good posts should be up-voted, not-good posts should not receive votes and really bad or incorrect posts should be down-voted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to pay 1 rep for a down-vote on a question so that you won't down-vote just for fun and take it serious. If the post is deleted afterwards you can get your reputation back by recalculating it (go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation#bottom&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation#bottom&lt;/a&gt; and press the button there). If the post is improved by an edit you can remove the down-vote and get the reputation back as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spam posts should be simply flagged as spam using the 'flag' link below it. You can down-vote it as well, but this is not required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-11-02T19:28:51.127" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1937" CreationDate="2011-11-03T10:05:56.653" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call it a design flaw, just a plain old bug &amp;ndash; this wasn't by design. You're absolutely right, the popup should appear where you clicked (it used to be that way; this was a regression).  Fixed in the next build; thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T10:05:56.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1934" CreationDate="2011-11-03T10:26:54.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll have to assume that you did indeed misclick, since the server log shows your &quot;award bounty&quot; request to go to the old answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gcHRk.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the log entry&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note the 4537 in the Uri). I also checked the corresponding JavaScript code, and I can't find any reason whatsoever why it would send the wrong post id to the server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T10:26:54.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-04T10:29:19.803" Score="23" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I get some very useful comments on my own answers and feel the urge to correct them accordingly. However, I see the  problem, that if I just correct my answer straight, this would leave the comments incomprehensible to other users, as the comments refer to the original version and not to the one the user now sees. So, what would be the best practice here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just edit the question and expect the user to look into the version history, if he/she doesn't understand the comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Same as above but state it boldly that the answer was changed (put something like EDITED on top of your answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put some EDIT mark below the original answer and append the revised answer below&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post it as a new answer, referring to the old answer and comments (?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some alternative I haven't thought about?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: of course, this refers only to edits that change the answer substantially, not minor edits like grammar or spelling corrections.&#xA;One example I have in mind is my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33538/how-to-get-an-approximately-proportional-to-symbol/33555#33555&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, where I changed the code almost completely in response to the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T18:33:24.057" Title="How to edit your own answers" Tags="|discussion|editing|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1943" CreationDate="2011-11-04T10:41:43.053" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quality of the answer is important. So it's better to make it clearly understandable, improve your original answer, without &lt;em&gt;edited&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;2nd edt&lt;/em&gt; remarks. The history can still be read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To let the reader understand comments, you could add the necessary information in the comment area, following that comment. It belongs there. Perhaps directly address the comment writer telling that it's corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better, remove obsolete comments later or flag the comments as obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-04T10:57:01.990" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T10:57:01.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1275" CreationDate="2011-11-04T11:31:46.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're particularly interested in specific questions, you could retrieve their RSS Feed URLs, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/32911&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/32911&lt;/a&gt; (→ the post number), and subscribe to e-mail notifications for them via an external service, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://informant.se/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://informant.se/&lt;/a&gt; (with which I have no experience, you can find a bunch of them via simple googling). This is, of course, far from getting notifications for all favorites automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Online automation scripting pros might find some way of automatically extracting all the post numbers of your favorites and adding them to one of these services, but that is far beyond my knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T11:31:46.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-05T03:08:08.937" Score="11" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing through questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/path&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;path&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;path&lt;/a&gt;, I note that there is a roughly even split between two senses of the word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;File system paths&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The graphical constructs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two meanings have zero overlap. Which is the preferred usage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit by doncherry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has de facto been decided by virtue of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/79187/revisions&quot;&gt;Oct 26 tag wiki edit&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/path&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;path&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;path&lt;/a&gt;. It now reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;paths give the location of bin directory which consists of latex executable files in any platform. Post installation it is important to set the path for the bin directory. use this tag for installation issues&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the edit was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/7534&quot;&gt;approved by Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt;, I'm not sure it happened with this question in mind. Let's finish this discussion‽ I think Werner's answer is a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1052" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T04:47:35.063" Title="What is the preferred meaning of the ambiguous {path} tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1946" CreationDate="2011-11-05T04:14:32.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, note that tags are added based on what the poster of the question specifies. As such, you are not forced to use only the existing tags. However, since this Q&amp;amp;A is mostly community-driven, users with at least 500 reputation have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/retag-questions&quot;&gt;privilege to retag questions&lt;/a&gt; - informally translates to &quot;users who have been here for a while&quot; - in order to adequately assess the category/tag that it should be filed under.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, 10k-users have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;access to moderator tools&lt;/a&gt; which allow them to see any new tags that have been created within a given time frame (today, last 2 days, last week/7 days, last 2 weeks/14 days, last month/30 days). There is some form of &quot;responsibility&quot; on these &quot;users who have been here for quite a while longer&quot; to make decisions on the validity of new tags, or change them via a retag if required. Some users (to isolate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;@lockstep&lt;/a&gt;) are retag daemons and try to organise the site accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, and more in line with your question. I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/path&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;path&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;path&lt;/a&gt; tag has more to do with &quot;file systems path&quot; than it has to do with drawings or &quot;graphical structures&quot;, since the latter is predominantly covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt; and the like; each of which has such a rich set of macros that it would be infeasible to have a tag specific to each &quot;graphical structure&quot; within them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to perhaps define &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/path&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;path&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;path&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filesystem-access&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filesystem-access&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;filesystem-access&lt;/a&gt;, or even rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filesystem-access&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filesystem-access&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;filesystem-access&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-system&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-system&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-system&lt;/a&gt;. Admittedly I am new to this kind of issue, so I hope my ramblings are understood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-05T04:14:32.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1949" CreationDate="2011-11-05T11:07:42.457" Score="20" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I was very happy because my total rep was over 40000. This morning I was stunned seeing it had dropped to 39693.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="1211" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T03:41:16.227" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T03:41:16.227" Title="Disappearing reputation" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1948" CreationDate="2011-11-05T18:13:14.083" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a script that looks for &quot;suspicious&quot; voting patterns between users. The details are kept intentionally vague, and normally you shouldn't ever be aware of it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible - and in this case very probable - that 63 up-votes cast on your answers by another user were nullified early this morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, as one of the top users on the site, you're more likely to encounter extreme edge-cases like this. Normally even if you &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; notice an abrupt drop in reputation from something of this nature it would be for a much smaller amount... But in this case, my suspicion is that a regular user got a bit too enthusiastic about several of your answers and spooked the scripts big-time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastActivityDate="2011-11-05T18:13:14.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2011-11-07T07:17:13.030" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must confess that I use the downvote feature quite often. Many people use to copy solutions from the web without really understanding them (especially if they are hacking internal macros), and if one solution affects my &lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt; package, there are good chances I will get impacted by the aftereffects afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I downvote bad solutions regarding the &lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt; package (and leave a short comment) simply to minimize the chance that I will get contacted later on by a user who picked that bad solution and because of this had run in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2574" LastActivityDate="2011-11-07T07:17:13.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-09T06:02:08.290" Score="6" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some links to answers on my user page are the regular colour, and some are blue.  What's the difference between the two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PP4nK.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that the behaviour works with Safari, but not with Firefox 7.0.1 (Mac OS 10.6.8). That is, the links are coloured but they don't seem to change as you visit them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditDate="2014-10-03T23:40:21.523" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T23:40:21.523" Title="Different link colours in user's list of answers" Tags="|support|bug|status-norepro|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1951" CreationDate="2011-11-09T07:08:35.787" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The blue links point to answers you recently visited, the others are red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click one of the other links and go back to the list of answers, that link should then have changed the color to blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The color the browsing users sees depend on visits by him, not on visits by the profile owner. Just in the case your view your own profile it's the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T07:08:35.787" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1951" CreationDate="2011-11-09T12:29:57.377" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; I thought of posting this text as a comment, but it would be too big.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stefan is right, the blue color means you visited that link. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just to add some technical/sorcery stuff:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked the main site stylesheet (&lt;code&gt;css&lt;/code&gt;) and found the following entries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a:visited {&#xA;   color:#3989bb;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;a {&#xA;   ...&#xA;   color:#e3c485;&#xA;   ...&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; tag refers to a hyperlink, that is, a word, group of words, or image that you can click on to jump to a new document or a new section within the current document.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word right after the &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; tag and the &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; symbol means a pseudo-class, that is, a reference to add special effects to the tag&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;. In our example, &lt;code&gt;a:visited&lt;/code&gt; means that a visited hyperlink will be set according to the key/value entries in the group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colors are defined using a hexadecimal notation for the combination of red, green, and blue color values (RGB)&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;. We can check what colors those numbers represent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#e3c485&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nPhXY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Color 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#3989bb&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YPg93.png&quot; alt=&quot;Color 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I picked up the right colors, the &lt;code&gt;css&lt;/code&gt; file is huge. But the idea is the same. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;References&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HTML Hyperlinks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_classes.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pseudo-classes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HTML Colors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T12:29:57.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-09T16:32:56.840" Score="11" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of my answers are full of spelling and grammar errors (nothing a spell checker can help). But fortunately there are some users who (often) edit my answers and fix all (or most) of those mistakes. But unfortunately I've found no method to thank those people. AFAIK there's no up vote for revisions or a kind of comment a revision only without commenting the public answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to simply be able to say &quot;thank you&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9057" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-11-09T21:44:47.087" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T21:44:47.087" Title="How can I thank a user for editing (and improve) my answer?" Tags="|support|feature-request|editing|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1954" CreationDate="2011-11-09T16:53:24.410" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature for personal messaging between users has been declined earlier. One reason is, that communication should be publicly visible, and the community should be able to moderate, which is also spam protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you could post a public comment thanking the user. You can delete it later, keeping the site tidy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, not everything can be upvoted, so there's work which isn't be rewarded by reputation. We know that score doesn't tell everything. In some cases, rare badges show who did much work such as edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I noticed, that a user makes good contributions such as editing posts and wikis, I have a look at his user profile page and browse through his answers and questions. When I see good contributions there, I can vote up and I do it. So there's a way you can thank a helpful user: read his or her contributions and vote to it, which you otherwise would perhaps have overlooked if the user didn't draw your attention because of his improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you could directly return the favour: if you notice a good answer by that user which could be improved, just do it, directly or via edit suggestion feature. So his or her answer gets better and could earn upvotes. Same for questions: a bit unclear question could be made a great question or even a canonical one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links for the background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57537/how-do-i-contact-other-users&quot;&gt;How do I contact other users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57203/private-messages-will-stackchat-reopen-the-debate&quot;&gt;Private Messages - Will StackChat reopen the debate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T16:59:48.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1957" CreationDate="2011-11-09T17:17:04.490" Score="14" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says. Here's an image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/byiey.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chat icon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not my reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-11-09T17:35:04.823" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T22:43:57.143" Title="What does the number under my username mean in chat?" Tags="|support|design|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1956" CreationDate="2011-11-09T17:20:59.507" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the sum of your reputation on all SE sites. If you would like to check your profile for that, click on the &quot;Accounts&quot; tab to see the numbers. You are registered on 12 SE sites, and you got 100 on each site for connecting the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-09T17:27:05.770" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T17:27:05.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1956" CreationDate="2011-11-09T17:34:30.007" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Stefan already stated it is the sum of your reputation of all SE sites. Note that you have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/124/yossi-farjoun&quot;&gt;general chat account&lt;/a&gt; which is not just for the TeX chat room, but for all SE chat rooms. However, your main site account (which is TeX.SE for you) is registered there as parent account. Because the chat account is for all sites, the total sum of all accounts is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-11-09T22:43:57.143" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T22:43:57.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-10T12:03:21.613" Score="4" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the occasion of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1914/celebrating-the-birthday-of-our-tex-site&quot;&gt;Birthday celebration&lt;/a&gt; beginning tomorrow: which prizes would you suggest for contests or rewards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions can range from some smaller prizes up to a few big ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T17:43:53.493" Title="Which prizes for contests?" Tags="|discussion|sponsorship|contests|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1959" CreationDate="2011-11-10T14:22:17.977" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As 2 hours are gone by and the birthday is tomorrow, I go ahead and make suggestions. Feel free to edit, it's community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Small prizes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX.SX swag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And more from the SE store, such as T-Shirts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Medium prizes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Swag at some higher amount&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The TeXbook or other books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A one year subscription of a TeX journal, such as TUGboat, Cahiers GUTenberg or DTK, alternatively a one-year group membership if desired (see Barbaras comment below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Big prize&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sponsored two-year membership in the TeX User Group of your choice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-10T17:43:53.493" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T17:43:53.493" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-11-10T14:22:17.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1962" CreationDate="2011-11-10T18:59:41.423" Score="25" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question, which to some might be a bit close to splitting hairs: Should I edit a question if there are things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UserNoName&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or the code is not properly highlighted or there is some other slight deviation from the usual question format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should I just wait until a moderator cleans it up? (I must confess I got the editing privilege recently and am a bit anxious to try it out...  :) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-10T19:24:11.400" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T19:24:11.400" Title="Etiquette: Should I edit questions with &quot;Thanks&quot; or wait for Moderator?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1961" CreationDate="2011-11-10T19:02:47.963" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see a question which can be improved, go ahead and edit it. Community editing makes our site outstanding and is a reason for its quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course we all should edit sensibly. And we should not edit too much in a row to not flood the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw. I don't see that it's urgent to remove a friendly &quot;Thanks&quot; in a new question of a new user to avoid unsettling him. However older questions can be cleaned up without hesitating. It would just be good to improve it a bit further besides a small edit removing &quot;Thanks&quot; and alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/in-defense-of-editing/&quot;&gt;In Defense of Editing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-10T19:23:18.157" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T19:23:18.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-10T22:51:35.310" Score="9" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1558/why-do-code-snippets-not-work-after-lists&quot;&gt;Why do code snippets not work after lists?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a code block is directly after a list (bullet, or numbered) it doesn't work unless you have 8 spaces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;bullet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FUNCTION {emphasize}&#xA;{ duplicate$ empty$&#xA;    { pop$ &quot;&quot; }&#xA;    { &quot;{\em &quot; swap$ * &quot;}&quot; * }&#xA;  if$&#xA;}&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;bullet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;FUNCTION {emphasize}&#xA;{ duplicate$ empty$&#xA;    { pop$ &quot;&quot; }&#xA;    { &quot;{\em &quot; swap$ * &quot;}&quot; * }&#xA;  if$&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button is blissfully unaware of this, so if I mark a block of code and press &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; it indents the code by 4 spaces (which is not enough if it's after a list item) and if I press it again (as one might hope would work) the indent is removed. For a large block of code it can be quite painful to have to add all these spaces manually. Notice that if you have a nested list item, you'll need 12 spaces!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that either the bug in the markdown can be fixed, or an alternative functionality can be added to make adding all these spaces less painful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll put one such idea as an &quot;answer&quot; so it can be voted on separately..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-11-11T07:07:08.057" Title="Markdown of code blocks still doesn't work after numbered lists?" Tags="|bug|feature-request|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2011-11-14T07:54:29.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1963" CreationDate="2011-11-10T22:52:20.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could have a &lt;code&gt;{+}&lt;/code&gt; button to add spaces (4 at a time), and a &lt;code&gt;{-}&lt;/code&gt; button to remove them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T22:52:20.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1963" CreationDate="2011-11-11T07:07:08.057" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For code following a list you don't need to indent all lines by additional four spaces, if you insert a HTML comment. Have a look at the source code of this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bullet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;FUNCTION {emphasize}&#xA;{ duplicate$ empty$&#xA;    { pop$ &quot;&quot; }&#xA;    { &quot;{\em &quot; swap$ * &quot;}&quot; * }&#xA;  if$&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-11-11T07:07:08.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-11T14:13:19.570" Score="7" ViewCount="1012" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post any questions or comments regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34482/contest-show-off-your-latex-skillz-tex-sx-birthday&quot;&gt;Contest: Show Off Your Skillz in TeX &amp;amp; Friends [TeX.sx birthday]&lt;/a&gt; here. I'll add information to the original post if required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T10:48:07.717" Title="Discussion about &quot;Contest: Show Off Your LaTeX Skillz&quot;" Tags="|discussion|support|contests|specific-question|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2011-11-11T15:57:42.857" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest to change &quot;LaTeX&quot; to &quot;TeX&quot; so it's a catch-all for everything (TeX is the underlying language;  LaTeX/plain-tex/Context are macropackages/&quot;formats&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it doesn't make much sense to differentiate between &lt;em&gt;engines&lt;/em&gt; (XeTeX, LuaTeX, pdfTeX), but it would make sense to differentiate between &lt;em&gt;formats&lt;/em&gt;. Especially since you seem to confuse the meaning when you list LaTeX before XeTeX etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastActivityDate="2011-11-11T15:57:42.857" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2011-11-12T13:19:37.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this mean I can submit as many documents/answers as I want? And also, does it imply there are no categories (like academic paper, cookbook, etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T13:19:37.043" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-11-12T14:39:10.300" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/pracjourn/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YTkvs.png&quot; alt=&quot;How you get TeX things done&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T14:39:10.300" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-11-12T14:39:10.300" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-11-12T14:49:40.987" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/tugboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iV9q1.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Communications of the TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T14:49:40.987" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-11-12T14:49:40.987" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-12T21:14:33.980" Score="14" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for this? I've occasionally used &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; because it seemed more appropriate than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt;, e.g. I'm having a hard time regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34627/&quot;&gt;using hobby MF font with LaTeX, adding accented characters&lt;/a&gt; as being about &quot;symbols&quot;. One way or the other, we should use the tags consciously; seeing that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt; already, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; should probably be a synonym as well because there's no relevant semantic difference between singular and plural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Having learned more about how our tagging system works, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt; should proabably be gotten rid of, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; is made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alright, now both tags have tag wikis that emphasize the difference between them, and we're kind of using them accordingly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{symbols} is about specific non-alphabetic symbols or math symbols, e.g., about looking-up, constructing, or using symbols. For questions about {fonts} or alphabetic {characters} use the respective tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{characters} is about the regular alphabetic characters that are part of some script in a language. For accented characters, add {accents}. For non-alphabetic characters, use {symbols} instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as we're not doing any merging (and I'm actually not sure that would be the best idea), I'd say &lt;strong&gt;let's fix the weird synonyms for starters!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T17:05:12.983" Title="{character} is a synonym of {symbols}, but {characters} isn't" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1973" CreationDate="2011-11-12T21:54:29.497" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, &lt;em&gt;character&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;symbol&lt;/em&gt; have different meanings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Character&lt;/em&gt; stands for an abstract symbol, for the meaning of it, independent of the graphical representation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Symbol&lt;/em&gt; means a glyph, the graphical representation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In TeX and LaTeX, we have input and output, let's have a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Input means characters. For example we have questions regarding encoding. I guess not specifically about characters, since typing on keyboard is not a TeX topic and also how to get non-keyboard characters is more concerning the operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Output means characters and symbols. There are more questions are about symbols than characters. For example, people rarely speak about a bullet character which could be represented by a filled circle or an empty one, or smaller like a dot. We speak about what should appear there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theoretically, we can cleanly separate characters if the actual glyph doesn't matter. But does it help the user, who comes here because of a character or symbol problem, does he differentiate? Does he know that he must type &quot;character&quot; for looking how to work with a backslash or a tilde (independent of the font), but not type &quot;symbol&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in practice it's ok to keep one tag for both. In consequence, we should make &lt;em&gt;characters&lt;/em&gt; a synonym as well. I'll let that open for now, perhaps somebody would check and tell us, how many questions are really purely about characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T21:54:29.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2011-11-12T22:17:18.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found that the character limit is 30000- is this worth mentioning  in the original question? Or could it be raised? &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T22:17:18.173" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-13T14:40:01.820" Score="16" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of automatically generated FAQ lists. The mouseover text of the &lt;strong&gt;faq&lt;/strong&gt; tab is &lt;em&gt;questions with the most links&lt;/em&gt;. That's sounds sensible, links may come for example from duplicates or closely related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I had a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats?sort=faq&quot;&gt;{floats} faq.&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FXXee.png&quot; alt=&quot;floats question with the most links&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 5 of the list: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24750/article-appendix-with-sections-and-toc-entries-in-the-form-appendix-a&quot;&gt;Article appendix with sections and toc entries in the form “Appendix A”&lt;/a&gt; is a question which doesn't show any link to it in the right sidebar. The number of 88 views is also pretty low and indicates that this question is not very popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 6 of the list: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2275/keeping-tables-figures-close-to-where-they-are-mentioned&quot;&gt;Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned&lt;/a&gt; shows 19 linked questions in the right sidebar. A result of the many links are its currently 2,612 views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is the sort order for the faq tab correct, or is there a bug? I noticed a strange sort order also with other tags, though I guess this question with 19 links, and 9 duplicates pointing to it, is a good FAQ demonstration example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Right after I posted this question, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24750/article-appendix-with-sections-and-toc-entries-in-the-form-appendix-a&quot;&gt;Article appendix question&lt;/a&gt; is listed at the top of the faq list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lLT9Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;faq foir floats&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still no links shown for this 1st place question, however the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2651/should-i-use-center-or-centering-for-figures&quot;&gt;question on the 3rd place&lt;/a&gt; shows 15 links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions with many links, such as the mentioned frequently linked questions, are indeed very good FAQ candidates, so it would be great if this FAQ feature and the sorting would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T21:03:18.973" Title="Does the faq tab work correctly?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2011-11-13T20:24:58.923" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we have an update once in a while about the current number of submissions? I am really curious already. If so, where would it be posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3083" LastActivityDate="2011-11-13T20:24:58.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1915" CreationDate="2011-11-14T03:03:44.793" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for bringing your experiences back to the community. Wow, and a blow-by-blow account for each day you were there. This is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the type of activity that makes these conference sponsorships worthwhile. It looks like everyone enjoyed your account of the conference. I hope we can do many more of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Thank you and GREAT JOB!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T16:15:46.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2011-11-14T16:19:34.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about using the submissions for a general showcase of the typesetting capabilities of (La)TeX and its community akin to the TikZ examples on &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/tikz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://texample.net/tikz&lt;/a&gt;? Perhaps even on that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8907" LastActivityDate="2011-11-14T16:19:34.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1982" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-14T16:22:04.330" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/asking-a-question-and-answering-it-yourself-straight-away&quot;&gt;Asking a question and answering it yourself straight away&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could i create a question with an answer i found myself for help other people? This way other TeX users could improve it and/or contribute with different solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2011-11-14T16:22:04.330" Title="Could i create a question with an answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2011-11-14T16:47:22.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1705" CreationDate="2011-11-14T17:26:03.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this, and was confused for a bit...I think that a yellow notice box is in order when this happens, so that the users can be informed that the comment was modified and yet the user &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; be notified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastActivityDate="2011-11-14T17:26:03.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2011-11-15T05:49:25.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the submission have to be a document, or is it also OK to post a nice (and I mean really really nice!) macro?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2011-11-15T05:49:25.777" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1988" CreationDate="2011-11-15T15:43:06.183" Score="17" ViewCount="919" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I upvoted a reply.  To my utter surprise I found this morning that I missed a key on my phone, and it was actually a &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt;.  When I tried to change it, the helpful system told me that the vote was too old, and I cannot change it unless the answer was edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand why locking upvotes is a good thing.  But why locking downvotes?  Suppose a voter gave a deep thought to the answer and decided it was good after all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that particular case I just edited the answer, deleted a spurious punctuation and upvoted it, but this is a too &quot;hackish&quot; solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to make downvotes unlocking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5522" LastActivityDate="2011-11-15T23:32:08.117" Title="Is locking downvotes a good feature?" Tags="|feature-request|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1985" CreationDate="2011-11-15T15:47:07.117" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If votes were not  locked the whole reputation system would suffer a great uncertainty. People could lose a great amount of reputation if someone  started retracting all the votes they had ever given to a person.&#xA;Imagine if someone did something unpopular and therefore a lot of people  withdrew their actually legitimate up-votes to his/her posts. A high-rep user could fall quite low this way. This might not happen here, but other SX sites are less polite than us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Locking only up-votes but not down-votes would not make much sense. You should only down-vote anyway if the post is really bad.&#xA;Anyway as soon the post is edited you have another chance. The 5min time before the vote is locked should be enough. Your argument of accidentally down-voting doesn't really count. You should see the result in any case and even not, a very infrequent accident should not dictate the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-11-15T16:43:31.223" LastActivityDate="2011-11-15T16:43:31.223" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1985" CreationDate="2011-11-15T23:32:08.117" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;To explain, why downvotes will be locked too after some minutes: there can be &quot;tactical downvoting&quot;. For example, one could downvote a competing answer, so the own answer gets higher, becoming better visible and perhaps earning an upvote, later removing the downvote to cover one’s track. There could even be a sock puppet, who downvotes a good answer which provokes an upvote of another reader, later the downvote is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sockpuppet actions and tactical voting can be detected and the effect can be removed, but only if there are traces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such kind of gaming might be a nuisance on bigger sites with a lot more users, it's much less probable here. However, our TeX site inherits such security features. So perhaps we suffer a bit because of years of experience on older sites, where they learned that voting needs a bit protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A voting system is not perfect, some rules help to keep it reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to a downvote by mistake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the vote came because of a misunderstanding, so &lt;em&gt;perhaps&lt;/em&gt; the vote might be deserved somehow, because of the ambiguity of an answer. Is the answer edited, so improved, reversing the vote is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you voted by accident, just leave a comment telling that. The answerer receives the message and can edit, allowing you to undo the undesired action.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, if helps a lot if the reason for the downvote is briefly explained by a comment. Besides that readers and the answerer can learn from the comment, it supports corrective action, so there's no need for a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-11-15T23:32:08.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2189" CreationDate="2011-11-16T02:48:56.060" Score="15" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main site, comment deletion is achieved by hovering over the comment, thereby displaying a &quot;delete cross&quot;, and clicking it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oyOVF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, of course, no hovering is possible on a handheld device. My reference here stems from viewing the site on an iPod Touch, although I believe other handheld devices would have similar problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tiKCN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a feature that adds this capability to the mobile version of TeX.SX (or perhaps any of the Stack Exchange sites) in the form of a &quot;delete&quot; link (similar to what is displayed below a question/answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-11-16T12:09:32.577" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T18:43:20.653" Title="Mobile site functionality" Tags="|feature-request|comments|mobile|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2174" CreationDate="2011-11-16T04:18:54.470" Score="11" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;list of Badges&lt;/a&gt; has an abbreviated description for each. This is sufficient for some, but not all of the listed badges - mostly those that are hard to obtain. The ultimate badge description list is available on Stack Overflow's Meta site at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt;. I think it would be helpful to add a reference to this post from the badges page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any support for this? Or is there a way to improve badge descriptions that are lacking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;This inquiry was spawned after &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5522/boris&quot;&gt;@Boris&lt;/a&gt; just obtained the second &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/39/populist&quot;&gt;Populist Gold Badge&lt;/a&gt;. Congrats! ...and, some regular comments from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;@MartinScharrer&lt;/a&gt; on chat: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=1884352#1884352&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=1530910#1530910&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=1065427#1065427&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T17:21:37.940" Title="Add a reference to the ultimate badge description list" Tags="|support|feature-request|status-bydesign|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1154" CreationDate="2011-11-16T07:04:10.727" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Corollary: Self-accepts are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/guidelines-for-customizing-biblatex-styles&quot;&gt;not eligible&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/18/guru&quot;&gt;Guru&lt;/a&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-11-16T07:04:10.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2230" CreationDate="2011-11-16T12:08:05.667" Score="13" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;A redesigned user profile page is online on meta.stackoverflow.com, the meta site for the entire stackexchange network. They're looking for feedback before they release the new layout for the entire network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since now is certainly the best time to give feedback before it's too late I wanted to share this with tex.sx. (I'm not sure how I like these changes.) Here's what it'll look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/112151/162565&quot; title=&quot;New User page - LIVE (on meta)&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MMSuM.png&quot; alt=&quot;new user profile page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click the picture to go to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/112151/162565&quot; title=&quot;New User page - LIVE (on meta)&quot;&gt;discussion on meta.so&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T14:36:24.027" Title="New user profile page!  " Tags="|discussion|user-profile-page|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1994" CreationDate="2011-11-16T15:40:31.830" Score="6" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better if an answer could be accepted only after some time after posting a question (say 24 hours)? I think this would help in accepting the &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; best answer. Often (especially when a newbie) asks a question, the grateful user click-happily accepts an answer and has no possibility of accepting a more competent answer, which may come in later. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2011-11-16T16:57:00.020" Title="Locking (delaying) answer accept" Tags="|feature-request|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1993" CreationDate="2011-11-16T16:12:02.997" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think let's have as few restrictions as possible. The 15 minutes time before the answer can be accepted has been implemented as a minimal sensible time for having a chance for some answers and evaluating them, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50697/time-limit-on-accepting-an-answer&quot;&gt;Time limit on accepting an answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we extend it that time, we risk that users who got their answer don't return for accepting, leaving questions open. And it doesn't feel good if one notices that he is not allowed to accept a great answer yet. Looking at these drawbacks I don't see a need for making this restriction. As the OP gets notified of a new answer, he can check it and if he changes his mind accept the new answer instead. If somebody doesn't consider that, can I expect that he would return after 24 hours and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; read the new answers and choose one to accept it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, the accepted answer doesn't have to be the best one. It's the answer which helped the OP the most in his particular situation. The next one on the list could be the best or at least the most popular, as voted by the community. Reader should not stop after reading the top answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's good if we voluntarily wait some time before accepting, as we agreed here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/209/should-we-wait-a-bit-before-accepting-answers&quot;&gt;Should we wait a bit before accepting answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-11-16T16:57:00.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-17T09:37:33.400" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking at the TeX.sx site, and it looks like it's not being styled. Any ideas what's going on? I'm not seeing this on other SEs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-17T10:13:14.827" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T10:13:14.827" Title="CSS styling on TeX.sx seems to be gone" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2011-11-17T10:12:11.803" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1995" CreationDate="2011-11-17T10:03:22.333" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed missing styling several times, but only when I used a bad connection, usually over 3G / UMTS, even though the page texts could be loaded. A page refresh, after the connection got better, helped in those cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned other SE sites, it's a good idea to test another site right at the same time when the TeX site style looks bad. I'll check this as well when it would happen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T10:03:22.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2011-11-17T18:57:48.007" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;One advantage of ctt or texhax is that when I have answered there, no one ever rewrote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="339" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T18:57:48.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2011-11-18T21:07:52.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how I feel about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/35162/revisions&quot;&gt;edits to submissions&lt;/a&gt; that happened &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the deadline. I'm aware they are mostly typo-like corrections, but if we allow these kinds of edits, where do we draw the line? If you submit an application, you can't change typos afterwards, either. Thus, I'm strongly tempted to rollback these edits, just because there had been one week for everybody to fix all flaws, and any left over just &lt;em&gt;belong&lt;/em&gt; to the submission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-18T21:07:52.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-21T09:39:15.733" Score="14" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking a quick look at the posts tagged &quot;overlay&quot; then I can see two obvious distinct meanings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beamer's overlay mechanism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overlaying some text on top of other text, usually one symbol on top of another.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is that these are truly distinct and should therefore be separated.  Since &quot;overlay&quot; is always going to be ambiguous, we should have proper forms that are not ambiguous and then make &quot;overlay&quot; a synonym for the most used (or perhaps the most used by new(ish) users, if that's possible to work out ... where's Paulo's expertise with the data explorer when you need it?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ... how about: beamer-overlays and symbol-overlays (not sure what our style is on plural/singular for the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; tag).  We could also have the more generic text-overlay (though I doubt that would come up so much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-11-21T18:33:20.107" Title="What does the &quot;overlay(s)&quot; tag mean?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1999" CreationDate="2011-11-21T18:33:20.107" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A tag may have different meanings. Since questions allow several tags, a second tag would make clear what's meant. Let's look for example at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arrows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arrows&lt;/a&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find 85 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arrows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arrows&lt;/a&gt;, so I better narrow my search adding my graphic tool:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrows+xy-pic&quot;&gt;{arrows} + {xy-pic}&lt;/a&gt;, 10 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrows+tikz-pgf&quot;&gt;{arrows} + {tikz-pgf}&lt;/a&gt;, 34 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrows+pstricks&quot;&gt;{arrows} + {pstricks}&lt;/a&gt;, 1 question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, instead of creating new tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beamer-overlays&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beamer-overlays&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beamer-overlays&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf-overlays&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf-overlays&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf-overlays&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols-overlays&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols-overlays&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols-overlays&lt;/a&gt; etc. I suggest working with combinations of existing tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beamer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beamer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beamer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overlays&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overlays&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overlays&lt;/a&gt; tag. I don't see a problem. I also can hardly imagine questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beamer-overlays&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beamer-overlays&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beamer-overlays&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beamer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beamer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beamer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf-overlays&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf-overlays&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf-overlays&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; - looks redundant to me, however I would not omit that class/package tag, otherwise I might not see the questions in a broad tag search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good question though, I also wondered earlier about the ambiguity of overlays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-11-21T18:33:20.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2187" CreationDate="2011-11-21T19:16:05.070" Score="16" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we please have a pamphlet for TeX.SE, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2155/12903&quot;&gt;English.SE pamphlet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:53.660" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T14:48:21.193" Title="Request for TeX.SE pamphlet" Tags="|feature-request|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2003" CreationDate="2011-11-22T03:10:34.427" Score="7" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a method to search for deleted answers, at least for those that have access to them? Did not see anything under the &lt;em&gt;Advanced Super Ninja Search Options&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;the Search Options Page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall what the question was about, but I know I &lt;em&gt;answered&lt;/em&gt; it, then later deleted it, as a problem with the solution was pointed out to me. I also remember the user who pointed out the problem in a comment to the now deleted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to locate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-11-22T03:48:17.833" Title="How can I find my deleted answers" Tags="|feature-request|answers|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2002" CreationDate="2011-11-22T03:38:20.300" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is no way, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/41130/can-we-have-an-isdeleted1-search-option-operator&quot;&gt;Can we have an isdeleted:1 search option/operator? on Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-11-22T03:48:17.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-22T08:02:14.570" Score="12" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can define tags for questions I don't want to see. But if a question has been closed, there's no tag for this, only a &quot;[closed]&quot; at the end of the question. So I see the question like all other questions on the list (and click on it before noticing the &quot;[closed]&quot; &lt;code&gt;;-/&lt;/code&gt;). I would like to ignore such questions, at least like questions with ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9057" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-11-22T16:13:13.047" LastActivityDate="2011-11-22T16:13:13.047" Title="Can I set closed questions to be ignored?" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2004" CreationDate="2011-11-22T16:11:07.590" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed and seemingly declined on meta.stackoverflow.com, the mother meta site of the stackexchange network:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14045/can-a-closed-question-be-given-special-tags&quot;&gt;Can a closed question be given special tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be interested in the option of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/41843/162565&quot;&gt;adding &lt;code&gt;closed:0&lt;/code&gt; to any search you perform&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think closed questions are important and help finding solutions, so they should equally be kept clean. That's why we don't usually delete them. There might even be a question that's injustly closed and needs to be reopened, once you've gained that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;privilege&lt;/a&gt;. Closed questions might not be as popular or beloved as open questions, but they are important. After all, I'm sure you'll manage to check for a [closed] before clicking on a question, which is about as good as a tag ... &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-11-22T16:11:07.590" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2007" CreationDate="2011-11-24T13:14:01.270" Score="13" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what flag weight stands for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is better, having low flag weight or high flag weight? Could you elaborate on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2011-11-24T16:07:15.773" LastActivityDate="2011-11-24T20:06:00.710" Title="What is flag weight?" Tags="|support|flagging|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2006" CreationDate="2011-11-24T13:17:24.570" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, flag weight is a measure of how reliably you flag content. High flag weight is good. It can range between 0 and 750. It increases if your flags are positively reviewed. The more flag weight you have, the more you can flag, and the higher the priority of your flags is. High flag weight is rewarded by a Deputy (500) or a Marshal badge (749).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging posts is a privilege that you gain once you have 15 reputation points; so this is a way of helping the community that you can use pretty early on. There's more information on the corresponding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flag privilege info page&lt;/a&gt;, the faq entry &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#flagging&quot; title=&quot;What if I see bad things happening?&quot;&gt;&quot;flagging&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and the extensive answer on meta.stackoverflow.com: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80170/what-is-flag-weight&quot;&gt;What is flag weight?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-11-24T20:06:00.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-24T16:41:23.830" Score="28" ViewCount="2982" Body="&lt;p&gt;In every page title on tex.sx, it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These horizontal lines between the words are hyphens (Unicode point U+002D &quot;Hyphen-minus&quot;). In proper typesetting, &lt;strong&gt;these should be dashes&lt;/strong&gt;, either En Dashes (U+02013) &quot;–&quot; or Em Dashes (U+02014) &quot;—&quot;. As I would say we're a community who cares about such details and who thus ought to be a role model for them, &lt;strong&gt;I'd appreciate to see that changed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference between these three characters is directly reflected in (La)TeX by three distinct inputs, &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; (Hyphen-minus), &lt;code&gt;--&lt;/code&gt; (En Dash), and &lt;code&gt;---&lt;/code&gt; (Em Dash). A similar issue has been discussed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/547/new-user-greeting&quot;&gt;New user greeting.&lt;/a&gt;, which now uses an Em Dash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Q&amp;amp;A for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems — check out the FAQ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a big fan of the Em Dash, I think it interrupts text flow too strongly; nonetheless we should use dashes uniformly. Has anybody seen any other &lt;em&gt;proper&lt;/em&gt; dashes around that would have to be adapted similarly? There are more pseudo-dashes (= Hyphen-Minuses) around here, e.g. after the title of a page, be it a question, &quot;Frequently Asked Questions&quot; or a user page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Putting a bar in the margin - TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you were asking me, I'd say we should use En Dashes on all occurrences of a dash (except one), with a regular space before and after it. Exception: It might make sense to use an Em Dash between a page title and the site title and En Dashes in the page title, like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Putting a bar in the margin — &lt;em&gt;[= Em Dash]&lt;/em&gt; TeX – &lt;em&gt;[= En Dash]&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX – &lt;em&gt;[=En Dash]&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would reflect that there's a bigger &quot;content break&quot; between the first part and the rest than there is between the &lt;em&gt;TeX&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/em&gt;, but I don't know if that is a typographic no-no according to the one or the other typography bible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions (this will help with keeping everything consistent and preventing misinformation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3291/14996&quot;&gt;Correct hyphen to a dash in the &quot;About&quot; page&lt;/a&gt;  [meta]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/98721/14996&quot;&gt;How do I typeset the name of this site in (La)TeX?&lt;/a&gt;  [main]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3281/14996&quot;&gt;How do I properly cite TeX.SE for its help in typesetting?&lt;/a&gt;  [meta]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T04:07:09.723" Title="Use dashes in page titles instead of hyphens" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2010" CreationDate="2011-11-24T18:01:03.353" Score="10" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is &quot;kviews&quot;?  See the attached screen capture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ikdj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastActivityDate="2011-11-24T18:02:36.723" Title="views and kviews: What's the difference?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2009" CreationDate="2011-11-24T18:02:21.890" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;'k' stands for 'kilo', i.e. 1000. So 2 kviews are (about) 2000 views, while 57 views are really just 57 views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-11-24T18:02:21.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-24T20:53:26.210" Score="22" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You ask a question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone (well meaning though he may be) writes an answer which simply does not answer your question, but rather tells you what you should and shouldn't be doing;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer gets a significant (&gt; 5) number of votes, and some positive comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when people look at the question, they see a high-vote answer and think the problem is solved. What can one do, other than a comment saying &quot;that doesn't help me at all&quot;? I can't downvote by more than 1, plus, that won't help since it's the only answer anyway, plus, downvoting is expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditDate="2011-11-26T19:13:58.297" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T19:13:58.297" Title="An answer not answering the question getting a lot of votes" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2012" CreationDate="2011-11-24T21:44:12.570" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you first edit your question to clearly state why the answer does not solve the problem. That will bring the question to the front page again, and people who click on it will see that the issue is not resolved. If that doesn't get you better answers, you can assign a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt;. This is much more expensive than downvoting, but also a much more efficient way of getting good answers to complicated problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-11-24T21:44:12.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2015" CreationDate="2011-11-25T15:34:14.227" Score="6" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I was typing an answer I realized that I cannot type &lt;strong&gt;, in main answer window.  I was watching the preview window while typing **, and I could see only one asterisk and a comma.  That is, in the preview window I see &lt;em&gt;, instead of *&lt;/em&gt;,.  I tried &quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, then in the preview window I see &quot;&lt;em&gt;&quot;,.&#xA;The only way out was to include a space between *&lt;/em&gt; and the comma.  That is, if I type ** , then I can see ** , in the preview window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even here, the preview window acts strangely.  The above paragraph is unreadable in the preview window. If I retype only the first sentence (of the above paragraph) then the two asterisks and the comma shows up fine. See below. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I was typing an answer I realized that I cannot type **, in main answer window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does ** has a special assignment in an answer window?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastActivityDate="2011-11-25T15:43:52.447" Title="Two asterisks followed by a comma" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2014" CreationDate="2011-11-25T15:38:48.707" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;** is Markdown syntax for bold text, **text** gives &lt;strong&gt;text&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* is for italic text, *text* gives &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you type simply asterisks, you would see the formatting in the preview change. However, you can escape the meaning by a backslash, as I did here: &lt;code&gt;\*\*&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-11-25T15:43:52.447" LastActivityDate="2011-11-25T15:43:52.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2018" CreationDate="2011-11-25T19:05:35.723" Score="11" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at a user page and at &quot;Reputation&quot;, hoovering the mouse over some day, then the tool-tip reads something like &quot;Friday, Nov 25, 2011 - 42 reputation&quot;, which means &quot;+42 reputation&quot;, not &quot;-42 reputation&quot;. Would &quot;Friday, Nov 25, 2011: + 42 reputation&quot; (or maybe &quot;;&quot;, &quot;#&quot;, or whatsoever) not be more easily readable? (This format is used at other SE sites, too, probably everywhere.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="6865" LastEditDate="2011-11-27T16:41:24.450" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T16:59:37.883" Title="Reputation tool-tip dash/minus ambiguity" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|reputation|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2012" CreationDate="2011-11-25T19:46:38.800" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, apologies if this &quot;answer&quot; (more of a long comment) appears to be a duplicate of the exact problem you are referring to :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other questions here where the accepted answer is significantly outvoted by a different answer -- there is even a badge for that: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/39/populist&quot;&gt;Populist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think there is anything wrong with there being a high number of votes on what is considered a &quot;non-answer&quot; by the OP. Until the answer is accepted people here know that that did not answer your question (The one exception being the users with a rep indicating that they are new to the site, or just came to get one answer, and went away.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that answer is getting a lot of up votes that just means that many people agree that you should not do that. While this may not be of immediate help to you, it may be very useful to someone in the future who is considering doing something and come across your question. When they see the high number of votes on that, they may reconsider.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few people on here that have a lot of relevant experience so their advice should not be discarded. That begin said, to every rule there is an exception (and probably to this rule as well :-), so since you still feel that you want to do what you asked, doing as Jake suggested is the way to go.  And posting a bounty will help to get that question noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-11-25T19:46:38.800" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2016" CreationDate="2011-11-26T10:00:20.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like negative rep changes are not displayed in these graphs, it'll say &quot;This user has no recent positive reputation changes&quot;. (Find a question with a negative score on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; and go to its asker's profile to see that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still, you have a point because people don't immediately know that only positive rep is displayed You should make your proposal at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/112151/new-user-page-live&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/112151/new-user-page-live&lt;/a&gt;, where all the feedback for the new profile is gathered. I like the colon : solution best, but if they don't see your point at all, you can still point them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2008/use-dashes-in-page-titles-instead-of-hyphens&quot;&gt;Use dashes in page titles instead of hyphens&lt;/a&gt; to demonstrate that the status quo is just unbearable &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T10:00:20.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2019" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-26T19:32:04.527" Score="14" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of a assigning a bounty to some question (not the one I recently wrote about here on meta). It hasn't been answered for a month. But - I'm afraid to do it. I don't want to risk so much of my hard-earned reputation for it. If I had, say, 2k-3k reputation, then what the hell, it's less than 4% of my rep; or if I could offer a smaller bounty, I would do it. But 11%? That's a lot. Plus, I'm worried it'll just be a dead bounty since it looks like a tough problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll mention that the issue is not super-critical, as otherwise of course I would have risked it. I used a super-ugly-time-consuming workaround and got my thesis done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do you suggest I do? Or how would you see this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditDate="2011-11-26T19:59:36.870" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T16:40:53.950" Title="Afraid to risk 11% of my reputation for a bounty" Tags="|discussion|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2019" CreationDate="2011-11-26T19:43:12.300" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a question in the question, so how about an answer without an answer. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I suggest be bold and go ahead, offer the bounty. Reputation is just some score, but this way you could directly benefit from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you invest those 11%, 50 points, it's easy to get it back! While I know, earning reputation by answering can be hard, you could post just one nice question, which gets 10 upvotes, so you got the investment back. And there are many possible interesting and fundamental questions, which were not yet posted to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you know the answer to a question you posted, you prepared the ground for one or more solutions, which can be found and read by many users, who might use a search engine because of the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T19:43:12.300" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2011-11-26T19:48:24.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe my question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2012/5640&quot;&gt;An answer not answering the question getting a lot of votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;illustrates why &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; principles &quot;vote early&quot; and &quot;vote often&quot; are problematic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting early may mean voting for the worst answer of several.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting early may mean you &lt;em&gt;fail&lt;/em&gt; to vote later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting early and/or often means voting without ensuring the answer is relevant/generally satisfactory.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting too early and/or often can piss off people who believe the vote was not meritted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(This is not about the question I linked to) careless voting encourages &quot;reputation-whoring&quot;: Writing irrelevant/nebulous/content-free answers just so that you've answered and can get votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T19:48:24.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2019" CreationDate="2011-11-26T20:43:14.133" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you care about reputation, chances are high you also care about badges. So take comfort in the fact that by assigning the first bounty to one of your own questions you'll earn the Promoter badge and possibly also the Benefactor badge. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T20:43:14.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2011-11-26T21:25:18.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bad law that gets enacted on account of one person's one-time behavior. Does it often happen that people ask more than 50 questions per month?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is no, then maybe just leave it be; or if you feel there are too many poor-quality questions, maybe think of another way of avoiding them. Or maybe it's just an issue with xport's personally... (wow, that's a lot of questions man!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditDate="2013-02-23T15:56:37.807" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T15:56:37.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2025" CreationDate="2011-11-27T07:29:31.910" Score="5" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 2 days ago there was a question about what should be improved about TeX, which was probably deleted meanwhile. Although it was probably largely opinion-based, some of the few answers were interesting. Is there a way to search in deleted questions, or a list of them? Do I need more reputation points for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6758" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T07:43:39.673" Title="finding deleted questions?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2024" CreationDate="2011-11-27T07:43:39.673" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least 10k reputation is required to see deleted items, so you won't be able to see deleted material at present. In general, we don't delete many questions, although we do close some. You can search for &lt;code&gt;deleted:1&lt;/code&gt; (deleted items) or &lt;code&gt;closed:1&lt;/code&gt; (closed items), with the deleted search only making sense for &gt;10k users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T07:43:39.673" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2019" CreationDate="2011-11-27T10:10:44.537" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I were in your shoes I would probably also invest. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; Maybe the answers you receive will be marginally helpful in solving the actual problem, but you can also have a pleasant surprise of getting exactly what you wanted. Now, beside the fact that this is a real gamble and that you get your investment back in a way or another (rep points/badges), I would like to underline the fact that this is a community page. Even if the answers are not really what you are looking for, there might be information that is invaluable for another user... So in fact you might be a benefactor without getting the 'Benefactor' badge for it. Kind of anonymous helper. I believe that even if you cannot put that on display, it is worth at least as much as a gold badge! &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T10:10:44.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2028" CreationDate="2011-11-27T10:28:00.607" Score="10" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some time ago there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12047/is-biblatex-compatible-with-revtex&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; from Igor on biblatex and REVTeX. Pretty much everyone in Physics is locked into using REVTeX because some of the most important journals require it, and it's stopping us from migrating to biblatex. Given this problem, I've been pondering writing a question on how to hack together a solution. There is a good chance this means changing a lot of code in the class file, but honestly I'm not sure. I've never had to dig into this kind of thing before. It could even be an entirely new macro package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, will this be too big, even with a large bounty? At what point does a problem become too large to reasonably ask TeX.sx?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have accepted an answer, although at the time of writing this note the answers by Joseph Wright, lockstep and Andrew Stacey all raised good points, and are worth a read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-29T17:04:32.607" Title="Will my question, with a bounty, be too big?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2027" CreationDate="2011-11-27T11:15:43.170" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;'How big is too big' is a difficult one, because at least in part it depends on the person answering. For 'big' problems, I suspect that at least on TeX.sx the size of the bounty you offer is not the key driver. It's more about the question, and whether someone wants to take it up. I think that asking a question that specifically requires writing a major package is probably 'too big', but asking a question that is simply difficult cannot be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do think is important is to consider whether a big problem can be broken down. For example, in the case you raise you could ask about altering publishers class files in general, and whether there are any obvious pitfalls. You could also ask a more general question about loading &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; with a class that has already loaded &lt;code&gt;natbib&lt;/code&gt; (REVTeX doesn't just load &lt;code&gt;natbib&lt;/code&gt;, it also has a significant amount of internal code that requires &lt;code&gt;natbib&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T11:15:43.170" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2027" CreationDate="2011-11-27T11:17:53.263" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, a question is only &quot;too big&quot; to be asked as tex.sx if it is a) in fact several questions at once or b) of the open-ended/subjective sort. A small, focused question that may lead to a bulky answer is perfectly fine, and your proposed question &quot;How can REVTeX be made compatible with biblatex&quot; seems to fit that description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The worst that could happen is a question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9683/breaking-equations-with-breqn&quot;&gt;Breaking equations with breqn&lt;/a&gt; with a large number of upvotes, but without any answer. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T11:17:53.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1216" CreationDate="2011-11-27T16:20:48.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ifthen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ifthen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ifthen&lt;/a&gt; tag was resurrected for a question specifically about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/ifthen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;ifthen&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package. At the moment, the tag features four questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T16:20:48.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2016" CreationDate="2011-11-27T16:43:18.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Status completed, issue solved:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NhFWz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, I can definitely see some confusion here, the format will use a :&#xA;  instead of a &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; in-between the date and rep next build. – Nick&#xA;  Craver♦ 2011-11-26 10:49:13Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/113693/171937&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/113693/171937&lt;/a&gt; (has been deleted as solved).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T16:59:37.883" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2027" CreationDate="2011-11-27T19:30:22.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add a couple of things to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the bigger the question then the more I want to see from the asker.  The simplest is for the asker to show how much effort they have put in or are prepared to put in.  For example, Ryan Reich asked a big question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/34712/86&quot;&gt;How do I debug pgfkeys?&lt;/a&gt; in that since no-one already had an answer then an answer would involve a lot of hackery.  But I know that Ryan loves PGFKeys so I know that he would put in a lot of effort into making it work.  That gives me more motivation to help and I would feel that when answering that question I wouldn't have to give a full answer straight away, but start with some suggestions which Ryan could then take and then with some back-and-forth together it might lead to a solution.  (Sadly, this is a hypothetical situation as I have too much else to do right now!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, sometimes a question just happens to coincide with what I'm thinking about and I can see both that it would be an interesting answer to give and that others would benefit.  Then I might write an answer that leads to a package.  But you can't count on that happening so it's better to be in the first category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note, this is in addition to the advice already given to break it down if possible.  Sometimes, though, it just isn't possible to break it down any further.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T19:30:22.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2042" CreationDate="2011-11-28T18:09:54.700" Score="16" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/generalist-badge-implemented/&quot;&gt;Generalist Badge Implemented&lt;/a&gt; blog post,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there must be at least 200 questions in all 40 of the top tags before this badge is awarded to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, our &quot;tag no. 40&quot; (margins) features &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags?page=2&amp;amp;tab=popular&quot;&gt;exactly 200 questions&lt;/a&gt;. IIRC, the tag has hit the limit yesterday, sometime in the afternoon. I had expected that the first Generalist badges would be awarded either immediately or in the morning of the next day (today). But no user has been awarded a Generalist badge so far. When can we expect our shiny new badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just in case anyone asks: I guess there should be at least a dozen &quot;instant awards&quot;. I'm no. 5 rep-wise at the moment, and have a total score of &gt;=15 in 31 of the top 40 tags.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T11:42:45.320" Title="When will the first Generalist badges be awarded?" Tags="|support|status-completed|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2019" CreationDate="2011-11-29T08:52:23.093" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eyal, really, just go for it! Be generous, invest at least 100! For what else reputation is good for? Not spending it does not make your life any better :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happily invested 2/3 of my reputation for my first bounty of 100 points and it was just worth it, as it solved the problem I had and I ended up with a solution better than I could imagine before. I also got back much of this reputation within a week or so. &lt;em&gt;Especially&lt;/em&gt; if you consider your questions as &quot;niche question&quot;, a generous bounty will get them the attention they deserve and also increase the number upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are concerned about reputation in general: Believe me, the first 500 are the hardest. From then on it will more or less automatically increase: by getting upvotes for older questions and answers, but especially by providing answers for other questions. As you learn with every question you post and every answer you get, you will quickly find yourself in a situation that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can actually answer some others' question. And then just go for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3751" LastActivityDate="2011-11-29T08:52:23.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1184" CreationDate="2011-11-29T11:09:36.380" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chachatelier.fr/latexit/latexit-home.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBrIV.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeXiT - Drag and drop LaTeX into anything!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastEditorUserId="9043" LastEditDate="2011-11-29T17:06:05.477" LastActivityDate="2011-11-29T17:06:05.477" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-11-29T11:09:36.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2019" CreationDate="2011-11-30T16:40:53.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree to the most answers here: if a question is hard to answer, you probably get nothing. Look at this question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31734/mix-marginnotes-with-marginpars-without-overlap&quot;&gt;mix marginnotes with marginpars without overlap&lt;/a&gt; : I started a bounty, but got no answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are matters which need more work than people here at tex.stackexchange will invest. At that point you better look for a tex-guru in you local TeX-User-Group and ask him/her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T16:40:53.950" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2040" CreationDate="2011-11-30T17:42:09.693" Score="14" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/first-questions&quot;&gt;reviewing questions&lt;/a&gt; the blurb mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These are the &lt;strong&gt;first questions a new user has ever asked&lt;/strong&gt; on TeX - LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/first-answers&quot;&gt;reviewing answers&lt;/a&gt; the blurb mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These are the &lt;strong&gt;first answers a new user has ever submitted&lt;/strong&gt; to TeX - LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I understand this correctly and as &lt;strong&gt;new user&lt;/strong&gt; suggests, this excludes &quot;experienced/inexperienced users on other Stack Exchange sites&quot;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;. I would consider &quot;first questions/answers&quot; on this site to denote exactly that - the first question posted by an individual on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;. Should this ambiguity be addressed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; See, for example, many &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;user profiles&lt;/a&gt; in the 101-126 reputation range (25 reputation span).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T01:11:36.867" Title="Reviewing first questions/answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2039" CreationDate="2011-11-30T22:12:59.210" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only get the 100rep bonus once you have 200rep on one SX account. So you have at least a little experience in the SX site format. These review pages seem to target people who are &lt;em&gt;new to the SX concept&lt;/em&gt;, not new to (La)TeX (or whatever the particular SX site is about). So this might be status-by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T01:11:36.867" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T01:11:36.867" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2033" CreationDate="2011-12-01T12:34:17.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just got assigned to 26 people. Apparently there was some delay in the script. It possibly only runs once a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-07-21T11:42:45.320" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T11:42:45.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2033" CreationDate="2011-12-01T13:44:55.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have another explanation: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep?tab=activity#lockstep?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=badges&amp;amp;_suid=132274702053305403856299171188&quot;&gt;My Generalist badge&lt;/a&gt; was awarded 17 seconds after the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36797/how-can-i-make-todonotes-use-all-of-the-margin&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;201st&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt; question had been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T14:10:08.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-01T16:10:36.143" Score="6" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123/is-there-a-way-to-see-how-someone-typeset-their-question-in-tex-se&quot;&gt;Is there a way to see how someone typeset their question in TeX.SE?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Wikipedia, even when I can't edit a page, I can view the source-code. Sometimes I see markup in questions (or answers) and wonder: how do I get this layout? Is there any way to view the source-code when I don't have the reputation to edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8141" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T18:03:37.240" Title="View source-code for question (even when I can't edit)" Tags="|support|editing|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2011-12-01T22:05:17.690" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2045" CreationDate="2011-12-01T18:48:12.080" Score="13" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/764/are-questions-about-sweave-more-appropriate-for-tex-se-or-so&quot;&gt;somewhat similar question&lt;/a&gt; was last raised about 1 year ago. However, it dealt more about whether or not to post &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sweave&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;-related question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a recent influx (perhaps too strong a word here) of questions dealing with &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sweave&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sweave&lt;/code&gt; on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; I wonder whether we should flag those questions for migration to TeX.SX? Or, should judgement be made on the TeX-ability of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some motivation and/or considerations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/sweave/info&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sweave&lt;/code&gt; tag description&lt;/a&gt; on SO: &quot;Sweave is a system for interspersing S (or R) code with LaTeX. It is an implementation of Donald Knuth's Literate Programming concept.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;sweave&lt;/code&gt; is generally about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;R&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and not TeX, LaTeX and Friends&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we have &lt;code&gt;sweave&lt;/code&gt; experts on TeX.SX?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T06:37:40.477" Title="Should questions about Sweave be weaved in?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2044" CreationDate="2011-12-02T05:09:46.633" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm by no means an expert in sweave, but I often can help out with such questions, and I know there are a few others here who can too. I don't think that sweave questions are &quot;generally about R and not TeX&quot; although some are but I do think the main criteria for whether a question should be migrated should depend on the degree to which the question is about the LaTeX part of the sweave document or the R part of the document. So I guess I wouldn't support a blanket tag-based migration policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately lots of R users arrive a LaTeX via sweave, and don't go through the normal learning process of LaTeX.  But that often means that their questions are quite simple in principle but with the added complication of the intervoven (interswoven?) R code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I would also suggest to everyone that if you're not actually using R and Sweave, that you hang back a bit before attempting to answer such questions here,  even if they seem to be fairly obvious LaTeX questions. It would be helpful to see if those of us who &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; using these tools provide some answers first. Because there are peculiarities of using &lt;em&gt;generated&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX code (as opposed to code you write yourself) fixing someone's Sweave generated code as you would a regular document is not always helpful to Sweave users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T06:37:40.477" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T06:37:40.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-02T11:45:05.550" Score="24" ViewCount="1477" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2956/community-promotion-ads-2013&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2013&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they will appear on the main site as community promotion ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But whyyyyyyy?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scripts packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. And to click on it for great justice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2046&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T16:29:22.423" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2012" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2012-12-10T13:27:08.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T11:45:05.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="2059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:45:53.957" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JKndm.png&quot; alt=&quot;From answers to packages&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2012-02-12T23:10:45.070" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T23:10:45.070" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T21:45:53.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="2062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:48:14.060" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1564&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WBmS9.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX.sx Community Polls&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T18:26:13.513" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T21:48:14.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:48:52.297" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z6MDX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Exchange TeX Blog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2012-02-12T19:05:25.440" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T19:05:25.440" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T21:48:52.297" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:49:33.230" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nervR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comic Sans LaTeX ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T21:49:33.230" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T21:49:33.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:50:02.403" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctanhg.scharrer-online.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gyUgM.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN HG: Mercurial Archive of CTAN&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T21:50:02.403" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T21:50:02.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:50:51.343" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/pracjourn/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YTkvs.png&quot; alt=&quot;How you get TeX things done&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T21:50:51.343" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T21:50:51.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:51:51.497" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackTex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2VnD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T21:51:51.497" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T21:51:51.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="227" CreationDate="2011-12-03T13:53:44.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also think that (at least) one answer to a question must be simple, if possible.  That is, use existing packages as much as you can rather than resorting to makeatlatter and makeatother type hacking.  See the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36958/is-it-still-worth-it-to-learn-tex&quot;&gt;Is it still worth it to learn TeX?&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Herbert is one person who is very good at providing simple answers in the above sense.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T13:53:44.263" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-03T13:53:44.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2070" CreationDate="2011-12-04T16:25:04.307" Score="12" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some questions and answers that need updating. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7/we-need-tex-markup&quot;&gt;We need TeX markup ...&lt;/a&gt; has a link to Google Charts which leads to an Error 404 page.  Would an add comment automatically inform the author of the question?  What if the author is no longer a regular visitor?  Is there another method of updating? Finally, this may not be the only question that needs updating.  I will ask the question, however, I do not see an answer other than everyone being vigilant about it.  How would you update ALL questions that need updating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T19:16:59.043" Title="Updating old questions and answers" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2069" CreationDate="2011-12-04T16:32:07.957" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community editing is part of the way the StackExchange network. Lower reputation users can suggest edits, while people with lots of reputation (over 3k I think) can simply edit directly. So you should feel free to suggest improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I would ask is that no one overdoes it. Ideally, the front page is mainly made up of new questions. So editing half a dozen old questions a day is probably okay, but doing thirty is not!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T16:32:07.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2073" CreationDate="2011-12-04T21:55:31.990" Score="14" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The concepts of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;forward-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;forward-search&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inverse-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inverse-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inverse-search&lt;/a&gt; are very closely related. Therefore I suggest to create a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-inverse-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;forward-inverse-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;forward-inverse-search&lt;/a&gt; tag, make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;forward-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;forward-search&lt;/a&gt; (7 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inverse-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inverse-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inverse-search&lt;/a&gt; (9 questions) synonyms of the new tag and merge the existing questions. (Note: 4 questions feature both tags at the moment, so the new tag would start with 12 questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T17:05:28.363" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T17:05:28.363" Title="Create {forward-inverse-search} and make {forward-search} and {inverse-search} synonyms of it" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2072" CreationDate="2011-12-05T16:11:47.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As my suggestion has gained 9 upvotes so far, I ask a moderator to create &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-inverse-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;forward-inverse-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;forward-inverse-search&lt;/a&gt; plus synonyms and to merge the existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T16:11:47.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-06T00:26:14.547" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1680/printable-version-of-questions-answers-or-entire-discussion&quot;&gt;Printable version of questions/answers or entire discussion&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I save my &quot;favorite's&quot; answer for future lecture in my Mac, using the printing option and pass to save in pdf format in a specific folder. Nice trick, but exists the possibility of implement this feature (like: print/save this answer) in TeX.SE?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is only a question for confort and order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PD. Sorry for my poor english is not (not is?) my mother-language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6633" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T00:43:42.790" Title="About the possibility to save the &quot;answer&quot; in pdf format" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2011-12-06T09:41:07.253" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1680" CreationDate="2011-12-06T00:43:42.790" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;Paulo Cereda&lt;/a&gt; has developed the awesome &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/texprinter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXPrinter&lt;/a&gt; for precisely this purpose. It's a Java application with a very clean interface that takes a question ID and saves the question thread as a PDF or a TeX file. There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/31378263&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;video explaining the usage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="124577" LastEditDate="2019-03-11T07:51:23.930" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T07:51:23.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2078" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-06T16:26:47.103" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1694/the-prominent-link-to-tex-blogoverflow-com-has-been-buried&quot;&gt;The prominent link to tex.blogoverflow.com has been buried&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got in the situation that I wanted to find a blog entry I know to be on the tex.se blog. However, how to find the blog itself? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mNqIF.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, the &lt;em&gt;blog&lt;/em&gt; link appears on the main page only together with the red &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; indicator when there is some new post. While I certainly like the &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; indicator, I found it pretty strange that the blog basically disappears whenever there is no new content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you know that it is there, it is surprisingly hard to find it! If one tries to search for it on main, you won't get any useful hint. I finally found it by searching for &quot;blog&quot; on meta until I found a post that (thankfully) contained a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So am I missing something or is there a good reason to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have a permanent &lt;em&gt;blog&lt;/em&gt; link from main (and meta)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal:&lt;/strong&gt; Make the &lt;em&gt;blog&lt;/em&gt; link &lt;strong&gt;appear permanently&lt;/strong&gt; on in the link bar on the top with the red &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; indicator showing up if there&#xA;  is some new post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3751" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T17:54:34.153" Title="Why isn't our blog linked from the main page" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2011-12-06T21:27:26.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2101" CreationDate="2011-12-06T18:53:33.870" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asking my question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2072/create-forward-inverse-search-and-make-forward-search-and-inverse-search-s&quot;&gt;creating a unified forward-inverse-search tag&lt;/a&gt;, I missed the fact that there is also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synctex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synctex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synctex&lt;/a&gt; tag. SyncTeX is a special technology for forward-inverse-searching, but I think it is appropriate to use the general tag for it. Therefore I suggest to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synctex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synctex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synctex&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-inverse-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;forward-inverse-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;forward-inverse-search&lt;/a&gt; and to merge the existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As my proposal got some, but not too many upvotes, let my elaborate: I think that even if there were other techniques for forward-inverse-searching in (La)TeX than SyncTeX, the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synctex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synctex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synctex&lt;/a&gt; tag and the more general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-inverse-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;forward-inverse-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;forward-inverse-search&lt;/a&gt; are closely aligned, and the small number of overall questions does not warrant specialized tags (neither for SyncTeX nor for other techniques).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T15:53:18.773" Title="Make {synctex} a synonym of {forward-inverse-search}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2083" CreationDate="2011-12-07T06:19:01.730" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;The look and feel, as well as overall usability of the SE-sites, is awesome--I enjoy reading over here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the process to add favorite tags can be more practical: when hovering over a tag (a small window pops-up anyway with a definition and a few options to follow, et.c.), an option to mark this tag as favorite (of course for logged-in users) would simplify things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8272" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-12-12T17:15:18.697" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T17:15:18.697" Title="Provide &quot;add as favorite&quot; option when hovering over tags" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2082" CreationDate="2011-12-07T06:56:46.907" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already implemented: Clicking on the star on the top left of a tag pop-up &lt;em&gt;&quot;toggle[s] this tag between favorite, ignored, and normal&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-12-07T07:22:31.683" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T07:22:31.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2085" CreationDate="2011-12-08T19:30:11.510" Score="6" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;... and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's following the habit of having tags in the plural form, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tools&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tools&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tools&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt;; as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/302/4012&quot;&gt;Our set of tags&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/52/4012&quot;&gt;Can someone merge tags? (and singular versus plural tags)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T20:23:10.627" Title="Rename {script} to {scripts}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2084" CreationDate="2011-12-08T19:48:41.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created the synonym and merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T19:48:41.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2095" CreationDate="2011-12-08T20:27:39.327" Score="10" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Motivated by Stefan's prompt reaction to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2084/rename-script-to-scripts&quot;&gt;Rename {script} to {scripts}&lt;/a&gt;, I went through the first five pages of tags looking for singular tags to pluralize, once again with the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302/our-set-of-tags&quot;&gt;Our set of tags&lt;/a&gt; in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The following kinds of tags are recommended:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Specific topics, e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/errors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;errors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;errors&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;, ... &lt;em&gt;(Note: prefer plural nouns)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I wasn't sure if a tag could or should be pluralized, I tried to put it in a sentence: &quot;This question is about &lt;em&gt;{tag}&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (without any articles!). If singular sounds sensible, it won't be included in my list here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose to rename the following singular tags to their respective plural form and make the singular tag a synonym of the plural tags. &lt;em&gt;(Updated list in accordance with the discussion)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/document-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;document-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;document-classes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indexing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indexing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indexing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/url&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;url&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;url&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/urls&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urls&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;urls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-file&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathoperator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathoperator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathoperator&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/math-operators&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;math-operators&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;math-operators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backgrounds&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backgrounds&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backgrounds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/path&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;path&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;path&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paths&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paths&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, but that tag still &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1946/what-is-the-preferred-meaning-of-the-ambiguous-path-tag&quot;&gt;needs some attention&lt;/a&gt; at any rate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graph&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graph&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graph&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what our policy on creating synonyms is; if we only create synonyms when they become necessary, we can probably skip most of the synonyms (not renamings) proposed above. &#xA;If we create synonyms preventively, then let's roll!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aLh87.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://memegenerator.net/X-All-The-Things&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://memegenerator.net/X-All-The-Things&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As tags can't be crossed out with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, I'll list the declined proposals down here so that we'll only have the &quot;good&quot; proposals above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/color&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;color&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;color&lt;/a&gt; (further advantage: it'll be clearer that this tag is not only about the &lt;code&gt;color&lt;/code&gt; package, but about any color-related questions)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indices&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indexes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indexes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indexes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/width&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;width&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;width&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/height&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;height&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;height&lt;/a&gt; (not sure)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paper-size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paper-size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paper-size&lt;/a&gt; is a tag that could be pluralized but I don't think it would be appropriate because it (usually) deals with paper size as an abstract property of a single document and not with e.g. comparing A4 to letter paper.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2011-12-10T20:52:44.067" Title="Pluralize these singular tags" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2086" CreationDate="2011-12-08T20:50:14.840" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've made this an answer since it's a bit long for a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm strongly against pluralizing &quot;color&quot;, which is normally a mass noun, and should remain so.  The same objection holds for &quot;width&quot; and &quot;height&quot;.  The confusion with a package name could be better solved by adding a &lt;code&gt;-pkg&lt;/code&gt; suffix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;code&gt;index&lt;/code&gt; is to be pluralized it should be &quot;indexes&quot; and not &quot;indices&quot; which I would bet most people don't use.  In fact, in my field, &quot;indices&quot; means something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;documentclass&lt;/code&gt; should remain the same too, because it matches what people type in the source; if we want to pluralize it, it should then be &quot;document classes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T20:50:14.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2086" CreationDate="2011-12-08T20:54:41.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't have a strong opinion about singular v. plural tag names in general, I'd rather not rename the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/color&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;color&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;color&lt;/a&gt; tag because there's already a bronze &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/106/color&quot;&gt;tag badge&lt;/a&gt; for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T20:54:41.390" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2086" CreationDate="2011-12-08T22:42:12.903" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;opposed to pluralizing &lt;em&gt;index&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;indices&lt;/em&gt; because &quot;indices&quot; has the alternate meaning in a math context of sub- and superscripts.  if you want to use &lt;em&gt;indexes&lt;/em&gt; though, that's okay (even if not elegant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;width&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;height&lt;/em&gt; are concepts; the plurals are specifics.  i think these should stay as they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T22:42:12.903" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2091" CreationDate="2011-12-09T16:58:31.713" Score="10" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was taking a look over my old answers, and it appears &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36199/9043&quot;&gt;for this one&lt;/a&gt; I qualify for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/39/populist&quot;&gt;Populist badge&lt;/a&gt;, i.e. my answer has more than twice the upvotes of the accepted answer, and the accepted answer is at least 10 points, and has been for a while I guess. Does anyone know what the latency in awarding badges is? Does it vary from badge to badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T08:50:32.017" Title="What is the latency for awarding badges?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2090" CreationDate="2011-12-09T17:20:32.987" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The latency depends on the badge. There are scripts which check if the condition for the badge(s) are met and award them. Sometimes the rules of a badge are actually slightly different than it is described and then there might be some internal time limit, i.e. you might need more that twice up-votes then the accepted one for a certain time in order to make sure it isn't just a glitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T17:20:32.987" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2086" CreationDate="2011-12-09T17:47:47.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst unifying the format of tags seems like a good idea, the tags are intended to be somewhat ad hoc. Pluralising them in many cases will not break them, but in certain cases like &lt;code&gt;index&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;indexes&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;indices&lt;/code&gt; (I didn't even know indexes was a word until today) it simply confuses matters. Thus my opinion is; if the pluralised tag is just as obvious as the original, and unambiguous, then by all means make the change. In any other case,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it ain't broke; don't fix it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T17:47:47.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2112" CreationDate="2011-12-09T19:35:14.700" Score="9" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perusing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indentation&lt;/a&gt;, I've noticed that these two tags in fact cover at least &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; concepts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changing the (top/bottom/left/right) margin(s) for a whole document or at least for a whole page. This is the rightful domain of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt;, often accompanied by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/geometry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;geometry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;geometry&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typearea&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typearea&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typearea&lt;/a&gt; (package) tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Switching on/off first-line indentation for all or specific paragraphs. This is covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indentation&lt;/a&gt;. (I'm not aware of any package-specific tags, though the &lt;code&gt;indentfirst&lt;/code&gt; package would fit in.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changing the (left/right) &quot;margins&quot; in the middle of a page, e.g. for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lists&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lists&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quoting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quoting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quoting&lt;/a&gt; environments, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/theorems&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;theorems&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;theorems&lt;/a&gt;. Questions concerning this matter feature either &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indentation&lt;/a&gt; or both tags, with no discernible pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should come to an understanding to which tag questions of the third type belong -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indentation&lt;/a&gt; or even a yet-to-be created new tag. I suggest that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indentation&lt;/a&gt; is in fact the appropriate tag, and ask you to advance your opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: From the 30 highest-scoring &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt; questions, 4 belong to the &quot;middle-of-the-page&quot; type. Assuming about the same fraction for the whole tag, adoption of my proposal would mean the necessity to retag about 20 to 30 questions. It is possible that Stefan Kottwitz, owner of the sole &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/136/margins&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt; tag badge, would lose this badge at least temporarily. Assuming that at least 100 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt; question would remain, the tag badge would not be destroyed, but &quot;orphaned&quot; the same way as it happened for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memoir&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memoir&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memoir&lt;/a&gt; badge.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T15:21:58.307" Title="{margins}, {indentation}, and changing the &quot;margins&quot; in the middle of a page" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2090" CreationDate="2011-12-09T20:08:13.023" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some random observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many badges are awarded a few seconds after the awarding condition has been met. This is true for most &quot;common&quot; badges like &quot;Nice Question&quot; and &quot;Nice Answer&quot;, but possibly also for the rare &quot;Epic&quot; and &quot;Legendary&quot; Badges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some badges, e.g. &quot;Enlightened&quot;, will be awarded in blocks about once every hour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tag badges will be awarded once every 24 hours, about 3 a.m. UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2011-12-23T08:50:32.017" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T08:50:32.017" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2086" CreationDate="2011-12-10T20:52:32.007" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I renamed as suggested by the updated proposals. Synonyms can be created if such tags would reappear, for now I did not add synonyms. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-file&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-file&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-file&lt;/a&gt; is not really needed as a synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/external-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;external-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;external-files&lt;/a&gt;, as it is too similar. Auto-completion of tags helps to hit the right one. Other more obvious choices such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index&lt;/a&gt; might be made a synonym at some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-12-10T20:52:32.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2096" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2563" CreationDate="2011-12-10T21:41:32.397" Score="13" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;The common spelling of &lt;em&gt;math_mode&lt;/em&gt; seems to be with a space in between the words: There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=title:%22math%20mode%22&quot;&gt;109 questions with &lt;em&gt;math mode&lt;/em&gt; in their title&lt;/a&gt;, but only &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=title:mathmode&quot;&gt;17 with &lt;em&gt;mathmode&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Herbert Voß's paper &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirror.ctan.org/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Math mode&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; spells it with two words, too. Hence, I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; be normalized to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/math-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;math-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;math-mode&lt;/a&gt;, just like we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/document-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;document-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;document-classes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I don't use LaTeX for math, I hope I'm not missing some environment or the like that actually spells &lt;code&gt;mathmode&lt;/code&gt;; in that case, this suggestion would be void, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm expecting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/65/mathmode&quot;&gt;18 {mathmode} bronze tag badges&lt;/a&gt;, egreg's and Werner's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/118/mathmode&quot;&gt;silver {mathmode} tag badges&lt;/a&gt; and egreg's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/181/mathmode&quot;&gt;gold {mathmode} tag badge&lt;/a&gt; to be revoked by the system and new tag badges for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/math-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;math-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;math-mode&lt;/a&gt; to be awarded pretty much immediately, in the spirit of the meta.so question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87506/what-happens-to-a-tag-badge-when-a-tag-is-merged-with-another-one-or-it-is-dele&quot;&gt;What happens to a tag badge when a tag is merged with another one, or it is deleted?&lt;/a&gt;. The only thing that gets lost is the precise dates and order in which these badges were awarded, but I wouldn't regard this as a big problem. (I'd guess the new badges will be awarded in ascending order by user ID.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Numbers updated + It might be possible for an admin to simply rename the tag and its badges so that the badges aren't revoked but just renamed, and no information is lost. It would be great if a moderator here could check this with SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have asked about this in the mod chat room: no answer. So if we want to go for this we will have to 'suck it and see' badge-wise. – &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2096/rename-mathmode-to-math-mode#comment6283_2096&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addendum: The less frequent tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/textmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;textmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;textmode&lt;/a&gt; should similarly be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-mode&lt;/a&gt;, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T10:20:44.527" Title="Rename {mathmode} to {math-mode}" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tagging|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2100" CreationDate="2011-12-11T13:55:44.377" Score="27" ViewCount="1051" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing a question or answer, one usually fixes also occasional slips in capitalization, for example &quot;Latex&quot; into &quot;LaTeX&quot; or &quot;Tikz&quot; into &quot;TikZ&quot;; frequently one sees &quot;i&quot; for &quot;I&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I interpret correctly the site's tradition, a message should not be edited just to fix misprints or minor glitches (except, perhaps, in titles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37714/4427&quot;&gt;A recent answer&lt;/a&gt; by a very respected member of the community was edited twice in order to &quot;fix&quot; her peculiar style and twice rolled back (once by myself, the second time by the OP).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should respect a poster's style, particularly in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T04:53:07.087" Title="Respecting poster's style" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-11T13:57:41.733" Score="10" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to place a bounty of 200 on an existing answer to thank someone for helping answer my question, but when I click &quot;Add bounty&quot;, my only option is &quot;500&quot;. That is too much. A previous bounty went to another user. How can I award a smaller bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8918" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-12-11T15:51:48.277" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T15:51:48.277" Title="How to award a second bounty on an existing answer?" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2098" CreationDate="2011-12-11T14:05:41.383" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/105639/159019&quot;&gt;You &lt;em&gt;can't:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We now double the minimum &quot;spend&quot; for successive bounties &lt;em&gt;on the same question by the same user&lt;/em&gt;. So if you started at 50: your next bounty on that question has a minimum of 100, the next 200, the next 400, the next (max).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T14:05:41.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2097" CreationDate="2011-12-11T14:58:20.343" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I remember a comment of B/barbara somehwere, in which she stated she only uses standard capitalization whenever she's writing on behalf of the AMS. I'm not sure whether or not this is a reason to deviate from this site's style so decisively, but I'd recommend she add a note to her profile about her doing so. Also, it'd be good to a notice (or a link to this discussion) when rolling back an undesired capitalization edit to a previous version. To do so, you need to use the [edit] link at the revision you want to reinstate instead of the [rollback] link. You're still effectively doing a rollback, but you can add an edit summary explaining the matter. This way, future capitalizations can be avoided. All this is assuming the not-capitalization is condoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, you're in line with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-it-and-isnt-acceptable-to-edit&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;: Only edit for &quot;Fixing typos or grammar errors&quot; if the question is on top of the list anyways (or if you're editing for another reason already). However, if a question is really terribly full of spelling mistakes, I tend to edit it anyway; I like to keep the &lt;em&gt;Wikipedia aspect&lt;/em&gt; of tex.sx in mind, i.e. as a reference site beyond just helping one particular user. So without a reason like B/barbara's, I might well edit a post (of decent length) that doesn't have any capitalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T15:07:35.867" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2079" CreationDate="2011-12-11T15:34:07.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask a moderator to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synctex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synctex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synctex&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-inverse-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;forward-inverse-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;forward-inverse-search&lt;/a&gt; and to merge the existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T15:34:07.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2105" CreationDate="2011-12-12T10:56:06.817" Score="7" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags 'bidi' and 'right-to-left' seem to indicate the same thing. Questions about right-to-left typesetting are obviously concerned with the duality of both left-to-right and right-to-left. 'bidi' is a term fewer people will know and understand, being a shorthand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I intend to retag the 3 questions with 'bidi' as 'right-to-left'. Should I do anything before proceeding? After retagging, does the tag 'die' automagically? What about its tag wiki entry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T13:37:03.160" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T13:37:03.160" Title="Intending to remove the 'bidi' tag, leave just 'right-to-left'" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2097" CreationDate="2011-12-12T11:11:04.893" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to sound a note of dissonance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand [Bb]arbara's reasoning.  But I think that it is flawed for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is not clear &lt;em&gt;from a post itself&lt;/em&gt; that there is a potential for two voices.  A post with no capitalisation simply looks like a post with no capitalisation.  One has to look further, and know what to look for, to understand the reason behind it.  So people, trying to be helpful, are going to be continually editing her posts to capitalise them.  My guess would be that there are very few occasions on this site where [Bb]arbara needs to put on her Official AMS Hat (here's a chance for Paulo to show off his graphic skills again) and Declaim With Authority - indeed, I can think of only one occasion where this was needed (&quot;Is it legal to TeX the TeXBook?&quot;).  On all other occasions, the fact that she works for the AMS is useful information (her answers on AMS stuff are more trustworthy because of it) but at no point would I think that there was a risk that her posts would be viewed as some official AMS viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It makes the post very hard to read!  The people editing it do so for a reason.  As web browsers aren't as sophisticated as TeX, the need for proper grammar is all the more important as all the line spacing, punctuation spacing, and so forth is hopeless.  I agree that small grammatical changes should only be made if bigger edits are going on, or if the post is near the top of the front page anyway, but there were a lot in that post.  I would have considered editing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conjunction of this with Yiannis' answer is a happenstance that I cannot pass by.  Imagine if barbara had written Yiannis' answer.  It would have begun:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;dear polish friends, i'm doubly sorry&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that I think that barbara should properly capitalise her posts.  But I think that we have a higher duty to make the site clear and understandable than to respect any particular person's quirks so if someone edits them just to put in the capitalisation, then actually I would let that stand.  To ensure that it is clear that barbara's posts are her own and not the AMS's then a short disclaimer in her profile page would suffice.  Anyone who knows that she works for the AMS will check there, and anyone who doesn't know that will not be in danger of getting confused anyway.  Moreover, I think that the &lt;em&gt;default&lt;/em&gt; assumption on the SE sites is that people speak for themselves and not their employers.  These aren't &quot;Ask an Expert&quot; sites, they're &quot;Ask a Fellow Traveller&quot;.  A fellow traveller might be able to tell you the best pubs from their home town, but you'd never mistake them for the mayor.  On the other hand, knowing the best pubs is more the sort of thing we're interested in here than the statistics on how much Real Ale is sold in comparison to Fake Lager[1].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] A tautology for effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T11:11:04.893" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2097" CreationDate="2011-12-12T13:32:26.400" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like us to keep in mind, that we would like to respect the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once written, hundreds or thousands of times read. It's good for the site and for the users and visitors, that the posts are as readable as possible. This includes writing in English as it's the language of this international site, capitalization as it's common practice, and proper punctuation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I respect Barbara and also her writing style, and I also respect our readers. And I respect if an editor makes a post more readable for the public. The site is like an online publication, rather than a mailing list or discussion board. Is writing everything in lowercase allowed in the Wikipedia? In the PracTeX online journal? In TUGboat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start forbidding edits to lower-case style, we consequently might have to approve all capital letter style as it's just the same other way around. It could go even further — to approve omitting punctuation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barbara has developed her style to let people distinguish the role she's using when writing. However, &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; if the reader has read her profile, or somebody told him, can the reader know that. A safer way would be a small information in official posts. As Andrew said, that we are speaking for ourselves is the default assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My compromise suggestion would be both to respect lowercase writing (though it might be hard to decide if it's writing style, like Barbaras, or if it's just careless writing by anybody else) but also to respect if an editor matches the post to the site's style and the public style. Editing and improving posts is an essential feature of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="1410" LastEditDate="2011-12-12T16:51:47.007" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T16:51:47.007" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2102" CreationDate="2011-12-12T19:51:18.457" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;bidi&lt;/code&gt; is the name of a package, and should be preserved as an independent tag. &lt;code&gt;right-to-left&lt;/code&gt; is a description of how text is set, and is not the same as &lt;code&gt;bidi&lt;/code&gt;.  It's possible that RTL questions might not concern the &lt;code&gt;bidi&lt;/code&gt; package (for example RTL in an editor); most &lt;code&gt;bidi&lt;/code&gt; questions will also be about RTL, but that should be an additional tag, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So not only should &lt;code&gt;bidi&lt;/code&gt; not be removed as a tag, I don't even think the two should be synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T19:51:18.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2106" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2107" CreationDate="2011-12-14T08:46:29.800" Score="19" ViewCount="1460" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a silly question, but if I don't ask it, it will bug me. I can recognise most of the text around the TEX title, except the elvish in the top right hand corner. What does it say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9871" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T12:31:36.990" Title="What does the text around the title say?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2106" CreationDate="2011-12-14T08:59:34.537" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The translation of the (complete) Elvish text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring&#xA;  them all and in the darkness bind them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the inscription of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;One Ring&lt;/a&gt;, in the site design we can see the first half of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T08:59:34.537" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2106" CreationDate="2011-12-14T19:16:44.567" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Elvish text at the top left of the site design&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K3jIk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Elvish at tex.stackexchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is the first half of the inscription on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One Ring&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ulCMf.png&quot; alt=&quot;J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/649/4012&quot;&gt;Site Design Ideas&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX showcase&lt;/a&gt;, source &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/tengwar.tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tengwar.tex&lt;/a&gt; and compilation result &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/tengwar.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tengwar.pdf&lt;/a&gt;. About how to create it with TeX see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13015/what-package-allows-elvish-in-tex&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13015/what-package-allows-elvish-in-tex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The language is &quot;Black Speech&quot;, the letters are &quot;Tengwar&quot; (Elvish). This is similar to writing &quot;Γρεεκ λεττερς&quot; with Greek letters but using English language (in Latin letters: &quot;Greek letters&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Black Speech was the language created by Sauron for his servants in&#xA;  Mordor. Over the centuries many of the Orcs developed their own&#xA;  dialects of Black Speech, these dialects were often referred to as&#xA;  Orkish. The Orcs were not a very literate group, so few examples of&#xA;  their writing exists today. Those few Orks that could write used the&#xA;  Cirth alphabet. Tolkien included one example of written Black Speech&#xA;  in the book &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; - the Ring inscription. This&#xA;  inscription seems to be unique in that it uses the Tengwar alphabet.&#xA;  Sauron apparently adapted the Tengwar script of Eregion for writing&#xA;  for Black Speech. […] Writing Black Speech with Tengwar: The rules for&#xA;  writing Black Speech with Tengwar is similar to the Sindarin&#xA;  Tengwar/Tehtar Mode. Although the Black Speech and the Sindarin&#xA;  Tengwar/Tehtar modes look similar to each other, they may use&#xA;  different Tengwar letters to represent the same sounds. This is&#xA;  particularly noticeable with the phonetic values assigned to the&#xA;  Tehtar marks used for the o and u sound, which are reversed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Daniel Steven Smith: TengwarQuenya_Help, 10/FEB/2003, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chomikuj.pl/anuleczek88/r*c3*b3*c5*bcne/fonty+-+elficki/TengwarQuenya_Help,354460461.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://chomikuj.pl/anuleczek88/r*c3*b3*c5*bcne/fonty+-+elficki/TengwarQuenya_Help,354460461.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the rhyme of &quot;bind&quot; and &quot;find&quot; also in Black Speech as noted by Mark S. Everitt: Some say that Orcs were created by corrupting Elves (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_%28Middle-earth%29#East_Elves_.28Avari.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth)#East_Elves_.28Avari.29&lt;/a&gt; ), which the Elves deny, of course. Now one just needs to find out whether English is derived from Elvish or Orcish. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also be interested in the coming &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehobbitblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hobbit movies&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;rpg.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things to note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need to look very hard to see the &lt;em&gt;writing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you save the page, that part isn’t saved and therefore &lt;em&gt;invisible&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;in the saved version.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site is &lt;em&gt;bright&lt;/em&gt; (a lot of white) and &lt;em&gt;cool&lt;/em&gt; at the same time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Orcs use &quot;nazg&quot; not only for &quot;ring&quot; but also for &quot;website&quot;. Wait,&#xA;that’s an urban myth, isn’t it? ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:51.857" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T12:31:36.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2011-12-15T23:43:38.597" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1560&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v4aSW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Answer the Unanswered&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T19:02:59.793" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-15T23:43:38.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2093" CreationDate="2011-12-16T16:34:39.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As my proposal has gained 4 upvotes, I will begin to retag the &quot; middle-of-the page&quot; type questions from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indentation&lt;/a&gt;. I suggest the following wiki excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{margins} is about changing the margins of (whole) pages and,&#xA;  conversely, the width and height of the textblock and its positioning&#xA;  on the page. Popular packages are {geometry} and {typearea}. For&#xA;  changing the &quot;margins&quot; in the middle of a page, use {indentation} &#xA;  instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, however, that tex.sx features &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; 40 tags with more than 200 questions right now and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/margins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;margins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;margins&lt;/a&gt; is likely to fall below this mark. This in turn may affect the process of awarding &quot;Generalist&quot; badges. Because of this, retagging will only be completed as soon as another tag (possibly &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/installing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;installing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;installing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amsmath&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amsmath&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amsmath&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/footnotes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;footnotes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;footnotes&lt;/a&gt;) exceeds 200 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T16:34:39.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2011-12-19T00:57:48.213" Score="15" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32302/chinese-checkers-board-using-tikz&quot;&gt;Chinese checkers board using TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Draws a Chinese checkers board. Indicates moves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5UyNj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Include board designs for other similar games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T01:37:32.243" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-19T00:57:48.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-21T20:27:06.743" Score="12" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon that answers to questions use a package which itself loads another package. In that case, details of the answer might end up being opaque if the answer uses commands documented in the dependency, but not in the actually loaded package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some common cases where this is the case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;various table packages that all load &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;various packages that load &lt;code&gt;xcolor&lt;/code&gt; and/or &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that we try to explicitly mention and load the dependencies in answer code if the answer uses commands from both the main package and the dependency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some answers of the sort I have in mind: (I didn't really want to pick on people so I didn't add specific answers in my original version of the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/39047/2693&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/39047/2693&lt;/a&gt; This answer was what prompted my question in the first place. (The issue is much less obvious in the answers present state). Peter's initial answer just used the &lt;code&gt;collcell&lt;/code&gt; package, but part of the answer used &lt;code&gt;\newcolumntype&lt;/code&gt;. In fact, Martin (author of &lt;code&gt;collcell&lt;/code&gt;) is explicit in his documentation about the use of &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt;, so in this particular case, there isn't too much of a problem.  In it's current state, since there has been some discussion independently about the &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt; package, so the problem doesn't really arise any more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/23690/2693&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/23690/2693&lt;/a&gt; Here the comment makes it clear that the OP didn't necessarily understand the syntax of &lt;code&gt;newcolumntype&lt;/code&gt;; the &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; documentation won't help other than (presumably) a pointer to &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an answer of mine that does what I'm suggesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37240/2693&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37240/2693&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The solution here uses &lt;code&gt;\resizebox&lt;/code&gt; which is a &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; command.  Although &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; loads &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; it makes little sense to &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; use &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; in the solution, so I loaded &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; explicitly with a comment in the code to that effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T00:27:13.887" Title="Package dependencies in answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2115" CreationDate="2011-12-21T20:29:50.610" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not so sure. It depends on how common the packages are. I'd say that &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;xcolor&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; are 'standard', in the sense that I use them directly or indirectly in every real document I write. So anything which does not work with them is basically erroneous in itself. On the other hand, if a package requires say TikZ then I think it probably is worth a mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T20:29:50.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-22T09:28:07.330" Score="28" ViewCount="3796" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to this site and have a similar/the same problem as one already posted, but its answers do not work for me. I posted my issue in the same thread as the original, but someone commented I should ask it as a follow-up question instead. Why is that? How exactly should I post it? Should I keep my original post or delete it? Why couldn't I comment to the original question in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;(Posted by a moderator as proxy for such new users in general. Answers should explain the common questions about this mentioned above, so that this thread can be used as a link target in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;text building block&lt;/a&gt;.)&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T06:17:24.667" Title="I've just been told I have to post a follow-up question, why and how?" Tags="|support|faq|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-22T09:28:13.367" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2123" CreationDate="2011-12-22T12:37:14.743" Score="22" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose that the CW status of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39017/how-to-influence-the-position-of-float-environments-like-figure-and-table-in-lat&quot;&gt;How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;be reversed (I'm informed that this can be done).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand the decision to make it CW as it appeared to be asking for a list of answers and these are traditionally CW.  However, I think that it has developed in a different direction and that if considered now then it might not be made CW.  Please note that it can always be made CW again at a later date, and that individual answers can be made CW independently of the question (though if the question is CW all (subsequent?) answers become CW).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although the question seems to be looking for a &quot;big list&quot; and certainly didn't take much &quot;research&quot; on behalf of the questioner(!), this could well be one of the most &lt;strong&gt;useful&lt;/strong&gt; questions on the site (note that I didn't say &lt;em&gt;popular&lt;/em&gt;, I don't care about that) and although I wouldn't want copy-cat questions, I would want questions that could be similarly useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Frank's answer is looking as though it is going to be the Ultimate Treatise on floats.  Again, this kind of answer should be treasured on the site and I think that forcing it to be CW is, in some circles, seen as a &quot;it's okay but on the borderline&quot;.  It's not about the reputation (either real or imaginary) but about the perception of this question-and-answer and its status on our site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that there was an expectation of this being &quot;use package X&quot; or &quot;use package Y&quot;.  It's not clear yet how comprehensive Frank's answer will be, but I can envision a situation where Frank's answer &lt;em&gt;explains&lt;/em&gt; everything but doesn't necessarily say which package is best for &lt;em&gt;achieving&lt;/em&gt; a particular behaviour.  So there is scope for others to answer, but once Frank's answer is finished then I doubt that anyone will just say, &quot;Use package X&quot;!  I expect that people will raise their game and say a longer version of &quot;If you want to do what Frank describes &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; then use package &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;such and such&lt;/em&gt; a way&quot; with nice examples and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this is a proposal, it seems reasonable for people to be able to vote and to put counter arguments.  I think that the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to this &quot;question&quot; should be used for opinions and so forth.  I'll put two &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt; to this &quot;question&quot; which can be voted upon to gauge opinion (note that votes can only be cast &quot;upwards&quot; and cannot be rescinded).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T00:36:04.413" Title="Proposal to revert CW status on the &quot;universal float&quot; question" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2121" CreationDate="2011-12-22T18:06:15.257" Score="3" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;In his &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/35093&quot;&gt;contest entry&lt;/a&gt;, Gonzalo Medina claims that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% some colors that will be used (taken form the colors used at TeX.sx)&#xA;\definecolor{headtitle}{RGB}{167,63,63} %(red)&#xA;\definecolor{headbg}{RGB}{244,218,151} %(yellow)&#xA;\definecolor{grlngreen}{RGB}{208,212,171} %(green)&#xA;\definecolor{grlnblue}{RGB}{100,169,212} %(blue)&#xA;\    definecolor{grlngray}{RGB}{76,76,74} %(gray)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only color that is even close to the main site background color(bgc) is the yellow above.  But, I think bgc is lighter than that.  What are the RGB numbers of bgc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T18:44:30.083" Title="What are the RGB values of the background color of tex.sx main site?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1943" CreationDate="2011-12-22T18:33:24.057" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the principle is that the audience of your answer is, in order of importance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Casual visitors/site users other than the question author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The commenters (commentators?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yourself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't make it so that a first-time reader who has not posted comments is forced to think about how your answer was phrased before, or what the comments say about it etc. Answers should be finished articles (questions too, although that's a bit more tricky I suppose).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also subscribe to the view that changes in answers merit comments being removed. You can remove yours and suggest that others remove theirs if they're no longer relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, no sense in saying 'Edited' if there's an auto 'edited' footer anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T18:33:24.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2119" CreationDate="2011-12-22T18:34:30.310" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main background color of the main site is the HTML color &lt;code&gt;FCFAF3&lt;/code&gt; thats RGB &lt;code&gt;{252,250,243}&lt;/code&gt;. You can see this with an HTML/CSS tool like Firebug quite easily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bar at the top is actually done using the following image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/tex/img/bg-topbar.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image seems to not have a single color but have some gradient.&#xA;It is also partially transparent.&#xA;Its channels are like follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Channel statistics:&#xA;    Red:&#xA;      min: 210 (0.823529)&#xA;      max: 255 (1)&#xA;      mean: 247.107 (0.969047)&#xA;      standard deviation: 4.69842 (0.0184252)&#xA;      kurtosis: 2.0003&#xA;      skewness: -1.00234&#xA;    Green:&#xA;      min: 200 (0.784314)&#xA;      max: 250 (0.980392)&#xA;      mean: 236.447 (0.927243)&#xA;      standard deviation: 5.21225 (0.0204402)&#xA;      kurtosis: 1.47374&#xA;      skewness: -0.897676&#xA;    Blue:&#xA;      min: 143 (0.560784)&#xA;      max: 217 (0.85098)&#xA;      mean: 196.575 (0.770884)&#xA;      standard deviation: 8.48045 (0.0332567)&#xA;      kurtosis: 1.31946&#xA;      skewness: -0.934949&#xA;    Alpha:&#xA;      min: 135 (0.529412)&#xA;      max: 135 (0.529412)&#xA;      mean: 135 (0.529412)&#xA;      standard deviation: 0 (0)&#xA;      kurtosis: 0&#xA;      skewness: 0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2011-12-22T18:40:48.830" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T18:40:48.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2117" CreationDate="2011-12-23T04:54:57.473" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX.SX (and all other networks on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;) is a &lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;uestion &lt;strong&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;nswer (or Q&amp;amp;A for short) site where users ask questions, which are then answered by community members. This structure is the fundamental building block for the site. The top entry of every post is the question, while answers are given below it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/create-posts&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; mentions regarding posting answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember, if it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an answer to the posted question, it does not&#xA;  belong among the answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By adding a &lt;em&gt;follow-up question&lt;/em&gt; within the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; section of a post (also called a &quot;non-answer&quot;), many things can happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question will typically be displayed at the bottom of the entire post, since answers are usually sorted by vote count (unless otherwise selected by the user). As such, your question could likely go unnoticed or not receive the attention it deserves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community could consider this a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#flagging&quot;&gt;bad thing&lt;/a&gt;, and flag it for moderator attention. If left unattended, your question could even be downvoted by the community members (causing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;a loss in reputation&lt;/a&gt;) since you are not adhering to the Q&amp;amp;A format of the network.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is therefore suggested that you do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Repost your question as an entirely new question by clicking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Ask Question&lt;/a&gt; link within the site banner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V3au3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Include a reference to the original post by starting with something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a follow-up question to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackechange.com/questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and adequately describe why the presented solutions do not solve your problem. This will give the community a frame of reference from which to formulate an alternative approach, taking your setup and new constraints into consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delete your original question from the answer section of the previous post, by clicking the &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; button at the bottom of your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ec3DI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though it will still be visible to you (and some high-reputation users), it will be considered removed from the &quot;answer&quot; section of the post. Alternatively, click on the &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; button and request that a moderator delete it for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/keY9s.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are there to keep the site clean, responding to flagged non-answers by community members through comments and eventually deleting them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you are a fairly new user, asking a new question is the best way to solicit feedback, both via answers from the community as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; from other users. Posting a non-answer, however, generally restricts your responses/feedback. As such, feedback and clarification of your problem is best served as a question on its own (even if it is a follow-up), rather than an &quot;answer&quot; to another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-02-07T06:29:32.773" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-23T04:54:57.473" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2118" CreationDate="2011-12-23T07:40:21.693" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This all seems pretty clear: I will undo the CW. I've also forced a rep recalculation for Frank, Marco and wh1t3, so there is no need to unvote/revote on anything&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T07:40:21.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2125" CreationDate="2011-12-26T22:09:05.943" Score="5" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33979/include-a-line-break-in-algorithmic-while-maintaining-indentation&quot;&gt;Include a line break in algorithmic while maintaining indentation&lt;/a&gt; was offered a bounty by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1630/boris-bukh&quot;&gt;@BorisBukh&lt;/a&gt; after not receiving enough attention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Si7UV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The drop in reputation on @BorisBukh's account reflects this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hlnKz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bounty has long since expired, with nothing awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/33995/5764&quot;&gt;original answer&lt;/a&gt; was updated to include a &quot;less cumbersome&quot; alternative. Could this have been a problem? That is, should I have submitted a new/separate answer in order to be granted this bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question stems from some of the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2011-12-26T22:34:08.883" Title="What happened to the bounty?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2124" CreationDate="2011-12-26T22:34:08.883" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perusing the link you provided, it seems that the OP would have been allowed to award the bounty to an &quot;old&quot; answer (i.e., one that existed at the time the bounty was created). However, in case the OP doesn't choose any answer, half the bounty will be awarded automatically to the highest-scoring &lt;em&gt;&quot;new&quot;&lt;/em&gt; answer with a score of at least 2. So yes, this is a case where submitting a separate answer would have increased your chances to receive at least part of the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible refinement of the bounty system: Take &quot;old&quot; answers into account for &quot;automatic&quot; partial bounty awards if they are edited after the bounty starts and then improve their score by at least 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2011-12-26T22:34:08.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1829" CreationDate="2011-12-28T10:14:28.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now fixed, as Geoff indicates. (I'm posting a CW answer so that I can mark the question as answered in a little while.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-12-28T10:14:28.823" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-28T10:14:28.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2128" CreationDate="2011-12-28T18:04:51.020" Score="14" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstree&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstree&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstree&lt;/a&gt; tag is ill-named, since it is the name of a command defined by the &lt;code&gt;pst-tree&lt;/code&gt; package rather than the package name.  I suggest that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pst-tree&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pst-tree&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pst-tree&lt;/a&gt; tag replace the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstree&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstree&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstree&lt;/a&gt; tag (perhaps leaving the latter as a synonym).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are at the moment 8 questions with the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2011-12-28T21:02:02.497" LastActivityDate="2011-12-28T21:02:02.497" Title="Rename pstree tag to pst-tree" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2127" CreationDate="2011-12-28T21:01:38.067" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstree&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstree&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstree&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pst-tree&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pst-tree&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pst-tree&lt;/a&gt; and kept &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstree&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstree&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstree&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym, because it's a bit different and possibly it could be used again, as it's the name of a command, as Alan said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-12-28T21:01:38.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2130" CreationDate="2011-12-30T11:31:41.400" Score="10" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen some questions that had to with different celebrations and happenings. Where can I find such posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T20:27:38.133" Title="Where can I find questions about celebrations and happenings?" Tags="|discussion|lists|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2129" CreationDate="2011-12-30T11:34:56.083" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some (please help to keep it updated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Holidays&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Xmas&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39149/how-can-we-draw-a-christmas-tree-with-decorations-using-tikz&quot;&gt;How can we draw a Christmas tree with decorations, using TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39200/how-can-we-draw-a-sophisticated-christmas-tree-with-the-power-of-pstricks&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39200/how-can-we-draw-a-sophisticated-christmas-tree-with-the-power-of-pstricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;New Year&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7869/how-do-you-say-happy-new-year-with-latex&quot;&gt;How do you say Happy New Year with LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39485/how-can-we-draw-fireworks-effects-using-tikz&quot;&gt;How can we display fireworks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Happenings&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34482/contest-show-off-your-skillz-in-tex-friends-tex-sx-birthday&quot;&gt;Contest: Show Off Your Skillz in TeX &amp;amp; Friends [TeX.sx birthday]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42598/how-can-i-draw-a-cake-using-tikz&quot;&gt;How can I draw a cake using TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T20:27:38.133" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-31T10:18:33.453" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2183" CreationDate="2011-12-31T12:11:57.330" Score="11" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at the accounts listed at a &quot;users&quot;-page, I do not see any of the meta accounts (not even when on &lt;strong&gt;meta&lt;/strong&gt;.tex.stackexchange.com, at my &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; users-page, and choosing &quot;view more&quot;). While meta does not have its own reputation but inherits it from the main page, the &quot;last seen&quot;, &quot;badges&quot;, &quot;questions&quot;, and &quot;answers&quot; are meta-specific. Where can I find the meta-accounts-list? If there is no such list: Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;If&lt;/strong&gt; there is no such list and there is no good reason against it, the tag would be &lt;em&gt;feature-request&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T19:59:52.900" Title="Where are the meta-accounts of a user listed?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2134" CreationDate="2012-01-01T14:41:53.887" Score="13" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment there are 42 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rotating&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rotating&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rotating&lt;/a&gt; and 18 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sideways&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sideways&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sideways&lt;/a&gt;. (6 questions feature both tags.) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rotating&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rotating&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rotating&lt;/a&gt; is used for for the general concept of rotating (with the help, of. e.g., macros from the &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; package) as well as for questions about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/rotating&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;rotating&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package and its &lt;code&gt;sidewaysfigure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sidewaystable&lt;/code&gt; environments. For the latter, sometimes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sideways&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sideways&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sideways&lt;/a&gt; tag is used additionally or instead. I propose to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sideways&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sideways&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sideways&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rotating&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rotating&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rotating&lt;/a&gt; and to merge the existings tags/questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there is also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/landscape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;landscape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;landscape&lt;/a&gt; tag which is used for questions about changing paper orientation from portrait to landscape. Although there's some overlapping with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rotating&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rotating&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rotating&lt;/a&gt;, I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/landscape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;landscape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;landscape&lt;/a&gt; is warranted as a separate tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-01-03T08:30:18.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T08:30:18.513" Title="Make {sideways} a synonym of {rotating}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2132" CreationDate="2012-01-02T22:05:57.413" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a tag wiki excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rotating&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rotating&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rotating&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{rotating} is for general questions about rotating document elements&#xA;  as well as for questions about the &lt;code&gt;rotating&lt;/code&gt; package and its&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;sidewaysfigure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sidewaystable&lt;/code&gt; (floating) environments. For&#xA;  general {rotating} questions add other tags specifying what should be&#xA;  rotated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask a moderator to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sideways&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sideways&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sideways&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rotating&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rotating&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rotating&lt;/a&gt; and to merge the existings tags/questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2012-01-02T22:05:57.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2132" CreationDate="2012-01-03T08:29:51.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rotating&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rotating&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rotating&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sideways&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sideways&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sideways&lt;/a&gt; and kept the latter as a synonym for remapping. Otherwise it would be possible that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sideways&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sideways&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sideways&lt;/a&gt; tag could reappear, because tag auto-suggestion doesn't work here since the tags are not similarly written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T08:29:51.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2137" CreationDate="2012-01-03T20:21:00.150" Score="27" ViewCount="1866" Body="&lt;p&gt;can this question be added to the faq, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i've spent several hours looking for the answer -- i know it's there, because i happened on it a couple of months ago, but didn't record its location.  a search on &quot;upload image&quot; has turned up 56 items, but in none of the questions is it obvious that it contains the answer i'm looking for.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; now found two questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119/where-should-images-go&quot;&gt;Where should images go?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1659/style-of-typesetting-images-in-questions-answers&quot;&gt;Style of typesetting images in questions/answers&lt;/a&gt;, that contain a relevant link, but it took reading through a couple dozen items that were irrelevant, or, more frustratingly, say that the facility exists via imgur.  since i remembered from the earlier encounter that just uploading to imgur isn't enough, since &quot;unprotected&quot; postings there fall off the end of the earth after some length of time, just knowing that imgur is involved isn't enough.  also frustrating is the suggestion in the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56/what-goes-in-the-faq&quot;&gt;What goes in the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt; that &quot;... whatever the image storage solution ends up being, we should have the recommended behavior mentioned in the FAQ.&quot;  but nothing has happened, although it seems the facility became available in august 2010. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2020-11-12T23:50:09.613" Title="how can i upload an image to be included in a question or answer?" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2136" CreationDate="2012-01-04T00:58:08.407" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question by clicking on the &lt;strong&gt;Ask Question&lt;/strong&gt; link in the TeX.SE banner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q9REz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q9REz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or edit an existing question, the post header or toolbar will include the available (basic) formatting options. By clicking the &lt;code&gt;Image &amp;lt;img&amp;gt; Ctrl+G&lt;/code&gt; button &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/trMmQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Insert image button&quot; /&gt; or by pressing &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;G&lt;/kbd&gt; allows you to select an image for upload to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stack.imgur.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stack.imgur.com&lt;/a&gt; - the image hosting platform (pronounced like &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgur.com/faq#pronounce&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;image-er; imager&lt;/a&gt;) for the Stack Exchange network:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r79AA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r79AA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will bring up the &lt;code&gt;Insert an image&lt;/code&gt; dialog within the question body, where you can select an image to be uploaded &amp;quot;from my computer&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;from the web&amp;quot; (via a web link):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dd3YT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dd3YT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some browsers allow you to drag-and-drop images, while others allow you to copy-and-paste an image from the clipboard (as shown in the above dialog). Whether you upload an image from your local (computer) or a remote (the web) location, the image will be uploaded to i.stack.imgur.com, and displayed in your post as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;![enter image description here][#]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you can do as it says and &lt;code&gt;enter [an] image description here&lt;/code&gt;.  This goes in the &lt;code&gt;alt&lt;/code&gt; attribute of the resulting &lt;code&gt;img&lt;/code&gt; tag so is useful for text browsers (including screen readers and search engines) or people viewing the page on a slow connection. The accompanying number cites the appropriate reference at the bottom of the post, where you will also see the stack.imgur.com image link. These numerals are used by default, but can be modified as well, as long as the cited numeral is changed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why should one use this approach?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Submission using this method &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&quot;&gt;has been available since August 2010&lt;/a&gt; and is the preferred way to upload images. Using any other method (for example, manual upload) would cause the images to be removed over time. Also, linking to an external web image is not preferred, since future image removal on the linked site would leave a broken link on TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I'm being told that I cannot insert an image. What now?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New or low-reputation users are unable to post images; a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;privilege&lt;/a&gt; available to users with at least 10 reputation. Note: you are able to upload images, just not post them - there is a difference. As such, upload the image as usual and remove the preceding &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt;. Other community members and moderators with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit privileges&lt;/a&gt; will be able to revert the removal of &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; in order to embed the image in your post. That is, leave your uploaded image in the following format in your post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[Your image description](https://i.stack.imgur.com/)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;site janitors&amp;quot; will clean this up very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I've uploaded an image, now I'd like to crop it. Is that possible?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should either re-upload a cropped version of the image, or you could &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1799/how-do-you-crop-an-attached-pdf/1802#1802&quot;&gt;use imgur.com's website to crop an image&lt;/a&gt;. For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1799/how-do-you-crop-an-attached-pdf&quot;&gt;How do you crop an attached PDF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What image types are supported for upload?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following file types are uploadable (as per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgur.com/faq#types&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;imgur FAQ&lt;/a&gt;): JPEG, GIF, PNG, APNG, TIFF, BMP, PDF, XCF (GIMP). Note that the TIFF, BMP, PDF and XCF formats will be converted to PNG on upload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I have a large-format image that I want to upload. Is there a limit?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The display engine of the Stack Exchange network shrinks the image to fit within the horizontal boundary of the post, regardless of its size. However, there is a file limit. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgur.com/faq#size&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;imgur FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The maximum non-animated file size you can upload is 10MB. However, if&#xA;the image is over 1MB then it will automatically be compressed or&#xA;resized to 1MB, for better viewing on the net. The maximum animated&#xA;file size (both GIF and PNG) is 2MB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The downsized display of my large-format image is suboptimal. How do I display it at 100% zoom?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original uploaded image is not resized at upload, you can link to it. This would allow users to view it at full resolution in their browser (or elsewhere). Here's how: Assuming that you uploaded an image&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;![A picture that is quite large][7]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you could make it a hyperlink by using the StackExchange markdown&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[![A picture that is quite large][7]][7]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can I add tooltip text to my uploaded image?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Specify this in quotes after the image link, at the bottom of the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[8]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBcDe.png &quot;Your tooltip text&quot;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can I change the size of images after I've uploaded them?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat. After uploading an image, let's assume the URL provided is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[8]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBcDe.png&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This URL represents the image in its uploaded format, which could be large (up to 2MiB). You can scale it down within the post by adding a suffix &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; (for &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt;edium) or &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; (for &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt;mall):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[9]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBcDem.png &quot;Medium version&quot;&#xA;[10]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBcDes.png &quot;Small version&quot;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/doc/images/tiger.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this tiger&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VmZqx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Original tiger&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VmZqx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; title=&quot;Original tiger&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VmZqxm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Medium tiger&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VmZqxm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; title=&quot;Medium tiger&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VmZqxs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Small tiger&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VmZqxs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; title=&quot;Small tiger&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/25051/168244&quot;&gt;Resizing an image in a post?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What about comments? Can I insert an image into a comment?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but there's no direct way to do this as comments are considered transitory and therefore temporary in nature. You'll have to (open up a new browser tab and) &amp;quot;Ask [a] Question&amp;quot;, insert your image using the above steps and then copy-and-paste the link for the image into your comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-11-12T23:50:09.613" LastActivityDate="2020-11-12T23:50:09.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2139" CreationDate="2012-01-05T11:03:06.037" Score="8" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequent &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; (MSO). Sometimes I stumble upon posts there by members of this community, i.e. users of this site, and often I find these posts interesting. Is there an effective way to find such posts? That is, is there an effective way to find posts on Meta Stack Overflow posted by user's of this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:39:07.617" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T11:15:05.857" Title="Is there a way to find posts from this community on MSO?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2138" CreationDate="2012-01-05T11:15:05.857" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I know of.  A while back, I tried to start a list of such but it doesn't seem to have been maintained ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1014/86&quot;&gt;Relevant feature requests on Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T11:15:05.857" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-05T20:33:30.997" Score="4" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately I was searching on tex.sx from the search form at the top of the page. After a first search, I positioned the cursor somewhere halfway in my previous search terms and started to type additional keywords. Upon automatic expansion of the search form, the cursor was placed at the end of my input, leaving the words I was typing garbled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is annoying, especially since it takes a second before the search form expands, so I'd have to wait for that time before editing my search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Debian Iceweasel, the version string is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111108 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4131" LastEditorUserId="740" LastEditDate="2012-01-06T16:57:06.583" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T16:57:06.583" Title="cursor jumps in search form, garbles input while typing" Tags="|bug|status-declined|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2143" CreationDate="2012-01-06T07:55:46.493" Score="8" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26486/how-do-i-pass-an-expanded-optional-argument-using-expl3-xparse&quot;&gt;&quot;How do I pass an expanded optional argument using expl3/xparse?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; there are two comments at the bottom by Bruno and Joseph. surprisingly (to me at least) Joseph's answer is logged one hour after Bruno's question. How did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T08:24:46.750" Title="Is there a time-zone issue?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2142" CreationDate="2012-01-06T08:09:04.453" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a time issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruno wrote a comment to the answer before, and it has been deleted. I guess by himself. The reason could be that Joseph has fixed the problem mentioned by Bruno, so the comment has become obsolete. It's good to remove obsolete comments, also Joseph's comment regarding that it's fixed could be deleted now. Obsolete comments can be flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting: I flagged Josephs comment as obsolete, then it has been automatically deleted, obviously because a moderator set this flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T08:09:04.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2141" CreationDate="2012-01-06T16:55:53.840" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't support old versions of Firefox (or any other browser, e.g. IE7), we always support the current version of a browser and the one before that. As of this answer, that includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox 9.0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox 8.0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3.5.16 is &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; a bit out of date, we won't fix bugs related to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more info: the community maintains a supported browser list here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56161/which-browsers-are-officially-supported-and-what-else-do-i-need&quot;&gt;Which browsers are officially supported? And what else do I need?&lt;/a&gt; (though even &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; isn't quite up to date, you can see we've long-since dropped support for 3.5)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="740" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T16:55:53.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2146" CreationDate="2012-01-06T17:55:54.403" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm aware it is not possible to downvote comments at the time, but I guess this would be a useful feature. Just like questions/answers, comments can be constructive, helpful or on the contrary, confusing or worse, wrong. Would such a feature be implemented sometime?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Another argument in favor is that comments can be edited only for a limited time, so after a while no corrections can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T18:07:54.493" Title="Downvote comment" Tags="|feature-request|comments|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2145" CreationDate="2012-01-06T18:07:54.493" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has already been discussed on the main meta site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3615/should-downvoting-be-allowed-on-comments&quot;&gt;Should downvoting be allowed on comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it has been declined. The same also for cancelling upvotes on comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1170/should-i-be-able-to-cancel-my-up-vote-on-a-comment&quot;&gt;Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T18:07:54.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2148" CreationDate="2012-01-08T11:41:28.567" Score="14" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplotstables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplotstables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplotstables&lt;/a&gt; tag should be called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplotstable&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplotstable&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplotstable&lt;/a&gt;, since that's the name of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplotstable&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the package&lt;/a&gt;. Could it be renamed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-01-08T12:43:45.633" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T12:43:45.633" Title="pgfplotstables tag is misnamed" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2147" CreationDate="2012-01-08T11:57:58.407" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a good suggestion. I renamed the tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplotstable&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplotstable&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplotstable&lt;/a&gt;. I did not keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplotstables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplotstables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplotstables&lt;/a&gt; as synonym, because the name is very similar and before a user has finished typing the name I assume he would have noticed the automatic tag completion, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplotstables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplotstables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplotstables&lt;/a&gt; would hopefully no reappear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T11:57:58.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2153" CreationDate="2012-01-09T05:25:31.970" Score="14" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using tag links like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;, some extra leading is added between the line with the link and the following, leading to unnecessary whitespace. I've tested this with Firefox 8.0 on Windows XP and Linux Mint 12, and with Internet Explorer 8.0.6 on Windows XP. No extra space is added above the line containing the tag link, as can be observed in Stefan's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2147/pgfplotstables-tag-is-misnamed&quot;&gt;pgfplotstables tag is misnamed&lt;/a&gt;. While not overly dramatic, it doesn't look very elegant. Probably something that can easily be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T20:06:26.503" Title="Incorrect leading when using tag links" Tags="|bug|status-completed|tagging|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2149" CreationDate="2012-01-09T13:36:11.367" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/texmeta/all.css&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stylesheet file&lt;/a&gt; you can see that this behaviour seems to be intended:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.post-tag {&#xA;    font-size:13px;&#xA;    display:inline-block;&#xA;    color:#444;&#xA;    text-decoration:none;&#xA;    white-space:nowrap;&#xA;    overflow:visible;&#xA;    height:14px;&#xA;    margin:2px 2px 6px 0;&#xA;    line-height:12px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the second last line is of interest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;margin:2px 2px 6px 0;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It states that there is a spacing of &lt;code&gt;2px&lt;/code&gt; above, &lt;code&gt;2px&lt;/code&gt; at the right, &lt;code&gt;6px&lt;/code&gt; below and &lt;code&gt;0px&lt;/code&gt; on the left.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; So I would't name it a bug as it's the normal behaviour of the browser to display it this way. It's rather a design issue than a bug but you're right, it looks ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#propdef-margin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#propdef-margin&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="3240" LastEditDate="2012-01-09T13:51:50.233" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T13:51:50.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2152" CreationDate="2012-01-09T14:33:27.887" Score="7" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40513/short-version-of-emph&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; asking for a &quot;short version of emph&quot;, e.g. &lt;code&gt;|text|&lt;/code&gt; is tagged as just &quot;emphasis&quot;, but it's really about more than that.  &quot;macro&quot; and &quot;catcodes&quot; aren't really appropriate.  &quot;define&quot; or &quot;shorthand&quot; might be, but no such tags exist; besides, &quot;define&quot; (or &quot;definition&quot;) would logically be a synonym for &quot;macro&quot;, and &quot;shorthand&quot; might be too restrictive.  but the cited question is a good one, and deserves a better chance to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T19:08:51.113" Title="how to improve tagging on a question about &quot;short version of emph&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2151" CreationDate="2012-01-09T14:45:52.237" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax&lt;/a&gt;, additionally &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T14:45:52.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2149" CreationDate="2012-01-09T18:05:08.277" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next production build. Thanks for catching this bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T18:05:08.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2155" CreationDate="2012-01-09T20:46:36.447" Score="14" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just today, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40564/latex-numero-sign&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40538/symbol-for-cube&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; popped up that asked for symbols that aren't necessarily math-specific, but that still are answered by the famous duplicate top dog &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-math-symbol&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we change the scope and wording of this question so that it applies to all kinds of symbols, perhaps with a slight focus on math symbols? The top answers refer to symbols in general, the lower-ranking are pretty math-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it is, I just don't think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40564/latex-numero-sign&quot;&gt;LaTeX: Numero sign (&amp;#39;№&amp;#39;)&lt;/a&gt; really is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-math-symbol&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt;, because &lt;em&gt;№&lt;/em&gt; isn't a math symbol; but it really &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I proposed this in a comment to the question, but didn't get any reaction.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T17:43:24.217" Title="Can we expand the &quot;How to look up a math symbol&quot; to all kinds of symbols?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2154" CreationDate="2012-01-09T20:58:20.097" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's very good to make a question more generic or even to a canonical question. Other questions, which would become duplicates this way (and possibly are less generic) can be closed, possibly answers merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a nice explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/&quot;&gt;The Wikipedia of Long Tail Programming Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such cases, a good way is so submit an edit or an edit suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T20:58:20.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-11T09:13:31.733" Score="8" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EDIT: Discussion is moved to meta.SO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/118656/176664&quot;&gt;Policy of questions which are wrong/have erroneous assumptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could not find any discussion of this issue so here it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been involved in helping a user with the externalization feature of &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;. The user first thought that the problem had to do with a loaded library from &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40511/7049&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40511/7049&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But in fact the question is wrong in context.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pointed this out to him, and he correctly posted a new question (although he could have edited the present question, but nevermind that).&#xA;The question now resides: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40652/7049&quot;&gt;References in externalized pgfplots&lt;/a&gt;. Good!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators have closed the question as too localized. However what is the policy on questions that are actually wrong in the leading thoughts on error? Are they simply closed or should they be removed as they provide wrong information to new users? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am in favour of totally removing the question as not to show up when other people search StackOverflow on these terms. But would love to hear other opinions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T12:43:53.677" Title="Remove questions which are wrong" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2012-01-11T09:34:36.267" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be reluctant to actually &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; a question.  Even a question like this can be of help to someone trying to diagnose the same problem and not knowing the cause.  However, I agree that they can be a source of confusion so I think that the best solution is for someone (who knows the situation) to edit the question with some introductory remark explaining, for example, that in the comments it became apparent that the problem was due to something other than first thought (perhaps linking to the follow-up question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The questioner can always delete the question, so long as it hasn't been answered - maybe some other conditions apply, I don't know exactly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T09:34:36.267" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2159" CreationDate="2012-01-12T09:16:51.667" Score="11" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40720/latex-in-industry&quot;&gt;this question about LaTeX in industry&lt;/a&gt;. Some answers are community wiki, some not. What is the rationale / reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T21:36:50.710" Title="Why are some answers CW, some not?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2158" CreationDate="2012-01-12T09:43:03.527" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the question CW for a short while, but changed it back after a talk with Stefan Kottwitz. I thought this would also remove the CW from the existing answers, but this wasn't the case. I removed the CW from them now manually and recalculated the reputation of these users. However, I'm still not sure if they should be CW or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T09:43:03.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2158" CreationDate="2012-01-12T21:07:10.027" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;An important point to consider is that &quot;there is no single &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; answer to this question&quot; is probably not a sufficient cause for blanketing a discussion in community wiki flags. Doing so disregards the fact that there may be several &quot;good answers&quot; that take significant thought or effort to produce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, it took me at least a half an hour of careful work to put together the example that I posted as an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/40728/17&quot;&gt;LaTeX in Industry&lt;/a&gt;. Because of this, I was a bit miffed when the answer was flagged as community wiki without my consent as I missed any benefits of my hard work and unregistered users could add links that were tangental to the focus of my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T21:36:50.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-13T22:12:44.033" Score="6" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40695/chemfig-and-lego-style-molecule-construction&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question has been edited so that the question is now a 'guide' to the chemfig package, where before it asked for help with it. Is this sort editing in good style with Stack Exchange or should the question be reverted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9871" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T00:30:58.880" Title="Misuse of the Stack exchange Q&amp;A formatting?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2161" CreationDate="2012-01-14T10:26:28.397" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that the question has been edited since this was asked.  In its current form (revision 9) then it looks fine to me, though the last sentence is a little flippant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This looks to me like a happy conclusion.  However, I would like to make one comment on the process whereby this was reached.  To me, saying things like &quot;good style with &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; or &quot;how &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is meant to work&quot; are not good arguments and do not serve to get to the desired point as quickly as possible (and with the fewest feathers ruffled).  Note that Joseph's comment was about a &quot;Q&amp;amp;A format&quot;, which is better but still not ideal.  The point is that there is a &lt;em&gt;real reason&lt;/em&gt; for following this &quot;ideal format&quot; which has nothing to do with the fact that this place is run on the SE engine.  That reason is that someone looking at this question will expect it to be in a particular format, namely Question first followed by Answers, and so will look for information in a particular place.  Not finding it there makes it harder for that person to learn.  Hence putting the answer in the question makes this whole question-and-answer &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were me, being told &quot;This makes your Q&amp;amp;A less useful&quot; (and told why) would make me much more amenable to editing it to make it more useful.  Being told &quot;StackExchange says so&quot; makes me &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; amenable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T10:26:28.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1973" CreationDate="2012-01-15T10:28:42.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on observation, I don't think that the typical user of tex.sx is likely to differentiate correctly between &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt;. The problem is the same as in my former suggestion &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1209/split-the-bibtex-tag-into-bibtex-format-and-bibtex-program&quot;&gt;Split the {bibtex} tag into {bibtex-format} and {bibtex-program}&lt;/a&gt; -- the distinction is (somewhat) meaningful in theory, but confusing in practice. I'd say it's about time to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T12:34:10.313" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1973" CreationDate="2012-01-15T13:57:54.467" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;the names &quot;symbol&quot; and &quot;character&quot; mean quite different things to me, although i agree that they might not to a novice.  how about these &quot;enhanced&quot; names to distinguish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;character-symbol&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;character-internal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;character-code&quot; means something else entirely, so isn't appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T13:57:54.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="825" CreationDate="2012-01-15T14:24:45.413" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;Paulo Cereda&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/texprinter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXPrinter&lt;/a&gt;, which produces PDF or LaTeX output. He wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/11/printing-tex-sx-threads/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog entry&lt;/a&gt; about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="124577" LastEditDate="2019-03-11T07:52:04.153" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T07:52:04.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2161" CreationDate="2012-01-16T00:30:58.880" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is another reason for not including an answer in the question: such answer is excluded from the voting process.  In this case, since the answer was supplied by the package author, and seems to be of very high quality, it is perhaps unlikely that anyone will come up with a better solution, but it is still possible.  The community should have a chance to vote on all the answers and decide which answer is the most valuable.  Suppose you need help with something and find a question on SX that is clearly related to your problem.  There are two answers, one in the body of the question, and another one, with 50 upvotes. You have no way to tell which of those two is generally regarded as better or more useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="396" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T00:30:58.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-16T16:10:22.620" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1794/different-formatting-for-certain-questions&quot;&gt;Different formatting for certain questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i've noticed that some questions, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41261/mathop-shifts-the-baseline-declaremathoperator-doesnt&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; on the main site are shaded, and haven't found an answer to &quot;why?&quot;; since i haven't been keeping track, i'm not sure whether the highlighting disappears after a while, but i have the impression that it does. (also wonder why, if true.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T17:00:10.783" Title="why are some questions highlighted in the main questions list?" Tags="|support|bookmarks|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-01-16T18:34:41.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2167" CreationDate="2012-01-16T16:16:29.230" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged with one of your favorite tags are highlighted like this. You can add and remove these with the form at the upper right side of the question list page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T16:16:29.230" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2170" CreationDate="2012-01-17T22:35:01.520" Score="16" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be a duplicate but: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed for being a possible duplicate it adds an automatic header &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CgbxB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the closing explanation, we also have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/beT7V.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any difference between being a possible duplicate and an exact duplicate? It's certainly not a big deal and I can suspect that users with loads of points might see a lot of tiny details that are invisible to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2012-01-18T22:59:21.643" Title="Possible duplicate - Exact Duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2169" CreationDate="2012-01-18T22:59:21.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This truly confusing wording has been discussed on meta.stackoverflow.com, which serves as a meta site for all the stackexchange sites. I think I once understood the point behind it, but apparently not always. See for yourselves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/70758/162565&quot;&gt;Wording of “possible/exact duplicates” when closing the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/87104/162565&quot;&gt;Closed as an exact duplicate … Possible Duplicate [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-01-18T22:59:21.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2012-01-20T08:35:36.073" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;flag weight&quot; statistic has been dropped from user profiles. Instead it now displays &quot;helpful flags&quot; as an integer value (as opposed to the previous decimal value based on some functional form).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changes include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/77/deputy&quot;&gt;Deputy badge&lt;/a&gt; requires 80 helpful flags (an &lt;em&gt;increase&lt;/em&gt; from the former 40 minimum flawless helpful flag criterium); and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/108/marshal&quot;&gt;Marshal badge&lt;/a&gt; requires 500 helpful flags (a &lt;em&gt;reduction&lt;/em&gt; from the former 566 minimum flawless helpful flag criterium)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings the flagging badges in line with the editing badges (80 edits for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/a&gt; and 500 edits for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/49/copy-editor&quot;&gt;Copy Editor&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/119714/168244&quot;&gt;Is it possible to show on the user profile whether the Flag Weight has increased or decreased?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/119715/168244&quot;&gt;What happened to flag weight?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T19:14:02.973" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-20T08:35:36.073" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2181" CreationDate="2012-01-20T17:57:47.380" Score="13" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;i had to break a message into pieces because it was too long. comment fields here say how many characters are left, but chat messages don't, and i can't find information on their size.  (i probably just don't know where to look.)  they do seem to be smaller than comments, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a clear indication of the permissible size of a message, or a count-down a la comment, or even both, would be very welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-01-20T19:15:19.863" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T23:58:40.447" Title="what is the size of a chat room message?" Tags="|support|feature-request|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2008" CreationDate="2012-01-21T10:26:04.297" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most web browsers do not, in fact, render HTML typographic entities in the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag. Thus something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;Foo &amp;amp;ndash; bar baz&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would show up in the browser as, literally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Foo &amp;amp;ndash; bar baz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why we avoid HTML entity characters in titles for the most part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastEditorUserId="173" LastEditDate="2012-01-21T11:40:23.550" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T11:40:23.550" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1990" CreationDate="2012-01-21T10:29:25.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current thinking is that badges are supposed to be somewhat exploratory in nature, so being extremely explicit about what to do runs counter to the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The descriptions are sufficient to get people started, and those that are extra curious will, I am sure, be able to find other resources without too much difficulty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T10:29:25.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1905" CreationDate="2012-01-21T10:34:58.213" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we used to be able to search within our favorites, which was extremely helpful, but once we switched to Lucene.NET that went away for arcane (and difficult) technical reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest following up on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; as there are several requests to improve favorites handling, but IMHO adding back the ability to search within favorites would be highly desirable at a minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T10:34:58.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-21T21:15:41.470" Score="8" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's clear from the consensus to close a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/41756/7844&quot;&gt;recent question&lt;/a&gt; of mine about how to use LaTeX in MathType that such a question is not a legitimate question about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;(La)TeX related software and tools&lt;/a&gt;&quot;; but it is unclear to me what aspect of that question disqualifies it. It might help to have some clarification here, and perhaps, add some clarification to the relevant FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question, for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I understand that in Word, there is a simple way to toggle MathType objects so that they can be displayed and edited as LaTeX. Is there a way to do this within MathType itself (e.g. for workflows that use other word processors, such as Pages)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7844" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T11:34:24.427" Title="What is a legitimate question about &quot;(La)TeX related software and tools&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2176" CreationDate="2012-01-21T21:17:21.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My view is that since I must use both LaTeX and the tool in question (MathType) as part of my workflow, and since that tool has LaTeX capabilities, asking about how to use those capabilities is a fair question, both in general, given the mission of this site (after all, the people who know the answer are clearly here, and nowhere else) and the current wording of the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7844" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T21:17:21.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1791" CreationDate="2012-01-22T09:10:53.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can certainly already do this by indicating your license preference is for your posts in your &quot;About Me&quot; field, which is prominently displayed on your user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've seen several users do this on a few different Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T09:10:53.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1723" CreationDate="2012-01-22T11:17:21.350" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This comes down to a question of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;how valuable is this info?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; vs. &quot;&lt;strong&gt;how much noise does it add?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it adds more noise than value.  We show the latest date &lt;em&gt;of that string of events&lt;/em&gt;, e.g. &quot;upvotes on post X&quot;.  How much does it matter &lt;em&gt;exactly when each vote happened&lt;/em&gt;? Not that much 99% of the time, so we went for simple - it's an intentional design choice for the chronological view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="740" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T11:17:21.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2176" CreationDate="2012-01-22T11:21:42.120" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question that is off topic is one that has been voted off topic. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; is really just a loose guideline. A question is determined to be off topic if a sufficient number of members with a minimum amount of reputation vote it to be off topic. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;privaleges&lt;/a&gt; page on the matter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closing is a democratic voting process where the community defines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;what questions are generally on-topic and generally off-topic for this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;what questions are duplicates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, &lt;em&gt;by definition&lt;/em&gt;, a question is off topic if it has been voted to be so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On to the question in question! From what I wrote in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In my opinion this question falls outside the guidelines given in the&#xA;  faq. Involving Word is not the issue, as raxacoricofallapatorius&#xA;  pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8306/7844&quot;&gt;such a question&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  earlier (with not a single downvote).&#xA;  Rather, this question involves software emulating the output of LaTeX,&#xA;  and historically such questions have often been determined to be off&#xA;  topic. Mathjax is another common candidate for closures for this&#xA;  reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The issue of what is off topic is hazy around the boundary...&#xA;  Nonetheless, I think this question is off topic, since there is no TeX&#xA;  processor involved and the &quot;LaTeX&quot; code here is a subset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd like to add that this is not a criticism of Word, MathType or MathJax,&#xA;  which I mentioned earlier (I make extensive use of MathJax in fact). We &#xA;  simply have to draw boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T11:34:24.427" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2172" CreationDate="2012-01-22T15:09:42.893" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The limit is 500 characters. When the message length is &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; 500&lt;/code&gt;, the following behaviour is triggered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ClR9E.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless we reduce the length until &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;= 500&lt;/code&gt;, we won't be able to post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that if we add a line break to our message, that is, pressing &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt; to move the cursor to the next line, we can &quot;bypass&quot; the 500-char limit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZMpdr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shortcoming of this approach is that the MarkDown syntax will be automatically disabled. So, if we write e.g &lt;code&gt;This is **a test**&lt;/code&gt;, it will be handled literally instead of converted to &quot;This is &lt;strong&gt;a test&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update (Andrew's comment):&lt;/strong&gt; When adding a line break, SE thinks you're going to upload a code listing, or similar. That's why Markdown is disabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When breaking a line, an extra button appears. If we click it, it will format the whole message as a code excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NQar3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the message/code is too long, it will be displayed partially:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t9cr6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image 4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we can click the &lt;code&gt;see full text&lt;/code&gt; link to expand it. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T23:58:40.447" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T23:58:40.447" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1699" CreationDate="2012-01-22T19:52:08.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't reproduce this. Are you still seeing this as an issue? Chrome is updated aggressively, so I suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;clear your browser cache&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;make sure your Chrome is updated to the latest version (via the About wrench menu item)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T19:52:08.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2131" CreationDate="2012-01-22T19:59:52.900" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have an account on a main site, you have an &quot;implicit&quot; account on the meta site. However, if you have never participated on a meta, your meta account won't exist quite yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the intent is for the meta account to be assumed, with the caveat that not everyone makes it over to meta (or needs to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T19:59:52.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2188" CreationDate="2012-01-23T01:45:37.980" Score="14" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer I posted for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/41938/4301&quot;&gt;tikz fit library vs fill overlaying nested node colors&lt;/a&gt; only accidentally appeared to work and thanks to Jake it was noticed. I adjusted it to &lt;strong&gt;make&lt;/strong&gt; it work, but an labelled it as a hack solution. So wondering if I should delete this answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I find I can learn by seeing things that don't work almost as much as things that work.  I do recall previously reversing the order of some nodes and getting the result I wanted, but obviously it did not involve using the &lt;code&gt;fit&lt;/code&gt; library.  However, since I have enough rep to see this non-answer, even after it is deleted, all is good for me. Just wondering if others think that it won't be on any value, or even cause confusion to people learning from the solutions posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I am soliciting opinions on whether I should delete this or leave it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T15:07:40.523" Title="Should I delete answer that is a hack" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1976" CreationDate="2012-01-23T02:02:58.327" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes there was a bug there, and I am ashamed it has taken us so long to address this. I fixed it some time last week or the week before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1211" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T02:02:58.327" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2191" CreationDate="2012-01-23T07:20:39.953" Score="10" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is only a recent development. However, it seems like the badge images displayed on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;Badges page&lt;/a&gt; is a little too large for the frame they're in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W1Sz1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Badge images too large&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UEYaG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Badge images OK&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the left is the view through Internet Explorer (8.0.7601.17514 64-bit) &amp;amp; Chrome (16.0.912.75 m); Firefox (9.0.1) is on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T11:24:01.727" Title="Badge images &quot;too large&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2001" CreationDate="2012-01-23T14:48:21.193" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Making a pamphlet for this site could be useful, if you have ideas for what you want to do with it. We made the English one mostly as a way to promote our academic programs, and to give the &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1962/are-you-an-english-student-or-teacher-do-you-want-some-free-food&quot;&gt;SE Ambassadors&lt;/a&gt; something to hand out to the people in their group. It wasn't very hard to make - you can use these section guidelines as a jumping off point if you want to make one yourselves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brief summary of the site (e.g. This is a free, community driven Q&amp;amp;A for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Example questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why should I use this site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously feel free to change the layout around, or redesign it however you'd like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11080" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:42.343" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T14:48:21.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2184" CreationDate="2012-01-23T15:07:40.523" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;if the &quot;accidental&quot; solution is something that a lot of people might think of, only to find out after a lot of effort that it doesn't really work, it might be worth keeping, clearly labeled as bogus -- &quot;do not try this at home&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but if it's not at all obvious, and would only be &lt;em&gt;found&lt;/em&gt; with a lot of effort, then i'd most likely delete it, so as not to mislead.  (in fact, i've done just that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the real goal in such a case should be &quot;do not mislead&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T15:07:40.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1989" CreationDate="2012-01-23T18:43:20.653" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't offer every feature of the desktop site on the mobile version due to space constraints, so we tend to drop the less frequently used features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can of course switch to the full version via the footer and do it that way (then switch back). So there's a workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T18:43:20.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2192" CreationDate="2012-01-24T10:30:45.410" Score="6" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click on &quot;more comments&quot; in a question (for example at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24247/tex-capacity-exceeded-sorry-input-stack-size-5000&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;), the comment field gets the focus. Which is annoying on the iPad because the keyboard gets visible and takes up half the screen. It would be great if no text input area / field has the focus as we then would be able to view the comments (as requested by clicking on the 'add / see more comments). I know that this is also the button for adding comments, but the behavior slightly annoys me when I only want to read the remaining comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T22:09:48.723" Title="More comments takes focus to the comment field" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|comments|user-interface|mobile|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2186" CreationDate="2012-01-24T11:23:46.650" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the heads up, this will be fixed in the next build.  We're consolidating some stray inline &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;style&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks (Jin just &lt;em&gt;loves&lt;/em&gt; those) from various pages into their correct stylesheets which caused a few hiccups like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="740" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T11:23:46.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2190" CreationDate="2012-01-24T17:12:37.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, doncherry is right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the answer to this one will be: The site is optimized for normal screens, on which this problem isn't a problem; for mobile devices, there's the mobile version. The iPad and other tablets are something in between, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the issues that the iPad interface has to deal with -- weird skipping, screen real estate issues, etc -- are usually covered by switching to the mobile view. Of course, having &lt;em&gt;actually used&lt;/em&gt; an iPad to surf the site, I can say that I really dislike the chat interface in mobile. So, I sympathize but unfortunately, switching to mobile is the better option, even if a good amount of the functionality changes in the switch. It's up to you to make the call; screen real estate vs. function. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9685" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T17:12:37.307" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2229" CreationDate="2012-01-24T21:41:47.430" Score="38" ViewCount="512" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really love the beautiful shaded TeX.SX logo — I think it makes tex.stackexchange.com one of the best looking of all the StackExchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mcwAO.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am curious why the kerning is wrong? (By that I mean it doesn't follow Knuth's kerning of the TeX logo.) Should it not look more like this?—&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IkuPc.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter shows the E lowered by 1 pixel and the T and X each moved 6 pixels closer to the E.  It's subtle, but it feels more &quot;TeX-like&quot; to me that way.  Anyone agree/disagree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8499" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T04:20:07.993" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T04:20:07.993" Title="Why is the kerning wrong in the TeX.SX logo/banner?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|logo|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2193" CreationDate="2012-01-24T22:27:30.700" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the logo as defined by DEK at &lt;code&gt;\magnification 6000&lt;/code&gt; run from &lt;code&gt;plain.tex&lt;/code&gt;.  Judge for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rUZLT.png&quot; alt=&quot;original TeX logo, magnified to 60pt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt; DEK wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb07-2/tb15knutlogo.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;brief article&lt;/a&gt; for TUGboat with his recommendations for &quot;correcting&quot; the kerning for the logo in different (&lt;code&gt;cm&lt;/code&gt;) fonts.  He also mentions some (limited) experiences with non-&lt;code&gt;cm&lt;/code&gt; fonts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2012-01-26T14:01:21.283" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T14:01:21.283" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-25T17:29:41.117" Score="9" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/4839/proof-reading-service&quot;&gt;Proof reading service&lt;/a&gt;, which I thought was intresting because I hoped someone would leave an answer that recommended services that actually accept LaTeX source. However, that question is now closed as off topic. Do you think my question is off topic as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:24.053" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T12:13:28.830" Title="Is the question: 'What proof reading services works with LaTeX source code?' on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-26T09:53:56.357" Score="13" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to propose an improvement for the FAQ. It was suggested I should post a question here to get things started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many problems (and therefore questions) can be avoided if the poster updates their packages/classes. I think it would be good to add a comment about that in the FAQ. For example, the following may be a good addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX is very stable but many problems are cause by classes and packages that are out of date.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If your question is bug-related then you should consider updating your classes and packages to the most recent version.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to update depends on your LaTeX installation and operating system. If it's TeX Live then you can updatee by running &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; from the command line, or running the &lt;code&gt;tlmrg&lt;/code&gt; GUI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there could be link from the last sentence to a page that explains how to update for Mac/Windows/Unix and all the possible distributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorDisplayName="user10274" LastEditDate="2012-01-26T13:28:14.727" LastActivityDate="2012-02-11T15:34:12.557" Title="Proposal to Improve FAQ: Update before Asking Questions" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-27T07:47:59.033" Score="6" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every day, I make my rounds through several of the SX sites, and I continue to be impressed by how beautiful TeX.sx looks compared to the others I visit. I've always wondered, though, why a site devoted to TeX doesn't use TeX fonts.  I feel like it ought to, if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been working a lot lately with the Latin Modern collection (derived from Donald Knuth’s Computer Modern font collection) and have had great success getting them to work in HTML via CSS.  The results are so close to actual TeX, in fact—right down to the ligatures and the TeX, LaTeX, and XeTeX logos—that I can’t tell the difference anymore without scrupulous examination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is a sample page showing what TeX.sx could look like using TeX fonts.  The image is actually a hyperlink which brings you to a web page that displays the content shown in the image.  The image is not faked; it’s an actual browser screenshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to be careful not to step on any toes here, but I also want to demonstrate what is possible with modern HTML+CSS and suggest that a reskinning of TeX.sx might be something worth considering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The web page shown here renders identially in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on Mac OS X, and even displays properly on the iPhone and iPad.  It also should work the same on Linux and Windows as well, although I haven’t a way to test those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sample 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jadzia.bu.edu/~tsl/tex-sx-lmodern-test/41924.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RCpJt.png&quot; alt=&quot;sample&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typographical notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This has available to it the full range of Latin Modern fonts in all their optical sizes. This sample uses &lt;code&gt;lmr10&lt;/code&gt; (roman 10pt) for the questions and answers, and uses &lt;code&gt;lmr9&lt;/code&gt; (roman 9pt) for the comments. Auxiliary text such as tags, link-buttons, and page footers use &lt;code&gt;lmss8&lt;/code&gt; (sans-serif 8pt).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Latin Modern Roman family provides ff, fi, fl, ffi, and ffl ligatures as standard Unicode characters U+FB00 through U+FB04, respectively.  I encoded these by hand in this sample, but it is not difficult to translate these on-the-fly when generating a web page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Latin Modern Roman family also provides proper opening and closing single- and double-quotation marks.  I converted &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; here by hand in this sample, but again it is not difficult to translate these on the fly, given a few simple rules of engagement and a well-tested algorithm. (I only know of one ambiguous case: &lt;code&gt;'n'&lt;/code&gt; can mean ’n’ as in “fish ’n’ chips” and it can also mean ‘n’ as in “the letter ‘n’ is the 14th letter of the alphabet.”)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using CSS properties like &lt;code&gt;vertical-align&lt;/code&gt;, it is trivial to lower the E in the TeX logo and raise the A in the LaTeX logo. Similarly, using &lt;code&gt;margin-left&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;margin-right&lt;/code&gt;, these characters can be tightly kerned. (&lt;code&gt;letter-spacing&lt;/code&gt; might be another option for kerning.) Here, the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags were subclassed, allowing graceful degradation on extremely old browsers. Latin Modern Roman even has the backwards E in XeTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Justified paragraphs seem to render acceptably. Hyphenation in HTML obviously isn't up to TeX standards, nor is paragraph line-fitting, but it certainly doesn’t look terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;lmtt10&lt;/code&gt; font is much more TeX-like than the current Consolas and is quite readable on the screen. Here is a second sample focusing more on code snippets:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sample 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jadzia.bu.edu/~tsl/tex-sx-lmodern-test/37042.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6PLxk.png&quot; alt=&quot;sample&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Originals&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original, live TeX.sx pages appear &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41924&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37042&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8499" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T08:55:31.567" Title="Why doesn't TeX.sx use TeX fonts?" Tags="|feature-request|typography|fonts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2197" CreationDate="2012-01-27T08:32:49.040" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is how your example site looks for me in Chrome 16 on Windows 7:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ldgx2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;compared to Firefox&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1mbPu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is at 100% zoom, and it's very hard to read. I guess that getting this to work cross-browser and cross-platform is a pretty tough job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6222" LastEditorDisplayName="user6222" LastEditDate="2012-01-27T08:48:22.850" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T08:48:22.850" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2197" CreationDate="2012-01-27T08:55:31.567" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a few issues. As has already been mentioned in a comment, CM is rather 'light' on the screen: Knuth allowed for the bleed in printing when designing the font, but that makes it a not-so-good choice on screen. More generally, I feel that sanserif fonts probably work better, particular on smaller screens. Secondly, the 'LaTeX always uses CM' approach is something of a problem: you can have too much of a good thing. Finally, to me it is immediately obvious that something is 'wrong' when using CM without using TeX to lay it out. Web browsers don't get the line greyness right, and some of the spacing therefore jars badly. That stands out more with CM than with other fonts as I'm used to CM being 'right'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T08:55:31.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-27T10:22:10.400" Score="20" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I look through the unanswered questions on the main site, to see if I can contribute on any. Usually I will see a lot of questions that I can't answer (no knowldge / experience / software or hardware prerequisites not met) or that I don't want to answer (to complicated / time consuming / too irrelevant for me). It would be nice if I could flag and filter questions, so that I don't see the same (to me) unanswerable questions over and over. I don't know if that is possible or reasonable, as in principle this would mean saving my personal flag selection for (worst case) every question around. So if it should be reasonable to implement such feature, I would like to have personal flags like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;won't answer, prerequisites not met&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;won't answer, too time consuming for me (at the moment?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;won't answer, too complicated for me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;won't answer, too irrelevant (specialized) in my oppinion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;won't answer, inquirer basically wants me to do all the work for him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't get the question (although this might be covered by a regular flag)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;will probably get to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;will very likely get to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;will definitely get to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it might also be usefull, if the inquirer sees statistics of peoples pesonal flags on his question, so he gets a clue whether someone is likely to answer his question, or if he can convince someone flgging it &quot;too time consuming&quot; with a bounty ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you think will this be doable with reasonable effort?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T10:22:10.400" Title="Adding personal flags to questions" Tags="|feature-request|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2202" CreationDate="2012-01-27T18:00:14.293" Score="9" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a an answer that is clearly SPAM, such as this one at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/31281/4301&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/31281/4301&lt;/a&gt;, if the answer can not be removed all together, it would be preferable to actually delete the content and replace it with &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SPAM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that there is actually very little spam here, and those with rep&amp;lt;10K won't see this, so this is not a big problem, nor even a problem for most users, but I don't see the point of actually leaving the content visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw that this was done on another question, so was going to edit this one but then saw that it is locked and I don't have that privilege so can't remove that content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if there is not going to be a way to totally remove such answers, then it would be a good if those locking the question would remove the content before locking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmmmmm.. Looks like this ended up being more of a rant then a question. So, the question (request) is: can some please remove the content of this locked answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T18:35:49.680" Title="Deleting SPAM answers" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2201" CreationDate="2012-01-27T18:35:26.843" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I removed the SPAM content. Of course it can be seen in the edit history though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T18:35:26.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2218" CreationDate="2012-01-27T20:11:07.690" Score="31" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, but I'm getting slightly annoyed by the tiny Google+ icon right below the voting controls, in the er... social bar. The size is OK, but the color... well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0JswN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The icon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I swear, at first I thought it was a bounty added to the question. We are used to see red elements as important stuff, but I don't know, the G+ color is quite distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Facebook and Twitter icons have light colors, almost as if blending to the background. But the G+ one is certainly drawing my attention. It's screaming &quot;look at me look at me!&quot; &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest to lighten up the icon a little, like the following image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUZIX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Color&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks more discreet to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the rant. It's the red color effect. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2012-02-01T21:27:44.257" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T14:24:11.960" Title="Could we lighten up the Google+ icon a little?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-28T11:33:31.940" Score="6" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a thought that came across my mind and I’d like to know what others think about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn’t it be nice if one could place the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki_dangerous_bend_symbol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dangerous bend sign&lt;/a&gt; as found in the font &lt;code&gt;manfnt&lt;/code&gt; in an answer, to warn the reader of some darker corners of TeX as Don Knuth wrote in the preface of the TeXBook?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pLvNN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9391" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T17:58:20.610" Title="dangerous bends on TeX.SE" Tags="|feature-request|markdown|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2204" CreationDate="2012-01-28T12:50:21.953" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think implementing this as a standard feature wouldn't go along with the stackexchange answer design, which is text-oriented. If you start adding such pictograms, you'll have to allow for others, which might well trigger an avalanche of such graphic elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what bars you from just inserting the picture in your posts manually? In order to avoid uploading it every single time, you could save the snippet somewhere on your computer (some even like to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1235/hendrik-vogt&quot;&gt;use their info box for that purpose&lt;/a&gt;), and then you copy and paste it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as you don't overdo it on the signs, I say go ahead. I've seen Paulo Cereda and Frank Mittelbach using such elements in the past and it looked nice to me. I'd probably be careful about editing them into other users' answers, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T12:50:21.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2204" CreationDate="2012-01-28T15:21:35.570" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doncherry makes some good points. Another thought I have is that as we are Q&amp;amp;A oriented, answers should match the technical level of the questions, and readers pick out questions they want to know about. So most end users will probably skip very technical questions/answer entirely. On the other hand, experienced developers reading a question on the inner workings should know that this is potentially 'dangerous bend' territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T15:21:35.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2204" CreationDate="2012-01-28T16:35:51.640" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be far less useful than explaining why something is dangerous. I worry that if you add that sign people might get a bit lazy and throw it up as a alternative to properly explaining what they are doing and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a far better method would be to explain WHY this bit of code or area of TeX is a bit scary, rather then just throwing up a 'here be dragons' logo and forging on. The person will have a much better respect for the issue and hopefully learn something much more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-01-28T17:58:20.610" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T17:58:20.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-29T01:22:11.540" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I receive a new comment, I get the usual Stack Exchange notification in the corner of my screen.  However, recently it's been erroneously telling me I have a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/41703/575&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; beginning &quot;While eplain supports loading some LaTeX packages&quot;; neither of the comments to that answer begin that way (the second one almost does).  However, if I go to the &quot;responses&quot; tab of my profile page, I can see that I did get a comment, in this case &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42588/how-to-redefine-and-to-obfuscate-email-addresses&quot;&gt;over here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can a moderator flush this thing from my queue or does it require deeper intervention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T05:51:29.030" Title="Getting notified about a comment that doesn't exist" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2012-01-29T09:13:45.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That comment has probably been deleted before you went to read it. Seems they don't get deleted from the inbox; I think I've encountered this behavior before as well. Perhaps a mod can confirm this, as they might be able to see deleted comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-01-29T09:13:45.897" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2012-01-30T05:50:52.603" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment you're seeing in your inbox is actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41701/why-does-tex-not-like-usepackage/41703#comment84881_41703&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, but the inbox's text doesn't reflect the edit that was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66766/global-inbox-message-not-updated-after-comment-edit&quot;&gt;known issue&lt;/a&gt; with how our Stack Exchange inbox items are stored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T05:50:52.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2214" CreationDate="2012-01-30T16:03:18.133" Score="6" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to tex.SE. I am getting familiar with the available tags and their meaning here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I ask other users to re-tag questions properly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about creating a tag named &quot;please_retag&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be more specific: I want to ask others to re-tag questions made by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7128" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2012-01-30T17:13:13.293" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T18:55:03.543" Title="How to ask for re-tagging of questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2212" CreationDate="2012-01-30T16:10:07.090" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can edit a question to change the tags if you have enough reputation. This will notify moderators and 10k+ users about the to-be-approved edit and these can then accept your edit. Making a 'please_retag' tag doesn't really make sense therefore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T16:10:07.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2212" CreationDate="2012-01-30T18:55:03.543" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of &quot;janitors&quot; active on TeX.SX who try and (re-)tag questions in general (not just specific to some users, like new ones) and attempts to do so consistently. This may be specific to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site due to its size and the community members, but it has been working well. As such, best-attempt tagging by newcomers are welcomed, and corrected by experienced members very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize, I don't think there's a need to tag a question as &lt;code&gt;{please-retag}&lt;/code&gt;, nor even request a more appropriate retag in the original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T18:55:03.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2203" CreationDate="2012-01-31T05:56:25.637" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option is to use an ad-filtering browser plugin and flag the offending icon as an ad. Then you don't have to look at anything you find too overtly attention-seeking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T05:56:25.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2217" CreationDate="2012-02-01T14:27:58.707" Score="20" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a follow up to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2203/could-we-lighten-up-the-google-icon-a-little&quot;&gt;Could we lighten up the Google+ icon a little?&lt;/a&gt; which I think was unfairly declined. On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; the Google+ icon is less distracting because its saturation is more in sync with the surrounding icons. Compare the following of which the left is from TeX.SX and the right one is from Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4nEyy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Google+ icon on TeX.SX&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/POFKN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Google+ icon on SO&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow Google+ icon is clearly desaturated, less obtrusive and it fits better with the surrounding icons. In HTML notation the color of the Google+ icon at TeX.SX is something like ae503e and on Stack Overflow something like 8d4c45, so they are not only visually different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the TeX.SX Google+ icon be desaturated so that its color is similar to the one on Stack Overflow? This would not only make the icon less disturbing on TeX.SX but it will also contribute to the consistency of design across the Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue with the Google+ icon is that it may be confused for bounty reward icons and this is especially true for those with color vision deficiency (as pointed out in a comment by percusse). Of course, bounty reward icons are only ever placed on answers and Google+ icons are currently only placed on questions. Still, the Google+ icon may introduce unnecessary confusion. For example the following may be confusingly alike when only glancing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4nEyy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Google+ icon on TeX.SX&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iBoyn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Bounty reward icon on TeX.SX&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T15:46:48.287" Title="Make the Google+ less distracting by syncing its saturation with the other icons" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2216" CreationDate="2012-02-01T20:32:07.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to close this question as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2203/could-we-lighten-up-the-google-icon-a-little&quot;&gt;the very question you linked&lt;/a&gt; at the beginning of your post. The developers have spoken on MSO &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; on the Mathematics meta -- there are going to be &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; alterations to the sharing buttons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Update]&lt;/strong&gt;: If you go to the question linked above, you'll see that this has been altered to meet the requests of the community. Cheers. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9685" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T22:31:40.403" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2203" CreationDate="2012-02-01T21:27:13.930" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have desaturated the red in G+ by 30%. It will be in the next production build. (you may have to do a hard refresh).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T21:27:13.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="750" CreationDate="2012-02-02T09:12:18.727" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now fixed. On the right side of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt; there appears a note on how to ask questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JqIKM.png&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;How to Ask&amp;quot; note on TeX.SX&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that when the text area for the content of the question or the field for filling in tags gets focus other notes are shown. You can get back the &quot;How to Ask&quot; note by refocusing the title field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T13:14:50.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="461" CreationDate="2012-02-02T09:17:59.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/61431/163868&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/61431/163868&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;this is to prevent vote gaming. You can however change a vote after the post in question has been edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T09:17:59.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-02T10:45:14.387" Score="15" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;As N.N. notes in his answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/750/can-should-we-get-a-how-to-ask-page&quot;&gt;Can/should we get a “How to Ask” page?&lt;/a&gt;, there is now a &quot;How to ask&quot; page and it is linked from a helpful-looking box on the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JqIKM.png&quot; alt=&quot;How to ask box&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like this box made a little clearer and cleaner, if possible.  The problems that immediately jump out at me are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first question is missing article (or perhaps a plural-s).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm also a little nervous of the &quot;related typesetting system&quot; - it's not clear what that is.  How &quot;related&quot; does a typesetting system have to be?  Sibling?  First cousin?  Third cousin, twice removed?  I realise that conciseness is key here, but concise and precise are not mutually exclusive.  How about &quot;Is your question about TeX or a TeX-based typesetting system?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second sentence: I'd rather go for &lt;em&gt;focus&lt;/em&gt; than the answer/discussion divide.  I'd also steer clear of saying things like &quot;We prefer&quot; as if we've sat down and made a list of all the things we don't like (Questions that give rise to discussion, Word, cats, things that go bump in the night, Paulo's graphics) and decided to ban them all from the site.  How about &quot;Your question is more likely to get answered if it is focussed.&quot; (and the double s is non-negotiable).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third and fourth &quot;sentence&quot;s.  They aren't.  Sentences, I mean.  Seriously.  Let's be grammatical about this.  And &quot;research&quot;?  What research?  Should I link all of my articles?  Is it really going to help someone answer my question on expansion to know what is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.math.ntnu.no/~stacey/Research/Preprints/piecewise.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Topology of the space of piecewise-smooth loops&lt;/a&gt;?  What do these &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt;?  For us, they mean &quot;Show what you've already tried.&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The link to the more detailed &quot;how to ask&quot; page is &quot;asking help&quot;.  Is that &quot;help about asking&quot; or &quot;if you want more help, here's where to ask&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'm nitpicking.  But the people for whom this box will be useful are the people new to the site for whom the default assumptions that this box makes (about familiarity with the SE system) will not apply, or at least are less likely to apply.  So it's an important thing to think about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:56:02.623" Title="Can we clean up the &quot;How to ask&quot; box, please?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2221" CreationDate="2012-02-02T18:52:04.193" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a stab at a mock-up.  As I said in the comments, I'm not really sure who this is aimed at - our experience on MathOverflow is that those who should read things like this never do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to Ask&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  This site is for questions about TeX and TeX-related matters.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The questions that work best here are those which have a clear focus, have a context, and show what the questioner has already tried to find an answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  For questions about this site, please ask on meta.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  For more on how to ask a good question, please see the &quot;How to ask&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You'll have to imagine all the links)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, that feels far to verbose to me, so suggestions on how to make it more concise are welcome.  Indeed, I'll make this CW so that others can edit it and improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course, we don't know if such a change could be implemented yet so this might be a waste of time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T20:03:48.257" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:03:48.257" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-02T18:52:04.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2012-02-02T20:12:59.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/120812/163868&quot;&gt;2 days ago syntax highlighting was turned on on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; so to be fair I think it should be turned on here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:12:59.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="941" CreationDate="2012-02-02T20:17:55.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this was posted the review page has changed a lot. In any case the flag links on the review page now works as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:17:55.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1791" CreationDate="2012-02-02T20:21:56.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can relicense your code by posting answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answers&quot;&gt;Relicensing code from answers&lt;/a&gt; with your preferred license(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:21:56.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="807" CreationDate="2012-02-02T20:29:14.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1915/going-to-a-conference-the-tug-2011-experience&quot;&gt;At TUG 2011 Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; made &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/bringing-together-tex-users-online/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a presentation of TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; which is relevant in converting mailing list users. It includes a comparison of different communication forms and lists some advantages of TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:29:14.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="807" CreationDate="2012-02-02T20:47:34.390" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a mailing list subscriber, I don't think I would appreciate posts specifically advertising TeX.SX. However, sometimes I will post a link to an answer on the site in response to a question on a mailing list.  This is entirely appropriate, and is a good way to publicize the site without explicit advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:47:34.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="609" CreationDate="2012-02-02T20:48:36.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main topic in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;the main chat room for TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; is the same as the site's topic but other things are discussed to (such as sports and cats). Often there are discussion about TeX problems and things happening on the site. Just drop by the , and have a look. You do not have to say anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that you can make your own chat rooms, e.g. for other topics or private chats, and you can read transcripts of old chat discussions. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1757/what-is-happening-in-chat-rooms&quot;&gt;What is happening in Chat rooms?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:48:36.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2193" CreationDate="2012-02-03T04:19:57.807" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have deployed a fix for this on dev. It will be live after our next production build. I put cache breaker in css so no need to hard refresh browser to see the new logo change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T04:19:57.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1992" CreationDate="2012-02-03T14:36:24.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now implemented. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/59446/163868&quot;&gt;It was implemented 2011-11-28&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T14:36:24.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-03T16:14:20.573" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we want the scroll bars on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new&lt;/a&gt; to be there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/npw60.png&quot; alt=&quot;undesired scroll bars&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(I decreased the text size slightly to make the entire area fit my laptop screen, but the behavior remains at 100% text zoom.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Firefox 10.0 on Windows 7 and in case it matters, my screen has a resolution of 1366x768.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See my comment to Martin Schröder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This problem also occurs in Safari 5.1.2 on Windows 7 (where I don't think I have any add-ons).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T15:46:03.523" Title="Undesired scroll bars on new tags page" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|tagging|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1355" CreationDate="2012-02-03T19:13:11.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag's name is now &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'accessibility'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accessibility&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T19:13:11.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2235" CreationDate="2012-02-04T10:29:40.003" Score="9" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engine&lt;/a&gt; is removed. To me it is too general and vague to serve a purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T10:49:24.943" Title="The {engine} tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2233" CreationDate="2012-02-04T10:48:38.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we decide to keep the tag, we should rename it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, the tag is useful for comparing the varios TeX engines. Questions which may deserve the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engines&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/21863/213&quot;&gt;TeX Distribution and Engine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13593/the-differences-between-tex-engines&quot;&gt;The differences between TeX engines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36/differences-between-luatex-context-and-xetex&quot;&gt;Differences between LuaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3094/drawbacks-of-xetex-luatex&quot;&gt;Drawbacks of XeTeX/LuaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible candidates are question which are about several engines, comparing, such as dealing with advantages and differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, this question doesn't deserve the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engines&lt;/a&gt; tag, as it deals only with kerTeX:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42234/213&quot;&gt;What is KerTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the only one which has the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engine&lt;/a&gt; tag, we should remove that tag there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my suggestion is: let's keep the tag, rename it, and sensibly retag some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T10:48:38.930" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2233" CreationDate="2012-02-04T10:49:24.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to ask about some details of questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engine&lt;/a&gt; -- What other tags do they feature? Is there a more appropriate tag that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engine&lt;/a&gt; should be made a synonym of? Then I realized there's only &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engine&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; question so tagged. In that case I suggest you simply remove the existing tag by hand (you have more than enough reputation to do so). Yes, that will bump the respective question to the front page, but you shouldn't worry about one &quot;reanimated&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T10:49:24.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-04T16:25:45.110" Score="61" ViewCount="1412" Body="&lt;p&gt;While thinking about promoting our site and attracting more users, I was looking for the hottest topic with highest possible impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the tags with the most questions currently we see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; leads by far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;: 1447 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt;: 764 questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt;: 733 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The site has only 1 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges?tab=tags&amp;amp;filter=gold&quot;&gt;golden tag badge&lt;/a&gt;: for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that TikZ is the hottest topic on the site. So it's promising to choose this topic for promoting tex.stackexchange.com for attracting users and search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's use a search engine to find the best possible partner: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=tikz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.google.com/search?q=tikz&lt;/a&gt; gives me results in this order, check yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TikZ and PGF | TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt; on TeXample.net&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TikZ and PGF examples&lt;/a&gt; on TeXample.net&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGF/TikZ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PGF/TikZ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PGF and TikZ -- Graphic systems for TeX&lt;/a&gt; on SourceForge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think, TeXample.net is the best possible partner for a cooperation. Regarding this topic, it ranks higher than Wikipedia, higher than the TikZ SourceForge project site, and also higher than CTAN which appears on the 8th place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I suggest, StackExchange and specifically tex.stackexchange.com may start a cooperation with TeXample.net. TeXample.net is a non-profit community site. For full disclosure, I have been maintaining this site since December last year. Currently 122 authors have contributed TikZ code to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you you think about that? If you like the idea, it would be great if you upvote this question, showing your support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T00:28:50.747" Title="Cooperation of TeX Stack Exchange and TeXample.net" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|sponsorship|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="860" CreationDate="2012-02-04T19:04:56.710" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that there is no italic variant of Lucida Sans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T19:04:56.710" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2681" CreationDate="2012-02-05T09:39:28.590" Score="17" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that the tex.sx logo &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2193/why-is-the-kerning-wrong-in-the-tex-sx-logo-banner&quot;&gt;has &lt;em&gt;the real&lt;/em&gt; kerning&lt;/a&gt;, the Community Blog logo should be updated, too. Compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Ms7t.png&quot; alt=&quot;tex.sx logo&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(tex.sx logo)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BOGUX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Community Blog logo&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(blog logo)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stick to my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2229/4012&quot;&gt;comment to Jin's answer&lt;/a&gt; though, that the braces should be moved a bit closer to the &lt;em&gt;TeX&lt;/em&gt;, preferably on both/all logos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T15:55:15.577" Title="Update the TeX Community Blog logo" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|blog|logo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="860" CreationDate="2012-02-05T16:43:45.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, since talic sans-serif fonts are rare and TeX.sx uses a sans-serif font (of which there is no sans-serif variant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2012-02-05T17:15:43.957" LastActivityDate="2012-02-05T17:15:43.957" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="372" CreationDate="2012-02-06T10:25:55.210" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/61680/mod-page-choosing-flags-means-that-other-option-vanish&quot;&gt;was reported by Joseph&lt;/a&gt; and it is not considered a bug but by 'by design'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is still an issue I guess it would be best to make a new post about it since the post that Joseph's is marked as a duplicate of has been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T11:02:42.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2242" CreationDate="2012-02-07T03:45:45.827" Score="13" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot;&gt;6 questions currently listed under the tag {scope}&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; refer to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;-related &lt;code&gt;scope&lt;/code&gt; environment. However, it could easily be confused with the scope of a group within which certain (re)definitions are considered local. I mention &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; since the most recent 2 referencing something akin to grouping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is it? Which should it be? Should it be at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T07:04:08.900" Title="What does the tag {scope} mean?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2241" CreationDate="2012-02-07T07:04:08.900" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest to rename the tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scopes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scopes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scopes&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scoping&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scoping&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scoping&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, I don't see a problem with the tag appearing in different contexts. It means a concept which could be used in TikZ and basic TeX. We can combine it with the matching tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt;, if the question is about specific scoping. Very similar, for example, to using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arrow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arrow&lt;/a&gt; tag which is commonly combined with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xypic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xypic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xypic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amsmath&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amsmath&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amsmath&lt;/a&gt; or whatever, though there's an &lt;code&gt;arrow&lt;/code&gt; library in TikZ: no need for tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf-arrows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf-arrows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf-arrows&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf-scopes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf-scopes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf-scopes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since up to 5 tags are possible, a tag doesn't need a unique meaning, so we don't need to change the tag (besides renaming).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would keep the tag since it represents an important concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T07:04:08.900" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="954" CreationDate="2012-02-07T17:37:49.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue seems now to be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the OP the issue seems to be fixed when browsing with Chrome under Windows. I can neither see the reported problem with Firefox 10.0 or Chromium 16.0.912.77 in Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-02-07T18:05:16.000" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T18:05:16.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2012-02-07T18:34:49.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a new (silver) badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B8DLl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Research assistant badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, only the retag and administrative powerhouse &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; has this badge. Badge progress is displayed in right-hand column when viewing any tag info page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T7aSS.png&quot; alt=&quot;Research assistant badge progress&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/tikz-pgf/info&quot;&gt;{tikz-pgf} tag info page&lt;/a&gt;. Scroll down; it's displayed on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T18:42:04.797" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-07T18:34:49.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-07T20:14:38.070" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there is an easy way on this website to print the solutions to questions presented by other users for reference purposes? And is there like a database with answered questions readily available other than by search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T09:29:26.627" Title="Printing Tex Stack Exchange Questions" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-07T20:49:14.507" Score="12" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I asked the question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43692/footnotetext-numbering-for-many-footnotemark-automatic-solution&quot;&gt;\footnotetext numbering for many \footnotemark - automatic solution&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and I received three nice solutions.&#xA;Each has its advantages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which answer should be accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Person who addressed my question precisely?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Person how provides more comfortable solution than what I asked for?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it still my choice or should I toss a coin?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7128" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T13:39:23.367" Title="Many great solutions for one problem – who wins?" Tags="|discussion|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2294" CreationDate="2012-02-07T20:49:28.797" Score="12" ViewCount="438" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an RSS feed set up for &quot;Recent Questions&quot; from several of the stack exchange websites.  Any time someone edits an old question, it gets added to the RSS feed for &quot;Recent Questions.&quot;  &lt;strong&gt;Is there a way to have this set up for only &quot;New Questions&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a similar comment in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/281/feature-request-rss-support&quot;&gt;Feature request: RSS support&lt;/a&gt; a few years ago, but I can't find any updated information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3438" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T19:50:05.133" Title="RSS feed for New questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|rss|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2246" CreationDate="2012-02-07T20:56:54.140" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;To reward both answers you could&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;up-vote both,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accept the answer that address your question precisely, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;award a 50 points bounty to the other solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you choose award a bounty you can choose as motivation &quot;Reward existing answer&quot;, then you wait until you can reward the bounty and you give it to the answer you want to reward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T20:56:54.140" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2012-02-07T21:21:23.810" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to elaborate on the following point Stefan made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kindly invite LaTeX users on related sites&lt;/strong&gt; like for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3513118/latex-how-can-i-disable-the-linking-for-figures-in-lyx&quot;&gt;here on&#xA;  SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are now many Stack Exchange sites (81 at the moment!) and on some there can come up LaTeX questions that really belongs here. There are a few ways for us to make people on other SX sites to make them aware of TeX.SX:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions on other sites that belongs here can be flagged for migration by choosing &quot;it needs ♦ moderator attention, other&quot; and writing something like &quot;Belongs on tex.stackexchange.com&quot;. To find such question one can view new question in relevant tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/latex?sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;newest questions in the LaTeX tag on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag wikis on other sites can be edited to inform of this site. See e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/tex/info&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/tex/info&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/latex/info&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/latex/info&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/tags/latex/info&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/tags/latex/info&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/tags/latex/info&quot;&gt;https://askubuntu.com/tags/latex/info&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/latex/info&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/latex/info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monitor Meta Stack Overflow for posts such as &quot;Where do I ask X?&quot; and inform of TeX.SX if its relevant. Checking Meta Stack Overflow is also relevant for following posts such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70466/can-so-questions-on-tex-be-migrated-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Can SO questions on TeX be migrated to tex.SX?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12918/can-we-have-a-ruling-on-latex-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Can we have a ruling on LaTeX on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T06:40:51.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="999" CreationDate="2012-02-08T11:01:34.063" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be fixed now. I have edited at lest ten previously empty tag wikis since I joined (which is after this question was posted) and I have never noticed this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T11:01:34.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2251" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-02-08T11:06:58.550" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T11:06:58.550" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T11:06:58.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2252" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-02-08T11:06:58.550" Score="0" Body="about tag wikis which introduce tags' topics" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T12:17:33.507" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T12:17:33.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7" CreationDate="2012-02-08T13:07:16.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I would argue about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every code has to be debugged, which means that it is processed multiple times giving completely unnecessary load of the server.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As well, as mentioned by others, there will arise bugs of this system and questions on TeX.SX concerning &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; this system, which makes it real pain in the ass and kills the whole idea of this site as a &quot;TeX wiki&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I believe that what we really need is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a good image storage (possibly like 10 images per user up to some reputation, then enlarging the number, or similar solution);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with automatic &lt;code&gt;file.pdf&lt;/code&gt;-&gt;&lt;code&gt;cropped_file.pdf&lt;/code&gt;-&gt;&lt;code&gt;file.png&lt;/code&gt; (the middle part optional) conversion so that you can include &quot;PDF&quot; images and be happy;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;these two feature would enable to quickly include any rendered material (equation, table, symbol, page), yet being sufficiently independent of any TeX-related problems on the server side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T13:42:15.543" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T13:42:15.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2264" CreationDate="2012-02-08T14:51:45.860" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using OpenSuSE 11.3, the font for titles, votes and views counts has a very odd-looking character &quot;2&quot;. It has an unusual serif-like crossing in the bottom part (sorry, I don't know the exact terminology in typography for calling that line).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be just me, but it took me a while to figure out that it is a 2 and not a 4 with a curved upper part. Besides, that font looks horribly baroque and unreadable to my eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The offending typeface seems to be OpenSuSE's version of Palatino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1371" LastEditorUserId="1371" LastEditDate="2012-02-09T13:20:01.913" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T13:22:06.777" Title="2 looks like a 4 in the tex.se font" Tags="|discussion|bug|design|fonts|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2014-03-05T07:33:43.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2255" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-02-08T16:06:16.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question should contain the details of your proposal,&#xA;including a justification of why the new feature is needed and/or how it can improve the community.&#xA;Basically, prove to the administration that they should spend time developing your feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A feature request often benefits from including an example for how it could be implemented. An example of the implementation might also serve to better describe the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T16:06:32.900" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T16:06:32.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2256" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-02-08T16:06:16.767" Score="0" Body="You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality." OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T16:06:35.660" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T16:06:35.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2254" CreationDate="2012-02-08T20:29:25.583" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely you're seeing something we're not. Here's an image of the votes and view count font on my system (Firefox 10.0 on a Mac):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJdM4.png&quot; alt=&quot;vote count image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't see how the 4 and the 2 are very similar, and although the font is serifed  it doesn't seem very baroque to me (although obviously this is a matter of opinion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2012-02-09T00:17:05.503" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T00:17:05.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2259" CreationDate="2012-02-08T21:48:21.820" Score="10" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 46th general meeting of DANTE eV (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de/events/dante2012_en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DANTE 2012&lt;/a&gt;) will be held from March 7 to March 9 in Leipzig, Germany. As far as I know that's the biggest national TeX users group in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who would like to go there? Does anybody plan to speak?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-02-09T17:21:32.713" LastActivityDate="2012-03-03T02:29:52.790" Title="Who plans to go to DANTE 2012?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|sponsorship|conferences|speakers-bureau|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2258" CreationDate="2012-02-08T22:21:08.683" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go there and plan to give a talk about high quality commercial/open source database publishing with TeX. I should send a proposal for the talk to the organizers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T22:21:08.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2258" CreationDate="2012-02-08T23:02:05.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll be there and give my tutorial about TeX in the 21st century. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2012-02-09T19:05:37.920" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T19:05:37.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2254" CreationDate="2012-02-08T23:06:58.993" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I'm seeing (with FF10 on OpenSUSE 11.3 with KDE):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G0dSH.png&quot; alt=&quot;2 looks like 4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T23:06:58.993" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2263" CreationDate="2012-02-08T23:48:44.463" Score="9" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can edit some questions (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1181/5763&quot;&gt;Who are the package maintainers here?&lt;/a&gt;), but only retag others (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2258/5763&quot;&gt;Who plans to go to DANTE 2012?&lt;/a&gt;). Why? I can edit all questions and answers on main.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T00:29:07.133" Title="Why can I edit only some questions on Meta?" Tags="|support|editing|meta|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2262" CreationDate="2012-02-09T00:29:07.133" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The maintainers question is a CW question, you only need 100 rep to edit these. The DANTE question is a regular question, you need 2000 rep to edit these, but only 500 rep to edit their tags, so you're in between with ~1.8k. Usually, however, you should be able to suggest edits while you're below 2000 rep, on the main site as well as on meta afaik. For more details on the privileges, check out the respective stages at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T00:29:07.133" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2254" CreationDate="2012-02-09T13:22:06.777" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be an OpenSuSE bug: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-January/028355.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-January/028355.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1371" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T13:22:06.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-09T16:48:58.870" Score="5" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually read textbooks about LaTeX and derivatives and I am always fascinated at how the experts manage to develop their code and get their desired output. In this website there are many topics floating around and with many of you gurus helping, it facilitates our learning. I was then wondering, why isn't there a show off per tag of the best of best LaTeX programmers. I know something like this has been done but not to the extent as per tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, there are tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amsmath&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amsmath&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amsmath&lt;/a&gt;, etc. Why cannot there be a show off of the many capabilities of TikZ, about constructs of professional tables or different designed tables that one can come up with. If there is a prize let there be one and if it is just to show off your talents let it be. I mean there was post recently about a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/43789/10898&quot;&gt;candle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my point of view that is a fabulous outcome. So what say you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user10274" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-11T12:27:26.190" Title="Battle of the Titans" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2265" CreationDate="2012-02-09T17:12:44.753" Score="9" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A tag wiki page can be used to collect a list of important questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you look for great questions regarding a topic, just filter by the tag and sort by votes. I wish, we could select a tag and see a list of answers sorted by votes. This is at least possible with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regarding answers, you could use the badges to look-up great and famous answers, such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/25/great-answer&quot;&gt;Great answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/18/guru&quot;&gt;Guru answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/24/good-answer&quot;&gt;Good answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/55/reversal&quot;&gt;Reversals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/39/populist&quot;&gt;Populists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also here, I see it would be great if there would be a sort feature, it's just chronologically sorted, which is not the way I expect content to be sorted here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/great-contributions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;great-contributions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;great-contributions&lt;/a&gt; are not desired, furthermore we can only tag questions, not answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contest questions on the site are a great way to show talents:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34482/contest-show-off-your-skillz-in-tex-friends-tex-sx-birthday&quot;&gt;Contest: Show Off Your Skillz in TeX &amp;amp; Friends [TeX.sx birthday]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Our blog&lt;/a&gt; is another place for pointing to great contributions on the site&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another thought: we could extend the &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt; showcase site by a LaTeX gallery, starting for example with the great contributions to the contest question, each linked to the original TeX.SX place. Also such is meant by my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2236/cooperation-of-tex-stack-exchange-and-texample-net&quot;&gt;cooperation suggestion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T19:44:49.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2258" CreationDate="2012-02-09T17:22:53.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go to DANTE 2012 and make a talk about TeX online communities, similar to the talk at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1915/going-to-a-conference-the-tug-2011-experience&quot;&gt;TUG 2011 conference&lt;/a&gt; in India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily I don't need hotel or flight. I'll stay with relatives who live 50km from that city, so I'll just rent a car for those days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de/events/dante2012/Programm.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;program&lt;/a&gt; already shows talks of Patrick, Herbert, Martin, Uwe and me, so some members of our site will be there and talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T21:15:26.467" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2268" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-10T06:22:47.703" Score="3" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Motivation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, there would be people which find (La)TeX but is not sure about whether it will suit their needs or not (e.g., see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43791/do-i-need-latex&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;). These people want to see the capabilities and some &quot;results&quot; of using (La)TeX instead of only code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that most FAQ's and related sites provide only code for people who already use (La)TeX but are facing problems with the code, newcomers have problems with finding samples of compiled source code and visual examples to evaluate whether it will suit their needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be good to have a compilation of examples of the capabilities of (La)TeX, a la &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texample&lt;/a&gt;, in which new comers or people that is discovering (La)TeX can see the wide range of usability of (La)TeX. Can we summarize the (La)TeX features here? or it would be better to gather those in some other site, like extending texample over than TikZ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I know that (La)TeX can embed code and format it, draw music, include figures in really complex ways, what else can you point out? Can we produce a (hopefully) complete list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T07:53:06.617" Title="Creating a showcase for (La)TeX newcomers or people that are discovering it" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2196" CreationDate="2012-02-10T06:41:31.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have any suggestions on the wording?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the wording for the note is settled, I (or a moderator) can update the FAQ. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2012-02-10T17:03:20.770" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T17:03:20.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2271" CreationDate="2012-02-10T07:07:16.307" Score="10" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to have unintentionally created a small badge-factory for myself with my question on tracing &lt;code&gt;pgfkeys&lt;/code&gt;.  After I posted my solution, I got a few votes and that gave me a Necromancer badge.  Today, Andrew Stacey bumped it with an edit, and as a result it got a few more votes, going past 10...and earning me a second Necromancer.  Is this behavior intentional?  One Necromancer per every 5 votes for an answer &lt;em&gt;originally&lt;/em&gt; posted more than 30 days later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-02-10T07:51:59.467" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T07:51:59.467" Title="Two Necromancer badges for one question?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2270" CreationDate="2012-02-10T07:49:33.697" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You got two badges because you wrote two answers, and both qualify for that badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T07:49:33.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2195" CreationDate="2012-02-10T08:49:24.700" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general proof reading service question is not ontopic. That's why I migrated it to writers.stackexchange.com. The link there has changed though: &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/4839/proof-reading-service&quot;&gt;Proof reading service&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your question about LaTeX proof reading is ontopic. Actually, it's on the edge, since it's not about TeX or LaTeX itself, but a LaTeX supporting proof reading service could be seen as a tool for our users, such as a LaTeX supporting spell checker and editor are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, your question is welcome, and it can help our fellow LaTeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:24.053" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T08:49:24.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2195" CreationDate="2012-02-10T11:58:43.583" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is sort-of an extended comment, but on meta I have less compunction about &quot;Answers are for Answers&quot; than on the main site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that this went for a couple of weeks without an answer.  From that, I draw two conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There isn't an obvious answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No-one has a very strong opinion either way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in this situation, I would say that the best way to let the community decide what it likes is ... to let the community decide what it likes.  But the &quot;community&quot; (assuming it exists) doesn't really visit meta very much.  It tends to hang out on the main site.  So, assuming you're still interested in this, what I recommend is that you try the question on the main site, but make it clear that you're doing an experiment to see if this kind of question is acceptable.  That'll mean (hopefully) that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People actually think about whether or not they like that kind of question, rather than going with gut instinct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No-one shouts at you for posting what they think is a totally off-topic question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As it's an experiment, you'll put a bit more thought into how best to craft the question to give it its best chance of &quot;life&quot;, leading to a better question (assuming it's allowed to live).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T11:58:43.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2195" CreationDate="2012-02-10T12:13:28.830" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two and a half different opinions that do not lead to a conclusion. So consider it as a half-baked answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand we have the too general questions (especially about TikZ/PGF) with the underlying message &quot;Can somebody draw this for me?&quot; without any MWE etc. and that certainly has a bad connotation (although s/he may just be too novice to start in the first place). Hence accepting these as on topic can lead to more bossy questions such as &quot;I need this, who can do it for me for hundred bucks?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, the user who offers such a service can cause unnecessary &lt;em&gt;conflict of interest&lt;/em&gt;  if there are other users who wish to offer such services. It is not the immediate concern of course but might lead to problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it is quite possible that this would make an example for other possible business options and can create a &lt;em&gt;Yellow Pages&lt;/em&gt; effect, something the overlords also don't want (I sincerely hope!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I also think that this is a nice idea to meet with people and collaborate (for-profit or non-profit options available). So, I guess one should always keep an eye in the chat first to get a general idea and then maybe make it a question that is worth archiving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the vagueness but somehow I feel a little paranoid about this considering the ingenious ways that the advertisers find to spam everywhere on the net including statistics. For those who are interested &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businesshut.com/spam/google-analytics-referrer-spam/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;look at this&lt;/a&gt;. Very clever idea :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T12:13:28.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2196" CreationDate="2012-02-11T10:34:04.673" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To help people answer your question quickly and precisely, remember to&#xA;  ask clear questions and, if possible, to include a small example of&#xA;  code that shows the problem that you want to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should add to the end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are having an issue with a specific package, document class or program,&#xA;  it's a good idea to include in your question which version you are&#xA;  using. For LaTeX classes and packages, adding &lt;code&gt;\listfiles&lt;/code&gt; to your&#xA;  preamble will give you a handy list of all the files used by your&#xA;  example: you can then copy this into your question from your &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; file.&#xA;  Also please mention which operating system you are using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, it should be noted that many problems and bugs are caused by classes&#xA;  and packages that are out of date. Before positing a question to TeX.sx&#xA;  about your bug, you may consider updating your relevant class and packages.&#xA;  Before updating, it is always a good idea to back up your previous&#xA;  installation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're using TeX Live, you may update classes and packages with&#xA;  the &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; program. You may update the entire TeX Live installation by&#xA;  running &lt;code&gt;tlmgr update --all&lt;/code&gt; from the command line. (This may take a&#xA;  while.) On windows and the mac, you may also run &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; with a&#xA;  graphical user interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2012-02-11T15:34:12.557" LastActivityDate="2012-02-11T15:34:12.557" CommentCount="16" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-11T10:34:04.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2284" CreationDate="2012-02-11T15:19:57.597" Score="10" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw an ad &quot;visit TeX meta&quot; and TeX was kerned the same way the old version of TeX symbol on this page used to be kerned;  with T touching corner of E and E touching the corner of X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue was brought up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2238/update-the-tex-community-blog-logo&quot;&gt;update the tex community blog logo&lt;/a&gt; and was corrected. But apparently its ghost still lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T22:36:06.913" Title="TeX meta art clip (TeX written on torn paper) has wrong kerning" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2279" CreationDate="2012-02-11T17:41:15.173" Score="6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concrete example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was glad to find that my question was already asked and answered here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1226/how-to-make-latexmk-use-makeglossaries&quot;&gt;How to make Latexmk use makeglossaries?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are more than one(three) seemingly correct but different answers. I would like to pick the best answer, and use it myself. Normally the up-votes and acceptance from the questioner would tell me what answer to pick. - But here I believe that the difference in votes could be from the fact that the answers is given over lang time. To complicate the matter, there is a comment(from @mhp), that suggest an improvement(the -q option) - and I can not see if this improvement is really implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I add comments to the answers, and hope the the question still receives some attension? Ask the answers directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new question with the aim to find the optimal solution would unfortunately still be a disguised duplicate:o(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T07:16:30.667" Title="How do I best get multiple correct answers clarified?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-11T19:02:38.240" Score="23" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible for the JavaScript syntax highlighter to be extended to color code LaTeX3 code? With the current color coding scheme the code is very difficult to follow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastEditorUserId="963" LastEditDate="2012-02-11T23:26:27.630" LastActivityDate="2012-02-11T23:26:27.630" Title="Color coding of LaTeX3 code" Tags="|feature-request|markup|code|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2277" CreationDate="2012-02-12T07:16:30.667" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think offering a bounty could help here: It will bring the question back into view, so there are likely going to be more votes on the different answers, which may help to clarify which answer is &quot;best&quot;, and it will give the original answerers an incentive to revisit their posts to improve them, or to generate a new &quot;canonical&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T07:16:30.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2283" CreationDate="2012-02-12T13:56:38.477" Score="9" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, there are 66 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; and 35 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass-writing&lt;/a&gt; (6 questions feature both tags). Looking at the most upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; questions, there are quite a few that would be also useful for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass-writing&lt;/a&gt; (Note: I excluded questions that already feature this tag):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25116/what-is-good-practice-when-preparing-a-package-for-ctan&quot;&gt;What is good practice when preparing a package for CTAN?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12668/where-do-i-start-latex-programming&quot;&gt;Where do I start LaTeX programming?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13028/how-do-i-document-my-style-files&quot;&gt;How do I document my style files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35467/write-new-package-with-latex2e-or-latex3&quot;&gt;Write new package with LaTeX2e or LaTeX3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10778/what-are-the-established-methods-for-filing-and-tracking-bugs-in-packages&quot;&gt;What are the established methods for filing and tracking bugs in packages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass-writing&lt;/a&gt; questions interesting for package writers as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39490/when-or-why-should-i-use-as-opposed-to&quot;&gt;When or why should I use %% as opposed to %?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15452/backward-compatibility-for-command-names&quot;&gt;Backward compatibility for command names&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Package writing and class writing are two related, yet somewhat different topics. The question is, are we better off by retaining two different tags and adding the respective &quot;sibling tag&quot; to the questions that fit both topics? Or should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass-writing&lt;/a&gt; be merged into a new tag called, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-class-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-class-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-class-writing&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T14:56:31.563" Title="Should {package-writing} and {documentclass-writing} be merged into a new {package-class-writing} tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-declined|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2203" CreationDate="2012-02-12T14:24:11.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about &quot;inverting&quot; it? A quick mockup: &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4CTrN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8272" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T14:24:11.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2323" CreationDate="2012-02-12T15:11:18.720" Score="14" ViewCount="452" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a syntax-highlighting for LuaLaTeX on this site? I think it would be necessary to color the Lua commands in the LaTeX code, because Lua is a integral part of (Lua)LaTeX. I think it would improve the readability of code an maybe push the acceptance of Lua for use in LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea about programming a syntax-highlighting, but the Lua code is always placed in &lt;code&gt;\directlua{}&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\begin{luacode} ... \end{luacode}&lt;/code&gt; (and some other environments). So I guess and hope it is not so difficult to create a highlighting. Additionally there could be a new button above the answer text field like the 'Code Sample' button, but for Lua commands (i.e. for placing just Lua code without LaTeX commands and Lua environments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10570" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T18:07:35.167" Title="Syntax-highlighting for LuaLaTeX" Tags="|feature-request|markup|code|syntax-highlighting|lualatex|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2280" CreationDate="2012-02-12T18:16:19.560" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are enough differences between classes and packages that separate tags are useful.  So adding the relevant extra tags to particular questions would make more sense than merging the two tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T18:16:19.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2276" CreationDate="2012-02-12T19:10:19.927" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; I've updated all ads I could:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the unanswered sessions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Visit Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From answers to packages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX community blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX community polls&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T19:10:19.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-12T20:37:08.897" Score="-2" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;&quot;What kind of questions can I ask here?&quot; section of the site FAQ&lt;/a&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX! TeX.SX is for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is incorrect, as the common nomenclature in use to indicate Stack Exchange is SE, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; SX.  The sentence &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX.SE! TeX.SE is for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better, it should be consistent of other areas of the site and not use an abbreviation at all, and say &quot;Stack Exchange&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX - Stack Exchange! TeX - Stack Exchange is for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per other &lt;code&gt;/faq&lt;/code&gt; sections on the Stack Exchange network such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Parenting&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;Parenting - &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is for...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Programmers (again, emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;Programmers - &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a site...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9646" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:15.113" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T22:14:52.290" Title="Correct &quot;TeX.SX&quot; section of the site FAQ" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2285" CreationDate="2012-02-12T22:07:53.593" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best approach here is, as you say, to avoid an abbreviation in the FAQ at all and put 'TeX - Stack Exchange' (perhaps without the repetition).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX –­ Stack Exchange!&lt;/a&gt; This site is ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T22:14:52.290" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-12T22:21:29.833" Score="16" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;About page&lt;/a&gt; and the title for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main site page&lt;/a&gt;  and for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; all say 'TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange'. We've had some discussions, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1966/discussion-about-contest-show-off-your-latex-skillz/1967#1967&quot;&gt;when we had a skills contest&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/547/new-user-greeting&quot;&gt;about the user greeting&lt;/a&gt;, stressing the need to cover all TeX-related matters and not just LaTeX. The 'TeX - LaTeX' thing is something of a hangover from the early days of the site. I'd therefore suggest that we standardise on 'TeX - Stack Exchange'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Prompted by a recent question about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2285/correct-tex-sx-section-of-the-site-faq&quot;&gt;text in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T08:32:14.377" Title="Change 'TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange' to 'TeX - Stack Exchange'" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2287" CreationDate="2012-02-13T08:32:14.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean the &quot;phrase&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange is that tiny asterisk in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll assume so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're going to change this (and I have no problem with the spirit of the proposal) then can we please change it to something that actually makes sense.  The dashes (of whatever type) make it a bizarre sentence and should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was about to propose that in that particular place, &quot;This site&quot; would be the clearest.  But then I realised that even that doesn't fit because it is not &lt;strong&gt;this site&lt;/strong&gt; that is the &quot;asterisk&quot;, but the StackExchange Q&amp;amp;A site model.  The current phrase implies that it is just this site that is the intersection of wikis, forums, and so forth.  So for that place, I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The StackExchange question-and-answer format aims to be that asterisk in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see it on the main site page - is it only for people not logged in?  Nope, can't see it when not logged in either.  I'll skip that one.  Oh, hang on.  Do you mean the &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; as shown in the title bar?  If so, I agree with the change but again think it should go further.  At the moment, the title bar of the main site reads as follows for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Recently Active Questions - TeX - LaTeX - StackExchange - Mozilla Firefox&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the dashes are simply daft.  I think I'd go for something like &quot;TeX at StackExchange&quot;, the idea being that it makes it clear what is the topic and where it is hosted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only bit of the FAQ that I could find was the first part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX! TeX.SX is for enthusiastic users of TeX, LaTeX and related systems, people who love to create well-structured and beautifully typeset documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;, LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; could easily be removed here.  It is mentioned in the first bullet point following so there is no danger of missing it.  If we really have to get rid of the &lt;code&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/code&gt; (why?) then make it an actual name in the first instance and in the second use a referral back to the first (with apologies to Alan Munn for incorrect usage of grammatical terms), such as &quot;Welcome to the TeX site at StackExchange!  This site is for ...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;strongly&lt;/em&gt; prefer &quot;TeX-SX&quot; to &quot;TeX.SE&quot; (note the punctuation) and &quot;TeX.SX&quot; is acceptable.  I'd rather annoy random other StackExchange users than the Swedes.  However, as this has brought it to my attention, I'd rather make the essential details of the site clear right at the outset: that it is about TeX and is hosted on the StackExchange network.  Someone visiting the FAQ is more likely to be completely new to the SE network than just visiting from some other site.  All of &quot;TeX-SX&quot;, &quot;TeX.SX&quot; (is it some new variety of &quot;FX&quot;?), and &quot;TeX.SE&quot; (what has Sweden ever done to you?), are unclear on first sight (and site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T08:32:14.377" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2245" CreationDate="2012-02-14T09:29:26.627" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackprinter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Printer&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/179/stackprinter-the-stack-exchange-printer-suite&quot;&gt;community project&lt;/a&gt; ran on Google Apps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interface should be self-explanatory, and you get a printer-friendly HTML of the question that you can print to paper or to an electronic format from your browser. See how the Cthulhu question &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackprinter.com/export?question=29402&amp;amp;service=tex.stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;looks like&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kZhWS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Images and links are preserved as they are, as is code formatting. One might argue that the spacing makes the text hard to read (at least on my 22'' monitor), but not something a smattering of CSS magic can't cure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T09:29:26.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2291" CreationDate="2012-02-14T11:37:33.037" Score="10" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the FAQ has a list of things to ask about that reads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;TeX or any of its descendants like LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;TeX distributions like TeX Live, MiKTeX, or MacTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;(La)TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, viewers, and converters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the first line does not really make sense, as it mixes up formats (LaTeX, ConTeXt) with engines (XeTeX, LuaTeX). We clearly want to be open to all, while at the same time recognising that for a lot of end users 'LaTeX' is a term they know, while 'TeX' is not so clear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd like suggestions for an improved FAQ list which is better in terms of the detail but at the same time is still accessible. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-02-15T19:14:15.453" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T19:14:15.453" Title="The FAQ list of topics" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2290" CreationDate="2012-02-14T12:14:14.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we are already distinguishing distributions, we might as well separate engines/formats without introducing too much &quot;noise&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;TeX or any of its formats like LaTeX, ConTeXt and plain-tex&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;TeX engines like XeTeX, LuaTeX and pdfTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;TeX distributions like TeX Live, MiKTeX, and MacTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, viewers, and converters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could take out some of the repetition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Formats like LaTeX, ConTeXt and plain-tex&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Engines like pdfTeX, LuaTeX and XeTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Distributions like TeX Live, MiKTeX, and MacTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Related software and tools ... (etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T12:14:14.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2290" CreationDate="2012-02-14T12:21:57.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it already assumes some (minimum) expertise in the respective areas and I don't think it would do much good for the absolute new-beginners (who are from the kind of audience that FAQ targets) since the difference between distribution and an engine is also quite confusing for the novice level. I still encounter users that think TeXnicCenter is the TeX itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My humble suggestion (with my horrible English) would be including some hints in the sentences such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX Stack Exchange! This site is for enthusiastic users of TeX and related systems, people who love to create well-structured and beautifully typeset documents. If you have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to compile your document with different engines such as plain TeX or its relatives LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt, and even about the differences between them,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to obtain customized collections of packages such as TeX Live, MiKTeX, or MacTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to use bibliographical tools that work with (La)TeX like BibTeX, BibLaTeX and other convenient bibliography editors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to write or modify your own (La)TeX files with LyX, LaTeX editors, viewers, and converters like TeXnicCenter, WinEdt, Vim, Emacs, TeXWorks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... then you're in the right place to ask your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T12:21:57.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-14T18:22:45.637" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1705/someuser-tag-removed-from-comment&quot;&gt;@SomeUser tag removed from comment&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please why does this site drop &lt;em&gt;@OP&lt;/em&gt; in comments meant for 'OP'? If I write '@user01: ...', the part '@user01' is always dropped by the site. Can't the behaviour be made unpredictable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="994" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T18:22:45.637" Title="'@OP' is always dropped by this site" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-02-14T22:17:42.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2247" CreationDate="2012-02-15T05:57:48.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way to do this right now is by tag: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=fonts&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=fonts&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can combine multiple tags as described &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that sufficient for what you are trying to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T05:57:48.767" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-02-15T07:55:31.547" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can TeXample.net do for TeX Stack Exchange?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A banner on the main page and on the TikZ page, meaning: if you have questions about TikZ, go to TeX Stack Exchange to get an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The TeXample TikZ gallery collects examples from TeX.SE and links prominently here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The TeXample site lists TikZ question snippets from TeX.SE, via a tag feed collector, driving TikZ users to TeX Stack Exchange. A preview of this is implemented, with a set of older questions:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.texample.net/tikz/questions/&lt;/a&gt; visible on the main page and the TikZ page, implemented in navigation and design.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/community/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Community Aggregator&lt;/a&gt; shows the TeX Stack Exchange blog entries.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/weblog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Weblog&lt;/a&gt; would write about this partnership and could further report about topics on TeX Stack Exchange.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeXample.net &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#!/TeXgallery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;started with Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. Just 29 tweets, and already more than 200 followers, continually growing. It already tweeted about TikZ on TeX Stack Exchange, and it could do again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXblog.net&lt;/a&gt; will possibly migrate to the same server. It has frequently &lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex/tex-stackexchange/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;written about TeX Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and would continue doing that. It's not by accident that I got 9 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/59/publicist&quot;&gt;Publicist&lt;/a&gt; badges for more than 1000 unique views, 16 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/58/booster&quot;&gt;Booster&lt;/a&gt; and 48 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/57/announcer&quot;&gt;Announcer&lt;/a&gt; badges, I just tell you that to explain that we could outreach.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further suggestions are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What could Stack Exchange do for TeXample.net?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Exchange could sponsor the hosting fee of the web server.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T07:55:31.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-15T12:52:55.923" Score="9" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are technically two different issues, but they're not too big of a deal so I'm putting them in the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status quo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/braces/info&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xXZmZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;braces tag wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;1. Size of &lt;em&gt;About {braces}&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the font size of &lt;em&gt;{braces}&lt;/em&gt; be adapted to be the same as the one of &lt;em&gt;About&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2. Position of &lt;em&gt;show excerpt&lt;/em&gt; link.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be new to me that the tag wiki excerpt is not shown by default. This is quite interesting because it implies that the (long) tag wiki should contain all the information given in the excerpt, partially answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1717/4012&quot;&gt;Discussion about tag-wiki policies&lt;/a&gt;. But that's just a side comment, I'd actually like to suggest to &lt;strong&gt;move the &lt;em&gt;show excerpt&lt;/em&gt; to the place where the excerpt is going to be shown&lt;/strong&gt;, i.e. in between &lt;em&gt;About {braces}&lt;/em&gt;  and &lt;em&gt;These are characters ...&lt;/em&gt;. It just seems more natural and it would de-clutter the three-link area down there, in which it is kind of hard to tell on the first glance where one link ends and where the next one starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T16:28:54.100" Title="Font size and &quot;show excerpt&quot; link in tag wiki pages" Tags="|feature-request|bug|design|tagwiki|fonts|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1717" CreationDate="2012-02-15T12:59:00.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll give it a shot and answer the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;1.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't use back ticks in tag wiki excerpts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The status quo has changed since the creation of this question: Now, the excerpt is not shown by default on the tag wiki page. Hence, it'd be good if the tag wiki contained the information given in the excerpt as well. After all, that's what an excerpt is: a condensed selection of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;3.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's ok to copy package descriptions from CTAN, just make it clear what's quoted and from where.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T12:59:00.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-15T14:00:14.583" Score="8" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;2&lt;/em&gt; on the review page is hardly visible. Even though a disabled/grayed out look might be desired (because I couldn't actually review these suggested edits), this is just illegible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B720Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;illegible number 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Using Safari 5.1.2 on Windows 7)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related question on gaming.sx: &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1809/hot-brown-on-brown-action-in-review&quot;&gt;Hot brown on brown action in /review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:43:43.977" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T14:00:14.583" Title="Change the color of the number of suggested edits" Tags="|feature-request|design|suggested-edits|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-02-15T16:22:23.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you could integrate &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com&lt;/a&gt; as well to provide a place for all the wonderful tikz-enhancements nobody finds in the www. That's what the folks of jquery planned to do with their plugin site, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/08/what-is-happening-to-the-jquery-plugins-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/08/what-is-happening-to-the-jquery-plugins-site/&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11439" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T16:22:23.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2301" CreationDate="2012-02-16T03:52:18.117" Score="14" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/44013/5764&quot;&gt;APA6 Class - Single-spaced Tables for Manuscript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CKGbX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of tags, it lists under &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;line-spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;line-spacing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apa6&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apa6&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apa6&lt;/a&gt; in that specific rank order (as seen on the RHS). The title bar (when viewed from within Google Chrome) displays&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DMrqH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;suggesting that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; tag is somehow important. What is the motivation behind choosing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; above the other three? Obviously it's not alphabetical (due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apa6&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apa6&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apa6&lt;/a&gt;) nor based on rank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T07:22:50.753" Title="Tag choice displayed in browser title bar" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2300" CreationDate="2012-02-16T07:22:50.753" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most popular tag, which means the tag with the most questions, is added to the title, for SEO reasons. If the tag is already contained in the question title, it's omitted and the next one is chosen - better than repeating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the case here: the most popular tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; is already part of the title (as apa6 too), so the next one in rank is chosen: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions on meta.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71922/why-is-the-first-tag-sometimes-in-the-title-tag-of-some-questions&quot;&gt;Why is the first tag sometimes in the  tag of some questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72692/which-tag-is-added-to-the-page-title&quot;&gt;Which tag is added to the page title?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T07:22:50.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-02-17T19:53:07.100" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support your idea entirely and would suggest that &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt; remains as a repository of excellent graphic designs by TikZ and centralize the questions only to tex.stackexchange.com by probably placing a link on each example provide back to this site. Probably the logo for &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; would suffice. I may even add a login on TeXample.net for stackexchange users so that if they have a question on anything they use, the can just be redirected here in the &lt;code&gt;Ask a question&lt;/code&gt; section. Likewise, I would greatly want to see the applications of TikZ from this website being shared more often in TeXample.net. For example, in one of my last questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/44673/10898&quot;&gt;Sieve of Eratosthenes in tikz&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;many users provided excellent mastery of TikZ. Its really amazing. Of course these are just suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T06:32:56.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2280" CreationDate="2012-02-18T14:53:55.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-writing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentclass-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentclass-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentclass-writing&lt;/a&gt; are similar enough to be merged into a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/class-package-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;class-package-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;class-package-writing&lt;/a&gt; tag (named as suggested by doncherry), vote up this answer. If you think two separate tags are better, vote up Alan Munn's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T14:53:55.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-02-19T09:35:26.607" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;What can TeXample.net do for TeX Stack Exchange and Vice Versa? -&gt; tags/categories mapping between pages&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeXample.net has very nice categorisation :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that subcategories can link to TeX.SE tags sets to show questions related with given subtopic (I assume that each subcategory can be referenced to intersection of TeX.SE tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While browsing related tags on TeX.SE site could recommend subcategories on TeXample.net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On both pages suggestions can be put:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on top - if implementation of one-three links is possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on side - if implementation of mapping one-to-many is the only choice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest to try to create mapping for each site with mapping one-to-{one...three} sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7128" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T09:35:26.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T17:33:30.843" Score="14" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5959/cool-text-highlighting-in-latex&quot;&gt;Cool Text Highlighting in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlighting text as if it were done with a text marker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IkdBT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T17:33:30.843" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T17:33:30.843" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T17:42:46.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42598/how-can-i-draw-a-cake-using-tikz&quot;&gt;How can I draw a cake using TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proof that you can do everything with TikZ, even the invitations for the birthday party of your children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kxGt5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T17:42:46.497" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T17:42:46.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T17:46:46.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31548/drawing-simple-3d-cylinders-in-tikz&quot;&gt;Drawing simple 3D cylinders in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing cylinders correctly, independant of the orientation of the coordinate axes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o33ZD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T17:46:46.223" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T17:46:46.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T17:57:03.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29725/putting-a-timeline-for-dates-in-moderncv&quot;&gt;Putting a timeline for dates in moderncv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding progressbar-like timelines to your CV. Available as a package: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/moderntimeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;moderntimeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gn2pI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T17:57:03.617" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T17:57:03.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:00:59.013" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17031/topological-quantum-field-theory-diagrams-with-pstricks-or-tikz&quot;&gt;Topological Quantum Field Theory diagrams with pstricks or tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing diagrams about topological quantum field theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VKliX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:00:59.013" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:00:59.013" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:03:33.037" Score="19" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13933/drawing-mechanical-systems-in-latex&quot;&gt;Drawing Mechanical Systems in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easily drawing draw masses, springs, dampers and grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkYzp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:03:33.037" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:03:33.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:08:52.657" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37707/triangular-numbers-in-tikz&quot;&gt;Triangular numbers in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing a number of spheres perfectly aligned in a triangle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xdCBS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:08:52.657" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:08:52.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:15:15.833" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32077/drawing-a-circle-on-a-non-xy-plane-with-tikz&quot;&gt;Drawing a circle on a non xy-plane with TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing perspectively correct circles on non-xy planes without worrying about the actual transformation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D47oE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:15:15.833" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:15:15.833" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:19:07.143" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34302/surface-of-revolution&quot;&gt;Surface of Revolution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing the surface created by rotating a curve around an axis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aA7rc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:19:07.143" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:19:07.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:22:19.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36856/tikz-multi-color-double-circle-node&quot;&gt;TikZ - multi-color double circle node&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing nodes with a double circular border, connectable by both circles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Wfck.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:22:19.247" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:22:19.247" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:25:31.537" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42342/how-to-change-the-line-width-of-the-lines-connecting-spies-and-the-spied-region&quot;&gt;How to change the line width of the lines connecting spies and the spied region&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;influencing both the line conncting the spy and the spied region, as well as the border of the spied region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tck1m.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:25:31.537" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:25:31.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:28:44.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36352/spirograph-continuous-rotations-in-tikz-or-pstricks&quot;&gt;Spirograph, Continuous Rotations in TikZ or PSTricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing rotatinally symmetric objects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CQbhz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bSTgR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:28:44.327" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:28:44.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:34:46.567" Score="15" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44673/sieve-of-eratosthenes-in-tikz&quot;&gt;Sieve of Eratosthenes in tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Showing how to find prime numbers by successively eliminating multiples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eP5MQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LyOvl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:34:46.567" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:34:46.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:37:13.350" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39149/how-can-we-draw-a-christmas-tree-with-decorations-using-tikz&quot;&gt;How can we draw a Christmas tree with decorations, using TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing a decorated christmas tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KlbFs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O67vB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:37:13.350" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:37:13.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-19T18:39:35.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39485/how-can-we-display-fireworks&quot;&gt;How can we display fireworks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawing fireworks explosions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cQxlY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R4EKv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T18:39:35.860" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-19T18:39:35.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-02-21T07:03:44.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32297/modify-tikz-coil-decoration/43605#43605&quot;&gt;Modify TikZ coil decoration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separates the coil decoration in two - one that goes up and an other that goes down. This can be used to draw coils that wraps around e.g a cylinder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jyesy.png&quot; alt=&quot;coil wrap&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that TikZ would benefit from a highlevel way to modify existing decorations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-02-21T07:03:44.483" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-21T07:03:44.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-21T20:19:06.870" Score="4" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that most people have a preamble that includes packages, and comments that make sense for the person who is writing the document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{⟨package⟩} %⟨comment⟩&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but maybe the comment is too personal to be understood by others e.g. written in non-English language, using non-standard abbreviations, or the focus is on the package cooperation with other used packages, ... - or plain wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it makes sense to define a standard &lt;code&gt;⟨comment⟩&lt;/code&gt; string to be used with each &lt;code&gt;⟨package⟩&lt;/code&gt;? So that people could(should?) write that comment in their documents. -it could also be used as an automatic hover text here on TeX.sx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be implemented by writing the string in the package documentation (with special formatting for easy reference), and encourage people to copy and paste into their source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8650" LastEditorUserId="8650" LastEditDate="2012-02-21T21:39:36.710" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T06:15:19.053" Title="Standard comment for packages in preamble" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2282" CreationDate="2012-02-22T13:12:28.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Syntax highlighting is provided, when available (not all sites are enabled), by &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;google-code-prettify&lt;/a&gt;, and is thus limited to the languages handled by this highlighter. I bumped into the problem myself recently when writing up &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/q/8917/10964&quot;&gt;a Fortran 95 code question on another SE&lt;/a&gt;. If you add the necessary code to do this highlighting to prettify, then the chances are that it will eventually filter through to here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think that this is necessary, and mixing languages will probably be hard to implement. If you are happy to separate lua code and LaTeX, it is be possible to force the lua code to be properly highlighted using the line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-lua --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;above the code, unindented. As syntax highlighting is not available on this meta site, here is an example of it working:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FhV8q.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:07.587" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T18:07:35.167" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2325" CreationDate="2012-02-22T13:47:19.567" Score="6" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/accepted-answer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accepted-answer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accepted-answer&lt;/a&gt; be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/accepting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accepting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accepting&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that they are too similar too be told apart and, thus, should be synonyms. The only topic relating to accepting answers that is useful to keep apart from it seems to be accept rate (for which there is no tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it matters, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/accepted-answer/synonyms&quot;&gt;they are synonyms on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:19.567" LastActivityDate="2012-02-24T12:54:24.333" Title="Should {accepted-answer} be a synonym of {accepting}?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2324" CreationDate="2012-02-22T15:04:03.673" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T15:04:03.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-23T12:25:34.217" Score="4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; wiki reads at the moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; is about the &lt;code&gt;tabular&lt;/code&gt; environment and related packages&#xA;  such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/array&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;array&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;array&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/booktabs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;booktabs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;booktabs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabularx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabularx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabularx&lt;/a&gt; and&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/longtable&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;longtable&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;longtable&lt;/a&gt;. For questions about the &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; environment (i.e.,&#xA;  about floating or positioning), use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are many packages that extend the basic functionality of the&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;tabular&lt;/code&gt; environment. A good overview of packages (and package&#xA;  conflicts) can be found in&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12672/which-tabular-packages-do-which-tasks-and-which-packages-conflict/12673#12673&quot;&gt;Which tabular packages do which tasks and which packages conflict?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question involves one of these specific packages (or another&#xA;  tabular package not listed), you should add a tag for that package as&#xA;  well as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a LaTeX-specific wiki as it stands. All of the above relate to horizontal alignment. I think I've always tagged &lt;code&gt;\halign&lt;/code&gt; questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt;, and so was wondering what purpose does the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; tag represent since it outrules &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; (for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt;), and isn't specifically about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt; (since its name is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; and not &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt;).  On the one hand, &lt;code&gt;\halign&lt;/code&gt; questions could be in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; just as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; could be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt;. It should be noted that &lt;code&gt;tabular&lt;/code&gt; uses &lt;code&gt;\halign&lt;/code&gt; internally, and &lt;code&gt;\halign&lt;/code&gt; comes from “horizontal alignment”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me it would seem logical if &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; was a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt;, and for actual &lt;code&gt;tabular&lt;/code&gt; questions there would be a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt;, I find the current wiki rather confusing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt; is about aligning document elements horizontally, e.g. typesetting paragraphs using &lt;code&gt;\centering&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\raggedright&lt;/code&gt; or adjusting the horizontal position of several equation or table components. If your question is generally about (horizontal) white space, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spacing&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;, because, as I understand, neither &lt;code&gt;\centering&lt;/code&gt;, nor &lt;code&gt;\raggedright&lt;/code&gt; actually &lt;strong&gt;align&lt;/strong&gt; anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe those two could fit into a tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paragraph-shape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paragraph-shape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paragraph-shape&lt;/a&gt; or similar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T18:34:42.203" Title="Tagapalooza: {tables} and {horizontal-align}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2327" CreationDate="2012-02-23T18:34:42.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; isn't called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabular&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabular&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt; because it also covers questions about similar environments like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabularx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabularx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabularx&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tabulary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tabulary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tabulary&lt;/a&gt;. The tag is about aligning table elements, but also about spacing, adding captions and rules, dealing with multi-column and multi-row areas etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\raggedright&lt;/code&gt; is about aligning paragraphs to the left margin of the text block. An alternative name for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horizontal-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horizontal-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horizontal-alignment&lt;/a&gt; would have been &quot;justification&quot;, but the former name corresponds to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertical-alignment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertical-alignment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertical-alignment&lt;/a&gt; (which is, e.g., about &lt;code&gt;\raggedbottom&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T18:34:42.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2329" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-24T10:09:55.050" Score="6" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have suggested a tag synonym in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/asking-questions/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/asking-questions/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;. The suggestion is shown as &quot;pending (0)&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I9GTx.png&quot; alt=&quot;It is shown in the overview of tag synonym&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I filter for suggested tag synonyms &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?filter=suggested&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?filter=suggested&lt;/a&gt; it is not shown, the list is empty. I just got another tag synonym accepted and it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; shown in the suggested filter for tag synonyms so there seems to be some inconsistency. The strange thing is that it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; empty when I am logged out. Other Stack Exchange sites seems to behave the same. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using Firefox 10.0.2 and I have tried &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;F5&lt;/kbd&gt; to refresh the page and it is still empty. I get the same behavior in Firefox 11.0 and Chromium 16.0.912.77 and 17.0.963.79. I have also tried to visit it in safe mode and it is still empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I view the HTML source for the relevant table in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?filter=suggested&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?filter=suggested&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;logged in&lt;/strong&gt; I see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table id=&quot;synonyms-table&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;thead&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th&amp;gt;Master&amp;lt;span class=&quot;fr arrow&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;larr;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th&amp;gt;Synonym&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th class=&quot;creator&quot;&amp;gt;Creator&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th class=&quot;rename-count&quot;&amp;gt;Renames&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th&amp;gt;Last&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/thead&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I view the HTML source for the same table &lt;strong&gt;logged out&lt;/strong&gt; I see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table id=&quot;synonyms-table&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;thead&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th&amp;gt;Master&amp;lt;span class=&quot;fr arrow&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;larr;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th&amp;gt;Synonym&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th class=&quot;creator&quot;&amp;gt;Creator&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th class=&quot;rename-count&quot;&amp;gt;Renames&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th&amp;gt;Last&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;th&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/th&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/thead&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;tr class=&quot;synonym-10&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/tags/asking-questions/synonyms&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;synonyms for'asking-questions'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&amp;gt;asking-questions&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;span class=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;span class=&quot;item-multiplier&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;times;&amp;amp;nbsp;8&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; &#xA;    &amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'questions'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&amp;gt;questions&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;span class=&quot;dim&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;span class=&quot;item-multiplier&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;times;&amp;amp;nbsp;2&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td class=&quot;creator&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users/5701/n-n&quot;&amp;gt;N.N.&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;span title=&quot;2012-02-22 16:55:49Z&quot; class=&quot;relativetime&quot;&amp;gt;1d ago&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td class=&quot;rename-count&quot;&amp;gt;0&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;        &amp;lt;td class=&quot;pending&quot;&amp;gt;pending &amp;lt;span title=&quot;total score&quot;&amp;gt;(0)&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clearly shows why I do not see any contents in the table when logged in and why I see it when logged out. But why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T13:43:03.730" Title="Suggested tag synonym is not shown in the suggested filter when logged in" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2331" CreationDate="2012-02-24T21:09:11.050" Score="15" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was tempted to ask this on the main site, since there has been many such questions I've come across, but thought I'd ask here first. Here are some questions dealing with fonts (some answered successfully, some closed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11353/5764&quot;&gt;What is the font in this document?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/18624/5764&quot;&gt;What fonts does this article use?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/26774/5764&quot;&gt;What font is this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/28426/5764&quot;&gt;How do I find out what font is used in this picture/text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40615/5764&quot;&gt;Name of the font&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/43790/5764&quot;&gt;Canadian Journal of Mathematics Style &amp;amp; Font&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45683/5764&quot;&gt;What font/style is this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question echoes @doncherry's comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/28426/5764&quot;&gt;How do I find out what font is used in this picture/text&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we have a one-answers-all question &quot;How do I find out what font&#xA;  is used in this picture/text&quot;? (Unless there already is one)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main question would be whether this is on-topic or not. Answers would describe general ways of obtaining font information, from websites or other means (like &lt;code&gt;pdffonts&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;This has been asked on the main site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45919/5764&quot;&gt;How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-08-15T17:11:03.513" Title="Should we post a catch-all question answering &quot;What's this font?&quot; on TeX.SX?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|duplicates|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2330" CreationDate="2012-02-24T23:43:03.873" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think we really should have such a question. Having a big thread which explains all the ways how to identify the font would be greatly beneficial. Note that while the general question &quot;How to identify the fonts of this document&quot; is clearly on-topic (IMHO), questions like &quot;What's the font(s) of that specific document?&quot; are actually &quot;too localized&quot;, because basically no one else will need that information except the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-02-24T23:43:03.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2330" CreationDate="2012-02-25T00:49:09.767" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you do, make sure to mention &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-identification&quot;&gt;the font-identificaton tag on graphicdesign.sx&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:19.490" LastActivityDate="2012-02-25T00:49:09.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2334" CreationDate="2012-02-26T15:19:37.640" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1794/different-formatting-for-certain-questions&quot;&gt;Different formatting for certain questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I see post entries colored in dim red on the main page, as show below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZ6YM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the coloring mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link to the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45520/doing-an-interlinear-text&quot;&gt;Doing an interlinear text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-02-26T15:41:26.227" Title="What do these red-colored post entries mean?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-02-26T17:40:49.773" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2333" CreationDate="2012-02-26T15:41:26.227" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at this question on MSO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/22184/176533&quot;&gt;What do the colors on Stack Overflow mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that question contains one of your &lt;em&gt;favorited&lt;/em&gt; tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-02-26T15:41:26.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2336" CreationDate="2012-02-27T01:22:26.070" Score="9" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I can phrase this other than as &quot;why is my most popular question so popular?&quot; but I am genuinely curious as to how I can get first the Popular Question badge and then, within an hour, the Notable Question badge for my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45183/latex3-versus-pure-lua&quot;&gt;LaTeX3 versus pure Lua&lt;/a&gt;.  I remember checking after getting the first one; it had about 1045 views.  Now it has more than 2600 (which is in turn about 50 more than it has a few minutes ago when I got the badge).  Did it get linked somewhere?  Granted that it's a popular question; it's been relatively stable for most of the last week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T20:18:58.960" Title="How did this question get 1500 views in one hour?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2335" CreationDate="2012-02-27T02:14:10.443" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least two contributions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; received the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/59/publicist?userid=213&quot;&gt;gold Publicist badge&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses&quot;) as a result of posting it (somewhere).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was also &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#!/StackTeX/status/171830094120226817&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tweeted to the Stack Exchange Twitter account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T20:15:21.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2335" CreationDate="2012-02-27T07:07:50.830" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637023&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;posted to Hackernews&lt;/a&gt;, which can easily drive that kind of traffic if you make it to the frontpage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6222" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T07:07:50.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2330" CreationDate="2012-02-27T07:51:30.630" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add that I consider &quot;What is this font?&quot; questions to be definitely &lt;em&gt;off topic&lt;/em&gt;.  However, given that we keep getting asked them (with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45908/86&quot;&gt;Font used in mathematical papers in Elsevier journals&lt;/a&gt; as the latest and greatest) then a single catch-all that others can be closed as duplicates of is better than a continual drip, drip, drip of these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T07:51:30.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2340" CreationDate="2012-02-27T10:47:21.643" Score="5" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently making a table in LaTeX. I also received great help from asking two questions on the site but I forgot to add a parameter to the table so now I basically have to re-make it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could just add the parameter, but I'm fond of nice-looking things (and hard challenges eheh), so I couldn't help making it harder than it could have been; my mind forced me to re-organize everything and provide the best organization for a lot of information in a single table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a solution. I might find it as soon as I post this question (eheh) but I wanted to know if it would be on topic and OK for me to ask a question looking for suggestions about a table layout. Something along the lines of &quot;How can I organize it the best way?&quot; (more or less).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a site policy for this particular issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T19:39:27.933" Title="Is it OK to ask for suggestions concerning a table layout?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2339" CreationDate="2012-02-27T12:23:39.437" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question would be ontopic if you would ask like &quot;How can I structure it in the best way using LaTeX&quot; or similar. Besides being ontopic, try to be not too vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the question and answers could deal with general suggestions for table improvement, your table serving just as example. Otherwise it's possible that the question would be &quot;too localized&quot; and perhaps it would be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T12:23:39.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2339" CreationDate="2012-02-27T19:39:27.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO this is o.k. on tex.sx, but it would probably get better input on &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;graphicdesign.sx&lt;/a&gt;. If you are more interested on better code, there's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;codereview.sx&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:19.490" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T19:39:27.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2349" CreationDate="2012-03-01T20:06:59.197" Score="11" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions or new users are often migrated to TeX.SX from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; (SO). We try to support their account mergers via the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/5764&quot;&gt;Text Building Blocks&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Migrated questions/answers/users&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.sx!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx) Your question was migrated here from another stackexchange site. Please register on this site, too, and make sure that both accounts are associated with each other, otherwise you won't be able to comment on or accept answers or edit your question.&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.sx!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx) Your answer was migrated here from another stackexchange site. Please register on this site, too, and make sure that both accounts are associated with each other, otherwise you won't be able to comment on or edit your answer.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make the comment more personal, you can replace &lt;code&gt;another stackexchange site&lt;/code&gt; with the respective link, i.e. &lt;code&gt;[so]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[su]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[sf]&lt;/code&gt; for the &lt;em&gt;big three&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[something.se]&lt;/code&gt; for everything else, e.g. &lt;code&gt;[ubuntu.se]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, often times there is confusion and they end up creating a new (separate) account on TeX.SX from their original (say) SO account. If this is the case, how can we facilitate them to have their account merged or make suggestions as to achieve this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a hypothetical scenario: Assume UserX has an account with SO and the question is merged to TeX.SX. They create a new account UserY. Should we suggest UserY merges the TeX.SX account with SO and then flag it for moderator attention on SO to merge UserY with UserX? Would that solve the problem? Is not, what's the best way to make a suggestion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-03-04T01:30:53.063" Title="Suggestions for account merging across StackExchange network" Tags="|support|migration|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2345" CreationDate="2012-03-02T03:44:30.907" Score="8" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several days ago my reputation point was about 440 in total, but now it becomes 409. I haven't offered any bounty. Where is the missing point now? Could you help me to investigate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T04:17:31.867" Title="I lost my reputation point of about 40. Why?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2344" CreationDate="2012-03-02T04:17:31.867" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your reputation was recalculated as part of a change made to help keep reputation up-to-date. In the past, reputation gained from votes on posts was not immediately removed if the post was deleted - this should happen much more quickly in the future. For details, see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123319/upcoming-reputation-history-changes&quot;&gt;Recent Reputation History Changes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T04:17:31.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2258" CreationDate="2012-03-03T02:29:52.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go, have a talk on labeling letters and the creation of photo albums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7615" LastActivityDate="2012-03-03T02:29:52.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-03T10:22:37.053" Score="41" ViewCount="963" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've already asked about a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1948/disappearing-reputation&quot;&gt;similar situation&lt;/a&gt;, but this time the figures involved seem to be quite exaggerated: on my reputation page the following item appears:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-4360 Serial upvoting reversed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other time the nullified votes were 63, this time 436, which is what a user can vote in &lt;em&gt;eleven&lt;/em&gt; days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand that StackExchange doesn't want to disclose how they keep track of suspicious serial voting, but in this case something seem to have gone wrong. I see only one of the following possibilities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a user has serially voted for 11 days without the script noticing it;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;two users have serially voted for 5 days without the script noticing it;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more than two users have serially voted in the same time frame.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of them seems likely. Are there other possibilities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this hasn't had any impact on my reputation, since the nullified votes have in most cases been replaced by valid votes that hadn't contributed to the reputation because of the cap. The question is general: this possible bug may have heavy impact on other user's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add some data. My current number of answers is 1773 in 347 days, which gives an average of 5.1 answers per day. So the suspected serial voter can't vote more than 5 answers a day, which means 87 days. Assuming four serial voters that act every day, this means 22 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another hypothesis is that, when a serial vote is detected, &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; votes from that user to the target are nullified. This is absurd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that many users upvote almost all my answers. Does this qualify as &quot;serial voting&quot;? Is this the case? If it is, the algorithm is flawed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation graph is clearly wrong and surely offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; lose 4015 rep points on March 2 as the graph seems to imply. The new system takes care not to show lost reputation for deleted answers, while, to the contrary, in my case it shows utterly wrong data. On March 2 I indeed got 345 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand that StackExchange nullifies some upvotes because of suspect serial voting (which is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; my case, but it's only my opinion); I can't understand why such a big &lt;em&gt;non loss&lt;/em&gt; of reputation is gigantically exposed for all to see, when I did &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; wrong (I have received &lt;em&gt;six&lt;/em&gt; downvotes and have 1798 answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-03-21T02:29:01.250" Title="Serial upvoting reversed" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2343" CreationDate="2012-03-04T01:30:53.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest thing to do would be to amend your blurbs to specify that they should register with the same openid credentials as what they use on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if they were unregistered on SO as well, they'd have to register there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastActivityDate="2012-03-04T01:30:53.063" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2357" CreationDate="2012-03-05T06:31:42.153" Score="10" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;For comments on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41342/how-to-fake-mid-caps-with-latex-i-e-how-to-stretch-characters-of-a-font#comment96050_41342&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I followed the link suggestion to continue the conversation in chat.  Now the conversation has vanished leaving a dead link.  Is this normal (i.e. continuing in chat should only be used for temporary short-lived discussions), and if so, how long will the chats remain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6903" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T16:51:56.350" Title="Personal chat room has vanished" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4221" CreationDate="2012-03-06T13:33:51.593" Score="13" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I got to exactly 5000 reputation points. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges page&lt;/a&gt;, this should give me the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;approve or reject tag wiki edits&lt;/a&gt;, which was confirmed with &quot;you have already earned this privilege&quot; in the popup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GCaMs.png&quot; alt=&quot;privileges page with &amp;quot;approve tag wiki edits&amp;quot; tooltip&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, obviously I didn't receive the privilege, as I still couldn't get access to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;suggested edits page&lt;/a&gt; (click on the image to see it full-size):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wavfK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wavfK.png&quot; alt=&quot;suggested edits page locked with 5000 reputation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted the temporary data and did a fresh log-on, so this shouldn't be a caching issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was immediately granted the privilege after having &lt;em&gt;more than&lt;/em&gt; 5000 reputation, so either the algorithm or the description of the privilege seems to be inaccurate: The privileges page suggested that I had already received it. Furthermore, the suggested edits page explicitly states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] When you have earned &lt;strong&gt;at least&lt;/strong&gt; 5000 reputation, you will receive the “approve tag wiki edits” privilege and will be allowed to view this page. [emphasis added]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T13:26:30.263" Title="&quot;Approve tag wikis&quot; privilege not granted with exactly 5000 reputation" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|privileges|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1220" CreationDate="2012-03-09T15:00:35.257" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/47394/86&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/47394/86&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shape is finished by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3144/altermundus&quot;&gt;Altermundus&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/7049/zeroth&quot;&gt;zeroth&lt;/a&gt; in the following answer :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/47484/3235&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/47484/3235&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Draw a Batman logo in TikZ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it into a node shape, with customisable colours, text inset into the bat, and anchors galore.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add logos of other superheros (bonus points for bananaman, supergran, and supertex)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-03-19T11:37:26.203" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-03-09T15:00:35.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2674" CreationDate="2012-03-12T12:59:53.097" Score="12" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges page&lt;/a&gt;, the list with the privilege stages on the right is all the way down, which shouldn't (and didn't use to) be the case. Clicking on some of the specific privilege stages didn't change anything, i.e. the list on the right always starts &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happens to me on Windows 7 with FF 10.0.2, Safari 5.1.2 and IE 9.0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hhhqB.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This problem prevails in FF 12.0 on Win 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T21:34:34.397" Title="List positioning wrong on privileges page" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|privileges-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-13T23:26:24.177" Score="18" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a problem when showing text of an answer comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47929/problem-defining-a-new-command-using-lstinputlisting#comment98786_47933&quot;&gt;my comment here&lt;/a&gt;, the text should read: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...  right, this is because of the &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;. For some reason ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the underscore is hidden by my username on the next line. It is a bit weird. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot by doncherry (Win 7 FF 10.0.2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CEYWb.png&quot; alt=&quot;half-hidden underscore&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot by Jonas (Win 7, Chrome 18)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FofgT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chrome 18&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10727" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T19:45:40.090" Title="Layout problem in comments" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|comments|fonts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2350" CreationDate="2012-03-14T02:14:31.333" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#retention&quot;&gt;Chat FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will these rooms exist forever?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person&#xA;  actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if&#xA;  it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rooms not worth retaining which are inactive for 7 days will be&#xA;  deleted. Rooms worth retaining which are inactive for 14 days will be&#xA;  frozen. Frozen rooms do not allow any new messages to be sent, and are&#xA;  not shown in the default room list to prevent cluttering the rooms&#xA;  interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like you and barbara beeton exchanged only 9 messages in that room, so it was deleted for inactivity 48 days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2012-03-14T13:04:03.157" LastActivityDate="2012-03-14T13:04:03.157" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1145" CreationDate="2012-03-17T17:08:24.873" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So this is the thread where you propse that something be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;? Then I'd like to propse &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1852/how-do-you-accept-an-answer&quot;&gt;How do you accept an answer?&lt;/a&gt; be tagged so. There are a number of users who have really low accepting rates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-03-17T21:13:03.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2360" CreationDate="2012-03-18T13:23:36.723" Score="27" ViewCount="2660" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at my reputation timeline graph and I wondered about a spike of 164 rep I'm sure wasn't there before. Upon looking it up, I found an entry &lt;em&gt;+100 : association bonus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2q6ml.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what this is awarded for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-03-18T13:45:05.207" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T13:45:05.207" Title="What is the association bonus?" Tags="|support|reputation|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2359" CreationDate="2012-03-18T13:33:59.613" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;You got +100 for associating your account with your account on another SE site. This is for getting users to connect their accounts in the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why you often can see users seeming to start with 101 rep, not just 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T13:33:59.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-18T19:21:58.110" Score="15" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 1670 questions in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; tag at time of writing.  There was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3869668#3869668&quot;&gt;suggestion in chat&lt;/a&gt; (and thereabouts) to have some subtags.  This &quot;question&quot; is to gather together some ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two major threads suggest themselves to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF derived packages&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several packages (or collections of packages) that have been built on top of TikZ/PGF.  I don't know them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PGFPlots (the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplots&lt;/a&gt; already exists)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TKZ suite (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tkz-collection&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tkz-collection&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tkz-collection&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tkz-fct&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tkz-fct&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tkz-fct&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tkz-graph&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tkz-graph&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tkz-graph&lt;/a&gt; already exists)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;TikZ/PGF common tasks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some tasks that crop up quite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decorating a path&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Manipulating a path (more low-level than decorations)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nodes and shapes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Transformations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I've certainly missed some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As usual, tags should add information to the question and not simply add a &quot;buzz-word&quot;.  While it may not be the case that a questioner knows what tags to add, it should be that when the tag is added, the questioner goes &quot;Oh, of course.  If I'd known that tag existed I'd've added it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add more suggestions, and comment whether or not you think this is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="586" LastEditDate="2012-03-19T07:34:25.703" LastActivityDate="2012-03-19T07:34:25.703" Title="Sub tags for TikZ/PGF" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2362" CreationDate="2012-03-18T19:29:49.633" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think is a great idea and one could also tap ideas from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/#tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/#tags&lt;/a&gt; as suggested by Stefan Kottwitz. Some tags which I would like to see is &lt;code&gt;pgfkeys&lt;/code&gt;,  &lt;code&gt;pgfmaths&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;foreach&lt;/code&gt; etc., and your list can be a good starting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T19:29:49.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2348" CreationDate="2012-03-21T02:28:48.177" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The large value shown was incorrect because it's calculated based on rep-change totals on the &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt; votes.  This is key because until today, rep changes (both to voter and target) were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; ever updated/fixed on deleted votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the latest revision of the rep code, we will update those deleted votes to have their values respect the rep cap, so their values and reversals will show the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; impact.  For example, you'll see your March 2nd entry shows the correct &lt;strong&gt;-30&lt;/strong&gt;, not an obscenely inaccurate number for that voting reversal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="740" LastActivityDate="2012-03-21T02:28:48.177" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2366" CreationDate="2012-03-21T06:43:43.343" Score="5" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question says it all? My quest led me to gravatar. But I am unable to insert a photo/picture of my choice and connect it to my TeX.SX account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I have uploaded a photo at gravatar.com and registered a primary e-mail address. When I log in to TeX.SX using that mail id, I expected that the image would come properly. But it is not happening. Some help here will be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-03-21T15:40:04.317" LastActivityDate="2012-03-22T03:06:43.357" Title="How to change/insert a picture/photo that appears besides my display name?" Tags="|support|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2365" CreationDate="2012-03-22T03:06:43.357" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To choose the Gravatar, the e-mail from your profile is taken (rather than the e-mail you use for login). So you need to make sure that the e-mail address in your profile and your Gravatar accounts match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I suppose this is done this way for two reasons: to give you more flexibility to change the e-mail address; and to make it work for everyone who uses an OpenID login.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-03-22T03:06:43.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2368" CreationDate="2012-03-22T13:58:43.553" Score="37" ViewCount="516" Body="&lt;p&gt;To begin with, this is not a real question, so probably it will soon be removed by our moderators, but I'm writing it anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The day after tomorrow will be one year since I registered to TeX.StackExchange. My profile page today says &quot;Visited 365 days, 365 consecutive&quot; (but this is a leap year), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14186/how-can-i-provide-a-verbatim-unescaped-commandline-for-executing-with-write18/14200#14200&quot;&gt;my first answer&lt;/a&gt; was on March 24, 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this year I've been quite active on the site and, judging from the results, this activity has pleased many members of the community: my current reputation count is 75018, which makes for an average of 205.5 reputation per day. I won't hide the fact that I'm quite proud of being the top user for reputation, but this wouldn't be without the continuous supply of interesting questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the main reason why it's nice to always have a browser window open on it is the warm and friendly atmosphere of the site. So I want to thank everybody for this wonderful year: our moderators Stefan Kottwitz, Martin Scharrer and Joseph Wright (a special thank to Joseph for his support in learning LaTeX3 secrets) and all the people who always contribute interesting questions and answers: I believe to have learned very much from the expertise of Herbert, Ulrike Fischer, Frank Mittelbach, David Carlisle, lockstep, Audrey, Jake, Werner, Alan Munn and Bruno Le Floch (to mention a few, I apologize for not being able to make a complete list), but also from the questions: as a mathematician I know that without problems to solve the knowledge doesn't improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course a special thank goes to Paulo Cereda, without whom the chat and the site wouldn't be as they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T20:07:33.197" Title="Some thoughts about TeX.StackExchange" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2367" CreationDate="2012-03-22T15:49:36.177" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh my, I really don't know what to say. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;TeX.sx&lt;/code&gt; wouldn't be the same without you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for sharing your knowlegde with the community. Thanks for sharing your wisdom. Thanks for making &lt;code&gt;TeX.sx&lt;/code&gt; a better place. Thanks for being here in every moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are a great friend. A true friend. Grazie mille, Enrico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vbh3u.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2012-03-22T15:49:36.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2370" CreationDate="2012-03-23T09:15:50.480" Score="14" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that newbies are more inclined to make small remarks than full answers. The actual privilege mechanism forces them to put as an answer what should be a comment, and then require a moderator to convert the answer in comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the rationale behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12571" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-03-23T09:56:22.870" LastActivityDate="2012-03-23T10:37:22.227" Title="Why does commenting require more reputation than answering?" Tags="|discussion|comments|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2369" CreationDate="2012-03-23T09:39:34.303" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the &quot;forces them&quot;. You shouldn't post a non-answer (that what we call, beside others, a comment posted as an answer) if you don't have enough reputation yet. This is meant as a protection mechanism to avoid spam or other unwanted comments. However, I see how this can be frustrating. Having a rep limit on posting answers would not make sense, because then you would be forced to get some rep by asking questions only, and there are a lot good people which post excellent answers but don't need to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting the required 50 rep should not be that difficult. That's 5 answer up-votes or 10 question up-votes. You should not have a problem getting these by posting 1-2 good answers. See this as a form of qualification test. This site (like all SE sites) simply targets at a higher quality than forums where everyone can usually post everywhere immediately. You should know that all reputation limits are given to us by the SE admins and we TeX.SE moderators don't have any direct influence on them. They are AFAIK the same on all sites, besides private-beta sites which have lower limits in order to seed the site with posts and tags etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you can always comment on your own questions and their answers. The 50 rep limit is only for commenting everywhere. Also if you have 200 rep (from where on you are taken as a full site member) or more on any stackexchange site you will get a bonus of 100 rep for every other stackexchange site account you create (however just once in total), so you will be able to comment there immediately. You basically just have to prove once that you have learned how SE sites work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-03-23T10:37:22.227" LastActivityDate="2012-03-23T10:37:22.227" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2377" CreationDate="2012-03-24T17:43:24.873" Score="15" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, there are 142 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt;, 26 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dashes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dashes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dashes&lt;/a&gt; (4 of them also featuring &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt;) and 9 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comma&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comma&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comma&lt;/a&gt; (5 of them also featuring &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt;). As &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dashes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dashes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dashes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comma&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comma&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comma&lt;/a&gt; seem to be just special cases of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt;, I suggest that the former tags should be made synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt; and that the existing questions/answers should be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-03-28T15:36:48.540" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T15:36:48.540" Title="Make {dashes} and {comma} synonyms of {punctuation}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2373" CreationDate="2012-03-24T22:57:04.427" Score="11" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/49317/how-to-do-grid-typesetting-with-amsmath&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; and decided to tag it &quot;grid-typesetting&quot;, having a vague feeling that the &quot;grids&quot; tag is not a best one here.  Soon lockstep edited it and changed &quot;grid-typesetting&quot; into &quot;grids&quot;.  While I'm fine with this, I decided to check whether my feeling was right, and I think yes: the &quot;grids&quot; tag is used both for graphical things (usually with tikz) connected e.g. with different coordinate systems &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; for grid typesetting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also an &quot;ltxgrid&quot; tag, but this is too narrow - &lt;code&gt;ltxgrid&lt;/code&gt; is probably not the only way to do grid typesetting in LaTeX, and there's ConTeXt, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: what do you think?  Is a &quot;grid-typesetting&quot; tag needed?  (If yes, I could look through the questions tagged &quot;grids&quot; - there are not too many of them - and retag them accordingly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5626" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-04-07T19:44:27.320" Title="Shouldn't the &quot;grids&quot; tag be split into, say &quot;grid-typesetting&quot; and &quot;grids&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2372" CreationDate="2012-03-24T23:32:04.540" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, grid typesetting &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; involve aligning things to a coordinate system (here: determined by &lt;code&gt;\baselineskip&lt;/code&gt;); on the other hand, it is a subject that calls for a distinct kind of expertise than &quot;programming&quot; diagrams with, say, TikZ. Based on the latter, I'm leaning towards a separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grid-typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grid-typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grid-typesetting&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: ienissei and I retagged 11 questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grid-typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grid-typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grid-typesetting&lt;/a&gt;; one question now features both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grid-typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grid-typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grid-typesetting&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grids&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-04-07T09:55:24.440" LastActivityDate="2012-04-07T09:55:24.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2380" CreationDate="2012-03-25T18:13:59.170" Score="12" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site &lt;a href=&quot;http://touchstack.com/tex.stackexchange/questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://touchstack.com/tex.stackexchange/questions&lt;/a&gt; seems to be reposting all our questions and answers (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://touchstack.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://touchstack.com&lt;/a&gt; seems to do it for the other Stack Exchange sites, too). I do not like this, but the real question is: Is that legal? (If it isn't: What can be done about it?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-03-27T19:58:59.183" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T19:58:59.183" Title="Is http://touchstack.com/tex.stackexchange/questions violating TeX.SE (or your) copyright?" Tags="|discussion|licensing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2013-02-03T16:50:30.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2374" CreationDate="2012-03-25T18:56:21.277" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;All posts on all stackexchange sites are under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC license&lt;/a&gt;, originally v2.something, now v3.0. This license allows to share and adapt the content freely. You accepting this license when posting things here. I don't think the stackexchange people have anything against this. They actually provide an API to access all posts and touchstack seems to use it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2478/touch-stack-smartphone-optimised-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/questions/2478/touch-stack-smartphone-optimised-stack-exchange&lt;/a&gt; this sites seems to target smartphones and simply provide all posts in an format optimised for them. So this is apparently a feature not a bug, aeh break of copyright. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2012-03-25T18:56:21.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2374" CreationDate="2012-03-25T18:57:33.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks pretty much legal to me, have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2478&quot;&gt;who's behind TouchStack&lt;/a&gt;. At least, it has been created through the SX web app system, and it looks ok with the moderators. One should also note that it does not seem to be importing the actual questions – more like, it seems to access them through Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding what is legal or not, all contributions to this site are subject to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Licence&lt;/a&gt;, which clearly states that anyone can copy and redistribute the work as long as they provide attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it does not seem to me that they are doing anything wrong from a legal point of view, although one could argue that they should make it plainer that it all comes from Stack Exchange sites (by providing back links and an info page, for instance)… but then again, it looks like that app is still very much in beta. You could ask the developer to provide such information, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10119" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2012-03-25T18:57:33.927" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2371" CreationDate="2012-03-25T22:56:40.683" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As my proposal gained a score larger than +10, I ask a moderator to implement it, i.e., to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dashes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dashes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dashes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comma&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comma&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comma&lt;/a&gt; synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/punctuation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;punctuation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt; and to merge the existing questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="6865" LastEditDate="2012-03-27T19:58:58.510" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T19:58:58.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2012-03-26T14:44:34.980" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the LaTeX part of this tools is mostly on-topic, but can be borderline in certain cases. However, how to install and run this tools is off-topic. In the case of MathJax this would be how to install them on a website and how to troubleshoot software errors etc. Such questions do clearly belong to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://webmasters.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://webmasters.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; or other SX site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should definitively write a statement for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathjax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathjax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathjax&lt;/a&gt; tag, which wiki is currently empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T14:44:34.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2012-03-26T15:29:01.853" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be worth pointing out that stackoverflow (but not currently webmasters) has an existing mathjax tag (Davide Cervone, the Mathjax lead developer seems to fairly actively monitor the S.O. mathjax tag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T15:29:01.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2374" CreationDate="2012-03-26T21:11:49.980" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'm very much in the wrong here. Touchstack was originally intended to be a smartphone web client for Stack Exchange sites (using the API), but I ended up rushing it out so I could show it to a few people. I posted it on Stack Apps as a work in progress, intending to update it over the next few days and bring in a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of features that were missing. It so happened attribution was one of the key things that was missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per life, I ended up moving onto other projects (amongst schoolwork, university application etc, arguably much more important) and completely forgot about Touchstack. Then SE mobile shipped, and any impetus I had for working on anything to do with Touchstack was long gone. Attribution was somewhere in a long list of forgotten updates for the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say, since an official version of mobile SE was released there is little-to-no point of Touchstack - it's just wasting Heroku's resources. I was going to leave it to rot once the domain expired in May, and so instead of updating it now, I'd rather just kill it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, I'm sorry for misusing your content without correct attribution. The issue will go away shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Also do check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Apps&lt;/a&gt; if you get some time, it's full of other cool things.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12999" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T21:11:49.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-28T09:18:27.627" Score="6" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we allow questions regarding the Typesetting language &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.charlietanksley.net/philtex/lout-an-alternative-to-latex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lout&lt;/a&gt; on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1574" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T09:22:29.583" Title="Do we allow questions about Lout?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2381" CreationDate="2012-03-28T09:22:29.583" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think so. This site is about TeX, LaTeX and related software, not other software which tries to do the same or similar things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However a question about how to convert Lout to LaTeX should be acceptable, but is already borderline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T09:22:29.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2384" CreationDate="2012-03-29T00:35:44.597" Score="22" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;When providing an MWE for questions, I usually use &lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&lt;/code&gt;.  Might there be a more &quot;minimal&quot; class or template which would be better to use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9757" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-04-01T08:11:17.117" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T08:11:17.117" Title="Which \documentclass is best to use in MWEs?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2383" CreationDate="2012-03-29T02:06:20.780" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, no.  The &lt;code&gt;minimal&lt;/code&gt; document class is simply too minimal, and shouldn't be used.  Of course if your question involves chapters you would need to use a class like &lt;code&gt;report&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt; that support chapters.  So &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt; is an excellent choice for almost all minimal examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T02:06:20.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2383" CreationDate="2012-03-29T03:02:41.910" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best one to use, in my opinion, is the one that the person asking the question is actually using.  For example, if you are using &lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt;, it may interact with some other packages in a different way than &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt; and the answer provided using &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt; may not be working for &lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt;.  A MWE should be obtained by removing as much content from the actual work-in-progress file as possible while demonstrating the problem to be solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9993" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T03:02:41.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2383" CreationDate="2012-03-29T07:28:16.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; is a good choice &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; the example consists of a separate formula or picture to be typeset. This simplifies including the result into the answer, because then the PDF contains only the relevant parts and does not need to be cropped anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8057" LastEditorUserId="8057" LastEditDate="2012-03-29T18:52:49.840" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T18:52:49.840" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2388" CreationDate="2012-03-29T08:34:21.227" Score="17" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is meant as a conclusion (and possible continuation) of a comment-discussion I had with @Daniel around &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/49533/12850&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. I have a strong opinion on this myself, but I'm here for a very short time and so my intuition may well be misguided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume a question has an accepted answer for a long time. Then (say more than a year later) someone posts a new answer (maybe even because the package under consideration has changed since the time of asking) which the OP thinks to be better. Should he accept the new, better answer even though the person posting the new answer has much more rep than the person who posted the answer which used to be accepted before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/216/12850&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; but the results seemed inconclusive, so I'd like to see some more opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T11:04:33.910" Title="Changing acceptance after a long time" Tags="|discussion|accepting|answers|guidelines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2387" CreationDate="2012-03-29T08:44:07.803" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Officially the OP should accept the answer which was the most useful to him/her. This doesn't always need to be the most technically correct answer. However, this can be helpful for other people who have the same issue. There can be multiple &quot;correct&quot; answers, even if they are different. They should of course all be up-voted. It is OK for the asker to change the acceptance to a more recent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of reputation of the answerers should not be used to decide that. People with low rep on this site might be actually (La)TeX gurus which haven't been around here for long or just not very often. Also, high rep users shouldn't get discriminated against just because they already have more rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the accepted answer can be a little frustrating for the author of the former accepted answer, but shouldn't be a big deal. It can happen that the original answer was a complicated workaround to a then current issue and the answerer spend quite a bit of time on it, only to be &quot;replaced&quot; by a &quot;use the new version X.Y of package Z&quot;-type answer a few days, weeks or months later. However, this is just life and always the risk. You should still have a decent amount of up-votes on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't like is un-accepting a very helpful answer only to self-accept the conclusion answer of the OP, based on the other answer. This happened to me once, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-03-29T11:04:33.910" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T11:04:33.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-29T15:52:50.703" Score="17" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update 13-03-02: This question just earned its OP a &lt;em&gt;Famous Question&lt;/em&gt; badge for 10k views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just voted to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18387/in-texniccenter-im-trying-to-produce-a-pdf-but-no-output-is-being-created&quot;&gt;In TeXnicCenter I&amp;#39;m trying to produce a PDF but no output is being created&lt;/a&gt;, but then I noticed it has a whooping 3k views, which seems to make it the most popular &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texniccenter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texniccenter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texniccenter&lt;/a&gt; question. I suppose this is because of its unbearably generic, but oft-googled title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker of this question isn't registered and hasn't returned for almost a year, so I think we can consider this question abandoned and conquer it: I propose to turn this question CW and make it into a canonical &quot;TeXnicCenter doesn't work, help me&quot; question, catching the most common problems related to output profiles, compiling and working with Adobe Reader X. So let's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make question CW&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;probably keep the title, but perhaps generalize the question body a bit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jointly write one CW answer subdivided in the most common problem scenarios and linking to other, more specific questions on tex.sx. Drafting could be done in an answer to this question here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wouldn't only help solving problems that many people have, but also attract a lot of users to tex.sx and show them the high quality we usually have here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I myself don't have the time at the moment, so it'd be great if somebody could give this little project a shot! (Unless this isn't such a great idea after all.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T16:13:44.903" Title="Canonical TeXnicCenter question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2394" CreationDate="2012-03-29T19:43:34.480" Score="10" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Meta.TeX.SX, everyone's TeX.SX reputation is displayed.  However, the badges on Meta are separate from the badges on the main site.  Why is there the following inconsistency?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reputation - Same on Meta and main site.  No reputation can be earned via Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Badges - Separate for Meta and the main site.  Badges can be earned via Meta, but will only be shown in Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9757" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2012-03-29T20:08:14.917" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T21:45:46.410" Title="Why are badges in Meta separate?" Tags="|discussion|badges|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2393" CreationDate="2012-03-29T19:49:38.177" Score="11" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past few days, while visiting our chat room, I've received two notifications about spam/offensive flags in other chat rooms: I am attaching a screen capture of one such notification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xVJcG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of notification about spam/offensive flags in other chat rooms&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently some other members have received similar notifications. Why is this happening? Is it a new feature or a bug? If it is a feature, it is one I definitively don't want and I would like to somehow disable it (I consider those messages a little bit annoying.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3954" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-04-01T08:09:34.047" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T08:10:05.920" Title="Why are we receiving notifications about flags in other chat room?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2391" CreationDate="2012-03-29T20:05:47.230" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We moderators get this notifications already since quite a time. Maybe high-rep users (in total rep) can now vote on them, too. It's a little confusing and a lot more annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is, I guess, that the chat is kind of a realm for itself and is not limited to the main sites the particular chat room you are in is linked. You have a own chat Id for example, which you got AFAIK when entering the chat the first time. Also my moderator powers seem to work in other sites chat-room as well. Recently I could unlock a Skeptics.SE chat room without any issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-04-01T08:10:05.920" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T08:10:05.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2391" CreationDate="2012-03-29T20:06:28.150" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always been the case for users with a network-wide reputation greater than 10.000. At this point you have the ability to see spam/offensive flags in chat. Those flags are global, they are not restricted to any specific room but shown to all 10k users and mods on the entire SE 2.0 chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not wish to act on any chat flags you can safely ignore that indicator, chat flags are usually dealt with quickly and should disappear soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be interested in the following feature requests to either allow opting-out of chat flagging entirely or to not show the chat flags immediately to users in completely unrelated rooms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/112756/add-escalation-system-to-chat-flags&quot;&gt;Add escalation system to chat flags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/121912/opt-out-for-chat-flags&quot;&gt;Opt-Out for chat flags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T20:06:28.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2390" CreationDate="2012-03-29T20:12:58.570" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation is the same because the meta sites are not real Stack Exchange sites in their own right, but really just an attachment to the main sites. By having the same reputation all privileges are always equal on both and you don't have to work your way up again. Also, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/faq#vote-differences&quot;&gt;voting has a different meaning on Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badges are separate, IMHO, to reflect your effort on Meta. Having some &quot;Nice Question&quot; or &quot;Nice Answer&quot; etc. badges here shows that you are interested in making the main site better. Also the &quot;Enthusiast&quot; or &quot;Fanatic&quot; badges show that you visit also Meta often. Having the same set of badges would not allow for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T21:45:46.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2396" CreationDate="2012-03-31T12:46:30.467" Score="16" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title is not very clear, so I'll just get to the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently asked this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/50114/4778&quot;&gt;What package supports this kind of timeline?&lt;/a&gt; and a user suggested that I could share my finished work, so my version of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming my work is different from the accepted answer but it still comes from it (so with some changes, some tweaks, etc), is it good practice for me to share it as an additional answer or it's not the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure other sites, or even this one, does it, but it'd be good to know. Please consider this question not just talking about my case, but also on a more general level, so that it can be applied to the whole audience of TeX SE. I'd especially appreciate answers from moderators or even SE team members, but obviously everyone is free to join the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Please note that I don't want to post an answer using the currently accepted one and then accept my own. This wasn't my intention. I'd only accept my answer (or someone else's) if the solution turned out to be better (and above all, different) than the current one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I wanted to do is simply provide an additional answer, where I showed my finished work (attributing the answer that helped me, of course). I'd be inclined to do this especially if I changed some options (i.e. customization of the accepted answer) so I could show them to the TeX audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-03-31T18:56:59.247" Title="Is it good practice to share your personal work after receiving the answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2395" CreationDate="2012-03-31T12:59:08.913" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's just small additions to the answer, I'd consider just editing the answer that lead to your own solution and accept it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your solution is really different from the answer that inspired it, posting your own version in addition is certainly good practice. You're adding another valid answer to the question, possibly helping anyone who sees this question later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done this &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/22679/where-is-cedric-during-the-quest-where-is-triss-merigold-in-the-witcher-2&quot;&gt;for example on Gaming.SE&lt;/a&gt;, but it's really valid and even encouraged behaviour on all Stack Exchange sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I personally always do is to accept the answer that was the most helpful in arriving at my own solution. I don't self-accept my own answers if they are inspired by existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:10:04.563" LastActivityDate="2012-03-31T12:59:08.913" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2395" CreationDate="2012-03-31T18:56:59.247" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely fine.  The key things are what you've already mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make it &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; clear that this is an adaptation of another answer.  Attribution is crucial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make it clear what your adaptations are so that it is clear to someone quickly reading what and why you've made changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't accept your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given those, I would encourage you to share whatever changes you had to make to get the solution to work for you as that could be helpful to someone else also trying to solve the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I'm pretty sure I've done this myself, but can't find it right now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-03-31T18:56:59.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-01T10:49:15.197" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;Clippit&quot; isn't enough we need at least the dog and the wizard too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should automatically answer the questions of the user by providing a natural conversation. I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eliza&lt;/a&gt; might be a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To demonstrate the Idea behind this, I'll show you a typical helper user interaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0xIJG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10117" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-04-01T11:02:20.563" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T11:02:20.563" Title="Can we get more office helpers for tex.stackexchange.com" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2013-03-09T06:44:49.197" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2549" CreationDate="2012-04-01T10:54:07.390" Score="17" ViewCount="1871" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the dialogue of TeXtalk is formatted by &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for the speaker and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to separate lines. Here is an example from &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/02/textalk-an-interview-with-yiannis-lazarides/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the interview with Yiannis Lazarides&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yQWBy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Current format of TeXtalk&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This format may be confusing when a speaker is listed with multiple paragraphs in that it is not obvious who says what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to format the dialogue as a definition list, i.e. as &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (the HTML similar of the &lt;code&gt;description&lt;/code&gt; environment). The screenshot below is an example of such formatting. Note this makes it very clear which speaker a paragraph belongs to even if there are multiple paragraphs. Also note that the colon after the speaker in the old format is no longer needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1NeJb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Suggested format for TeXtalk&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A less obvious advantage of this format is that it is semantically more correct in that a definition, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, following a term, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, belongs to it in a sense, e.g. every &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; directly following a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;Paulo&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is something said by Paulo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;Paulo&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Indeed. I remember one of your answers where you said something&#xA;    like “if typographical rules can be deduced, we can incorporate&#xA;    them”. It&amp;amp;#8217;s very challenging.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Speaking of typography, you&#xA;    are &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/152/typography&quot;&amp;gt;the&#xA;    first user to earn the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;typography&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; badge&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;! How did&#xA;    you become so acquainted with it? &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;:)&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;Yiannis&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;I was not aware I was the first user. I think it was just a&#xA;    miracle that I was the first user to get it. &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;;)&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;I always had an interest in it. I read some of Knuth&amp;amp;#8217;s&#xA;    writings and one day it struck me. What he did was to study all&#xA;    the maths publications and deduce some typographical rules. I am&#xA;    currently doing the same with images and layouts (he conveniently&#xA;    missed this otherwise he would have still been busy with&#xA;    TeX). Small things like don&amp;amp;#8217;t put a small image on a page on&#xA;    its own can make a big difference.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;He also left color out. Color is very difficult to handle&#xA;    correctly from a typography point of view.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/dl&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the old formatting the owner of multiple paragraphs is not as clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Paulo:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; Indeed. I remember one of your answers&#xA;where you said something like “if typographical rules can be deduced,&#xA;we can incorporate them”. It&amp;amp;#8217;s very challenging.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Speaking of typography, you are &amp;lt;a&#xA;href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/152/typography&quot;&amp;gt;the first&#xA;user to earn the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;typography&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; badge&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;! How did you become&#xA;so acquainted with it? &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;:)&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Yiannis:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; I was not aware I was&#xA;the first user. I think it was just a miracle that I was the first&#xA;user to get it. &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;;)&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;I always had an interest in it. I read some of Knuth&amp;amp;#8217;s&#xA;writings and one day it struck me. What he did was to study all the&#xA;maths publications and deduce some typographical rules. I am currently&#xA;doing the same with images and layouts (he conveniently missed this&#xA;otherwise he would have still been busy with TeX). Small things like&#xA;don&amp;amp;#8217;t put a small image on a page on its own can make a big&#xA;difference.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;He also left color out. Color is very difficult to handle correctly&#xA;from a typography point of view.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I left out above is that to achieve the suggested format one need to style the relevant &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags as bold. Globally this can be done by something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;dl dt {&#xA;    font-weight: bold;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="5724" LastEditDate="2012-06-14T05:34:54.370" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T21:34:39.560" Title="Clearer formatting of dialogue in TeXtalk" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|blog|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2399" CreationDate="2012-04-01T11:39:31.140" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct and is also semantically better to use a &lt;code&gt;definition list&lt;/code&gt;; it is also better from an accessibility point of view. It never gave me any trouble though to understand the interviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T11:39:31.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2399" CreationDate="2012-04-01T11:59:32.053" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really a great idea. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TeXtalk series was heavily influenced by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/interviews/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUG Interview Corner&lt;/a&gt;, so I tried to mimic their layout. Besides, I've never been an interviewer before. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;dl&lt;/code&gt; element is &lt;code&gt;XHTML&lt;/code&gt; valid and, as Yiannis mentioned in his answer, it's more semantic and accessible. I checked the blog interface and the tag is not blacklisted, so we can use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll wait a few more votes in the main question and them &quot;implement&quot; this feature request. It might take a while for me to format all the interviews, mainly because IMHO our blog interface is not so friendly at all. I have no problem editing the HTML code directly, but it's quite a pain. I might write a tool to convert the &quot;chat room interviews&quot; into &quot;blog interviews&quot;, since &lt;s&gt;I'm lazy&lt;/s&gt; I might forget some tags in the process. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I should mention that we are honoured to have two new additions to the blog team: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2693/&quot;&gt;Alan Munn&lt;/a&gt;. Thank you guys!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm sorry to tell this, but the deployment might take a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've managed to write a conversion script for helping us with this new interview dialogue format. Unfortunately, our blog CSS does not handle these tags as it should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KVY8C.png&quot; alt=&quot;Cool image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO the elements are too tight. Besides, the paragraphs were removed by our blog publishing system, even though I explicitly added them. Note that paragraphs are still valid elements in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might have a word with the SO staff to help us fixing some technical issues, as well as some small annoyances. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we reach a steady state, we will surely deploy this new formatting pattern. I'll update this answer accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks to the great SO staff, we've now deployed the new dialogue format for TeXtalk. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T21:34:39.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-02T00:55:37.643" Score="15" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50373/what-dont-do-latex-text-composition&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50373/what-dont-do-latex-text-composition&lt;/a&gt; shows that it is closed by me (and others) as “not constructive”. I did however vote to close it as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/577/best-practices-references&quot;&gt;Best practices references&lt;/a&gt;. So the question now gives a wrong representation of my vote (I am of the opinion, that the actual question (“Is there a list of LaTeX best practices?”) is interesting, and we shouldn't close as “not constructive” because of bad English).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T21:12:17.433" Title="Wrong close reason shown" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2356" CreationDate="2012-04-04T03:21:05.760" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have increased the line-height in comment section slightly so the code and owner blocks don't overlap. The change will be in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T03:21:05.760" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="397" CreationDate="2012-04-05T13:48:46.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;The chat&lt;/a&gt; might be a better place for small ideas and suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T13:48:46.540" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-05T13:48:46.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-05T14:34:37.423" Score="6" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is closely related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1275/notification-for-questions-marked-as-favourites&quot;&gt;Notification for questions marked as favourites?&lt;/a&gt;. When looking at &quot;Prefs&quot; under my profile, there is an option to &quot;&lt;em&gt;Allow email notifications when I subscribe to questions or tags&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.  Yet, I cannot find any way to subscribe to a question.  Am I missing something?  If not, perhaps the text on the site should be revised ... alternatively (and that would be my favorite choice), it would be great if we could subscribe to questions and&#xA;get inbox notifications of new answers, edits or comments to that question just like we do for the questions we ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-05-05T16:14:54.883" Title="Does Preferences refer wrongly to subscribing to questions?" Tags="|feature-request|bug|notifications|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2405" CreationDate="2012-04-05T15:50:23.393" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might not be exactly what you are looking but there is a feature for getting emails with inbox notifications from Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the page for posting questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;, there is a link to the dialogue for inbox notifications. The link is at the mouse pointer in the following screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XHsyc.png&quot; alt=&quot;Inbox notification dialogue&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also reach this dialogue by pressing the Stack Exchange menu in the top left corner of every Stack Exchange site and then press &quot;email settings&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T15:50:23.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2408" CreationDate="2012-04-06T09:30:33.543" Score="25" ViewCount="775" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a detail, but in some instances I don't know right away how words from the world of TeX &amp;amp; friends are properly capitalized. While it's not necessary or &quot;acceptable&quot; to edit a post &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; to fix capitalization (unless it's near the top of the active questions anyways), capitalization often gets fixed along with other things (cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340/4012&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;). Hence, I thought it'd be good to have a reference here to come back to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll start with one CW answer with categories of terms and preferably a source of the capitalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add on the motivation behind this a bit: A part of the Stack Exchange model that I really like is its Wiki aspect. Not only do we help people solve their actual problems, but we also build up a database of knowledge for everybody to access. Decently understandable language and proper capitalization just underline the professional and high-quality impression that tex.sx has, which can really make it stand out from other web sites on the world wide webz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T06:29:12.963" Title="&quot;Official&quot; capitalizations of words from the TeX world" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2407" CreationDate="2012-04-06T09:39:01.910" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Engines &amp;amp; Formats&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pdfTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/applications/pdftex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;XeTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/xetex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;XeLaTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.mackichan.com/macros/latex/contrib/xltxtra/xltxtra.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LuaTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.luatex.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AMS-LaTeX (not usually a separate format) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ams.org/amslatex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ConTeXt (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pragma-ade.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AMS-TeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ams.org/amstex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BibTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bibtex.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When one of these names is used as an instruction on a command line, it is almost always lowercase and in code markup, e.g., &lt;code&gt;tex foo.tex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;latex bar.tex&lt;/code&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Distributions &amp;amp; Bundles&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MacTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/mactex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MiKTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miktex.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;proTeXt (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/protext/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX Live [mind the gap!] (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Editors and Reference Managers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AUCTeX (Emacs package) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BibDesk (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Emacs (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JabRef (&lt;a href=&quot;http://jabref.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeXiT (&lt;a href=&quot;http://pierre.chachatelier.fr/latexit/latexit-home.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LyX (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lyx.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeXlipse (Eclipse plugin) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Texmaker (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeXnicCenter (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texniccenter.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeXShop (&lt;a href=&quot;http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeXstudio [formerly TexMakerX] (&lt;a href=&quot;http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeXworks (&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/texworks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Miscellaneous&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BaKoMa TeX / BaKoMa TeX Word (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bakoma-tex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;latexmk [capitalized like a regular noun, i.e. with a capital &lt;em&gt;L&lt;/em&gt; at the beginning of a sentence] (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/latexmk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Packages&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Packages usually are all lowercase. On tex.sx, we tend to put them in code markup, e.g. &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; (the source for this being &lt;code&gt;`hyperref`&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special cases are the KOMA-Script (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.komascript.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) packages and classes, which have a proper name, used for referring to them as a whole, and the TikZ (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/pgf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) part of the TikZ/&lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt; system for producing graphics, and the &lt;code&gt;SIunits&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;SIstyle&lt;/code&gt; packages, which capitalise &lt;code&gt;SI&lt;/code&gt; as it refers to the &lt;em&gt;Système international d'unités&lt;/em&gt;, but that &lt;code&gt;siunitx&lt;/code&gt; is written all lower-case (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/siunitx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;). Also notice that &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; is written all lower-case except at the start of a sentence: &lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; it behaves like a 'normal' package (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T06:29:12.963" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T06:29:12.963" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-06T09:39:01.910" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2247" CreationDate="2012-04-06T20:40:48.253" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn’t quite satisfied with the situation, too (but actually because there are only the latest 30 active questions). So, I was attempted to put a feature-request onto Meta.SE. Luckily I did a search for rss-tagged questions first and found this recently asked and answered one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126078/how-can-i-get-more-then-30-feed-items&quot;&gt;How can I get more then 30 feed items?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a short try &amp;amp; (typing) error I found out, that this works very well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/tex.stackexchange/questions?body=false&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;sort=creation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/tex.stackexchange/questions?body=false&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;sort=creation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(for RSS readers one should probably use “body=true”). As you can see on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange API documentation page&lt;/a&gt; there are lots of opportunities for other feeds, e.g. only for answers or only for comments or … The selection by tags works, too. The “pagesize=100” is the maximum and shows me today questions back to about 45 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For meta.tex.SX it also works: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/meta.tex.stackexchange/questions?body=false&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;sort=creation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/meta.tex.stackexchange/questions?body=false&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;sort=creation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you find this useful, please upvote the original answer in Meta.SE as well, if possible for you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T19:50:05.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-08T12:39:02.273" Score="11" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you're voting to close a question as &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; for tex.sx, the question might still be on-topic for one of the other &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;84 Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; (as of April '12). If &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/89242/162565&quot; title=&quot;MSO: Require more than simple majority of close votes to migrate&quot;&gt;four out of five&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;3k users&lt;/a&gt; voting to close (or a diamond mod) vote to migrate a question to another site, it is migrated there. Currently, you can only migrate questions to meta.tex.sx because there aren't any other &lt;em&gt;migration paths&lt;/em&gt;. We could, however, have up to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/a/1704/90749&quot; title=&quot;MSO: Jeff&amp;#39;s answer to &amp;#39;Add a migration path to Pro Web Masters from Super User&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;four more migration paths&lt;/a&gt;, which would look somewhat like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jDZv0.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we don't migrate off-topic questions very often, I think we could do so much more often, whilst bearing in mind the first rule of migration: &quot;Don't migrate crap.&quot; (Which gets an amusing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22don%27t%20migrate%20crap%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1,700 hits on Google&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll put some options in the comments for you to vote upon, and we'll see where this takes us. &lt;strong&gt;Feel free to add more options.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think (diamond?) moderators can access migration statistics (I saw some on MSO) -- could one of them perhaps edit in our migration stats here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration statistics for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; for the last 90 days (as of Friday, April 27, 2012):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ici3U.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration statistics for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt; for the last 90 days (as of Friday, April 27, 2012):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GTTrW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T20:44:39.843" Title="Do we want more migration paths?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-08T15:11:13.423" Score="17" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51183/2693&quot;&gt;Using quotation marks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was just closed as a duplicate of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/50712/2693&quot;&gt;Automatically convert quotations in the form of &amp;quot;abc&amp;quot; to become ``abc&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the accepted answer here uses the &lt;code&gt;quotes&lt;/code&gt; package, whereas I think the best answer should be to use the &lt;code&gt;csquotes&lt;/code&gt; package.  So by linking the closed question to the older question we encourage a less than ideal answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem like a very good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm concerned about the general issue of choosing duplicates, not just this specific instance.   The issue is that when we choose duplicates, should we take into consideration the validity of the accepted answer of the linked question.  Unlike the original acceptance (which we have no control over) linking to the duplicate is something we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have control over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-04-08T15:53:01.687" Title="Closing questions as duplicates when the duplicate's accepted answer isn't ideal" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2412" CreationDate="2012-04-08T15:30:36.020" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'accepted' answer to a question is determined purely by the original questioner, while votes should (hopefully) show the best answer as determined by users as a whole. On the other hand, &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; are duplicated if they cover the same material as a previous question. As such, it is always possible that the two questioners might feel that a different &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; is the best for them. However, the model for the site is that we try to avoid duplicate questions, irrespective of whether they are answered or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say all the best here is to vote for what you feel is the best answer. Over time, that should mean that the best answers 'float to the top'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-04-08T15:30:36.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-09T13:03:13.257" Score="27" ViewCount="1272" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time we get questions that are really not appropriate for our format, which often ask for a specific layout. Recent example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51177/4012&quot;&gt;How to get this format in latex?&lt;/a&gt; Here it is entirely unclear what the OP is struggling with, besides achieving this very layout. Such questions tend to be &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;, but friendly as we are, we try to talk the respective OP into improving their question, splitting it up, reducing it, adding an MWE, whatever might be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Should we answer these questions&lt;/strong&gt; while they're still in a state that's not really appropriate for tex.sx, so that they actually ought to be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T16:43:50.383" Title="Should we answer really bad questions?" Tags="|discussion|answers|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2414" CreationDate="2012-04-09T13:13:34.900" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd clearly say &lt;strong&gt;no, we should really not&lt;/strong&gt;. (This is not intended to pick on egreg because he answered the question I mentioned; I've seen others doing it, that question just serves as the most recent example.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are of very limited use for the community. The title is (and almost has to be) totally generic and not helpful in finding help for a specific problem. tex.sx really isn't there to help people getting their stuff going &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt;, but to build up an orderly database of knowledge that in turn helps people getting their stuff done. Incidentally, this works pretty well because we do this along actual problems, but these should be abstract to a certain degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at it from a pedagogical point of view, we don't discourage such bad questions by answering them. Usually they're not even downvoted excessively (which is a good thing), but they really shouldn't be rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are (La)TeX forums on the web that actually solve localized problems like these, but we're not one of them. &lt;strong&gt;Let's not answer such questions until they're at least good enough not to be closed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T13:13:34.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2414" CreationDate="2012-04-09T13:59:10.153" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that we should resist the urge to answer bad questions, but at the same time I think we've done well so far with a policy that resists closing questions early until they get fixed (which is what happens on some of the other sites.)  And that's really the only policy that would prevent people from answering such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I think there's a difference between &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-this-for-me&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-this-for-me&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-this-for-me&lt;/a&gt; bad questions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crystal-ball&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crystal-ball&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crystal-ball&lt;/a&gt; bad questions; the latter are usually based on people's misunderstanding of how much information they might need to give us, while the former are fairly clear in their disregard for what it means to have done some work yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should be more aggressive in closing these &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-this-for-me&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-this-for-me&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-this-for-me&lt;/a&gt; type questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T13:59:10.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2414" CreationDate="2012-04-10T20:31:08.340" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see where you're going with the question and am sympathetic to the general suggestion of avoiding bad questions, however I'm confused by the particular example. The question doesn't seem bad to me (and I'm surprised to see it marked down so much). I'd started to put together an answer to that as well but @egreg's was better so I never completed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is phrased as asking for one particular layout for one particular event, but actually it's a reasonable question asking for a typographically acceptable layout that is visually quite distinct from the standard layouts, so some people would be unsure if LaTeX can do this &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt; and so asking a question about it seems not unreasonable to me. Why is it worse than asking for the typographically very dubious layout of stretchy baselineskip asked today (which I answered)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T20:31:08.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2012-04-13T18:09:37.857" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;About:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.sx!](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx)&lt;/code&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Your question won't be seen by many people here, so it would be best to repost it as a fresh question.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;[Follow-up questions](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2117/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-post-a-follow-up-question-why-and-how) like this are more than welcome! Please use the &quot;Ask Question&quot; link for your new question; there you can link to this question to provide the background.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't like the highlighted part. It gives the suggestion that posting follow-up question is good for visibility (&quot;won't be seen&quot;) and not fully mandatory (&quot;would be best&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead the text should make it clear how a Q&amp;amp;A site works and that there should be only one question per thread, with only solutions as answer posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.sx!](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/1436) Answer posts are intended for solutions to the original question. If you have a similar question which is not answered here, please post it as a fresh one using the &quot;Ask Question&quot; link above. [Follow-up questions](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/2117) like this are more than welcome! Please also include a link to this question to provide the background.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="5239" LastEditDate="2012-05-01T10:23:11.543" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T10:23:11.543" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-13T18:09:37.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2419" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-14T16:23:51.093" Score="140" ViewCount="9373" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Quick links &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(alphabetically)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6835/&quot;&gt;Additional (math) operators, relations and so on&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7539/36296&quot;&gt;Beamer&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2428/&quot;&gt;Bibliographies and citations&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6374/&quot;&gt;Classes and class options&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9019/&quot;&gt;Core concepts&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9037/&quot;&gt;Cooperation with editors and non-TeX applications&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2423/&quot;&gt;Correct centering&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2648/&quot;&gt;Cross-referencing, including hyperref&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7294/&quot;&gt;Databases&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7622&quot;&gt;Date and Time&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8525&quot;&gt;Debugging &amp;amp; log files&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8825&quot;&gt;Disaster recovery&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3552&quot;&gt;Documentation &amp;amp; Definition of commands&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2422/&quot;&gt;Figure/table numbering&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2421/&quot;&gt;Figure/table (float) positioning&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2494/&quot;&gt;Fonts &amp;amp; font encoding&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6437/&quot;&gt;Front matter&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4261/&quot;&gt;Images/Graphics&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6619/&quot;&gt;Indexing and Glossaries&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2426/&quot;&gt;Installing, updating, restoring, other system operations&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8485/&quot;&gt;Lists, itemize, enumerate&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2425/&quot;&gt;Math environments&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6581/64454&quot;&gt;Meta TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2887/&quot;&gt;Naming&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2424/&quot;&gt;Old font macros&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9004&quot;&gt;Page layout and output&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5938/&quot;&gt;Sectioning and blocks of text&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2429/&quot;&gt;Source code related issues&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2474/&quot;&gt;Spacing and pagination, hyphenation, line breaking&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2427/&quot;&gt;Symbols&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6539/&quot;&gt;Table formatting&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8477/&quot;&gt;Teaching/learning resources, and examples&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7666/36296&quot;&gt;Text as text&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4467/&quot;&gt;Theorems and friends&lt;/a&gt; ❧&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3972/&quot;&gt;TikZ issues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I keep seeing the same bad coding styles being used in MWE or even recommended in answers or comments. There are also some FAQs (like the famous and repeatable asked how-to-place-my-figure-here question) which need to be linked to the appropriate existing question. Sometimes I have issues finding the related question quickly even if I already linked to it a couple of times before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I thought it would be good to have a collection of such often references questions sorted after topic in a meta post similar to our create &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions should be listed after topic. Every topic as CW answer to this post.&#xA;Please use the following format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;## Topic Headline at Start of Answer Post&#xA;&#xA;* [question title](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/&amp;lt;question id&amp;gt;) [2 spaces] [linebreak]&#xA; ``[question title](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/&amp;lt;question id&amp;gt;)``&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way the question is provided as link (for quick access from this page) as well as markdown code suitable for comments (and as in-line link in a chat message). The URL can be received by using the &lt;code&gt;link&lt;/code&gt; link below a question. There is also an &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2150/10230&quot;&gt;stackapps app&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/a/3318/10230&quot;&gt;modified by me&lt;/a&gt;) which produces this format. The include &lt;code&gt;/&amp;lt;user id&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; should be removed to have the links in a neutral form. The two spaces and line break after the first line makes sure that the code starts at a new line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topic headers at the start of every answer post should be done using second order headlines, i.e. &lt;code&gt;## Topic&lt;/code&gt;. The first order headlines are a little to large IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-12-25T20:38:08.453" LastActivityDate="2024-02-09T14:58:04.160" Title="Often referenced questions" Tags="|discussion|comments|new-users|big-list|" AnswerCount="35" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-15T10:27:56.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2430" CreationDate="2012-04-16T08:04:27.977" Score="14" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;While looking at the (IMO very good) question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52067/storing-and-retrieving-data-in-tuc-file&quot;&gt;Storing and retrieving data in tuc file&lt;/a&gt;, I think that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luatex&lt;/a&gt; tag is inappropriate, it should be &lt;code&gt;mkiv&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;contextmarkiv&lt;/code&gt; or something similar. This is because this question does not apply on the (here default) LaTeX format with LuaTeX. A specific &lt;code&gt;mkiv&lt;/code&gt; tag would be much better for future searches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T22:56:09.833" Title="mkii, mkiv tags for ConTeXt related questions?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-04-16T08:24:23.693" Score="28" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Figure/table (float) positioning&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39017&quot;&gt;How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39017)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is the &amp;quot;official&amp;quot;, general post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/16207&quot;&gt;Image from \includegraphics showing up in wrong location?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Image from \includegraphics showing up in wrong location?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/16207)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134162&quot;&gt;Getting two pictures to appear on the same page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Getting two pictures to appear on the same page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134162)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/278727&quot;&gt;Split subfigures over multiple pages&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Split subfigures over multiple pages](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/278727)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6850&quot;&gt;Table and figure side-by-side with independent captions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Table and figure side-by-side with independent captions](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6850)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2275&quot;&gt;Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2275)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40080&quot;&gt;Where do I place floats in the source?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Where do I place floats in the source?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40080)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12409&quot;&gt;Why does a figure capture a whole page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why does a figure capture a whole page?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12409)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/68516&quot;&gt;avoid that figure gets its own page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[avoid that figure gets its own page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/68516)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/16582&quot;&gt;Center figure that is wider than &lt;code&gt;\textwidth&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Center figure that is wider than `\textwidth`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/16582)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/309454&quot;&gt;Will it ever be possible to use wrapfig with an enumerate or itemize environment?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Will it ever be possible to use wrapfig with an enumerate or itemize environment?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/309454)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3243&quot;&gt;Why should a table caption be placed above the table?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why should a table caption be placed above the table?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3243)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10181&quot;&gt;Using \footnote in a figure's \caption&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Using \footnote in a figure's \caption](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10181)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/223149&quot;&gt;warning: Text page X contains only floats.” How to suppress this warning?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[warning: Text page X contains only floats.” How to suppress this warning?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/223149)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Full-width * floats at the bottom of a multicolumn page&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3527&quot;&gt;Put a table* at the bottom of a page?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Put a table* at the bottom of a page?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3527)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/107430&quot;&gt;How to put a full-width table at the top or bottom of the same two-column page as the reference text?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to put a full-width table at the top or bottom of the same two-column page as the reference text?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/107430)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/344763&quot;&gt;How to add two two-column figures in the top and bottom of the same page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to add two two-column figures in the top and bottom of the same page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/344763)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-05-12T19:19:31.953" LastActivityDate="2023-05-12T19:19:31.953" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-16T08:24:23.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-04-16T08:24:56.783" Score="20" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Figure/table numbering&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/28333&quot;&gt;Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/28333)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/339699&quot;&gt;How to get more subfigures than 26?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to get more subfigures than 26?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/339699)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/200229&quot;&gt;Using the same figure twice with no new number&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Using the same figure twice with no new number](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/200229)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32325&quot;&gt;Why does an environment's label have to appear after the caption?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why does an environment's label have to appear after the caption?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32325)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2019-11-28T19:28:19.073" LastActivityDate="2019-11-28T19:28:19.073" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-16T08:24:56.783" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-04-16T08:25:16.970" Score="27" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Correct centering&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2651&quot;&gt;Should I use center or centering for figures and tables?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Should I use center or centering for figures and tables?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2651)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23650&quot;&gt;When should we use &lt;code&gt;\begin{center}&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\centering&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[When should we use `\begin{center}` instead of `\centering`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23650)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T15:57:57.640" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-16T08:25:16.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-04-16T08:25:47.327" Score="20" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Old font macros&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/516&quot;&gt;Does it matter if I use &lt;code&gt;\textit&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\it&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\bfseries&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\bf&lt;/code&gt;, etc.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Does it matter if I use `\textit` or `\it`, `\bfseries` or `\bf`, etc.](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/516)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/15361&quot;&gt;Will two-letter font style commands (&lt;code&gt;\bf&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\it&lt;/code&gt;, …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Will two-letter font style commands (`\bf`, `\it`, …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/15361)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need the following text quite often, so I post it here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Please note that the `\it`, `\bf`, etc. font macros are deprecated because&#xA;they do not use the new font selection scheme introduced with LaTeX2e.&#xA;Please use `{\itshape ..}`, `{\bfseries ..}` or `\textit{..}`, `\textbf{..}` instead.&#xA;See [Does it matter if I use `\textit` or `\it`, `\bfseries` or `\bf`, etc.](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/516)&#xA;and [Will two-letter font style commands (`\bf`, `\it`, …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/15361)&#xA;for more information.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T11:50:04.037" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-16T08:25:47.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-04-16T08:26:07.653" Score="26" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Math environments&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;See also&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2427&quot;&gt;Symbols&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions involving coding&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blank lines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/230338&quot;&gt;Syntax of Using Math Mode: Empty Lines (Beginner Question)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Syntax of Using Math Mode: Empty Lines (Beginner Question)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/230338)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/315200&quot;&gt;Blank lines in an equation and some other similar function&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Blank lines in an equation and some other similar function](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/315200)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Preferred LaTeX coding&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/128243&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;!Missing $ inserted&amp;quot; error using &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; environments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;quot;!Missing $ inserted&amp;quot; error using `amsmath` environments](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/128243)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/503&quot;&gt;Why is &lt;code&gt;\[ … \]&lt;/code&gt; preferable to &lt;code&gt;$$&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why is `\[ … \]` preferable to `$$`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/503)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/510&quot;&gt;Are &lt;code&gt;\(&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\)&lt;/code&gt; preferable to &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Are `\(` and `\)` preferable to `$`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/510)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/345373&quot;&gt;Is the effect of dollar sign the same as &lt;code&gt;\textit&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is the effect of dollar sign the same as `\textit`?] (https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/345373)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/196&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;eqnarray&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`eqnarray` vs `align`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/196)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; for a one-line display vs. a multi-line environment&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/239550&quot;&gt;What is the difference between align and equation environment when I only want to display one line of equation?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is the difference between `align` and `equation` environment when I only want to display one line of equation?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/239550)&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/321&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;equation&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`align` vs `equation`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/321)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/193242&quot;&gt;How to make a box around an equation in align-environment&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to make a box around an equation in align-environment](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/193242)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/34837&quot;&gt;When not to use &lt;code&gt;\ensuremath&lt;/code&gt; for math macro?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[When not to use `\ensuremath` for math macro?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/34837)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Text strings in math&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/19502&quot;&gt;Is there a preference of when to use &lt;code&gt;\text&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\mathrm&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is there a preference of when to use `\text` and `\mathrm`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/19502)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disappearing content following &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/281939&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;aligned&lt;/code&gt; environment doesn't output first part in the bracket&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`aligned` environment doesn't output first part in the bracket](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/281939)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Redefining math environments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100138&quot;&gt;What is wrong with defining &lt;code&gt;\bal&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;\begin{align}&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is wrong with defining `\bal` as `\begin{align}`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100138)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/236666&quot;&gt;newenvironment: error with &lt;code&gt;\begin{align}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\end{align}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[newenvironment: error with `\begin{align}` and `\end{align}`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/236666)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/373841&quot;&gt;how to make shortcuts for the start and end of a “gather” environment&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[how to make shortcuts for the start and end of a “gather” environment](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/373841)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100212&quot;&gt;How do I embed a &lt;code&gt;gather&lt;/code&gt; environment within a custom environment?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do I embed a `gather` environment within a custom environment?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100212)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Delimiters: &lt;code&gt;\left&lt;/code&gt; / &lt;code&gt;\right&lt;/code&gt; problems, sizing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/173740&quot;&gt;Is it ever bad to use \left and \right?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is it ever bad to use \left and \right?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/173740)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12773&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;(&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;\left(&amp;quot; parentheses?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;quot;(&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;\left(&amp;quot; parentheses?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12773)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/429437&quot;&gt;What is the purpose of &amp;quot;\left.&amp;quot;, i.e., &amp;quot;\left&amp;quot; followed by a period?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is the purpose of &amp;quot;\left.&amp;quot;, i.e., &amp;quot;\left&amp;quot; followed by a period?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/429437)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1765&quot;&gt;Automatic left and right commands&lt;/a&gt; (using &lt;code&gt;\DeclarePairedDelimiter&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Automatic left and right commands](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1765)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5612&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\left&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;\right&lt;/code&gt; across multiline equation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`\left`/`\right` across multiline equation](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5612)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/49890&quot;&gt;Linebreak between &lt;code&gt;\left&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\right&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Linebreak between `\left` and `\right`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/49890)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/160486&quot;&gt;Using &lt;code&gt;\left(&lt;/code&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;code&gt;\right)&lt;/code&gt; around &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt;'s &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; delimiter (“&amp;amp;”)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Using `\left(` &amp;amp; `\right)` around `amsmath`'s `align` delimiter (“&amp;amp;”)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/160486)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why one should not &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/262752&quot;&gt;Replace regular parenthesis with stretching versions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Replace regular parenthesis with stretching versions](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/262752)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delimiter sizes with &lt;code&gt;stix&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;xits&lt;/code&gt; fonts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/269980&quot;&gt;Wrong parentheses size in &lt;code&gt;\binom&lt;/code&gt; with xelatex and unicode-math in &lt;code&gt;displaystyle&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Wrong parentheses size in \binom with xelatex and unicode-math in displaystyle](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/269980)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/528604&quot;&gt;Fix inconsistent matrix parentheses size in stix2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Fix inconsistent matrix parentheses size in stix2](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/528604)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Middle &amp;quot;delimiter&amp;quot;: &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/448&quot;&gt;How to automatically resize the vertical bar in a set comprehension?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to automatically resize the vertical bar in a set comprehension?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/448)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/52901&quot;&gt;Why is \mid so called?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why is \mid so called?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/52901)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Spacing, sizing and positioning (&lt;em&gt;see also&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2427&quot;&gt;Symbols&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Superscripts, subscripts and limits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Need for braces around multiple-character script &lt;br&gt;&#xA;(not the best question possible; looking for a better one) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/261616&quot;&gt;Math notation in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Math notation in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/261616)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/437380&quot;&gt;How to avoid using curly braces when placing a &lt;code&gt;\DeclareMathOperator&lt;/code&gt; command in subscript or superscript, while preserving spacing?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to avoid using curly braces when placing a `\DeclareMathOperator` command in subscript or superscript, while preserving spacing?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/437380)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/407&quot;&gt;non-kludgey left subscripts&lt;/a&gt; and superscripts &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[non-kludgey left subscripts](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/407)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11542&quot;&gt;Left and right subscript / superscript&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Left and right subscript / superscript](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11542)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/337328&quot;&gt;Superscripts appear in various weird places in fractions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Superscripts appear in various weird places in fractions](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/337328)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/153490&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\atop&lt;/code&gt; vs. &lt;code&gt;\substack&lt;/code&gt; for multiple lines under a sum&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`\atop` vs. `\substack` for multiple lines under a sum](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/153490)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/89447&quot;&gt;LaTeX adjusting &lt;code&gt;\sum&lt;/code&gt; limits&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[LaTeX adjusting `\sum` limits](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/89447)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/357998&quot;&gt;Bad spacing of exponents in denominator&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Bad spacing of exponents in denominator](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/357998)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Operators in text and display&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/301677&quot;&gt;Making the product operator (pi caps) with the extremes above and below the symbol&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Making the product operator (pi caps) with the extremes above and below the symbol](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/301677)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32824&quot;&gt;Show inline math as if it were display math (and vice versa)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Show inline math as if it were display math (and vice versa)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32824)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12344&quot;&gt;Separate long math text under sum symbol into different lines?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Separate long math text under sum symbol into different lines?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12344)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spacing around and between display equations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32918&quot;&gt;How can I decrease spaces between equations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I decrease spaces between equations?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32918)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/237762&quot;&gt;Remove vertical space around align equations&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Remove vertical space around align equations](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/237762)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/80511&quot;&gt;Spacing of consecutive equations versus a single &lt;code&gt;gather&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Spacing of consecutive equations versus a single `gather`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/80511)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/69662&quot;&gt;How to globally change the spacing around equations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to globally change the spacing around equations?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/69662)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aligning things properly in multi-line displays&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Applies to all multi-line display environments defined by &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt;: &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36954&quot;&gt;Spurious space above &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; environment at top of page/&lt;code&gt;minipage&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Spurious space above `align` environment at top of page/`minipage`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36954)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Diagrammatic layout of `align...' environments &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/590213&quot;&gt;Problem using aligned&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Problem using aligned](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/590213)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Under- and overbraces vs. delimiters (size and relative placement)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/30090&quot;&gt;How can I get text underneath an &lt;code&gt;\underbrace&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I get text underneath an `\underbrace`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/30090)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/145865&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\underbrace&lt;/code&gt; in denominator with () {} (howto)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`\underbrace` in denominator with () {} (howto)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/145865)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/288419&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\underbrace&lt;/code&gt; across &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; tabs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`\underbrace` across `align` tabs]{https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/288419}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/435697&quot;&gt;How to prevent an underbrace, with a subscript, from affecting the sizes of delimiters&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to prevent an underbrace, with a subscript, from affecting the sizes of delimiters](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/435697)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/496902&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\underbrace&lt;/code&gt; disturbs balanced vertical spacing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`\underbrace` disturbs balanced vertical spacing](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/496902)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Horizontal spacing in math&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3490&quot;&gt;Bad spacing of math letters within italic text&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Bad spacing of math letters within italic text](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3490)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spacing around math atoms (table) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/81777&quot;&gt;What's the right space ...?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What's the right space ...?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/81777)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/98482&quot;&gt;Why is there a &lt;code&gt;\,&lt;/code&gt; space at the beginning of the &lt;code&gt;aligned&lt;/code&gt; environment?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why is there a `\,` space at the beginning of the `aligned` environment?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/98482)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/76423&quot;&gt;Preserve spacing while using &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Preserve spacing while using `align` with `amsmath`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/76423)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/263455&quot;&gt;Alignment of multiple &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt;-blocks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Alignment of multiple `align`-blocks](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/263455)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/41913&quot;&gt;How to get less spacing in math mode&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to get less spacing in math mode](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/41913)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vertical alignment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/298295&quot;&gt;Inconsistent superscript placement in $q_x^{n_x} q_y^{n_y}$&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Inconsistent superscript placement in $q_x^{n_x} q_y^{n_y}$](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/298295)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Uneven vertical positioning of &lt;code&gt;\vdots&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/286701&quot;&gt;Mathematical optimization problem doesn't look good&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Mathematical optimization problem doesn't look good](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/286701)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/528774&quot;&gt;Excess vertical space in \vdots&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Excess vertical space in \vdots](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/528774)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/207056&quot;&gt;Wrong (too much) vertical space above \vdots in small matrix&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Wrong (too much) vertical space above \vdots in small matrix](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/207056)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/144913&quot;&gt;Vertical alignment of dots in equation&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;\vdotswithin&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Vertical alignment of dots in equation](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/144913)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Displays and related multi-line environments&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interaction between display and surrounding text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/382898&quot;&gt;Use of &lt;code&gt;\small&lt;/code&gt; to resize a math display affects the baseline stretch of the preceding paragraph&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Use of `\small` to resize a math display affects the baseline stretch of the preceding paragraph](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/382898)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/345230&quot;&gt;New-lines in TeX source. What are the rules?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[New-lines in TeX source. What are the rules?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/345230)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How multi-line environments work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/200844&quot;&gt;Difference between &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;alignat&lt;/code&gt; environments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Difference between `align` and `alignat` environments](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/200844)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/47560&quot;&gt;How to put a brace on the right, not left, to group cases?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to put a brace on the right, not left, to group cases?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/47560)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/102173&quot;&gt;Using &lt;code&gt;\allowdisplaybreaks&lt;/code&gt; locally for a single chapter / single equation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Using \allowdisplaybreaks locally for a single chapter / single equation](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/102173)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Multi-line displays treated as list items&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9394&quot;&gt;Vertical alignment of &lt;code&gt;align*&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Vertical alignment of `align*` in `enumerate`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9394)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/58141&quot;&gt;Equations inside &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt; aligned on item's number&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Equations inside `enumerate` aligned on item's number](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/58141)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Equation numbering&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31951&quot;&gt;Separate labels in &lt;code&gt;cases&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Separate labels in `cases`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31951)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/98401&quot;&gt;Vanilla equation numbering examples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Vanilla equation numbering examples](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/98401/5764)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/132401&quot;&gt;Equation number with an apostrophe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Equation number with an apostrophe](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/132401)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17528&quot;&gt;Show equation number only once in align environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Show equation number only once in align environment](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17528)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35497&quot;&gt;How can I position equation numbers always to the left side?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I position equation numbers always to the left side?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35497)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/430977&quot;&gt;How can I put equation number both on the left and on the right?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I put equation number both on the left and on the right?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/430977)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/313367&quot;&gt;Block of equations with only some being subequations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Block of equations with only some being subequations](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/313367)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/112796&quot;&gt;Numbering a set of horizontally distributed equations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Numbering a set of horizontally distributed equations](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/112796)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2597&quot;&gt;How do I turn off equation auto numbering&lt;/a&gt; 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  <row Id="2429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-04-17T16:47:56.653" Score="25" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Source code related issues&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Examples -- big lists&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33468&quot;&gt;Documents with typical LaTeX errors&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Documents with typical LaTeX errors](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33468)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Control sequence naming and input format&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/48195&quot;&gt;Macro naming best practice?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Macro naming best practice?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/48195)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/141888&quot;&gt;Is \10 allowed as a control-sequence name?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is \10 allowed as a control-sequence name?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/141888)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/598250&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt; does TeX not allow numbers in command names?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[*Why* does TeX not allow numbers in command names?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/598250)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9718&quot;&gt;Defining commands/abbreviations that contain numbers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Defining commands/abbreviations that contain numbers](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9718)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/439543&quot;&gt;Cyrillic letters in command names with PDFLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Cyrillic letters in command names with PDFLaTeX](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/439543)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/191152&quot;&gt;How can I use Chinese characters (or more generally, Unicode characters) as a macro name?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I use Chinese characters (or more generally, Unicode characters) as a macro name?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/191152)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/269701&quot;&gt;Are there alternative methods to &amp;quot;_&amp;quot; for subscripting in math mode?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Are there alternative methods to &amp;quot;_&amp;quot; for subscripting in math mode?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/269701)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1914&quot;&gt;Why do people use unnecessary braces?&lt;/a&gt; (with &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why do people use unnecessary braces?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1914)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Package loading order&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1863&quot;&gt;Which packages should be loaded after &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; instead of before?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Which packages should be loaded after `hyperref` instead of before?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1863)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reusable code and packaging&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/278817&quot;&gt;Creating a default preamble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Creating a default preamble](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/278817)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Use of percent signs (&lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7453&quot;&gt;What is the use of percent signs (&lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt;) at the end of lines?&lt;br&gt; (Why is my macro creating extra space?)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is the use of percent signs (`%`) at the end of lines? (Why is my macro creating extra space?)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7453)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/566578&quot;&gt;(La)TeX — What does the '%' character do?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[(La)TeX — What does the '%' character do?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/566578)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40946&quot;&gt;Why the end-of-line &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; in macro definitions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why the end-of-line `%` in macro definitions?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40946)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/19922&quot;&gt;Where are the necessary places to be appended with &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; to remove unwanted spaces?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Where are the necessary places to be appended with `%` to remove unwanted spaces?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/19922)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;LaTeX internal commands with at signs (&lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6240/&quot;&gt;Why do LaTeX internal commands have an &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; in them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why do LaTeX internal commands have an `@` in them?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6240/)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8351&quot;&gt;What do &lt;code&gt;\makeatletter&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\makeatother&lt;/code&gt; do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What do `\makeatletter` and `\makeatother` do?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8351)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Use of &lt;code&gt;\@&lt;/code&gt; (backslash-at)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/22561&quot;&gt;What is the proper use of @ (i.e., backslash-at)?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is the proper use of \@ (i.e., backslash-at)?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/22561)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other non-alphabetic commands, e.g., &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/159723&quot;&gt;What does a double ampersand (&amp;amp;&amp;amp;) mean in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What does a double ampersand (&amp;amp;&amp;amp;) mean in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/159723)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Verbatim inclusions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2790&quot;&gt;When should one use \verb and when \texttt&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[When should one use \verb and when \texttt](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2790)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/534383&quot;&gt;Underscore is shorter for &lt;code&gt;ttfamily&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Underscore is shorter for ttfamily](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/534383)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51031&quot;&gt;Displaying &lt;code&gt;\begin{verbatim}…\end{verbatim}&lt;/code&gt; inside the environment verbatim&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Displaying `\begin{verbatim}…\end{verbatim}` inside the environment verbatim](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51031)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/247404&quot;&gt;End \verbatim command&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[End \verbatim command](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/247404)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;LaTeX3 syntax&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/108696&quot;&gt;What do &lt;code&gt;\ExplSyntaxOn&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\ExplSyntaxOff&lt;/code&gt; do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What do `\ExplSyntaxOn` and `\ExplSyntaxOff` do?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/108696)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Over- and underfull boxes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35&quot;&gt;What does “overfull hbox” mean? (Why is there a black mark at the end of a line?)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What does “overfull hbox” mean? (Why is there a black mark at the end of a line?)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/138&quot;&gt;What are underfull hboxes and vboxes and how can I get rid of them?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What are underfull hboxes and vboxes and how can I get rid of them?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/138)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Not ending paragraphs with a double backslash&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/66495&quot;&gt;Best choice between using &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; or leaving space after each paragraph to end the paragraph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Best choice between using ``\\`` or leaving space after each paragraph to end the paragraph](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/66495)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/334246&quot;&gt;What does the phrase &amp;quot;Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph&amp;quot; actually mean?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What does the phrase &amp;quot;Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph&amp;quot; actually mean?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/334246)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/82664&quot;&gt;When to use &lt;code&gt;\par&lt;/code&gt; and when &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[When to use `\par` and when ``\\``](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/82664)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/89010&quot;&gt;Strange “There's no line here to end” error&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Strange “There's no line here to end” error](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/89010)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/127644&quot;&gt;Manual linebreak with justification but without empty line afterwards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Manual linebreak with justification but without empty line afterwards](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/127644)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Nested square brackets&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/84595&quot;&gt;LaTeX: optional arguments with square brackets&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[LaTeX: optional arguments with square brackets](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/84595)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/99495&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt; inside an optional argument&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[ ] inside an optional argument](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/99495)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Number parsing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/137207&quot;&gt;Use of &lt;code&gt;\relax&lt;/code&gt; after &lt;code&gt;\ifnum&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;\fi&lt;/code&gt; construction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Use of `\relax` after `\ifnum`...`\fi` construction](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/137207)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Unicode (UTF-8) source&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25391&quot;&gt;The 'listings' package and UTF-8&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[The 'listings' package and UTF-8](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25391)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13067&quot;&gt;utf8x vs. utf8 (inputenc)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[utf8x vs. utf8 (inputenc)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13067)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/34604&quot;&gt;Entering Unicode characters in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Entering Unicode characters in LaTeX](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/34604)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-11-28T02:33:02.050" LastActivityDate="2023-11-28T02:33:02.050" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-17T16:47:56.653" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-04-18T11:43:35.553" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I'm a bit skeptical that the tags will get used, it's worth a try.  I propose  creating &lt;code&gt;mk{ii|iv}&lt;/code&gt; suffixes for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt; tag: i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context-mkii&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context-mkii&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context-mkii&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context-mkiv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context-mkiv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context-mkiv&lt;/a&gt; along with very clear tag wikis to distinguish them rather than simple &lt;code&gt;[mkii]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[mkiv]&lt;/code&gt; tags, which will not show up in the tag list when people try to add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-04-18T16:12:06.027" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T16:12:06.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-18T17:17:58.070" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the question &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52172/what-is-a-suitable-package-for-drawing-term-algebra-style-trees&quot;&gt;What is a suitable package for drawing term algebra style trees&lt;/a&gt; and signed in using the Name/Email method.  I guess, for some reason, I thought it would log me in.  However, now the question has been answered, and I have no idea how to log in and mark it as answered.  I was able to post until I logged in to this account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13503" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T13:38:06.413" Title="How does one log in to mark a question as answered if the Name/Email post question method was used" Tags="|support|accepting|login|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2431" CreationDate="2012-04-18T17:27:53.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question was posted using an unregistered account and was not connected to your registered one. Either your browser session of this question post expired or it is because you used two different email addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, in such cases users should flag the question for moderator attention using the gray 'flag' link below it. You can then state there that you want to have both accounts merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already merged your two together, keeping your real name from the unregistered account (your can edit this if you want). It will take a few minutes until your meta account is synchronized with your (real) account on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T17:27:53.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-04-18T22:50:44.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw that Patrick Gundlach has added the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context-mkiv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context-mkiv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context-mkiv&lt;/a&gt; tag to the first two questions, while at the same time removing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luatex&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not familiar with any of these tag subjects, and it may well be that questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context-mkiv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context-mkiv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context-mkiv&lt;/a&gt; may be of no interest to the &quot;general luaTeX&quot; user, but I suggest that questions about MkIV should also feature the general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt; tag. For now, I re-added this tag to the two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T22:50:44.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2414" CreationDate="2012-04-19T16:43:50.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been a member of this website from not so long and I have understood the purpose of this site thoroughly, identifying good questions and relevant questions to me and those which I may chip in or help improve. I am not an expert in any area of LaTeX as I am still learning many aspects of it though. I may say that I have used LaTeX for over five years but most of the time I get obsessed with the minor details of it that I forget the purpose of using it. Sometimes I read books and I always wonder if I can do it. I try it and then come up with thousands of problems, then I go online, look at the some documentation and still no solution. If I cannot achieve what I want then I resort to tex.stackexchange.com. I have had fabulous responses from most of you guys and I accept that I am still in the developing stage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to the bad or good questions, it is relative to the responder and reader. We may set criterion and advice the users on how to use the website but they will always haunt us. Generally speaking, from a lecturers' perspective, I believe that no question is bad and that attention and guidance for those who want to learn should be given. I have made some bad questions but with your guidance I have corrected myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of closing is a little bit harsh and from an education perspective negative reinforcement. Probably, a &lt;code&gt;in process&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;in evaluation&lt;/code&gt; or something different would give some hope to the user in particular. We must remember that whenever a question is asked, for the most part, it is localized and dependent on what we are doing. Yes some questions may help others but that also depends on the answers given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T16:43:50.383" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2436" CreationDate="2012-04-19T18:25:41.973" Score="21" ViewCount="795" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very often I  use the document class &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; to created a cropped PDF for uploading to tex.stackexchange. However the resolution after the upload isn't very good. What can I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5239" LastEditorUserId="19356" LastEditDate="2012-12-30T13:30:46.830" LastActivityDate="2019-07-30T21:06:23.260" Title="How can I provide a better resolution of uploaded pictures created with the document class standalone?" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2435" CreationDate="2012-04-19T18:33:26.190" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The PDF to PNG conversion of imgur isn't very good and results in a poor resolution. You should convert it yourself to a PNG (no JPGs please!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; class (v1.0) supports conversion to PNG. It works well with Image Magick under Linux, but isn't really tested under Windows by me.&#xA;It needs the &lt;code&gt;-shell-escape&lt;/code&gt; compiler switch to call &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; internally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can enable conversion using the &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; class options.&#xA;There are settings for the size and density as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[convert={png,size=630,density=300}]{standalone}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to create a 630px wide PNG with 300dpi. Note that 630px is the maximal width for images in stackexchange posts. Beyond that, they will be zoomed-down. Put the &lt;code&gt;density&lt;/code&gt; higher for smaller content. The &lt;code&gt;size&lt;/code&gt; will resize the image, so the final density might be different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually planned a special TeX.SX / Stackexchange mode, which sets suitable parameters automatically, but never implemented it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have issues making this work (especially under untested OSs) than run Image Magick &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; manually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;convert -density &amp;lt;density&amp;gt; &amp;lt;FILE&amp;gt;.pdf -resize &amp;lt;SIZEX&amp;gt;x&amp;lt;SIZEY&amp;gt; -quality 90 &amp;lt;FILE&amp;gt;.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;quality&lt;/code&gt; setting here is just used for the PNG compression and has no other effect on this loss-less format. The &lt;code&gt;x&amp;lt;SIZEY&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is optional.&#xA;Note that under MS Windows there already is a &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; executable (by Microsoft) which is for converting FAT32 hard drives to NTFS. So either the full path to Image Magick must be given or its &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; should be renamed to &lt;code&gt;imgconvert&lt;/code&gt;. Actually under Windows &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; will use &lt;code&gt;imgconvert&lt;/code&gt; to not accidentally convert your hard drives ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-04-19T22:09:04.177" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T22:09:04.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2435" CreationDate="2012-04-19T18:55:01.797" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be reasons why it is useful to have a command-line method to convert PDFs to PNGs instead of letting TeX do everything - for example, if producing the PDF takes a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time and you don't know what resolution you want, starting again from the PDF is easier than starting again from the original TeX file.  Anyway, for those occasions the &lt;code&gt;netpbm&lt;/code&gt; library is the Swiss Army Knife of command-line image manipulation for Linux/Unix.  For converting a PDF to a PNG, the command is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdftoppm -scale-to 500 letter-shapes-test-crop.pdf|pnmtopng &amp;gt; madman.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(bonus points for guessing which answer this was used for)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T18:55:01.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-20T14:58:33.753" Score="26" ViewCount="492" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people of this community &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1181/who-are-the-package-maintainers-here&quot;&gt;write packages&lt;/a&gt; but there are also those that write books. Therefore I ask, what community members have written books on TeX and friends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(One answer per book or series of related books. Include whatever detail seems appropriate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T21:57:05.180" Title="Who are the book authors here?" Tags="|discussion|community|big-list|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2012-04-20T15:00:00.477" Score="15" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10274/marc-van-dongen&quot;&gt;Marc van Dongen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-23816-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX and Friends&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dk5P2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX and Friends&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T07:27:15.263" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-20T15:00:00.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2012-04-20T18:47:48.273" Score="18" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://link.packtpub.com/lOKssB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX Beginner's Guide&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N85Kd.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX Beginner&amp;#39;s Guide&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T07:25:54.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2012-04-21T06:47:10.730" Score="14" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2478/herbert&quot;&gt;Herbert Voss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1906860130&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in English)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fWHU4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1906860173&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in English)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OzqbT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1906860211&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX Quick Reference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in English)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sWjbL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX Quick Reference&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1906860254&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Typesetting tables with LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in English)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nLxOO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Typesetting tables with LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/3865413706&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tabellen mit LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in German)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/taWst.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tabellen mit LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/3865414036&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PSTricks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in German)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eu4Ye.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tabellen mit LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/386541415X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bibliografien mit LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in German)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h6oyY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bibliografien mit LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/3865414621&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Einführung in LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in German)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GbN5P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Einführung in LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T15:13:09.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2012-04-21T07:41:17.637" Score="16" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10109/frank-mittelbach&quot;&gt;Frank Mittelbach&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0321508920&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX Graphics Companion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQC5B.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0201362996&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The LaTeX Companion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mFZPf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/3827370442&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Der Latex Begleiter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in German)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T7avn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T07:41:17.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2443" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-22T12:47:46.080" Score="9" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;the purpose of this question is to improve user documentation so that we don't get questions when a user tries to process an unaltered template.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at AMS, we distribute &quot;author packages&quot;, each of which includes a template to get an author started.  this template contains bare-bones code -- such as &lt;code&gt;\include{}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\includeonly{}&lt;/code&gt; -- that is meant to be filled in, along with &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt;ed comments saying how to use the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;these templates can't be processed without change, but some authors try to do so anyhow, resulting in confusing errors.  (for &lt;code&gt;\include{}&lt;/code&gt;, the error is that the &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file can't be found.)  clearly, our understanding of what &quot;template&quot; means isn't the same as that of (some) authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the context of LaTeX, what do you think &quot;template&quot; means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a basic outline that requires some modification to be processable?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a processable example that can be modified to suit the author's needs?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;something else entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-04-22T23:00:29.537" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T23:00:29.537" Title="what, in the context of LaTeX, is the meaning of &quot;template&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2443" CreationDate="2012-04-22T13:06:45.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an attempt to define 'template' but merely a description of how it is used on the site. It might serve as a starting point for this discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1711/do-we-need-both-documentclass-and-templates/1712#1712&quot;&gt;Do we need both {documentclass} and {templates}?&lt;/a&gt; for a discussion of the difference between document clases and templates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a tag for templates, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/templates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;templates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;templates&lt;/a&gt;, which has 563 posts. Its &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/templates/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; quotes the meta discussion mentioned above. Skimming through these templates seems to have the meaning of a basic outline or general example that is easily adaptable to the user's needs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T13:06:45.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2450" CreationDate="2012-04-25T13:41:19.127" Score="40" ViewCount="2172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just been told that my question is an &quot;XY Problem&quot;. What does that mean? What am I supposed to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2012-05-02T14:24:39.923" LastActivityDate="2019-06-11T06:00:34.150" Title="What does &quot;XY Problem&quot; mean?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2449" CreationDate="2012-04-25T14:02:54.107" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;XY Problem means: &lt;em&gt;You want to do X. You think about a solution Y. But you find out that there is a problem with this solution Y, so you ask about Y, not even mentioning X.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should ask about your real problem X, and as a part of the question put: &lt;em&gt;&quot;I tried Y but with no success / with some problems.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;Find out more about XY problem (link).&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few examples how you should / should not ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\hspace does not work at the beginning of line.&lt;/strong&gt; The poster was writing a call stack and needed each line to be indented by varying amount of space. Much better would be to ask &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I need to write a call stack with indented lines&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Redefining \verb to be \url&lt;/strong&gt; The poster asked about changing some LaTeX commands. After a short discussion, it was found that his real issue is that the &lt;code&gt;\verb&lt;/code&gt; command gets nice highlight in Emacs and he wanted &lt;code&gt;\url&lt;/code&gt; to be highlighted the same way. The correct question would state something like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to get Emacs properly highlight \url&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to correctly replace $$..$$ with \[..\] and $..$ with \(..\)?&lt;/strong&gt; The posters asked about a regular expression for LuaTeX to replace the plain math modes with their LaTeX counterparts.  After a thread of about ten comments, the poster reveals that the objective is to wrap math mode material into &lt;code&gt;/ActualText&lt;/code&gt; and the original intention was to achieve this by hooking into the &lt;code&gt;\(...\)&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\[...\]&lt;/code&gt; macros.  However, the problem is solved much easier using the LuaTeX &lt;code&gt;mlist_to_hlist&lt;/code&gt; callback.  The correct question would have been &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to wrap math mode material into /ActualText?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2019-06-11T06:00:34.150" LastActivityDate="2019-06-11T06:00:34.150" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-25T14:02:54.107" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2452" CreationDate="2012-04-26T16:39:33.570" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I have a question about LaTeX quotation marks.  I want to include the quotation marks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;``&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the in-line &quot;code sample&quot; environment, &lt;code&gt;like this&lt;/code&gt;.  But I can't seem to escape the ` character, so that it appears within the environment, other than putting it on its own line and indenting...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9757" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-04-26T18:45:57.997" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T18:45:57.997" Title="Typing the ` symbol" Tags="|support|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2012-04-26T16:50:33.790" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use double backticks: &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I typed was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`` ` ``&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T16:50:33.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2411" CreationDate="2012-04-26T20:47:34.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;As there seemed to be a fair amount of supporters for SO and ELU (and nobody against new migration paths), but no official SE participation here, I put in a request on meta.so: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/130450/162565&quot;&gt;Request for new migration paths for tex.sx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh well, they didn't like it and migrated it back here, where the chance of a SE dev helping with the process of finding appropriate migration paths are much lower. Looks like we need individual answers for the option. Also, could someone with the necessary powers &lt;em&gt;please provide us with some migration stats&lt;/em&gt;? It'd be pretty bothersome if we had to go through questions by hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T20:56:58.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-26T20:08:27.910" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2411/do-we-want-more-migration-paths&quot;&gt;Do we want more migration paths?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2411/4012&quot;&gt;On tex.sx&lt;/a&gt;, we voted on the question if we wanted more migration paths and if so, which. While nobody thought we didn't need any more migration paths (next to the standard one to meta.tex.sx), here are the vote counts for other sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow: 10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;English L&amp;amp;U: 5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Graphic Design: 4 (possibly to be added once it's out of beta)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking into consideration the top two, could an overlord mod please add the migration paths to Stack Overflow and English L&amp;amp;U? (Unless there are any other steps to be taken or thoughts to be considered ...?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" OwnerDisplayName="doncherry" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T20:48:53.117" Title="Request for new migration paths for tex.sx" Tags="|feature-request|migration|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2012-04-27T17:51:08.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2457" CreationDate="2012-05-03T08:54:27.570" Score="9" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know how to insert a &lt;code&gt;[link](link)&lt;/code&gt; in my questions, answers or comments, and I know how to use &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange link&lt;/code&gt; button as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1141/1952&quot;&gt;How do I create a link to an answer?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I need to use two copy+paste operations, one for &lt;code&gt;[this is my question]&lt;/code&gt; and a second for &lt;code&gt;(link to this is my question)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to do it with just one operation? How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T09:58:45.277" Title="Automatic question's title insertion with link" Tags="|support|formatting|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2456" CreationDate="2012-05-03T09:22:08.347" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In questions and answers you can simply insert the plain link to a question or answer and it will be converted to a link to that question labeled with the title of it. This works for both full and compact links but it does not work in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if you insert&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2456/automatic-questions-title-insertion-with-link&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;into a question or answer it will be converted to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2456/automatic-questions-title-insertion-with-link&quot;&gt;Automatic question&amp;#39;s title insertion with link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same goes for compact links (but not for answers). For example if you insert&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2456&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;into a question or answer it will be converted to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2456&quot;&gt;Automatic question&amp;#39;s title insertion with link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T09:58:45.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2456" CreationDate="2012-05-03T09:36:42.557" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As already stated by N.N. it is sufficient to simply post a link to the question or answer into a question or answer post. It will be formatted automatically. However, in the recent past this didn't worked for my 100% the time. You might try to add &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt; &amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; around the link. Also, this does not work for comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I can recommend the following:&#xA;There is a stackapp Greasemonkey script which will give you a &lt;code&gt;copy&lt;/code&gt; button similar to the &lt;code&gt;link&lt;/code&gt; button below posts:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2150/10230&quot;&gt;Copy Question Link Markdown - Making it easier to copy links to questions!&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;It provides you with the &lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;](&amp;lt;url&amp;gt;)&lt;/code&gt; format required. You can use it in comments and also in question or answer posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a few issues with the script and rewrote parts of it. The revised version can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/a/3318/10230&quot;&gt;as answer to the above stackapps post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KRLEm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screeenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T09:36:42.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1139" CreationDate="2012-05-03T09:37:54.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is now a stackapp Greasemonkey script which will give you a &lt;code&gt;copy&lt;/code&gt; button similar to the &lt;code&gt;link&lt;/code&gt; button below posts:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2150/10230&quot;&gt;Copy Question Link Markdown - Making it easier to copy links to questions!&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;It provides you with the &lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;](&amp;lt;url&amp;gt;)&lt;/code&gt; format required. You can use it in comments and also in question or answer posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a few issues with the script and rewrote parts of it. The revised version can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/a/3318/10230&quot;&gt;as answer to the above stackapps post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T09:37:54.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2012-05-03T12:22:42.583" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may find the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mwe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package from CTAN helpful. Announcement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; provides several files useful to create a minimal working&#xA;examples (MWEs).  A &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; package is provided which loads a small set&#xA;of often used packages for MWEs.  In addition several different images&#xA;are provided which will be installed in the TEXMF tree, so that they&#xA;can be used in any (La)TeX document.  This allows different users to&#xA;easily share MWEs which include images commands without requiring to&#xA;share image files or use replacement code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2470/4918&quot;&gt;See Martin’s announcement here on TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; with the example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{mwe}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\blindtext&#xA;&#xA;\noindent&#xA;\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{example-image-a}\hfill&#xA;\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{example-image-b}&#xA;&#xA;\blindtext&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RZx8z.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above example shows how to include images in a MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="2930" LastEditDate="2021-08-28T05:09:46.437" LastActivityDate="2021-08-28T05:09:46.437" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-03T12:22:42.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-04T07:42:09.360" Score="2" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to use ifttt.com for tracking new questions on TeX.SX, and after giving it the URL &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds&lt;/a&gt; got an error &quot;Not a valid feed url, missing feed title&quot;.  What might be going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5626" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T09:04:33.033" Title="A problem with the rss feed of TeX.SX" Tags="|bug|rss|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3126" CreationDate="2012-05-04T08:43:55.583" Score="22" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of questions on the main site are fixed by updating the distribution. At present, I don't think we have a comprehensive guide to updating the various distributions- the answers are spread about over the site, and hinted at in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what does the community think about having a question titled (something like), 'How do I update my distribution?', which could be linked in future answers. Perhaps we could have an answer for each of the main Operating Systems, with screenshots to help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T23:30:05.157" Title="Thoughts on asking: How do I update my system?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2355" CreationDate="2012-05-07T00:48:39.907" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also happens on FF12 on Ubuntu 12.04.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a CSS issue. &lt;code&gt;div#sidebar&lt;/code&gt;'s width is set to &lt;code&gt;body.privileges-page#sidebar&lt;/code&gt; width of 240px (plus 60px left margin), while &lt;code&gt;div#content&lt;/code&gt; (wich contain &lt;code&gt;#question&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;#sidebar&lt;/code&gt;) has a width of 958px (#question is set to &lt;code&gt;div.content-inside.post-text&lt;/code&gt;'s width of 660px). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone should probably edit the css to change it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;body.privileges-page #sidebar{width:238px;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5872" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T00:48:39.907" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2466" CreationDate="2012-05-08T13:31:33.233" Score="8" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I try to leave a comment the  @name  syntax does not work. For example I tried to leave a comment for Ulrike Fischer and I could not find a combination of characters that would work. I assumed I type @U and it will fill up the rest, but that does not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2012-05-08T13:39:08.773" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T13:39:08.773" Title="On &quot;comment&quot;, @name sometimes does not work" Tags="|bug|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2465" CreationDate="2012-05-08T13:38:50.770" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You talk about the auto-completion of the user name in comments, right?&#xA;Could it be that you wanted to add a comment on one of Ulrike's posts?&#xA;The original poster of the post you comment on is always notified and the &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; is even removed by the system if you use one and there were no comments of other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the actual notification is independent on the auto-completion. You only need to type at least the first three letters of the name, so &lt;code&gt;@Ulr&lt;/code&gt; would be technically enough. However, this always notifies the last user which commented on the same post which name starts with these letters. Note that spaces act as terminators, so &lt;code&gt;@UlrikeFischer&lt;/code&gt; would be the safest and most correct way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T13:38:50.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-09T09:03:35.790" Score="26" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often like to link to the corresponding &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CTAN&lt;/a&gt; page if I mention packages in my posts. I always wished there would be a button which does this for me.&#xA;I now hacked some Greasemonkey user script together which adds one to the button bar on top of the input field. On request I added a second button for the package manuals on &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texdoc.net/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply type the package name, mark it with the mouse and press the &lt;code&gt;CTAN&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;DOC&lt;/code&gt; buttons on top. Many thanks goes to Paulo Cereda for designing the icons.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7rNlk.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN before&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Lkp6.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN after&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEWSO.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXDoc Before&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ycZ11.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXDoc after&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Firefox this needs &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; to be installed. There are also alternatives for other browsers, but I can't say if they work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this does not work in cases were the edit window is not displayed from the start, i.e. when you answer your own question or provide a second answer. Also it might not work if you reload a page. In this case reload it again by selecting the URL in the browser location bar and hit enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the buttons do not update the preview window. You need to type some text before it is updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scharrer-online.de/attachment/wiki/Software/files/ctanpkg.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TfMkh.png&quot; alt=&quot;View code&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scharrer-online.de/raw-attachment/wiki/Software/files/ctanpkg.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DBVpt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Direct install&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2012-05-09T19:47:23.627" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T19:47:23.627" Title="User script for CTAN Package and TeXDoc.net buttons" Tags="|support|editing|user-interface|user-script|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-09T09:07:59.637" Score="4" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not so much a question as something I hope may be useful. I'm using Chrome as my preferred browser these days, and I wanted to have an app that links to tex.sx rather than a smelly old bookmark. Here are instructions here on how to make such an app.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this is just a glorified link, it's pretty simple. Make a new folder somewhere, and call it &lt;code&gt;tex.sx&lt;/code&gt;. Next, make a new file called &lt;code&gt;manifest.json&lt;/code&gt; and place this code inside:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{&#xA;  &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Tex SE&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;description&quot;: &quot;The Stack Exchange for TeX and friends.&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;version&quot;: &quot;1&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;app&quot;: {&#xA;    &quot;urls&quot;: [&#xA;      &quot;*://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&#xA;    ],&#xA;    &quot;launch&quot;: {&#xA;      &quot;web_url&quot;: &quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&#xA;    }&#xA;  },&#xA;  &quot;icons&quot;: {&#xA;    &quot;128&quot;: &quot;apple-touch-icon.png&quot;&#xA;  },&#xA;  &quot;permissions&quot;: [&#xA;    &quot;unlimitedStorage&quot;,&#xA;    &quot;notifications&quot;&#xA;  ]&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next download the logo from &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/tex/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and save it in the same folder as &lt;code&gt;apple-touch-icon.png&lt;/code&gt;. Technically this should be resized to &lt;code&gt;128x128&lt;/code&gt;, but it turns out that it's close enough in size that Chrome doesn't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in Chrome (19.0.x for these instructions) open the extensions viewer (under the windows menu when on OSX, and spanner-&gt;tools elsewhere) and enable Developer Mode (top right of the window). Some new options will appear, one of which is &lt;em&gt;Load unpacked extension&lt;/em&gt;. Click on this and point it to the folder you created. You've now added the app, and you can disable developer mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastEditorUserId="9043" LastEditDate="2012-05-09T11:55:08.363" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T11:55:08.363" Title="How to make a Chrome app for TeX.sx" Tags="|discussion|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-09T19:33:16.560" Score="15" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever someone suggests a tag wiki excerpt, trusted users have a choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TsNLr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on &quot;Improve&quot; provides you with the opportunity to modify the suggested change with a motivation on what it is your changing (like with all edits). However, it does not show which tag you're editing or trying to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the case when you &lt;em&gt;create&lt;/em&gt; a tag wiki (excerpt or description) for something, since the tag is clearly visible (stating &lt;strong&gt;Editing tag wiki for {mytag}&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose adding the &lt;strong&gt;Editing tag wiki for {mytag}&lt;/strong&gt; as part of the &quot;Improve&quot; page as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T19:33:16.560" Title="Tag wiki excerpt improvements" Tags="|feature-request|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-09T19:57:33.653" Score="67" ViewCount="1062" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often saw that MWEs which include images can be a little bit of a problem. There are no common images in the TEXMF tree which could be used. Even the famous PS tiger is not directly accessible. Often people add the &lt;code&gt;demo&lt;/code&gt; option to &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; to avoid the need of real images. Other times a &lt;code&gt;\rule{&amp;lt;width&amp;gt;}{&amp;lt;height&amp;gt;}&lt;/code&gt; is added as a substitution. The problem with both is that you have to always tell users that the have to remove the option or replace the substituted code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I now created a special CTAN package &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/mwe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which comes with a variety if dummy images which can be used for MWEs. They are installed in the CTAN package directly and therefore direct accessible through the TEXMF tree. In other words, if all people have installed this package they can share code like &lt;code&gt;\includegraphics{example-image}&lt;/code&gt; and get an example image in their MWE with no extra effort. Even if users do not have the package installed the name makes it clear enough that they simply have to add a real image name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; LaTeX package provided which load &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; and both &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;blindtext&lt;/code&gt;. It may grow in the future but I like to keep it small in order to keep the used code in MWEs really minimal. The package is not required to be loaded in order to use the images. I see it only as a small bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple images (all in the form &lt;code&gt;example-image*&lt;/code&gt; in PDF, JPG, PNG and EPS format as well as TeX file holding its TikZ code). Originally they were all &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; files, but to keep things simple I stripped the preamble and &lt;code&gt;document&lt;/code&gt; environment in my release script. These formats allow for specific MWEs were the file type is used or even matters. Also the different files allow to differ between multiple images in a figure with sub-figures etc. There are also PDF files for A4, letter, etc. for MWEs related to &lt;code&gt;pdfpages&lt;/code&gt; and similar things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are basically two types of MWEs: question MWEs and answer MWEs. The first one should show the issue / the code used, while the second form is mostly an example how to apply certain techniques. In both cases the images are useful. The package might not be wanted for the first kind and only for the second for certain example usages. Of course if there is a MWEs provided with a question, then it should be used as base of the answer code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here a small MWE to see how the whole thing works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% Example MWE&#xA;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{mwe}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\blindtext&#xA;&#xA;\noindent&#xA;\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{example-image-a}\hfill&#xA;\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{example-image-b}&#xA;&#xA;\blindtext&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RZx8z.png&quot; alt=&quot;Result&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The images come from the TEXMF tree:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;example-image-a.png, id=1, 401.5pt x 301.125pt&amp;gt; &amp;lt;use example-image-a.png&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;example-image-b.png, id=2, 401.5pt x 301.125pt&amp;gt; &amp;lt;use example-image-b.png&amp;gt;&#xA;[1{/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map} &amp;lt;/usr/&#xA;local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mwe/example-image-a.png&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/usr/local/te&#xA;xlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mwe/example-image-b.png&amp;gt;]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T04:15:48.300" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T04:15:48.300" Title="New support package for MWEs" Tags="|support|code-example|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2472" CreationDate="2012-05-10T19:58:25.663" Score="6" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I have visiting the site today I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/125677/163868&quot;&gt;the banner&lt;/a&gt; that says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; questions with new activity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is repeated over the last such banner rather than updated as &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; is increased. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghAIL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of how the questions with new activity banner is repeated five times rather than replaced&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZojwW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;to reproduce the problem later&lt;/a&gt;. I was also able to reproduce it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0roPv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H9Hih.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. I was not not able to reproduce it on Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Programmers or English Language and Usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am running Firefox 12.0 on Ubuntu 12.04.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T21:18:53.047" Title="Questions with new activity banner is repeated rather than updated" Tags="|bug|status-completed|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2471" CreationDate="2012-05-10T21:18:53.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are still having issues on a site please force refresh your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T21:18:53.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-05-13T21:05:53.203" Score="21" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Spacing and pagination, hyphenation, line breaking&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31091&quot;&gt;Space after LaTeX commands&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Space after LaTeX commands](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31091)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/180686&quot;&gt;Acceptable use cases for xspace; When will it fail?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Acceptable use cases for xspace; When will it fail?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/180686)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/50830&quot;&gt;Do I have to care about bad boxes?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Do I have to care about bad boxes?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/50830)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31672&quot;&gt;Column and row padding in tables&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Column and row padding in tables](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31672)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42063&quot;&gt;Illogical twoside margins&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Illogical twoside margins](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42063)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9550&quot;&gt;Why does underlined text not get wrapped once it hits the end of a line?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why does underlined text not get wrapped once it hits the end of a line?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9550)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Horizontal spacing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/74353&quot;&gt;What commands are there for horizontal spacing?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What commands are there for horizontal spacing?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/74353)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/119068&quot;&gt;Meaning of &lt;code&gt;\quad&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Meaning of `\quad`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/119068)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17185&quot;&gt;How can I get letter spacing?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I get letter spacing?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17185)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bad spacing between chapter/section numbers in table of contents or &amp;quot;lists of&amp;quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33841&quot;&gt;How to modify the indentation before sectioning titles in the table of contents?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to modify the indentation before sectioning titles in the table of contents?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33841)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7415&quot;&gt;Roman numerals become “too wide” in table of contents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Roman numerals become “too wide” in table of contents](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7415)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25831&quot;&gt;Canonical way to typeset spacing in abbreviations&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Canonical way to typeset spacing in abbreviations](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25831)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Vertical spacing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25831&quot;&gt;Canonical way to typeset spacing in abbreviations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/819&quot;&gt;Double line spacing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Double line spacing](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/819)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36454&quot;&gt;Inconsistent line spacing&lt;/a&gt; (need for &lt;code&gt;\par&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Inconsistent line spacing](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36454)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/444039&quot;&gt;Why do I have to use &lt;code&gt;\par&lt;/code&gt; if I change font size withing a group scope?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why do I have to use `\par` if I change font size withing a group scope?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/444039)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33370&quot;&gt;Adding vertical space at the start of a page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Adding vertical space at the start of a page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33370)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/668162&quot;&gt;Difference between \addvspace and \vspace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;Difference between \addvspace and \vspace](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/668162)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/65355&quot;&gt;\flushbottom vs \raggedbottom&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[\flushbottom vs \raggedbottom](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/65355)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/237110&quot;&gt;Placing a decorative separator in text&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Placing a decorative separator in text](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/237110)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Controlling page breaking and pagination&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the difference between &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/736&quot;&gt;\pagebreak vs \newpage&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[\pagebreak vs \newpage](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/736)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/64284&quot;&gt;Is there a documentclass that produces 'endless' pages?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is there a documentclass that produces 'endless' pages?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/64284)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/535641&quot;&gt;Dynamic page break before section&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Dynamic page break before section](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/535641)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\enlargethispage&lt;/code&gt;; also useful for getting rid of a bogus blank last page &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32112&quot;&gt;Squeeze some more lines on the current page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Squeeze some more lines on the current page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32112)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/227&quot;&gt;How can I add &amp;quot;page # of ##&amp;quot; on my document?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I add &amp;quot;page # of ##&amp;quot; on my document?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/227)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pages not breaking between successive adjacent (sub)section headings:&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/57861&quot;&gt;Overfull box and broken pagination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Overfull box and broken pagination](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/57861)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Section divider that disappears at end or beginning of page:&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/186328&quot;&gt;Section break that displays content iff it occurs in middle of a page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Section break that displays content iff it occurs in middle of a page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/186328)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Special cases of long strings without hyphenation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/116441&quot;&gt;How to break long words after n chars (long genomic sequences)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to break long words after n chars (long genomic sequences)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/116441)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100391&quot;&gt;How to wrap a word in line without hyphen?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to wrap a word in line without hyphen?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100391)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/13688&quot;&gt;Splitting very big numbers over several lines&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Splitting very big numbers over several lines](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/13688)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ordinary hyphenation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/67571&quot;&gt;No hyphen for a single word&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[No hyphen for a word](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/67571)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2706&quot;&gt;Adequate hyphenation of words already containing a hyphen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Adequate hyphenation of words already containing a hyphen](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2706)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63232&quot;&gt;Why can words with hyphen char not be hyphenated?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why can words with hyphen char not be hyphenated?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63232)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/276154&quot;&gt;Globally enable hyphenation for the first word in a paragraph&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Globally enable hyphenation for the first word in a paragraph](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/276154)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/37934&quot;&gt;Specifying multiple hyphenation exception lists for multi-lingual documents&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Specifying multiple hyphenation exception lists for multi-lingual documents](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/37934)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/509140&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;texttt&lt;/code&gt; is not breaking the line at existing hyphens&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`texttt` is not breaking the line at existing hyphens](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/509140)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Line breaking following a non-letter (e.g. a hyphen, slash or comma)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/121955&quot;&gt;Help on dealing with items divided with slash&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Help on dealing with items divided with slash](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/121955)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6171&quot;&gt;Wrapping long lines that contain no spaces&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Wrapping long lines that contain no spaces](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6171)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/299&quot;&gt;How to get long \texttt sections to break&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to get long \texttt sections to break](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/299)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Paragraph shaping&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/241343&quot;&gt;What is the meaning of &lt;code&gt;\fussy&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\sloppy&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\emergencystretch&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\tolerance&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\hbadness&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is the meaning of `\fussy`, `\sloppy`, `\emergencystretch`, `\tolerance`, `\hbadness`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/241343)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/59122&quot;&gt;How to avoid using \sloppy document-wide to fix overfull \hbox problems?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to avoid using \sloppy document-wide to fix overfull \hbox problems?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/59122)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31555&quot;&gt;How can I indent the paragraphs which follow a heading?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I indent the paragraphs which follow a heading?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31555)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/116569&quot;&gt;Is there a tool that makes paragraphs into rectangles?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is there a tool that makes paragraphs into rectangles?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/116569)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/41412&quot;&gt;Avoid just nearly filled last lines&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Avoid just nearly filled last lines](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/41412)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/127644&quot;&gt;Manual linebreak with justification but without empty line afterwards&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Manual linebreak with justification but without empty line afterwards](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/127644)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/400285&quot;&gt;How to end paragraph text in an inverted pyramid shape?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to end paragraph text in an inverted pyramid shape?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/400285)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2024-02-06T14:15:18.770" LastActivityDate="2024-02-06T14:15:18.770" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-13T21:05:53.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-16T16:24:09.370" Score="41" ViewCount="1041" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people might not know it, but on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/&lt;/a&gt; there are several applications / user scripts available which makes certain tasks easier for moderators and other users which often post helpful comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to point out some of them here. Feel free to post other ones as answer posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These user scripts require the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; extension for Firefox. Modern versions of Opera and Chrome should also support them directly. After installing the extension, then user scripts can be installed by clicking on the &lt;em&gt;Install&lt;/em&gt; link which should pop up a installation dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/a/3318/10230&quot;&gt;Copy Question Link Markdown - Making it easier to copy links to questions!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adds a 'copy' link below questions and answers in the &lt;code&gt;[title](url)&lt;/code&gt; form required for formatted links in comments. This is much better than posting the URL only or a &quot;this&quot; or &quot;here&quot; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rcNKR.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2378/10230&quot;&gt;SE Comment Link Helper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When submitting a comment, this script will turn all bare URLs to SE posts into the &lt;code&gt;[title](url)&lt;/code&gt; form by looking up the title using the official API. It can lead to a short delay when submitting the comment. I use this sometimes to turn single URLs in comments of other users into the full form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/821/easy-way-to-copy-code-block/891#891&quot;&gt;Easy way to copy code block?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See dedicated post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2467/user-script-for-ctan-package-and-texdoc-net-buttons&quot;&gt;User script for CTAN Package and TeXDoc.net buttons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See dedicated post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T01:58:22.990" Title="Useful StackApps and other User Scripts for TeX.SX" Tags="|discussion|scripts|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2475" CreationDate="2012-05-16T16:30:09.983" Score="26" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2116/10230&quot;&gt;AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user script adds an 'auto' link below &quot;Add Comment&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L3Cqp.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It opens the following configurable dialog with some pre-defined comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x5463.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very useful for the frequent used &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;text building blocks&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;If the user is new a welcome message is automatically added. However, this message is currently hard-code. I modified my local copy of the script to use our &quot;Welcome to TeX.SX&quot; message. I should upload this version somewhere, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to export and import messages in markdown format.&#xA;Here my pre-defined comments. Use the 'import/export' link on the bottom to import them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;###MWE required&#xA;Please add a [minimal working example (MWE)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) that illustrates your problem.&#xA;&#xA;###Follow-up question posted as an answer&#xA;Answer posts are intended for solutions to the original question. If you have a similar question which is not answered here, please post it as a fresh one using the &quot;Ask Question&quot; link above. [Follow-up questions](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117) like this are more than welcome! Please also include a link to this question to provide the background.&#xA;&#xA;###&quot;Thank you&quot; answers&#xA;Instead of posting a “Thank you” as an additional answer, you should thank [user] by upvoting [his/her] answer (with the upward pointing arrow to the left of it; you need 15 reputation points before you can upvote) and accepting it (by clicking on the checkmark). We want to keep the answer space reserved for actual answers, so this non-answer will be removed from public view soon.&#xA;&#xA;###Code blocks and inline code&#xA;A tip: If you [indent lines by 4 spaces](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1192) or [enclose words in backticks `\``](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/863), they'll be marked as code, as can be seen in my edit. You can also highlight the code and click the &quot;code&quot; button (with &quot;{}&quot; on it).&#xA;&#xA;###Image inclusion How-To&#xA;Please make sure that all images are uploaded using the official stackexchange interface, i.e. the image icon on top of the text field (shortcut: CTRL+G). This ensures that all images are always accessible and do not expire. As new user without image posting privileges simply include the image as normal and remove the `!` in front of it to turn it into a link. A moderator or another user with edit privileges can then reinsert the `!` to turn it into an image again.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;###Migrated Question&#xA;Your question was migrated here from another stackexchange site. Please register on this site, too, and make sure that both accounts are associated with each other, otherwise you won't be able to comment on or accept answers or edit your question.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script now supports also a custom welcome message. To change it click on &quot;Welcome&quot; at the lower right. The normal welcome message for new users is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.sx!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the trailing space which is required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T10:49:40.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-17T18:53:46.957" Score="0" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it such a big deal that questions have a very specific nature to them as stated in the FAQ's? What &lt;strong&gt;real&lt;/strong&gt; problems/harm does it pose when questions are more discussion like or not very specific? Or are more abstract in nature and require more debate like responses? (BTW, I do realize that you have to keep things on the straight and narrow BUT just like the law you have to make intelligent decisions and not apply rules blindly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very hard to wrap my head around the very narrow minded mentality (the way I see it) of Stack Exchange's question/answer format. Maybe I am too used to the traditional forum like structure and tend to want either an very specific answer (for which I generally ask very specific question) or more general questions (for which I want general answers... and which usually get me into trouble).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, suppose I post an irrelevant question to TeX SE that is rather off topic but still vaguely related and a few people might find it interesting. What harm does it pose to let the question stand and not close it or delete it or whatever? If no one is interested in the question it will just die on it's own, and if some people find it useful then isn't that a good thing? Why would it bother someone to allow it when it has no real negative effect (as far as it effecting people that come to the forum)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The layout/UI for Stack Exchange is like nothing else. Even in Microsoft's forums they have bugs they never fix with code quoting (well, probably designed only to work with IE) and it doesn't look appealing. I like Stack Exchange because of that but I tend to like more of a discussion/debate based approach to questions/answers. I am not the type of person just to accept on answer on faith or authority (it has to make sense to me or I have to &quot;see it with my own eyes&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I guess this is bad for Stack Exchange but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any thing out there like SE for more discussion like and less strict (although within reason) interaction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it would be possible to get SE to add a &quot;Discussion&quot; part (next to questions) that is more open? I see a lot of forums that have the ability to tag posts as questions or discussions nowadays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11637" LastEditorUserId="6865" LastEditDate="2012-05-18T17:58:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T08:55:30.860" Title="Why is short and specific questions required as stated in FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2478" CreationDate="2012-05-17T19:40:41.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a start I'd like to collect some links to this question. After that I think we can give a more detailed answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92107/is-stackoverflow-a-forum&quot;&gt;Is Stack Overflow a forum?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T19:40:41.360" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-17T19:40:41.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2478" CreationDate="2012-05-17T20:47:00.060" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange idea is not that it's for everything but for a particular thing: questions with an answer, or at least questions which seem reasonably to be answerable. (Of course, sometimes it's not easy to tell if this is the case.) The concept is then that voting helps people visiting to find answers to see which of the ones given is the best/clearest, and also which one the person who asked the question felt was best. One of the things that certainly has been discussed in the TeX-sx chat room is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; separation of questions from answers works and why it's encouraged here. The overall feeling is that it works because it's predictable for users: you get a question which is hopefully clear and one or more answers which are distinct from the question and from each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear from that description that the model does not work for everything, not would you expect it to. Mailing lists and 'traditional' forums have a place in parallel to the SE model and other approaches. In particular, anything discursive works badly, as there is (intentionally) no threading of either comments or answers. Statements of fact ('Here is how I did X') also work less well as they break the predictability, more than any other reason. We've had a few questions before where it's been clear that for example a blog post is the best approach: there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;community blog&lt;/a&gt; associated with the site which can be used for that sort of material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-05-18T06:19:39.660" LastActivityDate="2012-05-18T06:19:39.660" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2478" CreationDate="2012-05-17T20:49:16.407" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to give a very subjective and personal answer. I don't like technical discussions very much. Sometimes I discuss things on the LuaTeX mailing list about implementation details but this is a rare case. All discussions about good, bad and ugly lead to nowhere and I feel that it is a waste of my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do like to answer questions. For me this is a clear sign if I have a good understanding of a subject or not. So by answering questions, I see two benefits: the OP has got an answer to his/her problem, and I learn something anew from most questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another aspect: when I come across a problem with another programming language or framework or whatever and I do a google search, I am always glad to get a result from a stackexchange site (stackoverflow mostly), because I know that if the question matches with mine, I can find an answer very quickly and I don't have to look through lots of posts. I think that this is a great and very valuable state and I wish to do support this site to be most useful for people like me that have a (Lua)TeX question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like the &quot;mark this answer as accepted&quot; feature of the SX sites. It makes better answers than I have seen in other forums/mailing lists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T20:49:16.407" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2478" CreationDate="2012-05-18T01:21:26.770" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Give it five minutes&lt;/a&gt;. Before you criticize something, give it five minutes and think about why it works this way. It is very easy to list tons of critics of the model here. And all those reasons you listed are quite valid on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this site has been here for quite a while and many people have got their answers for questions from really newbie to really advanced. And it works in such a way that many questions are answered really quickly. At least all my questions were answered in less than a few hours. When the questions were not specific enough people just pointed that out, and I improve the question. This is really doing a favor for both the one asking and the one answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, if you google something and found a link to a Stack site, you know exactly what you are expecting. By reading the link text (the tile of the questions), you know what that link is about, if it is relevant to your problem. And if it is, you can expect an answer that has been examined by the original author asked the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these won't work if people don't ask questions in a specific way. Any one used a mailing list or forum in the past knowing how slowly problems got solved, even in some very high traffic forums. That is not because people there are less eagerly to help, but it is more difficult to find help when all kinds of discussions are mixed up in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The world is about making choices. You cannot have everything works exactly the way you want. Before you dismiss the idea of &quot;asking specific question&quot;, think about these questions first for five minutes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the benefit of this policy? Why things had worked this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is easy to find reasons why things shall work in your way. Understanding why things don't work in your way is more difficult. I am not saying you have to accept things as they are. I am just saying they exist for a reason, and you shall understand this reason before you deny it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack model may or may not be the best. It is certainly not the best for everything. But it works very well so far for what it does: helping people getting things done. A general post without specific question certainly has its value. But it will have much greater value elsewhere than here. Here, a specific question and a clear answer has more values than a general post. First, it help a small group of people having that questions directly. Second, it helps other visitors who will have similar problems directly. Think about the alternative, if tons of general posts appear every now and then, with other specific questions mixed among them, will you find those question that are interesting to you and you are able to answer as easy as it is now? I don't think so. We all have too little time and too much to read. If I want to read something interesting without specific questions, I would turn to comp.text.tex or elsewhere. I come here because I have a question or I want to read some interesting questions and see if I can solve some of them. Other people may come here for other reasons. But one thing in common is that we like this place because it works in a unique way. And I believe people would like to keep it this way before there is a clear better way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5895" LastActivityDate="2012-05-18T01:21:26.770" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2478" CreationDate="2012-05-18T06:05:40.043" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to what other people already said: This site has a question and answer format. That's what people surfing this site expect: To see a clearly formulated problem at the top, and one or more solutions for that problem at the bottom. This predictable format, together with upvotes and accepted answers, make it really easy for people to find exactly the information they need, without having to read through pages of discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/56279/new-include-replacement-for-optimized-compilation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/56279/new-include-replacement-for-optimized-compilation&lt;/a&gt; hurt the site, because they break the predictable pattern. One way to rectify this would be to &quot;make up&quot; a question, like &quot;How can I include  only files that have changed?&quot; and then add your code announcement as a self-answer. If you're seeking assistance with a specific part of your code, post that as a question, but don't hide it in the code announcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-05-18T06:05:40.043" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="2489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-19T12:40:52.020" Score="9" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;For once I'd like to make a blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Markus Kohm&lt;/em&gt;, maintainer of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.komascript.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;KOMAscript&lt;/a&gt; has published a new version (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.komascript.de/release3.11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3.11&lt;/a&gt;) of the KOMAscript bundle. There is one extraordinary issue: The new version includes a new manual in English language. Markus said on his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.komascript.de/release3.11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;webpage&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;»A new English user manual with the same structure and completely&#xA;  translated content of the German user manual is provided. There are&#xA;  still several issues with the translation, nevertheless, it's much&#xA;  better than the previous English manual.«&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, all the features of KOMAscript 3 are documented, same way as in the German version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-05-19T13:49:45.243" LastActivityDate="2012-05-19T13:49:45.243" Title="Blog post on new KOMAscript release (v3.11), with new English manual" Tags="|support|blog|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2012-05-20T10:28:44.760" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lsubn.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Live&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-05-20T10:28:44.760" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-20T10:28:44.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2475" CreationDate="2012-05-21T20:12:16.853" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I already wrote in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2410/9237&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2247/rss-feed-for-new-questions&quot;&gt;RSS feed for New questions?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/1599/stack2rss-a-json-to-rss-conversion-service-now-fully-open-source&quot;&gt;Stack2RSS - A JSON to RSS Conversion Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s much better than the default RSS feed: More options are possible with finer filtering. You get more information on an own website: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack2RSS - Creating RSS Feeds from API Routes!&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See another usage example in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3338/9237&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3329/how-to-start-looking-at-the-question-archive-starting-at-a-known-place-in-the-mi&quot;&gt;how to start looking at the question archive starting at a known place in the middle?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T21:17:20.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2493" CreationDate="2012-05-22T00:05:08.373" Score="3" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a specific question: Should the authors refer to themselves as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We would like to thank the technical contribution of Dr. Sam Adams...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The authors would like to thank Dr. Sam Adams&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if tex.stackexchange.com is the right place to discuss the above question or if there's a separate stack on the art of writing (encompassing everything - technical, journalistic, text, fantasy, fiction, etc. - i.e. all types of writing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8303" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T07:03:54.760" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T07:03:54.760" Title="What stack is appropriate for discussing the art of writing journals?" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2492" CreationDate="2012-05-22T01:04:14.650" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The nearest match to a &lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt; dedicated to evaluating a particular text is &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers&lt;/a&gt; - be sure to read their &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also find some assistance on &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Academia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:58.887" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T01:04:14.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-05-23T07:38:22.610" Score="21" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Fonts &amp;amp; Font encoding (&lt;em&gt;see also&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2427&quot;&gt;Symbols&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/425098&quot;&gt;Which OpenType Math fonts are available?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Which OpenType Math fonts are available?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/425098)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45919&quot;&gt;How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45919)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/258277&quot;&gt;Do fontsize environments exist?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Do fontsize environments exist?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/258277)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1401&quot;&gt;How to determine the true size of a font?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to determine the true size of a font?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1401)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2369&quot;&gt;Why do the less than symbol (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;) and the greater than symbol (&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (&lt;code&gt;¡&lt;/code&gt;) or question mark (&lt;code&gt;¿&lt;/code&gt;)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why do the less than symbol (`&amp;lt;`) and the greater than symbol (`&amp;gt;`) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (`¡`) or question mark (`¿`)?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2369)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10941&quot;&gt;Free ornaments font&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Free ornaments font](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10941)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100577&quot;&gt;Fatter Computer Modern&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Fatter Computer Modern](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100577)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions about text fonts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25249&quot;&gt;How do I use a particular font for a small section of text in my document?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do I use a particular font for a small section of text in my document?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25249)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/27411&quot;&gt;Small Caps and Bold Face&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Small Caps and Bold Face](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/27411)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/664&quot;&gt;Why to use T1 font encoding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why to use T1 font encoding](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/664)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;when using T1 font encoding, one should also&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1291&quot;&gt;Load vector fonts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Load vector fonts](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1291)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1291&quot;&gt;Why are Bitmap-Fonts used automatically?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why are Bitmap-Fonts used automatically?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1291)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23104&quot;&gt;Using and interpreting pdffonts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Using and interpreting pdffonts](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23104)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;hyphenation problems with accented characters&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/725&quot;&gt;Why words with accented characters can't be automatic hyphenated with the default OT1 encoding?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why words with accented characters can't be automatic hyphenated with the default OT1 encoding?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/725)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;using Times (the &lt;code&gt;times&lt;/code&gt; package is obsolete)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/669&quot;&gt;How do I make my document use the Times font, both for the text and the math?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do I make my document use the Times font, both for the text and the math?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/669)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8569" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-12-23T13:35:30.813" LastActivityDate="2023-12-23T13:35:30.813" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-23T07:38:22.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2496" CreationDate="2012-05-23T12:29:07.220" Score="15" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using my Google account to log in to tex.stackexchange. But, you know, what if Google some day deletes my account? And does Google really have be informed each time I log in? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can I transfer my precious account &quot;Keks Dose&quot; to  a Stack Exchange account without losing my reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-05-23T14:53:36.543" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T14:53:36.543" Title="Can I transfer my account from Google to Stackexchange?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|login|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2495" CreationDate="2012-05-23T13:48:39.563" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my user page I see a field &quot;my logins&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bHmDh.png&quot; alt=&quot;mylogins&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click on it I can &quot;add more logins ...&quot;, that brings me to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/login?noauto=true&amp;amp;returlUrl=%2Fusers%2Fcurrent&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/login?noauto=true&amp;amp;returlUrl=%2Fusers%2Fcurrent&lt;/a&gt; where I can add a StackExchange account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T13:48:39.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2478" CreationDate="2012-05-24T08:55:30.860" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add one good reason why questions that does not fit into the forum are being closed. It is that we tend to keep the number of unanswered questions to a minimum (now it is &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; 1.77% of all questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not only about having good statistics and feeling &quot;&lt;em&gt;we are good since we can answer 98.23% of all questions&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. This is about the fact that various experienced users come to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=unanswered&quot;&gt;Unanswered questions list&lt;/a&gt; and try to put their effort to answer these questions. There are even monthly meetings in chat to discuss these questions extensively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep the list of unaswered questions clear, it is a good policy to close bad questions, close questions that OP solved himself and said that in comments, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T08:55:30.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2012-05-24T14:20:13.710" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Updated (and more subtle) notifications. Usually, @-style references shows up in your inbox with the following notification style:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/70VVL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, notifications (like badges and migrations) were usually associated with a thick banner across the top of the page. Now they are more in line your inbox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6SND1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with a special &quot;Notifications inbox&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1RBLU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an official blog release on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/05/revamped-notifications/5764&quot;&gt;Revamped notifications&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2012-05-24T21:46:39.087" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T21:46:39.087" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-24T14:20:13.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-26T19:56:10.327" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mwe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package (I haven't tested it) and I was thinking if you can have the same effect of syntax coloring and indentation as it is here in &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;Hello World!&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you notice the code is automatically colored and highlighted with possible line numbering just like the packages that deal with algorithms. Is this a possible addition or does it answer a different purpose from the &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; package?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2012-05-26T21:58:35.570" LastActivityDate="2012-05-26T21:58:35.570" Title="mwe Package additional feature" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2012-06-08T08:07:14.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2501" CreationDate="2012-05-26T20:24:20.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; package is to help creating minimal working examples (MWE), not for displaying them. You can have syntax highlighting and line numbering of LaTeX source code in your document using the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; package. The relevant options are &lt;code&gt;language=[latex]tex&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;numbers=left&lt;/code&gt;. Note that this is about source code in listings as part of your document, not for highlighting the source code in your LaTeX editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-05-26T20:24:20.923" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2506" CreationDate="2012-05-27T07:48:14.420" Score="17" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assume, as the title suggest, I'm answering to a question and my solution gets the point. Suppose now that, before posting the answer, I change some parameters in my code getting a surprising result that could lead to a new question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Solution 1: answer anyway pointed out that if some parameters change the result could be different.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Solution 2: answer, ask your question and then edit your answer inserting a link to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Solution 3: not insert at all the answer, but simply ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you see other alternatives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-05-27T20:09:56.300" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T20:09:56.300" Title="What to do if while answering a question you have a doubt that might require a new question?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2012-05-27T10:48:07.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose that the question be unlocked. Voting is long over, the current votes don't reflect the result of the contest anyway, but the answerers could still get some appreciation through votes and badges (not rep though as it is CW). It's pretty clear that this question usually wouldn't be allowed on tex.sx, so I don't think we need the lock for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still haven't heard anything about the prizes, sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T10:48:07.717" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2503" CreationDate="2012-05-27T15:18:48.903" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this depends a lot on the actual case, and how much the answer to the related question would affect your answer to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If your answer truly answers the original question, then solution 2 seems the best.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If your answer really depends on the answer to the related question, then it might be better to ask your question before answering the original question. Depending on what the related question is, it can sometimes be asked in chat, in which case you might be able to answer the original question directly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T15:18:48.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-28T17:15:46.730" Score="2" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always get disappointed when I get a bunch of notifications, I think it is like, lots of comments and answers to my questions, and then it is just that silly stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better, if it is possible globally for all stack forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VL300.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VL300.png&quot; alt=&quot;Congrats&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Click to enlarge&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9452" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-05-28T21:27:22.320" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T11:57:34.680" Title="disable &quot;congratulations&quot; notifications" Tags="|feature-request|badges|notifications|privileges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2507" CreationDate="2012-05-28T21:41:36.433" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that this has something to do with the inverted (?) color scheme you're using. Generally, the revamped system works like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two types of messages,  &lt;em&gt;inbox&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;notifications&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’re fiercely protective of the inbox, making sure only actionable&#xA;  things directed at you go into it.  Comments, answers, a handful of&#xA;  post notices, Stack Overflow Careers messages, and the like.  That’s&#xA;  why that little red number is so loved, clicking it shows you awesome,&#xA;  interesting things as a rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, since day one we’ve had a another class of general&#xA;  information notifications, badge awards, revisions, election&#xA;  announcements, and so on.  Stuff that’s good to know, but not always&#xA;  stuff you can respond to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This other kind is new to the top left corner, and that seems to be bugging you. However, they're displayed with numbers in differently colored circles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is inbox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/inbox.png&quot; alt=&quot;Inbox&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is notifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/clicky.png&quot; alt=&quot;Notifications&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are inbox news &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; notifications waiting for you, the circle is going to be red:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since notifications aren’t as important as inbox notices, whenever you have unread inbox messages we’ll display the red inbox indicator rather than the gray notification indicator.  Of course, once you open the drop down you’ll see that you also have new notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't know, however, is whether the number would be &lt;em&gt;inbox + notifications&lt;/em&gt; or just &lt;em&gt;inbox&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again, I'm afraid your color scheme seems to break the color differentiation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;All quotes and images are taken from the Stack Exchange blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/05/revamped-notifications/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revamped Notifications&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/author/kevin-montrose/&quot;&gt;Kevin Montrose&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I got another inbox, I think I found the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/tex/all.css?v=7d17b5e6c891&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;relevant CSS code&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.unreadCount{&#xA;font-size:9px;&#xA;color:#FFFFFF;&#xA;float:left;&#xA;padding:2px 4px;&#xA;-moz-border-radius:10px;&#xA;-webkit-border-radius:10px;&#xA;border-radius:10px;&#xA;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;&#xA;display:block;&#xA;margin:1px 0 0 -117px !important;&#xA;background-color:#E23535;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#E23535&lt;/code&gt; seems to be the red in question. So my answer is: It's not about the sprite, but about your color scheme not allowing a background color in that place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-05-28T22:42:02.373" LastActivityDate="2012-05-28T22:42:02.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2507" CreationDate="2012-05-29T11:57:34.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Believe me, the Great Big Orange Banner was &lt;em&gt;infinitely&lt;/em&gt;[1] more annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] As a mathematician, I'm officially sanctioned one hyperbole[2] per day.  This was not it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[2] And I'm prohibited Bad Puns.  Tough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T11:57:34.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2512" CreationDate="2012-05-29T12:46:45.990" Score="11" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm missing here something... I believe others have had this issue before, too. So here it is: I can't find a way of following or 'listening in' to questions I am interested in. I'd like to get notified, if there is fresh activity going on somewhere (obviously I'm not talking about my own questions), without having to either scroll the active questions list up and down or to keep a tab open for every question I'd like to hear from. It's probably more akin to the news feed on FaceBook for instance. Is this really a missing feature? If so, will there be anything like that around soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: I am aware of the &lt;code&gt;favorites&lt;/code&gt; feature, but that's not really what I want. I'd like to see immediately which particular question has new activity. I prefer to use &lt;code&gt;favorites&lt;/code&gt; to mark questions that are - well favorites... questions that are interesting, special, useful, etc. or have answers I might want to look up later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastEditorUserId="7417" LastEditDate="2012-05-29T13:52:15.190" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T16:55:51.637" Title="'Listening in' to a question" Tags="|feature-request|questions|request-for-information|recent-activity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2510" CreationDate="2012-05-29T12:58:56.897" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can make the question a favorite by clicking the star below the voting arrows. If you then go to your profile page you will see a 'favorites' tab with a red number showing how many of them changed since you last watch the favorites page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GQ8QB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not the same as a direct notification, because you have to check your own profile to see it, but still good enough, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T12:58:56.897" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2510" CreationDate="2012-05-29T16:43:46.487" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every question has its own &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RSS feed&lt;/a&gt;. At the very least, the following link should appear at the end of each page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dc40g.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screencap of the RSS button.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are hundreds of applications that will notify you when there is new activity in a given feed. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html#rss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Safari browser&lt;/a&gt;, for example, does this out of the box. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Reader&lt;/a&gt; is a popular web-based option. If you want more suggestions, just ask!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="225" LastEditorUserId="225" LastEditDate="2012-05-29T16:55:51.637" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T16:55:51.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2012-05-30T07:24:32.643" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shrt nswrs r k.&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2012-07-06T22:49:33.450" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T22:49:33.450" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-30T07:24:32.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-31T13:59:01.753" Score="8" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57886/how-do-i-draw-a-plot-with-a-variable-line-width-in-pgfplots&quot;&gt;How do I draw a plot with a variable line width in pgfplots?&lt;/a&gt;, after answers and comments started coming in, I realised that I really want a continuous change in line width, and not a discrete one as I answered to a comment in the beginning. This is a detail in the question, but might result in a quite different answer. Which of the following alternatives is right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I change the question slightly, so that the already given answer no longer answers the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I ask a new question, even if it is very similar to the existing question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I do something else? If so, what?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8141" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-11-02T16:06:09.790" Title="Detail in question changed after one answer already given; change question or new question?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2514" CreationDate="2012-05-31T16:42:28.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO it would be best to leave the original question as it is/was and add an edit, explaining that you were actually looking for something slightly different. This does not invalidate the previous answer(s) and keeps the issue general enough if someone is looking it up, so the user can readily choose from several answers, without having to look up several entries. This also reduces the risk of duplicates in the future (in case a user doesn't find all questions related to his own problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2012-05-31T16:42:28.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-01T06:33:04.840" Score="18" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a display bug which causes the number of badges to be shown incorrectly.&#xA;Here is an example from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58042/are-there-any-disadvantages-of-tex-being-turing-complete&quot;&gt;Are there any disadvantages of TeX being Turing complete?&lt;/a&gt; where the number of bronze badges is displayed as &quot;32&quot; not &quot;322&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dZ6sz.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt that this is intended behavior (does not happen on SO with Jon Skeet for example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another bad example (by doncherry):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79871/error-with-math-mode&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ega6R.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13877" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T10:33:29.920" Title="Display bug causes number of badges to be shown incorrectly" Tags="|bug|status-declined|design|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2016-01-16T19:16:24.723" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2534" CreationDate="2012-06-01T07:34:52.750" Score="11" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;... because we prefer plural tags. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dictionary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dictionary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dictionary&lt;/a&gt; ⇒ &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dictionaries&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dictionaries&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dictionaries&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1135/4012&quot;&gt;Rename {language} to {languages}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2084/4012&quot;&gt;Rename {script} to {scripts}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2086/4012&quot;&gt;Pluralize these singular tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as we're talking about renaming tags already, I'd like to bring up my proposal to &lt;b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2096/4012&quot;&gt;Rename {mathmode} to {math-mode}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; once again since it hardly gathered any reactions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T17:48:20.717" Title="Rename {dictionary} to {dictionaries}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="588" CreationDate="2012-06-01T08:24:16.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent profile and reputation calculation redesign allows us to track reputation changes quite precisely. I checked your reputation history up to the date when you posted this question and the only negative reputation was from two downvotes to posts of yours gained on the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/no6Ql.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4522/4012&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4522/4012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tH2rl.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/592/4012&quot;&gt;Answer to &lt;em&gt;How can I change the margins for only part of the text?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence I assume this was some kind of a misunderstanding, rendering this question &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-norepro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-norepro&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T08:24:16.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2516" CreationDate="2012-06-01T18:40:41.387" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line with the bronze badges is getting clipped if it is too long. The HTML code of the website contains the full number &quot;322&quot; which is clipped here to &quot;32&quot;. If you look closely to the displayed &quot;2&quot; you see that it gets a little clipped as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CSS settings used to style each site is different from SX site to SX site, so e.g. SO seems to not be effected. Therefore the responsible CSS setting should be found and changed in order to fix this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now found the responsible CSS setting. There is a &lt;code&gt;overflow: hidden&lt;/code&gt; as part of the &lt;code&gt;user-details&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.user-info .user-details {&#xA;    float: left;&#xA;    margin-left: 5px;&#xA;    overflow: hidden;&#xA;    white-space: nowrap;&#xA;    width: 145px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T18:46:54.003" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T18:46:54.003" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2522" CreationDate="2012-06-02T02:55:08.137" Score="0" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/470/trivial-point-about-tex-se-vs-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Trivial point about tex.se vs. tex.sx&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TeX community places significant &lt;em&gt;emphasis&lt;/em&gt; on notations and pronunciations. Therefore, risking negative votes for two obvious reasons (some might think this question is more suited for meta; others might think the question is too trivial), I must ask this question. What should be the acronym for tex.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is not all that irrelevant as it may seem. Many questions, answers and blog posts refer to this website in confusing acronyms, which I have taken a few seconds to realize what they were referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8303" OwnerDisplayName="Shashank Sawant" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T07:10:53.620" Title="What should be the acronym for tex.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-06-02T10:28:43.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2012-06-02T02:55:08.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal choice is:&#xA;TeX.SeX&#xA;(of course it has to be pronounced correctly the way LaTeX is pronounced).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8303" OwnerDisplayName="Shashank Sawant" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T02:55:08.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2012-06-02T07:10:53.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Across the StackExchange network, the 'standard' short forms all take the form '&amp;lt;&lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt;&gt;.SE', and in our case that means 'TeX.SE'. That tends to be the best choice is talking to people familiar with other network sites or communicating &lt;em&gt;via&lt;/em&gt; channels such as StackExchange staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the site (i.e. when viewing it independent of the StackExchange network), the general consensus has been that 'TeX.SX', 'TeX.sx', 'TeX-SX', 'TeX-sx' are all sensible forms, to be read as 'TeX Stack Exchange'. For example, in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; the style is (currently) 'TeX.sx'. Note that using 'TeX.SE' is also entirely fine on the site (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; there is no 'official' position on this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T07:10:53.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="838" CreationDate="2012-06-02T07:43:50.223" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spam posts should be flagged as spam using 'flag' -&gt; 'it is spam'. This way it is automatically down-voted by Community and will be deleted once it got flagged as spam often enough (I think six times, or so). Please don't flag it for any other form of moderator attention, except it requires immediate attention, e.g. something should be removed right away because the content is not tolerable (hate speech, porn, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also down-vote it yourself if you want. After the post got deleted you will get your -1 reputation back. But this is not required. The spam flag is much more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T07:43:50.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-02T11:21:11.567" Score="15" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to restrict a full-text search to my favorites in &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4011" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-05-29T06:02:51.383" LastActivityDate="2013-05-29T06:02:51.383" Title="Restrict search function to favorites" Tags="|support|search|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2526" CreationDate="2012-06-02T16:17:19.107" Score="10" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4012/doncherry?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=time&amp;amp;StartDate=2012-06-02%2010:17:19Z&amp;amp;page=10&quot;&gt;reputation history&lt;/a&gt; shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5MTn3.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15563/can-pdf-thumbnail-previews-in-file-explorer-be-influenced&quot;&gt;post it links to&lt;/a&gt;, however, doesn't have any downvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oMj7T.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither is this downvote reflected in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt; (a recalc didn't change anything):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-- 2011-04-20 rep 0     = 192       &#xA; 1     16684 (2)&#xA; 2     16692 (10)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither does the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/15563/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline of that post&lt;/a&gt; reveal any downvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YsNHr.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care about the -2 rep, of course, but that seems to be some bug in the reputation system or at least something I don't understand at all. Any ideas or explanations? Should this be posted/migrated to meta.so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T16:35:28.957" Title="Mysterious -2 rep for non-existent downvote to my question" Tags="|support|reputation|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2525" CreationDate="2012-06-02T16:33:22.393" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a bug, the user who downvoted reversed his decision three days later, which is shown as an &quot;undownvote&quot; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4012/doncherry?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=time&amp;amp;StartDate=2012-06-02%2010:17:19Z&amp;amp;page=10&quot;&gt;reputation history&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rMdD7.png&quot; alt=&quot;undownvote on April 23&amp;#39;11&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why this isn't reflected in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/15563/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;, I guess it still uses the old, less fine-grained reputation display approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T16:33:22.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-02T15:30:08.387" Score="8" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;Except for articles, for which journals usually provide relevant information, I feel that preparing a proper bibliography is a tedious task. A few available tools (&lt;code&gt;ottobib&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Mendeley&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Refworks&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;zotero&lt;/code&gt;) may help but it looks to me that they are still limited in terms of providing exact reference information. For instance, it is sometimes hard to chose among &lt;code&gt;@book&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;@inbook&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;@incollection&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;@collection&lt;/code&gt; and available databases are decently vague on this. Also, first names of authors, annotators, translators is most always missing. What I am thinking of (it may exist already) is then a social network oriented database mainly in a bibtex sense that could be modified, updated and discussed by users in a way similar to what happens on this &lt;code&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; site where users may correct other users' messages. Based on these concerns, could a collaborative &lt;code&gt;http://bibtex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/code&gt; site be set-up soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="371" OwnerDisplayName="pluton" LastEditorUserId="371" LastEditDate="2013-07-06T00:52:49.733" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T00:52:49.733" Title="bibliography tools and social network extension" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2527" CreationDate="2012-06-02T16:23:32.510" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using the (commercial) program &lt;code&gt;Papers2&lt;/code&gt; on my mac. It has a search function that directly taps into &lt;code&gt;web of science&lt;/code&gt; (if you have access), &lt;code&gt;arxiv&lt;/code&gt; and e.g. &lt;code&gt;Google scholar&lt;/code&gt;. It imports the paper including the provided meta information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, you can use &lt;code&gt;lifve&lt;/code&gt; to share that information with other people. It is some kind of social network that uses a &lt;code&gt;twitter&lt;/code&gt; account to connect people. I played only a little with it, but it sounds like something you might be interested in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I don't know how to use or access it outside of &lt;code&gt;papers 2&lt;/code&gt;, but since it is based on twitter, there might be solutions for other platforms as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8631" OwnerDisplayName="Andy" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T16:23:32.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2530" CreationDate="2012-06-07T11:21:48.297" Score="10" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/58899/1&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; appears not to be formatting correctly. (Its current version is correctly formatted in a different approach.) Could someone have a look and tell me what I've done wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tagged this as a bug, though I appreciate the bug may be in my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T15:14:15.343" Title="Is there a problem with code formatting?" Tags="|support|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2529" CreationDate="2012-06-07T11:29:15.727" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;After I removed and added the four spaces at the begin of every line it got formatted correctly. Maybe there were some Unicode spaces or line breaks included which confused the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that code blocks which are part of a list element you need to be indented with 8 spaces, not just with 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the code block directly &lt;em&gt;follows&lt;/em&gt; a list, but should not be part of it, then you need to add some non-indented line between them. The simplest thing is an HTML comment &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; which is not shown in the formatted output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2012-06-07T11:52:53.817" LastActivityDate="2012-06-07T11:52:53.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2529" CreationDate="2012-06-07T11:59:16.697" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown can be &quot;too aware&quot; sometimes. When you typed &lt;code&gt;1.&lt;/code&gt;, the parser automatically treated the current line as a list. If there's a list going on the line above, a new line starting with at least one space will make it part of that list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. This is a list.&#xA;&#xA;I'm not part of the list.&#xA;&#xA;1. This is another list.&#xA;&#xA; Now I'm part of the list.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which will render as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not part of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is another list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm part of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A workaround to insert code after a list is (based on Stefan's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1558/why-do-code-snippets-not-work-after-lists&quot;&gt;Why do code snippets not work after lists?&lt;/a&gt;) to add an HTML comment right after the list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. This is a list.&#xA;&#xA; I'm part of the list.&#xA;&#xA;    \begin{env} &amp;lt; This code syntax wont work.&#xA;&#xA;2. I'm another list.&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- Hidden message here! --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    \begin{env}&#xA;    Hello&#xA;    \end{env}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm part of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;\begin{env} &amp;lt; This code syntax wont work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm another list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{env}&#xA;Hello&#xA;\end{env}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to insert a code block in a list, we need to add eight spaces instead of the usual four:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. I'm a list.&#xA;&#xA;        \begin{env}&#xA;        Hello&#xA;        \end{env}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which will be rendered as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{env}&#xA;Hello&#xA;\end{env}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In meta.SO, there's a thread about it: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3327/code-block-is-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-item&quot;&gt;Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item&lt;/a&gt;. The syntax is quite annoying, but it seems it's unfixable. &lt;code&gt;:(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-06-07T11:59:16.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2012-06-07T23:54:09.430" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Powers That Be now &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/134642&quot;&gt;incorporated TeX.sx as a migration path from StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NzJxb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Migration path&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Credits go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/13531/mmyers&quot;&gt;mmyers&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4875155#4875155&quot;&gt;announcing it in the chatroom&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-06-07T23:54:09.430" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-07T23:54:09.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2536" CreationDate="2012-06-08T05:43:47.227" Score="10" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that I have more than 10k rep I get notices from the system to agree/disagree to some flags. There is this answer flagged as &quot;no an answer&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/58895&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/58895&lt;/a&gt; but I disagree. What do you feel: would you flag that as &quot;no an answer&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T17:49:05.797" Title="Flagging &quot;not an answer&quot;" Tags="|discussion|answers|policy|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2517" CreationDate="2012-06-08T07:59:29.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now implemented :-) Not sure what else to say!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T07:59:29.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2012-06-09T01:19:26.303" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two new badges are up for grabs: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/183/caucus&quot;&gt;Caucus&lt;/a&gt; (bronze) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/184/constituent&quot;&gt;Constituent&lt;/a&gt; (silver)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c2SRz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Caucus -- Visited an election during any phase of an active election. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZvpDA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Constituent -- Voted for a candidate in an election. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awarded to those who took part in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;a moderator election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T10:26:37.063" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-09T01:19:26.303" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2533" CreationDate="2012-06-09T18:14:17.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not flagged this as &quot;not an answer&quot; because it was not clear to me. Turning this into a comment is however a good idea, so next time I will flag an answer like this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T18:14:17.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-09T20:21:32.020" Score="13" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last two days I received two un-upvotes immediately followed by a &quot;re-upvote&quot;. To me this means that the user experimented with the voting system, thinking that they could add another upvote after my answer was updated. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764/werner?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;timelines&lt;/a&gt; also reflect this suspicion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Yesterday:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjptK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Today:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/StVxS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the reputation tally for both these days are short by the &quot;un-upvote count&quot; of 10. Yesterday I should have received 260 reputation, and today 230. Yet, yesterday I (only) received 250 and today 220. Why does an &quot;un-upvote&quot; followed by a re-upvote count as -10 reputation rather than 0?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly a bug, since a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;reputation recalc&lt;/a&gt; reveals the appropriate daily reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 2     58215 (10)&#xA; 2     58588 (10)&#xA; 2     55513 (10)&#xA; 2     58588 (10)&#xA; 2     27475 (5)&#xA; 2     59084 (10)&#xA; 2     59084 (10)&#xA; 2     59092 (10)&#xA; 2     59092 (10)&#xA; 2     59084 (10)&#xA; 2     59094 (10)&#xA; 2     59094 (10)&#xA; 2     59094 (10)&#xA; 1     59084 (15)&#xA; 1     59094 (15)&#xA; 2     59094 (10)&#xA; 2     59094 (10)&#xA; 2     59094 (10)&#xA; 2     34319 (10)&#xA; 2     59092 (10)&#xA; 2     59084 (10)&#xA; 2     59092 (10)&#xA; 1     59092 [15]&#xA; 2     59094 [5]&#xA; 2     59084 [0]&#xA; 2     55513 [0]&#xA; 2     59123 [0]&#xA; 2     59123 [0]&#xA; 2     59123 [0]&#xA; 2     31704 [0]&#xA; 2     59123 [0]&#xA; 1     59123 [15]&#xA; 2     59123 [0]&#xA;-- 2012-06-08 rep +260  = 61742     &#xA; 2     59138 (10)&#xA; 2     59123 (10)&#xA; 2     59148 (10)&#xA; 2     59148 (10)&#xA; 2     59138 (10)&#xA; 2     59148 (10)&#xA; 2     59148 (10)&#xA; 2     56630 (10)&#xA; 2     59148 (10)&#xA; 2     59148 (10)&#xA; 2     59094 (10)&#xA; 2     59123 (10)&#xA; 2     59138 (10)&#xA; 2     45865 (10)&#xA; 2     59138 (10)&#xA; 1     59138 (15)&#xA; 2     39701 (10)&#xA; 2     59138 (10)&#xA; 2     59204 (10)&#xA; 2     59204 (10)&#xA; 2     59148 [10]&#xA; 2     59204 [0]&#xA; 2     58588 [0]&#xA; 2     59204 [0]&#xA; 2     59204 [0]&#xA; 2     59260 [0]&#xA; 1     59260 [15]&#xA; 2     59260 [0]&#xA;-- 2012-06-09 rep +230  = 61972 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T23:54:49.800" Title="Un-upvote followed by re-upvote = -10 reputation bug" Tags="|bug|reputation|voting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2539" CreationDate="2012-06-10T05:15:06.340" Score="19" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a way of listing, in first-come-first fashion, the questions for which I have not chosen one of the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-06-10T09:52:03.883" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T21:35:45.640" Title="How to find my questions for which I have not accepted an answer" Tags="|feature-request|accepting|lists|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2012-06-10T05:24:49.757" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;Advanced Super Ninja Search Options&lt;/a&gt;, you can search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=user%3a10827%20hasaccepted%3a0%20closed%3a0&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:10827 hasaccepted:0 closed:0&lt;/code&gt; sorted by &quot;newest&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. This searches TeX.SX for posts by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10827/maesumi&quot;&gt;User 10827 (you)&lt;/a&gt; that has no accepted answer (&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt;) and is not closed (&lt;code&gt;closed:0&lt;/code&gt;), filtered according to the posted date. Currently there are 5 such questions (see below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can as well add the flag that eliminates non-answered ones (&lt;code&gt;answered:1&lt;/code&gt;). The final search can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3Ame+hasaccepted%3A0+answers%3A1+closed%3A0&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me hasaccepted:0 answers:1 closed:0&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VXIy0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way of doing this would be through manual &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10827/maesumi?tab=questions&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;sorting of your questions by newest first&lt;/a&gt;; this shows your posts as a timeline. Those that have accepted answers have a light-green blocked answer. Those without an accepted answer is left without a light-green block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of your current list of questions, I've marked those from the top 8 that do not have any accepted answers below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G8KoC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/59275/5764&quot;&gt;How to add a favicon to a TeX/PDF file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/58569/5764&quot;&gt;(Customizable) LaTeX equation editors for students&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/57321/5764&quot;&gt;Which PDF/DVI viewers have spelling error or homonym detectors?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are closed will look similar in its un-answered-ness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T21:35:45.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2533" CreationDate="2012-06-10T16:44:01.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There also seems a trend to flag incorrect answers as “not an answer”. Please don't do that. Just downvote or add a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/59229/83&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/59229/83&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an answer. It just doesn't do what the OP wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T16:44:01.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2543" CreationDate="2012-06-11T08:04:52.680" Score="13" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be helpful for a user searching on a topic if the duplicates are linked in both directions, so one find’s the maximum of possible answers. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T19:35:40.887" Title="Should we link duplicates in both directions" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2541" CreationDate="2012-06-11T08:54:25.243" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are linked bidirectionally already, but the older question doesn't get a box as eye-striking. Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/59322/how-do-i-create-an-indentation-in-the-first-line-of-every-paragraph&quot;&gt;How do I create an indentation in the first line of every paragraph?&lt;/a&gt; is closed. Its duplicate, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41653/paragraph-indenting-not-working&quot;&gt;Paragraph indenting not working&lt;/a&gt;, shows it in the right column as a &quot;linked&quot; question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2PgHz.png&quot; alt=&quot;linked duplicate&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it'll list &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions linking to this one there, not only the duplicates. So every time someone comments &quot;related question: xyz&quot;, this list changes. The list &quot;Related&quot; is produced based on tags and title keywords, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T08:54:25.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2541" CreationDate="2012-06-11T19:35:40.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that the amount of linking depends on the answer to the question: &quot;If a random searcher came across the original question, how useful would the duplicate be?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a lot, then there should be an eye-catching link such as is already in the other direction.  If not a lot, then the current linking is probably okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Incidentally, I don't think that merging is always a good way to resolve such matters.  It's a rare pair of questions that can be truly merged without losing &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; information.  And having it all in one place isn't always the best idea.  Often one wants the most likely scenario right there with all the little extras easily reachable but not in such a way as to confuse someone.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T19:35:40.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-11T19:47:34.757" Score="14" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm confused about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; tag. Its tag wiki excerpt states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should tag questions as {documentation} when they address issues related to the writing of documenting TeX packages, or to packages designed for documenting TeX code, e.g., ltxdoc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as I understand this, the tag is about how to &lt;em&gt;write&lt;/em&gt; documentation (e.g., about dtx files). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, most of the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; are actually about &lt;em&gt;finding&lt;/em&gt; documentation. Further, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manual&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manual&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manual&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct use? Should we split the tag into two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Compare also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tutorials&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tutorials&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tutorials&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1751/tags-about-documentation&quot;&gt;Tags about documentation&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Sorry for this shameless way to move this question up, but I was just about to ask the same thing, and I cannot offer a bounty on meta (which I would gladly do if I could). &lt;strong&gt;tohecz&lt;/strong&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T18:37:53.333" Title="The {documentation} tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2546" CreationDate="2012-06-11T23:54:00.167" Score="43" ViewCount="1806" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/files/2012/02/textalk2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXtalk http://tex.blogoverflow.com/files/2012/02/textalk2.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Introduction&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of the celebrations of our first birthday, we decided to interview great members of our community. Since we received very positive feedback from our beloved users, the &lt;strong&gt;TeXtalk&lt;/strong&gt; became a regular event in our community blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our interviews are also indexed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/interviews/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUG Interview Corner&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite simple, actually. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; We have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728&quot;&gt;dedicated chatroom for interviewing our members&lt;/a&gt;. We schedule a time with the interviewee and everybody is invited to join the TeXtalk chatroom and submit questions. It's a very friendly conversation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;I missed the interview! What do I do?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not despair, post-interview questions and remarks are welcome! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; We usually wait a couple of days, then &quot;lock&quot; the interview. We want to give our members the opportunity to read the chatroom transcript and add their own remarks or even submit questions to the interviewee. The format is working marvellously well so far. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a team of reviewers that put every bit of the interview in the correct order, so we can easily adjust the comments. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How is the next interviewee chosen?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we think it's time to have another interview (usually twice a month), we ask our interview committee to suggest names. This committee is composed of our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41&quot;&gt;regular chatroom residents&lt;/a&gt;. Once we reach a consensus, Paulo is in charge of making the official invitation. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Available interviews&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt; &lt;em&gt;Chatroom bookmark&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt; &lt;em&gt;Blog post&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the following members have been interviewed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-egreg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/11/textalk-an-interview-with-egreg/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;egreg&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 4 '11 at 18:33, 5 hours 5 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-lockstep&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/11/textalk-an-interview-with-lockstep/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 6 '11 at 10:10, 3 hours 40 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/textalk-an-interview-with-martin-scharrer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; (Dec 9 '11 at 16:28, 1 hour 32 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-werner&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/01/textalk-an-interview-with-werner/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764/werner&quot;&gt;Werner&lt;/a&gt; (Jan 2 '12 at 17:48, 1 hour 43 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-jake&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/02/textalk-an-interview-with-jake/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2552/jake&quot;&gt;Jake&lt;/a&gt; (Feb 1 '12 at 11:00, 3 days total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-yiannis-lazarides&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/02/textalk-an-interview-with-yiannis-lazarides/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/963/yiannis-lazarides&quot;&gt;Yiannis Lazarides&lt;/a&gt; (Feb 29 '12 at 12:34, 3 hours 10 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-patrick-gundlach&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/textalk-an-interview-with-patrick-gundlach/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/243/patrick-gundlach&quot;&gt;Patrick Gundlach&lt;/a&gt; (Mar 12 '12 at 16:29, 2 hours 33 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-gonzalo-medina&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/textalk-an-interview-with-gonzalo-medina/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3954/gonzalo-medina&quot;&gt;Gonzalo Medina&lt;/a&gt; (Mar 27 '12 at 15:09, 2 hours 19 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-david-carlisle&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/textalk-an-interview-with-david-carlisle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1090/david-carlisle&quot;&gt;David Carlisle&lt;/a&gt; (Apr 12 '12 at 17:18, 3 hours 10 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/06/textalk-an-interview-with-andrew-stacey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt; (Jun 19 '12 at 18:11, 2 hours 22 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-plk&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/textalk-an-interview-with-plk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1657/plk&quot;&gt;PLK&lt;/a&gt; (Jul 30 '12 at 17:58, 23 hours 18 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-aditya&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/textalk-an-interview-with-aditya/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/323/aditya&quot;&gt;Aditya&lt;/a&gt; (Aug 13 '12 at 14:01, 23 hours 47 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-joseph-wright&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/textalk-an-interview-with-joseph-wright/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; (Sep 12 '12 at 13:58, 3 hours 45 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-peter-grill&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/11/textalk-an-interview-with-peter-grill/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4301/peter-grill&quot;&gt;Peter Grill&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 4 '12 at 20:02, 2 hours 23 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-ulrike-fischer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/12/textalk-an-interview-with-ulrike-fischer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2388&quot;&gt;Ulrike Fischer&lt;/a&gt; (Dec 13 '12 at 13:03, 2 days total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-marc-van-dongen&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2013/02/textalk-an-interview-with-marc-van-dongen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10274&quot;&gt;Marc van Dongen&lt;/a&gt; (Jan 22 '13 at 14:09, 35 days total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-leo-liu&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2013/04/textalk-an-interview-with-leo-liu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2674&quot;&gt;Leo Liu&lt;/a&gt; (Mar 28 '13 at 13:35, 2 hours 55 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-nicola-talbot&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2013/06/textalk-an-interview-with-nicola-talbot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19862&quot;&gt;Nicola Talbot&lt;/a&gt; (May 18 '13 at 19:48, 19 hours 43 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-khaled-hosny&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2013/09/textalk-an-interview-with-khaled-hosny/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/729&quot;&gt;Khaled Hosny&lt;/a&gt; (Jul 27 '13 at 18:37, 2 days total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2015/01/textalk-an-interview-with-paulo-cereda/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;Paulo Cereda&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 23 '14 at 14:59, 3 days total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/conversation/interview-with-mico&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgzIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chatroom Bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/textalk-an-interview-with-mico/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GsZaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5001/mico&quot;&gt;Mico Loretan&lt;/a&gt; (Feb 26 '16 at 13:01, 9 hours 10 minutes total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The lion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lion used in the TeXtalk logo is (poorly) drawn by Paulo as an homage to the TeX community. From now on, we will have a thematic logo for each interview. For example, the lion's wardrobe might have something related to the interviewee. Can you spot the theme? &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The interview&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, any TeX.SX member can be interviewed. The only requirement we ask is to provide the interviewee's (real) name for the indexing process in the TUG Interview Corner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;I want to suggest an interviewee&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy, go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41&quot;&gt;our TeX, LaTeX and Friends chatroom&lt;/a&gt; and write down your suggestions. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T18:36:35.743" Title="TeXtalk interviews" Tags="|discussion|community|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-12T06:48:54.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2545" CreationDate="2012-06-11T23:54:00.743" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our next interviewee:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bvoQ2.png&quot; alt=&quot;user&quot;&gt; To be announced&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2016-05-22T18:36:35.743" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T18:36:35.743" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-11T23:54:00.743" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2548" CreationDate="2012-06-13T19:33:12.030" Score="10" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure I understand moving and closing questions stuff, but I’m wondering if it really makes sense to close questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/59734/how-to-switch-from-mathjax-to-jqmath&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt; as off-topic? I mean the user didn’t even ask the question on tex.stackechange and it isn’t his fault that someone else, inappropriately, moved the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T19:53:43.233" Title="Closing migrated questions as off-topic" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2547" CreationDate="2012-06-13T19:53:43.233" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing a migrated question as off-topic 'rejects' the migration, sending any answers back to the 'parent' site and leaving it unlocked there. That is how the system is set up, and allows us to keep our site on topic. The suggestion made in the mod chat was to delete  entirely from our site, but I am not sure that is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T19:53:43.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2399" CreationDate="2012-06-14T05:34:30.613" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should work just fine now, &lt;em&gt;provided you enter the HTML into the editor's HTML tab&lt;/em&gt; - if you try to use the Visual editor on a post containing a definition list, WordPress &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; mangle embedded paragraphs. Even if you don't touch the list itself while editing. YMMV, but for best results paste it in when in HTML-mode and leave it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hkwZY.png&quot; alt=&quot;What a definition list should look like on tex.se now&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T05:34:30.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-14T06:27:04.250" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/em&gt; is criticized by linguists (because they regard it as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style#Criticism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;prescriptivist and outdated and occasionally incorrect&lt;/a&gt;), would it be possible to rename this badge? To me, this badge feels a bit like a prize awarded that carries the name of (say) a famous politician that has fallen into disrepute ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about &quot;Assistant Editor&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14996" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T06:27:04.250" Title="renaming of Strunk &amp; White badge" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2012-06-14T08:29:00.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-14T09:04:35.597" Score="12" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is an amazing resource for those who are interested in &lt;code&gt;tikz/pgf&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, the official manual is not as clear as it could be and some important piece of information are given here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd like to list the answers that could complete the manual. The added content to the manual could result in a link to the site, cited as further reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest on answer per answer. Please add the section of the manual where you think the content would fit most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, what I'm trying to do here won't be doable if this list is too large to maintain...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8425" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T20:20:48.623" Title="Which answers would be a valuable addition to the tikz/pgf manual to document existing features" Tags="|discussion|big-list|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2551" CreationDate="2012-06-14T13:34:14.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user discovering the &lt;code&gt;calc&lt;/code&gt; library may be interested in advanced usage of it (pros and cons). See Andrew's answer (and his warnings): &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29734/combining-and-5-in-tikz/29781#29781&quot;&gt;Combining |- and !.5! in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Section of the manual: Coordinate calculations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8425" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T13:34:14.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-15T16:44:39.320" Score="3" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2106/what-does-the-text-around-the-title-say&quot;&gt;What does the text around the title say?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The background in the header contains the Ring inscription (top left)... Is it by any chance taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tengwarscript.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tengwarscript&lt;/a&gt; package?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T16:44:39.320" Title="Tengwar in the background" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-06-18T01:33:03.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-17T20:40:28.467" Score="13" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally the 10K tools show up in my TeX.SE &quot;status bar&quot; showing the number of suggested flags to review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CU8fd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above indicates that there are 8 flags up for review. However, clicking it reveals only 4 flags up for review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WT911.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consistency between the actual and indicated is never the same. Perhaps a bug that can be fixed? This might be browser-dependent and/or rely on using browser cookies (not sure). I'm using Google Chrome 19.0.1084.56 m.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2012-06-17T20:40:28.467" Title="Review flags doesn't match actual flags" Tags="|bug|flagging|10k-tools|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2014-04-25T19:56:34.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2556" CreationDate="2012-06-18T07:25:08.750" Score="12" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps more of a personal question regarding moderation, but others might also have come across it. Hence its presence here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/60043/5764&quot;&gt;Switch to LyX Code Keyboard Shortcut&lt;/a&gt; had a simple answer, actually answered by the OP. It's simplicity led to it being flagged &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt; as having a &quot;low answer quality score&quot; and subsequently showed up in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools/&quot;&gt;10K-tools&lt;/a&gt; review. Since I followed the original commentary of the question and its subsequent answer, I flagged it as being an &quot;invalid flag&quot;; perhaps considering it my 2-cents worth of contributing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qk1Iw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as seen above, this was &quot;disputed&quot; by a moderator. What should one do in such cases? For example, I thought this was a valid use of an &quot;invalid flag&quot; flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T07:37:17.537" Title="Flagging automatically flagged posts as invalid" Tags="|discussion|support|moderation|flagging|10k-tools|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2555" CreationDate="2012-06-18T07:37:17.537" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've acted entirely correctly: the whole point of the 10k tools is to spread the load of keeping on top of issues beyond a small group of mods to everyone who has 'invested' heavily in the site. On the particular question you point to, I'm not quite sure what the 'disputed' is supposed to mean. Like you, I felt the answer was fine, with the shortness 'confusing' the automated tools. I dismissed the flag: presumably the &lt;em&gt;flag itself&lt;/em&gt; is therefore disputed, rather than your suggesting 'invalid'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T07:37:17.537" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2551" CreationDate="2012-06-20T06:42:44.360" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5494/is-there-a-tikz-style-for-putting-math-in-all-nodes&quot;&gt;first tikz question&lt;/a&gt; and still my most popular has an answer that, by analogy with several features that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; explained in the manual, should definitely be in the manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T06:42:44.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-20T09:08:52.717" Score="13" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;An emphasis gobbles the following space (or does not add some needed additional space), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;text *text*  text &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;text&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;  text &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;text &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt;  text &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt;  text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can't use &lt;code&gt;\␣&lt;/code&gt; here...) Interestingly, at meta.stackexchange this does not happen. Is it possible to correct this, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;**&quot; is used automatically when the &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/awIsb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &quot;Emphasis &amp;lt;em&amp;gt; Ctrl+I&quot; button is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="16595" LastEditDate="2012-12-16T04:23:52.767" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T04:23:52.767" Title="Emphasis needs more space after it" Tags="|feature-request|bug|design|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2012-06-20T22:27:45.027" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d64R1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help this community grow!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10783" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:56:09.790" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T20:04:07.687" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-20T22:27:45.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2561" CreationDate="2012-06-21T11:17:24.570" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;The information seen on a users profile about the accounts - is there a certain interval for sync between the sites of stackexchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or when are latest changes synced to the other sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if I earn some reputation on &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; when is this information available on my profile on e.g. &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13401" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T18:52:48.880" Title="When are the stack exchange accounts synced?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2560" CreationDate="2012-06-21T18:52:48.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anywhere between 5 minutes and a day, depending on what's being synced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe most things sync on an hourly basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T18:52:48.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-22T04:05:46.943" Score="11" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;This does not affect the site usage, but could be a slight back-end improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On occasion, after evaluating suggested edits as a 10K user, my title bar shows -1 suggested edits &quot;remaining&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bwwyh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T04:05:46.943" Title="Incorrect number of suggested edits" Tags="|bug|suggested-edits|10k-tools|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2096" CreationDate="2012-06-22T10:19:03.630" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it looks like the old &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; badges have been revoked and new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/math-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;math-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;math-mode&lt;/a&gt; badges have been awarded; see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg?tab=badges&quot;&gt;egreg's profile&lt;/a&gt;, who interestingly even got his gold badge before the silver one, which again he got before the bronze one. Sorry about the lost date information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I think I'll put a question on meta.so to document this behavior, once the situation has stabilized. (Right now, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;badge list&lt;/a&gt; still show &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathmode&lt;/a&gt; badges, even though nobody has them anymore.)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put a feature request regarding the behavior of badges on renaming on meta.so: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/138854/162565&quot;&gt;Don&amp;#39;t revoke and reaward tag badges when the tag is renamed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T10:20:44.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2565" CreationDate="2012-06-22T12:11:23.323" Score="13" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/60812/beamer-tikz-generating-two-slides&quot;&gt;Beamer TikZ generating two slides&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questioner (apparently a new user) seems to have exactly the same username than me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YtP9F.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wonder how this is possible. Aren't usernames supposed to be unique?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3751" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T08:58:22.037" Title="Unique usernames?" Tags="|support|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2564" CreationDate="2012-06-22T12:13:33.130" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no requirement for unique user names: it is the ID which is unique. There is a presumption that people will avoid misleading names (this has come up before), but that is by convention not enforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T12:13:33.130" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3360" CreationDate="2012-06-22T16:32:04.223" Score="14" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;User &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/9467/forgiver&quot;&gt;Forgiver&lt;/a&gt; recently changed their name from Moderator (follow the discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2446/5764&quot;&gt;User named Moderator&lt;/a&gt;). While &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; on the site now reflects the updated user name wherever it's displayed (comments, old/new posts, etc) the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2448/5764&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; display (not the actual revision history) still uses the older/obsolete name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MOP16.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T04:15:24.890" Title="Name changes remain in revision history" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2568" CreationDate="2012-06-24T15:49:34.993" Score="11" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is probably not a big concern, but at the use list page &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/year/tex/2012-01-01?sort=reputationchange&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/29/year/tex/2012-01-01?sort=reputationchange&lt;/a&gt; my &quot;year reputation&quot; is larger than my &quot;total reputation&quot; (by 1 point). However, with other users it is even larger difference. Where do these &quot;extra points&quot; come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tohecz&#xA;#27 year rank&#xA;not previously ranked&#xA;5,680 total reputation&#xA;5,681 year reputation&#xA;&#xA;Claudio Fiandrino&#xA;#41 year rank&#xA;not previously ranked &#xA;3,925 total reputation&#xA;3,952 year reputation &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2012-06-25T22:17:51.210" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T22:17:51.210" Title="Total vs. year reputation?" Tags="|support|reputation|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2567" CreationDate="2012-06-24T16:29:54.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The total reputation is your current reputation, while the year reputation is the reputation you have earned/lost this year. Since you started out with a reputation of 1, they differ by one. People who had a prior active account on another SE site start with 101 reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know where the additional 26 difference comes from for Claudio. Maybe a rep recalc is in order for him (some deleted post or something). But only a mod or he himself can trigger a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;manual recalc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-24T16:29:54.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2601" CreationDate="2012-06-26T00:14:16.120" Score="12" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a small follow-up of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2096/4012&quot;&gt;Rename {mathmode} to {math-mode}&lt;/a&gt;. Don't worry, there aren't any badges for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/textmode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;textmode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;textmode&lt;/a&gt; yet &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;. The reasoning is once again that in regular writing the tag would be &lt;em&gt;text mode&lt;/em&gt;, so the space should be translated into a hyphen in the &quot;tagese&quot; language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T07:48:20.927" Title="Rename {textmode} to {text-mode}" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2571" CreationDate="2012-06-27T09:41:34.413" Score="19" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/61366/4918&quot;&gt;Use red!50!blue with \definecolor&lt;/a&gt; and shortly after asking I found that it’s a duplicate so I voted to close it as duplicate but I wonder what the community prefers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close the question as duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, do you think we should answer (own) duplicates with a CW answer to make a short solution fast findable for other users looking at a duplicated question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T10:28:04.343" Title="How to handle my duplicates" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2570" CreationDate="2012-06-27T09:59:32.797" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please vote to close as a duplicate. Only if it's really very similar, such as literally the same, it may be deleted. The reason is, that a duplicate which is different can still lead users to the original solution, if they search with keywords which don't match the original but match the duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A solution to the duplicate is not necessary. It's splitting the information or creating duplicate solutions. It would be better to improve the solution to the original question, such as making it more generic. The same applies to the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T10:28:04.343" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T10:28:04.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2627" CreationDate="2012-06-28T13:09:56.407" Score="15" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;'ello friends. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I would like to embed a video in a blog post. Sadly, I've been struggling with the Wordpress editor and some other spooky magic tags found in the WP documentation, but I had no luck so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent post of mine - &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/06/our-first-100k-user/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Our first 100k+ user&lt;/a&gt; - had a video accessible via link. IMHO it would look better if embedded in the post itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do understand that, for obvious reasons, some tags are disallowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe YouTube might have a better integration with WP, but I was thinking of a broader range of video services, like Vimeo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; I have nothing against YouTube, I just find it too noisy for my taste.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example I can think of is &lt;a href=&quot;http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/bringing-together-tex-users-online-from-usenet-to-web-2-0-and-beyond/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz's keynote on TUG 2011&lt;/a&gt;, made available by the awesome guys at River Valley TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One idea I've been thinking of (a new blog series) is a revisit of some great keynotes from TeX conferences. For example, I'm sure people would like to watch Frank Mittelbach talking about the LaTeX3 project and even witness the epicness of one of Bruno Le Floch's cakes. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to kindly ask our beloved community for feedback on this suggestion. It would be great to embed videos from several sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2014-11-18T20:33:29.717" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:33:29.717" Title="Embedded videos support for our blog" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="687" CreationDate="2012-06-28T16:17:50.910" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should have questions in languages other than English because it defies the system of knowledge management we have here. Should a question in English be closed if there is a duplicate in German already? Doesn't work, imho. Ideally, we want all the information for a particular problem in one place; this won't work out with multilingual contributions. The only language we &quot;expect&quot; our users to read and write to a certain degree is English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The approach outlined in the question is fine with me, i.e. if a question is really unclear because of language difficulties, and a user willing to help knows the native language of the OP, that other language can naturally be used for improving and clarifying the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T16:17:50.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="687" CreationDate="2012-06-28T17:17:56.433" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are quite a lot of lists and fora in German language. There is no disadvantage for Germans to ask questions in German there. Ulrike, who answered here, e.g. answers question on mrunix.de.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you accept German, where will you stop? Will you accept questions in cyrillic letters, or even in Chinese? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for all countries having a TUG, there is no need to bother people with non english questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like I didn't like Germans? No, being myself one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T17:17:56.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2231" CreationDate="2012-06-28T23:17:11.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get this anymore with Firefox 13.0.1 and Safari 5.1.7 on Windows 7. Does anybody still get the scroll bars? Unless they're related to the specific tags that are displayed, the problem seems to be solved to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T23:17:11.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="687" CreationDate="2012-06-29T06:35:21.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;[en] It is obvious that English be the language of communication tex.stackexchange and every question must have a translation (often a google translation) in the language of Shakespeare. But it seems equally important for the dissemination of TeX / LaTeX and to improve the search with google to let the author also formulate his question in its original language. I think we can trust the users tex.stackexchange to report abuse or misuse of charter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice that I use google to translate, but I agree that my text is taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fr] Il est bien évident que l'anglais doit être la langue de communication de tex.stackexchange, ainsi toute question posée doit avoir une traduction (souvent une google traduction) dans la langue de Shakespeare. Mais il me semble tout aussi important pour la diffusion de TeX/LaTeX et pour améliorer la recherche avec google de laisser l'auteur formuler aussi sa question dans sa langue originale. Je pense que l'on peut faire confiance aux utilisateurs de tex.stackexchange pour signaler des abus ou des détournements de charte.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vous noterez que j'utilise google pour traduire, mais que j'accepte que mon texte soit repris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5355" LastActivityDate="2012-06-29T06:35:21.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2577" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-30T09:14:27.827" Score="7" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;... because we prefer plural tags. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/color-profile&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;color-profile&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;color-profile&lt;/a&gt; ⇒ &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/color-profiles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;color-profiles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;color-profiles&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this tag isn't even necessary at all, as we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/color&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;color&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;color&lt;/a&gt;; in this case it could be deleted. However, I don't know enough about this area to judge that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T09:14:27.827" Title="Rename {color-profile} to {color-profiles} (or delete it?)" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-01T08:22:50.973" Score="13" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few questions flagged recently for deletion (for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/54132/pgfplots-i-do-not-know-the-key-tikz-nodes-near-coords-error#question&quot;&gt;pgfplots: I do not know the key &amp;#39;/tikz/nodes near coords&amp;#39; error&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44051/cross-referencing-with-amsthm-and-cleveref#question&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44051/cross-referencing-with-amsthm-and-cleveref#question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35189/cleveref-package-produces#question&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35189/cleveref-package-produces#question&lt;/a&gt;). These have all been closed as 'too localized', and the flag for deletion says something like 'of no interest to other people'. I can see this argument, but I can also see that these questions cover common pitfalls. Do we want to keep them, or should they be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T22:27:37.633" Title="Deleting questions marked as 'too localized' or 'not a real question'" Tags="|discussion|policy|closed-questions|deleting|too-localized|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2639" CreationDate="2012-07-01T12:11:39.853" Score="2" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; vote up for own questions, own answers and own everything else where voting or any kind of a counted positive commenting is applicable.  Theoretically, given that I won't rethink my personal attitude against self-voting, and no more answers than my own -- to own question(s) -- will be provided, this can lead to a question (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/61747/8272&quot;&gt;How to apply alternate row coloring in a longtable in LyX?&lt;/a&gt;) which will never receive an accepted answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is unlikely to happen for questions of high importance that concern a lot of people.  But does this really matter?  What about questions that won't gain much attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that all usefully answered questions, should be paired with accepted answers. This, however, is not a strong(er) argument for me to re-think my skepsis about not voting up for own posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be useful to give-away my voting right in this occasion to others? Maybe a mechanism could be activated and automatically accept an own answer to own question, if, this (own) answer has received some(?) votes by high-rep users (--who is considered a high-rep user anyway?) or committed tex.se users that have earned specific badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8272" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T00:15:41.927" Title="Own answers should be possible to be accepted after some(?) votes of commited tex.se users" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|accepting|answers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2012-07-01T12:11:40.337" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As clearly expressed in the question, I consider that some number of positive votes casted by committed tex.se users, could activate an accepting-answer mechanism when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;both answer and question belong to the same user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is strictly no up-vote from the OP for both own question and own answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question itself receives some minimum of up-votes (e.g. 10, regardless the reputation of the users)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no other answers are given to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in case other answers are given &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; they receive(d) less votes than the answer of the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;specific number of positive votes given by high(er)-rep users or users with specific badges (no clue yet which!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no flagging has been applied at any time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(more restrictions to think... ?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8272" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T12:11:40.337" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2012-07-01T14:02:18.137" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a good idea (not to mention it is unlikely to ever be implemented by the Stackexchange powers that be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, as has been mentioned in the comments, &lt;em&gt;accepting&lt;/em&gt; an answer is not the same as &lt;em&gt;upvoting&lt;/em&gt; an answer, so when you accept an answer (even your own) no vote it conferred. Consequently, you can't ever vote for your own answer, but you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; (and should) accept it if it is the answer that helped you. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1852/2693&quot;&gt;How do you accept an answer?&lt;/a&gt; for some more discussion on accepting answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, if there are multiple answers to a question, the answer with the most upvotes is not necessarily the best answer for you as the questioner (or generally). So any system that would automatically accept high voted answers is not a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, a new answer might be added later, and even with a few votes, this answer may well be one that you would like to accept, even though it has fewer votes.  Again, having any kind of automatic system would interfere with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the bottom line is: it's perfectly fine to accept your own answers, because you don't gain any reputation from doing so, but the site improves because accepted answers are a sign that the answer worked (at least for someone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T14:02:18.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2012-07-01T15:48:15.227" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much by definition you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; accept the answer that helped you the most. If that answer is your own answer then you should accept that. Thus your attitude against accepting your own answer is against the spirit of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you can never upvote your own question and won't get any +rep from accepting your own answer. You might however get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/14/self-learner&quot;&gt;self-learner badge&lt;/a&gt;. You might also have to wait some amount of time before being allowed to accept your own answer (this is to give others the chance to write better answers and to keep people from gaming the system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again: answering your own questions is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;explicitly encouraged&lt;/a&gt; and you should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; accept the answer that best solved your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T15:48:15.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-02T00:26:13.910" Score="11" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today a added information regarding &lt;code&gt;unimath-symbols&lt;/code&gt; to the top answer of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-symbol&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt;. @Speravir objected that I am significantly changing a non-CW question and should better add additional information as a separate answer instead. Instead of having a long discussion in the comments to that question, I'd like to discuss here how to treat that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Undoubtedly, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-symbol&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt; is one of the most important questions on this site. We link constantly to it, making it the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=faq&quot;&gt;top “faq-question“&lt;/a&gt;. Ideally such a question should have a canonical answer that contains everything one needs to know about it. Usually we do that by adding a CW summary answer, but unfortunately that question doesn't have one. (It is the 14th post¹ ever written on the site, so it is understandable that it wasn't handled in the best way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP of this question hasn't been around since last October, so we can't just add a CW answer now as it will never get accepted. The owner of the accepted answer is @Rebekah who last visited the site in May (so there is some hope that she can be reached if necessary). Nearly all of here reputation comes from this answer. The answer currently has 153 votes and the second highest answer has 42. So it will be very hard for any additional answer to rise to the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what should we do to improve this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make Rebekah's answer CW. (Will that rob her of nearly all her reputation?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Treat Rebehak's answer as CW without actually making it CW.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a new CW answer and try to gather enough upvote?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nothing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ If I haven't miscounted it is question number 8. As an interesting side note, the second question posted on TeX.SX is closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T09:01:06.533" Title="About the “How to look up a symbol” question" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2584" CreationDate="2012-07-02T07:10:06.517" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the problem with the edit. The key information was added by the OP, and the edit is enhancing it for a relatively small number of cases. Making an answer CW is about cases where the person posting the answer feels it's appropriate, for example when we convert someone's comments to an answer or when we are looking for a question without a single answer. In the case in question, there is a good answer and the information was provided by the person gaining the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T07:10:06.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2579" CreationDate="2012-07-02T08:46:42.620" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Removing content is something we've in general been very cautious about. In general, it's been used only for things which are either completely unreadable or which are identical duplicates (for example where a question is posted to StackOverflow and TeX-SX, and the SO one gets migrated to us). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments here are split, so I suggest that we only delete this type of question &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; there is a good question on the same topic. That probably requires appropriate questions/answers writing: writing the questions correctly will not be easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T08:46:42.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2584" CreationDate="2012-07-02T09:01:06.533" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also don't see any problems with that edit. I think Speravir's discussion is not applicable to TeX.SX since we are very lucky to have a community in which the members don't care too much rep points or anything alike. (I have just commented on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2580/own-answers-should-be-possible-to-be-accepted-after-some-votes-of-commited-te&quot;&gt;Own answers should be possible to be accepted after some(?) votes of commited tex.se users&lt;/a&gt; in a similar vein.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's NOT relevant having 2000 points from a &lt;em&gt;&quot;lucky&quot;&lt;/em&gt; answer, on the contrary, I think it's fun to have such answers with unforeseen popularity. Moreover, Caramdir is far from the need of rep points so no damage is done. There are many other examples where some edit of user A leads to a lot of reputation points for the original answerer B. So is this a bad thing? I really don't think so. This is one of the reasons why I stopped (or even canceled accounts) spending time on other SX sites just because of this &lt;em&gt;justice in the name of rep points&lt;/em&gt; attitude. We know the users who are masters of TeX and we don't care who is having how many points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank Mittelbach has 14k and I have 17k! &lt;em&gt;Gedaada here...&lt;/em&gt; :-)&#xA;So, the reputation system does not represent the mastery on the subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy that we are not counting coins and also I wish we stay that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T09:01:06.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2589" CreationDate="2012-07-02T10:31:53.023" Score="18" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see the edit history of this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/61459/9467&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without intending to insult other languages, should we eliminate the translation in other languages ​​that may not be necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T00:48:05.353" Title="Should we eliminate the translation in other languages ​​that may not be necessary?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2012-07-02T11:01:38.963" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/693/11002&quot;&gt;the community opinion (link)&lt;/a&gt;, I think that the site should be kept as English-only as possible. Conclusion: The moderator edit was correct IMO and the answer should be exclusively English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T11:01:38.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2012-07-02T17:10:35.630" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;[fr] ne peut-on pas imaginer que le forum soit le plus ouvert possible, je trouve que ma manière de procéder permet de [langue originale]  et [english]  permet de faire progresser aussi bien les utilisateurs anglais, que le reste du monde et améliore les recherches en langue étrangère avec Google&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[en] can we not imagine that the forum is as open as possible, I find my own way of proceeding allows [original language] and [english] will advance both English users, the rest of the world and improves research in a foreign language with Google&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fr] maintenant si vous pensez que mes commentaires doivent être effacés, faites donc. Moi je continuerai à répondre aux questions &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[en] Now if you think my comments should be deleted so do it. I shall continue to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5355" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T17:10:35.630" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2012-07-02T18:05:39.180" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is your activity or behavior on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T18:05:39.180" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-02T18:05:39.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2551" CreationDate="2012-07-02T20:20:48.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a TikZ question, but, since they are written by the same group, here is a Beamer question that would be useful to have addressed in the Beamer user guide: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6584/how-do-i-add-custom-beamer-actions-that-change-an-argument&quot;&gt;How do I add custom beamer actions that change an argument?&lt;/a&gt;  It seems that the description of custom actions is incomplete, and possibly incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T20:20:48.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2619" CreationDate="2012-07-03T16:03:53.900" Score="5" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a Pundit badge, so I must have 10 comments &amp;mdash; somewhere &amp;mdash; with 5 votes each.  I'm curious what they are, since I have been leaving more comments lately, except that none of my recent ones has more than one or two votes.  Of course, looking at my comments under the &quot;activity&quot; tab of my page shows only the title and not the votes.  Is there any way to figure this out short of doing a linear search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T14:42:28.327" Title="Which comments got me the Pundit badge?" Tags="|support|comments|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2012-07-03T16:12:08.250" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;[ar] وأعتقد أننا ينبغي أن تكون مفتوحة قدر الإمكان. على وجه الخصوص هذه المناقشة يجب أن تكون متاحة للمتحدثين من جميع اللغات.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ca] Crec que hem de ser el més obert possible. En particular, aquest debat ha de ser accessible per als parlants de qualsevol llengua.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[cy] Yr wyf yn meddwl y dylem fod mor agored â phosibl. Yn arbennig y drafodaeth hon mae angen i fod yn hygyrch i siaradwyr pob iaith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[de] Ich denke, wir sollten so offen wie möglich sein. Insbesondere sollte diese Diskussion für Sprecher aller Sprachen zugänglich sein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[el] Νομίζω ότι πρέπει να είναι όσο το δυνατόν πιο ανοικτή. Ειδικότερα, η συζήτηση αυτή πρέπει να είναι προσπελάσιμες για τους ομιλητές όλων των γλωσσών.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[en] I think we should be as open as possible. In particular this discussion needs to be accessible for speakers of all languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[eo] Mi kredas ke ni devus esti kiel malfermita ebla. En aparta ĉi diskuto bezonas esti alirebla por parolantoj de ĉiuj lingvoj.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[es] Creo que debemos ser lo más abierto posible. En particular, este debate tiene que ser accesible para los hablantes de cualquier lengua.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fa] من فکر می کنم که ممکن است ما باید به عنوان باز. به خصوص این بحث باید برای سخنرانان از همه زبانها در دسترس است.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fi] Mielestäni meidän pitäisi olla mahdollisimman avoimia. Erityisesti tässä keskustelussa on oltava saatavilla kaikkien kielten puhujien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fr] Je pense que nous devrions être aussi ouvert que possible. En particulier, cette discussion doit être accessible pour les locuteurs de toutes les langues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[he] אני חושב שאנחנו צריכים להיות פתוחים ככל האפשר. בפרט הדיון הזה צריך להיות נגיש עבור דוברי השפות.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[hi] मुझे लगता है कि हम के रूप में संभव के रूप में खुला होना चाहिए. विशेष रूप में इस चर्चा के लिए सभी भाषाओं के बोलने वालों के लिए सुलभ हो की जरूरत है.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ht] Mwen panse ke nou ta dwe kòm louvri ke posib. An patikilye sa a diskisyon bezwen aksesib pou moun ki pale tout lang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[is] Ég held að við ættum að vera eins opinn og mögulegt er. Þetta á sérstaklega við umfjöllun þarf að vera aðgengileg fyrir hátalarana á öllum tungumálum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[it] Penso che dovremmo essere il più trasparenti possibile. In particolare, questa discussione deve essere accessibile per i parlanti di tutte le lingue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ja] 私たちは可能な限りオープンであるべきだと思います。特に、この議論は、すべての言語の話者のためにアクセスする必要があります。&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ko] 나는 우리가 최대한 공개해야한다고 생각. 특히이 토론은 모든 언어의 스피커에 대한 접근이 있어야합니다.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[la] Sicut patet maxime puto. In particulari hoc disputatione indiget ad esse pervia enim disertis omnes linguis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[nl] Ik denk dat we zo open mogelijk te zijn. In het bijzonder, moet deze discussie toegankelijk voor sprekers van alle talen zijn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[pl] Myślę, że powinniśmy być jak najbardziej otwarte. W szczególności ta dyskusja musi być dostępne dla mówiących różnymi językami.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ptb] Acredito que devamos operar da forma mais aberta possível. Em particular, esta discussão precisa estar acessível a quem fala qualquer idioma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ru] Я думаю, что мы должны быть максимально открытыми. В частности, эта дискуссия должна быть доступной для говорящих на всех языках.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ta] நான் நாம் முடிந்தவரை திறந்த இருக்கவேண்டும் என்று நான் நினைக்கிறேன். குறிப்பாக இந்த விவாதம் அனைத்து மொழிகளின் பேச்சாளர்கள் அணுகவேண்டும் இருக்க வேண்டும்.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[te] నేను మేము వీలైనంత ఓపెన్ ఉండాలి అనుకుంటున్నాను. ముఖ్యంగా ఈ చర్చ అన్ని భాషలు మాట్లాడేవారు అందుబాటులో ఉండాలి.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[th] ผมคิดว่าเราควรจะเป็นเปิดเป็นไปได้ โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งการอภิปรายนี้จะต้องสามารถเข้าถึงได้สำหรับลำโพงของทุกภาษา&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[tr] Olabildiğince açık olmamız gerektiğini düşünüyorum. Özellikle bu tartışmanın diğer dilleri konuşan tüm insanlar için erişilebilir olması gerekiyor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[zh] 我认为我们应该尽可能开放。特别是这次讨论需要访问所有语言的扬声器。&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[may] Saya fikir kita harus seterbuka mungkin. Secara khusus, perbincangan ini perlu boleh diakses untuk penutur semua bahasa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(My apologies to speakers of the ~3000-6000 languages that I left out or that Google translate doesn't know. Also apologies for any horrible translations. Please improve and add translations.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, without proper software support, multilingual posts add a lot of clutter to the site. The SE approach partially works because they distilled Q&amp;amp;A down to the essentials, so that information is easy to find. Doubling (tripling, ...) post length makes it a lot harder to find what one is looking for and will also make it less likely that someone reads the question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2012-09-11T00:48:05.353" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T00:48:05.353" CommentCount="14" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-13T08:31:20.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2012-07-04T08:51:22.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if the title of this question is your real concern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Own answers should be possible to be accepted after some(?) votes of commited tex.se users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the answer is simple: You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; accept your own answer, just you have to wait 2 days before the system allows you to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-07-04T08:51:22.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2012-07-04T16:00:53.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proposal, describing four cases and how to treat them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer in English only:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;necessary and sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer in English plus, &lt;em&gt;within the same answer&lt;/em&gt;, some French (f.ex.):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Feel free. Nothing wrong with improving findability, cross-lingual included. (When I say 'some', I'm thinking of French keywords, or a French copy of a sentence, or even a complete translation.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer in mixed French and English:&lt;/strong&gt; No, that's only useful to us bilinguals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One answer in French, one answer in English, both describing the same thing:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;No, let's try to keep everything in one answer. (One answer per solution, one solution per answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer only in French:&lt;/strong&gt; unfortunately not. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When one encouters case 3 or 4 or 5 one can edit and/or ask the author/anyone for a translation, whatever means of feedback is one's personal style, to indicate that answers on this site should be in English at least. If nobody bothers to translate it and the answer remains in not-English, it's probably best to flag it for deletion as &quot;not welcome in our community&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there can be a tex-fr.se sister site, but I don't think it's a good idea to mix languages within one site — it'll lead to too much noise for everybody but the bilinguals among us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2229" LastEditorUserId="2229" LastEditDate="2012-07-12T16:55:13.177" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T16:55:13.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2598" CreationDate="2012-07-05T16:05:28.780" Score="12" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder what influences the order of answers that has the same score. It mostly happens when two users post answers moreorless simultaneously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-07-05T16:14:35.600" Title="Order of answers with the same score (usually zero)" Tags="|support|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2597" CreationDate="2012-07-05T16:14:35.600" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The order of answers with the same number of votes is random and will change every time you load the page. The accepted answer however is always on top, except if it is a self-accepted answer, where the accept flag is ignored for the order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-07-05T16:14:35.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-06T01:17:47.337" Score="17" ViewCount="844" Body="&lt;p&gt;I improved two posts today to fix several capitalization errors and both were rejected with the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to keep barbara's style&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/2889&quot;&gt;is there a &quot;size-independent&quot; method for overlaying two symbols to form a composite?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/2888&quot;&gt;how to suppress &quot;Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) ... while \output is active&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would someone reject these clear improvements?  Is this user being allowed to write in their own personal style for a reason?  I was under the impression that all Stack Exchange sites had the same &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#editing&quot;&gt;policy towards editing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4773" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T06:07:18.917" Title="Why were my edits rejected?" Tags="|discussion|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2012-07-06T03:52:08.487" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; case, yes, Barbara Beeton uses an exclusive no-caps style to distinguish her personal posts from anything official representing the American Mathematical Society.  See this question for some more discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2097/2693&quot;&gt;Respecting poster&amp;#39;s style&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T03:52:08.487" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2569" CreationDate="2012-07-06T07:44:38.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I renamed the tag, now its name is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-mode&lt;/a&gt;, similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/math-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;math-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;math-mode&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvi-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvi-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvi-mode&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/org-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;org-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;org-mode&lt;/a&gt;, which we already have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-07-06T07:48:20.927" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T07:48:20.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2603" CreationDate="2012-07-06T08:03:26.337" Score="5" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visiting a user activity page and right-clicking the corresponding comment hyperlink to copy the url seem to be cumbersome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there the simplest way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there will not be a permanent link because the user can delete his/her comment later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-07-06T08:26:03.720" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T08:26:03.720" Title="What is the simplest way to copy the url of a comment?" Tags="|support|comments|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2602" CreationDate="2012-07-06T08:14:00.910" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right-click the time stamp of the comment and select &quot;copy link URL&quot; (or the like):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2lNj0.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Could someone provide screen shots in the rest of the languages, in order to comply with our new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2594/4012&quot; title=&quot;Should we eliminate the translation in other languages ​​that may not be necessary?&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;all languages&lt;/em&gt; policy&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English by the God Particle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JNiDC.png&quot; alt=&quot;English screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T08:25:48.213" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2606" CreationDate="2012-07-06T10:30:21.657" Score="10" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to write some hints and issues regarding &lt;strong&gt;Altermundus'&lt;/strong&gt; answer in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42812/3d-bodies-in-tikz/62339#62339&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. It would be quite longish and I'd like to include pictures and a list, so I have no idea what to do aboout it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's too long and complicated for a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not an answer, so I don't want to post it as such&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;appending stuff to his answer feels wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;appending it to the question feels even worse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think is the &lt;em&gt;(right / best / least bad)&lt;/em&gt; way of doing this? Is there any standard policy regarding this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T04:30:13.717" Title="Writing a list of issues to a given answer (with lists and embedded pictures)" Tags="|discussion|editing|comments|answers|policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2608" CreationDate="2012-07-06T10:32:46.880" Score="8" ViewCount="1337" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accept that this question is similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1201/do-not-do-this-tag&quot;&gt;&quot;do not do this&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but please hear me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX is, at least in part, about &lt;em&gt;beautiful&lt;/em&gt; typesetting. Now, although &lt;em&gt;beauty&lt;/em&gt; is subjective, there are a number of commonly-agreed things that are generally considered &lt;em&gt;ugly&lt;/em&gt;, and I believe that one of the measures of TeX.SX's &quot;improvement of the Internet&quot; is a question of beauty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beauty-alert&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beauty-alert&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beauty-alert&lt;/a&gt; tag would be to act as a flag to tell the questioner that what she is trying to do may result in something that is less than beautiful -- a sort of &quot;beware of what you wish for&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I don't insist on that tag name. I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; think it a bit better than my original &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blecch&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blecch&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blecch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ugliness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ugliness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ugliness&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ugly-alert&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ugly-alert&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ugly-alert&lt;/a&gt; ideas, as it looks positive, rather than negative, but I'm open to suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag description text would need careful crafting. Here's a starter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What you are trying to do may be possible with TeX, but many,&#xA;  experienced, typographers think that the results are less beautiful&#xA;  than they otherwise might be. Please reconsider why you need to do&#xA;  this; but, of course, go ahead if you believe you're right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T14:29:45.337" Title="Do we need a [beauty-alert] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2604" CreationDate="2012-07-06T10:42:52.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make it a meta question, possibly CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T10:42:52.077" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2097" CreationDate="2012-07-06T11:02:03.880" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The overall quality of the site shouldn't suffer just for the sake of preserving one individual poster's style.  If I decide to write all my posts in ALL CAPS would that be okay?  How about 133t 5p34k or Spanish?  What about if I decide that using a signature or tagline is a part of my personal style?  No, none of those things are acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By rejecting and rolling back &lt;em&gt;perfectly good&lt;/em&gt; edits you're discouraging users from actively improving the quality of your site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4773" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T11:02:03.880" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2605" CreationDate="2012-07-06T11:07:44.403" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to the linked question, I vote against such a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's consider some points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it a meaningful category?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is is useful for filtering or look-up?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which tag features to we need? Such as following the tag RSS feed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea of a beauty-alert tag would be to act as a flag to tell the&#xA;  questioner that what she is trying to do may result in something that&#xA;  is less than beautiful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the intention is just using it as a sign. So we might use a sign, a colorful symbol in the question perhaps, but not an additional tag - because tags are more than just a word list below the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T11:07:44.403" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2012-07-06T14:18:52.103" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please note that writing all lowercase is indeed a dedicated style of writing rooted in bauhaus tradition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://adrenaline-rest.deviantart.com/art/Bauhaus-Typography-Essay-84407194&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bauhaus Typography Essay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Bayer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia on Herbert Bayer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinschreibung&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia on &quot;Kleinschreibung&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.typefacedesign.org/resources/dissertation/2004/WolfgangHomola_dissertation.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dissertation about bauhaus typography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several books, for instance on typography and design, published in all lowercase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.typografie.de/product_info.php?products_id=138&amp;amp;language=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;typographie&quot; by Otl Aicher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this might all be a bit german-centric, I think it could be concluded that writing all lowercase can be a personal typographic style, even with good reasoning behind it and not simple spelling errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind, I'm not advocating this style, just saying that as long as no real improvement of the content of a post is achieved by &quot;correcting&quot; the &quot;spelling errors&quot; in an all-lowercase text, the edit might be rejected as carrying no improvement at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typography is part of this community's everyday life, after all. Consider whether you would also &quot;correct&quot; any seemingly-misspelled in-words at a computer gaming or role playing community site if inventing &quot;new&quot; words were traditional to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastEditorUserId="12850" LastEditDate="2012-07-06T16:31:53.247" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T16:31:53.247" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-06T21:03:07.430" Score="9" ViewCount="1544" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This concerns the very nice answer of &lt;strong&gt;Altermundus&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42812/3d-bodies-in-tikz/62339#62339&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. I asked here on meta how to post this, and we agreed upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2604/writing-a-list-of-issues-to-a-given-answer-with-lists-and-embedded-pictures&quot;&gt;posting it as CW on meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, very nice answer, especially that you try an automated version. I especially like the sphere. But there are some issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You connect the upper and lower face of the truncated cone by a line connecting both at their 0° and 180° position (as did I in my answer, ahem, ahem). This is okay for cylinders and speep truncated cones, but not for flat ones: &lt;code&gt;\tikz   \tkzTruncatedCone{5}{0}{1};&lt;/code&gt; will look like this:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w36IG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try to math out an automated way (probably &lt;strong&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/strong&gt; can help :D, I remember a great cylinder answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;STRIKE&gt;also, the lines are inconsistent: the upper circle is gray, the sides black, and the lower circle is half/half.&lt;/STRIKE&gt; This can be solved by first doing all the shadings and fillings, then the drawings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;STRIKE&gt;While the lower shading looks good, the upper one looks bad, it makes me think of an open tin can, not really a cylinder. I'll head for the kitchen and look for a can of beans or something to come up with a suggestion.&lt;/STRIKE&gt; Giving the top a lighter shading does the trick, something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WwHLd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;STRIKE&gt;I both like and dislike your cuboid approach: While its a nice idea to make certain sets of sides lighter, I dont like it to be left/right. Do you plan to make this customizable, so that I can choose the colors (or opacities) for all three sets independantly?&lt;/STRIKE&gt; I did it, looks like this:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hZ4DB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;STRIKE&gt;The upper part of the cone doesn't teally work:&lt;/STRIKE&gt; It can be improved by a left-to-right shading:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tq8KT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wpEn1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;STRIKE&gt;I think it could use some shading of sorts, but I don't know yet how.&lt;/STRIKE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this helps, I'll let you know if I come up with something for the truncated cone edge problem. The code for my improvement suggesions in in my answer to the question linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T22:58:45.227" Title="Some issues and possible improvements &quot;3D bodies in TikZ&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-06T21:11:20.093" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2012-07-07T03:38:05.513" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This subject was, of course, already discussed thoroughly in the question linked by Alan Munn, to which you (Bill the Lizard) already responded.  The other responses were well-considered meditations on policy implications by moderators current and former, and as such I don't think any better opinions can be obtained in response to this new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;speaking only for myself, though, i think that this question is not written in the same spirit as those answers. [sic] The following comment worries me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With all due respect, this isn't Barbara Beeton's site. It's run by a community.  If perfectly good edits are going to be rejected and rolled back on a whim, then I'm discouraged from contributing any more of my time worrying about the quality of posts on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ultimatum does not suit you nor us, coming from a moderator of Stack Overflow who may indeed have some say in whether this site gets its share of concern from those who run the larger network (and I don't mean its &quot;community&quot;).    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I don't like the idea that a rules dispute can be &lt;em&gt;invented&lt;/em&gt; by someone with sufficient pull in the administration (whether through rank or, ironically, mere reputation) and the book thrown at an individual whose contributions are not, in fact, really disorderly.  There is a parallel here with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/585/questions-on-signature-policy-and-interface-issue&quot;&gt;similar episode&lt;/a&gt; on math.SX that saw expressed some rather coldblooded sentiments, such as &quot;do we really want this user?&quot;.  I do not want to see this kind of zero-sum outcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address your specific question: only in the strictest sense is it true that all stackexchange sites have the same policy towards editing, or anything.  Each site is, by intention, self-moderated, and they all have their own minor variations in culture.  I always get culture shock going to english.SX or math.SX, and especially stackoverflow, and I personally can't abide scifi.SX despite being a fan of the subject &amp;mdash; these are not things subject to uniform rules despite the uniform expectation of good conduct.  In this case we have not been coercing one user into line over a matter of personality, and in all cases the network doesn't coerce one site into line over a matter of culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T03:38:05.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2604" CreationDate="2012-07-07T04:30:13.717" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could make it a question like (Any suggestion for improvement to xxx), and provide a self-answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise I don't see why adding another answer is so bad -- it may not be an answer on its own, but along with the other answer there this certainly seems as if it would compliment it.  Worst case you get some extra rep that you may feel that is not deserved. But I think if you have helped others then you  deserve it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43621/bounding-box-is-larger-than-expected-when-drawing-a-curved-path/43624#43624&quot;&gt;Bounding box is larger than expected when drawing a curved path&lt;/a&gt;.  I clearly marked it as a non-answer. However, based on the number of votes, I am assuming that it helped some users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T04:30:13.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2012-07-07T09:28:44.547" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7uxp1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="19356" LastEditDate="2012-07-09T06:07:18.917" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T06:07:18.917" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-07T09:36:25.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2012-07-07T11:16:31.743" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;My humble attempt. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'd like to say that I really admire your work in the main SO site. I learned a lot from your answers. It's an honour to have a SO fellow user here. Make yourself at home, I really hope you enjoy this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, don't take my next lines personal. It's just some humble thoughts about the way I see this specific situation. And I'd like to share them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO TeX.sx behaves quite differently from other SO sites. We don't have for example the incoming traffic that StackOverflow has, neither too much offtopic questions. Jeff Attwood once said that no one would come here by accident, since this community is highly specific and technical. Since the traffic is slow, we can better deal with everything, say, a flagged post, a &quot;poor&quot; answer, an offtopic thread, and so on. I think that this community is very friendly, that is, everybody is really eager to help, to make knowledge better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick overview to spot the difference: the first &lt;code&gt;101k&lt;/code&gt; rep user in SO has downvoted 857 posts; our &lt;code&gt;101k&lt;/code&gt; user has downvoted only 13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since every site is community-driven, we try to adapt things to our reality and not the other way around. Our methods would probably not work in other sites, say Math.SX or Spanish.SX. Sometimes, when I hear the words &quot;SE policy&quot; said in the wild, the walking hammers from &lt;em&gt;The Wall&lt;/em&gt; come to my mind. Don't get this wrong, but I feel it sounds like an imposition: &lt;em&gt;share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.&lt;/em&gt; I prefer to look at the SE policy as an inspiration for communities to work with a predefined set of suggestions and, as time goes by, work on their own methods, adapted to their own reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, back to the editing question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO your suggestions were valid - even Joseph mentioned he edited some questions in the same line in the past. But, at the risk of sounding unfair, I think the ultimate final decision lies with the author. Even though I think posts should be made clear - a nice formatting or proper spelling - I think we need to respect the author's decision on keeping things as they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the SE network as an awesome Q&amp;amp;A knowledge base, a new tendency. But I fear that people misunderstand the real concept and see threads as collaborative wiki. If it's a wiki, everything is fine, because you are collaboratively editing stuff. The Q&amp;amp;A model is based on people asking and answering questions. The site footer gives us a hint:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user contributions licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we take a closer look on these links, we find the following statement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Attribution - You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we edit things from other users, we are signing a risky contract: we are somehow influencing the author's contribution - for better or for worse. But note that it's up to the author to decide if the modifications to his/her answer should really take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, one might say that some modifications are towards improving spelling and grammar. Again, I think they are valid, but we can't impose these changes if the user explicitly rejects it. A silly example: we Brazilians are fond of commas - don't quote me on that. Portuguese usually has way longer sentences than their English counterparts, so we use a lot of commas. Sometimes, when I write in English - my poor English - I tend to add commas as my heart desires. Everybody can go and edit my posts - &quot;The number of commas is too damn high!&quot;. Let's say I want to fight for my commas, so I rollback the edits. Am I wrong for rolling back a post to a previous state? I don't think so, even if the reasons for the edit are valid. The rollback feature exists for a reason, and I think the author has the right to take whatever decision on his/her own answers, no matter if there are valid arguments to support the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same line of thought is for deleted answers. Spoiler alert: 10k+ users can see deleted answers. Let's say I have a very nice answer with 10+ upvotes, and for some reason, I decide to delete it. Someone might say, &quot;the answer is very good, let's undelete it for a greater good&quot;. Even if the reason is noble, I still think it's the author decision. It's a pretty &quot;aggressive&quot; way of trying to make things better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I believe your edits were very good, but it's up to the author to decide if the changes should take effect. I really enjoy reading Barbara's answers, and I always learn from her TeX expertise, besides of course the proper spelling and grammar. People that already know her style rollback edits just to antecipate the inevitable - she'd rollback the question anyway. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; And she has the right to do it, after all, it's her contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we edit posts, we make sure to leave a note to the author of what we did - we already have a set of predefined &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;text building blocks&lt;/a&gt;. It's a way to establish a good relationship with our fellow users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't take the rejected edits too seriously. Barbara is a great person - I really hope to meet her in person someday in a TUG conference and lure her to sign my TeXbook &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; - and the lowercases are there for a reason. And I must confess, seeing one of Barbara's answer with the proper capitalization gives me shivers, &quot;Jesus Christ, the AMS has spoken!&quot; &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I hope you consider rejoining this community in the future. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T11:16:31.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-07T11:32:54.347" Score="4" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a loving user of &lt;code&gt;TeX-based&lt;/code&gt; typesetting systems, being also interested in the integration of high-quality graphic content in technical and scientific documentation, I resort daily to the facilities provided by &lt;code&gt;PSTricks&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;TikZ&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been wondering for quite a while if the beautiful headers in this website have been laid out using those packages and, if so, if the source code is available or if some hints could be provided on how the engraving-like look has been achieved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that this can be done with GUI-based vector graphics software (Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator and those of their ilk), but I want to do all my graphic work embedded in the programming &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; + &lt;code&gt;PostScript&lt;/code&gt; joint system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My congratulations and gratitude for the website layout, contents and activity.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15952" LastEditorUserId="15952" LastEditDate="2012-07-07T12:45:33.277" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T12:45:33.277" Title="On the website headers design" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2012-07-07T13:10:44.010" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is kind of unfortunate to happen since the whole issue is about the affinity to TeX.SX and our slightly different medium for diversity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I too wrote an edit for barbara's previous answers and it was rolled back a long time ago. I also wondered about this &lt;em&gt;weird&lt;/em&gt; rollback and asked it on the chat and it was explained to me quickly. The reason is well-known if you are familiar with the people on TUG and previous interviews about them. Also you can find it in the about box of barbarabeeton&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;NOTE: answers to questions will be posted in lowercase unless i am answering in an official capacity for my employer. The reasons are given in the last item in an interview on the TeX Users Group web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the problem is whether barbarabeeton is entitled to impose her own style over the house style of SX. Well, on other sites the answer seems to be a definitive no, however, TeX.SX has a really fun equilibrium point which is the main reason I hang out here. There is a big space for improvisation and other eccentricities unless it clearly goes against the site rules. ( I still think it's a little odd to have a policy too but still no damage is done by doing so. )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tend to show a lot of respect to other users, this includes Bill the Lizard no matter of rep points level etc., but we have also a great way of negotiating the actions. Any user can come to the chat room and criticize, question or even vent the frustration as happened previously many times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it might seem a little unjust to have one user to get away with their own style but it's really really not the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that, there is a related but not connected issue which is the correction of LaTeX and friends' names, TikZ etc. capitalization. I do it mostly for the Google search engines but probably our mods can give more info about such consistent correction style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T13:10:44.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-07T14:33:54.513" Score="5" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1477/should-we-clean-up-obsolete-comments&quot;&gt;Should we clean up obsolete comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a comment discussion appears under a question or answer. This quite often ends in some edit that covers the comments. Is it good or bad? Is it just tolerated or really welcomed? Should one clean the comment area this way often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I usually add a comment like: &lt;em&gt;I think that couple of previous comments can be deleted.&lt;/em&gt; Then I delete my previous comments and after the second person deletes his, I finally delete this last comment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T14:40:34.083" Title="Deleting comments" Tags="|discussion|comments|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-07-08T12:03:49.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2617" CreationDate="2012-07-07T14:40:34.083" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are in general intended to 'add value' to a question or answer. Often, they are used to obtain clarification or to point to a potential improvement to an answer. If this occurs, the comments are then no longer needed. As the StackExchange approach is not a 'discussion forum', comments which have ceased to be 'useful' can reasonably be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T14:40:34.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2012-07-07T14:42:28.327" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As said in the comments, there are SQL queries on data.SX for this, for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/71678/my-most-popular-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/71678/my-most-popular-comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/71222/whats-my-pundit-badge-progress&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/71222/whats-my-pundit-badge-progress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data are cached so the votes appear there delayed. I'm afraid it's not easily possible to get the up-to-date information instantly since caching is necessary to avoid server overloads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T14:42:28.327" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-07T14:42:28.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2621" CreationDate="2012-07-07T18:24:17.047" Score="4" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1192/how-do-i-mark-code-blocks&quot;&gt;How do I mark code blocks?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the shortcut for spacing a block of code, picked from some TeX editor, so that they are spaced four spaces? (as opposed to moving each line by four spaces)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T20:40:18.863" Title="How to move a block of code by 4 spaces" Tags="|support|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-07-08T19:45:02.333" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2012-07-07T20:40:18.863" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can highlight the block of code and press the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button or use &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bD8fB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that code formatting requires additional formatting when used in conjunction with a list. For more on this, see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2529/5764&quot;&gt;Is there a problem with code formatting?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1558/5764&quot;&gt;Why do code snippets not work after lists?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Insert an additional 4 spaces for each level inside the list that you want the code to be represented at;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Insert an HTML comment &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (or similar) to break the list-code structure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a general discussion on code in posts, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1192/5764&quot;&gt;How do I mark code blocks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T20:40:18.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2625" CreationDate="2012-07-08T11:03:15.087" Score="29" ViewCount="546" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time we get questions which are due to clear bugs. In some cases it may be possible to suggest a fix: this is most likely for macro code. On the other hand, some of these questions are essentially impossible for us to work around, particularly if they are bugs in binary material such as editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important that we have a position on when these questions should be left open, and when they should be closed, and also how they should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T05:41:08.190" Title="Questions which are bug reports" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2626" CreationDate="2012-07-08T11:06:00.400" Score="16" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time we get questions which seem to be feature requests for specific packages, editors and so on. In some cases the appropriate authors are active on the site and may report back that they have added the feature (for example, I do this sometimes for &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/siunitx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;siunitx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).  On the other hand, many of these cases cannot be handled in this way, either because they will not be added or because the authors are not active here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important that we have a position on when these questions should be left open, and when they should be closed, and also how they should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T21:14:29.250" Title="Questions which are feature requests" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2622" CreationDate="2012-07-08T12:03:48.257" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bug reports about (La)TeX packages etc. should not be posted on this site, but reported to the package author using the method (e.g. email address, bug tracker) given in the package manual. Because the bug might be fixed in the next version of the package, the &quot;question&quot; is IMHO &quot;too localized&quot; in time and should be closed as such with a note that bug reports should not be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an author of several packages I always find it strange when bug reports are posted on &lt;code&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/code&gt;, here or a different list or place, but the same person doesn't bother to contact the author directly. That's not really the way to do it. First, the author might not see the post, because he/she doesn't read the site or list, at all or just not that day. Second, it's much easier to track issues using an specific email folder or bug tracker, than to have the reports all over the Internet. Finally, I don't find it good behavior to not include the author explicitly while posting issues in public. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for direct bug reports. Posts about issues with packages which are not easily recognizable as bugs, but turn out to be bugs during the solving process, are a different matter. Then a workaround with a request to contact the package author might be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T12:03:48.257" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2622" CreationDate="2012-07-08T16:27:35.750" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5274875#5274875&quot;&gt;some discussion in the chat (link)&lt;/a&gt; I guess I can re-formulate the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Case 1. User clearly knows that it is a bug.&lt;/strong&gt; Then the question should be closed as &lt;em&gt;not a real question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Case 2. User is not aware it is a bug.&lt;/strong&gt; Then he really wants to find a solution. In such case, I believe that the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is basically a bug in the package/program and as such, it should be reported using the way explained in its manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a legitimate answer to the question. I think that unless you can be sure that a package author corrects the bug soon (e.g. because he's active here), the question need not to be marked as too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2012-07-08T18:50:47.567" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T18:50:47.567" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2623" CreationDate="2012-07-08T19:20:32.390" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is asking for a way to do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;, and it turns out that &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; can only be achieved by adding a new feature to a package (or using some undesirable workaround), an answer to that effect should be posted, asking the OP to file a feature request on the package site and edit the answer to include a link to that feature request. Ideally, they should also follow up on whether the feature request has been declined or accepted/realised and edit the answer accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is a pure feature request (&quot;Can a feature be added to package &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; to do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; can be realised reasonably without having to add a new feature, an answer to that effect should be added, and the question left open (and possibly edited to make it a more open question instead of a pure feature request).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; can indeed only be achieved through adding the requested feature, a comment should be posted to the question asking the OP to open a feature request on the package site, and the question should be closed as &quot;Not a real question.&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="2552" LastEditDate="2012-07-08T21:14:29.250" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T21:14:29.250" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2572" CreationDate="2012-07-08T20:40:51.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to embed a YouTube &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; Vimeo video into a WP post is to just copy the HTML code generated by the video's host (available by clicking &quot;Share&quot;). You'll get something like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/43125423&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;281&quot; &#xA;  frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/43125423&quot;&amp;gt;100k celebration video&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; from &#xA;  &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/cereda&quot;&amp;gt;Paulo Cereda&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; on &#xA;  &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com&quot;&amp;gt;Vimeo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can customize a lot of the options (caption, size, behavior) via the Share tool before copying that code, or by editing the code directly if you prefer. Once done, just paste it into your WordPress post (&lt;strong&gt;making sure you're in HTML editing mode first!&lt;/strong&gt;) and the video will show up embedded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various options to make this quicker (for instance, [vimeo &amp;lt;id&amp;gt;] or [youtube &amp;lt;id&amp;gt;] links), but unless you're posting a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of videos the normal &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iframe&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; embedding should be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T20:40:51.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2012-07-09T07:16:04.823" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Observation: Time has shown that the site welcomes both &quot;elitists&quot; and their questions (some users have great (La)TeX knowledge and they still ask very interesting advanced questions themselves), and as well many people who have little experience with LaTeX and need help with very basic things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T07:16:04.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2012-07-10T04:02:30.950" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must say; I started with TeX a bit over a year ago. I found out about Stack Exchange a few months after that, very much a newbie still (Heck, in many ways I still am.) I found Stack Exchange to be the single best place, bar none, to get help with basic questions; the answers were complete, they explained &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; things should be done this way, they explained why things shouldn't be done some way, and how to do them better, but if I had to do things a set way, helped anyway, and the people are friendly to boot. Basically, I probably wouldn't have done my thesis in LaTeX if Stack Exchange hadn't been helping me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't make TeX.SX just for people whom already know what they are doing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2012-07-11T17:12:14.553" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T17:12:14.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3305" CreationDate="2012-07-11T06:17:26.480" Score="14" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strikeout in HTML (using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) doesn't strike out links to tags as specified in mardown. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;See [tag:discussion] for some questions that require discussion.&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is interpreted as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; for some questions that require discussion.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here. However, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;, the above is rendered as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ur3EG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T15:54:49.143" Title="Strikeout doesn't work properly with markdown" Tags="|bug|status-completed|tagging|design|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2633" CreationDate="2012-07-12T12:10:36.923" Score="18" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is often the case that the piece of information that one is after is to be found within the &quot;fine print&quot; of an answer. The example that I currently came across with is the following. &lt;strong&gt;How one can add sectioning in &lt;code&gt;srclttr2&lt;/code&gt; class?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Googling answers were not straight. The solution was found (BTW, not using goole directly) in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/25064/412&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz's&lt;/a&gt; answer. However, it is found in the 7th item of his answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who will encounter the same question in the future I want to some how highlight this part of the answer. So, is the best way to post a new question and answer it immediately, giving credit to the original answer? Or and another comment which will help google to find this answer? What would you suggest? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="412" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T14:46:09.427" Title="Exposing the subtext" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2012-07-12T14:46:09.427" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask a new question that's focused on the thing you've actually been searching for. It seems like it wouldn't be a duplicate because you're actually looking for something else than the question in which you found the relevant information. Having several questions that can be answered similarly, i.e. with the same tools, is fine. Also, asking questions to which you know the answer is fine (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4/4012&quot;&gt;Asking a question and answering it yourself straight away&lt;/a&gt;), I think there's even a blog post about that by one of the SE overlords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we want people highlighting stuff in other people's answers that they think is important. If you think an important aspect of an answer isn't highlighted enough, you can post a comment to the answerer, proposing clarification; but I don't think this is the case here. Answers are only highlighted as a whole, in comparison to other answers: On the one hand by the OP choosing an accepted answer, on the other hand by all users upvoting (and downvoting) answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T14:46:09.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2635" CreationDate="2012-07-14T08:44:27.830" Score="27" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a logic in which we accept an answer without up-voting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no such a logic, then why didn't SE make the accept button automatically trigger one up vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also does not make sense if SE allows us to accept an answer with an extra down vote. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-07-14T12:33:02.233" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T10:03:11.680" Title="Is there a logic in which we accept an answer without up-voting it?" Tags="|discussion|voting|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2634" CreationDate="2012-07-14T12:32:32.813" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it makes sense to separate them even though they overlap in many cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/117910/163868&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An answer may indeed solve or help you solve your original problem,&#xA;  but it might not be an otherwise &quot;good&quot; answer. The accepting and&#xA;  up-voting are different actions which mean different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are however ways to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Way may want to get better at educating new users about the difference, e.g. refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#howtoask&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#howtoask&lt;/a&gt; which can be linked in comments by simply entering &lt;code&gt;[faq#howtoask]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The interface could help telling the difference better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be helpful to be able &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/117897/163868&quot;&gt;to search for answers that are accepted but not upvoted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T13:17:34.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2634" CreationDate="2012-07-15T10:03:11.680" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm ever to get an Unsung Hero badge it needs lots of zero score accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T10:03:11.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2638" CreationDate="2012-07-15T15:41:58.280" Score="5" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to write TikZ but with a slanted &lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;. Is there a mark down to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might have known that typing &lt;code&gt;Ti*k*Z&lt;/code&gt; does NOT produce the expected result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2012-07-15T16:36:03.030" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T16:36:03.030" Title="Is there a mark down to make one or more slanted characters of a word?" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2637" CreationDate="2012-07-15T15:50:15.563" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Q and A posts you can use HTML for this: &lt;code&gt;Ti&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;k&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;Z&lt;/code&gt;: Ti&lt;i&gt;k&lt;/i&gt;Z.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But it's not really worth the effort IMHO and will not work for comment and chat messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T15:50:15.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2012-07-15T18:28:45.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Note: the following answer is a combination of explanations and arguments provided by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2693/alan-munn&quot;&gt;Alan Munn&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/83/caramdir&quot;&gt;Caramdir&lt;/a&gt; and others.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By definition, one should always accept the answer that was mostly helpful in solving a problem.  If the most helpful answer is one's own answer, then it should be accepted.  Answering (and accepting answers for) own questions doesn't gain any reputation.  Nevertheless, the site improves because accepted answers are a sign that answers were helpful (at least for someone).  Therefore, answering own questions and accepting them is explicitly encouraged.  In contrast, the attitude against accepting own answers, contradicts, in a way, the spirit of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep in mind that&lt;/strong&gt; one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cannot upvote own questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cannot vote for own answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;has to wait some time before allowed to accept own answers (this is to give others the chance to write better answers and to keep people from gaming the system, see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot;&gt;Accept Your Own Answers&lt;/a&gt; at SE blog)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;can (and should) accept own answers that helped&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;won't get any +rep from accepting own answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;might, however, get the self-learner badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detailed argumentation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementing the suggested mechanism is probably not a good idea (not to mention it is unlikely to ever be implemented by the Stackexchange powers that be).  &lt;strong&gt;First,&lt;/strong&gt; as mentioned in the comments, accepting an answer is not the same as upvoting an answer, so when one accepts an answer (even his/her own) no vote is conferred.  &lt;strong&gt;Second,&lt;/strong&gt; if there are multiple answers to a question, the answer with the most upvotes is not necessarily the best answer for the questioner (or generally).  &lt;strong&gt;Third,&lt;/strong&gt; a new answer might be added later, and even with a few votes, this answer may well be one that the questioner would like to accept, even though it has fewer votes.  &lt;strong&gt;Consequently,&lt;/strong&gt; having any kind of automatic system that would automatically accept high voted answers, is not a good idea as it would interfere with the above mentioned points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1852/2693&quot;&gt;How do you accept an answer?&lt;/a&gt; for some more discussion on accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8272" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T09:02:55.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-17T00:29:58.963" Score="10" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be no ready-made tag for discussions of the pros and cons -- see, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63545/5001&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; -- of the Mathtime Professional fonts package. I know it doesn't come up very often on TeX.SE, but it's actually a rather nifty package (everybody's reservations about superwide accents and 5cm-tall summation symbols notwithstanding). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the recently released &lt;code&gt;newtxmath&lt;/code&gt; package consciously uses output from the &lt;code&gt;mtpro2&lt;/code&gt; package as a yardstick to measure the quality of its own output (and, importantly, how much better &lt;code&gt;newtxmath&lt;/code&gt; is than &lt;code&gt;txfonts&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much more information about the Mathtime Professional font package may be found at &lt;a href=&quot;http://pctex.com/mtpro2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do others think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T11:02:50.320" Title="Would people welcome having a mtpro (short for Mathtime Professional) tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-17T01:10:04.827" Score="8" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not receive an inbox  notification for Martin Schroder's comment in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63453/greek-letters-in-latex-table&quot;&gt;Greek Letters in Latex Table&lt;/a&gt; made 16 hours ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gc2eK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comment that did not end up in my inbox&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I check my history I have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uwG9p.png&quot; alt=&quot;My inbox with that comment missing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on the last one showing in the above list shows that it is marked as &lt;code&gt;yesterday&lt;/code&gt; so the inbox notification from 16 hours ago should be above that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MfWaR.png&quot; alt=&quot;The last item in my inbox&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T10:35:43.113" Title="Missing Inbox Notification" Tags="|bug|comments|inbox|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2012-07-18T02:35:13.973" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place under the LPPL, version 1.3 or later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2966" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T02:35:13.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2640" CreationDate="2012-07-19T10:10:04.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely welcome such a tag. As someone who uses mtpro2 I have asked several questions dealing with the package here, specially since the people who sell the font don't respond to the problems and the material on their website is outdated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="809" LastActivityDate="2012-07-19T10:10:04.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2640" CreationDate="2012-07-20T00:33:33.467" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No particular objection, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathpazo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathpazo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathpazo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newtx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newtx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newtx&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/neo-euler&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;neo-euler&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;neo-euler&lt;/a&gt; any other math font specific tags?&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/libertine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;libertine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;libertine&lt;/a&gt; is another font specific tag. It seems like there should be consistency if we are going to encourage this, for example whether the tag is named after (and refers to) a particular font family or a particular font-related package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2012-07-20T10:46:15.740" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T10:46:15.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-21T07:38:22.593" Score="9" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am attaching below a picture to indicate how the arrows intended to indicate you have upvoted some commment is aligned awkardly. Is that by-design or something that should go unnoticed? Anyway, it is not aesthetically pleasing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy18o.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10679" LastEditorUserId="3323" LastEditDate="2012-08-12T17:14:43.393" LastActivityDate="2012-08-12T17:14:43.393" Title="An awkard alignment in the comments " Tags="|bug|design|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-07-21T13:21:12.897" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Cross-referencing, including hyperref&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/497152&quot;&gt;Hyperref: using abbreviated labels like Eq., but keep correct spacing after period&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Hyperref: using abbreviated labels like Eq., but keep correct spacing after period](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/497152)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/823&quot;&gt;Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/823)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/391004&quot;&gt;Link boxes obscure punctuation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Link boxes obscure punctuation](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/391004)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/261434&quot;&gt;Changing \url{...} font&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Changing \url{...} font](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/261434)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;labels&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/111280&quot;&gt;Understanding how references and labels work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Understanding how references and labels work](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/111280)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32325&quot;&gt;Why does an environment's label have to appear after the caption?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why does an environment's label have to appear after the caption?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32325)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/280462&quot;&gt;Link to arbitrary part of text?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Link to arbitrary part of text?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/280462)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/162347&quot;&gt;Protecting references in section headings from capitalization&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Protecting references in section headings from capitalization](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/162347)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35043&quot;&gt;Reference different places to the same footnote&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Reference different places to the same footnote](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35043)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using multiple &lt;code&gt;\footnotemark&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\footnotetext&lt;/code&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/584721&quot;&gt;Difference between \footnote and the pair \footnotemark and \footnotetext&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Difference between \footnote and the pair \footnotemark and \footnotetext](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/584721)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/49061&quot;&gt;Incorrect target of \label link produced by hyperref&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;\pageref&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Incorrect target of \label link produced by hyperref](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/49061)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; and bookmarks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3188&quot;&gt;What does the &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;hypertexnames&lt;/code&gt; do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What does the `hyperref` option `hypertexnames` do?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3188)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/272&quot;&gt;How to make clickable links and cross-references in PDFs produced by LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to make clickable links and cross-references in PDFs produced by LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/272)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/180571&quot;&gt;Making clickable links to sections with hyperref&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Making clickable links to sections with hyperref](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/180571)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/246235&quot;&gt;Bad hierarchy given to &lt;code&gt;\appendix&lt;/code&gt; by &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Bad hierarchy given to `\appendix` by `hyperref`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/246235)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-04-30T17:18:02.767" LastActivityDate="2023-04-30T17:18:02.767" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-21T13:21:12.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2649" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-22T17:20:13.707" Score="19" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Edit (may 6, 2014)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue is now solved. From IOS6 (dec 2012), Safari has access to the camera roll, so it is possible to upload images directly from Safari without the Dropbox workaround. That is, I can follow the steps 1 and 2 of the original question, and then upload it directly to StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I leave the original question and its edits for reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Original question (jul 22, 2012)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I am far from my computers, and I've got a lot of spare time, so I'd like to participate in this site and answer some questions, using my iPad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that the site is very iPad friendly, and that I can navigate, read and write answers without problems (specially if I use an external bluetooth keyboard, which make more accessible the markup symbols).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I want to try out the code in my answers and post an image with the resulting output, I get into trouble. These are the steps that I'm currently using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I try the code using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tlhiv.org/ltxpreview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX previewer&lt;/a&gt; which is also very iPad friendly, to my delight.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the code works, and I want to paste the resulting output, I select the image and save it in the iPad Photo Album.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using Dropbox for iPad, I upload the photo from the iPad to some Dropbox folder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using Dropbox again, I get an url for the uploaded image (which is a shortened url).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since stackexchange image upload service does not work with shortened urls, I use Safari to connect to that shortened url, download the image, and get the expanded url which points to the real &lt;code&gt;png&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I use stackexchange's image uploader to give the url of that image and finally get the result in the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how I answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/64291/12571&quot;&gt;Drawing node in tikz with both background fill and grid pattern?&lt;/a&gt;, for example.&#xA;I wonder if there is a shorter method, or if I am the only one trying to do such a thing from the iPad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT (jul 23, 2012)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for such a convoluted process is that in iOS (iPad, iPhone and iPod operating system) the filesystem is &lt;em&gt;sandboxed&lt;/em&gt; for each application. In other words, an application has not access to the files created in a different application. The user has no control about where the files are stored. When you &quot;download&quot; an image with Safari, it &quot;sends&quot; that image to Photo Album app, which stores it in its private filesystem. But then, when some web page offers you to &quot;upload&quot; a file, Safari dismisses that option, because the only part of the filesystem that Safari can read is its own private space, and this is use for caching only. This is why I have to use Dropbox as an intermediate store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However perhaps an iPad user more skilled than me knows about some workaround. It is a pain to be unable to upload files from the browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12571" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T08:35:31.033" Title="Answering tex.stackexchange.com questions from the iPad (solved)" Tags="|discussion|images|mobile|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2651" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-24T09:50:54.390" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm subscribed to TeX.SX RSS for several tags. In fact I'm subscribed to &lt;code&gt;newest questions&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;active questions&lt;/code&gt;. The problem is that I don't see to much difference between these categories. I was thinking that an active question is a question which shows 'some activity' (new answers) after being 'new question', but my feeds reader (Opera) shows all new questions in both lists and only when a new answer (some times also an edition) for a very old question arrives to tex.sx, it announces it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a recent example, yesterday I received the feed about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64333/one-navigation-bullet-per-subsection-with-subsection-false-in-custom-beamer-them&quot;&gt;One navigation bullet per subsection with subsection=false in custom beamer theme&lt;/a&gt;. It was shown in &lt;code&gt;newest questions tagged beamer&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;active questions tagged beamer&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;After several hours without any answer diabonas wrote one but I've not received any announce about it. Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the delay between tex.sx and my feeds reader, most of new questions are already answered (you are too fast!) when I read them but some other not and I would like to know when them are solved  without marking each particular question. Is it possible? How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T09:50:54.390" Title="RSS: Difference between active and newest questions" Tags="|support|rss|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2654" CreationDate="2012-07-26T12:05:56.083" Score="6" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is not a great place to ask this question, as is it not about TeX, but ... where do I ask questions about StackExchange? All internet forums use to have a section to discuss and ask questions about the forum itself, but I haven't found such a section on StackExchange (maybe I'm just bad at searching).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I'm wondering this is because I wonder how to subscribe to answers and comments in a question, and how to turn on the option to become subscribed automatically either when you ask a question or when you answer on one or leave a comment on either a question or an answer. Currently, I'm not getting any notifications when I'm getting a reply to anything I have written, but I would like to be notified immediately when someone has replied to something I have written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14212" OwnerDisplayName="StrawberryFieldsForever" LastEditorUserId="14212" LastEditDate="2012-07-26T13:08:46.607" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T13:08:46.607" Title="Where to ask questions about StackExchange?" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2653" CreationDate="2012-07-26T12:39:27.640" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\vfill&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Since I've already figured out how to leave short answers and so have no need to make the joke, I'll try to be a &lt;em&gt;bit&lt;/em&gt; more useful:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange is a network of sites with individual sites related to all sorts of topics from the sublime (TeX) to the ridiculous (Maths).  Each site has it's own &quot;meta&quot; which is where to ask questions about that specific StackExchange site.  There is also a system-wide &quot;meta&quot; for general questions that pertain to all the sites.  Thus if you have a question about the site you should ask yourself if it is specific to this particular StackExchange site or whether you would expect it to be answered by someone knowledgeable about StackExchange sites but not necessarily about this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sites are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta-TeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta-SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, it's worth doing a bit of searching to see if your question has come up before.  It's also worth noting that the main meta site gets users from all different sites and they have different cultures.  Thick skin can help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T12:39:27.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2657" CreationDate="2012-07-28T15:03:25.967" Score="22" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen quite a few instances of folks going to the trouble of answering a question without up-voting the question itself. Surprisingly, the answer often continues to receive further up-votes, and the question still receives no up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose I am a little confused about this. If we expect the OP to show gratitude by up-voting and (hopefully) accepting our answer, then shouldn't we at least up-vote the question in an act of mutual respect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T20:30:55.403" Title="Voting on a question that you answer" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2012-07-28T15:25:06.107" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the general answer to this question is Yes: if a question is worth your while to answer, then it's worth an upvote as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T15:25:06.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2012-07-28T20:24:23.617" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I can see the merit of Alan's answer, I'd like to present the opposite view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upvote button's hover text says: &quot;This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear [...]&quot;. There are questions that are answerable, often because missing information can be guessed or inferred, but that don't show any effort of the OP to find the answer themselves, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/64758/4012&quot;&gt;How to use font in code format?&lt;/a&gt;, or don't provide a MWE even though it would be possible and helpful. While egreg's answer to that question is worth an upvote because it explains the matter to an appropriate degree of detail, is correct and useful, the question itself doesn't deserve an upvote imho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are issues with this point of view as well: Is it sufficient just to write &quot;Googling didn't give me the answer&quot;? And what about provocatively basal questions, to which the asker may even know a (partial) answer? You could well argue that my own question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25701/bibtex-vs-biber-and-biblatex-vs-natbib&quot;&gt;bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib&lt;/a&gt; doesn't show any research effort, nonetheless it has proven quite popular. Probably many people upvoted it because of the great answer it triggered. Does this make it a good question? Looks like it. Then again some questions seem to pile up upvotes just because they're popular and enjoyable -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/29402/4012&quot;&gt;How do I make my document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman?&lt;/a&gt; ... &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; (To be fair, the question is quite specific in its description, but then again, many of the things it lists are well-Googleable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming back to Alan's statement: &lt;em&gt;If a question is worth your while to answer, then it's worth an upvote as well.&lt;/em&gt; This would be true if people only answered question because they think &quot;Oh that poor soul doesn't know any further, I'll help them&quot;. I think, however, this is only one motivation among others like &quot;Can I do this?&quot;, &quot;Let's provide a really comprehensive answer to this simple task&quot;, &quot;I want rep&quot;, &quot;I want to propagate XYZTeX by showing that this can be done using it&quot;, or simply &quot;I enjoy *TeXing, I don't even care what the task may be&quot;. So the incentive to answer a question isn't directly related to the quality of the question, which is the gauge of upvoting it, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Institutionalized mutual upvoting, as cmhughes suggests in the question, would be a dull tradition of politeness, threatening to make upvoting as a tool of quality assurance quite blunt. In turn, I don't upvote every single answer a question of mine gets. I upvote most, but not those that don't help me solve my problem or at least make me understand it better, e.g. I didn't upvote &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/18749/4012&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/18749/4012&lt;/a&gt;, even though Tobi put some honest effort in it -- it did not get me any further with my problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T20:30:55.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2661" CreationDate="2012-07-29T11:10:37.323" Score="12" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've flagged a number of questions for migration to various other Stack Exchange sites. All of these questions are closed. All of these flags were marked as helpful, but only half of them actually were migrated (5 migrated, 6 not migrated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would've assumed a flag for migration is helpful if it results in migration, otherwise it's just a waste of a moderator's time. How am I to understand these &quot;helpful&quot; flags without any consequences? Should I continue flagging such questions? And why weren't the questions migrated? (I can provide examples if that would help.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-07-29T14:10:15.290" Title="Flags for migration &quot;helpful&quot; but not acted upon" Tags="|discussion|support|migration|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2659" CreationDate="2012-07-29T11:51:45.183" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general flags should only be considered not helpful if they were really useless or used wrong. There is a penalty for denying flags after all and the moderator must justify why the flag was denied. If the flagged question is in a gray area -- for e.g. migration or otherwise -- and the moderator decides after careful consideration that no action is required (at the moment) then it doesn't mean that the flag was completely useless. You are flagging for moderator &lt;em&gt;attention&lt;/em&gt; not moderator &lt;em&gt;action&lt;/em&gt; after all ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, please keep flagging question which are worthy to be flagged and don't be angry if not all are acted upon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-07-29T11:51:45.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2659" CreationDate="2012-07-29T14:10:15.290" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Martin has covered the 'helpful' concept pretty well: it's about whether the flag was 'sensible', but that is not the same as 'acted upon' (otherwise flagging could do tasks automatically).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the migration question, in the mod chat the point has been made that migration should be because the question will contribute to the target site, not just that it's off-topic from the original site. That's always a tricky judgement: questions which are clear, with answers and definite 'fit' the target are easy to migrate, everything else is less clear. Quite often I check on migration requests in the mod chat, and ask the mods on the target site. If they say 'no, please don't migrate' then we do not, but that does not mean asking about it was the wrong approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-07-29T14:10:15.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-30T12:47:09.927" Score="5" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't know if this is the right place to answer this question, but I'll try it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now the &quot;privilege to edit community posts&quot;; moved by curiosity, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit-community-wiki&quot;&gt;I opened the link&lt;/a&gt; to understand what exactly they are, and the first paragraph says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are Community Wiki posts?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Community wiki posts are more easily editable by all users, and do not confer any reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not exactly what I would call a definition :D what are community wiki posts? Every answer to a question is a community wiki post? Or only some of them with particular characteristics? And moreover, is it me that don't get it, or should the answer I posted be clearer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16634" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T13:55:27.760" Title="Privilege: edit community wiki posts" Tags="|discussion|support|community-wiki|privileges|privileges-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-31T02:14:03.393" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;users,&#xA;I asked a question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65096/how-to-make-a-diagram-composed-of-superimposed-layers-where-the-viewer-can-make&quot;&gt;controlling individual layers in a diagram&lt;/a&gt; and with a bit more knowledge and help from the answers I can see the question was too broad.&#xA;I suspect that the method you use produce the diagram will probably depend on whether you want the diagram for a presentation (the beamer answer is appropriate) or an ebook (the answer for animate is probably better, along the lines of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/59798/adding-tikzpicture-layers-that-can-be-viewed-sequentially-in-the-output-motzkin/59935#59935&quot;&gt;my first attempt at this&lt;/a&gt;) or even on the web (a problem for another time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is that I should ask a particular question for each of the particular end points, then maybe a person of status can move/duplicate the answers to their rightful contexts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked at this meta question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2117/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-post-a-follow-up-question-why-and-how&quot;&gt;asking a follow-up question&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;but I'm not sure if it endorses what I think I should do in this particular case. I hope that with some help I can make the discussion around my question easy to find and use for particular queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T11:31:55.453" Title="Procedure on refining an initial broad question. Should I replace it with multiple focused questions?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2666" CreationDate="2012-07-31T13:27:02.843" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a notification area (small red dot) that lists questions on which a user has made a recent remark. Once you click outside of it, it disappears.  Is it possible to get a full list (in last item first) order?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-07-31T14:01:13.420" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T14:24:11.737" Title="How to list questions for which I have left a comment" Tags="|support|comments|inbox|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2665" CreationDate="2012-07-31T14:24:11.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find your &quot;inbox&quot; for tex.sx at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10827/maesumi?tab=responses&amp;amp;sort=comments&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10827/maesumi?tab=responses&amp;amp;sort=comments&lt;/a&gt; (everybody can just see it for themselves). In order to get there manually, go to your profile, &quot;responses&quot;, and &quot;comments&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a global inbox, showing comments from all Stack Exchange sites that you're a member of: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/1174715/maesumi?tab=inbox&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/users/1174715/maesumi?tab=inbox&lt;/a&gt;. Manual way: Go to your profile, &quot;network profile&quot;, &quot;inbox&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the terminology: Since the recent notification system revamp, the &lt;em&gt;inbox&lt;/em&gt; (red circle) tells you when another user wrote something for you (comment, answer, chat message), the &lt;em&gt;notifications&lt;/em&gt; (gray circle) are reserved for badges, which are considered less important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T14:24:11.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2668" CreationDate="2012-07-31T15:42:19.753" Score="10" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new here and do not know how to react now. I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64525/comparing-typographic-traditions-for-different-languages&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and got some answers, each answer is a part of solving the question. Should I now write a self answer with a summary of all answers and accept this summary or should I accept one of the given answers (all of the answers are worth to be accepted)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: &#xA;My Idea is to have a summery of the answers following the question. Accepting the summary would do this, I think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T12:38:13.547" Title="Should I self answer my question?" Tags="|discussion|answers|accepting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2667" CreationDate="2012-08-01T00:52:01.233" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at your particular question, I don't think a summary answer is appropriate.  This question is effectively a kind of &quot;big list&quot; question, and the summary doesn't really do much other than just say what's in the other answers.  These kinds of big list questions are often the type that are made into Community Wiki answers.  Because of the nature of the question, I think it's better to simply not accept any of the answers (which in this case is fine.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I think that summary answers are only rarely appropriate. Even when you use parts of multiple answers, there's often one that provided the bulk of the help, and the summary answer tends to look (whether justifiably or not) like an attempt to gain reputation based on others work.  This is not to say they are &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; appropriate, but that you should think twice (or more) before posting one.  The discussion in the linked question is obviously helpful in deciding these cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T00:52:01.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-04T04:46:09.777" Score="7" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite recently Miko introduced the &lt;code&gt;mtpro&lt;/code&gt; tag for questions related to the &lt;code&gt;mtpro&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mtpro2&lt;/code&gt; fonts with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2640/would-people-welcome-having-a-mtpro-short-for-mathtime-professional-tag&quot;&gt;Would people welcome having a mtpro (short for Mathtime Professional) tag?&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now it feels to me (without disrespect for his contributions) that he is somehow pushing those fonts a little bit too much. In particular I am concerned about tagging questions where the original poster had not thought about the &lt;code&gt;mtpro&lt;/code&gt; package. (Actually I made a similar mistake myself and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/65599/revisions&quot;&gt;was corrected by egreg&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I looked for a guideline and it seems this has come up before in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/577/adding-tags-to-a-question-in-accordance-with-a-provided-answer&quot;&gt;Adding tags to a question in accordance with a provided answer&lt;/a&gt;. According to the suggestion there I removed some of the tags, where the question doesn't meantion &lt;code&gt;mtpro&lt;/code&gt;. Nevertheless there are still some where I'm unsure of what to do, as Mico's answers there, using &lt;code&gt;mtpro&lt;/code&gt;, are the (as good as) accepted ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63545/big-tilde-in-math-mode&quot;&gt;Big tilde in math mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39181/big-integral-sign&quot;&gt;Big integral sign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/59702/suggest-a-nice-font-family-for-my-basic-latex-template-text-and-math-i-am&quot;&gt;Suggest a &amp;quot;nice&amp;quot; font family for my basic LaTeX template (text and math)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this and the fact, that many currently active users where not on TeX.SX back then, I'm asking for a suggestion on how to handle such cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15616" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-08-04T10:21:19.940" Title="Application of the {mtpro} tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2721" CreationDate="2012-08-04T17:37:28.633" Score="26" ViewCount="4101" Body="&lt;p&gt;This came up in a discussion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/65762/8528&quot;&gt;How to install additional LaTeX packages in Debian/Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;.  It seems to me that almost all users of Debian-derived OSes have two options when it comes to installing LaTeX packages: (1) using the native sources (including the recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/q/163682/31420&quot;&gt;backport&lt;/a&gt; in the case of Ubuntu 12.04 [or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/58779/8528&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;]); or (2) installing TL from CTAN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be several questions (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32962/8528&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/38978/8528&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39771/8528&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40083/8528&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/56900/8528&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) , however, that ask how to install some package for Ubuntu users, and they all end up making the same two points: use option (1) or (2).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, wouldn't it be useful to 'centralize' all these questions and make one big, general one that lays out these two options and their respective benefits (although not many people favor [1])?  Then all these other questions could be closed with a link to the more general question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/28528/8528&quot;&gt;Best way to install packages for TeXLive in Ubuntu?&lt;/a&gt; might serve as the general question, and then we could close everything else.  (Although I have no idea if we can/should close old questions with accepted answers....)  However, it seems to me that a question with more unbiased answers would be better: i.e., instead of saying, 'don't do (1), do (2)', each answer lays out one option and all its benefits and drawbacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;universal question&quot; on the main site is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/73016/86&quot;&gt;How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8528" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T16:29:17.947" Title="Should 'how to install package X on Ubuntu' questions be consolidated?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-05T20:53:25.403" Score="3" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that has happened to me now a couple of times, is that the same millisecond I am clicking on a link to a question, the &quot;n messages with activity&quot; display at the top of the list pushes down the link I had just clicked, so that what I actually clicked at that time is a link no more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to reserve that space for the message so that the list wouldn't move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T20:53:25.403" Title="New activity display pushes down the questions list" Tags="|feature-request|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-06T12:46:08.477" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to get a list of visited questions (by me) or the list of all questions as they appeared (arrived at) TeX SX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-08-06T17:22:26.540" LastActivityDate="2012-08-06T17:22:26.540" Title="A list of visited questions or the total list of questions as they appeared" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2355" CreationDate="2012-08-07T11:16:43.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This problem does not appear anymore on Win7 with Firefox 14.0.1, Safari 5.1.7, IE 9.0. Unless anybody else still has this problem, it seems to be solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-08-07T11:16:43.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2676" CreationDate="2012-08-08T12:18:09.620" Score="9" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to mark questions as personal bookmarks on my profile page? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of my own questions is displayed but I wonder how I can add other interesting questions I would like to remember!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16865" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T17:05:20.053" Title="Personal bookmarks" Tags="|feature-request|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2675" CreationDate="2012-08-08T17:05:20.053" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated in my comment(s), marking a question as a favorite, by clicking the star below the arrows for up- or downvoting is a solution. Later these can be listed by the user. This a good system to show at the same time that the question (or an answer to it) was particularly valuable for a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T17:05:20.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2667" CreationDate="2012-08-09T16:44:39.750" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a tough one.  It kind of represents a hole in the SO platform/answer contest model.  People can answer a question, but what if the question has multiple details where the &quot;right&quot; answer is spread across a couple of different ones?  They all get upvotes, but which gets the &lt;em&gt;checkmark&lt;/em&gt;?  It is kind of dishonorable to &quot;edit in&quot; someone else's correct details into your own..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say the best thing to do is the &lt;em&gt;checkmark the most complete, best answer&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;edit in a link to the 2nd best answer that has the rest of the details&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rewriting people's work then &quot;checkmarking it as correct&quot; is definitely not the best option, and cancelling their rep by summarizing their work into a CW answer is really very very bad in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5950" LastActivityDate="2012-08-09T16:44:39.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-10T00:24:39.393" Score="4" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering what was the reason to close my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64238/underfull-hbox-and-underfull-vbox&quot;&gt;Underfull \hbox and Underfull \vbox&lt;/a&gt; as being too localized. The question asks what for ways to fix the warning &quot;Underfull \hbox and Underfull \vbox&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I do not understand the first comment by David Carlisle to that question, since it is not clear to me how posting a small document will help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1876" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-08-13T11:54:10.987" Title="Reason for closure of a question" Tags="|discussion|support|closed-questions|specific-question|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2678" CreationDate="2012-08-10T06:12:45.573" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is perhaps a sequence of events that lead to the closure, as well as some motivation behind it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been decided by the TeX.SE community to host &quot;Answer the unanswered&quot; sessions (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1560/5764&quot;&gt;Regular “Let's deal with unanswered questions” chat meetings?&lt;/a&gt;) in an attempt to reduce the number of unanswered or open questions. These &quot;janitorial sessions&quot; are there to refocus from the perpetual incentive to answer the next, new (perhaps easy) question, while older (perhaps more difficult) questions tend to be left unanswered and turn stale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason here is that some answers may &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; receive successful answers, while others are just too general to provide an effective answer. Even a recent discussion on meta.TeX.SE (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2667/5764&quot;&gt;Should I self answer my question?&lt;/a&gt;) discussed whether specific answers to a general question should be answered in &quot;combined form&quot; to provide a definitive &quot;answer to the original question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While yours most likely did not fall in any of these categories, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64238/underfull-hbox-and-underfull-vbox#comment136685_64238&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; suggest that there was not enough detail to adequately answer the question. As such, it was brought up during &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5641215#5641215&quot;&gt;the most recent &quot;Answer the unanswered&quot; sessions in chat&lt;/a&gt;, where &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5641462#5641462&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt; was mentioned as perhaps being &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#close&quot;&gt;too localized/TL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment rebuttals suggest there was no need to supply a so-called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/5764&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt;. However, this is a general misconception when it comes to answering questions on the Stack Exchange network. Not only are there a myriad of solutions to the warning &quot;Underfull &lt;code&gt;\hbox&lt;/code&gt;&quot; (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;No line here to end&lt;/a&gt; for one cause) and/or &quot;Underfull &lt;code&gt;\vbox&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, you are after solving a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; instance of this warning. This could depend on the code that you use, the document class that you use, the structure of the code that precedes that actual warning, or perhaps something different altogether (like TeX's line-breaking routine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a questioner you should &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to put yourself in the shoes of the possible answerer in order to have the best shot at finding an optimal solution. That is why we usually push questioners to &quot;provide an MWE that reproduces the problem.&quot; This requires you (the questioner) to provide &lt;em&gt;as much information as possible&lt;/em&gt; so that an &lt;em&gt;answerer&lt;/em&gt; can reproduce the problem (independent of the questioner), isolate what causes it, address possible alternatives and provide a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if confidentiality is at play, 100% reproduction is very difficult. However, if the question is left in this general or even specific, open-ended setting, with no reproducibility, and it turns stale, it is most likely destined for closure as being &quot;too localized&quot; by definition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, the generality of your question may just as well have been solved by (to name a few when &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=undefull+vbox&quot;&gt;searching for &quot;underfull vbox&quot;&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/138/5764&quot;&gt;What are underfull &lt;code&gt;\hbox&lt;/code&gt;es and &lt;code&gt;\vbox&lt;/code&gt;es and how can I get rid of them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/46815/5764&quot;&gt;Underfull &lt;code&gt;\vbox&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/62296/5764&quot;&gt;How to suppress “Underfull &lt;code&gt;\vbox&lt;/code&gt; (badness 10000) … while &lt;code&gt;\output&lt;/code&gt; is active”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But without knowing more detail, a solution provided at the above links might have helped, or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T06:17:59.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2678" CreationDate="2012-08-10T08:29:17.677" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Werner has covered a lot of the reasoning in his answer, but as my name is on the 'closed' statement I think I should also chip in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are unlikely to gain answers, not because they are general &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt; but because they are general in a way that seems to require a specific answer. Th standard approach to these questions is first to ask for clarification, and often this is best done using an MWE (although there are of course other approaches). We then normally allow a period for the original questioner to reply, and hopefully for an answer to then be given. After a couple of weeks, if there is no change to the question then it may be considered for closing, for the reasons Werner has outlined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this specific case, there were comments asking for further detail, but the question is written such that the problem is very general but the requirement (to fix them in a specific document) is for a very focussed solution. That fits the general criteria we use for closing as 'too localized', so I asked as part of the Answer the Unanswered session. There was support there for closing, so I voted to close. As a moderator, if I vote to close a question it goes through without needing to accumulate the standard number of votes (currently 5), but this almost always involves checking first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'Answer the Unanswered' sessions of course do not imply that all questions should have an answer or be closed. There are many good questions to which there is currently no good answer, and these are left open. The aim is to keep on top of questions which are unanswered due to way the way the question has been posed or due to lack in attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T09:35:48.327" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T09:35:48.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2238" CreationDate="2012-08-10T18:38:14.447" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fix for this logo issue has been pushed, and should be active at the next build of the blog network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-08-24T15:55:15.577" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T15:55:15.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2678" CreationDate="2012-08-13T11:54:10.987" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm mentioned in the question....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; helps to supply an example. If nothing else it saves the person trying to help from having to manufacture a document for testing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case without an example it was really impossible to offer any advice. You showed a warning message and asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the way to fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well the answer is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not do whatever you did (or do what you did and ignore the warning and tell TeX that that is good enough).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which isn't very helpful, but without knowing &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; you did it is impossible to be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the question was unanswerable and had remained so for some time, it got closed as noted in Joseph's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2012-08-13T11:54:10.987" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2684" CreationDate="2012-08-13T22:49:00.337" Score="12" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;unfortunately, i was not available while the interview with Aditya was happening, and i would like to comment on one point that he made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think that there are a very few journal who will accept packages written with the&#xA;  breqn package, for example&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is there a comment mechanism that will allow me to add my two cents after the fact?  there's nothing obvious in the (current) link from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2545/textalk-interviews&quot;&gt;the interview intro page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(by the way, this one, like all interviews so far, is interesting and well worth reading.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T12:51:56.060" Title="How can one comment on a TeXtalk interview?" Tags="|discussion|support|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2012-08-13T23:59:15.177" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Barbara, feel free to add comments and/or questions to Aditya in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/textalk-interviews&quot;&gt;interview chatroom&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We usually wait a couple of days to then &quot;lock&quot; the interview. We want to give the opportunity to our members to read the chatroom transcript and add their own remarks or even submitting questions to the interviewee. The format is working marvelously so far. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a team of reviewers (lockstep, Alan, Joseph, Andrew and others) that put every bit of the interview in the correct order, so we can easily adjust the comments. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can also correct the chatroom bookmark to include all post-interview remarks. I'll update the intro page accordingly to mention this &quot;feature&quot;. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2012-08-13T23:59:15.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2667" CreationDate="2012-08-14T12:38:13.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand (and add) on @alan 's answer, I also think that posting a summary answer using material from others indeed always rises the issue of answering to &quot;steal&quot; reputation from the actual writers of the content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I also think that your concern about having the correct answers following directly the question is very legitimate as an easy way for the user to access the trusted information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it seems clear that whatever the way you choose to do it, you would obviously have to give credit to the persons who actually came up with the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I think that maybe an alternative way to fulfil all these conditions at the same time would be to vote up every of the answers contributing to the full picture, maybe accept one which would be more complete than the others and then summarise the full answer with credit to the authors by editing it at the end of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this, you couldn't be accused of trying to &quot;steal&quot; reputation from anyone, and at the same time you would have the information directly accessible to the end user while giving credit to the authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17530" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T12:38:13.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2687" CreationDate="2012-08-16T19:37:55.693" Score="17" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the reputation message &quot;-5 User was removed&quot; means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it that a user had upvoted my question and was deleted from TeX.SE? That would be funny because (as I remember) I asked two questions and neither the first nor the second has an lower upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find informations to this in the faq or in meta. Can someone please explain this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-08-16T21:42:25.090" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T21:42:25.090" Title="What does &quot;-5 User was removed&quot; mean?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2012-08-16T19:54:28.147" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the mod-only data, and taking a look at the total votes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65740/a-font-to-typeset-proofreaders-marks-in-latex&quot;&gt;A font to typeset proofreader&amp;#39;s marks in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;, I think you are right and a user was expunged. The votes on the question seemed to be 'out by one' when I checked, but then 'sorted themselves out'. That suggests a slight lag somewhere, but does point to your explanation being correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T19:54:28.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-18T19:25:00.193" Score="16" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When posting a comment, one is limited to 500 characters. These include the link target addresses, which can be pretty long. I believe that the intention of the restriction is to make the comment at most 500 printed characters. Therefore, for instance the following comment should count as only 3 characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[MWE](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2012-08-18T19:57:47.100" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T19:57:47.100" Title="Link targets should not count into the comment length" Tags="|feature-request|comments|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2690" CreationDate="2012-08-19T00:15:52.680" Score="11" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday it happened that I ran out of upvotes (for questions and answers). But I was able to upvote two (or more) interesting comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought upvoting a comment reduce the number of free question upvotes.&#xA;Can someone explain or is this a bug? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope the tags are right so?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-10-04T07:30:15.460" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T07:30:15.460" Title="Why is upvoting comments possible when I ran out of upvotes for questions and answers?" Tags="|discussion|status-bydesign|comments|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2689" CreationDate="2012-08-19T07:08:55.817" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are simply different, so this is not a bug. You have one quota of comment votes, and a different quota of question votes. Also, voting on comments is less &quot;serious&quot; -- it doesn't influence reputation, and one cannot downvote -- than voting on questions/answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96147/daily-vote-limit-reached-only-for-comments&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;Daily vote limit reached&amp;#39; only for comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T14:09:18.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2691" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2692" CreationDate="2012-08-20T13:24:39.707" Score="12" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty new to the SX world and slightly confused. I can comment on my own question and everything in that page, but the &quot;add comment&quot; button and textboxes just don't appear in any other page. It seems though that I can edit and answer in any page. Do I need to gather more reputation in order to comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17764" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-08-20T22:51:31.833" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T22:51:31.833" Title="Why can't I comment?" Tags="|support|comments|reputation|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2691" CreationDate="2012-08-20T13:31:31.597" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;reputation of 50&lt;/a&gt; for unconfined commenting. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt; page for other thresholds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T13:31:31.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2696" CreationDate="2012-08-23T01:10:10.263" Score="22" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed in my short time on TeX.sx that the amount of explanation given in an answer varies greatly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a LaTeX beginner I find that answers that provide a bit of explanation in addition to simply the code that provides the solution are much more helpful to me than their terse equivalent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the site policy (if there is one) on how much explanation to provide in answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17835" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-08-23T07:15:17.357" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T07:15:17.357" Title="How much explanation in an answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2695" CreationDate="2012-08-23T03:53:52.570" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code-only answers are usually avoided, since the value added does not pertain to a wider audience as much as an explanation would. However, the amount of explanation is varied (as you noticed). For example, some people like an answer structured in the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Minimal&lt;/em&gt; explanation...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;some code&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Broader&lt;/em&gt; explanation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while others tend to enjoy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broad&lt;/em&gt; explanation...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;some code&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former is intended to suit a broad audience (experienced and inexperienced), since the solution is provided without having to wade through &quot;tedious&quot; explanations and reasoning, while still adding value &lt;em&gt;post mortem&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your best bet as a questioner is to post a comment to the answered requesting more information. Ultimately &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; decide where to place your vote (an indication as to the &quot;usefulness&quot; of the answer) and/or select the &quot;most useful&quot; answer. These selections/decision, of course, bestow reputation as a reward. If it isn't useful, then don't vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatives could include opening up a chat room and create a discussion around the solution so you can understand it better. This is typically done in the the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41&quot;&gt;general chat room&lt;/a&gt; since most regulars hang out there and would be willing to help. Or, perhaps as a last resort, ask a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2117/5764&quot;&gt;follow-up question&lt;/a&gt; about the specifics of the solution. However, make sure that you're not just asking for an explanation, because that is best left as an addition to existing answers, in my opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps some answer(er)s require incentive in order to provide detail. I guess a bounty could be issued for that, usually also garnering more answers from other experienced users. But, posters on this site are usually easy to provide more detail from a comment making this not really necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T03:53:52.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2700" CreationDate="2012-08-23T07:03:56.580" Score="10" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you register for a new subdomain of StackExchange, your reputation is 1, which means the only thing you can do is ask questions or answer them.  If I find someone already asked my question, and someone else already provided a great answer, I can't vote it up to pay them back with a little reputation until I myself have 15 reputation.  That's messed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17916" OwnerDisplayName="Travis" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-08-23T13:55:09.567" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T08:19:14.553" Title="Permissions are out of whack" Tags="|discussion|privileges|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2714" CreationDate="2012-08-23T07:47:33.340" Score="16" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;When is it appropriate to open a new question that develops from an old one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question and received a very helpful answer. I asked about a modification in the comments and the answerer (generously) updated his answer to incorporate the modification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I tried to implement his modification I ran into an error. Is this a circumstance where I continue to seek help via comments or open a new question regarding the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am concerned about two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I accepted his original answer, so I am worried that the new problem might not receive enough attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am worried that this places too much of a burden on the answerer and abuses his generosity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best practice here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I am referring to is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68375/is-there-a-way-to-align-the-footnote-mark-with-the-top-of-the-footnote-text&quot;&gt;Is there a way to align the footnote mark with the top of the footnote text?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17835" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T23:19:37.523" Title="When to open a new question that develops from a previous question?" Tags="|discussion|answers|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2710" CreationDate="2012-08-23T11:24:41.287" Score="16" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user introduced a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/svmult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;svmult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;svmult&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/68389/11002&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. I thought it's too specialized and changed it into broader &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sv-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sv-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sv-classes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I found that there exist &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/svjour3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;svjour3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;svjour3&lt;/a&gt; for one of their classes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that since we do not need multiple &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sv-foo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sv-foo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sv-foo&lt;/a&gt; tags, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/svjour3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;svjour3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;svjour3&lt;/a&gt; should be a synonym of the broader &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sv-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sv-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sv-classes&lt;/a&gt;. However, I don't have the priviledge to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T09:06:07.433" Title="Tags for Springer-Verlag classes" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2697" CreationDate="2012-08-23T11:37:50.967" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not so sure that's that messed up. The rationale behind it is to avoid trolling and falsifying votes. Imagine someone answers a question and decides to boost his rep. All he would have to do is frantically create new accounts and hit the upvote icon. Now that would be messed up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first these things are less obvious and probably seem absurd, but IMHO stackexchange is one of the systems that is best tuned out there, in terms of community voting systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T11:37:50.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2697" CreationDate="2012-08-23T12:29:40.603" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that no laws can be &quot;fair&quot;. As Count Zero explains, the SE laws are quite fine-tuned to make the sites run fluently. But each law puts someone in &quot;wrong position&quot;. Your situation is so occasional that the law cannot cover it. I believe you'll soon bump into a problem that you can ask about and get the necessary reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T12:29:40.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2704" CreationDate="2012-08-23T22:52:54.910" Score="13" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just have voted 37 times and wanted to upvote a new answer but I'm not allowed to do. Message: &lt;code&gt;Daily vote limit reached&lt;/code&gt; I would understand this if the number would be 40, but 37?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-08-24T21:23:39.073" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T21:23:39.073" Title="Why can I only vote 37 times?" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2703" CreationDate="2012-08-24T06:06:00.413" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vote limit is a bit more complex than that, but is in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. You have up to 40 votes per day, but ten are reserved for questions. So you can only upvote up to 30 answers per day. Moreover, you can't just upvote 30 answers followed by 10 questions: once you hit the voting limit on answers, that's it for the day. So you have to be voting in a 'balanced' way, for a mix of questions and answers, to get to 40.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T06:06:00.413" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2707" CreationDate="2012-08-24T07:03:41.413" Score="9" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the use of the &quot;Community Bulletin&quot; and how is it decided what goes in there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17835" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-08-24T21:22:23.447" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T21:22:23.447" Title="What is the &quot;Community Bulletin&quot;?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2708" CreationDate="2012-08-24T07:17:25.010" Score="19" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;How soon should I accept an answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, you should accept the answer that is &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; helpful. Often the first answer I receive fixes my problem, but then someone else posts an answer with a simpler solution that is easier to implement or in some way better or more helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best practice here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17835" LastEditorUserId="17835" LastEditDate="2012-08-30T22:48:44.430" LastActivityDate="2012-08-30T22:48:44.430" Title="How soon should I accept an answer and when is it appropriate to accept a different answer?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|answers|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2705" CreationDate="2012-08-24T08:03:18.940" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Bulletin is intended to allow promotion of 'useful' stuff. As such, it works in part like the older sidebar, picking up 'active' meta topics automatically so that they get shown to people who don't visit meta very often. At the same time, the moderators can add a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/featured&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'featured'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt; tag to meta questions, which will 'promote' them in the Bulletin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Bulletin can also be used to promote 'Community Events'. We use this for the 'Answer the Unanswered' sessions and for the chat-based interviews. These events can only be added to the Bulletin by one of the moderators: they don't have to be linked to chat sessions, but that is how we've used that to date. The idea here is that the Bulletin is less intrusive than the banner that mods can add for 'system messages', and also the Bulletin works better for a longer promotion period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Andrew Stacey points out, the Bulletin also picks up new blog posts from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX-sx blog&lt;/a&gt;, and they show up for 7 days. (Previously, these were shown at the top of the page, but the appearance was poor and you could not see the titles.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-08-24T10:16:50.950" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T10:16:50.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2012-08-24T08:05:47.800" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, which answer is accepted is down to you, so in a sense you decide on this. That said, I would normally expect to wait 24 h after posting a question to see if there are multiple answers. Once a question is marked as 'accepted', there will be slightly less interest in checking it over from other users. At the same time, remember that you can change your mind here. Over time, what is the best answer may change, so don't feel bad about moving that tick mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T08:05:47.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2697" CreationDate="2012-08-24T08:19:14.553" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth: the system does have a concept of &quot;we trust your account, go ahead and skip the initial low-permissions phase&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This privileges-conferring mechanism is called the association bonus, and the threshold is set at 200 points: once you have earned that much reputation on one Stack Exchange site, you automatically get a bonus of 100 points on every other SE site you are on. (Also on sites you sign up for in the future.) I don't know why 200 points is the threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Lastly, on a purely personal note: In life in general, saying &quot;this has disadvantages. Why is it so anyway?&quot; is a better opener than &quot;This sucks.&quot; Less accusatory == more better: one comes across as much nicer, and one gets answers that are more complete.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2229" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T08:19:14.553" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2699" CreationDate="2012-08-24T09:05:59.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed: actioned, merge performed, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T09:05:59.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2713" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2715" CreationDate="2012-08-26T00:36:19.973" Score="13" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw recently a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/68740/10679&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; where the user &lt;code&gt;Community&lt;/code&gt; has offered bounty to an answer. If &lt;code&gt;Community&lt;/code&gt; is not a Human user, who decides the answers that will receive bounty from this user? Also, it is surprising that Community user has offered a bounty of 25 rep points. Shouldn't this be allowed for all users too? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I recently awarded a bounty of 50 rep points &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;  I &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; (as opposed to &lt;em&gt;forced&lt;/em&gt;) to give 50 rep points. But, this may come in handy for low rep users like me, perhaps, more so for those users with rep &amp;lt; 100.)   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10679" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T17:22:36.230" Title="Community User offers Bounty?" Tags="|support|bounty|user-accounts|community-user|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2698" CreationDate="2012-08-26T02:04:02.443" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a common phenomenon. The answer provided may, sometimes, will not fit into your actual code. This is nobody's fault as the answerer doesn't have any picture of your code (packages etc). In such cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can ask for help in the comment, if the issue is minor. It may&#xA;be replied not only by the answerer but others also, if they have&#xA;information and time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enter the general chat room and pour out your difficulties. We have most kind and generous people over there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After several tries, if your problem is still not resolved, again start reducing your actual file by deleting un-necessary information one by one, until you are able to reproduce the problem. (We call this a MWE). In the process, most of the times, you will, by yourselves, be able to identify/correct the offending code. If you can't correct it by yourself, then ram the main site with it as a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is not true that the question may not get enough attention (at-least, here in TeX.SX.) Only those questions, which lack clarity,incomplete and vague go unanswered here, in most of the cases. &lt;strong&gt;Moral: Make your question in a correct, complete and understandable.&lt;/strong&gt; Above all these, if you feel that it went un-noticed , you may try to draw attention by announcing bounty. For this, you have to have some reputation in this site. (Even if you don't have, we have very generous people here (@Andrewstacey, are you listening, it is you I am referring to) who will go to the event horizon to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, you need not feel that you are burdening the answerers, provided 1). you give them enough time, 2). don't ping them frequently, if the response is delayed (They have other work also to be done, right!). Moreover, the answerers will respond only if they get time. Hence don't feel guilty of over burdening the answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorDisplayName="user11232" LastEditDate="2012-08-26T23:19:37.523" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T23:19:37.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2713" CreationDate="2012-08-26T07:02:47.380" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/set-bounties&lt;/a&gt; – When does a bounty expire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you do not award the bounty within 24 hours of the bounty period&#xA;  ending, half the bounty value will be automatically be awarded to the&#xA;  top voted answer posted after the bounty start, provided it has a&#xA;  score of at least 2. If no new answer matches this requirement, no&#xA;  reputation will be awarded at all, and the reputation used on the&#xA;  bounty will be lost forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that someone added a bounty with a value of 50 to this question but didn't award it until the end of the bounty period. So half of the bounty has been automatically awarded to Paul Gaborit's answer by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;Community User&lt;/a&gt; because it had received the most votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T07:02:47.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-26T19:14:49.207" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68841/bold-symbols-for-greek-letters&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, barbara said the following thing in her comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(i addressed you with the comment since yours was the only one present, and only one &quot;target&quot; is recognized.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand it correctly, she wanted to address the people who voted for the closure, and happily one of them as well left a comment there (which is not always the case). Therefore I think it might be useful to be able to @-target the people who voted for the closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T19:14:49.207" Title="Should it be possible to address question closure votees" Tags="|feature-request|comments|closed-questions|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-27T00:11:44.507" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-it-and-isnt-acceptable-to-edit&quot;&gt;When is it (and isn&amp;#39;t) acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say for instance, I have upvoted an answer but wrote another answer for more reference. But OP commented on the answer I upvoted that OP previously accepted as answer but unaccepted since OP thinks the answer did not work. So I wrote a comment that it actually works. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68860/increase-spacing-after-minipage/68865#68865&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay though to just edit the answer if the modification that will be done is substantial?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; I think this post is a possible duplicate of this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263/etiquette-when-is-it-acceptable-to-edit-anothers-answer?rq=1&quot;&gt;Etiquette: when is it acceptable to edit anothers' answer?&lt;/a&gt;. I did not see it before writing this post although it did not appear as related question then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T00:36:28.317" Title="Is it okay to edit other answers to a question I have also answered?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-08-30T09:07:16.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2719" CreationDate="2012-08-27T23:52:01.290" Score="14" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two hours ago, several of my answers and questions were downvoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gM39P.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was there some kind of reputation recalculation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does someone really not like my answering/asking style?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is this a coincidence (although it barely appeared in a year, the chances are certainly non-zero and finite)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; So &quot;&lt;code&gt;Serial downvoting reversed&lt;/code&gt;&quot;. Hmm, &quot;nice&quot; certainly, but I'd still like to know what was going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3CGh5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="7279" LastEditDate="2012-08-28T03:27:21.297" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T07:17:26.423" Title="Strange series downvoting" Tags="|support|reputation|down-votes|recent-activity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2718" CreationDate="2012-08-28T07:17:26.423" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is intended to be anonymous, and so there is a limited amount that we can say about specific votes. That said, there is some information we can pick up about patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The automated script which reverses 'serial' votes &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; know who votes for who. So the fact that it's acted here suggests that there was some pattern here. There is also a certain amount of voting pattern information available to moderators, and there is something there which suggests a pattern rather than a random event. As it's been handled by the script, I don't think there is anything to actually do here at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T07:17:26.423" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2670" CreationDate="2012-08-29T04:25:07.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering why there is no answer to this question up to now when, at the time of this writing, 20 people already upvoted it. So I understand jon's concern. In fact, I have recently answered a question about installing TeXLive on Ubuntu 12.04. The OP even awarded a bounty for it. The question was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66855/tex-live-problem-with-install-ubuntu-bash-new-packages/68883#68883&quot;&gt;TeX Live — problem with install [Ubuntu, bash]; new packages&lt;/a&gt;. I realized now from reading the links provided in the question that the questions are very much alike and are actually duplicates of each other if not for asking about specific packages. There seems to be two general considerations when faced with the questions: 1) Vote to close the question for possible duplication, and 2) answer the question or provide links in comments to previous posts in order to encourage the user to have greater future participation in TeX.SX (since it looks like most of the posts were done at the time when the OP is relatively new to TeX.SX). Maybe one way to go about it nicely is to comment that some posts have already been written which closely resemble the problem and post an encouragement to post more questions in the future and post a link to some guidelines when posting a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T04:25:07.060" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2670" CreationDate="2012-08-29T09:27:48.437" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This does feel a big thing for &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; person to take on and get right straight away so let's draft it here.  CW for easy editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need to install a new TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt package on my computer.  I'm running Ubuntu/Fedora/Slackware Linux.  What are the possible ways to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Method 1:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Find and install the package through your package manager.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is for if you are using the version of TeX that came with your distribution and you don't mind particularly which version of the package you install.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linux distributions tend to include TeX as a collection of packages, but it isn't usually on as fine a level as one TeX package equals one Linux package.  You therefore need to find the right distribution package containing the TeX package that you want and install it.  Different package managers have different methods of searching, if all else fails there is often a website where you can search for a specific file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.ubuntu.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ubuntu package search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please add other distros&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Method 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Install the latest TeX Live&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is for if the package is in TeX Live and you want to or are using 'vanilla' TeXLive.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't yet installed TeX Live, follow the instructions at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1092/how-to-install-vanilla-texlive-on-debian-or-ubuntu&quot;&gt;How to install &amp;quot;vanilla&amp;quot; TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How you install a package via TeX Live depends on whether you installed TeX Live as a single user or you installed it system-wide.  If the first, try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tlmgr install &amp;lt;package&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the second, you will have a small problem in that &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; might not be in the path that &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; automatically searches.  So you need to locate it first and use &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; to call it with the full path.  If your shell has the &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt; builtin, you can find &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; using the command &lt;code&gt;which tlmgr&lt;/code&gt;.  Thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;which tlmgr&#xA;sudo /path/to/tlmgr install &amp;lt;package&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your shell allows you to use the output of a command as a sort of variable, you can use the following command to condense the above (where we exploit the fact that &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt; returns a single instance of the command regardless of how many times it appears on the path):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo $(which tlmgr) install &amp;lt;package&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You can test your shell with the less risky &lt;code&gt;echo $(which tlmgr)&lt;/code&gt;: this should produce the same as &lt;code&gt;which tlmgr&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Method 3&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Install manually&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this situation, you have two options: to install system-wide (all users on your system) or to install just for you.  System-wide means that any user on your system will be able to use it, just for you means just that: it will only be installed for your account.  The difference between the two is the base location:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;System-wide: type &lt;code&gt;kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL&lt;/code&gt; in the Terminal to find the right directory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just for you: type &lt;code&gt;kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME&lt;/code&gt; in the Terminal to find the right directory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens now depends a bit on the package.  If it is distributed in TDS then you are in luck.  Go to the directory reported by &lt;code&gt;kpsewhich&lt;/code&gt;, and into the &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory (or create it if it does not exist).  Then extract the TDS file (remember to use &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; if globally, and check that your &lt;code&gt;umask&lt;/code&gt; is set to &lt;code&gt;022&lt;/code&gt;).  &lt;em&gt;Note check the TDS file first to ensure that it will extract into the right place: you may need to move up or down a directory to get it to match&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is not distributed in TDS, then there might be instructions - in which case follow them - but the general pattern is pretty similar.  If it is a LaTeX package, create a directory in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;base dir&amp;gt;/tex/latex/&amp;lt;package name&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for it and extract the files (&lt;code&gt;.sty&lt;/code&gt; plus perhaps &lt;code&gt;.cls&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;) there.  Documentation files go in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;base dir&amp;gt;/doc/latex/&amp;lt;package name&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you installed it globally, you will now need to run &lt;code&gt;mktexlsr&lt;/code&gt; (or equivalently &lt;code&gt;texhash&lt;/code&gt;) via &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;.  If &lt;code&gt;mktexlsr&lt;/code&gt; is not in the path that &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; searches, you will need to locate it.  You can do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;which mktexlsr&#xA;sudo /path/to/mktexlsr&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if your shell allows it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo $(which mktexlsr)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't necessary for local installations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Note on &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you add TeX Live to your path, it will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; normally be added to the path for the root user, so will not be visible using &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;. The methods above use &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt; to find &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; , &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;, from the 'normal user' path and pass the correct instruction to &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;. This works with the &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; shells: if you use another shell you may need to provide the full path to &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-08-30T09:05:44.150" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-08-29T09:27:48.437" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-30T15:37:34.233" Score="10" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Title tells it all: who is going to this year's EuroTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ntg.nl/eurotex2012/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ntg.nl/eurotex2012/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(/me is coming)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastActivityDate="2012-08-30T15:37:34.233" Title="Who is joining the EuroTeX 2012 in Breskens?" Tags="|discussion|conferences|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2734" CreationDate="2012-08-30T17:19:01.377" Score="11" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, there aren't many &quot;sub-tags&quot; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibliographies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibliographies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibliographies&lt;/a&gt; tag area -- there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;citing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sorting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sorting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sorting&lt;/a&gt;, and there are the &quot;package&quot; tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biblatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biblatex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/natbib&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;natbib&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;natbib&lt;/a&gt; (which nowadays are used without adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibliographies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibliographies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibliographies&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my experience, there are more and more questions about multiple and/or subdivided bibliographies, and these questions are hard to find among the many hundred bibliography questions (which contributes to new duplicate questions). Therefore, I suggest to create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bib-segmenting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bib-segmenting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bib-segmenting&lt;/a&gt; tag and to add it to the appropriate questions (slowly and starting with the highest-scoring ones). As an alternative, one could choose a general name (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/segmenting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;segmenting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;segmenting&lt;/a&gt;) for the new tag so that it could be used for the (few) questions about multiple/subdivided indexes and glossaries as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I wouldn't use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sectioning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sectioning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sectioning&lt;/a&gt; to mark the questions at hand because this tag is traditionally about tinkering with &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\section&lt;/code&gt; &amp;amp; friends, which requires a different kind of expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Inspired by barbara beeton's comments, I'm leaning towards a general tag called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subdividing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subdividing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subdividing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T08:18:48.677" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T08:18:48.677" Title="How about adding a {bib-segmenting} (or, more generally, {segmenting}) tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2728" CreationDate="2012-08-31T00:19:40.223" Score="18" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really enjoy working towards badges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I track my progress towards badges? For example, the Gold copy editor? Or perhaps (dare I ask), the Legendary badge (I think I'm 1/150th of the way towards this one)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T06:47:18.753" Title="Tracking badge progress" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2727" CreationDate="2012-08-31T03:52:54.557" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specific to the badges you mention, here are some ways of establishing them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/49/copy-editor&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BId30.png&quot; alt=&quot;Copy editor badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under any of the statistics pages associated with reviews (for example, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/review/close/stats&quot;&gt;Review Close Votes page&lt;/a&gt;), hover over the review progress bar to open up a fly-out that contains the relevant information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8reok.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As can be seen, this fly-out also contains other badge progress information specific to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/76/reviewer&quot;&gt;Reviewer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/32/civic-duty&quot;&gt;Civic Duty&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/44/electorate&quot;&gt;Electorate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/43/legendary&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ekqLN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Legendary badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;reputation calculator&lt;/a&gt; and scroll to the bottom. It displays the following information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;days represented XXX&#xA;rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on XXX days&#xA;earned at least 200 reputation on XXX days&#xA;earned XXX reputation from suggested edits&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where the (silver) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/42/epic&quot;&gt;epic&lt;/a&gt; and (gold) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/43/legendary&quot;&gt;legendary&lt;/a&gt; badges are measurable via the statement &lt;code&gt;earned at least 200 reputation on XXX days&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a reasonable way (barring a time lag of a couple of months, sadly enough) of establishing your road to badge-stardom is via the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX StackExchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/8800/what-is-the-most-recent-post-the-data-explorer-has&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What is the most recent post the data explorer has?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/56748/how-many-edits-until-copy-editor-proper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How many edits until Copy Editor (proper)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/32763/epic-legendary-badges&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Epic/Legendary Badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/3834/on-what-days-did-i-hit-the-reputation-cap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;On what days did I hit the reputation cap?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/10098/how-long-until-i-get-the-pundit-badge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How long until I get the pundit badge?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/35591/generalist-progression-updated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Generalist Progression #updated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/13294/users-statistics-individual-user&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Users statistics (individual user)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/69607/what-is-my-archaeologist-badge-progress&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What is my Archaeologist badge progress?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, scroll through and check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries?order_by=favorite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of favoured queries&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T06:47:18.753" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2727" CreationDate="2012-08-31T05:40:01.607" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a Stack App called &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2982/10487&quot;&gt;StinkingBadges&lt;/a&gt;, with which you can track you progress for Legendary and Generalist, and also which posts of yours are approaching a nice/good/great badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t6Erv.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T05:40:01.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2745" CreationDate="2012-08-31T09:36:05.980" Score="16" ViewCount="574" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to add a missing ampersand in some code in an answer and I couldn't. I added &gt;6 dummy characters which worked, wanted to delete them but couldn't, because the unreviewed edits are combined into one … which means I still can't add that stupid ampersand. You can't be serious! Do I have to add a haiku or what's the intention of this rule?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13450" LastEditorUserId="13450" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T14:59:06.173" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T14:59:06.173" Title="&quot;Edits must be at least 6 characters″ – Why?" Tags="|discussion|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-08-31T15:10:29.853" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have reviewed that particular edit and rejected the first version about the remark regarding the SX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case I didn't understand that the real intention was the ampersand addition so I rejected since it was going to look like it's Joseph's remark. The second time I was not that stupid and scrolled down in the code and saw the replacement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the review tools there is a button called &lt;code&gt;Improve&lt;/code&gt; visible during the suggested edit review and I have used it to remove the excess text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought you have added that text just for the ampersand and also that text made it possible that I can remove it (removing text also counts for the character count, or maybe I have enough rep for that I'm not sure). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But please don't take this as a blessing because that sort of edits can put the OP in a difficult position if readers don't pay attention to user who edited the question/answer etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the rule is a little weird but it's a defensive one against the interesting collection of users mainly at other SE sites (I have no memory on such problems here), 2 points beggars for the edits or perfectionists or question pingers etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T15:10:29.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2733" CreationDate="2012-09-01T17:50:13.697" Score="12" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the rollback feature on the TeX forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17670" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-09-02T09:23:45.060" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T09:23:45.060" Title="What is a rollback?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2732" CreationDate="2012-09-01T18:05:05.613" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may use the &quot;rollback&quot; link in the editing history of a post to revert the post to this version. This is useful when you think certain edits are so flawed that they should be not used as a starting point for further edits, but simply undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T18:05:05.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2726" CreationDate="2012-09-01T19:26:26.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have started to add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subdividing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subdividing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subdividing&lt;/a&gt; tag to appropriate questions. I also created a tag wiki excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subdividing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subdividing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subdividing&lt;/a&gt; is about multiple/subdivided &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibliographies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bibliographies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bibliographies&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  indexes or similar document elements. If you use this tag, add the&#xA;  appropriate general tag or preferably the tag of the specific package&#xA;  you use (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biblatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biblatex&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Retagging has been completed; right now, 103 questions feature the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subdividing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subdividing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subdividing&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T09:59:46.740" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T09:59:46.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2736" CreationDate="2012-09-02T13:22:00.130" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, I always see a nice update counter for my &quot;Reputation&quot;, &quot;Responses&quot;, etc. when I click on my nickname at the top. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvGMv.png&quot; alt=&quot;stackoverflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is seemingly not happening on other Stack Exchange sites, including tex.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, I can see my reputation, responses, etc. by clicking on those links. However, there is no automatic &quot;new items&quot; counter besides these links, as occurs on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16391" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-09-04T19:55:27.633" LastActivityDate="2012-09-04T19:55:27.633" Title="Why do I never see new items under &quot;Reputation&quot;, &quot;Responses&quot;, etc.?" Tags="|bug|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2735" CreationDate="2012-09-02T13:24:38.907" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should see something similar if you hover the mouse over your name. For example, I see&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iwzby.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the edit: On StackExchange 2.0 sites (like here) things work differently to 1.0 sites like StackOverflow. Reputation appears by your name and updates automatically (some HTML5 magic, I assume). Responses, new badges and so on are handled by the 'universal inbox', which shows up red if you have for example a comment and a sort-of light blue for new badges or edits to your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-09-02T14:13:13.820" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T14:13:13.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2738" CreationDate="2012-09-03T10:34:39.073" Score="18" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the policy, or what should the policy be, regarding own answers that are correct, but have no up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, if you have no up-votes, then nobody find your answer interesting or good enough, even if it is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we then delete such answers, to clean up the database? Or should we let them be for the sake of completeness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT&lt;/em&gt;: Not enough answers to draw a final conclusion, but I will personally follow Stephan Lehmke’s recommendation. Therefore, I accept his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="9632" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T14:33:29.547" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T14:33:29.547" Title="Policy for deleting own answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2737" CreationDate="2012-09-03T10:43:19.537" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd find it hard to say when this should occur. A popular answer might turn out to be too special or even erroneous much later, so its less popular sibling might be the only survivor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also a not so popular answer might become more useful when the application of a question broadens by linking duplicates to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, personally, I'd say an answer should not be deleted (by the author) unless it is clearly wrong or is a clear duplicate of (or subsumed by) another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastEditorUserId="12850" LastEditDate="2012-09-03T11:47:41.220" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T11:47:41.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2737" CreationDate="2012-09-03T13:19:55.320" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it happens that the answer is a no-brainer, e.g. update the problematic package, forgotten &lt;code&gt;;&lt;/code&gt; at the end of a line in TikZ, etc. In such cases the answer is in fact a comment and it is hardly worth to bother converting it into a proper answer. IMHO these are candidates for deletion by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T13:19:55.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-05T01:22:42.630" Score="19" ViewCount="671" Body="&lt;p&gt;On behalf of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt; I'd like to invite contributions to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX.SX Launchpad Site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site was originally created with a focus on TikZ, but Andrew always intended it to be an open repository for community-developing of packages from TeX.SX answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See these Meta threads for explanations and references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1220/what-are-your-favourite-tikz-pgf-answers&quot;&gt;What are your favourite TikZ/PGF answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1248/tikz-pgf-answer-package-part-2&quot;&gt;TikZ/PGF answer package, Part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems I'm now the pioneer for adding a non-TikZ package, and to feel less lonely, I'd like to invite other contributors to join with packages developed from TeX.SX answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not intended for packages which can immediately go on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CTAN&lt;/a&gt;, but for code which is either more of a proof-of-concept or needs polishing before being presented to the anonymous user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to stress again the basic idea that packages on the Launchpad site are presented to the community of (approved) developers for discussion and improvement, so it's not just a container to dump &quot;your&quot; stuff, but a medium for mutual development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should be community wiki and should be improved over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1220/what-are-your-favourite-tikz-pgf-answers&quot;&gt;What are your favourite TikZ/PGF answers?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, I suggest to add potential candidate answers which could be (or are) made into packages for the launchpad site as answers to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/409/from-answers-to-packages&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; dedicated to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:17:17.310" Title="From Answers to Packages" Tags="|discussion|tex-sx-package|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-09-05T06:18:42.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2740" CreationDate="2012-09-05T01:22:42.630" Score="21" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TeX.SX Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/70169/12850&quot;&gt;Two-column text with circular insert&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/12850/stephan-lehmke&quot;&gt;Stephan Lehmke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Brief Description:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The package &lt;a href=&quot;http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tex-sx/tex-sx/development/view/head:/pullquote.dtx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pullquote&lt;/a&gt; allows to create differently-shaped inserts in two-column balanced texts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gkeLN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ro9IP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rh1VX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xoGid.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B60Ej.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible Improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More shapes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Less fragile wrt. text content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow page breaks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Several / explicit positioning of inserts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T22:46:21.723" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-09-05T01:22:42.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-09-06T14:16:24.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do people think to having a secondary edit feature that, say, &lt;em&gt;only allows edits less then six characters&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;doesn't require review from high-rep user&lt;/em&gt; ? This way, the people that want to only correct typos in an edit can go around and do that, whilst not bothering the reviewers. Note that people wishing to make malicious edits (like adding curlies :D)(if this is indeed a problem) could be deterred by, say, only allowing these 'mini-edits' to come from users with &gt;100 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17670" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T14:16:24.500" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2012-09-06T17:27:39.760" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the other answers have addressed the &lt;em&gt;reasons&lt;/em&gt; for voting to close. I would like to discuss the &lt;em&gt;timing&lt;/em&gt; of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a couple of questions that have been closed recently that I don't think should have been closed. In both cases, it seemed that one person cast a vote to close almost as a 'knee jerk reaction'. Some people may not know that as soon as a Close vote is cast, it appears in the Moderator Tools, so others (who have &gt;10,000 reputation) can be immediately pointed to it. This can result in a question being closed &lt;strong&gt;prematurely&lt;/strong&gt; if four other people jump on it straight away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing a question too early, especially when it is closed incorrectly could be interpreted as unwelcoming or unfriendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to propose that before we cast a closing vote, we post a comment, and then wait for confirmation (for a 'reasonable' amount of time) from the OP before closing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T17:27:39.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-06T22:36:43.307" Score="21" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the answers I reviewed are no answers, they are comments, but normally the user has not the reputation to comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make things easier for the moderators isn't it possible to add a button &lt;code&gt;change (answer) to comment&lt;/code&gt; in  review page for example near the button &lt;code&gt;Recommended Deletion&lt;/code&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="19356" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T16:32:27.283" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T16:32:27.283" Title="Add &quot;Change (answer) to comment&quot; in review page" Tags="|feature-request|comments|answers|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-09-07T00:08:50.437" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="243" LastEditDate="2012-09-07T12:57:33.360" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T12:57:33.360" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="800" CreationDate="2012-09-12T11:50:39.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;strong&gt;make the comment containing the link first&lt;/strong&gt;, the system doesn't create an automatic comment for you. Then you can phrase the comment as you wish, which is probably easier than editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13746" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T11:50:39.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2012-09-13T13:14:54.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just testing some entities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#211hello;&lt;/code&gt; in the preview produces &amp;#211;hello;  What happens in the main?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;#211hello;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strike &lt;strike&gt;out&lt;/strike&gt; works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-11-05T13:56:30.410" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T13:56:30.410" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-09-13T13:14:54.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2751" CreationDate="2012-09-13T16:26:24.573" Score="25" ViewCount="567" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main TeX.SX site, I asked a question about a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/70519/6510&quot;&gt;missing &lt;code&gt;\endgroup&lt;/code&gt; error for a&#xA;Beamer standalone frame&lt;/a&gt; using Martin&#xA;Scharrer's &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; package with the &lt;code&gt;subpreambles=true&lt;/code&gt; option.  The question&#xA;hasn't received much attention, perhaps because viewers consider it to be too basic&#xA;or localized.  (I can sympathize with that view; it feels like I must be making some very simple, very stupid mistake.  So, please don't take this meta-question as a complaint or whine.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, what is the most polite way to ask for more help on a question that is&#xA;possibly too basic or localized?  I see a few options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Email the package maintainer directly.&lt;/em&gt;  I hesitate to bother package maintainers&#xA;with a basic usage question because I know that they write these packages during&#xA;their personal spare time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ask for help in chat.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Post a bounty.&lt;/em&gt;  I am more than willing to post a bounty, but I get the sense&#xA;that bounties are intended for difficult, broadly applicable questions -- questions that are interesting enough to deserve to be featured.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit the question to show further efforts to solve the problem.&lt;/em&gt;  Unfortunately,&#xA;for this particular question, I am at a loss to know what other fixes I could even&#xA;try.  It wouldn't be right to make non-constructive edits just to &quot;bump&quot; up the&#xA;question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other options that I'm missing?  Which option is the most polite and&#xA;best fit with the goals and culture of TeX.SX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess there is one more option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Be more patient!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to tell me that I should follow this last option.  &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T16:36:42.617" Title="What is the most polite way to ask for more help on a basic or too localized question?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2750" CreationDate="2012-09-13T22:51:20.850" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say go for a bounty! As you can see, there are &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of questions on this site, and if a stream get asked in relatively quick succession then your (or, indeed, anyone's) question can get lost in the flood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties can be awarded for a number of different reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; a solution to the problem and your question has been buried by the most recent ones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you want to reward someone for an exemplary solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're prepared to put your hard-earned reputation points on the line, then your question is worth being featured :) It might seem like your question is basic or too localized, but it may reveal a trick that is applicable to other questions in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T22:51:20.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-14T06:08:42.650" Score="12" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using the new review tool for first posts, I came across some questions, that I already up-voted before. So in essence I already did review them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means either they should not appear in the review tool at all, or I should at least be able to say “I'm done” after having a second look. Don’t you agree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15616" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T06:08:42.650" Title="Up-voted posts in “First Posts” review tool" Tags="|feature-request|voting|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2754" CreationDate="2012-09-15T01:35:54.813" Score="19" ViewCount="680" Body="&lt;p&gt;Especially if the question and answer(s) are very much new, say less than 12 hours or even 24 hours, is it ok to ask OP to accept the answer, that is added by self or someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See examples, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/71572/removing-a-few-lines-in-a-table#comment153167_71575&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/71568/how-can-i-an-place-a-figure-next-to-an-equation#comment153178_71569&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the OP is a new comer, it is not good to do so, considering low number of views and votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't we need better ways of telling the asker that it is better to accept the most suitable answer, by means of ribbon above the unaccepted answer, only visible to the asker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10499" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T01:16:27.293" Title="Is it okay to ask the OP to accept the answer?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2753" CreationDate="2012-09-15T06:27:26.433" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Experience suggests that a lot of 'newer' users will add comments such as 'That solved my problem' or 'Thanks' to answers. As the voting/accepting mechanism is the 'visible' way that this can be done on the site, it's desirable that they know this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, experience also suggests that many people visit the site only to solve their specific problem, and that asking them after a delay of several days is not necessarily likely to work. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;text building blocks page&lt;/a&gt; suggests that we should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/209/should-we-wait-a-bit-before-accepting-answers&quot;&gt;wait a little while&lt;/a&gt; before leaving a comment about accepting. The delay suggested there is 24 h: that seems about right to me, although I do note that as only the OP can accept an answer, that increases the chance that no answer will ever be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T06:27:26.433" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2753" CreationDate="2012-09-15T08:47:12.037" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a broader perspective, the usefuless of the site as a whole increases significantly if a useful answer is accepted immediately, shifting acceptance later if neccessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am happy about every person who takes the time to care about this and remind askers of their duty in this case. It's a measure of quality assurance, and this site is a better place for it. I'd be even happier if it was possible to do this by a private message, but this site doesn't offer that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any reason against doing so, and unfortunately you're also giving none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T08:47:12.037" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2757" CreationDate="2012-09-16T14:49:30.047" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the gravatar resized proportionally to the submitted text length in the chat room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iV5AQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of gravatar in different sizes in chat&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T15:16:42.033" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T15:25:41.120" Title="Is the gravatar resized proportionally to the submitted text length in the chat room?" Tags="|support|chat|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2756" CreationDate="2012-09-16T15:25:41.120" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not quite proportionally, but it does indeed depend on how many lines the message(s) use and thus how much space is available for the user's &quot;signature&quot; on the left. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/145625/115866&quot;&gt;this answer of mine on Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; for some more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T15:25:41.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2750" CreationDate="2012-09-16T16:36:42.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to say that (as been said by Andrew before), you can get helped in the chat too. Trust me, it works! And especially if the package maintainer is a member here (like in the case of Martin), this might be in the end the best way to contact him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T16:36:42.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2760" CreationDate="2012-09-16T22:35:48.780" Score="9" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2703/why-can-i-only-vote-37-times&quot;&gt;Why can I only vote 37 times?&lt;/a&gt;, Joseph Wright answered that there is a rule saying that I can only upvote 30 answers per day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking in the FAQ I found a short explanation (with the first look I oversee this): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A maximum of 40 votes can be cast per user per day, however, to reach&#xA;  the maximum you must vote on at least 10 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found no place where I can see how many answers I upvoted today and how many questions. Even not in the summary profile, which only shows the complete voting per day (answers and questions together).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because this rule is important I suggest to display somewhere on the page the actual status of upvoted questions and answers per day separately. That could be, for example, in the summary profile for the votings or near user name or received bagdes in the headline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T08:19:16.350" Title="Adding information for upvoted questions and answers per day separately" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-declined|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2012-09-17T02:31:24.943" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the motivation behind this is to make you upvote questions more in general, just like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/44/electorate&quot; title=&quot;Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions.&quot;&gt;Electorate badge&lt;/a&gt; encourages upvoting of questions. Giving you a counter that tells you &quot;I've already upvoted enough questions, so now I can upvote answers&quot; would be beside the point here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you really wanna keep track, you could go to your profile and check the &quot;votes&quot; tab ⇒ upvotes (not taking downvotes into consideration here). This doesn't directly tell you which ones were on questions and which ones on answers, but if you mouseover the link and check the target URL, you can tell:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/72801/how-do-i-make-the-sections-un-numbered/&lt;b&gt;72830#72830&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/xxxxx/bla-bla-bla/&lt;b&gt;yyyyy#yyyyy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/71554/framed-or-mdframed-pros-cons&#xA;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/xxxxx/bla-bla-bla&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you'll have to count manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T02:31:24.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2762" CreationDate="2012-09-18T23:44:03.047" Score="8" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should I bounty an unfinished answer when the bounty is nearly expiring and the author seems to be striving to finish it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5872" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T19:38:56.663" Title="Should I bounty an unfinished answer?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2761" CreationDate="2012-09-20T19:38:56.663" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that is really all up to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is something that is important to you, or if you think would be important for a larger audience you should do so. I don't think most of the people here are going to try to answer something just because it has a bounty, but having a bounty does attract more attention to question, as then it is considered something important to at least one individual. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T19:38:56.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-21T13:45:25.613" Score="28" ViewCount="996" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get a few questions that boil down to &quot;just do it for me&quot; (often, but not confined to, drawing questions).  These can be highly irritating - especially if you've seen a few go by in a short space of time.  But the questioner is often a new user and so not aware that this isn't a &quot;Please do my work for me&quot; site!  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; are designed to help in situations like this: they make it easy to leave a &lt;em&gt;polite&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;informative&lt;/em&gt; comment.  We have a block aimed at questions that don't contain enough information, but it doesn't quite address this situation.  So I'd like to add a block for the &quot;Just do it for me&quot; type of question that hopefully explains to the user the advantage of having a go first and coming here for help at the point that they get stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I just wrote for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To expand a little on the comments, this site works best as a helping hand at the precise point where you get stuck with something when a small nudge in the correct direction shows you how to proceed. So things that look like &quot;Please do this complicated thing for me&quot; tend not to get answers because they require a great deal of effort. To make the most of this site, you need to identify one thing that will help you where if someone knows the answer it will take them very little time to show you. So if you show what you have so far, you'll stand a greater chance of getting help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's polish this up (or throw it out and write a new one) and add it to our building blocks.  I'll copy the above into a CW answer for any and all to edit.  If you'd rather write something very different, add it as an alternative - we don't have to have just one version if there are potentially different circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2022-08-15T22:51:17.910" Title="&quot;Just do it for me&quot; text building block" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2763" CreationDate="2012-09-21T13:45:25.613" Score="12" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;To expand a little on the comments, this site works best as a helping hand at the precise&#xA;point where you get stuck with something when a small nudge in the correct direction shows&#xA;you how to proceed. So things that look like &quot;Please do this complicated thing for me&quot; tend&#xA;not to get answers because they require a great deal of effort. To make the most of this&#xA;site, you need to identify one thing that will help you where if someone knows the answer&#xA;it will take them very little time to show you. So if you show what you have so far, you'll&#xA;stand a greater chance of getting help.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-09-24T18:36:40.607" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T18:36:40.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2763" CreationDate="2012-09-21T19:28:46.633" Score="7" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Please try to specify your question. On this site, a question should typically revolve&#xA;around an abstract issue (e.g. &quot;How do I get a double horizontal line in a table?&quot;)&#xA;rather than a concrete application (e.g. &quot;How do I get this table here?&quot;). Please&#xA;reformulate your question and show the code up to the point where you get stuck and don't&#xA;know how to go on. Your code should start with `\documentclass{...}` and end with&#xA;`\end{document}` (→[MWE](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/228)).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T19:28:46.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2767" CreationDate="2012-09-22T06:28:11.557" Score="13" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;When working on a document, I often end up with multiple questions. Should I club all the related questions together and ask a single question or break them into separate questions. All the questions are specific about how to do something, but may or may not affect the answer to other questions (because I do not know the answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, recently I was working on a plot and needed help with annotations. I had two questions,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;how to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73578/annotating-family-of-curves-in-pgfplot&quot;&gt;generate&lt;/a&gt; the annotations and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;how to adjust their placement based on the value of the annotation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never got around to asking the second question but for future reference should I combine such questions? Or If I am asking multiple questions should I reference the other questions, which I had but many not be relevant for the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11241" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-09-22T18:26:08.703" Title="Multiple questions or single question?" Tags="|discussion|support|asking-questions|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2766" CreationDate="2012-09-22T06:48:08.277" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is usually best to ask &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;self-contained&lt;/em&gt; questions &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; include a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; that illustrates your problem. You could describe your end-goal in an attempt to guide answers. However, think of this site as a destination where not only &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can find answers, but also &lt;em&gt;others&lt;/em&gt;. Future visitors may not have the same end-goal as you, and therefore might not be interested in wading through a complicated description of a big, multi-stage question/problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an additional question that could not be answered in your first, consider asking a follow-up question. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117/5764&quot;&gt;Follow-up questions&lt;/a&gt; (new questions) are more than welcome! Even though you have a bigger picture in mind, consider accepting the answer that helped you most with each of the questions asked (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1852/5764&quot;&gt;How do you accept an answer?&lt;/a&gt;) as you move this Q&amp;amp;A journey towards your end-goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you consider some of the questions en-route to be too small for asking, there's always the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; were skilled regulars hang out and exchange ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Some of the above are snippets from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/5764&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; - comments scattered across this network to help improve the quality.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2012-09-22T06:48:08.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2012-09-22T10:05:34.297" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;On which other &lt;em&gt;stackexchange&lt;/em&gt; sites you are a member? (Let's say being a &quot;member&quot; means ask a question or provide an answer there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment format should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[TeX](http://tex.stackexchange.com/)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-09-22T10:05:34.297" CommentCount="32" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-09-22T10:05:34.297" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2012-09-22T18:37:11.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the updated review process, a new set of badges are rolled out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New badges added for completing community review tasks. User can earn &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/211/custodian&quot;&gt;Custodian&lt;/a&gt; (1 review), &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/128/reviewer&quot;&gt;Reviewer&lt;/a&gt; (250 reviews) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/212/steward&quot;&gt;Steward&lt;/a&gt; (1000 reviews) once for each review queue (Close Posts, First Posts, Late Answers, Suggested Edits and Low Quality Posts). The previous Reviewer badge (for reviewing posts in the old system) will no longer be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ddno.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DzhOX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9MPgy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-09-22T18:37:11.790" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-09-22T18:37:11.790" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2771" CreationDate="2012-09-22T22:19:47.887" Score="18" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the concepts behind the StackExchange model is that questions which have the same underlying basis can be treated as duplicates, so it's possible to have a single place where the answers are 'accumulated'. That of course requires voting to close, which as we gain more users with sufficient reputation becomes more likely to be 'community-driven' rather than 'moderator-driven'. It therefore seems sensible to raise the question of how people feel this should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are obviously a number of different cases. Sometimes, questions asked are clear and its easy to see that they really are duplicates of older questions. However, many questions from newer members of the site are not so easy to categories, at least without some feedback from the questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is therefore what the 'guidelines' should be for voting to close as duplicates. (There is always some flexibility, of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some points that I think might be worth considering in an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing requires five votes. Does it make a difference to how you should act if the question has no/one/two/three/four close votes already?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does feedback from the OP fit it? They might come back very quickly and say either 'Yes, the link helped me' or 'I'm still having an issue because ...'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the approach be different depending on how many questions the OP has asked before?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make a difference if the question is very clear (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; to the 'certainly' of the duplication)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T07:50:47.697" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T19:45:00.353" Title="Closing questions as exact duplications: 'best practice'" Tags="|discussion|voting|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2770" CreationDate="2012-09-22T22:42:20.837" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the base policy should be to be friendly, patient and polite. I will refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/59460/custom-title-page-in-report-or-book-class?lq=1&quot;&gt;Custom title page in report or book class?&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;doncherry’s&lt;/em&gt; excellent comment, which can serve as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX.sx! This question is very similar to tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17579/…. Please take a look at it as the information there might help you. If so, that's great, and we'll probably close this question as a duplicate just to keep the place tidy and to help people find answers quickly. If not, please edit your question here to explain why so that people can better focus their attention to help you. – doncherry Jun 11 at 22:42&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be the ‘standard’ message to user asking question that may be a duplicate. Also, give the user a hint in which direction to edit the question to avoid closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, most important, some patience: No question should be closed within the first 48 hours after the the first (polite) note regarding possible duplicate. Not all users have the possibility to log in every day. A closing is a slap in the face, especially for new users. Also, remember that not all users have English as his or hers first language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the four bullets points in the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, that doesn't matter. But what should matter is when one or more users have opposed to the duplicate claim.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes. If the OP acknowledge the question was a duplicate, it can be closed immediately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No. The policy should be clear and consistence, connected to each question. Avoid discretional rules when possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No. The OP should always comment on the issue before closing. And the 48 hour rule similarly applies. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The procedure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A possible duplicate question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;doncherry’s&lt;/em&gt; note regarding possible duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;48 hour without adequate OP response&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing if at least five votes for closing &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have until now assumed it is clear what is a duplicate. But is that true? In my world two questions with the same or similar answers, is not necessary duplicate questions. In fact, it is &lt;em&gt;two questions with similar answers.&lt;/em&gt; And that is a difference, not only semantic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you have to decide how to handle possible improvements to the old question: If I have new ideas how to solve the problems for the user, shall I add an answer to the ‘original’ question, even if my idea might not be the best solution of &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T19:45:00.353" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2763" CreationDate="2012-09-23T07:59:45.407" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking the two very good suggestions so far and editing them together to get within 500 characters, how about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.sx!](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/1436) On this site,&#xA;a question should typically revolve around an abstract issue (e.g. &quot;How do I&#xA;get a double horizontal line in a table?&quot;) rather than a concrete application&#xA;(e.g. &quot;How do I make this table?&quot;). Questions that look like &quot;Please do this&#xA;complicated thing for me&quot; tend to get closed because they are &quot;too &#xA;localized&quot;. Please try to make your question clear and simple by giving a&#xA;[minimal working example (MWE)](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/228):&#xA;you'll stand a greater chance of getting help.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-09-25T16:25:36.463" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T16:25:36.463" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-23T12:09:00.670" Score="16" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question which comes up in one form or another reasonable regularly is 'How do I turn a PDF back into .tex?': see for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73538/can-i-recover-my-tex-file&quot;&gt;Can I recover my .tex file?&lt;/a&gt;. Some, but not all, of these questions are about 'disaster recovery', but the core issue (recreating a &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file) does not directly hinge on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had a similar situation for Linux installation, which was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2670/should-how-to-install-package-x-on-ubuntu-questions-be-consolidated&quot;&gt;hacked out in meta&lt;/a&gt; and has now been &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73016/how-do-i-install-an-individual-package-on-a-linux-system&quot;&gt;posted to the main site&lt;/a&gt;.  Particularly useful there was the fact that as this was a 'set up' question, it's written to be general. I wonder if it would be useful to do the same for the 'recovery' issue? If so, an answer here consisting of a question/answer pair for the main site would be the best approach. We can then post as a CW question on the main site when ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion I guess in comments as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T18:00:01.477" Title="A consolidated 'recovering material from a PDF'  question and answer?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2775" CreationDate="2012-09-23T18:30:02.240" Score="14" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it good practice to ask something like 'what are the best packages to add a nomeclature? How do they compare?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds useful to me but I have read some have prejudices (that I somehow share) against 'best pratices question' (see for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1246/dont-ask-us-about-best-practices-glom-of-nit-or-mrs-cake&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where to draw the line ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12136" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T09:51:41.453" Title="Asking for advice in choosing a package to do a particular task" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2774" CreationDate="2012-09-23T19:08:58.640" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a number of great questions that don't directly ask for the &quot;best&quot; package, but for advantages and disadvantages of different solutions/packages, one of which I asked myself: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25701/bibtex-vs-biber-and-biblatex-vs-natbib&quot;&gt;bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib&lt;/a&gt;. There's usually two ways these questions turn out to be answered: Either with one consolidated answer, which usually is (mainly) by one author; or one answer per package/solution/approach. The latter tend to be Community Wiki (CW) questions, tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in general, these questions are great questions! They tend to require a bit more thought on the side of the asker in order to turn out great, i.e. you should really go away from your specific situation, and try to come up with and ask about general criteria that might play a role in the choice of such a tool. My bottom line is probably that such questions shouldn't lead to &quot;one single best package&quot; being picked out -- because that's often simply not possible in the objective manner that's required here -- but they should display and compare features of different packages, so that the reader of the question can make an informed decision on which package to choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64/tools-for-automating-document-compilation&quot;&gt;Tools for automating document compilation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51603/list-of-indexing-packages-pros-and-cons&quot;&gt;List of Indexing Packages - Pros and Cons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3622/best-way-to-generate-a-nice-function-graph-in-latex&quot;&gt;Best way to generate a nice function plots in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T19:16:19.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2773" CreationDate="2012-09-24T06:43:55.417" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, such consolidation will be useful. Today, you find information in different answers to different question. For example, a very useful link was hidden in a closed question (claimed duplicate). Also, we can then have cover more situations, slightly different from the usual ‘&lt;em&gt;How to convert .PDF to .tex&lt;/em&gt;’.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a similar consolidation can be useful for the ‘&lt;em&gt;How to convert .tex to .docx&lt;/em&gt;’. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the consolidation, it is important to make room for new information regarding new programs &lt;em&gt;etc&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T06:43:55.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3125" CreationDate="2012-09-24T17:14:45.237" Score="13" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've now been using this new review tool (which is great, btw) for a couple of days, and I was wondering what is the difference between not acting on a vote to close, and voting for not to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can those votes for not to close be seen somewhere, or do they affect the outcome somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-09-24T17:27:48.580" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T19:00:55.537" Title="Review beta -- skip review vs. vote not to close" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2773" CreationDate="2012-09-24T19:47:26.597" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good question and answer here needs a bit of work. Feel free to edit: set as CW to make that easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Conversion/recovery of &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; source from PDF file&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a method to convert a PDF file into a &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file? Does it depend on whether the file was originally created using LaTeX or if additional files (such as &lt;code&gt;.aux&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; or  &lt;code&gt;.bbl&lt;/code&gt;) are available? If I am recovering from a computer problem, as opposed to converting a PDF I've been given by someone else, does this make a difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the most general terms, conversion of a PDF into a (La)TeX file that would have generated it is not possible in an automated way. There is no 'special' information added to a PDF by LaTeX which would allow this process. As such, converting a PDF from an unknown source is very much the same as converting a PDF you know was generated by LaTeX: not that easy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[TO DO: HELP PLEASE!]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the TeX source is text-based, the go-to conversion of choice might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdftotext&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;code&gt;pdftotext&lt;/code&gt; is an open source command-line utility for converting PDF files to plain text files. That is, extracting text data from PDF-encapsulated files. It is freely available and included by default with many Linux distributions, as well as being available on Windows (as part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Xpdf&lt;/a&gt; distribution). Such text extraction is complicated as PDF files are internally built on page drawing primitives, meaning the boundaries between words and paragraphs often must be inferred based on their position on the page. As such, the conversion-accuracy depends on the contents and layout.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're only interested in retrieving graphics, &lt;a href=&quot;http://inkscape.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; provides functionality to export to PStricks or TikZ.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://abisource.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AbiWord&lt;/a&gt; has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://abisource.org/wiki/PluginMatrix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;import from/export to LaTeX plugin&lt;/a&gt;. The command-line usage would be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;abiword --to=tex filename.pdf&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/8514/&quot;&gt;described in more detail by frabjous&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Global Blind Spot blog lists a script for &lt;a href=&quot;http://globalblindspot.blogspot.be/2012/06/rudimentary-pdf-to-latex-conversion-in.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rudimentary PDF to LaTeX conversion in Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inftyreader.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;InftyReader&lt;/a&gt; is a paid-for/non-free alternative. InftyReader is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application that recognizes and translates scientific documents (including math symbols) into LaTeX, MathML and XHTML. InftyReader can recognize tables including math expressions in the cells so long as the ruled lines are not broken.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary files&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that when trying to 'recover' a file you know was generated by LaTeX that you have various secondary files available. The nature of many of these files is discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7770/file-extensions-of-latex-related-files&quot;&gt;File extensions related to LaTeX, etc&lt;/a&gt;. Broadly, these are of limited help in converting a PDF into a &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file. At best, they contain partial information about some aspect of the original source, but none will contain large pieces of the original file (unless the case is very unusual). Probably the most common secondary files are &lt;code&gt;.aux&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;.bbl&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;.blg&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;.blg&lt;/code&gt; files are logs: they tell us what happened in the LaTeX and BibTeX runs, respectively. That will be useful in working out which packages were used in the .tex file, but that alone does not get us very far (no custom settings or actual input).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;.bbl&lt;/code&gt; file may help with the bibliography part of the document. If you did not use &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; then the .bbl file is a formatted bibliography, but if you used &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; then it's not. Moreover, it does not help with the citations that link to the bibliography, and most of the time the bibliography will be a relatively small part of the entire document.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;.aux&lt;/code&gt; file tells us about information transferred between LaTeX runs, so for example labels used in the &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file, but not where they might have been cross-referenced, &lt;em&gt;etc&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you'll see, the amount of information in the various additional files is at best quite limited, and in most real documents will form only a small part of what's needed to reconstruct the &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disaster recovery&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recovering data following computer issues is broadly 'off-topic' for TeX-sx, but some general pointers can be given. If you suspect you have deleted your &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; source and it is not in the 'Recycle Bin' or similar, you should proceed very cautiously. It is usually best to use a separate machine to look for advice, and not to create any new files (for example by downloading recovery tools) onto the disk which contained the lost file(s). It then &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be possible to recover your source without 'reconstruction'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to attach &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; source to a PDF so that everything is available 'in one go'. However, this has to be done when the PDF is created, so does not help with conversion of an arbitrary PDF file. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13187&quot;&gt;Is there some way to embed LaTeX source code in a PDF file?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T18:00:01.477" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-09-24T19:47:26.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2780" CreationDate="2012-09-26T04:02:59.013" Score="11" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to make a comment for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/74137/9467&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; but because one user has a Chinese character as its user name, I failed to refer it in the comment. Shortly speaking, how to trigger the auto-completion (aka IntelliSense in Visual Studio) for a non-latin user name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T17:03:24.047" Title="How to trigger the auto-completion in a comment when referring to a non-latin user name?" Tags="|support|comments|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2012-09-26T04:43:45.033" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a qwerty keyboard, you need to copy at least the first character from the name and paste it after &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; in order to initiate the auto-completion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zXqbK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If selection from the available comments is difficult (due to hyperlinks), click on the user name and select from the user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T04:43:45.033" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2782" CreationDate="2012-09-26T10:27:56.867" Score="58" ViewCount="2325" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does one add a LaTeX output* to a question/answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*the thing you see in the PDF/DVI when you compile the LaTeX code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17670" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-09-26T17:00:30.570" LastActivityDate="2021-06-09T19:19:28.650" Title="How does one add a LaTeX output to a question/answer?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|images|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2012-09-26T12:27:39.187" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my method, on Windows. Your mileage may vary: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nothing against it, but I use the &quot;appropriate&quot; document class&#xA;rather than &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I open the result in my PDF reader, at 100%&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I take a screen shot (usually a subrectangle of the whole window),&#xA;    using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MWSNAP&lt;/a&gt;, and save it (automatically) as a &lt;code&gt;.png&lt;/code&gt; for&#xA;    uploading&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When, occasionally, the output is too big for a convenient screen&#xA;    capture, my PDF reader, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PDFXCHANGE Viewer&lt;/a&gt;, allows me to export&#xA;    the &lt;code&gt;.pdf&lt;/code&gt; to a number of different graphic formats, at a chosen,&#xA;    appropriate DPI resolution, again for uploading.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T12:27:39.187" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2012-09-30T18:09:42.540" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;My method, on Mac OS X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I use &lt;code&gt;\usepackage[convert,border=2]{standalone}&lt;/code&gt;, which requires &lt;code&gt;pdflatex --shell-escape&lt;/code&gt; and that ImageMagick is installed (it is if one has a full MacTeX distribution). This has a limitation, because not everything can be obtained just as if a real class were used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So most of the times I compile the document with the proper class, open the PDF at full screen and take a snapshot with the system tool: Command-Shift-4 allows to choose a rectangle and writes a PNG (72 dpi) on the desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T18:09:42.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2786" CreationDate="2012-10-01T06:24:18.263" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a new account that has been merged with the old one. My reputation is greater than 20. But the chat room still says I must have at least 20 reps to join a room. What is wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="1106" LastEditDate="2012-10-01T10:36:49.970" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T10:36:49.970" Title="I cannot join any chat room after my new account merged with the old one" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|chat|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2012-10-01T10:36:42.403" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should work now. The merge confused chat, I'm not yet sure why, but your chat account is now repaired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T10:36:42.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3127" CreationDate="2012-10-02T07:59:11.167" Score="16" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw that &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12681100/boxing-some-cells-in-tabular-enviroment&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12681100/boxing-some-cells-in-tabular-enviroment&lt;/a&gt; question was closed on SO as being &lt;em&gt;off topic&lt;/em&gt;, even after being flagged for migration quite some time ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lrdye.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly I am pretty sure I had flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74687/texshop-equivalent-on-windows&quot;&gt;TeXShop equivalent on Windows&lt;/a&gt; for migration on SO, and then it got deleted. I flagged it again, and it eventually showed up on TeX.SE after quite some time. This happened to show up right after I made this comment at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/notable-stack-exchange-news/2532#comment6878_2532&quot;&gt;Notable Stack Exchange news&lt;/a&gt;, but perhaps that is just a coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the process of migration my comments about flagging and re flagging it were removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T03:18:36.423" Title="How can we get valid TeX questions migrated from SO (as opposed to just closed on SO)?" Tags="|support|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2791" CreationDate="2012-10-02T13:26:30.467" Score="20" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see a question that is a duplicate, but the question is well-stated and good in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I ask: is it correct/encouraged/frowned-upon/... to up-vote a question at the same time you vote for closure as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-10-04T07:30:32.857" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T07:30:32.857" Title="Up-vote &amp; close as duplicate — good thing to do?" Tags="|discussion|voting|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2012-10-02T14:13:16.033" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have simultaneously upvoted and voted to close questions on a few occasions, but I only did so when the duplicate question was either exceptionally well-stated or when it turned out that the matching original question was hard to discover, usually because of improper tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T14:13:16.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2012-10-02T14:24:16.450" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently do this.  The two decisions are almost completely independent for me.  The only time that the presence of the duplicate would mean that I didn't vote would be if the original question was &lt;em&gt;blatantly&lt;/em&gt; easy to find (something like the &quot;How do I look up a symbol?&quot;).  If someone's put some effort into their question, they probably did a cursory search of the site and didn't find the original.  I know how hard it can be to find questions here - even my own questions/answers that I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; exist! - so I'm generally very lenient on others not doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, if it is a duplicate - and with the exception of classics like &quot;How do I look up a symbol&quot; - the implication is that it is on-topic for the site and a question that is worth having, just that we had it before.  So if I see it's been voted as a duplicate, my bayesian prior is already weighted to the upward vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T14:24:16.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-08T04:20:22.703" Score="18" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to add more tags to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75742/323&quot;&gt;a ConTeXt question&lt;/a&gt;. The question is asking how to get the number of current itemization in a margin. In ConTeXt, itemizations are equivalent to the &lt;strong&gt;itemize&lt;/strong&gt; as well as &lt;strong&gt;enumerate&lt;/strong&gt; environments in LaTeX. So, the relevant tags are: &lt;code&gt;lists&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;itemize&lt;/code&gt;. This is what each of these tags say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;lists&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{lists} is about list environments. If your question deals with a specific list environment, add the respective tag, if existing, such as {itemize}, {enumerate}, or {description}. A popular package is {enumitem}. For registers like a &quot;List of figures&quot;, use {table-of-contents} instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;itemize&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{itemize} is about the itemize list environment. If you use this tag, add the more general {lists} tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{enumerate} is about the enumerate list environment. If you use this tag, add the more general {lists} tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wording of these tags is not tied to the desired visual output, rather to the LaTeX environment that implements them. The corresponding ConTeXt environments are &lt;code&gt;itemgroups&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;itemize&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;itemize&lt;/code&gt;. Because of the way they are worded, none of the LaTeX specific tags fit the question. In fact, some of them may be  confusing because, in ConTeXt, &lt;code&gt;lists&lt;/code&gt; are used for structures like table of contents, list of figures, etc; and &lt;code&gt;enumeration&lt;/code&gt; is used for structures like Theorems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best way out of this? I understand that more than 95% of the questions on this forum are LaTeX related, so having LaTeX specific tags makes sense. However, at the same time, there are a few ConTeXt and plain-TeX specific questions as well; the LaTeX specific tags do not fit for the ConTeXt questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One option is to create new tags for ConTeXt specific tags for everything and the other option is to reword a lot of the tags so that they describe the behavior and not the name of the environments that implement them. None of them completely solve the question of similar terms (like &lt;code&gt;lists&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;enumerations&lt;/code&gt;) used to mean completely different constructs in LaTeX and ConTeXt (should we create &lt;code&gt;latex-lists&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;context-lists&lt;/code&gt; to avoid confusion?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T10:29:06.437" Title="How to tag ConTeXt questions when the relevant tag is LaTeX specific" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-08T16:25:06.470" Score="14" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a few minutes ago I was rewiewing a first post. Another one did also rewiew the same post and closed his review first, so that my review with more correcting was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the review system not prevent reviewing questions that are just now rewiewed by another one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there should be no fight for first clicking &quot;I'm Done&quot; but to get complete reviewed and so better posts ... If one is reviewing a post no one more should be able to review the same post until reviewing is finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T13:28:24.160" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T13:28:24.160" Title="Why does the review system not prevent reviewing questions that are just now rewiewed by another one?" Tags="|discussion|bug|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2012-10-10T04:10:37.770" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cereda.github.com/arara/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WXJGu.png&quot; alt=&quot;arara is a TeX automation tool&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5872" LastEditorUserId="5872" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T17:24:02.863" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T17:24:02.863" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-10-10T04:10:37.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2807" CreationDate="2012-10-10T13:35:15.303" Score="6" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think my question would be off topic on TeX - LaTeX but I'm not sure where to ask it. Where can I ask a question like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've used LaTeX for several years, but just with basic functionality:&#xA;  writing papers with sections, figures, labels, bibliography, and the&#xA;  occasional table. The problem is that when things get more complicated&#xA;  I have no idea what to do, and I usually end up searching online for&#xA;  several hours to find a &quot;solution&quot;, which is usually more like a hack&#xA;  that I don't really understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there books or tutorials that can help &quot;intermediate users&quot; like&#xA;  me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19721" LastEditorUserId="19721" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T14:03:32.133" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T09:26:14.580" Title="Where can I ask &quot;Where can I find intermediate LaTeX documentation?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2798" CreationDate="2012-10-12T14:06:42.363" Score="4" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/65683/top-investors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;top investors in TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; result seems to be inaccurate. My current display name with non-Latin and the total of my offered bounties have not been updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="140" LastEditDate="2012-10-15T14:01:59.010" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T14:01:59.010" Title="Top investors list out of date" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2797" CreationDate="2012-10-12T16:39:56.337" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; infrastructure relies on past data, not real time. In fact, it uses an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/introducing-stack-exchange-data-explorer/&quot;&gt;anonymized data dump&lt;/a&gt; of all creative commons questions and answers from the Stack Exchange family of websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see the last data update in the front page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5UvOa.png&quot; alt=&quot;Update&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once in a while, the data is updated. There are also backups in the XML format available for download in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-dump&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ClearBits&lt;/a&gt;. I always download the updates and keep a &quot;mirror&quot; of our site in a BitBucket repository:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/cereda/tex.sx-data-dump&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sJ9Er.png&quot; alt=&quot;BitBucket&quot;&gt; TeX.sx data dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2012-10-12T16:39:56.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2800" CreationDate="2012-10-12T21:18:25.563" Score="10" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76476/long-brackets-in-flalign&quot;&gt;Long brackets in flalign&lt;/a&gt; the question was raised as a side note, why a certain reputation is needed to create new Tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the side note: how come this whole &quot;reputation&quot; does not allow me to make new tags? Aren't they suppose to, you know, HELP people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine some reasons why it is handled like this, for example to prevent getting a huge load of quite similar tags which would divide the tagging scheme into small samples. On the other hand even new tags that are not used by enough other questions within a certain time span are automatically removed. So there is already some autocleaning mechanism that should prevent too much division.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18674" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-10-12T22:16:44.717" Title="Why is a certain reputation needed to create new tags?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2799" CreationDate="2012-10-12T22:16:44.717" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason is that we want to prevent people from creating tags that are considered inappropriate. The site has quite a strict policy on existing tags so that the tags have some structure. New members are often not aware of this which causes the system to &quot;break&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't know what are the appropriate tags, try to do your best, however be sure that some of the higher-reputation users will retag the question if necessary. And if you think a new tag should be created, just make a comment to your question and again, some high-rep user will spot it, and if the suggestion is good, he will create the tag (maybe after a short discussion in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;our chat, which you are welcome to join as well&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see this meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/302/11002&quot;&gt;Our set of tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-10-12T22:16:44.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2803" CreationDate="2012-10-13T01:30:29.070" Score="14" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading the following question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76486/latex-images-formatting&quot;&gt;LaTeX images formatting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There, the user that has asked the question, a user named &lt;code&gt;Vartec&lt;/code&gt; (who apparently to me has provided the correct answer) have no profiles. I tried clicking on their names, but that doesn't redirect me to their profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do some users have no profiles? What rep do they have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8303" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T21:28:21.820" Title="Why do some users have no profiles?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2811" CreationDate="2012-10-13T04:16:50.493" Score="12" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted an answer, and a popup appeared with something along the lines of &quot;Don't forget you can mark this answer as the accepted answer&quot;. I tried to accept the answer, and then another popup mentioned &quot;You can accept this answer in 3 minutes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the &quot;Don't forget...&quot; message be displayed only when the accept-an-answer waiting time is up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19100" LastEditorUserId="128" LastEditDate="2012-10-16T21:03:01.917" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T21:03:16.083" Title="Can the message &quot;Don't forget you can mark this answer as the accepted answer&quot; only come up when the waiting period is over?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|voting|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2801" CreationDate="2012-10-13T04:59:18.613" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do some users have no profiles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This specific question stems from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/64392/user64392&quot;&gt;original poster&lt;/a&gt; (OP) is not registered on TeX.SE. When migrated, their profile image shows up as a generic/greyed-out image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We typically post one of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/5764&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; requesting the user to register.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What rep do they have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once they register on this site, you'll be able to view their TeX.SE profile. Their starting reputation will be 101 - referred to an &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Association Bonus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of 100 plus the default 1 rep, but they will also inherit additional reputation bestowed on posts on TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T21:28:21.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2389" CreationDate="2012-10-14T22:56:39.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is not a bad idea per se. There are quite a few TeXnicCenter tutorials available on different websites and blogs, many of them using outdated versions of TeXnicCenter and Adobe Acrobat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is hard is to guess all the possible problems, as the combination of TeXnicCenter, MiKTeX, pdflatex or luatex, bibtex, makeindex and Adobe Acrobat as the viewer is inherently brittle. A single misplaced &quot; or a wrong path can cause problems that are hard to detect or diagnose for a beginner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of anticipating the problems it might be easier to explain the steps to reach a working setup, with 'checkpoints' using a MWE. This would start by the download and installation of the current 2.0 Alpha 4 version, which is despite its name working better than the older 1.0 release candidate. Additionally just switching to a different PDF reader, e.g. Sumatra PDF, can often help as it is not locking the file and automatically reloads new versions without necessarily being told to do so by the editor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be one approach to create a canonical question for TeXnicCenter, as a clean reinstallation leads in my experience to a working setup much faster than trying to diagnose specific issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9263" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T22:56:39.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-15T00:06:51.053" Score="-4" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any private message system? I found an answer that I do not agree with, but some stupid moderator closed it, making it true by definition, so no one can argue with it. I want to contact an author of that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19502" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2012-10-15T03:52:59.630" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T05:55:31.547" Title="How to contact another member of Stack Exchange?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2805" CreationDate="2012-10-15T03:52:04.500" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no private message system in the Stack Exchange system. This is by design. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/431/170190&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/a&gt; for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your particular point, there is no way to close an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, only questions may be closed, and usually this is not done by moderators but by a vote of 5 users with 3000 reputation or higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also this is a community of users, so calling anyone stupid only reflects badly on &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;. And the moderators were elected on the basis of both their TeX skills and their commitment to the community. &quot;Stupid&quot; is the last adjective I'd choose to describe them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Paul notes in the comments, it's always possible (if you have more than 50 reputation) to comment on an answer, and this will notify the person who provided the answer the next time they are on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T05:55:31.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2796" CreationDate="2012-10-15T09:26:14.580" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, such a question would be on topic at tex.sx -- it may be a duplicate, though. As doncherry has pointed out, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; tag features two questions similar to your proposed one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24105/what-are-good-advanced-latex-books&quot;&gt;What are good advanced LaTeX books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51884/free-intermediate-level-documentation&quot;&gt;Free intermediate level documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T09:26:14.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-16T03:51:19.743" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I come across a wealth of information on these pages. To keep a record of useful or interesting topics I have to bookmark the links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it make sense for users to have access to tagging questions/answers for their own private collection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T03:51:19.743" Title="Private tags as a substitute for bookmarking" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2810" CreationDate="2012-10-16T16:06:52.120" Score="51" ViewCount="2420" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1961/etiquette-should-i-edit-questions-with-thanks-or-wait-for-moderator&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; seems to indicate that it is inappropriate to say &quot;thanks&quot; at the end of a question, but does not provide justification. In a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74100/matching-the-delimiters-and-in-auctex&quot;&gt;question I once asked&lt;/a&gt;, such thanks were removed and I tried to get justification, but to no avail (see the comments below the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it inappropriate to include &quot;thanks&quot; in a question? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5700" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-12-04T15:55:53.223" Title="Why is &quot;thanks&quot; inappropriate at the end of a question?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2809" CreationDate="2012-10-16T19:51:37.243" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gratitude on the Stack Exchange network is provided by means of voting (bestowing reputation). We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/5764&quot;&gt;Text building block&lt;/a&gt; dedicated to this, which perhaps explains it best:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436/5764&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.sx!&lt;/a&gt; Usually, we don't put a greeting or a &quot;thank you&quot; in our posts. While this might seem strange at first, it is not a sign of lack of politeness, but rather part of our trying to keep everything very concise. Upvoting is the preferred way here to say &quot;thank you&quot; to users who helped you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If need be, you could comment on the answers that helped you (most) by saying &quot;Thank you.&quot; That would direct attention to specific answers in the way you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some things to consider regarding &quot;thank you&quot;s in posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By the time someone reads a post &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a &quot;thanks for reading this&quot; I doubt they will downvote (assuming that a downvote is a negative and only response to not seeing a thank you) the post because of it's &quot;lack of politeness&quot;. Moreover, I doubt they will consider &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answering &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a thank you. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you really mean it, or is it just a habit? If you read the post again next week, next month, or even a decade from now, would you still mean it? In a similar way, when one writes &quot;I'm a newbie&quot;, it may be only relevant for a moment in time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This remains a community driven site, so users with certain privileges are allowed to edit your post(s). If you don't like what they've proposed in their edits, you can roll back to a previous (more likeable) version. Edit-wars (perhaps a strong phrase) have happened in the past (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2097/5764&quot;&gt;Respecting poster's style&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2599/5764&quot;&gt;Why were my edits rejected?&lt;/a&gt;) and people quickly learn who wants what and why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the &quot;text building block&quot;: It's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; meant to sound impolite, we are trying to be concise and focus the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T03:36:42.773" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2802" CreationDate="2012-10-16T21:03:16.083" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This change will go out with the next deploy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T21:03:16.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2809" CreationDate="2012-10-17T05:48:58.353" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to Werner's great explanation (coincidentally, it actually was me who wrote the text building block that he's quoting &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;), here's another angle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite aspects about tex.sx and the Stack Exchange system in general is its Wiki-like quality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vsYuA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Venn diagram: Wiki, Digg/Reddit, Blog, Forum&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(We're the asterisk in the middle!)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We prefer a quite particular style of questions and asking – the most important aspect of which presumably are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;minimal working examples&lt;/a&gt; – in order to make every single question maximally helpful for other users. I might even go there and say that for me, it's almost more important to make questions applicable to a wider audience, i.e. more people with the same or a very similar problem, than helping the user who asked the question. The good thing, however, is that if you help &quot;every&quot; user out there, you'll also help the user who had the problem in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is really an essential concept that I try to keep in mind whenever I act on tex.sx, no matter if I ask a question, answer one, or edit posts. This also is the reason why we're on a perpetual hunt for duplicate questions: All the information and help for one problem should be in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming back to your question about &quot;thanks&quot;: &quot;Personal&quot; bits like that are not really relevant for an abstract problem that aims to be maximally widely applicable.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Some personal background for the problem, e.g. for identifying &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2449/what-does-xy-problem-mean&quot;&gt;XY-problems&lt;/a&gt;, can be useful, but it might be a good approach to separate this from the core question, like I attempted to in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25701/bibtex-vs-biber-and-biblatex-vs-natbib&quot;&gt;bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib&lt;/a&gt;. But really, there's no general rule for that. For phrases truly irrelevant for the problem (i.e. &quot;thanks&quot;), however, it's definitely better to leave them out, even though it might feel to you like you're being rude. Rest assured that &lt;strong&gt;the best form of thankfulness that you can show to our community is asking well-prepared questions with MWEs and helping with other tasks&lt;/strong&gt;, which you'll gradually be introduced to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;as your reputation increases&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Nonetheless, I feel like our community has a personal feel to it, just from conversations in the comments, in chat, and our blog. Besides that, many members (if not all?) have their characteristic style of answering; two examples that come to my mind and that actually happen to be middle-range rep users are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;Paulo&lt;/a&gt;, with his abundantly good-willed and duck-heavy answers, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19356/&quot;&gt;ガベージコレクタ&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;em&gt;or whatever their current user name may be&lt;/em&gt;], with their amazing, uncalled-for, randomly animated PSTricks answers.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T05:25:38.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-19T09:37:52.393" Score="18" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a search for &lt;code&gt;\widthof&lt;/code&gt; on any other command with backsalsh shows also results without considering &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;. Is it true? How can I make a search for a command and not for its name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T15:35:57.330" Title="Is it possible to search for a LaTeX command including its backslash?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2814" CreationDate="2012-10-19T15:35:57.330" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest that I know of (or actually just found out about) is &lt;code&gt;code:&quot;\widthof&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. This seems to search only for text that has been marked as code. As for its developmental status:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not a secret, but it's not polished either...I was interrupted in the middle of implementing it and haven't re-visited it in a while. You're welcome to use it and we won't remove it. That being said, I don't feel it's 1.0 quality at this point, so haven't added it to documentation as I expect there are bugs I'll find with more testing locally. We're doing a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; behind the scenes right now, when that settles down I'll re-visit search (we have lots of ideas/code in the pipe there). – Nick Craver♦ &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/146827/why-is-the-code-search-option-not-documented#comment421020_146827&quot;&gt;Sep 13 at 0:07&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I expected &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=code:%22%5Cwidthof%22&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;code:&quot;\widthof&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to return pretty much the same results as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=widthof&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;widthof&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (which shouldn't occur as non-code too often, right?), the former only returns 22 results, the latter 108. I haven't checked out where the difference comes from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T15:35:57.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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Salomon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;//github.com/jcsalomon/xpeek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mYOVt.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/xsim&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xsim&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Clemens Niederberger (&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/users/5049&quot;&gt;clemens&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;//github.com/cgnieder/xsim/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mYOVt.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitGub&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/xwatermark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xwatermark&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/users/994&quot;&gt;Ahmed Musa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/ydoc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;ydoc&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;//bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/ydoc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sJ9Er.png&quot; alt=&quot;BitBucket&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/ytableau&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;ytableau&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/users/575&quot;&gt;Ryan Reich&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/zhmcjk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;zhmCJK&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/users/2674&quot;&gt;Leo Liu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/zref&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;zref&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/users/16967&quot;&gt;Heiko Oberdiek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditorDisplayName="user2574" LastEditDate="2023-05-24T15:10:59.253" LastActivityDate="2023-05-24T15:10:59.253" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-10-20T16:08:50.160" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2819" CreationDate="2012-10-20T22:46:29.697" Score="9" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reviewing system is broken since the last maintanance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New questions are comming in but are not shown in the review system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditDate="2012-10-22T18:05:14.763" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T18:05:14.763" Title="Is the (new) reviewing system broken?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2818" CreationDate="2012-10-21T12:22:24.580" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the review queue for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts&quot;&gt;First Posts&lt;/a&gt; is broken. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/78518/510&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; non-answer (now deleted and only visible for 10k-users) showed up in the queue for &quot;Low Quality Posts&quot;, but not for &quot;First Posts&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-10-21T13:20:17.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-22T16:40:26.287" Score="14" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was given an &lt;code&gt;enlightened&lt;/code&gt; badge for a recent answer, because I was first to answer, it was accepted, and I earned 10 upvotes (woohoo!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP received another answer (which was certainly better than mine) and they unaccepted my answer in favour of the other answer (no hard feelings :) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is: will my &lt;code&gt;enlightened&lt;/code&gt; badge be taken from me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T17:32:57.863" Title="Are badges ever taken away?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2826" CreationDate="2012-10-22T17:23:13.227" Score="17" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friends, I stumbled upon an anonymous edit suggestion yesterday in the review system which was actually good, but I went for &lt;code&gt;not sure&lt;/code&gt;. I decided to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; accept it because there was no user info, although the contribution was valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO I think that editing things from other users &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2614/3094&quot;&gt;is a risky contract&lt;/a&gt;, so my suggestion is to consider edits made by registered people here. Thoughts? &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I forgot to mention that the edit was major (not only formatting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T20:39:25.983" Title="Dealing with anonymous edits" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2820" CreationDate="2012-10-22T17:32:57.863" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag badges disappear when you no longer meet the criteria. All other badges stay by default, no matter what you do. The only way to lose them is for an SE employee to recalculate your badges, and you have to do some large-scale sockpuppeting for them to bother with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6222" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T17:32:57.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2828" CreationDate="2012-10-22T17:55:16.007" Score="7" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to create a new symbol for WLOG (= without loss of generality), since there doesn't seem to be any around. I have some variants and I'd like a 'vote of confidence' on either from the community. Would you close such question? (Before you answer, please take a look at: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/78187/&quot;&gt;Is there another symbol that is slightly different from \forall (likewise for \exists)?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T18:30:14.880" Title="Opinion on a symbol" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-22T18:53:10.383" Score="7" ViewCount="648" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/78239/how-to-display-an-underscore-literal-in-math-mode&quot;&gt;How to display an underscore literal in math mode?&lt;/a&gt;; It was voted off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69421/how-can-i-render-mathematical-formulas-in-python-sphinx&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69421/how-can-i-render-mathematical-formulas-in-python-sphinx&lt;/a&gt; (particularly, it was migrated &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; StackOverflow to this site) and the mention of LaTeX in &lt;a href=&quot;http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ext/math.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Sphinx docs&lt;/a&gt;, I think it should not have been closed. However, I'm not sure and wanted to ask in meta to see what others think too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I made a new question at StackOverflow if anyone is able to contribute to a solution: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13017397/sphinx-latex-markup-limitations&quot;&gt;Sphinx LaTeX markup limitations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12413" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T18:03:30.227" Title="Are questions about Python-Sphinx documentation TeX markup off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2824" CreationDate="2012-10-22T19:32:19.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a tricky issue because when other software interacts or generates TeX code, it's not always easy to decide whether the problem derives from the interaction (off topic) or TeX itself (on topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to tell the difference, is if your code will compile when made into a regular LaTeX document and compiled without use of the interface.  If that's the case, the problem is most likely off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although even in that case there's no completely clear dividing line. For example, many R + LaTeX questions are routinely considered on-topic here provided they are not purely R questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is that it's often the case when people come to TeX via this sort of route, their questions are trivial if they read a good introduction to LaTeX, which many times they haven't. (I'm not saying that this is your case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the new question you linked to, I think it is still off topic, since it seems to depend a lot on how the interface to LaTeX is implemented, rather than the LaTeX code itself.  The question itself also contains code fragments, which makes it very hard for anyone to play with; the fact that the code is not directly LaTeX code makes the question even more off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T19:32:19.483" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2821" CreationDate="2012-10-22T20:39:25.983" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why the source of the edit should really be of concern if you have reason enough to think that the edit is helpful. For me, the issue with major edits is mainly if they significantly change the question or answer, (even if good) in which case I'm inclined to be conservative on accepting them.  In that case maybe the provenance of the edit might come into play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T20:39:25.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2823" CreationDate="2012-10-23T05:40:15.070" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's better to ask a specific question like the one you linked to. Something like, &quot;How would I create the following symbol that would represent 'without loss of generality'?&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eE3WH.png&quot; alt=&quot;example symbol for &amp;quot;without loss of generality&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then include an image like above, together with a sample usage and possible dimensions. A generic question about the symbol might not lead to it being helpful for future users, since the final choice of the &quot;most helpful&quot; answer could be very subjective. The StackExchange network - in most cases - doesn't works much better in a definitive Q&amp;amp;A style than asking questions that seek generic advice on topics. Perhaps also refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1246/5764&quot;&gt;Don't ask us about best practices, glom of nit, or Mrs Cake&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T18:30:14.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2824" CreationDate="2012-10-23T13:44:05.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to give another view of your question and why it got closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my humble opinion, the question, as it is, doesn't provide enough information about what is being asked. I have the feeling that the error you reported is happening at the conversion time, &lt;code&gt;rst -&amp;gt; &amp;lt;format&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, and not the in the &lt;code&gt;LaTeX -&amp;gt; PDF&lt;/code&gt; generation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error message clearly points at an error in the &lt;code&gt;.rst&lt;/code&gt; file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;System Message: ERROR/3 (&amp;lt;fullpath&amp;gt;/AccrualsImplementor.rst, line 83)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are right to think that either TeX or MathJaX (which implements a subset of TeX math stuff) will render your &lt;code&gt;:math:&lt;/code&gt; element later on, but the parsing itself is failing, so it's not TeX fault. In this error level, it's a &lt;code&gt;.rst&lt;/code&gt; syntax issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are right in using &lt;code&gt;\_&lt;/code&gt; to display a literal underscore. That's the correct way of using it, including in Sphinx. I wrote the following &lt;code&gt;.rst&lt;/code&gt; sample file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hello! :math:`a^2 + b^2 a\_b = c^2`.&#xA;&#xA;.. math::&#xA;&#xA;   (a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2&#xA;&#xA;   (a - b)^2 = a^2 - 2ab a\_b + b^2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I tried to generate an HTML version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ make html&#xA;Running Sphinx v1.1.3&#xA;loading pickled environment... done&#xA;building [html]: targets for 1 source files that are out of date&#xA;updating environment: 0 added, 1 changed, 0 removed&#xA;reading sources... [100%] index&#xA;&#xA;looking for now-outdated files... none found&#xA;pickling environment... done&#xA;checking consistency... done&#xA;preparing documents... done&#xA;writing output... [100%] index&#xA;&#xA;writing additional files... genindex search&#xA;copying static files... done&#xA;dumping search index... done&#xA;dumping object inventory... done&#xA;build succeeded.&#xA;&#xA;Build finished. The HTML pages are in _build/html.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which gave me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XrcCz.png&quot; alt=&quot;My output HTML&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then I generated the LaTeX output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ make latex&#xA;Running Sphinx v1.1.3&#xA;loading pickled environment... done&#xA;building [latex]: all documents&#xA;updating environment: 0 added, 0 changed, 0 removed&#xA;looking for now-outdated files... none found&#xA;processing Test.tex... index&#xA;resolving references...&#xA;writing... done&#xA;copying TeX support files... done&#xA;build succeeded.&#xA;&#xA;Build finished; the LaTeX files are in _build/latex.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant part of the generated &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\maketitle&#xA;\tableofcontents&#xA;\phantomsection\label{index::doc}&#xA;Hello! $a^2 + b^2 a\_b = c^2$.&#xA;\begin{gather}&#xA;\begin{split}(a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2\end{split}\notag\\\begin{split}(a - b)^2 = a^2 - 2ab a\_b + b^2\end{split}\notag&#xA;\end{gather}&#xA;&#xA;\renewcommand{\indexname}{Index}&#xA;\printindex&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After running &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;, I have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6JCcq.png&quot; alt=&quot;My output PDF&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you see, the problem has to rely in your &lt;code&gt;.rst&lt;/code&gt; file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second part would involve posting relevant part of your code for us to reproduce your error - a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;minimal example&lt;/a&gt;. This is highly recommended, so we can track down the offending code and help you solve it. Sadly, the question only had an error message, without either the &lt;code&gt;.rst&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; code, so little we could do. &lt;code&gt;:(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since the error was not TeX-related, the question was closed as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't take the closing issue too seriously, this is a great community, and I'm sure we would solve the error if it was really TeX-based. Sadly, as it is, &lt;code&gt;.rst&lt;/code&gt; is not our cup of tea. &lt;code&gt;:(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, my advice is to take a look at your &lt;code&gt;.rst&lt;/code&gt;, I'm sure it's a markup problem, or even an error that happened some lines before and got propagated to the math part. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T13:44:05.657" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2823" CreationDate="2012-10-23T17:18:56.383" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could define (this assumes that you're using the &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; package and its &lt;code&gt;\text&lt;/code&gt; command):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\newcommand\wlog{\text{\textsc{wlog}}}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this isn't a symbol (at least not in any sense of the word I'm familiar with), but it would have the advantage of being easily parseable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T17:18:56.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2823" CreationDate="2012-10-23T23:32:20.563" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the title is now &quot;Opinion on a symbol&quot;, I'd like to give mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Symbols in mathematics are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; abbreviations. Using &lt;code&gt;\therefore&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\because&lt;/code&gt; in a mathematical text is wrong, unless they are used in a formal proof with a well defined meaning. But plain mathematical proofs are usually &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; formal proof: they should be understandable by the reader and symbols should denote mathematical entities, not linguistic ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; use &lt;code&gt;\forall&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\exists&lt;/code&gt; in a proof; sometimes I indulge in a &lt;code&gt;\implies&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\iff&lt;/code&gt; in a set of displayed formulas, but very sparingly and only when they convey a mathematical, rather than linguistic, meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my first duties when converting to LaTeX some papers written by a friend and colleague was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;find &quot;w.l.o.g.&quot; and replace it with &quot;without loss of generality&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She knew about this and accepted it, because otherwise she'd have had to learn LaTeX. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do a favor to your readers and use words rather than shorthand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in a formal proof there's no way of saying &lt;em&gt;without loss of generality&lt;/em&gt;: a formal proof &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; check all possibilities. So even there we can't find a use of a symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2012-10-24T09:07:23.460" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T09:07:23.460" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2835" CreationDate="2012-10-24T11:22:52.063" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friends, I noticed something &quot;interesting&quot; today. The question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/78894&quot;&gt;How to include a long underscore before the \question command?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was originally posted in our meta site. Andrew wrote a comment in the question, and I upvoted his comment (I also voted the question for closing/migration).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the question is migrated to our main site, and curiously, Andrew's comment has the &quot;great comment counter&quot; in it, but no flag (the triangle) indicating that I already upvoted it. In other words, I can upvote it twice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WaDa5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Printscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I did, for testing purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mR8M6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Printscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Believe it or not, those two votes are mine. I think migrated questions should keep their references. I know meta and main behave differently, but it was really &quot;funny&quot; to see that I could upvote stuff more than one time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a desired behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm adding the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; tag, but again, I don't know if this is a desired behaviour or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T11:26:13.353" Title="Migrated question from meta to main allows me to upvote same comment twice" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2834" CreationDate="2012-10-24T11:26:13.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect it should be classed as &quot;It probably shouldn't work like that but the hassle in fixing it vastly outweighs the importance of doing so.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I also deleted that comment as it was no longer relevant.  The 2 votes made me pause since perhaps, I felt, I shouldn't delete something that &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; people thought was a &quot;Great Comment&quot;.  But now that I learn that one of them was a duck I don't feel so bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(More seriously, I deleted it as it was no longer relevant as it was just suggesting to the questioner that they repost on the main site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T11:26:13.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3146" CreationDate="2012-10-24T11:56:30.160" Score="17" ViewCount="506" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a proposal for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40151/typography&quot;&gt;Typography.SE&lt;/a&gt; site. I leave up to each of you to have their opinion on the proposal, but I think it needs more attention!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please go to its &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40151/typography&quot;&gt;Area51 page&lt;/a&gt;, make your opinion on the example question, upvote those you like or downvote those you don't like, and add your own if you wish! (Remember, you can vote only 5 times). If you want to get news for this site in your SE inbox, you can follow it (there's a link for it on top left).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again the link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40151/typography&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40151/typography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2012-11-02T20:41:04.047" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T09:32:14.833" Title="Follow and help the Typography.SE proposal!" Tags="|discussion|community|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2013-01-02T15:26:02.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2824" CreationDate="2012-10-25T18:03:30.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that they are (and should be) off topic in general. Sphinx is, in this context, a generator of (La)TeX code. If it is generating bad code  then that is a problem with the input to the generator (or the generator itself). In this respect it should be treated the same as questions about (say) a C or perl or ... program that makes LaTeX output. The site doesn't have the resources to answer questions about arbitrary programming languages that just happen to generate LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in the case of Sphinx the situation is slightly obscured as the math input syntax looks latex-like, however as your question showed it is not latex and there are valid latex expressions that are not accepted by the system, so I think it is best to consider it a LaTeX &lt;em&gt;generator&lt;/em&gt; and these, as a whole, are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the discussion on the Stack Overflow version of the question it highlights even more why it should be off topic. It appears that the TeX back end was not being used at all so that TeX was not involved and the error messages being reported were javascript errors from the old jsmath javascript library. jsmath (and its newer replacement mathjax) are also considered off topic. They parse a very restricted subset of LaTeX syntax but render it using css (or svg) and do not use TeX at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T18:03:30.227" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-25T19:40:36.987" Score="10" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over at academia.sx we are looking to create a community promotion ad to help us get out of beta. &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238/community-promotion-ad-to-run-on-other-ses&quot;&gt;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238/community-promotion-ad-to-run-on-other-ses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were thinking that it would be nice to create a &quot;coat of arms&quot; type academic seal. Would it be appropriate to ask &quot;how to create an academic seal in LaTeX?&quot; I would be willing to add a bounty in thanks for the effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10038" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:17.577" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T19:40:36.987" Title="SX promotion ad help request question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-27T06:55:53.610" Score="20" ViewCount="1234" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13649&quot;&gt;answer I posted ages ago&lt;/a&gt; was recently edited, and so I took a quick peek to see what had changed. The alteration was to capitalisation of 'MiKTeX', &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;, which would normally be fine. However, the relevant parts were quotations, where I was pointed to what someone else had said (in comments). As such, I'd kept exactly the format they had originally used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is therefore what the 'correct' approach is when quoting: do we stick with the original even if it's non-standard, or do we always standardise formatting (and presumably spelling)? Both approaches seem reasonable to me, so I'd like to see what the overall feeling is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: If I'd been quoting another question or answer, it would be OK to tidy up the source and so the quote too. However, non-mods can't edit comments, so the situation seems a little different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T16:38:05.460" Title="Formatting in quoted material" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2046" CreationDate="2012-10-27T07:59:46.400" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://academia.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QlIlq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Academia Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3734" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T07:59:46.400" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-10-27T07:59:46.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2012-10-28T02:04:31.973" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the strangest thing you have used *TeX for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T02:04:31.973" CommentCount="12" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-10-28T02:04:31.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="385" CreationDate="2012-10-28T02:19:36.867" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think up something you don't know how to do in *TeX. See if someone has asked about it before. If not, ask how to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T02:19:36.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2012-10-28T17:24:30.077" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple. We're taking the academic/legal approach here: Don't change quotes, that's why they're quotes. If you want to make it clear that some obscure spelling isn't your fault, but was in the source, add a &lt;code&gt;[sic]&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I love lAtEx [sic], it's really awesome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody else changes a quote, make a rollback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; change the source (e.g. because it's on tex.sx) and if it is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-it-and-isnt-acceptable-to-edit&quot;&gt;acceptable edit&lt;/a&gt;, you may of course change the source first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, if you're referencing a comment (or something else uneditable) that's misspelled and the typos are really bugging you, just paraphrase the comment instead of quoting it, or put it in reported speech: &lt;em&gt;He is indeed very fond of LaTeX.&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;She said she really loved LaTeX, and that it was really awesome.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I only addressed spelling. As for formatting, I'd say there are two approaches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get rid of all formatting and display the quote as plain text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the formatting as exactly as technically possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to emphasize some part of the quote through formatting for purposes of your own, you can do that, but make sure to add a &lt;em&gt;(emphasis by doncherry)&lt;/em&gt; at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T18:09:09.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2836" CreationDate="2012-10-28T20:19:12.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2046/community-promotion-ads-2012/&quot;&gt;community ad&lt;/a&gt; for it, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2844/7880&quot;&gt;which you can vote on&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40151/typography&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kujls.png&quot; alt=&quot;Terrible Typography.SE ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to create a better one, well, I know I suck. Please feel free to create something awesome with a duck or whatever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T20:19:12.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2622" CreationDate="2012-10-29T05:41:08.190" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;This is more of a comment to  Martin Scharrer's answer (Case 2 of tohecz's answer), but too long for a comment...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can't disagree with anything in Martin's answer (excluding the first part of the initial sentence), I personally would prefer that bugs be posted as a question here, even if they end up being closed. Many times it is not clear whether it is a bug or not. For example consider these two questions of mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79379/incompatability-between-currfile-and-enumitem&quot;&gt;Incompatibility between currfile and enumitem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68684/corrupted-texlive2012-installation-option-clash-for-currfile&quot;&gt;Corrupted TeXLive2012 installation? (Option clash for currfile)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One was a bug, the other was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had someone else reported the same symptom I would have checked that first, and it would have saved me many hours to have to distill it down to that point.&#xA;I had no idea it was related to &lt;code&gt;currfile&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;enumitem&lt;/code&gt; until I was able to get it down to a small MWE.  I just thought I was perhaps redefining something incorrectly that was causing this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then at that point, do I report this as a bug for &lt;code&gt;currfile&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;enumitem&lt;/code&gt;?  Not sure how a user is supposed to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore I was thinking that perhaps there is still some corruption in my TL2012 installation as per:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68686/corrupted-texlive2012-installation-file-l3candidates-sty-not-found&quot;&gt;Corrupted TeXLive2012 installation? (File `l3candidates.sty&amp;#39; not found)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once others can confirm that they see the same behavior, and not some option clash issue, only then would it be known as a bug (except of course to the pacakge authors), at which case I would have emailed the authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if the problem is fixed in a updated version, many people tend to stick with old versions given that we often get questions where the answer is to update their distribution.  Here is one form today: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79485/problem-with-mdframed-commands&quot;&gt;problem with mdframed commands&lt;/a&gt;. If there were question here with the same problems that those people were experiencing, then they would know that they needed updated packages and/or release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not suggesting that this site be used as a bug tracking system or that all bugs be reported here, just that if one person took quite some time to narrow down to a bug, then posting it here is useful. And if an answer shows up that provides a workaround until that bug is fixed, that might be also be useful to others who do not want to update their packages/releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T05:41:08.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2855" CreationDate="2012-11-03T02:20:37.083" Score="0" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2012-12-03: Update:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem below seems to be Mac related, and not connectivity related. On my PC the chat appears ok. So what do I need to reset on the Mac to get this corrected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else having problems with the TeX.SE chat?  Yesterday it started slowing down and since then I don't seem to see the graphics.  Not sure what I need to do to resolve this. I tried restarting Firefox and that did not change anything. There are no problems accessing the main site, or any other sites -- problem is just with chat..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what it look like for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xt2lW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T13:28:50.767" Title="chat.stackexchange not showing graphics" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2871" CreationDate="2012-11-03T13:51:10.953" Score="6" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;in the list for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1721/&quot;&gt;Which questions led to the creation of a new package?&lt;/a&gt;, the listing for &lt;code&gt;tqft&lt;/code&gt; contains a reference to a &quot;Blog: The TQFT Package&quot;, which in turn contains an additional (and apparently unexpected) url.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the blog reference is useful information.  unfortunately, the urls cited for every package listed after this one are messed up, with only the actual url appearing; the question titles are absent unless they happen to be included in the &quot;long form&quot; of the applicable url.&#xA;it's my guess that the formatting routine is expecting only the &quot;unprotected&quot; url for the package as listed following &quot;Origin:&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a couple of entries down, there's also an &quot;extra&quot; url in the entry for &lt;code&gt;xpatch&lt;/code&gt;.  a previous edit (47) attempted (unsuccessfully) to &quot;clean up&quot; the question titles and url formatting for &lt;code&gt;xpatch&lt;/code&gt; and the following entry; even on the edit page the formatting is corrupted.  looking at the progression of edits, the corruption apparently didn't occur immediately on the addition of &lt;code&gt;tqft&lt;/code&gt;, but with the addition of a couple of new entries above that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is such a useful and (generally) well formatted list that it's a shame to see the formatting &quot;fall apart&quot; at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;screen shot by Speravir:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QOm8l.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T19:55:25.297" Title="&quot;blog&quot; entry with additional url in &quot;creation of new package&quot; list messes up formatting" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2854" CreationDate="2012-11-03T14:46:26.733" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; of references of all kind of TeX-related topics be useful, and if so, how should it be asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking in something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11/what-is-the-best-book-to-start-learning-latex&quot;&gt;What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24105/what-are-good-advanced-latex-books&quot;&gt;What are good advanced LaTeX books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51865/5872&quot;&gt;How to write a LaTeX class file for my thesis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with CW answers covering every kind of topics, with every kind of references (books, book chapters, articles, blog posts, screencasts, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T22:47:27.067" Title="(How) should I ask for a big list of references on several TeX-related topics?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2012-11-05T16:38:05.460" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obvious typos can and should be corrected when quoting, at least when not doing philology, which we aren't. I agree with @AlanMunn that we're in an informal environment, so there's no point in propagating a typing error or a nonconformity with common usage in the site, such as peculiar capitalizations of program names or way of writing package names (I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; referring to another well known question about capitalization).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we are faced with something that's not a typo, the question is more subtle. However one should take into account that comments &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; different from answers and many times it has happened to me that I realized a comment was not in the best form. In some cases I removed and rewrote it (the time limit for edit doesn't always allow for corrections &lt;em&gt;post facto&lt;/em&gt;) if the problem is not simply a typo; but I'm afraid that some of them are imperfect (or even blatantly wrong) without any possibility to do something: if nobody draws attention to the error, they remain there unchanged, as it's impossible to check all our comments spread over hundreds of threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote the comment literally, if you want, or quote it indirectly: &quot;In @XYZ's comment it is suggested to do in this way&quot; and be polite in correcting the mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T16:38:05.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-05T19:08:29.723" Score="8" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;In terms of voting, the Meta FAQ mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/faq#vote-differences&quot;&gt;What does voting mean&#xA;  here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting here works a bit differently from the main site. On Meta,&#xA;  voting is often used to express agreement or disagreement, not to&#xA;  point out a lack of quality or helpfulness. Please don't be concerned&#xA;  if you receive downvotes – members of the community may simply&#xA;  disagree with your bug, feature request, support issue, or the nature&#xA;  of the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I view my activity &quot;fly-out&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GboTq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there is no way (at least I could find) to identify the posts of mine that received the votes. For example, which posts do the +2 above refer to? How else would I know that I'm awesome or not so much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T19:08:29.723" Title="How to find posts associated with voting" Tags="|support|feature-request|voting|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2850" CreationDate="2012-11-05T22:47:27.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The posts you linked to are very close to being &quot;not a real question&quot; because they are very broad and usually they were asked after some discussion, and every time such a post appears, it's possible closure is discussed in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that a question with even broader scope would be closed after such discussion. StackExchange doesn't like broad questions in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T22:47:27.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2848" CreationDate="2012-11-05T23:41:57.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try to find &quot;clear cache&quot; (I don't know the keyboard shortcut).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T23:41:57.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2857" CreationDate="2012-11-06T06:27:21.067" Score="25" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew&lt;/a&gt;'s question regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1255/5764&quot;&gt;Relicensing code from answers&lt;/a&gt; requests users to releasing their code answers under a &quot;more free&quot; license in order to promote dissemination and re-use. What would be the case when a user has not &quot;signed&quot; the &quot;agreement&quot; and is not that active on the site (any more)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4918/tobi&quot;&gt;Tobi&lt;/a&gt;'s recent question on how to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/81574/5764&quot;&gt;Set a subfolder for &lt;code&gt;\include&lt;/code&gt;(&lt;code&gt;only&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; points to a related/duplicate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4602/5764&quot;&gt;How to make the main file recognize relative paths used in the imported files?&lt;/a&gt; where user &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/11684/blackstev&quot;&gt;blackstev&lt;/a&gt; proposes a package &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44215/5764&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;inputx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that might be of wider use. Since the user hasn't been active in more than 8 months, how should/could one go about trying to achieve this goal - from an answer to a package?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T07:06:12.877" Title="Repackaging code of absent user(s)" Tags="|discussion|tex-sx-package|package-authors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2856" CreationDate="2012-11-06T07:06:12.877" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;All posts to the site are made subject the the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 'Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)' license&lt;/a&gt;. The summary of this license says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are free:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to Share&lt;/strong&gt; — to copy, distribute and transmit the work &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to Remix&lt;/strong&gt; — to adapt the work &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to make commercial use of the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is a key point of the site: you can take material here and reuse it elsewhere without further permissions. The license also says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution&lt;/strong&gt; — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by&#xA;  the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they&#xA;  endorse you or your use of the work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Share Alike&lt;/strong&gt; — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you&#xA;  may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar&#xA;  license to this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;along with various other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reading of this is that you can take code posted here and package it up for distribution, provided you pick a suitably 'free' license and make attribution. The most obvious way to do that would be to simply use the CC license directly. The part that says 'or similar' suggests to me that something like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt; with an attribution statement would also be suitable, although these things are complex. [The full legal license seems to go into some detail about 'similar', and it I guess it would be safest to stick to the CC license!]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Of course, in cases where you can contact the original author then some of the conditions may be relaxed.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T07:06:12.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2858" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2859" CreationDate="2012-11-06T07:32:00.503" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess, this concerns every stackexchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sometimes happens that I ask a question which is answered, but not satisfactorily. I then have the option to put a bounty on this question. But I made the experience (on another stackexchange) that even then there will be no satisfactory answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a good idea to add a button for “Unaccepted” answers in the “Unanswered” section. Or – since there are users just don't accept answers out of laziness or something – it might be even better to allow users to explicitly mark their questions as “unsolved” or “unaccepted”. That way they still have a chance to get some (permanent) attention which is needed for them to be solved by someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18256" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T10:24:12.180" Title="Feature to draw attention to answered, yet unsolved questions, other than by bounty" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2858" CreationDate="2012-11-06T10:18:38.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;&quot;a question [...] is answered, but not satisfactorily&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, you have also the option to edit the question and explain why none of the answers given so far is satisfactory enough to accept it. (This assumes that at least one of the answers was useful enough to earn an upvote; otherwise, the question would be considered &quot;unanswered&quot;, which definitely draws attention.) This sort of editing is a legitimate way to &quot;bump&quot; a question (bring it to the front page again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to your proposed &quot;unaccepted&quot; marker, I fail to see how this is different from &lt;em&gt;simply not marking any answer as accepted&lt;/em&gt;. (Note that it is possible to search for questions without accepted answers; e.g., a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bbiblatex%5D%20hasaccepted:0&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;code&gt;[biblatex] hasaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt; returns 255 questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T10:24:12.180" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2012-11-06T10:26:59.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a list&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with stuff&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="9237" LastEditDate="2012-12-18T16:18:40.147" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T16:18:40.147" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-11-06T10:26:59.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2862" CreationDate="2012-11-06T17:43:02.860" Score="9" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/80478/4918&quot;&gt;MikTeX can’t find xstring&lt;/a&gt;, because I wasn’t sure what the problem is and although I googled &lt;code&gt;miktex xstring&lt;/code&gt; a didn’t found anything especially not the bug report that Ulrike linked in her comment. Now I wonder if my question should be closed (as too localized) or even deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T19:58:12.733" Title="Delete or close my question (MikTeX can’t find xstring)" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2861" CreationDate="2012-11-06T18:17:12.530" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be handled the same way as other questions, where it turned out, that the actual problem is caused by a bug: As far as I can tell, they are all closed as “Too localized”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting is in my eyes a bad idea. Now other people observing the same behaviour should find your question, what would not work, if it were deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T18:17:12.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-07T12:08:21.227" Score="0" ViewCount="666" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest to enhance the code formatting with an optional argument for a filename.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;===test.tex===&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{}&#xA;\begin{}&#xA;\end{}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice workaround suggested in comments to use 3 #:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;test.tex&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{}&#xA;\begin{}&#xA;\end{}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16227" LastEditorUserId="16227" LastEditDate="2012-11-07T14:40:50.597" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T18:10:56.090" Title="Filename code formatting" Tags="|feature-request|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2863" CreationDate="2012-11-07T18:10:56.090" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases, the specific name of a file doesn't matter, but even if it does, there's no need for a heading outside of the code. If the file name does matter, there usually are several files involved with one main file accessing the other(s) (e.g. a .bib file). In those cases, I'd recommend using a &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment in order to enable user to create everything with one file. If you complement that with the &lt;code&gt;\jobname&lt;/code&gt; macro, which carries the current file's name, you enable users here to have maximal influence on the names of files while still being able to refer to files. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{biblatex}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}&#xA;@book{one,&#xA;    author = {Anthony Apple},&#xA;    title = {Title}}&#xA;@book{two,&#xA;    author = {Barbara Banana and Chris Coconut},&#xA;    title = {Title}}&#xA;@book{three,&#xA;    author = {Donna Date and Eric Eggplant and Fred Fig},&#xA;    title = {Title}}&#xA;\end{filecontents}&#xA;&#xA;\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\nocite{*}&#xA;\printbibliography&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also do things like &lt;code&gt;\begin{filecontents}{\jobname-hello-world.tex}&lt;/code&gt;. Here is some more information about the &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/filecontents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/a&gt; (which might be handy in some cases), quoted from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/filecontents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; documentation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;The environment &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; is intended for passing the contents of&#xA;    packages, options, or other files along with a document in a single&#xA;    file. It has one argument, which is the name of the file to create.&#xA;    If that file already exists (maybe only in the current directory if&#xA;    the OS supports a notion of a &lt;code&gt;current directory' or&lt;/code&gt;default&#xA;    directory') then nothing happens (except for an information message)&#xA;    and the body of the environment is bypassed. Otherwise, the body of&#xA;    the environment is written verbatim to the file name given as the&#xA;    first argument, together with some comments about how it was&#xA;    produced. The environment is allowed only before &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; to&#xA;    ensure that all packages or options necessary for this particular run&#xA;    are present when needed. The begin and end tags should each be on a&#xA;    line by itself. There is also a star-form; this does not write extra&#xA;    comments into the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(The&#xA;  comment about &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; being valid only before &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; is,&#xA;  in fact, untrue. &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; is allowed anywhere in the document's&#xA;  preamble.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; package provides a hacked-up version of the&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;filecontents*&lt;/code&gt; environments that lifts the two&#xA;  restrictions stated above, namely that existing files are never&#xA;  overwritten and that &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; must be used before the&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; declaration (really, the &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt;). &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; is therefore a more convenient way to write external files from&#xA;  within a LaTeX document than is provided by default by the LaTeX2ε&#xA;  kernel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T18:10:56.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-07T19:25:46.767" Score="22" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am now writing my PhD dissertation and the book style is almost ready. I am looking to get some professional advice on how the actual book looks like. Not sure where to post the sample pages. Is the main site the right place for these kind of things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16574" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T22:43:35.767" Title="Professional advice on typesetting" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2865" CreationDate="2012-11-07T21:06:32.283" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main site is for question and answers which are of interest for the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For getting professional advice regarding your individual design, have a look at this list of professional TeX consultants&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/consultants.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX Consulting and Production Services&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T21:06:32.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2012-11-08T00:06:51.400" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish or have published previously on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; main site I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WTFPL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T00:06:51.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2869" CreationDate="2012-11-09T09:28:45.423" Score="16" ViewCount="761" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is a question-and-answer site strictly requiring a discussion to start with a question, I ask you whether you are interested in a recipe on how to record an application window and to produce a (size-)optimized animated Gif from it. I was asked this on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1053" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-07-11T21:51:09.383" LastActivityDate="2023-02-02T11:23:34.310" Title="How to produce application window recording for posting on the main site" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2868" CreationDate="2012-11-09T09:28:45.423" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The suggested method works on Linux with X11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For recording, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ffmpeg.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;FFmpeg&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is used, &lt;code&gt;xwininfo&lt;/code&gt; for getting the window dimensions including the window handle and some Perl to process the information from &lt;code&gt;xwininfo&lt;/code&gt; output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following script is invoked as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ffmpegWinCast.sh [extra non-gif encoder opts] &amp;lt;my_window_recording&amp;gt;.(gif|mp4|mov|...)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After clicking an application window, recording starts. It is stopped by pressing &lt;code&gt;q&lt;/code&gt; in the terminal window in which &lt;code&gt;ffmpegWinCast.sh&lt;/code&gt; is running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For posting on TeX.SX, GIF is the preferred output format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contents of file &lt;code&gt;ffmpegWinCast.sh&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-bsh prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash&#xA;&#xA;#Frame rate for GIF output&#xA;FPS=12&#xA;&#xA;# grab output file path from command line&#xA;outfile=&amp;quot;${@: -1}&amp;quot;&#xA;&#xA;function usage ()&#xA;{&#xA;  &amp;gt;&amp;amp;2 echo &amp;quot;Usage:   $(basename $0) [extra (non-gif) encoding options] &amp;lt;media file&amp;gt;.(gif|mp4|mov|...)&amp;quot; &amp;gt;&amp;amp;2&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;if [[ -z &amp;quot;$outfile&amp;quot; ]] || [[ &amp;quot;$outfile&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;$0&amp;quot; ]]&#xA;then&#xA;  usage&#xA;  exit 1&#xA;fi&#xA;&#xA;outfmt=$(basename $outfile 2&amp;gt;/dev/null)&#xA;if [[ &amp;quot;$?&amp;quot; -ne 0 ]]&#xA;then&#xA;  usage&#xA;  exit 1&#xA;fi&#xA;&#xA;SHM=/dev/shm/$outfmt&#xA;outfmt=${outfmt##*.}&#xA;&#xA;# grab encoder options from command line&#xA;moreopts=&amp;quot;${@:1:$(($#-1))}&amp;quot;&#xA;&#xA;echo &amp;quot;Click the application window to be recorded&amp;quot; &amp;gt;&amp;amp;2&#xA;GEOM=$(xwininfo | perl -w -n -e '&#xA;  if( /Width:\s+(\d+)/ ) {&#xA;    $wd=$1;&#xA;  }&#xA;  elsif(/Height:\s+(\d+)/) {&#xA;    $ht=$1;&#xA;  }&#xA;  elsif(/Relative upper-left Y:\s+(\d+)/) {&#xA;    $whd=$1; #window handle height&#xA;  }&#xA;  elsif(/Absolute upper-left X:\s+(\d+)/) {&#xA;    $x=$1;&#xA;  }&#xA;  elsif(/Absolute upper-left Y:\s+(\d+)/) {&#xA;    $y=$1;&#xA;  }&#xA;  END {&#xA;    $ht+=$whd;&#xA;    $y-=$whd;&#xA;    print &amp;quot;X=$x\n&amp;quot;;&#xA;    print &amp;quot;Y=$y\n&amp;quot;;&#xA;    print &amp;quot;WD=$wd\n&amp;quot;;&#xA;    print &amp;quot;HT=$ht\n&amp;quot;;&#xA;  }&#xA;')&#xA;&#xA;eval $GEOM&#xA;&#xA;if [[ &amp;quot;$outfmt&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;gif&amp;quot; ||  &amp;quot;$outfmt&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;GIF&amp;quot; ]]&#xA;then&#xA;  #record losslessly&#xA;  [[ -f &amp;quot;$SHM.mkv&amp;quot; ]] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; rm $SHM.mkv&#xA;  ffmpeg -f x11grab -r $FPS -s ${WD}x${HT} -i :0.0+${X},${Y} -vf scale=&amp;quot;trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2&amp;quot; -c:v libx264 -crf 0 -preset ultrafast $SHM.mkv&#xA;&#xA;  #extract global palette of 265 colours from all frames&#xA;  ffmpeg -i $SHM.mkv -vf &amp;quot;palettegen=stats_mode=diff&amp;quot; -y /dev/shm/palette.png&#xA;&#xA;  #re-encode video into GIF&#xA;  ffmpeg -i $SHM.mkv -i /dev/shm/palette.png -lavfi &amp;quot;paletteuse=dither=sierra2&amp;quot; -y $outfile&#xA;&#xA;  rm $SHM.mkv /dev/shm/palette.png&#xA;else&#xA;  [[ -f &amp;quot;$SHM&amp;quot; ]] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; rm $SHM&#xA;  if [[ &amp;quot;$outfmt&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;mp4&amp;quot; || &amp;quot;$outfmt&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;MP4&amp;quot; ]]&#xA;  then # firefox-compatible mp4/h264&#xA;    ffmpeg -an  -f x11grab -s ${WD}x${HT} -i :0.0+${X},${Y} -vf scale=&amp;quot;trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2&amp;quot; -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v baseline -level 3 $moreopts $SHM&#xA;    [[ -f &amp;quot;$SHM&amp;quot; ]] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; mv $SHM $outfile&#xA;  else # other output formats&#xA;    ffmpeg -f x11grab -s ${WD}x${HT} -i :0.0+${X},${Y} -vf scale=&amp;quot;trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2&amp;quot; $moreopts $SHM&#xA;    [[ -f &amp;quot;$SHM&amp;quot; ]] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; mv $SHM $outfile&#xA;  fi&#xA;fi&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For GIF generation, the script executes multiple &lt;code&gt;ffmpeg&lt;/code&gt; passes in order to reduce the number of colours to the GIF limit of 256. A dithering method is used for re-encoding the initially recorded video to animated GIF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optionally, if GIF was chosen as the output format, the file size can be further reduced using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;gifsicle&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;gifscicle -O3 orig.gif &amp;gt; optimized.gif&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oQFe1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1053" LastEditorUserId="1053" LastEditDate="2023-02-02T11:23:34.310" LastActivityDate="2023-02-02T11:23:34.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2868" CreationDate="2012-11-09T18:56:25.473" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for sharing! I can definitely see such recordings being helpful in some situations, but I want to add a caveat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Videos should only &lt;em&gt;illustrate&lt;/em&gt; textual descriptions, but not &lt;em&gt;replace&lt;/em&gt; them because of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;accessibility&lt;/strong&gt; for users with impaired reading skills or devices that don't display images/animated gifs, and printing (or you have to provide an elaborate alt-text)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Googleability&lt;/strong&gt; -- it's fair to assume that we draw most our users (= readers) from search engines. Those unfortunately (?) aren't quite yet at the point of interpreting and indexing animated gifs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unambiguousness&lt;/strong&gt; -- the gifs will probably mostly be used in answers; imagining a question with an animated gif of code, compiling and an error message makes me shiver ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-11-09T20:08:17.767" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T20:08:17.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2849" CreationDate="2012-11-09T19:55:18.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had placed an arbitrary limit on the number of links that would be automatically rewritten with their full question titles (40, on meta sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This limit was apparently too low, so we bumped it up to a much higher (still arbitrary) number. Hopefully you won't run into it again any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8224" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T19:55:18.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2872" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2873" CreationDate="2012-11-10T19:29:06.693" Score="7" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue is extremely minor, but the equation on the TeX Meta page is incorrect. Na + Cl yields NaCl and not Na + Cl&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4515" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-11-12T17:15:12.890" LastActivityDate="2012-11-12T17:15:12.890" Title="Chemical equation in background is incorrect" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2872" CreationDate="2012-11-10T20:45:51.177" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You should really, really take a deeper look on the equation! Is it perhaps caused by a bad monitor resolution?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same background is used on the main site TeX.SE. For the background of this background you should read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/638/site-design-ideas-updated-with-mockup&quot;&gt;Site Design Ideas (updated with mockup)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(and later &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/650/new-design-launched&quot;&gt;New Design Launched&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the equation see especially this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/649/&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/649/&lt;/a&gt;, though it is not exactly the same – the equation used for the background is actually in the correct form (it’s taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/oxidation-and-reduction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample source&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-11-10T23:01:08.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2865" CreationDate="2012-11-12T16:55:11.740" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand you correctly, what you are searching is a skilled book designer/typographer. How to design your book (thesis) depends on your local typographical traditions, the content of your book, your audience etc. The goal is to communicate in an effective way. You may start with Robert Bringhurst’s excellent book, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Element of Typographic Style&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bringhurst ideas are amalgamated with &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/classicthesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ClassicThesis&lt;/a&gt;-package. In this package you find lots of good designing ideas and code for typesetting your book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you can use the classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tufte-style&lt;/a&gt; found in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/downloads/list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;classes and styles at the Tufte home page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, both in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;memoir-manual&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/koma-script&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;KOMA-script-manual&lt;/a&gt; you will find lot of useful tips for your design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you have decided your layout, then you can ask the forum both how it looks like and coding tips. But remember that taste is personal; what you think is nice, I may find horrible (I support the Bringhurst style).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tips on how to word your questions, avoiding to have them closed as ‘&lt;em&gt;to localised&lt;/em&gt;’, you may find in this thread: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2339/is-it-ok-to-ask-for-suggestions-concerning-a-table-layout?rq=1&quot;&gt;Is it OK to ask for suggestions concerning a table layout?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T18:11:28.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3304" CreationDate="2012-11-14T05:36:45.587" Score="11" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82682/using-collcell-package-with-csvsimple-or-datatool&quot;&gt;Using collcell package with csvsimple, or datatool&lt;/a&gt;.  After posting it looks like the formatting of the two error messages is not identical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p6hlN.png&quot; alt=&quot;actual post&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, when I go to edit it what I see in the preview is identical preview for the second case, but not for the first case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xCY4K.png&quot; alt=&quot;preview&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T12:25:49.040" Title="Preview not displaying identical to final post" Tags="|bug|status-completed|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2878" CreationDate="2012-11-14T17:28:33.790" Score="7" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/71638/hobby-path-realization-in-convex-hull-approach&quot;&gt;Hobby path realization in convex hull approach&lt;/a&gt; I originally introduced the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hobby&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hobby&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hobby&lt;/a&gt; tag. After a revision it has been removed, but I recently discovered another question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/81812/add-tangential-nodes-to-a-hobby-curve&quot;&gt;Add &amp;quot;tangential nodes&amp;quot; to a hobby curve&lt;/a&gt;, that re-introduced it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I re-tag my question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T21:18:09.153" Title="What about a {hobby} tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2876" CreationDate="2012-11-15T12:08:48.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I suggest we don't have tags for packages that rarely raise questions here, but doing so is systematic, so it's an option.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The package is about realising what Raph Levien calls &lt;em&gt;Hobby splines&lt;/em&gt;, which are the innovative splines that John Hobby devised and used in Metapost  (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/54771/curve-through-a-sequence-of-points-with-metapost-and-tikz&quot;&gt;Curve through a sequence of points with Metapost and TikZ&lt;/a&gt;), so we could have the concept tag &lt;code&gt;hobby-splines&lt;/code&gt;.  While this tag would be a good fit for the questions that would be given the package tag above, I don't think this tag would actually cover more questions, so it is of marginal value.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A more general version still, just &lt;code&gt;splines&lt;/code&gt;, would indeed cover more questions, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22601/what-is-the-smooth-plot-interpolation-algorithm-in-pgfplots&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;smooth&amp;quot; plot interpolation algorithm does pgfplots use?&lt;/a&gt;  This is my preferred option, but it raises the question of how to phrase the &lt;code&gt;splines&lt;/code&gt; tag wiki so that it covers only the sufficiently geometric questions, and not just any of the 200+ questions to do with plotting curves.  Something along the lines of &quot;involving the choice of curve-fitting algorithm&quot; would do the trick.  The tag wiki can describe the most important splines in Tex-centric typesetting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Of course, the risk of the more general concept tag is that our restrictions on its use will mean that questions about our hobby package might not be able to carry the &lt;code&gt;splines&lt;/code&gt; tag.  So a 4th option is to have both a &lt;code&gt;splines&lt;/code&gt; concept tag and a &lt;code&gt;hobby&lt;/code&gt; package tag, which seems obviously worse than 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Postscript&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An afterthought: do we really want to have unvarnished &quot;tribute&quot; package tags like &lt;code&gt;hobby&lt;/code&gt; at all: if I wrote a package called Knuth that, say, mapped some idiomatic Knuth Tex onto Latex, and it actually got used and had questions asked about it, would we want the &lt;code&gt;knuth&lt;/code&gt; tag to be about my package?  So I guess &lt;code&gt;pgf-hobby&lt;/code&gt; might be better than &lt;code&gt;hobby&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T17:10:07.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2876" CreationDate="2012-11-15T21:18:09.153" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Stephen's comment hits the nail on the head: would the &lt;code&gt;hobby&lt;/code&gt; tag help someone?  There are several categories to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone asking a question for which the hobby package could provide an answer.  But, as has been pointed out, this person might well not know that it could and, more importantly, might not really care if it could or not.  It is a big thing to choose between pgf and pstricks so those are important tags, but whether an answer uses the hobby package or not is unlikely to be a deal-breaker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone asking a question specifically about the hobby package.  At the moment, this is most likely to be a cheap way of asking me about it!  Since I don't take much notice of tags, a hobby tag wouldn't help here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone who likes answering questions with the hobby package.  Tags are never about &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, always &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;.  But even so, the number of people who are in this category is quite small and I suspect we all actively monitor the tikz-pgf tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone who's just discovered the hobby package and wonders what they could do with it.  One could make this into a case for the tag, but there are other ways to find this information: searching for &lt;code&gt;usetikzlibrary{hobby}&lt;/code&gt; for a start, or links to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much as my vanity says &quot;Yes, let's have a hobby tag!&quot;, my practicality thinks that it wouldn't actually bring any benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Charles' suggestion of a more generic tag would make some sense, but then I would go for one with no fancy words (such as &quot;spline&quot;) like &quot;curve-fitting&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T21:18:09.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-15T22:31:50.783" Score="39" ViewCount="589" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was struck by the difference in reaction to two questions that have a lot in common&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82894/how-to-build-this-table-in-latex&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82894/how-to-build-this-table-in-latex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82773/how-to-draw-a-sine-wave-on-a-circular-path-in-tikz&quot;&gt;How to draw a sine wave on a circular path in tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions have the tone of 'do-this-for-me', both have shown no effort from the OP, yet one received 15 upvotes and 4 answers, and one received 4 downvotes and was closed as too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does there need to be more consistency? Is there a policy somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit following the comments and answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the table question is trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hard part of the curve question was the parametrization, which has nothing to do with &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, given how much reputation I have received from my answer, I certainly don't want to delete or migrate the question anywhere else, but the inconsistency troubles me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Draw this table - BAD!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Draw this picture - GREAT!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Construct this equation - BAD!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you to @Kurt for pointing out that this is something of a special case (because of the OP's previous questions), but the ethos does sometimes feel like it follows the bullet points above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2019-01-12T12:39:40.160" Title="Consistent policy about downvoting and asking the OP to 'show what they have tried'" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2879" CreationDate="2012-11-16T11:17:48.367" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure how &quot;meta&quot; works, so perhaps this isn't an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that consistency is important.  To a new user of LaTeX, the distinction between what is trivial and what isn't might be difficult to make.  Thus, when confronted by a pair of questions similar to those above, it might not be entirely clear what is &quot;acceptable&quot; to ask and what isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, I think that &lt;em&gt;absolute&lt;/em&gt; consistency is impossible.  Certainly, the same question posed by two different users might be handled differently.  Had the table question been a first question, then it likely would have received a different response.  Rather, it was asked by a user that should have known better and for whom nearly half of their ~20 questions (many of which were basically the same question) had been closed for the same reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition a zero effort &quot;draw it for me&quot; question will often pose a more interesting problem than a zero effort &quot;make this table for me&quot; question.  I hope that it's not presumptuous to say that most of us are here because we find solving these problems entertaining and/or enjoy what we learn from them.  When something interesting comes along, it's hard to resist the temptation to try to figure it out...regardless of how it's asked.  The large base of graphics users will naturally lead to more interest in the graphics variety of this type of question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an educator, I deal with people wanting answers handed to them without putting in any effort themselves on a day to day basis (kids these days).  Most of my time is spent trying to convince people that seeing the answer is only really useful after having struggled to find it themselves.  So on the one hand, I come from that perspective.  On the other, I enjoy a good problem as much as the next guy and some of the few answers I've provided on this site are to questions that haven't shown any effort on the part of the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, all of the people who answer questions bring different things to the table and have different motivations for doing so.  That's what allows for such a great variety of answers here, but also what would prevent any unified policy on what &quot;should&quot; be answered from being enforceable and therefore useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\end{ramble}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14100" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T11:17:48.367" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-16T11:30:50.963" Score="18" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;We often have the case where two questions are asked by users facing completely different phenomenon, but where if you have the right understanding, you can see that the same thing is going on in each case.  In his answer to the meta.tex.sx question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1160/different-questions-with-the-same-answer&quot;&gt;Different questions with the same answer&lt;/a&gt;, Andrew argues for merging these questions.  This is good, provided it is clear to people seeing either of the symptoms that the answers address their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in practice these questions are often getting closed as exact duplicates of each other.  From the experts point of view, this may seem natural, but a user lacking this expert knowledge will see that instead of being given a solution to the symptoms they see, they are being told how to treat a completely different set of symptoms.  Without an explanation of why the two phenomena are about the same problem, this is a failure to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that our policy in this case is either (i) merge per Andrew's suggestion, ensuring that the question makes clear that answers should address both sets of symptoms, or (ii) tolerate different questions with analogous answers, provided that links between them, and our policy is also that we do not (*iii) close questions about one set of symptoms as being exact duplicate of another question that deals with quite different symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is in response to the closure of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82960/change-abstractname&quot;&gt;Change abstractname&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T20:39:48.923" Title="Same disease, different symptoms" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2881" CreationDate="2012-11-16T11:52:50.523" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;(i) If a question is closed as a duplicate of another one, it's good to check the other one if it can be rewritten to be more general, so it's obvious that it applies to the other case too. In this example, the &quot;name of figures&quot; question can be changed to &quot;how to change names of objects&quot; or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(ii) There's no need to tolerate different questions with analogous answers. Just for the OP to feel better? To save a click for future visitors, collect a huge amount of pretty identical answers, spread across differently worded questions or specific cases? The future visitor, even coming via a search engine to the specific case, is helped by the prominent duplicate link to the more general solution. So closing is good, if the other question and answers solve the problem. Note, each duplicate link makes the linked question more prominent and also higher in the FAQ list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a good question, Charles, I don't mean you but as a general idea: if something such as closing as a duplicate doesn't seen to fit perfectly, instead of denying closing it would be good if you firstly check if it could be fixed by improving the other question. Making questions more generic and canonical at such an occasion is great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T11:52:50.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-16T17:22:36.090" Score="21" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2906/tug-membership-names-for-2013&quot;&gt;TUG Membership: Names for 2013&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;Last year StackExchange became a member of TUG&lt;/a&gt;. With that come eight individual memberships, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1744/who-would-like-to-become-a-member-of-the-tex-user-group-sponsored-by-stack-exch&quot;&gt;were given out to some members of the community&lt;/a&gt;. I was one of the lucky eight chosen and enjoyed my TUG membership for the last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I haven't been very active on TeX.SX lately, so I feel that there are other members of the community who deserve that membership more than I do and could use it better to improve TeX.SX as a whole. I don't know when the individual memberships can be changed, but I would guess that the new year is a good time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus — assuming that StackExchange will continue to be a TUG member in 2013 — who wants to have my individual membership?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T17:22:36.090" Title="Sponsored TUG membership" Tags="|discussion|sponsorship|tug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2012-11-30T20:06:21.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-16T23:43:49.410" Score="42" ViewCount="1849" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2013/05/28&lt;/strong&gt;: The &lt;code&gt;selnolig&lt;/code&gt; package is now on the CTAN, at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/selnolig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://ctan.org/pkg/selnolig&lt;/a&gt;. Comments and critiques always welcome! The email address you may use to contact me is given at the bottom of the titlepage of the package's user guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting close to releasing a package, which I'm calling &lt;strong&gt;selnolig&lt;/strong&gt;, that lets users suppress automatically typographic ligatures for selected words and word patterns, for both German and English language documents. For German language documents, the focus in on breaking up various f-ligatures -- not only the &amp;quot;usual five&amp;quot; f-ligatures (ff, fi, fl, ffi, and ffl), but also also ligatures for the ft, fft, fb, ffb, fh, ffh, fj, ffj, fk, and ffk character pairs and triples -- that cross morpheme boundaries. For English language documents, the list of rules for breaking up f-ligatures is much shorter than it is for German documents; to make up for this, for English documents ligature suppression rules are also provided for &amp;quot;historic ligatures&amp;quot; (e.g., ct, st, sp, and sk) and &amp;quot;discretionary ligatures&amp;quot; (e.g., th, as, is, us, at, et, and a few more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the package's files may be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/micoloretan/selnolig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/micoloretan/selnolig&lt;/a&gt;. The package's main files are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;user guide&lt;/strong&gt; is in a file called &lt;code&gt;selnolig.pdf&lt;/code&gt;. Additional pdf files contains lists of German and English language words for which ligatures should be suppressed (and are indeed suppressed if selnolig is loaded!). The source code for the pdf files is contained in files with extension &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The files required to let the package do its work are five style files -- &lt;code&gt;selnolig.sty&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;selnolig-english-patterns.sty&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;selnolig-german-patterns.sty&lt;/code&gt;, ``selnolig-english-hyphex.sty&lt;code&gt;, and &lt;/code&gt;selnolig-german-hyphex.sty&lt;code&gt;-- as well as a file named&lt;/code&gt;selnolig.lua`; the latter file contains the package's lua code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start using the package on your system, be sure to download the five .sty files and the .lua file to a directory in your TeX distribution's search path and to update TeX's filename database. If you place the file &lt;code&gt;selnolig.pdf&lt;/code&gt; in a directory that's in TeX's search path, you can access the documentation by typing &amp;quot;texdoc selnolig&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The package is almost ready for official release to the CTAN. However, there are still a couple of bugs that need to be fumigated to make the package ready for show time. Nevertheless, I believe the package is already quite usable and useful. I'd therefore like to encourage LaTeX users who are interested in matters related to typographic ligatures -- and especially their selective suppression -- to download the package's files and give them a thorough workout on their own documents. Comments and critiques are most welcome; I provide an email address in the user guide to be used to send me questions, comments, and critiques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experts in lua and programming for luatex are especially encouraged to peruse the list of bugs I've compiled in a section of the user guide. Suggestions for improvements and outright bug fixes would be most welcome. Of course, any and all further feedback about the package, such as about its choices of ligature suppression rules, will also be much appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This package wouldn't have been possible without the various answers and suggestions I've received in the TeX.SE group to questions I posed about how one might go about suppressing ligatures selectively. To all of you who provided such contributions, I hereby express my sincere thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happy TeXing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="9075" LastEditDate="2023-11-08T23:17:10.457" LastActivityDate="2023-11-08T23:17:10.457" Title="New package, selnolig, that automates suppression of typographic ligatures" Tags="|support|beta|request-for-information|lualatex|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2881" CreationDate="2012-11-17T08:00:49.703" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have to disagree here with Stefan here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I am not what most would consider a newbie, I am by no means an expert on general LaTeX usage as I have mostly focused on only what I need at the moment, or think I will need coming up in the foreseeable future. And hence,&#xA;I don't use abstract, or figure names. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at those two posts, they seem totally unrelated.  I have done enough hacking with TeX that I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I could get figure this out. But by just looking at the answer in the duplicate, it is certainly not at obvious to me that these two are related, or even where I should begin to look for the problem.  If I was a new user and had a question about changing the abstract name and it got closed as a duplicate of &quot;Change caption of names of figures&quot; I would really be confused, and discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the OP did not provide a complete MWE, the relevant code snippets and document class were provided.  It seems like a decent question. Since the problems appear so different, what I would prefer is to have the answer that solves the problem at hand and a cross reference to the other question.  Only then would it be clear as to how they are related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also dislike the idea of changing the original question to a more general one. I constantly refer to many of my older questions and if it were changed significantly (either title, or body), words that I remember being part of the question might no longer be in the text and would make it harder for me to locate (Search on TeX.SE is already very difficult). And changing the title from &quot;&lt;em&gt;name of figures&lt;/em&gt;&quot; to &quot;&lt;em&gt;how to change names of objects&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is a perfect example of such potential confusion. I would be thinking I had a question about &lt;em&gt;&quot;figure&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and not &quot;&lt;em&gt;objects&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.  Sure, after careful thought one would come up with &quot;&lt;em&gt;how to change names of figures, abstracts, and other objects&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, but not sure that people changing the question would always see that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that the site is not just for me, but if I can't access my own questions, I would end up asking even more questions -- I am sure no one wants that!! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, just saw Mazzy's comment after I looked one more time to make sure that his post has some merit -- I guess that is the clue of where the problem was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And closing as a duplicate to the one lockstep linked to above would not be so bad.  Then the other older questions should be cross referenced to this new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="4301" LastEditDate="2012-11-17T08:06:35.867" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T08:06:35.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2881" CreationDate="2012-11-17T09:12:17.117" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that another point is missing here: Answers for &lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; different than answers for &lt;code&gt;abstract&lt;/code&gt;. There is a common thing -- changing setup of &lt;code&gt;\...name&lt;/code&gt;, but for &lt;code&gt;captions&lt;/code&gt; there are other possibilities, and this makes it hard to &quot;read only the part of the other question that is relevant to me, when this part is not really seperated&quot;. So in my opinion, this is even not the &lt;em&gt;same disease&lt;/em&gt;, only a similar one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one more point: When you vote for &quot;exact duplicate&quot;, the two things mentioned are &quot;same content&quot; and &quot;identical question&quot;, and that is not the case here. On one hand keeping many &quot;too localized&quot; questions that could be closed by saying: &quot;it's your problem, not LaTeX's one, and it's nearly impossible that someone else will encounter the same problem&quot;. And on the other hand, we close questions that are maybe very similar, but still very different? No, I don't think this is the correct approach. Having similar questions does not hurt that much in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T09:12:17.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2012-11-17T15:50:04.017" Score="18" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Naming&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/82993&quot;&gt;How to change the name of document elements like “Figure”, “Contents”, “Bibliography” etc.?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to change the name of document elements like “Figure”, “Contents”, “Bibliography” etc.?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/82993)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/191930&quot;&gt;Spaces in files names in &lt;code&gt;\input&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\includegraphics&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Spaces in files names in \input or \includegraphics](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/191930)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2020-05-09T17:19:09.803" LastActivityDate="2020-05-09T17:19:09.803" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-11-17T15:50:04.017" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2865" CreationDate="2012-11-18T22:43:35.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe one of the best places for expert opinions on such matters is &lt;a href=&quot;http://typophile.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://typophile.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9424" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T22:43:35.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2879" CreationDate="2012-11-19T03:01:17.493" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really just a long comment. I know that a question like this would pop up in &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; after a series of &lt;code&gt;do-it-for-me&lt;/code&gt; (especially those related to drawing) questions that were answered and got very high number of upvotes. I have asked myself this very same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following are my take on this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should be consistent with the &lt;code&gt;post-an-MWE&lt;/code&gt; comment. Although some problems are non-trivial like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82773/how-to-draw-a-sine-wave-on-a-circular-path-in-tikz&quot;&gt;How to draw a sine wave on a circular path in tikz&lt;/a&gt; (where, incidentally, I was the one who posted the comment, but the first to answer and whose answer got accepted), posting this comment will in one way or another convince them to try working out the problem on their own first. In many cases, I have seen OP edit the question to include and MWE after posting such a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My principle in answering these kinds of questions, even the ones the &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; TeX users find difficult or consider as one-time problems (for which case they might find reading the whole manual impractical) is my answer should encourage them to answer the rest of the problem on their own by using my answer as a sort of a springboard. A high school teacher myself, I completely agree with Scott H's opinion about the value of putting one's effort in the learning process. That is why I have opted to post an &lt;em&gt;incomplete&lt;/em&gt; solution (or in some other cases, a tutorial on how to go about it without actually doing all the job). Although I would admit that doing the whole thing would have been, personally, very fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some &lt;code&gt;do-it-for-me&lt;/code&gt; questions are very trivial. What the OP needs in most of these cases is to read a beginner's LaTeX manual. In these questions, it is appropriate to direct OP to the proper links or previous posts, closing some of them appropriately as duplicates. (While one can argue that anyone should read the manual first in &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; cases, I don't think that it always works for some specialized packages like the graphical packages whose manuals run to more than several hundred pages.) In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82894/how-to-build-this-table-in-latex&quot;&gt;How to build this table in latex&lt;/a&gt;, though, it is obvious that the OP has not given much of anything at learning at table construction as can be seen in OP's previous posts. I think that closing that question has been justified.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T03:09:52.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-19T16:04:08.140" Score="7" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29430/is-there-a-latex-symbol-for-order/29492&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; before I joined the site (not sure how I could do that, but I did). The question shows my name and avatar on it, but it does not appear in my profile under questions. How can I fix that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10580" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T23:09:39.103" Title="My question doesn't appear on my profile" Tags="|support|user-accounts|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2891" CreationDate="2012-11-19T16:36:39.647" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You had two accounts, one unregistered. I have merged them: you should now have full control of the older question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T16:36:39.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2895" CreationDate="2012-11-20T22:28:09.873" Score="38" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've stumbled a few times across poorly written MWEs as part of questions, and realized recently that my take on what to do (edit it) isn't shared by everyone here (leave the question untouched and put another MWE in an answer). So the question is:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Is it acceptable to edit a MWE and how much?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a minimalist and a perfectionist, my personal opinion is that MWEs should be edited to be &lt;em&gt;as minimal as possible&lt;/em&gt;, as far as it doesn't modify the behavior the MWE is supposed to show (and they do work!). So unnecessary loading of packages, commands redefinitions, etc. should be removed if they are not part of the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your opinions and what is the consensus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10102" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-11-21T06:57:16.067" LastActivityDate="2012-11-21T11:10:55.510" Title="Editing Minimal Working Examples (MWEs)" Tags="|discussion|editing|policy|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2894" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-21T05:05:33.793" Score="13" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please forgive my ignorance of tweeting, twitter, and other words matching tw.* &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was editing one of my previous questions, and noticed that it had been tweeted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0sPeM.png&quot; alt=&quot;tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also happened to one of my recent answers, which I discovered by accident again while viewing the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to the questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who tweets them officially for tex.sx?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I know what has been tweeted other than by viewing the editing history?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for fun: John Cleese apparently calls his followers 'twots'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-11-21T06:55:50.760" LastActivityDate="2012-11-21T06:55:50.760" Title="Who tweets for tex.sx – and how would I know if I have been tweeted?" Tags="|support|questions|social-networking|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2893" CreationDate="2012-11-21T11:10:55.510" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's not really an answer, but my thoughts are too long for a comment. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'd like to thank you for all the effort you've put into &lt;code&gt;moderncv&lt;/code&gt; and the time spent in helping people here. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really share your worries on some MWE lacking the &lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt; component. Indeed we have quite a bunch of such examples in our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once stumbled upon one of your edits and, although your changes in the code really reduced it to the minimal example, they were quite significant. I decided to abstain from voting for that particular revision - and then someone else voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very happy to see improved questions and answers. We have great TeXnicians around - Heiko, Frank, egreg, David, to name a few - but we also have a lot of TeX newbies. IMHO writing a MWE is also part of the learning process. We have successful stories in which problems were solved by simply trying to come up with a MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a good approach would be to ask the OP, via comment, to try reducing the code to a minimal state. I see this as a win-win situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP can learn from the process and maybe even solve the original problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community will have a concise code and a better question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also tempted to reduce codes to their minimal form, but I can see the benefits of leaving the questions as they are for a while. As TeX shepherds, we are happier about that one sheep that had a good learning experience than about the ninety-nine that did not need guidance. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2012-11-21T11:10:55.510" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-21T15:05:46.653" Score="14" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted a question and realised that every time I refresh my page to check whether there are new answers I increase the number of &lt;strong&gt;Viewed&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. how many times my article has been viewed). Wouldn't it be much more sensible to count only views from others users and not to count the views of the OP who posted the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11741" LastEditorUserId="6865" LastEditDate="2012-11-21T20:02:03.160" LastActivityDate="2012-11-21T20:02:03.160" Title="Counter for &quot;Viewed&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-23T15:20:51.320" Score="0" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2781/how-does-one-add-a-latex-output-to-a-question-answer&quot;&gt;How does one add a LaTeX output to a question/answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When generating images to illustrate a phenomenon in a question, I typically end up creating a TeX file, compiling it, opening the PDF, using printscreen to copy to the clipboard, opening an image editor, pasting in, cropping to a sensible size, saving the file and then uploading. There must be a less painful way of doing this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know of LatexIt, but it's Mac-only. I just had a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52741/is-there-anything-like-latexit-for-windows&quot;&gt;Is there an equation editor for Windows?&lt;/a&gt; and started following up links, but most of the things linked there seem to have pretty poor coverage of maths commands.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-11-23T20:36:40.200" Title="Generating images for inclusion in posts" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2012-11-23T20:23:12.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2012-11-23T20:47:53.340" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a novice-to-intermediate user, I might add that my knowledge of TeX plateaued for a long time before I found this site. I don't know anywhere else where I could get information of a quality comparable to, say, this answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/83936/17049&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/83936/17049&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I came here, I could get some kind of solution to many of the difficulties I hit using Google, but I got into a lot of bad habits, like using low-level and Plain TeX commands when I should have been using LaTeX commands. I suspect that a lot of the unexpected and frustrating behaviour that I saw LaTeX exhibit stemmed from said bad habits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So -- for what it's worth -- I think this site is very useful to users at my level of experience. And I am very grateful for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-11-23T20:47:53.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-27T21:19:47.517" Score="6" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are LaTeX and friends considered programming languages or packages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm applying to a job and would like my employer to know of my LaTeX proficiency. There's already a list of programming languages (Python, C++, Matlab, ...) and a list of &quot;packages&quot; (Office, COMSOL, Matlab, ...) on my CV. In which list does LaTeX fit? Or should it be under another heading?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22628" OwnerDisplayName="Anders" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T06:49:38.077" Title="Are LaTeX et al. languages or packages?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2012-11-29T06:50:48.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2881" CreationDate="2012-11-28T15:31:15.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn’t this question been closed as an exact duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2770/closing-questions-as-exact-duplications-best-practice/2771#2771&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;? =:-J&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, two different question with the same answer is not exact duplicates. The second question may be answered by referring to the first one, but not closed as a duplicate. Because it is not a duplicate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T20:39:48.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2905" CreationDate="2012-11-29T22:46:19.723" Score="23" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;today i posted on the ams server a pdf copy of ellen swanson's &lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/author-info/documentation/howto/mit-2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;mathematics into type&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  i had earlier mentioned in an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80225/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that it was going to happen, and therefore edited that answer to add the new link.  (i also noted the link in a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25810/&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the question for which the answer was edited was (legitimately) off-topic, and closed as soon as it was noticed, probably on account of the edited answer.  so the information about the file availability will most likely be &quot;lost&quot;.  since this manual has been mentioned a number of times in this forum, i think the fact that it's now available on line is relevant in an answer, but obviously not in a question.  (i'm probably even pushing the limits asking about it here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i've grubbed through the listings tagged as [books] and [manuals] (= [documentation] which isn't the same) as well as searching for references to the book itself.  nothing else turned up.  one posting suggested using chat for a similar purpost, but i suspect that most tex.sx readers aren't regular participants in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, is there an appropriate way to announce such happenings so that readers of this forum will be informed, and if so, what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T13:38:41.753" Title="What's the best way to let the community know of an interesting document on typesetting that's just been published?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2904" CreationDate="2012-11-30T05:39:20.120" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only looked into the subject matter of the information you want to spread briefly (because I virtually never use math (mode) in LaTeX), but it sounds like it might make sense for you to write an &lt;strong&gt;article for &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;our blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about it. It would have to be more than just an &quot;announcement link&quot;, but I'm sure you could flesh it out into something that's relevant for our community&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, e.g. give a preview of the book, summarize it, write a recension of it, point to some of the issues it addresses, or the like. You could then later just point to the blog article whenever relevant issues pop up in new questions. I guess you could actually say this announcement is just the kind of thing our blog is intended for (among others)! Check out some of the existing posts (besides the interviews) if you haven't; I think many of them are some kind of an announcement of interesting material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;not implying that the link by itself wouldn't be relevant, it would just be a bit meager for a blog post of its own -- even though the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2012/11/happy-birthday-hermann-zapf/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Happy birthday, Hermann Zapf!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; post wasn't very long either, so I might just be wrong here.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T08:44:03.480" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T08:44:03.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-30T18:57:09.880" Score="34" ViewCount="1001" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1528&quot;&gt;StackExchange became a member of TUG&lt;/a&gt;. With that come eight individual memberships, that were &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1744&quot;&gt;given out to some members of the community&lt;/a&gt;. The time has come to select our representatives for 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the model from last year, I'd like to ask people to put themselves forward. 'Highly-active' TeX-sx members, on the main site and meta, are particularly encouraged to consider 'standing'. There are &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; restrictions on standing: in particular, the existing 'representatives' are very welcome to put their names forward to continue. [Note: I've called the people we put forward 'representatives', but that's mainly because I can't think of a better term. Nominees should not feel the need to represent TeX-sx other than being members of the site and therefore interested in TeX in some way!]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The model for answers follows the pattern from last year. Each person who wishes to be considered should post an answer, where they can (if they wish) say what makes them a good choice. Everyone should take a look at these answers and vote for deserving candidates: remember there are eight places available!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the time-frame from StackExchange, we have about a week to fill up the slots. I'll therefore close the question late on 2012-12-08 (next Saturday), so we (mods) can send the names along in time. In the event of a tie in number of votes, the mod team will decide which of the tied members are put forward to StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting closed with the following result: there were nine names put forward, the top eight by votes were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paulo Cereda&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;topskip&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aditya&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jake&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alan Munn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;azetina&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These names will be passed to the StackExchange staff to be forwarded to TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T21:20:25.180" Title="TUG Membership: Names for 2013" Tags="|discussion|sponsorship|tug|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2012-12-08T21:11:14.577" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-11-30T19:25:27.707" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to continue to be a member of TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My wish to be a member of TUG &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;initiated the institutional membership&lt;/a&gt; of Stack Exchange and I would do something to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I traveled from Germany to India to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1915/going-to-a-conference-the-tug-2011-experience&quot;&gt;TUG 2011 conference to speak about TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and would even go to TUG 2013 in Japan if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like reading the TUGboat, where I published also an article with a special focus on TeX.SE. I'm in contact with editors from time to time regarding contributions by me or by TeX friends and currently I'm involved in editing for PracTeX, another TUG journal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T19:25:27.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-01T17:29:44.193" Score="35" ViewCount="506" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about the factors that influence voting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my motivations is the number of '0-score' answers  there are. Indeed, even &lt;code&gt;@egreg&lt;/code&gt; has one page of '0-score' answers- I find this really interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been an active member on the site for over a year- I love the community that we have here. In that time I've seen some truly heroic answers that have received very little attention and less than 5 votes. And conversely I've seen significantly less heroic answers go platinum with over 25 votes very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a really diverse and interesting world-wide community, and I'm interested in what factors the community perceives as the main influences when voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To spark the discussion, I perceive the following factors as primary when it comes to voting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;timing: Monday morning (from my perspective, GMT-8hrs) seems to see a lot of votes, Friday night, not so much&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags: &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; questions seem to be the most popular and accessible; questions on (for example) &lt;code&gt;expansion&lt;/code&gt; (which I find much more interesting) seem to receive a lot less.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="6621" LastEditDate="2012-12-01T17:45:35.330" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T10:14:44.593" Title="Factors that influence voting" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2909" CreationDate="2012-12-01T18:25:19.763" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything that has a pretty picture gets more votes.  So TikZ answers tend to get lots of votes. They are also easy for non-specialists to vote on, since you can look at the picture and say &quot;Cool, get's my vote.&quot;  But really technical answers are not so easy for non-specialists to vote on, nor are they likely to even bother reading them, so the questions themselves get fewer views and therefore fewer votes.  Now you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; vote on the basis that &quot;If X wrote this answer it must be good.&quot;, but if you do that too much (even with the best of intentions) the voting fraud bots will catch you and much hilarity will ensue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T18:25:19.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2909" CreationDate="2012-12-01T19:16:37.430" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;i can speak only for myself.  i tend to ignore anything that i probably can't use, unless it's asked or answered by a few &quot;core&quot; participants.  even then, i'll consider the content of the question and answer before voting (or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;unlike most people here, i have a day job that is tex-based, so anything that's tagged with an [ams*] i &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to look at, although i will up-vote only questions or answers i consider valid.  i will comment on a lot more of them though, and if the comment results in an edit that improves the item sufficiently, then i will up-vote.  if an item on an [ams*] topic is really good, i will up-vote and consider it for inclusion in the ams documentation (though getting that updated is a slow process).  if a real or plausible bug is reported, i will pick it up for consideration, up-vote, and add either a comment or an answer with a workaround (if one is known).  i will also pick up a really great suggestion for enhancement, up-vote and comment.  (real-world users are our best debuggers, as demonstrated by knuth.)  if i make a blunder in an answer or comment, i'll usually delete it, even if it's been up-voted, unless i think an edit can make it useful over the long term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i tend not to down-vote, but if i recognize something that i think has already been covered, i'll look for the earlier material if i have time, and vote to close if others agree.  (i don't think i've ever posted the first vote to close.)  i will &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; flag spam for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T19:16:37.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-12-01T19:36:49.163" Score="28" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'd like to continue being a member of TUG, because I enjoy reading the TUGboat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The more community reason is: I keep advertising tex.sx on all DANTE and other TeX meetings.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'll publish another LuaTeX article if I keep the membership :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I will vote for new people wishing to be part of the sponsored TUG membership, because I totally agree with Alan Munn.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="243" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T07:47:27.997" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T07:47:27.997" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2909" CreationDate="2012-12-01T20:18:28.790" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's my personality projecting on it but I value the votes very very very little (including downvotes on my questions/answers though I always want to see what the mistake was that I've possibly made). Somewhat stupidly, I consider downvotes on others' question and answers a lot because I want the spirit to stay as it is (relaxed, quite kind, and willing to help further even though the votes are saturated and very unlikely to get more) and unfortunately not everyone takes these votes lightly. Hence my concern. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm kind of among the actively voting users. Since I don't value the votes much, I'm clicking those arrows much easier, I might even write down the steps because I've just did on a 5-answer question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's this question? Oh, a MWE. That's handy. About (random example replaced here) table of contents, section misalignment. Man, why would you do that? Anyway MWE is nice. voted. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ah it has an answer, is there any &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; characters in it? (just joking!). Well what did they use ? I didn't know that. But there is a package for this. Anyway, voted. Next. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yep, that's what I would sort of do. Voted. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This can not work. Let me compile it. Dang, it's working how come? Let me tweak a little. Still works. But this is not suitable for such and such. Comment and voted for fooling me. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nope got the question wrong. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No idea what this is about or how to use it (happens mostly on bidi, Emacs, LyX questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I'm using the votes as &lt;em&gt;mark as read&lt;/em&gt; button. And I stop voting when I see the yellow warning signs &lt;em&gt;You have 5 votes left&lt;/em&gt;. But honestly I keep reading the questions in the same manner. However the system is not sorting the questions on technical proficiency. So many questions goes away unvoted. But if you happen to receive votes for an ancient question that's probably me searching for something else :). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you might want to consider what tag is being followed the most to get the pattern normalized. I'm following the TikZ questions among other things but I'm mostly spending a lot of time on core questions (mostly asked by Bruno) that received answers that are rock hard and some of them are at the &lt;em&gt;How to draw Christmas tree with TikZ?&lt;/em&gt; level questions. However, I can only vote once. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So 5-10 votes in a TikZ question are like 2-3 votes on a normal question and I'm also not comfortable with it. We had some time ago a discussion to keep the high-rep users back a bit to let new users rep-charge themselves. And I think the system is working in the face of such imperfections. Lastly &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; answers also have a lot of pictures but it's not getting that much of attention so putting images are not the only factor for the votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because we have the experts having fun here too, votes seem to be a measure of participation instead of proficiency on TeX.SE. So I guess the votes are showing the fun factor not anything else. That's why we can never have Careers 2.0 here because everyone is too nice to take this as a challenge and compete for some weird virtual trophy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T20:18:28.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-12-01T20:56:10.183" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hereby add an answer nominating myself for one of the TUG memberships.  I've certainly appreciated the membership this year, and continue to be fairly active here on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am also perfectly content to pass my membership on to someone new, as well. In particular, I've added in the comments to the main question a list of names of people who I think should nominate themselves for one of the memberships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2012-12-01T21:02:31.167" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T21:02:31.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-12-01T23:50:10.253" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first idea was to wait for the deadline to come and, in case of still having available slots, I'd add my nomination. Stephan prodded me to do it right now, for the sake of democracy. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; So here it goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to have a chance to a TUG membership for the next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'd like to mention a few things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have a chance of earning a TUG membership if and only if the existing representatives decide to pass their own subscriptions in favour of someone new. I know this thread is about a democratic process, but I wouldn't feel comfortable of taking somebody's place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really love this site, the atmosphere and, most of all, all the great friends I had the honour to know. I want to see this place growing every day, and I want to contribute with it, even with my language deficiencies and lack of TeXnical knowledge. We have great answers, great bloggers, and fantastic users that post interesting questions every single day. This makes our community full of life. That said, I'm not sure if I could attend any TeX conference on behalf of TeX.sx, since it's very difficult for me to obtain subsidies for travelling abroad. Besides, I really don't have anything so TeXnical to offer, besides of cute ducks (or tortoises). Brazil doesn't have a local TUG - I'd love to try to found one, but still some sort of minimal infrastructure would be needed, and have at least a quorum - so the only way to get in touch with the TeX world would be through an international group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I share Alan's suggestions, so I'd kindly ask you guys to prefer such great users instead of me. Of course, we are teasing them to nominate themselves. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that's it. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm tempted to post another duck here. &lt;em&gt;Must... resist... posting... duck... reference...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T23:50:10.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2909" CreationDate="2012-12-02T12:48:31.637" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, here's my take on this: &lt;strong&gt;Confessions of an Upvoter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a kind of disclaimer, I'd like to stress that at this level I consider myself a decent &quot;TeXnician&quot;, nothing more. Since most of the answers posted up to the time of typing this come from really experienced users I am looking up to, I thought an answer from a less experienced user could be fun. More so, because I happen to have an Electorate badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As other users pointed it out, TikZ questions will always get more votes for the fun factor involved, especially the Christmas tree kind. I must confess, I also tend to upvote them, although to a lesser extent lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently my participation has somewhat slackened, I am bogged down with other tasks for the coming months, but I still read questions on a daily basis and also try to find an answer (where no &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;s are required &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;). Or at least check the MWE to see if I can reproduce and trace the error, especially if I think it's non-trivial. If I already took the pains of copy-pasting the code and compiling it, I upvote the question. I see it as an encouragement for new users to ask away, a question with 0 upvotes can be quite a turn-off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I think of it, I often vote to close duplicates. Sometimes it is just a matter of doing a more thorough search, but at other times the link to a previous question is less obvious. I gladly vote to close questions that are blatantly of RTFM type. I feel that if we don't curb them, we tacitly encourage them, which is in no way constructive. (And I get slightly annoyed by users posting answers when a comment already suggests it's been answered and 3 or 4 closing votes confirm that...) Nevertheless, I very seldom downvote anything. It needs to be serious business for me to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvote mainly on answers that either are very simple and elegant or from which I learned something new: a new feature or a new way of addressing an issue. Also, I like detailed answers with good explanations about how and why the code posted actually works. I have learned a lot from such answers and they definitely worth being rewarded. Good &quot;competing&quot; answers are definitely part of this category. And I upvote sensible comments too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there are some other factors involved in my voting process, with which some of the users may not (fully) agree. For instance, I tend to upvote a question/answer with 9 votes, to secure a badge for the user. At the point where it earned 9 votes, I think it also deserves a 10th one. I know there are lots of users who avidly collect badges and nobody can deny the fun factor involved. (In the early days I was one of those hunters myself. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;) And this leads to the second (somewhat controversial) reason for voting: I practically was preying on interesting questions (and answers) to upvote when I had some 50 votes missing to get the Electorate badge... All right - now I said it all. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T12:48:31.637" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2909" CreationDate="2012-12-02T13:41:01.660" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were other people poiting out that the technical answers generally get small number of votes, because people cannot understand it, and testing it works takes a lot of time and effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something that other sites suffer from as well. For instance on &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;math.SE&lt;/a&gt; posts get much less upvotes than here. For comparison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                      MATH    TEX&#xA;Number of questions   87k     30k    (almost 3x larger)&#xA;Nice question badges  3.1k    3.8k   (20% smaller)&#xA;Nice answers badges   6.6k    6.5k   (almost the same)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that most of the things in maths are understandable to a small part of the site visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:08.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T13:41:01.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-12-03T00:34:10.883" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there aren't 8 nominations in the tray, I'd like to nominate myself for a sponsored TUG membership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was a TUG member a few years ago, but in recent years I stopped being a TUG member in favor of being a member of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://group.contextgarden.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ConTeXt group&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I enjoy reading TUGBoat and have contributed semi-regularly in a &lt;em&gt;ConTeXt for Users&lt;/em&gt; column.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like the model of TeX.SE, but given the none of the ConTeXt experts answer on this site, I am not convinced that this is the best forum for asking ConTeXt questions. So, for any non-trivial ConTeXt question, I'll still be prodding users to post it on the ConTeXt mailing list. So, perhaps, I am not the best choice to be a &lt;em&gt;representative of TeX.SE&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T00:34:10.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2924" CreationDate="2012-12-03T08:56:54.947" Score="24" ViewCount="501" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/85128/8141&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; replies to the question by saying &lt;em&gt;this is not possible&lt;/em&gt;. Normally, I should accept an answer if it solves my problem. Although the answer &lt;em&gt;It's not possible&lt;/em&gt; is probably correct, should I accept it or not if it doesn't solve my problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8141" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T21:28:18.457" Title="Should I accept if the answer says &quot;it can't be done&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-12-03T09:23:21.467" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I very humbly add my nomination, after a short chat with Joseph. I'm not so active TeX.SX member recently, basically because I got involved in TeX elsewhere and I cannot procrastinate on it so much &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why I nominate myself is that I consider becoming a TUG member anyways, and I think I can benefit from the membership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, as soon as there are 8 other approved nominations, I'll stand down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2012-12-05T21:40:28.910" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T21:40:28.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-12-03T11:26:14.833" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to be a TUG member for a year, and I'd take it as motivation to finally write the TUGboat article on using PGFPlots to create Tufte style scatter plots (a follow-up to the bar chart article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-community.org/know-how/437-tufte-charts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://latex-community.org/know-how/437-tufte-charts&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T11:26:14.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2925" CreationDate="2012-12-03T14:50:01.753" Score="38" ViewCount="749" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Prologue&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We love hanging out in our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41&quot;&gt;main chatroom&lt;/a&gt;. It's a very friendly place, where we talk about virtually everything - even TeX, sometimes! I decided to give it a try and add a few &amp;quot;extra features&amp;quot; to our chatroom, and the result is presented in this meta thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was planning to implement a bot and find a way to wrap it into the SE infrastructure. Thankfully, there is already a project from &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/617762/zirak&quot;&gt;Zirak&lt;/a&gt; named &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SO-ChatBot&lt;/a&gt;, a bot written in JavaScript which runs in one's browser session. I played with it a little and decided to tweak it (apart from my lack of JS skills) in order to make it more TeXy. The result is &lt;em&gt;Psmith&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Introduction&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Psmith&lt;/em&gt; is a SO chatroom bot based on Zirak's original code which runs under my credentials and within my browser session. If I'm not in the room or if I didn't deliberately trigger the startup script, the bot won't respond. I'm in charge of the bot's execution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The name&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We first thought of Jeeves, but it's taken. Then our next attempt was with Wooster, but it wasn't catchy enough. I thought of Jarvis, but it's too Stark-based. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; Then Andrew suggested &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psmith&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Psmith&lt;/a&gt;, and we all approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Available commands&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our bot recognizes the following commands:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/answer question&lt;/code&gt;: an experimental command where the bot tries to actually answer your question. The database is still tiny, we are working on it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/basketball&lt;/code&gt;: fetches the last news from basketball and displays them nicely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/battle&lt;/code&gt;: displays and compares the daily reputations of the titans, egreg and David Carlisle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/choose opt1, opt2, ... , optn&lt;/code&gt;: chooses one of the elements from the given comma-separated list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/cricket&lt;/code&gt;: fetches the last news from cricket and displays them nicely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/ctan&lt;/code&gt;: displays the last entries available in the official CTAN announcement RSS feed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/eightball question&lt;/code&gt;: replies the question with a &lt;code&gt;yes/no&lt;/code&gt; answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/fencing&lt;/code&gt;: fetches the last news from fencing and displays them nicely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/help&lt;/code&gt;: displays the general help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/help command&lt;/code&gt;: displays the help related to the specific &lt;code&gt;command&lt;/code&gt; commands.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/list&lt;/code&gt;: lists all the bot's commands.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/reputation userid&lt;/code&gt;: displays the reputation of the user whose id is &lt;code&gt;userid&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/song&lt;/code&gt;: list the song &lt;em&gt;Psmith&lt;/em&gt;'s master, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;Paulo&lt;/a&gt;, is currently listening to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/texdef arguments&lt;/code&gt;: runs Martin Scharrer's amazing &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/texdef&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;texdef&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tool on the provided parameters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/translate from lang1 to lang2 text&lt;/code&gt;: translates &lt;code&gt;text&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;code&gt;lang1&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;lang2&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Potential issues&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bot replies under my name, with the &lt;strong&gt;Psmith, the TeX bot&lt;/strong&gt; prefix. Most of the commands are asynchronous, so the bot might take a while to answer. If too many requests are made, the bot might flood the chat and I get suspended for spam. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; So, take it easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why am I posting this text?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116589/are-bots-specifically-allowed-or-prohibited-in-stack-exchange-chatrooms&quot;&gt;Are bots specifically allowed or prohibited in Stack Exchange chatrooms?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] Finally, a bot will be held against abuse standards just like any other user. If it &amp;quot;behaves&amp;quot; inappropriately, we're not going to like that. This holds both as far as the actual chatting (content/flooding) goes, as well as considering communication with the server (if you poll the server for new messages every 50ms, that's going to get you banned pretty quickly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, we're all programmers here, and this is the kind of &amp;quot;exercise&amp;quot; we like. So we'll probably not come after you with pitchforks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just to make it clear: We can, at any time and with or without any reason, say &amp;quot;We don't want that anymore; turn it off now.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't leave the bot unsupervised, at least for long periods of time. That said, I'm in the chatroom almost 24h/day, and I monitor the bot's activities and replies. I can shutdown the little rascal if needed, at any time and moment. Every command is triggered at my side of the connection, in my machine, including &lt;code&gt;texdef&lt;/code&gt; running on my TeX distro. In other words, the JS script adds hooks to the messages, intercepts certain patterns and then forwards requests to my local machine for processing. Then, the reply happens as if I were typing that message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/115866&quot;&gt;balpha&lt;/a&gt; said in his reply, it's a good exercise. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; Let's see how it goes. If the SO team thinks this is a terrible idea or if it opens a dangerous precedent, by all means, let me know. I can easily shutdown everything, by simply closing my browser. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/165582&quot;&gt;Aarthi&lt;/a&gt; for being so kind in helping me with the procedures to announce the bot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T15:04:08.433" Title="Psmith, the friendly TeX bot, at your service" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2920" CreationDate="2012-12-03T15:02:33.217" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &quot;accepted answer&quot; is one that is the most helpful to you.  Being helpful, can include the useful information that you should not waste your time on this because what you are trying is impossible.  Thus it may well be appropriate to accept such an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T15:02:33.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2923" CreationDate="2012-12-03T15:48:38.630" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe to express a general feeling by saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX, Psmith!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T15:48:38.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2927" CreationDate="2012-12-03T18:15:28.920" Score="7" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the other StackExchange it's easy to add the favourite tags from the questions page. And on the TeX.SE I find no input field for this. So, how can I add tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9790" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T19:51:47.617" Title="Adding favourite tag on TeX.SE" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-12-04T17:42:15.337" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2926" CreationDate="2012-12-03T19:51:47.617" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the default view, the &quot;Favourite tags&quot; is listed under the &quot;Community Bulletin&quot; on the right sidebar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tuiPj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you can also edit these tags as part of your network-specific profile when following the link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/preferences/me&quot;&gt;your profile preferences&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xoY6h.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T19:51:47.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2929" CreationDate="2012-12-04T16:42:48.097" Score="34" ViewCount="562" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the context in which I read &quot;OP&quot; in comments and answers, I understand that it refers to the person who asked the question, but I can't find any reference to the meaning of those letters, nor can imagine it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12571" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-03-21T14:56:58.570" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T14:56:58.570" Title="What does &quot;OP&quot; stand for?" Tags="|support|acronyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2928" CreationDate="2012-12-04T16:50:54.137" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means 'Original Poster', and is pretty common in for example Usenet (where you have a thread starting potentially with an anonymous question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a complete list of Stack Exchange terms, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/40353&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T18:19:20.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-12-04T20:24:59.193" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to continue to be a TUG member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm enjoying reading the TUGboard and would like to write an article for it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm also prepard to go to the next TUG conference and represent both TeX.SX and present some of my LaTeX work. Unfortunatly the final stage of my PhD didn't allowed me to I go to the last TUG conference. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T20:24:59.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2012-12-05T01:48:26.913" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to join and be a TUG member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In my country LaTeX is not taken seriously or at least not extensively used. I am struggling introducing it to others and along with a colleague of mine, we are trying to form a group here to promote its use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unfortunately having a credit card here is expensive with about 17% interest rate so its a luxury to have one and thus purchasing a membership for TUG is sometimes in second thought.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I know I am still in the process of mastering several aspects of TeX and LaTeX but I bet that with more support I can achieve it. I am not a prominent user here but I am learning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T01:48:26.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2928" CreationDate="2012-12-06T04:54:11.697" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &quot;original poster,&quot; it is also sometimes used to mean &quot;original post,&quot; with the assumption that you can tell which is meant based on the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T04:54:11.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2934" CreationDate="2012-12-06T14:38:31.213" Score="23" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just asked two consecutive questions. While I've tried to keep them succinct and as useful to other people as possible, it occurs to me that it may be bad form to ask too many questions in a short period. What is best practice here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T15:51:59.233" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T21:25:43.213" Title="When is one asking too many questions?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2933" CreationDate="2012-12-06T15:32:23.187" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good practice is to avoid flooding the front page. Besides that, time doesn't matter much - however if you put effort in writing a good question, and in investigating if it was already asked or not, the time period would probably not very short. Avoiding duplicates is an art which costs time, both the OP and potential answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T15:32:23.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2933" CreationDate="2012-12-06T20:45:02.507" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being relatively new to the TeX.SX I have been impressed by the constructive and positive atmosphere. This reply is perhaps not directly a response to the first question but more of an extension to the discussion. I totally agree that any new question should have been preceded by some research on this site and others before being posed. Another aspect is that a site like this has a task to fulfill also for persons new to LaTeX and who may ask fairly simple questions but lack the background to understand what tags to search for. I have seen other forums go from being fairly open to extremely elitistic since the forum and the senior users content and knowledge, respectively, develop in tandem. This is really sad indeed. Anyway, this means I think the way questions should be viewed is quite complex and one must keep the greater good in view when looking at questions and judging them. I hope to be part of TeX.SX for a long time and see posts that teaches me new things and also being able to provide answers or comment questions wherever I might be able (so far perhaps not much!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19384" LastEditorUserId="19384" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T21:25:43.213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T21:25:43.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2909" CreationDate="2012-12-07T10:14:44.593" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a relative newcomer to TeX.SX I can only provide my two cents worth of emerging experience. At first I was looking for insights into areas where I needed to widen my perspective. I thus searched for tag and provided votes on entries that asked for me pertinent questions or similarly relevant replies or both. This way my voting was governed by my own &quot;needs&quot;. Fairly soon I started to follow the entries in &quot;real time&quot; and of course found much that I was not really aware I was interested in. Thus the voting has widened in scope but is still bsed on question that in some way interests me and for answers, answers that provides me with new and interesting information (particulary if they are succinct and well written). What I thus might still miss are posts that come in under my radar either because my own understanding of TeX/LaTeX is lacking or because the heading is poorly written in the sense that the true content is not clear. I guess I have not come to the point where I simply must try to understand everything. I can imagine visitors may remain in any of these steps which will then govern the voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19384" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T10:14:44.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2938" CreationDate="2012-12-07T19:30:34.627" Score="14" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've often found that it is helpful to post a image with your MWE. In cases where you're using a single-Page MWE, ImageMagick's 'convert' utility does the trick. For multi-page MWEs (e.g. for questions on page-breaking), it's trickier. I would like to be able to produce something like this (from an answer by David Carlisle)&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1MvL7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should one do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" OwnerDisplayName="Mohan" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-12-07T19:51:08.933" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T20:11:45.913" Title="Illustrating a multi-page MWE" Tags="|support|images|mwe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2937" CreationDate="2012-12-07T19:43:23.700" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest solution I've found involves using the &lt;code&gt;pdfpages&lt;/code&gt; package:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compile the MWE into a pdf. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdfpages&lt;/code&gt; allows &quot;Several logical pages [to] be arranged onto each sheet of paper&quot;, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{nopageno}&#xA;\usepackage{pdfpages}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\includepdf[nup=4x4,pages={1-16},frame=true]{&amp;lt;filename&amp;gt;.pdf}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Adjust the &lt;code&gt;nup&lt;/code&gt; to get however many rows and columns you want.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compile the tex document from 2. to a pdf.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use convert to extract a turn this new .pdf into a .png.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will end up with something like this:&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CE2dH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" OwnerDisplayName="Mohan" LastEditorUserId="17049" LastEditDate="2012-12-07T19:57:28.147" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T19:57:28.147" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2920" CreationDate="2012-12-07T21:28:18.457" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I didn't realise when I started here is that one can unaccept an answer and then accept a new one. So I would suggest accepting the &quot;impossible&quot; answer, assuming it is credible (for the reasons Andrew Swann gives); if a solution does turn up later, you can always accept that instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T21:28:18.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-08T10:26:55.763" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1272/why-doesnt-maths-render-as-maths&quot;&gt;Why doesn’t maths render as maths?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Math.SE has this -- typing &lt;code&gt;$\delta(x)$&lt;/code&gt; renders the LaTeX expression for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I do the same thing on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2694" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T11:47:59.580" Title="How do I put (La)TeX in Markdown?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2012-12-08T20:12:47.850" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2942" CreationDate="2012-12-08T12:14:49.563" Score="8" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each question, when asked by someone, can be voted up, down or marked as favourite.&#xA;Is there a way to see which questions have I marked as favourite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there isn't, it would be a good idea to have one!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12795" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-12-08T12:47:33.543" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T12:47:33.543" Title="How to find my favourite questions" Tags="|support|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2941" CreationDate="2012-12-08T12:46:40.297" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your favorited questions are listed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/12795/thanos?tab=favorites&quot;&gt;favorites&lt;/a&gt; section of your user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T12:46:40.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-08T15:06:31.157" Score="30" ViewCount="478" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to work out my solutions on my own for what I need. Sometimes it really involves some struggle, but that's part of the fun, cracking the puzzle. On the other hand I think others could also profit from the results. TeX.SX is a community site, but rather geared towards a Q&amp;amp;A format with incentive mechanisms to keep it as fair and balanced as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if I would like to publish code snippets of my own, I could post a question and slap on the answer I already have. This is not the best way to proceed ethically, IMHO. Should I instead post it as a community wiki? But then again, if someone wants to add his contribution, which might be really outstanding, he will be deprived of his rightful reward... Or should I use some other outlet, e.g. blog post? Maybe this is a bit of hair-spitting, but I'd like to know your thoughts on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T22:23:35.403" Title="How to share a LaTeX &quot;recipe&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2012-12-08T18:28:37.597" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The benefits I see from a site like this is that it allows people to develop their understanding, regardless of prior knowledge, and by staying friendly, help spread TeX and make the community wider. I have seen horrible elitist behaviour on another site (not TeX related) where people quite angrily &quot;yelled&quot; at beginners for not having enough knowledge. It certanly put me off. I have found this community quite different. Since I am a strong beliver in TeX I think TeX.SX is a key contributor to help building knowledge and widening the community. By the looks of the replies here there is general agreement on this matter. So, I would then like to propose that when beginners come with (simple?) questions it could be useful to also provide good sources for gaining additional knowledge to them apart from the direct answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19384" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T18:28:37.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2946" CreationDate="2012-12-08T19:23:24.007" Score="7" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have plenty of illustrations make in TikZ related to math and physics done in the last several years. Currently I'm working on the small catalogization and update of this things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I make a list on TeX.SE with a small description and a detail question and answer of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9790" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T19:28:30.623" Title="Question about question: can I ask and answer this?" Tags="|discussion|lists|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2945" CreationDate="2012-12-08T19:28:30.623" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you would post a proper question which is answerable, let people time to post their own answers, why not. Just remember that it's a question and answer site, not a gallery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like, you can contribute your examples to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TikZ Example Gallery&lt;/a&gt;. There your examples would be tagged by features, topic, field of science, and author. I maintain this site, you can find my email address on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/contact/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;contact page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T19:28:30.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2937" CreationDate="2012-12-08T20:11:45.913" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the simplest is to upload the PDF directly via the image upload facility on the site and it puts all the pages in the PDF into the question/answer.  The only issue with that is that the default resolution of the conversion isn't all that high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, here's a pdf with several pages uploaded via the imgur upload:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S7YOO.png&quot; alt=&quot;multipage PDF upload&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T20:11:45.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2950" CreationDate="2012-12-08T21:32:46.110" Score="8" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badges page shows each one with a 'x NN'.  It's obvious that the number is&#xA;higher for harder badges but what exactly does this number mean?  Is it multiplying something specific or just decoration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22626" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-12-09T09:52:10.237" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T09:52:10.237" Title="What are the multipliers next to badges?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2948" CreationDate="2012-12-08T22:02:27.023" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number indicates the number of that specific badge that has been awarded to users on the site. Take the following snapshot as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fc2YV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/47/benefactor&quot;&gt;Benefactor&lt;/a&gt;: 138 people have awarded a bounty on their own question manually (this badge can only be awarded once). Clicking on the badge shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZALED.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/32/civic-duty&quot;&gt;Civic duty&lt;/a&gt;: 174 people have voted more than 300 times. Clicking on the badge shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RVCx3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so you can cycle through these and see who/which post has these been awarded to/for. Some are awarded once, while others can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T22:02:27.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2952" CreationDate="2012-12-09T14:37:06.353" Score="11" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked a question which might be hard to answer because it's concerns right-to -left script which I guess is not the most often used by TeX users. :) The question is about sorting tools for Arabic glossary. I've found another question, where the issue is that Farsi glossary was sorted by Arabic alphabet order and not Farsi. For me it means that that person achieved what I want to achieve, but since there is no code in the question, I don't know how he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to ask this person to see my question or to post MWE in his own question? Is it not against the StackExchange rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3703" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T14:41:51.287" Title="Asking specific person for answer or clarify his question in order to help me with my problem" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2951" CreationDate="2012-12-09T14:41:51.287" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could simply post a comment to his question with your query, that person will see it in his or her SE inbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T14:41:51.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-09T17:05:06.603" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to upload this image, which illustrates some answers to a question I asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/mg262/combined.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/mg262/combined.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, if I try and upload it as a PDF, the forum software doesn't cope with the blur shadows very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z7Sx5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I would actually use imagemagick's convert, and upload as a PNG, but that fails catastrophically here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fnLsP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's ImageMagick 6.6.3-0, invoked via &lt;code&gt;convert -trim -bordercolor White -density 180 $1 -border 8x8&lt;/code&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to accurately upload images like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T18:07:35.477" Title="Uploading images with blur shadows" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2943" CreationDate="2012-12-09T17:59:07.027" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me expand a bit on my comment.  I think that there are some basic guidelines for this sort of thing (note: &lt;em&gt;guidelines&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;rules&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a question-and-answer site.  So make the question bit a question and the answer bit an answer.  Imagine that you are a user with a problem and phrase your question accordingly.  As you already know the (or &quot;an&quot;) answer, try to ensure that the question is as helpful as possible - remember that it is the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; that users will use to determine whether the answer will be useful to them or not.  If you can't separate your recipe like this consider rather posting it as a blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be honest.  Although your question should be a genuine question, you should be honest about having an answer already.  Unless you intend to answer straight away, the chance is that someone will look at your question and try to help you.  Saying that you already have an answer says to them that answering your question shouldn't be a high priority (though folk do like a challenge so someone might try to answer it anyway - the point is, though, that they won't be annoyed with you when you post your answer).  But keep the question in the question and the answer in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be humble.  You are posting your question-and-answer to help others, but leave yourself open to the possibility that you can be helped yourself.  Your solution might not turn out to be the best or there might be something that you overlooked which doesn't affect you but might affect someone else using your code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T17:59:07.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2953" CreationDate="2012-12-09T18:07:35.477" Score="5" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flatten the image by taking a screen capture of the content;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste it in an image editor;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crop to size;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upload&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be the direct/I-have-access-to-an-image-editor way. However, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange image hosting service IMGUR also allows &quot;online cropping of images&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flatten the image by taking a screen capture of the content;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imgur.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMGUR&lt;/a&gt; and click on Web (or on the Upload button in the top &quot;menu&quot; bar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U5nx9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paste your screen shot from your clipboard (&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;V&lt;/kbd&gt;; you may have to click on that part of the dialog box):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B3CEZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check the &quot;Edit&quot; box and hit the &quot;Start Upload&quot; button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ovVt1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qgoaw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Crop to your liking and save&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sku6l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Copy the &quot;Direct Link URL&quot; and upload the result using the regular StackExchange image upload service, this time &quot;from the web&quot;. This follows that same procedure listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2136/5764&quot;&gt;How can I upload an image to be included in a question or answer?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rN62C.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QaYtR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Done&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fibUl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's advised to re-upload the image from IMGUR's default site to the dedicated StackExchange IMGUR hosting service, otherwise the link might turn up dead later. Once you get used to this as an alternative, it's not that complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T18:07:35.477" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-10T13:25:49.847" Score="23" ViewCount="1761" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's that time again! We are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scripts packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2956&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T14:25:26.953" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2013" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2013-12-06T11:59:09.607" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T13:25:49.847" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T13:26:45.197" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackTex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2VnD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T13:26:45.197" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T13:26:45.197" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T13:43:55.963" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qjnHU.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN -- The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T13:43:55.963" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T13:43:55.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T13:45:35.540" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lsubn.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Live&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T13:45:35.540" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T13:45:35.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T13:47:08.927" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lMwS.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX.SX Meta&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T13:47:08.927" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T13:47:08.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:16:39.397" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/70whf.png&quot; alt=&quot;UK TeX FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions and Answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T14:16:39.397" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T14:16:39.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:19:02.180" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0ZM5.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T14:19:02.180" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T14:19:02.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:21:58.447" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/tugboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iV9q1.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Communications of the TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T14:21:58.447" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T14:21:58.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:50:42.603" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tUFWt.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX on Usenet&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T14:50:42.603" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T14:50:42.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-10T19:24:41.667" Score="13" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2956/community-promotion-ads-2013&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2013&lt;/a&gt; question has recently appeared on meta. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2956/community-promotion-ads-2013#comment8429_2956&quot;&gt;a comment there&lt;/a&gt;, tohecz points out that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2046&quot;&gt;the stats for the 2012 ads&lt;/a&gt; show that older ads get far fewer clicks than newer ones. This raises the question of how many ads to reuse, and more generally what makes a good ad. The main thread is for ads themselves, so I'm opening this question to discuss the wider area: what should be advertised, do the ads themselves need to change or just the graphics, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T13:01:58.400" Title="What makes a good community advert?" Tags="|discussion|community|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2965" CreationDate="2012-12-10T21:19:02.617" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;An ad should clearly &lt;strong&gt;convey what the product is&lt;/strong&gt; that it advertises. What this means in details is highly dependent on the expertise of the beholder, but we should probably assume a user that doesn't know a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a tendency I noticed in many ads, which should be read as a hypothesis, not a factual statement: Creators of ads think: &quot;How can I express what this complex product is in a concise way?&quot;, which leads to ads with the product's name and some sort of a logo; this makes it very clear to people who already know the product (who are not the target group), but very hard to grasp for potential new users. Instead, I propose, creators should think &quot;Why is this product relevant to the user?&quot;, and create ads that feature one or very few &lt;em&gt;strengths&lt;/em&gt; or samples of the product -- risking that the ad doesn't provide a well-balanced picture of the product as a whole. This risk is acceptable, since ads certainly don't aim to explain the pure nature of a product, but rather want to make the beholder curious about the product and want to try it. While the &quot;represent the whole product&quot; approach may be more objective and thus appear &quot;fair&quot;/&quot;not like tricking the user into something&quot;, I think it lacks effectiveness and results in relatively uninteresting ads. The &quot;evoke curiosity&quot; approach is subjective and bears the risk of being misleading, but I think our community would catch misleading ads through voting and discussion. The latter approach might require more effort on the side of the ad creator, but in my experience, that's virtually always been the case when you want to put yourself in the situation of someone else and convey information to them in an accessible manner -- which, after all, is always the case in situations of communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is the most certainly imperfect result of my pseudo-marketing skills with a background in pedagogy, but I thought it would at least provide some interesting background for discussion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T21:19:02.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T21:23:02.143" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z6MDX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Exchange TeX Blog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T21:23:02.143" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T21:23:02.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T21:24:52.113" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.contextgarden.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DQdPB.png&quot; alt=&quot;ConTeXt User Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T21:24:52.113" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T21:24:52.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-10T21:25:53.237" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mZsEw.png&quot; alt=&quot;DANTE e.v.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T21:25:53.237" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T21:25:53.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4342" CreationDate="2012-12-11T10:02:31.263" Score="23" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is surprisingly little on &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; about search, which is a shame because it's the main tool for avoiding duplicate questions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2814/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-latex-command-including-its-backslash&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; asks the way of searching for a particular character, and brings up a tag that only searches within code fragments: &lt;code&gt;code:&quot;...&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. That particular one isn't on the list of search features accessible from the FAQ on the main site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does search have any other little-known features? Are there any particular tricks to using search well? Are there situations where it is better to use Google than the site search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T06:48:30.153" Title="Using search effectively" Tags="|discussion|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2972" CreationDate="2012-12-11T10:06:37.700" Score="29" ViewCount="422" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate to use a bounty to say 'thank you' for an already-supplied answer? Will the site let you assign a bounty to an answer that exists at the time you read the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T10:51:25.183" Title="Bounty as 'thank you'?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2971" CreationDate="2012-12-11T10:51:25.183" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is definitely possible. When you offer a bounty, you get to choose from a number of possible &amp;quot;bounty reasons&amp;quot;, with one of them being&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reward existing answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One or more of the answers is exemplary and&#xA;worthy of an additional bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a 24 hour waiting period, but then you can assign the bounty to whichever answer you choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T10:51:25.183" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2965" CreationDate="2012-12-11T17:43:15.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to modify some of the ads, this seems to be too long for a comment so I make it an answer. As well, I'm not a good in computer graphics so I cannot make the ads if they have to be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons why I think it should be renewed are numerous, one of them is that they have low impact, possibly because people don't know what they are. So my suggestions go to making the ads more explanatory by short texts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TUG:&lt;/strong&gt; Let's make &lt;em&gt;&quot;Do you know that TeX.StackExchange is a member of TUG&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (I know that it's not 100% precise, but still ok) Possible link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;Do we want Stack Exchange to become an institutional member of the TUG?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DANTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I have nothing against DANTE but I believe that something like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Many countries have their user groups&quot;&lt;/em&gt; pointing to (to-be-made) thread listing most of them. The ad could be colourful with either the coutnry flags or with some sensitive composition of the groups' logos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TUGboat:&lt;/strong&gt; I somehow second idea by barbara in comment to doncherry's answer, I would make the text something like: &lt;em&gt;&quot;TeX.SX members write to TUGboat&quot;&lt;/em&gt; with a link to the issue containing the Stephan Kottwitz' article about TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CTAN:&lt;/strong&gt; Add &lt;em&gt;&quot;Find your TeX package info on &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;CTAN logo&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UK TeX FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/strong&gt;: Again, I think that a summarizing thread is possible and we can add &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-community.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.latex-community.org/&lt;/a&gt; and maybe some others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T17:43:15.820" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-11T19:29:24.897" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-community.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TWQOg.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX Community&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T19:29:24.897" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-11T19:29:24.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2965" CreationDate="2012-12-11T21:14:11.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the online advertising world, a lot of advice exists on creating effective calls to action, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22killer+call+to+action%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;CTA google query&quot;&gt;How To Write A Killer Call To Action&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2046/&quot; title=&quot;meta thread #2046&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2012&lt;/a&gt;, the one labeled &quot;answer the unanswered questions&quot; by @Paulo Cereda seems to best follow recommended principles, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use buttons: Buttons make it obvious that the user can click on them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use colour: Getting people to notice your request is half the battle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use action words and phrases: Use action words like “Click here to read more”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This can be enhanced by the use of symbols that spur action like “&gt;&gt;” or the down arrow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Incentivise your call to action: Use a free report or consultation to give your customers extra incentive to take the desired action. “Download free report” etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create social proof through trusted sources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Speak to your readers’ innermost desire.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a relevant offer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a sense of urgency.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Align the CTA with a landing page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the ads' placement on the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Respect its personal space: Do not bury it in noise. Leave lots of space around it so that it stands out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23123" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T21:14:11.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-11T23:50:47.050" Score="27" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I am a new user on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot; title=&quot;TeX.SX main site&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;, I would like to ask the community for some usage tips and tricks to aid us in efficiently using the site and other stackexchange sites. I will include some tips I have used in an answer below for the benefit of future new users that may find them helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you please list any usage tricks that you use regularly that you would like to share, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions I have not been able to answer include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to address members with two-part names. I am unsure if @Dave Smith notifies Dave Smith or if it notifies Dave instead. Does it matter? Quotation marks? Underscores?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to find a list of questions I have favorited. I assumed clicking on the star will add the question to a list I can later revisit for future reference. I have not yet found that list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to make sure I get notified when a new comment or answer is submitted to a question I am interested in. Rate? Favorite? (Comment? - I hope not.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is not the same as the previous point, as I may wish to remind myself of answers when using TeX irrespective of whether there are any new answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to subscribe to searches / tags / tag combinations. (I keep getting confused by context sensitivity and wonder if I am ending up subscribing to that tag edited by a specific user, if I subscribe to that tag from that user's page? Once I ended up in what looked like a filter setup but have no recollection of how I got there.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which sites are recommended to store images? (I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com&lt;/a&gt; in the help but assume others will work.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are images mirrored by TeX.SX or left on the linked site? How does that affect future / archival usefulness?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to format a question / answer? (Keep it simple KISS principle, or &quot;when are headlines welcome&quot;?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exactly what makes a helpful comment and what makes an answer? I feel many users err on the side of politeness and choose to comment, which may or may not be a good thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I noticed some of my &quot;common courtesies&quot; edited away. I have seen that it is not customary to comment with &quot;thank you&quot; unless adding something &quot;useful&quot; and that extended back-and-forth commenting with a single user triggers a proposal to move the discussion to a chat. I believe this stems from the &quot;wiki&quot; philosophy of making this site a compendium of knowledge useful to future readers. I am still unsure of how, and what to write if I feel the impulse to.  Can a discussion of best practices be included in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;main site FAQ, not meta FAQ&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;TeX.SX main site FAQ, not meta&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&quot; mentioned in some discussions. I have not found via search a mention where &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;TeX.SX main site FAQ, not meta&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&quot; was a link. Only with squinty eyes I have just now found the link next to the search field. I would vote for reinstating it as &quot;Perhaps you are interested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;TeX.SX main site FAQ&quot;&gt;our FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;You can always find a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;TeX.SX main site FAQ&quot;&gt;our FAQ&lt;/a&gt; next to the search bar&quot; or similar in the new user greeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23123" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T16:59:51.223" Title="New user asking for TeX.SX usage tips and tricks" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2976" CreationDate="2012-12-12T01:00:55.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some basic usage topics that I found non-obvious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to search for tags.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; in search box next to site menu, enclose tags in square brackets.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Example search:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=[color]+[line-breaking]+magaz&quot; title=&quot;click to see example search results&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[color] [line-breaking] magaz&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to switch between &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot; title=&quot;main site TeX.SX&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot; title=&quot;meta site meta.TeX.SX&quot;&gt;meta.TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; on top right of page next to search box, link between &quot;chat&quot; and &quot;about&quot; switches between &quot;main&quot; (meaning TeX.SX) and &quot;meta&quot; (circled).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;this is also where a permanent link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;TeX.SX &amp;quot;main site&amp;quot; FAQ&quot;&gt;TeX.SX FAQ&lt;/a&gt; can be found (arrow).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BiaNc.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of page menu&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some editing tips not discussed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot; title=&quot;markdown help&quot;&gt;advanced help&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to add web links containing quotation marks (prevent quoted part getting interpreted as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2976/new-user-asking-for-tex-sx-usage-tips-and-tricks/2977#2977&quot; title=&quot;this is a tooltip&quot;&gt;tooltip&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; (use html link or) write quotation mark as ASCII code  %22, to make the stackexchange engine ignore it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Example:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;[sample google query](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22latex+stackexchange%22 &quot;googling for TeX.SX&quot;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Appearance:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22latex+stackexchange%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;googling for TeX.SX&quot;&gt;sample google query&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(In answering previous point.) How to insert stackexchange code characters into text.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; enclose by code delimiters ` or escape each special character by backslash \.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Example:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;\[this\]\(isn't a link &quot;it's just brackets and quotes&quot;\)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Appearance:&lt;/em&gt; [this](isn't a link &quot;it's just brackets and quotes&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23123" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T01:00:55.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2976" CreationDate="2012-12-12T04:52:48.997" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some answers to some of your questions. This is actually a really nice start for a community wiki answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How to address members with two-part names. I am unsure if @Dave Smith notifies Dave Smith or if it notifies Dave instead. Does it&#xA;  matter? Quotation marks? Underscores?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The @ notation only works in comments and chat. For users with two part names you can simply remove the space between them. So you can refer to me with @AlanMunn. Only users who have already commented on a question or answer can be notified this way. The person who asked the question or provided an answer is automatically notified as well of comments to that question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How to switch between &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot; title=&quot;main site TeX.SX&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot; title=&quot;meta site meta.TeX.SX&quot;&gt;meta.TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top right of the page next to the search box, the link between the &quot;chat&quot; and &quot;about&quot; links actually switches between &quot;main&quot; (meaning TeX.SX) and &quot;meta&quot; (circled).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;this is also where a permanent link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;TeX.SX &amp;quot;main site&amp;quot; FAQ&quot;&gt;TeX.SX FAQ&lt;/a&gt; can be found (arrow).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BiaNc.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of page menu&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How to search for tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the search box next to the site menu, enclose tags in square brackets.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Example search:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=[color]+[line-breaking]+magaz&quot; title=&quot;click to see example search results&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[color] [line-breaking] magaz&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How to find a list of questions I have favorited. I assumed clicking on the star will add the question to a list I can later&#xA;  revisit for future reference. I have not yet found that list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fastest way to get to your favorites is from the pop-up box showing your recent activity, where your name is in the menu at the top of the page. It shows a table including how many favorites you selected recently. Clicking on the word &quot;favorites&quot; takes you to your user profile page, with the favorite tab activated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PfupO.png&quot; alt=&quot;favorites pop-up&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on your user profile, there is a link to your favourites page under the text box containing your self-description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oo9oP.png&quot; alt=&quot;favourites profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How to make sure I get notified when a new comment or answer is submitted to a question I am interested in. Rate? Favorite? (Comment?&#xA;  I hope not.) This is not the same as the previous point, as I may wish&#xA;  to remind myself of answers when using TeX irrespective of whether&#xA;  there are any new answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackexchange sends notifications only for changes to questions that you have asked, answered, or commented. Please bear in mind that only comments that add useful information to a question or answer are encouraged, and unhelpful or chatty comments are liable to be removed.&#xA;If you are interested in following a question, select it as a favorite by clicking the star icon next to it and visit it regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How to subscribe to searches / tags / tag combinations. (I keep getting confused by context sensitivity and wonder if I am ending up&#xA;  subscribing to that tag edited by a specific user, if I subscribe to&#xA;  that tag from that user's page? Once I ended up in what looked like a&#xA;  filter setup but have no recollection of how I got there.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have an answer to this. Hopefully others can fill in the details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Which sites are recommended to store images? (I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com&lt;/a&gt; in the help but assume others will work.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are images mirrored by TeX.SX or left on the linked site? How does that affect future / archival usefulness?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should always use the image icon above input panel to upload an image. Images uploaded in that way will be linked permanently to the site by imgur.com.  Other image links should not be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How to format a question / answer? (Keep it simple KISS principle, or &quot;when are headlines welcome&quot;?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compose a question containing relevant keywords so it may be found through the search engine. Ask a limited question and format your &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; as preformatted text by marking it and hitting the &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; keys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short answers need not be formatted other than including code as preformatted text. If you answer a multipart question, quote the part you are referring to by prepending it with &quot;&gt;&quot; characters. If your answer to a single short question contains multiple components, sparingly use headlines of the form ### Sample Headline ###.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Exactly what makes a helpful comment and what makes an answer? I feel many users err on the side of politeness and choose to comment,&#xA;  which may or may not be a good thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Erring on the side of politeness is our specialty. :) I think that many of us leave comments rather than answers if the question isn't entirely clear. If the comment turns out to be on the right track, it can be easily turned into an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I noticed some of my &quot;common courtesies&quot; edited away. I have seen that it is not customary to comment with &quot;thank you&quot; unless adding&#xA;  something &quot;useful&quot; and that extended back-and-forth commenting with a&#xA;  single user triggers a proposal to move the discussion to a chat. I&#xA;  believe this stems from the &quot;wiki&quot; philosophy of making this site a&#xA;  compendium of knowledge useful to future readers. I am still unsure of&#xA;  how, and what to write if I feel the impulse to.  Can a discussion of&#xA;  best practices be included in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;main site FAQ, not meta FAQ&quot;&gt;the&#xA;  FAQ&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you've captured the spirit of the site exactly.  The switch to chat is automatically suggested by the site after some number of back and forth comments. Thanks comments can be appreciated, but usually accepting an answer and upvoting it is enough. I don't think we actively discourage thanks comments if the answer seemed especially helpful to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T16:59:51.223" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-12T04:52:48.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3123" CreationDate="2012-12-12T15:45:06.903" Score="10" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;i've just taken a look at a review item for a tag wiki excerpt.  the text is mostly okay, but could use a little polishing.  however, there's no option to edit -- only &quot;approve&quot;, &quot;reject&quot; or &quot;skip&quot;.  i know i can improve the text (it doesn't need much), but can't figure out how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(i was initially unable to post this because &quot;it doesn't meet our quality standards&quot;.  not until i uppercased a lot of things i wouldn't ordinarily, was it accepted.  fie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2012-12-27T00:57:30.007" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T00:57:30.007" Title="How to edit a review item for a tag wiki excerpt?" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2943" CreationDate="2012-12-12T22:23:35.403" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The traditional (and still valid) way is to make the code into a package and stick it on ctan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T22:23:35.403" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-13T17:18:29.080" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a proposal for an &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/41665/english-language-learners&quot;&gt;English Language Learners SE&lt;/a&gt; site. I leave up to each of you to have their opinion on the proposal, but I think it needs more attention! Also TeX.SE could benefit if some people (I do include myself) asking questions or giving answers could enhance their knowledge of the English language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please go to ELL's &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/41665/english-language-learners&quot;&gt;Area51 page&lt;/a&gt;, make your opinion on the example questions, upvote those you like or downvote those you don't like, and add your own if you wish! (Remember, you can vote only 5 times). If you want to get news for this site in your SE inbox, you can follow it (there's a link for it on top left).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again the link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/41665/english-language-learners&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/41665/english-language-learners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(When you are at Area 51, you might also like to regard &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2836/follow-and-help-the-typography-se-proposal&quot;&gt;Follow and help the Typography.SE proposal!&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T17:18:29.080" Title="Follow and help the English Language Learners SE proposal!" Tags="|discussion|community|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3047" CreationDate="2012-12-13T17:59:14.470" Score="86" ViewCount="2555" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am organising a lottery and Springer have kindly agreed to donate a copy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://csweb.ucc.ie/~dongen/LAF/LAF.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX and Friends&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joseph Wright has kindly agreed to act a an independent witness/judge and he knows the winning number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;LEGAL STUFF&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; The lottery closes when the judges announce the winner. The judges decision is final and there shall be no discussion&#xA;and or correspondence about the outcome of the lottery.  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/LEGAL STUFF&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To win the book you must guess a number in the range 1--200.  The first person who guesses the right number wins the book.  Please note that the time of &lt;em&gt;arrival&lt;/em&gt; in TeX-SX is what counts, not the time of sending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give everybody a fair chance, you may submit only one number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one exception to the previous rule. If several contestants submit the same number, the contestant whose submission arrived first is valid. The other contestants may resubmit a new number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contestants must have been a member of TeX-SX before 13 December, 2012. (Without this restriction, people may start creating fake accounts and submit multiple guesses.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post your guess as an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to this meta question; not as a comment. Comments will be ignored. Please only put your guess in the body of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guesses will be checked every couple of days and the winner will be announced within a few days after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: At the winner's request, I can sign the book. (I'm not doing this by default because I know some people want to keep their books pencil and ink free.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: There are still plenty of free numbers. I am relaxing the rules. Contestants may submit 2 (valid) guesses.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: Congratulations to @seadoor for guessing the right number 132. Well done. Thanks to Joseph Wright for helping as a judge and alerting me the right number had been chosen (I hadn't noticed it because it was added as an edit to an existing post). Thanks to everybody for participating. It took a bit longer than anticipated. 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  <row Id="2983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T18:22:37.137" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;42 - if it's not &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_%28Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the answer&lt;/a&gt;, then the question is wrong. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: 147, because it was not taken before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6865" LastEditorUserId="6865" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T19:34:11.313" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T19:34:11.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T18:28:36.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;97 - why not! (This is just to get the answer registered)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19384" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T18:28:36.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-13T18:34:23.133" Score="9" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a large computer-generated document in which page breaks aren't appearing where I want them, despite liberal use of &lt;code&gt;\pagebreak&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;nopagebreak&lt;/code&gt;.  It's a real headache as even if I cut out two or three pages worth of material, it's going to be too long for a reasonable MWE. Does anyone have any clever ideas about how I might be able to condense material enough to construct a sensible question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I finally figured out something that wasn't too bad... I'd still be interested in solutions to this, though..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="17049" LastEditDate="2012-12-14T10:32:05.743" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T10:32:05.743" Title="MWE for page breaking problems" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T18:58:41.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;84 - as it doubles &lt;em&gt;the answer&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T18:58:41.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T18:58:48.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So this is my first post on meta - who would have guessed that? Here we go: 117 and 36&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastEditorUserId="5049" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T12:07:46.263" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T12:07:46.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T19:07:36.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;128 -- can't go higher with a power of 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T19:07:36.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T19:11:22.303" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;49&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;151&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="586" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T23:35:41.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T23:35:41.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T19:19:41.393" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;137 - just because that's the first number that came to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14100" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T19:19:41.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T19:22:58.360" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;127 - Last Mersenne prime less than 200. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Friends, if I can talk to all of you for a moment: so far, we have 68 answers, but only 37 upvotes in the main &quot;question&quot;. To be honest, I was expecting the same number of answers and upvotes. IMHO if you took the time to add an entry in order to win the LaTeX book, you should upvote Marc's main thread as a &lt;em&gt;thank you note&lt;/em&gt; for him being so kind in offering one copy of his book to a member here. Please, don't be greedy. We should participate here as a community, not like a bunch of people wanting freebies. &lt;code&gt;:(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2012-12-15T15:27:59.597" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T15:27:59.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T19:28:02.513" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;250 (could never do this math stuff)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T19:28:02.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T19:43:49.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 3, because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7260159#7260159&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IcCuA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T19:43:49.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T21:43:18.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;1 - just in case no-one remembers to answer this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23123" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T21:43:18.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T21:47:37.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;67 -- just a random number ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second guess: 120.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T12:20:16.340" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T12:20:16.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T22:02:07.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;121 -- the first palindromic square of an integer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22742" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T22:02:07.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T22:13:03.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;2 - I would have said 42 but @Stephen beat me to it ... and 3 as in LaTeX3 is taken too so I go with 2 as in LaTeX2e&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10109" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T22:13:03.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T22:29:01.613" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;39 -- I want the book! I am crazy of only books &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T22:29:01.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T22:42:46.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;28 - it's a perfect number :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T22:42:46.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T23:07:03.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;156, dice roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;second guess: 74&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5872" LastEditorUserId="5872" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T19:52:54.073" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T19:52:54.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T23:27:14.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;73 - Joseph's user number, for lack of any better ideas or a 200-sided dice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: second guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;105 - it somehow stood out to me from the table of still available numbers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17427" LastEditorUserId="17427" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T17:57:29.230" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T17:57:29.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T23:34:39.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;my wild guess is based on the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;hard cover (ISBN 978-3-642-238-&lt;strong&gt;154&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eBook (ISBN 978-3-642-238-&lt;strong&gt;161&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;154- is my first choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;161- is my second choice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T05:11:03.697" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T05:11:03.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T23:39:39.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;21, of course. I hope I get the book before then, as I won't have much need for LaTeX once the world ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3197" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T23:39:39.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-13T23:55:41.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;43&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cinque, dieci, venti, trenta,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  trentasei, quarantatré&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The immortal opening words of &quot;Le nozze di Figaro&quot; (The marriage of Figaro).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T23:55:41.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T00:04:05.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;123 three digits of consecutive numbers divisible by 3 less than 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second guess is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=143&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;143&lt;/a&gt; just because other people will not pick it because of its use as a common code for a corny endearment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastEditorUserId="16839" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T15:09:00.527" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T15:09:00.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T00:27:24.057" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;1+1=3 so I'll go with 113. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T00:27:24.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T01:12:52.793" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;66 (just a random number in order to win)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11984" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T01:12:52.793" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T01:12:52.793" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T02:12:50.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;142&lt;/strong&gt;, which is just a number I like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="341" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T02:12:50.777" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T02:12:50.777" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T02:31:09.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;17.&lt;/strong&gt; Current number of upvotes. Also a number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: &lt;strong&gt;56&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T00:25:57.953" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T00:25:57.953" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T02:31:09.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T02:43:54.113" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;78 because Knuth released TeX in '78&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9993" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T02:43:54.113" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T02:43:54.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T03:53:04.093" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;111&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a quirky comment necessary in order to win? I don't have one :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T03:53:04.093" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T03:53:04.093" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T05:38:02.743" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;12 which is my favourite number also a sacred number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22486" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T05:38:02.743" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T05:38:02.743" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T07:21:20.547" Score="6" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{standalone}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\Huge 33 % I should be the winner!&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_%28number%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;33 (thirty-three) is a special natural number following 32 and preceding 34.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second choice is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3106/19356&quot;&gt;62 (sixty two)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T14:58:34.387" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T07:21:20.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T08:50:40.897" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;200 .... and some text for the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T08:50:40.897" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T08:50:40.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T08:52:41.087" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;29 please, although there are already more than enough answers  – as the system is warning me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5729" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T08:52:41.087" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T08:52:41.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T09:00:53.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;91&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&amp;#8203;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T09:00:53.203" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T09:00:53.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T09:21:10.747" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;149&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa                                                                                                            &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21148" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T09:21:10.747" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T09:21:10.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T09:25:47.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the number is: 69&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;-D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15360" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T09:25:47.443" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T09:25:47.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T09:32:56.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;85&lt;/strong&gt; because &quot;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX was first developed in &lt;strong&gt;1985&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Leslie Lamport&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &quot; - according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;:)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: 2nd number = &lt;strong&gt;136&lt;/strong&gt;. Because: &lt;strong&gt;(A)&lt;/strong&gt; It is one of the few still available -&lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;(B)&lt;/strong&gt; (/me searches frantically for something LaTeX related)... is the number of pages formatted for on-line viewing of &quot;Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis&quot; by Nicola L.C. Talbot, freely available (GNU Free Documentation License) at &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/thesis/thesis.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/thesis/thesis.html&lt;/a&gt; - which will be a great read if I don't win this lottery!  &lt;strong&gt;;-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT #2&lt;/strong&gt;: I just edited the question to add my second guess (136) to the several parts of the question (number list, number table and LaTeX source code for the graph). My first guess was already in the question (thanks to the one who added it). I hope I did it right! &lt;strong&gt;:)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13063" LastEditorUserId="13063" LastEditDate="2012-12-18T23:41:24.320" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T23:41:24.320" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T09:32:56.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-14T09:54:22.850" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bidi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aODpu.png&quot; alt=&quot;The bidi package&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22486" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2013-03-17T21:37:33.833" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T21:37:33.833" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T09:54:22.850" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T10:23:20.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dreaming of apples on a wall,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And dreaming often, dear,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I dreamed that, if I counted all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-- How many would appear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is &lt;strong&gt;10&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit (second guess): &#xA;or maybe &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12136" LastEditorUserId="12136" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T09:52:54.963" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T09:52:54.963" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T10:23:20.827" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T10:36:40.743" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;8, just because it's my birthday.&#xA;Second guess: 65. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="1952" LastEditDate="2012-12-18T16:13:19.323" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T16:13:19.323" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T10:36:40.743" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T11:11:12.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;22&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T11:11:12.567" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T11:11:12.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T11:13:49.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ipython&#xA;In [1]: from random import randrange&#xA;In [2]: randrange(200)&#xA;Out[2]: 109&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;109&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ipython&#xA;In [1]: from random import randrange&#xA;In [2]: x = 1&#xA;In [3]: s = set([1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 47, 49, 57, 58, 60, 61, 64, 66, 67, 69, 71, 73, 78, 81, 84, 85, 88, 91, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 106, 109, 110, 111, 113, 117, 118, 119, 121, 123, 127, 128, 131, 135, 137, 138, 139, 142, 144, 149, 150, 154, 156, 167, 170, 172, 177, 185, 191, 193, 197, 199, 200])&#xA;In [4]: while x in s:&#xA;            x = randrange(200)&#xA;In [5]: x&#xA;Out[5]: 72&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;72 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9736" LastEditorUserId="9736" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T08:46:41.637" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T08:46:41.637" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T11:13:49.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T11:18:52.130" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;191 - to be near the top end of the range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS I have read &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the other answers thoroughly and believe my answer adds useful extra information that can't be placed in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PPS This must be the question attracting the highest number of incorrect answers on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastEditorUserId="15925" LastEditDate="2012-12-15T13:30:20.310" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T13:30:20.310" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T11:18:52.130" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T12:04:03.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Others beat me at posting my favorite numbers, so here is my (wild) guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;31&lt;/strong&gt; (my birthday &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second guess, since it's still not taken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;108&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; I win, I'd like the book to be signed. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastEditorUserId="7417" LastEditDate="2012-12-18T11:40:43.837" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T11:40:43.837" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T12:04:03.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T13:14:37.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;172 (and yes, dear Stackexchange system, I did &quot;read through all the answers&quot; to make sure I'm contributing &quot;something new&quot;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: 182 (it's got to be up here somewhere)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="2552" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T14:00:29.070" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T14:00:29.070" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T13:14:37.310" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T14:01:59.603" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;131&lt;/strong&gt;; I'm a random number generator myself and this is the result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also another generator agrees;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AAH51.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have generated another one which is 68. &lt;strong&gt;Oops sorry never mind that it was after deadline.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T04:00:36.117" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T04:00:36.117" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T14:01:59.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T14:29:02.730" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;30&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The clue must be inside of that book, &lt;code&gt;LaTeX and Friends&lt;/code&gt;! But how would I know if I don't have it? It must be the total number of pages or how many chapters. Or how many coffee stains Joseph and Marc have in theirs... This is getting too difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7093" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T14:29:02.730" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T14:29:02.730" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T15:38:19.297" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;118&lt;/strong&gt;, and if you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wanna know why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;L&lt;/code&gt; is the 12th letter of the alphabet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; is the first letter of the alphabet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;T&lt;/code&gt; is the 20th letter of the alphabet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;e&lt;/code&gt; is the 5th ... I think you've guessed the logic behind this by now&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; 24&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: &lt;code&gt;12 + 1 + 20 + 5 + 24 = 62&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But because we wouldn't wanna miss the fact that &lt;code&gt;L&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;T&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; are capitals, they count double, and &lt;code&gt;24 + 1 + 40 + 5 + 24 = 118&lt;/code&gt;, that's what I'll go for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, have you noticed that the small letters in LaTeX come early in the alphabet, and therefore have a low number, and the caps are late in the alphabet and therefore have a high number? And that the letter whose pronunciation is probably the most debated in the TeX community also has the highest number? And that the letter with the lowest number in the alphabet is also the letter with the lowest height in the typographical &lt;code&gt;\LaTeX{}&lt;/code&gt;? Truly kabbalistic!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12580" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T15:38:19.297" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T15:38:19.297" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T15:44:55.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;18 - day of birth - just because 22 was already taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T15:44:55.367" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T15:44:55.367" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T17:06:51.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;144 - It has a number of interesting properties; the one I like the most: the largest Fibonacci number that is a square.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: my second guess: 55 - The largest triangular number in the Fibonacci sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3954" LastEditorUserId="3954" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T17:22:33.190" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T17:22:33.190" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T17:06:51.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T17:24:49.893" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;138 - Since I'm unable to decide myself such an important thing, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.random.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.random.org/&lt;/a&gt; and this was the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12571" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T17:24:49.893" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T17:24:49.893" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T17:50:37.900" Score="9" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;     888888888          888888888     &#xA;   88:::::::::88      88:::::::::88   &#xA; 88:::::::::::::88  88:::::::::::::88 &#xA;8::::::88888::::::88::::::88888::::::8&#xA;8:::::8     8:::::88:::::8     8:::::8&#xA;8:::::8     8:::::88:::::8     8:::::8&#xA; 8:::::88888:::::8  8:::::88888:::::8 &#xA;  8:::::::::::::8    8:::::::::::::8  &#xA; 8:::::88888:::::8  8:::::88888:::::8 &#xA;8:::::8     8:::::88:::::8     8:::::8&#xA;8:::::8     8:::::88:::::8     8:::::8&#xA;8:::::8     8:::::88:::::8     8:::::8&#xA;8::::::88888::::::88::::::88888::::::8&#xA; 88:::::::::::::88  88:::::::::::::88 &#xA;   88:::::::::88      88:::::::::88   &#xA;     888888888          888888888     &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T17:50:37.900" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T17:50:37.900" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T19:47:42.610" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of trying to &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; one of the existing answers I have decided to post the obviously correct answer and that is &lt;strong&gt;177&lt;/strong&gt;.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T19:47:42.610" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T19:47:42.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T20:17:12.323" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ummm... 60? 60. Definitely 60! How many characters is that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T20:17:12.323" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T20:17:12.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T20:34:35.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;199&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No witty comment, but I did get this message, as I'm sure lots of other folks did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fIoQi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="6621" LastEditDate="2012-12-15T01:50:21.377" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T01:50:21.377" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T20:34:35.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T20:51:07.510" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;27, because I am 27 years old!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T20:51:07.510" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T20:51:07.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T21:05:41.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28number%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;23&lt;/a&gt; and 124.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T22:39:40.083" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T22:39:40.083" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T21:05:41.390" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T22:51:06.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;i'll go for: 11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because it's more than 10 and less than twelve and also because you need to type at least 30 characters...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18711" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T22:51:06.573" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T22:51:06.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-14T23:48:45.447" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;101 is mine, and this is some text to reach 30 chars&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19566" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T23:48:45.447" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-14T23:48:45.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T01:14:28.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;35&lt;/strong&gt;.  Because.  (Well, I have a reason to choose this number, which I'll disclose if I win:P.  Not that I believe it has greater chances or anything like that;).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5626" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T01:14:28.120" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T01:14:28.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T01:20:36.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;50&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T00:19:45.193" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T00:19:45.193" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T01:20:36.820" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T03:16:20.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;119 - just a random choice :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10520" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T03:16:20.660" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T03:16:20.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T04:33:27.367" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about 57 - after the famous Legend? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edited to add my next choice:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;132&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://csweb.ucc.ie/~dongen/TeX-SX/12-13/132.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The prize:-&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10679" LastEditorDisplayName="user10274" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T17:42:36.960" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T17:42:36.960" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T04:33:27.367" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T04:42:01.103" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;96, please. A nicely balanced yet untraditional number indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22055" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T04:42:01.103" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T04:42:01.103" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T06:13:04.490" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a quiz? Anyway, I'm taking 170 which is the age of Springer Verlag :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T06:13:04.490" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T06:13:04.490" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T09:00:57.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;15 - a very nice number indeed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7049" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T09:00:57.273" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T09:00:57.273" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T13:59:57.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;61&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used R to draw a random number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; sample.int(200,1)&#xA;[1] 61&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tossed a die and came up with &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt; as my second number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4771" LastEditorUserId="4771" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T13:41:35.447" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T13:41:35.447" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T13:59:57.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T14:58:26.943" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is 167. This should be &gt; 30 characters for an answer now :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7825" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T14:58:26.943" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T14:58:26.943" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T16:43:38.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;98 &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;amp; 83 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T09:46:13.113" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T09:46:13.113" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T16:43:38.943" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T17:13:31.227" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;139&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because at this time, these numbers were already given:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1 2 3 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 17 18 21 22 23 27 28 29 30 31 33 35 39 42 43 49 57 60 61 66 67 69 73 78 84 85 88 91 96 97 100 101 109 111 113 117 118 119 121 123 127 128 131 137 138 142 144 149 154 156 170 172 177 191 199 200 250&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in bash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ a=( 1 2 3 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 17 18 21 22 23 27 28 29 30 31 33 35 39 42 43 49 57 60 61 66 67 69 73 78 84 85 88 91 96 97 100 101 109 111 113 117 118 119 121 123 127 128 131 137 138 142 144 149 154 156 170 172 177 191 199 200 250 )&#xA;$ IFS=+ read s &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; &quot;${a[*]}&quot;&#xA;$ echo $((s%200+1))&#xA;139&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4008" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T17:13:31.227" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T17:13:31.227" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T18:15:01.003" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;110&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donald E. Knuth’s birthday in British/American date format: 1/10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8432" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T18:15:01.003" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T18:15:01.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T18:25:58.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;64&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first non-trivial square that is also a cube, of course... does it matter though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="303" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T18:25:58.110" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T18:25:58.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T20:46:27.750" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no preference for any number, so I'll pick one at random:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $ sudo apt-get install rand   &#xA;  $ rand -M 200&#xA;  58   &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, it is easier &lt;code&gt;sample(1:200;1)&lt;/code&gt; in R, but is too sort to avoid &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because body must be at least 30 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, definitively:  &lt;strong&gt;58&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T20:46:27.750" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T20:46:27.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-15T23:03:54.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;19&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hundredth part of the century I was born. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; I just notice, this could be &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; misleading, but I won’t change it.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second number, this time using a random generator:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;164&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="9237" LastEditDate="2012-12-18T16:25:46.287" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T16:25:46.287" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T23:03:54.877" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-16T10:02:27.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;193&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No reason.................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14500" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T10:02:27.180" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T10:02:27.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2012-12-16T11:17:21.443" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parsilatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/trL1g.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Persian-speaking TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-12-16T11:54:03.050" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T11:54:03.050" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T11:17:21.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-16T11:34:05.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;lt;&gt;---&amp;lt;&gt; &amp;lt;&gt;---&amp;lt;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;99&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;&gt;---&amp;lt;&gt; &amp;lt;&gt;---&amp;lt;&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14886" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T11:34:05.183" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T11:34:05.183" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-16T13:56:14.817" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My picks (now that I've been allowed a second number):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;n in (38, 171)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8746" LastEditorUserId="8746" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T10:08:21.090" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T10:08:21.090" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T13:56:14.817" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-16T14:56:51.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;16, just because it is 7+9. And now the body is sufficiently long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="210" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T14:56:51.243" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T14:56:51.243" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-16T17:42:42.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;47, because according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.47.net/47society/47story/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The 47 society&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;47 appears to be the quintessential random number of the universe.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Second guess: 094&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11842" LastEditorUserId="11842" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T13:00:41.837" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T13:00:41.837" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T17:42:42.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-16T18:29:53.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a TeX newbie, but it'd be cool to win a book :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;185.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I edit the answer to add my number in, or are the admins taking care of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;My second answer: 75.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21516" LastEditorUserId="21516" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T03:05:26.337" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T03:05:26.337" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T18:29:53.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-16T19:34:47.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;150 - half the number of pages the book has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a second guess: 116... for no special reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18674" LastEditorUserId="18674" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T21:51:58.017" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T21:51:58.017" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T19:34:47.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-16T20:45:38.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;9 - My lucky number forever.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14574" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T20:45:38.983" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T20:45:38.983" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-16T22:08:29.693" Score="20" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently did the following: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;latex test.tex&#xA;$ bibtex test.tex&#xA;I couldn't open file name `test.tex.aux'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I had tracked down the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/87261/17049&quot;&gt;cause of the problem&lt;/a&gt;, I felt stupid for not having noticed it earlier -- but at the same time, I wasted five minutes on it.  I then posted a Q+A; my reasoning was that  I wanted to save time for anyone else who hits the same problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, even if it's only in a small way, I want to give something back to the site. I ask a lot more questions than I answer. That's usually because all the easy questions are snapped up before I reach them, so recording simple things like this is one of the few ways I can provide answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, after I had posted this, an experienced user noted that this common problem was warned against in every LaTeX manual.  After a short discussion, I wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if it is the case that some questions should not be asked because everyone should know better/it's in every guide, it would be great to have that policy documented somewhere &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm following that user's suggestion and opening up the question here: is it alright to ask and answer questions about issues discussed in every LaTeX guide?  I might add that one reason I'm inclined to do so is that the last time I had time to read a LaTeX guide cover to cover was about 10 years ago; now I try and pick things up as I need them, and when I hit errors Google and this site are my first two ports of call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: also, my reasoning was that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_is_not_paper#No_size_limits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this kind of sentiment&lt;/a&gt; applied: because this is a website rather than a paper manual, and it has a search function, adding extra material doesn't impose very high costs on anyone.  But perhaps you will disagree with me about that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may also be relevant:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84/how-elitist-should-the-site-be&quot;&gt;How &amp;quot;elitist&amp;quot; should the site be?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T10:13:18.233" Title="Asking/answering questions which are 'discussed in every guide'" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3073" CreationDate="2012-12-16T22:14:05.253" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way of seeing whether I have responses in either main or meta, without having to open up two different user pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-12-18T14:44:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T14:44:29.313" Title="Seeing user information for main site and meta" Tags="|support|inbox|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2012-12-16T22:28:32.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fully agree with @Mohan's post. I recognize the sentiment brought forward. I would like to add the following thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I think questions should be asked no matter how &quot;simple&quot; they are since users have very varied backgrounds. As I stated in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84/how-elitist-should-the-site-be&quot;&gt;different discussion&lt;/a&gt; I also think that the site can be a very valuable platform for incresing knowledge and also attract new users to LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with some questions is that they can be solved by a simple search. I therefore think that any person posting a question should have given it some effort and perhaps there should be an addition to the FAQ indicating a few good web sources for basic information (such as for example lshort and the LaTeX Wikibook). I know this is stated but perhaps not as clearly as needed in the system. There is of course not possible to still weed out those who have no intention to search for an answer but just want the answer served. I think that is something one has to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another aspect is that what is difficult for one may be simple for someone else, particularly for beginners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one problem for a site such as this, where we all get educated by the excellent answers provided by the peers, is that as we all get more and more educated it becomes easier to discard more and more questions as too simple. Add to that the problem that they are likely may have been asked already. So they key question is then how to best manage the &quot;simpler&quot; questions from the perspective of the person asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19384" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T22:28:32.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3071" CreationDate="2012-12-16T22:30:13.543" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Responses specific to you across &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; StackExchange networks is usually available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/1700887/mohan?tab=inbox&quot;&gt;your StackExchange Inbox&lt;/a&gt;. This includes responses to your comments, comments to your questions/answers (even if their not directed at you), chats or answers in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For user &lt;code&gt;MyUser&lt;/code&gt; (number &lt;code&gt;1234567&lt;/code&gt;), the address is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackexchange.com/users/1234567/MyUser?tab=inbox&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or accessible by clicking on the StackExchange drop-down menu in the top left of the browser and selecting Inbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2012-12-16T23:09:32.343" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T23:09:32.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T01:55:42.793" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pi.  It's between 1 and 200, and I don't think the question said it has to be an integer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21053" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T01:55:42.793" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T01:55:42.793" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T04:31:06.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;RE(189 + 190i) For the hell of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22137" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T04:31:06.997" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T04:31:06.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T06:01:54.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I select the number &lt;strong&gt;106&lt;/strong&gt;.  Why not give it a shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10906" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T06:01:54.393" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T06:01:54.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T07:45:32.950" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;102 - Year and month of my daughters birth =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23104" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T07:45:32.950" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T07:45:32.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T07:50:33.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;81 is the number I pick. I don't like that 30 character limit thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And 37 since we can pick a second number!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12105" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T07:50:33.303" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T07:50:33.303" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T08:15:01.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;24&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has to be 24 right? What else could it be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, else it could be &lt;strong&gt;54&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(What is nine times six?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7013" LastEditorDisplayName="user7013" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T08:20:28.463" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T08:20:28.463" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T08:15:01.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T08:23:31.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take &lt;strong&gt;197&lt;/strong&gt; as my first guess and &lt;strong&gt;135&lt;/strong&gt; as the second one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7548" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T08:23:31.880" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T08:23:31.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T08:30:19.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Second guess, as chosen by &lt;code&gt;R&lt;/code&gt;, is 135. Already chosen (see comment).&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New, second guess is &lt;strong&gt;160&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7825" LastEditorUserId="7825" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T08:36:47.913" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T08:36:47.913" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T08:30:19.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T08:54:49.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;More than 30 answers? Then 32 it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T08:54:49.350" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T08:54:49.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2012-12-17T10:00:07.747" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add couple points, the second part of my post is probably more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people think: &quot;Oh this can happen someone else as well, let's make it a self-answered question.&quot; The problem is that somehow such posts often miss the basic good qualities of a post. (I do not say these apply to your case.) The most common ones are the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question not being properly stated (MWEs missing, question to vague, generally in for that obviously nobody else is able to answer it because they don't know what's it about).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mixing questions and answers (parts of the answer is posted in the question etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer not being of much help anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that none of these &quot;objtective&quot; points apply to your case, which means that somehow the Q&amp;amp;A are not bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;On the other hand&lt;/em&gt;, I believe that people searching for solutions of really &quot;simple&quot; problems usually cannot find it anyways, no matter how well you try with your question. In my opinion, the &quot;answer your own question&quot; idea is more suited for tough problems where many other people can benefit from reading it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in my opinion this has nothing to do with the site being elitist. Your question is completely answerable so if you asked it not knowing the solution, in 2 minutes you would get an answer: &quot;Remove &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; from the command.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T10:13:18.233" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T10:13:18.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T13:20:05.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK Thanks Marc. This is my second number -- 169&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXnCB.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorDisplayName="user11232" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T15:39:50.810" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T15:39:50.810" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T13:20:05.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T14:34:43.253" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;163 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;188&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems easy enough to me (now that I understand what numbers were taken and what ones were not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6324" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T14:34:43.253" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T14:34:43.253" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T15:06:58.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;187, my second stab with the same motivation: why not? I am desperate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19384" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T15:06:58.193" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T15:06:58.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T15:52:33.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;129 for me, because it's not picked yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1688" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T15:52:33.193" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T15:52:33.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T16:22:57.247" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask my random number generator (see below), but since 9 is already taken, I will go for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4 &amp;amp; 5&lt;/strong&gt; since 4+5=9 almost surely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DvYpA.gif&quot; alt=&quot;dilbert&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15390" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T16:22:57.247" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T16:22:57.247" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T17:07:21.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;80&lt;/strong&gt;, as my first number.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;166&lt;/strong&gt;, as my second one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope to be lucky!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5185" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T17:07:21.230" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T17:07:21.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T17:10:33.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My second guess is &lt;strong&gt;162&lt;/strong&gt;. Maybe this one will win?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10906" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T17:10:33.927" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T17:10:33.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T19:42:01.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll guess 34 (TeX's age) and 157.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T19:42:01.543" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T19:42:01.543" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T19:55:03.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to choose 14, as it's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66969&amp;amp;p=1%22random%20number%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;random number&lt;/a&gt;, and 112.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9477" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T19:55:03.660" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T19:55:03.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T20:17:06.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;bash$ python&#xA;Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 20 2012, 16:23:33) &#xA;[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin&#xA;Type &quot;help&quot;, &quot;copyright&quot;, &quot;credits&quot; or &quot;license&quot; for more information.&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; all = [i+1 for i in range(200)]&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; chosen = &#xA;[127, 250,  42, 131,  88, 191, 118, 172, 121, 111,  30,  33, 109,  72,   2,  28,&#xA; 154,  43,  78,  85, 177, 170,  84, 128,  49, 137,   1,  91,   8,  22,  18,  23,&#xA; 117,  36, 144,  55,  97,  13,   3,  39, 156,  21, 123, 113,  66, 100, 142,  17,&#xA;  12,  29,  69,  31, 138,  60,   7, 199, 139,  71,  98, 185,  10,   9,  67, 120,&#xA;  47,  73, 105, 200, 149,  27,  11, 101,  35, 119,  57,  96,  15, 167, 110,  54,&#xA;  58,  19, 193,  99,  16, 150,   9, 102,  38, 171,  61,   6, 169,   4,   5, 189,&#xA; 106,  87,  37,  24,  54, 197, 135, 160,  32, 163, 188, 187, 129,  80, 166, 162,&#xA;  14,  34, 157,  14, 112]&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; available = [i for i in all if i not in chosen]                                                                              &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; choices = [random.choice(available) for i in range(2)]                                                                       &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; chosen += choices&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; print choices&#xA;[183, 45]&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; print chosen&#xA;[127, 250,  42, 131,  88, 191, 118, 172, 121, 111,  30,  33, 109,  72,   2,  28,&#xA; 154,  43,  78,  85, 177, 170,  84, 128,  49, 137,   1,  91,   8,  22,  18,  23,&#xA; 117,  36, 144,  55,  97,  13,   3,  39, 156,  21, 123, 113,  66, 100, 142,  17,&#xA;  12,  29,  69,  31, 138,  60,   7, 199, 139,  71,  98, 185,  10,   9,  67, 120,&#xA;  47,  73, 105, 200, 149,  27,  11, 101,  35, 119,  57,  96,  15, 167, 110,  54,&#xA;  58,  19, 193,  99,  16, 150,   9, 102,  38, 171,  61,   6, 169,   4,   5, 189,&#xA; 106,  87,  37,  24,  54, 197, 135, 160,  32, 163, 188, 187, 129,  80, 166, 162,&#xA;  14,  34, 157,  14, 112, 183,  45]&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; available = [i for i in all if i not in chosen]&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; print available&#xA;[20,  25,  26,  40,  41,  44,  46,  48,  50,  51,  52,  53,  56,  59,  62,  63,&#xA; 64,  65,  68,  70,  74,  75,  76,  77,  79,  81,  82,  83,  86,  89,  90,  92,&#xA; 93,  94,  95, 103, 104, 107, 108, 112, 114, 115, 116, 124, 125, 126, 130, 132,&#xA;133, 134, 136, 140, 141, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 151, 152, 153, 155, 158, 159,&#xA;161, 164, 165, 168, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 184, 186, 190,&#xA;192, 194, 195, 196, 198]&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; exit()&#xA;bash$ logout&#xA;&#xA;[Process completed]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that settles it. &lt;strong&gt;183 and 45&lt;/strong&gt; for me :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of available numbers as of writing is in this post, but unfortunately I don't have more time to go through and grab all the timestamps :( sorry!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T20:17:06.630" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T20:17:06.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T20:20:43.947" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;198&lt;/strong&gt;... it has to be 198. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14886" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T20:20:43.947" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T20:20:43.947" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T20:59:35.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;87 - and I'm still convinced my first guess was right ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T20:59:35.553" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T20:59:35.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T21:30:44.897" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;20&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for my second answer.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3197" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T21:30:44.897" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T21:30:44.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:01:02.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;77 and 145.&#xA;Like both those numbers :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23222" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:01:02.443" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T22:01:02.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:35:13.810" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;133 (it's how wide mainframe listings are) and 51 (it's a good idea in Brazil)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:35:13.810" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T22:35:13.810" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:40:22.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;180 is the key... Don't know why, but it is... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19566" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:40:22.800" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-17T22:40:22.800" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-18T04:14:30.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;25&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;26&lt;/strong&gt; are my two guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Oops, guessed 105 and 106 then realized I had read the thing wrong and they were already taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10744" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T04:14:30.043" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-18T04:14:30.043" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-18T04:32:26.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;195&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;196&lt;/strong&gt; of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14432" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T04:32:26.650" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-18T04:32:26.650" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-18T08:54:35.017" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;190! I choose you!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="791" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T08:54:35.017" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-18T08:54:35.017" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-18T13:59:21.150" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;strong&gt;089&lt;/strong&gt; :) Thanks man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22014" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T13:59:21.150" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-18T13:59:21.150" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-18T22:03:07.987" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess 1: 173&#xA;Guess 2: 174&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12688" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T22:03:07.987" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-18T22:03:07.987" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-19T03:29:42.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My second answer but in plain TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\def\godnumber{62}&#xA;\godnumber&#xA;\bye&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Analysis&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because 62 is a positive integer greater than 61 but less than 63.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first choice is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3015/19356&quot;&gt;33 (thirty three)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T14:59:32.777" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-19T03:29:42.163" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-19T07:57:55.033" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My second guess is 125.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please sign the book :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T07:57:55.033" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-19T07:57:55.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-19T10:16:05.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My second guess: &lt;strong&gt;41&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;the room number&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12571" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T10:16:05.140" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-19T10:16:05.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-19T11:29:22.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;strong&gt;114&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;92&lt;/strong&gt;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, great lottery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14836" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T11:29:22.870" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-19T11:29:22.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-19T12:26:33.570" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My second guess is 122 and this is more text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22486" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T12:26:33.570" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-19T12:26:33.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:05:57.857" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take &lt;strong&gt;152&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;153&lt;/strong&gt;. &#xA;moretext&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21591" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T15:05:57.857" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-19T15:05:57.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-19T20:32:01.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;52, that's my choice. The other had already been chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T20:32:01.823" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-19T20:32:01.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3117" CreationDate="2012-12-19T22:24:33.673" Score="25" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that there is an end-of-year celebration going on in some SE websites called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://winterba.sh/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;winter bash&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. It consists of collecting hats which are granted if certain actions are undertaken. There is an image with a link that appears beside the StackExchange link on the top left-hand side of the screen. I noticed it on both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; website and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are we not participating? Or are we, we just don't have the link on our page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like it would be fun, even though it is summer here in Melbourne...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T12:30:57.187" Title="Winter bash: why not here?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-19T23:09:42.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Second guess: 126.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason: it's the remaining case where the Kevaire invariant problem is still open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T23:09:42.877" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-19T23:09:42.877" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-20T10:12:12.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first choice is number &lt;strong&gt;059&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12435" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T10:12:12.917" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-20T10:12:12.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-20T10:15:00.813" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My secong guess: &lt;strong&gt;165&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12435" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T10:15:00.813" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-20T10:15:00.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3113" CreationDate="2012-12-20T12:11:02.630" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess all of us like fun. There's a long distance between totally serious and having fun like childs, which is also great. Somewhere on the way is the &quot;hat game&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators, including me, were a bit sceptical or neutral about this. I have the feeling that this activity may be great for the gaming site, maybe for cooking, fantasy and further sites in the whole SE network. A short mention in our chat did not really get much feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's have a quick look at it from this point of view: we would like to attract further TeX experts. Does it help if the site is known as a TeX site where you once got funny hats as &quot;achievements&quot;, for clicking vote buttons, posting questions or matching the christmas timeslot? Do we better outreach to people who still visit comp.text.tex and mailing lists, but not yet TeX.SE? I have some doubts. I know some experts who already don't like the reputation and badge achievement system, you can read an example in our current blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quickly see what we speak about, here's a screenshot I made right now from winterba.sh:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DqcSD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is great with its quality, and we have already much fun in the chat, in a personal non-automatized way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the hat game aka winter bash is going on at other sites. This is a very good opportunity to join also those sites and get some hats. Many are easy to get by simply voting or posting questions. Then we would know better how it feels with hats on. Learning from the feedback on other sites we can decide to join such an activity next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T12:30:57.187" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T12:30:57.187" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-20T12:37:18.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;79 -- because I misinterpreted the list above and my original choice had already been chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3213" LastEditorUserId="3213" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T16:03:49.340" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T16:03:49.340" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-20T12:37:18.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-12-20T15:31:34.103" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;$\{ 176 , 187 \}$&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because they happen to be mupltiples of 11 (I like the ones which are less than 200), and because 176 has the added feature of being a multiple of 16.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="911" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T15:31:34.103" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-20T15:31:34.103" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3121" CreationDate="2012-12-21T06:54:13.573" Score="14" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the Meta site does not maintain a reputation, certain badges related to reputation (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/42/epic&quot;&gt;Epic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/43/legendary&quot;&gt;Legendary&lt;/a&gt; are unavailable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which other &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;Meta badges&lt;/a&gt; are (un-)attainable?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the unattainable ones, why do they still appear under the list of Meta badges?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T19:15:26.573" Title="Badges on Meta vs Main" Tags="|support|badges|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3120" CreationDate="2012-12-21T09:09:53.870" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Reputation related badges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation on meta isn't shown, so it's hard to see what happens. Reputation related badges can be achieved, as several people got the Mortarboard badge. Nobody has Epic or Legendary yet, but it should be possible as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges which we cannot get on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Bounty related badges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cannot start a bounty on meta because of missing reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Altruist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Benefactor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Investor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Promoter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Chat badges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the chat is considered only for the main site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Outspoken &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Talkative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;meta.SO has its own chat, so there are people with such meta badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Site proposal badges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Precognitive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those badges were not given at the start of the site, and now it's too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T19:15:26.573" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T19:15:26.573" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2979" CreationDate="2012-12-24T18:47:11.507" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be related to your reputation at the time. It's difficult to fully assess this since it's only noticeable when there's a wiki tag edit to review (which doesn't happen often &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; it depends on the individual reviewing it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My assumption is based on falling within the 5,000 to 20,000 reputation category. The former (under)bound allows users to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;Approve or reject tag wiki edits&lt;/a&gt;, while the latter bound designates a so-called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;Trusted user&lt;/a&gt; allowing them to &quot;Approve&quot;, &quot;Reject&quot; or &quot;Improve&quot; (or &quot;Skip&quot;) the review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TsNLr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, it's difficult to confirm this, since reputation at this level is mostly a one-way road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T18:47:11.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2777" CreationDate="2012-12-27T19:00:55.537" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between &quot;not acting on a close vote&quot; and voting to &quot;Leave Open&quot; a question. Not acting (or choosing &quot;Skip&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sn4GN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;removes the post in question from &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; review list, while voting to &quot;Leave Open&quot; has an impact on the review list displayed for other users (read further).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are able to view the previously reviewed close-votes by clicking on the &quot;history&quot; tab under &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/history&quot;&gt;Close Votes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BuARU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the difference between voting to &quot;Leave Open&quot;, the following is taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/134673/168244&quot;&gt;How about a &quot;Vote not to close&quot; option to counter the &quot;Vote to close&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Voting against closing does not override anyone's close vote. However, a sufficient number of &quot;Do Not Close&quot; responses (currently 3) will kick the question out of the review queue and start aging the close votes - regardless of how many views the question has had.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is closed, &quot;Do Not Close&quot; votes do not translate into re-open votes. However, [it may be used] to prioritize items in the Reopen Queue [..].&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T19:00:55.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2462" CreationDate="2012-12-27T23:30:05.157" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As suggested within the set of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2419/5764&quot;&gt;Often referenced questions&lt;/a&gt; there is now a set of dedicated &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2426/5764&quot;&gt;&quot;How do I update my distribution?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; posts. They include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1137/5764&quot;&gt;Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2063/5764&quot;&gt;How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1092/5764&quot;&gt;How to install “vanilla” TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/55437/5764&quot;&gt;How do I update my TeX distribution?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T23:30:05.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2787" CreationDate="2012-12-28T03:18:36.423" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/134642/168244&quot;&gt;explicit migration path to TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; was initially realized on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/117903/168244&quot;&gt;June 5th, 2012&lt;/a&gt;. Following &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; route doesn't guarantee migration here. If some (other/the majority of) users designate the post as off-topic without specifying an appropriate migration path, then the post might end up as &quot;Off topic&quot; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; being migrated, even though you voted/requested it. Why would this happen? This may be due to a number of things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote-to-close voters are not familiar with TeX.SE and therefore do not know that it will most likely be on-topic here;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a lot of noise on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; due to its broad scope, and being the catch-all Stack Exchange site. So, things that are considered &lt;em&gt;somewhat&lt;/em&gt; off-topic, probably reaches that point without much discussion;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The harsh(er) nature of SO where it could be assumed that if you don't know about TeX.SE and post stuff on SO, you're SOL.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've questioned why my migration path suggestions through flagging were not honoured in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/147980/168244&quot;&gt;Migration to TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;. The procedure is explained well over there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is your comment(s) removed during the migration? This is the default setup (I've learned): Any comments with TeX.SE-related links will be removed when migrating to TeX.SE. I think the most likely reason for this is because of the common &quot;This is better-suited on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;&quot; comment, which becomes obsolete at the time of migration. So, a blanket rule in this regard was probably the easiest option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing the above, I usually follow these guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag as &quot;Other&quot; with the comment &quot;Migrate over to TeX.SE&quot;. This ensures that a moderator will look at the flag (I'm assuming), which could speed up and hopefully ensure migration.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't leave a comment stating that it belongs somewhere else (TeX.SE), since many users would then repost here, causing cross-network duplicates. This doesn't really matter, but just the way I've resorted to doing things.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent feature request regarding migrations lead to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/151890/168244&quot;&gt;Disable migration for questions older than 60 days&lt;/a&gt; (realized on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/117903/168244&quot;&gt;October 18th, 2012&lt;/a&gt;). So, migrations are only possible for posts made within the last two months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T03:18:36.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-28T18:15:29.900" Score="14" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I've noticed very long, non-focused question titles. Should we encourage limiting question titles, and if yes, is there a way to enforce this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I am in favour of this as it focuses the attention of the poster to stating the nub of the problem, thereby reducing the time others have to spend on figuring out what the poster's question is really about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2012-12-28T18:49:58.633" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T17:30:09.830" Title="Limiting the Length of Subject Titles" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3129" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-28T22:12:38.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;MWE is an abbreviation for &lt;em&gt;minimal working example&lt;/em&gt;. This means the reduction of code to the core idea, which is still compilable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/228&quot;&gt;I've just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Meta TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4813" LastEditorUserId="4813" LastEditDate="2015-04-07T17:23:30.997" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T17:23:30.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3130" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-28T22:12:38.443" Score="0" Body="MWE is an abbreviation for minimal working example." OwnerUserId="23686" LastEditorUserId="4813" LastEditDate="2015-04-07T18:36:44.410" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T18:36:44.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2012-12-29T04:12:08.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This currently exists in a quite-comprehensive form as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1319/5764&quot;&gt;Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX &amp;amp; friends&lt;/a&gt;, currently ranked as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;second-highest voted post on TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In brief, it includes posts that covers &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/24719/5764&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt; (using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/69271/5764&quot;&gt;lettrine&lt;/a&gt;), decorations (using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/29805/5764&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://altermundus.com/pages/tkz/ornament/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1324/5764&quot;&gt;one source producing multiple targets&lt;/a&gt;, multi-column document in the form of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/58218/5764&quot;&gt;dictionary&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/69804/5764&quot;&gt;music&lt;/a&gt; and, of course, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/85787/5764&quot;&gt;ducks&lt;/a&gt; and many more. There's also an external &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX showcase&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T07:53:06.617" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-29T21:57:32.787" Score="26" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;This stems from the inappropriately tagged question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/88449/5764&quot;&gt;Is it possible to put MS Excel graphs into a LaTeX document?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether creating a separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-excel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-excel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-excel&lt;/a&gt; would be of use, hence the generic (master) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-office&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-office&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-office&lt;/a&gt; suggestion, with synonyms &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-word&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-word&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-word&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-excel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-excel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-excel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T13:33:20.517" Title="Rename {msword} to {ms-word}, or create generic {ms-office} tag to cover Office-related questions" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2012-12-30T08:34:21.863" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about Excel have typically nothing to do with Word, and vice-versa; hence, I'm in favor of two separate tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-word&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-word&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-word&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-excel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-excel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-excel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2012-12-30T19:30:03.880" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T19:30:03.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-30T10:51:36.143" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2781/how-does-one-add-a-latex-output-to-a-question-answer&quot;&gt;How does one add a LaTeX output to a question/answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen that some users include a preview of how the LaTeX code will be rendered.  Are they just including a picture they have compiled and uploaded, or is there a way to do this automatically on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3825" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T11:44:47.850" Title="How to include latex preview" Tags="|discussion|images|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-12-30T23:41:06.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3128" CreationDate="2012-12-30T11:40:16.300" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The length of question titles is already limited. Earlier there was a limit of 250 characters, in May 2010 it was changed to a maximum of 150 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can test it: if you type a long title, you would get a message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That title is too long to be useful. Can you make it shorter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;150 characters may still be much, but sometimes it's good to have some more space for the best summary of a question for the title. Technical limits should prevent abuse and low quality, while still allowing normal usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If long question titles would appear, I trust our community that we would edit them to make the titles shorter and clearer. Similarly for unclear questions which have a &quot;good length&quot;. By the way, there's also a minimum requirement of 15 characters in a question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T11:40:16.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2012-12-30T17:55:57.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cases, where other MS Office product than MS Word is in question, are really rare. Therefore I don't see the necessity of more tags. I suggest having &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-office&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-office&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-office&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-word&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-word&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-word&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym. This synonym for users who try to put &lt;code&gt;word&lt;/code&gt; in and who need to get the right tag suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T17:55:57.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3138" CreationDate="2012-12-30T18:32:35.743" Score="12" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2538/how-to-find-my-questions-for-which-i-have-not-accepted-an-answer&quot;&gt;How to find my questions for which I have not accepted an answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find an easy way to review all the questions which I have asked which a) have at least one answer and which b) I have not accepted an answer for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T20:00:40.493" Title="How to find your own questions with unaccepted answers?" Tags="|support|accepting|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-01-02T03:56:45.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3137" CreationDate="2012-12-30T18:42:29.207" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/143432/163868&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/143432/163868&lt;/a&gt; describes you can find them by searching. Use the search term &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt; to only find questions with no accepted answer, &lt;code&gt;answers:1&lt;/code&gt; to only find questions with at least one answer and use &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; to only find posts by you, i.e. search for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:0 answers:1 user:me&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use a user id instead of &lt;code&gt;me&lt;/code&gt;, such as &lt;code&gt;user:17049&lt;/code&gt; for you. So the following search will also find your questions with no accepted answers  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3A0+answers%3A1+user%3A17049&amp;amp;submit=search&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3A0+answers%3A1+user%3A17049&amp;amp;submit=search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T18:49:00.060" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3139" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-01T12:22:13.803" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T12:22:13.803" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T12:22:13.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3140" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-01T12:22:13.803" Score="0" Body="Measurement of a user's contributions to the site, and the extent to which the community &quot;trusts&quot; that user with extra privileges" OwnerUserId="23686" LastEditorUserId="23686" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T14:59:27.673" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T14:59:27.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3141" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-01T12:25:11.760" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T12:25:11.760" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T12:25:11.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3142" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-01T12:25:11.760" Score="0" Body="Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting." OwnerUserId="23686" LastEditorUserId="23686" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T14:59:38.077" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T14:59:38.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3143" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-01T12:28:08.787" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T12:28:08.787" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T12:28:08.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3144" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-01T12:28:08.787" Score="0" Body="Badges are rewards to encourage and incentivize positive community actions within the site." OwnerUserId="23686" LastEditorUserId="23686" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T14:59:33.820" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T14:59:33.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-01-02T07:04:31.890" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;strong&gt;Windows&lt;/strong&gt; and the &lt;strong&gt;TeX Distribution&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Since Windows users are the only ones who have MiKTeX as an option, I thought it'd be interesting to see how the user distribution between and MiKTeX and TeX Live &lt;em&gt;on Windows&lt;/em&gt; is. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1565/4012&quot;&gt;the cross-platform question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T16:24:57.210" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-02T07:04:31.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2836" CreationDate="2013-01-02T09:32:14.833" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Typography.SE site proposal was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Graphic Design&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:19.490" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T09:32:14.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="158" CreationDate="2013-01-02T18:39:57.237" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's just about the ease of getting a bit of latex rendered, then there are already quite a few pages on the web, that do this. We could easily link to something like that for an easy solution. &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.tlhiv.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pastebin.tlhiv.org/&lt;/a&gt; has a preview for example and he gave me the code for making it work in the past, albeit it's not too difficult to come up with yourself.&#xA;If you want it to be part of the site, which I would really prefer, then we could use something like that as a start, but it gets tricky fast when trying to decide what interpreter, format, documentclass and packages to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16809" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T18:39:57.237" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-02T18:39:57.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-02T19:15:28.183" Score="9" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there are reasons like easier readability and preserving the original formatting that would make enabling some way of creating multiline code blocks in comments preferable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching through the meta, it seems the rendering is done differently in answers and comments, so this may not be easy/possible, but I believe this would be desirable. I would consider this inconsistency a bug, since it breaks user expectation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16809" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-01-05T13:15:29.253" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T13:15:29.253" Title="Multiline code block in comment" Tags="|feature-request|comments|markup|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3148" CreationDate="2013-01-02T22:55:05.443" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/34187&quot;&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;multiple lines are not supported in comments, and will never be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are treated as a single line, so multi-line code is impossible. I guess one reason is rendering speed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T22:55:05.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2013-01-03T00:46:07.397" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typesetting backslashes, backticks and spaces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;\ &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;\&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;`&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;``&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;``` ``&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;``&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;``` `&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;\`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;\`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use HTML formatting mixed with markdown for spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. &amp;amp;nbsp;&#xA;2. \\&#xA;3. `\`&#xA;4. `\\`&#xA;5. &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;6. `&#xA;7. ``&#xA;8. &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;`&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;9. ``` ``&#xA;10. &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;``&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;11. ``` `&#xA;12. &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\\`&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;13. ``\` ``&#xA;14. &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link testing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/208/5764&quot;&gt;Formatting Sand-Box&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3150/5764&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3150/5764&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3640/5764&quot;&gt;How to end the &amp;quot;unanswered&amp;quot; status of really solved questions in the comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3641/5764&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3641/5764&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/231901/168244&quot;&gt;In comments - how do I highlight with back-ticks when the last character is a backslash&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the rules for inline code in posts and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;POSTS&lt;/strong&gt;: If you want backticks inside an inline code snippet, surround them with any amount of backticks not used in the code. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;``this is a `backtick` thing``&lt;/code&gt; renders as &lt;code&gt;this is a `backtick` thing&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;````here are one ` two `` three ``` backticks````&lt;/code&gt; renders as &lt;code&gt;here are one ` two `` three ``` backticks&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use spaces if backticks are at beginning or end - &lt;code&gt;`` $` ``&lt;/code&gt; renders as &lt;code&gt;$`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;`testing testing\`123`testing`&lt;/code&gt; renders as &lt;code&gt;testing testing\&lt;/code&gt;123&lt;code&gt;testing&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COMMENTS&lt;/strong&gt;: Simply use &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; to escape backticks. Limitation: you can't escape backslashes, so you can't have a backslash at the end of an inline code snippet. Also, &lt;code&gt;`test`123`test`&lt;/code&gt; doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;`this is a \`backtick\` thing`&lt;/code&gt; renders as  &lt;code&gt;this is a `backtick` thing&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;`testing testing\ `123 `testing`&lt;/code&gt; renders as &lt;code&gt;testing testing\ &lt;/code&gt;123 &lt;code&gt;testing&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T15:54:51.177" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-03T00:46:07.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3128" CreationDate="2013-01-03T17:30:09.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like answering my own questions, but here it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The maximum length for questions is currently 150, which is too long in my opinion, but since it's been reduced recently I suppose it's better not to change it (now).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I propose we should encourage the OPs to changes their titles. Of course we can suggest possible improvements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remained is a proposal for improving titles (not just titles that are too long). I decided to use a format where I list a typical title, a reason why I think the title is poor, and a proposal to improve the title. In the list I've tried to use recent titles, hoping this shows relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposal is by no means complete. Please add to the list if you have more ideas. Hopefully, this exercise will result in a list of &quot;error patterns&quot; that we can use to improve subject titles. Also the reasons in the list may help to convince the OP they should change their titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When adding items to a list, always add them to the end of the list. Otherwise, you may src*w up the numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do I colour &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;X&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in red?&lt;/em&gt; This title is too specific. If we don't change this title we end up with  all possible variations for different colours. A better title would be &lt;em&gt;How do I change the colour of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;X&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do I draw a circle?&lt;/em&gt; In this case it turns out the OP want to draw the circle with a certain package (&lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;pstricks&lt;/code&gt;). Here the question isn' specific enough. I propose we add the name of the package to the start of the title: &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;: How do I draw a circle?&lt;/em&gt; Even better: &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;: Drawing a circle.&lt;/em&gt; (See the next item.) If there are several packages/classes, I propose to list them in alphabetic order, using forward slashes as a separator: &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;pstricks&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;: Drawing a circle.&lt;/em&gt;  I also propose to use similar titles for engine-specific questions. For example, &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;: creating hyperlinks&lt;/em&gt;. An alternative solution would be to rely on the tag and omit the reference to the engine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is there a way to configure pdflatex to make all but the .tex and .pdf files hidden files?&lt;/em&gt; This question is too long. I propose to make a change along the following lines: &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;: Hiding all files, except for the .tex and .pdf files.&lt;/em&gt; Note that I decided to get rid of the question mark because the title is now the topic of the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;How can I make a set of latex flashcards that I can print to write my answers on one side?&lt;/em&gt; This question is redundant because it's clear the flashcards should be printed. Proposed solution: &lt;em&gt;Flashcards with answers on one side.&lt;/em&gt; If the OP intended the flash card to be single-sided a better solution would be &lt;em&gt;Single-sided flashcards.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to X?_ Another example of redundancy. Just write &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; or equivalent. For example, &lt;em&gt;How to implement the Russian typographical traditions?&lt;/em&gt; -&gt; &lt;em&gt;Implementing Russian typograpical traditions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Problem with Minion Pro.&lt;/em&gt; This title isn't specific enough. In my opinion reading the tile should give some idea about the nature of the problem. As it turns out the OP had a problem with &lt;em&gt;Th&lt;/em&gt; ligatures after a period. I propose: &lt;em&gt;Minion Pro: Problem with &lt;code&gt;Th&lt;/code&gt; ligature after period.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some may find this list a bit OTT. Personally, I think that a good title is just as important as a MWE because it helps the reader save time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No doubt the list is incomplete (and indeed redundant). I decided to start writing the list because I needed a break from marking assignments.:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated before, feel free to add to the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T17:30:09.830" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-01-04T15:21:41.750" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you prepare the TeX input file?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T15:21:41.750" CommentCount="14" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-04T15:21:41.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2013-01-04T17:35:44.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, this poll: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3152/11002&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3152/11002&lt;/a&gt; is complicated and does not fit into the Poll scheme, it is not well stated and it is very difficult to say what type of options-comments are acceptable. That is the reason why I downvoted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well, the first two comments seem to be only a &quot;hot-head&quot; reaction to the discussions over this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/89316/11002&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/89316/11002&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last two cents: I do not see other reason for that one but to make people with the ability to type with 10 fingers to feel like someone good if they can hit the triangle next to these options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T09:00:12.613" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2013-01-06T04:53:50.377" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully my answer below is still useful for you and others, especially for Windows users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Theory&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have had a PDF output, you need to convert it to PNG by using the following batch file named &lt;code&gt;pdf2png.bat&lt;/code&gt;. It is convenient to register the batch path to the system variable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;rem pdf2png.bat&#xA;echo off&#xA;rem %1 PDF filename without extension&#xA;rem %2 density&#xA;rem %3 alpha, choose one of {on,off,remove}&#xA;&#xA;del &quot;%~1-*.png&quot;&#xA;&#xA;convert -compose copy -bordercolor red -border 3x3 -density %2 -alpha %3 &quot;%~1.pdf&quot; &quot;%~1-%%02d.png&quot; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;%1&lt;/code&gt; is the first mandatory argument that specifies the filename (without extension) of your PDF to convert. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;%2&lt;/code&gt; is the second mandatory argument that specifies the density. The higher density makes the PNG dimension larger.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;%3&lt;/code&gt; is the third mandatory argument that specifies whether or not you preserve the transparency. Use &lt;code&gt;on&lt;/code&gt; if you want to preserve the transparency, otherwise choose &lt;code&gt;remove&lt;/code&gt;. I don't use &lt;code&gt;off&lt;/code&gt; because it produces a lousy output.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I added an additional feature such that the output will be enclosed by a red rectangle. If you don't like this feature, remove &lt;code&gt;-compose copy -bordercolor red -border 3x3&lt;/code&gt; from the code above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Exercise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is just an example. Your scenario in which you get a PDF might be different from mine. My scenario is as follows: compile the following input file with &lt;code&gt;latex-&amp;gt;dvips-&amp;gt;ps2pdf&lt;/code&gt; to get a PDF output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% myfilename.tex&#xA;&#xA;\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{pst-eucl}&#xA;\addtopsstyle{gridstyle}{gridlabels=0}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{pspicture}[showgrid](4,3)&#xA;    \pstGeonode[&#xA;        PointName=none,&#xA;        PointSymbol={x,none,x},&#xA;        dotscale=2]&#xA;    (0,0){A}&#xA;    (1,3){B}&#xA;    (4,1){C}&#xA;    \psline(A)(B)(C)&#xA;\end{pspicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can invoke the batch from the editor of your choice, but here I invoke the batch from the DOS prompt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jHM2k.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The output is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HLom8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The red rectangle is the border produced by &lt;code&gt;-compose copy -bordercolor red -border 3x3&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="19356" LastEditDate="2013-01-06T08:59:18.710" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T08:59:18.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2013-01-06T10:42:31.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My favorite aspects of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems are?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be several different answers to this question that are related to extensibility. It would be nice if we could merge them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T10:42:31.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2013-01-06T13:25:26.753" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have edited two tag wikis on Excel (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/excel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;excel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;excel&lt;/a&gt;) and Powerpoint ([powerpoint]), both of which of course are Office products. I think it would make sense to be consistent so if Word is called msword/ms-word then perhaps we need a change to ms-excel or ms-powerpoint as well. Or, vice versa. Powerpoint questions are not uncommon in association with Beamer questions and there seems to be a few on Excel when it comes to moving data from one to the other. I would be in favour of dropping the MS-Office tag since it is so general that I cannpt see how the entire MS-Office package (which includes much more than just Word/Excel/Powerpoint) would tie in with (La)TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19384" LastEditorUserId="19384" LastEditDate="2013-01-06T13:33:20.517" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T13:33:20.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3161" CreationDate="2013-01-06T19:17:53.013" Score="20" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the recommended reaction to answers to questions that have been closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T21:14:17.140" Title="Are answers to closed questions to be accepted like an open question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2013-01-06T21:14:17.140" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the closing reason and on the quality of the answer. Usually, the answers stay, which is ok in most cases. No need to penalize the answerers by deleting their contribution. It's still possible that it might help somebody, and I think most times the answers were given in good faith (perhaps sometimes additionally motivated by the reputation system, but that's life here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a case of a duplicate, answers may be merged, i.e. moved to the other question. That's a great thing if it matches, however often answers consides the specific case and not the possibly canonical question, so it doesn't fit. It would be great, if people would firstly check for a duplicate before answering. I often see answers to basic questions, which are dupes, even by high rep users. I believe flagging a duplicate should be rewarded more than getting rep for a fast answer possibly without checking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But back to the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering voting: I suggest vote as usual. If the answer is good, upvote. Is it offtopic such as the question, which was closed as offtopic, don't vote. Local view: answers to closed questions can still be sorted by votes. Global view: even if there's no reason to sort answers, such as in the case of a single answer of a closed question, you still could consider to give rep to the poster. But this should be for on-topic quality, i.e. not for off-topic questions, and not for the xth basic duplicate, do not encourage strict rep hunting. If it's a great post, vote up though (in that case merging comes up again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T21:14:17.140" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2013-01-07T08:17:22.597" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chachatelier.fr/latexit/latexit-home.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBrIV.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeXiT - Drag and drop LaTeX into anything!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T08:17:22.597" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-07T08:17:22.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3165" CreationDate="2013-01-10T10:45:46.790" Score="18" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/13996/revisions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I found out that there's a better duplicate than the one mentioned in &#xA;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Possible duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; automatically added text. I decided to edit the question and add the other link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm not sure if this was a good idea. Whence I would like to know what is the opinion of other people on adding possible duplicated to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T15:14:18.923" Title="Modifying &quot;Possible duplicate:&quot; links" Tags="|discussion|editing|duplicates|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3167" CreationDate="2013-01-10T14:19:32.487" Score="31" ViewCount="1480" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, a cooperation between &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-community.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeX-community.org&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.writelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;writeLaTeX.com&lt;/a&gt; has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex-archive/latex-general/latex-online-compiler/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeXblog&lt;/a&gt;. According to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By a single click on a link above a code box, the reader will land in the editor which shows the code on the left side, and the output preview on the right side. Compilation is done in realtime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it could be a also applied to TeX.SX. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not sure if this is the right place to suggest or ask this question. If not, please let me know.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T19:19:44.807" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T19:18:01.147" Title="Link to online LaTeX compiler" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|code|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2013-01-10T15:14:18.923" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done this before.  My guidelines are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the original possible duplicate.  That was, after all, the majority view.  If I disagree with this then I'd want to discuss it first (here or in chat).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the plurality clear: &quot;Possible duplicate &lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and put them in a list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, this is a good idea so long as it really is a possible duplicate and not just a &quot;you might also want to see&quot;.  For the latter then I'd put it in a comment (whereupon it also turns up in the &quot;Linked&quot; list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, so long as it is a reasonable duplicate then you are &lt;em&gt;adding&lt;/em&gt; value so this is a reasonable thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T15:14:18.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3164" CreationDate="2013-01-10T17:47:12.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already many online LaTeX compilers when you need them. Introducing our own one would necessarily introduce its own bugs and errors, which only drive the site away from its real purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T17:47:12.213" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3164" CreationDate="2013-01-11T14:44:42.440" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we could get a useful addition, requiring only few work and without a security risk to our site, which is always to consider for online compilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What we would get:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One-click preview&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fast testing and solving problems without a local TeX installation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actually working with site's TeX code on mobile devices, such as tablets and phones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Additionally, if a link is shared such as in a comment, we can collaboratively work on a solution, etherpad-ish, such as with community wiki posts,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A managed service for an up-to-date TeX installation, we don't need to maintain it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What we need to do:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a JavaScript function (extracting and unformatting the code)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add an invisible form for making a POST request&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a link with &quot;onclick&quot; to call the function&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writeLaTeX team would help with customizing. They prepared a demo page, and when I had contact they were always helpful and suggesting implementation details, so I think this whole part is pretty easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Considering risks:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The compiler runs externally, so no risk for TeX Stack Exchange to get hacked by harmful code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If writeLaTeX would not fit any more to the site, such a link could easily be removed and it we don't loose much invested work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T14:44:42.440" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2579" CreationDate="2013-01-12T23:14:28.130" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to make a case for deleting questions &lt;em&gt;a little&lt;/em&gt; more liberally than we currently do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m pretty sure it was flags by me that initially triggered this question, when I didn’t have the 10k privilege of voting to delete yet. Most, if not all of my flags back then were approved by a diamond mod and the questions deleted.&#xA;Since I reached 10k in October 2012, I’ve cast 24 delete votes, all on closed questions, but none of them reached the three delete votes necessary for deletion; in most cases, my vote remained the only one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some specific reasons why I propose to delete certain (types of) (closed) questions – after they’ve been inactive for a little while:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s impossible to determine what the problem is and the OP isn’t responding&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2338/problem-with-hyperlink-in-pdf&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2338/problem-with-hyperlink-in-pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52832/compiling-tex-showcase-cheat-example&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52832/compiling-tex-showcase-cheat-example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24330/error-too-many-s&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24330/error-too-many-s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70688/weird-mis-spacing-of-delta&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70688/weird-mis-spacing-of-delta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21364/texniccenter-does-not-create-pdf-file&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21364/texniccenter-does-not-create-pdf-file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50371/citations-with-natbib-and-ieeetr&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50371/citations-with-natbib-and-ieeetr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problem was something totally unrelated to the question&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82405/figure-referencing-not-working&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82405/figure-referencing-not-working&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Identical&lt;/em&gt; duplicates (as mentioned by Joseph in his answer)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84552/are-latex-et-al-languages-or-packages&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84552/are-latex-et-al-languages-or-packages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is really unspecific, probably no proper MWE, and (thus) possibly several issues in one question&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76235/errors-dont-know-how-to-fix&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76235/errors-dont-know-how-to-fix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41478/looking-for-an-error&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41478/looking-for-an-error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is extremely localized and a terrible fit for our question format&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25159/exact-paragraph-style-to-set-in-latex&quot;&gt;Exact paragraph style to set in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55277/making-a-special-table-in-latex&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55277/making-a-special-table-in-latex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69853/unable-to-catch-the-bug-in-my-latex-code&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69853/unable-to-catch-the-bug-in-my-latex-code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73398/how-to-draw-this-table-in-latex&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73398/how-to-draw-this-table-in-latex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73457/how-to-represent-this-image-in-latex-document&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73457/how-to-represent-this-image-in-latex-document&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question contains several questions and is a terrible fit for our question format&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26217/which-ide-editor-and-compiler-do-you-use-for-tex-latex-how-do-macros-work&quot;&gt;Which IDE/Editor and &amp;quot;compiler&amp;quot; do you use for TeX/LaTeX? - How do macros work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problem is extremely trivial (typo)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42103/undefined-control-sequence-undetectable&quot;&gt;Undefined control sequence undetectable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is off-topic and wasn’t migrated&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/56073/how-can-i-open-a-woff-file-on-mac-osx&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/56073/how-can-i-open-a-woff-file-on-mac-osx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48661/mathematica-notebook-saved&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48661/mathematica-notebook-saved&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My general goal in deleting such questions is to &lt;strong&gt;uphold the overall quality&lt;/strong&gt; of tex.sx and to foster the aspects that make stand out from “normal” forums. I don’t really think we want to help users googling their problem just randomly, but rather through specific and well-formed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; a problem is generally relevant, the question should either be edited to fit our format (and not deleted), or the question should be asked again in a new post, either as a dummy question or by the next user coming across this problem. Most of the advice given to the OPs of the questions I linked to is pretty general and could be given again any time by many of our experienced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions containing several problems/questions might keep good questions, containing only one problem, from being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, in exchange for helping them with their problems, we expect users to make the effort and ask proper questions with a MWE etc. – if they don’t they shouldn’t be “rewarded” with the Stack Exchange “currency” of reputation. However, if the question was voted below zero, deleting it gives the user a chance to keep going and ask better questions without the “burden” of bad questions in their profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summing up&lt;/strong&gt;, I’d be happy to see a little more activity on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=delete&amp;amp;daterange=last30days&quot; title=&quot;10k users only&quot;&gt;delete vote page&lt;/a&gt; and us as a community weeding out just really the worst of the closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-12T23:14:28.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2579" CreationDate="2013-01-13T04:58:50.460" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although i agree with upholding the site quality, I disagree with deleting any question as Tex.SX knowledge and experience should reach any dummy guys like me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today most of people are lazy googlers including myself even though we know the website we try to google and go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am not lazy to post a good/well framed question at TeX.SX as i wish to be well-behaved civic duty following guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my view as new user, everything on TeX.SX is &lt;strong&gt;useful&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;real questions, answers,comments,closed questions,not a real question, too localised, too long to read etc... because it is someone's experience to learn from (for real questions, answers,comments) or stop committing mistakes (closed questions,not a real question, too localised, too long to read). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting question altogether should not be option. May be the OP has every  right to do it. Deleting to be executed with great caution on very very exceptional case like spam/flame war etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Its just my point of view. Sorry if i would have hurt any one's feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T04:58:50.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2579" CreationDate="2013-01-13T10:14:06.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some questions closed as &quot;too localized&quot; that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This doesn't work,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Something \emph{is wrong with the font&#xA;or \mu makes all text after it in italics&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where it's obvious that the errors are a missing closing brace or proper confinement of a math symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely there are some &quot;too localized&quot; questions that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; help somebody who's in a similar situation. Where to draw the line? Difficult to say. Some criterion for candidates to deletion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only obvious and easily fixable errors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;errors which depend on clear misunderstanding of the documentation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that depend on private packages or sets of macros that aren't made available in due time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more difficult for me to tell something about the &quot;not real questions&quot;. We don't see many of them, actually. Probably most of them should be deleted; I'm unsure about those where somebody attempted to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T10:14:06.133" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2579" CreationDate="2013-01-13T10:20:47.570" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless something is offensive or an exact duplicate (or I wrote it) I would never vote for deletion.  Taking a random example the list in another answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26217/which-ide-editor-and-compiler-do-you-use-for-tex-latex-how-do-macros-work&quot;&gt;Which IDE/Editor and &amp;quot;compiler&amp;quot; do you use for TeX/LaTeX? - How do macros work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is badly structured (mainly because it is lots of questions) and it got closed as NARQ (that already is probably more than I'd do) but parts of the question are reasonable and there are some good points in the answers. Unless it is being suggested that a someone with mod powers manually edits the question to multiple questions and re-distributes the answers to the split up format, deleting the question just throws away the work people put into answering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T10:20:47.570" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3173" CreationDate="2013-01-13T14:20:38.340" Score="17" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for software to read and write &quot;structured&quot; mathematics. Would such a request be appropriate for the Tex page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18921" LastEditorUserId="18921" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T09:15:35.237" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T09:15:35.237" Title="Is a software request appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3172" CreationDate="2013-01-13T16:08:57.677" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is about how to write such mathematics with (La)TeX or if it is possible in your requested way at all, then the question would be on-topic, but should be well phrased nevertheless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for some other software, or looking for people to program one for you, then the question would be off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T16:08:57.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3172" CreationDate="2013-01-13T20:30:15.993" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that such tweaks in LaTeX output in PDFs are possible, so it can be on-topic here. However, I think that LaTeX is not ready for such document design, and you might somehow better do with MathJaX. And dispite MathJaX's syntax is similar to LaTeX's, it is the only common point and questions about it are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not discourage you from asking, as long as it's about LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T20:30:15.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3182" CreationDate="2013-01-15T00:57:13.163" Score="10" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;When was TeX.SE founded? I notice that a lot of early questions were migrated from StackOverflow. So I'm wondering when the actual TeX.SE site was created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14996" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T01:36:28.083" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T18:11:27.323" Title="When was the TeX - LaTeX site at Stack Exchange founded?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3177" CreationDate="2013-01-15T01:10:22.260" Score="13" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were several good answers in my recent question in main: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/92702/should-i-place-title-author-date-in-the-preamble-or-after-begindocument&quot;&gt;Should I place \title, \author, \date in the preamble or after \begin{document}?&lt;/a&gt;. I am leaning towards accepting &lt;em&gt;the answer that helped me the most&lt;/em&gt; or which I think is the most practical one at the moment. I don't know if that can be taken as going against the consensus (although at this point the differences in upvotes are not that great). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T01:33:32.677" Title="Choosing to accept between an answer that helped me the most and a more popular answer" Tags="|support|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3176" CreationDate="2013-01-15T01:33:08.393" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely go for the one that was the most helpful to you. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#howtoask&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you have decided which answer is the most helpful to you, mark&#xA;  it as the accepted answer by clicking on the check box outline to the&#xA;  left of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/img/faq/faq-accept-answer.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;accept an answer http://cdn.sstatic.net/img/faq/faq-accept-answer.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This lets other people know that you have received a good answer to&#xA;  your question. Doing this is helpful because it shows other people&#xA;  that you’re getting value from the community. (And if you &lt;em&gt;don’t&lt;/em&gt; do&#xA;  this, people will often politely ask you to go back and accept answers&#xA;  for more of your questions!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T01:33:08.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3181" CreationDate="2013-01-15T02:06:11.207" Score="13" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the reason to lose the reputation of a bounty when there are no eligible answers? Sounds as if it is lost for nothing. Maybe there is some logic in punishing those encouraging good answers of others, if nobody reads the questions or knows an answer? For what purpose? To award only easy questions? To avoid impossible questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastEditorUserId="6865" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:43:47.870" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:43:47.870" Title="Why is a bounty without answers not refunded to the bounty starter?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2013-01-15T09:27:26.070" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://academia.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QlIlq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Academia Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3734" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T09:27:26.070" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-15T09:27:26.070" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3178" CreationDate="2013-01-15T11:22:35.023" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that people already answers in the comments: When you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; you lose the points, you &lt;em&gt;think twice&lt;/em&gt; before offering a bounty, and hence people know you are &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T11:22:35.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3178" CreationDate="2013-01-15T14:41:46.203" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not refunded because you got the benefit that your question was visible for 7 days on the &lt;em&gt;featured&lt;/em&gt; tab. You gave the bounty for getting attention, and you got it. It's not a payment for an answer. Even if an answerer can possibly win it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it would be refunded, you could keep questions featured forever, without additionally spending points, placing again and again. Now, if you would like the question to be featured for another week, you have to place a new bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting special attention to questions should be a bit expensive so that we don't have too many, which would reduce the visibility again. For example, on a bigger site, with the current rules, there are currently 349 featured questions on stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T14:41:46.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3175" CreationDate="2013-01-15T14:47:04.237" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact day of the proposal on area51 is Jun 2 '10 at 14:20. It can be seen in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/posts/2148/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; of the proposal post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As doncherry said in his comment above, dates are at the right side on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148&quot;&gt;TeX.SE proposal page&lt;/a&gt;. It currently shows &quot;commitment start 2 years ago&quot; etc. However, looking at the source code of the web page you can see the exact dates, so here's the time line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;proposed:&lt;/strong&gt; 2010-06-02 14:20:32Z&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;commitment start:&lt;/strong&gt; 2010-06-22 02:35:48Z&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;private beta start:&lt;/strong&gt; 2010-07-26 19:00:00Z&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;public beta start:&lt;/strong&gt; 2010-08-02 19:00:00Z&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/650/new-design-launched&quot;&gt;launched with new design:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 2010-11-11&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T18:11:27.323" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3184" CreationDate="2013-01-15T22:01:19.853" Score="11" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having heard about Java security issues I deactivated javascript in my firefox. Perhaps it is not javascript which is concerned, and I over-reacted. Anyhow, currently I have this permanent red banner &lt;code&gt;TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange works best with JavaScript enabled&lt;/code&gt; for which no &lt;code&gt;closing button&lt;/code&gt; is available (ironically perhaps because javascript is disabled? I don't know much about html and the like) and my questions is: &lt;i&gt;which features of TeX LaTeX Stack Exchange&lt;/i&gt; am I losing with &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt; disabled in my browser?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="15925" LastEditDate="2013-02-18T11:31:54.380" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T11:31:54.380" Title="About Java security issues" Tags="|discussion|support|javascript|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3183" CreationDate="2013-01-15T22:18:49.993" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't need to worry: Java and Javscript are entirely different things. To quote an &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062/whats-the-difference-between-javascript-and-java&quot;&gt;answer on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Java and Javascript are similar like Car and Carpet are similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason you can't close that permanent red banner is that without Javascript only static (non interactive) content can be served. Without Javascript you're missing out on quite a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17484" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T22:18:49.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2013-01-17T00:01:41.643" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.writelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DyWva.png&quot; alt=&quot;writeLaTeX.com&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23931" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T00:01:41.643" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-17T00:01:41.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3183" CreationDate="2013-01-17T14:02:02.613" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Javascript takes care of everything that is &lt;em&gt;happening&lt;/em&gt; (changing, moving) on a site. Such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;timestamps of posts refreshing themselves every minute&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clicking a link or an image to bring up a box, like the question mark above the answer editing area to bring up Help&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;live preview of question/answer as you edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;notifications that a new question was asked or the current one was edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;everything about Inbox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hovering over a tag to display the description&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21963" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T14:02:02.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3164" CreationDate="2013-01-17T19:33:39.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;co-founder of &lt;a href=&quot;http://SpanDeX.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://SpanDeX.io&lt;/a&gt; here, an online LaTeX platform. We have a similar integration with &lt;a href=&quot;http://LaTeXTemplates.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://LaTeXTemplates.com&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latextemplates.com/template/moderncv-cv-and-cover-letter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's an example of our setup there&lt;/a&gt;). If there's interest in this kind of integration with TeX.SE, we'd be more than happy to offer our platform up. We have shell escape enabled within secure LaTeX sandboxes, so all TeX live packages are supported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18320" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T19:33:39.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3191" CreationDate="2013-01-18T17:06:31.393" Score="6" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;The voting limits are well known to me and are also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5212/are-there-any-voting-limits&quot;&gt;well explained on meta.so&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post votes (votes on questions and answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thirty post votes per day per user (includes upvotes and downvotes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Up to ten additional question-only votes per day per user. These may be cast at any time during the day, but the exact number you get&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90202/please-dont-require-answer-votes-to-be-cast-before-question-votes/90256#90256&quot;&gt;depends on your voting behavior for the day&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've reached that limit many times before. Much to my surprise today I could vote 41 times in total before I reached the limit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I61CT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can that be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T17:44:19.437" Title="How can I have voted 41 times in a day" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3190" CreationDate="2013-01-18T17:44:19.437" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The votes per day limit is based on the calendar day. The number of votes casted refers to the last 24 hours afaik.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is that votes were cast on questions which have been deleted. It would allow to vote again. But your &lt;em&gt;votes cast&lt;/em&gt; number would not be decreased, for example to not penalize for downvoting bad questions which were deleted later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T17:44:19.437" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3193" CreationDate="2013-01-19T10:53:46.790" Score="10" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to make a transition from firefox to chrome (on windows). I managed to get all javascript buttons like ctan package and comment block to work with chrome. But....&#xA;the life line - &lt;code&gt;select code&lt;/code&gt; button eluded me. It seems that it doesn't work with chrome. Without this button I can't migrate to chrome ( I am very serious &lt;code&gt;:-|&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;References:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/891/11232&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/891/11232&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2475/11232&quot;&gt;Useful StackApps and other User Scripts for TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Question:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to get &lt;code&gt;select code&lt;/code&gt; button in google chrome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Edit:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per Martin Scharrer's suggestion (below), I installed Tampermonkey and installed the select_code script through Tampermonkey. Then it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user11232" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T02:30:24.343" Title="How to make `select code` work with google chrome?" Tags="|discussion|user-script|scripts|javascript|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3192" CreationDate="2013-01-19T13:20:36.850" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tested it now and it works fine for me.&#xA;I installed the current version of Chrome (Version 24.0.1312.52 m) and then the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tampermonkey&lt;/a&gt; extension, which is apperently like Greasemonkey for Firefox. It wasn't possible to install the script directly because of the &quot;security&quot; settings of Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T13:20:36.850" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3192" CreationDate="2013-01-20T02:30:24.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I decided to make it somewhat more elaborate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to be followed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Install &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tampermonkey&lt;/a&gt; (press &lt;KBD&gt;Add to chrome&lt;/KBD&gt;). (Open this link in chrome)&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NNh4m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/891/11232&quot;&gt;this answer of Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt; and/or) select &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scharrer-online.de/raw-attachment/wiki/Software/files/select_code.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;to install select_code script.&lt;/a&gt; You will be asked this:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/98WqB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click &lt;KBD&gt;OK&lt;/KBD&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you are done. Now you will get a &lt;code&gt;select code&lt;/code&gt; button below the code as in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JMf84.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but I don't know what tampermonkey does so as to make this code work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T02:30:24.343" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-20T02:30:24.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-20T14:32:53.267" Score="14" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94477/latex-packages-in-wordpress?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;This Question&lt;/a&gt; was mistakenly migrated to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82373/latex-packages-in-wordpress&quot;&gt;WordPress Answers&lt;/a&gt; and closed here. Questions in WPSE relating to WordPress.com-hosted blogs are clearly off-topic there, &lt;a href=&quot;https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;per FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. So the Question was closed &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt; because it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the Asker just wants to know if it's possible to integrate a LaTex package in their WordPress.com-hosted blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One correct Answer would be &quot;&lt;em&gt;No, it's not currently possible. Post a feature request to WordPress.com to integrate that particular package.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are Questions &lt;del&gt;relating to integrating&lt;/del&gt; asking if  LaTex works with &lt;em&gt;Platform [X]&lt;/em&gt; considered off-topic here? If so, I apologize in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24633" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:59.537" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T10:39:03.920" Title="Why is this Question considered off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3195" CreationDate="2013-01-20T19:03:03.197" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the question is fundamentally about WordPress capabilities and not TeX (as evidenced by your suggested answer) it is off topic.  As for the &quot;integrating LaTeX into Platform X&quot; type questions, I think they would generally be off topic unless they specifically deal with the TeX side of things (such as how a particular TeX distribution works etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-01-20T20:04:23.850" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T20:04:23.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3279" CreationDate="2013-01-21T13:43:19.683" Score="11" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questioners often ask how they can tinker with typography (particularly in math mode, particularly white space). In many cases the best answer is &quot;Please don't - the defaults have been carefully chosen to implement proven best practices.&quot; Here's an example, with a comment to that effect, and a good response from the OP: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94697/is-there-a-way-to-define-single-space-or-more-in-math-mode-to-be&quot;&gt;Is there a way to define single space or more in math mode to be \,?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this site have a standard polite response to post for those questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/679/what-should-the-policy-be-on-typography-design-questions&quot;&gt;What should the policy be on typography/design questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T07:10:55.107" Title="Should we use a standard response about sticking to defaults for mathematical typography?" Tags="|discussion|answers|policy|typography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2475" CreationDate="2013-01-21T14:18:38.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/587&quot;&gt;New Q! is a Google Chrome browser extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that notifies you whenever:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone asks a question that interests you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone comments on your question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone comments on your answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You receive a Careers   message&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You receive a chat message&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever these things happen you   receive a desktop notification like the ones shown above. This means   no more refreshing the page of your favorite SE sites to look for&#xA;questions to answer or new inbox notifications. You just wait until&#xA;you are notified and then click the notification and a new tab opens&#xA;for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3uki.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are quoted from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/587&quot;&gt;original post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T14:18:38.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2475" CreationDate="2013-01-21T14:24:38.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2356&quot;&gt;stacknotify google chrome extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your Stack Overflow notification inbox, right into your browser's toolbar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it checks for new notifications every minute&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;shows a notification badge for new items&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;supports all Stack Exchange websites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W8Rch.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are quoted from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2356&quot;&gt;original post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T14:24:38.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2475" CreationDate="2013-01-21T14:27:48.200" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/3832&quot;&gt;Moderator links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adds some extra links to posts and userpages for convenience&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a userpage, all links from the &quot;info&quot; mod menu, except &quot;privileges&quot; is displayed along in the &quot;mod&quot;/&quot;edit&quot;/&quot;prefs&quot;/&quot;flair menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For posts, it adds a link to the comment history/flag history. It also adds a link to the revhistory for posts which don't have a direct link (from the &quot;last edited by&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SXbMj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T14:27:48.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-22T04:43:16.570" Score="6" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about using &lt;a href=&quot;http://geogebra.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Geogebra&lt;/a&gt; to create a diagram that will later be included in my LaTeX document, but the question isn't directly related to LaTeX. Does that make it off-topic? If so, are there other sites which would be a better fit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6894" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2013-01-22T13:40:28.010" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T13:40:28.010" Title="Are questions about using geogebra off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-22T17:13:04.320" Score="18" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13087/1402&quot;&gt;Can I declare a different overlay specification in different beamer modes?&lt;/a&gt; just became &quot;Popular&quot; but it needs some help to get into canonical SE format.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the history:  I posted the question to StackOverflow way back when. Andrew and I wrestled with a few solutions, and I ended up accepting one of my own solutions.  Six months later a user named &quot;Gurvan&quot; submitted an answer, which I didn't understand and dismissed as inoperable.  Four months after that Gurvan came back and submitted another answer, which was really just a reiteration of the first answer, but with example code that demonstrated he was right.  Shortly after that the question got migrated here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I feel like Gurvan's answer (in its two parts) is probably the best one.  Ideally his two answers should be one post, with the explanation and the sample code together.  But Gurvan is nowhere to be seen.  He has no TeX.SE account, nor as far as I can tell even a StackOverflow one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some options to proceed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I edit his first answer, incorporating his second answer, and flag the second answer for deletion.  The edits might end up being substantial, however.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Same as option 1 but with Gurvan's first answer marked as community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Continue the search for Gurvan and do nothing until we find him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other suggestions welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T17:32:11.237" Title="Best answer is split across two posts from same missing user" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3202" CreationDate="2013-01-22T17:32:11.237" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say, merging the answers is the best choice since they belong together. Select the answer with the most votes, so its position in the answer list would not go down, and insert the text from the other answer. The latter can be deleted then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need to make community wiki, since there's no intent yet to edit by other fellow users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need to wait, it's CC licensed. If Gurvan would like to be here, he would be, I guess. Still, it remains to be his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And by the way the title could be edited to be a proper question, and the question can be changed to a consistent question without &quot;Edit 1:&quot;, &quot;Edit 2:&quot;, &quot;Edit 3:&quot; - if somebody wants to see the editing history, it's just one click away. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T17:32:11.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-23T23:15:31.310" Score="20" ViewCount="845" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently there are 505 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lyx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lyx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lyx&lt;/a&gt;, 184 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;emacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;emacs&lt;/a&gt;, 92 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texniccenter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texniccenter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texniccenter&lt;/a&gt;, 89 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt;, 47 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texstudio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texstudio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texstudio&lt;/a&gt;,  54 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/winedt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;winedt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;winedt&lt;/a&gt;. Producing La/TeX from the command line is theoretically possible, but practically impossible; so speaking of Emacs sounds to me much like speaking of Eclipse on a Java community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28/latex-editing-discussions-that-are-editor-specific&quot;&gt;According&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; to DavidZaslavsky “Editor-specific answers to an editor-independent question [...] are kind of a separate issue, but I'd say they're also okay.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28/latex-editing-discussions-that-are-editor-specific&quot;&gt;According&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;to ShreevatsaR, “An answer about an obscure editor that is useful to fewer people will probably get fewer upvotes, but that's the way the system is intended to work.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that Emacs is not an obscure editor and here seems second only to Lyx, I am surprised that a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95052/british-latex-files-with-emacs-and-hunspell&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; I posed, concerned with spell check TeX files in Emacs, was closed as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now I wonder and ask you how legitimate is to speak here about editors used to produce LaTeX documents, instead of pure LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comment to diabonas&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;diabonas: need editing here, since comments allow only a few lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand, we can speak about editors, but questions should be LaTeX specific.&#xA;So, for example, if a question concerns  how to add a &lt;em&gt;LaTeX&lt;/em&gt; table in LyX, it can go;&#xA;if the question deals with  changing the LyX fonts, that is  not OK, since it is non-LaTeX-specific as it could apply to a plain text file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the policy of the community, of course we have to comply with it. But, please, try to search for [lyx] font... you will be surprised.&#xA;Just an example, there is in fact a surprising huge number of questions editor oriented and non-LaTeX-specific. Based on them, I considered polite to post mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific case with Emacs is that, while it is so integrated with LaTeX to allow even live preview of LaTeX snippets, it is still a general purpose  editor.&#xA;So if you ask how to spell for TexStudio and the likes, you can, but you are not very likely to apply it to plain text files, while in Emacs it is plausible to open non-LaTeX files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fresh considerations inspired by Joseph Wright&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just believe me please, I am not trying to claim that I am right somehow, BTW a comment on behalf of Joseph Wright on the question, suggested to me a total rethink. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joseph kindly addressed me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318040&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318040&lt;/a&gt;. This post basically &lt;em&gt;proves&lt;/em&gt; there is an actual bug (dated since 2005!) in the British dictionary and the discussion there suggests a number of workarounds, Mozilla oriented. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now the question can have an interest for quite a wider audience, since OpenOffice dictionaries (perhaps now LibreOffice) are used by so many editors. Besides the “en_GB” files affect more latexers than an American or a Briton might think. At least in Italy (I don’t know in the rest of Europe), British English is the language taught in the high schools (yes, they tell us it is an error to write “center”). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is that the workarounds suggested for Mozilla are kind of limited in scope: for example, they can’t suggest a strategy like this &lt;code&gt;\newcommand{\ie}{i.e.\ }&lt;/code&gt; (well, very trivial, but you are surely thinking of something smarter). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side, Emacs has a probably stronger control on spelling compared with the others. For example one can use the &lt;code&gt;OTHERCHARS&lt;/code&gt; argument in the dictionary list to control how words are built, and use a regexp like &lt;code&gt;['.]&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These considerations altogether make me think that a joint discussion involving latexers and emacsers is far more efficient than a set of disjoint efforts and, for obvious reasons, this community seems the best place to develop it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24004" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T22:21:47.913" Title="Speaking of LaTeX editors" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3204" CreationDate="2013-01-24T08:13:43.793" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question indicates, almost all real (La)TeX documents will be created using a text editor. There are three distinct ways that might be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using a standard text editor with no (La)TeX-specific add-ons. This category covers for example using Notepad, TextEdit or 'vanilla' Emacs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using a standard text editor with add-ons. This covers both simple cases (say adding the ability to typeset to a standard editor, but nothing else) through to extremely complex add-ons (Emacs/AUCTeX I guess would fit at this end).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using an editor focussed on (La)TeX work, for example TeXworks, WinEdt, TeXniccenter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions that then arise are to some extend dependent on the editor route. In category 3, the most common questions focus on linking the editor to TeX tools (either an entire TeX system or a specific command), and these tend to look 'good' for on-topic. At the other end of the spectrum, in category 1 there is likely to be very little that could be asked that would be on-topic. The problematic category is the middle one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For users of standard editors with TeX-specific add-ons, the question needs to require some knowledge about TeX or something directly linked to be solidly on-topic. Thus asking about getting a TeX-specific add-on set up is probably on-topic, while asking about something which would also affect a non-TeX document probably is not. The difficulty arises as some of the issues may be much more to do with the editor than with TeX, even if an add-on is involved. In the case highlighted in the question, the problem would clearly apply to any document, so it is on the editor side rather than the TeX side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the tagging, it's worth noting that a lot of users mention their editor even if the question is nothing to do with the one they use. In the Emacs case, we have the complication that some of the questions we get are really more about Emacs than TeX even though they involve TeX add-ons, but they don't have a better place to go. We've therefore been somewhat flexible about some of them, provided there is some TeX-specific part to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Lyx does not fall into any of the categories above. Lyx is a system which uses LaTeX for typesetting, but does not simply act as a TeX editor. (Indeed, you can't edit an arbitrary TeX file using Lyx.) As such, Lyx questions are on topic ('friend' of TeX), but not as editor questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T08:13:43.793" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3207" CreationDate="2013-01-24T16:33:11.570" Score="24" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is the place to ask so, sorry if I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was asking myself about the distribution of TeX.SE users around the world. Is it possible to have a kind of map to see from where the users come from? Something similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://clustrmaps.com/pt/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ClustrMaps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T16:58:43.430" Title="TeX.SE around the world" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3206" CreationDate="2013-01-24T16:58:43.430" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a blog post about this in 2011: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/tex-sx-users-around-the-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/tex-sx-users-around-the-world/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back then, I also created a zoomable flash map of the users locations: &lt;a href=&quot;http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3113270/TeX-SX-users.swf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3113270/TeX-SX-users.swf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uXH1E.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T16:58:43.430" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3204" CreationDate="2013-01-24T17:27:17.267" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will add my 2 cents worth and try to explain why it is considered off-topic. Imagine that I change your short code example into a very short HTML document, and I post the very same question on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Webmasters&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make any difference in the validity of the question? No, it would not, because the question is about emacs and not about LaTeX. The question is valid on a forum/site where you discuss emacs itself, and that it neither this site nor Webmasters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that this &quot;parable&quot; will help you in understanding which editor-related questions are on-topic and which are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:33:25.733" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T17:27:17.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3204" CreationDate="2013-01-25T12:06:17.857" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've argued since early in the beta that we should try to be inclusive with respect to the technologies that questions may be about - Tex is a family of simple command-line tools that need other technologies to be useful.  To best serve the community of people using Tex-based documentation, the site should be able to answer questions about the rendering of Postscript specials in a DVI viewer, how to view the hinting in a font, how PDF tagging might affect searching for text in an output document, or how to make an editor fit a particular authoring workflow.  Ultimately, we should not be interpreting relevance in a narrow way that means we are sending away questions that are good for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, there are two reasons to think this question is a good fit for us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The example text is a Latex document, so it is from our community; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spell checking is not just about the natural language contents of documents, but also the markup they contain.  It seems quite likely that the manner in which some particular Emacs spellchecker detexifies the documents, is something to do with the problem the questioner has.  So it is quite plausible that the solution to the problem will rely on Tex-related expertise, namely how a particular heuristic for parsing Latex works.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think this question passes the relevance test on two fronts: it is relevant to preparing Latex documents, and it appeals to expertise that we have.  The usually more important criteria for closing relate to whether the question is, regardless of topic, asked in a way that attracts satisfactory answers - it is clear enough in that respect.  So I think it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cf. the less than perfectly conclusive discussion at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/507/is-troff-groff-a-friend-of-tex&quot;&gt;Is troff/groff a &amp;quot;friend&amp;quot; of TeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T12:06:17.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2013-01-25T14:45:48.173" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qcQhY.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXample.net – example resources for TeX users&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T14:45:48.173" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-25T14:45:48.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2013-01-26T16:21:26.103" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code (or any stuff for more general) of mine that I publish or have published previously on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; is free as in &quot;free of charge&quot; and &quot;freedom&quot;. You can claim it as yours. No attribution or permission is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T14:34:45.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2013-01-27T00:03:40.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine (TeX, LaTeX, bash, ImageMagick or any other) that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; or in chat rooms associated with the site I hereby give permission for it to be used and released under either &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt; license in version 1.3 or higher. The works itself, if applicable, fall into the category &quot;author-maintained&quot;. This statement applies for any code published before as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement does not apply to code I provide to users on this site in a private communication like e-mail, instant messanging (other than the site chat), etc. Such code is only for personal use of the user. The user may ask me to re-license it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tomáš Hejda&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T23:07:35.037" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3204" CreationDate="2013-01-27T22:21:47.913" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We also discuss if we should close or reopen questions on chat. This lead to the fact that as a community we have a general idea of what's, kind of, on topic and what not. This editor business is really tough because we already have a lot of editor questions and most of them end up showing buffer tricks, or screenshots of menu items etc. and if you can just go through them you'll see that the knowledge is not even close to TeX but mostly SuperUser.SE stuff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can summarize the main question treatment types: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Emacs, Vim, LyX,... questions that receive quick answers survive even if they are off-topic because we upvote them and it goes to the archive as answered. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similar type of questions that initiate a commenting festival, often end up in a custom chat room where users figure the issue among themselves and then we see a final comment along the lines of &lt;em&gt;Thanks, that solved my issue we can close this one.&lt;/em&gt; and get closed with upvoted answers. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similar type of questions dangling for a few months with no activity. These get closed in our famous &lt;em&gt;Answer the Unanswered&lt;/em&gt; sessions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Same type of questions that deal with the workflow of the editors and not TeX. For example here is one that I've answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36919/texniccenter-on-windows-building-problems&quot;&gt;TeXnicCenter on Windows: Building Problems&lt;/a&gt; Notice that this was also on its way to be closed, had I not provided a guessed answer. So the main issue is to deal with these questions, not to close per se. They are mostly unanswerable. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similar questions about the interference of TeX with Editor behavior and vice versa e.g. &lt;code&gt;shell-escape&lt;/code&gt; related ones and others. They are most of the time on-topic. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after this long example rundown the punchline is: In a community driven Q&amp;amp;A site there are no strict rules but most of the time common agreements. You can pick up lots of TikZ questions that should have been closed but led to 50 upvoted stuff. So making sure that the rule is respected will piss off a lot of users for no reason. Hence, every question is judged individually but not against rules carved on stone.  If a question becomes interesting, we try not to steal the thunder of the users involved just to make sure that our rule is in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always come to the chat room and join our Emacs/Vim lovers' discussions (&lt;em&gt;not me, and yes, I miss a lot, I'm a noob,my pinky should be dislocated by now, butterflies, double rainbows, bla bla :P&lt;/em&gt; ), I've seen a lot of Emacs trick-exchanges. You can also ask if such questions would be on topic or not before you spend time on writing up a question on chat or here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T22:21:47.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3216" CreationDate="2013-01-28T23:14:06.437" Score="16" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;The motivation for this question is this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/94206/revisions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/94206/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of recent edits, the editor decided to change the code formatting in a piece of &lt;code&gt;lisp&lt;/code&gt; code. Since the code &lt;em&gt;was not&lt;/em&gt; badly formatted before, I decided to rollback it, because I felt that code formatting style is a matter of personal preferences, there are many valid ways to do it and editor should not change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some short discussion in the chat and coming to no conlusion, it was decided that more discussion is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So the question is:&lt;/strong&gt; Is it acceptable to edit the code formatting in a post by another user when the formatting is not bad and has no influence on the function of the code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T18:50:17.727" Title="Modifying code formatting when editing" Tags="|discussion|editing|code|formatting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3214" CreationDate="2013-01-29T00:04:22.577" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, reindenting other people's code is a big no-no, unless the code is a complete mess. (Sometimes I am tempted to add linebreaks in those looooong horizontal scrollboxes, but refrain because, well, see my first sentence.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular instance, however, has another angle: the edit added an apropriate language code, which clearly was an improvement. You even kept that after your rollback. So, in this case, I would've suggested to leave the edit for its contribution, and to re-edit to restore your preferred indention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21591" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T00:04:22.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3214" CreationDate="2013-01-29T07:33:44.957" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that it's up to the owner of the post to decide whether they feel editing the code formatting is okay or not, not a third party. When someone's answer is edited, they are notified and can make the call themselves. Maybe they think of the new code formatting as an improvement and are happy about it; if not they can undo the changes themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T07:33:44.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1791" CreationDate="2013-01-29T10:25:29.260" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue with showing it in your profile is that there is &lt;em&gt;no public history&lt;/em&gt; of it. If you post your license statement in the thread &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answers&quot;&gt;Relicensing code from answers&lt;/a&gt; , the information is there &lt;em&gt;forever&lt;/em&gt;, with precise dating and timing, which allows to backtrace the correct license for each piece of code you published here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T10:25:29.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3214" CreationDate="2013-01-29T12:47:21.723" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going from the situation that provoked this, I'd like to point out the dangers of being the &lt;em&gt;third man in&lt;/em&gt;.  This is a well-known phenomenon from rugby: since a rugby match is essentially a pitched battle, it is often hard for a referee to see when a maul turns into a brawl and they might well miss the start of it and see only the retaliation or the &lt;em&gt;third man in&lt;/em&gt;.  Therefore, the third man in is actually the more likely to get sent off the pitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very easy to get offended on someone else's behalf.  In such a circumstance I would advise caution.  Rolling back the edit is only one of the options available.  Chatting about it, flagging it, commenting on the post.  These are all milder actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing I'd say is to always act as if the original offender (assuming an offence has been committed) did so out of the best of motives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, one more thing.  There is a difference between a &lt;em&gt;one off&lt;/em&gt; occurrence and a &lt;em&gt;serial&lt;/em&gt; editor.  In the latter case it is worth gently taking them aside and asking them to desist (assuming that there is no real need for the edits to be made).  But in the former then I think that the danger is of making a mountain out of a molehill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T12:47:21.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3214" CreationDate="2013-01-29T18:50:17.727" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited the code. The indentation was positively misleading, as nested functions are always indented further than the function they are nested in. Indeed, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the original poster used this convention in most of their code&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, so clearly the incorrect indentation was in error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also moved the closing parentheses so that the code was in a more conventional lisp style. This may have been out of line, I won't do that again. However, on review it appears the indentation of the closing parens was haphazard before my edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original poster is following a clear coding convention, and a few lines out of a block are clearly breaking the intended convention, I see no reason not to add a few spaces to make the code formatting &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;consistent with itself&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My apologies to the OP if I have in fact offended them. I will note that up to this point, OP has not expressed any problem with the edit, and may not have minded it in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3197" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T18:50:17.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3221" CreationDate="2013-01-30T11:34:08.410" Score="10" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am interested in looking at and having access to the various LaTeX classes that exist for submitting manuscripts to scientific journals. Many are already on CTAN but there is no way to know to what extent they are. The reasons for my immediate personal interest is otherwise that it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting to see the different LaTeX solutions used in these class files&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;valuable to build a list of such classes for submitting papers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;valuable to get an overview of what is out there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;valuable as background information since some classes have their own tags on TeX.sx&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major caveat that I can see is that it can get totally out of hand, might possibly require moderation, which is why I am posing the question here to get feedback on the interest in and feasibility of the venture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I have not found anything on TeX.sx or elsewhere (other than with very localized in scope) I pose the question, is this something to set up as a Community Wiki question on TeX.sx?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19384" LastEditorUserId="19384" LastEditDate="2013-01-30T21:51:27.050" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T21:51:27.050" Title="Is adding a Community Wiki to list scientific journal LaTeX classes of value?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3220" CreationDate="2013-01-30T12:00:48.463" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;If such a question would be posted, it should have community wiki status, since it would be a community effort and would become a big list instead of having a &quot;correct&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case there should be a kind of sorting, such as by publisher, or by style (article, proceedings, or even book styles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's questionable if it would be really useful, besides for curiosity reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who submit to journals will get the style from the publisher or their web site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who don't submit to journal X don't need this specific style X with requirements and restrictions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody knows if a style is good or recommendable. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex-archive/maths/eqnarray-springer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Springer recommends to use eqnarray&lt;/a&gt;, even today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't really see a benefit in collection a list of links, where later some will probably become dead when the publisher modifies his web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And people should not look here for a journal template, they should go directly to the publisher to get the newest and recommended or required one, not one from CTAN, not from a TeX distribution, or where we would link from here. Even deep links to pages on publisher sites can stay valid while possibly becoming obsolete, such as when there's a newer revision and the publisher points to the newer one but doesn't replace or delete the old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T12:00:48.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-31T09:57:19.933" Score="18" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I review a question or answer and it's clear there is a problem with it. It's a problem where it is best dealt with by leaving a comment and waiting for the author to return. When I review it, comments have already been left. So what do I do? It seems wrong just to click &quot;looks good&quot; because it doesn't look good. But then, any other action I could take would either be inappropriate (premature deletion or closure) or has already been taken (commenting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can just skip the question/answer, but that seems unsatisfactory and doesn't count towards those all-important badges. Is there something more I could be doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the problem is that this site has too many super efficient super helpful editors who do all the work before I get a chance to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T13:42:38.147" Title="Review process: what to do if someone has beat you to it" Tags="|discussion|review-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3222" CreationDate="2013-01-31T13:00:03.403" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I skip the question, just as I would where I don't feel that I fully understand what is going (that's often a problem when I do reviews over on Stack Overflow).  Unlike Stack Overflow, we have a surfeit of willing and qualified reviewers to provide the review feedback we need, so the risk of harm to our site quality from skipping reviews is very low compared to that from providing bad reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The incentives in the review model don't work very well, since they are often an incentive to do the wrong thing: a good strategy for earning badges is to race through, always taking the easiest option not likely to end in embarassment.  So, it is the system that needs fixing.   There's widespread acceptance of the need for this on meta.so; see, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/152709/improving-the-quality-of-reviews-project-honeypot&quot;&gt;Improving the Quality of Reviews: Project Honeypot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So support these proposals, do the right thing here, and trust that you will get all those sought-after badges in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T13:00:03.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3222" CreationDate="2013-01-31T13:42:38.147" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;while i agree with Charles Stewart that there are problems, i sometimes want to look at the item again, and skipping precludes that possibility.  hitting the &quot;back&quot; arrow on the browser leaves open the possibility to return.  (i'm quite happy to skip an item that i know nothing about.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T13:42:38.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2013-01-31T19:33:34.173" Score="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This answer focuses more on minimalizing the code, rather than finding the source of the problem, as the once top-voted answer does. It is intended to be concise and hands-on, but digestible rather than exhaustive. Suggestions for improvement are welcome!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some strategies for reducing your code, which will help you get better and faster answers, since it will be clearer what your problem is and the other users will see that you put some effort into producing a concise Minimal Working Example. Thanks for that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely, not all of these things will apply to your question, so just pick what does apply. However, it is advised that you provide the community with something that will reproduce the problem in the easiest way possible. Typically this requires code that starts with &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; and ends with &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt; (if using LaTeX). It will allow readers to copy-and-paste-and-compile your code and see exactly what problems you might be experiencing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What follows below are snippets of code; &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; references imply that it should typically not be used, as it may not be part of the problem, while &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; references make suggestions that should be used instead. Note that these snippets should still form part of a larger, &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt; structure as mentioned above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Document Class&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{MyUniversitysThesisClass}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[..]{standalone}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...unless your problem relates to the &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/standalone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; document class&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; is meant for cropping stand-alone images within a main document usually. If this doesn't pertain to you, don't use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a non-standard document class? Does your problem still show up with &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt;? Then &lt;strong&gt;use &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Document Class Options&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[12pt, a5paper, final, oneside, onecolumn]{article}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using any options for your document class? Does your problem still show up without them? Then &lt;strong&gt;get rid of them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Comments&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{booktabs} % hübschere Tabllen, besseres Spacing&#xA;\usepackage{colortbl} % farbige Tabellenzellen&#xA;\usepackage{multirow} % mehrzeilige Zellen in Tabellen&#xA;\usepackage{subfloat} % Sub-Gleitumgebungen&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{booktabs}&#xA;\usepackage{colortbl}&#xA;\usepackage{multirow}&#xA;\usepackage{subfloat}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You put comments in your code to remember what packages are there for? Great habit, but usually not necessary in a MWE – &lt;strong&gt;get rid of them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Loading Packages&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{a4wide}&#xA;\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb}&#xA;\usepackage{url}&#xA;\usepackage[algoruled,vlined]{algorithm2e}&#xA;\usepackage{graphicx}&#xA;\usepackage[ngerman, american]{babel}&#xA;\usepackage{booktabs}&#xA;\usepackage{units}&#xA;\usepackage{makeidx}&#xA;  \makeindex  &#xA;\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}&#xA;\usepackage{colortbl}&#xA;\usepackage{epstopdf}&#xA;\usepackage{rotating}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% Assuming your problem is related e.g. to the rotation of a figure, you might need:&#xA;\usepackage{rotating}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You’ve developed an awesome template with lots of helpful packages? Does your problem still show up if you remove some or even most of them? Then &lt;strong&gt;get rid&lt;/strong&gt; of those that &lt;strong&gt;aren’t necessary for reproducing the problem&lt;/strong&gt;. (If you should later find out that another package is complicating the situation, you can always ask another question or edit the existing question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, even packages like &lt;code&gt;inputenc&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;fontenc&lt;/code&gt; are not necessary in MWEs, even though they are essential for many non-English documents in “real” documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Images&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\includegraphics{graphs/dataset17b.pdf}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}&#xA;....&#xA;\includegraphics{graphs/dataset17b.pdf}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{graphicx}&#xA;....&#xA;\includegraphics{example-image}% Image from the mwe package&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your problem includes &lt;strong&gt;an image&lt;/strong&gt;? Does your problem show up with any image? Then use the &lt;strong&gt;option &lt;code&gt;demo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for the package &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; – this way, other users who don’t have your image file won’t get an error message because of that. If you prefer an actual image that you can rotate, stretch, etc., use the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/mwe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package&lt;/strong&gt;, which provides a number of dummy images, named e.g. &lt;code&gt;example-image&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your problem is specific to the size of the included image, still use &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt;'s &lt;code&gt;example-image&lt;/code&gt;, but also specify the &lt;code&gt;width&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;height&lt;/code&gt; so it more readily replicates your &lt;code&gt;custom-image&lt;/code&gt; dimensions. Again, this way the problem is reproducible without using your image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Text&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In \cite{cite:0}, it is shown that $\Delta \subset {U_{\mathcal{{D}}}}$. Hence &#xA;Y. Q. Qian's characterization of conditionally uncountable elements was a &#xA;milestone in constructive algebra. Now it has long been known that there exists &#xA;an almost everywhere Clifford right-canonically pseudo-integrable, Clairaut &#xA;subset \cite{cite:0}. The groundbreaking work of J. Davis on isomorphisms was a &#xA;major advance. In future work, we plan to address questions of uniqueness as &#xA;well as degeneracy. Thus in \cite{cite:0}, the main result was the &#xA;classification of meromorphic, completely left-invariant systems.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{lipsum} % just for dummy text&#xA;...&#xA;\lipsum[1-3]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Foo bar baz.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Need a &lt;strong&gt;few paragraphs of text&lt;/strong&gt; to demonstrate your problem? Use a package that produces &lt;strong&gt;dummy text&lt;/strong&gt;. Popular choices are &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/lipsum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (plain paragraphs) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/blindtext&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;blindtext&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (can produce entire documents with section titles, lists, and formulae).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Need just a &lt;strong&gt;tiny amount of text&lt;/strong&gt;? Then keep it maximally simple; avoid formulae, italics, tables – anything that’s not essential to the problem. Popular choices for dummy words are &lt;code&gt;foo&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;bar&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;baz&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Bibliography Files&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}&#xA;  @book{Knu86,&#xA;    author = {Knuth, Donald E.},&#xA;    year = {1986},&#xA;    title = {The \TeX book},&#xA;  }&#xA;\end{filecontents*}&#xA;&#xA;\bibliography{\jobname} % if you’re using BibTeX&#xA;\addbibresource{\jobname.bib} % if you’re using biblatex&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Need a &lt;strong&gt;.bib file&lt;/strong&gt; to reproduce your problem? Use a maximally simple entry embedded in a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment&lt;/strong&gt; in the preamble. During the compilation, this will create a .bib file in the same directory as the &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file, so users compiling your code only need to save one file by themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option for &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; would be to use the file &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/bibtex/bib/biblatex/biblatex-examples.bib&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;biblatex-examples.bib&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which should be installed with &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; by default. You can find it in &lt;code&gt;bibtex/bib/biblatex/&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Data&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L9Cvg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Never&lt;/em&gt; include data as an image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Number of points    Values&#xA;10                   100&#xA;20                   400&#xA;30                  1200&#xA;40                  2345&#xA;etc...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{filecontents*}{data.txt}&#xA;Number of points, Values&#xA;10, 100&#xA;20, 400&#xA;30, 1200&#xA;40, 2345&#xA;\end{filecontents*}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Including the data as part of the MWE makes the example portable as well. Of course, the input may differ depending on what package you use to manage the data (some require CSV, some don't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Index&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.ist}&#xA;delim_0 &amp;quot;\\dotfill &amp;quot;&#xA;\end{filecontents*}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The index style can be included in the &lt;code&gt;filecontents*&lt;/code&gt; environment in the preamble. The contents (and file extension) will differ according to the required indexing application (&lt;code&gt;makeindex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;xindy&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a problem can only be demonstrated with an index that spans several pages. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/testidx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;testidx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package is like &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; etc but the dummy text is interspersed with &lt;code&gt;\index&lt;/code&gt; to make it easier to test index styles. It has over 400 top-level terms (along with some sub-items and sub-sub-items) that includes every basic Latin letter group (A–Z) as well some extended Latin characters and a few digraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&#xA;aa\index{aa}&#xA;ab\index{ab}&#xA;...&#xA;zy\index{zy}&#xA;zz\index{zz}&#xA;\printindex&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&#xA;\testidx    &#xA;\printindex&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If page breaking is the source of your problem (for example, after a letter group heading or between an item and sub-item), there's a high probability of an awkward break occurring given the large number of test items, but you can alter the page dimensions or font size to ensure one occurs in your MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Glossaries&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/glossaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package comes with some files containing dummy entries, which can be used in MWEs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;－ Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\newglossaryentry{sample1}{name={sample1},description={description 1}}&#xA;...&#xA;\newglossaryentry{sample100}{name={sample100},description={description 100}}&#xA;\newacronym{ac1}{ac1}{acronym 1}&#xA;...&#xA;\newacronym{ac100}{ac100}{acronym 100}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;＋ Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\loadglsentries{example-glossaries-brief}&#xA;\loadglsentries[\acronymtype]{example-glossaries-acronym}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries/glossaries-user.html#sec:lipsum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dummy Entries for Testing&lt;/a&gt; for a complete list of dummy entry files provided by &lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt;. There's an additional file &lt;code&gt;example-glossaries-xr.tex &lt;/code&gt; provided by &lt;code&gt;glossaries-extra&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Formatting your code&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;Formatting of code&lt;/a&gt; is done using Markdown. See the relevant FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1192&quot;&gt;How do I mark code blocks?&lt;/a&gt;. There also exists some syntax-highlighting, a discussion of which can be following at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/184108&quot;&gt;What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the above in mind, don't post your code in comments, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;comments only support a limited amount of Markdown&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Posting a Picture of Your Output&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s often helpful to see what your current, faulty output looks like. If you’re not sure how to do that, have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2781&quot;&gt;How does one add a LaTeX output to a question/answer?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2136&quot;&gt;how can i upload an image to be included in a question or answer?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Selection of packages inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/93924/8&quot;&gt;Inconsistent rotations with \sidewaysfigure&lt;/a&gt;. Math ramble generated by &lt;a href=&quot;http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mathgen&lt;/a&gt;. Bibliography sample from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep.&quot;&gt;lockstep’s&lt;/a&gt; question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10203/biblatex-putting-thin-spaces-between-initials&quot;&gt;biblatex: Putting thin spaces between initials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="304098" LastEditDate="2023-09-13T08:03:21.727" LastActivityDate="2023-09-13T08:03:21.727" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-31T19:33:34.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2013-01-31T19:56:57.813" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reviews have been updated again, to eliminate review abuse (a.k.a. &quot;people clicking “Looks good” all the way through just so they can get a badge&quot;):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reviewers get test items, called &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/review-audits/info&quot;&gt;review audits&lt;/a&gt;, both to provide a tutorial for new reviewers and catch lazy/cynical reviewers.  These act like regular review items, except they give special feedback when the review vote is cast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reviewers who fail too many review audit items are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/review-suspension/info&quot;&gt;suspended&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange/161595#161595&quot;&gt;January 2013 Recent feature changes&lt;/a&gt;.  This has gone live on SO, but I think it has not happened here yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T19:56:57.813" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-31T19:56:57.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3227" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-01T09:21:34.400" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;too-localized&lt;/code&gt; is one of the possible reasons offered when closing a question, like &lt;code&gt;off-topic&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;duplicate&lt;/code&gt;.  It is the rarest close reason and is somewhat tricky in its application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;FAQ&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1106/what-criteria-should-be-used-for-voting-to-close-a-question-as-too-local&quot;&gt;What criteria should be used for voting to close a question as too local?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2579/deleting-questions-marked-as-too-localized-or-not-a-real-question&quot;&gt;Deleting questions marked as &amp;#39;too localized&amp;#39; or &amp;#39;not a real question&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T11:33:31.130" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T11:33:31.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3228" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-01T09:21:34.400" Score="0" Body="`too-localized` is one of the possible reasons offered when closing a question, like `off-topic` and `duplicate`.  It is the rarest close reason and is somewhat tricky in its application." OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T10:44:35.143" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T10:44:35.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3230" CreationDate="2013-02-01T11:28:20.183" Score="13" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;For instance, I'm looking for symbols for the following ternary relations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;f&lt;/em&gt; is a relation with source &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; and target &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;f&lt;/em&gt; is a left-total relation with &lt;em&gt;ditto&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;f&lt;/em&gt; is a right-total relation with &lt;em&gt;ditto&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;f&lt;/em&gt; is a left-and-right total relation with &lt;em&gt;ditto&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's more (I'm looking for 16 different symbols, in total), but I won't list them all here. Anyway, is the TeX forum a good place to ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18921" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T11:37:42.333" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T11:37:52.613" Title="Is this the right place to ask about mathematical notation?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2013-02-01T11:37:52.613" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TeX site is not the correct place. It would be, if you would know your desired notation and ask how to typeset this with TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the notation style itself, better ask on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Math&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Graphicdesign&lt;/a&gt; site. The latter also deals with &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40151/typography&quot;&gt;typography questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:19.490" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T11:37:52.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3232" CreationDate="2013-02-01T19:18:31.867" Score="16" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I check my comments on TeX.SE and delete obsolete one like &quot;Welcome to TeX.SE&quot; or if the content of my comment has been added to an answer or ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I got the message that I'm not allowed to delete more than 5 own comments per day. Does somebody know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T19:25:13.650" LastActivityDate="2019-05-27T18:54:14.090" Title="Why can't I delete more than five of my own comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3231" CreationDate="2013-02-01T19:24:44.507" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a protection mechanism to prevent people to delete too much of their contribution on the site. It also hinders an hacker to do the same. Actually your action triggered an automatic moderator attention flag by the system, which I cleared just now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess from time to time some people, mainly from the bigger stackexchange sites, may become frustrated for some reason and start to delete their posts and comments. Later they might regret that. It also hurts the site if some more important comments are gone. So I'm not surprised the SX team put them protection mechanism in place. Normally you don't need to delete too many of your comments in one go. You could also flag some as obsolete, so that a moderator can delete them for you. However, I wouldn't do that because its an extra workload for the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="14996" LastEditDate="2013-02-12T16:01:23.567" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T16:01:23.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-03T14:34:12.480" Score="0" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1192/how-do-i-mark-code-blocks&quot;&gt;How do I mark code blocks?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm new user here and my English is poor. So when I was putting one question here, a person told me that I needed to use some codes to show better my doubts. How should I write the code here for it to appear this way?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WRewj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I am writing and putting this way: bla-bla-bla     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;\documentclass[notes=show,12pt]{beamer}&#xA;\usepackage{beamerthemeshadow} etc, .... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because I did't understand yet the help and the correct way. Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25034" OwnerDisplayName="Moura" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-02-03T16:21:13.747" Title="An simple example - typesetting here" Tags="|discussion|typography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2013-02-03T17:58:52.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3233" CreationDate="2013-02-03T16:21:13.747" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally understood how I should proceed to put the command's tex in a question. As explained to me by Jake and doncherry, we need to select the command's tex code block and then press Ctrl+K. Another command is too simple: press the button {} above, as explained too by doncherry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25034" LastActivityDate="2013-02-03T16:21:13.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3237" CreationDate="2013-02-04T19:20:57.073" Score="16" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a 100% sure but I think I remember that sometimes retagging a question gave me 2 points of reputation and sometimes I didn't earn any reputation from retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone confirm this behaviour or do I just remember wrong? And in case this is true, what is the explanation for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18674" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T20:17:12.697" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T20:26:57.143" Title="Reputation for retagging" Tags="|support|tagging|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3235" CreationDate="2013-02-04T19:46:27.167" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you reach 500 rep, you gain the privilege to retag questions. With less than 500 rep, you would get 2 points if a suggested retag was approved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T19:46:27.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3235" CreationDate="2013-02-04T19:47:00.233" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/retag-questions&quot;&gt;&quot;retag questions&quot; privilege&lt;/a&gt; (500 rep), you no longer need to edit a question (thereby gaining 2 points) to retag a question – simply retagging gains you no points. If you have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;&quot;edit questions and answers&quot; privilege&lt;/a&gt; (2000 rep), you get no points for editing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T20:26:57.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-05T13:21:29.020" Score="84" ViewCount="1978" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing &lt;code&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/code&gt;, I have noticed that very frequently people provide answers to a question in the question's comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/96703/bibtex-error-inputenc-error-unicode-char-u8-not-set-up-for-use-with-latex&quot;&gt;BibTeX error &amp;quot;inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/87241/is-there-any-package-for-latex-dealing-with-a-database&quot;&gt;Is there any package for LaTeX dealing with a database?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/89610/how-to-correctly-set-up-palatino-font-with-math-related-to-pxfonts&quot;&gt;How to correctly set up Palatino font with math (related to pxfonts)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very different from other SE sites where people tend to provide a lot of answers, and the best one(s) appear at the top by voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking because for several unanswered questions I would like to provide an answer, but then I see the very same answer has been submitted as a comment, so I think &quot;ah well, this would look like cheap copying, I rather leave it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively this seems to leave questions technically unanswered where in reality a pretty satisfying answer exists. To me, this habit seems contradictory to a Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:25:17.460" Title="Why do people answer in comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3241" CreationDate="2013-02-05T13:39:47.237" Score="32" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;Googling a phrase from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20149/which-font-is-the-most-comfortable-for-on-screen-viewing&quot;&gt;Which font is the most comfortable for on-screen viewing?&lt;/a&gt; brings up three other sites featuring the same question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;www.faqoverflow.com/tex/20149.html&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;www.zqna.net/qna/ihnmrw-which-font-is-the-most-comfortable-for-on-screen-viewing.html&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;www.techques.com/question/31-20149/Which-font-is-the-most-comfortable-for-on-screen-viewing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Hyperlinks removed by doncherry so that bots don’t think these links are worth following, cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/131846/162565&quot; title=&quot;Please don&amp;#39;t link directly to clones; we don&amp;#39;t want GoogleBot thinking they&amp;#39;re good because Stack Exchange pages link to them (if you want to provide URLs, enclose them in backticks, like &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;http://badsite.com&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;)&quot;&gt;meta.so&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I knew that all SE user content is &quot;licensed&quot; under something called &quot;cc-wiki license&quot;, which, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;the SE blog&lt;/a&gt;  explains, requires that the re-user &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows that content is from SE and hyperlinks to the original question,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows the question/answer/comment posters' names and hyperlinks to their SE profiles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FAQ Overflow fulfills these requirements, while the other two don't. So what can/should we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21963" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T21:17:33.830" Title="Should I worry about other sites &quot;stealing&quot; SE content?" Tags="|discussion|policy|licensing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2013-02-05T13:54:17.140" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be that people don't consider a one-liner solution to be worth an Answer. There's the feeling that an Answer with capital A is something more detailed. This feeling is (at least in my case) strengthened by the fact that somehow, on this site, there are much more detailed answers than one-liners. The Answerers usually go to great detail even about simple topics because there is the chance that the question poster does not know the correct terminology yet and needs more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21963" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T13:54:17.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-02-05T14:12:18.480" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can be reported on Meta Stack Overflow - ZQNA was already added by @doncherry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/131846/report-sites-that-use-se-content-without-following-attribution-rules-here&quot;&gt;Report sites that use SE content without following attribution rules here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T21:13:53.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2013-02-05T14:35:37.653" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, you are correct that something which answers the question should be given as an answer. However, there are some subtleties to this. The first is as marczellm says that a one-liner may not really 'feel' like an answer: it may be the core of an answer but need expansion, for example. There is then the question of whether the comment really answers the question, which you might want to check out. Not all questions are great, and some of them you may want to comment on with the expectation that they'll be closed. That's particularly the case when you're posting something that can be found in a simple guide or with a web search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During our 'Answer the Unanswered' sessions, one of the things that happens is that people are encouraged to convert comments to answers where this seems the best approach. (That's done by leaving a comment asking the earlier commenter to take action: I use &lt;code&gt;@&amp;lt;person&amp;gt; Looks like an answer to me&lt;/code&gt;.) If the original commenter does not do this, or is not about, then a community wiki answer is often left. This is a way to use the info from a comment without gaining reputation, so without feeling you are 'stealing' from anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T14:35:37.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2013-02-05T14:46:47.370" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joseph's post speaks about it slightly, but I would like to add one comment. This often happens when there is not enough information in the question, usually because of a missing MWE. This makes the question difficult to answer, so we often just try to guess what is the problem and we shoot a possible solution, as a comment. If later it is found out that the solution was right, it is made an answer so that it can be up-voted, accepted, question resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T14:46:47.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2013-02-05T14:50:14.527" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes posted advice in a comment, because of being pretty sure that the question has been answered before and I just did not find the duplicate yet. As soon as I would find the duplicate, I would add a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to check for a duplicate at first, before quickly firing answer for rep and badges. I guess commenters often avoid adding an answer to a potential duplicate, or to a very localized question with a small mistake to be corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is likely to be closed, adding a comment may be better than adding an answer (which would conflict with the intention of closing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it turns out that it should be a real answer, it's a good etiquette that the commentor makes one, or would be asked so. In case there's not response we often noticed community wiki answers made instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2013-02-05T15:25:20.457" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T15:25:20.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2013-02-05T14:54:13.557" Score="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two ways in which you can view a Question/Answer site. One is as a real-time &quot;I've asked this question and I want a quick answer now&quot; type of site, and the other is as a longer term repository of questions and definitive answers. I think that many of us here take this latter view of the site. As a result, we have lots of very high quality answers, and a relatively low number of competing answers for many questions.  We also tend to comment on answers to improve them rather than posting competing answers.  This is a very good thing, IMO and not only makes the site a useful long term resource, but also fosters a real sense of community where people are willing to help each other rather than fighting over reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that having lots of competing answers to any particular question just generates noise and makes the site less useful.  Also, as you can see from other sites where this practice is more common,  when there are lots of answers, early answers tend to get upvotes and very good but later answers sometimes don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commenting facility however, provides a real time remedy to this situation: a comment that also provides an answer may solve the original questioner's problem, and (as others have noted) at the same time provide time for us to find and link to other related or duplicate questions.  This again adds to the value of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it might appear that this system would lead to a lot of unanswered questions, if answers in comments don't get turned into answers, in practice this is not much of a problem.  We hold a monthly &quot;Answer the unanswered&quot; session, which catches most, if not all of these cases, and I suspect that the number of unanswered questions that have been answered only by a comment is very low. Also, when comments are resolved they are usually turned into answers. If you see such cases, feel free to ping the commenter in another comment and ask them to convert their comment into an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2014-03-15T00:39:15.393" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T00:39:15.393" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2013-02-05T14:54:45.667" Score="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also often find myself dropping a comment instead of answering. In addition to what was already answered here, my reasons mostly are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Might be too localized.&lt;/strong&gt; If the answer to a huge question is a one-liner, then more often than not the real problem was a little thing the OP overlooked, having nothing to do with the perceived question at all. In that case, it's often better to close or delete the question, and an answer might be contraproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not tested / Too little time.&lt;/strong&gt; When I post an answer, I would at least test it really works, and give an appropriate amount of explanation. When I don't have the time or can't be bothered to test, I often resort to shooting a comment pointing in the &lt;em&gt;intuitively&lt;/em&gt; right direction (instead of doing nothing at all). If it happens to hit the point, I can later come back and extend the comment into a &quot;real&quot; answer (if there isn't one already).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T14:54:45.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3250" CreationDate="2013-02-05T19:19:57.250" Score="14" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of now the following post has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/96888/5764&quot;&gt;deleted answer&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14751/5764&quot;&gt;Is it possible to embed a YouTube video using LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is still visible within the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools&quot;&gt;10K tools&lt;/a&gt; as an item that requires attention, even displayed as being deleted (through the shading/colour):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zhbtj.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is surely a bug. I'm running Google Chrome 24.0.1312.57 m and have cleared my cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A related (currently unanswered bug) regarding 10K tools is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2554/5764&quot;&gt;Review flags doesn't match actual flags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Not sure how reproducible these bugs are.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T11:10:28.750" Title="10K-tools allow evaluation of already deleted post" Tags="|bug|status-completed|flagging|10k-tools|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3248" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-05T19:29:20.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/10k-tools&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged '10k-tools'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;10k-tools&lt;/a&gt; are available to users who have earned 10K reputation on the main site. It provides the ability to handle flags, vote on post deletion and assist our elected community moderators. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10K privilege page&lt;/a&gt; provides a detailed FAQ of the moderator tools available to these users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-02-05T19:29:20.990" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T19:29:20.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3249" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-05T19:29:20.990" Score="0" Body="{10K-tools} are available to users who have earned 10K reputation on the main site. It provides the ability to handle flags, vote on post deletion and assist our elected community moderators." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-02-05T19:29:20.990" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T19:29:20.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3247" CreationDate="2013-02-08T11:10:15.253" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;10k users were seeing all posts with moderator flags on them, whether they were deleted or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next build corrects this issue, so you shouldn't be seeing deleted posts on the 10k tools unless you are a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25639" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T11:10:15.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3252" CreationDate="2013-02-08T16:14:23.040" Score="13" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple question: Should we flag answers that are obviously not answering the question? I don't mean the cases of &quot;question in answer&quot; or &quot;comment in answer&quot;, I really mean when question is about X and answer answers Y, where X and Y are completely different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Remark: Some comment treating this is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2533/flagging-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; but it is about one specific case.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-02-09T12:35:25.283" Title="Flagging obviously wrong answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2013-02-08T16:25:19.660" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would leave a comment on the answer, explaining why it doesn't answer the question, giving the poster the chance to respond and argue their point/adjust their answer/remove it. If after that you still think the answer is wrong and might be misleading for others, downvote it. That's what the voting system is for. I don't think flagging is the right thing to do in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T16:25:19.660" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3253" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3257" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:15:12.370" Score="68" ViewCount="12505" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt; is very popular, with close to 35k views as of Feb ’13. However, the answers vary a lot in terms of quality and the kinds of information they provide, which makes comparison harder than it would have to be. So I thought it might be nice to standardize the information available about every editor. Here’s what I’d propose to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compile a list of features, which will be present in every editor’s answer (Unicode, RTL support, platforms, ...). This will pretty much result in standard answer template.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a sample document (~40 lines max) to take screen shots of in each editor, so the screen shots will be really comparable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have users here “sign up” for editors, i.e. one or a few users will be “responsible” for a specific editor that they are experienced in using. If the editor receives major updates, it’d be great if they could also update the answer accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of these should be one CW answer here, I guess, which I’ll create; discussions can take place in the respective comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, we get questions like “Which LaTeX editor can make fried eggs?” – in these cases, we could just create a call for action here (another answer as a to-do-list probably) and have the editor caretakers add the feature “Make fried eggs” to their respective editor’s answer. All the information neatly collected in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, of course, the great Wikipedia article &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TeX_editors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comparison of TeX editors&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and we should try to avoid just duplicating that here. Instead, let’s take advantage of our format: screen shots are definitely a plus; we can me a little more subjective than Wikipedia; we can add a few words to a bare &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt;, if necessary; and, while I don’t know how up-to-date that article is, it might be easier for us to stay up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Important: Let’s wait with updating the actual answers until we’ve pretty much sorted everything out here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feel free to edit all answers without prior discussion.&lt;/strong&gt; I think most things won’t be very controversial, since it’s usually not an either-or situation. If the feature list or sample document get too extensive, we can always try to boil them down later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; Any discussion comments that get 'actioned' will be removed periodically so the key points stay clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2022-12-10T17:31:40.463" Title="Let’s polish the Editors/IDEs question" Tags="|discussion|editing|specific-question|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3253" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:32:48.403" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Feature List / Answer Template&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;between the two double rules&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX Editor Name&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/our-tag-for-this-editor-if-it-exists&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;our-tag-for-this-editor-if-it-exists&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;our-tag-for-this-editor-if-it-exists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Platforms:&lt;/em&gt; Windows XP/Vista/7/8, OS X 10.?, Linux&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;License:&lt;/em&gt; License XYZ, US$ 20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Languages:&lt;/em&gt; de, en, fr, ... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unicode:&lt;/em&gt; Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;RTL/bidi:&lt;/em&gt; Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;% !TEX&lt;/code&gt; directives:&lt;/em&gt; Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Syntax Highlighting:&lt;/em&gt; Yes, (not) customizable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Code Completion:&lt;/em&gt; Yes, (not) customizable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Code Folding&lt;/em&gt;: Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spell Checking:&lt;/em&gt; Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;SyncTeX:&lt;/em&gt; Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Built-in Output Viewer:&lt;/em&gt; Yes, supports PDF, DVI&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Project Management:&lt;/em&gt; Yes (which?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Autosave:&lt;/em&gt; Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Line Spacing:&lt;/em&gt; Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Description, if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A9b3Q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A9b3Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Editor Name screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are some specific features to showcase, we could have more screen shots here. Try to make all alt texts of the pictures descriptive; we can see them on mouseover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, we could have personal statements with the name of the user in front and quotation marks (?), a bit like a mini-review, maintaining a separation between feature descriptions and more subjective statements, but allowing to reuse most of the existing material in the answers:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4012/doncherry&quot;&gt;doncherry&lt;/a&gt;: “This is my favorite editor and I’ve been using it since 1978 because it was the only one with Tengwar support back then.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Explanation of features, if necessary&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;License: I’m not sure if that’s the best way of putting that information [doncherry]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RTL = right to left; bidi = bidirectional.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code Folding: Can 'roll up' sections into just the heading (also called 'outline')&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;% !TEX&lt;/code&gt; directives: See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/78101/&quot;&gt;When and why should I use % !TEX TS-program and % !TEX encoding?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Project Management: Would it be good to have more than just yes/no here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T05:48:52.147" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-08T17:32:48.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3253" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:37:03.700" Score="16" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Editor Sign Up List&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/402&quot;&gt;Texmaker&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4012&quot;&gt;doncherry&lt;/a&gt; (Win7),&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/16839&quot;&gt;hpesoj626&lt;/a&gt; (linux).&#xA;Updated 2013-02-28&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/411&quot;&gt;TeXworks&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11002&quot;&gt;tohecz&lt;/a&gt; (linux).&#xA;Updated 2013-03-09&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/384&quot;&gt;TeXnicCenter&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764&quot;&gt;Werner&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3235/percusse&quot;&gt;percusse&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Updated 2013-03-15&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/5281&quot;&gt;TeXStudio&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/16839&quot;&gt;hpesoj626&lt;/a&gt; (linux).&#xA;Updated 2013-03-09&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/350/2693&quot;&gt;TeXShop&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2693&quot;&gt;Alan Munn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/394/9736&quot;&gt;Vim&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/9736&quot;&gt;Psirus&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Updated 2013-03-09&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/356&quot;&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/175/charles-stewart&quot;&gt;Charles Stewart&lt;/a&gt; (OSX, linux),&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3197/tyler&quot;&gt;Tyler Smith&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Updated 2013-03-09&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/374/4012&quot;&gt;WinEdt&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; (former user so have some idea!).&#xA;Updated 2013-03-16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please add yourself with your favorite editor(s) here. In order to keep the “responsibility” somewhat concentrated, I’d say &lt;strong&gt;no more than three people&lt;/strong&gt; per editor.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Editors with a score of at least 25 still looking for someone – freelancers welcome!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/340/4012&quot;&gt;Kile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/380/4012&quot;&gt;LyX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-03-16T22:55:38.787" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-08T17:37:03.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3253" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:39:50.433" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Sample Document For Screen Shots&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;named &lt;code&gt;foo-bar.tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;% A comment: here we use a standard class&#xA;\documentclass{report}&#xA;\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\chapter{Hello World}&#xA;Inline math mode: $\int_{0}^{2\pi}\sin x\,dx$.&#xA;Display math mode: \[\int_{0}^{2\pi}\sin x\,dx\]&#xA;Something \verb|verbatim here with $|\\[2em]&#xA;\section{Hi There, John}&#xA;\emph{Baz} \textti{a typo in a macro}&#xA;\begin{tabular}{ccc}&#xA;  Foo &amp;amp; Bar &amp;amp; Baz \\\hline&#xA;  1   &amp;amp; 2   &amp;amp; 3   \\&#xA;  4   &amp;amp; 5   &amp;amp; 6   \\&#xA;\end{tabular}&#xA;and then a list with cross references and citations&#xA;\begin{enumerate}&#xA;   \item \label{it:first} This is an item with a citation \cite{dummy}.&#xA;   \item This item has a reference to the previous item, namely \ref{it:first} and should be deliberately longer than 80 characters.&#xA;\end{enumerate}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take screen shots preferably with the editor’s default settings, i.e. what users would see immediately after installation. Include the (pdf) preview, if available, and wherever the error about &lt;code&gt;\textti&lt;/code&gt; would be displayed. Make the picture a link to itself so we can click to enlarge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Texmaker sample document screen shot][1]][1]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2022-04-21T16:10:53.540" LastActivityDate="2022-04-21T16:10:53.540" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-08T17:39:50.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3253" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:49:57.590" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;To-Do List&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;go ahead and edit your editor’s answer!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;still looking for volunteers for some editors!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;General Questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the title as it is? &lt;em&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question body?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting will probably just keep sort-of reflecting the relative popularity of the respective editor, and perhaps also the convincingness of the answer? (That’s my guess for what it is right now.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This will be the accepted answer as soon as I can self-accept it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-02-24T16:22:58.757" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T16:22:58.757" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-08T17:49:57.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2013-02-09T12:35:25.283" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Emphasis mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the&#xA;  question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;or deleted altogether&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;: If you think that the answer is so horribly wrong that it should be deleted - flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2013-02-09T12:35:25.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-11T11:58:09.807" Score="12" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very often we get questions which reference &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; code without any code being present.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In many cases, the answer requires a MWE for the answerer to continue on, but it hasn't got a MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if one could review questions into requiring a MWE for obviously trivial things, would that be a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her are my thoughts about how it could be implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A possible answerer see a question which would benefit from a MWE. In that case he flags it as &quot;&lt;em&gt;MWE required&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and it gets to the review process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it succeeds in the review (i.e. flag accepted) the question will be closed for answers until an edit has been made. Also an automatic comment will be attached linking to &quot;&lt;em&gt;What is an MWE?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;How to generate a good MWE?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Why is a MWE required?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Furthermore, if the questioneer, adds a comment below his question, the reviewers who made the decision will get notified so as to take action on any requests, etc.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now there are two possibilities after the edit:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    - It is re-opened for answers (I lend towards this, as it lessens the burden for the reviewers)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    - It gets back in the review pile (to ensure a suitable MWE).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it succeeds, there will be a bar under the questions which is there to inform other answeres about the request for a MWE. Then they can decide whether they wish to answer or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Drawbacks&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This review process has a couple of drawbacks:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The burden of the community increases, as a lot more reviewing takes place. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might frighten some people away from this Q&amp;amp;A, if they keep getting &quot;&lt;em&gt;Needs an MWE&lt;/em&gt;&quot; when they dont know about to create one. (however, this will be leveraged through comments with the user)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This will only work if the review process goes faster than any answerers post an answer, but just as a &lt;em&gt;close(x)&lt;/em&gt; flag is apparent on the question frame, so could &lt;em&gt;MWE required(x)&lt;/em&gt; /&lt;em&gt;MWE(x)&lt;/em&gt; be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A flood of &lt;em&gt;MWE required&lt;/em&gt; could pose a potential stall for any answers on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Benefits&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some benefits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The quality of the questions will be raised, as they will be more specific, with examples. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newcomers will immediately be introduced about how to ask questions via SE standards (or at least TeX.SE).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will increase quality of answers as it already introduces some code which should be explained (instead of just one-line answers with no or limited explanation) (also please elaborate on this opinion)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very &lt;em&gt;simple&lt;/em&gt; questions could receive extra attention as it leads to more detailed discussion about the inner-workings of TeX (often a MWE example shows what the person was thinking rather than what the person would want). This is a future benefit for other having the same problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also in regards of &lt;code&gt;TikZ&lt;/code&gt; (which is a heavily active question topic) it will be clearer for answerers to see what the questioneer actually is doing (&lt;code&gt;TikZ&lt;/code&gt; is so complicated that any drawing has nearly unlimited number of possibilities).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the review was wrongly justified, a simple edit would bring it to an active state again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very much in doubt whether this is a good idea or not, but at least I would like to hear your opinion on this.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I also think that the community on this site would not stall due to the above method. People are nice about things here (and of course the way it is presented to the questioneer should not be &quot;DO THIS YOU ...&quot;, but more like &quot;&lt;em&gt;Users xxx,xxx,xx,xx and xx suggests that you provide a MWE. This will show them exactly what your question is about as there could be ambiguities... etc.&lt;/em&gt; &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7049" LastEditorUserId="7049" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T17:18:42.457" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T20:14:55.703" Title="Review questions for adding a MWE" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3259" CreationDate="2013-02-11T20:14:55.703" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, there are two parties that get hurt in the process of asking for MWEs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is the people who have commented for a MWE just above a 14 voted answer (which is kind of funny if you think about it, happened to me a lot so no complaints!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other one is the people who ask almost identical questions without MWE but the question gets closed instead of an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a huge fan of our community attitude however the unanswered list is increasing with simply unanswerable questions. When the load is a certain threshold &lt;strong&gt;Answer the Unanswered&lt;/strong&gt; sessions are not enough to neutralize the inflation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, I am not in the favor of implementing a complicated policy that would cause user-conflicts on how a particular rule should be exercised. Instead we can warn the user that the question will very likely be closed after a few weeks unless someone with free-time or rep hunger steps in and do the hardwork for them. But s/he (arrgh) can make it attractive with just a few lines of code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TLDR; my opinion is that, instead of rules and complications, psychological pressure is more pragmatic for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T20:14:55.703" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-11T21:01:58.183" Score="5" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a French student living in the US, I'm using both QWERTY and AZERTY keyboards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tex.stackexhange is a good website, but a problem comes when it's about asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, when I wanna use the &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; as in &lt;code&gt;subcaption&lt;/code&gt;, I have to switch my keyboard to a US keyboard cause that character doesn't exist on the French one. &#xA;The same problems comes with other functions too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there another way to implement that function in a question without switching keyboards ? Does a universal/international code exist for that ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25273" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T18:33:21.450" Title="How to create function Blocks in StackExchange questions?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3261" CreationDate="2013-02-11T21:46:49.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my French keyboard layout (on a Mac), the \ key is mapped to the ` character.  Are you sure that your keyboard layout doesn't provide the character at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evidence:&lt;/strong&gt; (please don't correct the typos).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This line zqs typed on q French keyboqrd lqyoyt: &lt;code&gt;this pqrt&lt;/code&gt; is so,e inline code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This line was typed on a French keyboard layout. &lt;code&gt;this part&lt;/code&gt; is some inline code.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GTlS1.png&quot; alt=&quot;French keyboard layout&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T21:46:49.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3264" CreationDate="2013-02-12T00:59:08.183" Score="17" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a solution to a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/97741/22413&quot;&gt;How to mimic the behavior of &lt;code&gt;\ncput*&lt;/code&gt; but without the unwanted opaque effect?&lt;/a&gt; which got labeled as a community wiki.  I was curious why?  And what exactly does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22413" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T01:33:18.887" Title="Just curious, why did my answer get labeled as community wiki?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3263" CreationDate="2013-02-12T01:04:38.497" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's due to your &gt;10 edits. I've already pinged the mods about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta.SO reference&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts/11741#11741&quot;&gt;What are &amp;quot;Community Wiki&amp;quot; posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T01:04:38.497" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3280" CreationDate="2013-02-12T09:05:51.930" Score="18" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a small request to all who do the great job of editing posts (especially questions) and improving the quality of the site this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please, always check whether the question is properly tagged!&lt;/em&gt; Tagging is very important for ease of searching on the site, and for the &quot;Related&quot; panel on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has happened to me plenty of times that a post was edited by an experienced user, but not re-tagged. Several times I was just doing an edit myself, got the message &quot;this post has been already edited by someone else&quot;, only to find that the other edit did not retag and it has to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for doing the job!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T09:46:43.577" Title="Re-tagging when editing question!" Tags="|discussion|tagging|editing|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-12T16:04:44.517" Score="5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I encountered some strange behaviour when posting &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/97632/generating-loops-to-produce-edges-for-network-graph-of-4x4-knights-problem/97809#97809&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The problem:&lt;/strong&gt;  The inclusion of images altered code in the code block.  Specifically, my code contained double indices of the form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[i][1]&#xA;[i][2]&#xA;[i][1]&#xA;[i][2]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which after uploading a few images, gets changed to (approximately)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[i][3]&#xA;[i][2]&#xA;[i][4]&#xA;[i][2]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And duplicate links to some of the images were added at the bottom of the post.  It seems that the double indices are being interpreted as referring to the uploaded images.  The problem can be reproduced by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding indices as in the first block above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Before, or after, marking the indices as a code block, include 2 or more images above it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least in preview, the problem can be resolved by including the images first, and then adding the code.  It's hard to tell whether this is something that can be easily fixed, but it caught me off guard.  Is this intended behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T18:56:10.233" Title="Adding images changes code block indices" Tags="|bug|markdown|images|code|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3268" CreationDate="2013-02-13T09:28:41.313" Score="19" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;I can see dead people&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently acquired 'access to moderator tools', and, as a result (I think), I now get to see things that have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that with great power comes great responsibility, and I may even have an &lt;em&gt;obligation&lt;/em&gt; to look at these things, but I would prefer not to. So, two questions in one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to suppress my view of deleted stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it ethical for me to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344" LastEditorUserId="5701" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T20:19:35.037" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T20:19:35.037" Title="How can I turn off my view of deleted stuff?" Tags="|discussion|support|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3267" CreationDate="2013-02-13T11:03:19.623" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;These posts are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33122/deleting-comments-not-by-me-on-my-answer/33142#33142&quot;&gt;forced-visible to all 10k users all the time&lt;/a&gt; and this is by design.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is better to see this as a matter of being encouraged, rather than being responsible.  You can always give away the reputation in a bonfire of bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T11:03:19.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3267" CreationDate="2013-02-13T11:10:20.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could all downvote you back below 10k, that would work I think. Or you could give me a 500 bounty for something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T11:10:20.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3267" CreationDate="2013-02-13T16:34:41.460" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no option provided by SX to hide these posts, but: Deleted posts have a different look, so they need to have different CSS classes. It is therefore possible to write a user script which changes the corresponding CSS style to hide these posts or even replaces them with a short notice. I programmed something like this once for a forum where you couldn't blacklist posts by certain users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T16:34:41.460" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3273" CreationDate="2013-02-13T22:11:12.330" Score="17" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to flag a question as a duplicate of a question on another StackExchange site (SE site)? What if the question is closed there as off-topic? For example, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/97941&quot;&gt;this question on TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/2701902&quot;&gt;possible duplicate on SO&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/2703707&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; is answering both questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration of an &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt; question to TeX.SE will spoil the view counter on TeX.SE and give the question a wrong ranking (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/869/24449&quot;&gt;Policy on migrating questions from another StackExchange site?&lt;/a&gt;). So it seems not an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is quoting. One could&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;post a link to the old question / answer, or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;quote the most appropriate answer literally (that is copy and paste into a quotation block, add the link, mention the author).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should one use a community wiki instead of an answer to be fair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up, which technique is recommended in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24449" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T15:36:04.983" Title="How to deal with TeX.SE question that is duplicate of a question on another StackExchange site?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3271" CreationDate="2013-02-13T22:26:11.823" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, in my opinion it makes sense to migrate the question from SO to TeX.SX, polish it by removing the not-an-answers and properly retag. The question is good as it stands, so are the (real) answers there. The one here can then be closed as a duplicate (if it is a duplicate, I'm not an expert in this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO: Migrating good questions with good answers here, if they clearly belong here (which is obviously the case, since SO closed it as off-topic), makes sense and is valuable for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T22:26:11.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3271" CreationDate="2013-02-14T15:36:04.983" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd go with option 2, making it CW. We can have a good answer on our site that would make for easier browsing. Migrating the question on SO is out of the question, I'm afraid, since it's quite old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T15:36:04.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3274" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-14T17:56:49.073" Score="16" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;We often comment on questions, asking the original poster to try and improve their question- the standard comments include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you provide a minimal working example?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you show what you have tried so far?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, we never hear back from the original poster, which typically makes the question either Too Localized or Not A Real Question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the community think about logging such questions, perhaps on month-by-month basis, in a specially designated chat room or other venue? It might make the, 'Answer the unanswered sessions' slightly easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="1402" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T19:43:53.090" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T20:01:21.510" Title="Keeping a log of potentially duplicate, TL, NARQ, questions" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3261" CreationDate="2013-02-15T18:33:21.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a french PC keyboard this symbol is accessible through &lt;code&gt;AltGr + è&lt;/code&gt; (or the &lt;code&gt;7&lt;/code&gt; key if you prefer...), and typing a space or a &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19156" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T18:33:21.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2013-02-15T20:01:21.510" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest a tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/needs-improvement&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;needs-improvement&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;needs-improvement&lt;/a&gt;.  This can be attached by editors (or the first person to post a &quot;Can you provide a minimal working example?&quot;-type question), and removed once the question has been improved enough to be answerable.  Then you can look for them by browsing for that tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T20:01:21.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3197" CreationDate="2013-02-16T07:10:55.107" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's perfectly ok to suggest not to do something, but don't see why there should be an issue to providing a solution to something, even if the general consensus is that one should not do it. There are particular circumstances, which are not always clear in the MWE in the question where it may make sense. Not every use of LaTeX is intended for a paper in a professional journal so let the user decide if they still want to do what they asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T07:10:55.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3265" CreationDate="2013-02-16T09:46:43.577" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right that proper tags are very important, but I guess some people who are great at editing posts are less certain about proper tags. To those I'd say: Do the editing and leave the tags untouched if you're uncertain. Then still other people can come and retag, why not? Let me point out that retagging &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/62673&quot;&gt;doesn't push posts into becoming community wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T09:46:43.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-16T11:42:01.690" Score="26" ViewCount="626" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the proper way of citing TeX.SE answers, if I have used them (only) to typeset a document?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume that I am using the site only for typesetting matters, not for content. That is, I will use various answers to make my document prettier, but I am not using the site to incorporate facts (say, facts about LaTeX) into my actual typeset text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions (this will help with keeping everything consistent and preventing misinformation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3291/14996&quot;&gt;Correct hyphen to a dash in the &quot;About&quot; page&lt;/a&gt;  [meta]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2008/14996&quot;&gt;Use dashes in page titles instead of hyphens&lt;/a&gt;  [meta]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/98721/14996&quot;&gt;How do I typeset the name of this site in (La)TeX?&lt;/a&gt;  [main]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14996" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T04:09:32.283" Title="How do I properly cite TeX.SE for its help in typesetting?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3281" CreationDate="2013-02-16T13:02:02.503" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a tricky question. I am not sure whether you are in practice required to refer to the post that helped you if you just got the idea of how to fix a TeX related problem via this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are asking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution&lt;/a&gt; check the bottom right of every page and you will find a link to the license &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt; which is how material on Stack Exchange is licensed. It says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution&lt;/strong&gt; — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by&#xA;  the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they&#xA;  endorse you or your use of the work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However some users have relicensed the code in their answers by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1255/5701&quot;&gt;answering to a meta question&lt;/a&gt; or by a statement in their profile which means that code by those users are available under different conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer and not knowledgeable enough to say how to interpret licenses on what is really required when it comes to attribution but it seems overly strict if you have to include notices in your typeset material, e.g. in resulting PDF. However, it makes sense to include a comment in your source with a link to the post that helped you. This is what I usually do. Here is a LaTeX example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% Load after fonts http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/49775/5701&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here is an example from my .emacs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(setq reftex-cite-format ; Use ReTeX with biblatex http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/31992/5701&#xA;      '((?t . &quot;\\textcite[]{%l}&quot;)&#xA;    (?a . &quot;\\autocite[]{%l}&quot;)&#xA;    (?c . &quot;\\cite[]{%l}&quot;)&#xA;    (?s . &quot;\\smartcite[]{%l}&quot;)&#xA;    (?f . &quot;\\footcite[]{%l}&quot;)&#xA;    (?n . &quot;\\nocite{%l}&quot;)&#xA;    (?b . &quot;\\blockcquote[]{%l}{}&quot;)))))&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more reasons for including comments that references posts on Stack Exchange (or to any other places) that explains a technique than to comply with licenses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It helps you keep track of where you the idea for a particular technique.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It serves to document your source, e.g. others will have an easier time understanding your code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T18:24:13.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3281" CreationDate="2013-02-16T15:43:20.040" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/49760/citing-stack-overflow-discussions&quot;&gt;There's an official way&lt;/a&gt; that is currently working only on couple sites. The BibTeX item looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@MISC {305556,&#xA;    TITLE = {How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?},&#xA;    AUTHOR = {&#xA;Stefan Kottwitz (https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz)},&#xA;    HOWPUBLISHED = {{TeX} -- {LaTeX}},&#xA;    NOTE = {URL:https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/94889 (version: 2013-02-16)},&#xA;    EPRINT = {https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/94889},&#xA;    URL = {https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/94889}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the result of the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stefan Kottwitz (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;em&gt;How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?&lt;/em&gt; TeX - LaTeX, URL:&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/94889&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/94889 &lt;/a&gt; (version: 2013-02-16)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the real name of the person and the nickname differs, either use both if you know the real name or use just the nickname. Notice that you are not oblidged to cite SE when you use the results. Still, if you want to do so, you of course can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Addendum&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can add a sentence of thanks into the &quot;Acknowledgements&quot; in your article, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We thank members of \TeX\@ -- \LateX\@ StackExchange site, especially John Doe and Josh Soe, for useful suggestions concerning \LaTeX\@ and typography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(More information on &lt;code&gt;\@&lt;/code&gt; usage is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22561/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/96930/11002&quot;&gt;comments to this answer to yet another TeX.SE question&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T13:23:35.527" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-17T12:33:47.053" Score="6" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was my question closed as too localized?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/98339/how-do-i-ensure-my-images-graphics-are-embedded-in-the-output-document&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and it was closed as too localized.  I read the FAQs specifically what type of questions should and should not be asked here and it seems to be in scope.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying to learn LaTeX and maybe I am going the wrong way about it (by using Lyx) but I have a specific question that needs answering and if it cannot be (or won't be) answered here where do I go for answers.  Is this a Q&amp;amp;A site for experts only?  I am writing a book (see my profile) on a subject I am an expert on in a format I am not an expert on as there will be more books to follow so I am hoping to get to grips with it.  Is it the fact that I am &quot;cutting my teeth&quot; on Lyx rather than full blown LaTeX the reason for being too localized.  I would appreciate it if you can help me understand why my question will not be answered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13848" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T14:29:46.637" Title="Why was my question closed as &quot;too localized&quot;?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3284" CreationDate="2013-02-17T14:27:47.097" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, Lyx questions are within the scope of the site, although expertise in that area may be more limited than for 'straight' LaTeX questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I did not vote to close the question linked, in the current form it does to me look 'too localized' because it doesn't contain enough detail to reproduce the issue (as Jake says in a comment). For example, without being able to see the Lyx source, LaTeX log, images or PDF there is a limit to what we can say (PDF files include images 'embeded', so this is not a general issue, for example). 'I got an error message' without the text of the error tends not to allow diagnosis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As suggested by Jake, editing the question to include more info may well allow the question to be reopened. (My immediate thought is that you've got a DVI file rather than a PDF, as that would search for external files.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T14:27:47.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3284" CreationDate="2013-02-17T14:29:46.637" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is not only for experts, beginners are very welcome. However, it's a Q&amp;amp;A site, not a support forum, so try posting a good question which is of some value for the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could improve your question for example by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;telling the error message (you just said that there is one) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adding code which allows to test, to verify and to fix the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing is not final, once you improved the question we could reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T14:29:46.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3288" CreationDate="2013-02-17T22:29:20.437" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to delete my closed question because it was kept too general (maybe I better ask several questions to achieve explicit answers). In order to clean up, it would make sense in my eyes to remove the question, but I can not delete it at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To allow for possible reopening, you may delete in 11 hours&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that deleting a topic has to be thought very carefully as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/121091/closing-removing-your-own-questions-standard-process&quot;&gt;Closing/Removing your own questions - standard process?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is exactly happening while a question got closed? I do not find further details on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25077" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T03:34:51.300" Title="Remove closed question" Tags="|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3287" CreationDate="2013-02-18T03:34:51.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer as I'm told: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The selected elite members of the society put a drop of their blood on a device that decomposes DNA into chunks and recreate the particular individual's mind. Then by some clever predictor/estimator algorithms reenacts the history of the universe to guess what their decision might be at that particular point in timespace during voting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternative answer : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not much really, people see the question and vote for closing via 5 different reasons; &lt;code&gt;Too Localized&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Duplicate&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Not a Real Question&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Off Topic&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Not Constructive&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might happen that somehow the closing votes cast too quickly without carefully checking and/or the question is edited substantially making it a valid question. Then the question can be reopened. To avoid the immediate deletion and to encourage an edit on the question, you can't delete your question right away. This is probably to give you some time to reformulate your question. I don't know the exact reason.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T03:34:51.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3281" CreationDate="2013-02-18T10:28:38.057" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am most definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a lawyer, the following is pure opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that there is a &lt;em&gt;requirement&lt;/em&gt; on you to attribute things that you use to make your document look nicer since your document does not itself contain the contributed code.  The licence requirements apply - I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; - to repackaging of that code and not to use of that code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if the site has been useful to you then acknowledging the fact is a nice thing to do and a way of saying &quot;Thank you&quot; to the community, so it is something that I would encourage you to do.  Since I do not think it is a requirement, I would say that you are free to choose the appropriate manner of acknowledgement.  In which case, I would say that the primary goals of any such acknowledgement should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To raise awareness of this site,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To indicate the usefulness of this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything long would, I think, irritate the reader without adding to the above.  So listing every question that helped might quickly get annoying.  But if there is something particular that you think a reader might think &quot;How did they do that?&quot; then it is worth acknowledging a particular question.  So in general it might be as in the Acknowledgement in tohecz's answer, but it might be: &quot;The Jabberwocky diagrams were drawn with help from the \TeX\@ -- \LaTeX\@ StackExchange site&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="14996" LastEditDate="2013-02-18T11:03:23.500" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T11:03:23.500" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3281" CreationDate="2013-02-18T12:40:56.817" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think using the TeX - LaTeX name with or without hyphens or bumpy logos really helps, while it's useful have a title on the web page it seems to me the site is always referred to by its URI, often abbreviated (as in the question here) to &lt;code&gt;tex.sx&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;tex.se&lt;/code&gt;, Thus I think just referring to the &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; site without using any variant of the TeX-LaTeX name is more informative and closer to common practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T12:40:56.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3291" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-18T13:25:13.530" Score="10" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;The official name of this site is &quot;TeX - LaTeX&quot;, which is written with a hyphen at most places, this is obviously incorrect. I understand that in a page &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, this is a common practice in HTML. But I think it could be corrected &lt;em&gt;in the text/body&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;About page&lt;/a&gt;, and the en-dashes &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;ndash;&lt;/code&gt; put there. If I didn't oversee anything, it is 4 times in that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions (this will help with keeping everything consistent and preventing misinformation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2008/14996&quot;&gt;Use dashes in page titles instead of hyphens&lt;/a&gt;  [meta]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/98721/14996&quot;&gt;How do I typeset the name of this site in (La)TeX?&lt;/a&gt;  [main]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3281/14996&quot;&gt;How do I properly cite TeX.SE for its help in typesetting?&lt;/a&gt;  [meta]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T04:05:48.537" Title="Correct hyphen to a dash in the &quot;About&quot; page" Tags="|feature-request|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-18T14:52:21.840" Score="10" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/98704/latex-or-pdflatex-to-generate-dvi&quot;&gt;Latex or PdfLatex to generate DVI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;has been closed as a duplicate of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1072/which-graphics-formats-can-be-included-in-documents-processed-by-latex-or-pdflat&quot;&gt;Which graphics formats can be included in documents processed by latex or pdflatex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] includes more low-level detail, including, crucially, the error message &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; gives if you try to include a PDF, &lt;code&gt;! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in platform.pdf (no BoundingBox ).&lt;/code&gt;.  I'd like to reopen [1], so that closer duplicates of it, such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/98723/unable-to-fix-the-figure-attachment-error&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/98723/unable-to-fix-the-figure-attachment-error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;can be redirected to an answer that addresses the questioners problem in a more immediately obvious manner.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2881/same-disease-different-symptoms&quot;&gt;Same disease, different symptoms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T17:40:34.663" Title="Reopen more detailed question" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3292" CreationDate="2013-02-18T17:40:34.663" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I somehow agree that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/98704/latex-or-pdflatex-to-generate-dvi&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; is good since it includes the error you get. That is a reason why dupe questions are usually not deleted, and certainly not in such cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, this is not really &quot;different symptoms&quot;, and if one finds &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/98704/latex-or-pdflatex-to-generate-dvi&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; and gets to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1072/which-graphics-formats-can-be-included-in-documents-processed-by-latex-or-pdflat&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; from there, the answers there it is clear that: &quot;Oh I can't use pdf figures and dvi mode at once!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in my opinion, if something has to be done, an information should be added to the general question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1072/which-graphics-formats-can-be-included-in-documents-processed-by-latex-or-pdflat&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; in cases you need to mix PDF and DVI mode. It is IMHO better to have the relevant information at one place, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1072/which-graphics-formats-can-be-included-in-documents-processed-by-latex-or-pdflat&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; seems to be quite well suited for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T17:40:34.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3291" CreationDate="2013-02-19T11:06:37.447" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Outside of formal writing, I don't think think the careful distinctions between the use of hyphens and kinds of dash really apply, and even in formal writing, in this case I don't think you will find much in the way of clear guidance at all from style guides: here the equivalent of a running head is formed from a category (tag) and a title, a case where I think &lt;em&gt;Chicago&lt;/em&gt; offers no sharp rules, and uses a colon for the task (see, e.g., 16th, p.843).  So I disagree that it &quot;is obviously incorrect&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A purely pragmatic consideration against the change: dashes are larger than hyphens, and space is typically at a premium in browser tabs.  We would see a tiny little bit less of the title when we have many browser tabs open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T11:06:37.447" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-02-20T09:51:56.693" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;This poll is used to know the distribution of TeX users based on their nationalities. Please carefully choose only one option per person, don't make a mistake, and someone with administrative privilege might be watching you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/99208/world-cup-of-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer query&lt;/a&gt; that uses the information entered in the user profiles. Top ten countries by user numbers as reported on 2023-05-13:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Country&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Number of users&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;United States&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;7153&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Germany&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4917&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;3204&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;India&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2457&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;France&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1869&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Canada&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1703&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Brazil&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1223&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Netherlands&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1105&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Australia&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;952&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Switzerland&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;890&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you can monitor the statistics of this polls at &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/texmeta/query/104312/top-countries-of-tex-sx-members&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top countries of Meta.TeX.SX members&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="89417" LastEditDate="2023-05-13T21:54:14.340" LastActivityDate="2023-05-13T21:54:14.340" CommentCount="259" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-20T09:51:56.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3302" CreationDate="2013-02-20T13:31:45.470" Score="19" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question regarding &quot;trivial&quot; questions which sometimes appear on this site. By &quot;trivial&quot;, I mean they don't require more insight than to &quot;look in the manual&quot;. These usually aren't good candidates for a Q/A site, because they can easily create a flood of almost-duplicate questions, none of these helping any future user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good solution in some cases is to create a generic question, making all those real duplicates of that generic question. However, it is not always possible, and even when it is, I understand this site doesn't wish to become a parallel manual for common packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I mention the question I have in mind, disclaimer : &quot;it's in the manual&quot; isn't always an useful answer, because some manuals are more helpful than others, provide more examples, etc. But in that case, we should expect the asker to show that he has browsed the manual, and even if possible, to show the exact part he doesn't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the same idea as on forums, &quot;google is your friend&quot;: sometimes finding appropriate keywords for a google query is a problem by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But once we took care of these problems, some &quot;really trivial&quot; questions remain : the example I have in mind is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/99045/how-to-create-a-tikzset-style-for-a-rectangle&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt;. As you can see, the needed work from the question's code snippet to a real answer is... very small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to close this question as &quot;too localized&quot;, but I was really unsure: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in some sense it could be a duplicate of a more general question about tikz styles (however, I couldn't find any such duplicate, so that settles it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in some sense it's not a real question... because it's hard to know what is asked, what the OP misses to transform his code to an actual answer &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in some sense it's indeed too localized, because the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; won't probably help anybody (but the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; could!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and finally, don't forget that maybe the asker really wants to learn something, probably that &quot;trivial&quot; point he is missing in his code (maybe the fact that &quot;rectangle&quot; is the default shape?)... in which case the question should be kept open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, about the &quot;too localized&quot; flag, since it is the one which &quot;won&quot;, when I read its description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say how it applies to the question: it is neither specific to a localization or a time-frame, and the problem isn't particularly &quot;extraordinary narrow&quot;. However, once again, we can't really make the &quot;Duplicate&quot; or &quot;Not a real question&quot; descriptions fit there either, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is : should such questions be left open by default? Or what is the appropriate closing reason to choose? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Related questions on meta&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About &quot;trivial&quot; questions : &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84/how-elitist-should-the-site-be&quot;&gt;How &amp;quot;elitist&amp;quot; should the site be?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About questions requiring work instead of knowledge : &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2763/just-do-it-for-me-text-building-block&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Just do it for me&amp;quot; text building block&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And I think I already read a question about &quot;answers that are essentially in the manual&quot;, but I can't find it again, sorry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T17:22:04.743" Title="About &quot;trivial&quot; questions" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3298" CreationDate="2013-02-20T19:52:20.020" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My preference is for creating questions that tackle the same issue but are asked in a cleaner and slightly more general form &lt;strong&gt;and then closing the old trivial question in favour of the better trivial question&lt;/strong&gt;.  I don't think &quot;triviality&quot; is such a big issue, if we can pin down questions of the same sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a Tikz person, but I guess a question along the lines of &quot;&lt;em&gt;Is there a simple way to make a scheme for this kind of basic shape?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; might be the kind of slightly more general question that fits here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2013-02-21T06:35:24.120" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T06:35:24.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-20T22:02:51.050" Score="4" ViewCount="10804" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I pose a Minimal Working Example?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I plug code into a question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11837" LastEditorUserId="26614" LastEditDate="2023-04-13T05:58:10.693" LastActivityDate="2023-10-31T11:07:33.680" Title="Minimal Working Example (MWE)" Tags="|support|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-02-21T06:31:25.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3300" CreationDate="2013-02-20T22:08:20.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What is a minimal working example?&lt;/a&gt; on minimalbeispiel.de&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://texfaq.org/FAQ-minxampl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How to make a “minimum example”&lt;/a&gt; in the TeX FAQ&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or the question on this meta site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;I've just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and for the second question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#code&quot;&gt;Editing help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;right at the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2023-10-31T11:07:33.680" LastActivityDate="2023-10-31T11:07:33.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3298" CreationDate="2013-02-20T22:49:00.177" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, as long as a question is searchable in its current form, and there is a chance that another user searches for the question, it is not too localised. Localised are questions that end up being typos, missed braces or dollar signs, that are solved in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is about a &quot;rectangle&quot;, but the &quot;rectangle&quot; being irrelevant, it might make a valid duplicate of a question about &quot;ellipse&quot; if &quot;ellipse&quot; is irrelevant, the relevant parts are the same and &lt;em&gt;the answers to the other question are written in general enough way&lt;/em&gt;. It that case, the &quot;ellipse&quot; question can be linked, and it might be a good idea to add a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The solutions there apply to rectangles as well, the issue is completely the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the &quot;rectangle&quot; one can be closed as duplicate. This minimises the noise in the sense of identical answers, yet keeps all the relevant information in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remark: This is exactly the opposite thing to &quot;same disease, different symptoms&quot; case, where I'm strongly against duping since it can be very confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-02-21T11:55:51.847" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T11:55:51.847" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-21T12:08:03.307" Score="17" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with &quot;close&quot; priviledge can mark off-topic questions to be migrated to thie Meta.TeX.SX site. I suggest to add two more migration options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; - for questions about MathJaX&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;GraphicDesign.SX&lt;/a&gt; - for questions purely about typography&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can alert the moderators and they can migrate to any site, still I think that these two migration pathes would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2411/do-we-want-more-migration-paths&quot;&gt;previous discussion about this&lt;/a&gt; with no real conclusion. The two suggestions I propose here are supported by numerous &quot;likes&quot; in the other thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:19.490" LastActivityDate="2017-09-16T11:40:28.667" Title="Migration paths suggestions" Tags="|feature-request|migration|vote-to-close|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2875" CreationDate="2013-02-21T12:25:42.037" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting edge case, and one where &lt;a href=&quot;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=%3E+%0D%0A++++x&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;various Markdown implementations disagree&lt;/a&gt;. That leaves the call to me, and I think the server-side version did the more correct thing here, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/pagedown/source/detail?r=c06c6e0d465e2639398c32b0a24a9e4b89503e7a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I've changed the preview&lt;/a&gt; to behave the same way. This fix is in the next build of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T12:25:42.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2631" CreationDate="2013-02-21T15:54:39.300" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pushed a fix to our dev server. It will be on live after the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T15:54:39.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3307" CreationDate="2013-02-21T16:46:06.463" Score="12" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I remember that someone wrote a very nice answer to a question.  While I remember the author, I don't always remember the question asked.  Is there a way to search the site by focusing on the author's of answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22413" LastEditorUserId="22413" LastEditDate="2013-02-21T17:20:25.170" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T17:01:36.427" Title="How do I search for an answer by a particular user" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3306" CreationDate="2013-02-21T16:55:04.260" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Advanced Search Tips&quot; tooltip is at right from the &quot;Search&quot; button on the search page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To search for &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;tohecz&lt;/strong&gt; in the tag &lt;strong&gt;[tex-core]&lt;/strong&gt; the query &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A11002+is%3Aanswer+%5Btex-core%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;user:11002 is:answer [tex-core]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; works. To find the correct user ID, either visit the profile of the user (and the ID is in the address), or look him &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;in the user panel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T17:01:36.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3303" CreationDate="2013-02-22T03:02:09.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be great to have these migration paths. Another helpful migration target would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superuser.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super User&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, for questions that don’t involve *TeX after all. We get these questions occasionally; some of them were simply asked on the wrong site, others are just more likely to get a helpful solution when widening the scope of possible tools beyond *TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T03:02:09.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3325" CreationDate="2013-02-22T15:08:27.143" Score="13" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Life is unfair. While some people can vote &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3190/how-can-i-have-voted-41-times-in-a-day&quot;&gt;41 times a day&lt;/a&gt;, now for whatever reason I can't use my last vote, so I'm stuck at 39! It's a tragedy! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/11002/tohecz&quot;&gt;tohecz&lt;/a&gt;: Paulo's profile is a good calendar: &lt;code&gt;(# of votes in month)/40 = (day of month)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I already spent all my 40 votes today (you guys know me). I suspect some question/answer got deleted, so one of my votes got subtracted, but since I reached the vote cap, the system won't allow me to vote anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qNuUW.png&quot; alt=&quot;See&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you guys know I'm just teasing about this tragedy thingy. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; But it might be an odd behaviour in the vote system that is worth mentioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I suspect this is a plot from CHAOS. 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  <row Id="3310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3309" CreationDate="2013-02-22T15:22:10.290" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you vote on 30 answers, you cannot vote, answers or questions. That's one (maybe the only one) reason not to be able to use 40 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T15:22:10.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3312" CreationDate="2013-02-22T15:26:13.060" Score="6" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rendering for &lt;code&gt;**t**op&lt;/code&gt; in the answer in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/99317/two-column-itemization-with-title-in-each-column&quot;&gt;Two-column itemization with title in each column&lt;/a&gt; appeared as &lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;op. Is this a known bug in this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T16:06:50.983" Title="Weird markdown rendering" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2013-02-22T16:05:13.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Intra-word emphasis by Markdown is not supported, by design:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/&quot;&gt;Three Markdown Gotchas&lt;/a&gt; (SO blog post)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18984/wmd-unable-to-render-markup-inside-words&quot;&gt;WMD unable to render markup inside words&lt;/a&gt; (meta.SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similar: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51404/markdown-handles-inline-bold-text-within-a-word-incorrectly&quot;&gt;Markdown handles inline bold text (within a word) incorrectly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T16:05:13.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-23T01:51:11.737" Score="9" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not really sure if this really is a good idea as I have expressed in chat, so I thought of asking here to know the opinion of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/99531/inserting-images-in-latex&quot;&gt;Inserting Images in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; which was closed as a duplicate, which is in turn a duplicate, might be considered a &lt;em&gt;basic&lt;/em&gt; question--one in which an answer can be readily had and in more detail in freely-available manual like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lshort&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;lshort&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I did some searching and found out an old &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3134187/how-to-add-a-jpg-image-in-latex&quot;&gt;SO question&lt;/a&gt; posted some time ago about including &lt;code&gt;.jpg&lt;/code&gt; files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might not be the first time that a question about inclusion of an external graphics will pop up so I am thinking that we can write a wiki question that summarizes basic inclusion of external graphics and close the other questions as duplicate of this wiki question. I am not sure though if this is the right approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this post have two subquestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we go with creating this wiki question? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we do, what should be included in the wiki question and answer? (Inserting &lt;code&gt;.eps&lt;/code&gt; files and the use of &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; package, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T02:49:09.277" Title="Should there be a wiki question for inserting figures into LaTeX?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3313" CreationDate="2013-02-23T02:41:55.343" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This idea of having simple, moderately general questions to serve as a good question for several trivial questions to be marked duplicates of, is what I argued for in my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3299/175&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3299/175&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm undecided on the merits of making these community wiki.  IIRC, that requires a moderator intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T02:49:09.277" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3316" CreationDate="2013-02-23T05:38:09.590" Score="9" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is how many people have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/9/autobiographer&quot;&gt;completed their user profile&lt;/a&gt; fields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O2STC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3849 people out of 22354 (or about 17%). Sure, not everyone completes their tombstone, but that number sure is set in a super-huge font. Why? Perhaps to match the super-huge font showing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;number of questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z1mUH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The choice of font size here is okay since it fits with the design, but surely not in the former case. Moreover, the question count is presented with a (comma) thousands separator, while the badge count is not. There's some inconsistency here that could be updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T17:17:27.597" Title="Number formatting of statistics" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|fonts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3315" CreationDate="2013-02-23T17:17:19.957" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's indeed HUGE. I changed it from 45px to 120%. The change will be on live after the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T17:17:19.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="577" CreationDate="2013-02-24T19:52:07.400" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've discussed this before in Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1931/2693&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the policy on retagging questions based on answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conclusion there is that tags should be based on questions, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answers, so I don't think that adding the &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; tag to questions that aren't specifically about &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; is appropriate.  People can search for &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; answers anyway so tagging question based on even the accepted answer shouldn't be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T19:52:07.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-24T21:30:58.703" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mistakenly downvoted a question and immediately upvoted instead - my original intent. But I've still got the critic badge I haven't earned. Not a big deal, not real bug despite the tag, but maybe it should go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2820/are-badges-ever-taken-away&quot;&gt;Are badges ever taken away?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T21:30:58.703" Title="critic badge for a mistaken downvote" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-02-25T14:17:59.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3298" CreationDate="2013-02-25T12:31:04.080" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, no question is too trivial or too complicated. This is a site for newcomers as well as experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may ask the opposite question: Shall we vote for closing questions as too localised, when an answer obviously is useful only for a handful of very skilled users? Aren't questions regarding LaTeX output routine or advance TeX programming very localised?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the main problem is that some of the users here are too ‘trigger happy’; they vote for closing a genuine question because it has the same answers as other genuine questions. This trigger happiness hinder answers evolving into better and more useful answers, because few people answer old questions that already have accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No question is too simple, no question is too complicated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="9632" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T17:22:04.743" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T17:22:04.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2533" CreationDate="2013-02-25T17:49:05.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The linked post is an attempt to answer the question so the &quot;not an answer&quot; flag does not apply to it according to its description &lt;em&gt;&quot;This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Please flag it as &quot;low quality&quot; if you really think it needs to converted to a comment by a moderator and not be the OP himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T17:49:05.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-25T18:02:34.537" Score="26" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;In recent times I see more and more flags on questions and answers. Unfortunately a not insignificant part of them are IMHO the wrong flag type or shouldn't have placed in the first place. While wrong flags may not a big issue if moderator attention is indeed required, needless flags, at least in greater number, do waste the time of moderators and reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I like to remind all users that flags are intended only for issues which require moderator attention, which means that there can't be resolved by normal users. Exceptions are, within reasons, things which require votes from multiple users but should be handled faster by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flags can be declined for the following reason which I like to mention here explicitly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Declining because…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one is IMHO an important reason which I have seen done a couple of times. I can see why people flag an answer which simply says something technically incorrect and therefore doesn't provide a working solution as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot;, but it is still an valid (but wrong) attempt to answer the question. The flag description is: &lt;em&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.&lt;/em&gt; Therefore this flag is not valid here (even if it should actually be a comment after our standards because its not a full answer). You could consider using the &amp;quot;very low quality&amp;quot; flag here, but this is more for hopeless posts. I also feel disappointed if I see a &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; flag on a valid but incomplete/technically wrong answer where no comment was added to point out to the user what is wrong or missing here. It's not the task of the moderators to add such comments to every such post. If the answer is really wrong, feel free to down-vote it (down to -1) and please add a comment to it if there isn't already a suitable one there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I really enjoy the high quality of posts and the good manners on this site, which both are much higher than the average on SX sites as I can see it, I think we shouldn't be too strict and tidy. Having a technically wrong answer with 0 or -1 votes to a question is not a thing which needs to be eradicated immediately by a moderator, especially if there are already good answers there. Also, not every short answer needs to be turned into a comment. Sure, things like &amp;quot;try the &lt;code&gt;xyz&lt;/code&gt; package&amp;quot; should be posted as comments if there is not a (hopefully tested) solution with it. On the other hand if a (new?) user can fix this issue with a simple, but according to TeXnicans' standards totally imperfect, solution which is good enough for him and most likely others, then why bully him or her to move it to the comments? Instead of flagging this as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot;, explain the reasons why it shouldn't be done like this. This way other visitors of this site can decide themselves whether they can live with the drawbacks or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T20:11:51.510" Title="Correct flagging (or: bad answers are answers, too)" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3331" CreationDate="2013-02-25T19:47:04.250" Score="11" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a sort-of follow-up to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2555/flagging-automatically-flagged-posts-as-invalid&quot;&gt;Flagging automatically flagged posts as invalid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference is that in this case, it is not an automatic flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I marked as &quot;invalid&quot; the flags on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/99376/11002&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. However, the flag history says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;disputed - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EgOwN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The explanatory text shows that moderator agreed with me that flags on that post are invalid, yet my flag is &quot;disputed&quot;. Since I don't have many flags, I was able to find all my disputed flags, and this is really one of them (it really counts as &quot;disputed&quot; like that my action was wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not after any statistics about flags, I just want to find the reasons for this, and to see whether my actions were correct. And if they were, I believe it is a bug in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remark:&lt;/strong&gt; I have couple flags of this type (marking other flag as &quot;invalid&quot;) that are &quot;helpful&quot;. This means that it is not a &lt;em&gt;general case of all &quot;invalid&quot; flags&lt;/em&gt;, but rather some (randomly) appearing effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T02:58:48.760" Title="Disputed &quot;invalid flag&quot; 2nd edition" Tags="|support|bug|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-26T15:15:47.743" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;An obvious spinoff of the wonderful '&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3298/about-trivial-questions&quot;&gt;About &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; questions&lt;/a&gt;,' but different in intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still relatively new here, but I've been around long enough to see that a whole ton of potential answers (mostly in the form of 'have you tried this' or 'have you seen this package') are said in comments rather than in actual, votable answers.  I recognize that more than a few of these answers won't do what the asker actually intends to do; they are very useful in actually making the answer more precise (and thus more answerable in general).  That said, a lot of these answers would be good answers anyways, regardless of the asker's fancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that comments are very different from answers; the best ones don't exactly get 'voted to the top' as it were.  Comments should be focused on focusing the question, not answering it... right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this mostly because I would have felt bad in these &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/100006&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/100004&quot;&gt;scenarios&lt;/a&gt; with a one-line answer - some things just don't feel like they're worth making an 'answer' when they really do qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T15:15:47.743" Title="About &quot;trivial&quot; answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-02-26T20:45:07.280" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3309" CreationDate="2013-02-27T17:07:21.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, some of us are gifted, some of us work hard :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8j47e.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what this system keeps track of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T17:07:21.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-27T20:57:39.137" Score="16" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's our policy on reporting bugs for TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, ConTeXt, LuaTeX, and friends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP should do it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answerer should do it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The person discovering the bug should do it. He might in fact be more familiar with who to report a bug to because he might have a more direct line to the source. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/99242/14996&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; motivated this meta question of mine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a repository for bug reports for LaTeX packages? Package authors don't always respond to my bug reports. (In fact, they rarely do. Probably because they're busy. But shouldn't the community be able to track such things? I know this is a question with wider scope ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or should we assume that those in charge are beginning, these days, to spend time on this site anyways?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2622/14996&quot;&gt;Questions which are bug reports&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14996" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T13:09:37.197" Title="What is our policy for reporting bugs (for the TeX family of software) that were discovered on TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3326" CreationDate="2013-02-27T21:05:34.600" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel you have identified a bug in any software, the first step is to make sure (as far as you can) it is a bug, and the second is to report it. While several (La)TeX code authors are active on the site, it's not always possible to spot every bug report for your own code. As a package author, I am always pleased if people report bugs &lt;em&gt;via&lt;/em&gt; the 'official' channel as well as e-mailing or raising it here. (For me, the 'official' channel is a bug database hosted on BitBucket. Each package author is different, and e-mailing them directly may or may not be encouraged.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who should report&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I'd encourage the original discovery to log a bug report. However, they do not always do that. So I'd suggest first commenting asking them to log a report, and if that does not happen taking action yourself even if you're 'just visiting' the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How bugs are tracked&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each (La)TeX code author is a 'law unto themselves' in terms of bug tracking. Having a single database would not help as simply logging bugs does not get them fixed, and might give a misleading impression. As such, you do have to be prepared to find out how each author wants the information passing on. It's also worth noting that not all (La)TeX code is actively maintained: sometimes there is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; good way to report a bug. (Of course, raising the issue here may help as there may be a way to address this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T17:11:43.603" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T17:11:43.603" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-27T21:30:27.163" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a novice user, I would find it extremely helpful if there was a preview of the comment field. To clarify, I believe it would help format comments in a more legible way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14287" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T22:04:16.970" Title="Add preview of comment formatting" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3345" CreationDate="2013-02-27T21:38:03.323" Score="13" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;there's probably already a question on this, but i couldn't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i've been out for a few days, and would like to review what has happened while i was away.&#xA;i know the number of the last question from just before i was away, and i can get to that.&#xA;but i don't know how to get to that point and then proceed &quot;upward&quot; in the archive, so&#xA;that i don't miss anything (except by inattention).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for that matter, it would be useful to learn how to invert the order of the questions, so&#xA;(on request), i can look at a list with oldest first, and then skip down to a specified&#xA;point.  i'm sure i'm missing something obvious here ... (and, obviously, i'd like to be&#xA;able to shift back to &quot;newest first&quot; once i get caught up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-03-01T20:09:48.917" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T22:31:50.287" Title="how to start looking at the question archive starting at a known place in the middle?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3328" CreationDate="2013-02-27T22:04:16.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The inline formatting is supposed to work the same way in posts as in comments. Therefore you can try it with the instant preview of the posts, in the cases where you are not sure about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Or, just comment a bit more, you'll soon learn it &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt; )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3150/11002&quot;&gt;Typesetting backslashes, backticks and spaces in &lt;em&gt;Formatting Sand-Box&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T22:04:16.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3322" CreationDate="2013-02-27T22:16:15.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/161645/why-do-invalid-flag-flags-get-disputed&quot;&gt;seems to be by-design&lt;/a&gt;, I posted a feature request for separation of &quot;invalid flag&quot; flags from all the other ones in the statistics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/169409/separate-invalid-flags-in-the-flag-statistics&quot;&gt;Separate &amp;quot;invalid flags&amp;quot; in the flag statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T02:58:48.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2013-02-27T23:01:51.573" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T23:01:51.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2013-02-27T23:10:26.477" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt;, version 1.3 or later (not author maintained).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enrico Gregorio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2019-04-18T10:45:11.783" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T10:45:11.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3335" CreationDate="2013-02-28T10:59:35.943" Score="10" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;On questions, I have the possibility to vote for &quot;close&quot; (as duplicate, say), or to &quot;flag&quot; (as duplicate). Does is it make a difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21591" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T16:47:02.307" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T16:47:02.307" Title="Difference between &quot;close&quot; and &quot;flag&quot;" Tags="|support|policy|flagging|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3334" CreationDate="2013-02-28T11:22:19.340" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, the site is intended to work as a community, so using your votes is the preferred way to push for closing. Flagging is best used for things that really need moderator attention, which is more likely to be true for older questions which might not attract other people's interest than for very recent posts that will (probably) get other close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One point to note is that mods can migrate to anywhere on the StackExchange network. So if you spot a question off-topic for us but on-topic for another site on the network, flagging (in addition to voting) is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T16:46:08.120" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T16:46:08.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-28T19:44:33.457" Score="27" ViewCount="782" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2013/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG 2013&lt;/a&gt;, this years meeting of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX Users Group&lt;/a&gt; will be in Tokyo, Japan, from October 23 to October 26.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who would like to go there? Does anybody plan to make a presentation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deadline&lt;/strong&gt; for presentaton proposals, bursary application and early registration discount is &lt;strong&gt;July 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2013-07-01T21:20:55.147" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T07:23:47.207" Title="Who plans to go to the TUG 2013 conference in Japan?" Tags="|discussion|tug|conferences|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3336" CreationDate="2013-02-28T19:52:05.010" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this question because I consider to go there, and I'm interested if somebody else would like to attend too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a long travel from Germany to Japan for me, so I think a good reason to attend would be making a presentation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Application of pgf/TikZ in Science and Technology&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm maintaining &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TikZ Example Gallery&lt;/a&gt;, I had contact to many people who used TikZ in their works, mainly in natural sciences but also in electrical engineering and further areas. The presentation is intended to show TikZ' capabilities in this regard, and to talk about experiences with the application of TikZ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, TikZ is the most popular topic on TeX Stack Exchange, so I think it would be a great opportunity to represent our community at the conference in Japan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My decision to go there may depend on the approval of our TeX.SE community members, if you would symbolically support it, if you like the trip plan and the presentation topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a similar trip in 2011, if you would like to read about it: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1915/going-to-a-conference-the-tug-2011-experience&quot;&gt;The TUG 2011 Experience&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T23:15:30.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3329" CreationDate="2013-02-28T21:10:54.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could try out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack2RSS&lt;/a&gt; or another solution &lt;em&gt;(see &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Apps&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;, that make use of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange API&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/tex.stackexchange/questions?body=false&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;tagged=amsmath&amp;amp;fromdate=1361318400&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/tex.stackexchange/questions?body=false&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;tagged=amsmath&amp;amp;fromdate=1361318400&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Notes:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The date must be given in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unix time&lt;/a&gt;. For Windows users an online converter should be useful: &lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/?q=convert+unix+timestamp+online&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://duckduckgo.com/?q=convert+unix+timestamp+online&lt;/a&gt;. I used here the 20th February 2013, 0:00:00. (There is also a &lt;code&gt;todate&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The maximum pagesize is the &lt;code&gt;pagesize=100&lt;/code&gt;, as given above, i.e. 100 questions in this query (the default is 30); &lt;code&gt;page=1&lt;/code&gt; could be omitted, but not higher page counts, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One could also write &lt;code&gt;tagged=amsbook;amsmath&lt;/code&gt;, but unfortunately this will only find questions &lt;em&gt;tagged with both&lt;/em&gt; tags, not the sum of all questions tagged with either of them. Leave out the &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;tagged=…&lt;/code&gt;-part for getting all questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;If you want to get only unanswered questions, what in StackExchange means questions with no or no upvoted answer, add &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;isanswered=false&lt;/code&gt; to the end of the address above.&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;Does not work together with &lt;code&gt;tagged&lt;/code&gt;!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding combining multiple tags: In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2247/rss-feed-for-new-questions&quot;&gt;RSS feed for New questions?&lt;/a&gt; Anna Lear points to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot;&gt;Tags AND Tags OR Tags&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff Atwood (this is not RSS related).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T22:31:50.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3336" CreationDate="2013-03-01T12:45:32.193" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to go to TUG 2013 in Japan. I would have visited TUG 2012 but couldn't because of my PhD studies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a presentation topic I would like to talk about some parts I contributed to. I think either a talk about using stand-alone diagrams etc. in larger document, e.g. &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; with a comparision to the &lt;code&gt;externalise&lt;/code&gt; TikZ library. An alternative would be the different possibilities of including and modify image and text content using &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;adjustbox&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T12:45:32.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-01T13:10:39.293" Score="25" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've received a number of answers which I am using regularly, i.e. in a large number of separate LaTeX documents. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/86150/torn-page-effect&quot;&gt;Torn page effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/86031/proportional-font-word-wrapping-verbatim&quot;&gt;Proportional font, word-wrapping verbatim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/81972/fontspec-causes-long-underscores&quot;&gt;Fontspec causes long underscores&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting tired of copy/pasting the code from document to document, and so was thinking of creating appropriate packages. In fact, I'd very much like them to be publicly available packages, but I'm really not sure of the etiquette here... on the one hand I don't want to appropriate somebody else's answer (even if it's clearly credited) and on the other hand I don't want to demand that somebody else turns the code into packages.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the etiquette here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T13:28:59.820" Title="Creating packages from other people's answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|packages|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3340" CreationDate="2013-03-01T13:23:09.913" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The code in the answers and its documentation is &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;, so you are allowed to use this code for making packages if you fulfill the requirements, i.e. link to the answer and the profile of the user who contributed, in the package code and in the package documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, some users offere a more relaxed licensing, have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answers&quot;&gt;Relicensing code from answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best would be to comment to the answer and there to ask the user if he or she might already be planning to make a package from it, and to offer your support in helping or offer developing a package from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2856/repackaging-code-of-absent-users&quot;&gt;Repackaging code of absent user(s)&lt;/a&gt; if you don't get an answer by the user. Josephs answer there contains further details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T13:28:59.820" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3336" CreationDate="2013-03-01T13:59:51.857" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;i've asked for time off to attend, and, barring disasters, hope to be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;no decision yet on any presentation, but there are some possibly interesting topics that might be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T13:59:51.857" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3350" CreationDate="2013-03-01T18:28:29.333" Score="25" ViewCount="2436" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, when I was thinking about my next question and about to include one &lt;code&gt;*.tex&lt;/code&gt; and one &lt;code&gt;*.bib&lt;/code&gt; file in my MWE, I was looking for a &lt;code&gt;MWE&lt;/code&gt; template here, but could not find one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But everyone here should know how to construct a &lt;code&gt;Minimal working example&lt;/code&gt;, especially newbies like me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, despite knowing that there is not ONE good &lt;code&gt;MWE&lt;/code&gt; for asking questions, I wonder what would be the most minimal, yet working skeleton for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with bibtex/biblatex&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Typo related questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with international reach (i.e. encoding, language-specifics)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is supposed to help all newbies, so help me making it good!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16868" OwnerDisplayName="Martin Betz" LastActivityDate="2022-03-15T20:43:54.640" Title="What makes a good MWE?" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3343" CreationDate="2013-03-01T18:57:11.770" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following resources are a good place to start:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, just make an example that demonstrates the error but doesn't contain &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; code unrelated to the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it's hard to provide an MWE for the things you mentioned, since it's really context dependent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10744" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T18:57:11.770" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-01T18:57:11.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3329" CreationDate="2013-03-01T20:05:55.097" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/55037/168244&quot;&gt;Recently&lt;/a&gt;, the network implemented a date range specification as part of the &quot;Ninja Search Options&quot;. From the linked post, here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/162064/168244&quot;&gt;an extract on the implementation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is now implemented, here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;created:2012&lt;/code&gt; (created between 2012-01-01 and 2012-12-31)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;created:2012-04&lt;/code&gt; (created between 2012-04-01 and 2012-04-30)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;created:2012-04-05&lt;/code&gt; (created on 2012-04-05, 24 hr UTC range)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The above date formats can be applied to a range as well with &lt;code&gt;..&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;  like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;created:2012..2012&lt;/code&gt; (created between 2012-01-01 and 2012-12-31)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;created:2012-03..2012-04&lt;/code&gt; (created between 2012-03-01 and 2012-04-30)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;created:2012-01-05..2012-01-10&lt;/code&gt; (you get the idea)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Those are for when a question is created.  For the last time it was&#xA;  active (same as the active tab) you can use &lt;code&gt;lastactive:&lt;/code&gt; the same way&#xA;  as &lt;code&gt;created:&lt;/code&gt; above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you could find the specific question you remember seeing last and visit it using the link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/&amp;lt;number&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, identify the date of that question and perform a search based on that creation date. This will list posts in newest-to-oldest form (technically not what you're after). Here's how to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=created%3A2013-01-02..2013-03-01+is%3Aquestion+%5Bamsmath%5D&quot;&gt;search for &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; tagged &lt;strong&gt;amsmath&lt;/strong&gt; between Jan 2, 2013 and Mar 1, 2013&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;is:question [amsmath] created:2013-01-02..2013-03-01 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T20:05:55.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-01T21:42:33.250" Score="14" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;When should we &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/37/disciplined&quot;&gt;discipline&lt;/a&gt; ourselves?  (Also, I thought there was a way for the actual badge to show up, or am I thinking of tags?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/100137/17423&quot;&gt;answer to a question&lt;/a&gt; is ugly and buggy, but apparently worked for the OP's needs (as it was accepted).  Another user (with a much greater knowledge of relevant packages) posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/100477/17423&quot;&gt;much more excellent answer&lt;/a&gt; and very much deserves to be the first thing people see when they research the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'd like to add that I, like many of us here, don't care about badges in and of themselves.  What's more important is the idea behind the badge; what's more important is the fact that it must sometimes be necessary to delete an accepted answer to allow for better answers to receive the spotlight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-03-09T10:37:48.240" Title="When should we discipline ourselves?" Tags="|discussion|badges|policy|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3351" CreationDate="2013-03-02T07:27:47.183" Score="22" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recipients of newly-created badges live with the following reality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JytDJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to have this print as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This badge has been awarded 1 time. Recently awarded to:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the event of a single instance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="2875" LastEditDate="2013-03-04T11:14:02.067" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T11:14:02.067" Title="&quot;1 times&quot; is incorrect, every time" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2013-03-02T09:54:23.823" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case at hand, you simply &lt;em&gt;couldn't&lt;/em&gt; delete you answer unless the OP revoked his acceptance before. IMO, you also &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; delete it because it shows an alternative approach that may be useful for other users (who may face not quite the same, but a similar problem in the future).  &quot;Disciplining&quot; yourself rather is a proper course of action if you and another user have given almost identical answers witin a short timeframe (i.e., without knowing about each others answer) - in that case, the less &quot;complete&quot; (or, if that criterion still fails, the later) answer could be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: If you believe Alan Munn's answer to the question at hand should be &quot;the first thing people see&quot;, you could suggest to the OP in a comment to accept it instead of your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2013-03-02T11:58:42.630" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T11:58:42.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2013-03-02T14:35:27.593" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really feel your answer does not deserve being listed first, you have only one option: Make the OP unaccept it and accept the other one. There is no other way how to make the accept answer not to show first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As another option, you can edit your answer and add a first bold line: &lt;strong&gt;I believe that the answer by Alan Munn is better then mine, and I recommend using the solution there.&lt;/strong&gt; I'm quite sure that I have seen this on the site couple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last remark: If it is left this way, Alan maight soon become &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/39/populist&quot;&gt;Populist&lt;/a&gt; :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastest remark: Badges in general (including &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/37/disciplined&quot;&gt;Disciplined&lt;/a&gt;) are not really &quot;goals&quot;, they are more a &quot;nice thing to appear that somehow and not really clearly reflects your activity on the site&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T14:35:27.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3343" CreationDate="2013-03-02T17:05:28.603" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good minimal example is one which shows that someone really used his/her brain and invested some time and effort to make a clear and concise question. You don't need a template to realize that an  &lt;code&gt;\input&lt;/code&gt; is problematic - you only need to really &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; about &quot;what helps others to understand my question&quot; and &quot;what could hinder them&quot;. There are some elements like the &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment which are useful to know - but large headers and unneeded text are much more problematic than an missing &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T17:05:28.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3347" CreationDate="2013-03-04T11:13:25.217" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pluralizations is hard, and fix are tricky; this has been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/36888/23354&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/20683/23354&quot;&gt;times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/9662/23354&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;. Intriguingly, there may be some better options for this coming up in the medim-term future, depending on how some internal changes pan out. But at the current time this is by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2875" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T11:13:25.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3353" CreationDate="2013-03-06T16:48:34.370" Score="10" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Question 1 below is about &quot;pure&quot; LaTeX if you are not familar with LyX...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The TeX.SX question (my interpretation)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two years ago &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12346/24449&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was asked. The title is &quot;Use a quality glossary and acronym list  &lt;em&gt;in LyX&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. First the OP refers to Q&amp;amp;A on how to write a glossary and acronym list &lt;em&gt;in LaTeX&lt;/em&gt;. In the second sentence the OP states the wish to use that glossary and acronym list &lt;em&gt;in LyX&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason to ask such a question is that in LyX one cannot directly edit the LaTeX code. LyX automatically generates the LaTeX code but this process can be tweaked and it is possible to inject TeX code/ERT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After showing a picture of the wanted result the OP mentions that the problem might be too big. The OP allows to solve the question in steps and &lt;em&gt;suggest&lt;/em&gt; an approach (&quot;I have broken [up the question into] a &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; first step, [...] I am &lt;em&gt;trying to use&lt;/em&gt; two packages [...]. &lt;em&gt;My attempt&lt;/em&gt; is shown below&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The TeX.SX answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two answers on this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer A: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/99564&quot;&gt;one by another member&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer B: one by myself. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previously, I had commented on Answer A stating without details that I think it is &quot;not an answer&quot; and not downvoting. I deleted that. Because of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/101069&quot;&gt;recent duplicate&lt;/a&gt; I check Answer A again. The recently featured post &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3321&quot;&gt;Correct flagging (or: bad answers are answers, too)&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is mainly about flagging but also states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the answer is really wrong, feel free to down-vote it (down to -1) and please add a comment to it if there isn't already a suitable one there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did that with leaving comments about the two major issues 1 and 2 but the author is objecting to them. (If the issues with Answer A are addressed I will change my mind...) Hence, I want to ask the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compiling the LaTeX MWE of Answer A, I fail to get the glossary and acronym list in my PDF output as shown in Answer A. The author recently states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\makeglossaries&lt;/code&gt; is not needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the MWE produce glossary and acronym list in your PDF?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where in Answer A do I find how to create the necessary auxiliary files .gls, .glg ... manually (even knowing that &lt;code&gt;makeglossaries&lt;/code&gt; will create them for LaTeX is not enought since LyX does not place auxiliary files into your normal working directory) or how to configure LyX to automate the process?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Has my action been okay?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, one could ask whether a simple copy and paste into LyX (where to  copy which part?) will work. The author of Answer A assumes that more or less (&quot;I don't know what this has to do with Lyx, so I ignore that.&quot;) I have also a different understanding of the OP question as I stated above. Is the recent comment on Answer A correct: &quot;The OP asked how to render the glossary and acronym list &lt;em&gt;with &lt;code&gt;nomenclature&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; Did the OP really asked for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I noticed that my answer got downvoted today without stating any reason! Is there any coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24449" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T07:28:01.803" Title="problem with possibly &quot;not an answer&quot; and downvoting" Tags="|discussion|answers|down-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2013-03-06T18:13:31.877" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I think the user is mafp so no need to anonymize since you have the link to the question. Just come to the chat room or invite the user to a custom chat room if you are really curious about the issue and willing to attack the problem to its full extent... I had also similar problems with a user a year ago or so but everytime we made a chat session the issue was resolved. Alternatively, ask another question and show that it's indeed not working then someone else can verify the solution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's not a big deal for you; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, to avoid conflicts like this leave a comment and carry on. It's not an encyclopedia anyway. So wrong answers (not knowing if it's really wrong though because I have no idea about the issue) are not forbidden. Downvoting stuff is just not a good system instead one should simply forget it and leave it to the OP to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in my very very subjective opinion, taking it out to public like this won't solve any issues, instead would trigger the defense mechanism of everyone. Unless it's really a big problem (insulting etc. involved) just nevermind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT (Just forgot): similarly others might have downvoted your answer too. So it's always good to ignore cross-downvoting possibility. Not only it's pointless, it's also noise. There is a famous joke about two bankers ..... :) I won't paste it here &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCLAIMER :&lt;/strong&gt; This doesn't mean that you are right and mafp is not or vice versa. I repeat I don't even understand the problem but the behavior pattern is very familiar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2013-03-06T18:27:36.307" LastActivityDate="2013-03-06T18:27:36.307" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3354" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-06T20:48:27.030" Score="5" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am delighted to see the online LaTeX compilers, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.writelatex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.writelatex.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.sharelatex.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a discussion of using these these for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;Minimal Working Examples&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noted that WriteLaTeX was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3164/link-to-online-latex-compiler/3167#3167&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; a couple years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Tex.SE have a policy of referring users to one of these? Should it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1744" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T01:07:24.350" Title="What are some online (La)TeX compilers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3389" CreationDate="2013-03-06T20:52:53.293" Score="18" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just recently I was looking for some questions with a particular word in the title or the main text, but search no longer seems to find them.  For example searching for the word &quot;gender&quot; yields nothing, yet there are 84 hits from Google of questions containing that word.  This used to work as far as I can remember.  Having this ability is really important for finding duplicate questions, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="740" LastEditDate="2013-03-21T00:38:04.933" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T00:38:04.933" Title="Is full text search not working any more?" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2013-03-06T21:29:20.603" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I am involved in this, I think I should answer, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real culprit of all this is that the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12346/24449&quot;&gt;Use a quality glossary and acronym list in Lyx&lt;/a&gt; is a form of an XY problem. The OP &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; wanted to make the answer of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8946/978&quot;&gt;How to combine Acronym and Glossary&lt;/a&gt; work within LyX. He &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; asked something different: instead of making the &lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt; approach work in LyX, he tried to use &lt;code&gt;nomencl&lt;/code&gt;, and get the first-use/subsequent-use scheme that &lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt; provides into that. Now, there are two approaches: answer what the OP &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have asked, or answer what the OP &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; asked. I usually chose the second, and so I did here, suggesting in the first paragraph of my answer that this might be the wrong way to address the problem at hand. You seem to chose the first approach, making a pure &lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt; solution work within LyX. And I think here started our misunderstanding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You commented several times suggesting that my answer does not use the full &lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt; machinery. This is true, but fails to see the point of using the &lt;code&gt;nomencl&lt;/code&gt; machinery (&lt;code&gt;\makenomenclature&lt;/code&gt; ... &lt;code&gt;\nomenclature{...}&lt;/code&gt; ... &lt;code&gt;\printnomenclature&lt;/code&gt;). So to answer your first question: no, in my approach &lt;code&gt;\makeglossaries&lt;/code&gt; is not needed, as we don't write a &lt;code&gt;glo&lt;/code&gt; file, and won't read a &lt;code&gt;gls&lt;/code&gt; file. Similarly, the answer to your second question is that my answer did not mention how to create the &lt;code&gt;nls&lt;/code&gt; file, but a &lt;code&gt;gls&lt;/code&gt; file is not needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your third question is the hardest one. I think we worked out in chat that my solution can work. I fully agree that it might be hard to use, in particular for new users that might prefer a more LyXy way. Does it make my answer &quot;not useful&quot;? That is up to the individual user, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-06T21:29:20.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2013-03-06T22:18:10.243" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I won't really answer this meta question, rather I'll add couple observations, I hope they'll be helpful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answering old questions is sometimes an adventure, the OP is in most cases completely uninterested in the problem, and often is not disponsible. Still, it is an important way of contributing so +1 to both of you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong with providing an answer that is applicable in a slightly different context than what OP wanted (in this case, LyX or not), maybe the notice about this can be written nicer, but that brings us to English instead of typesetting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being nice is a basic rule here. Posting a comment saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;There is no ... . Please update.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to someone who obviously spent a good lot of time on the answer, this cannot bring anything good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, none of the answers is worth down-voting since they are both quite top-level.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-03-07T07:28:01.803" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T07:28:01.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3354" CreationDate="2013-03-07T01:07:24.350" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps with the recent announcement about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/963/embedding-a-schematic-editor?from=CircuitLab&quot;&gt;integration of CircuitLabs into Electronics SX&lt;/a&gt;, now's a good time to reopen the debate around linking to an online LaTeX compiler?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Original topic here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3164/link-to-online-latex-compiler/3167#3167&quot;&gt;Link to online LaTeX compiler&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm one of the developers of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.writelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;writeLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;, and we'd be happy to discuss the possibilities for this with the SX devs - the original answer by Stefan in the link above generated a fair amount of upvotes. We could always enable the link for an evaluation period and let the community vote on whether to keep it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(PS: For an example of such links in operation on a forum, see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&amp;amp;t=22340&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX-Community.org announcement&lt;/a&gt; when it was integrated there in January, or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/weblog/2013/jan/30/online-compiler-tikz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt; site which has similar functionality for the examples there)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:37.620" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T01:07:24.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3336" CreationDate="2013-03-07T05:45:11.133" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will be there, of course ;-) If there are any questions concerning planning, travel etc, I will try my best to help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10829" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T05:45:11.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2566" CreationDate="2013-03-09T20:38:43.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been designated &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/47474/168244&quot; title=&quot;Do old usernames stick to CW posts by design?&quot;&gt;on Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;. And, while the questions linked there have been successfully adjusted to reflect updated user names, some posts still hold an incorrect username in the revision history (like the one linked in the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T04:15:24.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-03-11T13:58:20.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This poll is intended for those give commercial services as professional &quot;(La)TeX and Friends&quot; consultants. If you are not in this category please kindly and honestly don't participate.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about the presence of this Q&amp;amp;A site (tex.stackexchange.com)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2013-03-11T13:58:20.077" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-11T13:58:20.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-11T18:59:39.347" Score="28" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;After using LaTeX for many years, I recently found the need to learn about TeX to program a more sophisticated solution to a problem. This site has been incredibly valuable for this. Solving my problem has produced code that I think would be useful for other people as well, and I would like to share the results publicly (maybe not in an official CTAN package, but at least on the Web somewhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a little portion of my code adapts code from this site (a sorting algorithm that was published by TH, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6988/how-to-sort-an-alphanumeric-list&quot;&gt;How to sort an alphanumeric list&lt;/a&gt;). This code was published under CC license on this site, but this license is not generally considered a good license to use for software. I do not see any way to contact &quot;TH&quot; to ask for permission to re-license this code, and TH did not reply to the according meta question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answers&quot;&gt;Relicensing code from answers&lt;/a&gt;). My question is: which options do I have now to publish this code under a software license? Do I even need to be concerned in this case, or is the code too simple/short to require any permission?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that this is rather a meta question, but since I just created my account (in hope to contact TH), I cannot ask there. I also cannot post comments on the original answer that my code came from. Moreover, I cannot participate in community chats, again due to lack of reputation points. So it seems that my only way to contact anyone at this stage is to pollute the main question space. All apologies if there should be any other option that I might have overlooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27197" OwnerDisplayName="mak" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T20:40:15.797" Title="When and how to relicense code from StackExchange posts" Tags="|discussion|support|licensing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3362" CreationDate="2013-03-12T18:09:16.413" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps StackExchange should consider offering text under CC and code under e.g. BSD/MIT license (this would automatically include LaTeX snippets, and make them LLPL-compatible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, that opens a can of worms full to the rim with &quot;what is text, what is code&quot;, and &quot;can I use the question/answer/comment in the documentation&quot;, so that is only a partial answer... perhaps needs a CC + special dispensation for such uses.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[And yes, this should now probably go to meta^*.stackexchange.com...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21275" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T18:09:16.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3164" CreationDate="2013-03-12T19:18:01.147" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little late to the conversation here, sorry, but I think it's worth pointing out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/scribtex/clsi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Common LaTeX Service Interface (CLSI)&lt;/a&gt;. This is an open source API that I developed with Bobby Soares and it powers the online editors &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribtex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ScribTeX&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ShareLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://latexlab.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeXLab&lt;/a&gt; (in a slightly different implementation). I've been pushing for a wider adoption of this at every opportunity since I think the benefits of an open standard are significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that anyone can access a LaTeX compiler online without worrying about setting it up and maintaining it themselves. On the other side, anyone is free to host the CLSI themselves and provide access to a LaTeX compiler. My implementation serves as a default standard at the moment, but I'd like to see the standard grow and mature with input from the rest of the community, and hopefully for other implementations to pop up. As more and more services are making use of LaTeX online, it would be nice not to end up with a fractured set of half solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't done so yet, but it would be reasonably straightforward to code up a Javascript API that talked to the CLSI directly, and could return a PDF to be displayed on TeX.SX. I see the main advantage of this approach being that TeX.SX wouldn't be bound to any specific provider since the CLSI could be hosted anywhere by anyone, and swapped out at anytime with another host.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm part of ShareLaTeX at the moment, and we could provide access to our CLSI farm if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16641" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T19:18:01.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3343" CreationDate="2013-03-14T10:40:22.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good MWE is some compilable, &quot;to-the-point&quot; code that clearly isolates the problem and contains no superfluous clutter and only a limited amount of jargon from the particular area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="21891" LastEditDate="2013-03-17T15:44:03.560" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T15:44:03.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3370" CreationDate="2013-03-15T11:20:47.677" Score="23" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question title actually states what I would like to know. Let me give some background and describe the use-case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As author of pgfplots, I feel honored that this site attracts both power users and beginners, and I feel honored that lots of people appear to find my package useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also aware that a lot of questions about pgfplots turn out to be feature requests (compare &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2623/questions-which-are-feature-requests&quot;&gt;Questions which are feature requests&lt;/a&gt;). Some have cool work-arounds by power-users, some provide best-practises - and in most cases, the suggestion &quot;file feature request&quot; appears (with good reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since pgfplots is a spare-time project, the priorization of incoming feature requests has three major criteria: (1) the efford to implement it (cheap features are added immediately), (2) the &quot;fun factor&quot; for me as implementor (I like to implement cool features even if they are of limited use) and (3) the &quot;votes&quot; of end-users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can access and control (1) and (2). Concerning (3), I have difficulties to get a suitable overview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to my question: is it acceptable for a Q&amp;amp;A site like tex.sx to host questions of sorts &quot;Which feature do you miss most in pgfplots?&quot;. The votes on such answers would probably give a relatively good view, and since tex.sx has a high visibility, it would also ensure that it is a representative. But I can understand that it is ... well, not the common question for a knowledge-base platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T12:55:15.860" Title="Is the question &quot;which features should be added to package XY&quot; adequate for TeX.SX?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2013-03-15T12:44:01.940" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a feature has been implemented, the corresponding answer/suggestion would be obsolete. To not keep a mix of implemented features and open requests, the answer should be removed then. This would remove reputation of course. No problem, it could start as a community wiki question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding fitting the site - would the content of the question and the answers be helpful for any other reader than to the OP? I doubt so, though the result may do on the long sight. Possibly the question could be treated as &quot;too localized&quot;, because answers only (directly) help the package developer, and they would be valid for a certain time or certain package versions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding votes, early answers may get many more votes than late answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea: you could implement such a survey on your pgfplots website, where it can be visible and maintained for years, and announce it via channels like your mailing list, blogs, Usenet and web sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it would be more beneficial than a lot of questions which perfectly match the site rules, so I won't have a problem with it. I just thought about the SE view and having a hundred more people doing the same, even others than the authors or maintainers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T12:55:15.860" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T12:55:15.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-17T23:54:34.727" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the message 'Welcome back! If you found this question useful,&#xA;don't forget to vote both the question and the answers up.'&#xA;To my dismay, I had to click a tiny font instead of having the freedom to click anywhere on the box to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I request allowing users to click anywhere on the box to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user24926" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T19:13:21.650" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T19:13:21.650" Title="Click anywhere to close this box" Tags="|feature-request|design|voting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-18T02:04:42.470" Score="24" ViewCount="498" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen people refer to this site as &quot;TeX.SE&quot; and &quot;TeX.SX&quot;. Which is more common? Is one preferred (by appearing in official places)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; think that standardization is necessary: usage will sort it out. Nonetheless, it might be interesting to document the difference, possibly in relation to usage on/for other Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14996" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T14:22:16.943" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T16:24:02.307" Title="Which is more common: &quot;TeX.SE&quot; or &quot;TeX.SX&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|community|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="404" CreationDate="2013-03-18T02:10:58.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/97537/14996&quot;&gt;this answer by user Sašo Živanović to my question &quot;What is “plain TeX”?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;strong&gt;command&lt;/strong&gt; can be a &lt;strong&gt;primitive&lt;/strong&gt; (from &quot;virgin TeX&quot;) or a &lt;strong&gt;macro&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14996" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T02:10:58.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-18T04:12:54.397" Score="7" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stats of users with 10k+ reputation and many badges appear clipped in my browser (follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/49/copy-editor&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; to see an example). The following picture illustrates the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yhsdn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the bronze badge to the left of &quot;Werner&quot; is cut in half.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use Safari, but the problem doesn't seem to be a browser-specific... &#xA;Did the site developers not anticipate that some people would reach such heights and that stats field would become this wide? How can the appearance of those stats be improved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I've noticed a similar problem on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/22/great-question&quot;&gt;Great-Question-badge page&lt;/a&gt; of the main site; date &amp;amp; time and title overlaps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xMnB2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T17:05:53.397" Title="Rendering issues due to overlapping fields" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3372" CreationDate="2013-03-18T04:19:57.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my view,&#xA;TeX.SE corresponds to TeX.StackExchange(Abbreviation) &#xA;whereas &#xA;TeX.SX corresponds to TeX.StackeXchange(Phonetically stressed &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt;) &#xA;but both are good as long as its &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3281/15717&quot;&gt;properly cited as asked in your meta Q&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;credits attributed&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T04:19:57.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3372" CreationDate="2013-03-18T07:20:06.097" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'official' position across the network is to use 'SE', so that is what I use when talking to people on other sites. However, 'SE' is the TLD for Sweden, and 'SX' (or 'sx') fits nicely with 'TeX'. So on the site I and many others use a variation of 'TeX-sx' (TeX-SX, TeX.SX, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T07:20:06.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3372" CreationDate="2013-03-18T09:28:37.370" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This came up tangentially at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2288/86&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2288/86&lt;/a&gt;.  I'll copy the last part of my answer from there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I strongly prefer &quot;TeX-SX&quot; to &quot;TeX.SE&quot; (note the punctuation) and &quot;TeX.SX&quot; is acceptable. I'd rather annoy random other StackExchange users than the Swedes. However, as this has brought it to my attention, I'd rather make the essential details of the site clear right at the outset: that it is about TeX and is hosted on the StackExchange network. Someone visiting the FAQ is more likely to be completely new to the SE network than just visiting from some other site. All of &quot;TeX-SX&quot;, &quot;TeX.SX&quot; (is it some new variety of &quot;FX&quot;?), and &quot;TeX.SE&quot; (what has Sweden ever done to you?), are unclear on first sight (and site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T09:28:37.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1775" CreationDate="2013-03-18T11:02:20.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently discovered the tag wikis (they're somewhat hidden) and today created, among other things, a wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/letterspacing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;letterspacing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;letterspacing&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Then&lt;/em&gt; I stumbled across this thread and started wondering if what I wrote really meets the standards of a decent tag wiki entry. Compared to the tags mentioned here, my article looks pretty verbose, even though I don't think it contains a lot more than the basics of what people should know about its subject. To be honest, I even think a lot more could be added, but then again, I know this is not Wikipedia -- what do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7993" LastEditorUserId="7993" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T13:47:37.530" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T13:47:37.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2013-03-18T11:13:23.533" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vrkV5.png&quot; alt=&quot;21st century LaTeX Editor ShareLaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6726" LastEditorUserId="6726" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T22:42:04.427" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T22:42:04.427" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-18T11:13:23.533" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-03-18T17:22:17.943" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What packages have you used (at least once) and they must be used with &lt;code&gt;-shell-escape&lt;/code&gt; to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the following format: &lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;package name&amp;gt; ](http://www.ctan.org/pkg/&amp;lt;package name&amp;gt;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T17:22:17.943" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-18T17:22:17.943" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="388" CreationDate="2013-03-19T04:56:06.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Idea to Customize &quot;Ask question&quot; in TeX.SX by OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; Is it possible to include OP question template as asked by Martin Tapankov like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OS&lt;/strong&gt;: ?, -- asking &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; is another alternative* or &lt;code&gt;mandatory tags&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeXdistro&lt;/strong&gt;:? -- asking &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; is another alternative* or &lt;code&gt;mandatory tags&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All updated&lt;/strong&gt;: ? -- asking &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; is another alternative* (already mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ section&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. (if we can have a right place to paste/host it without increasing the question size, may be suggest dropbox, paste.ubuntu.com etc..)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For example:&lt;/strong&gt; a first line of &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; file give idea about &lt;code&gt;OS&lt;/code&gt;,&lt;code&gt;TeXdistro&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;when updated/pdftex engine update status&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX Live on Linux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012) (format=pdflatex 2013.3.21)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX Live on Windows&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/W32TeX) (format=pdflatex 2013.3.22)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MiKTeX on Windows&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2012.6.26)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Implications:&lt;/strong&gt; If its implemented, A single liner comment may be enough to resolve Q&amp;amp;A, which would speed-up and improve productivity. Thereby less unanswered Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks to Karl's students and percusse for log file data&lt;/strong&gt;. Anyone can update if their .log file info is missing here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8565481#8565481&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joseph Wright Reply: We don't control the editing box, that's set by the network and I think very unlikely to be customised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some meta references &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/750/15717&quot;&gt;Can/should we get a “How to Ask” page?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2196/15717&quot;&gt;Proposal to Improve FAQ: Update before Asking Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T03:25:16.783" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-19T04:56:06.490" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3372" CreationDate="2013-03-19T09:11:39.407" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using (and seeing other people use) »TeX.SE« for about two years now, and it never made me think of Sweden, until you mentioned it -- which is probably because domain names are hardly ever spelt in uppercase (and which is why I think it's important to keep spelling it that way). Both »TeX.SE« and »TeX.SX«, however, make me think of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sxe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;straight edge hardcore punk,&lt;/a&gt; but that's okay. I prefer ».SE« because it's more down-to-earth than ».SX« which I find too fancy, or to 1990s, probably because of that »FX« association: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;TeX.SX&quot; (is it some new variety of &quot;FX&quot;?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7993" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T09:11:39.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3384" CreationDate="2013-03-19T16:22:42.293" Score="7" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can a comment be addressed to multiple users with the &quot;at&quot; sign (@)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-03-20T00:16:46.773" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T00:16:46.773" Title="Comment addressed to multiple users with @?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3383" CreationDate="2013-03-19T18:14:37.317" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it can't. Only the first user mentioned with &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;, and also the author of the commented post, will be notified. Note that the user must have been commented on the same post before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An exception is the chat which works different. Here you can have multiple &lt;code&gt;@user&lt;/code&gt; in one line. This works as long the mentioned users visited the particular chat room not too long ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T18:14:37.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-20T15:13:39.720" Score="21" ViewCount="455" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a class of *TeX problem where we can readily recognize that MWEs are not really helpful or necessary &amp;mdash; so that we can avoid putting people off by asking them for one? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If so, how can we recognize them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or: are we generally convinced that essentially any problem involving not getting the desired output should be accompanied by an MWE, regardless of how simple the problem or clear the description?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Context&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just looking at the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/103429/911&quot;&gt;Text mode commands/symbols in math mode&lt;/a&gt;, which seemed reasonably clear to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am fairly new to LaTeX, and have run into a problem with commands&#xA;  apparently only available in text mode, where I would like to use them&#xA;  in math mode as well (e.g. integrated in equations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the commands/symbols in question is the upside down exclamation&#xA;  sign used to represent the subfactorial function. In running text, I&#xA;  can use the command \textexclamdown, but this does not work in math&#xA;  mode (as far as I can tell).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to seamlessly integrate text mode commands in the&#xA;  middle of rather hairy equations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soon afterwards, a boilerplate comment was added: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Welcome to TeX.SE! Could you provide a minimal example that allows us to reproduce the problem?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not really clear to me how a MWE would have illustrated the situation. Often, people ask us very poorly worded questions, or present us with complicated problems. But in certain instances such as this, the problem is very simple and quite clearly written. Asking them to make a mock-up document &amp;mdash; augmenting their already fairly clear question with the string of characters &lt;code&gt;$\textexclamdown$&lt;/code&gt; &amp;mdash; doesn't really seem very helpful to anyone. (Maybe if we convinced them to post a graphic of what they got as output, this would be an interesting bit of trivia for people who look in on the question, but it still wouldn't give any further information as to what the problem or the solution is.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar case would be someone who was only taught the old font switches &lt;code&gt;\bf&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\it&lt;/code&gt;, and who would come to ask why combining the two doesn't produce a result which is both bold and italic. If I were a novice, someone who asked me to &quot;clarify&quot; by providing an example along the lines of &lt;code&gt;{\bf\it not actually bold italic}&lt;/code&gt;, or (god forbid) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;{\bf\it not actually bold italic}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would make me feel as though bureaucracy were more important than clarity to the people I was asking, and that would put me off participating very much. What's more, anyone who could provide an answer wouldn't really need such a MWE, because the real issue (that they're using deprecated syntax) is clear just from the fact that they're using &lt;code&gt;\bf&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\it&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there is going to be a class of question which will get asked here routinely, which is of this sort. If we want people to participate in this forum, recognizing when a question doesn't need any clarification or elaboration would be a good step in maintaining good participation, by avoiding small mis-steps which might alienate new users (either of *TeX or of this site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T20:50:14.157" Title="Are there questions where we can recognize that a MWE is not necessary?" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2013-03-20T18:34:32.143" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latexsearch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9NapU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lets you search through milions of LaTeX code snippets to find the equation you need.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T18:34:32.143" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-20T18:34:32.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-20T19:59:21.663" Score="7" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times in chat or at the main site we discuss with each other using acronyms (short forms/jargon) of single-liners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to help new users, internet chat slang unaware users (myself), &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=7681101#7681101&quot;&gt;non-native English speakers&lt;/a&gt; and many more I would like to collect here for keeping record &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7682049#7682049&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;Paulo&lt;/a&gt; has already &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7682104#7682104&quot;&gt;trained the chat bot&lt;/a&gt; for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T15:03:20.757" Title="Dictionary: Commonly Used English Acronyms and abbreviations at TeX.SX" Tags="|discussion|acronyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-21T14:09:04.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3355" CreationDate="2013-03-21T00:37:59.013" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an oddity with the stem parser on a few indexes a few weeks ago.  This has since been corrected and results should be back to normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="740" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T00:37:59.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3432" CreationDate="2013-03-21T10:41:35.220" Score="14" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since March 19th, the number of reviewable &quot;First Posts&quot; has declined considerably. At first I suspected a yet-to-be-announced feature change in the review system, e.g. &quot;First Posts&quot; that receive votes or comments after a few minutes won't show up in the review queue anymore (i.e., are considered &quot;reviewed&quot; implicitly). However, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/103584/asana-math-xelatex-missing-math-upon-resaving-or-editing-in-adobe-acrobat-pro&quot;&gt;Asana Math + XeLaTeX: missing math upon resaving or editing in Adobe Acrobat Pro&lt;/a&gt; didn't show up for review for 20 minutes (after which it received a comment), and doesn't show up right now. Taking a second look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/history&quot;&gt;Review history&lt;/a&gt;, every &quot;First Post&quot; reviewed after March 19th, 18:00 GMT (20 so far) has been an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; -- it seems &quot;First&quot; &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; simply don't show up in the review queue at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: Is the &quot;First Posts&quot; review queue partially broken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T15:03:27.740" Title="Is the &quot;First Posts&quot; review queue partially broken?" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3386" CreationDate="2013-03-21T12:16:15.023" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;My selfish reason why I require a MWE and why I tend not to answer questions wihout a MWE: I'm lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question contains a MWE, I can simply copy-paste it, do what is necessary, test it quickly and post an answer. Without a MWE, I have to create one, which is something I'm not willing to do for the original poster. It is their questions and my amount of effort while answering depends on their amount of effort when asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, MWE increases the clarity of the question (including the used packages, document class, and other options) and allows us to correct some other mistakes the OP might be doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least: There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; types of questions that do not require a MWE. Those are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &quot;drawing&quot; of any kind: these require a screenshot/sketch of the desired output. Even here, the OP should tell us what they have tried, we are a &lt;em&gt;support&lt;/em&gt; site, not a &lt;em&gt;do-it-for-me&lt;/em&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking about some concept of the *TeX systems, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/how-can-i-explain-the-meaning-of-latex-to-my-grandma&quot;&gt;&quot;grandma&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/88991/what-does-different-fontdimennum-mean&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\fontdimen&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100085/11002&quot;&gt;&quot;how long does it take&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and others (I apology for plugging in some of my posts, it's just that I remember them).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T16:27:59.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3392" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-21T14:58:54.347" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-03-21T14:58:54.347" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T14:58:54.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3393" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-21T14:58:54.347" Score="0" Body="{acronyms} are common phrases, words, jargon,abbreviations that are used on StackExchange sites" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2013-03-21T15:13:50.200" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T15:13:50.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3386" CreationDate="2013-03-22T02:37:21.193" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to the title of the question is yes and I think there is no discussion about it. But...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would add a non-selfish reason too. Writing a MWE from scratch sucks. Big time. We enjoy fixing the problems here but not creating the problem AND solving it. We are doing it for the fun of it (at least myself), and the OP benefits from it, meeting a deadline or fixing the thesis etc.  Otherwise they have to dig into FAQs, read thousands of PDF pages, try out conflicting recommendations on the net etc. just to reach to a two liner fix. Imagine the absence of our wizards here including some who are or have been in the process of creating the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it makes a huge difference just to write up &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{the packages that I think they are relevant but not sure though}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;% As many users do -----&#xA;% A magic command that would spit out bla bla here&#xA;% etc. &#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So compared to what you have to do and read, writing 5-6 lines of code is not that much. And resistance to posting anything is simply beyond me. How can explaining yourself better can be something of a burden? It's the OP's problem anyway. Otherwise we simply wait 2 months and close it. &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt; in MWE is for me &lt;em&gt;people can Work on it&lt;/em&gt;. Maybe we should change the name to &lt;strong&gt;Minimal Initial Example&lt;/strong&gt; or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly there are always exceptions. We might have behaved unjustly to some users too. An emerging pattern is downvoting proper,valid but wrong questions or closing them in literally 5 minutes. So absence of knowledge is punished which is why OP asks the question. That's sheer nonsense too. But just because of that, we should not step back from the general handling of the questions. Because it's not a TeX-support site for individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2013-03-22T02:43:29.860" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T02:43:29.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="388" CreationDate="2013-03-22T02:48:28.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Community Ads question here on Meta we can see some prescribed format for the answer as the following&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G9dYi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a similar structure, tailored for the question with a simple MWE structure, would fix most of our problems, asking for MWE, asking to complete the code snippet and a few more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T02:48:28.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2013-03-22T03:15:56.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In TeXmaker Cross-platform Editor, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/log.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starting from Version 3.4&lt;/a&gt; It is easily possible to export a &lt;code&gt;.png&lt;/code&gt; image from the internal pdf viewer with simple &lt;code&gt;right click&lt;/code&gt; on the current &lt;code&gt;.pdf&lt;/code&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenshot for .png preparation from .pdf using TeXmaker: Zoom your browser to see closer to code&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GzLrJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-03-22T03:24:58.783" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T03:24:58.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3404" CreationDate="2013-03-23T18:50:40.863" Score="30" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using TeX.SE for some time now, both for questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I do flag a new question as duplicate if I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that question has been posted before, I often find myself tempted, in a crave for reputation, to quickly answer a question (if I can) without checking beforehand whether it is a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I need professional help; TeX.SE can be so addictive! However, I suspect I am not the only one to feel and act that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone about to answer a question, should one always check whether the question is a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you feel, as I do, that the reputation system can prove counter-productive regarding flagging questions as duplicates (when they deserve it)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: I unearthed, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://soundcloud.com/stack-exchange/stack-exchange-podcast-15&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SE podcast #15&lt;/a&gt; (starting at 11'20''), a discussion between Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood that is relevant to the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="21891" LastEditDate="2013-04-27T02:43:24.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T14:48:45.300" Title="Quick &amp; easy reputation vs. flagging a question as duplicate" Tags="|discussion|reputation|duplicates|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3399" CreationDate="2013-03-23T19:18:33.600" Score="16" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, some users (not necessarily new ones) tend to post a question, get an answer they are satisfied with (as evidenced, typically, by their leaving a comment that include a &quot;thank you&quot;), but never accept any answer to their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This behaviour results, not only in lost reputation for answerers, but also in a non-negligible clutter of artificially unanswered question in the &quot;unanswered&quot; section of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could this behaviour be discouraged? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could and should the system identify such users temporarily ban from asking a new question until they mark more of their questions as answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T00:12:11.533" Title="Should hit-and-run question posters be penalised?" Tags="|discussion|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3398" CreationDate="2013-03-23T19:22:11.480" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that many people only visit when they have an issue: once it's solved, they have other things to do. I'm not sure I'd want to penalise the use of TeX (or anything else) as a tool, rather than as a hobby :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are only 'unanswered' if they have no answers with upvotes. The check-mark is there for the questionner to indicate 'this helped me', while voting is there for the community as a whole. So there is not so much to worry about provided a good (upvoted) answer exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T19:22:11.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2013-03-23T19:26:10.033" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's great that you consider checking for a duplicate first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, before answering you should firstly check if it's a duplicate. Flag or comment on it, this would be very helpful. And yes, the reputation system honors answering duplicates, sadly. However, I would say, the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; reputation among TeX.SE users would not raise if they see somebody answering obvious duplicates. But it will do if fellow users notice that you take care of the site quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could consider reputation as just a number. While being active on the site, it will raise by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way of feeding the addiction would be trying to earn badges by flagging, reviewing, editing, and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T19:26:10.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3398" CreationDate="2013-03-23T21:17:43.780" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we can make a new workflow for posting a question. (1) The questioner have to make a consultation first at the chat room, (2) let the old active members as well as the experts make a suggestion whether the question should be posted as a new one, (3) based on the suggestion, do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T21:17:43.780" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3398" CreationDate="2013-03-23T23:12:31.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could also be cut down by reducing (or getting rid of) the time limit on how long after a question is posted before you can accept an answer. I understand the principle of it but sometimes the very first answer works and is optimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25421" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T23:12:31.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3398" CreationDate="2013-03-24T00:12:11.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there is already a good mechanism in place to discourage this behavior -- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After posting a few questions time the percentage of accepted answers shows up and so they stand out when they ask a new question. This has exactly the desired effect in that after a few questions they learn how the site works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T00:12:11.533" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2013-03-24T10:59:08.993" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, reputation doesn't mean much on TeX-SX. So we don't have any problems that many other SE sites have. The main reason is that our wizards are also here which is fantastic and we know how good they are so reputation doesn't reflect other than participation in the site for the fun of it. A typical example, I have 40K, Frank Mittelbach has 24K. That's nonsense :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often someone answers a question and misses a duplicate but then someone else finds it in the database and the question gets closed. This doesn't mean that the answerer necessarily does it for reputation. Frequently the active users of the site remember reading such question before and look for the particular duplicate. If you don't know what you are looking for it's not that easy to find the duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's tough to find a balance because after a while you tend to answer in the comments. That leads also to other complaints :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3238/why-do-people-answer-in-comments&quot;&gt;Why do people answer in comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you feel addicted and looking for closure at each and every question, my suggestion would be to see the questions as newspaper crosswords. Try it out as a challenge and do it as much as you can, then pass on to the next one. Then you wouldn't be bothered with what happened to the tick mark or who got the max votes etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T10:59:08.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-25T04:38:48.067" Score="2" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the visitors to the TeX.SX (may be prospective TeX.SX user) have option to post Q &amp;amp; A as Guest and without proper signing/authentication before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example (Visitor to TeX.SX sees like this (screenshots attached)):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Possibility to &lt;strong&gt;Post a new question as Guest&lt;/strong&gt; with Question boxes wide open before registration/login. (Screenshot below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Implications&lt;/strong&gt;: I see lot of answers with one line, &quot;saying thanks&quot;, &quot;Use this template&quot;, &quot;it works for me too&quot; etc...  Are we attracting new users at cost of  spammers and casual  people because of which it creates more work load on current Users(commentators/editors) and many hard working people who maintain the clean site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LsjNC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we have &lt;strong&gt;Improve the Question&lt;/strong&gt; option open to unregistered users/visitors? I know it will be peer-reviewed but why to take up double work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve the Question&lt;/strong&gt; by Visitor (Screenshot below) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/45m7e.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we have &lt;strong&gt;Improve the Answer&lt;/strong&gt; option open to unregistered users/visitors? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve the Answer&lt;/strong&gt; by Visitor (Screenshot below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ocac.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Should we open too much as to allow anyone to touch the Q&amp;amp;A text? Why not give access to only &lt;code&gt;Registered users&lt;/code&gt; see &quot;Improve&quot; and &quot;edit&quot; features.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-03-25T23:02:32.607" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T23:02:32.607" Title="Posting single line question and answer as visitor/spammer without proper signing/authentication" Tags="|discussion|answers|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3410" CreationDate="2013-03-25T14:19:30.690" Score="8" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really not very important, but it bugs me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems impossible to get a profile picture with a transparent part. Even if I upload a picture with an alpha channel, the system seems to remove it. Note the (undesired) white background:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rMM8O.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I doing something wrong here (aside from being too narcissistic, perhaps)?&#xA;Do you know a way of having a profile picture with an alpha channel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I've since found this informative  question on Meta Stack Overflow: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/163831/profile-picture-cannot-have-transparent-background&quot;&gt;Profile picture cannot have transparent background&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T06:06:24.357" Title="Can a profile picture have an alpha channel?" Tags="|support|images|user-profile-page|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3413" CreationDate="2013-03-25T17:48:58.900" Score="31" ViewCount="565" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/104164/color-the-faces-of-a-graph&quot;&gt;Color the faces of a graph&lt;/a&gt; I noticed that the OP downvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/104167/13304&quot;&gt;Karl's students&lt;/a&gt;'s answer and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/104185/13304&quot;&gt;g.kov&lt;/a&gt;'s answer. These answers, actually, do not use TikZ, but show how the picture the OP was asking for could be done with PSTricks and Asymptote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, his motivations are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You didn't use a single line of code from my example that I am interested in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/104164/color-the-faces-of-a-graph#comment227605_104185&quot;&gt;comment 1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/104164/color-the-faces-of-a-graph#comment227606_104167&quot;&gt;comment 2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked for some related posts on meta, but I was only able to find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/133/down-vote-etiquette&quot;&gt;Down-vote etiquette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1640/voting-on-behaviour-vs-question-content&quot;&gt;Voting on behaviour vs question content&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;related, but not getting the exact point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question, therefore, is: is this good practise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, my opinion is: no, definitely. In my view, it is always nice to have answers showing how to do things in other manner and/or with other packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T21:01:42.493" Title="Downvoting answers exploiting different approaches with respect to the initial question" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3386" CreationDate="2013-03-25T18:33:19.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like adding my answer to this question, even though I am not very active in the community, and (more importantly) even though my own MWEs were perhaps not the best ones could have hope for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter is, indeed, partly my fault, and partly because the problems I was dealing with were far beyond my own understanding of TeX, and despite trying, I could either not reproduce them, or not isolate the problem adequately enough. But while reading books and learning about how TeX works does help, I truly believe (and I have learnt from my clumsy questions) that a lot of the &quot;knowledge&quot; comes from facing our code and finding where something went wrong. Writing an MWE is work (sometimes even hard work), but you will sometimes find the answer while trying to reproduce the error (and thus avoid unnecessary questions), and at least you can look up the obvious problems in the manuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do, I don't think there is anything wrong to asking a question saying &quot;I solved this problem with that hack but I'd like to properly understand &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it worked&quot; (there are a few of these questions). Which also requires a minimal working example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oftentimes, it turns out that, as in the question you point to, the canonical answer is miles away from where the OP would even have looked for it. Then &lt;em&gt;a posteriori&lt;/em&gt; it may appear that a Minimal non-Working Example was not really needed, because the OP was not looking in the right place. But the MWE (working or not) may have helped the ones who answered figuring out what the question was about. If you can show &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; it fails, then there is a chance others can understand &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it fails and help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, an MWE is perhaps not needed for all questions; sometimes even an incomplete MWE will do. Some questions about TeX history or lists of things (packages, commands, etc.) don't really need them either. But it saves time for those who answer, and it very often teaches something to the OP… which is also part of the game. It also shows some effort into finding a solution, which is a positive thing (at least, it makes the answerer feel more useful… you know, teach a man how to fish instead of dumping a fish down his throat). There may be excessive requests for MWEs, but generally speaking, they are often useful and appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10119" LastEditorUserId="10119" LastEditDate="2013-03-25T20:50:14.157" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T20:50:14.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3407" CreationDate="2013-03-25T18:57:01.350" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Imgur&lt;/a&gt; system, which is now used for the &quot;Uploaded picture&quot; option in your profile page (see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/01/announcing-a-new-way-to-change-your-profile-picture/&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;), does not support .png with an alpha channel. Every time I've tried to upload one, it was rendered with a white background on TeX.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8cqju.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was misled by this &lt;a href=&quot;https://jeremy.visser.name/2008/03/alpha-blended-gravatars-broken/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2008 discussion&lt;/a&gt; about Gravatar's discontinued support for .png with an alpha channel. It turns out that they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; support it, nowadays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T40uI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you want a profile picture with an alpha channel, you need to use Gravatar (which is a bit of a pain). The procedure is detailed in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/41278&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T18:57:01.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-25T20:42:55.860" Score="17" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please do not click this link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-do-i-make-my-document-look-like-it-was-written-by-a-cthulhu-worshipping-madm&quot;&gt;How do I make my document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;If your finger slips, do not up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia writes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cthulhu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what? What is all the fuss about? Is this really one of the great LaTeX questions of all time? Please tell me why I am obviously wrong when I say that it is below average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T15:20:24.517" Title="Why is &quot;...Cthulhu-worshipping madman?&quot; a great question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3411" CreationDate="2013-03-25T20:49:41.490" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is at least to some extent about popularity: questions which get lots of views are more likely to get lots of votes than those with fewer views. Highly complex technical questions don't attract as many views as more accessible questions, so some of the most tricky and perhaps 'insightful' questions attract relatively few votes. At the same time, some basic or indeed 'fun' questions attract a lot of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is meant to be a 'low cost' activity, which in general means if the question is clear and seems to be answerable upvotes can be expected. In the current case, I think that is probably the case on balance, and certainly this topic attracted a lot of interest. Thus a high number of votes is to be expected: it's not meant to mean it's the best question on the entire site. (I'm not sure how you can quantify the 'best question': for a beginner, some basic questions should score highly, while for the experienced TeX user something much more low level, say about the OR, might be much more 'interesting'.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T20:49:41.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3408" CreationDate="2013-03-25T20:55:07.740" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Commenting directly on how individuals vote is probably not something we should pursue: voting is ultimately down to each user provided it does not fall into the 'sock puppet' or 'revenge downvoting' category. However, the general point is one that is worth discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From early on, the general position has been that 'parallel' answers are valid, as it may well be that there are good alternatives to the approach that the questioner takes, or there may be something useful to illustrate.  In particular, ConTeXt or plain TeX answers to LaTeX questions are fine, &lt;em&gt;provided&lt;/em&gt; it's made clear that a different format is in use (the same also applies in reverse). In the same way, PSTricks answers to TikZ questions or &lt;em&gt;vice versa&lt;/em&gt; should in general be OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth bearing in mind that the point of the site is to answer questions but also to build up knowledge in a somewhat-ordered form. That means that questions should have some generality and that answers should have the possibility to help people beyond the original questioner. As such, 'alternative approach' answers fulfil an important role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is in any case a last resort: we've been pretty clear that voting should be a primarily positive thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-03-25T21:01:02.303" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T21:01:02.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-25T21:05:22.927" Score="37" ViewCount="2783" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching for &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; on the main TeX.SE site yields 10,938 results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &lt;code&gt;pstricks&lt;/code&gt; yields 627 results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &lt;code&gt;metapost&lt;/code&gt; - only 213 results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar search for tags yields similar proportions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While my (as seen above, unconfirmed) impression is &quot;for each &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; answer (or question), there exists a &lt;code&gt;pstricks&lt;/code&gt; answer&quot;, I can see a strong interest in &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;, much less for &lt;code&gt;pstricks&lt;/code&gt; - and almost none for &lt;code&gt;Metapost&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that so?  Now that &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; exists, I hardly ever use Metapost, but I used it &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; in the past, and it's great.  Why it's popularity is so low nowadays?  (I don't know &lt;code&gt;pstricks&lt;/code&gt; at all, so I can't comment about how it compares to Metapost.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is even stranger given the fact that LuaTeX has Metapost included, and it's heavily utilized by ConTeXt (which seems to be gaining popularity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5626" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T18:02:35.703" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T02:55:53.590" Title="Why Metapost discrimination?" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3414" CreationDate="2013-03-25T21:23:37.717" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it's not TeX.SE specific. A quick look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=metapost,%20tikz&amp;amp;cmpt=q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;google trends&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a1ReE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is MetaPost too hard? Too few documentation? Few current publications?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very interested in MetaPost but did not use it yet. If you would like to publish examples, or even an introductory article for open-minded people, such as on &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-community.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX-Community.org&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt; (which isn't limited to TikZ), let me know. I would be happy to learn MetaPost and to see it today in action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to make it more popular on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site, post interesting questions about MetaPost, or show MetaPost solutions to existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T21:23:37.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3408" CreationDate="2013-03-25T22:03:09.373" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is OP the king for his upvote,accept and downvote actions on his Q &amp;amp; A ?. May be not, He/She is, until the first stage when OP brings the new idea to the community domain at later stage &quot;parallel&quot; answers develop to cater broader audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence OP's responsibility increases on his upvote/downvote/comments behaviour along with upvoters/commentators evident from heavy upvoting of Q. Most OP's miss the point that it's communication between multiple TeX users not a single point service to OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a slight miscommunication as there was no prior comments before the answer was posted and even OP reveals the magic(Many other figures with same code) after the answers are posted. May be OP should have edited the Q for precise instructions to help others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But definitely, OP missed starting his first basic polite comment &quot; Thank you for the answer, i would prefer to have with Tikz or my code due to ....&quot;. No token of thanks for any replies to acknowledge the work of answers. Eventually i am sure OP's will get his answer as TeX.SX users take up a good challenge and fun in TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hovering text on Downvote button is very misleading especially for  Human TeX.SX users. It says whatever is not useful press this dirty button. Which i don't do unless emergency occurs. I agree with Joseph Wright on Downvote only on Dangerously Dirty stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="1402" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T21:01:42.493" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T21:01:42.493" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3411" CreationDate="2013-03-26T07:07:15.080" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that this question is about fonts and typesetting and not about Cthulhu. The title is just catchy and the whole thing can be consider funny (you know, by people which have a sense of humor) and draws in a lot of users and with them votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's not the best LaTeX question ever, but that's just how voting and popularity works. Sometimes I also get +20 votes for something simple, trivial and/or stupid, but only +3 votes for something difficult but technical interresting  which took me 1 1/2 hours to code and test. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T07:07:15.080" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-27T00:27:08.030" Score="13" ViewCount="526" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really want to contribute to some questions but StackExchange says I can't answer a question until I have a reputation of at least 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I get my reputation up to 5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4353" OwnerDisplayName="Jason Lewis" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T23:45:47.807" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T22:11:52.763" Title="How are you supposed to get reputation if you can't answer a question unless you have a reputation of at least 5?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|answers|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3408" CreationDate="2013-03-27T01:41:02.440" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;Vote Down&lt;/a&gt; privileges page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is voting down?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting down, also known as &quot;casting downvotes&quot;, is how the community&#xA;  indicates which questions and answers are least useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I vote down?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an &lt;em&gt;egregiously sloppy,&#xA;  no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps&#xA;  dangerously incorrect.&lt;/em&gt; [emph. added]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the alternatives to down-voting?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The up-vote privilege comes first because that's what you should focus&#xA;  on: pushing great content to the top. Down-voting should be reserved&#xA;  for extreme cases. It's not meant as a substitute for communication&#xA;  and editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instead of voting down:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the post is spammy or offensive, flag it.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is duplicate or off-topic, flag it for moderator attention.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If something is wrong, please leave a comment or edit the post to correct&#xA;  it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a TikZ fan.  I don't expect I will ever need to use PSTricks.  I think it's kind of silly when a very simple TikZ question is asked and a very detailed PSTricks answer is given among the TikZ ones.  But I would never downvote those answers that are neither useful to me nor presumably to the OP.  I may not vote it up, but I wouldn't presume that others would not find it useful.  One of this community's greatest assets is its supportive culture (look at how much effort is spent on canning frequently-made comments so they are maximally friendly and constructive!), and I hope it can stay that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T01:41:02.440" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3336" CreationDate="2013-03-27T02:45:49.173" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really like to go. Not sure I can yet bit its on my wishlist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4353" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T02:45:49.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3411" CreationDate="2013-03-27T04:12:40.917" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest I have no idea. I just wanted to make a cool prop. The next thing I know it is mentioned on metafilter (which I missed), upvoted to heck, and I've got more karma then I know what to do with (which lets me help with the edit queue at least)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T04:12:40.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3423" CreationDate="2013-03-27T05:37:17.070" Score="6" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some users have zero score for all of their tags on their profile pages, even though they obviously have non-zero reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jddjc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples of users: User &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/15662/user15662?tab=tags&quot;&gt;15662&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/24323/user24323?tab=tags&quot;&gt;24323&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/25993/user25993?tab=tags&quot;&gt;25993&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/27638/user27638?tab=tags&quot;&gt;27638&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the pattern is, hence the reference to it affecting only &quot;some users.&quot; Although the above selection was somewhat arbitrary, it seems to mostly affect new users (with low reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T08:22:02.203" Title="Tag scores all zero on user's profile page" Tags="|support|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2013-03-27T08:07:12.210" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;the boxed number shows the positive votes received by your answers. You can see it by placing the mouse cursor over the number for a couple of seconds:&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mUqPD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is what happens after hovering the number 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your screenshot the user has never answered any question, so all tags have zeros. He gained rep only with questions, not answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24483" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T08:12:50.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3408" CreationDate="2013-03-27T10:03:40.743" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just would like to point out that the popup text for the downvote button might be misleading. It says &quot;This answer is not useful.&quot; You &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; read that as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is not useful &lt;em&gt;to me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then a downvote might be the right thing. You might also read it as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is not useful &lt;em&gt;to the OP&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the downvotes in this case could be correct. It is clear from the FAQ and from personal experience on this site that the text should read &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is not useful &lt;em&gt;to the community&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or even better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think&lt;/em&gt; this answer is not useful &lt;em&gt;to the community&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, you have much less ground for any downvote. I doubt that we can have a different popup text just for TX.SX, but other SX sites really use one of the other interpretations of downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21591" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T10:03:40.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3411" CreationDate="2013-03-27T15:20:24.517" Score="10" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have I upvoted that question? &lt;strong&gt;Yes, I have,, when it was fairly new.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do I think it deserves so many upvotes? &lt;strong&gt;No, I don't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do I care much? &lt;strong&gt;No, I don't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it matter much? &lt;strong&gt;No, it doesn't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should people flood the site with attention-grabbing questions like that? &lt;strong&gt;No, they shouldn't; such questions, however, are fine from time to time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should people read and appreciate the technical questions and answers more? &lt;strong&gt;Yes, they should, it takes a lot of time and insight to answer those, and this should be rewarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(This all express just my opinion on that post.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T15:20:24.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-03-27T16:42:16.837" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a TeX user, I favour&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2011/05/the_rise_of_logical_punctuation.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;logical punctuation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a.k.a. &quot;British style&quot;; or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rhetorical punctuation&lt;/strong&gt;, a.k.a. &quot;American style.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following example, taken from Edward D. Johnson's &lt;em&gt;The Handbook of Good English&lt;/em&gt; (Simon &amp;amp; Schuster, 1991), illustrates the difference between the two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm not sure what is meant by 'fail-safe'&lt;/em&gt;. (logical punctuation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm not sure what is meant by 'fail-safe.'&lt;/em&gt; (rhetorical punctuation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="75284" LastEditDate="2017-03-19T10:49:10.130" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T10:49:10.130" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-27T16:42:16.837" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3414" CreationDate="2013-03-27T16:50:42.310" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Several edits made; the important ones are bolded. Also, NB: I am essentially retelling my own experiences, here, and then generalizing them. So please add grains of salt where necessary.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MetaPost vs TikZ: no discrimination, just different popularity. As far as I can tell, the languages are about equally easy to use. So what, then, made TikZ so popular? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, TikZ has an &lt;em&gt;examplary&lt;/em&gt; manual. It is good-looking, which makes it attractive (in the literal sense). It has an introductory tone — and it covers every feature of the programme. It has examples — it has examples for everything. It describes features general purpose and usage — and it describes their behaviour and implementation in-depth. It is my belief this has justly made it famous; &lt;s&gt;and MetaPost, frankly, lacks such a manual.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; @mbork rightly points out in a comment that the MetaFun manual is pretty good; and I might add John Hobby's MetaPost manual to that, too. All the same, I think that this is a case of ‘good’ getting outclassed by ‘outstanding’. Here are links to the manuals, so one can judge for oneself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Till Tantau's &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pgf/TikZ manual&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Hobby's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MetaPost manual&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hans Hagen's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MetaFun manual&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, and less importantly, Till Tantau has also written the very popular beamer package. Like TikZ, beamer is very user-friendly, and has an excellent manual. If people already know and like beamer, they will be predisposed to discover or like TikZ, because they know they can trust its author to write a user-friendly package with an outstanding manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(This paragraph is edited)&lt;/strong&gt; MetaPost has MetaFont, but creating fonts is a small niche compared to creating presentations. It is also very nicely integrated with ConTeXt, and indeed I think that ConTeXt users (like me) use it more than TikZ (I know I do); but I don't think that affects the fashions among LaTeX users very much. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MetaPost is a lovely language, but I don't believe it has a manual that is anywhere near as good. So, when MetaPost was still the more popular drawing package, TikZ was nonetheless easier to recommend to newbies; and by now, TikZ is itself the most popular drawing package, which only strengthens its position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yeah. It's not the quality of the languages -- TikZ is as good as MetaPost, and vice versa. It's not conspiracy, of course. It is, I believe, TikZ's spectacular manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2229" LastEditorUserId="2229" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T15:01:14.183" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T15:01:14.183" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-03-27T21:11:51.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which question (not answer) do you like most?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please use the following format &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;)&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rather than &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;hyphenated title&amp;gt;)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T21:11:51.463" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-27T21:11:51.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-03-27T21:12:57.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which answer (not question) do you like most?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please use the following format &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;](http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rather than &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;hyphenated title&amp;gt;#&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="2099" LastEditDate="2017-09-28T18:11:23.003" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T18:11:23.003" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-27T21:12:57.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3431" CreationDate="2013-03-28T00:18:29.660" Score="9" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know what happens to a Question B that was closed as duplicate of Question A, when Question A gets deleted? Is Question B reopened automatically? Should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21591" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T02:44:07.677" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T02:44:07.677" Title="Deleted roots of duplicates" Tags="|support|duplicates|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3430" CreationDate="2013-03-28T00:43:44.420" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand things, there is no connection between duplicates other than the link that is written into the duplicate question, so deletion of the root should not affect the duplicate.  I don't know if the link disappears.  But surely it's highly unlikely to delete a question that is the source of a duplicate for the reasons below.  Do you have a specific example in mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/170190&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When can't I delete my own post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't delete answers that have been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't delete any question that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has an upvoted answer, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has multiple answers (even if there are no upvotes), or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has been closed less than 48 hours ago (to allow for possible reopening)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T00:43:44.420" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2013-03-28T08:58:51.837" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the &quot;First Posts&quot; review queue is working properly again. Congratulations to everyone who was part of the &quot;150 reviewable First Posts&quot; party in the late evening of March 27th. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T08:58:51.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3418" CreationDate="2013-03-28T14:26:32.320" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started by asking questions and getting upvotes, so that I never even found myself in the situation of wanting to answer questions before I had the minimum prerequisite reputation, which apparently seems to be 5.&#xA;However, it does seem to be a bit contradictory with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/create-posts&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt; definition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is asking and answering questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most basic privilege of all -- the right to ask a question, and&#xA;  the right to contribute an answer. This is generally available to&#xA;  everyone, regardless of reputation level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T14:26:32.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3414" CreationDate="2013-03-28T19:40:10.077" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that part of the reason is that most of the questions are too localized. What I mean is that typically questions are stated as &quot;How do I solve problem X using package Y in macro-package Z?&quot; rather than &quot;How do I solve X?&quot;. This dissuades people from posting a solution that does not use package Y. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many a times I have felt like posting a Metapost answer to a Tikz question but normally I don't do that unless the question explicitly asks for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, don't get me wrong. Many a times, the author is indeed only interested in solving problem X using package Y in macro package Z. That is fine. But then there are other situations like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39149/323&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9559/323&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/44673/323&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/74168/323&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40159/323&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, for which I don't see any reason that the OP wants to stick to Tikz. (Again, I don't want to pin-point to specific users; I am just picking a few questions from the most popular tikz questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we, as a community, need to broaden the scope of some of these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T19:40:10.077" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3418" CreationDate="2013-03-31T21:21:10.623" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not correct. You can post answers and questions starting from reputation 1, which is the starting and minimal reputation. You can't get below it even by downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/create-posts&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/create-posts&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is asking and answering questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most basic privilege of all -- the right to ask a question, and the right to contribute an answer. This is generally available to everyone, regardless of reputation level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might have confused this with the privilege to post in Meta which indeed requires 5 reputation: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/participate-in-meta&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/participate-in-meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do I need 5 rep to post there?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The following applies to all per-site Metas except Stack Overflow. You do not need Stack Overflow reputation to post on its Meta, and your rep on its Meta isn't tied to the parent site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This extremly small barrier for posting in Meta is very reasonable IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-03-31T21:21:10.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3437" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-01T09:23:32.177" Score="6" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Miy9j.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p47iU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upper small banner appeard twice in the last few days and disappears when clicking not now and can’t be found again. The lower window opens if i click “chat with an expert” and it was both times “An Expert“ an the same Avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a new feature, a bug or a hack?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-04-20T16:14:17.423" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T16:14:17.423" Title="Chat with an expert?" Tags="|support|chat|stackexchange|fun|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2013-04-21T06:09:46.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-01T11:33:17.703" Score="31" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/106269/how-to-put-something-in-footer-depending-on-page-number-context-plain-tex&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I got two great answers on how to do what I asked for (putting the page number in the footer at the first page of each signature in a book). But --- as some of you probably understand --- it's of course the number of the &lt;strong&gt;signature&lt;/strong&gt; that should go there to make it easier to order the signatures and bind them right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This procedure is often done when printing books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers to my question would be much more useful to any book designer if they instead answered the intended question: How do I put the &lt;strong&gt;signature number&lt;/strong&gt; at the bottom of the first page of each signature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I leave the question as is, and post a new question? Should I edit the question and notice the answerers? Offer a bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thankful for thought on best practices!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23043" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T14:03:02.837" Title="I asked for the wrong thing and so made the answers to my question uncomplete. How should I correct this?" Tags="|discussion|editing|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3438" CreationDate="2013-04-01T12:47:14.437" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that editing a question after you've received good answers to it is generally bad practice, especially if it would change the validity of the answers.  If what you need could be done with a minimal change, it might be possible to add a comment to each answer with an extra question.  This will notify the original answerers and let them update their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think your intuition to pose a new question is the correct one in most cases that the change would be a substantial one.  When you ask the  new question, you can add a link to the previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2013-04-02T14:03:02.837" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T14:03:02.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3441" CreationDate="2013-04-03T07:33:10.743" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot edit and retag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/106662/19356&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; because their hyperlinks are disabled. Other questions have no problem. What makes the question above special?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hyperlinks are alternately disabled and enabled as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disabled&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C9ZrT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disabled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4iF59.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enabled&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w1N7T.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T16:13:23.763" Title="Why can't I edit and retag a certain question?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3440" CreationDate="2013-04-03T08:50:29.390" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone else was editing the post at the same time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27833" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T08:50:29.390" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3443" CreationDate="2013-04-03T16:11:26.087" Score="11" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I receive a notification of a chat message, even though I thought I had left the chat room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I haven't logged in for a few hours, then this chat message is not in the main 'page' of the chat room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to respond to most messages, so how can I respond to an older message in chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T17:59:56.277" Title="Responding to 'expired' notifications in chat" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3442" CreationDate="2013-04-03T17:59:56.277" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/117271/add-the-ability-to-reply-to-a-chat-message-directly-from-the-transcript&quot;&gt;Add the ability to reply to a chat message directly from the transcript&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the transcript page (where the notification link takes you), open the message menu (by clicking the downward arrow that appears to the left of the message when you hover over it) and click &quot;reply to this message&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/teblX.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the message menu&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(your menu will have slightly less content)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will take you inside the chat room, with the input box pre-populated for the reply, so you can just start typing your response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T17:59:56.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3449" CreationDate="2013-04-06T10:34:54.977" Score="15" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;One may met problems in document writing, some of them are specific that rarely to met by others. So questions asked for seeking resolutions for these problems are often marked &quot;too localized&quot;. But if one actually want a resolution, how does he ask to avoid the risk of &quot;too localized&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15588" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T18:42:01.460" Title="How to ask a specific question without in the risk of &quot;too localized&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|close-reasons|too-localized|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3446" CreationDate="2013-04-06T17:19:22.483" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can manage to demonstrate the problem you’re struggling with within 20 or 30 lines of a fully compilable Minimal Working Example, your question most likely won’t be closed as &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes questions &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt; is not including a full document or including several problems in one question (this might trigger other closing reasons as well). I don’t think we closed questions very often just because the asker is attempting something really obscure – if only they stepped away from the problem enough and tried to ask the question in an abstract way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine I was trying to typeset my latest musical composition: a song whose lyrics consist of chemical compounds and syntactic structure trees. For some reason, however, I can’t get the packages &lt;code&gt;abc&lt;/code&gt; (for music), &lt;code&gt;chemfig&lt;/code&gt;  (for the chemistry magic) and &lt;code&gt;qtree&lt;/code&gt; (for the trees) to work together. If I create a nice MWE clearly and reproducibly showing the problem occurring, this question would not be closed, even though I’d probably be the only dunce on this planet who ever needs this weird combination of packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some hints on how to arrive at such concise code, check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T17:19:22.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3446" CreationDate="2013-04-06T17:20:11.287" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that work well on the StackExchange sites are ones for which a resolution is well-defined. If this is not the case - when the question is too broad (leading to no specific, concrete answer) or when a question solicits subjective commentary (quite often although not exclusive to questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;best-practices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;best-practices&lt;/a&gt;) - the risk of being closed as &quot;too localized&quot; increases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I often find that questions closed as &quot;too localized&quot; are from users who do not engage the community during the process of the Q&amp;amp;A. They post a question, mostly &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;MWE&lt;/a&gt;, making it difficult to reproduce. After the question is posted with some conversation through comment from community members, the OP is no-where to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; (no exclusion, in my opinion) put yourself in the shoes of the community, when asking a question. Also - and this is important - be ready to clarify some things that are asked in comments. If clarification or feedback seems lacking, a question quickly goes stale and are likely to be closed as &quot;too localized.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been mentioned over-and-over that posting a MWE&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; helps, and it does. To some extent, it shows that the OP has put in some effort to isolate the problem so that discussions around a solution is much more focused and doesn't waste time of the contributors. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2781/5764&quot;&gt;Include pictures&lt;/a&gt; as well (even if you have low reputation; our &quot;janitors&quot; will embed them for you &lt;em&gt;tout de suite&lt;/em&gt;), since they relay information very well. Yes, while the SE network provides valuable input from experienced community members, they most likely have jobs keeping them busy outside of this realm, making their time spent here valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, and you're still unsure, there's always the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; where active members discuss everything from document classes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=6865986#6865986&quot;&gt;ducks&lt;/a&gt;, packages to programming and configurations to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2923/5764&quot;&gt;cricket&lt;/a&gt;. Visit it, start a discussion and see if your problem can be solved there. You might soon be prompted to ask the question formally on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt;, and can even provide a link to the chat as a frame of reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the above, sadly, excludes the few that have less than 5 reputation on this site. But the reality is that not everyone can be accommodated equally...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; By MWE here I mean that you should show what you have tried in order to replicate your work/problem. Sometimes the MWE is not working, but that better than nothing.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T17:50:48.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3446" CreationDate="2013-04-06T18:22:59.903" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already you had good answers here. I don't know if this material is already covered. Just for record and helpful to other newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My POV is based on&lt;/strong&gt;: How not to ask question or atleast first solve by ourself approach. Assuming we are NOT Working on a TeX related project at the last minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nevertheless don't stop posting any wierd TeX/LaTeX question with MWE effort because stupid ones become very popular and might be turn clever over time&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learning/Adapting using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=#&quot;&gt;Advanced Search&lt;/a&gt;, somewhat helps not to ask a too localised Q or duplicate. On bugs related to TeX/LaTeX editors verify bug tracker and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2622/15717&quot;&gt;Q on bug reporting for &lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;eg&lt;/strong&gt;: Tag based search like : &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practices&quot;&gt;Best-practices tags&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot;&gt;big-list tags&lt;/a&gt; are worth reading&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the documentation and TeX/LaTeX books at &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://ctan.org/search&lt;/a&gt;. It may seem stupid, but worth the effort because everyone becomes expert by Practice(&lt;code&gt;more-filenames.tex&lt;/code&gt;),Reading(&lt;code&gt;more-reading.pdf&lt;/code&gt;) and &lt;strong&gt;Role Reversal&lt;/strong&gt; (Try answering TeX.SX Q's or post comments).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Working on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MWE using Buildingup and Hacking Down&lt;/a&gt; and Remember &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; file contents matter the most&#xA;Learning debugging is very important to be self reliant. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Common errors and The joy of TeX errors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good(Sharp/Specific) Title, Perfect Tagging,Thorough Background Search/effort  with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; along with instant OP comment support increases chances for a quick/accurate answer with heavy upvoting to Q and A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short Answer to Q&lt;/strong&gt;: If possible try broadening the scope of the &lt;code&gt;Q&lt;/code&gt; to benefit the larger audience. Everyone wants to &lt;code&gt;learn&lt;/code&gt; from Q or from A including yourself, so you need to feed the fodder. BTW you can always show discontent and open the closed question with modifications. feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; to resolve them, there are good TeX and LaTeX friends availabe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget the Mantra Upvote &lt;code&gt;Q&lt;/code&gt; immediately and often, Downvote with comments and Accept answer lately(24hrs).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally don't despair everyone makes mistakes and learn from them during the starting days. One day everyone will have a chance,but &lt;code&gt;never ever give up trying&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T18:42:01.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-07T14:05:12.520" Score="16" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;The just posted question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/107382/package-animate-is-great-but-could-it-have-a-better-animation-compression&quot;&gt;Package animate is great but could it have a better animation compression?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;asks a question which is (in my opinion) answered in another question with a fully different purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered in this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73067/how-to-use-autoplay-within-animate-package-together-with-a-pause-at-the-end-of&quot;&gt;How to use autoplay (within animate package) together with a pause at the end of every playing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but as can be seen, the question in the latter is not directly related to the new one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in general, when a question is answered by another question which was an elaboration, should one then repost a modified version of the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find this issue addressed here on meta, searching for question brings up everything :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A duplicate doesn't seem appropriate and duplicating content seems also too much, or?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T15:52:13.157" Title="Answer in an other question" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3453" CreationDate="2013-04-07T16:46:45.847" Score="47" ViewCount="766" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that we should define a best-practise for how to handle answers to questions which are ... well, not answers to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is motivated by my own uncertainty: on the one hand, I like to help others who ask questions, and this implies to really take the OP seriously. If he makes it clear that he wants a (say) tikz answer, I would think twice before even considering to post a non-tikz answer. On the other hand, I see that this site is also about building a knowledge base. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These goals are in conflict: a knowledge base is best if it has lots of different points of view whereas the OP often has a specific goal what he intents to do with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One examples which always comes to my mind is that the OP might have a huge document which is built with a specific package - and for reasons of consistency and learning time etc etc, he might want to avoid to use / learn / evaluate a new package which is unrelated to his previous attempts. After all, it is always easier to make incremental changes rather than beginning again from scratch and maintaining two worlds. To be honest, I would feel as if some answerer did not take me seriously if I receive an answer which is not an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is largely motivated by the fact that I stumbled over two related meta questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3408/downvoting-answers-exploiting-different-approaches-with-respect-to-the-initial-q?cb=1&quot;&gt;Downvoting answers exploiting different approaches with respect to the initial question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&gt; here, the OP downvoted an answer for which he felt... well, perhaps he felt offended. I can understand him as the &quot;offending&quot; answers are unrelated to his question. If I where him, I would probably try to ignore the answers. Or would I downvote them? I am unsure. Perhaps I would (had I not read this meta question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3434/1537&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3434/1537&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both touch the topic, although their point is not to archieve a best-practise, but to deal with the symptoms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, back to the discussion: what should be(come) the best practise for answers which are not answers to the OP, but parts of building a knowledge base? Should these answers be marked in a special way such that the OP does not feel offended? Should the question be retagged such that a pstricks answer to a tikz question can be found by the search? I am sure that we would want to have the highest possible quality for the cross-references. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this mean that, for example &quot;tikz / pstricks /metapost&quot; are actually kind of aliases to the same tag (!?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T14:47:14.257" Title="Best practise for answers which are for the community, not the OP (&quot;tikz answer to pstricks question&quot;)" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3452" CreationDate="2013-04-09T07:48:19.503" Score="28" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Opinion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have, or at least had back in beta days, an informal understanding that Context answers were appropriate responses to Latex questions if it was thought that at least a few Latex users would find the existence of the alternate approach interesting.  More than anything, I think Will's comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/524/why-are-there-so-few-context-questions/532#532&quot;&gt;an answer of Andrew Stacey's to &lt;em&gt;Why are there so few ConTeXt questions?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; summarised the mood back then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to admit finding it rather vexing when a ConTeXt user will say &amp;quot;this can be done easily in ConTeXt!&amp;quot; and then not give an example. But conversely, I love it when they do. Great insight on the advertising angle. – Will Robertson Oct 13 '10 at 14:05&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, question askers are supplicants (students, in the words of the badge) here and they are held to higher standards of behaviour than answerers.  It is not their right to dictate what the community should regard as the on/off-topic boundary for the question, it is the community's own consensus about what is best, and the order for that is: the interests of the real experts (teachers) come first, the long-term reference value of our site comes second, and solving the particular problem that brought the questioner here comes third (with this third priority of the motivating problem problem mattering more than the fourth priority, the exact wording of the question; cf. X-Y questions).  So I am happy to contradict comments such as &amp;quot;LaTeX answers only, please!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, be tactful when giving answers that do not obviously count as responses to what is asked for.  Explain that you are giving an answer that probably won't solve the questioners problem, but that you think is relevant because, say, of its economy and elegance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Proposed policy&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Metapost answers to Tikz questions and Context answers to Latex questions are appropriate provided it is indicated (i) how relevant the answer might be to the questioner's problem, and (ii) what general interest the technique shown has to TikZ/LaTeX-using friends of TeX in general.  Such answers should be tactful, since they might be frustrating for the questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T08:56:21.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3452" CreationDate="2013-04-09T14:50:44.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My View: More of comments rather than answer, Please bear with me&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question: 1&lt;/strong&gt; What should become the best practise for answers which are not answers to the OP, but parts of building a knowledge base? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment:&lt;/strong&gt; Posting alternate solutions for any type of graphics tools Q mentioned is the right way to build knowledge base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question: 2&lt;/strong&gt; Should the question be retagged such that a pstricks answer to a tikz question can be found by the search? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment:&lt;/strong&gt; No change in tagging based on answers as per the policy .&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1932/15717&quot;&gt;What's the policy on retagging questions based on answers?&lt;/a&gt; as google search will trace out. Might be relooked also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question: 3&lt;/strong&gt; Should these answers be marked in a special way such that the OP does not feel offended? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment:&lt;/strong&gt; Downvoting is OP's Choice. To avoid this &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Not an exact solution but an alternative approach with explanation as follows:&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;&lt;em&gt;(it can be changed based on feedback here)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP gets useful answer over passage of time for atleast 1-2 days or more, but not like a quickfix go-to consultant which is &lt;em&gt;keypoint&lt;/em&gt; OP misses often when duedates are reaching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I really love this comment which i upvoted representative of friendly TeX.SX:&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/103980/tikz-define-pattern-with-reference-to-external-picture/104015#comment227133_104015&quot;&gt;TikZ: Define pattern with reference to external picture&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks to OP for all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question: 4&lt;/strong&gt; Would this mean that, for example &quot;tikz / pstricks /metapost&quot; are actually kind of aliases to the same tag (!?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, as they are all graphics tools to &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On OP's role:&lt;/strong&gt; My answer to cited meta Q. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3416/15717&quot;&gt;Is OP the king for his upvote,accept and downvote actions on his Q &amp;amp; A ?&lt;/a&gt;. Sorry for the shameless plug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Things are largely improving over past few days may be due to the meta Q's effect. I really love this TeX.SX community and privileged to be part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T14:50:44.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3451" CreationDate="2013-04-09T15:52:13.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would go with what Sean said: pointing the OP to another answer could help him, since most likely he will continue to have issues with the package/instruction/situation he is using/having.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you can point DIRECTLY to the answer of the first question by using the 'sharing' option, so you don't necessarily need to address him to the question itself, and it's left on the hands of the OP to look at the question and see what was happening (if he wants to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that what textenthusiast said is important: Don't avoid writing a message or comment stating that there is a completely elaborated answer somewhere else, and if you can include a &quot;resumed&quot; answer, even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27833" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T15:52:13.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3418" CreationDate="2013-04-09T22:11:52.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;while i agree with martin that a minimum rep of 5 to post to meta is reasonable, i've noticed a number of questions recently that have no up-votes, but were closed as duplicates before anything else happened. that leaves a rank beginner, who's not yet able to suggest any answers, at a disadvantage. of course, a moderator can migrate a question (such as this one) from the main site to meta. is that the best &quot;way out&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T22:11:52.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-10T11:54:36.880" Score="16" ViewCount="1477" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to upload a PDF via imgur and was told that I couldn't as it wasn't a jpeg, png (or some other image types that I've immediately forgotten).  This certainly used to work, has it stopped?  If so, can we get it reinstated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T11:54:36.880" Title="Is imgur PDF upload broken?" Tags="|bug|imgur|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3452" CreationDate="2013-04-10T14:47:14.257" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, such answers are fine. It is quite ok to provide a solution using an alternative system, and there are couple areas where this applies: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TikZ/PSTricks/METAPOST/...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;lualatex&lt;/code&gt; answers to more-or-less any automation and computation questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;lua/xelatex&lt;/code&gt; answers to font issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tables typesetting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all is justified by the wiki-likeness of SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, this all is valid from the long-term point of view. When the question is new, the OP asks a TikZ question and the first answer he recieves is using PSTricks, it can be highly frustrating, and I completely understand that. If he recieves a good and useful answer first, and people add more reference answers later, this problem diminishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: It is a good practice to show the other options, but IMHO the first concern is to help the OP, and only the second one is to build the contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T14:47:14.257" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3462" CreationDate="2013-04-10T16:09:04.950" Score="16" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost every time I go to see if anything is in the Review queue, there is absolutely nothing there.  At first, I attributed this to a team of ninjas that devour the review queue before I can ever see it (read: I shrugged), but I recently reviewed my first item and now interest is piqued again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does the review 'tab' update itself automatically (ala 'An edit has been made to this post; click here to load'), or does this page have to be refreshed to pull in the fresh queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually pretty annoying when working on a slow or otherwise painfully unreliable internet connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T04:26:12.520" Title="Does the 'Review' view update itself, or do I have to manually refresh the page?" Tags="|support|review-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-10T16:18:42.523" Score="21" ViewCount="1371" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are your feelings about this?  I got this inspiration by the courses the MIT and Harvard are giving online nowadays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took the introduction to electronics of the MIT, and I must say they are pretty good.  Maybe some of you, like me, think this could be a good way to promote LaTeX use and at the same time instruct/refresh knowledge of LaTeX with a worldwide reach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27833" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-04-20T16:11:23.490" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:41:26.200" Title="Are any of you interested in starting an online LaTeX course?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3460" CreationDate="2013-04-10T17:20:08.150" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main problem with screencast video tutorials is broken links over time except when hosted by TeX organisations(tug.org or ctan.org) like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/author/gratzer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;George Gratzer's author of Math into La­TeX 4th Edi­tion&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/examples/Math_into_LaTeX-4/mil4-video-presentations.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Video presentations link&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can post personal video links today but over time unfortunately for whatever reason the video tutorials become inactive unless well maintained and taken over by decent TeX organisations. I will give for three genuine individual people whom i don't known but they are math teachers and graduate engg student have done excellent job on videos. They are not known to me but which i have followed them during my starting days. some of them are at comp.tex.tex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/index.jsp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&gt; Go to &lt;code&gt;Other Videos&lt;/code&gt; section (one may find many more..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Five-session short courses about TeX (1981)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://myvideos.stanford.edu/player/slplayer.aspx?coll=dcc0b290-ead5-48ea-b3d6-e54f3efd0c36&amp;amp;co=9b15b9da-e4ac-44bc-bc7f-58d040677ea1&amp;amp;o=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX For Beginners: - Session 1-5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Twelve lectures about the implementation of TeX (1982)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://myvideos.stanford.edu/player/slplayer.aspx?coll=dcc0b290-ead5-48ea-b3d6-e54f3efd0c36&amp;amp;co=55dabc2d-da7e-4aca-8fdc-0dbe4835b894&amp;amp;o=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 1-12&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Online Resources:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sharelatex&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/latex-guides/beginners-tutorial.html#.UjXFpFFDsyQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beginners Video Tutorial&lt;/a&gt; and its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/ShareLaTeX/videos?view=0&amp;amp;sort=da&amp;amp;live_view=500&amp;amp;flow=list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;full list of tutorial videos&lt;/a&gt; as mentioned by JosephWright at his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texdev.net/2013/09/15/latex-tutorial-videos-from-sharelatex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnC5h3PY-znygZ2rYNaX7_8j2Duwh58cK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Writelatex videos&lt;/a&gt; (links provided by Madam barbara beeton in comments) and its &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.writelatex.com/templates/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.writelatex.com/templates/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD406480D35CE390&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeX Tutorial by Joe DiNoto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1D4EAB31D3EBC449&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeX Tutorials by Mrs Krummel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://quicklatex.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A LaTeX weblog of video tutorial series by Sourav Singhal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notable mentions are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/?s=TUG+2011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/pracjourn/2010-1/reinaldo-videos/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Six LaTeX tools (with videos) (Portuguese)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/uktug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UK-TUG videos&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Note: The Vimeo videos were done using iMovie to combine the slides with   recordings made using Audacity by &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9040329#9040329&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/category/video-tutorials/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;River-valley Video tutorials(not so basic on LaTeX)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I am sorry incase i have posted these links and could not provide others(as i am not aware). I presented these links to help others.I am open to any feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2014-11-18T20:41:26.200" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:41:26.200" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-18T16:11:41.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3459" CreationDate="2013-04-11T00:00:59.887" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to refresh yourself – or install a browser addon, what does it for you &lt;em&gt;(update: builtin function in Opera)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To answer the question in comment:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a happy user of Firefox and can only say something about this, but for a start the search keywords for addons of other browsers should be “automatic tab reload” or “automatic tab refresh”. I found two nice blog posts, as well: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guidingtech.com/12491/auto-refresh-pages-chrome-firefox-opera/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to Auto Refresh Pages in Chrome, Firefox and Opera&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tecflap.com/2013/01/12/auto-reload-tabs-internet-explorer-firefox-chrome-opera/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to Auto Reload tabs in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome &amp;amp; Opera&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Firefox the most popular specialised addon is &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/reloadevery/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;“ReloadEvery”&lt;/a&gt;, another similar one seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-auto-reload/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;“Tab Auto Reload”&lt;/a&gt;. But I myself use the more general aimed addon &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;“Tab Mix Plus”&lt;/a&gt;, where the reload function is only one part of -  and there may be similar addons including this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="9237" LastEditDate="2013-04-11T16:24:06.140" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T16:24:06.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3465" CreationDate="2013-04-13T16:47:23.290" Score="8" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it only in the first 60 seconds possible to undo an upvote on a comment? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My arguments against it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It takes me even more than 60 seconds to compile tex-code on my&#xA;old machine. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the internet connection is weak I can not undo it&#xA;at all because reloading the page takes longer than 60 seconds.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I may later recognize that the upvoted comment was wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my request is to release these 60 second limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25077" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-04-20T16:11:54.507" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T16:11:54.507" Title="Undo upvote on a comment in first 60 seconds" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-13T17:09:01.153" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;If in my eyes the answers are already good, why or what should I change? What are the expectations (MWE, documentation)? How far should explanations go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25077" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-04-20T16:12:48.043" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T16:12:48.043" Title="What makes an answer canonical?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3463" CreationDate="2013-04-13T18:19:50.577" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well my personal opinionated response to that is &lt;em&gt;So What?&lt;/em&gt; (in a very playful tone). You can even misshoot the click while scrolling the page and it lands on the other comment which is completely wrong but still, so what? No damage is done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't measure anything and it certainly doesn't effect anything. If it seems correct temporarily then upvote it and you would be wrong with someone else with the same preconception. Is it a bad thing? No. Is it something that will bother you for a long time? I hope not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-04-13T18:19:50.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3466" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-04-15T08:55:53.443" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T08:55:53.443" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T08:55:53.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3467" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-04-15T08:55:53.443" Score="0" Body="for meta questions and discussion topics concerning the site design." OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T09:10:52.170" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T09:10:52.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-16T09:47:33.737" Score="20" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/108956/avoid-height-flickering-in-a-block-when-hiding-content-with-only?noredirect=1#comment238816_108956&quot;&gt;Avoid height flickering in a block when hiding content with \only&lt;/a&gt; as a possible duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/148/avoiding-jumping-frames-in-beamer&quot;&gt;Avoiding jumping frames in beamer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other users also marked it as a duplicate, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/175/charles-stewart&quot;&gt;Charles Stewart&lt;/a&gt; wrote a comment explaining that he considers these duplicate question and answer better than the original ones. I agree with him but I didn't consider this aspect when flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what it's supposed should I do to. Should all original questions be flagged as duplicates of new ones? Should do nothing? Should I edit original ones including a link to duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2412/closing-questions-as-duplicates-when-the-duplicates-accepted-answer-isnt-ideal&quot;&gt;Closing questions as duplicates when the duplicate&amp;#39;s accepted answer isn&amp;#39;t ideal&lt;/a&gt; there's a similar discussion but now also the question is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T08:49:00.640" Title="What to do when a 'duplicate' question and answer are better than the 'duplicated' ones?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-16T10:16:21.683" Score="8" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I include an image to a question (e.g. using my Dropbox account) will they be cached? So, can I remove them from my Dropboc public folder after posting the question without removing the image in the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29087" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T21:03:11.703" Title="Caching of images" Tags="|discussion|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3468" CreationDate="2013-04-16T12:18:34.930" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't really a good process for this.  Some options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merge the duplicated questions, which ensures the best answer can remain.  I gather than this is time-consuming for moderators;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with &gt;3k rep. can reopen the closed questions and then close the others as duplicates of it.  This is a haphazard plan, since the close voting has to happen after the post is reopened, and it is hard to keep enough users performing these actions in the 2-day period before close/reopen votes expire;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a moderator do the steps in stage 2; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a model question that all the other questions can be duplicates of and close the three posts as duplicates of this.  Then we don't have the best answer in the right place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 3 is the least bad, and can be started by the flagging you suggest,, but I don't like putting this tiresome task on the moderators.  I consider it a flaw of the duplicate-closing system that newer posts nearly always get closed as duplicate of older posts, even though that very frequently results in the weaker question being the one that is left open to attract more attention.  If the review system allowed an option to vote for the reverse close, I think that would help a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Postscript&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood seems to recommend merging for this case; see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improved-question-merging/&quot;&gt;Improved Question Merging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2013-04-16T12:46:12.563" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T12:46:12.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3487" CreationDate="2013-04-16T16:45:53.413" Score="14" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized that several 'Notable question' badges have been awarded recently which were not very special. They just accumulated that many page views because they were posted like a year ago or so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it not be better to close those questions for accumulating pageviews, or, alternatively, to put the views requirement to a certain number per year?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28751" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-04-16T22:50:12.363" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T17:00:23.033" Title="Notable Question badge" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3471" CreationDate="2013-04-16T17:15:18.207" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. I think you're reading too much into the name of the badge. For the purposes of the badge, &quot;notable&quot; simply means any question with 2500 views.  To some extent, this also  reflects the degree to which it is useful to others, since much of the site traffic is generated through links via search engines. Whether the definition meets the everyday definition of what the word &quot;notable&quot; means is irrelevant.  This distinction between technical definitions and everyday language is found in every domain. (Think, for example what the words 'normal' and 'random' mean in statistics compared to their everyday meanings.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As silver badges go, this one isn't so difficult to get, (compared, e.g. to the Epic badge), but the whole badge system (and in fact the whole reputation system) shouldn't be taken too seriously anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T17:15:18.207" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-16T20:24:47.130" Score="16" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a few ways to sort through questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;newest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;featured&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;frequent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;active&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unanswered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q2xBT.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Five out of these six choices are self explanatory, but I'm curious about the 'frequent' heading. How is a question deemed as such? Is it based on the number of times it is linked to from the comments? Or how many times it is linked from a closed duplicate? How many other factors are there? &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T23:05:09.093" Title="What makes a question appear under 'frequent'?" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3473" CreationDate="2013-04-16T23:09:17.577" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=frequent&quot;&gt;frequent questions&lt;/a&gt; sort order represent questions that have at least one link pointing towards it. At the top of the list is the post that has the most links point to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see how these links are measured, consider the &quot;most frequent&quot; question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14/5764&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt; (as of 2013-04-16). In the right-hand column it lists the questions that are linked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aIsUg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3a%22http%3a%2f%2ftex.stackexchange.com%2fq*%2f14%2f*%22&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;clicking on the &lt;code&gt;see more linked questions...&lt;/code&gt; link&lt;/a&gt;, you'll see the search query launched to obtain the count:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;url:&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q*/14/*&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EtP3M.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these posts have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14/5764&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt; marked as a duplicate (note the post snippets...) using the automated edit which inserts the duplicate URL. However, some may contain links to the post itself as a form of reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It searches for any post (not a comment) that contains the (wildcard) URL &lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q*/14/*&lt;/code&gt;. The &lt;code&gt;q*&lt;/code&gt; wildcard captures both default and personalized links to the specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T23:05:09.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-17T03:16:03.873" Score="12" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;As discussed at Question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2456/15717&quot;&gt;Automatic question&amp;#39;s title insertion with link&lt;/a&gt;, question/answer url links in comments does not automatically render as titles or answer usernames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1139/how-do-i-create-a-link-to-an-answer/1141#comment10975_1139&quot;&gt;Workaround pointed out by doncherry&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2378/se-comment-link-helper&quot;&gt;SE Comment Link Helper&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we have this feature request  in comments while posting duplicates/related&lt;/strong&gt; incase of instances like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/107142/mathtime-professional-ii-lite-font-weight/107143#comment233711_107143&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/109105/using-square-bracket-inside-square-bracket#comment239093_109105&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3434/15717&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt; with many &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2475/15717&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2475/useful-stackapps-and-other-user-scripts-for-tex-sx&quot;&gt;more helpfull stackapps and scripts&lt;/a&gt; than here there etc... as titles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we adopt community agreed policy to have something like below due to the fact that&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a)url does not mean anything or convey any message unless CLICKED on and searched to the pointer given in section pointer guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b)improve readability of comments as comments give crucial info and sometimes more valuable than answers due to one-liners&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) sometimes people don't open the links incase of bunch of urls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c) It's important in view that we have many duplicates coming due to large database builtup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;d) Does it effect the Google or TeX.SX searchability when typed with keywords, because urls are not searchable right ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;probable format: to improve readability of comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;code&gt;[short title](url)&lt;/code&gt; ---&gt; title based &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2)&lt;code&gt;[Answer by username to &quot;Question title&quot;](url)&lt;/code&gt; ----&gt; username based&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3)&lt;code&gt;[topic(tex distro installation) related ](url)&lt;/code&gt;-------&gt; topic based &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4)&lt;code&gt;[your proposed choice](url)&lt;/code&gt;----&gt; your choice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Forgive me that i had to too same redirection of links as noticed. Usually i tool fall prey for this url trick &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T19:53:15.667" Title="Comments with link (Policy or Feature Request): Automatically rendered as question's title or answerer username" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3479" CreationDate="2013-04-17T20:46:08.570" Score="9" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title pretty much says it all.  Is it appropriate to ask a question for a minimal working example of some over-arching concept?  (My specific case would be to put a title on a &lt;code&gt;beamerposter&lt;/code&gt;, for instance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2013-04-18T09:00:32.187" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T09:00:32.187" Title="Is it appropriate for the OP to ask for an MWE as his Question?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3469" CreationDate="2013-04-17T20:55:37.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.  There is no caching being done (in a reasonable amount of time) by the system.  Any and all images not hosted by StackExchange's (paid) imgur account are susceptible to breaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted, however, that upon inserting links through the button interface of a q/a, the image is re-hosted immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose a fair way to do this would be to 'ask the system' as it were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17471132/texmeta.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;test&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which shows me this as I type this answer:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4Vcx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will remove the Dropbox-hosted picture in five minutes (to give the system time to cache if it does so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2013-04-17T21:03:11.703" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T21:03:11.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3471" CreationDate="2013-04-17T21:19:09.717" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that badges are &lt;em&gt;only badges&lt;/em&gt;. They are not supposed to mean too much to the community, they mean more to their owner. If you post a question and it gets 2500 views, you get a Notable Question badge, that's it. It is a good motivation for posting well-stated, well-tagged questions since such ones are easier to find. The quality of the question is reflected in the Good Question badge which is awarded for 25 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the badge design is good. As for the name, you can suggest a better one and if it is good, it might get changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T21:19:09.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3476" CreationDate="2013-04-17T21:27:30.333" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the general answer is: &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with such questions is that they obviously &lt;strong&gt;do not show any research effort&lt;/strong&gt;, which is a must-have for a question suitable to the StackExchange network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can start making the example yourself (usually there is one in the manual), and you can ask about the specific issues you stumble across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2013-04-17T22:21:47.400" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T22:21:47.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3476" CreationDate="2013-04-18T03:56:58.780" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a moment i was confused as percusse was and hence upvoted your Q later after reading twice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My view point :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be title should be rephrased as &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Is it appropriate to ask for MWE by OP in his Question ?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, just guessing to make title capture the message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Specific Issue and Solution:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your healthy attitude (to avoid being this guy) is greatly&#xA;appreciated, but unfortunately there exist many &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamerposter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;beamerposter&#xA;example&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php#example&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;templates&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;in internet as tohecz mentioned which is a part of research effort&#xA;before posing Q.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless,you can always ask for MWE on specific 'poster title'&#xA;issue and mention clearly in question to avoid the full answer and&#xA;effort. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Remember one should not recycle this MWE to post another Q without any significant improvement in old MWE code.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General Issue and Solution:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For a newbie OP, an MWE answer might not suit well( may have&#xA;exceptions) because even if MWE was requested by OP newbie over time&#xA;it becomes a full answer due to the number of comments below answer. &#xA;your question becomes trivial as it defeats the purpose of MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For a intermediate/advanced OP, an MWE answer might suit well(may&#xA;have exceptions) because he just needs nuts and bolts  with toolbox&#xA;to build the full answer by himself&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answerer view point:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case MWE(submitted by OP) are best suited to diagnose the errors and get faster answers. But making just MWE in an answer does not satisfy the appetite of everyday learners/experts, hence they would go straight ahead to make full answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, OP can ask for MWE, but OP may get more than what he wants due to highly patient and friendly people here.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T03:56:58.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-18T10:20:57.367" Score="12" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having finally gotten round to uploading the dread &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikzmark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tikzmark&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/a&gt;, I now approach the next task which is linking to the original question here and putting the &quot;This question led to a new package&quot; banner on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only I'm not sure which to designate as the true origin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Candidates are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/297/86&quot;&gt;How can I get an underbrace and an overbrace to partially overlap in an equation?&lt;/a&gt; The actual first appearance.  However, its use is a bit overkill for the question and it can't really be said that the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; led to the package.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1559/86&quot;&gt;Adding a large brace next to a body of text&lt;/a&gt; This is the one where others started noticing it and is the one that many link back to when referring to it.  But still, the tikzmark itself is not about putting brackets next to text.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/50015/86&quot;&gt;tikzmark to have different behaviour if first run (and mark locations not yet available)&lt;/a&gt; This led to a major revision, including the introduction of special coordinates.  Moreover, the question was actually about the tikzmark.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T10:20:57.367" Title="Which question should I denote as the origin of tikzmark?" Tags="|discussion|tex-sx-package|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3483" CreationDate="2013-04-18T11:57:22.870" Score="22" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/109363/how-to-number-multiline-equations&quot;&gt;MathJax question&lt;/a&gt; just now that was unceremoniously closed as off topic.  As it probably should be.  But I feel like we should, if we can, direct the questioner some place elsewhere there might find an answer.  I'm asking the community for suggested comments and phrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T17:18:08.970" Title="MathJax boilerplate" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3482" CreationDate="2013-04-18T12:01:11.940" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my proposed answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;While [tag:MathJax] uses LaTeX syntax, it uses Javascript and HTML's DOM model rather than TeX technology, making it mostly off topic for this site.  You might try instead searching among the [questions tagged with mathjax on Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mathjax), or in the official [mathjax-users](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mathjax-users) Google group.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="1402" LastEditDate="2016-07-05T17:18:08.970" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T17:18:08.970" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3491" CreationDate="2013-04-18T15:17:27.783" Score="12" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see how many views a particular question got, day after day, since it was posted; I'm thinking of something similar to a user's reputation timeline on his/her profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a timeline for a question's views doesn't seem to be listed as a feature on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site's data-explorer page&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does TeX.SE offer this feature on some &quot;secret page&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-04-20T16:22:24.067" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T20:35:14.273" Title="Timeline of a question's views" Tags="|support|feature-request|questions|statistics|views|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3468" CreationDate="2013-04-19T08:49:00.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about the following procedure (if applicable):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the new question, remove everything which has been asked already and put a link to the old question instead. &#xA;Then keep just the new parts of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is done quite early after the question was posed, the answers probably will also be more focussed on the new aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28751" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T08:49:00.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-19T13:25:30.080" Score="1" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;physics.SE&lt;/a&gt; has this nice feature that allows you to enter LaTeX code (formulas) in questions and answers, and then renders it using MathJax. e.g. you enter &lt;code&gt;$x^2$&lt;/code&gt; and it turns it into something like &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;². I was really surprized that it doesn't work on tex.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it wouldn't be useful for many questions, like ones that ask about preambles and specific packages, or page layouts. It also seems a majority of questions is actually about tikz, for which it wouldn't help either. However, I can see it very useful when discussing formulas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be problematic to turn it on now, since many posts already have &lt;code&gt;$...$&lt;/code&gt; in them. However, I think the conversion doesn't work inbetween backticks and in codeblocks, so it shouldn't cause many problems if the posts are properly formatted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, do we want this feature? And can we have it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22566" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:16.797" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T13:25:30.080" Title="Use LaTeX code in questions and answers (MathJax)?" Tags="|feature-request|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-04-20T17:41:11.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3471" CreationDate="2013-04-21T15:38:15.750" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a complement to the answers already given, you should keep in mind that the numbers for these badges seem to be determined uniformly for the entire Stackexchange-2.0 network, of which the representative site is stackoverflow.com.  That site has traffic several orders of magnitude greater than this one, which makes the badge dynamics totally different.  Questions fall off the front page in a few minutes, but there are way more voters and some questions and answers have vote totals in the thousands.  Thus, &quot;Notable Question&quot; is strangely difficult to get there, since your question is hard to get noticed, but &quot;Epic&quot; has a lot more of a chance, whereas here it is virtually impossible (only a few of the top users have it, compared with the enormously common &quot;Good Answer&quot;/&quot;Good Question&quot; badges, or &quot;Necromancer&quot;).  And &quot;Tenacious&quot;, which on Stack Overflow is a dime a dozen, is pretty much out of reach on this site, even though it's only silver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &quot;Notable Question&quot; is not so easy to get here, because of the lower traffic.  I wouldn't say that is one of the more unbalanced badges, whereas Epic and especially Legendary clearly are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="575" LastEditDate="2013-04-21T17:00:23.033" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T17:00:23.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3572" CreationDate="2013-04-21T22:27:45.410" Score="4" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering why we couldn't update our bounty to a higher amount while the bounty was in progress. I can understand why we can't decrease it to a lower amount but why not to a higher amount?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24817" LastEditorUserId="24817" LastEditDate="2013-05-19T22:39:51.133" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T21:19:46.503" Title="Why can't we change the bounty amount while the bounty is in progress?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-21T23:11:01.390" Score="10" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I notify a user named Bob in a comment using &lt;code&gt;@Bob&lt;/code&gt; and if Bob subsequently changes his display name to Alice, can the @-notification to Bob/Alice in my comment reflect that change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of what what I've experienced, recently. On the page of question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3407/can-a-profile-picture-have-an-alpha-channel&quot;&gt;Can a profile picture have an alpha channel?&lt;/a&gt;, I notified, in one of my comment, a user whose display name was &lt;em&gt;Karl's Students&lt;/em&gt; at the time. Subsequently, that user changed his/her display name to &lt;em&gt;Bugbusters&lt;/em&gt;. However, as shown by the screenshot below, my comment still refers to the original display name (&lt;em&gt;Karl's Students&lt;/em&gt;), not to the new one (&lt;em&gt;Bugsbusters&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qg6ZD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may throw new visitors to that page completely off, because it now appears that I was replying to someone who never posted on that page in the first place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following links, which shed some light on the use of @ in Markdown to notify a user in a comment, do not seem to mention this issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help#comment-reply&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help#comment-reply&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43020&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to make @-notifications reflect changes in display name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T00:20:01.750" Title="@-notification to a user who subsequently changes display name" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-23T02:13:41.310" Score="27" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost three years after the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/376/numbers-required-for-the-difficult-badges?rq=1&quot;&gt;Numbers required for the &amp;#39;difficult&amp;#39; badges&lt;/a&gt;, it appears that there is no issue with most of the badges inquired about there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popular Question: 5695 awarded&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notable Question: 1902 awarded&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Famous Question: 221 awarded&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stellar Question: 9 awarded&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Famous Question, in particular, is by far the most accessible of the gold badges, even outstripping the pretty much trivial &quot;Fanatic&quot; badge by a factor of 1.5.  One worries a bit about Stellar Question, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3471/notable-question-badge&quot;&gt;Notable Question badge&lt;/a&gt; was the subject of a recent question whose poser I unexpectedly satisfied with the observation (apparently shared by Joseph Wright) that the badge requirements are likely calibrated for Stack Overflow and then applied network-wide.  This makes some of them wildly inappropriate here, Tenacious being probably the best example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of the most unbalanced badges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Epic: there isn't nearly enough reputation going around for it to be merely a &quot;silver&quot; achievement to hit the rep cap 50 times.  Perhaps 25 is better? Though the name is apt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Legendary: granted, it's gold, but compared to other gold badges it's way under-awarded.  Perhaps the cutoff should be 100 times, rather than 150?  Again, going by who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have it, the name is apt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reversal: I am honestly surprised there are &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; awarded.  It's very rare for people to use downvotes in significant numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stellar question: Stars just aren't as common here.  Again, gold badge, but there are only seven awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tenacious: there are none, and there will never be any since questions get too much time on the front page to flash by and be noticed only by the poser.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unsung hero: the same, but the gold version.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm ignoring bronze badges and anything that rewards something you can do all by yourself.  These are badges that are under-awarded because of the social structure of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is whether this pattern means that these badges have inappropriate criteria, or that they measure something this site simply doesn't have.  I know that asking anything about badges is certain to get the high-minded reply that &quot;we don't care about badges; they're just for fun&quot;, but honestly, I care.  It's a good way of noting what I've been contributing to the site in a more granular way than simply that I &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; been contributing insofar as I've been collecting reputation.  Or put another way: sure it's just fun, but I'm serious about having fun here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T23:55:53.003" Title="Meaning of the badge distribution on this site" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3484" CreationDate="2013-04-23T20:35:14.273" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ended up posting that question on meta Stack Overflow (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/177674/number-of-views-per-day-of-a-question-from-creation-to-the-present&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;), but it turned out to be a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92554/is-there-a-possibility-of-seeing-a-graph-of-a-questions-views-over-time&quot;&gt;Is there a possibility of seeing a graph of a question&amp;#39;s views over time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short (yet definitive) answer: &lt;strong&gt;no, that's not possible&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T20:35:14.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3497" CreationDate="2013-04-24T13:05:17.190" Score="24" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a couple of occasions I have come across unwanted or surprising behavior with some widely used LaTeX packages that I have posted questions about on TeX.sX. One was about &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65043/entry-options-in-biblatex&quot;&gt;Entry options in biblatex&lt;/a&gt;), the other about &lt;code&gt;libertine&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110354/pdfglyphtounicode-with-xetex&quot;&gt;\pdfglyphtounicode with XeTeX&lt;/a&gt;). In both questions a discussion arose, and it was concluded that the behavior was due to issues/bugs with the packages themselves. In the &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; case, one of the package authors responded that he would fix the bug as a result of our discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, my questions were swiftly closed as &quot;too localized&quot; as soon as the notion of &quot;bug&quot; arose. I do not understand that policy, nor have I seen any discussion about it where such an agreement was reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Stack Exchange's founder Joel Spolsky, questions relating to bugs should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be closed as &quot;too localized&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/87415&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/87415&lt;/a&gt;). Should the TeX.sX community perhaps reconsider its (implicit?) policy on closing &quot;bug questions&quot; as &quot;too localized&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T10:29:32.870" Title="Why are questions on package bugs/issues too localized?" Tags="|discussion|policy|close-reasons|too-localized|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3492" CreationDate="2013-04-24T13:27:23.770" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is related to &lt;em&gt;personal preferences&lt;/em&gt;. A community driven site typically reaches an equilibrium in determination of how to cast votes. On this site I have seen (and been a part of) closing questions which where bug-related. In this regard see the discussion in: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2622/questions-which-are-bug-reports?rq=1&quot;&gt;Questions which are bug reports&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, as you suggest, might have been inadvertently wrong. But for this community a common ground has been reached as such. It would be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; wrong to have strict same guidelines on all SX/SO (I can never tell the difference) sister sites, although a general rule-scheme should be enforced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is mainly due to the fact that TeX bugs (which are solved) are very quickly made publicly available on CTAN. Hence, the usual software long-term release are not really an issue in the TeX community (of course there are exceptions, and package-authors which have disappeared etc.). Hence the question very quickly will become invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your question about fonts. I closed it as being a too localized due to it being a font problem (not TeX/LaTeX). More correctly it should have been closed as off-topic, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T13:27:23.770" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3492" CreationDate="2013-04-24T13:53:29.330" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the advantages of the Stackexchange model is that there are ways to discuss and in fact reverse most decisions made by the community. It seems to me that if a case can be made on an individual question that it should be reopened, the threshold for reopening is not so high that it's very difficult to do.  And we have the meta site for exactly this sort of discussion. In the cases you mention, I think that the font question shouldn't have been closed, but the &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; question should have been.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So rather than reverse a (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2622/questions-which-are-bug-reports&quot;&gt;fairly well discussed&lt;/a&gt;) policy on the basis of a smallish number of questions, we should instead deal with the exceptions on a case by case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T13:53:29.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3492" CreationDate="2013-04-24T15:27:00.147" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason such question are often closed it that bugs which will be fixed soon make the question &quot;too localiced &lt;em&gt;in time&lt;/em&gt;&quot; because soon they issue will be gone and there is no suitable answer beyond &quot;update the package&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that our &quot;no bug questions&quot; policy is (or should be) IMHO mostly about questions which directly cover a bug, like &quot;why do I get this error with my MWE&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/70519/2975&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). This is clearly a form of bug report and these should be sent to the package author either using the package bug tracker or by email. This is important because the package author might not see the question otherwise, even if (s)he is an user of this site. Also, it's not the task of the TeX.SE community to fix package bugs. Therefore I would close such questions also as &quot;off topic&quot;. Bug reporting and fixing is simply not the topic of this site IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the same question would be simply phrased as &quot;how to I achieve X&quot; and includes a MWE which shows the previous effort and mentions the resulting issue with it (i.e. the bug) then the question is very well answerable, because it allows for alternative solutions and workarounds. Then it's not about the bug but about what the user tries to achieve. (Compare: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2449/2975&quot;&gt;XY Problem&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T15:27:00.147" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3492" CreationDate="2013-04-24T16:22:07.857" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from Joel Spolsky's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Why is there a green Honda Civic parked out in front of my house?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is too localized because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Who cares?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it even still there? Go check.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What are the chances that this question could ever be answered in a way that would benefit anyone else?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Now is it there?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order not to be too abstract, let's examine the two questions mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to the first one (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65043/entry-options-in-biblatex&quot;&gt;Entry options in biblatex&lt;/a&gt;) has an answer that says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's fixed in &lt;code&gt;biber&lt;/code&gt; 1.1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we are at &lt;code&gt;biber&lt;/code&gt; 1.5 (and 1.1 was already out when the question was posed) I'm &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; inclined to say that it's too localized: just updating the TeX distribution will solve the issue. We are in case 2 of Joel's answer and perhaps also in cases 3 and 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110354/pdfglyphtounicode-with-xetex&quot;&gt;\pdfglyphtounicode with XeTeX&lt;/a&gt;) is different. The problem is about recognizing a particular ligature in &quot;copy-paste&quot; with a particular font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is partly in the &lt;code&gt;libertine&lt;/code&gt; package that enables by default that ligature, but mostly about a bug in the font, that misses something in its tables that makes it possible to recognize the ligature just like &lt;code&gt;ff&lt;/code&gt; and others are. Another one that doesn't get correctly recognized as a ligature and is enabled by default is &quot;Qu&quot;. And, apparently, these ligatures can't be turned off unless one loads the font with the &lt;code&gt;-liga&lt;/code&gt; option (&lt;code&gt;Ligatures=NoCommon&lt;/code&gt;), which disables also the &lt;code&gt;f&lt;/code&gt; ligatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no possible answer to this question other than &quot;it doesn't depend on XeTeX, disable those ligatures and complain with the font developer&quot;. Maybe it's not &quot;too localized&quot;. We may possibly decide that such questions should not be closed, but provided with a CW answer: closing as TL exposes it to the risk of being removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T16:22:07.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3492" CreationDate="2013-04-24T17:30:40.693" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the practice may have outstripped the previous consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that (as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2622/questions-which-are-bug-reports&quot;&gt;original meta question&lt;/a&gt; posited) a question that is a &lt;strong&gt;bug report&lt;/strong&gt; should be closed. Truly that is not because it is &quot;too localized&quot; but because it is not really a question: &quot;I've found this bug&quot; is a statement, not a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &quot;Why am I seeing this (unexpected) behaviour?&quot; is a real question. The fact that the &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; is &quot;Because of a bug in foo.sty&quot; doesn't make it any less of a question. Nor is it (as such) &quot;localized&quot;, unless the questioner is doing something peculiar. If it's a real bug, then lots of people may be bitten by it. Moreover:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There may be a way round it, which will help the questioner and possibly others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There may be no way round it, in which case it may be a reason not to use a particular package, or to prefer bar.sty over foo.sty, or something of that sort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original &quot;consensus&quot; answer linked above reached essentially that conclusion, with which I agree. &quot;Bug reports&quot; are to be closed because they are not questions. Bug &quot;questions&quot; are questions, and they are not as such too &quot;localized&quot;: a bug is as much part of software's predictable behaviour as anything else, and unless it has already been fixed it cannot be said to &quot;very tiny geographic regions or vanishingly small periods of time&quot;. Some bugs persist for very long periods. We need to be careful not to regard as &quot;too localized&quot; any question which is not of long-term general interest: judged by those standards, remarkably few questions would pass muster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it is a &quot;red herring&quot; to point out that in this case the bug was about to be solved. That doesn't make the question localized, so much as the answer. Questions are often solved, sometimes &quot;externally&quot; (e.g. by someone writing a new package, or adding functionality to an existing package). They shouldn't then be closed; the answer should be updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experience suggests that many users soldier on for months -- years, even -- with out-of-date packages. In many ways that is a tribute to the stability of LaTeX. But for such users event an answer which says &quot;This behaviour is a bug in version 1 which is fixed in version 2&quot; may be just what they need, perhaps months later: it will tell them that they can solve their problem by updating their package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, the only time I would close a bug-question as too &lt;strong&gt;localized&lt;/strong&gt; is where the bug has already been fixed and the questioner is only seeing it because of a failure to update. That, it seems to me, really is a case of a question which is of no conceivable general interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would close bug &lt;strong&gt;reports&lt;/strong&gt; not as &quot;too localized&quot; but because they are not questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would not close a question which asks for an explanation of unexpected behaviour, even if that behaviour is the result of a bug, and even if the bug is about to be fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But I would close as &quot;too localized&quot; a question which is the result of a bug that has been fixed a reasonable time ago, where it is simple &quot;user error&quot; in using an obsolete version of the package.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think those principles actually reflect what seemed to be the consensus last year. Whether they were correctly applied in these particular cases, I don't know. It's inevitable that some questions will be improvidently closed, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5404" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T17:30:40.693" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3492" CreationDate="2013-04-24T19:41:46.237" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to stir up the soup. I agree with Alan Munn on this issue but with a slightly different motivation. I'm actually quite bothered by the word &lt;strong&gt;swiftly&lt;/strong&gt;. I don't mind if the question stays open or closed, either way the issue is not resolved so no need to insist on practice because next year it would really be an ancient issue but as you can see it's reopened after a meta discussion. Same can happen in the chat room too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Joel Spolsky might have a different view maybe. But he is not in this community. I would not try to learn how to socialize from Mark Zuckerberg either just because he founded Facebook. That would actually be quite a disaster. Therefore invoking rules in the discussion would make the matters only worse because then everyone starts interpreting a rule that was not there in the first place. It's a community not a state. Everything is based on interaction. I wish the use of &lt;code&gt;subfigure&lt;/code&gt; ends tomorrow but it doesn't. That's why every time a subfigure question comes we paste the same old comment &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13625/subcaption-vs-subfig-best-package-for-referencing-a-subfigure&quot;&gt;subcaption vs. subfig: Best package for referencing a subfigure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my main problem with the treatment of your question: I claim that TeX-SX community should reconsider this reviewing button habits just like we dumped the idea of downvotes. Thanks to that we didn't have any major conflicts due to &lt;em&gt;why is this downvoted?&lt;/em&gt; stuff for quite a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We cannot look for fixed rules when interacting with people. Everybody should keep in mind that it's not our forum even if we were here from the beginning. So we don't deal with customers. They are maybe experts on something completely different but not so experienced in TeX. So rule based handling feels like Microsoft Online help system. Hours of nonsense without actually getting any answer and seeing the same old &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Was this page helpful?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;Yes&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;No&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;No dammit no!&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Moreover, you bring any set of predefined rules and I'll find a question that doesn't fit in any cases. I'm not invoking Gödel-ish inconsistency. I'm talking about actual social setting. We don't own here. Everything is based on mutual agreement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;strong&gt;tend&lt;/strong&gt; to do things in certain way but they are not conclusive, only suggestive. In case of ambiguity, we reopen the question even if it is against the common practice because some user needs information. We hang out here for a better understanding and fun.  Not because of some set of rules and discipline. Hence we do lots of mistakes until someone comes along and warns that the question should not have been closed in the first place. Then we open it again. If another one comes and warns that it's then a duplicate of another we close it again after consulting the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the hostility of other SE sites, is precisely due to this behavior. Flagging, closing questions without interacting with OP. Then OP gets angry asks for reopening and composes pages long of comments and gets twice as much of belittling and accusing comments back etc. We don't do that. It doesn't cost us anything to have an unresolved question so leave it open. We handle things in the &lt;em&gt;Answer the Unanswered&lt;/em&gt; sessions. So just move on to the next one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, the new review system actually encourages making mistakes during closing because of those stupid yellow/red dots under our avatars :). So I'm asking our high-rep users to use it less often to close the questions. If there are two closing votes it practically means five in a couple of minutes because of our good-willed but slightly impatient reviewers. There are no machines which review questions though some of us are indistinguishable when they are editing/retagging/archiving :). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus there will be mistakes/misjudgements etc. a lot. This doesn't mean that we need to make the rules stricter. Instead we need to watch for the pattern how these mistakes are being generated and as far as I can see it's the review system and too much respect for common practice instead of using them as guides. A disciplined community does not mean a thicker law book that handles unambiguously every case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So consensus is good but that's it, just a consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T19:41:46.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3499" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3519" CreationDate="2013-04-24T23:30:52.777" Score="14" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a large number of questions on meta that deal with tag synonyms, requesting a merger via so-called synonyms. To name a few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2324/5764&quot;&gt;Should {accepted-answer} be a synonym of {accepting}?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2371/5764&quot;&gt;Make {dashes} and {comma} synonyms of {punctuation}&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1271/5764&quot;&gt;Make {external-images} a synonym of {graphics}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in some dark, concealed janitorial closet, there actually exists (what seems to me) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;a formal place where tag synonyms are/could be suggested, vetted, approved or declined&lt;/a&gt;. My question relates to the best practice to utilize this feature. For example, what is the best (sometimes fastest) option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt; (similar to the above); or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Follow a process and nominate synonyms formally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take, for example, the following two tags on Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/retagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;retagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;retagging&lt;/a&gt;. The latter exists (for whatever reason) and could be used as a tag synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt; yet it has no questions tagged with it. The criteria for community approval and engagement in this process is also somewhat strict:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users with more than 2500 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag, can &lt;strong&gt;suggest&lt;/strong&gt; tag synonyms. Users with a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can &lt;strong&gt;vote&lt;/strong&gt; for tag synonyms. Suggestions will be automatically approved when they reach a score of 4, and automatically deleted when they reach a score of -2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T01:14:54.630" Title="Tag synonyms and how they work" Tags="|support|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3490" CreationDate="2013-04-24T23:55:53.003" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this question- it's nice to hear that someone else enjoys collecting badges and takes it somewhat seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, our site is a child of the parent &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;; we have a lot of siblings about a diverse range of topics- &lt;a href=&quot;https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;bicycles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;parenting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://bricks.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt;, etc, and &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the sites inherit the same badges with the same criteria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the same requirements for each site does seem a little unrealistic, and I have often thought that it might be a little better to &lt;strong&gt;scale&lt;/strong&gt; each of the criteria with respect to the number of active users and voters (and perhaps other factors too). This might address some of your suggestions- of course, this would naturally mean that badge requirements would change over time, which would cause all kinds of other issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it could be scaled based on the users/voters at the end of the &lt;code&gt;beta&lt;/code&gt; phase? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:55.797" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T23:55:53.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3492" CreationDate="2013-04-25T10:29:32.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ironically, having just read through the answers and left a couple of comments, I headed over the main site and found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/110650/86&quot;&gt;Error message with hobby package&lt;/a&gt; which is &lt;em&gt;essentially&lt;/em&gt; a bug report on the &lt;code&gt;hobby&lt;/code&gt; package (which I maintain) and which has already been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue against closing this one because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questioner doesn't know that it's a bug.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Although there is a new version on CTAN which fixes it, it'll be a while before this is in TeXLive due to the freeze so there is a reasonable time frame in which others might encounter the same problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So although the answer (update the package) is not &lt;em&gt;eternal&lt;/em&gt;, it feels that it will be valid for long enough that the question is not &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt; [sic].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T10:29:32.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-26T18:40:51.740" Score="44" ViewCount="909" Body="&lt;p&gt;We try to welcome all new users to the site by giving them a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.sx!&lt;/a&gt;&quot; link in the comments of their first question or answer.  But I've seen a few recently (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110925/how-to-customize-title-page-in-beamer-so-that-it-looks-like&quot;&gt;here's one&lt;/a&gt;) where users comment back: &quot;I'm sorry, did I do something wrong?&quot; Then the original welcomer has to say, &quot;No, really, welcome!&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe we should look at the welcome page and see if there's a way to make it more, well, welcoming.  Should it say something explicit like &quot;this is the page to which we direct all our new users&quot; or &quot;do not worry, you were not sent this link because you broke a rule&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm soliciting input for this, then we can take what's agreed upon and work it into the welcome page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T08:44:54.257" Title="Welcome page needs more welcoming" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3505" CreationDate="2013-04-26T20:06:36.217" Score="11" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;This post does not meet our quality standards.&quot; Not sure why I'm getting this. Is there no feedback? Just trying to ask why eurosym is not giving me what I expect. (By the way, I simply get the letter $e$. Hate to be a crab-pot, but I'm being censored on the actual site.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29708" LastEditorUserId="29708" LastEditDate="2013-04-26T20:11:54.333" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T20:26:16.717" Title="&quot;This post does not meet our quality standards&quot;" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3504" CreationDate="2013-04-26T20:26:16.717" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a common problem for new users to the site and has been dealt with on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/92074/168244&quot;&gt;What can I do when getting “It does not meet our quality standards”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There it is explained that a site-wide quality control is in effect. This filtering mechanism has perhaps incorrectly identified your question as one of &quot;low quality&quot;. Some generic rules are in place to catch these, and they may not always be accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;review page&lt;/a&gt; (with a specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/stats&quot;&gt;Low Quality Posts category&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Qnrc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and set of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools&quot;&gt;10K-tools&lt;/a&gt; (note the post designations within the right column, some of which are flagged automatically by the system)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xwhnV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;act as a second, community-suggested filter for identifying low-quality posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion would be to add some detail to your post in an attempt to overcome the automated system filter that has denied your post to be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than that, don't give up! This is a friendly community that's willing to help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T20:26:16.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2013-04-27T14:48:45.300" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may get a few upvotes, but closed questions will attract fewer voters than other questions, so the reputation at stake is unlikely to be much, and answering other questions is likely to give better rewards for your time.  So checking for duplicates before answering is reputation-maximising behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can give good answers to doomed questions, that is quite possibly good for the site, and, unlike asking exact duplicate questions, does no harm.  It will help the qner, and it will help people who arrive at the site through searches.  Furthermore, if the closed question gets merged with the other question, it will become a regular answer of the merged question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you discover that your answer is a duplicate of another answer, you can edit in that fact to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T14:48:45.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2435" CreationDate="2013-04-27T18:00:43.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the poor resolution you are talking about might be poor antialiasing. This is the &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; one-liner you want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;convert -density 384 mwe.pdf -resize 25% mwe.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Explanation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Standard monitor resolution is 96 dots per inch, so simply sampling the pdf at 96 dpi produces a PNG image equal in size to PDF image on your screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# this looks ugly&#xA;convert -density 96 mwe.pdf mwe.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, if you do this you'll get horribly jagged edges on your letter. Because each pixel is only one sample, a pixel that falls half on a letter and half off it will either be either black (an ugly bump on the letter) or white (an ugly bite). Goodbye, smooth edges. The solution is anti-aliasing, by oversampling the image and then shrinking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We sample at density 96 * 4 = 384 dpi; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This creates a four-times-as-large PNG.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We scale this PNG down 25 %; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now the value of each pixel is the average of 16 subsamples, instead of just one. As a result, the edges of letters look smooth instead of pixelated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example of (4x4)-&gt;1 oversampling&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;convert -density $((96 * 4)) mwe-khatt.pdf -resize 25% mwe-khatt-per4.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pgTMZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;4x4 oversampling&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example of 1-&gt;1 sampling&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;convert -density $((96 * 1)) mwe-khatt.pdf mwe-khatt-per1.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCe4b.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Source code of the example&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\setupbodyfont[schola, 12pt]&#xA;&#xA;\startTEXpage[width=10cm, offset=3mm]&#xA;    \section{\CONTEXT}&#xA;&#xA;    \input khatt-en&#xA;\stopTEXpage&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2229" LastEditorUserId="2229" LastEditDate="2019-07-30T21:06:23.260" LastActivityDate="2019-07-30T21:06:23.260" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3509" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-28T17:13:25.333" Score="17" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a new issue, but was inspired by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/111202/575&quot;&gt;recent question&lt;/a&gt;.  There are a lot of questions here that can be answered (and indeed, &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; answered) with a direct link to the identical topic in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;UK TeX FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.  I was particularly impressed with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=verbwithin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the article&lt;/a&gt; linked by kahen in their comment to the above question, which was detailed and up-to-date (it even mentioned LaTeX3).  In short, it was much better than any answer likely to be produced on-the-spot on this site (except by a few of the more prolix top users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In principle I think it's unpleasant when a Q&amp;amp;A site like this makes frequent recourse to a standard external reference in its answers.  It gives an appearance of exclusivity and puts a polish of elitism on the face of the elite users.  It's really endearing when you can expect to see a personalized answer instead of boilerplate, and that's not just because of sentiment but also because as long as that &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the expectation, it combats the development of a dismissive attitude towards ignorant outsiders and actually improves the tone of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the UK TeX FAQ is really good: it contains carefully composed and researched answers in the style of our best users on lots of common topics.  I think there should be a standard process for using its articles (when relevant) as answers to those questions that, when asked here, are once again frequently so.  This should be more than just a convention that we cite the FAQ and close the question; I think a quite decent style is to quote, inline, a good excerpt in the answer, together with a link to the full article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, some people do this already.  The point is that I am suggesting that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question that is a FAQ question get a FAQ answer, for uniformity.  Even with the vigilance of our eidetically-minded users digging up duplicates, there are a lot of very similar questions asked by new users who get answers of rather variable detail and quality just by chance of who happens to read them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This proposal is, in principle, not much different from asking people to look for duplicates.  In practice, though, it is easy to find an article in the UK TeX FAQ on a subject because it's organized topically &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; duplication, and so its opinion on the subject is an authoritative reference.  I don't think we yet have any process on this site for signifying that a particular instance of a duplicated question is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; authoritative source for it, so if the UK TeX FAQ has an article on something, well, that's an opportunity to bring this kind of order to that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T13:32:12.730" Title="Quoting the UK TeX FAQ" Tags="|discussion|answers|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3475" CreationDate="2013-04-28T19:24:21.560" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, request for automated modification of comments in this manner is unnecessary and at least for me, frowned upon, I hate a lot all such systems that try to be more clever than me, when they aren't. Hover text with the question title and/or answer's owner would be completely enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T19:24:21.560" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-29T06:51:06.980" Score="15" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/multiple-columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;multiple-columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;multiple-columns&lt;/a&gt; tag in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/111265/5764&quot;&gt;3 column layout in LaTeX (1st only graphics, 2nd and 3rd text)?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/111265/revisions&quot;&gt;It was subsequently removed/replaced&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt;. However, in my opinion, there's some confusion as to the use of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt; relate specifically to that of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt; is specifically about columns in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; (though often the latter tag will suffice). If your question is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/two-column&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;two-column&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;two-column&lt;/a&gt; documents or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/multicol&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;multicol&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;multicol&lt;/a&gt; package, use the respective tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what about a three-column (or more) layout that doesn't use &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/multicol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;multicol&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; like in the above question? What about the &lt;code&gt;columns&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;column&lt;/code&gt; environment of a &lt;code&gt;frame&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/beamer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: We need to work on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt; tag. I'm soliciting some feedback on a shake-up of this columnar conundrum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T19:29:05.477" Title="The {columns} tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3511" CreationDate="2013-04-29T08:02:04.237" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the one who removed the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/multiple-columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;multiple-columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;multiple-columns&lt;/a&gt; tag. Thanks to Werner for raising the issue here at Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Werner correctly observes, there's no proper tag for a &lt;em&gt;three-column (or more) layout that doesn't use &lt;code&gt;multicol&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Sometimes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/two-column&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;two-column&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;two-column&lt;/a&gt; tag is used for such questions (e.g., in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69458/is-a-three-column-footnote-layout-possible&quot;&gt;Is a three-column footnote layout possible?&lt;/a&gt;), sometimes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki excerpt for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt; tag correctly describes its predominant use; this does not mean, however, that the creation of this tag was a sound idea. (Most, if not all &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; problems are about &quot;columns&quot; in a way.) Note that there is a specific, though seldom-used &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/multicolumn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;multicolumn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;multicolumn&lt;/a&gt; tag &lt;em&gt;&quot;for questions concerning the formatting of table cells that span several columns&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My bottom line is that &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; a general tag is needed for case 1, I'd rather not create a new tag, but redefine the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt; tag. In any case, this tag should be removed from questions also tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/multicolumn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;multicolumn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;multicolumn&lt;/a&gt; tag added instead to those &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; questions where it is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T08:02:04.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3503" CreationDate="2013-04-29T08:14:02.480" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the hyperlink should either be shortened to cover only TeX-SX, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;TeX-SX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or better, there must be some more words along the lines of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX-SX! Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;our starter page&lt;/a&gt; for a quick intro if you wish to familiarize yourself with our format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in general, we need to introduce some human-like versions. I would propose to tweak/customize those messages here and there such that we don't act like the agents of a big review machine. Often, two-three stock comments are piled up, say one for image priviledges, one for MWE and other stuff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that removing this &lt;em&gt;Thanks!&lt;/em&gt; business is not inline with our community. We are removing &lt;em&gt;Thanks!&lt;/em&gt; but filling Welcome comments under it which is kind of contradictory. Yes the utopia is that every question becomes a general information source free from specifics, personal or social matters. I think that's a blunder of SO team. That's simply not possible. We can't even find duplicates even when we know there exists one. So are we nice or not? And secretly we are adding a link to our &lt;code&gt;Welcome&lt;/code&gt;'s indirectly implying that &lt;em&gt;RTFM you noob!&lt;/em&gt; which is also picked up by a few askers as sampled above. I'm not proposing to stop removing Thanks per se however it is at least awkward practice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have to be nice if we don't feel like it. Let someone else deal with it. A fake smile is the easiest thing to notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T08:14:02.480" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3511" CreationDate="2013-04-29T14:47:15.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/two-column&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;two-column&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;two-column&lt;/a&gt; serves the purpose of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/three-column&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;three-column&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;three-column&lt;/a&gt; just right. The only problem is the name. Hence I suggest adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/column-typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;column-typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;column-typesetting&lt;/a&gt; as its synonym. This would not create a new tag (which seems to be too much, because then &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/two-column&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;two-column&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;two-column&lt;/a&gt; would be a subset of this tag), yet it would make clear what the situation is. The tag wiki would get changed, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt;, breifly looking through its list of questions, it seems to serve a purpose as it is, despite being a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tables&lt;/a&gt; by nature. I would not change it, I would only add a notice to its tag wiki about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/column-typesetting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;column-typesetting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;column-typesetting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T14:47:15.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3509" CreationDate="2013-04-30T08:54:21.050" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with most of what you say, but I'm not quite sure what concrete policy you propose we follow here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When we have questions that are fully answered by the UK TeX FAQ, that someone provides a community wiki answer which consists of liberal quotation, in blockquotes, from the relevant FAQ answer, together with a proper citation and perhaps a contextual note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An advantage of this is that we have the content from the FAQ here, properly credited, but allow additional content to be provided in other answers, if it turns out the FAQ answer wasn't quite as complete as we had thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2013-04-30T13:25:26.760" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T13:25:26.760" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3517" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-02T22:10:23.483" Score="19" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been feeling like doing tag work recently and I found that some of the more popular tags that have not been properly described have found themselves rather inconsistently used.  A few that leap to my attention are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt;: Applied inconsistently to file size (for which we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-size&lt;/a&gt;), to font size (for which we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fontsize&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fontsize&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fontsize&lt;/a&gt;, and shouldn't this one be called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;font-size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;font-size&lt;/a&gt;?), to TeX dimensions (for which we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dimensions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dimensions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dimensions&lt;/a&gt;), and last, to the nebulous size of symbols/images/tables/other constructs of variable extent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/preview&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;preview&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;preview&lt;/a&gt;: Refers either to the &lt;code&gt;preview&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;package&lt;/em&gt;, to the &lt;code&gt;preview-latex&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;tool&lt;/em&gt; (part of AUCTeX) to previewing &lt;em&gt;parts&lt;/em&gt; of a TeX file, or to previewing the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; document.  None of these really has their own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/notes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;notes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;notes&lt;/a&gt;: Used both for questions concerning &lt;em&gt;annotations&lt;/em&gt;, and those concerning &lt;em&gt;lecture notes&lt;/em&gt; or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's some, but not all of the undefined tags, which I chose just by scanning the list looking for those without a wiki and which seemed like they would be confusing if I wanted to find a particular topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should split these as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt;: create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sizing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sizing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sizing&lt;/a&gt; with synonyms &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-size&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/image-size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;image-size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;image-size&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picture-size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picture-size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picture-size&lt;/a&gt;.  Split the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt; appropriately among these and the existing tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/preview&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;preview&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;preview&lt;/a&gt;: create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/previewing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;previewing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;previewing&lt;/a&gt; for actual previewing (either part or whole), and have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/preview&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;preview&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;preview&lt;/a&gt; refer only to the package (which seems to be the practice here).  Create another new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/preview-latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;preview-latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;preview-latex&lt;/a&gt; and make it synonymous with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auctex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auctex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auctex&lt;/a&gt;.  Then split the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/preview&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;preview&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;preview&lt;/a&gt; appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/notes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;notes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;notes&lt;/a&gt;: we clearly need both an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/annotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;annotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;annotation&lt;/a&gt; tag and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lecture-notes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lecture-notes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lecture-notes&lt;/a&gt; tag, though I'm not sure that the latter one wouldn't just be a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beamer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beamer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beamer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, all of these should be properly wikied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would do all this myself except that I don't know how to do it without bumping every question to the front page; I assume I'd need to ask a moderator to use the appropriate tools.  However, what's the opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-05-03T16:21:41.603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T16:21:41.603" Title="Split some vague but popular tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tagwiki|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-02T23:33:16.800" Score="30" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about Asymptote which was closed as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/111998/asymptote-convert-triple-to-array&quot;&gt;Asymptote: convert triple to array&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it fits within the scope of the site in much the same way a pure &lt;code&gt;metapost&lt;/code&gt; question would.  There have been both pure &lt;code&gt;metapost&lt;/code&gt; and pure &lt;code&gt;asymptote&lt;/code&gt; questions asked and answered, none of which were closed as off topic.  Examples being&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7247/commutative-diagrams-using-metapost-or-asymptote&quot;&gt;Commutative diagrams using MetaPost or Asymptote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/87009/how-to-cut-a-surface-at-the-intersection-with-another-surface-in-asymptote&quot;&gt;How to cut a surface at the intersection with another surface in Asymptote?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94830/how-to-draw-dash-dotted-curves-using-metapost&quot;&gt;How to draw dash-dotted curves using MetaPost?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(et. al.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, just because it has happened before does not mean it should happen again, so I don't take the existence of the above questions to prove anything.  However, each is a question about a graphic tool that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is compatible with LaTeX, and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;which (barring &lt;code&gt;luamplib&lt;/code&gt;) require an external program to compile, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do not contain a trivial document wrapper (i.e. are questions purely about the tool)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't &lt;em&gt;particularly&lt;/em&gt; care one way or another, but do feel that there should be consistency with respect to how these questions are treated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T23:38:37.947" Title="Are Asymptote questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3499" CreationDate="2013-05-03T01:04:26.277" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having just occupied myself with a bunch of tagging activities, I have to say that this function really is hidden most obscurely.  My opinion on your question is that we should do both: propose a synonym, and then notify Meta.  It appears that the only way to actually vote on a proposed synonym is by following several links and then searching for pending proposals in a big list, so it seems quite unlikely that even the limited population of Meta users will ever find them.  The Meta post will therefore attract some attention, in addition to providing an opportunity to explain the proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually going to go out and do that with mine now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="575" LastEditDate="2013-05-03T01:14:54.630" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T01:14:54.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-03T01:10:33.987" Score="15" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is to test the proposal I gave in answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3499/575&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms and how they work&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have proposed the tag synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikzpicture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikzpicture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikzpicture&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, which you can vote on at the following page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/tikz-pgf/synonyms&quot;&gt;{tikz-pgf} synonyms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikzpicture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikzpicture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikzpicture&lt;/a&gt; tag was almost entirely unused, and those uses were probably accidents, and in any case that any question that could be tagged by it would be equally appropriate for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; in general, since virtually all uses of the &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; package go through &lt;code&gt;tikzpicture&lt;/code&gt;.  Note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz&lt;/a&gt; already redirects to this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T11:44:13.323" Title="Proposed synonym: {tikzpicture} -&gt; {tikz-pgf}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3522" CreationDate="2013-05-03T06:01:30.057" Score="12" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;In discussions on meta, I sometimes want to reference a specific tag. Instead of just writing {support} (as in &lt;code&gt;{support}&lt;/code&gt;) to resemble the tag notation, I write it as a hyperlink &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/support&quot;&gt;{support}&lt;/a&gt;. Is this the best way, or is there some other way to write proper hyperlinked tags using markdown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T06:01:30.057" Title="Proper tags using markdown" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3521" CreationDate="2013-05-03T06:01:30.057" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown does offer proper hyperlinked tags using a specific syntax. For example, the tag &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; on the main site can set in markdown using &lt;code&gt;[tag:&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;]&lt;/code&gt;, while the same tag on meta would be &lt;code&gt;[meta-tag:&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;]&lt;/code&gt;. Markdown syntax for tagging is recommended, since it provides the appropriate formatting associated with each tag. For example, see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;{support} | &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/support&quot;&gt;{support}&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt;; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;{faq} | &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;{faq}&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This markdown syntax does not perform checks on the existence of tags. However, this should come as no &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/surprise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;surprise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;surprise&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T06:01:30.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3523" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3526" CreationDate="2013-05-03T08:52:28.897" Score="12" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;We recently closed a maths usage question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110234/can-i-use-both-of-setbuilder-notations-in-one-article&quot;&gt;Can I use both of setbuilder notations in one article?&lt;/a&gt;, which asked for whether it is acceptable to use two different comprehension notations in one article, on the grounds that it is off-topic.  It is quite true that &quot;a mathematical style question&quot;, as Ryan Reich put it, is not about TeX and Friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question was clearly phrased in terms of TeX markup, and the semantics friendly approach to TeX can influence how one best answers these questions.  Consider, hypothetically - what if there was a &lt;code&gt;comprehensions.sty&lt;/code&gt; package out there with distinct comprehensions &lt;code&gt;\pointcomprehension&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\funspacecomprehension&lt;/code&gt;, with a configuration command that allowed you to issue such commands as (excuse the ConTeXtism) &lt;code&gt;\setupcomprehension[point][separator=:]&lt;/code&gt;, together with the configurations used in several textbooks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the possibility either that such specialist support might exist for such usage questions, or might be desirable to have, is a reason for such usage questions to be considered on-topic, provided they have such an overt TeX&amp;amp;co. context.  I consider that a usage question with such TeX-specific context is a different question, in that it asks for different kinds of answers, than one without.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T20:06:02.777" Title="Where usage meets TeX" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3524" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-03T09:03:49.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where does the on/off-topic line lie for TeX-LaTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;FAQ&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/432/first-faq-section-what-kind-of-questions-can-i-ask-here&quot;&gt;First FAQ section: What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2290/the-faq-list-of-topics&quot;&gt;The FAQ list of topics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/507/is-troff-groff-a-friend-of-tex&quot;&gt;Is troff/groff a &amp;quot;friend&amp;quot; of TeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-11-16T16:52:26.047" LastActivityDate="2020-11-16T16:52:26.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3525" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-03T09:03:49.543" Score="0" Body="Where does the on/off-topic line lie for TeX-LaTeX?" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-11-16T16:52:26.047" LastActivityDate="2020-11-16T16:52:26.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3523" CreationDate="2013-05-03T09:11:25.310" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see this question it's a perfect candidate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://math.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; (as already suggested by a comment to that question). They users there aren't bad in TeX either, because they use it with MathJax. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there is already a specialized SX site for this I agree that we should consider such questions as off-topic on TeX.SX. However, migration to Math.SX should be prefered before closing it as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T09:11:25.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3517" CreationDate="2013-05-03T09:55:30.473" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Splitting vague tags is time-consuming, causes lots of random bumping, and is only worth it if all or nearly all of the relevant posts are sorted out and the new distinction is valuable.  So, I'd be cautious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are still keen, I suggest tackling just the clearest case and reporting back.  That seems to be the preview case: of 78 tagged questions, 20 match auctex as a search term.  In any case, having the synonym for preview-latex seems like a good idea, since it will encourage qners to avoid vague tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T09:55:30.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3523" CreationDate="2013-05-03T20:06:02.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the distinction between the present question (roughly, &quot;Which of two acceptable mathematical notations should I use?&quot;) and the hypothetical one (&quot;Help me with this package that produces that notation&quot;) is a little fine, but one objection is that the question as written is explicitly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about help using TeX at all: the same question could be asked about Word's equation editor, or handwriting for that matter.  It's purely a stylistic question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the answers that were given before closure actually do (some of them) address a TeX means of dealing with the underlying issue, but on-topic answers don't make the question on-topic, just as novel answers don't make a duplicate question unique (if I recall this is a current topic too).  This aspect of the nature of the question makes it something of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2449/575&quot;&gt;XY problem&lt;/a&gt;, with the added twist that Y is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another connection is with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/272/575&quot;&gt;similar problem with MathJaX&lt;/a&gt;, where several answers agree that at least a significant part of that genre of question is off-topic, and moreover is explicitly on-topic elsewhere.  MathJaX questions are arguable in the same way, in that even installation and troubleshooting questions (as discussed by Martin Scharrer's answer) are analogous to such questions about installing and troubleshooting a TeX distribution that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; on topic here...but when applied to MathJaX they are not, because the tool is fundamentally &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; TeX even if it accepts some TeX code.  And likewise here, the mathematical style question is fundamentally &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; TeX, even if it admits some TeX solutions (that may not even be appropriate!  What if it's a journal or university style?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the usual thing that's done for questions like this is to ask the q'ner to refine their post to the point that it is on-topic, specific, and answerable to their satisfaction.  However, what if their question &lt;em&gt;really is&lt;/em&gt; &quot;should I use two notations for sets?&quot;; in that case, I think that it &lt;em&gt;really belongs&lt;/em&gt; on a math forum because it's &lt;em&gt;really not&lt;/em&gt; a TeX question, even if by virtue of being a typographic language TeX sometimes has opinions about matters of style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T20:06:02.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2013-05-04T08:20:04.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to see if I can put in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$1 &amp;gt; 2$ while $2 &amp;lt; 3$.  \\&#xA;Seems to be OK with new stuff.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code inside list is indented by more space (twice more than the usual): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is code because four spaces go before me.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a bullet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not code even though there are four spaces before me. But, if eight spaces precede me, I'll be one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Like this.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10679" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T12:24:40.097" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T12:24:40.097" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-04T08:20:04.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-04T13:21:41.547" Score="7" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do these flags work? Why are they limited?  Are they limited by time, by quantity, or perhaps based on your reputation? Why have I seen posts that say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closed as too localized by X, Y and Z.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it have any relation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27833" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-05-04T14:03:24.163" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T07:04:54.103" Title="Why do I have limited inform moderator flags?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3533" CreationDate="2013-05-04T17:20:51.750" Score="18" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently 45 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vector&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vector&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vector&lt;/a&gt; on the main site. Most of these are about the typesetting vector, i.e. mathematical notation. Some of them however concerns vector graphics, or vectorized fonts, and there's one on drawing a vector with TikZ. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the tag even necessary? If so, which context should it be used for? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took the liberty of following Ryan's advice without further ado. I've edited the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112411/vector-wiki-excerpt&quot;&gt;tag wiki excerpt&lt;/a&gt;, and I took a quick look through the questions to retag them where needed (as some of you perhaps noticed). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T07:32:44.167" Title="What should we do with the vector tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2013-05-04T17:22:22.403" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, the OP does not always choose a title relevant to the problem s/he's facing. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tex doesn't work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A poorly chosen title is, of course, forgivable in many cases; the origin of the problem may not be obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, someone posting an answer that solves the OP's problem, or any subsequent visitor to the page who is savvy enough, should attempt to improve the title, if possible and necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rationale is that titles play an important role in search on the site and in Google (due to the URL naming scheme used by SE sites), and we want somebody facing the same problem as the OP to easily find their way to a relevant question and a solution to it. An obvious benefit of this renaming practice is that it contributes to reducing the number of duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I would add the following item in the &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot; category:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Improving the title&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making the question's title more descriptive of the problem so that those who subsequently encounter the same problem find their way to that question (and a solution to it) more easily.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-06-02T08:30:18.927" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-04T17:22:22.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3531" CreationDate="2013-05-05T04:36:03.653" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a bit of a trend to have a tag named after &quot;major&quot; environments or macros/fonts/symbols/etc., which I suppose makes sense if the thing is complicated or subtle, or at least prone to error.  It actually seems that the concept of a &quot;vector&quot; as realized in TeX is such a thing: there are questions about vectors written as column vectors (matrices), as row vectors (tuples), or different vector styles, interaction with fonts or other packages...it seems worth having a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the &lt;em&gt;separate&lt;/em&gt; topic of depicting vectors in TikZ or pstricks or so on is off-label and honestly, those should probably just have the tag removed and be left with just the package tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;even more separate&lt;/em&gt; topic concerning vector graphics or fonts is clearly a misinterpretation.  Probably, you can start by fixing the tag wiki to be more specific.  More drastically, there's possibly room for a tag called, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drawing-vectors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drawing-vectors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drawing-vectors&lt;/a&gt; to absorb the second kind of question.  After which I suppose we would need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vector-graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vector-graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vector-graphics&lt;/a&gt; tag as well.  But (as I asked about in my recent question here) I don't know whether it's wise to go ahead and do that kind of retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T04:36:03.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3530" CreationDate="2013-05-05T04:41:46.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe if you &quot;inform moderator&quot;, then one of the moderators will get the note you leave and come investigate.  Obviously, this is asking time and effort of them, so there should be some limit on how many requests one can send.  I also believe that they are replenished per day, always with the same maximum regardless of any kind of status.  And to be cynical about it, there's a certain &quot;vigilante&quot; personality that would probably abuse the privilege as much as possible.  (Though I don't see this personality around here, it's a possibility on a more raucous site, and these rules were designed for the stackexchange network as a whole.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message you quote is what appears when a question is closed by voting, an ability which comes with certain amounts of reputation points (it's not much to look forward to, really).  Normally a question needs five votes to close, though you'll see fewer if a moderator decides to end the poll early, since they can close a question by themselves.  The names listed are the voters; the reason listed is chosen from a list of several predefined reasons that a question shouldn't be on the site, and the one that shows up in the message is the one selected by the majority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never did figure out what happens if the vote splits 2-2-1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastEditorUserId="575" LastEditDate="2013-05-05T07:04:54.103" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T07:04:54.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3520" CreationDate="2013-05-05T07:03:54.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The synonym has been approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="575" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T07:03:54.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3551" CreationDate="2013-05-05T17:44:20.960" Score="23" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some questions like this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8513/how-to-find-out-where-a-macro-is-defined&quot;&gt;How to find out where a macro is defined?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where a bounty is offered to an answer that is not upvoted a lot and not the accepted answer. The bounty is offered for a different reason than awarding the answer to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be that future users mistake the bounty as &quot;hey, this answer must be the correct answer, as it has such a high bounty&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T09:26:35.120" Title="Proxy bounties and their philosophical implications in today's modern society" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3253" CreationDate="2013-05-05T19:19:32.347" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it was stated by the OP that the Wikipedia article shouldn't be replicated, but I think perhaps that it should (at least to some extent) for the reasons that follow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I recall when I looked at the Wikipedia page when I was first was learning how to use LaTeX, it was extremely messy and difficult to read on a smaller monitor. It may be &lt;em&gt;cleaner&lt;/em&gt; that checkmarks be used instead (like on certain product pages on amazon). This also makes it easier for the viewer to compare instead of scrolling up and down when comparing between two different editors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The one on TSE could be restricted to the more popular ones, i.e. the ones that have already been suggested = the ones that people actually use. The Wikipedia article includes far too many options and is certainly overwhelming for those just learning LaTeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just some thoughts that came across my mind after I found the popular post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is viable, perhaps a pros and cons list of each could be added instead? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27612" LastEditorUserId="27612" LastEditDate="2013-05-05T19:34:30.420" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T19:34:30.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3539" CreationDate="2013-05-06T09:41:46.353" Score="14" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112698/how-to-install-vim-latex&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and I was wondering if it would be okay to ask other variations of it such as &quot;How to install emacs/aquamacs + Auctex&quot;. I know that instructions are available, but I've spent all day searching for instructions for &quot;noobies.&quot; I have no experience with terminal or any of that stuff. I think it would be &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; helpful if a tutorial in &quot;noobie&quot; talk was available. I really want to take advantage of (or at least see for myself) all the great things people are saying about vim and emacs + Auctex... But I can't even get past the installation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So would this type of post be appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T10:21:57.957" Title="How-to posts for beginners" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3538" CreationDate="2013-05-06T12:18:54.513" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question reminds me of a conversation between Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky (the founders of Stack Exchange) that I heard on one of their SE podcasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two disagreed somewhat on the issue of &quot;noobie questions&quot;, but I think they ended up reaching consensus: if some question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;can potentially be answered by the OP by piecing together information already available on the Internet,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that information is either difficult to find or in a form that is not readily understandable (e.g. some jargony documentation),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then that question is valid on SE sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what the founders of the site intended. The TeX.SE community may have a different opinion, but I think Joel &amp;amp; Jeff's approach makes sense, here.&#xA;The site is supposed to be a repository of knowledge about TeX &amp;amp; friends, accessible to as wide an audience as possible, not just TeX gurus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you think that the site lacks a canonical answer on how to set up some LaTeX IDE, feel free to post a question that would be conducive to such a canonical answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="21891" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T10:21:57.957" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T10:21:57.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-06T22:24:14.213" Score="23" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been struggling with unnecessary blank pages at the beginning of appendices.  There are a few answers that speak to my problem, none of which have worked.  I was pleased to find another person who was in the exact same predicament as I am, who asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/79137/28811&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  Then I was disappointed to see that the question was closed as 'too localized':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess that the close-voters were assuming that this question was 'extraordinarily narrow' in scope.  At first glance, it would seem that way.  However, given that I am in the &lt;em&gt;exact same situation&lt;/em&gt; as the OP, it no longer seems so narrowly applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do?  Ask the same question again?  Somehow &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79137/remove-unnecessary-blank-page-after-creating-an-appendix-still-not-solved#comment248779_79137&quot;&gt;suggest to reopen it&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28811" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T22:24:14.213" Title="What do I do if I have the exact same question as a question that is closed as 'too localized'?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|too-localized|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3544" CreationDate="2013-05-07T18:57:37.587" Score="25" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;In roughly the last three weeks, we've seen (from oldest to newest):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/106507/5764&quot;&gt;Code improvement for PSTricks figure&lt;/a&gt; (5 | 10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/109396/5764&quot;&gt;How to improve my PSTricks code to construct a triangle number diagram?&lt;/a&gt; (7 | 22)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/109565/5764&quot;&gt;How to improve my PSTricks code to construct a triangle diagram?&lt;/a&gt; (11 | 30)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/109774/5764&quot;&gt;Optimize (or improve, at least) PSTricks code for drawing a beehive&lt;/a&gt; (5 | 9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/109928/5764&quot;&gt;Improve PSTricks code for drawing of a chest of drawers&lt;/a&gt; (11 | 37)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/109957/5764&quot;&gt;Improve PSTricks code for drawing of a football pitch&lt;/a&gt; (6 | 13)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/110375/5764&quot;&gt;Improve PSTricks code for drawing of a general, regular polygon&lt;/a&gt; (8 | 21)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/110614/5764&quot;&gt;Improve PSTricks code for drawing of the Olympic flag&lt;/a&gt; (6 | 15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/110693/5764&quot;&gt;Definition of PSTricks constant (again) and improvement of code&lt;/a&gt; (2 | 10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/110890/5764&quot;&gt;Definition of PSTricks constant and improvement of code for drawing of Pantheon&lt;/a&gt; (3 | 5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/111431/5764&quot;&gt;Improvement of PSTricks code for drawing of Pantheon&lt;/a&gt; (2 | 4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/112906/5764&quot;&gt;Improvement of PSTricks code for drawing of balls in a triangular box&lt;/a&gt; (6 | 10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numbers after each post indicate the (Score | Popularity) where Score is upvotes minus downvotes (if any) and Popularity is the sum of scores for all posts for that question (question + answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick eyeball shows that there is varied interest in code improvements (or that it might be very question-dependent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My all-encompassing slew of two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would these type of posts benefit from a specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code-review&lt;/a&gt; tag, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112906/improvement-of-pstricks-code-for-drawing-of-balls-in-a-triangular-box#comment249005_112906&quot;&gt;suggested in comments&lt;/a&gt;? Or perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/something-else-altogether&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;something-else-altogether&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;something-else-altogether&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, is the motivation that these type of questions fall under the &lt;em&gt;Too Localized&lt;/em&gt; banner (as per the close description: &quot;This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the Internet.&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your opinions are appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;I fully appreciate that one cannot define rigid rules for treating questions like these, and that the community should consider each on their own merit. I've upvoted some of them, while my more &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112906/improvement-of-pstricks-code-for-drawing-of-balls-in-a-triangular-box#comment248873_112906&quot;&gt;recent decision to close as TL&lt;/a&gt; seemed to be met with some resistance. Indeed, the community decides what goes and doesn't.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T04:55:21.307" Title="Tagging &quot;Please improve my code&quot; posts" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3542" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-07T19:32:22.937" Score="11" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just prompted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close&quot;&gt;review a Close Vote&lt;/a&gt; for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/83611/5764&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that had no previous votes to close:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eVqxZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, a close vote tally will be added after each reason selected (could be more than one). As such, and since I did not initiate the close vote, I thought there would be at least one such a tally, although there was none. This is what I expected it to look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkDO7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not specific to closing as TL; here's on for NARQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q9Uqs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this happen? How do these questions end up on the list of posts to review?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T19:08:57.860" Title="Review Close Votes without a single vote" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3541" CreationDate="2013-05-07T22:11:49.857" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, a tag would be nice. We could also migrate such questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Code Review.sx&lt;/a&gt; - it already has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex&quot;&gt;TeX tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:07.587" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T22:11:49.857" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3541" CreationDate="2013-05-08T04:49:22.023" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the tag is absolutely necessary. I feel those questions are not meant to help the whole community to learn TeX, but only the OP. I don't have anything against that per se, but it's clearly a different objective and each potential answerer should be able to knowingly choose what they want to spend their time on.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;With a specific tag, I think the need to close these type of questions disappears.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Without a tag, I would vote to close as I doubt these questions will benefit anybody else in the future (it's similar in my mind to most compilation issue questions: we help as best as we can, but we usually close the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wouldn't migrate the question to &lt;a href=&quot;http://codereview.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Code Review.sx&lt;/a&gt;. As there is very little chance that anyone there can solve those questions better than here (or can solve them at all), it feels a bit like a way to bury the issue...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10102" LastEditorUserId="10102" LastEditDate="2013-05-08T04:55:21.307" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T04:55:21.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3546" CreationDate="2013-05-08T19:09:24.253" Score="8" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reputation system is broken... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have edited some questions and tags (TeX main site) and I do not have received the corresponding pontuation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Today I have only 54 points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dmwp2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question edited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3X2Sb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag edited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MyYeL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Activity today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tu6TF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13907" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-05-08T20:52:41.810" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T20:52:41.810" Title="Not getting reputation points for suggested edits" Tags="|support|reputation|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3545" CreationDate="2013-05-08T20:05:32.953" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;To date (2013-05-07) you have submitted 574 Suggested Edits for approval, 512 of which were accepted while 62 were declined. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/77505/168244&quot;&gt;Back in Feb 2011&lt;/a&gt;, the reputation system was updated to award a suggestor with +2 reputation in the case of an approved Suggested Edit. This should put your tally of reputation accumulated via this method at +1,024.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/76251/168244&quot;&gt;the way suggested edits work&lt;/a&gt;, you're only allowed 1,000 reputation in total for approved Suggested Edits. However, when posts are deleted, you lose the revision reputation. Here's a quick take on reputation associated with Suggested Edits (from the above post):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Can I earn reputation?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;When a suggested edit is approved, the user who suggested it gets +2 reputation. The regular daily reputation cap applies, and the total cap is 1,000. Like any other reputation, the +2 is deleted if the edited post is ever deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;When a suggested edit is rejected, no penalty is given.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick aggregation of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/13907/papiro?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;your reputation&lt;/a&gt; lists at least 484 edits still &quot;visible&quot; from non-deleted posts (out of around 579 post-related reputation earnings). While 484 visible, approved Suggested Edits drops you back to earning &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; 968 reputation, you may have reached the 1,000 rep-cap over all time (512 approved + 484 visible - 500 maximum ~ 500 posts = 1,000 reputation). Once you've reached this, there's no more bonuses from Suggested Edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just my guess... &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;While this may seem anti-climatic, continue to help improve the site!&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T20:05:32.953" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-09T18:28:19.823" Score="2" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know where to fit this, because it is more a meta question about LaTeX so it does not fit on the main site, but it does also not fit here because meta should be about Tex.SE.&#xA;Anyways I feel, that meta always has a more informal character and therefore I ask here.&#xA;Now to the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the feeling that in LaTeX some functionality is like a kludge and that the original system was not designed for it (for example image display).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or do you feel, that LaTeX is extremely messy, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28004" LastActivityDate="2013-05-09T18:28:19.823" Title="Why is LaTeX so messy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2013-05-09T19:12:42.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3549" CreationDate="2013-05-11T17:46:05.807" Score="15" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got an answer of mine &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/113727/revisions&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; so it now uses identifier formatting like &lt;code&gt;`mdframed`&lt;/code&gt; (rendered “&lt;code&gt;mdframed&lt;/code&gt;”) instead of tag names like &lt;code&gt;[tag:mdframed]&lt;/code&gt; (rendered “&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mdframed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mdframed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mdframed&lt;/a&gt;”). I can see how this would be more &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; in the sense of what tags are supposed to do. On the other hand, I have the feeling that using tags in the way my original post used them &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be useful nevertheless, since it would provide a pointer for people to click on where they could find a wiki, useful other questions and so on, without me having to research links. So I wonder, was this edit just a matter of personal taste, is this some established policy, or should we perhaps even encourage the use of tags in post text? I have no strong feelings either way, just being curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16923" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-05-11T17:59:35.080" Title="Using package name tags in post body text" Tags="|discussion|tagging|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3548" CreationDate="2013-05-11T17:59:35.080" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Policy from 'the early days' has been&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Package names are inserted as code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If pointing to a package in an answer, it should if possible be linked to CTAN:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[`some-package`](http://ctan.org/pkg/some-package)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are used for tagging, which means that they are almost exclusively placed in the 'tags' part of a question and not in the main body. Sometimes tags make sense in comments ('There are lots of questions about &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;'), or on meta (where the discussion may be about a tag rather than the package itself), but both cases are relatively rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-05-11T17:59:35.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2013-05-12T20:57:11.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very simple to post a public link to a Dropbox item (put in the Public folder and -- on a Mac at least -- control-click to get a pastable link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28999" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T20:57:11.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3536" CreationDate="2013-05-14T09:26:35.120" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to sound harsh, but bounty is not a way to give reputation to a user for any different reason than &lt;em&gt;the answer which is awarded the bounty&lt;/em&gt;. If the problem is that bounty of 500 seems not enough for that particular case (and the offerrer wants to give more reputation to one particular answer), the offerrer can make a feature request to increase the maximal bounty size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in my opinion, bounties awarded after the answer was posted are meant as &quot;thanks&quot; and &quot;I like this answer&quot;, and 500 rep points is, in my opinion, sufficient for that in all cases. Remember that rep points are not everything ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T09:26:35.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2013-05-14T16:59:57.633" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Documentation &amp;amp; Definition of commands&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13028&quot;&gt;How do I document my style files?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do I document my style files?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13028)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/66&quot;&gt;Which manuals are on your &amp;quot;TeX Reference&amp;quot; shelf?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Which manuals are on your &amp;quot;TeX Reference&amp;quot; shelf?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/66)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/26771&quot;&gt;A big list of every keyval package&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[A big list of every keyval package](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/26771)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;(La)TeX core&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36175&quot;&gt;What do newcommand, renewcommand, and providecommand do, and how do they differ?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What do newcommand, renewcommand, and providecommand do, and how do they differ?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36175)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/150137&quot;&gt;Why are some LaTeX macros defined using \newcommand and some using \def?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why are some LaTeX macros defined using \newcommand and some using \def?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/150137)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Difference between optional and delimited arguments &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/497356&quot;&gt;Are all commands with an optional argument fragile?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Are all commands with an optional argument fragile?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/497356)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4736&quot;&gt;What is the difference between Fragile and Robust commands?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is the difference between Fragile and Robust commands?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4736)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/104023&quot;&gt;What is a token?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is a token?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/104023)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4201&quot;&gt;Is there a BNF grammar of the TeX language?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is there a BNF grammar of the TeX language?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4201)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;texdoc&lt;/code&gt; and other online documentation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/62653&quot;&gt;LaTeX, package documentation look-up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[LaTeX, package documentation look-up](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/62653)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/269521&quot;&gt;What is the quickest way to open the pdf-manual for a given tex function or program?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What is the quickest way to open the pdf-manual for a given tex function or program?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/269521)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11182&quot;&gt;Online searchable manual for TikZ?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Online searchable manual for TikZ?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11182)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;texdef&lt;/code&gt; &amp;amp; friends&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4327&quot;&gt;Where do I find out how a command/environment is defined?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Where do I find out how a command/environment is defined?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4327)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36955&quot;&gt;Display source for a command&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Display source for a command](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36955)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;source2e&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;macros2e&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4790&quot;&gt;Documentation reference for LaTeX internal commands?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Documentation reference for LaTeX internal commands?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4790)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Miscellaneous (re)definition topics&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/116670&quot;&gt;Duplicating Environments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Duplicating Environments](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/116670)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5872" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-05-17T20:12:48.730" LastActivityDate="2023-05-17T20:12:48.730" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-14T16:59:57.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-14T21:30:20.990" Score="11" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some time now I consider the review process broken, particularly the First Post queue, as too many review tasks are just rubber-stamped. This has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/152709/209742&quot;&gt;discussed on meta.so&lt;/a&gt;, and one possible solution is the Honeypot system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: should we go for an installment of Honeypot here on TX.SX, or should that be dealt with on a more personal case-to-case basis by our moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T15:58:47.673" Title="First Post review process broken" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3553" CreationDate="2013-05-15T12:49:38.047" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've looked a bit at the review queue: I note that Papiro, who is the most prolific &quot;No Action Needed&quot; reviewer, actually does go back and comment on quite a few of the reviewed posts, so &quot;rubber stamping&quot; isn't really accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to propose on Meta that we abolish the six review status screens: having a league table for what should be mostly unsung work, and which has widely acknowledge perverse incentives, doesn't seem wise to me.  The review history pages provide the useful picture on what kind of reviewing activity is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would having a statement of good reviewing practice, perhaps as a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'faq'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;  question, be useful?  It could explicitly discourage over-frequent use of the &quot;No Action Needed&quot; button on first-post reviews. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the SX team would be reluctant to implement the honeypot for this site yet, since the overall level of review activity is relatively low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T12:49:38.047" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3556" CreationDate="2013-05-15T18:56:42.640" Score="16" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering why someone could not put a bounty on their question here on meta. Is this by design or has the community decided that it is a bad idea? Because, at SO you can put a bounty on a meta question. I think it would be a good idea to have the ability to put a bounty on a meta question because that way the question, if it is important to the OP or the OP believes that the question warrants some discussion then can be brought more to light. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3488/why-cant-we-change-the-bounty-amount-while-the-bounty-is-in-progress&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; about why bounties cannot be increased while a bounty is in progress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24817" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T20:57:53.283" Title="How come we can't put a bounty in meta?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|meta|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3555" CreationDate="2013-05-15T20:57:14.857" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to this is that there is no reputation system on this Meta site to award bounties, and therefore considered by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are only meaningful in an environment where reputation is available to be gained and distributed (through voting, but also bounties). Here on Meta, it does not exist. In fact, your &quot;reputation&quot; on meta is equivalent to your reputation on the Main site (with a mild delay in during a reputation-frenzy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the left is a view on Meta, while the right shows the Main site reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JtYlw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that on Meta, reputation is substituted for &quot;votes&quot; (that does not have a hyperlink). It does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; really give a tangible answer to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2853/5764&quot;&gt;&quot;How cool am I?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Badges, on the other hand, is perhaps the only measure of comparable awesomeness, with some distinction in their availability (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3120/5764&quot;&gt;Badges on Meta vs Main&lt;/a&gt;). Somewhat interesting to note is the availability of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/41/mortarboard&quot;&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/a&gt; - a reputation-related badge - already obtained by some members of TeX.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c4vL7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta.SO is entirely different, having its own reputation system in tandem with SO, and therefore allows bounties (and reputation loss from down-votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T20:57:14.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-16T03:43:17.930" Score="20" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;In light of related questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3390/15717&quot;&gt;Is the &amp;quot;First Posts&amp;quot; review queue partially broken?&lt;/a&gt; and &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3553/15717&quot;&gt;First Post review process broken&lt;/a&gt;. As suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3554/15717&quot;&gt;Charles Stewart and mafp&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am listing out some ideas on &lt;em&gt;first post review check list&lt;/em&gt; just for record and additions if any are welcome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Content checklist&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ensure the question is put together well, there are several points to check:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good (Sharp/Specific) Title&lt;/strong&gt;: Reflecting the exact Q with hints from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3128/15717&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;br&gt;&#xA;question by Marc Van Dongen&lt;/a&gt;. Look at this stage for basic typos/spelling mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Perfect Tagging&lt;/strong&gt;: Tagging relevant tags for Q. (more (2–5) specific tags are better to narrow down the track down required question for future users instead of generic &lt;code&gt;pdftex&lt;/code&gt; tag for all Q)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is a &lt;strong&gt;Minimal Working Example&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;MWE&lt;/a&gt; needed?  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3386/15717&quot;&gt;Are there questions where we can recognize that a MWE is not necessary?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code markup&lt;/strong&gt;/formatting ok to improve readability using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;editing help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adding &lt;strong&gt;images/codes from external links&lt;/strong&gt; in Q to make OP's question standalone as Question have backup/revision control and external links may fail over time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the question incomplete because of &lt;strong&gt;key information only given in comments&lt;/strong&gt;? Editing these into the question text makes it easier to grasp what is needed, and helps the process of narrowing down requirements because comments don't have backup/revision control. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Important Edit Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Write down the modifications for eg: &quot;codemarkup+title changed as per OP's comments+MWE/images added from Dropbox link+Spelling/Typo correction&quot;. This edit note sentences help high rep reviewers to accept/reject the suggested edits. &lt;strong&gt;Attention :&lt;/strong&gt; Editing Q only when really necessary not editing for sake of editing, and the reason for major editing has to be mentioned to OP through comments/edit notes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ensuring that these points are followed not only helps that question find answers, it also helps communicate the standards we want the site to follow to new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;General guidelines&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be Kind&lt;/strong&gt;: Reviewing/editing Q to improve OP's chances of getting a good answer and increase readability for readers and accumulating as good knowledge base and much more..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave Welcome &lt;strong&gt;comments with starter guide, MWE request,&lt;/strong&gt; tips to OP to learn code markup and other specific actions based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/15717&quot;&gt;Text Building blocks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In case interested leaving duplicates/related questions based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=#&quot;&gt;advanced search at tex.sx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't forget the Mantra Upvote Q immediately and often, Downvote with comments and Accept answer later (24hrs).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related terminology used in tex.sx/meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3388/15717&quot;&gt;Dictionary: Commonly Used English Acronyms and abbreviations at TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; and Finally never despair everyone makes mistakes and remember learning from them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case I forgot anything please add to this list and any duplicate/related questions in meta are also welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T10:11:50.340" Title="First post questions: Good reviewing practice" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-16T19:20:34.813" Score="10" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;It says &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; that I can&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Slice off anywhere from +50 to +500 of [my] own hard-earned reputation and attach it to any question as a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I made my first bounty a few days ago, the minimum bounty I could slice off was 100, not 50. Why's that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T19:30:58.463" Title="Minimum bounty is 50 or 100?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3559" CreationDate="2013-05-16T19:30:58.463" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have already given an answer of your own to a question, the minimum bounty is 100.  See:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for a full discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T19:30:58.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3562" CreationDate="2013-05-17T14:25:28.183" Score="17" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I have a driving need for it, but I recently tried to track down an old comment (my own), and found no mechanism for it.  Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25858" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T14:33:33.050" Title="Tracking my old comments" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3561" CreationDate="2013-05-17T15:43:07.637" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two sets of comments: Those submitted by you and those submitted by others to you (are to posts that you made). The former is available under the Comments section of your Activity tab in your User profile, and found at the following URL (since it's user-specific):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=comments&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screen grab of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/25858/steven-b-segletes?tab=activity&quot;&gt;yours&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7G5z.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comments submitted to you, take a look under the Responses tab. This item is only visible to the user that is logged in, so here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764/werner?tab=responses&quot;&gt;a screen grab of mine&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KJA4a.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Seems like I've been &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3333/5764&quot;&gt;utilizing&lt;/a&gt; the wonders of &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be found at this URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;?tab=responses&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T17:14:17.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3561" CreationDate="2013-05-19T14:28:05.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer to programmatically query the publically visible contents at this site or any other.  A query to list comments ordered by date exists - &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/106474/my-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/106474/my-comments&lt;/a&gt; - check that you've entered your user ID at this site and selected this site as the site to query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a little SQL knowledge you can write queries to narrow to some date range (I could write something if you are interested), although scrolling through the comments is quite easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Postscript&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've adjusted that query to show the date, which I guess is pretty much essential to narrow down among many comments.  It would be not be difficult to add a column to show the owner of the post the comment is attached to, if that was useful.  The new query is at &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/edit/114970&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/edit/114970&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="175" LastEditDate="2013-05-19T14:33:33.050" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T14:33:33.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3553" CreationDate="2013-05-19T15:58:47.673" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the matter, please do not anonymize certain users if you are going to address them by the implications of the questions. If that's Papiro you have in mind say openly that you have Papiro in mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a good way to discuss matters, since you are observing one user's behavior and trying to generalize it to all other users with another terrible, terrible system called Honeypot which is shifting from hereditary monarchy to only elected monarchy which is again nothing but a monarchy (since you have to agree with the majority of the closing votes). I don't know why this is even considered as a system in the first place. But one of the amazing feats of TeX.SX is that if someone comes up with a solid argument, previous opinions and their owners do respect the right(er) argument and change their mind with an impressive attitude almost always in a fun way. What this SO honeypot thingy is offering is to kill that feat and obey to what the top guys think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are for example closing questions too fast occasionally (I don't need to make a case for it anyway, which is again my point because I'm addressing you directly) but I don't need to ask a question and say should we introduce another review system with a time limit etc. because that would be wrong. Well, instead I propose that we quit using the review system completely because the system is broken in every aspect and amplifies conflicts but not because of your or a few other users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion: is that we have enough site reviewers (maybe too many lately) and everybody is imposing a certain way on the newcomers which is not good at all. A mild consensus is OK but pushing new users around is not good with the automated welcome scripts and other stuff. Maybe we don't need to welcome the new users that much. Maybe we were better off with occasional pushes if needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we need to talk to Papiro then we ask a moderator to invite in the chatroom, instead of calling in the indirect mod-hammers to punish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Papiro is just an example, I don't care too much about this review nonsense to be honest. The more reviews we do, the worse the newcomer experience becomes. Because this thing is taken a little too seriously. We might need to leave the new users alone for a while. They are not stupid per se and are not in need of strict guidance. They are just new and that's about it. If they stick around they get the main idea by screwing up a few times and that's OK too. It looks terrible when a user slightly makes a mistake and 4-5 nannies jump on the new user for fixing this and that, oh image is wrong oh your name is not needed, oh that thing with your thanks is not ok. That's SO uncool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if Papiro gets the juice out of this thing, then fine, let him/her do it, we all have weird addiction to this nice place. As long as it doesn't get in the way it's ok for me (which doesn't mean that it's ok for everyone else just for me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T15:58:47.673" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3567" CreationDate="2013-05-22T18:08:28.887" Score="20" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted an answer.  It quickly got two upvotes, and then it got a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see downvotes on my posts (and I've gotten a few), my impression is &quot;oops, I totally misunderstood what the questioner wanted.  I had better reread it.&quot;  Up to this point, the source of the downvote was clear:  either I had misunderstood the question, or else the question was stated ambiguously enough that I could have misunderstood the question.  In all cases, the response on my part is to withdraw my answer, since it doesn't contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time, I'm a bit baffled (I think I answered the user's question).  While I understand the anonymity aspect of downvotes, I guess I'd make the &quot;feature-request&quot; that downvotes be accompanied by some sort of secondary click that indicates a generic reason for downvote, to give the author of the downvoted response additional feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible generic reasons might include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;doesn't answer user question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;poor programming form&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not concise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are others.  It's just a bit unnerving to get downvoted when you can't figure out why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:  Well, I think I got an update.  The questioner pointed out an essential feature that he found lacking in my solution.  So, the particulars of this question may be moot, but the generic question remains.  How to interpret downvotes if they are not followed up with a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25858" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T21:12:14.033" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T21:12:14.033" Title="Understanding Downvotes" Tags="|feature-request|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3566" CreationDate="2013-05-22T18:50:09.103" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is don't even try to interpret downvotes. :)  You will receive so few of them that in the grand scheme of things they are even more irrelevant than votes already are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that aside, the voting system on the Stack Exchange sites was designed (I think) to be the great democratic way of deciding quality, and in that democratic tradition, votes are intended to be anonymous, so there is no way the The Powers that Be will &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; comments associated with down votes.  However, voting patterns on the different sites vary, and here we pride ourselves on up voting a lot on both questions and answers, and down voting very sparingly. For example, in my two years or so on the site, I've cast 4187 up votes and only 16 down votes, and many of the other high reputation users have similar patterns. (For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;egreg&lt;/a&gt; has 19,007 up votes and only 22 down votes at time of writing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So down voting here is really infrequent by most users, and we generally prefer to comment rather than down vote for the reasons you suggest. Also most of us reserve down votes to answers that are simply wrong rather than less ideal than some other answer.  Learning this culture, however, takes some time and perhaps overt instruction by other users.  When I've received down votes in the past, I've often left a comment explicitly asking for a reason.  If I see what appears to be a fair answer that has received a down vote I might leave a comment myself asking why.  Sometimes people reply, and sometimes other people reply saying &quot;I didn't down vote you, but perhaps ... is the problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you do get down voted, don't worry too much about it, and leave a comment asking for explanation. At best, you might get a response; at worst, you might make people think twice the next time they down vote without commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T18:50:09.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3569" CreationDate="2013-05-23T11:09:13.317" Score="25" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all. On TeX.SE, is it proper for the OP to post his/her first attempt at solving the problem as a self-answer? Or should the first attempt be included in the question instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/115730/get-first-item-of-a-list-in-tikz&quot;&gt;Get the head, the tail, and the last element of a comma-separated list&lt;/a&gt; as an example. The OP posted a self-answer to his question &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; after posting the question, a self-answer which he self-confessedly found not entirely satisfactory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this practice may confuse subsequent visitors. IMO, a self-answer should be reserved for a &lt;em&gt;definitive&lt;/em&gt; answer, i.e. an answer that solves the original problem in a more satisfactory way than any of the other answers proposed so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T15:22:41.640" Title="Is it proper to post a first attempt as a self-answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3568" CreationDate="2013-05-23T15:22:41.640" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the main criterion is &quot;does it answer the question?&quot;. If yes, then it is an answer, if not, then it can be part of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, if the question is about getting a working answer, a first attempt with dirty code or a hackish workaround is perfectly suitable as a self-answer (bonus points for mentioning the limits of the answer, so that others can improve it). On the other hand, if the question is about improving a working but otherwise imperfect solution, that first-draft solution belongs to the question, and answers should show what is asked for: improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how it is confusing for future visitors to have a imperfect, but working solution, to a question. When better answers are posted, the voting/acception mechanism will automatically make them more visible. In last extent, if it turns out the answer doesn't work as well as it should, it can always be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last, but maybe most importantly, if someone with the same problem visits the question before it gets another answer, I think he will be glad to find an imperfect solution, instead of no solution at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T15:22:41.640" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3571" CreationDate="2013-05-24T12:17:49.047" Score="25" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, after a few posts here and there on SE, I saw this happen a few times: a user A is the first to answer correctly to a question. His answer is thus accepted. &lt;strong&gt;Yet&lt;/strong&gt;, user B then adds an answer which is more complete than user A's answer, but yet refers the same concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the same as asking &quot;what is the answer to 2.0+2.0?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User A answers&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;4&quot; -&gt; accepted answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User B answers&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;4.0&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Both answers are correct, though user B has a more complete answer (in this case, it would also be a better answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the OP switch the accepted answer to user B?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29941" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T14:01:05.027" Title="Should I switch the accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3570" CreationDate="2013-05-24T14:01:05.027" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue can be often be solved in advance by simply not accepting the first answer right away. Instead the questioner should wait at least a couple of hours if not a day until the answer is accepted. This way other people have a chance to give an answer as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is when a new answer is given after a longer period of time. It happens that month or year old questions receive new answers. This is of course ok. This site is all about collecting knownledge and presenting it in a useful way. Here you should feel free to switch the acception mark to another answer if you feel it's the better solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are cases, IMHO, when switching the accepted answer is not considered correct: For once, if the questioner gives a final self-answer with its solution based on another answer, switching the acception should not be considered OK.&#xA;Also if the new answer copies 99% of the new material and simply adds some marginal content for example. Here it might anyway be better the additions are added as a comment to or are edited into the existing answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if the new material is substantial to the problem and provides a significant better solution it should be considered to be accepted, because on the long term it will be more useful to the OP and other users in the future. &#xA;It should be noted that it's common practice and considered as good tone on this site to refer to the earlier answer when posting an improved version. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T14:01:05.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3488" CreationDate="2013-05-24T21:19:46.503" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the easy answer is that there is little benefit in doing this. The following points come to mind (mostly taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/16065/168244&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You mentioned this already, but if you allow people to increase an existing bounty, you most certainly will have users wanted to lower it, stating that they mistakenly issued a too-high bounty and want to reverse it somehow. Would this also become a possible feature request?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When you increase an existing bounty, how does that affect the existing bounty? Do you extend the bounty period anew to the traditional 7-day tenure or does it stay the same?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you notify the community of such a change in bounty by bumping the question to Top Questions list or not? If not, how would an increase in bounty attract more attention to the question?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the new bounty only affect new answers, or does it also pertain to answers that existing during the first (lower) bounty? Here's a question with some reference to that: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2124/5764&quot;&gt;What happened to the bounty?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would an increase be allowed arbitrarily (from 100 to 150 rep, say) or should it adhere to the doubling of the current system (from 100 to 200, say)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, all of the above points may have valid and justifiable answers. However, an easy alternative would be to just wait until the bounty period is over, and issue a new one&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;. The network is set up to deal with that, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/65683/top-investors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JWHN7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; have already done this multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;...that is at least double the amount of the previous one because, like gravity, it's the law.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T21:19:46.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3573" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-25T08:51:52.777" Score="15" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an idea for a question, but it's rather non-standard, so I thought I'd check here whether it's suitably on-topic to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title.&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Find-the-error puzzles in LaTeX!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer.&lt;/strong&gt; For a bit of fun, and maybe some pedagogical benefit too, each answer to this question contains a &lt;em&gt;short&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX document that gives a compilation error. The challenge is to try and spot the error &lt;em&gt;without compiling&lt;/em&gt; - just by reading the code. And of course, no giving solutions in the comments!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sample answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Difficulty rating 3/5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;\newcommand\startpoint{1,1}&#xA;\newcommand\endpoint{3,3}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;  \begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;    \draw[red] (\startpoint) -- (\endpoint);&#xA;  \end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25356" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2013-05-25T09:03:27.883" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T11:05:25.270" Title="Is the following a suitable question for TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3573" CreationDate="2013-05-25T11:05:25.270" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a nice idea, it's fun, we can learn from it. However, I think this question is not suitable for TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual&#xA;  problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the&#xA;  usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question would be wecome in an open forum such as on &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-community.org/forum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX-Community.org&lt;/a&gt;. I promise I would join such a topic there ;-) I understand, that you would like to talk about with users from &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;. Well, one possibility: start the action in that forum, mention it in the TeX.SE chat or right here in this meta topic, or link in a related real question on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T11:05:25.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3577" CreationDate="2013-05-26T10:44:24.883" Score="8" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to upload an image to illustrate my problem. However, it is strange that some buttons are missing (see the screenshot below). How can I upload an image in this situation? Does it need a higher reputation to upload an image? Many thanks in advance! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vTR1u.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28612" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-05-26T20:25:10.490" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T22:44:32.557" Title="Button to upload a picture is missing" Tags="|support|images|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="830" CreationDate="2013-05-26T16:56:52.197" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown tagging seems to be site-specific, even across the main-and-meta components. While the same holds on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; - where the separation between main-and-meta is more apparent since each has their own reputation system - a generic network-wide setup is probably why it works this way. Another motivation behind this site-specific tag markdown is that it may be possible (in general) to have duplicate tags across the two components, however unlikely. As an example, consider &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Main: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt; - referencing &quot;the context within which a variable name or other identifier is valid and can be used, or within which a declaration has effect&quot;; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt; - referencing whether questions are on- or off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or perhaps&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Main: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mwe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mwe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mwe&lt;/a&gt; - about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/mwe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/a&gt;, which helps in the creation of Minimal Working Examples; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mwe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mwe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mwe&lt;/a&gt; - an abbreviation for Minimal Working Example. This means the reduction of code to the core idea, which is still compilable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The distinction may be more apparent in some cases, but in general the separation is perfectly justifiable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there is meta- and main-specific markdown for tagging (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3521/5764&quot;&gt;Proper tags using markdown&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Main: &lt;code&gt;[tag:&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta: &lt;code&gt;[meta-tag:&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T16:56:52.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3575" CreationDate="2013-05-26T22:44:32.557" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every site from the StackExchange network has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/mobile-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;mobile version&lt;/a&gt;. And that includes our beloved community as well. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IncM4.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX on iPhone&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the Powers That Be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we detect a whitelisted mobile device user agent, you will automatically receive an optimized mobile view of any Stack Exchange on your smartphone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note, however, that if you do find anything you can’t do on mobile, there are links at the bottom of the page to switch from mobile to desktop view at will. We also remember this setting on a per-user basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to note that this last remark is a two-way street: that means, if by accident you choose the mobile version (link located at the bottom of the page), you will also access it and this setting will be saved, per-user basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vr021.png&quot; alt=&quot;Link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, you'll get the mobile version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KgvuL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ask question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in your desktop view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GpTLx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ask question 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mobile version is minimalist and has no fancy UI elements as we are used to see in our usual browsing experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not despair, we can easily go back to the full site view by clicking at the full site link located at the bottom of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/retPv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Full site link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we are back in the game. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who read this answer until this very point, a TL;DR version of what I've written above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jilU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Bad time&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we are done. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T22:44:32.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-27T13:56:11.600" Score="40" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got my first book published and I would like to thank everyone here at TeX.SE for the help that they provided by answering the questions that I posted. I know that accepting an answer is considered a &quot;Thank you&quot; but I wanted to say it personally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to advertise here but if you're interested you can find the book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.ca/The-Clockworks-of-Wall-Street/dp/1482575450/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1369662897&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=The%20Clockworks%20of%20Wall%20Street&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24817" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2018-04-12T18:52:23.897" LastActivityDate="2018-04-12T18:52:23.897" Title="Thank you TeX.SE!" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3580" CreationDate="2013-05-27T18:27:31.107" Score="16" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the link within &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/352/cancel-asking-to-close&quot;&gt;Cancel asking to close?&lt;/a&gt; we can &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; rescind our close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a popular question recently (I won't link to it because I don't want to be seen as rep hunting) that received 4 close votes. It teetered on the precipice for a few days, and managed to stay open. When viewing the question now (about a month later) the close votes are no longer present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is: do close votes expire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T18:32:24.300" Title="Do close votes expire?" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2013-05-27T18:32:24.300" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, after four days, provided the question has received enough views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97556/close-votes-expire-too-soon-for-low-traffic-tags/97581#97581&quot;&gt;Close Votes expire too soon for low-traffic tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T18:32:24.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-28T23:31:36.900" Score="17" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain the &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; look of the Tex.StackExchange homepage and what is displayed? I could find no reference to the changes and did not know who to ask.  I think I get the &lt;em&gt;Here's how it works&lt;/em&gt; section, but I don't understand the rest of the page. Previously, when a user signed onto the homepage you saw the latest questions that were asked, all on one page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenshot added&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m5BAm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it seems the latest or newest questions are accessed with two button clicks (Questions, then &lt;strong&gt;newest&lt;/strong&gt;) showing the newest 40,000+ questions via 2707 tabs (at 15 question per page). The displayed questions seem, to this user, randomly selected -- although I assumed there is some logic or reason behind the selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may not be the typical TeX/LaTeX questions and perhaps the question is asked in the wrong place, but the answer will help me to navigate and enjoy the site again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment: a pleasing alternative might be to replace the existing list of questions with the original one page of recent questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31425" OwnerDisplayName="zun" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-06-01T08:58:06.317" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T08:58:06.317" Title="Can someone explain the homepage new look?" Tags="|discussion|design|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2013-05-29T05:58:52.680" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching within &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; set of favourites has been re-implemented under the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elasticsearch.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;elasticsearch&lt;/a&gt; engine (around January 2013) across the entire network. The following search options are available:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;infavorites:mine&lt;/code&gt; - search within your own list of favourites;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;infavorites:&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; - search within numerical &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;'s favourites (yes, you can search through other user's list of favourites);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since only &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; can be added to your list of favourites, some search combinations would be contradictory. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=infavorites%3Amine+is%3Aanswer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;infavorites:mine is:answer &amp;lt;stuff&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for any &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;stuff&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; would always return 0 hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related post on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/160100/168244&quot;&gt;A new search engine for Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-05-29T05:58:52.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3582" CreationDate="2013-05-29T16:08:25.993" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you are looking at is the new homepage for &lt;em&gt;anonymous&lt;/em&gt; visitors. Folks who have accounts and are signed in still see the same questions list we've always shown that is sorted in reverse chronological order by latest activity and don't see the &quot;here's how it works banner&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This new anonymous homepage attempts to pick questions that are more likely to show off what the site is about. It is similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=month&quot;&gt;monthly hot questions list&lt;/a&gt;. The &quot;here's how it works&quot; banner introduced a new visitor to how Stack Exchange and the TeX site work, and the tags above the questions are intended to both introduce new visitors to the tag system and to encourage them to browse the site and see what else may catch their eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of recently modified questions is still available for everyone via the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;active questions list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-05-29T16:08:25.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3589" CreationDate="2013-06-02T17:19:08.420" Score="25" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran across a small curiosity when working today; specifically that LaTeX defines &lt;code&gt;\coth&lt;/code&gt; by default, but not &lt;code&gt;\sech&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\csch&lt;/code&gt;. I’d like to know why. I think of the three functions are being very similar, so I’m curious as to why one is defined by default, but the others aren’t.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that a lot of thought went into the original design of LaTeX, and that suggesting changes (however minor) to the core functionality is a bad idea. So I’m not trying to cast a value judgement on this, I just want to know why it’s done that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can imagine that the designers of LaTeX probably aren't interested in explaining (relatively minor) design decisions like this, or that there might not be a single right answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an appropriate question to ask on TeX.se? More generally, are questions asking for explanations of why LaTeX behaves as it does appropriate, or should they be reserved to personal curiosities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9668" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-06-04T03:49:39.753" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T03:49:39.753" Title="Is it appropriate to ask questions about the design of LaTeX?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3588" CreationDate="2013-06-03T06:40:54.260" Score="21" ViewCount="425" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/117276/drawing-a-polyline-between-two-nodes-in-tikz&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and got two equally good answers. Both of them are short, useful and to the point. One person's answer is more upvoted than that of  the other which I believe was due to the former answering much earlier than the latter. Both of them responded equally to my comments and doubts regarding both methods, thus putting more effort into it. Now I am in the moral dilemma of whom's answer I should accept?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2017-11-10T19:21:27.663" Title="How to choose between two equally good and equally helpful answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3587" CreationDate="2013-06-03T16:30:24.333" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answerers know that you can only accept one answer&lt;/strong&gt;; they shouldn’t mind when you do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://english.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;english.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;, I’ve been an answerer in this scenario many times, and I’ve never seen anyone unhappy when one answer among two or several good ones was accepted.  If you like, a comment like &lt;em&gt;“Thankyou, this [was very helpful/works fine/is a useful alternative], and I wish I could accept it as well as X’s answer”&lt;/em&gt; never goes amiss — while “thankyou” comments are deprecated in general, in this situation it gives useful extra information for readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T16:30:24.333" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2013-06-03T23:33:04.353" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question such as “Why indentation is suppressed in &lt;code&gt;minipage&lt;/code&gt;?” would certainly be a legitimate one. On the other hand, asking why some operator is missing from the list of predefined operators can't have an answer different from “because”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The LaTeX kernel provides a bunch of features that Leslie Lamport and the LaTeX team thought useful for general needs of typesetting. They couldn't forecast each and every need of LaTeX users; additional packages are the answer: if something proves useful to several people, some package will appear providing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question about the “hyperbolic secant” is easily answered: the list of predefined operators in LaTeX is the same as in Plain TeX; Knuth provided the hyperbolic sine, cosine, tangent and cotangent, probably deeming them of non marginal use. Some choice has to be made as the list of operators actually used in mathematics is huge; it's nearly impossible to know them all. It's curious that there's no “lowest common multiple” predefined operator: possibly Knuth doesn't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About “hyperbolic secant and cosecant”, I really don't know any usage for them. Nowadays the “circular secant and cosecant” are used (I'd say misused) only in calculus exercise books or in specialized technical fields such as topography. Their hyperbolic counterparts are just the reciprocal of cosine and sine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T23:33:04.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3592" CreationDate="2013-06-05T06:33:09.753" Score="16" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this question may sound silly, but I haven't been able to find an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How the title states, is there a way to invite someone to chat from within a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, after an undefined number of comments (I don't know how many) one is invited by the site engine itself to continue the discussion in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to prevent this and move the discussion to a chat room immediately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T20:35:40.257" Title="How to invite someone to chat?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3591" CreationDate="2013-06-05T10:31:27.753" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You join chat just by visiting the chat room page, so a comment such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it's best to discuss this on chat.  Care to join me on &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can copy and paste a comment thread into chat to make discussion easier.  As regular users, I don't think we can migrate comment threads to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T10:31:27.753" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3595" CreationDate="2013-06-09T09:25:25.987" Score="11" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/115180/15717&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on the main TeX-StackExchange-page a couple of weeks ago. I did not receive an answer, unfortunately, but the problem remains. Of course, my post disappeared &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; into oblivion. xD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a common way to bring one's posts back on the first page, if they haven't been dealt with? Like posting a comment/an answer to/in the question/thread, or simply delete it and then post it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still kind of &quot;green&quot; since I created this profile not long ago and want to get sure how the things are rolling here. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30756" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T08:51:50.663" Title="How to &quot;push&quot; my question?" Tags="|support|editing|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3593" CreationDate="2013-06-09T09:35:18.857" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;place a bounty&lt;/a&gt; on your question, but this requires more reputation than you have now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you didn't got any answers now, maybe your question wasn't phrased very well or misses something else. Have another look on it and try to improve it. This will also place it on the first page again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-06-09T09:35:18.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3593" CreationDate="2013-06-11T08:51:50.663" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Martin suggested, bounties and bumping attract attention to your question by making it more visible.  We also occasionally have drives to answer lots of the unanswered questions, so even low visibility questions get answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I guess your problem was solved because asking about it on meta attracted Scott's attention, so going out and asking people is a good strategy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat probably is better than meta for attracting attention to particular questions - meta tends to be a bit &quot;policy and how to&quot; oriented, and chat allows a more dynamic discussion, say, about how to improve the question.  You have enough reputation to go to chat and ask people there about why they think your question is not getting an answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T08:51:50.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-13T12:20:04.423" Score="10" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/118816/selective-alignment-tabs-in-tabular-array&quot;&gt;a specific feature for &lt;code&gt;tabular&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt; environments&lt;/a&gt; with the expectation that a package would need to be written to achieve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to offer a bounty as an extra incentive, but I don't want to restrict potential package writers to the one week time-limit. What would be an acceptable solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I just 'informally' promise to award a bounty in the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T12:20:04.423" Title="Bounty without one week limit, or 'informal' bounty promise?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3598" CreationDate="2013-06-14T03:28:05.363" Score="8" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have marked a thread as answered many times, but on a few of them, I later asked a follow up comment.  Do the answers not get notified when the thread is marked answered?  Or is common just to ignore follow up questions once you answer has been accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask is because I have never had my follow up responded to after I accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-06-14T06:45:48.023" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T06:45:48.023" Title="Follow up questions to answered thread" Tags="|discussion|comments|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3597" CreationDate="2013-06-14T06:45:20.163" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This varies and depends on a number of circumstances. I'll reflect on a couple from personal experience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You're too slow to respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP doesn't wait long enough for you to respond and asks a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117/5764&quot;&gt;follow-up question&lt;/a&gt; before you can get around smoothing out anything further to help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You forget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens, believe it or not. Some days/weeks are more busy that others and you don't get to visit the site that often. Suddenly a week goes by and what you planned to do in terms of updating a solution has fallen by the wayside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a comment reminder could be issued in such an instance. You could also &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; your non-response comment and re-issue it (with the appropriate &lt;code&gt;@&amp;lt;user&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; notification, if necessary).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You read the comment and don't know how to solve the &quot;updated question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uggghh. Yes, we're not all part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2923/5764&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;!!/battle&lt;/code&gt;-clan&lt;/a&gt; and therefore do not possess infinite guru-like LaTeX-foo...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You feel that the &quot;updated question&quot; is almost completely irrelevant to the original post, making an updated solution seem out-of-place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this might seem bizarre from the OP's perspective. After all, they are the one looking for an answer to &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; problem(s), and may not necessarily care about the longevity of their question nor it's place on the network. However, sometimes a comment-request might require a completely different working around the existing solution. Most notably such comment-questions occur when the OP doesn't include full &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;MWE&lt;/a&gt;s. It is usually followed by requests to avoid certain packages or propose alternate environments that support their needs...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever it may be, consider the non-response to be human. Please try again later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T06:45:20.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-14T15:14:33.240" Score="11" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is in the wrong place. By default SE hides some comments on questions or answers when there are several; it seems to hide those with fewest upvotes. But this often leaves dialogue gappy and confusing to read. Since I tend to read down a page, I normally only realise there are hidden comments after having been frustrated by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way to set my preferences to show these comments by default?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29495" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-08-23T21:33:31.017" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T21:33:31.017" Title="Show hidden comments by default" Tags="|feature-request|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3601" CreationDate="2013-06-15T05:51:20.190" Score="16" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that the answer for a normal user is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2019-04-13T20:52:15.570" LastActivityDate="2019-04-13T20:52:15.570" Title="Is it possible to &quot;flag&quot; a user?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3600" CreationDate="2013-06-15T07:07:42.483" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way this can be done by users, since it may be a very subjective approach to moderation which is not visible to other users. Instead, it is suggested to either flag the users' posts or comments - anything that would get the attention of a moderator - and explain the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1323/168244&quot;&gt;Flag abusive users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T07:07:42.483" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3603" CreationDate="2013-06-15T11:54:06.380" Score="30" ViewCount="667" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why when I make an edit to a question just to &quot;remove thanks&quot; it is always rejected and when it is done by some other users it is accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there &quot;favourite users&quot; here or, most probably, between users who can accept or not, there is not a clear way to approach this kind of things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-06-15T16:36:09.450" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T19:57:14.290" Title="Removing &quot;thanks&quot; from questions" Tags="|discussion|editing|etiquette|questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2013-06-15T12:19:20.020" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;A clear approach doesn't mean that everybody does it the same way, such things can happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also depends on who reviewed your edit: possibly the questioner rejects it, because he posted the &quot;thanks&quot; and wants to keep it. An experienced reviewer may accept it, because a &quot;thanks&quot; below the question doesn't add know-how value to the site in the long sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest, improve your edits even more, so it's not just a minor edit but a valuable edit, such as changing question titles to a real question, which is often missed, and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T12:19:20.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2013-06-15T14:34:41.237" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am one of those users who consistently reject &lt;em&gt;removing thanks&lt;/em&gt; edits. The Stackoverflow people started an utopia to make the questions anonymized and general as much as possible. Thanking is considered to be somehow useless in terms of know-how. But time showed that every SE site has a different flavor and similarly we have developed a different path in terms of handling each other and the new users. Typical example is the almost unanimously dropping the use of downvotes here. And again as time showed that TeX.SE way of working is copied to many new sites and often praised for the laidback environment. Try to ask a few questions in SO or Meta.SO then we can talk again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with SO design. Simply put then what the hell are rep points and badges? Do they contribute to the utopia in which we are pretending that everything here is strictly limited to knowledge and no other social niceties? What does it bring in? Nothing. What about thanks in the comments should we delete them too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, thanking people is harmless and cannot be considered as noise. It's in fact a necessity since this is essentially a social interaction. I don't think we need to apply every rule they have over SO to each individual SE site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been already discussed a few times in other posts too and I still don't see the need to remove &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T14:34:41.237" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2013-06-17T19:26:22.150" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to share my two cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day, while answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2599&quot;&gt;Why were my edits rejected?&lt;/a&gt;, I said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since every site is community-driven, we try to adapt things to our reality and not the other way around. Our methods would probably not work in other sites, say Math.SX or Spanish.SX. Sometimes, when I hear the words &quot;SE policy&quot; said in the wild, the walking hammers from The Wall come to my mind. Don't get this wrong, but I feel it sounds like an imposition: share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie. I prefer to look at the SE policy as an inspiration for communites to work with a predefined set of suggestions and, as time goes by, work on their own methods, adapted to their own reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO the key here is to learn how the TeX.sx gears work as a single component. We are known to be a very friendly community, from TeXperts to newbies. Even what happens to be our policy is treated as guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't see anything wrong with being nice, polite or grateful to any help received. I love writing something along these lines in my own questions because I really appreciate the time and effort put in each question. And I usually &quot;sign&quot; my answers in this site with &quot;hope it helps! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&quot; or similar simply because I really want the OP to feel welcome, in the sense of &quot;hi, maybe my attempt can help with your question!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here, as I see, is that we are dealing with minor edits. I'm not used to play with the review system, but sometimes we see some edits that are considered minor, like some punctuation issues or a &quot;proper capitalization&quot; of a sentence. Edits are surely welcome, but we can't forget that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;edits usually update the activity of a thread, that is, if you edit a 2-year-old question or answer, it will be featured in the front page and more recent threads (considering creation timestamp) will be placed in a lower rank in the list;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;edits have the &quot;moral duty&quot; of going towards better comprehension of the thread as a whole; and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;edits cannot drastically change the original text, for better or for worse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already removed &lt;em&gt;thank you&lt;/em&gt;'s in the past, but not as the only reason for an edit. Nowadays, I'm more in the &lt;em&gt;live and let live&lt;/em&gt;  edit philosophy. Of course, everybody has different opinions about this, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;edits that &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; remove &lt;em&gt;thank you&lt;/em&gt; notes might be considered a minor edit, hence rejected;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;edits that remove &lt;em&gt;thank you&lt;/em&gt; notes or other minor edits in old threads are strongly discouraged, and will certainly be rejected; and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;edits that don't improve the text do not add value, hence rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, it's imperative to &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; leave a comment on why you edited a question or answer. We have some predefined text building blocks in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; which might help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd keep &lt;em&gt;thank you&lt;/em&gt;'s. It doesn't hurt. If it's a major edit (usually code formatting), it's up to every editor to decide if a &lt;em&gt;thank you&lt;/em&gt; note should be removed, but we cannot be picky on editing a text for the sole purpose of beating the OP with a stick just because of an act of kindness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Internet is already a hateful place. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLGWyfGk_LU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;All we need is love&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;T. Hanks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ymhxY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T19:26:22.150" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2013-06-17T19:57:14.290" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer that the edit isn't just &quot;removed thanks&quot;; however, the first thing I look at when I review an edit is the time when the message was posted. If it's less than a couple of hours I usually don't bother and accept (or improve) the edit, because the edit follows the guidelines (right or wrong, they exist). If the message is older, I accept the edit only if it does more than removing thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that a final &quot;thanks&quot; adds nothing to the question; politeness is another thing than this (and we know how much some questions can be impolite, even when there's a final &quot;thanks&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I'm biased by what I hear almost every day at the train stations I'm forced to frequent: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 8:30 train to Someplace today has been cancelled; travellers can use the 10:00 train to Anotherplace, stopping at every station. We apologize for the inconvenience. (Note: this means arriving two hours later, usually.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The train to Otherplace will be delayed by 30 minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience. (Note: this means that the delay will be at least 40 minutes.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course such apologies are plainly formal and false. Like many &quot;thanks&quot; at the end of questions. If somebody asks for help here and their message is polite, there's no need for such a closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T19:57:14.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-18T21:23:15.447" Score="17" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will soon see the arrival of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;new close reasons&lt;/a&gt; (a change being implemented across the StackExchange network). This will raise a few question: here I want to focus specifically the 'off-topic' closure reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'off-topic' closure reason is being expanded, meaning that we will be able to have one or more custom sub-reasons for closure. The idea is that these can reflect 'local practice' on each site. The example we are given here is for the cooking site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Recipe requests are off-topic, although recipe replacements, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; are allowed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; this might look on-topic to the 'passing' user, but the community there have decided they don't answer such question, which makes it 'off-topic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worth noting here is that 'too localized' is being removed as a close reason. That's because it was &lt;em&gt;meant&lt;/em&gt; to really apply to very localized issues, but is used by many sites to mean 'other things'. So it's &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; we may want to have some 'off-topic' reasons that would have previously been 'too localized'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have to have pre-defined reasons, and I understand that you will be able to leave a free-form comment when voting to close as off-topic. However, we &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; want some boilerplate text for common cases. We also don't have to decide on everything now: reasons can be added/deleted/edited as we go along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers ideally should contain one piece of text plus an explanation of why it's useful. It will be handy to have those explanations available longer-term. Based on voting, the mods can then use the text(s) selected in the new box. (Two mods have to agree on altering such texts: one to edit, one to approve.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T21:40:34.923" Title="New close reasons: selecting predefined 'off-topic' options" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3613" CreationDate="2013-06-18T21:45:03.687" Score="24" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will soon see the arrival of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;new close reasons&lt;/a&gt; (a change being implemented across the StackExchange network). This will raise a few question: here I want to focus specifically the 'unclear what you're asking' closure reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text for this will apparently read&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's for each site to determine how to interpret this. I suspect we may want to use this in cases where we need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; or similar (image of the problem, links, ...), and where after the usual comment-and-wait has happened we've not had an appropriate edit. However, there may be other views and indeed other reasons to use this closure reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be good to have agreement on the use of this new reasons. I'd therefore like to ask how people want to use this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T21:44:39.417" Title="New close reasons: use of new 'unclear what you're asking' reason" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3608" CreationDate="2013-06-18T21:57:00.083" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;one possible reason is &quot;user error, discovered by user&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is already a reason frequently used to apply the &quot;too localized&quot; designation, when a user mentions in a comment that s/he has found the problem (sometimes even before a suggested answer is posted, although often after one or more comments by other viewers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;joseph suggests in a comment that perhaps &quot;it's unclear what you're asking&quot; might cover this.  i think they're different: a user might be completely clear about what s/he is asking, but the answer, while obvious to someone with experience, might not be immediately obvious to a newbie until it's pointed out or stumbled upon.  since the question will only be closed, not deleted, it will still be available to enlighten future users, and the fact that the user &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; find the solution without an explicit answer could be a source of encouragement to other newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T21:57:00.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3608" CreationDate="2013-06-19T15:10:55.400" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What concerns me about treating all formerly too localized questions as &quot;off topic&quot; is that they usually were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; off topic, but simply, well, 'too localized'. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suggest that we have some text that acknowledges that quite explicitly, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to be considered &quot;On Topic&quot; for the site, questions need to be potentially &#xA;  helpful other users as well. Questions that are likely&#xA;  to be helpful only to you because they pertain to specific ways in&#xA;  which your system or TeX distribution is configured (including&#xA;  out-of-date packages) are too narrow to be considered on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T16:55:32.913" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T16:55:32.913" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3608" CreationDate="2013-06-19T21:31:02.477" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question and a suggestion and question goes first; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often find some of our own resident behavior (myself included) as if we are owning the place. Especially if I read very old comments of mine, I sometimes go &lt;em&gt;Dude, what was I thinking?&lt;/em&gt;. To be clear, sometimes I can see that I'm dictating a certain way to a new user about the site usage. I don't necessarily get into fights and whatnot but still, I don't think I have the right to claim any ownership which would imply a say stronger than others. Having said that, we have roughly 20k+ (active+inactive) users and only a minute percentage of it is active on the site. (By active, I mean every once in a while contributing in a Meta.TeX.SE way), so whose words are these that are spoken through the closing reasons? The SO creators? Moderators holding the hammer? The senior residents?....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example; do we really need to have a dictating tone in the closing reasons? Instead of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This question is very unlikely to be a good question because it sucks&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or any other kind of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's all the asker's fault. He didn't research enough and his packages belong to his/her grandmother's era. They were called baskets back then...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we can just have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;TeX-SX cannot handle bug reports. Hence the question is closed for answers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I think, my example doesn't really cover the point that I'm trying to make but I hope it's an acceptable approximation. By the way, this is not orthogonal to barbara beeton's suggestion. I liked it because it's concise and factual instead of having a tone such as &lt;strong&gt;This question already has an answer here:&lt;/strong&gt;  for duplicates which is often not really that accurate despite the self-confident assertion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand the reason for discipline if a site gets 7k+ questions a day, but we rarely have any issues with closing and if a user persists enough we just shrug and switch &lt;em&gt;aight, go on then&lt;/em&gt; mode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can openly put &lt;strong&gt;At least five voters think that this issue is not relevant for anyone other that the asker&lt;/strong&gt; if that's what we mean. Currently, it seems a little passive aggresive in the closing reasons. A hypothetical grumpy old man....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, that's the question and my suggestion is something related to the bug reports as I've already mentioned earlier and cases of external software mishandling TeX. But I don't have a concrete suggestion should we decide to stay with the current indicators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T21:40:34.923" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T21:40:34.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3609" CreationDate="2013-06-19T21:44:39.417" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Answering my own question: hopefully reasonable here!]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting to close a question as 'unclear' should take place only after the questionner has been given a chance to improve the question. Based on the existing consensus for the previous set of closing reasons, that means giving people 48 h &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the first comment requesting additions/clarification/changes to the question. If there is no improvement and no ongoing attempt at one (for example in comments), then voting to close as 'unclear' &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cases for voting to close as 'unclear' seem to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What the question is about is unclear. This is the most 'obvious' use of the close reason, and covers cases where it really is not possible to find out what is wanted. It's likely that some cases where this may apply are due to language barriers: keeping an open mind about the difficulties for non-native English speakers is important.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not possible to reproduce the issue. This is the 'minimal working example (MWE) required' case, but it's important to remember that an MWE isn't always essential. Voting to close here would be appropriate if the code provided (if any) doesn't reproduce the issue raised or doesn't compile at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More information/feedback is needed and has not been given. This might be for example the text of an error message, a version number of a package or a screen shot of a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T21:44:39.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-20T00:35:11.230" Score="28" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/120074/repeating-section-headers-in-moderncv&quot;&gt;an unanswered question&lt;/a&gt; for which I am close to finding an answer, but not yet 100%. Unfortunately, I am also stuck as to why my solution is buggy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This let me to wonder what is the best to do in such a case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide an incomplete answer, hoping that someone else will improve it to be bug free / answer 100% of the OP's question, but unfortunately also decreasing the question's visibility by removing its &quot;0 answer&quot; status, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not post an answer, but post a new question with the (generalized) specific bug I encountered and returning with a complete answer if/when my own issue is solved, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not post anything, hoping someone else will solve the OP's question better than me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10102" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T00:35:11.230" Title="Incomplete answer" Tags="|discussion|answers|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3617" CreationDate="2013-06-20T01:26:40.387" Score="17" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several questions I’ve asked on TeX.SE have been related to LaTeX3 and Expl3, and I’ve found myself using both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex3&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expl3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expl3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expl3&lt;/a&gt;. This is probably redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should a question be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex3&lt;/a&gt; and when &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expl3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expl3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expl3&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the tags be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2966" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-06-20T03:10:56.527" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T15:29:52.423" Title="Tagging: latex3 vs expl3" Tags="|discussion|tagging|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2013-06-20T04:16:15.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; is a package that is part of the LaTeX3 project. There are other packages that are also part of LaTeX3 (e.g. the &lt;code&gt;xparse&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;xcoffins&lt;/code&gt; packages, etc.). So the tags (should) serve different purposes: the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex3&lt;/a&gt; tag deals with any aspect of LaTeX3, while the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expl3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expl3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expl3&lt;/a&gt; tag deals specifically with the functionality that &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; provides.  So  I don't think the tags should be merged, and your use of both tags is entirely appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T04:16:15.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2013-06-20T07:13:46.997" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;LaTeX3 is much more than expl3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX3 is about the LaTeX3 project, it is about the successor of LaTeX 2e, i.e. the &lt;em&gt;format&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX3, it is about all the different concepts like coffins or the idea of &lt;code&gt;xtemplate&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;expl3 however is the &lt;em&gt;programming layer&lt;/em&gt; of LaTeX3, i.e., one part of many.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd tag a question {expl3} (in addition to the {latex3} tag) when the question is about the programming language and its usage, i.e., about all the stuff in &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/interface3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interface3&lt;/a&gt; like for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44003/what-is-the-difference-between-cs-if-existntf-and-cs-if-freentf&quot;&gt;What is the difference between \cs_if_exist:NTF and \cs_if_free:NTF?&lt;/a&gt;, and {latex3} in all cases where the question goes beyond, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/117984/using-latex3s-xtemplate&quot;&gt;your &lt;code&gt;xtemplate&lt;/code&gt; question&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45838/what-can-i-do-to-help-the-latex3-project&quot;&gt;What can *I* do to help the LaTeX3 Project&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed, however, that many people don't seem to make a distinction between LaTeX3 and expl3 and also the current tagging doesn't seem to be consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T15:29:52.423" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-22T06:58:48.093" Score="3" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I know the three people who voted to close a question of mine &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; the number of five votes is reached, and when they voted so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17147" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-06-22T08:01:30.623" LastActivityDate="2013-06-22T08:01:30.623" Title="How can I know who voted to close a question of mine?" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-23T16:24:09.907" Score="1" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you edit a post by improving grammar, punctuation, and sentence flow, what do you do if the OP rolls it back to the poorly structure version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the case in point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm using acronym package but I just realized that it has some problem with spacing. It is the last version (2012). All the time that the acronym start in a new line on the previous one there is a small white space, very annoying to me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm using the acronym package, but I just realized that it has some problems with spacing. It is the last version (2012). The acronym starts on a new line all the time, and on the previous line, there is a small white space which is very annoying to me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the link to the post as well: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/120684/acronym-generates-anormal-spacing&quot;&gt;Acronym generates abnormal spacing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T11:51:02.207" Title="What do you do when the OP rolls back an edit that improved its grammar?" Tags="|discussion|support|editing|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3619" CreationDate="2013-06-23T20:17:22.060" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with David's comments. The edit fixed some grammar issues, but also changed the meaning of the question. The problem was in the usage of &quot;all the time that&quot;, an almost word by word translation from Italian &quot;tutte le volte che&quot; (&quot;each time&quot; would have been a proper translation). Unfortunately, &quot;all the time&quot; has a different meaning in English, and this led to your misinterpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rolling back was probably the best action, under the circumstances; but fixing the grammar, now that's clear what the question means, is surely a good thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, this shows how poor grammar can lead to misunderstandings, so careful edits are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-06-23T20:17:22.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3619" CreationDate="2013-06-23T20:37:30.077" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;To round up the comment thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seemed to be surprised that the edit should be reverted in is entirety rather than being fixed/improved. In fact reverting is the natural action to take in this circumstance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone who decides to edit a question (or answer) can decide to do it at a time convenient for them, and to spend as much or as little time as they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a person whose question or answer has been edited the situation is completely different. They get a notification of the edit at a time over which they have no control and have to decide whether to accept it or revert it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a case such as this where the meaning has been changed, reverting is the correct thing to do. The fact that someone felt the need to edit may be an indication of some unclarity or grammatical errors in the text so then an OP may wish to come back later to edit the question at a convenient time, but certainly in my own case if one of my answers is incorrectly edited I don't feel any obligation to &lt;em&gt;fix the edit&lt;/em&gt; although I might fix the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; if it does in fact need fixing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer to the question of what you should do if an edit is reverted, is (normally) nothing, leave it to the original author to fix, or (sometimes) if it is clear that just one part of the edit was wrong, you could try to re-submit a fixed edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2013-06-23T20:37:30.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3619" CreationDate="2013-06-24T06:04:40.350" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already David and egreg summed up well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My View points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simple Answer&lt;/strong&gt; : It's OP's Choice, give him full control of his Q. He is the first benefiter out of the Q &amp;amp; A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Thoughts&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Giving more words/comments inside the editing area &quot; I have made some blah blah changes and feel free to roll back incase you feel so&quot; If in &lt;code&gt;real doubt&lt;/code&gt; of changing the meaning of Q.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I usually edit &lt;em&gt;very minimal&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;em&gt;content of Q&lt;/em&gt; for English etc as we cannot predict the OP's mind too correctly and sometimes I am &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; worried if I have changed the &lt;code&gt;Q meaning/message&lt;/code&gt; of OP and harming his Q.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ideally all editing/tagging efforts are directed towards helping OP get a Quick/better answer with minimal edits to Q and building a knowledge bank for future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Q pointers&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340/15717&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3558/15717&quot;&gt;First post questions: Good reviewing practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last but not least&lt;/strong&gt; : Patience/Kindness towards OP as he/she might come from any backgrounds/regions (non native english/ non-engg/ arts/etc.. many more) unlike other forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T06:15:32.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-24T16:42:15.623" Score="2" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wandering why when typing a question or an answer on tex.stackexchange, there wasn't an option to render something which looks like the result of the compilation of a .tex document especially for the math mode. I haven't been able to find any discussion related to this idea that is why I am asking this rather &quot;material&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came out with the following pros and cons but I am pretty sure that I am missing a lot of arguments here. Could you complete these list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would simplify some operations by removing the including of pictures generated with a .tex document in order to show some results of a code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would help to have nicer questions and answers dealing sometimes formulas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The results displayed will be different from something compiled with arbitrary packages, fonts and so on, which might introduce bias in questions/answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tex.stackexchange is more oriented toward TeX code explanation and correction which does not require mathematical formulas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think that it would improve partially tex.stackexchange to have this option if it is used properly according to the previous pros and cons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31058" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T16:42:15.623" Title="Pros and cons of a typesetting options for questions and answers which renders the LaTeX apparence" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2013-06-24T18:03:11.070" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the CC0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T18:03:11.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3627" CreationDate="2013-06-25T01:51:34.997" Score="15" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;While fiddling around an issue I’ve just met, I’ve discovered a likely related issue which needed another MWE and description. I wanted to edit my question, but that would mean nearly doubling its length. However, a comment is out of the way (it is too short).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I edit my question in such a case? If I do should I try and make clear what is new and what isn’t (better for returning readers) or should I try to make it as coherent as possible at any given moment (better for new reader)? When it becomes stable (or when it gets a satisfying answer), should I refactor the question for future readers or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32493" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-06-29T08:36:11.517" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T08:36:11.517" Title="When is it Kosher to edit one’s own question?" Tags="|support|editing|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3646" CreationDate="2013-06-25T02:43:55.097" Score="4" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually the counter in Data Explorer is smaller than the counter in my main profile because of the existence of deferred synchronization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed an opposite fact as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19356/mozartstrasse?tab=bounties&amp;amp;sort=offered&quot;&gt;my main profile&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/82mRK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/65683/top-investors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C98YH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T03:09:54.243" Title="The counter of my spent bounties in Data Explorer is greater than that of in my profile?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3625" CreationDate="2013-06-25T06:01:05.850" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the addition to a question is &lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt;, you can leave a comment as clarification. For almost everything else, I would suggest that editing your question is a far better option than having a discussion-style commentary. Comments are not always shown - it depends on the number of them, and the votes they've received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some considerations in terms of question edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits go &quot;unnoticed&quot; within the first 5 minutes of any previous edits. This gives you time to perfect an edit, if needed, without affecting the revision history with &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; edit;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; the question. That would not be considered an edit;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add pictures (even as a new user; just remove the preceding&amp;nbsp;&lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt;) and code (in the form of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;MWE&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(For the more advanced editor) Consider whether the question tags are valid and, if needed, change them as well during an edit;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too many edits and your post is converted into a community wiki, stopping future &quot;royalties&quot; from trickling in;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't edit your question to insert an answer. It's called a question for that reason and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/5764&quot;&gt;we'd like to keep answers separate from questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T06:01:05.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3629" CreationDate="2013-06-25T21:06:39.200" Score="31" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to make the question as concise as possible. I apologize if it appears misleading after reading further on and invite you to find a better 'title'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now to the core of the problem: AFAIK, questions that could be tagged {please-do-my-homework-for-me} are not exactly welcome. We tolerate them, but usually ask for a minimal code snippet from the OP (in some cases of course this does not apply). It seems to me that questions of this kind, where a figure is posted and the user just waits for someone to have mercy on him/her and do the job, have become more frequent. Same for questions where it is clear that the OP just didn't bother to search for an existing answer. So far, so good. It could come from a totally disgruntled student who is in the middle of a crunch and can't line up two words that make sense after a 72 hour shift - and this is the last hope, but it could also be a lazy one, who just slaps the question/picture on the site. Either way, we are not here to judge, but to help. So, what I really would like to sort out is to have a proper guideline for these situations and to avoid the kind of totally schizophrenic attitude that I recently witnessed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/121026/tikz-drawing-a-ring-with-nodes&quot;&gt;Exhibit A&lt;/a&gt;: The OP just posted a picture asking to have it done in &lt;code&gt;TikZ&lt;/code&gt;. In return he/she was asked to post some code. Meanwhile the question got some close votes and at the same time comments with hints to solve the problem... Now, IMHO the drawing is not particularly challenging to do in &lt;code&gt;TikZ&lt;/code&gt;, still, before the OP did post anything to show his/her efforts, the question was answered... So what is the right way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask for MWE and &lt;em&gt;wait&lt;/em&gt; for it (we have 'answer the unanswered' sessions quite regularly, so if the question is 'abandoned', it could be answered then)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote close (into what category of close reasons should it be put then?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer it anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;introduce a &lt;strong&gt;{do-this-for-me-I-don't-have-the-time-for-whatever-reason}&lt;/strong&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other (please specify)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please cast your vote! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T09:18:23.563" Title="(How much) should we wait for a MWE from the OP?" Tags="|discussion|guidelines|please-do-this-for-me|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3628" CreationDate="2013-06-26T01:29:57.697" Score="33" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answer it anyway&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For better or worse I think any of the other options are trying to legislate behaviour on the part of other users when it is probably not in our best interests to do so.  There are many motivations people have for answering questions, most of which are relatively personal.  Here are some (I've written in the first person, but these are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; my reasons per se, just ones that I think some of us will recognize either in ourselves or others (and some are hopefully just a bit funny.))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like to help people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like to learn new skills by solving other people's problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like to show off how much I know by answering questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want to gain more reputation than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;egreg&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges, gimme more badges.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the goal of the site is presumably to have good questions and answers, but its undeniably true that it's entirely possible to have a good answer to a lousy question, and that in the grand scheme of things, the answers are arguably more valuable than question. (I agree this can be debated, since questions are also very important.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question then becomes how do the motivations relate to the site goals? Well they deal exclusively with answers (not surprisingly) and so whether or not the question is good or not is irrelevant.  Now in the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/just-do-it-for-me&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;just-do-it-for-me&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;just-do-it-for-me&lt;/a&gt; questions, especially graphics related questions, although the site would like questioners to do some work, we all tend to benefit from the answers that some people seem very willing to give (presumably for one or more of the reasons listed above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do we gain by trying to restrain people who want to answer such questions? Not much, as far as I can see.  On the other hand, if we close such questions very quickly, some users who are happy to provide these kinds of answers might actually get a bit unhappy since they are being denied an outlet for their skills.  If that were the case, it would be a net loss for the site overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Clarification&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; suggesting that we shouldn't encourage people to show some work and try to guide them with comments about what how they might get started on showing some code. But I also don't think we should be too aggressive in closing such questions or discouraging others who want to answer them from answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T12:17:24.793" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3628" CreationDate="2013-06-26T17:23:26.447" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that it is necessary to phrase some general rule for such cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a natural self regulation: Questions on this (and other) sites compete as the resources (time and interest) for answers are limited (even the egreg resource). When there are only a few bad question they sometimes get answers anyway but when their number increases people start to ignore them or put more pressure on MWE's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T17:23:26.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6762" CreationDate="2013-06-26T21:40:25.770" Score="12" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;badges page&lt;/a&gt; was recently updated to group like badges by category. This was supplemented by an update to the layout of the by-post awarded badges as well. Below is an excerpt from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/3/editor&quot;&gt;Editor badge&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tzfue.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The different fonts for some posts distinguish between questions and answers. More specifically, larger titles reference questions, while smaller titles reference answers. It does not appear to be the case when viewing similar pages on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, which leads me to suggest that the view be made similar to that of a regular search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjuzF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the above output, questions have a &lt;code&gt;Q:&lt;/code&gt; prepended to the title, and similarly for answer being prepended with &lt;code&gt;A:&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T23:04:27.317" Title="Different font display on same (new) badge page" Tags="|feature-request|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3635" CreationDate="2013-06-27T12:48:09.943" Score="12" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, closing as off-topic adds a notice reading&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about TeX, LaTeX or related typesetting systems, within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;below the question. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;'new' approach to closing&lt;/a&gt; means that 'off-topic' is intended to be used for cases we don't cover 'by convention' as well as those not related to TeX. As such, the text may need to be altered to reflect this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm looking for is suggestions to improve this line to let people know that 'off-topic' can cover not just 'not about TeX at all' but also 'not within our scope'. (For example, typos  in code could fall within this category.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having looked at the mod tool which allows a change to the text, I find that we can have separate texts for 'not about TeX' and 'outside of our scope for answering' texts. The current situation is:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u8PHc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;so we could for example have a custom close reason which covers all of the 'OT by convention' things, and leave the 'not about TeX' one alone (if we wish).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T08:35:59.220" Title="Text for 'off-topic' closure" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2013-06-27T15:08:19.293" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;'new' approach to closing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has been rolled out to this site yesterday [&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/161595/53&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt;]. Joseph has already been preparing us for these changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3609/new-close-reasons-use-of-new-unclear-what-youre-asking-reason&quot;&gt;New close reasons: use of new &amp;#39;unclear what you&amp;#39;re asking&amp;#39; reason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3608/new-close-reasons-selecting-predefined-off-topic-options&quot;&gt;New close reasons: selecting predefined &amp;#39;off-topic&amp;#39; options&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3632/text-for-off-topic-closure&quot;&gt;Text for &amp;#39;off-topic&amp;#39; closure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in this rollout are changes to flag limits (related to how helpful your flagging is and your reputation, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185888/on-the-recent-changes-to-flagging-and-limits/185890#185890&quot;&gt;On the recent changes to flagging and limits&lt;/a&gt;) and a new design for the badges page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T15:13:36.457" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-27T15:08:19.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3632" CreationDate="2013-06-27T15:29:42.323" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a revised version of what I posted earlier:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to be considered &quot;On Topic&quot; for the site, questions need to be potentially &#xA;  helpful other users as well. Questions that are likely&#xA;  to be helpful only to you are &#xA;  too narrow to be considered on topic.  These reasons may include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;out of date packages/distribution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;typos in code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to suggest other text for the bullets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T15:29:42.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3632" CreationDate="2013-06-27T15:38:37.263" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off topic&lt;/strong&gt; subreasons currently are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions on a problem encountered while writing code must include a Minimal Working Example. For help in doing so, see: I've just been asked to write a minimal working example, what is that?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions must clearly state a specific problem and include only the code necessary to reproduce it. Large amounts of irrelevant code makes questions harder to answer and less likely to help others. See: I've just been asked to write a minimal working example, what is that?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we also have the option of closing because a question is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the &quot;unclear&quot; option covers the first two cases under &quot;off topic&quot;, and should therefore be removed from &quot;off topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we can split the reasons, this is not so bad provided these cases get the appropriate custom text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the default text for the off topic closure I now suggest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not fall within the scope of TeX-LaTeX Stack Exchange as defined in the help center.  These reasons may include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;use of out of date packages/distributions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;bug reports&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;simple typing errors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The comments on the question should describe the main reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastEditorUserId="15925" LastEditDate="2013-06-30T08:35:59.220" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T08:35:59.220" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3336" CreationDate="2013-06-28T01:45:07.710" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had really hoped to go but it's looking impossibly tight with my end-of-semester teaching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've enjoyed TUGs 2010 and 2012 and would highly recommend the trip!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T01:45:07.710" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3628" CreationDate="2013-06-28T09:18:23.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer it anyway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with Alan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the principal property for a question to be a good one (or at least a not-to-be-closed one) is to have a clear title and a clear explanation of what the user want to achieve. If it is so also the answers will be very precise and it will be easy for other user with the same problem to find the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also add that there are people (I know someone of them) that have a lot of goodwill but when they are in front of some computer code the freak out and there is no possibility that they can obtain what they want..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31093" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T09:18:23.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3625" CreationDate="2013-06-28T22:51:48.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd distinguish two cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question still doesn't have an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One or more answers have been given&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case, adding information can help in getting an answer; in the second case, I'd be very cautious in doing a substantial addition that could invalidate the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as usual, “it depends”. If you feel that the addition is worthy and only requires just small adjustments to the existing answer (or is already covered), do it. But, please, add also a comment to the answers, so that the posters can get informed about the changes. They might remark that the addition is too substantial, so you can resort to &quot;plan B&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plan B is to be used whenever none of the conditions above are satisfied; it is rather simple: make a follow-up question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2013-06-29T02:23:08.093" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T02:23:08.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3336" CreationDate="2013-06-28T23:06:59.147" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My presentation's abstract is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/tug2013/abstracts/ma.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX Live for Android: Development and usage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my friend, Jie Su, also provided a presentation: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/tug2013/abstracts/su.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A short history of TeX in China&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will introducing PUTeX to the TeX world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32400" LastEditorUserId="32400" LastEditDate="2013-07-13T16:12:06.720" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T16:12:06.720" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3641" CreationDate="2013-06-29T18:17:21.757" Score="21" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably this is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1279/221-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;221 unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; but now there are 1408 unanswered questions! This mean that the problem far from being solved, is getting worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A frequent type of very old unanswered question is an occasional users that make a confuse question and never reply to comments asking for clarification. In this case close as &quot;not a real question&quot; has been proposed since this mean a 'free' downvote from community that accelerate the elimination of lower quality zero answer questions. I think that is a good solution, but in practice is not working well, whereas another policies as closing duplicates are very effective (a clear duplicate often remain open only a few minutes). May be this policy must appear more clearly in the help pages or somewhere? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more many other old questions are legitimate questions that has been already solved long time ago with a comment. Close as &quot;off-topic&quot;, &quot;not a real question&quot; or &quot;too localized&quot; seem inappropiate in these case, but after months or years of no activity, their unanswered status is only useful to hiding the questions that still need an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is correct way to handle this questions to remove from the &quot;unanswered&quot; group? Answer &quot;This question has been solved in the comments&quot; although the answer will never be accepted or up voted? Put a flag? Down vote? Vote to close for the above concepts? Nothing of this seem appropriate in this case. What about a new feature: Vote to change a comment in  answer and/or mark the question as solved in the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T15:48:18.793" Title="How to end the &quot;unanswered&quot; status of really solved questions in the comments" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3640" CreationDate="2013-06-29T18:56:10.150" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all good, on-topic questions have answers, so it's important to remember that over time it's to be expected that the number of unanswered questions will increase. That said, if there are answers hidden in comments then the correct thing to do is move them to the right place. This is one of the things that happens during 'Answer the Unanswered': there are a few possible paths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the answer-in-comments is made by someone who is active on the site, leave a comment to them asking them to make an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If that fails, or the answer looks like it's from someone no longer active, write an answer yourself and mark as Community Wiki (no rep for you: just 'helping out')&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also important to consider that some questions may still best be closed. For example, the convention is that issues solved by updating packages are usually closed. So if the comments lead to such a solution, closure may still be the correct approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T18:56:10.150" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-30T17:35:41.253" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;for the past few days, whenever the little yellow status box pops up next to &quot;review&quot;,&#xA;i've gone to take a look.  invariably, it seems to show a number that is greater&#xA;(by 3 or 4) than the number of items actually shown.  (at this moment,&#xA;three items are shown, although the number advertised is 6.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;have i lost the ability to count?  or are some items &quot;hidden&quot;?&#xA;or has the counting mechanism really gone haywire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T17:35:41.253" Title="count of &quot;posts flagged for moderator attention&quot; seems inaccurate" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2013-07-01T06:36:03.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3640" CreationDate="2013-07-01T17:33:21.863" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would actually appreciate such a feature like &quot;accept this comment as an answer&quot;, as I had this problem just a few moments ago. Luckily, the poster of the comment reacted to the request for writing his comment as a proper answer, but a simple button would make it really quicker and easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would even approve the reverse way like some sort of &quot;this answer is actually just a comment&quot; -feature. To prevent griefing, one could design it so that the answer needs at least 5 downvotes to be unlocked for degradation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32697" LastActivityDate="2013-07-01T17:33:21.863" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3650" CreationDate="2013-07-01T18:54:39.627" Score="10" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;new approach to closing questions&lt;/a&gt; means that things are changing in the way we handle 'off-topic' questions. I've already &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3632/text-for-off-topic-closure&quot;&gt;asked about the generic text&lt;/a&gt; and for some &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3608/new-close-reasons-selecting-predefined-off-topic-options&quot;&gt;predefined off-topic close reasons&lt;/a&gt;. However, I think I at least didn't quite see &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; this was going to work. So I'd like to ask about this again, but with a better understanding of how things are 'supposed' to work and with more background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of the new 'off-topic' approach is that the person who asked the question gets 'concrete' feedback on why their particular question was closed. This is made clear in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184637/what-do-site-moderators-need-to-do-to-support-the-new-custom-question-close-reas/185097&quot;&gt;meta post giving moderators advice&lt;/a&gt;, which says (amongst many things)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a bare minimum, &lt;strong&gt;off-topic reasons should identify a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; topic considered inappropriate&lt;/strong&gt;. If you're struggling to be specific, find an example of a question that is off-topic and discuss the factors that make it inappropriate for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the 'Powers' are after specifics rather than a more general 'this is one of the things we don't do' answer. (In the mod chat room, it was also suggested that a list of 'please do not ask about ...' in the help would be useful.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Mechanism&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mechanism which has been set up gives us broadly three possibilities within the 'off-topic' closure reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close for a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; predefined reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to migrate to another site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close and give a free-text reason for the vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone has already used option (3), later voters will see this reason as an option, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept is then that as long as at least two people vote in the same way, a specific reason is given for closure. If all of the votes are different, then the question gets the default text, currently&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about TeX, LaTeX or related typesetting systems, within the scope defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So changing that is actually not so useful: it's only really meant to pop up in a small number of cases where there's no agreement on why something is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What we need to do&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two things we need to do if this is going to work. Here, I want to focus on one of them: deciding on up to three pre-defined 'off-topic' reasons. We also need to 'fix' migration paths (they've all vanished), but I will address that separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184637/what-do-site-moderators-need-to-do-to-support-the-new-custom-question-close-reas/185097&quot;&gt;guidance for moderators&lt;/a&gt;, the suggestion is to come up with a list of common reasons for closure, and create texts for these which include guidance for the questioner. I guess one reason per answer would be best as we can then vote on them. Following the model suggested by the 'Powers', I think some form of link to a meta question or similar, which 'expands' on why a question is off-topic, might be useful within each text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Notes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way the 'Powers' see off-topic, reasons here might cover things we've previously closed in other ways.  At the same time, it may also be the case that there are alternative approaches to different cases. Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/186366&quot;&gt;question on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; asked about questions which turn out to be typos in the input. The suggestion there is that such questions should be flagged for deletion, as they are not really useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions which turn out to require a package update could reasonably be answered rather than being closed at all. It's arguable that these may actually be pretty general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Out-and-out bug reports could be added to the help as a 'do not ask about' point, as well as potentially having a custom close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, we can of course alter what reasons we feel are 'most common'. So the list will not be set in stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The 'custom text' closure reason&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that the 'Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)' sub-choice for off-topic is meant to enable us to give a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; reason for closing a question. For example, rather than just&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;your question is off topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you can imagine saying (for a hypothetical example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;understanding&lt;/em&gt; the Knuth-Plass algorithm in TeX is on-topic, implementing the algorithm in Python (or any other programming language) is not, as it requires general programming expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other people can then vote for this specific and (hopefully) useful text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T09:04:01.027" Title="Off-topic closure: predefined reasons" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-01T19:02:56.817" Score="6" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3644/off-topic-closure-predefined-reasons&quot;&gt;related post&lt;/a&gt; I've asked (again) about custom 'off-topic' closure texts. As I note there, the second thing we need to address if  closing as off-topic is a reasonable set of places on the StackExchange network that questions might be migrated to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can migrate questions to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; other network site, but for normal users only predefined migration paths are available. So what we need to do is decide what those paths should be. I'm not sure how many we are allowed, but I think up to say three 'common' cases would be a reasonable request to the Powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think I'm after here is one migration path per answer, with a reason why it would be useful (say one or two examples).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-07-01T19:02:56.817" Title="Off-topic closure: migration paths" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|migration|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3626" CreationDate="2013-07-02T03:09:54.243" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a bounty on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/61957/how-can-we-get-a-rounded-pdf-page&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; (visible to 10k users) worth 50 points that is not included in your profile because it is deleted.  It was there and it was spent, we do not show these items in user profiles though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="740" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T03:09:54.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-03T13:58:57.450" Score="8" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When inserting a &quot;short permalink&quot; (i.e., the one obtained by clicking the &quot;share&quot; link) into a question or an answer, as clear text, it is substituted by the question title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/757/8057&quot;&gt;Do we like the share buttons? Do people use them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question doesn't appear in the list of &quot;linked question&quot; -- only if I use the explicit URL, in this case, &lt;code&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/757/do-we-like-the-share-buttons-do-people-use-them&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug or a feature? As I understand it, the &quot;short permalink&quot; is tied to my user account, and each click counts. So I'd like to use these permalinks, but I find the &quot;linked question&quot; feature more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Actually, at least here on Meta, the question eventually appears as &quot;linked&quot;. Perhaps I am just too impatient, but I have the impression that this happens faster on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8057" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T20:45:50.323" Title="&quot;Share&quot; link doesn't really link question" Tags="|bug|answers|questions|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3647" CreationDate="2013-07-03T20:38:13.917" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a clear distinction between the when the short permalink translates to a title/not, and this is based on whether the link is to a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; or an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. Question-links are automatically reverted to their titles, while answer-links are not (and remain in their &lt;code&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;user&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; form). As an example, here are share/permalinks to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3647/5764&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Share&amp;quot; link doesn&amp;#39;t really link question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3648/5764&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3648/5764&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My way of getting around the no-title answer-links is to use explicit markdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;](&amp;lt;permalink to answer&amp;gt;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's slightly more cumbersome and doesn't update with an update of the title of the question, but the presentation is more clear. Regardless of the choice (question or answer, or markdown), a native link should be found in the &quot;Linked to&quot; section of the page. Native here refers to the network. For example, posting a link to a question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; does not automatically grab/translate to the question title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/6841333/914686&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/q/6841333/914686&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479/914686&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479/914686&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Markdown: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/6841333/914686&quot;&gt;Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, for those interested in so-called &quot;other badges&quot;, using the share permalink is the way to go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rx28J.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now, no native measure exists to track your progress of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/57/announcer&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/58/booster&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/59/publicist&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt;. I've personally used Google's Short URL service:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cpB6e.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above link to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://goo.gl/z69vm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.sx!&lt;/a&gt; via the Google Short URL brings with it &lt;a href=&quot;http://goo.gl/z69vm+&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;click-statistics&lt;/a&gt; by going to &lt;code&gt;http://goo.gl/z69vm+&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T20:45:50.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2013-07-04T08:53:53.323" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having thought about this, I think the best approach is not to have any custom close reasons just yet: we need to see how things work in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to imagine happening is that we take advantage of the 'free text' sub-option within the Off-Topic close reason. That gives the opportunity to give a specific reason for closing, which will hopefully be clear and useful to the questioner. After a little time (probably two or three months) we should then be able to look over the closures and pick up more clearly on what are common close reasons. We can then revisit this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3632/text-for-off-topic-closure&quot;&gt;generic closure text&lt;/a&gt; is useful, but probably in the 'wrong' place. Rather than being a custom close reason, I think this should be what appears if the various Off-Topic votes don't all agree (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; when it's off-topic but we don't agree quite why!). Editing that is available to mods, so this can readily be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T08:53:53.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2013-07-04T09:04:01.027" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I like the idea to be specific on closing reasons, it is actually hard to squeeze that specificity into &lt;em&gt;pre-defined&lt;/em&gt; reasons. And a pre-defined reason text that is so specific that it is only applied once a year is of no use either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One closing reason that I can think of is the &quot;typo&quot; thing. Something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question appears to be off-topic on this site as your problem is&#xA;  a simple typo (like &lt;code&gt;\usepakage&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt;), and will&#xA;  thus not be helpful to other visitors of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Rewording may be needed ...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, a pre-defined closing reason for outdated packages can be made, but I always has a problem with closing such questions as TL, as I think those questions (and their appropriate answers) are helpful to the community, even when it is only for a few months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would leave one or two more pre-defined OT reasons, but I suggest to first gather some data what kind of reasons occur regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21591" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T09:04:01.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3652" CreationDate="2013-07-04T10:06:33.973" Score="12" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes stumble upon questions where some &quot;bonus points&quot; are mentioned or which have some &quot;bonus section&quot; (see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20974/what-is-the-advantage-of-using-minimal-over-article-when-creating-a-standalone-g&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-do-i-make-my-document-look-like-it-was-written-by-a-cthulhu-worshipping-madm?rq=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and also in answers such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/29404/17237&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). I only found information on the &quot;site association bonus&quot;, which appears to be something different, so I was wondering how these &quot;bonus question parts&quot; work, i.e. how and when they are offered/awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I overlooked some existing information on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T14:06:30.223" Title="What is does the &quot;bonus&quot; part of a question mean?" Tags="|support|reputation|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3651" CreationDate="2013-07-04T10:32:10.970" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's just a saying of the poster, not to be taken seriously as I see there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the questioner would be serious about this, he could award bonus points by setting a bounty and giving it to the answerer later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such cases you could comment and suggest that the OP would do what he or she said and actually give bonus points via a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T10:32:10.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3651" CreationDate="2013-07-04T14:06:30.223" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since one of the answers quoted is mine, I might as well add an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The expression &quot;bonus points&quot; is used very generally in (N. American) English to ask for something extra that would be welcome but not necessarily expected. For example, if you Google &quot;bonus points to whoever&quot; you will find lots of hits from contexts in which no actual points are ever awarded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Bonus points to whoever gets this reference&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Bonus points to whoever can sing this from memory&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So people will often use it here in questions if they think that part of their question is too much to ask, but they would ask anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think for native English speakers the context of these uses makes it clear that it has nothing to do with votes.  (Clearly for non-native speakers not so much) :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T14:06:30.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3654" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-05T19:12:28.533" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question as asked shows no evidence that the OP has either tried to find a solution, either by experimentation or by searching for relevant similar questions in the TeX.sx archive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the question is updated to include such evidence -- a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; or references/links to other discussions of similar problems -- it is a candidate for closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation in this forum is mutual; users are expected to give as well as receive.  Beginners are welcome, but more experienced participants appreciate evidence that newbies are learning so that they can carry on the tradition in due time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2013-07-05T20:57:28.717" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T20:57:28.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3655" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-05T19:12:28.533" Score="0" Body="A solution is requested for a problem that shows no evidence of prior effort." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2013-07-05T19:54:37.080" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T19:54:37.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-05T19:42:13.790" Score="9" ViewCount="547" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to share how I do it with everyone as it's extremely quick. Please see my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33201" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-07-08T20:03:06.007" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T13:54:38.207" Title="The Fastest Method I've Seen for Sharing Any (LaTex) Image" Tags="|discussion|images|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3656" CreationDate="2013-07-05T19:54:16.637" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/sharex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ShareX Tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tool allows you to quickly capture portions of your screen, automatically uploads the screenshot to &lt;code&gt;imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;, then automatically copies the &lt;code&gt;imgur&lt;/code&gt; link to your clipboard. All you need to do is press &lt;code&gt;CTRL+V&lt;/code&gt; wherever you need it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, made the hotkeys such that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CTRL+SHIFT+Z: Capture of piece of the screen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ALT+PRTSC: Capture the current window.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use this tool constantly. Cheers~&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33201" LastEditorUserId="33201" LastEditDate="2013-07-06T02:48:36.417" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T02:48:36.417" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3658" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-05T20:15:53.827" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeX Users Group&lt;/a&gt;  is the oldest of several groups created for support of TeX and the users of various TeX-related software.  TeX, as open-source software, is not supported by a large commercial organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX itself is still maintained by Donald Knuth, its creator.  Related software is maintained largely by members of TUG and similar groups, and by the greater community of TeX users (like those who frequent TeX.stackexchange), who depend on each other for mutual support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2013-07-05T20:15:53.827" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T20:15:53.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3659" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-05T20:15:53.827" Score="0" Body="concerns the TeX Users Group, its annual meetings, and other activities" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2013-07-05T20:15:53.827" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T20:15:53.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2013-07-06T02:50:15.893" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/sharex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ShareX Tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tool allows you to quickly capture portions of your screen, automatically uploads the screenshot to &lt;code&gt;imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;, then automatically copies the &lt;code&gt;imgur&lt;/code&gt; link to your clipboard. All you need to do is press &lt;code&gt;CTRL+V&lt;/code&gt; wherever you need it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, made the hotkeys such that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CTRL+SHIFT+Z: Capture of piece of the screen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ALT+PRTSC: Capture the current window.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can have the ShareX automatically copy the filepath, the image, the file, etc. It may also be possible to configure ShareX to upload to a specific &lt;code&gt;imgur&lt;/code&gt; account automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use this tool constantly. Cheers~&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PeMxx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33201" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T02:50:15.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3656" CreationDate="2013-07-06T11:39:12.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightshot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Firefox plugin LightShot&lt;/a&gt; offers a similar functionality with the exception that it uses Prntscr.com for uploading and you can edit online. You can also share in Twitter, Facebook (why I don't know). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3wbg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One function I find often useful is to look for similar images on Google (the right top button). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T11:39:12.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3663" CreationDate="2013-07-08T07:18:46.397" Score="10" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two years ago I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17780/deeper-levels-of-subsections-dont-appear-in-the-latex-output-of-pandoc-why&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, which, in short, got the answer &quot;not possible, try different route&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a solution and I accepted that. Now a technical solution comes along and someone answers with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I un-accept the original accepted answer and accept the new answer? And if so, should I best edit my post to reflect that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T14:17:31.693" Title="Policy or guidelines on accepting a different answer" Tags="|discussion|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3662" CreationDate="2013-07-08T07:22:20.150" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is the one of 'most use to the original questioner'. As such, it is really down to you which one you take: it's quite reasonable to move the tick. You might of course want to explain why, for example in a comment on the answer you 'unaccept'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that the fact that the tick is down to the questioner alone means that it's perfectly possible for others to view a different solution as 'better'. However, that's what voting is for, and the two concepts are not identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T07:22:20.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-08T10:01:32.867" Score="32" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;i've been producing a faq on the web since 1995.  it gets lots of traffic&#xA;... from search engines; also the odd question searched by an (apparent)&#xA;user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i note that almost no-one references my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;, since they&#xA;can always trivially (apparently -- i can't) find a relevant tex/sx answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, is there any point in me carrying on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there's method in asking the question: this is my last full year of work,&#xA;and my work address currently hosts my faq.  moving the faq (with its stick-&#xA;and-string mechanisms) to a clouded machine will be tiresome (at a time when&#xA;i also have similarly to move ctan).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2411" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2013-07-09T08:29:01.673" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T08:32:12.750" Title="are non-sx faqs now redundant?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3664" CreationDate="2013-07-08T12:58:06.263" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;your reasons are well understood.  however, the uk-tex faq is also included in tex live&#xA;(it's the first one recognized of over 40 possibilities),&#xA;and i, for one, refer to it there.  so your efforts have not gone unnoticed!&#xA;it's also cited as a link on the ams &quot;tex resources&quot; page, and probably many other pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the answers in tex.xs often overlap the material in your faq,&#xA;but your version has a great advantage -- it is intelligently edited, and for that&#xA;reason, if no other, it is worthy of preservation and continuation.&#xA;tex.sx and the uk-tex faq are not interchangeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and a big thank you for your efforts on both the faq and ctan for nearly countless years!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T12:58:06.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3664" CreationDate="2013-07-08T13:09:45.123" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most assuredly not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this place has its resident experts, the style is very much of a place where everyone can offer a helping hand and often a quick hack will do in place of a more measured answer.  Many of my answers have been of the form &quot;I've no idea &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this works, but it seems to do what you want.&quot;  Even with experts around, it can be hard to judge the difference between true quality answers and bizarre hacks.  It's also the same for the &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;.  The number of votes or views that a question gets bears almost no relation to its actual usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A well-maintained FAQ (such as yours) is a counterbalance to this.  You don't find everything in an FAQ, but when I find an answer in the FAQ then I feel much safer in using it - there isn't that sense of trepidation that I have when cut-and-pasting weird code from this place into my precious document.  Also, when browsing through the questions on the FAQ list then I feel that I should look at every single one as there will be a high chance of learning something significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I hope that the FAQ does continue to exist, in some form or other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2013-07-09T08:32:12.750" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T08:32:12.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3664" CreationDate="2013-07-08T13:59:26.730" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appreciate your work on the FAQ, and I would be glad to see it living on. Such a hand-selected and well thought and maintained archive is of great value. It's well accessible and focused. On the TeX.SE site we now have more than 40,000 questions sorted by popularity, frequency and topics, which gives us good access to a large amount of questions. But the FAQ is selected and moderated, that's why I like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I offer hosting the TeX FAQ on a web server. I already maintain some servers and so have hosting, maintaining and programming experience, besides my TeX enthusiasm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T13:59:26.730" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3662" CreationDate="2013-07-08T14:17:31.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, in general, we consider questions that are solved by a new version of a package to be off-topic. So theoretically, the question should be closed ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would say that it should stay open and changing the tick looks like a reasonable idea :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T14:17:31.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3656" CreationDate="2013-07-08T21:52:46.653" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Windows Vista and higher comes shipped with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Snipping Tool&lt;/a&gt; that allows you to copy any part of the screen to the clipboard and then paste it using the updated Stack Exchange image insertion protocol using &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;G&lt;/kbd&gt;; formerly you could not copy-and-paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a step up from using &lt;kbd&gt;PrnScr&lt;/kbd&gt; that captures the entire screen to the clipboard, which then requires trimming in something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows7/products/features/paint&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MS Paint&lt;/a&gt;, if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T21:52:46.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3656" CreationDate="2013-07-09T00:22:12.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the fastest way would be to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gnome-screenshot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenshot app&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/shutter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;shutter&lt;/a&gt; that can be accessed from &lt;code&gt;Dash Home&lt;/code&gt; as shown in screenshot &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5fD8s.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T00:22:12.423" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3656" CreationDate="2013-07-09T01:40:53.213" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a Mac, the quickest way I know is to use &lt;kbd&gt;Command &amp;#8984;&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;SHIFT&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;4&lt;/kbd&gt; which gives you a target like cursor and selecting the two opposite corners of a rectangle will grab the image within that rectangle.  This will creae a file named&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Screen shot 2013-07-08 at 6.36.53 PM.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the Desktop with the current time stamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T01:40:53.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3674" CreationDate="2013-07-09T18:16:53.190" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing the awards of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/57?page=3&quot;&gt;Announcer badge&lt;/a&gt;, the display has a glitch in it when viewed in Google Chrome Version 28.0.1500.71 m and/or Firefox 22. Some entries are displayed in a tabular format, while others are displayed &amp;quot;ragged right&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kATWc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may also be the case with other, similarly-awarded, pages (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/58/booster&quot;&gt;Booster&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/59/publicist&quot;&gt;Publicist&lt;/a&gt;, and maybe others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T10:54:54.960" Title="Badge page formatting is inconsistent" Tags="|bug|status-completed|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3591" CreationDate="2013-07-09T20:35:40.257" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The formal way to invite someone to a user-specific chat room is done in the following way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Find the user in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users?tab=all&amp;amp;sort=name&quot;&gt;list of Stack Exchange chat-users&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63d0x.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that while you may have a (parent) &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; user account, a chat account is a subsidiary account, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat&quot;&gt;only certain people are allowed to participate (minimum &lt;strong&gt;20&lt;/strong&gt; reputation)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Expand the chat user profile by clicking on the appropriate user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LV858.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enter the name of the chat room and click on &quot;start a new room with this user&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GzrB6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, if the both users are already in a chat room, click on their gravatar and select &quot;start a new room with this user&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7cdM8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#what&quot;&gt;all the conversations are free, open, and public to read by anyone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T20:35:40.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3672" CreationDate="2013-07-10T10:54:54.960" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be fixed in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29990" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T10:54:54.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3656" CreationDate="2013-07-11T08:31:54.243" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made myself a seperate command-line tool &lt;code&gt;pdlcrop&lt;/code&gt;. It's form in bash is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash&#xA;&#xA;pdflatex $1 &amp;amp;&amp;amp;&#xA;pdfcrop -margin 6 ${1%.tex}.pdf &amp;amp;&amp;amp;&#xA;mv ${1%.tex}-crop.pdf ${1%.tex}.pdf &amp;amp;&amp;amp;&#xA;convert -density 300 ${1%.tex}.pdf ${1%.tex}.png &amp;amp;&amp;amp;&#xA;cp ${1%.tex}.png ~/crop.png &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works as follows: (1) run &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;, (2) crop the result by &lt;code&gt;pdfcrop&lt;/code&gt; with a decent margin, (3) overwrite the original PDF file by the crop, (4) covert it to PNG in a reasonable resolution, (5) copy this PNG to my home directory under a standard name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The step (3) is useful since I use TeXworks and this way I see the correct preview. The step (5) comes handy because when you want to upload the image, you know where to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have yet another tool with a short name &lt;code&gt;twt&lt;/code&gt; (stands for TexWorks Temp):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash&#xA;&#xA;f=`mktemp`&#xA;touch $f.tex&#xA;texworks $f.tex&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This creates a new file &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;something&amp;gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; in the temp directory and opens it with TeXworks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In TeXworks, I created a new typesetting tool with program name &lt;code&gt;pdlcrop&lt;/code&gt; and one argument &lt;code&gt;$fullname&lt;/code&gt; and this works for me just right, after hitting Ctrl+T, I get a cropped PNG file in my home dir and a good preview in TeXworks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T08:31:54.243" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-11T20:02:28.500" Score="15" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2692/14757&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that there is a minimal reputation to comment a post. But there is no minimal to post an answer! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that an answer is more important than a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T21:27:23.243" Title="Why can a new user post an answer but not a comment?" Tags="|discussion|comments|reputation|new-users|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3676" CreationDate="2013-07-11T20:52:20.003" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I admittedly have no idea why this actually is the case, but my guess would be that the reasoning might have gone something like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;commenting is perhaps more conducive to spam than is answering, and so we might want a user to demonstrate that they really intend to be part of the community before allowing them to comment wherever they please. Of course, hypothetically speaking, answers are equally good places to post spam (or irrelevant information that detracts from the purpose of the site). I would presume that the fact that answers can be downvoted and have an impact on reputation (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/answer-bans&quot;&gt;and, in certain cases, the user's actual account privileges&lt;/a&gt;) is, at least theoretically, a preventative measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is just speculation on my part. It's an interesting question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T20:52:20.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4188" CreationDate="2013-07-12T01:09:45.583" Score="26" ViewCount="827" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Erd&amp;#246;s graph for TeX.SE two people are connected if they have contributed to (asked or answered or commented on or edited) the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this graph look like? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the data available in a form that makes an answer possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question prompted by the blog entry at &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2013/07/a-new-milestone/?cb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2013/07/a-new-milestone/?cb=1&lt;/a&gt; : egreg =? Erd&amp;#246;s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oakland.edu/enp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.oakland.edu/enp/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit towards an answer&lt;/strong&gt;, prompted by the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Erdos graph is a way to represent TeX.SE as a social network, so what's relevant are the connections between people that occur when they think about the same question, not the connections between questions and people. (That might be an interesting bipartite graph&#xA;for another day.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the average number of answers per question is A then each question will generate (on average) A(A+1)/2 edges joining vertices (users) in the graph (counting self-answers, not counting comments or edits). This allows multiple edges between vertices (which happens&#xA;frequently on TeX.SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are about 43000 questions and about 32000 users.  Since each edge joins two vertices (users) the average valence of a vertex (user) is about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2*(number of edges)/(number of vertices) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;= A(A+1)(number of questions)/(number of users)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;= A(A+1)*43,000/32,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd guess that A is between 1 and 2, which implies an average valence between 3 and 8. Of course the distribution is far from uniform!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not to count comments or edits as creating a connection could be easily explored by tweaking the software that builds the graph input from the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A database query generating a 43,000 line csv file with one line for each question listing its asker and answerers would provide all the data needed to build the graph. Since I don't know SQL I can't follow up &lt;code&gt;@texenthusiast&lt;/code&gt;s hope that a new query at &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/new&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/new&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;might provide what's wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="12496" LastEditDate="2013-07-18T19:36:40.607" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T23:45:21.897" Title="The Erdos graph for TeX.SE" Tags="|discussion|statistics|users|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3656" CreationDate="2013-07-13T13:54:38.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a quick snap shot in Ubuntu 13.04 (and perhaps other Linux distros), I just press &lt;kbd&gt;Print Screen&lt;/kbd&gt; and then open up the &lt;code&gt;png&lt;/code&gt; file with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;kolourpaint&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, select the desired part of the picture and hit &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;U&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;T&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T13:54:38.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3690" CreationDate="2013-07-13T23:56:40.187" Score="15" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/123893/drawing-a-wordnet-with-tikz&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with a solution that provided the required result requested by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I later came up with an answer that I liked better, and I wanted to share that answer as well. In terms of best practices, should I post a separate answer, update my original answer to include my new solution, delete my original answer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; update to my new answer, or do something else entirely? I'm asking because they are (relatively) distinct solutions to the problem posted by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, I've left my original answer and simply updated it with the new solution as well, in case my original answer ends up being helpful to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, is there a best practice in this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've decided to accept @AndrewStacey's answer, as it was the most relevant in terms of the two answers I posted to the above-mentioned question. That is, my answers were not &lt;em&gt;so significantly&lt;/em&gt; different that I thought that they should be read separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, however, I think @egreg's point about clearly distinguishing the two answers if one does update the same answer (by, for example, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; posting something like 'update' or 'edit') is also very useful. It was what I decided to do in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, finally, I think @Fran's point about avoiding an excessive number of answers is also a very good point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T16:17:14.927" Title="A separate answer ? or update my original answer ? to post two (relatively) distinct solutions to a question" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3681" CreationDate="2013-07-14T12:26:29.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the most famous open question ask for &quot;only a solution per answer&quot; as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/553/what-packages-do-people-load-by-default-in-latex&quot;&gt;What packages do people load by default in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; because many correct solutions and different are expected and it is avoid long answers that overlap more or less with others answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For non community wiki answers, it is not clear for me. If you try to offer the best solution, only could be  one, although you can show a subsidiary alternative in the same answer, just  because that the owner of the OP cab have different thoughts. However, if you think that  different answers are equally valid alternatives, multiple answers have the advantage of clarity, simplicity, and you can know what people think of each solution. But probably you cannot gain more reputation in this way. May be answers another users is accept because is more complete. On the other hand, avoid excessive answers is also desirable. Think that you are allowed to add more than one answer but with you edit the second one, a message warn you against this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T17:21:27.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-15T10:18:24.720" Score="12" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3640/how-to-end-the-unanswered-status-of-really-solved-questions-in-the-comments&quot;&gt;How to end the unanswered status of really solved questions in the comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of question in the main &lt;code&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/code&gt; like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124050/importing-mat-file-to-pgfplots&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; with no real answer but with a comment that contains the answer. I would like to know your opinion about three different action for this type of situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create an answer with the same answer of the comment, often of 1-2 lines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add the possibility for the user that create the question of marking the question as answered with the usual green symbol (no rep assigned to no one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add the possibility for the user that create the question of marking the comment as accepted with the usual green symbol (rep to who post the comment or to no one, I don't know)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31093" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T00:44:40.473" Title="Adding the &quot;accepted&quot; mark to a question or to a comment" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|accepting|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-16T13:21:56.587" Score="16" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had a TeX-related technical issue, and unfortunately TeX.SX has no information about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Googling for the error message in question returns a Gentoo Forum post containing a workable (but not ideal) solution. This same forum in turn references a post in the GNU-AUCTeX mailing list, which contains a better solution, though it might still need a bit tweaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, the solution is already there, but it's quite cumbersome, and more importantly I don't know if these forums risk losing their Google indices in the future (making them harder to find), or simply disappearing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wonder, should I create a question and make a &quot;FAQ-style&quot; answer for it, just to get the solution indexed in TeX.SX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might help other users, and provide a more &quot;stable&quot; reference, but I'm not sure this is interesting for TeX.SX. Can someone give me some advice about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17934" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T16:49:18.523" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T16:49:18.523" Title="Re-indexing answer already on the web" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-16T11:34:55.637" Score="36" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add this fantastic forum and community for all the help with typesetting and formatting my thesis. Is there a defined way to do it/refer to TeX ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9fEtm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CJx8d.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10939" OwnerDisplayName="HCAI" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T16:45:14.270" LastActivityDate="2023-01-13T04:08:11.513" Title="Consider putting tex.stackexchange.com in thesis acknowledgements" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3684" CreationDate="2013-07-16T14:15:30.970" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that it is perfectly normal to ask a question that is covered elsewhere on the Internet, as long as it is (La)TeX-related. In fact, even if you didn't ask the question here, it would have been answered on the main site - the community here is eager to help, regardless of the expertise/level of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a completely related topic: The Stack Exchange also allows you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;answer your own question&lt;/a&gt; if you so wish. This happens from time to time, and is also an option when you know exactly what works for you, and it is applicable to a wider audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The seemingly opposite was asked in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3664/5764&quot;&gt;Are non-SX FAQs now redundant?&lt;/a&gt;, where it was confirmed that dual resources are perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T14:15:30.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3681" CreationDate="2013-07-16T16:15:34.903" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember if I have two distinct answers in some thread (big lists not included). It happens sometimes that looking at a problem from a different perspective leads to a completely new solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several cases of double answers by the same user, but when it happens to me I edit my answer, clearly distinguishing between the two solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd avoid &quot;Edit&quot; or &quot;Update&quot;, preferring to give distinct headers to the solutions, maybe adding a comment directed to the OP about the existence of a new solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T16:15:34.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3678" CreationDate="2013-07-17T07:16:30.597" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the Data Explorer (data.stackexchange.com) will help: you need the fixpoint of an operation over the graph and I don't think the query language supports that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other options: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is an API to query this content - &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/&lt;/a&gt; - though hammering the API with recursive queries might get you in trouble, and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whole database is periodically exported as some XML files at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-dump&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-dump&lt;/a&gt; (a huge file of all sites).  I wrote some Lua code for reading these files - &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/chalst/sxdatadump2lua&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/chalst/sxdatadump2lua&lt;/a&gt; - in principle this code should be faster at digesting the data than your unzip utility is at extracting it, but it has only been tested on small databases of discontinued sites.  If you would rather not work with Lua, at least the code might help you understand the XML representation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T07:16:30.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3681" CreationDate="2013-07-17T09:51:22.137" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think my record for number of answers to a (non-CW) question is 3.  I tend to do this if the answers are really different in the way that they answer the question so that they really should be read separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do decide just to edit the old answer, leave a comment on the question to the effect that you've done so as I don't think that the questioner gets notified of the edit to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T09:51:22.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-18T19:08:40.213" Score="15" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say you have a new user of TeX systems, presumably migrating from more DIY editors.  Let's say this user does something like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;Why can't I make the Tex logo?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;I can use \Tex! \\Tex is a lot of fun! \\Latex and \Tex are nice!&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the issue is a mistyping/misunderstanding of TeX's name, but something more sinister is at play that is &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; unrelated to the question.&#xA;The user is constructing paragraphs how he or she normally would using a DIY editor, by inserting manual line breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extend this scenario to any and all others we've seen, and you can see why it isn't always such a clear-cut answer.  (That is, asked this question, and I would point out &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; errors.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate to inform the user that this is bad style, even though it isn't related to the question?  Where is the line drawn for such &lt;em&gt;dangerously bad style&lt;/em&gt; that warrants such attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-07-31T18:15:38.633" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T18:15:38.633" Title="It is appropriate to point out (really) bad style that would otherwise be off-topic to the question at hand?" Tags="|discussion|scope|guidelines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-19T00:51:38.503" Score="12" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I posted the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124291/revisiting-producing-structured-pdfs-from-latex&quot;&gt;Revisiting producing structured PDFs from LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;. This asked how I could generate a tagged PDF directly from latex. Fairly quickly, the question was flagged as already having an answer here, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/579/how-to-create-tagged-pdf&quot;&gt;How can tagged PDFs be created that support Universal Accessibility and reflowing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, I didn't think that the answer to the original question was actually an answer. The answer didn't contain something that I could use to achieve the goals I set out in my question, and didn't cover the same ground. Unfortunately I think in this case that those reviewers who flagged it as duplicate didn't understand the nuances of the question. I could have done a better job explaining it, maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging new questions as duplicates is particularly problematic when there are new packages that might have come out since the original question was asked, if requirements change with time, or there are fine nuances to a question. (As the aggrieved newbie) I don't think the current process responds to that challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;meta&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; aspect of this. I would appreciate some thoughts on the points below. Partly this is me learning how tex.se works, but partly I think that there are some issues with the 'all answers in the same place' model that we're trying to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do we make it clearer to people posting here that their question is being flagged as duplicate &lt;em&gt;and give them the chance to fix / respond to that&lt;/em&gt; before it gets confined to oblivion? Can we get those notifications in our inbox?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the new question is sufficiently well phrased and differentiated from the original question, surely the new question should remain?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do we encourage knowledgeable people to look again at old questions? Is a bounty of 50 reputation really enough? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happens when the OP has vanished, and the 'original' question is no longer being maintained? Does it really make sense to keep the old question as the main source of answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where packages, requirements, or standards, are changing, what about having a back link from the original question to the new question that says&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question was answered in &lt;code&gt;year&lt;/code&gt;. A related question was asked &lt;code&gt;here&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;more recent year&lt;/code&gt; which may be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T15:43:24.373" Title="Resurrecting old questions without being flagged as duplicate" Tags="|discussion|support|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3692" CreationDate="2013-07-19T08:29:09.300" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the idea is that a question is a duplicate if it covers the same area as a previous question, however old that previous question. Now, it may be that new answers appear over time to the problem at hand, but they should (normally) be added to the older question. Attracting attention to the 'master' question, to try to get newer answers, can be done by adding a bounty, where you might explicitly say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[This question deserves more attention] I'm looking for an up-to-date (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;year&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) take on this: the existing answers all cover the situation only up to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;older-year&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-07-19T08:29:09.300" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-19T13:41:30.340" Score="22" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a question about how to integrate a specific font into a document. The fonts were commercial fonts and though the person did not state explicitly that they had downloaded unlicensed versions of the fonts it was pretty clear that this had happened. But even if it was just some ambiguous wording (entirely possible) it still leads to the question of how the community deals with blatant situations where someone has a question about how to use unlicensed fonts or even software for that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On many typography forums if there's even a hint that someone is using an unlicensed font/program all hell'll break loose or at least people will comment on the issue. When I witnessed the situation arise here I did not provide an answer because I knew I would not be able to resist some kind of comment, snarky or otherwise, about what appeared to be a clear case of someone downloading a commercial font from an unlicensed &quot;vendor&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do we deal with this situation? In general tex.stackexchange seems to ignore these kinds of things and just answer questions without editorializing. That's a perfectly fine approach, in my mind, but then I would also be fine with other responses, either pointing out the issue but still answering the question or perhaps even something harsher like closing the question with a sternly worded warning, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a community consensus on this? Like I said, I'm fine with whatever approach is the norm and I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; here as a crusader for copyright enforcement, but there should probably be some kind of community position on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25729" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T14:49:20.327" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T14:49:20.327" Title="Position with regard to unlicensed fonts" Tags="|discussion|policy|licensing|fonts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3694" CreationDate="2013-07-19T15:36:34.567" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't think it's our place to be policing supposed use of unlicensed anything  unless the question is  about how to get the fonts illegally or circumvent the licence in some way.  I especially don't think we should be making assumptions about where people got their fonts from if they are asking an otherwise legitimate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So questions like &quot;How do I use this particular font?&quot; are on topic even if we suspect the font isn't acquired legally, but questions like &quot;How do I get around the copy protection of this font so I can use it with LaTeX&quot; probably isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve Ballmer claims that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.neowin.net/news/ballmer-9-out-of-10-copies-of-windows-in-china-is-pirated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;9 out of 10 copies of Windows in China are pirated&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't think that means we should not answer questions from Chinese users on the site or quiz them about where they got their OS from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editorializing about unlicensed software generally leads to conflict that is best avoided given how much we pride ourselves on being a very friendly and welcoming site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-07-19T15:36:34.567" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3697" CreationDate="2013-07-21T18:23:20.137" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;New here... shouldn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1849667/enumerating-sections-to-start-with-sign&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; be migrated over to TeX.SX? My reading of that post over there as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/869/policy-on-migrating-questions-from-another-stackexchange-site&quot;&gt;accepted policy answer&lt;/a&gt; over here suggests it probably can be moved it's seems an off-topic there, and should be here instead. Am I wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33345" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T12:30:18.290" Title="Moving a TeX topic off SO" Tags="|support|scope|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3696" CreationDate="2013-07-21T19:04:44.130" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In such cases such posts should be flagged on the current site to be migrated to TeX.SX. We TeX.SX moderators can't do anything from here exact flag it ourselves. However, this particular post seems to be too old for migration, as the flagging dialog tells me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T19:04:44.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3696" CreationDate="2013-07-22T12:30:18.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;These old posts should not be migrated from SO, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new policy is against migrating old questions that have already been answered, partly due to problems with the handling of reputation, and also because these migrates are not held to be constructive.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/152597/how-to-migrate-old-questions-to-a-new-graduated-site&quot;&gt;How to migrate old questions to a new graduated site&lt;/a&gt;.  Instead, questions that are off topic on SO should simply be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These questions should not be closed as off topic, as questions about how to code up Latex are on topic for SO, just as HTML/CSS questions are.  See dmckee's answer at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/12926/140179&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/12926/140179&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T12:30:18.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3683" CreationDate="2013-07-25T00:44:40.473" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per Paul Gaborit comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people might prefer answering in comments, Refer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3238/why-do-people-answer-in-comments&quot;&gt;why do people answer in comments&lt;/a&gt; for more reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence one can comment to the @person-who-suggested-correct-comment to convert his comment to answer and wait for a while. Incase of no response, post the comment as community wiki answer to remove from unanswered list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per David Carlisle's Comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 and 3 options would require system changes from stackexchange so not really a meta.tex.sx issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T00:44:40.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="352" CreationDate="2013-07-25T06:38:43.290" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/915/168244&quot;&gt;Can we have the ability to rescind a close vote before it closes?&lt;/a&gt; was... rescinded. It was updated to &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/915/9&quot;&gt;June 10, 2013&lt;/a&gt; and subsequently implemented on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/915/11&quot;&gt;July 21, 2013&lt;/a&gt;, turning it into &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are now able to &quot;undo&quot; their close-votes in a similar way that one can retract/modify your regular vote to a post. A visual display of close-vote retraction resembles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xlxnE.png&quot; alt=&quot;Undo close-vote&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The display clearly states that &quot;you have already voted to close this question&quot;, with the option to &quot;retract [the] close vote&quot;. Once retracted, voting-to-close on that specific is closed to you with a display that summarizes your voting history:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MNEbo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T02:46:21.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3694" CreationDate="2013-07-25T14:06:10.433" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a couple of methods for dealing with the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;commenting;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment could be something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please edit your question, because, as it's formulated now, it can raise some doubts about copyright issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, how the questioner came in possession of the fonts is usually not relevant for solving the problem, so an edit can take away the problem. Clearly, “I downloaded BeautifulFont.otf from www.best-stealers.xyz&quot; should be removed as soon as possible: we don't want to advertise pirate sites, do we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's not forget that for many users English is not their first language, so it's quite possible that the doubts are caused only by improper wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T14:06:10.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3685" CreationDate="2013-07-25T19:43:06.197" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was considering doing this too (printing now) -- but I decided not to do it.  Typesetting help is wonderful, but in the usual case it's not &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; a research-level contribution.  Maybe you'd consider adding the relevant credits to an &quot;About the Document&quot; section at the end instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4357" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T19:43:06.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-27T14:05:50.827" Score="3" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the links which are provided in questions and answers did not open a new tab/window. I personally feel that, this would be a great feature and did not require right click to open new tab/window or pressing back and forth button. What is your opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had searched this in meta and I didn't find anything regarding this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25852" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-07-27T22:42:06.570" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T22:42:06.570" Title="Why didn't the links open to a new tab/window?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3336" CreationDate="2013-07-31T06:59:23.783" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to make a presentation about programming video games in LaTeX using the build in functionality in PDF files that is supported by Adobe reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14212" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T06:59:23.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3691" CreationDate="2013-07-31T16:29:08.613" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I had posted this question, I would be very &lt;em&gt;happy&lt;/em&gt; if someone pointed out to me that this is not the best way to go about using LaTeX. People have in fact added some instructive &quot;by the way, you probably wanna do X like Y instead&quot; in comments to my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the comments on the &quot;bad style&quot; are either given as comments (and not as answers) or tagged onto a real answer to what the OP is asking, I don't think there should be any restrictions on such pointers at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T16:29:08.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-01T14:57:09.063" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be a good idea to have on the main site a box dedicated to Latex-related content/ads such as updates available on CTAN, interesting blogs, upcoming events?&#xA;It would be a bit more general than what is proposed in physics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2810/community-promotion-ads-2013&quot;&gt;https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2810/community-promotion-ads-2013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be of the size of the current &quot;community bulletin&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="371" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:22.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-01T14:57:09.063" Title="Latex related community promotion ads" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-08-01T14:59:25.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3708" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-01T16:41:56.020" Score="8" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that there is an effort to build &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2740/from-answers-to-packages&quot;&gt;packages from answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to do something like that, however I am a noviece, therefore I am looking for someone to assist in the creation. This type of request does not quite fit the Q&amp;amp;A format of the site, however it is THE (only) tex community I have been using excessively. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/tex-sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;launchpad site&lt;/a&gt; does not seem to have a forum and besides that I doubt that it is half as active as here. Also I am not quite sure about how to use chatrooms properly (and invite people to them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the best way to accomplish this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19326" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-08-01T18:59:08.237" Title="Tex.SX package development" Tags="|discussion|chat|tex-sx-package|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4308" CreationDate="2013-08-01T18:49:56.193" Score="8" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools&quot;&gt;10K-tools&lt;/a&gt; right-column shows some information regarding the review process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7UIBU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Under &lt;em&gt;What is this?&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\r\n&lt;/code&gt; should be removed (is a clear bug).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The link to &lt;code&gt;chat&lt;/code&gt; should end the sentence and require an ending period.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I am unable to view this on other sites (due to too low reputation), so I'm not sure whether this is a site- or network-wide bug. Otherwise I would have posted this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:42:46.037" Title="10K-tools information oddities" Tags="|bug|status-completed|10k-tools|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-02T14:23:52.727" Score="8" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just placed a bounty on an old &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112404/reliable-code-for-automatic-noindent-after-specific-environments&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; of mine. Silly me, I used backticks in a LaTeX way rather than a StackExchange way, so the formatting of the bounty description is messed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there is a way to fix this. Of course, we don't want the bounty conditions to change midway through the week, but shouldn't there be a short period during which typos can be fixed? There is already a similar period during which a question can be edited without an &quot;Edited&quot; message appearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T18:05:36.427" Title="Is there a way to edit a bounty description? Should there be?" Tags="|feature-request|bounty|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-03T00:53:16.323" Score="13" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed none of the questions on TeX.SE have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; as a tag and I cannot even add it to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually I only deal with pure TeX, so having a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; tag would allow me to quickly skip all the questions that won't help me anyway because usually the answer starts with &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6517" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-08-03T05:33:51.123" LastActivityDate="2013-08-03T05:33:51.123" Title="Why is there no {latex} tag?" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3711" CreationDate="2013-08-03T02:14:26.787" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the vast majority of questions on the site are about LaTeX, the tag is really not very helpful. Most plain TeX questions will be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plain-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plain-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plain-tex&lt;/a&gt; but there are at present only 168 such questions, so plain TeX users are few and far between on the site. You can add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plain-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plain-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plain-tex&lt;/a&gt; (and other tags that interest you) to your favourite tags, but it's true you can't add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; to your list of ignored tags.  I think this is &quot;status by design&quot;, given the ubiquity of LaTeX questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-08-03T02:14:26.787" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3714" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-05T03:42:05.303" Score="7" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer that worked eventually appeared in the discussion with the author of the original answer which wasn't working for me. Should I accept the (original) answer ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the Question in discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/126134/&quot;&gt;mdframed incompatible with paralist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15042" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T03:28:34.313" Title="Real answer appeared in the discussion that followed the original answer" Tags="|discussion|answers|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3718" CreationDate="2013-08-05T07:09:28.850" Score="17" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, there are four tags that deal with encoding issues: the general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;encodings&lt;/a&gt; (95 questions), the more specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;font-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;font-encodings&lt;/a&gt; (57 questions), and the two package-specific tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fontenc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fontenc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fontenc&lt;/a&gt; (66 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inputenc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inputenc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inputenc&lt;/a&gt; (64 questions). The assignment of tags to specific questions seems to be at least partially a matter of chance: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;encodings&lt;/a&gt; questions will usually be about either font or input encoding, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;font-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;font-encodings&lt;/a&gt; questions will sometimes specifically deal with the &lt;code&gt;fontenc&lt;/code&gt; package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that two tags are enough. Let's make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fontenc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fontenc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fontenc&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;font-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;font-encodings&lt;/a&gt;. Let's create a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input-encodings&lt;/a&gt; tag and make the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inputenc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inputenc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inputenc&lt;/a&gt; tag a synonym of it. The questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;encodings&lt;/a&gt; should be manually retagged to either &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;font-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;font-encodings&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input-encodings&lt;/a&gt;; some questions will feature both of these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-08-11T12:47:38.757" LastActivityDate="2013-08-11T12:47:38.757" Title="Sorting out {encodings}, {font-encodings}, {fontenc}, and {inputenc}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3715" CreationDate="2013-08-05T07:41:24.270" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you. It isn't meaningful to mix input encoding and font encoding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I fear that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;encodings&lt;/a&gt; tag may reappear. So I think it would be good to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;encodings&lt;/a&gt; for only those 3 questions which actually deal with both (difference between them, loading order). In addition it should be made clear in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;encodings&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki, that either input or font encoding should be chosen for a specific issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T07:41:24.270" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3715" CreationDate="2013-08-06T07:20:30.690" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As my proposal has so far gained a score of +9, I've changed/added the tag wiki excerpts for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;font-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;font-encodings&lt;/a&gt; and the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input-encodings&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{input-encodings} is about the various input code pages like latin1 or&#xA;  utf-8 ({unicode}) which interprete the sequence of numbers underlying text&#xA;  files and map each number to a certain glyph (character). A popular&#xA;  package for pdfLaTeX is inputenc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{font-encodings} is about the various font or output code pages like&#xA;  T1 (for Latin) or T2*x* (for Cyrillic) which tell the compiler where&#xA;  to find a particular glyph (character) in a font file, hereby&#xA;  supporting correct hyphenation of words. A popular package for&#xA;  pdfLaTeX is fontenc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask a moderator to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fontenc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fontenc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fontenc&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;font-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;font-encodings&lt;/a&gt; and merge the existing tags/questions;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inputenc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inputenc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inputenc&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input-encodings&lt;/a&gt; and merge the existing tags/questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;encodings&lt;/a&gt; will be manually retagged in the following weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Retagging has been completed; right now, there are 135 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/font-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;font-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;font-encodings&lt;/a&gt; and 109 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input-encodings&lt;/a&gt; questions (with 14 questions featuring both tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2013-08-10T15:52:59.690" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T15:52:59.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3720" CreationDate="2013-08-07T07:00:04.460" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent thread of mine (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/126584/biblatex-n-d-when-no-date-given&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;), no answer has been provided yet. To give a short outline: I am basically concerned for the issue to produce &lt;em&gt;n.d.&lt;/em&gt; for citations and bibliography items when no date is given. Apparently it seems impossible because of a bug but I do not have the expertise to tell if that is indeed the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence I am wondering if I could just comment again to ask for more from the previous commentators? Or is there another guideline for this? If so, a link would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T16:04:21.077" Title="How can I ask for more attention if an answer hasn't been provided yet?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2013-08-08T10:03:33.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3719" CreationDate="2013-08-07T07:55:32.113" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could offer a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; to get attention for this question. It will be put to the &quot;featured&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T07:55:32.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3719" CreationDate="2013-08-07T16:04:21.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is stated in the comments, you probably had trouble in getting your question answered because of the lack of a really &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example&lt;/a&gt;; that means the MWE you posted is a little bit too long to debug. &#xA;Even when you shortened it (BTW, you did so in an external pastebin, something that doesn't help either — &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/126584/edit&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; your question when you want to change something, so everyone can see it without having to read the whole discussion), you kept in it all the options you were originally passing to &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; as well as all of your style customizations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making you MWE short is &lt;a href=&quot;http://sscce.org/#short&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a huge step towards the solution of the problem&lt;/a&gt;: it puts you (and everybody else) on the right track :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW Audrey's last comment is the actual answer to your question; I've just posted it as a community wiki answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T16:04:21.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-07T18:32:29.383" Score="5" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3717/how-draw-a-add-two-shape&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3717/how-draw-a-add-two-shape&lt;/a&gt; was posted on Meta and then closed as off-topic. Apparently it was also migrated to the main site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/126884/how-draw-an-add-two-shape&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/126884/how-draw-an-add-two-shape&lt;/a&gt;. On that question, there's a note that the question was migrated from Meta, but on the original question, there's no indication of the migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall that in the past, there would be some kind of note on the original question that points to the questions new location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to get that back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T18:32:29.383" Title="Missing indication that question was migrated" Tags="|feature-request|migration|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-07T20:27:37.080" Score="27" ViewCount="1424" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read this article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/497438/20130807/microsoft-office-world-specialist-championship-winner-word.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Microsoft World Champion&lt;/a&gt; and it got me thinking.  Many of us have read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/how-can-i-explain-the-meaning-of-latex-to-my-grandma&quot;&gt;How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/102878/how-to-convert-tex-illiterate-coworkers-to-latex&quot;&gt;How can I convert my TeX-illiterate coworkers to LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-beautiful-typography-done-in-tex-friends&quot;&gt;Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX &amp;amp; friends&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after reading the Microsoft article, it dawned on me that the &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; community should do the same.  Trying to explain &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; can be difficult and trying to get people to switch can be nearly impossible, but holding a competition would show the world what &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; has to offer.  In the amount of time it took the Microsoft competitors to typeset there document for the competition, those who are truly skilled in &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; could do a lot more.  There was &lt;code&gt;344,000&lt;/code&gt; entrants I believe it said.  Just imagine if that was for &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt;?  This could be a way for &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; to break more into the mainstream.  This article about Microsoft is just free advertisement and it has younger people striving to be great at an inferior product (in my opinion).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link to the competition itself: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.certiport.com/portal/common/htmllibrary/mswwcompetition/rules.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;certiport.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far all the suggestions aren't what I am speaking about.  They are all geared to people in the &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; world through venues ran by &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; or by a &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; community.  This only draws attention to those already in the loop.  How would this accomplish increasing &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; use when it is to the people who already use it?  For instance, &lt;code&gt;certiport.com&lt;/code&gt; is promoting a competition for skills in a product they don't make.  The competition is promoted to a wide audience base not just experts or enthusiasts in Microsoft products.  Additionally, the competition is held at venue (think of the TUG conference) not just hey make something, post it, and vote on it (all online).  There are high schoolers to professionals (barring they aren't Microsoft employees) who compete.  That is much more diverse audience.  The audience with &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; is mostly university/college level and the population at the universities/colleges who use some form of &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; isn't that huge (at least this is what I witness).    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" OwnerDisplayName="dustin" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T19:25:21.700" Title="A LaTeX competition to promote LaTeX to the masses" Tags="|discussion|tug|typography|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2013-08-08T15:17:15.243" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure such a competition would work very well. People unfamiliar with TeX will probably just dismiss it a geek competition. I've seen very smart people look at basic TeX code and declare it incomprehensible. They also say the same thing about HTML. I'm not sure TeX could generate the interest of a program that everyone knows about and is more user-friendly. TeX does require a bit of study to be able to use it. The average computer user may not be willing to put in the effort to learn it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps an alternative suggestion might be to have TeX users offer classes or facilitate online classes at local libraries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30787" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T15:17:15.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2013-08-08T18:28:21.450" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most gyms earn their money from the people who pay for it but never show up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A competition would lead to yet another &lt;code&gt;xii.tex&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/105808/how-could-the-macro-xii-tex-be-simplified-into-a-better-readable-form&quot;&gt;How could the macro xii.tex be simplified into a better readable form&lt;/a&gt;) while blowing the minds by its results it will make people stay wawy even more from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sdh33b.blogspot.nl/2008/07/icfp-contest-2008.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Somebody even controlled a Mars rover with it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think TeXnicians can safely assume that they are doing something quite esoteric and assure themselves that it will be so for a long long time to come. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though typographically it's an abomination of nature, MS Word convenience is unparalleled in the eyes of the masses and TeX is definitely not the next guy who can claim that position. We are talking about people who are complaining about microseconds delays on their TOUCH screens. Compiling a document? Right...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T19:33:10.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3714" CreationDate="2013-08-09T03:28:34.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/16595/qrrbrbirlbel&quot;&gt;Qrrbrbirlbel&lt;/a&gt; and myself pointed out: converting the comments to answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comment to the @user-name who gave the &lt;em&gt;Real answer&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;code&gt;Absorb the comments inside answer&lt;/code&gt; with an &lt;em&gt;Addendum/Correction&lt;/em&gt; to the existing answer as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3954/gonzalo-medina&quot;&gt;Gonzalo Medina&lt;/a&gt; has already &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/126136/15717&quot;&gt;done&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way all details(in comments) are stored well with version control/edits and becomes a standalone answer irrespective of any missing comments (Incase so..).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T03:28:34.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2013-08-09T04:05:43.283" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion only: (Please take it positively no offence on anyone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;A LaTeX competition to promote LaTeX to the masses&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; : Good Intent to promote to masses and great idea as well for competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &quot;should &lt;code&gt;TeX community&lt;/code&gt; should do the same ?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure, but I agree with other answers and points and to add: &#xA;TeX is different species/OSS world all together compared to commercial wor&lt;code&gt;l&lt;/code&gt;d.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Holding a competition would show the world what TeX has to offer&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Before going for a competition&lt;/strong&gt;: The whole educational system starting from schools and colleges should have a mandatory/elective &lt;code&gt;Typography:LaTeX course&lt;/code&gt;(atleast beginner level) and children/students should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/698/15717&quot;&gt;encouraged to submit in LaTeX homework&lt;/a&gt; etc.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Even before that&lt;/strong&gt;: The &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; teaching infrastructure (teachers who know them/management/webportal) , &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/106229/15717&quot;&gt;course web portals&lt;/a&gt; and even the presentation used to teach LaTeX should be in &lt;code&gt;beamer/powerdot/slides..&lt;/code&gt; not in &lt;code&gt;.ppt/x&lt;/code&gt; which is sometimes a irony that &quot;TeX is better than Word&quot; delivered in &lt;code&gt;.doc&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;.ppt&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA; and finally the whole lab/college/secretaries/administration going open source which is very much going on in some countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;. Any competition needs some &lt;code&gt;skilled people&lt;/code&gt; to gather and share their expertise which can be harnessed during early school days not after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/story-survey/tex_survey_rep.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;30 yrs avg age&lt;/a&gt;.Hence  mini-competition's should start in schools/colleges before expanding to great heights.In that TeX would spread over &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1626/15717&quot;&gt;wide professions&lt;/a&gt;. Notice many professions use TeX not only in academia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Just imagine if that was for TeX ? This could be a way for TeX to break more into the mainstream&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have grow steadily and systematically  with the above mentioned points on harnessing TeX from school level onwards over years and thereby we get the prospective TeX olympiad people for future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; is not learnt/mastered in one day conference or few days competition, instead of wasting resources(money/manpower on useless things) we need donate the money towards the TUG and it's affiliate projects upcoming projects eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-project.org/latex3.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: MS was getting free testing for it's software, nurturing some future interns etc.. and getting some feedback while this so called competition is going on. It does not do any favour while TeX ecosystem is something vice-versa. But I don't have any averse feeling at any, love all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks to all TeX.SX/TUG and many TeX people&lt;/strong&gt; for all their knowledge and patience in bringing it together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX related proceedings/Conference and Journals:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUGboat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/pracjourn/2012-1/toc.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PracTeX&lt;/a&gt; and many more &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/pubs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;world-wide based TeX user groups&lt;/a&gt; proceedings/conferences are in a way promoting/ giving an opportunity for all to exhibit/communicate TeX skills and doing the same as mentioned in your Q and also much more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX.SX competition related Q's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/34482/15717&quot;&gt;Contest: Show Off Your Skillz in TeX &amp;amp; Friends [TeX.sx birthday]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5262/15717&quot;&gt;Competition time: Design an error page!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T04:18:31.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3729" CreationDate="2013-08-09T12:46:17.247" Score="13" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/127466/how-can-i-insert-line-breaks-within-the-title-without-hardcoding-s-in-title&quot;&gt;a question related to the book class on the main site&lt;/a&gt;. Upon choosing the tags for my question, I was surprised that there doesn't seem to be any tag associated with the &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt; class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag exists, but it is not appropriate here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is for questions which deal with books about TeX, LaTeX and other topics of this site. For questions regarding design and layout of books use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-design&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, the &lt;code&gt;amsbook&lt;/code&gt; class has its own tag. So why is there no &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-class&lt;/a&gt; tag? I think it's a popular and quirky enough class for it to deserve its own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I excavated a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/402/tags-for-document-classes&quot;&gt;2010 meta question by Stefan&lt;/a&gt;, suggesting the creation of tags for document classes, which seemed to gather support. Why was no &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; tag created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T09:19:44.653" Title="Why are there {books} and {amsbook} tags but no {book} (class) tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3728" CreationDate="2013-08-09T14:02:50.330" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/article&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;article&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/report&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;report&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; tags exist, it seems that whenever the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag was incorrectly applied to a question about the &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt; class, the tag was removed, but nobody bothered to create a separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; tag. My guess is that such a tag (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/article&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;article&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/report&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;report&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt;) would &quot;only&quot; reveal what should be revealed by a MWE, namely, the class used by the questioner. Any special expertise needed for questions about &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt; is most likely also useful for &lt;code&gt;report&lt;/code&gt;, and more often than not useful for &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt;. The AMS classes sometimes deviate from the standard classes, but again there are similiarities between &lt;code&gt;amsart&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;amsbook&lt;/code&gt; (there's no &lt;code&gt;amsreprt&lt;/code&gt; class).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another hint that those four tags were ill-conceived is that each of them has at most 2 followers -- compare that to the 35 followers of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memoir&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memoir&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memoir&lt;/a&gt;  and the 31 of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/koma-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;koma-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;koma-script&lt;/a&gt;, both of them popular classes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; create a separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; tag. Instead,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;either rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/report&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;report&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/report-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;report-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;report-book&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or better merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/article&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;article&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/report&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;report&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; into a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;standard-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;standard-classes&lt;/a&gt; tag, and likewise merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amsart&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amsart&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amsart&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amsbook&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amsbook&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amsbook&lt;/a&gt; into a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ams-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ams-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ams-classes&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Judging from the upvotes and comments, the consensus seems to be that the class-specific tags should be abandoned and generic tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;standard-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;standard-classes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ams-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ams-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ams-classes&lt;/a&gt; should be created. However, on second thought I share Jubob's concern that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;standard-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;standard-classes&lt;/a&gt; is likely to be overused, so I suggest to restrict the use of this tag to the &quot;inner workings&quot; of the standard classes (similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-kernel&lt;/a&gt; tag). The tag wiki excerpts could read as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{standard-classes} is about the inner workings of the standard classes&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;report&lt;/code&gt;. Do not add this tag simply because&#xA;  you use one of these classes; instead, choose the tags appropriate for&#xA;  your specific problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{ams-classes} is about the AMS classes &lt;code&gt;amsart&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;amsbook&lt;/code&gt;, and&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;amsproc&lt;/code&gt;. When using this tag, add the tags appropriate for your&#xA;  specific problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this definition, it is likely that some of the questions featuring &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/article&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;article&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/report&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;report&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; at the  moment should simply have these tags removed instead of replaced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;standard-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;standard-classes&lt;/a&gt;. I will check these questions in the next days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2013-08-10T09:19:44.653" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T09:19:44.653" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3733" CreationDate="2013-08-10T16:05:20.090" Score="9" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;over the past few days, several times i've clicked on &quot;questions&quot;, and instead of increasing by (approximately) the number of &quot;new questions&quot; mentioned in the gray bar at the top of the page, the question count has decreased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example, just a couple of minutes ago, the previous count of 44,092 changed to 44,062.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since i often leave the window open while i go away (sometimes even overnight), i have been using the difference in the count to let me know how many questions i have to catch up on.  having it decrease is rather counterproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;any explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a couple of years ago, i posed a similar question, but in the opposite direction:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1708/579&quot;&gt;How can the question count increase without a new question appearing at the top of the list?&lt;/a&gt;.  this was diagnosed as a caching issue.  does the present anomaly have the same cause, or is the site just trying to anticipate the second anniversary of the former question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T18:37:28.017" Title="the question count sometimes decreases. why?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3731" CreationDate="2013-08-10T21:52:12.340" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, strange... but there's an explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By expanding the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=delete&amp;amp;daterange=today&quot;&gt;Recently deleted questions under 10K-tools&lt;/a&gt; just for today, you'll notice a list containing more than 40 posts that were deleted in the last 24 hours, the bulk of which happened recently! All of the deleted posts seem to have been done by user &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; at the exact same time. I don't know what the motivation of this may be, but it explains the difference in count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in catching up on &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; posts created since you last trolled the site, you can do that through &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/55037/168244&quot;&gt;a date-specific search query&lt;/a&gt;. For example, posts &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; in for a specific day can be obtained using a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;created:2013-08-10&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;query (or date range using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;start&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;end&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, inclusive). If you're interest in seeing &lt;em&gt;last active&lt;/em&gt; posts, use a &lt;code&gt;lastactive:&lt;/code&gt; query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T21:52:12.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3731" CreationDate="2013-08-11T08:41:15.943" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Werner says, this is done by 'Community'. There is a cross-network script that deletes questions of 'low interest'. Full details on meta.SO somewhere, but broadly it comes down to no answers, low votes and low views. There are various timeframes for this, and one takes a year to kick in, so it's more relevant now than it was in the earlier days of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-11T08:41:15.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3736" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:05:59.670" Score="11" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this question through google: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74562/mathtools-sty-not-found-in-kile&quot;&gt;mathtools.sty not found in kile&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and the answer in it solved my similar problem. The question is closed as &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the question is not too localized, since the problem was not unique to the OP of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should the question be reopened? I understand that it will probably not benefit from new answers, since it is already well answered, but if it remains closed, it can potentially be deleted, which would be detrimental for other people with the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T16:07:20.697" Title="Is &quot;mathtools.sty not found&quot; too localized?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|too-localized|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3737" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:37:47.330" Score="8" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to send personal messages to another user on &lt;code&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/code&gt; for some aspect of a question you don't want to be made public?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously I don't have the other user's email address and he doesn't have mine. So how do we do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7093" LastEditorUserId="5871" LastEditDate="2013-08-13T20:59:09.523" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T20:59:09.523" Title="Personal messaging on `TeX.SX`" Tags="|support|feature-request|status-declined|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2013-08-12T16:07:20.697" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is highly unlikely that this question will be deleted, based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/78048/168244&quot;&gt;automated deletion criteria set for older posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed as &quot;too localized&quot; since it mostly deals with an installation issue, many of which either fall out of the scope of TeX - LaTeX, or is so specific (localized) that it does not really benefit other members of the community. Sure, the latter wasn't true for you, but in general this is usually the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T16:07:20.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3735" CreationDate="2013-08-12T18:49:27.470" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3591/5764&quot;&gt;invite this person to a personal chat&lt;/a&gt; (albeit public) where you can hash out some ideas and/or exchange details, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/57537/168244&quot;&gt;similar requests have been declined&lt;/a&gt; in the past. This way you're guaranteed to connect to the specific individual (if they have a chat account) rather than waiting for them to enter the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;main chat area&lt;/a&gt;, or via a comment to one of their posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T19:37:59.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2013-08-12T23:09:41.517" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a cofounder at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.writelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;writeLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In their profiles, 46% of our users identify themselves as 'just starting out' or 'beginner' at LaTeX (n=72 -- we just launched these profiles yesterday, so these are of course preliminary numbers; the other levels are 'intermediate', 'expert', and 'I am Don Knuth'). This says to me that there is a healthy interest in learning TeX that we can tap into, and also that online editors can help people get started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd certainly be interested in supporting activities like this, and I think James &amp;amp; Henry at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;shareLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; would be, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's getting away from typesetting a bit, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt; has a wide range of mind-blowing TikZ programs. Many of these have the advantage of being very visual, e.g. these &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/rotated-triangle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rotated triangles&lt;/a&gt;, which might help in generating interest. I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stefan&lt;/a&gt;, who runs TeXample, was planning to run a competition there, but I don't think it has happened yet, so he might have some views on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether a competition of this kind is right for reaching the masses, for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3725/15717&quot;&gt;reasons&lt;/a&gt; that percusse points out. The Microsoft Office Specialist program doesn't seem to reach out to the masses, either -- in my experience, most people happily use a tiny subset of the features of Word, much as most people (including me!) happily use a tiny subset of the features of TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do wonder whether there's scope for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codecademy.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;codeacademy&lt;/a&gt; or similar for LaTeX. In the Ruby programming world, there are many friendly and colourful ways to learn, e.g.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tryruby.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://tryruby.org&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://railsforzombies.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://railsforzombies.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;which are much friendlier than anything we have. (And I include &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.writelatex.com/blog/7-free-online-introduction-to-latex-course-part-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;my course&lt;/a&gt; in this. I should also mention that shareLaTeX have recently put together a nice &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/latex-guides/beginners-tutorial.html#.Ugl1EuakhyA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;series of intro videos&lt;/a&gt;.) This could be a great use of the tech behind the &lt;a href=&quot;http://manuels.github.io/texlive.js/website/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;amazing texlive.js&lt;/a&gt; demo, which lets you run LaTeX completely in your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway... just some thoughts from me. Hope we can work something out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T23:59:11.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3740" CreationDate="2013-08-13T00:35:38.640" Score="7" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn’t it possible anymore to vote as “too-localized” or am I overlooking something ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2013-08-13T12:52:22.013" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T12:52:22.013" Title="Did the “too-localized” vote option disappear?" Tags="|support|too-localized|10k-tools|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3739" CreationDate="2013-08-13T06:04:01.557" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closing reasons were &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154&quot;&gt;redefined a little while ago&lt;/a&gt;: one of the big changes was removal of 'too localized' (TL). This created a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of discussion, but the network staff ('Powers') are sticking to it. The logic is something like this: TL was far from the most common close reason, and was used for issues well beyond what it was originally intended for, which was really &lt;em&gt;localized&lt;/em&gt; issues that &lt;em&gt;no-one else would ever see&lt;/em&gt;. It's that last bit that's important: for example, we (usually) haven't answered questions that come down to 'my installation is messed up', but that applies to more than one person. Thus the message from above is that these things are off-topic, in the sense that if a site doesn't answer questions on X then they are closed for scope reasons even if X seems to be a &lt;em&gt;prima facia&lt;/em&gt; fit for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that questions closed with a no answer and a low number of votes and views are likely to be removed by the 'garbage collector' system. That applies whether closed as the old TL or using off topic. So in the longer term it probably makes little odds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T07:36:11.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-14T18:38:59.357" Score="5" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would community bot reject a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/25602&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; formatting edit that should have been approved ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQYFU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T20:05:42.400" Title="community bot rejects an appropriate edit" Tags="|bug|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3741" CreationDate="2013-08-14T20:05:42.400" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/163766/168244&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;: User &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; rejects an edit &quot;when the post owner or someone with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;2000+ rep&lt;/a&gt; makes an edit and the suggested edit is still being reviewed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, user &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/32888/adam&quot;&gt;Adam&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/25602&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; was most certainly valid, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/5764&quot;&gt;we encourage code formatting in posts&lt;/a&gt;. However, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/128251/revisions&quot;&gt;post revision history&lt;/a&gt;, the following sequence of events ensued (some guess-work):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18:35:02 - User &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/32888/adam&quot;&gt;Adam&lt;/a&gt; suggests an edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18:35:24 - User &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/27081/dustin&quot;&gt;dustin&lt;/a&gt; approves the edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18:35:36 - User &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/27081/dustin&quot;&gt;dustin&lt;/a&gt; initiates an edit to the post (&quot;someone with 2000+ rep&quot; while the suggested edit is still pending)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18:36:13 - User &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/27081/dustin&quot;&gt;dustin&lt;/a&gt; saves the edit, retroactively causing an edit rejection by user &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; @ 18:35:36&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Underlying here is the fact that a suggested edit isn't immediately incorporated once approved by someone reviewing the queue entry. Instead, (at least) two votes are required. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/76251/168244&quot;&gt;How do suggested edits work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T20:05:42.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-15T03:59:25.900" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128255/symbols-for-symmetric-difference&quot;&gt;Symbols for symmetric difference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128249/vertical-spacing-between-character-and-hat/128253#128253&quot;&gt;Vertical spacing between character and \hat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128301/adjusting-the-position-of-dot&quot;&gt;Adjusting the position of \dot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these 3 post be considered duplicates?  To me, they seem to be asking the same question.  If so, maybe the title should have a more general name such as link two minus the hat.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vertical spacing between stacked (maybe a better term used here instead of stacked) characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T07:09:12.323" Title="Would these be considered duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2013-08-15T10:23:00.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pandoc MarkDown&lt;/a&gt; GUI is the answer.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The masses certainly are using &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MarkDown syntax&lt;/a&gt; to write forum entries such as these here on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about casting a graphical user interface (GUI) (perhaps a &lt;a href=&quot;http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gedit&lt;/a&gt;-plugin?) with collaborative &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;distributive revision control&lt;/a&gt; (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mercurial&lt;/a&gt; for MS Windows &amp;amp; Mac OSX support) around the &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pandoc document converter&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pandoc internally uses a LaTeX engine of choice to generate PDF from MarkDown. Typographically, identical results are achieved whilst shielding the masses from esoteric LaTeX code. Tables are also much easier to define in MarkDown than LaTeX. After a while, a subsection of the masses would gain some interest in learning the underlying LaTeX macro code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One should also not underestimate the existing appreciation for the collaborative editing features contained in MS Word. Hence, the necessity for integration with a distributive revision control tool. This would also eliminate the need for countless Word e-mail attachment exchanges in any collaboration project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26348" LastEditorUserId="26348" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T19:25:21.700" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T19:25:21.700" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-16T04:45:37.547" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;In tex.stackexchange, it's pretty common for users to post comments that answer the question.  Sometimes there are several good answers posted as comments, but nothing posted as an answer.  This doesn't happen as often in other stackexchange forums in which I participate.  I don't understand why this practice is common here.  It makes it difficult to know which questions already have answers from the question list.  That's undesirable if I think I might have an answer, because I open the question and discovered it already has good answers.  It's also undesirable if I hope that someone has answered the question, so that I can find out the answers, since it appears that the question has not been answered. (For &quot;I&quot; substitute anyone, obviously.)  Finally, I think the people posting such &quot;comment answers&quot; deserve the chance to get credit for the answers.  Maybe they don't need the points, but I still think they deserve credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts about this?  Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11250" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-08-16T05:01:17.550" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T05:01:17.550" Title="Why are so many answers posted as comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2013-08-16T08:50:08.127" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-16T13:34:50.333" Score="10" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;Concerning: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128454/&quot;&gt;Are there any open research problems in the world of TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my understanding, this question is a &lt;em&gt;big&lt;/em&gt; one, but there are many 'big' questions out there: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/&quot;&gt;Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX &amp;amp; friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/553/&quot;&gt;What packages do people load by default in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/&quot;&gt;Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/&quot;&gt;How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these questions have a similar model to mine;&#xA;they have one pretty open-ended question and many answers to tie it up.&#xA;I know the question in question (...) is similarly open-ended, but how is it 'too broad' when these questions are among our most popular?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, what can be done to have this question (or a question like this) improve in&#xA;the event of close votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T21:59:53.593" Title="What exactly defines 'too broad of a question'?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3748" CreationDate="2013-08-16T14:17:54.457" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128545/multipart-nodes-with-multipart-subparts-spacing-issue&quot;&gt;Multipart nodes with multipart subparts — style issue&lt;/a&gt; and the questions syntax never colorized (if that is even a term to use).  I then went to another post and the syntax there was fine.  I went back to the post and waited 5 mins but it stayed grayish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it is just me or others are experiencing this too with this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T19:44:38.460" Title="Syntax highlighting not working on a post" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|markdown|code|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3747" CreationDate="2013-08-16T14:20:12.820" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a bug: a feature :-) The code was marked up not using Markdown (4 space indent) but using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags. That turns off the automatic syntax highlighting: I've edited and all should be fine now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T14:20:12.820" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3754" CreationDate="2013-08-16T15:54:04.760" Score="10" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;i just entered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/128561/579&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; that included a quote from the &lt;code&gt;bibtex&lt;/code&gt; manual.  the quote started with the number &quot;10.&quot; from a list.&#xA;i entered it first by cutting and pasting, and expected some &quot;corruption&quot; (omission of&#xA;&quot;fi&quot; ligatures), but was surprised when the zero disappeared from the &quot;10.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here's what came out from the string &lt;code&gt;10. The ...&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The PROCEEDINGS ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the same thing happens if one adds more zeros (input = &lt;code&gt;10000.&lt;/code&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10000&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The PROCEEDINGS ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if a space is inserted between the zero and the period, the zero(s) reappear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;10 . The PROCEEDINGS ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but then it's not an exact quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;notice also the addition of a &quot;blank line&quot; following the one-line quotes that have been &quot;truncated&quot; of their zeros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i think this is a bug ... i have trouble believing it's intentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T02:57:24.990" Title="why does a zero before a period disappear in a quoted environment?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|markup|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3751" CreationDate="2013-08-16T16:59:15.183" Score="4" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/35196/user2657067&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/35196/user2657067&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user has posted 3 times in the last 5 mins.  I would hate to see what happens if we wait too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this person seems to be upset with SO for suspending him/her:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/2657067/user2657067&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/users/2657067/user2657067&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/30x9d.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is suspended on one site, should maybe they be suspended every where to prevent revenge defacing of other sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T00:42:14.277" Title="can this spam poster be dealt with soon" Tags="|support|status-completed|spam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3750" CreationDate="2013-08-16T17:04:48.163" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've destroyed their account: spam usually gets very short shrift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T17:04:48.163" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-16T17:39:47.330" Score="13" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comments on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3746/what-exactly-defines-too-broad-of-a-question&quot;&gt;related question about 'big lists'&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/27081/dustin&quot;&gt;dustin&lt;/a&gt; asks about the fact that his &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3723/15717&quot;&gt;question on promoting LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; got moved from the main site to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, the meta site is for questions about TeX-sx itself, but is supposed to allow more discussion than fits in on the main (Q&amp;amp;A) site. Dustin's question isn't really about TeX-sx &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt; but rather the 'wider' community, but is is more of a discussion than a 'simple' question. This raises the issue of where, if anywhere, such a question fits. Does it belong on the main site, does it belong on meta or is it 'off-topic' entirely? (True discussion is off-topic for StackExchange generally as it doesn't work in a non-threaded Q&amp;amp;A format, although I guess a chat session could be used and written up as an Q&amp;amp;A. A focussed chat could for example use a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3591/15717&quot;&gt;separate room&lt;/a&gt;, as is already done for &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1728/textalk-interviews&quot;&gt;interviews&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we've got other 'promotion' questions on meta, but these are more tightly linked to TeX-sx, either in promoting the site itself or how the site/site users can promote (La)TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T22:57:15.083" Title="Where, if anywhere, do 'promotion' questions belong" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3752" CreationDate="2013-08-16T18:28:39.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't an answer per se just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe we need to determine where &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; related discussion question that have no right answer belong since we have many good post that fit this description.  These question incite thought and a lot of participation from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Joseph Wright said in his post, that discussion is in chat, but from my viewing of what happens in chat, that is more banter with &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt;, jokes, etc throwing in mix.  When a discussion post is truly &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; related and useful to the community, I think it deserves to be on either meta or main site.  However, some of these discussion questions are okay for the main while others are migrated to meta even though none of the questions fit the mold for meta or the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only question we should have to answer is where do useful thought provoking, unanswerable, discussion type post belong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think there is one problem with dedicated chat rooms.  Only the avid users will be checking in on those rooms.  With many of the great discussion post, we will have brand new users come propose great answers to these discussions with that being their first post.  I think that would lost if the site decides to dedicate chat for those type of posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Obviously I believe site related discussions belong on meta no matter what the outcome of this thread. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the recent posting on meta, I think we (as a community) need to determine where discussion questions belong ignoring the issue isn't the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3773/what-exactly-do-we-believe-about-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;What exactly do we believe about Community Wiki posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3746/what-exactly-defines-too-broad-of-a-question&quot;&gt;What exactly defines &amp;#39;too broad of a question&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3756/can-cw-status-be-changed-by-a-voting-process&quot;&gt;Can CW status be changed by a voting process?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These recent questions were all spawned because of the discussion in the comments about closing, moving, or making &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128454/are-there-any-open-research-problems-in-the-world-of-tex&quot;&gt;Are there any open research problems in the world of TeX?&lt;/a&gt; a community wiki.  I casted the first close vote to move the thread to meta because my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3723/a-latex-competition-to-promote-latex-to-the-masses&quot;&gt;A LaTeX competition to promote LaTeX to the masses&lt;/a&gt; which wasn't about the site was moved to meta.  So my reason was it was a discussion question, no answer, but still &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; related so it was moved.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When will we seriously consider determining a location for these types of questions to avoid all this noise in the future?  If we make judgement calls per post, each person who doesn't like the decision can post these repeat type of questions since they will all be about a different post and thus not a duplicate because the previous post in question were in relation to a different thread. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T22:57:15.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3749" CreationDate="2013-08-16T19:55:21.653" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens because Markdown treats such syntax as an &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ordered list&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1.  Bird&#xA;2.  McHale&#xA;3.  Parish&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The HTML Markdown produces from the above list is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Bird&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;McHale&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Parish&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you found, one way to avoid the behavior is to add a space.  Another is to escape the period with a backslash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; 10\. The PROCEEDINGS ...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;produces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10. The PROCEEDINGS ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5871" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T02:57:24.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3746" CreationDate="2013-08-16T20:10:10.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is pretty clear that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; questions are in general inappropriate. Many of these big-list questions become &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=Is%3Aquestion+wiki%3Ayes&quot;&gt;CW&lt;/a&gt; which is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;discouraged&lt;/a&gt;. I personally do not think that high vote totals make these question a better fit. I also do not think that the up votes on answers is informative (by definition there is no right answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while I think it is clear that these types of questions are discouraged, I think used sparingly and well targeted they can be useful. I personally wouldn't mind seeing most of the CW and big-list questions closed. whatever we do, I think it is important for people to talk about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10038" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T20:10:10.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-17T03:19:10.460" Score="5" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128454/&quot;&gt;Are there any open research problems in the world of TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been raised that this question is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; and should be community-wiki.&#xA;Am I the one who would have to make it community-wiki,&#xA;  or could that be done by a voting process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously I'd like to not lose the rep,&#xA;  and my better judgement / pesky humility is telling me that it should be CW,&#xA;  but does such a voting system exist for that?&#xA;Frankly, I'd feel better if I thought that everyone agreed that it should be so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T05:44:36.600" Title="Can CW status be changed by a voting process?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3756" CreationDate="2013-08-17T03:24:09.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When posting a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;, you can make a post CW only at the time of asking. When posting an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, it can be done anytime (either at the time of answering, or afterward via an edit and checking the &quot;community wiki&quot; check box).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does one make a question CW after it has been asked? Flag for moderation and request the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that posts (questions and answers) also inherit CW status after a certain number of edits. For more on this, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/11740/168244&quot;&gt;What are “Community Wiki” posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, the information voting process is usually initiated via comment discussion, as well as the &quot;helpful votes&quot; associated with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128454/are-there-any-open-problems-in-the-world-of-tex#comment289578_128454&quot;&gt;original CW mention comment&lt;/a&gt;. There's no official vote-to-CW method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T03:24:09.527" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3756" CreationDate="2013-08-17T05:44:36.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we are trying to compile a big list, and I am not sure we should be, then this question should be made CW and edited since I am pretty sure the big list we want to compile is not the open projects that are original research suitable in scope for a cap stone project. By being CW we can really refine the question to be an AWESOME big-list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the voting process, that is what meta and chat discussions are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the rep, you will lose the points, but people remember when people ask good questions and then help make the site better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10038" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T05:44:36.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3752" CreationDate="2013-08-17T12:17:34.767" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no significant claim to fame so can't speak with significant authority on this matter, but my understanding is that the following algorithm is used to decide where a post belongs: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the question about the TeX SE website? &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If yes -&gt; post it on Meta.TeX.SE, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Else -&gt; goto (2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic for the main TeX website&lt;/a&gt;?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If yes -&gt; goto (3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Else -&gt; Ask elsewhere &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the question fit our Q&amp;amp;A structure and follow the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;guidelines set out in our FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;good&lt;/a&gt;, high-quality &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If yes -&gt; post it on TeX.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If no -&gt; goto (4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can the question be amended to fit the Q&amp;amp;A structure and follow the guidelines in our FAQ?  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If yes -&gt; amend the question and goto (3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If no -&gt; the question does not belong on TeX.SE or meta.TeX.SE and should be closed / on hold while improvements are made (or not, as the case may be)..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this basic two-step reasoning (the 'should it be on meta' part) it seems clear to me that the linked question does not belong on meta (it is about TeX, not the TeX SE, therefore not meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether it is a suitable question for TeX.SE is another question (I believe that the linked question needs to be edited as per stage #4), but with regards to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; question IMO it is this straightforward that it does not belong on meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments re: the linked question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per my answer above, the linked question's issue is about the quality of the question (whether it fits Q&amp;amp;A), not about whether it should be meta or not (imo, not meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there is no actual question in the linked question. The closest there is is &lt;code&gt;&quot;Just imagine if that [competiton] was for TeX?&quot;&lt;/code&gt; and something a little later on questioning the value of the answers provided. Instead, it reads as a longwinded version of statement &lt;code&gt;&quot;I've just seen this cool idea, wouldn't it be great if TeX had something similar&quot;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(...as opposed to &lt;code&gt;&quot;I've just seen this cool idea, how can we implement something similar for TeX to boost awareness and usage of TeX amongst the general public?&quot;&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO the linked question should be permitted to stay as (assuming it is &quot;cleaned up&quot; somewhat to more match the &quot;as opposed to&quot; bit above) it is not a flippant nor pointless question. It can bring benefit to the TeX community and I believe that I think it would be a real shame to close it/remove it from existance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23819" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T13:37:09.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3746" CreationDate="2013-08-17T12:57:38.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider this quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer%20help%20pages&quot;&gt;help pages&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is not meant to be a definitive and final&#xA;  statement indicating that the question has now been answered&#xA;  perfectly. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It simply means that the author received an answer that&#xA;  worked for him or her personally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, but not every user comes back to&#xA;  accept an answer, and of those who do, they may not change the&#xA;  accepted answer if a newer, better answer comes along later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The emphasis is mine, but to me this means that &quot;too broad&quot; is when there cannot be a single accepted answer (either from the given answers, or from an amalgamated summary answer describing what actually worked for the asker if multiple authors contributed to the final success).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My, personal, verdict (disclaimer: opinions based mostly on the titles):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX &amp;amp; friends&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.. is too broad, as there is no single answer for a &quot;showcase&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.. is too broad, what is the question? I note that it has the &quot;big-list&quot; tag..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clicking through reveals &quot;What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents?&quot; - IMO this should be rephrased and then the asker will accept whichever answer he/she actually ended up using&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What packages do people load by default in LaTeX?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is borderline too broad depending on the actual question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could be rephrased, eg (&quot;I am looking to create a template file that will contain the packages I use most often (ie setup my default development/writing environment templates), what do you include in yours?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.. and then the accepted answer can be an amalgamation of what the asker &lt;strong&gt;actually used&lt;/strong&gt; in his/her &quot;normal&quot; setup (while upvotes will indicate what the community believe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perfectly acceptable, imo, assuming that the asker does actually intend to explain TeX to his grandma ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.. can be specific, assuming that the accepted answer is the answer that the asker actually used &lt;em&gt;(ie &quot;worked for him or her personally&quot;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23819" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T12:57:38.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3783" CreationDate="2013-08-17T16:21:45.447" Score="10" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make it for record/reference, It's somewhat related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3694/15717&quot;&gt;unlicensed fonts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the following Q the OP linked a pdf document(All rights reserved by Author, but freely available via university handle) and asked how the graphs in thesis are made in page 23 etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128620/how-are-the-graphs-in-this-thesis-produced&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128620/how-are-the-graphs-in-this-thesis-produced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Including the external images (atleast some examples) would be the first reaction to make by any editor since the OP is first time user(1 rep) and got severe downvotes due to his language and third person conversation involved. Basically I have tried my best to recover the newbie's Q to be more readable and clear. Finally I have removed the figures as per @JosephWright suggestion for a benefit of doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we worry about copyright(sometimes unknown to us) of images while including external images ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Case 1&lt;/strong&gt;: Copyright is known to us(but document is freely available over university dissertation website) similar to the first time OP's Q linked here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As freely available over university dissertation website to benefit students/readers, Is it OK to copy and include 1 or 2 figures for eg: to demo purpose only without claiming any commercial/academic benefit ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Case2&lt;/strong&gt;: Copyright is unknown to us(since part of copyrighted document attached in link by OP)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As copyright is unknown to us(since part of copyrighted document attached in link by OP), Is it ok to copy and include 1 or 2 figures for eg: to demo purpose only without claiming any commercial/academic benefit ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case3: Any one who have experienced can add here &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this we shall include some good pointers to help editors in below metaQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3558/15717&quot;&gt;First post questions: Good reviewing practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T02:48:51.593" Title="Policy: Including external images from copyrighted (sometimes unknown to us) documents" Tags="|discussion|editing|images|policy|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2013-08-17T17:48:52.683" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope people will forgive me if I use the freedom of the Meta group format to add a commentary that is too long for a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@AlanMunn's answer is one that I find extremely helpful for clarifying the culture of TeX.SE.  The other answers are also very helpful.  However, I think those who function as leaders in TeX.SE should consider the possibility that the prevailing practice discourages participation in TeX.SE.  I am not in any way an expert on LaTeX, but I have 20-25 years of experience with it, and have occasionally hacked raw TeX, edited style files, Postscript files, etc.  It turns out that most questions in TeX.SE are narrowly focused on issues I don't care about and don't know about--OK, no problem there.  But I have gotten incredibly helpful answers on TeX.SE, for which I'm grateful, so I want to contribute.  In the past, when I saw a new, unanswered question on a topic I knew something about, I would open it.  However, the question had usually already been thoroughly answered in comments.  This became frustrating.  So I usually gravitate toward &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; participating in TeX.SE, except when I have a question.  What's the point?  I don't care about most of the questions, and I can't tell which other ones are answered---and they usually are.  The fact that answers are eventually moved out of comments into actual answers doesn't help with this problem.  (Of course there are a few questions of interest whose answers I don't know, but those are hard to find.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on and accepting answers isn't a perfect system, but it's a good system with thought put into it, and it can work pretty well.  The TeX.SE practice partly discards the benefits of that system, it seems to me.  As for people who are just trying to earn points, well, I don't really see the problem.  The SE system is designed to encourage that behavior, and for a good reason.  If people give bad answers, they won't get voted up.  So what?  (If they're really bad answers, they'll get downvoted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments asking for refinement, broadening, etc. of questions are a different matter.  These are of course appropriate and are used in other SE groups.  No objection here.  I often post possible answers, along with requests for clarification, as comments in other SE groups when I'm not sure what the OP is asking.  In TeX.SE, in addition to questions that are looking for clarification, refinement, or broadening, there are many comments that contain what I consider full-fledged answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm misinterpreting the situation, but it sounds as if TeX.SE functions as a group in which a few experts end up providing most of the answers, except for more obscure issues.  That's an OK system.  It might place additional burden on the experts, but I have no problem with that if they don't.  However, it may be that the practice also ends up restricting the diversity of the pool of people who are around to answer the more obscure questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, those are the thoughts I have.  Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11250" LastEditorUserId="11250" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T18:21:50.213" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T18:21:50.213" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3746" CreationDate="2013-08-18T21:59:53.593" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me give another example type which never gets in the way of the users, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/108497/what-happened-to-textures-and-bluesky-research&quot;&gt;What happened to Textures and Bluesky Research?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is clearly a very important question due to its answer not as a question itself. If you look at the typically-complained questions, they are either grandma category or big list of LaTeX editors question type for which everybody has an opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is simply the same problem with removing Thanks in disguise. Whenever there is room for speculation, it rubs the disciplined users the wrong way. But they are not alone in this environment. Moreover, as we know from the every-now-and-then happening edit frenzies some users only care about the structure but not the content itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{opinion}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is by far the most importantly a social medium. Clear set of rules etc. don't apply but only guide. It is especially important on TeX.SE which is the main fabric of our &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;insert all the nice things here, friendliness, kindness&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can deal with uncertainty and hance we deal with them case-by-case basis. There is no need to impose structure on an already nicely-working system led by its entire user base. Example; it takes a few comments to make a (proper!) case and make a question reopened. Anyone is free to try the same on other SE networks which have clear set of rules for reopening that render reopening impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to remind everyone who participates in the discussion and cites FAQ and help pages that originates from SO-templates, that we have fiddled with most of the rules and expectations. So every SE site has its own habitat. Arguing via SO-based dictations might be misleading. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's fun we don't spoil the fun. Sometimes we can't just close it because it's fun. Sometimes we don't let it become fun. I don't know how that mechanism works. But I don't need to anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short there is no fixed rule set hence there is no way for a rigorous explanation of a complicated social interaction. It just doesn't work that way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\end{opinion}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T21:59:53.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3767" CreationDate="2013-08-19T00:23:42.377" Score="10" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent rash of spamming, I am running lower and lower on flags.  What do we do to notify the right people about spam when my flags are gone for the day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this rash of spamming was by the same 3-5 people.  Where is an ip ban?  Why aren't they getting a question ban for too many down votes?  Anything to stop them until they can get ip banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="27081" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T12:53:47.627" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T12:59:24.363" Title="Spam and flagging" Tags="|support|flagging|spam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3765" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-19T00:56:06.813" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T00:56:06.813" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T00:56:06.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3766" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-19T00:56:06.813" Score="0" Body="Spam the act of putting unwanted and disruptive content on the site." OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="27081" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T06:21:09.413" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T06:21:09.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3764" CreationDate="2013-08-19T05:29:19.043" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In terms of spam notification, you have a number of options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/58032/168244&quot;&gt;Flag it as spam&lt;/a&gt;. Enough spam flags can lead to deletion. This will also notify moderators who can take immediate action.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag for moderator attention and mention it is spam (similar to above), but will require moderators to take action.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/176807/168244&quot;&gt;Questions with a certain number of downvotes are removed from the front page&lt;/a&gt;, and therefore should not be visibly listed. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7237/168244&quot;&gt;Reputation loss due to downvotes&lt;/a&gt; will be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/92436/168244&quot;&gt;regained at a later stage once the post is finally deleted&lt;/a&gt; as a result of a reputation-recalc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mention it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; and ask for others with remaining spam flags to cast them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With these options, I'm sure you will have enough going around for 24 hours (when flags are reset) to keep the spammers from receiving attention (well, technically they are receiving attention, but...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a general discussion on the current &quot;football scam flooding&quot; and what is being done to avoid future problems of this kind, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/192820/168244&quot;&gt;Recent Mass Football Spam&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, it also includes some &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/192837/168244&quot;&gt;personal actions taken to identify and &quot;remove&quot; spam bots&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T12:59:24.363" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3768" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-19T14:06:32.863" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question has been put on hold as unclear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/115625/how-do-i-generate-page-numbers-when-using-the-html2latex-library&quot;&gt;How do I generate page numbers when using the html2latex library?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I can't edit or comment on it, how do I help clarify the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T05:50:48.820" Title="How do I improve a question that's been put on hold?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2013-08-19T14:25:26.953" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ouunt.png&quot; alt=&quot;DeTeXify - LaTeX symbol classifier&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17107" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T14:25:26.953" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-08-19T14:25:26.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3768" CreationDate="2013-08-19T16:13:58.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm working through older unanswered questions trying to deal with them if I can.  The fact that things got locked here is unfortunate: I've (hopefully) unlocked it now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T16:13:58.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-20T11:57:19.450" Score="10" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that &quot;too localized&quot; is no longer a valid reason for closing a question, the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;text building block&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; should be rephrased. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) On this site, a question should typically revolve around an abstract issue (e.g. &quot;How do I get a double horizontal line in a table?&quot;) rather than a concrete application (e.g. &quot;How do I make this table?&quot;). Questions that look like &quot;Please do this complicated thing for me&quot; tend to get closed because they are &quot;too localized&quot;. Please try to make your question clear and simple by giving a [minimal working example (MWE)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228): you'll stand a greater chance of getting help.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T23:33:16.057" Title="Text building block referring to &quot;too localized&quot; must be rephrased" Tags="|discussion|too-localized|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3503" CreationDate="2013-08-20T18:27:06.620" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(This post is mainly not about the welcome page per se, but about the practice of greeting new users with it.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;welcome page&lt;/a&gt; is rather off-putting because of its length. That's unavoidable: there is a lot of material to cover. Using sections instead of huge bulleted lists would make it more palatable but other than that I don't see room for significant improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My recommendation is to not throw it at new users unless you really want to tell them “you are not welcome here until you've read this”. If that's the case, say so: “Please read this advice”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a specific point to address, say so. For example: “Please use &lt;code&gt;Ctrl+K&lt;/code&gt; or the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button to format code by indenting it by 4 spaces in the editor. For more tips, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;our welcome page&lt;/a&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have nothing specific to tell users, then &lt;strong&gt;don't tell them anything&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a new user, when the first reaction I got from [tex.se] was a comment that told me “Welcome, here's a wall of text”, I was put off for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any specific part of this wall of text you want me to read?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As a Stack Exchange veteran, I do know the general stuff like formatting and accepting answers. If I was new to Stack Exchange, this would be far too much for one sitting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are you stalking me? Waiting for me to post just to jump on me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neat, a reply to my question! Ah, no, it's a comment, someone must be requesting a clarification. What, you're disturbing me for &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;‽&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't see the point of the boilerplate comment, and it's rather off-putting. Please don't leave a comment unless you have something to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1731" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T18:27:06.620" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-20T20:18:18.023" Score="10" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thinking about the concept and practice of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/&quot;&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt; more often than not these past few days as come to a head: what exactly does TeX.SX believe about community wiki?  What questions count, and what questions don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki&quot;&gt;The Future of Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt; has me thinking that&#xA;  community wiki should &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be used when&#xA;  the content &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; to be edited from time to time,&#xA;  like our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors and IDEs&lt;/a&gt; question.&#xA;Similarly, something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/&quot;&gt;How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; community wiki because&#xA;  it does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; need to be edited often &lt;em&gt;if at all&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;The question is applicable to the entire TeX community and,&#xA;  while each answer is valid,&#xA;  there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a best answer as far as OP was concerned -&#xA;  the answer that &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; grandmother supposedly understood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with anything, there are many ways to approach a problem.  There isn't &quot;one right answer&quot; to &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;, and this lack of a single answer is what drives many questions to CW &lt;em&gt;which isn't the point&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;The recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/129274/&quot;&gt;Showcase of optical illusions made with TeX/LaTeX/LuaTeX/ConTeXt&lt;/a&gt; is a perfect example of this;&#xA;  while there is no one right answer,&#xA;  the answers will not need to be edited.&#xA;While the sum of the answers is a community effort,&#xA;  each individual answer is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that we do things a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; different around here and I think that's &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;It's what makes us special and, frankly,&#xA;  a generally nicer environment than many other SE sites.&#xA;We don't hound around for reputation,&#xA;  but are we to abuse what is designed to be a specific tool for great content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@JosephWright reminded me that answers can be made CW by their posters.&#xA;I think these are something of a nobler outlier---where the poster of the answer knows his or her answer isn't perfect but wishes it to be so.  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/107599/what-is-miktex/107601#107601&quot;&gt;I've done this, too.&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;So, I would like to concentrate this meta question on CW questions, rather than answers that are elected to be so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T00:38:17.747" Title="What exactly do we believe about Community Wiki posts?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3773" CreationDate="2013-08-20T20:34:56.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general rule of thumb (as I understand it) is that there should be very few community wiki &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;. However, sometimes we have used them for a couple of reason: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; questions (which are generally discouraged, but should probably be CW) and sometimes for &quot;canonical&quot; questions for which we expect one (or sometimes a small number) of CW answers. A canonical question is usually a question that shows up &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; as a duplicate (i.e. the same question in varying forms is asked a lot by new users). As a community, we've often decided that it's helpful to have a single comprehensive answer or set of answers to which all new duplicates can be referred.  The reason for making these questions CW, I think, is that those of us who have posed such questions have done so for the general benefit of the site, and therefore think that there's no need to gain reputation from them.  An example of such a question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25249/2693&quot;&gt;How do I use a particular font for a small section of text in my document?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I realize now from your addendum that these questions are not the sort you are necessarily asking about, since they are proposed to be CW by the questioner from the very beginning.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T00:38:17.747" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3773" CreationDate="2013-08-20T23:10:47.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding as a casual user, and not a god like egreg, Alan Munn or Joseph Wright, was that Community Wiki could be used for questions that were very much matters of opinion: For example, the Text Editor question referenced above, I don't think it will need updating that often (Honestly, how often do vim and emacs change in a significant way?) but there is no right answer, it is an opinion. I mean, heck, you could justify using ed as your text editor. Similarly there isn't a right answer on how to explain to your grandmother what LaTeX doesn't have a right answer. Whereas 'How do I add this to my TOC' does have right and wrong answers, and probably one that is the most right for a given situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T23:10:47.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3503" CreationDate="2013-08-21T08:15:13.673" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me there are (at least) three parts to the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should we welcome new people?&lt;/em&gt; If we view TeX-sx as a 'community', then saying hello to new members is something that seems reasonable. That's I guess what saying 'Welcome to TeX-sx!' is about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should we link to any information as part of saying hello, and if so what?&lt;/em&gt; Assuming we accept part (1), then do we just say hello or should this link to any information? The current 'wall of text' is probably not what we are after if the aim is just to welcome new people, but I wonder what exactly we do want to say. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If there is something specific to highlight, should the link be to a general text?&lt;/em&gt; If you are commenting on a post from a new user and do want to point something specific out, do you also say 'hello' &lt;em&gt;in the same comment&lt;/em&gt; and do you link to a general &lt;em&gt;hello&lt;/em&gt; text (or indeed say 'hello' at all)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, they are questions not answers :-) I've got no problem with (1): saying hello doesn't seem to be problematic although I don't tend to do it myself. I'm not so sure about linking to anything for (2): the original idea of the 'welcome' text was to be helpful, but it's grown too big and I'm not sure that a replacement won't either so broad as to be meaningless or go in the same direction. On (3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX-sx! I notice that &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;thing&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, see &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;specific-link&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems to be perfectly reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T08:15:13.673" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3503" CreationDate="2013-08-21T08:44:54.257" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I happen to be first to a &quot;new user&quot; I often add a &quot;welcome to tex.sx&quot; comment, but have never linked to the page and I agree with percusse that the &quot;if you wish to familiarize yourself with our format.&quot; in one of the boilerplate comments does have negative connotations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really I don't think pointing to a page about community rules and practices as a comment on a first post really makes sense. Some people hang around and &quot;join the community&quot; and if they do but have a problem picking up the conventions pointing them at such a page might help. But many first time posters have just landed on the site by accident and want an answer to a question, they don't want an explanation of how to mark up a question (they just did that) or how to &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; ping people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T08:44:54.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3782" CreationDate="2013-08-21T19:46:34.683" Score="12" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has for aim to help reducing the number of unanswered questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking to the unanswered questions I went through &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/124189/31058&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; called &lt;em&gt;Error typesetting large bracket with multiple lines&lt;/em&gt;. Actually the problem was just that the &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; package was not loaded, and had nothing to do with the error mentioned in the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There wasn't a real conceptual/theoretical TeX-related problem here, so what should be done with this question, and more generally with all the questions presenting the same kind of problem due to something not at all mentioned in the question and not really useful for other users? I would say that knowing that someone forgot to load a package does not improve the general use of TeX and so may not really deserve an answer which will remain on TeX.SX...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? What do you suggest to do for these questions (I already saw other questions presenting the same problem but I am not able to find them just now)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T00:00:51.377" Title="What to do with the solved questions concerning a mistake not linked to the question?" Tags="|discussion|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-24T19:25:06.153" Score="11" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a question because of something I stumbled over on reddit. I wanted to &quot;alert&quot; the community to the issue which is, as far as I understood it: software from SourceForge might only be available with adware or malware in the future, it's already the case for Filezilla. It is depicted in its full glory on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1kxuul/beware_of_sourceforge_downloads_new_owner_is/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt;. Not that I mean to impose on everyone to read the thread of course! I just that I think it's a sign of the times (again, sort of, adware did vanish in the last couple of years imho) and it's worth mentioning on here, as some developers in the LaTeX community host their project on SourceForge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;amp;t=30240&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FileZilla&lt;/a&gt;, the primary download option on its homepage links to SourceForge. So there are still alternative downloads available. But the problem is that—although I have not tested it myself—apparently the installer from SourceForge does not work when unchecking the additional software (&lt;a href=&quot;https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;amp;t=30240&amp;amp;sid=d1aacf1c6b96a63aa9fa85ca670dfcd1&amp;amp;start=15#p113915&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) (not that I would advice anyone to &#xA;use that installer anyway):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The SourceForge installer won't work for me on Windows 8 x64. when I click on the decline button for the sponsored product the installer quits without displaying any error message. I have downloaded it 3 times just in case, each time Windows verifies it as being digitally signed and the same issue happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25683" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T13:20:04.660" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T13:20:04.660" Title="Does anyone know of a good host for LaTeX software development? - SourceForge has a new owner and installers might get bundled up with adware" Tags="|discussion|community|package-authors|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2013-08-26T16:54:34.440" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3780" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3781" CreationDate="2013-08-25T16:51:57.997" Score="14" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite a while ago I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24565/add-additional-text-to-grouped-bibliography-entries-with-biblatex&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question about &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; receiving a &quot;hackish&quot; answer that solved my problem at the time (although it is certainly not perfect as I have to change the content of my .bib files) but in the comments I was informed that an upcoming version of &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; would provide a more canonical solution to my problem. Now, I tried finding out how to do it right, but my knowledge of &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; is not good enough to find what I am searching for. Should I ask this question again in a revised form (e.g. I would like to request a language sensitive solution to my problem that doesn't tinker with the .bib files) or should I edit my original question and award a bounty to get enough attention? I know the question of resurrecting questions vs. asking them again has been raised before but there is an aspect I couldn't find: If I go with resurrection, what should I do with the accepted answer? Should I unaccept it? Wouldn't that be kind of &quot;rude&quot; as it was the only possible solution at the time and did solve the question I asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6870" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T18:19:15.760" Title="How to go about resurrecting an old question that already has an accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3780" CreationDate="2013-08-25T17:57:22.547" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the one who provided the &quot;hackish&quot; answer and I think unaccepting it plus updating the original question (&quot;I'm looking for a canonical answer&quot;) is the correct way in this case. Adding a bounty would ensure additional notice, but is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T17:57:22.547" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3778" CreationDate="2013-08-27T00:00:51.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Converting my comment and Madam barbara beeton's comment into wiki-answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good to know you are working hard to reduce the number of unanswered Q, Two Options: 1. comment to @egreg to convert his comments to answer ( which has nice explanation of why the error was not &quot;amsmath not found&quot;) 2. Directly make an answer from egreg's comments ( I know egreg does not worry too much in doing so). I am pretty sure with egreg's explanatory comment on cases error info, it becomes a deserving an answer even though it's a small missing package issue. Basically adding value for the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;quite a few such questions have been closed as &quot;off topic&quot; or &quot;out of scope&quot; (or whatever the currently acceptable reason is). another question (which i haven't tried to find because i'm limited on time) suggested giving a quick answer, to be polite as well as to provide definitive closure, then making a comment giving the reason for closure, and voting for closure. the panel shown when &quot;out of scope&quot; is chosen now provides a space to fill in a custom reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T00:00:51.377" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-08-27T00:00:51.377" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3761" CreationDate="2013-08-27T20:37:19.923" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a lawyer, and copyright laws differ from country to country, but in the U.S., copyright does not need to be asserted: it exists the moment you produce the work. So in reality there is no such thing as &quot;unknown copyright&quot;; the safest assumption is that it belongs to the author or has been transferred to someone else. That said, it seems to me that posting an image from a document as an example of something would definitely fall under the US interpretation of &quot;fair use&quot;, in my opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is a quotation from the U.S. Copyright office on how fair use is interpreted in the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision&#xA;  of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts&#xA;  have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or&#xA;  criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short&#xA;  passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or&#xA;  clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of&#xA;  the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article,&#xA;  with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of&#xA;  a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by&#xA;  a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson;&#xA;  reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or&#xA;  reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or&#xA;  broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;U.S. Copyright Office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with all legal questions, and since the site is international in scope,  we must be careful not to assume that the laws in one country apply in another. However since the Stackexchange network is based in the U.S., I would assume that U.S. copyright laws are applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2013-08-28T02:48:51.593" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T02:48:51.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3785" CreationDate="2013-08-28T22:41:09.913" Score="8" ViewCount="3559" Body="&lt;h3&gt;The problem&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While writing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/130399/5245&quot;&gt;my last&#xA;answer&lt;/a&gt; I noticed that&#xA;linking to external resources containing a colon does not work,&#xA;since the colon is being escaped as &lt;code&gt;%3a&lt;/code&gt; and thus mangled and the&#xA;URLs do not resolve any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitorious.org/context/context/source/b76759d73e6734cb014fe46da1f8521dcc9a8d71:metapost/context/base/mp-mlib.mpiv#L182-256&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://gitorious.org/context/context/source/b76759d73e6734cb014fe46da1f8521dcc9a8d71:metapost/context/base/mp-mlib.mpiv#L182-256&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Analysis&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to link to external resources using the markdown syntax&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[description](URL)&lt;/code&gt;. The URL contained unescaped colons. After&#xA;having read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RFC - Uniform Resource&#xA;Identifier&lt;/a&gt; I hold that colons&#xA;do not have to be escaped and that this is a bug in the&#xA;stackexchange code, rather than a fault on the external resources'&#xA;side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colons are listed as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#page-12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reserved&#xA;characters&lt;/a&gt;. The&#xA;relevant section is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;URI producing applications should percent-encode data octets that&#xA;correspond to characters in the reserved set unless these characters&#xA;are specifically allowed by the URI scheme to represent data in that&#xA;component.  If a reserved character is found in a URI component and&#xA;no delimiting role is known for that character, then it must be&#xA;interpreted as representing the data octet corresponding to that&#xA;character's encoding in US-ASCII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take this URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://gitorious.org/context/context/source/b76759d73e6734cb014fe46da1f8521dcc9a8d71:metapost/context/base/mp-mlib.mpiv#L182-256&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the RFC&lt;/a&gt; the colon&#xA;belongs to the &lt;em&gt;path&lt;/em&gt; part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  foo://example.com:8042/over/there?name=ferret#nose&#xA;  \_/   \______________/\_________/ \_________/ \__/&#xA;   |           |            |            |        |&#xA;scheme     authority       path        query   fragment&#xA;   |   _____________________|__&#xA;  / \ /                        &amp;gt;       urn:example:animal:ferret:nose&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the path is of type&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;path-absolute&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;which requires the syntax &lt;code&gt;path-absolute = &amp;quot;/&amp;quot; [ segment-nz *( &amp;quot;/&amp;quot; segment ) ]&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;segment-nz = 1*pchar&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;segment = *pchar&lt;/code&gt; and&#xA;&lt;code&gt;pchar = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / &amp;quot;:&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;@&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means, the path can contain all unreserved characters, encoded&#xA;characters or colons, if I'm not mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Workaround&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the time being an URL shortener can be used and the shortened&#xA;URL can be included. However, this is generally not desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Discussion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why stackexchange alters the link in the first place.&#xA;As far as I know, the parentheses enclose an URL, which is only&#xA;valid if has been properly encoded by the user. No further encoding&#xA;is required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; It was indeed a bug on gitorious side. And Marcin &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitorious.org/gitorious/mainline/commit/b4288cb228dbce734acfdc0701f5085e74c3ced9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;committed a fix&lt;/a&gt; today, which has already been released, so the link mentioned above resolves correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5245" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-10-07T07:34:52.683" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T18:05:48.267" Title="URLs containing colons are escaped and do not resolve" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3784" CreationDate="2013-08-28T23:52:45.407" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/88655/1438&quot;&gt;answer on MSE&lt;/a&gt; that addresses the issue.  The important bit is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A colon and &lt;code&gt;%3a&lt;/code&gt; are semantically identical in URLs per the RFC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at an &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/20783/10037&quot;&gt;example on Gaming&lt;/a&gt; (and read the comments), you'll see that the problem should actually be fixed by the site that serves pages with colons in the URL.  This is actually a bug at Gitorious.org.  If you notice, the server returns with &lt;code&gt;500 Internal server error&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, something went wrong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gitorious encountered an server error. We are automatically notified of errors and will look into it. If the error persists beyond what's reasonable, &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitorious.org/contact&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;let us know&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for encoding seems to be that failing to do so &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17077/1438&quot;&gt;breaks&lt;/a&gt; refernce-style &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#links&quot;&gt;links in Markdown&lt;/a&gt;.  Your solution of using a link shortener seems the best workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5871" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T23:52:45.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3787" CreationDate="2013-08-29T19:09:50.793" Score="10" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across “&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/130693/29288&quot;&gt;Tikz: Arrow description closer to arrow&lt;/a&gt;” earlier and flagged it as a duplicate, as I don't have enough reputation on tex.se to cast a close vote.  I edited the “possible duplicate” comment with a note about the actual change that the code in the question would need.  Now I notice that the comment has been deleted, though neither of the other two comments have been deleted.  This removes the context of the OP's “thank you” comment (which I realize are discouraged anyhow). I'm not concerned about that so much, but I don't see that the comment was: rude or offensive; not constructive; obsolete; or too chatty.  For what other reasons might it have been deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual content of the comment wasn't so important, but the code in the question was &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(m-1-2) edge node[auto] {$Q(g)$} (m-2-1)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and, based on the question of which it was a duplicate, I pointed out that the code the user would need is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(m-1-2) edge node[auto,inner sep=0pt] {$Q(g)$} (m-2-1)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29288" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T11:02:13.700" Title="why was &quot;possible duplicate&quot; comment with additional information deleted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3786" CreationDate="2013-08-29T19:13:36.637" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'system' now deletes comments which it detects point to a dupe when a duplicate is marked: thus anything saying 'May be a dupe ...' or 'Dupe of ...' gets zapped. The logic is not fool-proof: if you have a longer more complex comment it will be missed, while comments pointing to alternatives to the dupe actually picked can get removed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T19:13:36.637" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3786" CreationDate="2013-08-30T11:02:13.700" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the lesson to learn here is to separate the &quot;possible duplicate&quot; bit of the comment from the extra helpful part.  Posting two comments might seem a bit clumsy but it does at least avoid the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T11:02:13.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3790" CreationDate="2013-08-30T17:03:53.407" Score="13" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an effort to improve myself in LaTeX and communication thereof, one metric I have used to assess the quality of my answers on this site is to take my total reputation and divide it by the total number of answers I've given (this is because I don't know how to reckon the total number of upvotes I've received).  It helps measure how well I can convey useful information to others, which is not quite the same as measuring how proficient I am (or not) at LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, in my case, this ratio is quite low compared to the major contributors.  In some cases, it may be because I try to answer very particular questions that may garner little general interest, outside of the OP.  But I also am cognizant of the lesser quality I often provide relative to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, regardless of reason, this ratio gives me a metric I can use to measure and work on my improvement over time.  But I found one glitch:  on days where you max out at 200 points, there will be upvotes not reflected in the reputation number. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is this:  is there a convenient way on the site to see a tally of total upvotes for a user, so as to calculate a more relevant metric (upvotes per answer) rather than reputation per answer.  And, if not, I guess that would be a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25858" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T17:47:41.800" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T16:52:30.873" Title="Self-Assessing Answer Quality" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3789" CreationDate="2013-08-30T17:45:53.243" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could parse the output obtained by visiting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;text-only reputation breakdown&lt;/a&gt;. The output resembles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;total votes: 18989&#xA; 16    22477 (2)&#xA;-- 2011-07-06 rep +2    = 3         &#xA; 16    22829 (2)&#xA; 2     22831 (10)&#xA; 2     22915 (10)&#xA;-- 2011-07-12 rep +22   = 25        &#xA; 2     23026 (5)&#xA; 2     23085 (10)&#xA; 2     23096 (10)&#xA; 2     23096 (10)&#xA; 2     23096 (10)&#xA;-- 2011-07-14 rep +45   = 70        &#xA; 2     23096 (10)&#xA; 2     23096 (10)&#xA; 2     23026 (5)&#xA; 2     23096 (10)&#xA; 2     23096 (10)&#xA; 2     23082 (10)&#xA;-- 2011-07-15 rep +55   = 125       &#xA; 16    23161 (2)&#xA; 1     23032 (2)&#xA; 2     23162 (10)&#xA; 2     23162 (10)&#xA; 2     23237 (10)&#xA; 2     23237 (10)&#xA; 2     23237 (10)&#xA;-- 2011-07-16 rep +54   = 179       &#xA; 2     23237 (10)&#xA; 2     23237 (10)&#xA; 2     23237 (10)&#xA; 1     23237 (15)&#xA; 2     23162 (10)&#xA; 1     23162 (15)&#xA; 16    23332 (2)&#xA;-- 2011-07-17 rep +72   = 251       &#xA; 2     23162 (10)&#xA; 1     23406 (15)&#xA; 2     23406 (10)&#xA; 2     23420 (10)&#xA;...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which gives a daily tally of votes cast toward you (up or down, for a question or an answer). The first column contains the type of vote you received: 1 = accept; 2 = Upvote; 3 = Downvote, ..., 16 = Approved suggested edit. The middle column represents the post ID and the last (bracketed) column represents the reputation gained. Days where you reach reputation cap have some of these entries listed as (0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This approach will give you an up-to-date reflection of your current voting status. If you're not really concerned with an in-time calculation, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; allows an interface to creating your own queries to extract the data, summarize and display them. However, this has a lag (which could be months). It's also possible to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-dump&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;download the entire data set via torrent&lt;/a&gt; and play with it, if you can't go to sleep easily...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a list of vote identifiers, see the structure of the voting database in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2677/168244&quot;&gt;Database schema documentation for the public data dump and Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T17:45:53.243" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3789" CreationDate="2013-08-31T16:52:30.873" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation system is a bit of fun but I think it's dangerous to think there is any correlation between quality of TeX information and points earned. Looking at my top three answers ordered by rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;234&lt;/code&gt; How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;75&lt;/code&gt; What are penalties and which ones are defined?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;68&lt;/code&gt; How was TeX output visualised on screen, back in the day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the second one has any real TeX information and the first one scored about as many as the next four put together, and is essentially content free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T16:52:30.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-01T12:44:07.550" Score="9" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime I use the markdown headline &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;##&lt;/code&gt; to structure my answers, mostly I use only use &lt;code&gt;##&lt;/code&gt; since the &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; is much too big in my eyes. Furthermore in my opinion the spacing is not that good. I’d like to see more space above the headlines, especially directly behind code blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Example&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This headline has the same space above and below, but it belongs to the text below so this relation should be visible in the spacing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;some code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Headline&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When using a code block right before a headline the space above seems even smaller that the space below. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-09-01T12:44:47.657" LastActivityDate="2013-09-01T12:44:47.657" Title="Improve spacing of headlines (# and ## format)" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3797" CreationDate="2013-09-01T13:26:43.907" Score="17" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;having just looked at the umpteenth question about &lt;code&gt;\left&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\right&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;in a multi-line environment, i checked the&#xA;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2425/579&quot;&gt;often referenced questions&lt;/a&gt;&quot; list&#xA;to see if there was a suitable link.  no, that's missing.  in fact, there are&#xA;only three questions listed in the &quot;math environments&quot; section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so i searched for suitable candidates in the archive.  there are a lot of&#xA;helpful questions and answers (one such was suggested in a comment to the new&#xA;question), but all of them are quite specific to particular circumstances.&#xA;there's no single &quot;great question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i'm willing to pose such a question and write a comprehensive answer,&#xA;but in order to make sure both the question and answer qualify as &quot;great&quot;,&#xA;i'd like some help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what's the best way to tackle this?  chat in a dedicated chatroom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my experience with chat is that the size of the window is not conducive&#xA;to detailed exposition, which means that an answer can't readily be&#xA;compiled as a unit, only piecemeal.  (i'd really want to draft such an&#xA;answer off-line anyhow, in order to make use of an editor i'm used to,&#xA;that doesn't encourage me to make mistakes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if someone is willing to join in this endeavour, i'll add to this question&#xA;the list of questions i've already identified as containing potentially&#xA;useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while we're at it, are there any other good candidates for &quot;often asked questions&quot;&#xA;about math environments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;addendum:&lt;/strong&gt;  i've been busy with &quot;real work&quot;, and haven't drafted anything useful yet.&#xA;but some good candidates have been proposed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;how do i align my (displayed) equations?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;why can't i define a shorthand command for &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;my equation requires multiple lines, with matching delimiters on different lines.  how can i avoid the errors that i get with &lt;code&gt;\left&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\right&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;how do i put a brace (bracket/parenthesis) around just part of a matrix?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what are good practices when applying underbraces and/or overbraces to an equation?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what command should i use for bits of text in math environments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i'll post a separate question for each draft as i put it together -- or if someone else wants to make a start, please feel free.  (should the drafts be community wiki?)  in the meantime, please keep on making good suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T15:29:03.620" Title="how best to ask for help in adding to the &quot;often referenced questions&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="500" CreationDate="2013-09-05T03:08:04.563" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to weigh in quite late, I'm a not-very-smart &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; user and I often come to tex.SE from google. &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; does not confuse me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6422" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T03:08:04.563" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-05T03:08:04.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3795" CreationDate="2013-09-05T06:52:25.567" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual approach to tackling this sort of thing is to pose a meta question specifically asking for input both for thee question and answer for the main site. This gives us a chance to 'polish' the info before moving it to the main site, normally as a CW item (as there will be community input from meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T06:52:25.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-07T21:55:58.280" Score="7" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone answered my question, but there is no checkmark to accept the answer. I've been unable to find out if I need more reputation to do this, if I'm missing something, or if something is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/132062/loading-lineno-changes-spacing-in-document&quot;&gt;Here is the question in question.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25218" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T09:04:22.580" Title="Can't accept answer" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|reputation|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-08T13:01:03.973" Score="2" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the issue of using &quot;latex&quot; instead of &quot;LaTeX&quot; is a small issue (not many authors have to be reminded of the fact), it would be nice to prompt the user and say something along the lines of, &quot;Hey! You should use the proper capitalization of LaTeX instead of latex&quot; and allow the user to either edit their question, or post it regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4515" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-09-09T19:59:58.187" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T19:59:58.187" Title="Prompting the user to change &quot;latex&quot; to LaTeX" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3799" CreationDate="2013-09-08T17:34:25.893" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; bad idea. We strive to be an inclusive site, and enforcing such capitalizations is a great way to foster exactly the opposite view: &quot;there are those of us who know the 'right' way and you are in the group that doesn't know the 'right' way.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for editing, editing a post  just for such 'errors' is also inappropriate; if there are other worthwhile things to fix in a post, then fixing the capitalization of LaTeX is fine, but it should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be the main or only reason for editing a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340/2693&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T17:34:25.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-09T09:17:46.220" Score="3" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some examples in the main forum, I have seen code examples which contain the following scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using names of actual institutions, where the institution is no way a &lt;em&gt;known-to-everyone&lt;/em&gt; one. Using the names here will promote the name of the institution, and the act may be considered to bordering on commercial promotion. Moreover, use of the actual name is not essential at all for the example. Other names could have been easily used, perhaps making the example more interesting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using commercial brand names in examples. Again, the act may be considered to bordering on commercial promotion. And again, use of the commercial name is not essential at all for the example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I refrain from putting actual links to those examples for two reasons,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not want to point finger to any particular member.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Putting links will actually aid the commercial promulgation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the issues we can discuss here are,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How ethical do you think these acts are?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you think we can stop the acts? Simply reporting them will not solve the issue. The examples are otherwise very good and useful. Editing and getting them peer reviewed will be very time consuming for the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14103" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-09-09T19:44:12.173" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T05:54:04.473" Title="How Ethical is it to Use Actual Institution or Commercial Brand Names in Examples?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|code-example|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-09T11:35:14.287" Score="21" ViewCount="359" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a recurring theme of Official capitalization of (La)TeX and friends, removing &lt;em&gt;Thanks&lt;/em&gt;, code blocking code snippets, retagging, grammar fixing etc. discussion here on Meta-TeX-SX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this question is to compile yet another big list for a little bit of coherence on the individual policies which might contradict with another when combined. So I thought it might be helpful if we had a big list that we can refer to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason I can think of two families of editing reasons that are completely grouped according to my personal opinion;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Content and convenience&lt;/strong&gt;: Fixing simple MWE mistakes, completion of MWEs, code block formatting (both inline and as a standalone block), tagging, retagging, link prettifying (SX engine modifies the link if a TeX-SX link is pasted directly), picture inclusion, picture renewal if expired and others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Structure and Appearance&lt;/strong&gt;: Capitalization of TeX, LaTeX etc., grammar fixes, removing greetings and thanks, removing signatures, and others that can be regarded as &lt;em&gt;&quot;while you are at it...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; reasons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we make a question list for each of these items which had discussed the etiquette one way or the other for convenience? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't agree with this please downvote (I mean it) so we can close/remove this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, this is somewhat different than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-and-isnt-it-acceptable-to-edit&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt; because that question discusses whether we should edit or not, here I want to compile the previous discussions in case of a referral need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll give two examples below for clarifying this proposal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T05:30:44.940" Title="Previous editing and etiquette discussions" Tags="|discussion|editing|etiquette|big-list|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-14T20:42:45.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3802" CreationDate="2013-09-09T11:39:53.460" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Capitalization (of TeX, LaTeX and Friends) and Markup&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3799/prompting-the-user-to-change-latex-to-latex&quot;&gt;Prompting the user to change &amp;quot;latex&amp;quot; to LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2407/official-capitalizations-of-words-from-the-tex-world&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Official&amp;quot; capitalizations of words from the TeX world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4511/what-is-the-policy-on-adding-keyboard-markup&quot;&gt;What is the policy on adding keyboard markup?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T05:27:12.830" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-14T20:42:45.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3802" CreationDate="2013-09-09T11:42:07.670" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Removing greetings, &quot;Thanks&quot; and signature&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3602/removing-thanks-from-questions&quot;&gt;Removing &amp;quot;thanks&amp;quot; from questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2809/why-is-thanks-inappropriate-at-the-end-of-a-question&quot;&gt;Why is &amp;quot;thanks&amp;quot; inappropriate at the end of a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1961/etiquette-should-i-edit-questions-with-thanks-or-wait-for-moderator&quot;&gt;Etiquette: Should I edit questions with &amp;quot;Thanks&amp;quot; or wait for Moderator?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4478/what-to-do-about-a-post-when-the-op-insists-on-putting-a-thanks-at-the-end&quot;&gt;What to do about a post when the OP insists on putting a thanks at the end?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T08:07:32.030" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-14T20:42:45.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3813" CreationDate="2013-09-10T13:56:45.910" Score="21" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;quack&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dear friends, I'd like to talk about our interview series and the blog infrastructure. This is our current workflow for publishing an interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We close the interview, limiting its beginning and end. In this step, I usually create the chatroom bookmark.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get the whole text from the interview and try to organize it by reordering the sentences to make it sound more linear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once I have a preliminar text, our reviewers work on this draft.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reviewers return the text ready for publishing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We create a new blog post and add the content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I perform some checks on verbatim text, links and references.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once the interview is reviewed, I need to reformat it in order to comply with our dialogue guidelines (cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2399/clearer-formatting-of-dialogue-in-textalk&quot;&gt;Clearer formatting of dialogue in TeXtalk&lt;/a&gt;). I have a script that does this for me, so it's a semi-automatic process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The interview is published.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I update our meta thread with the blog post and chatroom bookmark (cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2545/textalk-interviews&quot;&gt;TeXtalk interviews&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our blog runs on top of a Wordpress installation, provided by StackExchange. IMHO, this infrastructure works very well for  the majority of the network sites, but I'm afraid is does not work for us. At all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By default, Wordpress only allows a subset of HTML entities and it has the bad habit of removing some existing ones for the &quot;sake of simplicity&quot; (and it's usually wrong on its assumptions). It's &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; a pain to format the interview with the current scheme. Visual mode sucks, and HTML is not any better (interchange modes and you are in hell).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown support is not good. And sometimes you are forced to use it with HTML (so no advantage of using Markdown at all). And again, things you type are still subjected to the good will of Wordpress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I actually mean is, as it is, Wordpress does not offers us a good, simple way of typesetting interviews as we would like. There are some hacks and tricks to make them look as our heart desires, but they take a huge amount of time. And it's counter-intuitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish the blog infrastructure could be built on top of the SE framework instead of Wordpress. The Markdown support we have here is amazing and, even if we could not fully comply with our dialogue guidelines, it would be easier for everybody to collaboratively work on the text. At least less painful, for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if the Powers That Be have any plans to improve the SE blog network. I was thinking if we could provide the interview as a PDF file, and of course, with the source code available. I know that a PDF approach is not ideal, since users might prefer reading the interview online in a browser instead of opening a PDF viewer in order to see what's going on. Sadly, as it is, the interview format is not fluent for us that work in the backstage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we opt for a PDF format, I'd like to call our TeX experts for us to come up with either a document class or package providing an interview-like format, publicly available (reaching CTAN at some point). Every interview would be typeset with this class/package, and it would be easier for our reviewers to work on the text. Besides, the blog posts would not be complicated to come up, since no heavy format would be required, just a link for the PDF file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are open to suggestions. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; Feel free to add your own views and also some pointers on what you would like to see on TeXtalk. After all, community matters! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T06:33:58.560" Title="TeXtalk interviews and blog infrastructure" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3808" CreationDate="2013-09-12T21:22:43.863" Score="7" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it hard to chose between tags &lt;code&gt;{wrap}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;{floats}&lt;/code&gt; for questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/133043/26348&quot;&gt;ConTeXt: Wrapped text misbehaves at page breaks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/128882/26348&quot;&gt;How can I prevent the next paragraph from overwriting the image of a description label?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;{wrap}&lt;/code&gt; (× 71 &lt;em&gt;of which 15% are mine&lt;/em&gt;) is about formatting an&#xA;  object (e.g. images) so that it is surrounded by text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;{floats}&lt;/code&gt; (× 1335) is about the floating environments figure, table&#xA;  and other, custom-defined floats, and concerns issues such as&#xA;  positioning, labelling, captioning, indexing and listing of said&#xA;  floats. For questions specifically about formatting a float caption,&#xA;  consider using {captions}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought long about this and I consider &lt;code&gt;{wrap}&lt;/code&gt; now a subsection of the larger family &lt;code&gt;{floats}&lt;/code&gt; where the latter also includes &lt;code&gt;\linewidth&lt;/code&gt; wide floats. On the other hand, TeX-learners coming from CSS will more readily use the term floating instead of wrapping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am eager to learn how others see this and if tagging practices should be changed for this type of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly and by means of reference, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1006/26348&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Contradictory tag wiki entries: {floats}, {tables}, {figures}&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was recently discussed here, but this did not encompass &lt;code&gt;{wrap}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26348" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T23:26:01.420" Title="Is tag {wrap} a subsection of tag {floats}?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3807" CreationDate="2013-09-12T22:56:39.203" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since 'float' has a technical definition in TeX which is well defined: an object whose placement is determined algorithmically by TeX itself, (subject to parameters given by the user), it's not the case that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wrap&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wrap&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wrap&lt;/a&gt; should be a subtag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; in the general sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wrap&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wrap&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wrap&lt;/a&gt; tag should be used for questions involving wrapping text around other elements, usually images. In these cases, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; tag will usually not apply, since by definition you can't wrap text around something the placement of which TeX (and not you) is responsible for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to the questions you link to, I would say that the first question deals with &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; floating objects and wrapped text, so both tags are appropriate.  In the second question, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; tag is inappropriate since the question does not deal with what TeX calls a 'float'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2013-09-13T10:46:28.183" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T10:46:28.183" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3807" CreationDate="2013-09-13T22:29:53.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A LaTeX  &lt;em&gt;float&lt;/em&gt; (or what the tex primitive level calls &lt;em&gt;inserts&lt;/em&gt;) is feature of &lt;em&gt;page&lt;/em&gt; breaking. When breaking up the document into pages certain units of the document that have been saved in special boxes can be moved from one page to another to achieve good page breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this moving process only uses the &lt;em&gt;size&lt;/em&gt; of the box it is independent of any content inside the box. LaTeX has two default floating environments, &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; is often used for included images and &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; is often used for tabular material, but LaTex doesn't actually care, either can take arbitrary LaTeX content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wrapping&lt;/em&gt; is a feature of &lt;em&gt;line&lt;/em&gt; breaking, not page breaking. It is adjusting the paragraph shape so that some lines of text are shorter to make space, usually for an included image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As can be seen from the above, from an implementation standpoint &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wrap&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wrap&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wrap&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; are essentially unconnected.  They are only related because an author, when choosing to include an image, has some choices (possibly automated) of whether to fit the image to the text by wrapping text around it or by floating the image to find a good place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T22:29:53.777" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3798" CreationDate="2013-09-14T18:51:30.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3798/cant-accept-answer#comment13004_3798&quot;&gt;Scott H.&lt;/a&gt; correctly answered your question; only answers can be accepted.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/196497/1438&quot;&gt;The network ask&lt;/a&gt; that comments be reserved clarifying the content or suggesting improvements to a post.  Answers (even partial, comment-sized answers) should not be hidden in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5871" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T09:04:22.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3802" CreationDate="2013-09-14T20:39:18.340" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answers in the comments&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3683/adding-the-accepted-mark-to-a-question-or-to-a-comment&quot;&gt;Adding the &amp;quot;accepted&amp;quot; mark to a question or to a comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1731/what-if-a-comment-answers-a-question&quot;&gt;What if a comment answers a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3238/why-do-people-answer-in-comments&quot;&gt;Why do people answer in comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T20:39:18.340" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-14T20:42:45.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3801" CreationDate="2013-09-15T05:54:04.473" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without an example, it's &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; difficult to know the sorts of problems you are seeing.  Certainly the network has clear policies on self-promotion.  But it does not seem like the instances you see are actual violations of that policy.  They are, rather, potential violations of this community's scruples.  If so, it's very important that the entire community knows and the majority of the community agrees to the standards.  For that to happen the examples would need to be clear and the purpose of the restriction should be laid out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since your personal scruples go so far as to want to avoid bringing attention (even censorious attention) to examples, we're in a little bit of a Catch-22: you can't explain the ethical dilemma without examples, but pointing to such examples would violate your ethics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Good writing often involves using concrete examples.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange values and encourages &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-write-without-writing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;good writing&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/&quot;&gt;Excellent answers&lt;/a&gt; tend to be more than just techinically accurate; they also engage to the reader.  Consider the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Humor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;paragraph&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft. He announced that, contrary to the expectations of some of his colleagues, he was not going to teach the Theory of Aggregates, nor Stone's Embedding Theorem, nor even the Stone–Čech compactification theorem.  (Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stanford (along with the final two sentences) is entirely extraneous to what the paragraph communicates.  And yet, it's a detail that adds more than enough to leave it in.  Even if Stanford were a complete unknown, the name of the institution paints a picture in the mind of the reader.  Being &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000033.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;specific&lt;/a&gt; makes for better writing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can hardly be said that using the names of institutions or commercial brands is promotion of those names in all cases.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08FOB-onlanguage-t.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cadillac&lt;/a&gt; answers might even go out of their way to include such names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5871" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T05:54:04.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3806" CreationDate="2013-09-15T06:33:58.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of us on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/99341/1438&quot;&gt;Community Manager&lt;/a&gt; team are interested in improving the Blog Overflow experience.  One of the proposals we are considering is to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/110998/using-the-stack-engine-for-the-blog-a-long-term-idea-for-maintaining-a-healthy?lq=1&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange engine&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/143367/add-a-markdown-preview-on-community-blogs&quot;&gt;parts of it&lt;/a&gt;.  There are lot's of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/23415/1438&quot;&gt;little issues&lt;/a&gt; to consider, however.  It's also effort that would be expended on a feature that most sites don't use and tends to be tangential to the primary mission of the sites that do.  We've been operating under the assumption that WordPress is &quot;good enough&quot; for most sites and blog authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this is to say that we are hoping to make the blog less troublesome for the sites that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; take advantage of them, but there's no timetable or even a reasonable expectation that it will happen.  Your question and the unique situation of TeX.SE's blog provides evidence that this is something worth pursuing, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5871" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T06:33:58.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2013-09-15T19:20:19.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's your first full TeX/LaTeX document? There can be multiple options (full thesis/book/..).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28100" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T19:20:19.643" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-15T19:20:19.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3807" CreationDate="2013-09-15T23:26:01.420" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The confusion between the distinction between &lt;code&gt;{wrap}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;{float}&lt;/code&gt; is an instance of the confusion caused by the difference in terminology between LaTeX and ConTeXt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LaTeX has a separate environment for &lt;code&gt;wrapfigure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; while ConTeXt treats both as instance of &lt;code&gt;float&lt;/code&gt; and the behavior is chosen based on the value of the &lt;code&gt;location&lt;/code&gt; key. Neither one is right, nor the other wrong. Such decisions are design choices, and LaTeX and ConTeXt authors chose differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation with other tags is no better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;{lists}&lt;/code&gt; in LaTeX is a generic tag to describe &lt;code&gt;itemize&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;description&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt;. In ConTeXt, all are implemented using &lt;code&gt;itemgroups&lt;/code&gt; environment. ConTeXt has a &lt;code&gt;description&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt; environment but they mean something completely different: &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt; is similar to &lt;code&gt;theorems&lt;/code&gt; in LaTeX, and &lt;code&gt;description&lt;/code&gt; to, well, unnumbered &lt;code&gt;theorems&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;{lists}&lt;/code&gt; in ConTeXt refers to what LaTeX calls &lt;code&gt;{toc}&lt;/code&gt;: List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Blah, are all implemented using &lt;code&gt;list&lt;/code&gt; environment in ConTeXt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it basically boils down to this: many tags on this site are named after the LaTeX environment that implements them so that it is easier for users to find the right tag. Given that 99.9999% of users on this site are LaTeX users, that is the right thing to do.  Either we (the ConTeXt users) create a new tag for everything &lt;code&gt;{context-hanging}&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;{context-list}&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;{context-enumeration}&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;{context-registers}&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;{context-marking}&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;{context-itemize}&lt;/code&gt;, and so on; or accept the fact that the tags of many ConTeXt questions will not make sense to ConTeXt users (like the &lt;code&gt;{wrap}&lt;/code&gt; tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T23:26:01.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3511" CreationDate="2013-09-16T13:47:25.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll join @morsburg in being &quot;that guy&quot;. I posted a question having to do with two-column (non-table) layout in ConTeXt. I couldn't find a tag that applied. The two- or multi-column tags I found were all specific either to tables ({multicolumn}) or to a particular LaTeX package ({multicol}, {two-column}).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The {two-column} tag would seem to fit best, except for the fact that its description links it to the &lt;code&gt;twocolumn&lt;/code&gt; package. However it seems to me that the description could be changed; a tag specific to the &lt;code&gt;twocolumn&lt;/code&gt; package should probably be called {twocolumn} anyway (no hyphen). IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I'm not sure how much value there is in having separate tags for questions about dual-column issues vs. triple-or-more. From my point of view it would be ideal to have a generic tag for multicolumn (non-table) layout, regardless of the macro package used (LaTeX or otherwise). But that collides with the existing tags {multicol} and {multi-column}, so something would have to give. Maybe use {multi-column-page} to refer to this, as opposed to tables?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6973" LastEditorUserId="6973" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T19:29:05.477" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T19:29:05.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3819" CreationDate="2013-09-16T18:44:12.747" Score="24" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could imagine two places. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://music.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore the question is, how much TeX-alike is Lilypond. I have the feeling, that I would get better answers on TeX.SX, but I wouldn't blame anybody to close questions for music-typesetting issues as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Is the TeX-comunity interested in this or should I try to find answers at Music.SX? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32245" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:41.167" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T23:15:13.033" Title="Where should I ask programming questions regarding lilypond?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3826" CreationDate="2013-09-16T19:02:53.543" Score="13" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question came up, when this post &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/121791&quot;&gt;How should I typeset the physical dimensions of quantities?&lt;/a&gt; got closed for being off-topic. We discussed it in chat, and it seem to be a bit tricky. That's why I would like to discuss this here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt; there is no word about typesetting or best-practices but both topics are possible tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In chat, I got linked to &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;. OK, but where should we draw the line. I don't think that I would get an answer to this special case on this site. I think the question is the same as concerns about &quot;space between value and unit&quot; or &quot;space between acronyms&quot; or all the &quot;upright or not&quot; stuff. On TeX.SX, there are a lot of people who know a lot of stuff about typesetting AND technical issues, standards and so on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, then that topic of typography should be included on the help page. For me, that's a major part of what TeX is about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for &quot;best-practices&quot;. Best practices in technological or scientific fields are often international rules or standards like ISO, DIN ... If I search for a canonical answer to an issue about units, dimensions, and so on, I would always search on TeX.SX first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do you think? If you don't agree, we should start migrating all the &quot;cosmetics&quot;-stuff to Graphics.SX. Would be fine for me, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32245" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T11:09:23.317" Title="Why are &quot;typography&quot; and &quot;best-practices&quot; possible tags but are not mentioned in the list of &quot;What topics can I ask about here&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|scope|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3817" CreationDate="2013-09-16T19:10:44.743" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is &quot;it depends&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you search for &quot;Lilypond&quot; on both sites you get a pretty complementary set of questions, and that seems appropriate: the ones here are about the integration of TeX and Lilypond (questions about fonts or engines, for example) while the ones on Music.SX are generally about setting the music itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think for most questions about setting music, you should probably ask on Music.SX, but for issues related to the integration, here is likely a better choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T20:15:20.647" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T20:15:20.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-17T10:31:59.700" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I search for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt; tag using the searchbox (by typing &lt;code&gt;[chronology]&lt;/code&gt;) or click on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt; tag link, it tells me there are &lt;code&gt;0 questions tagged chronology&lt;/code&gt; and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are on the FAQ tab. There are no frequently asked questions at the moment. Perhaps you'd like to select a different tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, searching for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=chronology&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt; without the &lt;code&gt;[]&lt;/code&gt; tag marker brings up a load of questions, some of which are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14210" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T14:58:53.850" Title="Why can't I search successfully for [chronology] questions?" Tags="|support|bug|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3822" CreationDate="2013-09-17T13:43:39.627" Score="19" ViewCount="1084" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the style of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1181/who-are-the-package-maintainers-here/&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Who are the package maintainers here?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and other &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; questions, I was wondering who here (package maintainer or no) has a GitHub, Bitbucket, CTAN author page, Launchpad, or other place where they keep a portfolio of their code (some of which is bound to be TeX in this community)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This stems from a discussion on chat in which &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5049/cgnieder&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;cgnieder&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;PauloCereda&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; were following all TeX.SE people on GitHub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this list can become a place where people can go when looking for examples (eg. if a member answers lots of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lilypond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lilypond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lilypond&lt;/a&gt; questions you might check out their GitHub and see if they've got any samples), or to learn a bit more about the various people on this site, their backgrounds, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please edit the CW answer below to add yourself to the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10744" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T12:07:41.943" Title="Who has a GitHub, Bitbucket, other code profile?" Tags="|discussion|community|big-list|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1402&quot;&gt;Matthew Leingang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/adamliter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IbXAt.png&quot; alt=&quot;BitBucket&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/adamliter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9EBsE.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/32888&quot;&gt;Adam Liter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/micoloretan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9EBsE.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5001/mico&quot;&gt;Mico Loretan&lt;/a&gt; (mico)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/cgnieder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IbXAt.png&quot; alt=&quot;BitBucket&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/author/niederberger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9hySn.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/cgnieder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9EBsE.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5049&quot;&gt;Clemens Niederberger&lt;/a&gt; (cgnieder)  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/author/salomon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9hySn.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jcsalomon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9EBsE.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2966/j-c-salomon&quot;&gt;Joel C. Salomon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/author/samcarter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9hySn.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/samcarter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9EBsE.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/36296/samcarter&quot;&gt;samcarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/author/sigurdhsson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9hySn.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/urdh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9EBsE.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/66&quot;&gt;Simon Sigurdhsson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/author/sturm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9hySn.png&quot; alt=&quot;CTAN&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/T-F-S&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9EBsE.png&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd0U3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Empty&quot;&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/30617/thomas-f-sturm&quot;&gt;Thomas F. 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rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pceq6.png&quot; alt=&quot;SourceForge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;:: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; It includes the repository for his &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/habi/latex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX examples&lt;/a&gt; and his &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/habi/PhD-Thesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PhD-Thesis&lt;/a&gt;, which is available as PDF &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.davidhaberthuer.ch/_media/haberthuer2010.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10744" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-10-04T12:07:41.943" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T12:07:41.943" CommentCount="14" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-17T13:43:39.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-17T20:25:11.327" Score="33" ViewCount="588" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keyboard input can be indicated with the &lt;code&gt;kbd&lt;/code&gt; HTML tag, as in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Ctrl&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; + &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;S&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which displays as &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;S&lt;/kbd&gt;. The boxes created by this tag are quite large, so that they are in contact with the line below, and if such boxes occur directly above one another on different lines they overlap, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/133790/586&quot;&gt;for example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hvQJp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow these boxes are smaller, so there is no overlap, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/98846/551171&quot;&gt;for example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aMCLq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can a similar design be implemented at TeX.SX? As commented by doncherry this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/117903/162565&quot;&gt;should really have been done last year&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2012-05-05:&lt;/strong&gt; Keyboard shortcuts (created with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) on all sites are now rendered like they've always been on Ask Different, with a less boxy layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this obviously hasn't happened here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T21:21:59.763" Title="Can the box made by the &lt;kbd&gt; HTML tag be made smaller?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3824" CreationDate="2013-09-17T22:06:52.967" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed the CSS tag for the kbd style is given by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;kbd {&#xA;    white-space: nowrap;&#xA;    color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&#xA;    background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(238, 238, 238);&#xA;    border-style: solid;&#xA;    border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(136, 136, 136) rgb(187, 187, 187);&#xA;    padding: 2px 4px;&#xA;    border-width: 1px 3px 3px 1px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tweaking it a little (removing the padding and adding &lt;code&gt;border-radius:5px;&lt;/code&gt; gives the following which looks quite nicer. I think there are finer settings on the SO version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9cXnS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T22:06:52.967" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3818" CreationDate="2013-09-18T11:09:23.317" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between cosmetics that TeX should perform and cosmetics that purely rely on the typesetters choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is about how to turn on/off ligatures, implement auto kerning hyphenation, letterine, ornaments etc. or the specification is given and don't know how to realize in terms of TeX then it is obviously on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it is about font selection, how to write certain mathematical quantities (in terms of the style as in your linked question), units, section names, in short, the specs depend on something other than TeX then this is not the place. Not because we don't like it but we don't know what to do with them. Experts are &#xA;elsewhere (and here too but they have their TeX hat on). Sometimes we voice our opinion but that's that, just an opinion and not an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a borderline or even off-topic question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/97429/a-ligature-for-she-he&quot;&gt;A ligature for she/he&lt;/a&gt; that I tried to convert to a drawing question and I'm still not too happy about it. It seemed like a good idea back then when I was young. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T11:09:23.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3830" CreationDate="2013-09-26T07:26:30.310" Score="16" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I had a small discussion in the comments of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134974/18674&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134974/18674&lt;/a&gt;. It turned out that the problem was caused by an old version of a package that had changed some of its commands and therefore the example code on the web did not work as intended. During this &quot;discussion&quot; I could finally point the OP into the right direction and made him/her find the problem in the installation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now comes my problem: as the solution has nothing to do with the initial problem I would vote to close this question but I'm unsure about the reason to give. I'm torn between &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; and &quot;too broad&quot; but neither of them really fits. Any advice? And does it make sense at all to close this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18674" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T19:20:18.093" Title="How to deal with a question that turned out to be an installation problem?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3817" CreationDate="2013-09-26T17:36:48.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best place to ask for help with Lilypond is at lilypond-user@gnu.org.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lilypond and TeX are similar in that they both produce high-quality printed output from a text-based input file, but they share virtually nothing about the syntax of their input files or the kinds of coding necessary to get the desired output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get a web-based view of the lilypond-user list at &lt;a href=&quot;http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33265" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T17:36:48.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3828" CreationDate="2013-09-27T09:52:31.440" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close as off-topic (with the motivation &quot;the problem is due to an outdated package or distribution) is the current policy, mostly for lack of better reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the net is full of outdated examples and templates (even in the LaTeX related Wikibooks pages); it would be impossible for us to cope with all of them, maintaining information related to wrong code, which seems a point in favor of the &quot;close as off-topic&quot; policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could invite the questioner into raising the issue to the maintainer of the site bearing wrong information, although this may reveal impossible since there are hundreds of unmaintained sites. Adding something about this in our site info page could help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When using examples or templates from some Internet site, pay attention that the information &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be outdated; signs of this are the usage of obsolete packages such as &lt;code&gt;subfigure&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;epsfig&lt;/code&gt;, (…add other packages…) or a non recent timestamp on the Web page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T10:16:44.007" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T10:16:44.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3820" CreationDate="2013-10-04T14:58:53.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search results have a number of &quot;tabs&quot;.  In the case of &lt;code&gt;[chronology]&lt;/code&gt; you need to click on &lt;code&gt;newest&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;votes&lt;/code&gt; to see 4 hits, &lt;code&gt;frequent&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;unanswered&lt;/code&gt; currently have no hits.  By default, the system remembers which tab you looked at last time you did a search, so the first list shown to you has a good chance of being one of the tabs with a small number of matches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T14:58:53.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3834" CreationDate="2013-10-07T15:58:51.513" Score="12" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing a post it is rather common to find something like: &quot;hyperref creates a problem&quot; as title of the question or (concrete example from the list of newest questions) &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/136786/31058&quot;&gt;latexdiff and lstlisting&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Should we add a capital letter if the package name is the first word of the title (or more generally a sentence)? For the visual consistency I would say yes we should, but on the other hand it might be better to stick to the real way of writing the name of the package, so that is why I am referring to the specialists here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T12:18:27.350" Title="Should we use a capital letter when editing for packages name?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3832" CreationDate="2013-10-08T12:18:27.350" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would add something like &quot;Package&quot; or &quot;Class&quot; to use the correct call with &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To change only the first letter of a heading to an capital letter is no good practice. Do it only if the post needs improvement too or has to be retagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T12:18:27.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-09T19:58:41.530" Score="8" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I just added a bounty to my own question because I need an answer pretty soon if it's going to be useful to me. Not the most altruistic use of the bounty system, but I figure it's my rep, I can be selfish with it if I want :-) My only qualm is that I had to pick a reason, and none of them seem to really fit “I just want an answer badly enough to sink some rep into it.” I went for “This question has not received enough attention,” but that seems like a whiny thing to say about your own question ... maybe it's received only as much attention as it deserves! IOW, every reason on the list has to do with the &lt;em&gt;merits&lt;/em&gt; of the question when (as I see it) a legitimate use of the bounty system is, in the grand tradition of capitalism, to realign incentives in your favor (for a price).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the best solution would be just to allow not giving a particular reason. I mean, putting rep on the table kinda speaks for itself; if the purpose is really just the obvious “here's some rep if you can answer the question,” why obscure it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9316" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T22:08:26.233" Title="Bounty reason: I just need an answer!" Tags="|feature-request|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3835" CreationDate="2013-10-10T22:08:26.233" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all...Hi! I'm Laura, a product manager at Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rationale behind having bounty reasons be displayed along with the bounty amount is to help other users know what they should do in order to receive the bounty. You're right about the &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; reason that bounties exist: people want to do whatever it takes to get an answer. However, since bounties draw extra attention, extra guidance is useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, bountied questions receive multiple answers. Having a bounty reason prominently displayed quells any later cries of &quot;But why did THAT answer get a bounty but not MINE?!&quot; (not entirely, but it sure helps). And since anyone can place a bounty on a question - not just the question owner - it's not always clear what the intent of the bounty is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as why we don't allow the option to not have ANY reason...if we allowed that option, very few people would choose a reason. When the bounty system was first introduced, reasons were not required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that the existing reasons don't fit every situation perfectly, but that's also why we have the option to allow the bounty offerer to include a custom message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while I'm declining the request to have NO reason, you've got me thinking that maybe a &quot;this question is time-sensitive&quot; / &quot;I need an answer soon&quot; (though maybe not worded like that) bounty reason might be useful. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31682" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T22:08:26.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3771" CreationDate="2013-10-11T09:43:20.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also like Joseph's idea, seems completely logical to me.  Nevertheless, I would also like to point out that since &quot;this is the better part of the Internet&quot; we shouldn't sell ourselves like we don't answer questions that require too much effort (&lt;em&gt;too much expected of an answer&lt;/em&gt;), even though we all know that nothing bothers more than the &quot;do this for me&quot; question and we all love a question that poses ourselves a good challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I would then focus on the other two options: &lt;code&gt;off topic&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;unclear&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same reasoning, &lt;code&gt;off topic&lt;/code&gt; may seem strange, because the OP would feel he is actually asking for something of TeX in the TeX site (specially for newbies) and he is not getting the help he needs.  Perhaps that specifically set of words shouldn't be our response for why his question is being kicked out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here is my idea:  The fusion of #2 and #3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question seems unclear.  We need to know exactly which bit do you&#xA;  need help with, since we do not answer questions that are &quot;do it for me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we need someone who is more &quot;political&quot; to say this in the right manner (which also includes the requirement to provide the OP's own attempts in the form of a MWE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27833" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T09:43:20.803" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-11T20:25:56.613" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of code websites have a little icon in code sections that allows a raw dump of the code section content. Maybe even name the file with the question ID, or some reference, so MWEs downloaded in this manner do not overwrite each other (for the people that live and breathe tex.sx - you know who you are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might allow for faster MWE access, depending on your desktop and editor setup and choices. Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="528" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T23:31:39.000" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T23:31:39.000" Title="Would a raw icon for code sections that allows for direct download of raw code as a file be a good idea?" Tags="|feature-request|code|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2013-10-24T10:04:22.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-14T16:32:49.463" Score="43" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far I think tex.se is a great resource for any LaTeX issue I have. Answers given here has been of great value to me, but I started to feel a bit guilty. So far I have only been taking from the platform. I have tried to answer some questions, but so far it seems I lack enough LaTeX knowledge to be of any help to others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still remain my position that one should always show effort that some previous investigations have been done, but where lies the edge where one should stop taking and start giving help to others ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13715" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T01:11:03.027" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T23:38:13.940" Title="When should I start to give back?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|contributing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3841" CreationDate="2013-10-14T23:14:37.600" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's any particular time that one should start answering questions, and as the site become more mature, it may be harder to find questions to answer at your level that don't already have answers on the site. But there are various other ways in which you can contribute, without directly answering questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Vote!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;Voting for both questions and answers is helpful&lt;/a&gt;. This doesn't mean you should vote indiscriminately (especially on answers) but if you find answers that you learned something from, vote for them and their associated question (usually).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Find duplicates&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a new question looks quite simple or is something that resonates with you as a relative beginner, it's likely there's an answer already on the site. It's helpful to do some searching yourself and find an appropriate duplicate or related question and leave a link in the comments. There is also a really nice StackApp to make such commenting more user friendly.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2475/2693&quot;&gt;Useful StackApps and other User Scripts for TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Help with tagging&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tagging is a bit of an art that requires some experience, but it is definitely helpful to remove clearly inaccurate tags and search for more appropriate ones.  For some advice on tagging see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1931/2693&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the policy on retagging questions based on answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/302/2693&quot;&gt;Our set of tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Read the documentation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's astonishing how many questions can be answered by carefully reading and understanding the existing documentation to a package.  As &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3235/percusse&quot;&gt;percusse&lt;/a&gt; recently described himself: &quot;Turning the TikZ manual into rep points since 2011&quot;. (Admittedly a self-deprecating and undeserved description, but most of us have benefited from exactly this kind of answer.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Try to add answers anyway as your experience increases&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a lot to be learned from trying to answer questions, and especially on this site most users will comment on answers to improve them rather than just downvoting them or posting new answers that are only slight improvements on yours. And there's also the Delete button, if you really post something that's not very helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T23:38:13.940" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3841" CreationDate="2013-10-15T00:08:49.250" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I note you have answered a question previously but had 0 votes. I just checked and your answer seemed correct so I just voted, but it was harder to check than it could have been. As for questions, it often helps to put a complete document in the answer, and to put a picture in (I just took the liberty of adding the image to your answer). If people see the image provides what was requested, they are quite likely to vote, whereas checking the answer is correct is often too hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course votes are not really that important, but they are some kind of indication that someone noticed the answer, in particular the person asking the question can get a quick visual clue that your answer is going to help if there is a picture of the output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T00:08:49.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3845" CreationDate="2013-10-15T15:59:43.660" Score="42" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things I like the most about our community is that we learn from each other. I love reading and learning from everyone's answers- I have seen things done with &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; that I would never have thought possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When finding a duplicate or related question, I'll sometimes link back to an old answer of mine and realize that either I have learnt a better way to do it, or the package now provides a different/better way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the community regard answers as a 'snapshot' of the currently available resources (both knowledge and package interface) or should they be updated as and when either of these things change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T20:50:43.780" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T20:50:43.780" Title="Updating an old answer when my knowledge improves, or a package is updated" Tags="|discussion|answers|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3844" CreationDate="2013-10-15T17:03:07.793" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think any improvement on an existing answer is valid. It would be far more helpful to have current information than to have outdated yet functional answers. Even if this means you replace 50 lines of code with a new &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; and a single command. The reason should be obvious: Answers here are meant to benefit the community, which is always changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always include the older version as part of the post, or leave it for interested community members to peruse the post revision history for older code (perhaps suggesting such in a comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T17:03:07.793" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3848" CreationDate="2013-10-17T14:42:00.863" Score="8" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am in the process of writing my thesis and have managed to run into a lot of issues along the way. To stop me procrastinating on tex.SX, I jot a note down at the time but don't actually post the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I am nearing my submission, I will have to resolve a lot of these issues though. While there seems to be no issue with me &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2933/14210&quot;&gt;asking multiple questions&lt;/a&gt; as long as I do not &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2934/14210&quot;&gt;flood the front page&lt;/a&gt; and they are of decent quality (MWE included, of course), I found an older discussion about instituting &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1617/14210&quot;&gt;posting limits&lt;/a&gt;. The answers there advocate a limit of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1639/14210&quot;&gt;one question per day&lt;/a&gt; (accepted answer) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1623/14210&quot;&gt;30 low quality questions a month&lt;/a&gt; (highest voted answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I have less than 30 questions to ask, and I intend to put the same time and effort into them as befits the site (a lot, in case anyone's wondering), I might certainly post more than one a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, have any of those proposed limits been implemented and, if so, what are those limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the lack of &quot;Why can't I post anymore?&quot; rants on meta, I'm guessing the answer is no, but it's also good information to record for the next person who has qualms about flooding the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14210" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T17:00:45.080" Title="Is there a limit to the amount of questions one can post in a given time frame?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3846" CreationDate="2013-10-17T17:00:45.080" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7931/168244&quot;&gt;Community FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is a go-to source for generic answers to this type of question. From there you're find &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/4359/168244&quot;&gt;Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask?&lt;/a&gt; Here are some quotes from that answer (for completeness):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user may ask only...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/89217/168244&quot;&gt;50 questions over any 30-day period&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/90470/168244&quot;&gt;six questions over any 24-hour period&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one question over any 30-second period&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66844/168244&quot;&gt;users with less than 125 reputation can only post questions every 20 minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 30-day limit was introduced on 29 April 2011, and at the moment of writing it only applies to Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User. Beware that deleting existing questions will probably not circumvent this limit, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/86982/168244&quot;&gt;may actually make things worse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 30-second and &amp;quot;only post questions every 20 minutes&amp;quot; limits are anti-spam/bot measures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T17:00:45.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3850" CreationDate="2013-10-17T19:01:16.793" Score="14" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some highly opinion-based questions in the system which are accepted by the community (has positive votes), but won't have any real answers. I see a contradiction among disciples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example for this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/130310/equation-connected-by-lines&quot;&gt;Equation connected by lines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an opinion-based but OK question. BUT it will remain unanswered forever which should not be a real use-case for a Q&amp;amp;A site. Am I right about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the policy about questions like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they are just fine this way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag them as opinion-based? (doesn't seem like a good idea)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should they be in a chatroom/forum instead of Q&amp;amp;A?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should they have a discussion deadline?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should it be migrated to meta/discussion after some time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36821" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T20:39:11.443" Title="What to do with opinion based questions which are accepted by the community?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3849" CreationDate="2013-10-17T20:27:09.653" Score="22" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We vote anything and everything.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are full of contradictions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we somehow get what the point is we leave it alone unless it's really boring and unlikely to be done in finite amount of manhour &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt; time &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt; etc. That is another contradiction right there. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have monthly(biweekly?) &lt;em&gt;Answer the unanswered&lt;/em&gt; sessions where we sweep the unanswered questions so most get filtered in those. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are really no rules other than mutual agreement and/or moderator's axe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opinion-basedness is the essence of TeX-SX where everyone dictates what is more elegant or beautiful. Usually egreg wins the argument because we don't even understand the nuance unless David Carlisle intervenes. Then we really don't even understand what they are discussing or what the issue is all about. I recommend smiling and backing off with baby steps...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T20:27:09.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-18T10:20:34.860" Score="12" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm browsing with firefox, but to minimise risks I use an addon called »NoScript«. I reconfigured it today, because too many sites recognise me. Now I get the message you can read in the headline, as well as here in Meta: »TeX - LaTeX Meta Stack Exchange requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load.«&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad that TeX.se exists. But wouldn't it be better style not to have all that zoo (google-analytics, googleapis, quantserve and the like)? StackExchange really seems able to provide those services themselves!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T14:27:27.097" Title="»TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load.«" Tags="|discussion|javascript|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2322" CreationDate="2013-10-19T06:15:19.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this question has received very little interest in the past year, it seems to indicate that such a request (or even automation) is not feasible. Or, to echo barbara's comment, that &quot;reaching unanimity [on this topic] might be difficult&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mostly insert a comment to the location of the package on CTAN using the format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{&amp;lt;package&amp;gt;}% http://ctan.org/pkg/&amp;lt;package&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, others may want to be more verbose in their motivation for including a package:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{&amp;lt;package&amp;gt;}% This package is awesome&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of users' choice, what would be the most difficult is to &lt;em&gt;force&lt;/em&gt; community members to follow certain policies or ideas that seem to very little justification. While the Stack Exchange network is built by and for the community, it is often that guidelines form and change over time. So, even though these suggestions are well-intended, they may be hard to swallow/conform to for some, but they're also difficult (if not impossible) to enforce and, therefore, not feasible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T06:15:19.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-19T14:36:28.630" Score="13" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the current wiki for the [diagrams] tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{diagrams} is for general questions about vector graphics created programmatically inside a (La)TeX document. For questions about specific packages, use the appropriate tag, e.g. {tikz-pgf} or {pstricks}. For questions about inclusion of external graphic files, use {graphics} instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wiki does not specify whether a tag such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; should be used &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; tag, or &lt;em&gt;instead of&lt;/em&gt; it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the results of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3452/484&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the community consensus seems to be that it is often acceptable to post, e.g., a pstricks answer to a tikz question for the benefit of the community, even if such an answer is less useful to the OP. As an extension of this policy, it seems to me that a question that is likely to attract answers using more than one drawing program ought to have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; tag added in addition to a more specific tag such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this tagging policy were followed, it would, potentially, make it slightly easier to search for questions on a specific type of drawing problem (e.g., how to draw nested spheres). However, a much bigger effect is that it would be easier for someone who likes to provide pstricks, MetaPost, or Asymptote answers to (say) tikz questions, since the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; tag would help to identify the fraction of tikz questions general enough for this to make sense. (Full disclosure: I have been known to provide Asymptote answers to TikZ questions.) Depending on the views of the community, this could be seen as either a positive or a negative thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the question: &lt;strong&gt;If a question about a drawing package is general enough that an answer using a different drawing package could be beneficial to the community, should that question be given the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; tag in addition to a package-specific tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ultimate goal of this question is to improve the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki to clarify this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="484" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:25:31.457" Title="When should a question tagged {pgf-tikz}, {pstricks}, {asymptote}, etc also be tagged {diagrams}?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3855" CreationDate="2013-10-20T13:32:01.790" Score="17" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question appearing very frequently is &quot;I have created a &lt;code&gt;bib&lt;/code&gt; file, but my  references don't appear in the pdf&quot; and variations, where the cause is the failure to run the usual &#xA;&lt;code&gt;latex-&amp;gt;bibtex-&amp;gt;latex-&amp;gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; workflow.  In general a comment about the workflow suffices. Thus, it seems to me that all of them should be closed as duplicate, and in general they do not add to the general knowledge.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is what would be the best way to handle such questions. Shall we provide a comment and propose to close them, mark as duplicate (and in this case do we  have a standard question/answer we refer to?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16895" LastEditorUserId="16895" LastEditDate="2013-10-20T20:37:40.217" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T02:57:44.117" Title="Very frequent bibtex question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2013-10-21T02:57:44.117" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a number of these questions already on the site.  I think the most comprehensive answer is this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63852/2693&quot;&gt;Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the best solution is to vote to close using this as the duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T02:57:44.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T09:14:50.557" Score="14" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are some questions like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/139873/7628&quot;&gt;What are the most common mistakes that beginners of (La)TeX and Friends make?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; allowed on SE while they are clearly among the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;list of questions that should not be asked&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and&#xA;  push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an&#xA;  entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7628" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T17:45:43.300" Title="Why are some chatty, open-ended questions not closed?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3860" CreationDate="2013-10-22T10:08:03.663" Score="17" ViewCount="1044" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two of my friends made all the tables in their thesis using the &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt; package. Luckily, I personally did not do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I learned that it is actually very dangerous to use this package, and that they might not be able to compile their documents in the future anymore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/121841/is-the-tabu-package-obsolete&quot;&gt;Is the tabu package obsolete?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I informed them of this they were – rightfully – upset. Although this package is &quot;dangerous&quot; I can still find 456 results when searching for &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt;. This suggests the package is widely used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is how we should best handle such cases. Should we add a remark to answers of questions related to &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt;, saying it might be deprecated very soon already? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe even on a higher level, do you think a package of an author who does not care about his users and does not care if their documents break in the future should even be on CTAN? Clueless users might just find this attractive package and it might only dawn upon them too late which choice they made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1183" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T20:13:05.283" Title="&quot;Dangerous&quot; packages! What can we do about them (on TeX.sx)?" Tags="|discussion|packages|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3859" CreationDate="2013-10-22T11:31:29.800" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author made it explicit that the backwards compatibility will be broken. Though the issues are definitely worth fixing, it is still up to the package author to decide how to do that. Making people aware of this fact should be sufficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to say that I'm not in favor of backwards compatibility that much though. Things should change once in a while. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can relate to your frustration but I find your attitude quite inappropriate towards a package author. I would definitely not hold grudge against since it was his open source contribution for a long time. Therefore he doesn't have a user base that he is responsible for. He does have a moral obligation but only &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt;. You can always find an old version of the package. Especially driving him away is totally unacceptable in my opinion which implies only keep the dudes that are useful and fire them the moment they are obsolete. CTAN is not a company.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the discussion is about whether he should release the package under a different name or overwrite the existing one. Not breaking the existing code on purpose just to have a prank joke. It's not the end of the world though it sucks when things break down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T11:31:29.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3851" CreationDate="2013-10-22T14:27:27.097" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;With NoScript extension, to use TeX.se, you must enable &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sstatic.net&lt;/code&gt; (from stackexchange network) and &lt;code&gt;googleapis.com&lt;/code&gt; (common javascript libraries).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14500" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T14:27:27.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3859" CreationDate="2013-10-22T18:05:33.550" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody but Florent Chervet knows what the next version of &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt; will break. There have already been a few backwards incompatible changes between major revisions of the package, but limited in extent. It's a very promising package, because many things are possible with it that weren't before (or required low level tricks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I read that message on &lt;code&gt;comp.text.tex&lt;/code&gt; I was sorry rather than upset. Sorry for the hundreds of users that risk not being able to compile their document any more, once the new package version is released. I can understand that a major reworking of the package can lead to change decisions made in the past, but a package author shouldn't throw users of &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; package under the bus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A case that can be compared is that of &lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt;. Several years ago, a new version with several incompatible changes was released under the name of &lt;code&gt;caption2&lt;/code&gt;. Years later, instead of issuing a &lt;code&gt;caption3&lt;/code&gt; package, Axel Sommerfeldt decided to return to &lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt;, having solved many, if not all, compatibility problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CTAN hosts &lt;code&gt;revtex4&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;revtex4-1&lt;/code&gt;, so documents using the old version don't need to be modified. The Koma-Script suite has several &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;2&lt;/code&gt; packages.  With &lt;code&gt;mhchem&lt;/code&gt; one has to explicitly choose the &lt;code&gt;version=3&lt;/code&gt; option at package loading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are many solutions available. For &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt;, unfortunately, the situation is unclear. Use it, if it does good for you, but don't trust on it for archival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T18:05:33.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3859" CreationDate="2013-10-22T18:11:35.803" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of loaded terms in the description in this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no easy answers to compatibility. My own packages tend to be very stable and backward compatible but they also have bug reports that have been open for 20 years as they can't really be fixed in a compatible way. Not everyone would say that is better. As @percusse says in his answer it's the package author's call, and in any case an existing document can always use the current package. &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt; has some good ideas but it reuses the syntax of the standard &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt; package in an incompatible way, which is an unfortunate choice, but neither that, nor the fact that the package author indicated he had changes planned, makes the package &quot;dangerous&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="15874" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T20:13:05.283" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T20:13:05.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3859" CreationDate="2013-10-22T19:09:54.867" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author of &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt; may not be too concerned with backward compatibility, but the maintainers of CTAN are. I corresponded with Robin Fairbairns some time ago about a package I am the maintainer for, and was dissuaded from changing a problem feature, enabled by default, into a package option. CTAN best practice would be to issue the new, improved &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt; under a new name, and leave the old one alone. You don't get the improvements, but you can expect to still be able to format your documents after you upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether any particular author follows this advice is a different question. However, it's never difficult to find old versions of latex packages, even if you've upgraded and lost yours. I have some old documents that use an obscure presentation style; after it was incompatibly upgraded, I saved the old version in my personal texmf tree under a different name, and it's been with me ever since. (Meanwhile I migrated to beamer for new documents.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: Don't worry too much about it. You may not get bug fixes and new features, but you'll be able to recompile your documents next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12092" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T19:09:54.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3865" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-24T05:01:06.833" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with sufficient reputation can flag posts that have quality problems which they are unable to address themselves, thereby bringing them to the attention of the site's moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T05:01:06.833" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T05:01:06.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3866" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-24T05:01:06.833" Score="0" Body="For questions about the flagging process, how flags are handled, etc." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T05:01:06.833" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T05:01:06.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3867" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-24T05:09:04.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown is a lightweight &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;markup language&lt;/a&gt; used across the entire Stack Exchange network for &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1192/how-do-i-mark-code-blocks&quot;&gt;post formatting&lt;/a&gt;. The language takes many cues from existing conventions for marking up plain text in email; it is designed for maximum readability and &quot;publishability&quot; of both its input and output forms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code used in the Markdown is open source and can be found at the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MarkdownSharp&lt;/a&gt; - server-side&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PageDown&lt;/a&gt; - client-side &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Gotchas&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13501/links-to-urls-containing-parentheses&quot;&gt;Links containing parentheses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3327/code-block-is-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-item&quot;&gt;Code blocks after or within a list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to test out Markdown formatting, you can use the &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208/formatting-sand-box&quot;&gt;Formatting Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-27T16:10:08.550" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T16:10:08.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3868" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-24T05:09:04.563" Score="0" Body="Lightweight, plain-text markup language used across the entire Stack Exchange network for post formatting." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T05:09:04.563" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T05:09:04.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3869" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-24T05:18:08.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting to close is the process by which users can vote to close a question if it is off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T05:18:08.527" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T05:18:08.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3870" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-24T05:18:08.527" Score="0" Body="Voting to close is the process by which users can vote to close a question if it is off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the FAQ." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T05:18:08.527" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T05:18:08.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-24T21:08:49.300" Score="21" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/78964/1952&quot;&gt;Why are empty and non empty TikZ matrix cells not equally placed?&lt;/a&gt;. When I wrote it I didn't know the answer so its title was too general. Now, and because I think it's not so easy to find questions/answers in TeX.SX even I know I've read them, I think this general title is not so informative and I'm considering to change it with something like &lt;code&gt;why are empty and not empty cell in TikZ matrices missplaced?&lt;/code&gt;or whatever you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question is not only related whit this particular title but more general. Is it good to change question titles to make them more accurate with their answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T10:26:59.627" Title="Should I change a question title once I know the answer?" Tags="|discussion|editing|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3859" CreationDate="2013-10-24T22:19:28.807" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have already said, equating backward incompatibility with dangerous is a subjective matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a case in point, consider ConTeXt. Compared to LaTeX core, ConTeXt does not assert that new changes will not break backward compatibility. Sometimes, the only way to add new features or to fix bugs is to break backward compatibility, and ConTeXt tends to err on the side to keeping the interface clean at the cost of backward compatibility. As a consequence, it was much easier for ConTeXt developers to move to LuaTeX as the main backend engine; more than 50% of the ConTeXt code is now written in Lua, and is therefore easier to maintain and understand. This rewrite has resulted in renaming of macros (to make the naming scheme consistent) and change in the interface (again to make the interface more consistent). Thus, a document written for MkII does not work for MkIV out of the box. It is expected that the document author will have to tweak the preamble and perhaps make minor changes in the document body as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a development model is not suitable for everyone. There are those who want stability and backward compatibility over new features and consistency (for example, publishing houses). At the same time, backward compatibility is not suitable for everyone. There are those who would much prefer a nicer interface and new features over backward compatibility (for example, grad students writing a thesis). To each his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that as long as a package author documents the changes and explains how to translate the old syntax to the new syntax, the package author is being considerate to the users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T22:19:28.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3853" CreationDate="2013-10-24T23:04:15.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have proposed short edits to the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; with the words &quot;also or instead,&quot; meant to clarify that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;proposed optional &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; while using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metapost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metapost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metapost&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asymptote&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asymptote&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asymptote&lt;/a&gt; tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; tag is compatible with  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metapost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metapost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metapost&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asymptote&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asymptote&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asymptote&lt;/a&gt; tags for specific packages without implying any policy to be enforced. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also proposed edits that append statements that &quot;this tag is compatible with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to the wikis for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metapost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metapost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metapost&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asymptote&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asymptote&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asymptote&lt;/a&gt;. The intention is to draw users' attention to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diagrams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diagrams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diagrams&lt;/a&gt; tag just in case they would like to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, these additions will clarify the policy for the few of us who care, without creating any conflicts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="484" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:25:31.457" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:25:31.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-25T01:05:45.837" Score="4" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking for a &quot;hand wave&quot; symbol to use in a handout, and I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76345/is-there-a-symbol-for-hand-wave&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on the main TeX.SX site. Currently, the question has been closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-symbol-or-identify-a-math-alphabet&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the question is currently written, closing the question makes sense. However, after looking in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bay.uchicago.edu/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List‌&lt;/a&gt;​, I was not able to find a satisfactory symbol for this &quot;hand-waving-in-a-proof-or-argument&quot; purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I think the question could be reopened and reworded to ask how one might go about designing or drawing such a symbol, perhaps with &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;metapost&lt;/code&gt; or whatever. I think such a question would be appropriate under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fun&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fun&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wanted to raise the possibility of reopening this question. Since I'm not able to vote to reopen a question, I thought raising it on meta would be the next best thing. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T01:05:45.837" Title="Reopening 'hand wave' question on main TeX.SX" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3875" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T02:14:38.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty system&lt;/a&gt; is a way for &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;users with over 75 rep&lt;/a&gt; to provide a 50-500 rep incentive to answer a question that's at least 2 days old. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties expire after seven days. After a bounty expires, there is an additional 24 hour window for the bounty to be awarded so that late answers may be considered. If it remains unawarded and one or more answers posted during the bounty period have a score of 2 or more, half the bounty will be automatically awarded to the one with the highest score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3330/why-cant-i-just-offer-a-bounty-for-a-question-right-off-the-bat&quot;&gt;Why can't I just offer a bounty for a question right off the bat?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76374/does-loss-of-reputation-cause-loss-of-privileges&quot;&gt;Does loss of reputation cause loss of privileges?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-27T16:11:39.937" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T16:11:39.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3876" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T02:14:38.887" Score="0" Body="A bounty is a way to get additional attention for a question by offering some of your own reputation for great answers." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T02:14:38.887" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T02:14:38.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3877" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T02:53:37.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chat is the real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reference&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#formatting&quot;&gt;Formatting help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Chat FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T02:53:37.873" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T02:53:37.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3878" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T02:53:37.873" Score="0" Body="Chat is the real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T02:53:37.873" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T02:53:37.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3879" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:03:53.133" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Migration&lt;/em&gt; is the operation that occurs when a question is deemed more appropriate for one of the other sites in the Stack Exchange network, and five users &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;vote to close&lt;/a&gt; the question as &quot;off-topic because…&quot; and then selected &quot;This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network.&quot; The question (and all of its answers) are copied to the new site, and the original question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:03:53.133" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:03:53.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3880" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:03:53.133" Score="0" Body="&quot;Migration&quot; is the process of migrating off-topic questions from a Stack Exchange site to another. " OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:03:53.133" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:03:53.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3881" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:08:11.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is for instructions and guidance on closing or migrating questions, and the reasons for those closures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Required reading&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;quot;closed&amp;quot; or “on hold” question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32490/closing-migrating-question-instructions-guidance&quot;&gt;Closing/Migrating question instructions/guidance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T14:02:03.213" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:08:11.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3882" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:08:11.233" Score="0" Body="This tag is for instructions and guidance on closing or migrating questions, and the reasons for those closures." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:08:11.233" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:08:11.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3883" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:10:22.713" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:10:22.713" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:10:22.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3884" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:10:22.713" Score="0" Body="Questions about attracting *new* users to visit a Stack Exchange family website." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:10:22.713" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:10:22.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3885" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:15:20.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads started as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/&quot;&gt;free advertising on Stack Overflow for open source projects&lt;/a&gt; in 2009. In 2011, the project was expanded to include &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/05/community-promotion-ads/&quot;&gt;free vote-based advertising for all Stack Exchange communities&lt;/a&gt;. Ads should be for projects, tools, conferences, etc. relevant to the site, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highlighting and promoting activities in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;per-site community blogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cool applications or open-source projects related to the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site’s &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/twitter-question-feeds-for-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;Twitter feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Promoting relevant events or conferences the community should know about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything else the community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should only be used on posts in which ads are submitted and voted upon, and can therefore only be applied by moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reference:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2956/community-promotion-ads-2013&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2046/community-promotion-ads-2012&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/community-promotion-ads-1h-2011&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:15:20.240" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:15:20.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3886" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:15:20.240" Score="0" Body="Indicates a post used for submitting and voting on Community Promotion Ads." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:15:20.240" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T03:15:20.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3887" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:13:53.870" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:13:53.870" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T23:13:53.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3888" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:13:53.870" Score="0" Body="Editing is a core, fundamental Stack Exchange value; we allow editing by registered and unregistered users (if peer reviewed)." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:13:53.870" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T23:13:53.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3889" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:15:07.657" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:15:07.657" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T23:15:07.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3890" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:15:07.657" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions specifically about the process of asking questions on a Stack Exchange site." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:15:07.657" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T23:15:07.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3891" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:24:19.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A minimum of 15 reputation is required to &lt;a href=&quot;/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;vote&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The default sorting option on answers is by vote, with accepted answers by others pinned to the top. Questions in search results, user profiles, and tag pages are also often sorted by vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges related to the whole act of voting on posts by other users include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/6/supporter&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supporter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - First upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/7/critic&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Critic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - First downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/32/civic-duty&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Civic Duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Cast at least 300 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/44/electorate&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Electorate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Of all your votes ever cast, 25% or more have been on questions alone and where you've voted on at 600 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/60/suffrage&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suffrage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Used 30 votes in a single day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/88/vox-populi&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vox Populi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Spent the maximum of 40 votes in a single day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/61/sportsmanship&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sportsmanship&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - You've upvoted 100 competing answers on questions you have provided an upvoted answer to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="102898" LastEditDate="2019-04-17T16:18:56.053" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T16:18:56.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3892" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:24:19.050" Score="0" Body="Peer voting on questions and answers is the primary way users gain reputation, and also how many items are sorted when using filters." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:24:19.050" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T23:24:19.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="3894" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:26:36.983" Score="0" Body="For questions about fostering a sense of community amongst users of Stack Exchange sites." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:26:36.983" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T23:26:36.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3895" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:27:36.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paraphrased from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, answers are replies to questions or solutions, retaliations, responses that are relevant to the said questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are what Stack Exchange sites are all about (apart from questions). Without good answers, the sites don't function as no one will come and post their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:27:36.863" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T23:27:36.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3896" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:27:36.863" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:27:36.863" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T23:27:36.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3897" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-26T06:04:13.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/duplicates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;duplicates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;duplicates&lt;/a&gt; refers to the process of identifying and closing questions that are exact duplicates of another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/166707/165773&quot; title=&quot;Changes to “close as duplicate” (part deux)&quot;&gt;comprehensive guidance here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we want to tell the user ...something like, “&lt;em&gt;Somebody already asked this. If that other question doesn't solve your problem, please clarify your question to explain how it's different.&lt;/em&gt;” Perfect: if the other question helps them, they're happy because they got an answer. If the other question doesn't help them, they know exactly what to do. No argument about how exact an &quot;exact duplicate&quot; needs to be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related articles at Stack Exchange blog&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;strong&gt;duplication is not necessarily bad&lt;/strong&gt;. Quite the contrary — some duplication is &lt;em&gt;desirable&lt;/em&gt;. There's often benefit to having multiple subtle variants of a question around, as people tend to ask and search using completely different words, and the better our coverage, the better odds people can find the answer they're looking for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...use your good judgment and please continue to close and merge duplicates as you see fit. However, bear in mind that cultivating and supporting a moderate amount of natural duplication actively &lt;em&gt;helps&lt;/em&gt; the community...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot;&gt;Handling Duplicate Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...there are three classes of duplicate questions, from most clear to least clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Cut-and-paste duplicate questions. These questions are the very definition of exact duplicates; they are typically from users who willfully take the very same question and post it again... No grey area here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Accidental duplicates. These questions aren't copy-and-paste, but they cover the exact same ground as an earlier [..] question. The overlap is not ambiguous...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Borderline duplicates. These questions are ambiguous; they're in the same ballpark as a previous question, but have subtle differences that may make them legitimately standalone questions. These are subject to interpretation...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T14:02:03.213" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T06:04:13.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3898" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-26T06:04:13.017" Score="0" Body="This tag is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are exact duplicates of another question." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-26T06:04:13.017" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T06:04:13.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3905" CreationDate="2013-10-27T02:47:40.223" Score="10" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this community there are also more convenient values: 64, 256, 1024 or even 1729. So what is the reason of providing bounties being only steps of 50?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;From the comments I understand, that my original question is unclear. I want to ask, why there is the step greater than one, not any number greater than a chosen threshold? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T11:00:30.457" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T11:00:30.457" Title="Why are possible bounties only multiples of 50?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-27T20:00:26.420" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question title says it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see two ways this can go:&#xA;  either it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on-topic by virtue of text-based DTP or&#xA;  it &lt;em&gt;is not&lt;/em&gt; on-topic because it is not based on any TeX engine despite its syntactic similarities (to my knowledge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The type of question I would ask is how to typeset a specific chord (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b d' g'&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/chord-mode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;chord notation&lt;/a&gt;.  This question is uncomfortably similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt;, but seems to have more to do with &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;music theory&lt;/a&gt; than typesetting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:41.167" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T23:15:27.533" Title="Are questions about LilyPond syntax on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-10-27T21:29:13.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3899" CreationDate="2013-10-28T11:50:10.490" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it is not important. If SE headmasters chose a different sequence that the one we have, it wouldn't change anything. How many people care whether the bounty is 50 or 64, or whether it is 1729 or 2000? It's the scale that show how important it is for you as the offerrer, and not the actual number. Just don't take rep points too seriously and you'll be fine ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T11:50:10.490" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3871" CreationDate="2013-10-30T10:26:59.627" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check these questions (and their answers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/152252/176533&quot;&gt;Changing the title of a post&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/181590/176533&quot;&gt;modify incorrect title based on answers [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/146975/176533&quot;&gt;Should question titles be adjusted to actual cause of a problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is: &lt;em&gt;Not really, but there is more to it.&lt;/em&gt; Now, improving your title is great, you should do that, but not make it too based on the answers. Improve the title by itself and for itself, because whoever gets to your same problem will not know about the solution and will use &lt;em&gt;what they know&lt;/em&gt; to search for the answer on Google. So by titling your question using the answers you're not helping who needs a solution. You should edit taking that into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the title is too general it's not going to help either, so I agree that it would need editing as well, but make it independent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, avoid tagging your question after it has been answered according to the answers. The tags are meant to categorize your question, not the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion: Tag and title your question independently from its answers. If the title needs improvement, then feel free to edit and improve, that's what the edit button is for, but don't base it on the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T10:26:59.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3899" CreationDate="2013-10-31T07:35:34.873" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason the step is not very small (say 1) is almost certainly to prevent 'gaming'. The idea of bounties is to give questions a temporary 'boost'. As it stands, you can only do that by using a reasonable amount of rep and having this increase quite rapidly: if you want to bounty a question more than once it gets (relatively) 'expensive'. On the other hand, if the rep step for bounties was 1 then you could bounty a question an awful lot of times for very low 'cost' (bounties of 1, 2, 3, 4 from a single upvote on an answer, meaning four weeks of raised profile). That would rapidly defeat the idea of bounties as a way to bring &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; attention to a tricky question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T07:35:34.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3906" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-31T19:51:34.510" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T19:51:34.510" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T19:51:34.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3907" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-31T19:51:34.510" Score="0" Body="This tag covers questions related to the policies of the Stack Exchange site." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T19:51:34.510" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T19:51:34.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3908" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-31T19:54:38.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;What is a question?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question is something that needs or want to be answered. A question is a someone trying to acquire knowledge about something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; we can read that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions are normally put forward or asked using interrogative sentences. However they can also be formed by imperative sentences, which normally express commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What guidelines can a user follow to properly present a question at any SE site?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how can a user present the right question to the problem at hand? From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;FAQ for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;, there are some good clarifications on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10647&quot;&gt;How do I write a good title?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A good title helps your question get the attention it deserves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19190&quot;&gt;Should questions include “tags” in their titles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has an extensive tag system which allows users to identify what technology is involved in a question, watch or ignore certain subjects, narrow their searches to a specific area, and even learn about the tag's subject via its wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/125997&quot;&gt;Something on my web site doesn't work. Can I just paste a link to it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The primary goal of Stack Overflow is to build an archive of questions and answers that are useful to people and situations beyond that of the original asker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377&quot;&gt;What is the XY problem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/92074&quot;&gt;What can I do when getting “It does not meet our quality standards”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All new questions are subjected to a &quot;minimum quality&quot; filter that checks for characteristics of extremely poor questions. Your question has been caught by the filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How can I improve my changes of success?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other useful topics can be found on the mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, as to help you improve your changes of success:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8010&quot;&gt;How can I get answers fast?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/4359&quot;&gt;Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8724&quot;&gt;How should we deal with Google questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10857&quot;&gt;Should I send students to Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10811&quot;&gt;How to ask and answer homework questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7046&quot;&gt;How do I get attention for old, unanswered questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/86997&quot;&gt;What can I do when getting &quot;Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account&quot;? (the answer is here, in this post)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068&quot;&gt;Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Before placing a question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before placing a question, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;look around&lt;/a&gt; to see if your question has been asked before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a vast number of options available, to perform a quick search and find out if your question has been asked before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take note that questions may be related with one another, even if the particulars of the  problem aren't the same, the solution may work for both scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="42735" LastEditDate="2017-08-29T15:12:02.840" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T15:12:02.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3909" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-31T19:54:38.273" Score="0" Body="This tag for questions about, well, questions: how to ask, whether specific questions are appropriate, and so forth." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T19:54:38.273" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T19:54:38.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3910" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-31T19:59:20.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;New users are those users who may be new to the Stack Exchange Q&amp;amp;A format, and generally have a low reputation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users have &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;restrictions that are removed&lt;/a&gt; when their reputation is at least 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T19:59:20.217" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T19:59:20.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3911" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-31T19:59:20.217" Score="0" Body="New users are those users who may be new to the Stack Exchange Q&amp;A format, and generally have a low reputation score." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T19:59:20.217" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T19:59:20.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3912" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-31T20:05:45.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki is a flag that can be applied to answers (and sometimes questions) which lowers the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit-community-wiki&quot;&gt;barrier for editing&lt;/a&gt; and prevents any &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt; gain/loss from voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;References&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/11740&quot;&gt;What are &amp;quot;Community Wiki&amp;quot; posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7237&quot;&gt;How does &amp;quot;Reputation&amp;quot; work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="42735" LastEditDate="2017-08-29T15:11:56.637" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T15:11:56.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3913" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-31T20:05:45.477" Score="0" Body="Community Wiki is a flag that can be applied to answers (and sometimes questions) which lowers the barrier for editing and prevents any reputation gain/loss from voting." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T20:05:45.477" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T20:05:45.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-01T11:51:52.547" Score="15" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder what the community thinks about font &lt;code&gt;tags&lt;/code&gt; such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/minion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;minion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;minion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/times&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;times&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;times&lt;/a&gt; that already exist on this page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is description of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/minion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;minion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;minion&lt;/a&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Minion&lt;/em&gt; is about how to use the Adobe Minion (Pro) font with LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A complete set-up for text and maths fonts based on Minion Pro for&#xA;  (pdf)LaTeX is offered by the MinionPro project or FontPro (the latter&#xA;  supporting newer font versions and fixing some minor bugs). With&#xA;  XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, Minion Pro can be used with the help of the&#xA;  fontspec package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/times&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;times&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;times&lt;/a&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Times&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions specific to newtx, use the newtx tag. For&#xA;  question concerning the commercial MTPro2 math font, use mtpro. A good&#xA;  starting point is How do I make my document use the Times font, both&#xA;  for the text and the math?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these &lt;code&gt;tags&lt;/code&gt; are regarded as good practice, I would propose other font specific &lt;code&gt;tags&lt;/code&gt; of frequent used fonts such as &lt;em&gt;Garamond&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Myriad&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;CharterBT&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Helvetica&lt;/em&gt;. But I am not sure, if this really a good idea since there is myriad of possible font tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7306" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T16:19:51.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T16:19:51.020" Title="New font tags needed such as Garamond?" Tags="|discussion|fonts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3915" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-01T22:13:39.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Images on StackExchange sites should be included using the provided integrated image-upload procedure. Submission using this method &lt;a href=&quot;//blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&quot;&gt;has been available since August 2010&lt;/a&gt; and is the preferred way to upload images. Using any other method (for example, manual upload IMGUR) may cause the images to be removed over time. Also, linking to an external web image is not preferred, since future image removal on the linked site would leave a broken link on TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reference(s)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/2136&quot;&gt;How can I upload an image to be included in a question or answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-27T16:08:23.160" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T16:08:23.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3916" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-01T22:13:39.837" Score="0" Body="For questions about the images used on StackExchange sites or about using images in your own posts." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T22:13:39.837" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T22:13:39.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2514" CreationDate="2013-11-02T16:06:09.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the change is minor, a detail or something that is easily achievable, you can add that to the question and notify each answerer posting a comment to each answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the change is major and/or not easy to achieve, ask a follow-up question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastActivityDate="2013-11-02T16:06:09.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3914" CreationDate="2013-11-03T04:22:44.580" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems I’m only able to post answers and not comments, sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When using derivatives such as XeTeX or LuaTeX, specific font tags can be very useful since the OpenType (or other) font features may vary from font to font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, questions such as “How do I get real superior text in font &lt;em&gt;α&lt;/em&gt;?” or “Contextual alternates in font &lt;em&gt;β&lt;/em&gt;” would be easier to locate/filter with appropriate tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that the tags are created as they are found necessary, since there are lots of fonts out in the wild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the original question could also be asked as how specific fonts should be tagged. For instance the proposed &lt;code&gt;garamond&lt;/code&gt; tag, should it refer to all Garamonds? There is Adobe Garamond Pro, EB Garamond, ITC Garamond and many, many others. Most of them having their own feature sets and specific solutions when it comes to questions such as those I asked above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m rather new around here and haven’t yet had the time to explore the tag system fully, so I’m just raising this aspect to those more used to this site and/or more knowledgeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9605" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T04:22:44.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-05T10:36:21.020" Score="8" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the notification at top about number of questions with new activity says &quot;1 questions&quot; rather than grammatically correct &quot;1 question&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jbi1S.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this error uniform among all SE sites? I waited for sometime to see what happens at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://ell.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;. Looks like I have wait a bit more to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this happens at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;ELL&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jdLnN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14103" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:55:20.483" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T13:07:07.473" Title="Why does it say &quot;1 questions&quot; rather than &quot;1 question&quot; with new activity" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3935" CreationDate="2013-11-05T12:17:42.400" Score="30" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I got an upvote for my answer to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73275/rotated-ltimes-symbol&quot;&gt;Rotated $\ltimes$ symbol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which has since been closed as duplicate of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-symbol&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the question it is apparent that looking up for a symbol is unsuccessful. One finds similar symbols only with &lt;code&gt;MnSymbol&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mathdesign&lt;/code&gt;. Using the latter package forces a global change of fonts, using the former changes all the math symbols and exposes to the infamous “Too many math alphabets” error. More than that, only two out of three symbols are available, even if one chooses one of these ways for solving the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing as duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-symbol&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt; should be reserved to cases where the method is &lt;em&gt;effective&lt;/em&gt;, not when the symbol doesn't exist or exists only “partially” (requiring `MnSymbol' or other packages that cannot generally be used in a document). In some cases, the question might more sensibly be a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14386&quot;&gt;Importing a Single Symbol From a Different Font&lt;/a&gt;; the question I'm referring to isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happened again. The requested symbol is available only with &lt;code&gt;MnSymbol&lt;/code&gt; and this is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (yes, I'm shouting) a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/145006/nearrow-and-swarrow-together&quot;&gt;\nearrow and \swarrow together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;CANNOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; close a question as duplicate of “How to look up a symbol” if the symbol is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T02:31:37.153" Title="Wrong closure as duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3926" CreationDate="2013-11-05T23:18:41.083" Score="14" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;this might will be a duplicate of sg what I couldn't find...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I flag an answer as &quot;not an answer&quot; even if it has upvotes? &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/142457/36821&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; has an upvote but is useless to answer the question (as it is stated in the answer itself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got really confused by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3251/flagging-obviously-wrong-answers/3252#3252&quot;&gt;upvoted and accepted answer of Jake&lt;/a&gt; and my previous thought that I should not downvote answers if they have intention to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also got confused by the fact this community regards a question &quot;solved&quot; if it has an upvoted answer and the thought that I should not flag an upvoted answer as &quot;not an answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36821" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T06:43:31.040" Title="Is it OK to flag an answer as &quot;not an answer&quot; even it has upvotes" Tags="|discussion|answers|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3922" CreationDate="2013-11-06T05:25:30.343" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is some consensus that wrong answers are not the same as &quot;not an answer&quot;, and should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be flagged. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3321&quot;&gt;Correct flagging (or: bad answers are answers, too)&lt;/a&gt; for some discussion from one of the Moderators on this. The voting system is supposed to separate good answers from bad ones. So it's fine to downvote a bad answer if you think that's necessary, but flagging it is generally inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3926/2693&quot;&gt;Joseph's answer&lt;/a&gt; and this answer are completely complementary: I'm focusing on the fact that just because an answer is bad, doesn't mean it should be flagged, whereas Joseph is focusing on the fact that things that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be flagged sometimes get upvotes.  It's not an 'either/or' situation: both cases are possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T23:53:46.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3922" CreationDate="2013-11-06T07:03:27.477" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;All sorts of things get upvotes: it doesn't mean that they are necessarily answers!  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3925&quot;&gt;Alan&lt;/a&gt; is of of course right that unhelpful answers can be voted down, but sometimes what should be a comment or edit gets posted as an answer then upvoted. Those should be flagged: it's not the votes that are important, nor the correctness, but whether the 'answer' is at least supposed to be one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T07:03:27.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3928" CreationDate="2013-11-08T00:33:46.340" Score="8" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using mobile to keep in touch with TeX.SX and friends there. While main site offers no problems, I can't enter the chat room. It seems if I use &lt;code&gt;full site&lt;/code&gt; option in mobile, it works. But with a mobile, the idea of optimization of net work traffic is lost. Given that my mobile internet connection has variable bandwidth (as it is very slow some times) I don't want to use full site option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The question:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I log in to the chat room from my mobile without using  full site option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user11232" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T22:38:39.157" Title="Why I can't log in to chat room from mobile while I can in to main site?" Tags="|support|chat|mobile|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3927" CreationDate="2013-11-08T06:41:01.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found this before as well - difficulty logging into chat, even from the full site from my laptop. The way I circumvent this issue with logging into &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;TeX, LaTeX and Friends&lt;/a&gt; is to log into the main Stack Exchange &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;, and then going to the chat room of your choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Start out by clicking on the &lt;code&gt;chat&lt;/code&gt; link at the bottom of the mobile site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K4znx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You should find yourself at the chat rooms specific to TeX.SE. If not automatically logged in, click the &lt;code&gt;log in&lt;/code&gt; link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OFlDM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This lands you on the main Stack Exchange chat log in page. Rather than being logged in automatically, or clicking on the &lt;code&gt;log in&lt;/code&gt; link in the top menu bar, click on the link that says &lt;code&gt;log in via Stack Exchange&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O1mJS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At this stage you can select your usual log in routine (via an OpenID, say) to gain access, view and contribute in the regular chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is understandable that the mobile version of the site has &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1989/5764&quot;&gt;some limitations&lt;/a&gt;. However, depending on your device, you may successfully switch to a full version of chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dq9FB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T06:41:01.590" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3930" CreationDate="2013-11-11T08:03:19.853" Score="15" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of my waking up routine, I turn to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;the questions page&lt;/a&gt; and I see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/144332/what-are-the-standards-of-tex-latex-coding-in-order-to-obtain-robust-packages&quot;&gt;following&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IfJIz.png&quot; alt=&quot;votes and views&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can a question get more upvotes than views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T18:22:14.223" Title="How can a question get more upvotes than its number of views?" Tags="|support|views|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3929" CreationDate="2013-11-11T16:15:00.157" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3929/how-can-a-question-gets-more-upvotes-than-its-number-of-views/3930?noredirect=1#comment13317_3929&quot;&gt;m0sa's terse comment&lt;/a&gt; seems to back me up) that this happened because the question was migrated: the votes were migrated along with the question, but the view counter was reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T16:15:00.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3922" CreationDate="2013-11-11T23:39:02.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it is not uncommon for people to post things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A solution to what they think the OP 'really' wants, when OP has made his/her question very focused and specific.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diatribe of sorts, lecturing the OP on how they should not even be in their situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their personal experience dealing with a similar problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The motivation for this is often sound, and the content often generally useful - but sometimes these 'answers' are a form of condescension or reputation-whoring. Indeed, such 'answers' do tend to win a lot more votes than some messy and slightly obscure partial solution... but which is what the OP was probably looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my answer is &quot;it's not only OK, it's often very appropriate to flag such non-answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T06:43:31.040" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T06:43:31.040" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3933" CreationDate="2013-11-13T09:49:44.673" Score="17" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a new user of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; and probably this could be a stupid question, but is there any information about how to pose good questions and make good answers?&#xA;I think it could be useful for new users. If possible can you enumerate 2 or 3 topics to read for each case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to pose good questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to make good answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40766" OwnerDisplayName="Emanuel" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T06:18:57.180" Title="New users - How to do good questions and answers?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3932" CreationDate="2013-11-13T18:29:11.637" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a collection of ideas, taken from comments and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7931/168244&quot;&gt;FAQ for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search first&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We typically come to a Q&amp;amp;A to get an answer. Immediately. However, there is a bounty of knowledge already present on this site. Search for it using the best &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;ninja skills&lt;/a&gt; you have possible. Only then post a question.  For &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat&quot;&gt;not-so-new users&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; is also a good place to hash out ideas about questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplication is fine if it turns out that the problem can be approached from different angles. Your question (even though it is a duplicate) may be the landing place for others searching for similar solutions. Questions marked as a duplicate will have their duplicate targets clearly listed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xqk4x.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; so that the actual problem can be replicated by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we're not sitting next to you and a post is the only way you can communicate the problem, a MWE is like a picture... and worth a thousand words. Remember to keep it &lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt;. How do you know when something is minimal or not? Remove stuff until the problem is not reproducible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Write a descriptive (yet short) title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A title saying &quot;How do I fix this error&quot; doesn't help any future visitors who search this site. Like any search engine, question titles are included in the search results, together with snippets of text/code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AVCVk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while &quot;How do I fix this error&quot; may mean something to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; at the time of posting the question, you should...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...have the bigger picture in mind - the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community is here to help you, so try to put yourself in their shoes when you post. Can they readily reproduce my problem? Have I given clear instruction as to what I'm after? Do I have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2449/5764&quot;&gt;XY problem&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include references and pictures&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reference to a different question will show that you've done some research or tried other avenues (perhaps you'd like to ask a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117/5764&quot;&gt;follow-up question&lt;/a&gt;). Pictures of the output (expected or actual) give most members an immediate take on what's going on. Again, a picture is worth more than a bunch of sentences. We have guidelines on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2136/5764&quot;&gt;how to include images in posts&lt;/a&gt; - new users should follow the same procedure but remove the preceding &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; (markdown inserted to denote a picture). &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Janitors&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; will be able to rectify this and fully embed the image.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark your code properly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/863/5764&quot;&gt;FAQ on how to mark your code&lt;/a&gt; using markdown. It improves readability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tag like a boss&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have many house-keepers in this community, all of whom try to keep up with ordering things on this site. Tags are important for that. And, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;you may have noticed&lt;/a&gt;, searching based on tags (using &lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;]&lt;/code&gt;) can help narrow your searching to find what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be specific&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of the answer you require when formatting the question. As a reference, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3446/5764&quot;&gt;How to ask a specific question without in the risk of &amp;quot;too localized&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other/related references:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/18584/168244&quot;&gt;How to ask a smart question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1852/5764&quot;&gt;How do you accept an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2766/5764&quot;&gt;Multiple questions or single question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/156810/168244&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow question checklist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search first&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, some questions are duplicates. If they're found, flag a question or directly &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;close it as a duplicate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't post link-only answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are better-suited as a comment, since it defers reputation to the intended posts (not yourself). Sure, link to other posts that support or confirm some of your suggestions/usages, but keep in mind that your answer should &lt;em&gt;add value&lt;/em&gt; to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Code-only answers are not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users sometimes have a lacking ability to interpret code-only answers. It helps if there are explanatory discussions around why certain things were done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other/related references:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7656/168244&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer to a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2695/5764&quot;&gt;How much explanation in an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T06:18:57.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3955" CreationDate="2013-11-14T16:10:15.857" Score="7" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've marked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/145006/nearrow-and-swarrow-together&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; a duplicate. Then I explained it in a comment. After the submission of that comment another comment appeared above it (&quot;possible duplicate of...&quot;) with my username. So deleted this, because that was less informative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I noticed an empty pair of round brackets &quot;()&quot; next to &quot;flag&quot;. I've clicked on it, and noticed, that the status was &quot;you have already flagged this&quot; for both &quot;duplicate&quot; and &quot;another reason&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How have I given two flags at a time? Why is that? Is this a bug (I'll change the tag if it is)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36821" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T07:41:49.660" Title="I've given a question two flags in one session" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3921" CreationDate="2013-11-15T16:57:47.713" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general issue here is of course that duplicates are meant to be based on questions, rather than answers, and once you decide to have a generic 'look up a symbol' question then there is an apparent logic in saying that all questions about looking up a symbol are dupes. However, it's clear that this is not very helpful to the user, which is the point of the site, and moreover most of the questions involved start out not as 'how to look up a symbol' but 'how to create/use a symbol', a subtly different thing. As such, and as the question here implies, duping to one of the generic questions makes sense only if the answer(s) given will help in the case you are looking at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practical terms, some people will vote to close even with this consideration. Thus the realistic position is that a suitable comment ('This is not a dupe because ...') and a readiness to vote to reopen is required for this type of case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T16:57:47.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-15T22:22:47.250" Score="8" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short description: I can't find a switch like &quot;hasupvotedanswer:no&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried the search box but couldn't achieve the following (or any (other than the empty)) subset of &quot;questions without upvoted answers&quot;: question with at least one upvote. I think this is a reasonable demand, because one could find more valuable questions in the unanswered list this way. Am I missing something or this is a missing feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topics which should be included in the resultset:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question score is greater than zero &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are no answers or all of them has lower score than 1 (&quot;has no upvoted&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if there's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/139845/moving-contact-information-above-horizontal-line-in-resume/139983#139983&quot;&gt;accepted answer with a score of 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topics which should NOT be included:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question score is zero &lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is an upvoted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I want to list questions without upvoted answers using a lower limit on the score ordered by submission time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why&lt;/strong&gt; do I want to have such a functionality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From time to time I tend to browse through &quot;questions without upvoted answers&quot;. That's why I have Revival badges. I hope I'm not the only one who does this. However, this process could be more effective if I could easily focus on questions which are voted to be valuable by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36821" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-11-16T18:54:46.780" Title="Can I list a specific subgroup of &quot;questions without upvoted answers&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3946" CreationDate="2013-11-16T03:13:18.280" Score="15" ViewCount="458" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this question seems stupid. I want to check. What is the importance for getting a high reputation and earning a lot of badges in professional life? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41010" OwnerDisplayName="phdstudent" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-11-16T06:38:11.133" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T17:08:34.117" Title="The importance for getting an account" Tags="|discussion|reputation|badges|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-16T04:24:39.017" Score="29" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question I’d like to ask — and it turns out to be pretty much an exact duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64750/avoid-line-breaks-after-lstinline&quot;&gt;an earlier question&lt;/a&gt;, except with a very slightly different example.  (Specifically, the difference is just that my inline code fragments are single identifiers, not multiple words.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the accepted (and only) answer there isn’t exactly an answer; it’s a workaround for how to prevent the problem arising, and in my case, this workaround doesn’t work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do?  Re-ask the question, with a note “this is not quite an exact duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64750/avoid-line-breaks-after-lstinline&quot;&gt;this existing question&lt;/a&gt;, because… ”?  Offer a bounty, with explanatory comment, to encourage further answers to the older question?  Something else I haven’t thought of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-11-16T05:51:06.813" Title="My question was already asked, but its accepted answer doesn’t suit me" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2013-11-16T04:42:14.857" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some consensus on the main Meta site that mentioning participation on StackOverflow is at best a very minor part of one's resume, reserved for the extra-curricular section.  StackOverflow, of course, is a general programming site, and therefore it's possible that participation on the site might be something that an employer might be interested in knowing about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/25453/170190&quot;&gt;Have you ever used your gained reputation points to get a job or something?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/58947/170190&quot;&gt;At what point do you put your SO reputation in your resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are few, if any employers who would care about TeX knowledge at all, so participation on the TeX.sx, site is likely to have no use to any potential employer.  Additionally, many of us are working academics in various fields and participation in a site like this would have absolutely no bearing on our professional career whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-11-16T04:42:14.857" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3939" CreationDate="2013-11-16T05:51:06.813" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can show with a good MWE that the apparent duplicate answer doesn't work, it's completely fine to ask a new question, clearly linking to the other question and with the new MWE to show how that answer doesn't work for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-11-16T05:51:06.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-16T20:18:12.957" Score="16" ViewCount="478" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When am I not in TeX.SX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually as soon as I have access to the Internet, I connect to this site more like how people do with facebook. What is your case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-11-18T15:30:32.357" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T07:27:02.433" Title="When are you not on TeX.SX?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3942" CreationDate="2013-11-16T22:47:11.530" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no internet connection.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no TeX distro plus a text editor installed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no electricity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no money to pay many bills so I have to work 24 hours a day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The top 50 members resign from this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft releases a better typesetting system than (La)TeX. It is not necessarily free of charge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All copies of (La)TeX distributions on the earth are destroyed by Aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="19356" LastEditDate="2013-11-17T02:29:52.310" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T02:29:52.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3942" CreationDate="2013-11-16T23:27:13.570" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'm not on TeX.sx when... well... I have no idea. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; After all, last time I wasn't here was April 23, 2011, according to my profile. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2013-11-16T23:27:13.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2013-11-17T01:05:06.467" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;None.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T01:05:06.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2013-11-17T02:55:38.717" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody knows whether or not there will be a miracle in the future --- Joel Spolsky will give you one euro per point you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T02:55:38.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2013-11-17T17:32:52.230" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quietly argue in my department and regularly tell colleagues that significant participation in stackexchange sites should count in faculty reviews as service to the scholarly community. I'm sure @egreg's answers here advance science more than does his mathematics, however deep and interesting that may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T17:32:52.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3942" CreationDate="2013-11-18T09:58:11.990" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I wasn't yet registered!!               &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T09:58:11.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3942" CreationDate="2013-11-18T10:35:26.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I’m on SciFi.SE. *ducks*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9668" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T10:35:26.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3952" CreationDate="2013-11-18T13:41:27.940" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a new user and my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3932/new-users-how-to-do-good-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;first question&lt;/a&gt; was migrated to this site of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta - Tex&lt;/a&gt;. I didn't yet understand how do we have to pose questions with these different type of sites: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta - Tex&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone provide a summary with: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;aim of site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type of questions that can be made.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or alternatively links that already provide information about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40766" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T17:10:47.090" Title="Where should we pose a question? Tex-Latex + Meta-Tex + Stack Overflow" Tags="|support|new-users|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2013-11-18T17:08:34.117" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the professional life probably none. Although, I think badges as professional rewards in Tex serve to signalling what type of scout you are from Wolf Cub Scout to Scout leader. Until you achieve the status of Robert Baden-Powell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40766" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T17:08:34.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3950" CreationDate="2013-11-18T17:33:13.620" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;About&lt;/a&gt; should cover this, but for the avoidance of doubt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX StackExchange (TeX-sx) is for questions about TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt and related topics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt; TeX-sx is for questions about TeX-sx itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;Meta StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; is for questions about the StackExchange network, as well as questions specific to StackOverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; is a general site focussed on programming, from which many spin-out sites have grown, including TeX-sx&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've already found, it's possible for a question to be migrated from one of the sites to another. Thus for example TeX questions posted to StackOverflow tend to be migrated to TeX-sx as they are not 'general programming' (often having a more typesetting-related output), and as Tex-sx exists as a 'better' place to get TeX answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T17:10:47.090" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3953" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-18T22:04:16.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stackexchange&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stackexchange&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; is for questions about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites#name&quot;&gt;entire network of Q&amp;amp;A sites&lt;/a&gt; that make up the Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="42735" LastEditDate="2017-08-29T15:12:08.883" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T15:12:08.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3954" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-18T22:04:16.357" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions about the entire network of Q&amp;A sites that make up the Stack Exchange network." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-11-18T22:04:16.357" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T22:04:16.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3934" CreationDate="2013-11-19T07:41:49.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be the normal behavior apart from &quot;()&quot; which I couldn't reproduce. &quot;Should be closed for another reason&quot; goes into &quot;you have already flagged&quot; if you flag a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36821" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T07:41:49.660" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-11-19T07:41:49.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-19T18:40:48.040" Score="7" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as &quot;too localized&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/97296/22128&quot;&gt;LyX &amp;amp; MiKTeX installation problems on Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The definition given for &quot;too localized&quot; begins with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;This question is unlikely to help any future visitors...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the fact that this question has been viewed over 5,000 times seems to demonstrate that there is at least some interest in it. Also, there's now &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/97296/lyx-miktex-installation-problems-on-windows-7?noredirect=1#comment330441_97296&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't see why this is closed! There are more than a few users of Windows 7 that are interested in using LyX. It's very frustrating to find a question that is exactly on point with a question I have but to see it closed... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see this question re-opened, since it seems apparent that it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an issue isolated enough to truly warrant closure as &quot;too localized&quot;. If the question is still off-topic however, I would suggest it be migrated to &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22128" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T18:40:48.040" Title="Reopen or Migrate LyX &amp; MiKTeX installation question" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3958" CreationDate="2013-11-20T11:50:07.443" Score="9" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious. Why do some users have a flyout appear when you hover over their names. It is quite nice.&#xA;Can this be enabled for any user or is it a reputation based thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7093" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T12:50:47.730" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T12:50:47.730" Title="Why do some users have a flyout appear when you hover over their names" Tags="|support|user-accounts|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3957" CreationDate="2013-11-20T12:49:52.740" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at least 1000 rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a non-empty “About me” box.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104810/how-does-the-user-card-popup-work&quot;&gt;How does the User Card popup work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T12:49:52.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-20T15:24:23.990" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67292/latex-error-log-file-not-found&quot;&gt;question has more than 2k views&lt;/a&gt; in just over 15 months. I too am experiencing the &lt;code&gt;File not Found&lt;/code&gt; message and this question describes my problem. I notice that the person who asked this question had a rating of 6, which to me means he was probably new to Texmaker. I have just installed TexMaker on Windows7 and am getting the same error message. I don't think it is too localized and I don't think 2k+ views in 15 months is a small audience. Instead, this is an error message a new user gets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that question is closed. Where on StackExchange should I ask the question: &quot; &lt;code&gt;I get File not Found&lt;/code&gt; error message when using Texmaker?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21884" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T15:34:55.643" Title="Why is this question closed?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3942" CreationDate="2013-11-21T07:27:02.433" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I'm usually only on when I'm thinking about LaTeX. So if I'm writing or editing something I'll often log in. However, if I'm trapped in MS world land or not writing anything, then I'll forget to log in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T07:27:02.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3971" CreationDate="2013-11-21T16:51:00.117" Score="18" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a new user and find hard when I get the answer to my question and I have this restriction &quot;do not say &quot;Thanks&quot;&quot;. I want to say, but I shouldn't, so I give an upvote (now I can). I want to know what are the short lists of pro and cons against the use of &quot;Thanks&quot;, this nice word, in Tex-sx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that there are already some nice posts about the cons, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2809/why-is-thanks-inappropriate-at-the-end-of-a-question&quot;&gt;Why is “thanks” inappropriate&lt;/a&gt;. What are the pros of using it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also interesting in hear about if we should think about having a code symbol in LaTeX to &quot;Thanks&quot; and how more expert users are used to say (secretely) &quot;Thanks&quot; in Tex.sx.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40766" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T23:37:22.860" Title="Why we should not use &quot;Thanks&quot; and why should we use it?" Tags="|discussion|answers|comments|etiquette|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3965" CreationDate="2013-11-22T17:42:27.497" Score="19" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to look up what questions have a mix of downvotes and upvotes? I know we don't use downvotes much here, but I'm curious to find out what sorts of things would attract them, that aren't wrong enough to get removed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastActivityDate="2013-11-24T23:03:26.500" Title="What are the most controversial questions and answers on TeX.SX?" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3966" CreationDate="2013-11-22T19:00:17.393" Score="10" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;A comment can be made obsolete, for instance, by the deletion of an earlier comment on the same post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the assumption that a comment on a given post (question or answer) gets flagged as obsolete and that flag gets reviewed by a moderator, I can imagine how the moderator could be unsure as to what to do (delete the comment or reject the flag) if s/he not have access to the whole history of comments on that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence my question: do moderators have access to deleted comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="21891" LastEditDate="2013-11-23T10:32:25.310" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T10:32:25.310" Title="Can moderators see deleted comments?" Tags="|support|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3963" CreationDate="2013-11-22T19:47:45.740" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;One would have to define the specific criteria that causes a post (question or answer) to be considered controversial. That is, &quot;a mix of downvotes and upvotes&quot; is very vague. For example, just looking at a post &lt;em&gt;score&lt;/em&gt; (upvotes &lt;em&gt;minus&lt;/em&gt; downvotes) a score of 0 from 3 upvotes and 3 downvotes might be less controversial than one with 6 upvotes and 6 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing this type of search in-time is difficult, since the StackExchange search capability within the network is limited to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;searching by post &lt;code&gt;score&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, with no regard for up- or downvotes. As such, one is left to query the StackExchange data via the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/new&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SE Data Explorer for TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-dump&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;downloading them via Bittorrent&lt;/a&gt; and performing these queries manually. The latter option might not capture very recent posts, since data dumps occur once every quarter (usually). I'm not sure about the time lag of the former.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The below analysis lists posts based on search criteria extracted from the Bittorrent source dated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clearbits.net/torrents/2155-sept-2013&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sept 2013&lt;/a&gt;. For the sake of being specific, I considered a post to be controversial if it has at least 1 upvote, at least 4 downvotes, a negative score (upvotes &lt;em&gt;minus&lt;/em&gt; downvotes) and not already deleted. So, a post with 1 upvote and 5 downvotes has a score of -4 (negative), and therefore &quot;controversial&quot; if it is not deleted. Here's a list of those, sorted based on their scores (as of today, Nov 22, 2013) and organized by type. So, the Bittorrent download was used to identify controversial posts, while the current site scores were used to rank posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -10&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/48295/5764&quot;&gt;Stringified commands to macros sequence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -5&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/24291/5764&quot;&gt;Execute xelatex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/29246/5764&quot;&gt;Factorial-design diagrams in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -4&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/120154/5764&quot;&gt;Is LaTeX nowadays still that superior to Word?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/24330/5764&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/24330/5764&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/54830/5764&quot;&gt;tikz code for frame dragging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -3&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/19119/5764&quot;&gt;why is Tex so dang hard to install.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/20995/5764&quot;&gt;How can I draw an aircraft diagram using Latex/tikz ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/54040/5764&quot;&gt;Underful hbox badness 10000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/73457/5764&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/73457/5764&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -2&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/20733/5764&quot;&gt;Small magazine style class: few questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/65956/5764&quot;&gt;Data conversion (datatool, fp)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -1&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/123541/5764&quot;&gt;How to make this diagram in latex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/21861/5764&quot;&gt;Books written using TeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25665/5764&quot;&gt;undefined control sequence \includegraphics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2170/5764&quot;&gt;Why is my text font lighter than my math font?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35892/5764&quot;&gt;LaTeX optimal settings for MS Word-like document&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/70754/5764&quot;&gt;How to represent this superscript?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/87319/5764&quot;&gt;How to run TeX from the command line interface in Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -5&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27883/5764&quot;&gt;What can't TeX do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/3081/5764&quot;&gt;How do I convert HTML to LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -4&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/5270/5764&quot;&gt;Competition time: Design an error page!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/31093/5764&quot;&gt;Space after LaTeX commands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -3&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/20656/5764&quot;&gt;How to undo a &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt; (i.e., Need a &lt;code&gt;\undef&lt;/code&gt; capability)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/95108/5764&quot;&gt;Is there any harm using &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; for a document destined for printing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = -2&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/118070/5764&quot;&gt;How to draw an Euler angle rotation sequence with TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/119684/5764&quot;&gt;How give space text in math mode?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Score = 0&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/89316/5764&quot;&gt;Prerequisites for using LaTeX efficiently&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T19:47:45.740" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3964" CreationDate="2013-11-23T09:49:00.553" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, moderators can choose to see deleted comments and flag history (including 'handled' flags). So we can see the context of flags or later comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T09:49:00.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3963" CreationDate="2013-11-24T23:03:26.500" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a complement to the Werner's pretty impressive answer I would like to draw attention that most of them, including Uiy's questions are kind of unfortunate to have that many downvotes. We kind of have an agreement that more than -1 is useless to draw attention to a quality problem in a particular question. So please consider not downvoting if the votes are already nonpositive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;A detail about Uiy is that he/she was a little too opinionated how the questions should be answered and dictated a certain way how we should handle his/her questions. Though we found a middle ground much later the downvotes got stuck in those questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-11-24T23:03:26.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-26T19:25:44.777" Score="13" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to learn to use &lt;code&gt;Tikz&lt;/code&gt; properly. I've already created a number of pictures with it, thanks in large part to the help I received from fellow &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange&lt;/code&gt; users. Thus I'm able to use some of the tools reasonably well, but I have a certain amount of (I think very basic) confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a question along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to draw a picture of a &lt;code&gt;****&lt;/code&gt; using Tikz. Here's my code. Would you please comment on it, and point out perceived flaws, such as inefficiencies, misused/improperly used commands? Also, I could have used command &lt;code&gt;xxx&lt;/code&gt; instead of command &lt;code&gt;yyy&lt;/code&gt;. Which option is best, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this question because I find myself regularly correcting mistakes I've made for months even years in LaTeX by randomly browsing questions on here, and I think I wouldn't have accumulated so many bad habits, had I had someone take a look at the ''finished product'' from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15489" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-11-26T19:56:16.600" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T23:22:58.257" Title="Is asking for comments on a finished piece of code a permissible question?" Tags="|discussion|comments|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3969" CreationDate="2013-11-26T23:22:58.257" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead formulate your confusion that apparently made you uncomfortable into smaller pieces and throw it to our TikZ lions and PSTricks piranha (animals are in alphabetical order don't bother :P) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, instead of &lt;em&gt;am I doing wrong?&lt;/em&gt; questions,  convert them into &lt;em&gt;why do I do this? shouldn't it be happening such and such&lt;/em&gt; etc. questions with simplified versions. Then when you get enough confidence about those pieces, you can try to combine them or at least mention your intention in the question so that people can leave some room for extensions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking many questions one after another is not a rare thing. We can in fact estimate the graduation date of some users just by their question frequency.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise I agree Code Review is a better place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T23:22:58.257" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3961" CreationDate="2013-11-26T23:37:22.860" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't follow the &lt;em&gt;Thanks&lt;/em&gt; removal rule. It is a SO thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of us approve Thanks removing edits. Some don't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Some notes for future reference and responding to a hypothetical SO user arriving here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not bothered with Thanks word. It's a word. Why don't we get equally bothered by those voting arrows next to the question or those colorful badge numbers? Yes, I know the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can't believe that one word disrupts the preceeding question text. If you are bothered one word probably your RAM memory is the culprit not the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why this is still an issue. I'm amazed by the fact that asking for MWE is still not respected but any new user starts removing thanks. If you care start from MWEs not from the weirdest SO rule.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've read the SO thread. None of them makes sense to me. We are not preparing documentation for TeX/Python/C/etc. But &lt;em&gt;A question is a knowledge source, must be as minimal as possible, free from ....&lt;/em&gt; no it very isn't &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We care about new users and our new users are not necessarily hardcore coders. They might not be even aware of SO. They come here and casually post a question about (La)TeX and somebody removes &lt;em&gt;Thanks&lt;/em&gt; from the question. There you go; You explain to any sensible person why this is happening without annoying them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T23:37:22.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2013-11-27T20:19:22.573" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TikZ&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9386&quot;&gt;Difference between &amp;quot;right of=&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;right=of&amp;quot; in PGF/TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Difference between &amp;quot;right of=&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;right=of&amp;quot; in PGF/TikZ](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9386)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/52372&quot;&gt;Should &lt;code&gt;\tikzset&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\tikzstyle&lt;/code&gt; be used to define TikZ styles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Should `\tikzset` or `\tikzstyle` be used to define TikZ styles?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/52372)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45347&quot;&gt;Vertical and horizontal lines in pgf-tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Vertical and horizontal lines in pgf-tikz](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45347)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/123671&quot;&gt;Manual/automatic line breaks and text alignment in TikZ nodes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Manual/automatic line breaks and text alignment in TikZ nodes](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/123671)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/61039&quot;&gt;how to keep a 1:1 scale with x and y axis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[how to keep a 1:1 scale with x and y axis](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/61039)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/96967&quot;&gt;How can I strike-out arrows in tikz?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I strike-out arrows in tikz?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/96967)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/47377/121799&quot;&gt;Nesting of tikzpicture environments&lt;/a&gt; Don't!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/623945&quot;&gt;Overlapping bars in pgfplots bar chart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2022-08-30T14:48:13.337" LastActivityDate="2022-08-30T14:48:13.337" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-11-27T20:19:22.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-27T22:05:52.323" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when I write a post on SE.TeX, I feel the need to create a footnote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as far as I know, there is no way to do it in TeX.SE. Neither &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;markdown syntax&lt;/a&gt; nor &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;minimal html&lt;/a&gt; allow footnotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, footnotes are goods ; they allow the main text to stay clear and concise &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; they offer the possibility to expand or precise a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should not include some (minimal) footnotes support in the SE.TeX mardown syntax ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such syntaxes are availables :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;=my footnote=&amp;gt;&#xA;+my footnote+&#xA;#my footnote#&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T17:44:38.240" Title="Could/should we use footnotes when writing a post in SE.TeX?" Tags="|feature-request|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3973" CreationDate="2013-11-27T22:13:11.030" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could do like this&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, though you have to number and position the footnotes manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A related question on Meta.SO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5017/markdown-footnotes&quot;&gt;Markdown footnotes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to write a raised number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T08:52:06.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-28T06:36:14.927" Score="3" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if this belonged to the main site. I am putting it here to be on the safe side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use of TeX/LaTeX have been pioneered by the computer scientists and mathematicians. Now, it is no longer confined to any group of people of a particular major.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the short answer to my question in subject should be, &quot;No.&quot; When I say &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;, there must be some exceptions. However, as an avid user of LaTeX (originally TeX), I find it somewhat mentally shocking for me when I find the exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As we find &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.troff.org/pubs.html#cn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andrew S. Tanenbaum&lt;/a&gt; mentions &quot;... Troff, which, after all these years, is still the only way to go&quot;. (However, the 5th edition of the same book is silent about this point).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some more at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.troff.org/pubs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;same site&lt;/a&gt;, majority of which are in the field of Computer Science, by important scholars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In his &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-2/tb98knut.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;speech&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Donald E. Knuth&lt;/a&gt;, mentions not preparing a PowerPoint presentation. That implicitly means he does not use &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt;. (See, page 121, left column, last but one parenthesized paragraph.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could be other important mentionables?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14103" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T17:47:04.393" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T17:47:04.393" Title="Do all the eminent computer scientists use LaTeX and friends?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2013-11-29T11:06:03.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3986" CreationDate="2013-11-28T11:45:30.717" Score="8" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I provide an answer which is not useful for the person who asked the question, should I delete it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, when the answer is off topic (due to a misunderstanding for example), it should not stay on the topic. However, in some case, the answer is constructive &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; does not fit the enquirer specific needs. This answer will therefore no be accepted but could help someone else. And this answer could have took a lot of time to find...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think I should do in such cases? Is there some rule/guideline here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T17:41:52.460" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T00:15:21.677" Title="Should I always delete an answer which is not accepted?" Tags="|discussion|answers|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-28T22:50:59.810" Score="4" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not too long ago, I think it was at the beginning of November, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lehmanns.de/page/latexreferenz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeX Referenz&lt;/a&gt; by Herbert Voß was released for free, but its in German (am not saying its a bad thing). Are there any plans on translating this into English or can anyone do it? It is a very good quick reference and would love to see an English translation. If any one knows where I can get one I would appreciate it. May be Herbert Voß could answer this :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-11-29T05:34:16.153" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T05:34:16.153" Title="LaTeX Referenz in English" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2013-12-08T19:09:45.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3979" CreationDate="2013-11-28T23:00:32.583" Score="20" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked yesterday a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/147240/pdf-output-showing-blank-spaces-instead-of-math&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about a problem I encountered. However the problem was in someone else's computer that I have very limited access to and the problem went away after a recompilation. It is really mysterious and I have seen similar behavior before, so when I asked the question I assumed somebody would quickly recognize it as a common issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out it is not so common. So I do not see how a normal person can answer my own question, since I admit that I cannot provide sufficient data to the readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it better to leave all as it is and wait until someone who encountered the exact same problem writes an answer, or mark the question for deletion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31458" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T09:49:12.193" Title="Non reproducible problem" Tags="|discussion|questions|specific-question|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3978" CreationDate="2013-11-29T09:49:12.193" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest, to not delete the question, and to not let it remain open, since it's hardly answerable, but to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So people, who might encounter the same problem, could find your question via google or another search engine and could comment or edit and extend your question. Also if they would know a solution, they can vote to reopen the question or at least comment to it at first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could post a comment to that question (perhaps link to here) and vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T09:49:12.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-29T12:50:33.557" Score="3" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using a keyboard with a French layout (azerty). With this layout, some shortcuts for markdown syntax are not convenient. For example inline code like &lt;code&gt;this&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;this&lt;/code&gt; in between two &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;) is generated by &lt;kbd&gt;Alt GR&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;8&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Alt GR&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;8&lt;/kbd&gt; (pressing &lt;kbd&gt;8&lt;/kbd&gt; twice with &lt;kbd&gt;Alt GR&lt;/kbd&gt; key pressed). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is no very efficient and it is hurting my hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to change such shortcuts in my user account (I didn't find anything). If not, should we (not all user use qwerty layout)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-12-03T19:00:58.327" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T19:00:58.327" Title="Is there a way to change markdown shortcuts?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3982" CreationDate="2013-11-29T22:20:11.980" Score="6" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let us see this screen (29th November 2013):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RxVXn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that Marien..., oh, Donut E. Knot, has many names and this is a source of a strange value. But should I communicate such behaviour of the platform as a bug or think about it as of a pretty joke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-12-03T20:37:15.947" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T20:37:15.947" Title="Negative reputation?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|reputation|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3981" CreationDate="2013-11-29T22:40:18.067" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a bug, but accurately reflects the reputation gained &lt;em&gt;over a particular period of time&lt;/em&gt;.  If you look at the Users page you can select the period of time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SUkmG.png&quot; alt=&quot;rep period&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's entirely possible for a user who gives a lot of bounties to have a negative reputation when calculated over one of these smaller time periods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T22:40:18.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3980" CreationDate="2013-11-30T00:38:21.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not know a site solution, but you can try to solve his on your own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Windows there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phraseexpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PhraseExpress&lt;/a&gt;, a text expander for Windows (free for personal use), and I guess there are alternatives for Linux and MacOSX, for Windows I know there are. I use this myself for instance to get typographical quotes like “” and ‘’ (also in German „“ or with guillemets « »).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another “solution” would be: &lt;em&gt;Deal with it.&lt;/em&gt; Some things are a question of familiarisation – on my QWERTZ keyboard in German layout all essential keys for typing TeX macros are only accessible via the &lt;kbd&gt;Alt Gr&lt;/kbd&gt; key: &lt;code&gt;\command[optional]{mandatory}&lt;/code&gt; (the typographical dash &lt;code&gt;–&lt;/code&gt; BTW also with help of PhraseExpress). The &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; backtick/gravis is a so called dead key here, to get it separately I have to press the space key afterwards. A possible consequence is something like this: &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt;next_word (space key pressed only once). You can see this on StackExchange sites frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I already know, for typographical signs it works in MaCOSX and Linux much simpler without external solutions.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T00:38:21.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-01T10:53:06.050" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great, if the MWE (and a special tag (?) for this) would create a document in some online LaTeX, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.writelatex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WriteLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ShareLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like it is done on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/stol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;en.cppreference&lt;/a&gt; (see the &lt;code&gt;run this code&lt;/code&gt; button).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9790" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T10:53:06.050" Title="Showing MWE online" Tags="|feature-request|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3987" CreationDate="2013-12-01T14:13:10.217" Score="12" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/147844/multiple-citations&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as a duplicate. The OP was asking &quot;whether it is possible to do something without the use of specific packages&quot; and the duplicate reference only have answer about loading packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is the right way to mark this as a duplicate. Can't someone do that without the explicit use of these packages by replicating the behavior of one them? However, marking it as a duplicate says &quot;no&quot; implicitly. This is contradicting/misleading... and doesn't seem to answer the question... (a new user's first question...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be more appropriate to set a question like this to be a duplicate of sg about &quot;copy-pasting code snippets from packages&quot;? If there's anything like this... or is this the first?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36821" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-12-14T23:22:43.317" Title="Question about &quot;is it possible without using specific packages&quot;" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3976" CreationDate="2013-12-02T00:15:21.677" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that, as many people said before, every question has two basic purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;short-term purpose in helping &lt;em&gt;the person who asks&lt;/em&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;long-term purpose in helping &lt;em&gt;whoever finds it through whatever search engine&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while your non-accepted answer doesn't serve the 1st purpose, it still likely serves the 2nd one. Therefore it is valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed in the comments, only answer that is &lt;em&gt;not an answer&lt;/em&gt; or is &lt;em&gt;really wrong&lt;/em&gt; should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A side note: The general StackExchange policy is that in average there should be at least 2.5 answers per question, so that the community &quot;has a choice&quot; as which answer is more proper and which is worse; with this, much more than a half of answers cannot be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T00:15:21.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3985" CreationDate="2013-12-02T00:19:02.497" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you have a point. Even though I find that specific question quite ridiculous, because whatever solution would just use the same idea as &lt;code&gt;natbib&lt;/code&gt;, it's actually not a simple task and I don't think it'll get a reasonable answer, I voted for re-opening (and 2 other people have done so even before me). It is a question that suits the site, and it is certainly not a duplicate of the other one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T00:19:02.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4002" CreationDate="2013-12-02T04:13:00.347" Score="9" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a strange behavior with the &lt;code&gt;microtype&lt;/code&gt; package (for some reason it won't break a word, but no warnings).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do to post a MWE &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; personal informations? If I just replace the text with random Words, this obviously changes the layout and the behavior just disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10117" LastEditorUserId="9237" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T22:26:48.650" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T22:26:48.650" Title="How to post a MWE without personal information?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3992" CreationDate="2013-11-28T01:49:26.423" Score="16" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the background here at TeX.SX copyrighted? If not, does any one know about a MWE which replicates the background on the webpage? I have always been amazed at it and would like to use it as a background of a document. I did some search on the webpage and I was able to extract the &lt;code&gt;.png&lt;/code&gt; file below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hyNrJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to use it as a background for &lt;code&gt;letterpaper&lt;/code&gt; size documents. One of the diagrams seems familiar; the one with the triangle. If am not mistaken it is similar to the one from &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" OwnerDisplayName="azetina" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T17:56:04.030" Title="TeX.SX background to be used in a document" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-02T10:31:12.743" Score="11" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I start multiple bounties? I just started one and there's no obvious way to start another one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-12-03T13:37:54.700" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T13:37:54.700" Title="How do I Start Multiple Bounties for one single question" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3990" CreationDate="2013-12-02T11:42:20.710" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't assign more than one bounty to a question at a time. From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;Bounty Help&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions may only have one active question bounty at any given time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; have more than one active bounty, but these have to be assigned to different questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users may only have three active bounties at any given time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T12:12:44.393" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3989" CreationDate="2013-12-02T15:11:54.133" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The chemical reaction : &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18145/oxidation-reduction-arrows-overhead-and-below-with-oxidation-numbers-also&quot;&gt;Oxidation/reduction arrows, overhead and below, with oxidation numbers also&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elvish text : &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13015/what-package-allows-elvish-in-tex&quot;&gt;What package allows Elvish in TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The middle part : I think these are the images used &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/pancake-network/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/pancake-network/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/rotated-triangle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/rotated-triangle/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as one of them is mentioned already. Read more from the graphics design story here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/638/site-design-ideas-updated-with-mockup&quot;&gt;Site Design Ideas (updated with mockup)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest looks like straightforward to replicate via math-mode, or I made it invisible during a simple contrast modification...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GJydb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T17:56:04.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3994" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:04:10.090" Score="10" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started to notice a lot of new users post their first question and, then, disappear. They don't close their topics (by accepting an answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is created lots of unanswered questions (although there is often a good answer proposed). It is a waste of time for users who are looking for (true) unanswered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some mechanisms to close these questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T21:03:04.090" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T21:03:04.090" Title="Closing questions of new (inactive) users?" Tags="|discussion|policy|vote-to-close|new-users|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3993" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:22:20.793" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a problem. If there would be upvoted answers, the question would not be unanswered and would go away from the &quot;unanswered&quot; list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need to close, what would actually prevent further, possibly even better, answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See on the main meta site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3669/would-it-be-possible-to-have-a-community-accepted-feature&quot;&gt;Would it be possible to have a “community accepted” feature?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can show your acceptance of an answer by upvoting it, even if the OP didn't show his preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T18:22:20.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-02T21:32:00.803" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;TEX.SX is a source of knowledge such as online encyclopedia (i.e. WP) but experts focus on (question/answer model). The issue facing online encyclopedia is how to get one source of knowledge available for a wide audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, the only way to have access to old posts in TEX.SX is to use the search engine. This tool is powerful, with advanced options, &lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; it is not sufficient. Indeed, people use to consult only the 5-10 first results (like in google). Lots of questions are not very accessible (because the asker does not use the correct &lt;code&gt;tag/keywords&lt;/code&gt;, because the title of the question is formulated in such way it is not easy to find it, ...). I preferred sometimes to have a list of question by subjects (like in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/FAQ-LaTeX/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some faq&lt;/a&gt;). For example :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Biblatex&lt;/code&gt; &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;creating your own style&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question 2 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In parallel to the search engine, is there a repository of questions by &lt;code&gt;tag/themes&lt;/code&gt;? Should we create one (perhaps with only popular/well noted questions ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-12-03T03:51:19.913" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T03:51:19.913" Title="How to ensure the better organisation and availability of knowledge on TeX.SX?" Tags="|discussion|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3998" CreationDate="2013-12-03T13:52:17.397" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the beginning of the month, my reputation acquired in meta website is not taken into account. When someone vote up one of my question/answer, there is no reputation update. Before I was not using meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a possible explanation or is there a bug? What can I do to &quot;refresh&quot; my profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2013-12-03T18:55:44.177" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T19:47:31.773" Title="Reputation acquired in meta does not count" Tags="|support|reputation|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3997" CreationDate="2013-12-03T19:47:31.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As already mentioned, this is a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-by-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-by-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-by-design&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has also been raised on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/60693/168244&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;, where the answer points to a blog entry by Jeff Attwood called &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/new-per-site-metas/&quot;&gt;New Per-Site Metas&lt;/a&gt;; an introduction to per-site metas across the entire network (July 2010):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation is always inherited from the parent site.&lt;/strong&gt; You cannot gain or lose reputation* on the per-site meta. This also means that some reputation related functions like the rep graph and bounties are not enabled on the per-site meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* however, there is one exception: extreme misbehavior on the meta site will affect your parent site reputation. And not in, shall we say, the “good” way.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; is considered different (and separate) from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; since it actually addresses network-wide meta-related content, rather that SO-related/specific content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all this, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3120/5764&quot;&gt;it is still possible to obtain reputation-related badges on per-site metas&lt;/a&gt;. For example, here's a list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/41/mortarboard&quot;&gt;Mortarboard badge earners&lt;/a&gt; to date:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pwr1a.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the motivation behind this is that, eventually, there may be a possibility to switch per-meta sites over to full-fledges sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T19:47:31.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-03T21:07:16.983" Score="12" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/148110/22413&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/148099/22413&quot;&gt;What causes the following gaps?&lt;/a&gt;.  Later @egreg posted an answer, which in my opinion is far superior to mine.  Much to my bafflement, people are still upvoting my answer.  This makes me think that some view my answer as contributing something of merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now I'm in a quandary.  Should I remove my answer?  Or does the community feel it has sufficient merit to stay in place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should one do when one has decided that his answer is really a non-answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22413" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T14:24:05.627" Title="When should I remove an answer I posted?" Tags="|discussion|deleting|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3999" CreationDate="2013-12-04T18:32:24.700" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that &lt;strong&gt;egreg&lt;/strong&gt; posted a better answer that you did doesn't mean that your answer is wrong. It's actually good, which is why people upvote it :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system likes having more answers to one question, as long as they are not seriously wrong, non-answers or ridiculous. However, only the non-answers should be flagged and removed. It's then the person who asks and the community who decide which answers is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T14:24:05.627" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T14:24:05.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3988" CreationDate="2013-12-04T18:37:51.433" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless you discover a bug along the lines of: &quot;when I put &lt;code&gt;someonr&lt;/code&gt; in a section heading, the computer expolodes&quot;, it should always be possible to reproduce the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the problem is in TeX's word-breaking algorithm, then as long as the word to break is not strictly confidentail, you can replace everything else on the line by a properly sized &lt;code&gt;\rule{10em}{1ex}&lt;/code&gt;. This puts a black box of width &lt;code&gt;10em&lt;/code&gt; (approx. 25 letters) into the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I honestly can't think of a word in text that would be strictly confidential alone, and I would ever use it. However, if you have such a word that causes problems, then I don't think we can really help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T18:37:51.433" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-04T22:16:05.687" Score="21" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I suddenly saw my personal information on the page very small and on the black background. It looks like a necrology! Additionally, not the same information as earlier appears. In particular I cannot find the cummulative points for Q&amp;amp;A's in the central part of the status bar. &#xA;The next change: earlier the nick was more important than an avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any possibility to see pages in their previous design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="26134" LastEditDate="2013-12-08T17:10:55.307" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T17:10:55.307" Title="Is there a possibility to have the previous design of TeX-stackexchange page?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-04T22:39:44.760" Score="77" ViewCount="611" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to request that the background colour of the top bar gets reverted to the previous warm brownish. There are three reasons for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The black top bar is the most emphasized element of the site now, which is surely not the intention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its colour doesn't fit the warm, smooth and pleasant look of the site at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T08:53:36.940" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T08:53:36.940" Title="Request for revert of the top bar background colour" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2013-12-05T00:32:33.153" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going by &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/12/a-new-top-bar-for-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;the blog post announcing/explaining the change&lt;/a&gt;, it sounds like your main request of a colour revert is unlikely to be granted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, in the redesigned top bar, we wanted to make sure that it would look the same across all sites, and make it obvious that you’re on a Stack Exchange site. It turns out that when you try to pick a color to match 40 different site designs, you quickly realize you only have one real choice: black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re your other suggestions, the post also points to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/top-bar&quot;&gt;the &lt;code&gt;top-bar&lt;/code&gt; tag on &lt;code&gt;meta.stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as the main way to give feedback on the new design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:19.567" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T00:32:33.153" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2013-12-05T01:50:55.377" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forget what I just said, Sean's link is way better than my pathetic implementation. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HshLK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Click here!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/209957/is-anyone-else-personally-terrified-of-the-new-bar-at-the-top/210013#210013&quot;&gt;Is anyone else personally terrified of the new bar at the top?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to keep the avatars, just comment the following part of the code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/*&#xA;&#xA;  .user-gravatar32,&#xA;  .gravatar,&#xA;  .avatar-me {&#xA;    display: none !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;*/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;woohoo! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The following text is kept for historical reasons.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really enraged, so desperate times call for desperate measures. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to go with &lt;a href=&quot;http://userstyles.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt; and add the following script to both meta and main:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document url-prefix(&quot;http://meta.tex.&quot;), url-prefix(&quot;http://tex.&quot;) {&#xA;&#xA;  .topbar, .topbar a, .topbar:hover, .topbar a:hover {&#xA;    background-color:#F5F5F5 !important;&#xA;    color:black !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will probably recognize this &lt;code&gt;.css&lt;/code&gt;, right? &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The resulting top bar I get with the previous code is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RHpCf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is way lighter than the original dark colour. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T14:27:10.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-05T14:21:30.360" Score="20" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the new fancy black top bar, the logo of the site got mutilated. I believe that the following CSS fix would bring it close to the original state, however, I'm not 100% sure and IMHO the old version should be checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pn0Zl.png&quot; alt=&quot;The red and blue marks should be aligned.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.new-topbar .container #header #hlogo {&#xA;    margin-top: 13px;&#xA;    margin-bottom: 7px;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.new-topbar .container #header #hlogo a {&#xA;    margin-top: 20px;&#xA;    margin-bottom: 10px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spotted on &lt;strong&gt;Firefox 25.0, Fedora 13, GNOME 2.30.2, kernel 2.6.34.9&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: If you wish to use the above fix through Stylish, you ought to put &lt;code&gt;!important&lt;/code&gt; everywhere:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.new-topbar .container #header #hlogo {&#xA;    margin-top: 13px !important;&#xA;    margin-bottom: 7px !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.new-topbar .container #header #hlogo a {&#xA;    margin-top: 20px !important;&#xA;    margin-bottom: 10px !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="10916" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T22:27:19.077" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T22:28:05.207" Title="Bug in the logo appearance with the new black top bar" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|logo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4036" CreationDate="2013-12-05T16:41:50.457" Score="13" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edited problem statement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the link to return from meta to the main site is not &quot;parallel&quot; to the link on the main site to meta.  i found the latter under &quot;help&quot;, but the link from meta to the main site is only under the stackexchange list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the original configuration, the link on the main site to meta was on the right, and there was a corresponding link on the meta page to the main site.  nice!  so when the&#xA;new top bar appeared (unexpectedly for me), i looked (on the main page) for the meta&#xA;link, and found one on the dropdown list under &quot;help&quot;.  okay, that makes some sense.&#xA;so it was natural to look in the corresponding location on the meta page for the link&#xA;to the main site.  &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; there.  confusing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;okay, i'm a creature of habit.  when a feature that used to have a nicely parallel&#xA;construction suddenly changes, i find that disconcerting.  if the link had been&#xA;removed from (near) the original location on both pages i would have looked more&#xA;closely at the other features of the new bar instead of making assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;irrespective of other perceived (and unrelated) problems (see the edit history),&#xA;i still feel this is a design flaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T14:44:25.150" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T22:24:59.577" Title="more problems with the new site redesign" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T11:58:47.747" Score="21" ViewCount="1360" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year. Huh, this is the only site where this opening is similar to last years... fancy that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scripts packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/4009&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T05:18:56.047" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2014" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-01-01T03:23:07.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-06T11:58:47.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2013-12-07T14:18:51.367" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lMwS.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX.SX Meta&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42341" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:28:09.317" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-07T14:18:51.367" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2013-12-07T23:20:09.683" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mZsEw.png&quot; alt=&quot;DANTE e.v.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorDisplayName="user10744" LastEditDate="2014-12-14T15:30:16.980" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:30:16.980" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-07T23:20:09.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2013-12-07T23:21:14.720" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.contextgarden.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DQdPB.png&quot; alt=&quot;ConTeXt User Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorDisplayName="user10744" LastEditDate="2014-12-14T15:29:36.040" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:29:36.040" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-07T23:21:14.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-09T05:05:02.403" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually search for questions, by using the tag of whatever I want to look for. This time around, after typing &lt;code&gt;ConTeXt&lt;/code&gt;, no tag was found. The message on the right corner read: &lt;code&gt;0 questions tagged {context}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I said, alright, it seems is a problem with the system, but then I searched for other tags, and no problem whatsoever appeared. Is this the default? I don't recall running into the same problem before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's funny though, that it says that the tag was searched for in the featured tab, when this is not the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uUFqG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36131" LastEditorUserId="36131" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T05:14:44.490" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T05:49:57.873" Title="Tag not found [ConTeXt]" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2013-12-09T07:24:27.850" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4008" CreationDate="2013-12-09T05:14:18.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this does sound maddening, I don't think it has anything to do with the site redesign, based on some earlier comments and the lack of similar bug reports elsewhere on the network. Seems like it's just a coincidence that it happened close to when we rolled the new top bar out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In situations like this, we typically recommend clearing your cookies and history, disabling add-ons (especially if they were recently installed or updated), unblocking any SE-related scripts or domains and seeing what the site looks like then. You may also find the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56161/which-browsers-are-officially-supported-and-what-else-do-i-need&quot;&gt;Which browsers are officially supported? And what else do I need?&lt;/a&gt; on the network meta helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I use Firefox 25.0.1 myself on multiple machines and haven't seen this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T05:14:18.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3985" CreationDate="2013-12-09T08:01:51.763" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this can be answered in all generality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the purpose of the question is more like &quot;how can I program this effect myself&quot;, I doubt it would be considered a duplicate of a question &quot;what package do I have to use&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in this specific case,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The effect which was asked about is tricky to achieve because it requires patching into and interfacing with a lot of internal code which is potentially influenced by other packages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;With the &lt;code&gt;cite&lt;/code&gt; package there exists a package very specifically for this purpose, by Donald Arseneau no less, which is at 768 lines probably as minimal as it can be for all the influences which have to be considered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The requirement &quot;without using specific packages&quot; by the OP seems arbitrary; it is not explained what makes impossible to use the &lt;code&gt;cite&lt;/code&gt; package.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in a case like this where the alternatives to using a package existing very specifically for the requested purpose are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make an ad hoc reimplementation which is likely to have robustness issues;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy practically the whole code of the package into the preamble of a document;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say these alternatives are clearly bad style which should not be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T08:01:51.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2013-12-09T17:33:25.267" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texworks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vlukA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lowering the entry barrier to the TeX world&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorDisplayName="user10744" LastEditDate="2014-12-14T15:35:40.913" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:35:40.913" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-09T17:33:25.267" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2013-12-09T17:57:16.167" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dickimaw-books.com/latex/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SnzsG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Using LaTeX to Write a Ph.D Thesis by Nicola Talbot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorDisplayName="user10744" LastEditDate="2014-12-14T15:28:58.937" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:28:58.937" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-09T17:57:16.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4008" CreationDate="2013-12-09T18:10:35.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is posted as a bug here (and originally contained some other stuff, too), I decided to make a feature request about the &quot;meta/main link asymmetry in help menu&quot; on Meta.SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/210816/add-main-link-to-help-drop-menu-on-meta&quot;&gt;Add &amp;quot;main&amp;quot; link to &amp;quot;help&amp;quot; drop menu on &amp;quot;meta&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for clarity, we're speaking about the &quot;Meta&quot; link here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5QDpi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T22:24:59.577" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2013-12-09T19:26:34.943" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/pracjourn/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YTkvs.png&quot; alt=&quot;How you get TeX things done&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorDisplayName="user10744" LastEditDate="2014-12-14T15:34:40.070" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:34:40.070" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-09T19:26:34.943" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4070" CreationDate="2013-12-10T16:47:52.437" Score="10" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the beginning, it's true that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2973/11002&quot;&gt;I don't like the fact that we use the same community ads again and again&lt;/a&gt;. According to that, I've decided that I'll downvote those &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4009/11002&quot;&gt;2014 community ads&lt;/a&gt; that I don't like, and upvote those that I do like. However, my votes obviously get reverted, both up-votes and down-votes, and it happens repeatedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One should be able to use his votes as he wants in the community ads thread. This is IMHO a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: According to the comments here, the problem concerns upvotes, too. It seems that we trigger the serial-voting bot because most of the answers come from one person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T23:29:55.757" Title="My votes on the new community ads get reverted" Tags="|bug|community|voting|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4038" CreationDate="2013-12-10T17:44:45.430" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting on 'poll-like' questions has an issue in that voting for multiple answers is detected as 'serial voting' and is auto-reverted once a day. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/150180/the-vote-fraud-script-breaks-legitimate-polling-questions-a-serial-downvoters&quot;&gt;The vote fraud script breaks legitimate polling questions - A serial downvoter&amp;#39;s lament&lt;/a&gt; for more on this.) Added to that, the fact that many of last year's answers were ported &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt; by a single user does not help: it means that many of the answer have the same 'author' (despite the CW status).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is then what to do. We can try to get the underlying issue fixed, but at present that seems unlikely as the MSO thread is 'status-declined'. An 'in house' alternative is to remove the answers (or at least all of the copied-across ones) and 'start again' with a warning against mass migration. Not ideal, so the third approach is to accept people have limited votes on this thread and to leave it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T17:44:45.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4041" CreationDate="2013-12-11T10:39:03.767" Score="15" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/139335/13134&quot;&gt;encouraged&lt;/a&gt; to leave out unnecessary packages out of an MWE. Also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3343/13134&quot;&gt;other question/answers&lt;/a&gt; stress the minimal nature of a MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, sometimes some packages need to be loaded before others, or they have conflicting options.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A novice LaTeX user might not know about these conflicts, and when all packages are included in the MWE, more experienced users can point out that the packages are not loaded correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it then be useful if all packages &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; included?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T19:15:38.580" Title="Why not include all used packages in a MWE?" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4040" CreationDate="2013-12-11T12:38:39.717" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the aim is that Questions and Answers on this site are as widely applicable as possible.  The extra packages that you load, may not be needed at all by another user.  For example, you may be writing you document in Czech, but loading &lt;code&gt;babel&lt;/code&gt; with the &lt;code&gt;czech&lt;/code&gt; option is not the cause of the problem you are having, and the answer given will thus help a person writing in English (with &lt;code&gt;babel&lt;/code&gt;) or Swedish (with a different &lt;code&gt;babel&lt;/code&gt; option) too.  In particular, your standard lists of packages is not the same list another person uses, this is (partly) why they are packages rather part of the core of LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing extra packages makes example coder shorter and clearer.  Thus it will be easier for someone visiting the site later to decide whether the question answer are relevant to their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also removing unnecessary packages is helpful in locating, where the problem may lie, and is a useful debugging technique in itself.  There may indeed be a bug in a package, or there may be a problem with loading order.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, in the act of creating a MWE you may well reduce the code to the point where you can see the error or solution yourself, and so asking on this site is no longer necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-12-11T19:15:38.580" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T19:15:38.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4044" CreationDate="2013-12-12T10:55:27.180" Score="15" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am having trouble with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/149144/8425&quot;&gt;tikz's way of handling colors in patterns&lt;/a&gt;. It seems that the problem is linked to the pdf code written by pgf at system level. Following &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/12571403#12571403&quot;&gt;@DavidCarlisle advice&lt;/a&gt;, I read some parts of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pdf specification book&lt;/a&gt;. But I still have some basic questions about it (googling for questions on the pdf format is not that easy...). So, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;can I ask on tex.se some questions about the pdf format (and if it's ok, should I edit my original question or create a new one)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if not, where should I ask?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8425" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T05:52:26.783" Title="Can I ask a question about the pdf format to solve a tikz issue?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4043" CreationDate="2013-12-13T05:52:26.783" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have given the necessary connection to TeX yourself. This means IMO the question is perfectly on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the site description explicitly mentions &quot;Related software and tools, BibTeX, MakeIndex, Lyx, etc.&quot;, I don't think a question about PDF &lt;em&gt;as produced by &lt;code&gt;pdftex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt; would be any less on topic than a question about &lt;code&gt;arara&lt;/code&gt; or configuring some editor to edit &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T05:52:26.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4046" CreationDate="2013-12-13T08:49:18.357" Score="13" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I have got sufficient reputation for &lt;code&gt;Voting to Close&lt;/code&gt;, I rarely use (personal choice of course**) for a Q which is live on &lt;code&gt;front page screen&lt;/code&gt; and less than &lt;code&gt;24 hrs old&lt;/code&gt; and for &lt;code&gt;first-time users&lt;/code&gt;, even though it's duplicate or sure off-topic Q. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure those Q's might be a burden for a short period of time for the cleanliness knowledge maintainers, but leaving a &lt;strong&gt;clarification-comment to OP and Waiting for Atleast 24 hrs for OP response&lt;/strong&gt; could give OP a &lt;em&gt;fair&lt;/em&gt; chance and also the person wishing to &lt;code&gt;voting-to- close&lt;/code&gt; could do so after the grace period expiry using trace back via comment incase of No Response from OP.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my view instead of closing prematurely and Reopening again with the same speed and hurry, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we have a Grace period &lt;strong&gt;24hrs&lt;/strong&gt; (Atleast for new users) to avoid premature Voting to Close along with a &lt;strong&gt;Close-reason comment&lt;/strong&gt; from atleast 1 of 5 people voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be wrong and All Ideas are welcome &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related meta Q's : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/264/15717&quot;&gt;Etiquette: how long do we wait before voting to close?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/114/15717&quot;&gt;Etiquette (particularly on voting to close)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** I love this quote &quot;With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T19:35:26.687" Title="Should we have a Grace period to avoid premature Voting to Close and Reopening Cycle" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|vote-to-close|new-users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4045" CreationDate="2013-12-13T18:59:48.653" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions are straightforward duplicates and there's no point in waiting the OP to confirm it: see for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/149747/include-endlstlisting-inside-lstlisting-block&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/149747/include-endlstlisting-inside-lstlisting-block&lt;/a&gt; which is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31980/masking-endlstlisting&quot;&gt;Masking \end{lstlisting}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other cases are not so straightforward and I endorse the idea of giving some grace time for the OP to acknowledge the duplicate or to add information. Reopening a question requires people know it has been proposed for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I get from the Review page just now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/657Ew.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's what I get from the Tools page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iclpQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure the system is well behaving. If I go to the Review page, I can't realize there are votes for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T18:59:48.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4045" CreationDate="2013-12-13T23:57:57.550" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm against such a rule, because it doesn't bring anything significantly positive, at least not on TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases the question is resolved in comment, as was pointed out by Joseph, and OP is completely aware that the question is getting closed as dupe or OT, understanding the reasons. In other cases, the question is simply off-topic with now doubt about it, no matter how OP changes it or how he meant it (e.g. &quot;How do I install MathJaX in my webpage&quot;, we get these from time to time), or simply duplicate (e.g. &quot;\coloneqq not working&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbol&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbol&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbol&lt;/a&gt; questions which are not duplicates of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14&quot;&gt;The Symbol Question&lt;/a&gt; are the only examples where pre-mature closure happens. However, as you may notice, if that happens, they usually get reopen pretty quickly, so it's not much an issue. Surely not to such extent that it would need the rules to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T23:57:57.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4049" CreationDate="2013-12-15T00:23:51.103" Score="9" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not know how to treat such questions as this one &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/150006/changing-to-a-vertical-table-in-latex&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/150006/changing-to-a-vertical-table-in-latex&lt;/a&gt;. It is not a beginner's question. Moreover, many patient suggestions at the earlier posts of this user seem to have no effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a recommended policy of behaving in such situations? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) Downvoting, &#xA;b) recommending to close as unclear,&#xA;c) ignoring &#xA;or d) anyway answering  e)your suggestion if any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T04:34:04.410" Title="Recommended policy of answering in case of an unresponsive user" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4048" CreationDate="2013-12-15T03:41:47.547" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my take on the options you give.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. Downvoting: No, as has been commented in the comments to the question, more downvoting doesn't really help. A downvote to -1 (with comments) should be enough to spur the OP to edit their question. If it doesn't the extra downvotes won't spur them on more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B. Close as unclear: No. Or certainly not immediately. It's always better to err on the side of waiting before closing. Let the person address the comments, and don't close too early. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C. Ignoring: Yes. Or at least waiting to see whether the question gets revised appropriately based on the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D. Answer anyway: No. If the question is so unclear, I don't think there's much to be gained from an answer that is a guess.  Put your guess in the comments if you want to stake a 'claim' to that kind of answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that we don't get masses of these questions, so when they do occur there's no great need to deal with them with great speed. Also, we can never assume that real life hasn't interfered with the OPs ability to respond immediately to comments.  This is another reason why swift closing is not in anyone's best interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it this way: how is it detrimental to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; if someone asks a bad question? The simple answer is &quot;Not at all.&quot;  In the longer term, it might be bad for the &lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt; if there are lots of bad questions, but we have plenty of remedies for that, including the monthly Answer the Unanswered sessions, where such question can be closed at that time if there has been no response to comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other comment: Although a user's past behaviour might elicit comments about it, I don't think that past questions should have any effect on how we deal with any particular question. Each question should be treated independently, and the fact that someone has failed to respond to comments on a previous question shouldn't cause us to act differently towards the current one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2013-12-15T04:03:31.957" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T04:03:31.957" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4050" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4051" CreationDate="2013-12-15T12:15:08.090" Score="19" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are (at least) two badges, which are related to a negative score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reversal:&lt;/strong&gt; Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peer Pressure:&lt;/strong&gt; Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read comments like this several times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't downvote below a score of -1, even if the question in it's current form needs some improvement. A score of -1 is enough to show that the question needs work, anything below that is of no use. Also, if you downvote or vote to close, please leave a comment explaining why you did so, but wait at least 24 hours after asking the OP for improvements to the question before voting to close. (by Henri Menke on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/150006/changing-to-a-vertical-table-in-latex#comment341490_150006&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/150006/changing-to-a-vertical-table-in-latex#comment341490_150006&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've even read a comment like this on a question which clearly stated that: &amp;quot;How to do that? I'm lazy and don't want to look for a solution.&amp;quot; - The comment got upvoted and downvoting stopped at -2 (-3 actually, but someone gave an upvote (I don't know why)). The question was finally closed as a duplicate (as far as I can remember).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These comments usually get upvoted quickly, so I think that these two badges are outdated here. I suppose we don't want anyone to be motivated to downvote anything to make a Reversal badge possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they outdated here Are the badges the same on all SE sites? Shouldn't they be switched off (moved to inactive state)? Or: is the idea of not voting below -1 contradicting with original SE intentions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Should this question be tagged as [support] because &amp;quot;I need help with the use of one of the site's features&amp;quot;?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About answering downvoted questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we answer questions which are downvoted / low quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36821" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T09:50:31.697" Title="What is the purpose of the negative score badges?" Tags="|discussion|voting|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4050" CreationDate="2013-12-15T15:25:43.190" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to keep it at negative one because negative answers are not assesed for being good. Hence it doesn't even make sense to compare a -5 voted q/a with a -1 voted q/a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A negative number is enough to draw attention that it is a crappy q/a and makes a point. -17 doesn't always mean the question is wrong. Sometimes the attitude rubs people the wrong way and downvotes pile up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this blocks a few badges on the way, fine so be it. What do you need them badges for in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes I'm not a fan of following SO rules that are designed for a Q/A site with  hundred questions per hour on a site that is way too cozy than SO.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T15:25:43.190" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-15T23:08:32.260" Score="9" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to write draft posts on TEX.SE? It could be useful when you are interrupted and you don't have the time to finish your question/answer. In such cases, AFAIK, I don't think it is possible today to save the draft and finish later. (?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T22:32:27.160" Title="Is it possible to write draft post on TEX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4054" CreationDate="2013-12-16T16:46:51.377" Score="11" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that using inline code tags (`code`) is commonly use for names of packages or software (among other uses).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we could consider a name of a software (for example) is not code... Certain kind of uses of code is just a replacement for quotations marks...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the general guideline to use inline code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="28474" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T15:35:21.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T15:35:21.343" Title="What is the guideline about using code backticks?" Tags="|discussion|policy|markdown|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4053" CreationDate="2013-12-16T17:22:46.223" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no formal policy since, of course, you can't &lt;em&gt;force&lt;/em&gt; people to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With many people familiar with this &lt;em&gt;habit&lt;/em&gt;, most packages/classes are written using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. And, if not, they may be edited to &quot;conform&quot; to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One advantage of using an alternative &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;-markdown is that it clearly highlights when you're using a package rather than just mentioning something. For example, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I use &lt;code&gt;algorithm&lt;/code&gt; and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tells me that the OP is using either an &lt;code&gt;algorithm&lt;/code&gt; environment (perhaps from &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/algorithm2e&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;algorithm2e&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/algorithms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;algorithm&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/a&gt;, which provides an &lt;code&gt;algorithm&lt;/code&gt; environment, as opposed to some algorithm they downloaded from the InterWebz...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The context here is somewhat superficial, but I hope it relays the message.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T17:22:46.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4053" CreationDate="2013-12-16T17:33:23.153" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the package name have to be typed exactly so in the preamble or you get an error?  It won't work if you use a synonym, different capitalization, or hyphenate?  Why then, it really IS code after all, just a very small excerpt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1750" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T17:33:23.153" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4052" CreationDate="2013-12-16T18:35:51.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author of a post (question or answer) can undelete his own post, as long as he closed it himself.  If the community or a moderator voted to close/delete, then they will have to agree to undeletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, deleted posts don't show up in one's user profile, so it's necessary to save the URL to continue editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, this is an option for saving multiple drafts that aren't yet ready for public viewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1750" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T18:35:51.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4053" CreationDate="2013-12-16T21:31:14.810" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a little splitting the hair for my understanding. IF we force this I'm the first one who will stop using backticks :P We shouldn't have policies on such stuff because they are aids not rules.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at least we can embed some use into this pedantry if the backticked thing is a package name. We have the amazing tool of Martin Scharrer described here; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2467/user-script-for-ctan-package-and-texdoc-net-buttons&quot;&gt;User script for CTAN Package and TeXDoc.net buttons&lt;/a&gt; which when certain text is selected it converts into a CTAN or again our amazing Stefan Kottwitz and Paulo Cereda brewed TeXDoc server URLs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/For&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;For&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/example&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;example&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/these&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;these&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/are&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;are&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;all&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/wrong&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;wrong&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/uses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;uses&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/of&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;of&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;it&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T21:31:14.810" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4052" CreationDate="2013-12-16T22:32:27.160" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, you're allowed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/208/formatting-sand-box&quot;&gt;try whatever you want in the Sand-Box&lt;/a&gt;. The formatting mark-down for questions and for answers is the same, therefore you can make your draft an answer in the sand-box. Just start it with something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a draft of a question for the main site, I'll use and remove it before December 25, 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be IMHO fine. It's good to add the date there, and it's good to delete it once you don't need it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However, I'd like to know a moderator's opinion on my suggestion before you use it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T22:32:27.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4060" CreationDate="2013-12-18T17:28:48.693" Score="11" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/150455/579&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, one of the quotes contains&#xA;some latex code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example: $x^2$ vs (^2) ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;by which is meant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;code&gt;$x^2$&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;\(^2\)&lt;/code&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the original input doesn't use backticks to indicate the code (check it out via the&#xA;edit function), but even so, the backslashes shouldn't disappear -- they don't&#xA;disappear in other quotes in the same answer, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other examples: \it vs the more modern \itshape ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this sure looks like a bug to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(i didn't find any existing tag for &quot;quote&quot; so i concocted one.  feel free to&#xA;rephrase or otherwise improve it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; for the benefit of others who might run into the same problem, the&#xA;list that Werner gives in his answer appears to be complete (and yes,&#xA;backslash escaping applies to curly braces as well as to parentheses and brackets).&#xA;if you want a backslash to appear before one of these characters in a quote block&#xA;without using backticks, double the backslash: &lt;code&gt;\\( ... \\)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;\( ... \)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/208/579&quot;&gt;formatting sand-box&lt;/a&gt; for trying out things like this.  (i should have looked there first.)  it's community wiki, so don't&#xA;be afraid of making an addition if you discover something new -- it could help the&#xA;terminally confused, like me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T19:52:13.507" Title="why do some backslashes disappear in a quote?" Tags="|support|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4059" CreationDate="2013-12-18T19:17:08.723" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This all has to do with the fact that SE uses markdown in posts and comments (similar to setting some character's catcode to &lt;code&gt;\active&lt;/code&gt;), and markdown uses the following set of characters that have special meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt; Used with links/internal references/tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;(&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;)&lt;/code&gt; Used with links/internal references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; Headings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; Images, language syntax formatting and spoilers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; Lists, rules and emphasis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; Escaping&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; Short-hand links to network sites (like &lt;code&gt;[tex.se]&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; Block quoting and HTML&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; Inline code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; Rules&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; ???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the above are &quot;escapable&quot; via &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown help&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official Markdown syntax reference page&lt;/a&gt; for more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T19:17:08.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2013-12-19T06:25:26.610" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://miktex.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ufcwE.png&quot; alt=&quot;An up-to-date implementation of TeX/LaTeX for Windows&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14589" LastEditorDisplayName="user10744" LastEditDate="2014-12-14T15:34:22.693" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:34:22.693" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-19T06:25:26.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4063" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-19T18:04:08.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closed-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closed-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closed-questions&lt;/a&gt; should discuss the general idea of closed questions, what that means for a question, and other topics &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking to discuss the &lt;strong&gt;process&lt;/strong&gt; of closing a question, use &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-close&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking to discuss the reasons one might vote to close something, use &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If are are looking for reasoning why a question was closed or for it to be reopened, use &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/reopen-closed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-closed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-closed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T18:04:08.307" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T18:04:08.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4064" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-19T18:04:08.307" Score="0" Body="This tag is for general questions about questions that have been closed because they are off-topic or otherwise do not meet the criteria defined in the FAQ." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T18:04:08.307" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T18:04:08.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4065" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-19T18:13:24.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found at &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tex.blogoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, the TeX - LaTeX blog collects a variety of TeX-related happenings as well as community member interview transcripts (part of a series called TeXtalk):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wfGuh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T18:13:24.863" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T18:13:24.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4066" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-19T18:13:24.863" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions about the TeX - LaTeX blog." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T18:13:24.863" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T18:13:24.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4069" CreationDate="2013-12-19T19:55:28.233" Score="12" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have logged in on a public computer. Now I cannot find button to log out the page. Logging out from general Stackexchange leaves my account active. Cleaning history doesn't help also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T20:14:37.940" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T02:56:25.860" Title="How to log out from TeX.SX web page in new layout" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4068" CreationDate="2013-12-19T20:10:39.137" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you click on the StackExchange menu at the far left, you can choose logout from the options right beside the site.  This worked for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1yEAc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T20:10:39.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4038" CreationDate="2013-12-19T23:29:55.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, after trying for couple days, I came to the conclusion that &lt;strong&gt;as long as you vote only 3 times a day&lt;/strong&gt; in the thread, &lt;strong&gt;your votes won't get reverted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is sort of a good news, even though I still think that votes on one person in one Q&amp;amp;A thread should be considered as one vote only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T23:29:55.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4068" CreationDate="2013-12-20T02:56:25.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just another option: visit the &lt;code&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/logout&lt;/code&gt; page and click the logout button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T02:56:25.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4082" CreationDate="2013-12-20T03:58:18.347" Score="8" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why aren't the Winter bash hats available in the meta site? Is it a bug or a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-12-21T17:46:36.513" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T17:46:36.513" Title="Why aren't the Winter bash hats available in the meta site?" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-bydesign|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2013-12-20T07:11:27.237" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of non-answers I see are really comments by users who don't have enough rep to comment, so the text about follow-up questions is not really appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is what should be the correct advice? They don't really have an alternative, but it would really be an abuse of the system (and the mods) to make &quot;some mod will move your answer to a comment&quot; a standard procedure in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T07:11:27.237" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-20T07:11:27.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4075" CreationDate="2013-12-20T19:36:51.960" Score="7" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is easy to see your answers and questions from the user interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not easy to see your old comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a way to do so? if no, shouldn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T22:02:25.030" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T19:14:44.863" Title="It is not easy to see your previous comments" Tags="|discussion|support|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4074" CreationDate="2013-12-20T20:14:35.137" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see your comments on your activity tab: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/28474/ppr?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=comments&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/28474/ppr?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=comments&lt;/a&gt; - this is not as sophisticated as views on Qs and As, because you can only see them ordered from newest to oldest, but they should all be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T20:14:35.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4107" CreationDate="2013-12-21T12:55:54.837" Score="39" ViewCount="1379" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Introduction&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello there, fellow TeX.sx users! I'm organizing a lottery. The idea is very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2982&quot;&gt;Who Wants to Win a LaTeX Book?&lt;/a&gt;, but both the lottery algorithm and the prize are different. Let me explain some things first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who are you?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm some random dude on the Internet who happens to hang out a lot in this very community. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is the prize?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prize will be a lovely duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Wait a minute, did you say &lt;em&gt;duck&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; But not a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; duck, it will be a hand puppet duck:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4XjfZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lovely, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why a duck? Why not a lion?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good question. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; I always like to provide examples with ducks when I write answers. To my surprise, the theme got a very positive feedback from the community and it spread to everybody. Of course, a lion would be better, but hey, it's free! And it's a duck! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why a hand puppet?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have absolutely no idea. But since I got this duck, I thought it would be a good idea to start a contest! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rules&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To win the duck you must guess a number in the range 1-200. The first person who guesses the right number gets the duck.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contestants may submit 2 valid guesses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please post your guess as an answer to this meta question, not as a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contestants must have been a member of TeX.sx before 21 December, 2013.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The lottery&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll use the following code to pick the winner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}&#xA;\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{expl3}&#xA;\usepackage{xparse}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{pgf}&#xA;\pgfmathsetseed{\number\pdfrandomseed}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOn&#xA;&#xA;\prop_new:N \g_duck_contest_prop&#xA;\int_new:N \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int&#xA;\bool_new:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;\bool_set_false:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;\tl_new:N \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;\int_new:N \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand { \person } { m m }&#xA;{&#xA;    \clist_map_inline:nn { #1 }&#xA;    {&#xA;        \prop_if_in:NnTF \g_duck_contest_prop { ##1 }&#xA;        {&#xA;            Hey! ~ #2 ~ wants ~ to ~ be ~ naughty! ~&#xA;            The ~ number ~ ##1 ~ was ~ already ~ chosen! \par&#xA;        }&#xA;        {&#xA;            \prop_gput:Nnn \g_duck_contest_prop { ##1 } { #2 }&#xA;            \int_gset:Nn \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int&#xA;            {&#xA;                \int_max:nn { \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int } { ##1 }&#xA;            }&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand{ \winner } { }&#xA;{&#xA;    \bool_do_until:Nn \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;    {&#xA;        \pgfmathrandom{1, \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int}&#xA;        \prop_get:NoN \g_duck_contest_prop { \pgfmathresult } \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;        \quark_if_no_value:NF \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;        {&#xA;            \bool_set_true:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    \int_set_eq:NN \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int \pgfmathresult&#xA;    \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\cs_generate_variant:Nn \prop_get:NnN { No }&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand{ \winningnumber } { }&#xA;{&#xA;    \int_to_arabic:n \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOff&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;% add yourself here&#xA;% ==============================&#xA;% For example, in the following line&#xA;% I picked 1 and 27, but I'm not&#xA;% participating in the contest :)&#xA;% \person{1,27}{Paulo Cereda}&#xA;&#xA;\person{137,143}{Marco Daniel}&#xA;\person{65,105}{Ethan Bolker}&#xA;\person{68,130}{giordano}&#xA;\person{123,77}{Werner}&#xA;\person{124,100}{Stiff Jokes}&#xA;\person{15,97}{David Carlisle}&#xA;\person{22,44}{egreg}&#xA;\person{42,37}{tohecz}&#xA;\person{108,69}{Count Zero}&#xA;\person{47,167}{ppr}&#xA;\person{26,2}{marczellm}&#xA;\person{3,30}{Papiro}&#xA;\person{131,144}{percusse}&#xA;\person{33,66}{Harish Kumar}&#xA;\person{1,200}{Przemysław Scherwentke}&#xA;\person{4,5}{Frank Mittelbach}&#xA;\person{13,93}{Adam}&#xA;\person{23,177}{cgnieder}&#xA;\person{11,121}{texenthusiast}&#xA;\person{50,52}{Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine}&#xA;\person{14,29}{ricmarques}&#xA;\person{117,183}{Newb}&#xA;\person{82,88}{Francesco Endrici}&#xA;\person{122,171}{Claudio Fiandrino}&#xA;\person{17,21}{Dror}&#xA;\person{153,154}{topskip}&#xA;\person{74,147}{Sigur}&#xA;\person{193,38}{ComFreek}&#xA;\person{113,31}{Wayne Werner}&#xA;\person{6,7}{Andrew Stacey}&#xA;\person{12,171}{azetina}&#xA;\person{8,63}{Ignasi}&#xA;\person{28,99}{Andrea L.}&#xA;\person{25,116}{Benedikt Bauer}&#xA;\person{126,129}{Alan Munn}&#xA;\person{99,199}{lvaneesbeeck}&#xA;\person{197,53}{Pouya}&#xA;\person{20,125}{afrendeiro}&#xA;\person{45,152}{kan}&#xA;\person{114,115}{Philip}&#xA;\person{24,133}{doncherry}&#xA;\person{27,35}{Yori}&#xA;\person{79,186}{knut}&#xA;\person{12,173}{fifaltra}&#xA;\person{28,196}{Michael Hoppe}&#xA;\person{94,81}{XZS}&#xA;\person{10,172}{OSjerick}&#xA;\person{56,163}{laxxy}&#xA;&#xA;% there was an entry to the code, but not as&#xA;% a proper answer, I'm sorry&#xA;% \person{8,9}{Joe Corneli}&#xA;% ==============================&#xA;&#xA;% the announcement&#xA;The winner is \winner, with \winningnumber! Congratulations!&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll run this code with all the contestants, post a video of it and announce the winner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The date&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, I'll get the code running on January 1st, 2014, and announce the winner. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; And by the way, welcome to TeX.sx, the friendliest and most awesome community in the whole StackExchange network! They give us hats, right? We give ducks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|009|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|016|◖■◗|018|019|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|032|◖■◗|034|◖■◗|036|◖■◗|◖■◗|039|040|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|041|◖■◗|043|◖■◗|◖■◗|046|◖■◗|048|049|◖■◗|051|◖■◗|◖■◗|054|055|◖■◗|057|058|059|060|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|061|062|◖■◗|064|◖■◗|◖■◗|067|◖■◗|◖■◗|070|071|072|073|◖■◗|075|076|◖■◗|078|◖■◗|080|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|083|084|085|086|087|◖■◗|089|090|091|092|◖■◗|◖■◗|095|096|◖■◗|098|◖■◗|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|101|102|103|104|◖■◗|106|107|◖■◗|109|110|111|112|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|118|119|120|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|127|128|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|132|◖■◗|134|135|136|◖■◗|138|139|140|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|141|142|◖■◗|◖■◗|145|146|◖■◗|148|149|150|151|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|155|156|157|158|159|160|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|161|162|◖■◗|164|165|166|◖■◗|168|169|170|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|174|175|176|◖■◗|178|179|180|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|181|182|◖■◗|184|185|◖■◗|187|188|189|190|191|192|◖■◗|194|195|◖■◗|◖■◗|198|◖■◗|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&#xA;◖■◗&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZO05W.png&quot; alt=&quot;Duck winner&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congrats to &lt;strong&gt;Dror&lt;/strong&gt; for picking &lt;strong&gt;17&lt;/strong&gt;, the winning number! And thanks to all that joined the contest! Happy New Year! &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/83109311&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's the video&lt;/a&gt; with me running the code. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T23:23:48.623" Title="Who wants to win a duck? Wait, what?" Tags="|discussion|publicity|ducks|" AnswerCount="47" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-12-31T23:01:26.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T14:18:18.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 137&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 143&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5239" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T14:18:18.287" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T14:37:15.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 65&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 105&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(65 is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two squares two ways. 105 is the product of the first three odd primes, and what 7 NYC subway tokens cost when I lived there many years ago.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="12496" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T14:52:19.957" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T14:52:19.957" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T15:16:13.223" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 68&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 130&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numbers generated using Emacs' &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt; function, I'm sure you will appreciate it &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;  Here is the code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(dolist (i '(1 2))&#xA;  (insert (concat (number-to-string (1+ (random 199))) &quot; &quot;)))&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31416" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T15:16:13.223" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T16:43:33.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 123&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 77&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T16:43:33.250" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T16:46:30.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;With PSTricks' tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[preview,border={6pt 6pt 22pt 12pt},varwidth]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{pst-tools}&#xA;&#xA;\def\GetRand{\psPrintValue{rand 201 mod}}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\pstVerb{realtime srand}&#xA;\GetRand\\\GetRand&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V1zx5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T16:46:30.757" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4072" CreationDate="2013-12-21T17:08:47.910" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;, as per-site metas (or child metas) don't actually have an exclusive profile.&amp;nbsp;:( The only exclusion is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;, since it covers network-wide meta-related content, and have individual user profiles separate from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As reference, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/211712/168244&quot;&gt;Hat not showing on site meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T17:08:47.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4083" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-21T17:11:37.173" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T17:11:37.173" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T17:11:37.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4084" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-21T17:11:37.173" Score="0" Body="For questions about the Winter Bash (or holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year 2013." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T17:11:37.173" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T17:11:37.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T17:23:00.177" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;15,97 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(97 feels &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; lucky)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T17:23:00.177" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T17:38:49.030" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 22&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 44&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T17:38:49.030" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T18:26:58.717" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;42, 37 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T18:26:58.717" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T18:29:55.710" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite numbers: 108, 69. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T18:29:55.710" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T18:43:45.370" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;47, 167 :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Body must be at least 30 characters; you entered 20.&quot; : not too short anymore... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T18:43:45.370" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T19:08:13.733" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;26, 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..............................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21963" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T19:08:13.733" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-21T23:46:44.480" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I missed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3030/3235&quot;&gt;previous one&lt;/a&gt; by one. As every broke gambler knows, patience is the archenemy of the odds. So here we go;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;131&lt;/strong&gt;; I'm a random number generator myself and this is the result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also another generator agrees;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AAH51.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have generated &lt;em&gt;a new one&lt;/em&gt;  which is 144. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T23:46:44.480" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-22T03:26:38.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't we give a duck (0) as the answer? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 33&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 66&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T03:26:38.787" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-22T05:41:29.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;1 and 200. Should I explain, that they are the ends of the interval? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T05:41:29.617" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-22T07:11:49.367" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My luck numbers are 4 and 5 but I need a few more words here to make it stick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10109" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T07:11:49.367" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-22T08:27:06.743" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 93&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T08:27:06.743" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-22T14:24:27.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;23, 177&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T14:24:27.117" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-22T15:23:42.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wild guesses&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 1 : 11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2:  121&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T15:23:42.773" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-22T17:35:21.727" Score="4" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(50, 52) // chosen by fair d100 roll.&#xA;         // guaranteed to be random.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T17:35:21.727" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-22T18:33:04.727" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;1st Number: &lt;strong&gt;29&lt;/strong&gt; (current Paulo Cereda's age, according to his profile page)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2nd Number: &lt;strong&gt;14&lt;/strong&gt; (because the lottery will happen in 2014).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I understood that the numbers in the lottery will be randomly picked... but that does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; mean my guesses have to be random as well! &lt;strong&gt;;-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13063" LastEditorUserId="13063" LastEditDate="2013-12-22T18:44:35.257" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T18:44:35.257" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T04:24:39.923" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 117&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 183&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for hosting this raffle :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37697" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T04:24:39.923" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4110" CreationDate="2013-12-23T00:15:01.320" Score="13" ViewCount="404" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my workplace (a US high school) I am the sole TeX user, and have been for a while. So I'm curious: are there any other secondary school teachers (not necessarily in the US) on tex.SX? If so, what discipline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &lt;code&gt;learning&lt;/code&gt; isn't a good tag for this post, but I couldn't find a better one and don't have sufficient reputation to make a new one. If there's a more appropriate existing tag, let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36448" OwnerDisplayName="crmdgn" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2013-12-25T23:23:22.907" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T21:10:00.187" Title="How prevalent are TeX &amp; its variants in k-12 education?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T09:43:37.070" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 82&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 88&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very nice idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15157" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T09:43:37.070" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T10:30:07.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 122.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 171.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T10:30:07.930" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T10:42:58.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number I: 17 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number II: 21&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="412" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T10:42:58.773" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T10:43:48.647" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;153 and number 154. Both will win!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T10:43:48.647" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4103" CreationDate="2013-12-23T14:30:44.947" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;one of the talks at the recent tex users group meeting in tokyo (tug 2013) was on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the talk, by Yasuhide Minoda of the Tokyo Educational Institute (Tetsuryokai) was not&#xA;written up for publication, but his abstract and slides are on line, linked from the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2013/program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tug 2013 program page&lt;/a&gt;.  the talk, entitled &quot;TeX in educational institutions&quot;, occurred on wednesday, 23 october, at 16:30.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i don't know whether Minoda-san or any of his colleagues participate in this forum, but&#xA;i will arrange to call his attention to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T14:30:44.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4103" CreationDate="2013-12-23T16:16:12.653" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've floated between industry and academics over the years but I'm currently teaching mathematics in a US public high school.The multivariable calculus teacher and I use the sagetex package to create randomized tests (to combat cheating). I don't know of anyone else at the school using it. At my previous school I helped convert a math teacher to LaTeX. With respect to math, I suspect you'll find very few teachers using it: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's little need to use LaTeX. Most schools have resources such as software to generate tests and many teachers look to give multiple choice choice tests (to save time in grading).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX has a huge learning curve and teachers don't have the time to learn as they go. If a teacher wants to create a test with a Name, followed by a line for the student name,on one side of the paper and Class, followed by a line for the student's class, on the other side they quickly run into issues of creating a line and then they find LaTeX ignores the spacing. Simple little things that aren't easy to find unless they've got the time and patience to wade through documentation (or had the knowledge to head to this site). That's why I suggested a functional guide to LaTex for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/56621/what-needs-to-be-introduced-in-a-short-introduction-to-latex/56645#56645&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The profile of LaTeX users that I've seen amongst math teachers is they've already learned LaTeX so they don't have the learning curve to face; the multivariable calculus at my school and I have PhDs so we had years of practice with LaTeX. Had I not been around for help, I doubt that the teacher I converted to LaTeX would have made the plunge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With no need to use LaTeX, limited free time to learn LaTeX, and a big learning curve it's unlikely a teacher will find LaTeX and devote the time to learning it. Add in the fact that about 1/3 of high school math teachers don't have a degree in math and it's easy to see why it's not going to be popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6513" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T20:59:07.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T16:47:49.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1:  &lt;strong&gt;74&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: &lt;strong&gt;147&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No reason to choice them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T16:47:49.457" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T17:53:08.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Number 1: 193&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;kbd&gt;Number 2: &amp;nbsp;38&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are parts of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Donald Knuth's&lt;/a&gt; year of birth: &lt;kbd&gt;1938&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38074" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T17:53:08.920" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4074" CreationDate="2013-12-23T18:13:50.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL; DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/155827/find-all-comments-ordered-by-votes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; for viewing all your comments sorted by their score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Input your user ID (hint: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98771/what-is-my-user-id&quot;&gt;what is my user id?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enter &quot;TeX&quot; in the input box saying &quot;search by name or url&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Unfortunately, the profile section does not display the comments sorted by their scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, StackExchange kindly provides the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;StackExchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; which lets you run custom SQL queries against their data sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a simple query I made, which shows all your comments sorted by their votes: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/155827/find-all-comments-ordered-by-votes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/155827/find-all-comments-ordered-by-votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38074" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T19:14:44.863" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T20:16:56.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 113&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 31&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they'll turn out to be lucky for me and I'll get a duck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4974" LastEditorUserId="4974" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T15:29:03.577" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T15:29:03.577" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-23T20:46:56.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;6,​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T20:46:56.700" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-24T02:15:33.140" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;12 and 171. Hopefully I will win a duck for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T02:15:33.140" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 8     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 63&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T11:29:23.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-24T16:50:10.647" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mmh... I hope that &lt;a href=&quot;http://it.fakenamegenerator.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FakeNameGenerator&lt;/a&gt; will grant me some luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number One:&lt;code&gt;28&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number Two:&lt;code&gt;99&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Happy Christmas Eve!&#xA;\bye&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28100" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T16:50:10.647" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-24T16:50:10.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-25T00:11:13.320" Score="17" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: @percusse asked a similar/the same question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4267/our-do-it-for-me-and-draw-it-for-me-comments-dont-reflect-our-hypocrisy-can-th&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and there seems to be a bit more uptake on that version of the question, so perhaps this question should be closed as a duplciate of that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the text for the &quot;'Just do it for me' graphics questions&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  Questions about how to draw specific graphics that just post an image&#xA;  of the desired result are really not reasonable questions to ask on&#xA;  the site. Please post a minimal compilable document showing that&#xA;  you've tried to produce the image and then people will be happy to&#xA;  help you with any specific problems you may have. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working&#xA;  example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; for what needs&#xA;  to go into such a document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it make sense to change this? It seems to me that on TeX.SX, we have users who go ahead and answer these questions anyway (myself included). Thus, to say that &quot;[such q]uestions [...] are really not reasonable questions to ask on this site&quot; seems false and/or misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent variant of this stock comment that I just posted on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/151235/defining-a-particular-environment-in-latex&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX! Questions about how to draw specific graphics that&#xA;  just post an image of the desired result would be greatly improved by&#xA;  adding a MWE. Please post a minimal compilable document showing that&#xA;  you've tried to produce the image and then people will be more&#xA;  disposed to help you with any specific problems you may have. See&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example&#xA;  (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; for what needs to go&#xA;  into such a document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that this is necessarily what we ought to change the stock comment to, but would it be worth changing it to something that reflects the fact that, while the OP will likely get an answer to the question as is (due to the nature of the users on TeX.SX), it would be much preferable if the OP showed some effort of her own? Or do you think doing this would just encourage people to put less effort into their questions? Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sort of related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2763/just-do-it-for-me-text-building-block&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Just do it for me&amp;quot; text building block&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Indeed, it seems &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764/werner&quot;&gt;someone&lt;/a&gt; answered that question &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the OP eventually provided an MWE. &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T23:51:50.780" Title="Changing stock comment for &quot;'just do it for me' graphics questions&quot;" Tags="|discussion|comments|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-02-27T13:43:07.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-25T00:18:27.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;25&lt;/strong&gt;, because it's today's date. And &lt;strong&gt;116&lt;/strong&gt; because I need another number!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18674" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T00:18:27.977" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-25T00:18:27.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-25T18:19:48.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 1: 126&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: 129&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not random, not chosen by Emacs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T18:19:48.540" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-25T18:19:48.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4125" CreationDate="2013-12-25T22:11:50.397" Score="7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember having read somewhere that the meta section is for the questions that are not directly related to TeX but can't find it back. However, I hope this is the right place for my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knuth is famous for his Literate Programming and since I've read about it, I've made a habit of writing the how and why in my comments (which now represent about 60-70% of my code). I'd like to give a try to Literate Programming but all I can find about it on google describes the ideology, not how to do it. Does anyone know where to start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24686" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T19:41:01.177" Title="How to start literate programming?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2014-01-03T12:55:51.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-25T22:16:22.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;99 and 199. Do you really think they're chosen at random?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24686" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T22:16:22.170" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-25T22:16:22.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-26T15:49:13.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Number 1: &lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Number 2: &lt;code&gt;200&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Neither random nor probable.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were already taken :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my new choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 1: &lt;code&gt;197&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2: &lt;code&gt;53&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Have you noticed how every one is biased toward prime numbers!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T16:03:15.740" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-26T15:49:13.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4122" CreationDate="2013-12-26T19:41:01.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure Meta is the place for it, since Meta is 'questions about questions'/'questions about the site', but it can be moved if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the programming language you're using, you're going to want to take a look at either WEB (original by Knuth, supporting TeX over Pascal), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/cweb.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CWEB&lt;/a&gt; (Silvio Levy with Knuth, supporting C, C++, and Java), or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Tools&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one of the various other tools available&lt;/a&gt;.  (I personally recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;noweb&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in conjunction with &lt;a href=&quot;http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;org-babel&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;—the combination is very easy to work with, and &lt;code&gt;org&lt;/code&gt; supports documentation export to many different formats.  LyX also apparently works with &lt;code&gt;noweb&lt;/code&gt;, but I haven't tried it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only give advice on how to use &lt;code&gt;org-babel&lt;/code&gt;, but the workflow for standalone &lt;code&gt;web&lt;/code&gt; derivatives seems to be the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Acquire a version of &lt;code&gt;web&lt;/code&gt; that you'd like to use, making sure to go through a &lt;code&gt;Hello, World&lt;/code&gt; example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write literate program—comments and code all in one(?) file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;tangle&lt;/code&gt; to extract source code and &lt;code&gt;weave&lt;/code&gt; to extract documentation.  I imagine this is done using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ctangle literate-program.web&#xA;cweave literate-program.web&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or the syntax your tool uses.  (This can almost always be gotten with &lt;code&gt;mytool --help&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T19:41:01.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-26T21:44:46.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;125&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a long answer now :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33613" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T21:44:46.400" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-26T21:44:46.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4050" CreationDate="2013-12-27T09:50:31.697" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ratio of &lt;strong&gt;[Peer Pressure]/[Nice Answer]&lt;/strong&gt; awarded badges (I take Nice Answer as a measure of the size of the site):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow (the largest site): &lt;strong&gt;10%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mathematics.SE (significantly large site): &lt;strong&gt;4%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX.SE (our site): &lt;strong&gt;0.08%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Academia.SE (small site still in beta): &lt;strong&gt;2%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are one of the few sites that doesn't really downvote bad questions (well, we knew that before this my little survey, right?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Therefore we are one of the few sites where Peer Pressure and Reversal badges are ridiculous&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should just don't care about these badges too much.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't care too much about the measures: rep points and badges. They are fine, they are fun, but much more important is to make a good and positive contribution, and this is very hard to measure, one has to feel it :) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T09:50:31.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-27T10:10:19.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Number 45&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Number 152&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was the winner last time. And, I want ducks too :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10679" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T10:10:19.797" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-27T10:10:19.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-27T10:52:20.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Juhu! My first answer in the tex community, 114, 115.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4299" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T10:52:20.447" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-27T10:52:20.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-28T10:52:36.393" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number one: &lt;strong&gt;24&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Number two: &lt;strong&gt;133&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T10:52:36.393" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-28T10:52:36.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-28T17:05:09.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;27 and 35 because my current reputation is 2735.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13939" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T17:05:09.817" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-28T17:05:09.817" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-28T23:51:37.750" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to take 3 and 6 (the age of my children who would love the duck).&#xA;But the numbers are already away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I take:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;79 and 186&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used a random function with check for already used numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6563" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T23:51:37.750" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-28T23:51:37.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-29T00:26:23.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds fun! I will go for 12 and 173. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39366" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T00:26:23.237" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-29T00:26:23.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-30T04:35:20.070" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, my lucky numbers are 28 and 196.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36465" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T04:35:20.070" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-30T04:35:20.070" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-30T14:32:49.587" Score="12" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions ask essentially about reusing pieces of text in multiple places in a document. The question titles don't always reflect this commonality.&#xA;Answers call for external files, boxes, redefined macros, writing to the aux file, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a tag for this? Perhaps &lt;code&gt;reuse&lt;/code&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked or answered several such questions. Here are a few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/151367/put-from-external-file/151677#151677&quot;&gt;Put from external file?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/150858/viva-preparation-document/151707#151707&quot;&gt;Viva preparation document&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/151373/how-to-use-a-string-in-an-auxiliary-file-to-update-the-header/151377#151377&quot;&gt;How to use a string in an auxiliary file to update the header?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/60986/list-of-occurences-of-references&quot;&gt;list of occurences of references&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have enough reputation to create this tag, but given the warnings in help about doing so with care, want opinions before I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T14:32:49.587" Title="New tag for text reuse?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-31T10:38:07.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mostly deal with &lt;code&gt;TikZ&lt;/code&gt;, I let &lt;code&gt;PGF&lt;/code&gt; handle the job for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{pgf}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;  \pgfmathtruncatemacro{\first}{random(1, 200)}&#xA;  \pgfmathtruncatemacro{\second}{random(1, 200)}&#xA;  \textbackslash{}person\{\first,\second\}\{xzs\}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a28aN.png&quot; alt=&quot;\person{94,81}{xzs}&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17129" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T10:38:07.250" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-31T10:38:07.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-31T14:17:26.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My fantastic lucky numbers are: &lt;kbd&gt;010&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;172&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14589" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T14:17:26.790" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-31T14:17:26.790" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4045" CreationDate="2013-12-31T19:35:26.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing is not a death sentence. Close, edit, reopen. The closed question is likely to attract fewer downvotes pending edits, so in some ways, closing is actually helpful. It protects bad questions from being massively downvoted, so they start from a better place when they’re reopened after edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there’s the problem that closing &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; final, especially to new users, even though it’s not. A new user might see the big “Closed” sign and give up and go away instead of editing. That’s why the closed questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/173497/every-close-has-its-thorn-replace-close-with-on-hold-for-the-first-five-d&quot;&gt;displayed as “On Hold” instead for the first five days&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13746" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T19:35:26.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4076" CreationDate="2013-12-31T22:38:13.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;56, 163. Quack, quack, quack, quack!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43426" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T22:38:13.673" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-31T22:38:13.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4149" CreationDate="2014-01-01T01:20:09.940" Score="27" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm Pops, one of the newer Community Managers at Stack Exchange. We've once again come to the time of year when we need to renew (or cancel) our TeX User Group institutional membership. We're more than happy to continue our membership, but since it's been a couple years since &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;the initial effort to get SE involved with TUG&lt;/a&gt;, I thought it would be good to check in with you guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting right to the point, then: would you like to maintain our membership status? Remember, one of the most direct benefits of membership for the community is the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1727/how-do-we-choose-tex-se-members-for-representing-se-in-the-tug&quot;&gt;select eight users for individual membership&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the team is concerned, if you feel like you're getting any benefit out of the membership at all, that's reason enough to support renewal. This isn't meant to be a high bar. If you think the team could be doing a better job of managing the membership, please let us know. This might also be a good time to review the process for filling those eight individual membership slots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T02:44:51.957" Title="Should we keep our TeX User Group membership?" Tags="|discussion|tug|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4140" CreationDate="2014-01-01T02:27:05.930" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short answer:&lt;/strong&gt; yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long answer:&lt;/strong&gt; yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Typical TeXnical answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\ExplSyntaxOn&#xA;Y \prg_replicate:nn{50}{e} s!&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOff&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it's great to have StackExchange as an institutional member of TUG. This community has grown almost exponentially over the years and it's by far one of the best sites in the whole network, in all fronts: userbase and content. And we have ducks! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep the membership. 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  <row Id="4142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4140" CreationDate="2014-01-01T10:14:23.750" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;Paulo&lt;/a&gt; has given a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4141&quot;&gt;very good answer&lt;/a&gt; in favour of membership: here I'll try to give some additional reasons why I think the membership is a Good Thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TeX StackExchange site is currently the most active place for TeX discussion and support in English on the internet. That tells me that both the StackExchange team and the local 'community' on the site are doing good work. What the TUG membership adds to this is twofold: supporting TeX beyond the site &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; enhancing the benefits of the site for a group of our members each year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TUG is the worldwide group for TeX users, organises yearly meetings about TeX and related ideas, supports TeX developments (for example font and LuaTeX coding) and provides a central point for contacts. That needs resources both in terms of people and money: StackExchange's membership of TUG helps directly with the latter, and more broadly being an institutional member shows that TUG membership is an important thing and so helps promotion within the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For our 'representatives', the TUG membership offers something tangible out of their work on the site, and hopefully helps them to broaden their TeX knowledge. The journal of TUG, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tugboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;TUGBoat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, is always a good read and offers insight into lots of areas of interest to TeX users. We get to select new representatives each year, assuming the membership continues, so this benefit gets 'spread around' over time: great for newer members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of how we'll select representatives if the membership continues, the model to date seems to have worked well. The approach I think we'll take is this. I'll open a meta thread asking for self-nominations, where interested members can put their names down. I'll also ask them to delete the answers immediately after posting, and give it a little while (say 5 days) to allow people to put themselves forward. I'll then undelete all of the answers, and give a period for voting (again say 5 days). The moderators will then forward a list of 'reps' to the StackExchange staff based on the voting but with a casting vote in case of a tie and with the right to add additional names in the event that there are not 8 positively-voted nominees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T10:14:23.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4140" CreationDate="2014-01-01T10:50:01.927" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TeX.StackExchange site is a bit more than three year old and we have 50K+ questions, which means more than 45 questions a day on average, with 30K+ registered users. The TeX Users Group is the reference for worldwide TeX users and is committed into improving knowledge and software for TeX and related systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it's in the interest of StackExchange supporting the TUG as an institutional member: the more efficient is TeX support by TUG, the more people are attracted into using the system and into registering at TeX.StackExchange (or, at least into browsing it). The figures speak by themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore the institutional membership is just another way to enrich TeX.StackExchange, which is a great site to be involved in, by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T10:50:01.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4140" CreationDate="2014-01-02T01:05:21.073" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping this is an appropriate place for me to say the following as I've noticed that the above replies are not just about TUG membership but are also reviewing TeX.SE itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was a secondary education teacher of maths and physics for twenty years and have returned to university and have been involved in first year undergraduate maths education in a small way for two years now. The most important feature of TSE for me is that it encourages students of TeX/LaTeX of all levels. If a question gets asked, even very awkwardly, by even a raw beginner, there is much positive encouragement and assistance to either rework it or redirect it. I may not be a raw beginner, but I'm also a long way from being an expert and have felt very welcome in this community from day one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important that this be said because that is not the case in every Stack Exchange site. I'm not naming any but there are a couple where I've had quite negative experiences for a variety of reasons (which are readily quantifiable if anyone wants to discuss it elsewhere), even though I'm not a beginner in those topics, and I was left to wonder how intimidated raw beginners might be. They don't rate highly on the pedagogical front. Those sites could learn a great deal from this one and Maths.SE, which is a close second in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my way of saying thanks but more than that I think it's important to have a closer look at TeX.SE and highlight the reasons why I think this site works so well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of this, TeX.SE is a model member of TUG and should most definitely continue its membership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37070" LastEditorUserId="37070" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T02:44:51.957" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T02:44:51.957" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4163" CreationDate="2014-01-02T13:32:37.640" Score="15" ViewCount="471" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider some users with high reputation but without any question. IMHO, I think every people in the world has problem to be asked to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the questions are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do they really have no problem to be asked? Or is it just one of some other aspects they want to compete with each other? Why don't they ask question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any benefit for users having high reputation and no question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="19356" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T17:09:54.713" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T13:34:14.630" Title="Is there any benefit for users having high reputation and no question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2014-01-02T14:54:13.570" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;i can't speak for the gentlemen named in this question, but i can see some definite&#xA;benefits to participating in the community without asking (m/any) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;an interest in increasing the skill and knowledge of tex users, which in turn&#xA;helps to ensure the continued use of tex, which much of the world thinks must be&#xA;obsolete because the underlying software has been essentially &quot;frozen&quot; since 1984.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;learning new ways of looking at various problems; particularly if a person is involved&#xA;in writing packages or documentation, that person can't predict all the myriad ways&#xA;instructions can be misinterpreted, no matter how paranoid s/he may be on the subject.&#xA;input from a varied (and in this case, volunteer) user base helps one to improve&#xA;materials intended for &quot;public&quot; use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the satisfaction of having been helpful and even useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T14:54:13.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4159" CreationDate="2014-01-02T15:30:57.747" Score="9" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm facing a strange problem with the search function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that it finds threads till December 20th but not over that date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, today I've answered this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/152083/27635&quot;&gt;looking for Latex editor with good structure tree layout view that can handle verbatim&lt;/a&gt;, which contains the word &quot;texmaker&quot; in its body, but if you make a search for the word &quot;texmaker&quot;, the last found is this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/150843/27635&quot;&gt;How to change the color scheme to make this figure more elegant?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what it is happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T21:59:42.110" Title="Is the search feature not working well on TeX.SX?" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4140" CreationDate="2014-01-02T16:40:39.043" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned to Paulo, I expected this response, but your enthusiasm and speed were a (pleasant) surprise. Consider your membership renewed. And keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T16:40:39.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-02T17:05:21.970" Score="28" ViewCount="1403" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4140/should-we-keep-our-tex-user-group-membership&quot;&gt;continues to support TUG with corporate membership&lt;/a&gt; (many thanks). With that come eight individual memberships that can be given out to members of the community. The time has come to select our representatives for 2014. For reference, Eight top voted members during last year &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2906/15717&quot;&gt;TUG Membership: Names for 2013&lt;/a&gt; who have enjoyed &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/aims_ben.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUG membership benefits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the model from previous years, I'd like to ask people to put themselves forward.  There are no restrictions on standing other than having to be a member of the TeX StackExchange site: in particular, the existing 'representatives' are very welcome to put their names forward to continue. [Note: I've called the people we put forward 'representatives', but that's mainly because I can't think of a better term. Nominees should not feel the need to represent TeX-sx other than being members of the site and therefore interested in TeX in some way!]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The model for selection of representatives is as follows. We will have a two stage process, first 'nomination' then 'election'. The first phase runs for five days, until 1700 GMT on 2014-01-07.  Each person who wishes to be considered should post an answer, where they can (if they wish) say what makes them a good choice. They should then immediately delete their answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second phase will then begin. All of the answers will be undeleted, and everyone should take a look at these answers and vote for deserving candidates: remember there are eight places available! Again, there will be five days to vote, ending 1700 GMT on 2014-01-12. At that stage, the top eight names will be forwarded to the StackExchange community staff for notification to TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the event of a tie in number of votes, the mod team will decide which of the tied members are put forward to StackExchange. The mod team may also include additional names &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; at the end of the voting process there are fewer than eight nominees with positive scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the voting period, the tallies were as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/11232/harish-kumar&quot;&gt;Harish Kumar&lt;/a&gt;, 25&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/17423/sean-allred&quot;&gt;Sean Allred&lt;/a&gt;, 20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2388/ulrike-fischer&quot;&gt;Ulrike Fischer&lt;/a&gt;, 18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5049/cgnieder&quot;&gt;cgnieder&lt;/a&gt;, 18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10898/azetina&quot;&gt;azetina&lt;/a&gt;, 17&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/586/torbjorn-t&quot;&gt;Torbjørn T.&lt;/a&gt;, 17&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10995/henri-menke&quot;&gt;Henri Menke&lt;/a&gt;, 17&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1410/morbusg&quot;&gt;morbusg&lt;/a&gt;, 17&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/11604/fran&quot;&gt;Fran&lt;/a&gt;, 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt;, 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our representatives for 2014 are therefore Harish Kumar, Sean Allred, Ulrike Fischer, cgnieder, azetina, Torbjørn T., Henri Menke, and morbusg. Congratulations!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T17:09:32.933" Title="TUG Membership: Names for 2014" Tags="|discussion|sponsorship|tug|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2015-01-08T09:25:38.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4148" CreationDate="2014-01-02T20:32:35.843" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full-text search has to be indexed, otherwise it would overload the servers and they wouldn't do anything else. The index has to be updated only from time to time since it has to be re-structured and almost re-built from scratch to get it as efficient as possible, and this takes a lot of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I think that this is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google is a bit faster in indexing, so you might use it's &lt;code&gt;site:&lt;/code&gt; feature: &#xA;&lt;code&gt;site:tex.stackexchange.com texmaker&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T20:32:35.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4154" CreationDate="2014-01-03T00:55:58.007" Score="8" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;You used to be able to just click on a direct link to step from META to TeX.SE or vice versa. This is gone from the latest interface upgrade. Was there a good reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37070" LastEditorUserId="37070" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T21:48:51.813" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T21:48:51.813" Title="Why have the direct links between META and TeX.SE gone?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-03T07:02:35.043" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;only if&lt;/em&gt;,   there are free slots, and if nobody notices my nomination in other way, I would like to put my name just to have a taste of TUG membership. Though I have been in TeX world for long time, I was never a member (I just didn't think of it). If I like it I will go for an individual membership after this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no specific goals/aims regarding what I do with the membership, hence feel free to downvote. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T07:02:35.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4152" CreationDate="2014-01-03T07:22:48.033" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; as it's a feature of the new top bar. The link is in the 'StackExchange' menu (top-left of screen), where the link for the meta site is directly underneath that for the main site. The same applies to every other StackExchange network site in the menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T07:22:48.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4157" CreationDate="2014-01-03T17:25:15.957" Score="5" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last time I had the feeling that more and more new users came put with names like “user1234”. In this cases I suggest them to change the name, but I wonder if we can prevent this and enforce new users to define another name …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T21:34:59.850" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T20:18:40.443" Title="Prevent usernames like “user1234“" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2014-01-03T17:42:19.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any TeX code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Note Regarding Attribution&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code that is placed in the public domain does not require attribution.  However, if you have found this site useful, the best way to say &quot;&lt;em&gt;Thank you&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is to point others to it.&#xA;So if you wish to acknowledge the source of the code, I recommend a link or bare URL text pointing to somewhere appropriate on this site: if the code came from a single answer, I would link to that answer, but if it is spread over several then a generic link to the site would suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Thank you, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/86/andrew-stacey&quot;&gt;Andrew Stacey&lt;/a&gt;, for writing what I wanted to write :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T17:42:19.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4155" CreationDate="2014-01-03T21:34:19.613" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a number of questions regarding the enforcement of &quot;policy&quot; about site usage. And, it most cases, such enforcement is really not possible, nor warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have many users who literally come-and-go after having received help. To them, userXXXX as a username is sufficient, and they don't really care, nor should we. It still represents an identifiable, unique username. It's probably better than requesting a change and the user adopting the vague username Anonymous:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tC9B4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users should have the freedom to choose their names and how it's displayed, just like they can their avatars. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/213032/168244&quot;&gt;Private information&lt;/a&gt; (which includes the user's &quot;real name&quot;) is considered private until otherwise designated by the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T20:18:40.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4148" CreationDate="2014-01-04T00:30:17.523" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/214716/168244&quot;&gt;A similar question&lt;/a&gt; was posted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;, which revealed the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok so those indexing times are correct, this was a different issue. You may have noticed before the holidays that TeX was read-only for the better part of a day while I did some very fun database maintenance. For some reason I can't explain (it predates me working for Stack), TeX and its meta (and &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; those) databases had a case insensitive collation. Changing that is somewhat of a pain in the ass, hence the read-only mode for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing that caused some other ripples with search that needed a fresh indexing pass (from scratch) to really fix. That has just been performed. It should operate correctly going forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, the problem seems to have been resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T00:30:17.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-04T01:09:54.733" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several times now, my questions have been answered &quot;unofficially&quot; in the comments section, rather than posted as an &quot;official&quot; answer.  In such a case, how can I, as the OP, indicate that my question has been resolved and give credit to whom credit is due?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35910" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T01:09:54.733" Title="Indicating that a question has been answered" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2014-01-04T14:23:40.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4103" CreationDate="2014-01-04T19:29:50.843" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I teach multivariable calculus, AP Physics C, and precalculus at a US private school and use LaTeX extensively, though I learned LaTeX pursuing degrees in math and physics. I primarily use LaTeX to create custom homework assignments, which students seem to enjoy more than their book problems. Recently, &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt; have made my life much easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The AP Calculus teacher at my school is a recent college graduate with a degree in math who never learned LaTeX, but knows of its existence. I am trying to convince him to learn LaTeX. My hope is that with good templates and me as a resource, he will learn some basic LaTeX. He has seemed extremely excited by &lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt;, especially by the possibility for automatically drawn Riemann sums (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/140207/placing-coloured-rectangles-on-a-plot-using-points-from-the-plot-riemann-sums&quot;&gt;Placing coloured rectangles on a plot, using points from the plot - Riemann Sums&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt that any other teachers at my school would be interested in learning LaTeX (or would benefit from it). But I can imagine that as more young, math/physics/cs grads become teachers its use could spread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27666" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T18:10:19.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-05T00:10:11.570" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am very far from the merits, reputation and experience of many members of this site. And my knowledge about LaTeX and TUG is still superficial. Thus, certainly I will not a good 'representant' of TeX-sx. My membership could be surely of little utility in TUG (even less than here, if this is possible).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this &quot;self-promotion&quot;, it only remains to add that as I am still curious and I love LaTeX, so anyway, I present my candidacy for membership of TUG, just in case there is a stroke of luck and all the places are not covered with better candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T00:10:11.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2014-01-06T10:20:27.243" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you ask a question?, I've only seen an answer box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T10:20:27.243" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2014-01-06T13:34:14.630" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking of myself, a while ago I realised that I have been a member of the site for almost two years without asking a single question, so for the next issue I had, I decided to ask a question after a reasonable attempt to finding an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But generally, I’m not used to asking questions, I just try to figure the answers myself, this is how I usually work TeX.SE or not. So why do I participate in this site? I learn a lot by reading people answers (even if I’m not immediately interested in issue, as there is a good chance I’ll need it at some point, and then I’ll know where to look), and if I can help people with things I know, why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="729" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T13:34:14.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-06T18:51:05.563" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to join the election for a TUG membership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope I can stand a chance against the other, more trusted applicants. I'm a user for 1 year and 11 months now, but really started using this site about 1 year ago. My favourite tags are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I read interesting TUGboat articles online, when they were available. I also read Die TeXnische Komödie as I am a member of dante.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I advertise for TeX and TeX.SX in university.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Currently I'm reading the TeXbook to become a better user and I believe, that a TUG membership will help me improving my skills.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, one day I can also publish in the TUGboat or in dante's Die TeXnische Komödie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T18:51:05.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-06T19:26:50.070" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I humbly put myself on the list. I already am a member of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dante&lt;/a&gt; and would like get the opportunity to help me decide if I pay for a joint membership in the future. (I've been tempted for a while now...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I get the chance I promise to write the article about chemistry and LaTeX for TUGboat Karl Berry asked me for about two years ago... (I'll probably be using my yet unfinished &lt;a href=&quot;http://texwelt.de/blog/tag/chemie/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;series of blog posts&lt;/a&gt; on TeXwelt.de as a basis.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastEditorUserId="5049" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T20:36:56.887" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T20:36:56.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-06T20:04:15.877" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll, uh, hereby nominate myself. I'm not sure what's expected of the representatives, but I'll cope in case I'm lucky. I haven't done so much answering / editing / voting / reviewing last year because of being so busy busy busy, but hopefully I'll have more time this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll let you in on a little secret about me: My favorite past time is taking a random article from arXiv and re-TeXing it with plain XeTeX/LuaTeX. I haven't got the faintest clue what most of them are talking about, but I find it somehow relaxing – therapeutic, even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weird? Maybe. Fun? Definitely! Weird? Hey, you asked that already!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T20:04:15.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4168" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-01-07T00:59:58.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often maligned, but often helpful, search helps you find things already asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9726/how-does-stack-overflow-work-so-well-with-search-engines&quot;&gt;How does Stack Overflow work so well with search engines?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to find out how to search like a Ninja, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Content copiers and scrapers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've seen a question or answer from a Stack Exchange site turn up on another, and it does not follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; title=&quot;Attribution Required&quot;&gt;the rules of attribution&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71820/report-high-google-ranking-se-content-copiers-here&quot; title=&quot;Report high-Google-ranking SE content copiers&quot;&gt;report that to the high-ranking content copiers list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Powered by&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elasticsearch.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elasticsearch&lt;/a&gt; powers the search used on Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="42735" LastEditDate="2017-08-29T15:12:06.210" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T15:12:06.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4169" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-01-07T00:59:58.890" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions about the built-in search functionality of this site powered by elasticsearch." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T00:59:58.890" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T00:59:58.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4170" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-01-07T01:04:50.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with 2,000 reputation have the ability to edit any question or answer. This is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;&quot;edit privileges&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users (both registered and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/44557/why-should-i-register-my-account&quot;&gt;cookie users&lt;/a&gt;) who have not reached the level of 2000 reputation (or 100, for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/11740/&quot;&gt;community-wiki posts&lt;/a&gt;) are allowed to suggest edits. These are not applied immediately, but go into &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;a queue&lt;/a&gt; where users who have edit privileges can vote to approve or reject them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your edit gets approved, you get 2 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your edit is rejected, a reason will be displayed on the suggested edit page. You can track your suggested edits under the suggestions section of the Activity tab on your account profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested edits feature also applies to users who don't have 20,000 reputation to suggest edits to tag wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;More&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76251/how-do-suggested-edits-work&quot;&gt;How do suggested edits work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118213/is-there-some-form-of-blocking-in-place-for-rejected-suggested-edits-by-anonymou&quot;&gt;Too many rejections will place a temporary block on further suggestions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T14:02:03.213" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T01:04:50.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4171" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-01-07T01:04:50.873" Score="0" Body="Users without full edit privileges can suggest edits to posts and tag wikis." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T01:04:50.873" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T01:04:50.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-07T09:02:48.623" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are free slots I'm putting my name on the list with the same reason as cgnieder: I'm already member of dante and I would like get the opportunity to help me decide if I pay for a joint membership in the future. But I can't promise an article or something like this as I haven't currently the time to write it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T09:02:48.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-07T17:06:24.063" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really like nominating myself for anything, but I'll make an exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really sure what to say though. I'm a mere user, my contributions to the TeX world so far are mainly those on this site. I've been a TUG member for two years I think. My main reason for joining was to give a little bit back, and I'll renew my membership if I'm not 'awarded' one here. (For that reason I'll place myself last in line.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T17:06:24.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-07T17:23:59.960" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;At Alan's heartwarming insistence, I'd like to nominate myself if there are free slots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems everyone else has given a little tidbit about why, so here goes:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've almost exploded in my interest of TeX and TeX systems,&#xA;  and I would be excited to see what other people are talking about and doing.&#xA;I'm not privy to the full benefits of a TUG membership, but I would be excited and frankly honored to find out about it personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T17:29:44.950" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T17:29:44.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-07T17:26:30.440" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the list is not yet full (7 at the start of writing), I gladly reapply. My connection to TUG was for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;initiating our institutional membership&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1915/going-to-a-conference-the-tug-2011-experience&quot;&gt;visiting a TUG meeting&lt;/a&gt; and making a &lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net/latex-archive/events/tex-online/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX.SX related presentation&lt;/a&gt; there,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;writing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb32-3/tb102kottwitz.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX.SX related article&lt;/a&gt; for the TUGboat from it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was fun, I wish the same fun for our fellow members, I already enjoyed 2 years. And if it happens that it might continue for me so I'd be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T17:40:06.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2014-01-07T21:01:10.537" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX.SX and TUGboat have been invaluable resources for me. To be honest, I feel really welcomed here and even when I have asked several questions, I am glad, that at times, I am able to answer a few here and there. I am learning and similar to my last submission for selection, I am moving forward the TeX voice here in my country, Belize. Currently I am tutoring two of my students in LaTeX. One of the projects that I have initiated is writing a Mathematics book and so far, with all the resources from TUGboat and TeX.SX I have managed to achieve 2 chapters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I would gladly reapply for a TUGboat membership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T21:01:10.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3459" CreationDate="2014-01-08T04:26:12.520" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that the new bar at the top will display a real-time notifier to the left of &lt;code&gt;review&lt;/code&gt; (on the right).  It's not exactly the functionality that was sought after here, but it's close enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T04:26:12.520" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-08T04:26:12.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-09T14:18:00.877" Score="1" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking through the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) site, and I've not been able to find a job that matches up with these duties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creates accessible documentation and documents (with LaTeX, InDesign, and RoboHelp)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Digitizes documents and ensures that they are accessible (Uses FineReader Pro and other OCR/ICR tools)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proofreads and edits copy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a 'documentation specialist'? A 'technical writer'? A 'digital document specialist'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43364" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T14:18:00.877" Title="What would the job title be for someone who reconstructs and creates documents with LaTeX, InDesign, and FineReader Pro?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-01-09T15:45:09.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4180" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-01-10T06:59:57.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Milestones for each privilege is available from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T06:59:57.443" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T06:59:57.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4181" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-01-10T06:59:57.443" Score="0" Body="Questions about privilege notifications and privilege wikis." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T06:59:57.443" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T06:59:57.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4182" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-01-11T06:57:26.570" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imgur.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;imgur.com&lt;/a&gt; has been providing native support for image uploading on all SE networks since &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&quot;&gt;August 2010&lt;/a&gt;. Images upload via this service will be available indefinitely, avoiding any broken links that may occur from dead links (when images are removed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-11T06:57:26.570" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T06:57:26.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4183" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-01-11T06:57:26.570" Score="0" Body="imgur.com is the service used by Stack Exchange to handle uploading pictures." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-11T06:57:26.570" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T06:57:26.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-11T12:17:24.837" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the Review section of the main site prompt me to review flags on the post show below but only offers me the &lt;strong&gt;Other (needs ♦ moderator attention)&lt;/strong&gt; choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first time I see something like this; it looks like a bug to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBUGa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T12:17:24.837" Title="Flag review offering only 'Other (needs ♦ moderator attention)' as a choice" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-11T17:08:22.270" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can't be right. On the main TeX.SX, it says that there are &quot;0&quot; featured questions ... ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I count seven (one is missing from my screenshot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SAKjd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's still saying &quot;0&quot; even after a hard refresh ... Not sure what's going on ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My browser is Firefox 26.0 if that is potentially relevant. I've always accessed TeX.SX via Firefox, and I've never seen this behavior before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1&lt;/strong&gt;: Now, when I go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; it says &quot;7&quot; (though it didn't before), but when I click on &quot;featured&quot; (that is, when I go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&lt;/a&gt;) it still says &quot;0&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;: Just kidding, the behavior mentioned in Update 1 is now gone. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; is back to saying &quot;0&quot;, not &quot;7&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 3&lt;/strong&gt;: After a few hours of vacillating between the original noted behavior and the behavior noted in Update 1, it seems as if things have gone back to normal for me ... Perhaps this question should be closed in a day, or so, assuming I don't see the behavior resurface? I'm not sure. Did anyone else notice this happening for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T19:42:59.577" Title="Uh ... 0 featured questions ...?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2014-01-13T07:26:49.517" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-11T17:51:38.397" Score="11" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question really belongs in meta.tex.stackexchange, but I just created an account and don't have enough rep to post there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used the June 2013 Stack Exchange data dump to look at the time series (by month) of the 5 most popular tags on tex.stackexchange.  Here's a plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XHmwk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Count of top 5 tags on TeX.SE over time&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interpretation is left to the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is more of a fun fact than a question (sorry about that), although I'd certainly like to hear any thoughts on other fun facts that could be had from this data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43995" OwnerDisplayName="Alex Dusenbery" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T17:52:13.683" Title="How does Tag usage change over time?" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4189" CreationDate="2014-01-11T20:59:02.973" Score="15" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following question posted on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/153362/19356&quot;&gt;PSTricks: Remove trailing zeros in axis labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP also posted the question to LaTeX-Community site as also mentioned in the link above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experiences, cross-site posting was not allowed as prompted by someone in LaTeX-Community several decades ago. This rule is not declared officially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you think, is cross-site posting allowed officially here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T13:38:34.597" Title="Is cross-site posting allowed officially?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3678" CreationDate="2014-01-11T23:45:21.897" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the pointer to the XML data dumps, @Charles Stewart.  I used the June 2013 data dump (formerly here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clearbits.net/torrents/2141-jun-2013&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.clearbits.net/torrents/2141-jun-2013&lt;/a&gt;) and extracted the tex.se portion into a MongoDB database instance for easy querying.  The dataset consisted of over 103K Post records and 27K User records.  Every post has a type associated with it.  The Post types we're interested in for this problem are &quot;Question&quot; and &quot;Answer&quot;.  There were over 40K Questions and 60K Answers in this dataset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With these Question and Answer posts, a graph can be constructed, connecting two users from the dataset with an edge if those users contributed to the same question (by either posting the question or posting an answer to the question).  This can be thought of as a co-authorship network.  Once constructed, this co-authorship graph consisted of 13775 vertices and 67002 edges.  For the sake of analysis, I only worked with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_component&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;giant component&lt;/a&gt; (which I'll call &quot;the graph&quot; or &quot;the network&quot; from here onward).  Some of the basic statistics of the graph are listed here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of Vertices: 13589&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of Edges: 66882&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average Degree: 9.843&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Degree &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assortativity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Assortativity Coeff.&lt;/a&gt;: -0.248&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avg. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_coefficient&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Clustering Coeff.&lt;/a&gt;: 0.527&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Transitivity: 0.054&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Ethan's guess above was pretty close to the actual average degree for the network.  The negative assortativity coefficient is interesting: in academic coauthorship networks (and other social networks), we usually see a positive assortativity measure, which indicates that network &quot;hubs&quot; tend to connect to other hubs (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/i20/e208701&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/i20/e208701&lt;/a&gt;).  The tex.se network exhibits the opposite tendancy: hubs tend to connect to &quot;smaller&quot; nodes.  This property is probably desirable for this setting - it means that the more experienced TeX users in the community are interacting more often with the less experienced members, presumably helping to spread their knowledge throughout the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Degree Distribution for the graph follows an approximately power-law distribution.  Using the python power-law fitting &lt;a href=&quot;https://pypi.python.org/pypi/powerlaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;package&lt;/a&gt;, a fit was obtained with alpha = 1.93 for minimum degree 4.  The distribution looks like this:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tc78N.png&quot; alt=&quot;tex.se degree distribution&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can also look at who the users with the highest degree are; the higher the degree of the user, the more posts the user has participated in as a &quot;co-author&quot;.  The top 20 users in the tex.se coauthorship network by degree are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;egreg 2962&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gonzalo Medina 2100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Werner 2009&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David Carlisle 1784&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Herbert 1690&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lockstep 1207&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peter Grill 1145&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stefan Kottwitz 1140&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Martin Scharrer 1109&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mico 944&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Wright 868&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alan Munn 828&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andrew Stacey 823&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jake 805&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marco Daniel 770&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ulrike Fischer 766&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yiannis Lazarides 764&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harish Kumar 709&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heiko Oberdiek 690&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;percusse 678&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of fancy visuals, the graph looks like this, although it's hard to draw much from this view (the nodes are colored and sized by degree, so the bigger and bluer a node is, the higher its degree):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7y7U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tex.se network global view&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently working on some more analysis, so helpfully a better &quot;global view&quot; of the tex.se network will be coming at some point in the near future, along with some other interesting findings.  Thanks for reading, and thanks to Ethan for posting a fun question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43995" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T23:45:21.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4187" CreationDate="2014-01-12T10:49:31.750" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the comments, cross-posting between StackExchange sites is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068&quot;&gt;explicitly 'forbidden' by network-wide guidelines&lt;/a&gt;. The logic to the cross-network posting rule is that each site has a scope and that a 'good' question should be clearly on-topic for one of the sites and thus most likely to get answered in one place. Posting in multiple places is then viewed as likely to simply cause duplication of effort and to potentially fragment useful information. &#xA;The StackExchange network policy in part reflects the 'outlook' of the senior staff/owners, who have a particular vision for how it can contribute to knowledge on the internet. The question is whether their logic (and thus guideline) applies to cross-posting in 'other places', for example Usenet, forums, mailing lists, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;, and if so what is the correct response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, questions are cross-posted because the asker wants to maximise the likelihood of obtaining a (useful) reply. Many 'regulars' here also read/post to 'other places', and so know that cross-posting is not necessarily likely to reach a significantly-larger audience of 'experts' than a single post is. On the other hand, I think many less experienced TeX users do not know that. Thus cross-posting is not a deliberately obstructive action: it reflects the needs/desires of the askers. Thus I think a response here should reflect that: be helpful to the questioner while recognising that duplicated effort does no-one any favours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd therefore suggest that the approach already adopted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-community.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The LaTeX Community&lt;/a&gt; is not a bad one: politely ask that cross-posts are noted, say as a comment on a question. That makes it more likely that the question will eventually be answered at both ends: someone answering in one place can also answer in the other. Worth noting is that the network approach is that answers here should be 'self-contained', and thus an answer simply pointing out that a cross-post is answered will need to be expanded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T13:38:34.597" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4191" CreationDate="2014-01-13T09:09:54.897" Score="55" ViewCount="914" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard a rumour, that people on TeX.SE are nicer and more inclinded not to down vote,&#xA;where as people on Programmers.SE are the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is true, where as the second is not.&#xA;Here are some statistics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;╔═══════════╦════════╦═════════╦══════════╦══════════╦═══════╦════════╦════════╗&#xA;║   name    ║  neg   ║  zero   ║   pos    ║  Total   ║ neg%  ║ zero%  ║  pos%  ║&#xA;╠═══════════╬════════╬═════════╬══════════╬══════════╬═══════╬════════╬════════╣&#xA;║ tex       ║    181 ║    9003 ║   124304 ║   133488 ║ 0.14% ║ 6.74%  ║ 93.12% ║&#xA;║ SO        ║ 426447 ║ 7303731 ║ 10219701 ║ 17949879 ║ 2.38% ║ 40.69% ║ 56.93% ║&#xA;║ prog      ║   4084 ║   25231 ║   117845 ║   147160 ║ 2.78% ║ 17.15% ║ 80.08% ║&#xA;║ eng       ║   5244 ║   19036 ║    91030 ║   115310 ║ 4.55% ║ 16.51% ║ 78.94% ║&#xA;║ unix      ║   1497 ║   18631 ║    74794 ║    94922 ║ 1.58% ║ 19.63% ║ 78.80% ║&#xA;║ ubuntu    ║   6057 ║  122584 ║   185132 ║   313773 ║ 1.93% ║ 39.07% ║ 59.00% ║&#xA;║ superuser ║  10028 ║  192953 ║   342148 ║   545129 ║ 1.84% ║ 35.40% ║ 62.76% ║&#xA;╚═══════════╩════════╩═════════╩══════════╩══════════╩═══════╩════════╩════════╝&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pulled these using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/159549/meaness-of-site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DataExplorer Query&lt;/a&gt;, which totals questions with overall negative/zero/positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because only high quality questions are asked? &#xA;because the community is more forgiving?&#xA;Because the moderators brutally delete poor questions before they get downvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T23:04:35.477" Title="TeX.SE really are nicer voters" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4190" CreationDate="2014-01-13T11:47:09.437" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;From very early on in the life of the site, there has been a presumption that voting should be a broadly 'positive' action. In particular, the community here have generally felt that for most questions voting below -1 isn't really desirable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please don't downvote below a score of -1, even if the question in its current form needs some improvement. A score of -1 is enough to show that the question needs work, anything below that is of no use. Also, if you downvote or vote to close, please leave a comment explaining why you did so, but wait at least 24 hours after asking the OP for improvements to the question before voting to close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; thread.) Thus many of the 'regulars' vote down only for very specific circumstances, primarily for spam where it's entirely sensible to vote quickly and remove the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you may also pick up from the building blocks page, there's also a feeling that questions shouldn't get closed too quickly: rather than 'close, improve, reopen' there's a preference for 'comment, improve'. That partly reflects the nature of the questions asked here (it's reasonable expect quite a few from new/inexperienced users) and partly the scale of the site (it's quite possible to keep 'on top' of all of the questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of moderator response, I think none of us delete many questions. The main use for the 'mod hammer' is for clearing up questions that are unlikely to get answered. That doesn't involve deleting them, although the 'back end' may of course remove closed questions over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T12:10:41.980" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4196" CreationDate="2014-01-13T15:02:26.303" Score="30" ViewCount="1248" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have various questions from people wanting to set up their editor(s) for use with Biber, or struggling to get the LaTeX/Biber/LaTeX workflow to work: see for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/153647/biblatex-biber-and-latex-citations-undefined&quot;&gt;Biblatex, Biber, and LaTeX: citations undefined&lt;/a&gt;. This is mainly because most editors come pre-set for LaTeX/BibTeX/LaTeX/LaTeX or leave this entirely to the user. I wonder if we should look to create a 'definitive' question to cover this. What I'm imagining is a question with appropriate text to be easy to find, plus instructions for answers (similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt;). Each answer would then be specific instructions for an editor (proably with platform variations if appropriate)_, with the idea being that the question itself (and thus the answers) would be community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this sound like a reasonable idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus question now the main part has been agreed: does it make sense to dupe older editor-specific questions to the new generic one, provided the appropriate editor is now covered by the general question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-01-19T10:13:35.550" Title="A single question for configuring editors to do LaTeX/Biber compilation?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4195" CreationDate="2014-01-13T22:20:40.183" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I'd like to know the difference between &lt;code&gt;latexmk&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;autolatex&lt;/code&gt;. So I do a search, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41500/autolatex-or-latexmk&quot;&gt;and look there is a question on it.&lt;/a&gt; Oh, wait, it is closed as a duplicate, well, I'll go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64/tools-for-automating-document-compilation&quot;&gt;the question is was closed as a duplicate of.&lt;/a&gt; Lets see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;65 upvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/234/7880&quot;&gt;Latexmk is one possibility, although I've never used it myself.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that doesn't have much information on it, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/76/7880&quot;&gt;what about autolatex? It only has 3 upvotes:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For completeness, I will mention autolatex (project page). I have not used it. It's implemented with a combination of perl scripts and makefiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With autolatex you can execute on the command line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;$ autolatex -f mydoc.tex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This generates the makefiles in the current directory and makes the default targets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So neither answer has any information on what the differences between &lt;code&gt;autolatex&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;latexmk&lt;/code&gt;, yet I still can't make a new question on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/13167852#13167852&quot;&gt;The chat recommended I make a meta question here, and that it would hopefully wind up with improving the list questions answers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T22:30:55.173" Title="Problem with list blocking a latexmk vs autolatex question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4194" CreationDate="2014-01-13T22:30:55.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I suggest making the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; more systematic.&lt;/strong&gt; My proposal, feel free to add your ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each answer in that question should treat one automation tool exactly (this seems to be true for all but &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1882&quot;&gt;Paul Biggar's&lt;/a&gt; answers). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following information about each tool should be present:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Name, with link to homepage or manual if applicable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to its tag, if it has a dedicated tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's basic abilities and basic weaknesses, probably as a list of tools it supports. I suggest: &lt;code&gt;makeindex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;makeglossaries&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;biber&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;bibtex&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to invoke it, what basic options/parameters it has (this is simple for tools like &lt;code&gt;latexmk&lt;/code&gt;, more difficult for tools like &lt;code&gt;arara&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt;, suggestions on how to treat this are welcomed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Platforms, Licensing (at least in &quot;free&quot;/&quot;non-free&quot;, but seeing the list, all seem to be &quot;free&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this makes sense. After all, this is CW, so please bring in your ideas!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T22:30:55.173" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-13T22:30:55.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4192" CreationDate="2014-01-15T08:26:20.387" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on votes on the question and comments here it seems the answer is 'yes'. Before posting a question on the main site and starting to populate it with answers, it would be a good idea to draft out the question and guideline-comments here: see below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations&lt;/strong&gt; [Proposed question title]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Running the minimal example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{filecontents}&#xA;\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}&#xA;@ARTICLE{example,&#xA;  author  = {Other, Anthony Norman},&#xA;  title   = {Some things I did},&#xA;  year    = {2014},&#xA;  journal = {J.~Irrep. Res.},&#xA;  volume  = {1},&#xA;  number  = {1},&#xA;  pages   = {1-10}&#xA;}&#xA;\end{filecontents*}&#xA;\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}&#xA;\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;Hello\cite{example}.&#xA;\printbibliography&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the warning &lt;code&gt;There were undefined references&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63852/question-mark-instead-of-citation-number&quot;&gt;Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number&lt;/a&gt; and know that I need to run:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Biber&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my editor is only set up to run BibTeX. How do I go about setting up my editor/IDE to be able to run Biber, and how do I run the LaTeX/Biber/LaTeX cycle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments/guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each answer should be for one editor. If the editor is cross-platform, if possible give a single answer with notes covering the minor platform variations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each answer should be 'stand alone', &lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; don't say 'It's almost the same as editor Y but ...'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instructions on how to set up build tool such as &lt;code&gt;arara&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;latexmk&lt;/code&gt; are welcome, but the primary focus should be on the basic 'by hand' approach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T20:28:17.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4198" CreationDate="2014-01-15T15:44:19.143" Score="9" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow..., I thought I was on meta TeX.SX and saw a question that belonged on TeX.SX, so I flagged it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately after I flagged it, I realized...uh, embarrassingly enough,...that I was on the main TeX.SX site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to 'unflag' a question that you've flagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-15T22:34:25.933" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T22:34:25.933" Title="Is it possible to 'unflag' a question?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4197" CreationDate="2014-01-15T18:48:35.050" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of now, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/87660/168244&quot;&gt;unflagging is&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/87500/168244&quot;&gt;not possible&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;, most likely because it doesn't happen often enough to warrant special treatment in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible ways of &quot;unflagging&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;, find one of the mods and profusely apologize. :) They may be able to dismiss a flag and avoid it from spreading to the review queues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If mods aren't directly available in chat, re-flag the question, this time specifically &quot;for moderator attention&quot; and state that it was an an incorrect flag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One may also want to drop a comment in the post thread to guard others from accepting the flag as-is (out of ignorance and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/211/custodian&quot;&gt;possible&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/128/reviewer&quot;&gt;badge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/212/steward&quot;&gt;hunting&lt;/a&gt; within review queues)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Misflagging&quot; should not be a problem if it is not chronic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; This may change, just like the network added a way to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/915/168244&quot;&gt;revert close votes&lt;/a&gt; (2013-07-15). &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1170/168244&quot;&gt;Something similar was done for comments&lt;/a&gt; (2012-04-12).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T18:48:35.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-16T06:18:51.417" Score="10" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen quite a few questions proposed to be closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34255&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34255&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34260&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34260&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34257&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34257&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and a few more. I voted to leave open (on the above three) because these questions were, to me, clear about what they're asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I noticed a pattern: these all seem to be &quot;old&quot; questions which has had at least one upvoted answer, but the OP hasn't accepted it. Is this why they were proposed to be closed? If so, shouldn't we close them for the &quot;right&quot; reason? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that closing these questions may favorably affect some of our site statistics. But it's just confusing when review page shows &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should this question be closed as: &lt;strong&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and yet the question was sort of clear about what it's asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should add a closing reason specifically for answered-but-not-yet-accepted questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T10:20:40.457" Title="Questions closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4199" CreationDate="2014-01-16T09:47:25.880" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I probably wouldn't initiate a vote-to-close on these myself, if I met them in the review queue, I would cast a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of them are extremly unlikely to have any positive contribution to anyone now: the OPs are left and very unlikely interested anyways after such a long time, and in all honesty, I can't imagine someone else getting help from the answers, which are basically just shots in the dark since crucial information is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as Joseph Wright pointed out, you need to ask the close votees. I would especially be interested in what made Jubobs cast the first vote for &lt;em&gt;exactly these three questions&lt;/em&gt; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T09:47:25.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4199" CreationDate="2014-01-16T10:20:40.457" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider these questions to have been properly closed as “Unclear”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question #1: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58125/listings-lstbeginwrite-gobbles-and-from-input&quot;&gt;listing&amp;#39;s lst@BeginWrite gobbles &amp;#39;-&amp;gt;&amp;#39; and &amp;#39;=&amp;gt;&amp;#39; from input&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a request for a minimal example, there has been no answer in more than a year. I'd consider this question as impossible to answer because it's unclear what the problem is: my answer was just a simple try for seeing what could have been the issue. Adding several lines of uncommented code is not the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question #2: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73413/long-lines-when-using-listings&quot;&gt;Long lines when using listings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just the same considerations apply. Nobody can know the OP's setting and, given the great customizability of &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt;, trying to reproduce the problem would be impossible. The given answer is generic and it could be nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question #3: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70119/xml-listing-shows-incorrect-quotation-marks&quot;&gt;XML listing shows incorrect quotation marks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is even less clear than the other two. The description of the problem is generic and the attempted answer is just a guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T10:20:40.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-16T16:00:53.280" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether something's changed here or in https everywhere (for firefox) but I now have to turn it off to log in to meta, otherwise I get bounced to https.tex.stackexchange.com, and when I go back to meta.tex.stackexchange.com I'm still not logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once logged in I can enable it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't normally do much more than read on meta so I don't know how long it's been going on - but recent-ish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(bug tag is speculative I admit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T16:00:53.280" Title="Trouble logging in to meta using https everywhere - recent change?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2014-01-18T14:23:14.623" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4190" CreationDate="2014-01-16T16:08:03.150" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think when you can define and help a newbie it's easier to be patient than at say english.SE, where there are a lot of &quot;take it to ELL&quot; type answers along with plenty ofinteresting discussions.  I know everyone has been very patient with me,  to the extent that I've stuck around and learnt a lot, and can contribute a bit now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's related that for something with a significant learning curve, some people are filtered out before even thinking about posting their first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to speculate really wildly: Is there a factor at play that most (La)TeX users are in a broad sense part of the academic world, or at least were?  I'm not saying that makes people nice, but it does mean they know how to have a discussion.  I'd even maybe stretch that definition to a broad sense of the scientific world, from what I've seen of people's work in they questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I probably don't vote as much as I should, but my votes are almost all positive, across the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T16:08:03.150" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4204" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-01-19T22:05:50.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;User accounts are identified generically by a user ID; typically a number, and accessible/viewable to the public via the URL &lt;code&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com/user/&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user account for the Meta site is the same as for the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2015-04-25T14:11:26.607" LastActivityDate="2015-04-25T14:11:26.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4205" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-01-19T22:05:50.037" Score="0" Body="Refers to user accounts." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-19T22:05:50.037" LastActivityDate="2014-01-19T22:05:50.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4206" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-20T16:25:43.487" Score="25" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the TeX SE, the number of stars a question has received seems to overlap the star.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't really an issue with single-digit numbers, which seem to fit neatly into the crevasse between the two bottom points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qTTM5.png&quot; alt=&quot;2 stars&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, multi-digit numbers are too long to avoid running into the star.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P8O8i.png&quot; alt=&quot;221 stars&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should something be done about this? The overlap itself isn't really screaming for attention; the conspicuous part is more the lack of space in comparison to the nearby upvote/downvote buttons and the question stars of the other SEs. My main concern is that this sense of &quot;crushed&quot; interface elements makes the site look a little less polished than it could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comparison to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wjnWr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29378" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2014-01-21T18:08:11.460" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T03:12:48.330" Title="Should the spacing between the star number indicator and the question star itself be increased?" Tags="|discussion|design|user-interface|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-20T19:49:41.007" Score="14" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, this question popped up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/155085/2693&quot;&gt;Is there a hierarchy between packages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was sure it was a duplicate, and found this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4515/2693&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the right order when loading packages?&lt;/a&gt; (First duplicate)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which then led me to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3090/2693&quot;&gt;Packages that need to be included in a specific order&lt;/a&gt; (Second/main duplicate)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this question simply points to an external link, something that at some point may go dead, and whose content we have no control over.  Surely we can do better than that? I'm always uncomfortable voting to close a question when the duplicates aren't really great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A related question is much more helpful in this regard, but is focused on &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; only:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1863/2693&quot;&gt;Which packages should be loaded after hyperref instead of before?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest actually adding answers to the first duplicate question (which I think is a better question than the second duplicate (which is the current &quot;main&quot; duplicate)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T20:15:36.143" Title="Package loading order questions need some work" Tags="|discussion|answers|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-21T05:33:45.930" Score="16" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm getting the impression that a question of the type &quot;I've written this package. What do you think about it?&quot; is not well suited for the mechanics of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently there are two questions of this type &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=votes&quot;&gt;on the first page of the &quot;unanswered list&quot; ordered by votes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/123174/automated-management-of-package-options-and-loading-order&quot;&gt;Automated management of package options and loading order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/130310/equation-connected-by-lines&quot;&gt;Equation connected by lines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are getting some comments, but it is hard to conceive what a &quot;valid answer&quot; would look like which would be accepted by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could maybe argue that the questions are &quot;off topic&quot; in the strictest sense as it is unclear what exactly is being asked, but on the other hand I appreciate the idea of giving package authors the opportunity to tap the expertise assembled on this site also for general comments, not only to solve specific problems occurring during package implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could be done about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave them alone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking one could maybe start a &quot;big list&quot; question (on meta?) asking &quot;What package are you currently working on?&quot; where these questions together with the comments could go as &quot;answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; TBH the main reason for this question is that I like to browse the unanswered questions list and questions which &quot;cannot be answered&quot; somehow disturb my sense of tidyness ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe to remedy this, we could add some noncommittal answer like &quot;This seems to be a very nice package and I would love to see it on CTAN soon&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T06:39:13.223" Title="Should we have a big list question &quot;What package are you working on&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|questions|big-list|package-authors|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-21T20:57:30.047" Score="5" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/860/can-we-have-proper-italics-rather-than-slanted-text&quot;&gt;Can we have proper italics rather than slanted text?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, it seems that proper italics are impractical with a sans-serif font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I still feel that the slant is a bit much; can something be done about this please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T08:51:58.593" Title="If we can't have italics, can we at least have *less* slanted text?" Tags="|feature-request|design|typography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4209" CreationDate="2014-01-22T08:51:58.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible to at least try to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7999015/adding-more-slant-to-italic-text&quot;&gt;control the amount of slant using CSS3 skew transforms&lt;/a&gt;, but honestly, I wouldn't want to try it &amp;mdash; even if it works, it's likely to look pretty horrible on most browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems much safer to stick to plain old &lt;code&gt;font-style: italic&lt;/code&gt; and just let the browser / OS font renderer implement it as best as it can, given the available fonts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we (or, rather, the SE designer(s)) &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; do is switch from the current Lucida Grande / Lucida Sans / Tahoma font stack to some other set of font families that actually have proper italic / oblique faces rather than relying on automatic slanting.  I'm not going to offer any specific suggestions, but there should be several reasonable choices available on most systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T08:51:58.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4211" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-22T12:27:17.010" Score="11" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I saw an edit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/9365/22492&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question which is also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/161773&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most viewed question&lt;/a&gt; in TeX.SE. The edit is pretty much useless and it not even actual improved formatting (bolding the parenthesis!). I honestly don't want to be cynical but I really don't find any actual contribution behind such edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see these type of edits every on and off and I believe they are done by honest users for sake of improving the website, however, sometimes I can not help it not to think that few of these edits are there solely for sake profile views and/or reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't find myself in position to roll-back these edits. Shouldn't we have some sort of flags for edits that are pointless, as well as having a mechanism to protect some of the answers from being edited by users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T18:24:51.893" Title="Can we flag unnecessary/useless edits?" Tags="|discussion|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4208" CreationDate="2014-01-22T13:42:03.753" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a tag or a label we could add to &quot;not-quite-questions&quot;? I like separate posts for each one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44524" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T13:42:03.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4190" CreationDate="2014-01-22T21:51:10.147" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally I can nag about SO moderators!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.SE is unique in the way that users treat questions and I think that is the way it has to be. Unfriendly environment in stackoverflow tempted me to post something on their meta and ask them why so serious and what is the purpose of this &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;hostility&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!? This behavior is completely against the soul of Q/A forum where users actually are coming for answers not for having their questions deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, in my opinion it is not the quality of the questions at all, but the tolerance of moderators makes TeX.SE a nice forum to be active in. I don't think admins brutally delete the low quality question. In fact, if you compare the way that low quality questions go down in SO and TeX.SE you will realize that here, questions go to -1 and the there is window of opportunity for OP to modify or change the question while in SO, once you have the first -1 you will have the next ones in course of minutes (involving a little bit of personal feelings, I think next down-voters are a slightly victims of cognitive bias*).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To talk a bit about moderators, I will make you an example of one of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/94842/22492&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;s. If you check the edits you will see how &lt;em&gt;egreg&lt;/em&gt; has improved my answer. And here is when TeX.SE senior users shine. Consider our very own Mr. Egreg egain. A university professor or david or most of other highest ranked users here all very decent, patient and polite persons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do admit that crazy traffic on SO needs a bit of brutality in moderation but I don't think they do what they do rationally and patiently. Check results of &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/162105/206627/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; query which is the list of top 10 closed questions. These questions are mostly marked as un-constructive!! &#xA;To put it into perspective, our highest closed question has the vote of 62 while in SO it has 1479 votes and has been favorited 3691 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gw0eM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTejx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize, I think it's all about moderators and their patience and respect to the OP. If they down-vote they explain why and they wait for modification (instead of writing a sarcastic comment). And by the way, this is the way that moderation on a web2 website should be. I think SO is simply doing it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*There is technical term for this phenomenon where the first voters affect the idea of the next ones no matter the quality of the idea (or in this case the question). Anybody knows the technical term? Something in the lines of halo effect but in social scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T21:51:10.147" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4215" CreationDate="2014-01-23T07:31:25.200" Score="7" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my minimal working example I use a pdf_tex file as input. I have been asked to upload it; however, I can only upload the pdf file since pdf_tex is a text file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I can paste the content of the pdf_tex file into my question. But what is the preferred course of action here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44558" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-01-23T16:51:59.647" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T16:51:59.647" Title="How to provide pdf_tex files for MWEs?" Tags="|support|images|mwe|files|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4214" CreationDate="2014-01-23T12:00:00.813" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should paste the contents of the &lt;code&gt;pdf_tex&lt;/code&gt; file into your question. Then all the necessary info will be in the question itself, which is better than relying on external sites, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that if you upload a PDF as an image to the post, it will be converted to PNG, I don't think the original PDF is saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T12:00:00.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-23T15:25:36.053" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it seems that some people do not take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;review feature&lt;/a&gt; serious enough. I see several questions by new members that need serious improvements. How can this functionality be improved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25077" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T22:19:58.643" Title="Improve questions by reviewing them" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4214" CreationDate="2014-01-23T16:30:17.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To second Torbjørn: It is strongly preferred to include content of your TeX file into your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in almost all cases you should reduce the code to the absolutely necessary parts. This is called a minimal working example or short MWE. We have an own meta question here (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;), and you will frequently see, that unexperienced users are asked for a MWE with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;text building block&lt;/a&gt; containing a link to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with &lt;code&gt;\documentclass{...}&lt;/code&gt; and ending with &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T16:30:17.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2014-01-23T22:19:58.643" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well indeed I don't take it seriously because it's not a serious feature. Some users already took away its functionality long ago and as barbara mentioned I've not seen a single new user question in the reviews since a year and some months. Probably the review system distributes the reviews to some users and locks for others to (wildly guessing here) reduce the review clashes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend editing the questions directly instead of that review system as much as you see them on the site. Nothing came good out of that system as far as I know other than light speed question closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also no improvement is serious here. Because serious tone always causes trouble. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T22:19:58.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4190" CreationDate="2014-01-23T23:04:35.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would speculate that it might also have to do with age.  TeX has been around for a long time and there are quite a few users who have 20+ years of experience.  Other sites seem more populated by a much younger group of users who may not have the maturity to keep their inner jerk in check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18980" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T23:04:35.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2351" CreationDate="2014-01-24T13:26:30.263" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just tried to repro and couldn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the age of the question and the number of refactorings we've gone through, my best guess  is that we fixed this sometime in 2013. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29990" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T13:26:30.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4211" CreationDate="2014-01-24T18:24:51.893" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, you miss part of the edit. The user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;added a paragraph break;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;re-formatted couple things in italics;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;made the two parenthesis bold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were reviewing that edit, I would probably correct it and un-bold the parenthesis, but still marking the edit as useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your question, no, you can't flag an edit. You can, however:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;the chat&lt;/a&gt; and discuss it there;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discuss it in meta (which is what you've done)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Revert the edit, or make some other corrections; however, the same rules of an edit being &quot;too minor&quot; apply as in the normal case. Don't revert edits just because you would do it in a different way, please. If you still decide to do so, it's very good to add a longer explanatory comment in &quot;reason for editing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T18:24:51.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4226" CreationDate="2014-01-26T03:18:57.013" Score="11" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's assume at the beginning I have 1 reputation. Another user serially votes my posts up until I get, for example, serial-upvote reputation of 150. Thus my rep becomes 151 in total now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I spend this reputation for a bounty of 150 before the system reverses the serial-upvote reputation of 150, what will happen later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system reverses the serial-upvote reputation of 150 and I get -149 reputation,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system reverses the serial-upvote reputation of 150 and cancel the bounty of 150 so I get 1 reputation,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system does not reverse the serial-upvote reputation of 150 (I am lucky).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="19356" LastEditDate="2014-01-26T04:34:34.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T15:05:12.843" Title="What will happen if a serial-upvote reputation is lately reversed for this scenario?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4208" CreationDate="2014-01-26T06:39:13.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty in-favor of a single, CW question on Meta where everyone can list the packages they are actively working on if they so desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While certainly not appropriate as a Main post, I can imagine that it &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be appropriate as a Meta post.&#xA;Considering it would not be about TeX syntax but rather about TeX happenings &lt;em&gt;specifically as it pertains to users of this site&lt;/em&gt;, I would say it's OK (speaking only for myself).&#xA;I would consider it to be community advertisement of projects of common-interest,&#xA;  and an interesting showcase of how members of this community really are involved in TeX systems at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T06:39:13.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-26T11:09:25.710" Score="4" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there is no private message system nor &quot;friendship&quot; option inside SE Network but, is there something similar, like, for example, an option to mark some members as favourite ones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36389" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T14:21:18.030" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T14:21:18.030" Title="SE contacts list / favourite members / &quot;follow&quot; members" Tags="|feature-request|rss|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4223" CreationDate="2014-01-26T15:05:12.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is purely speculation, but is the most probable based on other events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get serially upvoted for +150.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You spend it all on a bounty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is reversed. You get -150 rep, but you have 1, and since rep can't go below 1, you still have 1 rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A mod refunds the bounty. You now temporarily have 151 rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your rep is recalculated, and now you have 1 again. [I'm guessing this will happen pretty quickly.]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35495" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T15:05:12.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-26T17:17:27.083" Score="7" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should I do when, after posting an answer, I'm asked in a comment for further clarifications and/or a different solution (but still in-topic) and I don't know anything more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I answer that I don't know or should I just leave it at that? The etiquette in this site is different from that which usually applies in forums...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43473" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-01-26T19:43:54.127" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T19:43:54.127" Title="How to answer a comment requesting unknown further information" Tags="|support|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4229" CreationDate="2014-01-27T03:57:19.207" Score="9" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose I want to find individuals who rank high in answering questions with certain tags. How would I frame the search query and where do I enter it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T04:23:03.407" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T05:45:31.987" Title="How to search for persons with high ranking" Tags="|support|statistics|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4228" CreationDate="2014-01-27T05:45:31.987" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no specific search query for this in the StackExchange user interface. However, to find what you're looking for, you can visit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;/topusers&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where you specify &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Alternatively, follow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;Tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hover of the tag of interest and select &quot;Top users&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xyhid.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Resulting screen highlights a number of statistics associated with the tag, including the top askers and answerers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/61zWx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically you don't have to do this from the tags window. You could hover over any tag you're interested in, and it will display the fly-out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T05:45:31.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2516" CreationDate="2014-01-27T10:33:29.920" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I totally acknowledge that truncating the user info card is not optimal, we have to adapt it to many different designs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a common assumption in our design that this card has a fixed width: hence, the &lt;code&gt;overflow: hidden&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29990" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T10:33:29.920" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4237" CreationDate="2014-01-27T21:45:26.203" Score="11" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the years until now only 43 questions are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scrpage2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scrpage2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scrpage2&lt;/a&gt;. Now, with recently published version 3.12 of KOMA-Script a successor package &lt;code&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/code&gt; came out, that is now recommended in favour of &lt;code&gt;scrpage2&lt;/code&gt;. Two cites from English KOMA-Script doc &lt;code&gt;scrguien&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;em&gt;start of chapter 6, the basic description of &lt;code&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…  the additional package &lt;code&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/code&gt; provides a user interface, which is largely compatible with &lt;code&gt;scrpage2&lt;/code&gt; and based on &lt;code&gt;scrlayer&lt;/code&gt;. Thus, if you are already familiar with &lt;code&gt;scrpage2&lt;/code&gt; and refrain from using dirty tricks, like calling internal commands of &lt;code&gt;scrpage2&lt;/code&gt; directly, it should be easy for you to use &lt;code&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/code&gt; as a drop-in replacement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;… if you are using a KOMA-Script class, the usage of package &lt;code&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/code&gt; is recommended. Of course you can use &lt;code&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/code&gt; with other classes, namely the LATEX standard classes, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore my question(s): Should we&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scrlayer-scrpage&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scrlayer-scrpage&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/a&gt; and convert the existing tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scrpage2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scrpage2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scrpage2&lt;/a&gt; to an alias?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scrlayer-scrpage&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scrlayer-scrpage&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/a&gt;, but do not convert the existing tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scrpage2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scrpage2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scrpage2&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;do nothing in the moment?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the last item: When would be a better/the right moment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T23:51:29.190" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T09:28:48.870" Title="Should we convert the tag [scrpage2] into an alias for a new tag [scrlayer-crpage]?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4232" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-01-28T06:46:08.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;What are moderator elections?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderator elections are held periodically to determine who the community moderators will be for a given site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are community moderators?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are site users who have been elected by the community based on not only their knowledge in the topic domain, but also because they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;patient and fair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lead by example&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show respect for their fellow community member in their actions and words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators have the very highest level of privilege in our system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderator votes are binding. Any place we have voting (close, open, delete, undelete, offensive, etc), that vote will reach the threshold and take effect immediately if a single moderator casts a vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can lock posts. Locked posts cannot be voted on or changed in any way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can protect posts. Protected posts cannot be answered by new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can see all data in the system, including votes and user profile information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can place users in timed suspension, and delete users if necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can perform large-scale maintenance actions like merge questions and batch retag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators have access to the moderator flag queue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How do community moderators work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following guidelines are provided to all our community moderators, and all moderators of any type are expected to abide by them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a moderator, your actions now represent our community; please act accordingly. You are in a position of the highest trust.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your goal is to guide the community with gentle — but firm — intervention. &lt;strong&gt;Respect&lt;/strong&gt; your fellow community members at all times; demonstrate &lt;strong&gt;fairness&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;impartiality&lt;/strong&gt; in your actions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the discussion reasonably on topic by providing visible feedback to indicate where and why things have gone off topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Regularly check for and deal with posts &lt;strong&gt;flagged for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the case of serious disputes, communicate directly with users via email to help &lt;strong&gt;mediate and resolve disputes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;When should I seek out a community moderator?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't hesitate to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flag posts for moderator attention&lt;/a&gt; any time there is something you feel strongly needs to be brought to the attention of a moderator. And if it is extremely urgent, you can always mail the address provided in the footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T06:46:08.167" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T06:46:08.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4233" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-01-28T06:46:08.167" Score="0" Body="Elections are held to choose moderators for non-Beta Stack Exchange sites like TeX.SE." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T06:46:08.167" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T06:46:08.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4234" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-01-28T07:21:39.047" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Favorite questions are marked by clicking the star below the question's score:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oG1hJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JNiwY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Favorite tags can be set from the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T07:21:39.047" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T07:21:39.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4235" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-01-28T07:21:39.047" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions about the favorite question feature or the favorite tags feature." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T07:21:39.047" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T07:21:39.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2329" CreationDate="2014-01-29T13:32:29.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't replicate your result in the current codebase, so I'm marking as norepro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29990" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T13:32:29.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4231" CreationDate="2014-01-29T21:42:39.233" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I said in a comment: Having 43 tagged by one of them and 0 tagged by the other one, I would wait for a while and see what happens. No need to be pre-cautious too much about tagging in this case, it doesn't seem to have so much traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there arose some confusion about those two tags, we can review the solution and then it can get easily sorted out, since the number of changes would be in units, not hundreds ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T21:42:39.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-30T20:21:02.133" Score="9" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking for coding style guidelines and came across a whole wealth of questions on the topic. It seems to me that they are somewhat redundant, although they discuss the topic from a slightly different angle each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the questions that I found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40775/are-there-any-coding-style-guidelines-for-latex&quot;&gt;Are there any coding style guidelines for LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12171/styleguide-for-latex-similar-to-the-google-styleguides&quot;&gt;Styleguide for LaTeX similar to the Google styleguides?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/86504/writing-readable-latex&quot;&gt;Writing readable LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95687/what-are-coding-conventions-in-latex&quot;&gt;What are coding conventions in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the proper way of handling this? I think it would be better to have one central question on this, but then again, that won't happen. So tagging them as duplicates does not seem like the sane path to take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1183" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T09:27:07.400" Title="How to handle possible duplicates that treat the same thing but each a bit differently?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4242" CreationDate="2014-01-31T22:27:23.257" Score="5" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why some &lt;code&gt;upvote&lt;/code&gt; gives me &lt;code&gt;+5&lt;/code&gt; and others &lt;code&gt;+10&lt;/code&gt;? What is the rule here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1mpER.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastEditorUserId="9237" LastEditDate="2014-02-01T21:33:50.563" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T21:33:50.563" Title="On reputation values" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4244" CreationDate="2014-02-01T15:23:57.737" Score="10" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this is the right place to ask this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what happened to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeXample&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I submitted a TikZ example one year ago, and it still hasn't appeared. The last examples were added in November 2012 [&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;this is wrong, many examples have been added since then&lt;/em&gt;].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sent an email to Stefan Kottwitz, who is supposed to be webmaster, but never got any answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it so that TeXample is now superseded by tex.SE? In that case, there should be an anouncement on the TeXample landing page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="550" LastEditorUserId="550" LastEditDate="2014-02-04T13:31:08.433" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T13:31:08.433" Title="Is TeXample site still alive?" Tags="|discussion|code-example|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2014-02-03T17:19:22.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-01T16:19:58.020" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;A person asks a question and comments or answers are given for that answer by different people.But if the answers or comments are not satisfactory is it advisable to comment to each one what actually is required or should we edit the question completely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T16:19:58.020" Title="Editing a Question by the author" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4239" CreationDate="2014-02-01T17:56:25.477" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Positive) Votes for questions give +5 in reputation while votes on answers are worth +10: see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&lt;/a&gt; for the full detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T17:56:25.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4231" CreationDate="2014-02-02T09:28:48.870" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should create a new tag &lt;code&gt;scrlayer&lt;/code&gt;. Although &lt;code&gt;scrlayer&lt;/code&gt; will replace &lt;code&gt;scrpage2&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;scrlayer&lt;/code&gt; has a complete difference syntax and mechanism so that you can't compare the two packages. The package &lt;code&gt;scrpage2&lt;/code&gt; will be declared as obsolete however it will be part of the KOMA-bundle to be backward compatible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the packages &lt;code&gt;scrlayer&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;scrpage2&lt;/code&gt; are needing a separate tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5239" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T09:28:48.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4240" CreationDate="2014-02-02T15:05:13.317" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample&lt;/a&gt; is alive. I added 6 examples just in the last few days. In 2013 I added 15 examples, which isn't so much, I agree (&lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/all/date/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;chronological list&lt;/a&gt;). I slowed down since I've got my second child, still I wanted to add all submissions and still plan to add some of the great examples from TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very sorry that I missed to add your example. I scanned through my older emails and found it again, the link to github with your code. I also found my reply I sent the same day, and your following update notice from April 1. Just to clarify (it's still my fault to not follow up your code), perhaps you would like to remove just the parts with November 2012 and never got an answer, in the question above, if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to the point, TeXample is alive and will be further updated and maintained. I would be glad to receive further contributions to add to the gallery, so please don't hesitate to send me, if you like. In case it might take time, just send me a friendly reminder email so nothing should get lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw. the comment feature was just disabled a short time ago, because the spam rate was too high (more than 3000 each months) and some came through the filter, causing too much moderation work. It will be enabled again, once I implemented a better spam filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I usually do, when adding a submission:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I read the code and try to understand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I might break long lines and improve indentation for readability&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes I try to explain the science or tech topic (if I just got the code)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I might change to a standard document class such as article - I often get &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; (still a bit new, not every user may have installed it), and the &lt;code&gt;minimal&lt;/code&gt; class&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I usually insert preview package and settings, it's in the download code but not in the way in the visible code on the web page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find good topic tags, but also tags for used features which I see in the code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compiling and inserting, compiling and producing image and thumbnails is quick thanks to Kjell's great scripts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing database info (author, date, tags)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you, Olivier, your example is now online: &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/shake-rattle-pendulum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shake and Rattle on a planar pendulum example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put it to the test, challenge me, and submit examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; waving the TeX.SE flag, added this evening TeX.SE answer code by Paul Gaborit, Gonzalo Medina, and JLDiaz (backlinks there):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/text-shape/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P8Quy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fitting text to a shape&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/arrow-table/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FfsYH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Table in the shape of an arrow&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/snowflakes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1i570.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Snowflakes with TikZ&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2014-02-02T23:16:27.793" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T23:16:27.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-02T16:28:56.290" Score="10" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/157147/17423&quot;&gt;Referencing a database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/145705/17423&quot;&gt;How to cite a hardware catalog in bibtex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/132669/17423&quot;&gt;Cite software/libraries using bibtex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't quite articulate my exact thoughts on this, but I'm stuck with the quandary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These questions &lt;em&gt;could be&lt;/em&gt; about how to notate the citation in BibTeX format, in which case they would certainly be on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These questions &lt;em&gt;could be&lt;/em&gt; about how to actually format the citation---they all seem to have that air about them---in which case they are off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we deal with these types of questions that is both &lt;em&gt;not presumptuous&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;fair&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T16:28:56.290" Title="Is there a standing policy on what to do with 'How do I cite...' questions?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-02T17:44:38.400" Score="2" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a not so beginner to LaTeX.I am aware of few classes and environments.But it took a lot of time for me to adapt to LaTeX.Documentations exists but are too heavy for a beginner.For example if I now want to lean &lt;em&gt;koma script&lt;/em&gt; , I really find it a &lt;strong&gt;hard nut to crack&lt;/strong&gt;.Can the tex.stackexchange.com provide video tutorials for basic introduction to the document classes of LaTeX and for finer tuning we can refer the documentation.May be I feel This is the only reason why LaTeX is not so popular among the masses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T17:44:38.400" Title="LaTeX Video Tutorials" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4248" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-02-03T06:52:52.893" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T06:52:52.893" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T06:52:52.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4249" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-02-03T06:52:52.893" Score="0" Body="A specific question refers to a particular and individual question on the site. This tag is used to query the community on the specifics of a particular question asked on the main site or the meta site." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T06:52:52.893" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T06:52:52.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4250" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-02-03T06:54:36.183" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T06:54:36.183" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T06:54:36.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4251" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-02-03T06:54:36.183" Score="0" Body="For questions about the user interface elements (inputs, checkboxes, etc) that make up this site. For questions about the design of elements, use {design}." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T06:54:36.183" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T06:54:36.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4238" CreationDate="2014-02-05T09:27:07.400" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot;&gt;SE BLog&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Suggest that the community's response to &quot;Borderline Duplicates&quot; be to ensure that the tags match, so they show up in each others related &lt;code&gt;Related&lt;/code&gt; Links.&#xA;Thus if someone is looking in one for an answer to a similar (but not identical ) problem, they will be able to look at the other similar questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are true Duplicates they should be linked and closed, thus ensuring the asked gets the answetr they were seaking.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and if they are word for word Duplicates, they should be down voted and flagged (because that is someone gaming the system). &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T09:27:07.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-05T11:41:34.547" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I already have a TeX.SE login and password which I would like to use to login to this site and would prefer not to use other logins that I may have from other sites like Google or Facebook. &#xA;How can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45464" OwnerDisplayName="user45464" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-02-05T15:24:54.273" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T15:24:54.273" Title="Signup to StackExchange using previous existing login" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4225" CreationDate="2014-02-06T06:29:43.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a  &lt;code&gt;user feed&lt;/code&gt; at the bottom right corner of a users profile page, which you can use with a feed syndication application to follow a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I use OS X, and with it, a syndication app called &lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/monotony/id533978766?l=en&amp;amp;mt=12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Monotony&lt;/a&gt; which will relay the updates to OS X's built-in Notification Center. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find a lot of feeds for different things inside the StackExchange network – just look for the feed icon.&#xA;The feed icon looks like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5u8TP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related Links&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2475/useful-stackapps-and-other-user-scripts-for-tex-sx/2491#2491&quot;&gt;Useful StackApps and other User Scripts for TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2247/rss-feed-for-new-questions&quot;&gt;RSS feed for New questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T14:20:52.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4256" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-06T23:02:38.860" Score="36" ViewCount="779" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran across the following question on the hot question list: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/158668/12706&quot;&gt;Nice scientific pictures show off&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By StackExchange rules, this question is clearly not suitable.  It is far too broad.  Also, it is a &quot;big list of X&quot; question, which is generally considered inappropriate for the StackExchange format.  Yet (at the time of writing) it has 70 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we follow the standard StackExchange rules on this site?  Or are there different rules for this site that make this question suitable on this site?  If so, what are those site-specific rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/341/12706&quot;&gt;How to manage big lists?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3773/12706&quot;&gt;What exactly do we believe about Community Wiki posts?&lt;/a&gt; but I'm not clear on what the bottom line is nor how this specific question complies with those guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12706" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T18:45:51.433" Title="Do we follow StackExchange rules?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4256" CreationDate="2014-02-06T23:44:07.640" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this site follows different rules than most of the StackExchange sites do. This is given by a particularly specific topic (*TeX systems are very specific) which is mostly used by a particular type of people. So while on StackExchange such questions are in general frowned upon, we believe that these &quot;showcases&quot; provide a good reference for other people, so they have their purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needed to say, you in general don't want to &quot;showcase&quot; what crazy things people do in C++ for instance, and if you do, it's not on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; but rather on &lt;a href=&quot;https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Programming Puzzles &amp;amp; Code Golf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the concerned question, the only wrong thing is probably that it is not a community wiki one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The above should be sort-of a general objective opinion I hope. If you asked me personally, I don't like this one, but I'm not really bothered by its existence.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And I would recommend you settling down around this place a bit more (I've noticed this meta post is your very first post on TeX.SX, so welcome!), I hope you'll find that this place is different, but it is different in a good way.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T23:44:07.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4256" CreationDate="2014-02-07T07:04:50.917" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's important to remember that the 'bigger' StackExchange picture is that each site is a 'community'. On the 'main site' (StackOverflow), the community feeling is very much to avoid list-type questions. A classic example of one we have and I think most people on TeX-sx feel is useful is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt;. I guess you have to remember that the 'StackExchange rules' are more guidelines, and can't be equally appropriate to all of the network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the question you've pointed to, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4257&quot;&gt;tohecz&lt;/a&gt; I'm not that keen on it but I'm also not seeing it as an issue. So for me this comes down to 'community': I note that lots of people do like it (lots of upvotes), while there is not a strong negative feeling (no close votes, no flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T07:04:50.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2014-02-10T17:47:09.437" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following two pieces of advice seem contradictory to me (and then possibly to other users as well):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Instead of “answering” your own question, you should [...] edit the original question to include the additional information.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Followed by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;We'd like to keep answers separate from questions, so you should write a separate answer instead of editing your answer into the question.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Under &lt;code&gt;Minimal examples&lt;/code&gt;, I'd like to see a piece of advice pointing out when a compilable example isn't &lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt;. In my experience, most MWEs posted are more or less minimal with respect to the part between &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt;, but far from minimal with respect to the preamble (the OPs could often identify the problem if they tried to minimize it). A link to the excellent answer given &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3225/9077&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; would suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T18:50:06.647" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-10T17:47:09.437" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2014-02-11T03:08:02.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Images/Graphics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/112473&quot;&gt;Why do I get a black rectangle instead of my external picture?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why do I get a black rectangle instead of my external picture?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/112473)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1072&quot;&gt;Which graphics formats can be included in documents processed by latex or pdflatex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Which graphics formats can be included in documents processed by latex or pdflatex?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1072)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4129&quot;&gt;How to avoid showing the filename when using &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to avoid showing the filename when using `graphicx`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4129)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/44195&quot;&gt;Placeholder for figure/includegraphics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Placeholder for figure/includegraphics](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/44195)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2099&quot;&gt;How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2099)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-04-08T14:53:19.217" LastActivityDate="2023-04-08T14:53:19.217" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-11T03:08:02.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-11T19:22:04.140" Score="8" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159121/problem-with-compiling-pdf&quot;&gt;Problem with Compiling .pdf&lt;/a&gt;. Clearly, it has been put on hold, and reasonably so given the close reason at the time it was closed. Now, there is a new answer that renders the reason it was closed a bit inaccurate. As the OP, should I delete the question? Or should the question be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22753" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T15:24:16.087" Title="When ought a question be deleted?" Tags="|discussion|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4262" CreationDate="2014-02-12T06:20:44.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think the community's voting behaviour should speak for itself in judging which of the two answers are valid/useful. Additionally, if you feel that the second answer is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Cjyr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;not useful&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, vote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, consider the community. Does the post in its current form serve a broader audience? If at all, it's worth keeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-02-12T15:24:16.087" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T15:24:16.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4265" CreationDate="2014-02-13T11:27:58.923" Score="25" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question, it has no answers and I don't consider it useful anymore. I have a feeling that it would be a waste of time if someone tried hard to make a solution now. Should I better delete it to avoid this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question in question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159900/how-to-output-latex-code-verbatim-in-htlatex-mixing-htlatex-with-mathjax&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159900/how-to-output-latex-code-verbatim-in-htlatex-mixing-htlatex-with-mathjax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T12:46:42.350" Title="Deleting own question when I &quot;lost interest&quot;" Tags="|discussion|questions|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4264" CreationDate="2014-02-13T12:46:42.350" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;For an unanswered question with few upvotes, I think that self-deletion is absolutely fine. That might be different it there were answers, even if not upvoted, or if the question had a lot of upvotes. So there will always be an element of judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T12:46:42.350" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4268" CreationDate="2014-02-14T15:08:31.697" Score="61" ViewCount="1964" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we don't like people pasting something and asking &lt;em&gt;how can I do this?&lt;/em&gt; or if it is TikZ, PSTricks, Asymptote case &lt;em&gt;how can I-draw this?&lt;/em&gt; without even making a template of a TeX document, let alone creating something that almost looks like an attempt (whether working or not). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And our bot comments attack (I'm not criticizing but it takes two clicks to insert our blocks, it's just what it is :) Anyways, just under those comments a bored user, including myself, might post an answer because s/he is sitting on the train or using Matlab so has ridiculous free time while it computes, or any other reason to do what the question asks for. This is a perfect example of our inconsistency and the comments could probably reflect this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is our current stock comment for &quot;Just do it for me&quot; graphics questions at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;. Questions about how to draw specific graphics that just post an image of the desired result are really not reasonable questions to ask on the site. Please post a minimal compilable document showing that you've tried to produce the image and then people will be happy to help you with any specific problems you may have. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; for what needs to go into such a document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose something along the lines of; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Your question leaves all the effort to our community, even typing the essentials of a TeX document such as `\documentclass{}...\begin{document}` etc. As it is, most of our users will be very reluctant to touch your question, and you are left to the mercy of our procrastination team who are very few in number and very picky about selecting questions. You can improve your question by adding a [minimal working example (MWE)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) that more users can copy/paste onto their systems to work on. If no hero takes the challenge we might have to close your question.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is less formal and more to the point with less self-conflict. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you say? Please post your alternatives and also can you fix my english in the meantime?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dagobah.net/flash/thank_you.swf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;percusse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T15:18:36.053" Title="Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don't reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?" Tags="|discussion|comments|questions|please-do-this-for-me|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4267" CreationDate="2014-02-14T17:50:48.710" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like your proposed text block and intend to use it in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(&quot;Answering&quot; questions on Meta feels weird)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T17:50:48.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4267" CreationDate="2014-02-15T04:53:42.150" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an important pedagogical angle also needs to be emphasised. A significant point of the OP providing an attempt at coding is that it is an indication of their level of expertise. It's not just about helping with problems but knowing at what level you need to start your discussion from. Neither of the code blocks as presented emphasise this enough I feel. &quot;Produce a minimal compilable example and then we'll help you.&quot;, or &quot;Don't expect us to do all the work.&quot;, have reasonable sentiments behind them. The suggested block is too long and too chatty I think and doesn't really add to the key message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the following minimum comment might do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Recommended practice at TeX.SE is to include a a minimal working example with your question. The importance of this, or at least providing some code that you have tried unsuccessfully to run, is that it will give any answerer a good indication of where to start with their help.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following sentences could optionally be added to the above to clarify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;For example, if you're a beginner, you don't want someone to suggest the most complicated package available.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Otherwise, it's no different than expecting a doctor to know what's wrong with you without providing any symptoms.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37070" LastActivityDate="2014-02-15T04:53:42.150" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4267" CreationDate="2014-02-15T19:16:17.607" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since other text blocks that we paste in sometimes have alternatives, perhaps both this one and the original one can be preserved, and people can use whichever one suits their degree of formality/hypocrisy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2014-02-15T19:16:17.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4267" CreationDate="2014-02-17T20:41:02.560" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I think we'd be better without boiler plate text blocks for this kind of thing, If a situation isn't worth writing a custom comment, it's probably not worth making a comment at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T20:41:02.560" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4256" CreationDate="2014-02-18T13:29:51.410" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a faculty member who teaches an annual &quot;Technical Writing Using LaTeX&quot; class, I find the &quot;Big List&quot; questions with multiple answers very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Students can quickly be shown a very broad answer or survey to a topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The multiple answers in a list are very motivating when I first introduce a topic in LaTeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extremely valuable is the inclusion of MWE for each item which allow the student to get the code and attempt various modifications without being tangled into the details early in the learning process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comparative lists (such as IDE, or distributions, or tools) are very valuable when showing students the options available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The availability of &quot;Big List&quot; Q&amp;amp;A is one of the key items I use to sell students on using this site as a reference when a question occurs.  And I do spend time in showing them how to efficiently search the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9880" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-02-18T18:45:51.433" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T18:45:51.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4275" CreationDate="2014-02-19T22:50:12.010" Score="12" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was idly browsing through TeX.SE, and at one point attempted to favourite (&quot;star&quot;) a question that had already been starred more than a hundred times. Nothing happened. I tapped (yeah, touchscreen) higher on the icon, at which point the expected result occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further investigation revealed that the star count being sandwiched up into the icon (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4206/35325&quot;&gt;as reported here&lt;/a&gt;) causes it to overlap the star's clickable box in the page DOM; and as the count is the later DOM element, it prevents the lower part of the star being clickable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VCP1s.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nxcq4.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wwpuw.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The blue boxes are the overlapped areas. Pretty bad, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The culprit is a single CSS property&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.favoritecount { margin-top: -4px; }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with the effect of smashing the number into the star. Make that less negative and the problem goes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T21:14:26.903" Title="The favorite count makes part of the star unclickable" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4274" CreationDate="2014-02-21T21:14:10.950" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have pushed a fix to dev. The change will go live after our next production build(within 24 hours)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T21:14:10.950" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4206" CreationDate="2014-02-24T03:12:48.330" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fixing of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4274/the-favorite-count-makes-part-of-the-star-unclickable?lq=1&quot;&gt;a bug related to the spacing&lt;/a&gt; involved un-smashing the number:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yJOv0.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;, and the fact that there was a bug indicates that yes, it should be (has been) increased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T03:12:48.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-26T20:03:02.573" Score="17" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XspS7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among the Berliner members of the community: Would you like to get together and have a beer evening? We'll have plenty of time to talk about TeX and become friends ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to have (at least) two answers to this questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List of participants. If you want to join, then upvote and add your (nick)name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Organizational answer(s). How to find a date, place etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, who's in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="412" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T20:38:50.170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T13:48:48.320" Title="Beer evening in Berlin?" Tags="|discussion|social-networking|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4278" CreationDate="2014-02-26T20:03:38.953" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would like to have beer! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add your (nick)name in case you want, tentatively, to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dror&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="412" LastEditorUserId="412" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T20:22:49.460" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T20:22:49.460" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-26T20:11:11.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4280" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-03T06:58:04.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag synonyms are tags which mean exactly the same thing as another tag. They exist to group variations together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the site you're using, the reputation required to suggest tag synonyms varies. However, you always must have a score of at least 5 in the master tag in order to suggest another tag become a synonym of it. Synonym suggestions are automatically approved once they reach a vote of +4, and are automatically rejected once they reach a vote of -2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; tag synonyms. Valid topics could include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How tag synonyms work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can create tag synonyms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why a tag is a synonym of another tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on tag-synonyms, please check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70710/what-are-tag-synonyms-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What are tag synonyms? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T14:02:03.213" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T06:58:04.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4281" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-03T06:58:04.113" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions about tag synonyms (how they work, who can create them, etc)." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T06:58:04.113" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T06:58:04.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4282" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-03T07:03:57.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;RSS (an acronym for 'Really Simple Syndication') is an XML-based file format for providing well-defined syndicated content to &quot;feed readers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T07:03:57.360" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T07:03:57.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4283" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-03T07:03:57.360" Score="0" Body="RSS (an acronym for 'Really Simple Syndication') is an XML-based file format for providing well-defined syndicated content to &quot;feed readers.&quot;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T07:03:57.360" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T07:03:57.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4278" CreationDate="2014-03-03T13:48:48.320" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already a regular (monthly) get-together of TeXies in Berlin (more Information is &lt;a href=&quot;http://projekte.dante.de/Stammtische/Berlin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) and I'm sure you can get beer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T13:48:48.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4288" CreationDate="2014-03-05T11:54:28.317" Score="11" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have this need for a biblatex package for legislation and other legal documents (for reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12209/what-is-the-proper-way-to-cite-a-legal-document&quot;&gt;What is the proper way to cite a legal document?&lt;/a&gt; and many other questions) and I was thinking of gathering some people, if there are any, that might be able to help. I do not have enough skills myself to realize the project (barely getting my head around &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/guidelines-for-customizing-biblatex-styles&quot;&gt;Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles&lt;/a&gt; ), but would like to cooperate with someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a question on tex.stackexchange.com appropriate for finding people, or should I go about it some other way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24471" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T10:49:26.733" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T10:49:26.733" Title="Would like to find people for developing project – appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4286" CreationDate="2014-03-05T19:05:54.503" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's the kind of project that might generate good Q&amp;amp;A on the main site, or might lead to the kind of packages beloved of &quot;From Answers to packages&quot;, I'd definitely count it as on-topic here on Meta.  It's not asking for the right sort of thing to be a good Stack Exchange main-site question, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T19:05:54.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4286" CreationDate="2014-03-05T19:33:35.807" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rule is clear: To post a question on the main site, it has to be neither: off-topic (for instance it can't be a feature request), opinion-based (so no questions like &quot;I have an idea ... What do you think about it?&quot;) nor unclear what you are asking (i.e., it has to be a true question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look for gathering people for a project, you may try posting a question on meta. Many sites would think that this is inappropriate, but TeX.SX seems to gather a lot of TeX developers and discussion on developments are not uncommon here (especially in our chat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Altogether, certainly nobody is going to be angry or offended if you give it a try here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T19:33:35.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4286" CreationDate="2014-03-05T22:34:47.280" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;An important detail is that if you don't have anything but looking for someone who has the skillz then they might not need you to start with anyway. Hence making a good business case is also something that might trigger some activity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason, you might want to make a really good question such that people jump on the wagon and as Charles Stewart mentioned do the hard work themselves just for the fun of it. We have many &lt;code&gt;this question led to a package&lt;/code&gt; cases on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2740/from-answers-to-packages&quot;&gt;From Answers to Packages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and many examples of package-creating questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=&amp;quot;This+question+led+to&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=&quot;This+question+led+to&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T23:03:27.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4291" CreationDate="2014-03-06T01:01:29.227" Score="6" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a follow-up question to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2136/5764&quot;&gt;how can i upload an image to be included in a question or answer?&lt;/a&gt;, this time with regards to comments. The comment-interface seems limited and doesn't support embedding of images, yet some people are able to insert links to images. How can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T01:01:29.227" Title="How can I upload an image to be included in a comment?" Tags="|support|comments|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4290" CreationDate="2014-03-06T01:01:29.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;True, comments provide only a limited set of markdown features (actually referred to as mini-markdown) with no convenient image-inclusion technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way is to insert the image using the way described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2136/5764&quot;&gt;how can i upload an image to be included in a question or answer?&lt;/a&gt; (that is, in the &quot;Your Answer&quot; box press &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;G&lt;/kbd&gt; or via the GUI), copy the link and then use the hyperlink markdown&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;...see [this image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/&amp;lt;filename&amp;gt;) for more detail...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T01:01:29.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-06T13:29:05.223" Score="1" ViewCount="438" Body="&lt;p&gt;My meta-discussion topic is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/160804&quot;&gt;the question that follows&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The listings manual (v1.5b, subsection 4.18) recommends using&#xA;  \lst@definelanguage instead of &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt; in a style file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where should I put my language definition? If you need the language&#xA;  for one particular document, put it into the preamble of that&#xA;  document. Otherwise create the local file lstlang0.sty or add the&#xA;  definition to that file, but use &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; instead of&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage. [...]&lt;/code&gt; However, I can't find a reason for this&#xA;  distinction between &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt; in&#xA;  either the manual or the developer guide. Is the distinction&#xA;  important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may be wondering why I'm asking this question... Well, I've&#xA;  managed to get everything working in my style file using&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt;. That said, I'd like to follow the guidelines&#xA;  laid out in the listings documentation as closely as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, if I simply substitute &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; for&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt;, I run into problems. Here is an MWE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{filecontents}&#xA;&#xA;% --- generate the style file --- \begin{filecontents*}{mystyle.sty}&#xA;\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \ProvidesPackage{mystyle}&#xA;&#xA;\DeclareOption*{\OptionNotUsed}   \ProcessOptions\relax&#xA;&#xA;\RequirePackage{listings}&#xA;&#xA;\def\mylanguage{Mylanguage}&#xA;\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\lstdefinelanguage%&#xA;\expandafter{\mylanguage}{keywords={foo}}&#xA;&#xA;\endinput \end{filecontents*} % --- end of style file ---&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{mystyle}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document} \begin{lstlisting}[language=Mylanguage] foo bar baz&#xA;\end{lstlisting}&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everything is hunky-dory with the code above, but if I simply replace&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt; by &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt;, the listings packages&#xA;  throws two errors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Couldn't load requested language.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;language mylanguage undefined.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This seems to contradict the manual's claim that &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;  and &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; have the same syntax; at least, based on my&#xA;  simple test, they don't seem equivalent when in comes to expansion of&#xA;  their first argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I use &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt; and how&#xA;  can I get the former to work in my MWE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer was to change the value to &lt;code&gt;iftrue&lt;/code&gt; in the corresponding line of &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; in the file &lt;code&gt;lstmisc.sty&lt;/code&gt; of the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; package, and the document, therefore, would compile accordingly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only useful remark that one of the main commentators managed to say in the end, was in the lines of: I use &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt; because I don't know the internal commands. endquote. This however, left upon me a disconcerting impression that the commentator was just trying the mend this miserable tore up question. What else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other remarks were clearly copied verbatim from the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; manual. That is, the comments about the local file and the use of &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt;, with the corresponding language files that follow. &#xA;Not surprisingly, the OP was desperately willing to accept this answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is clearly a vague excuse. A vague excuse that the OP was desperately willing to accept, So desperate in fact, that I am sure he regretted posting the question, he regretted further elaboration of its premises, and generally speaking, asking this kind of question to start with. Then my answer came in, which set off the alarms. Then back to the OP who should have done the homework but he didn't. The commentator, on the other hand, should have provided a better opinion, but he failed. And the bottom line is that this question that I loved so much, me, me, not the OP nor the commentator, is now, sadly, nowwhere to be found. Google cache no longer applies, and the realization that the best answer to fix it, was largely ignored and downvoted, is a fact now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, back to the question:&#xA;Should I use \lst@definelanguage instead of \lstdefinelanguage and how can I get the former to work in my MWE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, you can't use &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt;, because the manual is incorrect, but you can change it to &lt;code&gt;\iftrue&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, you can use &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt;  because the manual is correct, and you can change it to &lt;code&gt;\iftrue&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's up to you, you can't use &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; because the manual is incorrect, but you can change it to &lt;code&gt;\iftrue&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not up to you, you can use &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; because the manual is correct, but you can change it to &lt;code&gt;\iftrue&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not up to you, you can't use &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; because the manual is incorrect, but you can change it to &lt;code&gt;\iftrue&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are my options? If I only knew how to count. But most important, give me one reason why this question should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T22:40:11.533" Title="why should lst@definelanguage be preferred over lstdefinelanguage in a style" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ClosedDate="2014-03-09T15:34:43.370" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-06T16:59:22.927" Score="9" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions need authoritative answer (and we like them in SE). Some others ask for alternatives and cannot be definitively answered (and we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/big-list/info&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; tag for them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a third kind of possible questions: tendency survey. These questions ask for a tendency or for the opinion of the community on a specific point. This third kind of questions is not accepted today on TeX.SE (even if lots of questions masked as authoritative ones are, in fact, of this kind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, to know tendencies of TeX community is quite important: if I am interested by &lt;code&gt;LuaLaTeX&lt;/code&gt; for example, I would like to know how many people use it. If I started using &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; for bibliography, I would like to know what system is the most popular between &lt;code&gt;BibTeX&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;BibLaTeX&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;natbib&lt;/code&gt;, ... This information is epistemologically relevant. Knowing it avoids me to choose an outdated solution for which it will be difficult to obtain help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could think we have the, previously mentioned, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/big-list/info&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; tag for opinion surveys. Indeed, this tag is used for these questions sometimes. For example : &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt;. Let's study this example furthermore: when you read this topic, you believe to know that Emacs+Auctex is the more popular LaTeX editor. In fact, you can't know that for sure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps, there are anti-x (where x is an editor) who have voted down it (and it's the case in our example). So the results are false.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps a solution (editor in our example) is the first but there are plenty of alternatives and it is, in fact, a very low percent of the community which is it. It is very different when 90% of the community used a tool and when 20% used another tool.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up, there is no way in TeX.SE to handle in a proper way opinion polls. If we recognized there are important to decide what software used, we should find a way to treat them with statistics and correct polling methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P-S: The first solution to a problem is to use the correct tool to achieve our specific purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T08:51:49.013" Title="Opinion polls on TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4294" CreationDate="2014-03-07T08:51:49.013" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange model is not really designed to handle 'objective' polling, nor would it reasonably be  expected to handle this. Indeed, some of the questions which 'we' (TeX-SX users) allow would get closed on the 'main site' (StackOverflow): they would call them 'shopping lists'. However, the feeling on TeX-SX is that some more 'open' questions are acceptable provided they are structured in the right way. The IDE question is a good example of that: the answers have been put into a standard format to aid comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on answers will always be somewhat self-selecting. Regular TeX-SX users form a particular, small, subset of TeX users, and will have an outlook on TeX matters that isn't necessarily the same as the 'average' TeX user. WE also know that to some extent voting does reflect the timing of posting answers: the first answer tends to be at an advantage in voting terms. As such, 'opinion polls' here are best limited to somewhat 'fun' items, such as the occasional competition (Christmas trees, for example): even then, the model 'answer, delete, undelete all answers in one go' is needed to have any hope of getting a reasonable spread of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing &lt;em&gt;proper&lt;/em&gt; surveys is hard work, and really needs something different to the StackExchange model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T08:51:49.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-07T18:33:42.400" Score="14" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX.SX doesn't seem the right place to ask for design suggestions for a particular package I'm planning to update at CTAN in the next few weeks. I believe this kind of question would flagged as too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if TeX.SX is not suitable for this, in what forum or list devoted to LaTeX would it be permissible to ask for this kind of suggestion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;em&gt;What name would it be appropriate to a control sequence that does such-and-such?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24294" LastEditorUserId="24294" LastEditDate="2014-03-09T01:02:36.700" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T01:02:36.700" Title="Where can I ask for package design suggestions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4292" CreationDate="2014-03-08T17:00:38.083" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized that this question is (partly) about me as I was »the main commentator« so I want to present the story from my point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made honest comments on both question and answer about what I thought and still think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; for my part am reluctant to change commands from packages and only do so if I know &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what the changes are doing. Your answer suggested a change in &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; and I asked if you could explain &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what the change does (except something along the lines of: »the code then works« which I didn't and still don't find a very satisfying answer...). It seemed to me (but maybe I was mistaken) that you &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; where, when and why the &lt;code&gt;\iffalse&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;\iftrue&lt;/code&gt; business makes a change so I asked for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarification never came and in consequence I went to study the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; code myself but I must confess that I failed to find out where exactly said &lt;code&gt;\iffalse&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;\iftrue&lt;/code&gt; business makes a difference. (I found some hints but not enough for an answer...) I also studied the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; manual again and commented on the question how I interpreted it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; is &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; meant to be used in a file called &lt;code&gt;lstlang0.sty&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; already loads &lt;code&gt;lstlang1.sty&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;lstlang2.sty&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;lstlang3.sty&lt;/code&gt; and would load &lt;code&gt;lstlang0.sty&lt;/code&gt; if it finds it. &lt;code&gt;lstlang0.sty&lt;/code&gt; is meant as a local addition for a user to have definitions of languages he often uses and in such a file &lt;code&gt;\lst@definelanguage&lt;/code&gt; works just fine as it is. (I had tested this...) For every other application &lt;code&gt;\lstdefinelanguage&lt;/code&gt; is the way to go. (IMHO the manual could be improved to be more explicit about this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly think this is how the &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; author intended the commands to be used and the OP seemed to agree with me and shortly after deleted the question. The correct answer here can of course only be given by the author of &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt;. Everything else is just interpretation of both code and manual. Generally it's up to an OP to decide which answer they deem correct - this is why there is the green tick for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the OP deleted his/her question: everybody is allowed at any point to delete their own question without having to justify it. I liked the question and so did others who voted for it but it's not up to me or anyone else to decide if the question should stay or not. So there's not much you or me or anyone else (except the OP) can do about the question being deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really liked the question and think it's worth being there on the main site why don't you just ask a similar question yourself? That would be a perfectly valid thing to do IMHO :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2014-03-08T22:27:24.937" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T22:27:24.937" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4301" CreationDate="2014-03-08T19:39:54.457" Score="14" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted accidentally an answer written for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/164442/4686&quot;&gt;How can I redefine my macro to accept a charcode instead of a character?&lt;/a&gt; to the other question (which was linked to in the former one) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/81676/how-to-highlight-all-words-of-the-form-0-9a-za-z0-9-immediately-following&quot;&gt;How to highlight all words of the form ^[0-9][A-Za-z0-9]* immediately following an equal sign?&lt;/a&gt;, I then deleted it and posted it at the right place. Is there a way for the duplicate actually remaining on &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange&lt;/code&gt; as deleted answer to be completely erased by moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T10:29:22.473" Title="accidental post of an answer to the wrong question" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4292" CreationDate="2014-03-08T22:40:11.533" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, to be honest, this is a pretty minor issue that can be fixed either, by biting the bullet and reading the code carefully, or mailing the author of the package. Other than that whether it is this or that is not much of a discussion material in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no need to delete the question by the mods but also no need to undelete by the mods if the owner deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couple of things to keep in mind; modifying the original files of the packages is really, really, really bad idea. You change the checksum hence on some systems it causes problems, you can't anticipate behavior of packages that rely on that package, you get name clashes of some other esoteric code in terms of backwards compatibility etc. etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if possible fix it by patching the particular macro not changing any files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T22:40:11.533" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4298" CreationDate="2014-03-09T06:06:33.610" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What does deletion mean for a post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted posts are usually &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; physically deleted (that is, removed from the system); they're just hidden (AKA soft-deleted). This means they won't appear in search results or data dumps, and normal users following links to them will see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/404&quot;&gt;a 404 (not found) page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators, and normal users with &gt;=10k reputation, see all deleted posts. Moderators are able to undelete any deleted post. &quot;10kers&quot; may vote to undelete deleted &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; (it takes three votes to undelete), but cannot undelete deleted &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T06:06:33.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4298" CreationDate="2014-03-09T10:29:22.473" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can flag it for mod attention, even when deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T10:29:22.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-12T12:50:54.683" Score="9" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I read this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, I asked a question, to show me directions how to approach a problem Io find difficult, and to help me judge whether or not I am able to solve it. But a user went ahead and started doing all of the hard work in my place. I mean a lot of hard work. I feel he deserves more than a vote up and accept. Since I am not adept at LaTex, there are no questions I can realy answer right now, so &quot;pay it forward&quot; is frankly not possible now. Is there something else I can do for him or the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question mentioned: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/164925/is-there-a-tool-to-make-a-complicated-table-like-this-one&quot;&gt;Is there a tool to make a complicated Table like this one?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/911/niel-de-beaudrap&quot;&gt;Niel de Beaudrap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42966" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T02:50:22.420" Title="How can i show gratitude for exceptional help?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|contributing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2014-03-13T10:37:37.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4307" CreationDate="2014-03-12T21:58:36.600" Score="5" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can put related questions about common templates, packages available to use and so on. And use repeated questions as an indicator that it's a frequent user issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the interface as currently being done is a bit too taxing on the human mind and inefficient. Why aren't we smarter with the documentation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Already I've had two questions I've asked redundantly because of wording differences... And these are common questions everybody in the student community faces... Why not make it into an FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44306" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T03:21:32.010" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T09:54:40.553" Title="Why don't we start converting all the questions into FAQ by document intention (Thesis/Presentation/Resume/CV)?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4305" CreationDate="2014-03-12T23:42:18.317" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm not against such organization of content, boosting your search skills from novice to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;Ninja&lt;/a&gt; might also help find what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already collate such question in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2419/5764&quot;&gt;Often referenced questions&lt;/a&gt;, where answers point to common FAQ-like questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T23:42:18.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4305" CreationDate="2014-03-13T09:54:40.553" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm rather against (too frequent) attempts to produce FAQ type documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of &quot;systematic&quot; documents available -- for instance, package documentation, books, guides and so forth. I'm all in favour of them, of course, and of encouraging people to use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think, mostly, a site like this is valuable precisely because it does something a bit different: it enables people to ask &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; questions, often based on a particular problem that they are having. Sometimes (often!) that problem could be solved by working through a systematic guide. But for a host of reasons that doesn't work for people. Of course it's frustrating if the only reason is that people haven't bothered to do basic research. But that's by no means the only reason people ask what may seem &quot;very basic&quot; questions: with so many packages, so much documentation, and such a &quot;learning curve&quot; in some cases, it can be hard. So people come here with &lt;em&gt;focused&lt;/em&gt; questions dealing with particular problems; the more expert in the particular field can make suggestions, and everyone learns something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general the community here is very good about not criticising questions for failing to read manuals and so forth. What we demand rather insistently is something much simpler: that people make &lt;em&gt;their problem&lt;/em&gt; clear (for instance with an MWE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even frequently asked questions aren't straightforward -- partly because the puzzled novice may not realize that the question they are asking is &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; equivalent to another question. The expert can see at once that asking how to convert a chapter heading to a sans serif font, or to make it centered, or to put a line under it, are all related questions. The novice may not. Even when a question is closed as a duplicate, that will often be giving useful information to the person who asked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the real world this is how (many) people learn (many) things: not by systematic study, but by asking questions of more qualified people and gradually building up a store of information and good (sometimes bad!) habits. For many people, this site can be the patient TeXpert in the next door office. And when you consult such a colleague, he or she answers your specific question---he doesn't give you a prepared handout, however good it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turning too many questions into relatively complex FAQs may be counterproductive: it generates long and systematic documentation, which contains material that is both relevant &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; irrelevant to a particular practical problem. But in many cases it is the difficulties that this sort of documentation has which are exactly the &quot;need&quot; this site fills. It also affects those who answer questions. Having simple questions which are &quot;low hanging fruit&quot; and can be answered correctly and helpfully by many people is a good way of encouraging the sort of two-way participation that the site needs. Polishing an FAQ is a different task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as a matter of principle, I don't think much should be done to discourage questions which are (to the expert) rather basic and even repetitive. Sometimes an FAQ sort of answer will develop quite naturally: that's fine. Often questions will be duplicates, and best answered by cross-referring. And that's fine too. Often it will be possible to refer a questioner to systematic information available in documentation, or elsewhere. But in general I think we do best when we focus on the basic idea that the aim here is to provide practical answers to practical problems, taking (within reason) questioners as we find them, and not aiming too hard to systematize the information available, for which there are other resources already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5404" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T09:54:40.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3709" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:42:46.037" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned, &lt;code&gt;\r\n&lt;/code&gt; was fixed some time ago. And I just pushed a fix for the second issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be live in &lt;code&gt;rev 2014.3.13.1458&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:42:46.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4312" CreationDate="2014-03-15T17:20:47.213" Score="3" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/164827/where-does-latex-loose-its-breath&quot;&gt;I wanted to know where LaTeX is lacking&lt;/a&gt; with the idea that I could develop patches for it. I believe, it is not an &lt;em&gt;opinion based&lt;/em&gt; question. Definitely, whatever developed, will have room for improvement. However, the question was put on hold (closed) as being &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24235/what-you-see-is-what-you-get-wysiwyg-for-pgf-tikz&quot;&gt;Another question&lt;/a&gt; of similar nature was posted a while back. I believe that post is definitely opinion based, since each user possible answer will be based on the user's comfort level and the Operating System they are running under. It is definitely opinion based but it was upvoted by many and my question was not. How can this be explained?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T18:39:00.370" Title="Questions put on hold as opinion based" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4311" CreationDate="2014-03-17T15:14:52.987" Score="10" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;These, I suppose, are relatively exceptional circumstances&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; that the designers of the stackexchange network didn't necessarily think about, but it seems that there is a bug in the calculation of new user status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the review queue for Late Answers, I was just asked to review the late answer from a new user currently going by the name &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19356/weirdstress-function&quot;&gt;Weirdstress Function&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ABseC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we all know, Weirdstress Function is not a new user. What, if anything, should be done about this? Is this status by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For anyone who doesn't know, the exceptional circumstances are that Weirdstress Function spends all reputation in awarding bounties. From Weirdstress Function's &quot;About Me&quot;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I distribute my rep in bounties as spending money for my &amp;amp; your pleasure is more meaningful than saving money in a bank &amp;amp; abandoning it unused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T18:12:29.247" Title="Bug in how new user status is calculated" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4310" CreationDate="2014-03-17T18:12:29.247" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the purpose of pretty much everything where it matters, a &quot;new user&quot; is anyone who doesn't have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;remove new user restrictions&lt;/a&gt; privilege. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have less than 10 reputation and post an answer to a question 30 days or more after it was asked, your answer is going to end up in /review. We'll dequeue it if your reputation exceeds 100 before the post is reviewed, mostly as a sanity-check to prevent lots of old answers from flooding the queues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't base this on the user's creation date or even past activity, since this would allow posts from malicious or chronically-incompetent users to go unreviewed after a while. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T18:12:29.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4309" CreationDate="2014-03-17T18:39:00.370" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The primary goal of all Stackexchange sites is to become repositories of reliable information on whatever topic they cover, in our case, TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt and their relations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this end, questions whose answers can't be given definitively are not good questions &lt;em&gt;as regards to the goals of the site&lt;/em&gt;, and are therefore closed.  Now your question is by definition opinion based, since it is asking a negative: what is missing from TeX? There is an arbitrarily large set of answers to this question: TeX lacks all sorts of things: it lacks grid typesetting, it lacks HTML output, it lacks a built-in implementation of &lt;code&gt;emacs&lt;/code&gt; and it also lacks an interface to my home thermostat so that I can control my house temperature with it.  Now these latter two lacunae you may say are ludicrous, but that's the point: that's your opinion, and who is to decide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we have had some similar questions in the past, but crucially they have been stated in a more positive way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/128454/2693&quot;&gt;Are there any open research problems in the world of TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you link to isn't really similar, because it has a definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T18:39:00.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-18T22:28:08.917" Score="35" ViewCount="512" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &quot;question&quot; is probably off topic for even meta because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's not a question really&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and it's not directly related to TeX or the site, but...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I'd mention that Leslie Lamport (creator of LaTeX) &lt;a href=&quot;http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;just won the Turing award&lt;/a&gt; for his work in distributed computing. This is the second TeX giant (after Knuth) to win a Turing award (neither of them for their work on *-TeX alas). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T22:45:20.710" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T22:45:20.710" Title="Leslie Lamport wins Turing Award" Tags="|discussion|contests|fun|package-authors|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4338" CreationDate="2014-03-19T16:51:08.667" Score="13" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent update to &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; has motivated a few recent questions. Would it be helpful/appropriate to have a &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf-3.0&lt;/code&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suitable questions that might receive this tag are, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/166024/does-pgf-3-0-0-on-ctan-not-have-the-arrows-meta-tikz-library&quot;&gt;Does pgf 3.0.0 on ctan not have the arrows.meta tikz library?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/165090/problem-with-a-path-between-pgf-2-1-and-pgf-3-0&quot;&gt;Problem with a path between pgf 2.1 and pgf 3.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/164409/add-more-anchors-to-standard-tikz-nodes-with-tikz-3-0&quot;&gt;Add more anchors to standard TikZ nodes with TikZ 3.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T21:08:48.427" Title="Do we need a tikz 3.0 tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4316" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-20T06:23:29.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exact-duplicates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exact-duplicates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exact-duplicates&lt;/a&gt; is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are exact duplicates of another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/166707/165773&quot; title=&quot;Changes to “close as duplicate” (part deux)&quot;&gt;comprehensive guidance here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we want to tell the user ...something like, “&lt;em&gt;Somebody already asked this. If that other question doesn't solve your problem, please clarify your question to explain how it's different.&lt;/em&gt;” Perfect: if the other question helps them, they're happy because they got an answer. If the other question doesn't help them, they know exactly what to do. No argument about how exact an &quot;exact duplicate&quot; needs to be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related articles at Stack Exchange blog&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;strong&gt;duplication is not necessarily bad&lt;/strong&gt;. Quite the contrary — some duplication is &lt;em&gt;desirable&lt;/em&gt;. There’s often benefit to having multiple subtle variants of a question around, as people tend to ask and search using completely different words, and the better our coverage, the better odds people can find the answer they’re looking for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...use your good judgment and please continue to close and merge duplicates as you see fit. However, bear in mind that cultivating and supporting a moderate amount of natural duplication actively &lt;em&gt;helps&lt;/em&gt; the community...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot;&gt;Handling Duplicate Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...there are three classes of duplicate questions, from most clear to least clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Cut-and-paste duplicate questions. These questions are the very definition of exact duplicates; they are typically from users who willfully take the very same question and post it again... No grey area here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Accidental duplicates. These questions aren’t copy and paste, but they cover the exact same ground as an earlier Stack Overflow question. The overlap is not ambiguous...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Borderline duplicates. These questions are ambiguous; they’re in the same ballpark as a previous question, but have subtle differences that may make them legitimately standalone questions. These are subject to interpretation...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T14:02:03.213" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T06:23:29.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4317" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-20T06:23:29.143" Score="0" Body="This tag is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are exact duplicates of another question." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-03-20T06:23:29.143" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T06:23:29.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4318" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-20T06:24:59.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE)&lt;/a&gt; allows you to create and run queries against copies of the databases of popular Stack Exchange sites to investigate trends or satisfy your curiosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/introducing-stack-exchange-data-explorer/&quot;&gt;Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-03-20T06:24:59.703" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T06:24:59.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4319" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-20T06:24:59.703" Score="0" Body="The Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) allows you to create and run queries against copies of the databases of popular Stack Exchange sites." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-03-20T06:24:59.703" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T06:24:59.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-20T14:11:52.930" Score="6" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/164925/911&quot;&gt;question about creating complicated tables&lt;/a&gt;, I wanted to award a +100 bounty on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/165374/911&quot;&gt;answer by user47919 involving the &lt;code&gt;tap&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my haste, I accidentally awarded it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/164962/911&quot;&gt;David Carlisle's answer&lt;/a&gt; instead. (I did read the warning about making sure it was the correct answer to award it to: it was the fifth such time that I read that warning, in fact, because I tried to award the bounty a few times, not having carefully kept track of precisely when it would be possible to award it.) While David is certainly a wonderfully helpful person on the site, I would really have preferred to award it to a user with lower reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I tried to offer another bounty to award it to them, however, I found the minumum bounty has risen to 200. (It appears as though each question can only be awarded one bounty of any given value!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way for the mods to undo my bounty to David, and allow me to reward a +100 bounty to user47919 instead? Alternatively: can they shift the recipient of the bounty themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T08:17:32.547" Title="Undoing a bounty?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4320" CreationDate="2014-03-20T15:24:47.223" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mods can't reverse bounties. This will have to be raised with the StackExchange staff: presumably it is doable with direct access to the 'back end': use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt; form to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T02:22:37.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4320" CreationDate="2014-03-20T15:58:18.443" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there is no way for mods to &lt;em&gt;transfer&lt;/em&gt; bounties between recipients, one option is to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14393188#14393188&quot;&gt;ping the user in chat&lt;/a&gt; and explain the situation&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;. Chat rooms are a great way to connect to people directly, even in a group session on &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;TeX, LaTeX and Friends&lt;/a&gt;. Alternatively, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3591/5764&quot;&gt;invite them to a private chat room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another approach would be to &quot;suck it up&quot; and find another answer of the person you originally intended the bounty for, and issue it with a custom clause...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; This solution approach may be very particular to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; where the community is more accepting of regular social behaviour as opposed to the cut-throat anonymity of (say) &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T15:58:18.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4320" CreationDate="2014-03-22T08:17:32.547" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact that I'm sure all my answers are worth bounties, it seems that the only way to move bounties is for the allegedly undeserving recipient to award a bounty of an equivalent amount to the allegedly more deserving recipient. Accordingly I have started a bounty on the referenced question and will award it once the system allows, later today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T08:17:32.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-23T16:04:09.443" Score="13" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is frequent to have to write macros or packages names in comments of questions or answers. Because the &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; shortcut is disabled in such comments, it is necessary to manually surround with the reverse quotes &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that, in such comments, code blocks are not welcome but the &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; shortcut could be enabled just for inline code snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, nevertheless, it would be sometimes useful to add code blocks, not in answers, but in comments of either questions or answers. I know comments shouldn't become too extensive (cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3148/multiline-code-block-in-comment&quot;&gt;Multiline code block in comment&lt;/a&gt;) but they are in any case limited by the characters number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit by CarLaTeX:&lt;/em&gt; the backticks are impossible to type also on Italian keyboards (on Windows, at least), unless you use &quot;Italian 142&quot; (the Italian keyboard for programmers, available on Windows 10, afaik not on the previous versions). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18401" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-09-30T08:44:51.837" LastActivityDate="2017-10-02T04:35:18.543" Title="Enable Ctrl+K shortcut in comments for inline code" Tags="|feature-request|comments|code|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4329" CreationDate="2014-03-24T14:24:07.687" Score="4" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is funny: This morning tex.stackexchange displayed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6HNvh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Picutre showing 8,310 points&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some minutes later 15 reputation were gone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K3h8O.png&quot; alt=&quot;Picture showing 8,295 points&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If more people experienced this kind of bug, or it will become a habit of tex.stackexchange, somebody should look after it. Otherwise, well, it surely did not harm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In replay to some comments: No, there is no sign of somebody deliberately cutting reputation, there is nothing in my reps-page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-03-25T14:40:36.913" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T14:40:36.913" Title="Who's dunit? Reputation gone?" Tags="|support|status-completed|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4327" CreationDate="2014-03-25T11:56:04.477" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was an accept / unaccept on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/167365/table-error-black-band-inside-the-fields-on-toprule/167386#167386&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer of yours. You must have opened the page just between those 2 events in order to see your rep being 8,310:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1qNbV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35590" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T11:56:04.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2014-04-01T21:08:48.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the bugs are solved and people update their distros, I guess this tag will be obsolete quickly. It happened with 2.00 and 2.10 if I remember correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T21:08:48.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4339" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-02T01:05:21.743" Score="12" ViewCount="630" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have often thought that it might be useful to have the top bar (with its inbox and review notifications) fixed to the top of the page.  This lets you always have a view of your status and items that are coming in, even while reading through lengthy questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the most efficient way to do this, reaching as many browsers as possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47522" LastEditorUserId="31682" LastEditDate="2014-04-04T20:17:38.617" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T20:57:55.777" Title="How can I make the top header fixed in my browser?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4339" CreationDate="2014-04-02T01:05:21.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This quick TamperMonkey script can be installed in much the same way as the &quot;select code&quot; block from this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3192/how-to-make-select-code-work-with-google-chrome&quot;&gt;How to make `select code` work with google chrome?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tampermonkey.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TamperMonkey&lt;/a&gt; is compatible with &quot;Google Chrome, Opera, Chromium and a lot of their derivates like CoolNovo and Rockmelt.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Makes the top bar &quot;fixed&quot;&#xA;// @namespace      http://www.example.com/&#xA;// @description    Makes the top bar &quot;fixed&quot;&#xA;// @include        http://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @include        https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;var $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery;&#xA;&#xA;$(&quot;div.topbar&quot;).css('position','fixed');   // Fix the topbar&#xA;$(&quot;div.topbar&quot;).css('z-index','5');        // Move it to the top&#xA;$(&quot;div#header&quot;).css('padding-top','25px'); // Pad the rest of the page&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To Install...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For Chrome&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Install the Tampermonkey Web Extension for Chrome: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Link to Web Store&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This should enable a new button that appears by your URL bar.  Use the &quot;Add a new script...&quot; button to, well, add a new script.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OpGzt.png&quot; alt=&quot;addnewscript&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Copy and paste the code from above into the window that appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gwxyX.png&quot; alt=&quot;pastecode&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be sure to use the &quot;Save&quot; button &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vt8oN.png&quot; alt=&quot;save&quot;&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Save to Disk&quot; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4sK1E.png&quot; alt=&quot;savetodisk&quot;&gt;) to save and enable the script.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!  The script is enabled by default only on TeX.SE and Meta.TeX.SE, but it would probably be usable on other 2.0 SE sites with appropriate alterations to the &lt;code&gt;@include&lt;/code&gt; lines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47522" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T13:46:55.593" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4341" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-02T01:52:07.350" Score="7" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Weird and funny is the idea of the unicoins. Who created it? Does this influence totally TeX.SX? What is the purpose of it? Was this a feature request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T07:01:48.417" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T07:01:48.417" Title="Whats up with these unicoins?" Tags="|support|fun|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2970" CreationDate="2014-04-02T06:48:30.153" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search help page&lt;/a&gt; has been heavily updated since &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/160100/168244&quot;&gt;the implementation of the new elasticsearch search engine&lt;/a&gt;. Most of the Ninja search techniques that were considered &amp;quot;advanced&amp;quot; have been included as reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, effective searching spawns from using a combination of search criteria. For example, mixing search terms with tags and user specification has been very effective for me. The difficult part is remembering some of the key components your attempting to filter on in your search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example 1:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;egreg&lt;/a&gt; writing up what some commonly refer to as a short 'course' on the inner workings of &lt;code&gt;\ooalign&lt;/code&gt; with symbol construction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this I use the search: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A4427+course+code%3A%22%5Cooalign%22&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:4427 course code:&amp;quot;\ooalign&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which yields&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8voLK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; 3 &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; results include &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/22375/5764&quot;&gt;the post I'm after&lt;/a&gt;, as well as two others referencing the &amp;quot;course on &lt;code&gt;\ooalign&lt;/code&gt; by egreg&amp;quot;. Adding &lt;code&gt;is:answer&lt;/code&gt; wouldn't help &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, but knowing that egreg doesn't have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/2/student&quot;&gt;student badge&lt;/a&gt; might help elsewhere - knowing your crowd and your content helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High-voted questions gather the most attention, are the ones you most likely will remember and what you're probably after, so you can even &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=user%3a4427%20course%20code%3a%22%5cooalign%22&quot;&gt;sort by votes&lt;/a&gt; (or add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A4427+course+code%3A%22%5Cooalign%22+score%3A20&quot;&gt;lower bound on the score of, say, 20&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example 2:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're working on a document written using &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/memoir&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but would like to use the power of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/titlesec&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;titlesec&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to format the sectional units. However, you're experiencing problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search for: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titlesec+memoir+incompatibility&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[titlesec] [memoir] [incompatibility]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This yields &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33012/5764&quot;&gt;a single result&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9IGNR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; using tag searching and merely searching for the terms &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=titlesec+memoir+incompatibility&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;memoir titlesec incompatibility&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ox7aJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A result of 9 posts may not be too bad to wade through, but still is more than the targeted result when using tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, the mixing of search tactics heavily depend on appropriate housekeeping of posts. Our tag editors do a tremendous job of keeping things organized, which can help in making search an effective tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T06:48:30.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4341" CreationDate="2014-04-02T07:01:21.760" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/227641/168244&quot;&gt;Unicoins is a short-lived April fool's initiative&lt;/a&gt; from the Stack Exchange group. Apart from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/227363/168244&quot;&gt;outrageous and sometimes hilarious discussions about Unicoins on Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;, they won't make you richer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/227898/168244&quot;&gt;not here&lt;/a&gt; nor in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Unicoins disclaimer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Availability may be limited based on factors. Prohibited where void. Stack Exchange Inc. does not endorse or encourage behaviors that should not be endorsed or encouraged. Not legal tender except in localities with citizenship rights for unicorns. Stack Exchange Inc. reserves the right to amend, cancel, or continue this promotion for any reason, including, but not limited to, any reason that would interfere with the invariance, continuation, or non-existence thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find more information on this singular event by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicoins?sort=newest&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;searching the tag &lt;code&gt;[unicoins]&lt;/code&gt; on Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T07:01:21.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-02T10:18:06.760" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often find an answer to my question, but only partial. For instance, people make a nice suggestion on how to modify something in LaTeX, but do not specify how to make the return to default, original values. Then I'd like to just add a simple additional question without opening a new subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. I've found an answer on how to do something with &lt;code&gt;srcbook.cls&lt;/code&gt;, and would like to know how to do that with the standard, &lt;code&gt;book.cls&lt;/code&gt;, if possible. Is it possible to add a related question ? If not, please consider this, as it would be highly practical! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. What tag (which is obligatory) suits a general question like this one!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49094" OwnerDisplayName="user59856" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T02:29:31.207" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T02:29:31.207" Title="Supplementary questions to an already existing question" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2014-04-03T05:29:36.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4339" CreationDate="2014-04-03T18:20:07.270" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/210041/gallery-of-custom-styles-and-or-scripts-for-the-top-bar&quot;&gt;Gallery of custom styles and/or scripts for the top-bar&lt;/a&gt;; I use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://userstyles.org/styles/95794/stackexchange-multicollider-superdropdown-fixes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ Fixes&lt;/a&gt; together with &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/stylish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt; for Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T18:20:07.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4352" CreationDate="2014-04-05T14:30:45.440" Score="6" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;why is code formatting in answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/169741/5328&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/169741/5328&lt;/a&gt; disabled when I remove the period between itemization and the code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I changed the answer by inserting a HTML comment as suggested, so now all is properly formatted. However, the link above is now a bit useless. Thanks to all answerers and commentators, to describe the initial problem again and for their support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5328" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T07:44:12.673" Title="Code formatting after itemize only with some text?" Tags="|support|code|formatting|lists|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4339" CreationDate="2014-04-07T15:11:04.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4340/&quot;&gt;Tampermonkey code of cslstr&lt;/a&gt; should work in Firefox/Seamonkey with &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/scriptish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scriptish&lt;/a&gt; (I didn’t test) it is not necessary, as it effectively executes CSS code. So I rewrote it, see below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copy the following code into your &lt;code&gt;userContent.css&lt;/code&gt; (cf. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Customizing Mozilla&lt;/a&gt;) or into &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt;. In first case you will have to restart your browser, in second case it works immediately after saving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(stackexchange.com),&#xA;               domain(stackoverflow.com) {&#xA;.topbar {&#xA;  position: fixed !important;&#xA;  z-index: 101 !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#header {&#xA;  padding-top: 34px !important;&#xA;}}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some remarks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this way it works for all &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; sites and &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; including the meta subsites. It could be easily enhanced for other StackExchange domains by adding them separated with commas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It turned out that &lt;code&gt;z-index: 2&lt;/code&gt; would be enough for &lt;code&gt;⟨meta.⟩tex.se&lt;/code&gt;, but not for the tour-page &lt;code&gt;⟨meta.⟩tex.stackexchange.com/tour&lt;/code&gt;. You need a value of 101 (make a test with 100 …), and if there were changes in future it could be more increased, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A look into the original code revealed that the topbar has been defined to have a height of 34px, not 25px as in clstr’s code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an additional change – or better: fix – specifically for &lt;code&gt;domain(tex.stackexchange.com)&lt;/code&gt; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4007/&quot;&gt;Bug in the logo appearance with the new black top bar&lt;/a&gt; and my comment below this (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4007/#comment14317_4007&quot;&gt;Bug in the logo appearance with the new black top bar&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T20:57:55.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-12T18:57:25.117" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we have fancy logos like they have on CTAN, for example on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cm-unicode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cm-unicode&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HOQjX.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1189" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T20:09:15.640" Title="Fancy TeX (etc.)/Metafont/MetaPost logos?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4349" CreationDate="2014-04-13T20:09:15.640" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly hope that we cannot have &quot;fancy logos&quot;. I'm on the very same wave as Joseph: Either do the rendering really well, or use a reasonable substitute. Doing it really well is impossible (the rendering in the picture in the question is close to making me vomit, especially &lt;code&gt;XeTeX&lt;/code&gt;), therefore I certainly prefer substituting by lowercase letters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T20:09:15.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2014-04-13T20:39:27.197" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/lollipop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KhAlj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lollipop: A New Advanced TeX Format&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorDisplayName="user10744" LastEditDate="2014-12-14T15:30:51.563" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:30:51.563" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-13T20:39:27.197" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4346" CreationDate="2014-04-13T21:08:14.913" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;References: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3327/code-block-is-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-item&quot;&gt;Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1558/why-do-code-snippets-not-work-after-lists?rq=1&quot;&gt;Why do code snippets not work after lists?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because any indented text immediately following a list is seen as part of the list, as Joseph mentions. Hence, if you have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* list item&#xA;&#xA;   some text&#xA;&#xA;some more text&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is printed as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;list item&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;some text&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;some more text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the first question referenced above, this is basically a limitation in the Markdown format, nothing to do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways of dealing with this, depending on what your intention is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the code is part of the list, indent it with &lt;em&gt;eight&lt;/em&gt; spaces instead of four. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the code is not part of the list, but follows after it, add something between the two, such as an HTML comment, i.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;!--  --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tip for indenting blocks with eight spaces: Select the block and hit the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button/Ctrl+K to indent with four spaces. Then write a single character (such as your period) on the line just before the block, select both this and the entire block, then hit the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button again. Finally, delete the single character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T21:08:14.913" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-13T21:08:14.913" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2014-04-16T23:04:11.590" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which keyboard layout do you use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QWERTY?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some national layout (AZERTY, QWERTZ, Neo)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some Dvorak variant (original, Simplified, Programmer)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Colemak?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1979/good-keyboard-layouts-for-typing-latex&quot;&gt;Good keyboard layouts for typing (La)TeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T14:46:23.347" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-16T23:04:11.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-20T08:27:52.473" Score="7" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/172455/necessity-of-nested-text-within-math-mode-for-proper-mathchoice-based-scaling&quot;&gt;Necessity of nested \text within math mode for proper \mathchoice-based scaling&lt;/a&gt;, there are a couple of instances where in-text code strings have a backslash at the end of one line and the next line starts with an opening brace &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since this combination has the meaning of a real opening brace in the output, the two characters should really be kept together.  (i haven't seen any instances where a backslash was separated from following letters at the end of a line.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;maybe this is just a function of the software i'm using to read tex.sx (this software has &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; other problems, but i'm on the road, and have no other option), but it's disconcerting, and if it's a system problem at the source, maybe it can be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  here's a screen shot of the affected area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WUPhd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot of cited page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T14:58:43.553" Title="Line break between backslash and opening brace { in in-line code" Tags="|bug|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-21T14:09:21.307" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, in the tex.stackechange.com site, there was a question which was detected as a spam.  I dont know if the question is deleted now. When I saw it, It had got 5 downvotes. I request the developers to develop or enhance the security of the website by,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding a Spam Filter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enabling Encryption&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5KUQw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2014-04-22T22:21:13.983" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T22:21:13.983" Title="Spam Filter in the Stack Exchange Website" Tags="|feature-request|spam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4361" CreationDate="2014-04-22T03:53:26.583" Score="1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;This user : &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/50311/user49929&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/50311/user49929&lt;/a&gt; has been adding spams to the website by questions and now to answers as well(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/172745/how-to-compose-poetry-with-latex&quot;&gt;How to compose poetry with LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;). Please do something about it. My feature-request for spam filter was also ignored. I would be happy to help with my knowledge of web technologies. Please do something about spam handling........&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T10:57:58.190" Title="Spams Spams Spams around" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4360" CreationDate="2014-04-22T20:18:56.847" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that we are in need of restrictive spam filters. Currently, spam is handled in the following ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every new post bumps the thread up, so it doesn't get overseen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most spams trigger the low quality bot and get an auto-flag, making them appear instantly in the 10k-tools flag queue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After couple downvotes, post is locked and eventually deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone can flag the post. Moreover, 10k users can vote to delete, and only 3 votes are needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a lot of tools for spam handling. Note that none of them need a moderator, they are purely automatic or community-driven. Of course, mods can zap spam instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That all is not &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; the idea of restrictive spam filter. However the following form IMHO good reason against the idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Restrictive spam filters &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; catch non-spam, simply because a bot is a stupid bot (no matter how hard you try, the bot will be stupid).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, there'll always be spam (especially manually done instead of automatically) that will fall through, so you still need all the tools I mention at the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not really an issue: Once in a long while, it happens that spam accumulates, but it's rather rare, certainly on TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T10:57:58.190" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T10:57:58.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4362" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-24T03:12:40.253" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as the standard &quot;this question is useful and clear&quot; and &quot;this answer is useful&quot; meanings, up-votes on the meta sites can also mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree with this suggestion/proposed solution&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have reproduced the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like the freehand circles on your screen shot&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions which are &lt;strong&gt;specific to up-votes&lt;/strong&gt;. For questions about the voting mechanics in general, use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/voting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voting&lt;/a&gt; tag. For questions about down-votes, use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/down-votes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;down-votes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;down-votes&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T03:12:40.253" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T03:12:40.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4363" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-24T03:12:40.253" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions specific to up-votes, the community's way of telling peers that their content was clear and helpful. Up-votes on the meta sites may have different meanings." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T03:12:40.253" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T03:12:40.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4364" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-24T03:14:09.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as the standard &quot;this question is unclear or not useful&quot; and &quot;this answer is not useful&quot; meanings, on meta sites down-votes can also mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with this suggestion/proposed solution&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You haven't included any free hand circles (or arrows, or unicorns) on your screen shot&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can't reproduce the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while the question or answer might be very clear and potentially useful, it is still entirely feasible that it will receive a down vote or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions which are &lt;strong&gt;specific to down-votes&lt;/strong&gt;. For questions about the voting mechanics in general, use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/voting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voting&lt;/a&gt; tag. For questions about up-votes, use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/up-votes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;up-votes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;up-votes&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T03:14:09.377" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T03:14:09.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4365" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-24T03:14:09.377" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions specific to down-votes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Down-votes on meta site have different meanings." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T03:14:09.377" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T03:14:09.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4366" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-24T05:58:43.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange site data is available for &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; as part of a data dump. However, a Stack Exchange site will not be included in the data dump until there has been enough data to pool and send along with the rest of the package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[A public data dump] won't be necessary until there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50777/include-stack-apps-into-public-data-dump&quot;&gt;more data to work with there&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Data dumps do not include deleted posts or comments, nor do they contain any voting data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot;&gt;the data dumps in the SE blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T05:58:43.123" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T05:58:43.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4367" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-24T05:58:43.123" Score="0" Body="This tag is about the creative commons data dumps of all public data in the Stack Exchange network Q&amp;A sites." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T05:58:43.123" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T05:58:43.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4371" CreationDate="2014-04-25T01:40:04.683" Score="7" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask or answer a question and someone edits my post, how do I accept the edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49199" OwnerDisplayName="Mathematician" LastEditorUserId="49199" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T18:55:11.647" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T18:55:11.647" Title="An edit has been suggestion to a post of mine. How do I accept it?" Tags="|support|answers|questions|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-25T11:13:12.547" Score="19" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all: Are questions about best practices on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give some context, I think that it is fair to ask the question in tex.stackexchange.com why the commonly cited best practice in TeX editing to split your document into sub-files for the chapters/sections is actually a best practice - I can think of 10s of good reasons for &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; doing so, but only of two for actually doing so. The question would list the reasons for either way as a starting point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic as answers will consider valuable information for practitioners. They &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be off-topic as the question is quite open-ended and it is probably not suitable to pick a &quot;right&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28509" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T09:31:29.480" Title="Are questions for best practices on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|best-practice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4381" CreationDate="2014-04-25T15:44:58.997" Score="19" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/04/podcast-57-we-just-saw-this-on-florp/?cb=1&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange podcast #57&lt;/a&gt; (at the 9'30'' mark), the team agreed that questions of the type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could you please identify this font for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are on topic on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Graphic Design site&lt;/a&gt;, which &quot;graduated&quot; only recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since such questions sort are not really on topic on TeX.SX and usually get closed as duplicates of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45919/how-do-i-find-out-what-fonts-are-used-in-a-document-picture&quot;&gt;How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?&lt;/a&gt;, shouldn't we instead migrate them to Graphic Design, from now on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:07:49.713" Title="Should we migrate &quot;What is this font?&quot; questions to GraphicDesign.SX?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4368" CreationDate="2014-04-25T16:11:01.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; in the help center covers everything you might want to know about edits, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To highlight some of the important bits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're a user with &amp;#8805; 2,000 reputation, any edit that you make to a question or answer takes effect immediately:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;once you've generated enough reputation, we trust you to edit &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; in the system without it going through peer review. Not just your posts—&lt;em&gt;anyone's posts!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are a user with &amp;lt; 2,000 reputation, then any edit you make will be sent to the review queue, where it has to be approved by two reviewers before it takes effect:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These edits remain in a pending state until they get enough votes to either approve them and make the edits take effect or reject them and discard the edit. Two votes in either direction will finalize the action&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer your question, you yourself do not actually have to do anything to accept an edit to your question or answer.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; If it was edited by someone with &amp;#8805; 2,000 reputation, the edit will take effect immediately. If it was edited by someone with &amp;lt; 2,000 reputation, then it will take effect iff two users with &amp;#8805; 2,000 reputation approve the edit in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you can always edit any question or answer that you've written yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The exception, of course, is if you're a user with &amp;#8805; 2,000 reputation and a user with &amp;lt; 2,000 reputation edits your post. Then, it is theoretically possible that you might end up reviewing an edit that was made to your post in the review queue and either approving or rejecting it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T16:11:01.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-25T20:44:54.160" Score="13" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sidebar contains related and linked posts. If such a post has 100+ votes, the alignment is off (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/linked/339?lq=1&quot;&gt;any of these posts&lt;/a&gt; will have a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/339/5764&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt; that replicates the problem):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9IInk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems specific to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; (and perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.TeX&lt;/a&gt;) as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; doesn't exhibit&amp;nbsp;this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b3C0X.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T17:15:39.897" Title="Posts with high score (100+) in sidebar wraps" Tags="|bug|status-completed|sidebar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4373" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-25T20:45:18.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Various links that appear in the side bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linked Topics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Careers 2.0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite Tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hot Topics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T20:45:18.767" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T20:45:18.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4374" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-25T20:45:18.767" Score="0" Body="Of and relating to the &quot;side bar&quot;, or the bar that runs down the right side of the page on Stack Exchange sites." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T20:45:18.767" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T20:45:18.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4369" CreationDate="2014-04-26T09:26:12.160" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion, which need not reflect other's, is that such questions are welcome, so long as they are about TeX and friends. As the distinction is somewhat blurred, I'll try to make some examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Should the Introduction or Conclusions be numbered chapters?” is not about TeX and friends&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“My institution requires double spacing, how should I do?” is about TeX and friends, because it's possible to use packages (&lt;code&gt;setspace&lt;/code&gt;) or classes (&lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt;) for dealing with the problem in a non hackish way&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“What is the best sans serif font to accompany Bookman?“ is not about TeX and friends.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;The answer is, of course, “don't use Bookman in the first place”. The only time I used it was for printing my brother's homework which needed to be two pages long and with Times it was only one and a half.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“What's the best way to organize my document if I want it split into subfiles?” is TeX related, because it has to do with how TeX programs look for files in subdirectories and in the whole tree. While a bit opinion based, different answers can give ideas for the best setup in a particular case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“How should I define personal commands and environments?” is definitely a welcome &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;best-practice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;best-practice&lt;/a&gt; question, provided it tries to narrow the boundaries: not too generic (that is, unanswerable), but showing definite situations such as (but not limited to) operator names, repetitive structures, language changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The green tick we like so much is not for the “right” answer, but for the most helpful one for the questioner. What is important is the &lt;em&gt;usability&lt;/em&gt; of the answers; if a question doesn't admit &lt;em&gt;usable&lt;/em&gt; answers, then it's off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T09:31:29.480" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T09:31:29.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4370" CreationDate="2014-04-26T10:13:27.823" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. And since Graphic Design is now mature, can we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2411/5763&quot;&gt;proper migration path, please&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T10:13:27.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4380" CreationDate="2014-04-27T16:06:27.660" Score="14" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;When marking duplicates, shouldn't newer post be the duplicate of an older post and not the other way around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can a post from 2012 be a duplicate to something from 2013?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2012:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53238/putting-in-matlab-codes-in-a-box-as-figures&quot;&gt;Putting in MATLAB codes in a box as figures?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2013:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/75116/what-can-i-use-to-typeset-matlab-code-in-my-document&quot;&gt;What can I use to typeset MATLAB code in my document?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only ask since the duplicate message is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This question has been asked before and already has an answer. &#xA;If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how can a 2013 have already been asked before a 2012?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T02:15:59.080" Title="Duplicate marking" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4379" CreationDate="2014-04-27T16:10:11.093" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, all questions would be good or be edited to be good, all answers would be well written and general, and all duplicate questions would be spotted as soon as they are posted. However, none of those three things is always true! As a result, it is not unknown to find that a newer question covers the same idea as an older one but is in some way 'better'. When those cases are found, the 'best' direction to mark as a duplicate is sometimes 'reversed', so that the older question gets closed meaning that the 'canonical' version is the newer one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T16:10:11.093" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4370" CreationDate="2014-04-27T17:52:50.433" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily. First, I don't think that especially math font identification is 100% welcome on GD.SE. Second, most often when the question is asked here, it has a subtle sub-question: &lt;em&gt;&quot;... and how to use this font in LaTeX?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes the question off-topic on GD.SE and on-topic here. Of course, one can argue that the question should be split then (font identification on GD and font usage here), however, that would be ridiculous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore think that we should in general let the questioner choose the site himself, and only suggest him migration if we feel it is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for deciding whether migrate these that are duplicates of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45919/how-do-i-find-out-what-fonts-are-used-in-a-document-picture&quot;&gt;How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?&lt;/a&gt; : I'm certainly against the idea; if it has an answer here, it makes no sense at all to migrate it elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T17:52:50.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-27T23:09:26.933" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be absolutely great to be able to add a feature in Stack Exchange such that users can export the questions they have asked or labeled as favorite to a single print-friendly document, which only contains the question asked as well as the comments and answers. I would be a great fan for this feature. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23594" OwnerDisplayName="Ahm" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-04-28T02:16:59.023" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T02:16:59.023" Title="A Suggestion for Improving Stack Exchange" Tags="|discussion|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2014-04-28T00:51:02.850" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1680" CreationDate="2014-04-27T23:26:56.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The generic printing option &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackprinter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Printer&lt;/a&gt; covers the entire Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1680/5764&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TaEeC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the PDF output resembles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pu6zA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T23:26:56.000" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-27T23:26:56.000" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4385" CreationDate="2014-04-28T00:22:08.980" Score="0" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I asked my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/169353/15717&quot;&gt;first question on this site&lt;/a&gt;, I was asked to provide &quot;a complete small document that demonstrates the problem.&quot;  What is &quot;a complete small document&quot; and how do I make one?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49199" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T03:30:06.217" Title="How do I make a &quot;a complete small document&quot;?" Tags="|support|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2014-04-28T07:50:50.130" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4384" CreationDate="2014-04-28T03:30:06.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although texenthusiast already mentioned the question might be duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/15717&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;, it is worth to make some remarks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many new users of TeX.SX start with a question about a desired feature or post some fragment(s) of code almost unusable, since this is how &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; (a placeholder for &lt;code&gt;TeX/LaTeX/XeTeX/LuaLaTeX&lt;/code&gt;) does not work, as almost any 'programing' language. It has grammar/syntax rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as such, a small complete document starts with a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;uses some packages (most probably), say &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{amsmath}&#xA;\usepackage{hyperref}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and eventually some other &lt;em&gt;preamble&lt;/em&gt; commands (omitted here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally the true document code, beginning (sic!) and ending with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&#xA;  % Some content in between.&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;code&gt;*.tex&lt;/code&gt; file should reproduce the &lt;strong&gt;error&lt;/strong&gt; or the &lt;strong&gt;efforts&lt;/strong&gt; what has done so far, not more and not less. This means, that all unnecessary code has to be omitted (preferably) or at least commented out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if your problem has nothing do with &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;mathematical markup --&gt; drop all packages concerning math (&lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;font issues --&gt; drop all packages using fonts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;hyperlinks  --&gt; omit &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the really experienced &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; users know or can guess which class/packages should be loaded and sometimes this is even ambiguous since there are varities of possible solutions to a &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt;. A fragment of a code is a starting point, but most time a very crude one.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, this a skeleton of a complete small document:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;%%% \usepackage statements here&#xA;&#xA;%%% Other necessary statements here&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;%%% Code for **your** document &#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Change the documentclass &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt; to one you really use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T03:30:06.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4388" CreationDate="2014-04-30T20:57:16.773" Score="9" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it is possible to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: X --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to get different syntax highlighting in posts for at least some languages, X. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2282/syntax-highlighting-for-lualatex&quot;&gt;this works for LuaLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It, however, does not seem to work for R on TeX.SX! I've tried both &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: r --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: R --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/174557/32888&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get syntax highlighting for R on TeX.SX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T15:26:59.690" Title="Is R syntax highlighting possible on TeX.SX?" Tags="|support|code|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4370" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:07:49.713" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue is that fonts don't work everywhere.  Also, similar fonts can have different names and installs.  So it's better to have a class 'font name' and be done with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47671" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:07:49.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4386" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:25:30.663" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;R is listed as one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;supported list of languages&lt;/a&gt;; available as &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-r --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, new scripting languages won't be implemented by StackExchange directly. However, there is hope...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is taken verbatim from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/184108/168244&quot;&gt;What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange does not have its own syntax highlighting engine&lt;/strong&gt;. It uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Code Prettify&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore, any bugs and feature requests regarding syntax highlighting cannot be handled by Stack Exchange and should be directed to the team behind Google Code Prettify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Syntax highlighting is assigned to the preview when creating or editing posts as soon as you stop typing for 5 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why isn't my code being highlighted correctly?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your post doesn't have the correct highlighting, it's possible it's not supported. Please look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of supported languages&lt;/a&gt;. If your language is not on the list, it needs to be created within the Prettify project before it can be deployed by Stack Exchange. If a language that could be applied to a tag is already on the list, please raise a feature request here on Meta to have it deployed on the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do I report a bug or request a new language?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is indeed a bug in the syntax highlighter itself, check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;issues list&lt;/a&gt; to see if it has already been reported. If it hasn't, feel free to report it or &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/people/list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;join the project&lt;/a&gt; and submit a fix yourself. If you want to ensure that an issue you raised is fixed quickly, it's best to include the fix in the report. If the fix has already been implemented by Prettify but is still not working here, please raise a feature request on Meta to request that a new version of Prettify be deployed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T02:28:40.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-01T10:10:20.460" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just would like to say: I really really like the site's layout. It's something that &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; supports my senses navigating the site and does not add confusion or any sort of friction. It's a pleasant and &quot;harmonic&quot; experience, especially due to the font choices and then, maybe more importantly, the color palette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25683" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T14:13:48.950" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T14:13:48.950" Title="Non-question: I really like the site's layout" Tags="|discussion|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-01T18:52:31.987" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a question about linking from the code examples at tex.stackexchange.com to an online LaTeX compiler about a year ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3164/link-to-online-latex-compiler&quot;&gt;Link to online LaTeX compiler&lt;/a&gt;. The answers and comments to the question indicate that there is willingness from several of the online compilers to help support and/or implement such a feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the feature would be great and I am therefore wondering if there is a good reason why the suggestion has not been implemented as it seemed that everyone liked the proposal and competent people offered to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T18:52:31.987" Title="Is the idea of linking to an online compiler dead?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4391" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-01T19:06:30.107" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a dedicated site for software recommendations here on Stack Exchange but I'm not sure people there may know much about something like CDLatex. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a Latex IDE for Linux which has shortcuts like those of CDLatex, e.g. you press `z and you get \zeta. CDLatex is the main reason I use Emacs (in addition to its uncluttered interface). However recently I've had problems with either bugs or &quot;misconfigurations&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45562" LastEditorUserId="45562" LastEditDate="2014-05-03T08:34:03.787" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T08:34:03.787" Title="Can one ask for TeX related software recommendations here?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2649" CreationDate="2014-05-04T20:25:36.070" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Answered from my iPad]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A shorter workflow is to submit screenshots rather than the actual pictures. You take a screenshot by pressing the &quot;home&quot; and &quot;power&quot; buttons simultaneously. The screenshot automatically goes to the camera roll, which can be directly accessed from Safari--it's the only thing you can get to from a conventional &quot;upload&quot; menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RLX79.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The disadvantage is that you have less control over exactly what shows up in the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="484" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T20:25:36.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4395" CreationDate="2014-05-05T09:24:13.337" Score="9" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious to know the font used to display &lt;code&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/code&gt;'s webpages because I want to use is to write my LaTeX articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be more precise, I am interested in the font used to display my current question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user50475" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T14:40:57.040" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T11:10:07.627" Title="What is the font used by http://tex.stackexchange.com/?" Tags="|discussion|fonts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4394" CreationDate="2014-05-05T09:29:27.967" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Header: Palatino Linotype&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Text: Lucida Grande&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code text: Consolas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least that's what computed CSS says (accessible in FF via &lt;code&gt;Right Click -&amp;gt; Inspect Element -&amp;gt; Right Bottom Panel -&amp;gt; Computed -&amp;gt; font-family&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However: &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Do not use web fonts for printed articles.&lt;br&gt; &#xA;Do not use web fonts for printed articles.&lt;br&gt; &#xA;Do not use web fonts for printed articles.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" OwnerDisplayName="tohecz" LastEditorUserId="828" LastEditDate="2014-05-08T11:10:07.627" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T11:10:07.627" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4401" CreationDate="2014-05-06T21:33:52.540" Score="7" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;site tour&lt;/a&gt; there is a list of information on questions that could be considered on-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mLsWx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spelling of LyX does not match the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2407/5764&quot;&gt;official spelling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T10:10:12.393" Title="Update official capitalization of LyX on tour page" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|tour|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4399" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-06T21:34:43.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tour&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tour&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; is for questions about the Stack Exchange tour that is accessed through the help menu in the top bar.  The tour gives an overview and introduction to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-06T21:34:43.910" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T21:34:43.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4400" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-06T21:34:43.910" Score="0" Body="is for questions about the Stack Exchange tour that is accessed through the help menu in the top bar." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-06T21:34:43.910" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T21:34:43.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4398" CreationDate="2014-05-07T05:55:28.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for spotting this: should now be fixed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T05:55:28.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-07T15:17:39.003" Score="2" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/175859/tailormade-table-of-contents-showcase&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/175859/tailormade-table-of-contents-showcase&lt;/a&gt; at the right handside the linked questions are listed together with votes it seems. However for big numbers something strange is going on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bGMrg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T15:56:17.823" Title="Linked questions with high votes looks strange" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2014-05-08T04:38:18.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-07T17:36:29.890" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have answered a question by referencing a solution to another question. If the original poster accepts my answer (to show others their question has been solved) is there any way of assigning credit to the original author of the solution I referenced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4885" OwnerDisplayName="Leeser" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-05-07T18:53:01.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T18:53:01.363" Title="How to assign credit to the original author while referencing his solution to another question incase accepted by OP" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4405" CreationDate="2014-05-07T23:25:16.820" Score="9" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for questions on the main site that have &lt;code&gt;\list&lt;/code&gt; in their body but need to avoid question that have &lt;code&gt;list&lt;/code&gt;. Is there a search syntax I can use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14564" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-08T01:39:24.517" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T01:39:24.517" Title="How to search for \list but not list?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4404" CreationDate="2014-05-08T01:36:18.533" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search terms would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=body%3A%22%5Clist%22+-%22list%22&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;body:&quot;\list&quot; -&quot;list&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/69GR8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T01:36:18.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4643" CreationDate="2014-05-08T03:53:28.877" Score="5" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried creating the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/angles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;angles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;angles&lt;/a&gt; but I was told I cannot since the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/angle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;angle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;angle&lt;/a&gt; exists.  The angle tag is for &lt;code&gt;pst-eucl&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need a tag for the TikZ &lt;code&gt;angles&lt;/code&gt; library as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FrjAt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without starting a new post, how can I create the tag &lt;code&gt;tikz-angles&lt;/code&gt;?  I went to the tags tab and I couldn't find a way to do so.  We can use this tag for the new &lt;code&gt;angles&lt;/code&gt; library in &lt;code&gt;TikZ&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T02:25:38.203" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T04:06:06.743" Title="New tag angles for the new TikZ library" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-08T17:10:35.373" Score="44" ViewCount="9757" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone asks me to write a MWEB. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I produce such thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Explanation of the question's purpose:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question aims to complete the very useful other question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; for the cases concerning bibliography files. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of MWE which call a .bib file. In most cases, the content of this bibliography file is pasted inside a separated code block (when the .bib is not forgotten...). This (bad) practice creates a loss of time. Indeed, the reader have to copy and create two different files to test the code. The filecontents package fixes this issue. Therefore, in my opinion, the use of filecontents should be generalized to all MWE calling a bibtex file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created this question to be able to refer to it when someone forget to add the .bib file to his example or when the question is about bib* and there is no MWE at all. Of course, this question aims to be community wiki. Please improve by all means the answer I will post below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="28474" LastEditDate="2018-02-24T13:49:29.070" LastActivityDate="2023-02-01T04:30:22.597" Title="How to write a MWEB (Minimal working example with Bibliography)?" Tags="|support|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4407" CreationDate="2014-05-08T17:20:41.397" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;A MWEB is a MWE (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;Minimal Working Example&lt;/a&gt;) which include a bibliography file (.bib). MWEB stands for &amp;quot;Minimal Working Example with Bibliography&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bibliography file contains your bibliographical references. If your question is about Bibtex/Biber/Natbib/Biblatex/..., this file may contain valuable information useful to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/filecontents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; environment in order to produce only one file which contains both your latex document and your bibliography file. This file should be copy-and-pasted inside a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#code&quot;&gt;code block&lt;/a&gt;. Having only one file allows us to copy and paste the example to test it in a single action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Example of MWEB (for BibLaTeX):&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}&#xA;\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}&#xA;@book{key,&#xA;  author = {Author, A.},&#xA;  year = {2001},&#xA;  title = {Title},&#xA;  publisher = {Publisher},&#xA;}&#xA;\end{filecontents}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\cite{key}&#xA;&#xA;\printbibliography&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Example of MWEB (for BibTeX):&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}&#xA;@book{key,&#xA;  author = {Author, A.},&#xA;  year = {2001},&#xA;  title = {Title},&#xA;  publisher = {Publisher},&#xA;}&#xA;\end{filecontents}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\cite{key}&#xA;&#xA;\bibliographystyle{plain}&#xA;\bibliography{\jobname}&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some important points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By default the &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment does not overwrite existing files. This minimises the risk of data loss, but can be annoying while you create your MWEB, because new entries in the &lt;code&gt;.bib&lt;/code&gt; file don't show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are using a new version of LaTeX you can use &lt;code&gt;\begin{filecontents}[force]{\jobname.bib}&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}&lt;/code&gt; to allow &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; to overwrite an existing &lt;code&gt;\jobname.bib&lt;/code&gt; file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are using an older version of LaTeX, load &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{filecontents}&lt;/code&gt; to allow overwriting of files.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, double check &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you run LaTeX that this won't overwrite important files. It is always a good precaution to work in a new, empty test directory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You should use &lt;code&gt;\jobname&lt;/code&gt; instead of a specific .bib file name. In this way, the &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment will take the name of the .tex file in order to generate the related .bib file. This practice avoids the accidental overwriting of a named .bib file (people often used to call their bibliographies &amp;quot;bibliography&amp;quot;; a dangerous practice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In older LaTeX versions the original &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment could not be used&#xA;before the &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; declaration. If one wanted to remove this limitation, one would load &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{filecontents}&lt;/code&gt;, which would also allow the &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment to overwrite existing files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is no longer necessary in newer LaTeX versions and the &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;package&lt;/em&gt; no longer has any functionality with those newer LaTeX versions. So in new versions &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{filecontents}&lt;/code&gt; can safely be dropped (which gets rid of a warning).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unlike another common thought, you shouldn't use &lt;code&gt;filecontents*&lt;/code&gt; (note the star) environment. &lt;code&gt;filecontents*&lt;/code&gt; does not aim to overwrite the file but is designed to remove the mention &amp;quot;[...] generated by the ‘filecontents’ environment [...]&amp;quot; at the top of the file. The new implementation of &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; (which you use when you call the &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; package) automatically overwrites the file if it exists (so that point 1 is important).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Warning&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not paste your entire bibliography inside a &lt;code&gt;filecontents&lt;/code&gt; environment! You should paste only the problematic references that will demonstrate the problem when the MWEB is processed. Keep in mind to be as minimalistic as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastEditorUserId="14649" LastEditDate="2023-02-01T04:30:22.597" LastActivityDate="2023-02-01T04:30:22.597" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-05-08T17:20:41.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2014-05-08T18:52:01.393" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a small suggestion about another comment block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since many new users neither know of the correct format nor heard of a MWE, I would compress two of the text blocks into one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at [our starter guide]&#xA;(http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/1436) to familiarize yourself further with our format. Please help us to help you also and add a [minimal working example (MWE)](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/228) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with `\documentclass{...}` and ending with `\end{document}`&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not meant as a replacement of the blocks but a mere addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2015-01-08T18:50:36.730" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T18:50:36.730" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-05-08T18:52:01.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-08T18:57:50.893" Score="7" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to post an answer on TeX.SE and am stuck at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K7vW8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dots continue and I never see the captcha.  For some reason, &lt;code&gt;meta.TeX.SE&lt;/code&gt; does not have a concern with me being human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, why is there not an exception for this once you reach a certain rep cap? It seems that this is needed only for really really new users.  Have encountered this a few times in the past and find it quite annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like procrastinating as much as the loyal TeX.SE users, but this is getting in the way!! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T18:57:50.893" Title="Stuck at Human Verification" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1145" CreationDate="2014-05-10T06:09:18.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose we add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1144&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt; link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Return to FAQ index](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1144)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at the bottom of every FAQ-linked post. This seems to be the trend on Meta.SE as well, as can be seen from any link followed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7931/168244&quot;&gt;FAQ for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;. That way people who visit the FAQ can easily jump from the index to a listed question and back. Alternatively, those who land on an FAQ, can perhaps be inclined to browse other FAQs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T06:09:18.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4413" CreationDate="2014-05-12T10:11:26.520" Score="9" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/176694/non-ascii-character-as-argument&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; that wasn't relevant for xelatex or lualatex. I was going to add the &lt;code&gt;pdftex&lt;/code&gt; tag, but then I noticed the help text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pdfTeX is an extension of TeX which is capable of directly generating PDF output. Use this tag if your question is about pdf(La)TeX specific problems and is not related to standard (La)TeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is only about pdftex as opposed to (Knuth) TeX. Is it time to also tag questions that are about pdftex as opposed to (xe|lua)tex, or should that wait until the latter has become even more common?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ADDED: Since the &lt;code&gt;specific-question&lt;/code&gt; tag was added I think I should clarify that my question is not &quot;what tags should that particular post have&quot;, so that everything is fine as long as that gets right. My question is about what the &lt;code&gt;pdftex&lt;/code&gt; tag is meant for, and that probably the help text doesn't correspond to what it is meant for, and thus should be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48251" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T09:27:04.627" Title="pdftex tag when not xetex/luatex?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4412" CreationDate="2014-05-13T20:42:00.500" Score="6" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I decided to edit the tag excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;pdfTeX is an extension of TeX which is capable of directly generating PDF output. Use this tag if the engine you employ – pdftex/pdflatex – is significant to your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I added &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inputenc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inputenc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inputenc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt; to the question. &lt;strong&gt;I think that it's a correct thing to do in such a case, to clearly mark that Lua/XeLaTeX engines are not involved.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I clarified the engines even more in the text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It does not work in pdfLaTeX and (DVI)LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that this is fine. Suggestions are of course welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2014-05-25T09:27:04.627" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T09:27:04.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4412" CreationDate="2014-05-14T12:22:58.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt; is IMHO wrong for this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/176694/non-ascii-character-as-argument&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, because it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about anything, which pdfTeX has added in comparison to vanilla TeX. Also there are other TeX compilers than pdfTeX, LuaTeX, and XeTeX: vanilla TeX, VTeX, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inputenc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inputenc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inputenc&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input-encodings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input-encodings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input-encodings&lt;/a&gt; covers the question very good, I do not see a need for a TeX engine tag, because the question is not about an engine specific behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Non-XeTeX/LuaTeX cases I would rather introduce a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/8-bit-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;8-bit-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;8-bit-tex&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/non-unicode-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;non-unicode-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;non-unicode-tex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16967" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T14:23:38.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4415" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-14T18:37:00.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reporting a bug, try to describe it in a way that makes it easy for readers reproduce. &quot;I saw some sort of error while I was doing something on one of these sites&quot; doesn't get you very far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a visual anomaly associated with the bug, then post a screenshot, circling the portion that offends you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your bug is only when you're using a beta browser, though, be aware &lt;em&gt;they're not supported&lt;/em&gt;. Get a production browser and report back only if it's broken there too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Interesting bug lists:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug+status-completed?sort=active&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Recently active status completed bugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/?tab=bugs&quot;&gt;Top voted open bugs on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; is one of the four &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/47634/how-does-meta-stack-overflow-work/47640#47640&quot;&gt;mandatory tags&lt;/a&gt; for meta sites. The other mandatory tag options are &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50054" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-27T16:09:08.370" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T16:09:08.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4416" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-14T18:37:00.477" Score="0" Body="This tag indicates a reproducible problem on the site that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T18:42:04.650" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T18:42:04.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-15T10:50:14.210" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently more than 3200 questions on tex.sx that have no upvoted answers.  Many of these have been answered, though, often in the comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it somehow possible to mark a question as answered even though there is not a formal answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue (or a variation thereof) has already been brought up when the count was at &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1279/221-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;221&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3640/how-to-end-the-unanswered-status-of-really-solved-questions-in-the-comments&quot;&gt;1408&lt;/a&gt;, but nothing helpful has happened since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41085" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T10:50:14.210" Title="Allegedly unanswered questions" Tags="|feature-request|comments|answers|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-17T12:50:42.550" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did &quot;they&quot; stop giving famous question badges?  If not, does 10K views mean less than 10,000 views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-17T18:00:04.653" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T18:00:04.653" Title="Is famous question badge still awarded at 10K views?" Tags="|support|badges|specific-question|views|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4418" CreationDate="2014-05-17T16:18:12.197" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the list view of questions, certain numbers are rounded. Hover over them and you'll see the actual view count:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gvPEv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39166&quot;&gt;actual question&lt;/a&gt; and you'll see at the top right of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k5U7n.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T16:38:41.397" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-05-17T16:50:15.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4421" CreationDate="2014-05-18T13:17:54.410" Score="5" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to close a question in order to make clear that it does not need any further answers. Where can I find information on how to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36500" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-18T13:58:14.560" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T13:58:14.560" Title="How do I close a question?" Tags="|support|questions|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4420" CreationDate="2014-05-18T13:57:37.507" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting to close is considered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;privilege&lt;/a&gt; which is attained at 3,000 reputation. Before this milestone, your only option to initiate this would be to flag a question for moderator attention and requestion closure (another &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;privilege&lt;/a&gt; requiring only 15 reputation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/io9hO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that you may not see the &lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt; option in the above image.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is the appropriate way to handle this situation. It keeps the question within the network (so it will be visible for future visitors) and may help others. However, if it would be of no help to anyone - discretion applies here - you can also delete it (every user can post and delete their own posts). A similar &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; option would be visible for owners of a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed (for whatever reason) and it doesn't have much &lt;em&gt;traction&lt;/em&gt; (loosely defined), &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;it may eventually be deleted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some related resources on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;StackExchange Meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5215/168244&quot;&gt;Etiquette for closing your own questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10582/168244&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;quot;closed&amp;quot; or “on hold” question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/36415/168244&quot;&gt;How do you reopen a closed question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T13:57:37.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4007" CreationDate="2014-05-19T22:28:05.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gotta love multiple site designs. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be fixed in the next build. Keep an eye out for revision 2014.5.19.1614, although I bet you'll notice the change in the logo at the top way before the tiny revision number at the very bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T22:28:05.207" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4423" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-24T15:33:41.580" Score="21" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a warning on tex.stackexchange.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and&#xA;  you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For help formulating a clear, useful question, see: How do I ask a&#xA;  good question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, edit your previous questions to improve formatting and clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have 3 questions posted there, with +5, +2, +-0 reputation. What is happening here? I'll file this under &quot;bug&quot; because I suspect so, but feel free to remove it in case I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39314" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T16:16:08.523" Title="&quot;Bad question&quot; warning without any negative question" Tags="|discussion|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4423" CreationDate="2014-05-24T16:16:08.523" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could understand such a message if a substantial part of a user's questions were closed as “off-topic“, “too broad” or “unclear what you're asking”, or several got downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing as duplicate might mean that someone with more experience found a question that could apply also in a different case and the unexperienced questioner couldn't realize it. So the “closed” mark is not sufficient, in this case, to judge the quality of a question, much more if it has been upvoted. Four questions, three of which upvoted, should not trigger such a warning, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering a “closed as duplicate” question as “not well-received” (read “bad”) is, in my opinion, greatly exaggerated&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; (read “stretched out”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. (Mark Twain)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T16:16:08.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-24T23:22:44.893" Score="12" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've answered two questions about Mendeley recently: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/180059/32374&quot;&gt;How to cite in LaTeX using Mendeley?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/173032/32374&quot;&gt;Changing cite name in .bib files generated from Mendeley&lt;/a&gt;. I think they might be off-topic, but I can't decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two questions are about Mendeley functionality specifically, rather than some other Mendeley questions on the Exchange that were about using Mendeley's &lt;code&gt;.bib&lt;/code&gt; output (which I would judge to be more on-topic, since they're mostly related to BibTeX rather than Mendeley specifically). Examples of what I would consider definitely on-topic questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/166469/32374&quot;&gt;Warning Undefined citation from bibtex (export from Mendeley)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/153130/32374&quot;&gt;Citations in Texmaker using Mendeley to form a bibtex database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12511/32374&quot;&gt;How to convert .bib generated by Mendeley for use with amsrefs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions like the two quoted at the top on-topic for TeX.SX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T22:51:43.517" Title="Are questions about Mendeley on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4425" CreationDate="2014-05-25T23:26:08.140" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the first question is on-topic, since it is about how to use Mendeley's output in LaTeX, whereas the second question is off-topic, since it is about how to adjust Mendeley's output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24113" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T23:26:08.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-26T08:55:47.433" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked quite a few questions now on TeX.SX and got good answers for most of them. Which I would like to thank everyone how contributed to this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However often I do adjust the answer (that I accepted) a little to fit my needs entirely. I would also like to share these revised answers to the community as to give at least a little bit back to all the support I have gotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this end I have tried to include the final solution somehow. Today I have tried to do it by adding the finally used solution to the end of my question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/180368/table-with-gap-between-cmidrules-extra-space-between-two-columns&quot;&gt;Case 1&lt;/a&gt;) and another time I put the answer in the top of the question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/179493/unresolvable-case-mismatch-in-bibtex&quot;&gt;Case 2&lt;/a&gt;). In both cases I try to link to the person that has lead to finding the answer as I am grateful for their help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your take on this. Should I do this at all or would you consider it bad style?&#xA;In principle I see three options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave the question as is and write a comment on the accepted answer (but there might not be enough space in there)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do as I did in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/180368/table-with-gap-between-cmidrules-extra-space-between-two-columns&quot;&gt;Case 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write an additional answer to the question detailing the changes made to the original answer (in this case I would still accept the answer that helped me the most to get to my final answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I really would like is a feature that would allow me to reply to the accepted answer with the implemented solution. Basically an answer to an answer kind of thing. I think it would be good if this option could only be used by the original author of the question as to prevent the thread to get to cluttered. Also in the case of this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/179323/color-gradient-fill-between-three-corners-of-a-triangle&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; I believe a feature like this could have helped structuring the development of the solution a bit clearer. (I have not tried to see if anything like this has been discussed previously and just added it her as I felt that it fits the original question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44706" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T19:53:31.080" Title="How to add my final solution to a question that I have asked myself?" Tags="|support|comments|answers|self-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-26T12:24:16.310" Score="13" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that many technical (or at least, problem-oriented) questions are in fact best presented using a &lt;em&gt;noun phrase&lt;/em&gt; (or present participle phrase) as a title, rather than something which is grammatically a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are thousands of examples, but here is a random selection from questions relating to arrows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45472/two-way-arrow-as-when-defining-adjoint-pairs?rq=1&quot;&gt;Two-way arrow as when defining adjoint pairs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/85495/circles-at-the-ends-of-arrows?rq=1&quot;&gt;Circles at the ends of arrows&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/156447/gaps-between-arrows-and-labels?rq=1&quot;&gt;Gaps between arrows and labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's easy to see why: preamble such as &quot;Is there are a way to...&quot; or &quot;How do I...&quot; is usually fluff that distracts from the task of identifying the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do other people find this a useful rule of thumb? If so, should it be in the guidelines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26955" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T21:48:20.177" Title="Noun phrases as question titles" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4428" CreationDate="2014-05-26T14:33:11.720" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is probably endangered, because it is just opinion based ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the OP's suggestion that many questions are titled confusingly, and I do not even claim, that I have not done so in the past. A clear, precise shorter statement would be more helpful than a long title of the kind stated in the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What 'annoys' me more often are confusing question body, contradicting inside or written paradoxes compared to the title such that is hardly possible to answer the question or review/editing it without changing the whole content of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also suggest to make some additions to the guidelines, about the title line of a question, but I do not recommend strict grammar rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2014-05-26T19:17:23.653" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T19:17:23.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4430" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-26T17:28:22.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can spot a self-answer in the stream of answers by the fact that the user card shares the same background style (shaded in a different colour) as the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Unstuck by design&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Self-answers, if accepted, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/6365&quot;&gt;will not rise or be pinned to the top of the answer pile&lt;/a&gt; like normally accepted answers. They will stay in the flow according to the sort view, be it by votes or date of activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;More at the Stack Exchange blog&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/05/encyclopedia-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;Encyclopedia Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; - Making it easier and quicker to post the answer to that burning question you've just broken the sweaty back of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot;&gt;Accept your own answers&lt;/a&gt; - Introduction of the feature where the OP can complete the loop themselves after further investigation or enlightenment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-26T17:28:22.420" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T17:28:22.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4431" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-26T17:28:22.420" Score="0" Body="Questions also answered by the user asking, easily marked by the shaded user card attached to the answer." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-26T17:28:22.420" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T17:28:22.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T09:54:59.233" Score="7" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;A simple question: How to produce a new line in the comment box? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49303" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-05-27T10:15:40.663" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T18:02:54.070" Title="How to produce a new line in the comment box?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4436" CreationDate="2014-05-27T15:51:19.897" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could just be me or my setup, but I seem to have lost the ability to paste images from the clipboard into posts via the &lt;em&gt;Add Image&lt;/em&gt; tool.  Anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that Chrome recently had an update, but the same thing also seems to be true with Safari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tell me I'm not going crazy....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the dialog box now no longer gives &lt;strong&gt;&quot;or paste&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; before the drag-and-drop option, either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hX6Wq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is directly contrary to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/231260&quot;&gt;recent answer / screenshot given over at meta.SE.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47522" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T16:38:30.053" Title="Lost the ability to paste images into posts from clipboard" Tags="|bug|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4435" CreationDate="2014-05-27T17:54:16.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed for about a month now, working on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-based&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WebKit-based browsers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T16:38:30.053" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T16:38:30.053" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4434" CreationDate="2014-05-27T18:02:54.070" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't and this is considered &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;Comments only support a limited set of markdown&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you require more structured formatting in your formulation, then you should consider posting an answer (if that is in fact worthy of an answer). Otherwise, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; are considered just that; off-the-cuff requests for clarification, some brief code snippets, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/165268/168244&quot;&gt;Line breaks not working in comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756/168244&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/50444/168244&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow comments don't have formatting tags or line breaks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T18:02:54.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-28T18:56:00.237" Score="9" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be useful to remind users to choose an answer when a question received one or several answers but the question was not marked as answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would prevent questions from remaining &quot;unanswered&quot;, when the user who posted the question intentionally waited to mark the question as answered to wait for further answers and forgets about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23871" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T21:22:18.103" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T08:40:06.393" Title="Reminder for own (unanswered) question" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|answers|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4438" CreationDate="2014-05-28T21:21:02.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of ways this is dealt with on the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430/5764&quot;&gt;text building block&lt;/a&gt; for this kind of thing - typically used in comment to the OP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since you have some responses below that seem to answer your question, please consider marking one of them as ‘Accepted’ by clicking on the tickmark below their vote count (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1852/5764&quot;&gt;How do you accept an answer?&lt;/a&gt;). This shows which answer helped you most, and it assigns reputation points to the author of the answer (and to you!). It's part of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;this site's idea to identify good questions and answers through upvotes and acceptance of answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The network, however, considers up-voted answers as answers to questions; that is, a question is removed from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;list of unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; once it has at least one up-voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For questions where there are &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; answers, we have an &quot;Answer the Unanswered&quot; session once a month in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1560/5764&quot;&gt;originally scheduled for the Wednesday of every month between 1900-2100 GMT&lt;/a&gt;. However, it seems to have fallen on weekends lately.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T21:21:02.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4438" CreationDate="2014-05-29T08:40:06.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't get notified per se that you have forgotten to give a tick and I wouldn't consider such passive-aggressive functionality good, there used to be Accept Rate with sort-of similar effect, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136951/lets-stop-displaying-a-users-accept-rate&quot;&gt;it has been removed in early 2013&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question appears in the list of question without the green box around the number: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/23871/dohn-joe?tab=questions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/23871/dohn-joe?tab=questions&lt;/a&gt; This grabs my attention when I visit my profile, and I sort it out instantly. As well, it is not rude if the person who answered your question asks you to mark it as accepted, therefore they can do so to receive the deserved 15 rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And as Werner pointed out, these questions don't appear in the unanswered list.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T08:40:06.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4448" CreationDate="2014-05-29T14:52:20.470" Score="26" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reviewing suggested edits, I sometimes come across 'weird' edits, minor changes or real bad editings which change answers (regardless whether they are useful or not). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Approving&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rejecting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skipping&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to leave some feedback (a comment editor line would do) to the person who caused the suggested editing, if necessary only, however, especially if an edit has to be rejected or edited, why this occurs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I could leave an &lt;code&gt;@USERJOHNDOE&lt;/code&gt; comment somewhere, but this would not be connected to the edit under examination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think this would be useful in general? Perhaps, it needs an message system for users...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-05-31T22:06:26.523" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T07:00:41.307" Title="Suggested edits: Giving feedback to editor" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-30T09:46:24.250" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to download answers that are helpful or offer brilliant solutions/demonstrations of the power of LaTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I particularly like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/181081/clickable-chapters-on-the-right-side-of-each-page&quot;&gt;Clickable chapters on the right side of each page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159835/milestone-graphic-in-tikz/159856#comment365349_159856&quot;&gt;Milestone graphic in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some people will say &quot;&lt;em&gt;why not cut and paste the code, duh&lt;/em&gt;&quot; but often it is very helpful to see the thread and the comments also, as there is more than one way to skin a cat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a download thread/solution button...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT following Torbjorn T's comment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose this shall now be bumped up to be a Feature Request. Can the &quot;Print&quot; feature as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackprinter.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.stackprinter.com&lt;/a&gt; (or something similar, license issues notwithstanding) be added to the q/a thread on tex.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T12:47:39.050" Title="Export/download answers" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4442" CreationDate="2014-05-30T12:47:39.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose that this will eventually get marked as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;. The primary purpose of SE is to provide online support. If you find some Q&amp;amp;A very useful, you can star them (= put them into your favourites). I doubt the team will spend time on this feature, especially since SE provides an API and many apps for thread downloading exist out there (i.e. on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com&quot;&gt;StackApps&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T12:47:39.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-02T06:52:21.970" Score="5" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an echo to this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4438/reminder-for-own-unanswered-question?cb=1&quot;&gt;Reminder for own (unanswered) question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, a question have an answer in commentary or fix the problem in other way. For example, my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/179474/latex-to-lualatex-error-at-compilation&quot;&gt;latex to lualatex error at compilation&lt;/a&gt; , as been fixed by using an up-to-date system as said in comment. So perhaps the question should be closed and put a commentary in the first post to say why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's an old system, an update fixed it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T18:55:15.843" Title="Close your own question with no (real) possible answer" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4444" CreationDate="2014-06-02T18:16:09.190" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The privilege to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;cast close votes on your own questions&lt;/a&gt; is granted at 250 reputation. Thus, you should already be able to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="484" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T18:16:09.190" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4444" CreationDate="2014-06-02T18:55:15.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Always have the community in mind when performing an action on the site. This holds for virtually everything. In this case, I would agree that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;closing the question&lt;/a&gt; is completely fine, specifying a condition that an updated distribution fixed the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most things on this site, including performing actions on posts that you don't yet have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;privilege&lt;/a&gt; of doing, you can always &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/flagging&quot;&gt;flag a post for moderator attention&lt;/a&gt; and explain your situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/site-moderators&quot;&gt;Site Moderators Help Centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most common moderator task is to follow up on flagged posts. Every post contains a small flag link, which anyone with 15 reputation can use. Posts can be flagged as spam, offensive, or just general “needs moderator attention” with an explanatory comment or link. Once flagged, a post increments a flag count that shows up in the topbar for every moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see anything in the system that is evil, weird, or in any way exceptional and deserving of moderator attention for any reason...&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/flagging&quot;&gt;flag it&lt;/a&gt;! That’s the primary job of a moderator: to look at every flagged post, and take action if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators also have some special abilities necessary to handle those rare exceptional conditions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderator votes are binding. Any place we have voting — close, open, delete, undelete, offensive, migration, etc — that vote will reach the threshold and take effect immediately if a single moderator casts a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can lock posts. Locked posts cannot be voted on or changed in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/new-protected-question-status/&quot;&gt;protect questions&lt;/a&gt;. Protected questions only allow answers by users with more than 10 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can see more data in the system, including vote statistics (but not ‘who voted for this post’) and user profile information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can place users in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;timed suspension&lt;/a&gt;, and delete users if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can perform large-scale maintenance actions such as merging questions and tags, tag synonym approvals, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the moderation work is mundane: deleting obvious spam, closing blatantly off-topic questions, and culling some of the worst-rated posts on the site. The ideal moderator does as little as possible, but those little actions may be powerful, visible, and highly concentrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have questions about the reasoning behind a moderator's actions, bring them up for discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;. Remember to be &lt;strong&gt;constructive and polite&lt;/strong&gt;; moderators have the best interest of the site in mind, but they may occasionally make mistakes or have to deal with controversial issues on which not everyone agrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T18:55:15.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2014-06-02T19:53:31.080" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, adding your particular final solution either to your question or as a separate answer is rarely a good idea, especially if your solution builds extensively on the existing answers.  The goal of the site is not really to solve &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; problem, but to provide answers to questions that are asked. With this in mind, assuming the answers provided do indeed answer the question, how you used them to solve your specific problem is usually not so relevant.  For most questions (which if accompanied by a good minimal example) this should almost always be the case: the minimal example is rarely the actual use case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding a solution to the question usually detracts from the question itself, and adding a separate answer based heavily on the existing answers is often looked upon as just reputation grabbing (even if it's not.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T19:53:31.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4441" CreationDate="2014-06-03T07:00:41.307" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already partly provided when &lt;em&gt;rejecting&lt;/em&gt; a suggested edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oI5V7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are provided with a number of canned responses, including a custom message where you can &quot;clearly explain why you are rejecting the edit&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VUvJg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/41987&quot;&gt;an example of a rejected edit I made&lt;/a&gt; displaying a custom message&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y4hDh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggester of the edit can review their suggestions by clicking on the activity tab in their profile, and filtering on suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vP8kG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would agree that a message in your inbox pointing you to the suggested edit item would be a good idea. It could be considered similar to an announcement of your achievements (awarding of badges) in your inbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;If only we could draw awesome freehand arrows as well...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T07:00:41.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4451" CreationDate="2014-06-04T22:08:09.713" Score="19" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fairly often I see questions which are in fact about Tex &amp;amp; friends but are closed &amp;amp; marked off-topic. One reason I see listed in the comments is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is off-topic because it simply stems from a misinterpretation of the [insert-pkg-name-here] documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't the appropriate action to answer the question with an explanation of how the user is mistaken? Explain what they misinterpreted rather than just designating their mistake as off-topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one user has misinterpreted the documentation, other users have or will make the same mistake. An answer explaining the mistake is more useful than an 'off-topic' tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48287" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T05:46:31.357" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T10:29:36.197" Title="Why are 'mistaken' questions marked off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4450" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-04T23:21:37.760" Score="8" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;On more than one occasion, I have had my attention drawn to a question because of an existing bounty and decided to add an answer, even though I know my answer should not be awarded a bounty. Do I need to indicate in such cases that I know the bounty should not go to me? If so, what is the best way of going about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(More specific details: In one case, the bounty was designated for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/151474/484&quot;&gt;an existing exemplary answer&lt;/a&gt;. In another case, someone else had added a bounty to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/151108/484&quot;&gt;an older &quot;showcase&quot; question of mine&lt;/a&gt;. I took the bounty as a sign that an additional, more thoroughly explained answer would be appreciated; however, I did not believe I ought to receive a bounty for answering my own question in this case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="484" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T05:48:19.997" Title="Etiquette for adding answer that does not merit existing bounty" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|bounty|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4449" CreationDate="2014-06-05T06:36:39.700" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few things to say here. First off, the StackExchange 'back end' works in the same way for all sites, which means that 'we' (TeX-SX) have to use the structures as decided on by the 'Powers'. Occasionally that means we have some oddities. That leads to the second point: 'off topic' is (currently) intended not only to cover questions which are out-and-out not about TeX, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;, but also for things that are not answered 'by convention' (I'll return to this below). The latter has tended to include stuff like typos, mistakes reading the docs and so on. The logic there is that the StackExchange 'concept' is that it's not a forum in the sense that the same question shouldn't be answered over-and-over and answers shouldn't be so focussed on the OP that they will never be of use to anyone else. Things like typos, needing to update a TeX system or misunderstandings tend to fall into this category: the specific question is not likely to get asked again, and any answer would probably not help another user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, probably the biggest reason here is that we don't have what we used to have: a close reason that is focussed specifically on a question being too narrow. The 'Powers' got rid of 'Too Localized' as they felt that it was being misused (across the network): the StackExchange intention for this was it applied to only things that could never be seen by anyone other than the OP, rather than being used for the type of case I've outlined (typos for example can come up on a lot of sites, and most don't answer them). The Powers have been very definite that such closings are because the question is 'off topic' (perhaps 'out of scope').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fair to say that many of us feel that closing these 'localized' questions is the right approach ('read the manual' is not really adding value) but would prefer a better reason than 'off topic'. However, at present we don't have one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in some cases the best approach with 'good' basic questions is to sort out a canonical answer and then dupe to it. Probably the most obvious example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63852/question-mark-instead-of-citation-number&quot;&gt;Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number&lt;/a&gt;, which is a good question with a good answer to a very common issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T10:29:36.197" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-10T23:29:19.770" Score="5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before posting a question on the forum, I check for answers related to my question.  As always, I do not find any answers pertaining to my topic and ask my question.  Nevertheless, a lot of my questions have been marked as duplicate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first question is &quot;how do I better search for answers so that I do not keep asking duplicate questions?&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second question is &quot;why should we keep marking questions as duplicate if people cannot find the original question to begin with?&quot;  I mean, if people can ask the same question without using the same terms/wording, then it would make sense to keep both versions of the question and not allow the &quot;back end&quot; to destroy it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49199" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T00:00:01.173" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T00:00:01.173" Title="Duplicate questions" Tags="|support|duplicates|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4454" CreationDate="2014-06-10T23:59:28.660" Score="6" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's true that you need to know what to search for in order to find an answer, yet you don't know the answer to your question to begin with. So, it's definitely difficult to never ask a question that hasn't already been asked. Overcoming this obstacle comes from spending time on the site, but could also be avoided by visiting the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; first and asking for some guidance from the regulars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;advanced search techniques&lt;/a&gt; are available to all users which could be used to focus your efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Duplication on this site is okay for exactly the reason you mention. One doesn't always have the same idea to start out with, yet the solution is the same, possibly resulting in the post being marked a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that questions marked as a duplicate &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/168244&quot;&gt;should hang around&lt;/a&gt; (won't be deleted; I don't think there's any minimum requirement to be met here) and can therefore be found by future visitors. And, since each duplicate question is linked to the source duplicate, the connection to the ultimate solution is always available. Consider a question marked as a duplicate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/230/168244&quot;&gt;act like a signpost for future visitors&lt;/a&gt;. So, both versions will be kept under certain conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T23:59:28.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4103" CreationDate="2014-06-11T07:41:35.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I teach Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy in a German &quot;Highschool&quot;, well comparable with a college somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of my colleagues uses LaTeX unfortunately, rather Word or OpenOffice/LibreOffice and my oldest colleague provides worksheets with a typewriter and is literally glueing images and texts together, before inserting it into the copier ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have done multiple presentations on Physics and Mathematics curricula topics with beamer, for its easy reusability (topics do not change that much or often)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2014-06-30T21:10:00.187" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T21:10:00.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4103" CreationDate="2014-06-12T13:06:37.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have worked for years with kids and teachers in grades K-12. I use TeX for handouts I prepare, but (sigh) Word when I'm putting together material teachers may want to modify or adapt. They don't know TeX. Their jobs are hard enough (harder than mine, for sure) - they've no time for the TeX learning curve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've begun asking all my undergraduate mathematics students to turn in homework in TeX. I give them TeX source in the pdf this way. Perhaps those who go on to teach will use TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{verbatim}&#xA;&#xA;\newpage&#xA;\section*{What this looks like in \LaTeX}&#xA;&#xA;\verbatiminput{\jobname}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T13:06:37.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-12T13:25:55.653" Score="7" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posed this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/184182/installing-eb-garamond-miktex-lua-encore-encore/184452#184452&quot;&gt;Installing EB Garamond (miktex lua) encore encore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment thread shows the work @UlrikeFischer, @Herbert, @cfr (combined reputation 235K) did trying to help. What emerged as best for me was to use pdflatex rather than lualatex for my project. I've accepted that as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the original question as asked is still unanswered. What's a good way to indicate that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T16:39:28.487" Title="Answers that solve the problem without answering the question" Tags="|discussion|comments|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-12T20:13:36.523" Score="53" ViewCount="605" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that the post will very likely be deleted. I try it anyway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I just finished my (German) PHD project and I wanted to thank the community here for all the help and inspiration.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thesis can be viewed here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mediatum.ub.tum.de/?id=1145031&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thesis&lt;/a&gt; (Download)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iTmAe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f9ZFr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fidBL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final presentation containing a animation (&lt;code&gt;animate&lt;/code&gt; package, see slide 10) can be found here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bedienhaptik.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/manuel-kuehner-vortrag_final.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Presentation&lt;/a&gt; (Download) or &lt;a href=&quot;http://bedienhaptik.de/dissertation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (Project Site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IwgKA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bBN79.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the questions that helped me to achieve this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/172602/beamer-block-white-space-when-using-math&quot;&gt;Beamer Block: White Space When Using Math&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/155901/first-steps-with-lualatex-and-ttf-fonts&quot;&gt;First steps with LuaLaTeX and ttf fonts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/153582/beamer-strange-behavior-when-changing-background-color&quot;&gt;Beamer: Strange behavior when changing background color&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/164547/what-causes-this-beamer-block-to-be-slightly-offset-to-the-right&quot;&gt;What causes this beamer block to be slightly offset to the right?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/155916/beamer-using-sans-serif-numbers-in-math-mode-together-with-lualatex-and-the-fon&quot;&gt;Beamer: Using sans serif numbers in math mode together with LuaLaTeX and the fontspec package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159333/pgf-tikz-making-the-filling-gap-between-double-border-lines-transparent&quot;&gt;pgf/tikz: Making the filling / gap between double border lines transparent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/164593/beamer-imitating-a-beamer-block-problem-with-the-width&quot;&gt;Beamer: Imitating a beamer block - problem with the width&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159491/beamer-tikz-pgf-applying-a-key-only-for-one-slide-similar-to-uncover-or-only&quot;&gt;Beamer/TikZ/PGF: Applying a key only for one slide (similar to uncover or only)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/169762/tikz-transparency-causes-problems-with-the-color-black-opacity-transparency&quot;&gt;TikZ: transparency causes problems with the color black (opacity, transparency, color model, Adobe Reader)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/115258/pgfplots-toks-position-of-pin-edge&quot;&gt;pgfplots, toks, position of pin edge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14649" OwnerDisplayName="Manuel Kuehner" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T05:27:56.563" Title="Thanks to the Community" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-13T21:38:20.577" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question (to be specific, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159369/chronicle-of-email-correspondences&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) about four months ago and got a completely satisfying answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime I continued my project and built my own solution for the problem by slightly modifying the answer I have gotten, and new questions concerning the same project turned up. They're quite specific and can't be asked in a meaningful way without referring to the project itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I ask them? Should I ask them as comments in the old question? Should I open new questions? Or should I do something different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45734" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T21:38:20.577" Title="How to ask further questions concerning an old question?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-15T00:55:49.420" Score="7" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;We find that we can ask a post to be closed in two ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the close link under a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MCNDW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And cast a close vote in the review panel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dNHPj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is difference between the two? How are they recorded in the count&#xA;of close votes you have cast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One difference we can readily see is that a post appears in the review panel under close votes only after a certain process. Perhaps you would like to enlighten us on this process as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14103" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T01:42:09.263" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T01:42:09.263" Title="What is the difference between these two kinds of close votes?" Tags="|support|voting|vote-to-close|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4464" CreationDate="2014-06-15T05:57:42.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although lacking knowledge of internals of the &lt;code&gt;SX&lt;/code&gt; model I have the impression, that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;clicking on the &lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt; link (let us call it `direct close vote) below the post either initiates a close review process (that is, added to the review queue at all, if it is the first close vote for that post) or just increments the number of close votes. However, this direct close vote does not count for the review queue badge (if that should be important) and at least in my case, a direct close vote of mine never appeared in my review panel, which is quite common sense, otherwise this would mean, to vote for close a second time on the same post.&#xA;The direct close vote link starts the review process. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voting for close in the review process increases your review count (unless skipped), regardless whether being edited/left open or closed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The direct close has an advantage, while being active, that it is possible to revoke one's close vote due to various reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The vote was just an error, being to fast with the clicking finger on the mouse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP edited the post, made it clearer, that it is not a duplicate, not too broad etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can revoke the vote once made in the review queue (while not begin already closed) by clicking on the &lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt; button of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T16:03:24.397" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T16:03:24.397" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-16T15:08:09.893" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;i have recently noticed that the banner for tex.sx is missing the beautiful&#xA;background.  there used to be some very well chosen examples of tex output&#xA;along with the obvious tex logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i've checked this with several browsers (firefox, explorer, seamonkey), and&#xA;none of them are showing the background.  so either my monitor has gone&#xA;(selectively) flaky, or my eyes are playing tricks (again, selectively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;any explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="10916" LastEditDate="2014-06-16T19:49:03.807" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T19:49:03.807" Title="has the tex.sx banner been &quot;simplified&quot;?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2014-06-16T19:43:20.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Theorems and friends&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/155710&quot;&gt;Understanding the arguments in newtheorem e.g. \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Understanding the arguments in newtheorem e.g. \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/155710)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45817&quot;&gt;Theorem/Definition/Lemma problem — Numbering&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Theorem/Definition/Lemma problem — Numbering](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45817)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/347779&quot;&gt;Theorem numbering without the section and subsection numbers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Theorem numbering without the section and subsection numbers](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/347779)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/463247&quot;&gt;Theorem numbering in starred sections&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Theorem numbering in starred sections](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/463247)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/43966&quot;&gt;How to make the optional title of a theorem bold with amsthm?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to make the optional title of a theorem bold with amsthm?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/43966)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17107&quot;&gt;Citing inside theorem header&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Citing inside theorem header](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17107)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/348867&quot;&gt;How do you reprint a theorem, proposition, etc. in its entirety?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do you reprint a theorem, proposition, etc. in its entirety?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/348867)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/38260&quot;&gt;Non italic text in theorems, definitions, examples&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Non italic text in theorems, definitions, examples](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/38260)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Placing an ending marker on non-proof environments&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/201978&quot;&gt;How to make all theorem-like environments have an ending symbol?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to make all theorem-like environments have an ending symbol?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/201978)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/292371&quot;&gt;Marking the end of a definition&lt;/a&gt; (using &lt;code&gt;amsthm&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Marking the end of a definition](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/292371)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/16453&quot;&gt;Denoting the end of example/remark&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Denoting the end of example/remark](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/16453)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Proofs&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/85059&quot;&gt;Proof environment - line break after the “Proof.”&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Proof environment - line break after the “Proof.”](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/85059)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51781&quot;&gt;QED symbol on the same page as proof&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[QED symbol on the same page as proof](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51781)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/88164&quot;&gt;Remove the qed symbol from only one proof environment, not all&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Remove the qed symbol from only one proof environment, not all](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/88164)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Lists in theorem environments&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/307199&quot;&gt;Itemizing theorem body&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Itemizing theorem body](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/307199)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17449&quot;&gt;Annoying space before the first item in an enumeration which starts a theorem&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Annoying space before the first item in an enumeration which starts a theorem](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17449)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/319717&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;theorem&lt;/code&gt; environment : interaction with &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;itemize&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`theorem` environment : interaction with `enumerate`/`itemize`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/319717)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/319949&quot;&gt;How to change the (horizontal) distance between “Proof” and the first enumeration symbol?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to change the (horizontal) distance between “Proof” and the first enumeration symbol?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/319949)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2022-12-27T17:31:30.393" LastActivityDate="2022-12-27T17:31:30.393" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-06-16T19:43:20.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-16T21:03:51.373" Score="7" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title should be relatively straightforward, but is it possible to set the &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt; of, say, a header in your question/answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, is it possible to get &lt;code&gt;## some header&lt;/code&gt; to render as &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;h2 id=&quot;some-id&quot;&amp;gt;some header&amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;? I know the Markdown converter &lt;a href=&quot;http://kramdown.gettalong.org/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;kramdown&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; allows one to do this like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;## some header {: id=&quot;some-id&quot;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use case would be providing an easier way to jump around a very long question/answer where only some aspects of the question/answer might be relevant for future users of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this does not exist, it might be a useful feature to implement. For example, I just answered a question about &lt;code&gt;knitr&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;TikZDevice&lt;/code&gt; where the main problem raised in the question&amp;mdash;setting font sizes with &lt;code&gt;TikZDevice&lt;/code&gt; via &lt;code&gt;knitr&lt;/code&gt;&amp;mdash; was addressed late in the answer because the question also demonstrated some problems with LaTeX code and &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; which had to be addressed first. However, since many future users might only need to look at the part about font sizes, &lt;code&gt;knitr&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;TikZDevice&lt;/code&gt; it would be useful if there was an easy to have them jump directly to that bit of the answer. This would be in line with the idea of making this site a repository of knowledge, rather than a 'mere' Q&amp;amp;A forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, if this feature doesn't exist, I guess this is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="32888" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T18:23:40.797" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T18:23:40.797" Title="Is it possible to set an HTML id for elements when posting a question/answer?" Tags="|support|feature-request|markdown|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4470" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:43:42.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about the &lt;code&gt;/review&lt;/code&gt; path where users can view and act on posts by other users that the system thinks may need attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many different tasks to be completed in the review panel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close Votes&lt;/strong&gt; - Vote whether or not to close questions with close votes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-close&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reopen Votes&lt;/strong&gt; - Vote whether or not to reopen closed questions with reopen votes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-reopen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-reopen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-reopen&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Posts&lt;/strong&gt; - Review first posts from new users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/new-users&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;new-users&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;new-users&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested Edits&lt;/strong&gt; - Approve, reject, or improve edits suggested by users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/suggested-edits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-edits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-edits&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Low Quality Posts&lt;/strong&gt; - Identify, then improve or delete low-quality posts.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/low-quality-posts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;low-quality-posts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;low-quality-posts&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Late Answers&lt;/strong&gt; - Review late answers from new users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/late-answers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;late-answers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;late-answers&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Site Self-Evaluation&lt;/strong&gt; - Need description.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/site-evaluation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;site-evaluation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;site-evaluation&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T01:43:42.243" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T01:43:42.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4471" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:43:42.243" Score="0" Body="For questions about the /review path where users can view and act on posts by other users that the system thinks may need attention." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T01:43:42.243" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T01:43:42.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-19T12:43:34.680" Score="10" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/184931/latex-code-for-power-electronic-inverters&quot;&gt;Latex code for power electronic inverters&lt;/a&gt;, is one among many, where the (new) OP asks for code - not &lt;em&gt;how to do it&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;do it for me&lt;/em&gt;. People write &lt;em&gt;welcome&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;show some effort&lt;/em&gt; yourself and &lt;em&gt;no one will help you&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem now, is that someone always do help. I believe that the motivation is to earn reputation and be part of the community. -but it is not really helping the community - it does help the OP with the code and encourage bad behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this be solved somehow? Is it acceptable to down-vote the answer - I guess not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. Feel free to down-vote or close this question. -I did not even bother to investigate, if it has been addressed before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T15:02:02.030" Title="Misguided answer motivation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4472" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:35:53.827" Score="28" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem now, is that someone always do help. I believe that the motivation is to earn reputation and be part of the community. -but it is not really helping the community - it does help the OP with the code and encourage bad behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the concept of &quot;misguided motivation&quot; and have upvoted the linked answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I generally favor the spirit of not answering &quot;do it for me&quot; questions, this ultimately is (and should be) a personal decision: The &lt;em&gt;motivation&lt;/em&gt; to help is what drives this site – a bad question should never devalue a good answer! Even if the question is bad, someone with a similar problem will probably find the answer; hence, it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; serve the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3751" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T18:35:53.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4472" CreationDate="2014-06-21T15:02:02.030" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you have the logic backwards in your reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments telling something like &quot;this question will not get many answers&quot; are not an effort to &quot;educate&quot; the person who asked, but an experience-based estimation of the likelihood of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when the question is answered, all the better; the only consequence is that the comment was effectively wrong ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is an answer, obviously someone felt in the mood to provide it. As nobody is pressured into answering, in the end at least two people are happy: The person who asked &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the person who answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no need to upvote a question which does not show effort, but a good answer always deserves upvoting, even if provided for a &quot;bad&quot; question. Maybe the answer even covers a much more general case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that question and/or answer could be more general to help others more, feel free to edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12850" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T15:02:02.030" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4480" CreationDate="2014-06-23T05:06:47.410" Score="25" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post under discussion is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/186127/serial-key-in-pdf-document&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited this post by removing the greetings and thanks. I had put a comment as well to point out the norm at this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP insisted on putting the thanks (see the subsequent discussions (comments) after the post) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/186127/revisions&quot;&gt;edited it back&lt;/a&gt; but putting the thanks again at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we do not want to start a roll back competition, do we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14103" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T07:43:11.047" Title="What to do about a post when the OP insists on putting a thanks at the end?" Tags="|discussion|editing|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4478" CreationDate="2014-06-23T07:09:45.923" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're dealing with people here, and some people are just different. They may not like other's removing their signatures, their &quot;Thank You's&quot;, correcting their CaPiTaLiZaTioNS, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having been here for a while, I have grown accustomed to the communal attitude and nature - something that most likely guided you in your edit. That's honourable, and that's that. If the original poster feels like their sincerity has been undermined by such removal, by all means allow them to roll back the post to its original form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the community's efforts to shape visitors/users of the site in a specific way, you'll invariably find some visitors who don't like their stuff touched. We accept it since arguing of such personal preferences doesn't answer the question at hand...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T07:09:45.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4478" CreationDate="2014-06-23T07:43:11.047" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange model is based round the idea that the sites are not forums, but that questions and answers should have some element of generality. As such, 'good' questions should be focussed on the matter in hand, ideally without many things that might make good forum posts. That's one reason that 'thanks' is discouraged and why community edits are allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, each question does have an original poster (OP) who has some element of 'ownership' (their name is on the question, after all). The usual guideline is that edits shouldn't fundamentally alter what the OP said. Some people are particularly keen on a very specific form of words, style, or similar, and thus may feel that edits to 'standardise' their text are not what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we have to do is balance these two situations. My take is that editing to remove 'thanks' is reasonable (it's in both the site and cross-network 'spirit'), but that having an editing war to do that is not. So if the OP decides that they really do want the 'thanks' in, it's not a big issue to accept this and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the moderators do have tools that can be used for 'edit wars' and which can prevent any edits at all. In general, we will not use these unless really needed, and I think it's fair to say a case about editing 'thanks' isn't one I'd like to see them used for!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T07:43:11.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4484" CreationDate="2014-06-24T01:25:52.447" Score="11" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose I ask a multi-part question, and two different people answer two different parts of my question. Is there a way to accept both answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36448" OwnerDisplayName="crmdgn" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T06:58:50.750" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T02:39:57.877" Title="Can I accept two answers?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4482" CreationDate="2014-06-24T04:43:54.373" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick answer: No, this not possible -- if you are ready to accept one of the answers, then use the one that fits your needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are more possible answers, but none of them addresses the whole bunch of your question, then either the solutions are not totally adequate or your question was too challenging in the sense that there where too many issues to be solved within a single question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it is better to split the question. I recommend &#xA;to post the 'simpler' problem first and when that issue is solved, climb up in complexity, post the next one. I would refrain from post many questions at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is more than one good answer, I hold it for quite natural, to upvote any of them and finally choose one for accept. I would leave a comment on each of those answers not being accepted (or make an edit to the question post), why solution X is preferred over solution Y (Z, ... )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="14103" LastEditDate="2015-02-26T02:39:57.877" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T02:39:57.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4485" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-19T04:30:21.373" Score="41" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently writing my bachelors thesis about recognition of mathematical symbols. This is supposed to be followed by a masters thesis about recognition of mathematical formulas. (I already spoke with the Professor; it was his idea to split this task.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the practical part of my bachelors thesis will be very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Detexify&lt;/a&gt;. Except that I will use much more sophisticated classification methods to (hopefully) get much better classification accuracy and higher speed than what Detexify provides. (Detexify uses Dynamic Time Warping; I will use Artificial Time Delay Neural Nets, probably coupled with Hidden Markov Models.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is one problem: Those machine learning tools need much data. My advisor told me that I should have at least 100 training instances per symbol I want to recognize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current state is here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://write-math.com/stats&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX symbols by number of training instances&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So I need people that go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://write-math.com/train&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://write-math.com/train&lt;/a&gt;, click on a challenge or a symbol and draw that symbol.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you have an idea how to structure the interface better, just let me know. I will try to improve that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've informed fellow students about my thesis in lectures, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/themoosemind/status/479472766723170304&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;twittered&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/+MartinThoma/posts/CiTFdPzkXPF&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google+&lt;/a&gt;, Facebook, E-Mail lists, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/28iszf/collecting_training_testing_information_for/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; ... I think I tried everything. Except getting into contact  with this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: What is the right way to get into contact with people of this community? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only have a very vague idea what CTAN and TUG are. Are there probably email lists I could contact?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got about 2,000 datasets in the last two days. That's amazing! Thank you very much. But I still need A LOT more. At the moment, only 3/~180 symbols have the necessary 100 training instances (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.martin-thoma.de/write-math/stats/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;overview&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give you a little insight in some of the work I do, I've just create a page where you can see how some pre-processing algorithms change the data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.martin-thoma.de/write-math/render/?raw_data_id=5930&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Playing with pre-processing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bb3BG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5645" OwnerDisplayName="moose" LastEditorUserId="5645" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T17:42:40.367" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T17:42:40.367" Title="TeX volunteers needed for project on recognition of math symbols" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4485" CreationDate="2014-06-25T08:54:25.527" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you thought of contacting Detexify? They should have or be able to collect the data you need. They might be willing to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6047" OwnerDisplayName="Tom" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T08:54:25.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4459" CreationDate="2014-06-25T15:13:53.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Summarizing comments as an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the precise question I asked is still open, and others may encounter it, I have unaccepted @cfr 's answer. That solved my problem by suggesting a different strategy completely. Do upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is indeed the XY problem as @alexis says. When a student asks &quot;how do I do X?&quot; I ask him why he wants to do X. He may say he got stuck there trying to do Y. Often there's a better way to tackle Y that doesn't go through X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T15:13:53.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-25T16:46:05.820" Score="18" ViewCount="666" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a proper way to post a MWE when using LyX instead of LaTeX proper?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commonly used comment requesting a MWE is confusing to me when using LyX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56011" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T12:18:30.593" LastActivityDate="2018-05-27T19:34:34.103" Title="LyX user questions on TeX stackexchange" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-25T23:48:09.223" Score="15" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;After happily coexisting with many others in the TeX and LaTeX StackExchange I caught myself in need of assistance for a different language than TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be that as it may, I very forwardly posed my question on StackOverflow, with intended result, my research effort and why the current available knowledge base on google as well as existing StackOverflow questions were inconclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I've not had a single person willing to help - merely posing that my question did not adhere to the format and I should probably look elsewhere. After five questions I had the warning pop up that my questions were not of sufficient quality and that I should consider editing existing questions. I used the same format which although not praised until kingdom come on TeX.SE, were accepted as legitimate requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This deviates so wildly from the forthcoming atmosphere in TeX.SE that it got me wondering which of these formats was the intended one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, all things considered the format should at least be similar as they serve a similar general purpose - my interpretation of which would be an interactive and growing knowledge base on coding-related questions. (Obviously TeX.SE is slightly broader because it involves code for a very specific purpose, contrarily to the more general approach of StackOverflow.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm incorrect in these assertions I would also like to know how and where that discrepancy stems from and if its argument can be defended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44160" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T16:13:42.313" Title="StackExchange's differences in opinion across different communities on what constitutes as &quot;adhering to the format&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4488" CreationDate="2014-06-26T20:49:41.850" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The basic principle is exactly the same whether you use LaTeX (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;) or LyX: &lt;em&gt;create a document that contains the least amount of content possible, while still demonstrating the problem at hand.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you have a problem with a table, you can probably remove all the text in the document, except for the table itself. If you have added anything to Document --&gt; Settings --&gt; LaTeX preamble that doesn't influence tables in any way, you can remove that as well. The LyX Wiki has a page about this as well: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A key point is to make sure that your MWE is &lt;em&gt;able to reproduce the problem&lt;/em&gt;. If it is an error you're wondering about, then trying to create a PDF from the MWE should generate that error. So test your MWE before adding it to a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Adding the MWE to a post&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two options, you can either add the &lt;code&gt;.lyx&lt;/code&gt; file itself, or the exported LaTeX source. If this is some LyX specific issue, then the former is better I suppose. The benefit of the latter is that more people will be able to answer, the disadvantage is that you may need to 'translate' the answer to LyX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding the &lt;code&gt;.lyx&lt;/code&gt; file.&lt;/strong&gt; You cannot upload files to posts on StackExchange, but as a &lt;code&gt;.lyx&lt;/code&gt; file is actually just a plain text file, you can open it in a text editor, and copy-paste the lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly how you do this depends on operating system, but typically you right click on the file, choose &lt;em&gt;Open with&lt;/em&gt; and then a text editor, such as Gedit, Kate or Notepad. (Or you open the &lt;code&gt;.lyx&lt;/code&gt; file from the editor.) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding exported LaTeX source.&lt;/strong&gt; In LyX, do File --&gt; Export --&gt; LaTeX (pdfLaTeX). This will generate a &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file in the same folder as the &lt;code&gt;.lyx&lt;/code&gt; file. Open it, and copy-paste the contents into your post&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In both cases, add syntax highlighting by selecting the entire code block and clicking the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button above the text field, or hitting &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What do I do about images?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If images are required for your example, remember that we don't have access to the. There are a few things you can do instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to Document --&gt; Settings --&gt; Document class, and add &lt;code&gt;demo&lt;/code&gt; to the &lt;em&gt;Custom&lt;/em&gt; class options. This should replace the images with black rectangles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use the images from the &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; package. If that package is installed, you will have images called &lt;code&gt;example-image&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;example-image-a&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;example-image-b&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;example-image-c&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;example-image-16x10&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;example-image-10x16&lt;/code&gt;, and a few more (see the package documentation). Each is available in several formats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In LyX, write just the name of one of these, without a file ending, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RbC7K.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image will not show in LyX, but it will appear in the PDF. If a specific size is required for the example, specify this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; necessary to add &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{mwe}&lt;/code&gt; to the preamble).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Replace the image with an ERT containing e.g. &lt;code&gt;\rule{3cm}{2cm}&lt;/code&gt; which creates a black rectangle that is 3cm wide and 2cm high. Modify the size if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="586" LastEditDate="2018-05-27T19:34:34.103" LastActivityDate="2018-05-27T19:34:34.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4489" CreationDate="2014-06-26T23:25:42.557" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this depends on how you find TeX-SX. I don't know why but we get this &lt;strong&gt;holy&lt;/strong&gt; format stuff once in a while from different users (not you of course) asking us to change our ways (yes all of us) because we don't comply with some half-baked (&lt;em&gt;self conflicting&lt;/em&gt;) nerd-angered (&lt;em&gt;first close then ask for clarification&lt;/em&gt;) socially-crippled(&lt;em&gt;removing thanks&lt;/em&gt;) rules and believe me I'm trying to be nice here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came here without knowing what SO was. And I still don't know fully. Nobody told me any format and I didn't feel like obeying one. It was purely interaction based and people told me what the etiquette is and they even once in a while took my opinion seriously (not all of course I have too many hehe). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long story short, we should be grateful to the initial and current mod team for taking things really considerate and not imposing any structure for sake of rigor though many of them were hard-core mathematicians. You can check questions from 2010 discussing how to proceed etc. I guess we were just lucky and avoided many of the nonsense that you see in other networks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have to mention that SO is a professional site contrary to their claims. They use their rep points and answers for creating a CV and a Career evidence. So you can expect the bitter taste one gets in there after asking a question. One of the leading problems I have been told or listened in the podcast is that some professional annoyed programmers try to get their job done via asking questions etc. Now that's some nasty behavior that maybe(!) needs that strict resistance. That is by no means the case here and many of those rules are utterly incompatible for our purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After getting a bit better in Python I can appreciate more the core knowledge there however you have to really develop an &lt;strong&gt;über-filter&lt;/strong&gt; for hostile behavior in the comments etc. simply because the competition is fierce there. I will probably never dare to ask a question but I still benefit from the knowledge scattered around here and there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/strong&gt;: I was active in Math.SE and Music.SE but stopped it. Because they follow SO rules and it is pretty dull and boring for my taste. It's amazing that they made music which is always fun to talk about, an academic theoretical obscurity (again for my taste). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T07:25:14.320" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T07:25:14.320" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4493" CreationDate="2014-06-27T08:48:16.193" Score="7" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/186841/how-to-write-%E2%89%99-in-latex&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/103408/symbol-for-corresponds-to-equals-sign-with-hat&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually a duplicate, but... Answers in the new question are much way better, than a duplicate. So, my reason was, why to close as a duplicate of question, that has some worse answers, than already given?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9790" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T19:54:48.643" Title="Quality of answers for duplicate questions" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4492" CreationDate="2014-06-27T08:53:58.963" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general StackOverflow model is that multiple questions asking the same thing should be combined to one place where the answers can be found. This can get complicated when there are two or more questions with some good answers. Possible approaches include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Duplicating the newer question to the older one (works best if this is spotted early and answers thus accumulate on the older question)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;'Reverse' duping the older question to the newer one&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Merging the questions (moves answers from one to another): best when both questions have good answers. This can only be done after duping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which route is best depends on the quality of the question (which is easier to read/find) and the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case in point, the older question is probably better but the newer answers are perhaps stronger, so merging might be the best plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T08:53:58.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4495" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-27T22:26:07.283" Score="7" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/178829/xelatex-error-with-fontspec&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/178829/xelatex-error-with-fontspec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out the same problem happens when you install a lot of new fonts. XeLaTeX takes a while to &quot;load&quot; them or whatever it needs to do, but after you let it run for a few minutes it will successfully compile the document. It only happens the first time you compile a document, everything will work as expected from the second time on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same problem happens with the GIMP: if you install new fonts it takes some time to rebuild the font cache and in the while it becomes unresponsive. After that, everything works fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is now closed and deleted. It seems to me that the question itself may be off topic, but maybe the answer may be useful to someone. What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48097" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2017-11-01T03:15:16.643" Title="I solved my own question that was closed and deleted" Tags="|discussion|guidelines|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4495" CreationDate="2014-06-28T03:25:05.770" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was automatically deleted - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;something that happens to low-activity posts&lt;/a&gt;. You have the option of voting to undelete the post (from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/168244&quot;&gt;linked answer&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can I undelete one of my posts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Self-deleted posts can be viewed, edited, and undeleted by their original authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: deleted questions do not appear in search results, so you if you wish to later undelete a question that you've deleted you must have saved the URL somewhere. Users with 10K reputation and up can also mark questions as a &amp;quot;favorite&amp;quot; and find them later from the Favorites tab on their profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your post was deleted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;trusted users&lt;/a&gt;, it will require three undelete votes to be undeleted - politely asking for this on Meta may attract the necessary votes if you make a good case for why the question should be restored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your post was deleted by a moderator, you can flag one of your other posts and write a note in the &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; section explaining the situation and requesting undeletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, from the likes of it, this doesn't seem like a problem at all. Someone in a similar boat may just wait that little bit longer and not experience the &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; at all. Reasons for undeleting a post should include a consideration for whether the post (question and answer) would be useful for a broader audience. In my opinion, this is not really the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T03:25:05.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4497" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-29T06:33:57.640" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you think it sounds rational to design a Live LINUX OS which is totally dedicated to LaTeX and includes all packages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All Linux distros do not support TexLive easy installation so users could go for this live version and do not have to go through the whole installation process, Besides they don't have to allocate a 2 GB space on their disk(if they want the full installation of packages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6626" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T06:33:57.640" Title="Designing a new Live OS which for LaTeX ONLY" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4499" CreationDate="2014-06-30T14:32:13.013" Score="5" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here at TeX.SX and Meta.TeX.SX we have some questions and bundles of answers too about etiquettes, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on downvoting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on closing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on suggested edits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can not add and link all of them, just for convenience, although I appreciate those posts. There are also some links here, on &lt;strong&gt;How to ask&lt;/strong&gt; etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about new users? I personally sometimes feel annoyed about new users (or such coming once half a year, post some question hardly answerable, demanding the best solution ever and forget adding extra information, voting, support from their side).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest some 'new user' recommendations, the precise statements should/could still to be done, but with following rough framework. (well, the recommendations or 'guidelines' should be valid for more experienced users of TeX.SX too ;-) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As a (new) user, please provide a MWE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(this feature is already 'demanded' in other etiquettes/faq, just for  repetition )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;As a (new) user, please provide an understandable question&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;As a (new) user, visit your question a lot of times, especially in first few hours after posting it, as there might be comments/clearifing questions from other users willing to help you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As a (new) user, please choose a (unique) name rather than user12345678, since this is more personal and makes &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; comments clearer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a (new) user accept the answer which fits best to your need and perhaps give feedback to other users here who also provided an answer.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list can be extended, feel free to suggest other entries. The above order does not say anything about priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think such a recommendation is necessary too? I know, answers to this might be opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also know that this recommendations should be made known to (new) users. Content hidden somewhere in webspace is rather useless. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; In an earlier version I wrote of &lt;strong&gt;etiquette&lt;/strong&gt;, but I came to the conclusion, that &lt;strong&gt;recommendation&lt;/strong&gt; is a better term in my point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2014-07-13T14:12:58.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T14:12:58.057" Title="Recommendation for new users" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4498" CreationDate="2014-06-30T19:28:45.543" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such etiquette has two main issues that I think render it useless before it makes it to the user's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, we don't have an access gate before the site. So there is no way that they can know about stuff before they actually do annoying things (in your point of view :P) Had we had that kind of thing then it would be meaningful to blame them for not paying attention to site rules etc. Not only we don't have such things like those annoying forums that lead us here in the first place, but also a community driven site cannot be imposed. We all love and appreciate this place but we sometimes forget that those new users are the reason why all this exists. So as I tried to emphasize a few times, &lt;strong&gt;new user&lt;/strong&gt; has the danger of implying that there are owners or residents of the site who are not &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; and kind of have more rights. That's completely untrue, no matter how much we contribute we don't own any of it (sometimes we get defensive and try a little too hard to tell everyone &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; how we roll here but in general if the user insists we just leave it alone and go ask/answer other stuff).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So feeling that we have a saying over how new people should behave is one stop short of dictating who can or can't be a resident (and that's what is happening with most of the other sites as far as I can see, power corrupts :P). Most of the users, including yours truly, did a lot of stupid stuff before they got used to the general etiquette. I would take the risk of overemphasizing this fact that we meet up here. Some of us like and enjoy others' company, some of us are here for a quick tip. Some of us have the habits of the new era such as &lt;strong&gt;demanding is my right, you get points only if you serve well&lt;/strong&gt; type of bullshit, but some of us are extremely open for others' opinion and they respectfully take criticism to make something good out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, think of yourself as a person in need of information and don't like to hang out here let alone learning bunch of nonsense about duplicates badges, priviledges etc. You just need your header to be shifted 5mm down. All that stuff we have is simply ridiculous and only makes sense to the residents. So ridiculous that a new user might argue that we are simply satisfying our OCD. To be honest, I see no other option than agreeing with this argument. So we should be careful about housekeeping/keeping it real tradeoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user can't explain themself(see the gender neutral thing there? So politically correct here) so be it. It's their problem. They have to ask or read archaic stuff that google would provide. In the end, they'll eventually make a better question. But, we are in no position to judge the quality of question. The simplest reason is that some people don't know English well enough :) It's simple as that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, live and let live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T19:28:45.543" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4501" CreationDate="2014-07-02T18:39:02.133" Score="21" ViewCount="419" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably it is not only me, but also other users wonder about the &quot;Curious&quot; badge. Is it new? I can not remember to have read of it in the &quot;Badges&quot; list of TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about this &lt;strong&gt;asking a good question on 5 separate days&lt;/strong&gt; -- what is a good question in this sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious about this strange &quot;Curious&quot; badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a feature on other SX sites too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E7NgE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2014-07-04T20:23:39.827" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T20:23:39.827" Title="What is the &quot;Curious&quot; Badge?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4500" CreationDate="2014-07-04T06:00:47.920" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/234259/168244&quot;&gt;Asking days badges&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/405/curious&quot;&gt;Curious badge&lt;/a&gt; forms part of a hierarchy of question badges based on the principle that a user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Asked a well-received question on X separate days, and maintained a positive question record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here X represents&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;5 for the bronze &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/405/curious&quot;&gt;Curious badge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wmsZX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;30 for the silver &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/406/inquisitive&quot;&gt;Inquisitive badge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCBaX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;; and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;100 for the gold &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/407/socratic&quot;&gt;Socratic badge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kAJMl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions left to answer are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What constitutes a &quot;well-received question&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A well-received question is one that's open, not deleted, and has a score &gt; 0. If you ask at least one well-received question in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/62853/168244&quot;&gt;UTC day&lt;/a&gt; and none of your questions that day are deleted, downvoted, or closed, you get one more day of credit toward the badge. Whenever the badge criteria is checked, previous asking days are re-evaluated so that there's an incentive to fix downvoted and/or closed questions. The no-deleted-questions criteria is to prevent people from asking several questions at once and deleting any that aren't upvoted or answered to ask another day. (Though this is a losing strategy in the long run.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What constitutes a &quot;positive question record&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted) / total questions &amp;gt;= 0.5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;triple counts&lt;/em&gt; a question that is downvoted, closed, and deleted. If you ask one that hits that trifecta, you'll need to ask three better questions to dig yourself out. For example, if 12 questions of a user were closed and 12 deleted out of a total of 44 questions, their score would not meet the criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(44 - 0 - 12 - 12) / 44 = 0.4545...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The takeaway is that people can't sweep past indiscretions under the rug by deleting them. And they can recover from a bad start as long as they don't ask more bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T06:00:47.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-07T04:08:14.120" Score="9" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;For someone like who is just starting out with TeX programming, it can be hard to produce quality code. I try to read as much as I can from various guides, but often my code may look dirty and ugly to the eye of an expert, even if it's completely doing its job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say I wrote some code, but then I wonder whether that's some good code or not. The best solution I can think of would be to ask a question like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cnc&amp;amp;defid=2382698&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CNC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; Comment my code please?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I need some code to test if a letter is a Q, a T or something else. I wrote this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;  \def\awesomemacro#1 {%&#xA;  \let\ivebeenhere0&#xA;  \if#1Q&#xA;  This letter was a {\bf Q}\let\ivebeenhere1&#xA;  \fi&#xA;  \if#1T&#xA;  This letter was a {\bf T}\let\ivebeenhere1&#xA;  \fi&#xA;  \ifx\ivebeenhere0&#xA;  This letter is so weird\fi&#xA;  }&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It works. Can I improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After writing this, one may hope for answers like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should indent your code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should use a boolean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why don't you go fishing instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, such a generic title would help no one: it would be extremely hard to find if you google it, and it's going to pop up with unrelated searches. But if the title were something like &lt;strong&gt;Is this the best way to write an &lt;code&gt;else-if&lt;/code&gt; statement?&lt;/strong&gt;, it would be easy to find and maybe even helpful. Then again, I actually needed what I was asking, i.e. a cnc on my work  (including things like the use of &lt;code&gt;\bf&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\textbf&lt;/code&gt;), which the new seo-friendly title does not represent completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question here is: what's a good way to ask &quot;cnc this&quot; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: ff524 pointed out that this kind of question would be perfect for &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Code Review&lt;/a&gt;. I totally forgot about that site. Feel pretty dumb right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: Ok removed the cnc part. It was just &quot;comment and criticism&quot;, it's often used in graphic design forums to ask others what they think about your work without sugarcoating. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48097" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:07.587" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T17:28:51.960" Title="Can I ask a &quot;Comment my macro&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1136" CreationDate="2014-07-07T15:57:51.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just an occasional visitor here, but I thought I should take the time to revive this discussion and provide a readers point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The code tags are a mess.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking for interesting questions regarding source code formatting and highlighting within latex documents. I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sourcecode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sourcecode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sourcecode&lt;/a&gt;, but realized soon that most of these questions (but not all) were about the &lt;em&gt;latex source code&lt;/em&gt; itself, not the inclusion of source code in documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I noticed there is a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;. That has to be it, right? Because what else could that be. But for some reason it seems to be exactly the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sourcecode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sourcecode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sourcecode&lt;/a&gt; and all the questions are about the latex source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions are tagged one of the both, some even both. But I still haven't found a tag for the inclusion of source code yet. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to tell you regulars how to run your site, but I think it would be helpful to clean up these tags, define clearly which tag is for what and then put a clear description in the tag wiki, pointing users to the other tags if that was not the tag they are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6890" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T15:57:51.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4489" CreationDate="2014-07-07T16:00:54.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Norms on SO are &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; different from those on TeX.SE.  (So much so that I may be violating TeX.SE norms by answering this question.  That's not a criticism, but I am not providing a definitive answer, which is a (useful) norm for TeX.Se.)  In addition, I think there are slightly different norms in different programming-language communities within SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without more detail, I can only guess about the source the difficulty you experienced with your SO question(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO, it's often felt that it's wrong to ask a question without providing a MWE and being very specific about the question you are asking about the MWE.  That's often required for TeX.SE, too, but I think that the subject matter of TeX.SE also lends itself to questions that don't say more than &quot;how do you do X&quot;, perhaps with evidence that you have tried to find the answer before asking, and providing your particular document/software context.  That's sufficient less often with general-purpose programming languages, because there are so many different good ways to do something useful--but which is appropriate depends on the programming context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[You wrote &quot;(Obviously TeX.SE is slightly broader because it involves code for a very specific purpose, contrarily to the more general approach of StackOverflow.)&quot;  This makes me wonder whether you asked a question involving multiple programming languages--e.g. about which one to use for some purpose.  If so, that would often be considered inappropriate for SO, though appropriate for Programmers.SE.  SO is roughly a collection of language-specific programming question sites, but with cross-fertilization from different languages.  For example, some answers to Clojure questions include Haskell code, and some Clojure questions are also questions about Java.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW I've spent a lot of time on SO, but don't feel I've experienced what @percusse mentions.  I focus on languages other than Python.  This difference in experience may be evidence of differences between language communities on SO.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11250" LastEditorUserId="11250" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T16:13:42.313" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T16:13:42.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1136" CreationDate="2014-07-07T16:32:58.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;a major package for highlighting source code is listings, which has its own tag but looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&lt;/a&gt; suggests that typically those q/a are not tagged with any more general &quot;source code tag&quot; at all. (and the same if you look at minted tag) which suggests that a simple improvement would be to put a link to listings minted and fancyvrb into the highlighting or code tag wikis (otherwise it would need a &quot;bulk tag edit&quot; to tag anything with listings and minted tags with a &quot;parent&quot; source or code tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T16:32:58.137" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4510" CreationDate="2014-07-07T16:56:54.907" Score="2" ViewCount="826" Body="&lt;p&gt;For reviewing Low Quality Posts, the &quot;Looks Good&quot; option recently changed to &quot;Looks OK&quot; (&lt;em&gt;cf.&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/143015/rename-looks-good-or-add-a-looks-ok-just-incorrect-in-low-quality-question&quot;&gt;Rename &amp;quot;Looks Good&amp;quot; or add a &amp;quot;Looks OK, just Incorrect&amp;quot; in Low Quality Question Review&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A screenshot of this option can be seen here (thanks to @ChristianHupfer for grabbing this screenshot! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ew2Mh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if one looks at the reviews for a particular low quality post, one still sees &quot;Looks Good&quot;. A screen shot of this is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zd676.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, if one looks at the history for reviews of Low Quality Posts, one also sees &quot;Looks Good&quot; rather than &quot;Looks OK&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ok0YX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug? Should it be changed to &quot;Looks OK&quot; to be consistent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: It seems someone has noticed this on Meta Stack Exchange: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/234986/low-quality-review-records-say-looks-good-instead-of-looks-ok&quot;&gt;Low quality review records say &amp;quot;Looks Good&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;Looks OK&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T19:47:11.417" Title="Looks OK vs. Looks Good" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4502" CreationDate="2014-07-07T19:03:14.433" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My evidence: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/451/86&quot;&gt;When to use \edef, \noexpand, and \expandafter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend that you make your question easy to answer (as I tried to do in the above).  Pick out one thing that you want to focus on and make your question about that.  Make it clear what you're looking for in an answer.  You can add the CNC (whatever that is) as &lt;em&gt;motivation&lt;/em&gt; and so make it plain that any additional comments would be welcome, but focussing on one thing per question is the way that this site works best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T19:03:14.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4502" CreationDate="2014-07-08T05:42:45.813" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3541/5764&quot;&gt;a similar discussion&lt;/a&gt; about a year ago. Originally it seemed like it received good attention, but I had the impression that interest dwindled as it because obvious that the benefit to the community was diminishing. Well, it did in my opinion, since it seemed benefit the wider community less and less..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tread lightly with these types of questions as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it may solicit &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion-based answers&lt;/em&gt; - what I think as being &quot;good code&quot; may differ from what others think; and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;there may be little benefit to the community as a whole - formerly these were classified as &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;, while now it may be considered &lt;em&gt;off topic&lt;/em&gt; or maybe &quot;&lt;em&gt;unclear&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, even though &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4449/5764&quot;&gt;it may not be off-topic nor unclear&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first point is almost factual, and there's very little to argue about. The second is more subtle, and mostly visible to long-term users of the main site - people who've been around long enough to see what works and what doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in answer to your question &quot;What's a good way to ask 'CNC this' questions?&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; about what you want - nothing general/generic;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider whether this is of benefit to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; community, otherwise post it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;CodeReview&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag it appropriately;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept that some people will not like it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:07.587" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T17:28:51.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4509" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-09T01:25:49.433" Score="13" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several top-visited posts that aren't great models for new questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/38607/17423&quot;&gt;No room for a new \dimen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1405/17423&quot;&gt;How do I fill table cells with a background color?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/823/17423&quot;&gt;Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5461/17423&quot;&gt;Is it possible to change the size of an arrowhead in TikZ/PGF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/27411/17423&quot;&gt;Small Caps and Bold Face&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2597/17423&quot;&gt;How do I turn off equation auto numbering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/38829/17423&quot;&gt;Remove Indentation for a Single Paragraph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;These all simply lack a suitable MWE, but there are perhaps other Good Ideas™ that may be missing from other questions.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they be edited to be good representatives of what questions are &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to look like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T01:25:49.433" Title="Should we edit popular questions to be 'model' questions new users can pattern after?" Tags="|discussion|editing|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4506" CreationDate="2014-07-09T19:47:11.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/235310/262550&quot;&gt;Related Meta SE answer where I fixed this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56846" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T19:47:11.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-12T03:07:10.470" Score="10" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it considered good practice to add keyboard markup to posts and, if so, is it acceptable to edit posts when part of the reason or the sole reason for editing is to add such markup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of the kind of markup I have in mind is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;ctrl&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;alt&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;i&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which produces output such as &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt;. Personally, I find this extremely distracting and ugly in most cases and would only use it sparingly, if at all, in my own posts. I would therefore be annoyed if others edited my posts to add this kind of monstrosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/119980/2&quot;&gt;this type of edit&lt;/a&gt;, for example which is one of several similar edits by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/35449/anderson?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&quot;&gt;the same user&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a policy on the use of this markup and on editing posts in order to add it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can entirely live with people using this markup if they wish. I might even use it myself in some circumstances. But my own feeling is that it is not appropriate to edit such markup into people's posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T06:20:19.080" Title="What is the policy on adding keyboard markup?" Tags="|discussion|editing|markdown|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4511" CreationDate="2014-07-12T06:20:28.077" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;help page on editing&lt;/a&gt; mentions no guidelines in terms of such edits. Furthermore, policy is too authoritative here, and technically it would not be enforceable. One could suggest some guidelines, but then again, not everyone will follow them (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2097/5764&quot;&gt;oNe SuCH iNSTaNCe&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not very different from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4478/5764&quot;&gt;people putting &quot;Thanks&quot; at the bottom of their posts&lt;/a&gt;, and then some editor feels &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2809/5764&quot;&gt;it's not worth putting it there&lt;/a&gt;. Invariably some people will like things one way, while others will persist on doing it in yet another way. I think one should let the community use the features that have been given, since that will also allow them to &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, I don't like the way our keyboard markup looks, despite an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3824/5764&quot;&gt;age-old request to have something more subtle&lt;/a&gt;. Perhaps it's time to poke the Meta.SE beast and see if she's interested in making some changes here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's play devil's advocate: &quot;How would you feel about the keyboard markup if it was a little more subtle?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is okay, then for the sake of consistency add all the keyboard markup you want! If the Powers That Be decide to update the design, then everyone will be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T06:20:28.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4511" CreationDate="2014-07-12T14:50:12.420" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Werner has made already remarks on &lt;em&gt;policies&lt;/em&gt; (I agree, that this term is too strong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a further suggestion for a &lt;strong&gt;recommendation&lt;/strong&gt; (call it guideline/etiquette) following items, apart from the general rendering appearance of such markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prevent using keyboard markup when editing other users' posts &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not introduce markup in editing other posts when there is none&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use keyboard markup with care, preferable only in separate lines, this will not disturb the&#xA;flow of lines, e.g. in a block quote:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; for formatting automatic indentation and highlighting of your code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your own posts, limit yourself to very few occurences of markup, preferably only where it clearifies some technical feature.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe, we will see this kind of keyboard markup limited (?) to technical questions such as usage of TeX.SX and about keyboard shortcuts for TeX editors, mostly this will be answers and I personally refrain from editing other users' answers anyway, unless they ask about it explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A small side note: This was the first time I ever used such keyboard markup.&#xA;Many users do not know about them and perhaps, that is quite good ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T06:20:19.080" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T06:20:19.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-13T11:00:25.107" Score="0" ViewCount="605" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Let's get the facts straight&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per SE policy, as outlined &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/177550/how-is-consensus-determined-on-meta-sites&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; the following applies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On our main sites &quot;the best answer&quot; is somewhat fluidly defined as the superposition of the highest voted answer and the accepted answer. [...] Practically speaking, accepted answers to meta-questions are no different than any other answer.&#xA;  - Jon Ericson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thus giving a definition of what a consensus is and how it is reached, namely the highest voted answer regardless of accepted answers things, with the only caveat being&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Size of the site determines how many people could be voting on questions.&#xA;  - Jon Ericson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is reiterated by the answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's no hard number or ratio that will guarantee that you're doing the right thing; let folks discuss, when they've had a chance, make a decision and implement it.&#xA;  - Shog9 ♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When applying that to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2097/respecting-posters-style&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; that means &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2103/48077&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; is defined as the consensus, if it garnered enough votes. At 29 votes at the moment this does seem to be the case. (and even the second highest voted answer is higher voted than the accepted answer) PS. If you want to read more about the fact that accepted answers hold no special meaning on meta sites read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96039/if-votes-works-differently-on-meta-sites-how-does-that-of-accepting-answers-work/96041#96041&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The 'problem'&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, finally to the 'problem' at hand. On &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/191219/48077&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; Yori &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/191219/3&quot;&gt;corrected&lt;/a&gt; the answer as per meta consensus. After an invalid &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/191219/4&quot;&gt;roll back&lt;/a&gt; by Paul Gessler I didn't want to get in a rollback war, so I added a comment saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@PaulGessler: I am just an outsider, but the consensus in the linked meta discussion is that changing grammatical errors (including capitalisation) is acceptable as per the highest voted answer: meta.tex.stackexchange.com/a/2103/48077 The fact that egreg picked a different accepted answer means nothing per SE functioning. Your duty to the community and future readers is greater than to Barbara.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after which I received the follow up comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@DavidMulder We don't follow such things here for the sake of SE network. More in this post, since this pops up every now and then meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3802/… Also there is no duty involved on TeX-SX, it is all community driven voluntary work. –  percusse 1 hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the problem is two fold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE policies and even internal consensuses seem to not be clearly communicated to users here on TeX.SE (two technically incorrect comments both received upvotes) (This btw is a larger problem with a couple of other communities as well, however this is one of the oddest cases I have found)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that moderators haven't intercepted here to enforce the consensus on this and other answers by Barbara despite this seeming to happen on other answers written by her as well (invalid roll backs linking to the consensus, but looking at the accepted answer rather than the highest voted answer). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just for the record, I am perfectly fine if you guys want to change StackExchange policy or mass vote now on the relevant meta question and redefine this specific consesus. Like seriously, if you feel like it, go for it. However, at least at the moment, this does not seem relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. Yes, I am just an outsider (worked with TeX enough that I will be happy each day I don't need to use it O:) ), but I do love the functioning of the SE network as a whole and this answer came up in the hot network questions, and something like this just reflects extremely poorly on this sub-site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48077" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T03:38:57.313" Title="Consensus vs accepted answers on meta" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="31" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4514" CreationDate="2014-07-13T16:40:52.983" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As commented in the posting that you quote initially, any assessment of whether consensus has been reached has to take account of the possibility of low participation. That clearly applies in the case of the meta site here which has far lower participation than the main site. So a simple appeal to the current voting figures on a question doesn't really have much effect: common practice, and common sense, need to be used to moderate the established norms, not just transient numerical supremacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it is not really controversial that questions may be edited to fix grammar and other problems, but that does not mean that all edits are good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A newcomer to this site might for example be surprised at the strange capitalisation of TeX and &quot;fix&quot; it. Any such edit is likely to be rolled back. The strange capitalisation of Barbara's posts is a convention as old as TeX and explicitly documented in her profile on the site. As a newcomer you may not be aware of it, but on having it pointed out and having the edit rolled back your response should have been to say &quot;oh sorry&quot; and move on, not to post calling in to question the behaviour of the members of this site and the competence of its moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T16:40:52.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4514" CreationDate="2014-07-13T16:53:01.547" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing to bear in mind here is that while there are places where there are StackExchange rules/polices, on editorial matters 'guidelines' is a much more accurate term. (Rules are clearly appropriate for legal matters, for example.) Each StackExchange network site has its own conventions, and those are to some extent 'organic'. They also need to work with the fact that each question and answer involves a 'real' person: people are funny things, and rules don't always work so well with them! So there's got to be some flexibility. (I'll come back to that below.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted in comments, voting on the meta site involves a subset of people 'routinely active' on the site, and that in itself is a subset of people who visit the site. As such, the best one can say about votes on meta is that they give some indication of the feeling of some of the site users. At the same time, there's no way of seeing what the history of voting is. Asking a 'how do we deal with ...' question requires that at some stage there is a decision: presumably there is some form of implementation to be done. However, votes can continue after this, so what gets implemented might end up not being what has the most votes. One way of indicating which answer seems to have 'won' at some arbitrary point is to accept it, but as we can't see the history we can't actually tell if that was the case here (at least, I can't be certain).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the network emphasis the wiki/collaborative element to questions and answers, each one has someone's name on it. That's something we should, I think, be mindful about. So it's one thing to have a convention to 'fix' things, but another to ignore the OP when the roll such edits back. For example, there is a weak convention on the site to remove 'thanks' from questions, but if the OP rolls back such an edit then I'd usually anticipate that it would be 'left alone'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important to note here that as noted in comments on the question, there are a reasonable number of votes in both directions on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2097/respecting-posters-style&quot;&gt;'What should the guideline be?'&lt;/a&gt; question, and also quite a number in favour of a 'light touch' approach  laid out in response to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2599/why-were-my-edits-rejected&quot;&gt;previous question on this area&lt;/a&gt;. As such, and in the context of 'How are decisions reached?', it seems to me that this is not an area where there is a &lt;em&gt;clear&lt;/em&gt; consensus one way or the other. As such, we as a 'community' and in particular the mod team are left having to find a workable balance. To me, that 'balance' seems to be to edit where it will be seen by the OP as helpful whilst avoiding editing 'wars' as much as possible. (That of course does mean having to accept some things that as an individual I may not be 100% happy about.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, my feeling is that we do better having a wider range of contributors, even with the odd eccentricity, than rigidly enforcing a set of 'rules'. To date, we've not had any serious confusion from people looking for help, at least that I know of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T10:27:21.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4526" CreationDate="2014-07-13T17:04:22.813" Score="10" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a programmer who saw this site &quot;from&quot; &lt;em&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/em&gt; in hope to ask here for help with a specific problem. The reason I post this question here is because I fear that my question might not fit allowed topics for this site, so I want to check if it is valid before I post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a rectangle ( cell of a table ) that should contain text in it. The problem is that I need to calculate font size, so the text can fit into rectangle. &lt;strong&gt;Cel size depends on the paper size ( I am coding printing application ).&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colleagues at &lt;em&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/em&gt; could not help me with this, and &lt;em&gt;Mathematics&lt;/em&gt; community was very close but ultimately failed as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, this is the most important information about the question I would ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this question suitable for this site ( and if it is, can you suggest me proper tags )?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59037" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T13:58:01.003" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T13:58:01.003" Title="Would a question about choice of font size be allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4514" CreationDate="2014-07-13T17:19:57.727" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;This is more of an extended comment than an answer, but I think it is quite important to clear something up, here.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; talking about consensus&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange network is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; set up to facilitate consensus-based decision making processes. Speaking from both personal experience and from having read theories of consensus, consensus is often &lt;strong&gt;hard&lt;/strong&gt; to achieve. It takes long face-to-face conversations and a lot of work and energy. This is something that the Stack Exchange model neither provides nor facilitates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless a network is still in beta and has fewer than 50 (20?) users, I find it particularly unlikely that &lt;strong&gt;consensus&lt;/strong&gt; will ever be reached about anything that is even slightly controversial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this means that we're talking about (at best) majority-based decision making processes,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; and this inherently entails that some users will be unhappy.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what's the point of this discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the Stack Exchange model has been setup so as to facilitate the creation of communities, and these communities are, within limits, free to determine some of their own policies, practices, and oddities. Given that some of these policies will perhaps be controversial and given that the Stack Exchange model does not allow for consensus-based decision making processes, we have to accept that some users will be unhappy. So while this does not address the question about how &quot;consensus&quot; is actually determined (and I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4514/consensus-vs-accepted-answers-on-meta/4515#4515&quot;&gt;David has already raised some good points&lt;/a&gt; about this), it is important to recognize that this is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;consensus&quot; and just because some individuals (often individuals who do not participate regularly in the TeX.SX community, if at all) get upset, does not mean that we should immediately stop our practice and adopt theirs because the other way of doing things will not necessarily be any better. That is, it will just make other users upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear that this even constitutes majority-based decision making. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4514/consensus-vs-accepted-answers-on-meta/4518?noredirect=1#comment14913_4518&quot;&gt;@cfr's comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is why &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2599/why-were-my-edits-rejected#comment6513_2599&quot;&gt;comments like this&lt;/a&gt;, I think, are ridiculous. Why doesn't SO stop running so roughshod with new users? That obviously repels a lot of users. So SO should obviously stop doing that, right?! Of course not. There is good reason that they do things the way that they do. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T03:38:57.313" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4514" CreationDate="2014-07-13T17:52:03.213" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some very good points have already been made, but I would like to add one thing. As noted in other answers, not a lot of the site membership visits Meta very often. So I propose to look at the behavior of users in the main site itself, as a rudimentary gauge of the prevailing view on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did these tabulations by hand, and there is certainly a possibility that I have made an error. Please, feel free to check my work if you so desire. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing, user barbara beeton had 517 answers and 2 questions posted on our main site (I did not consider any Meta activity in these figures). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions (both with a modest number of upvotes) have no beginning-of-sentence capitalization, with no edits by other community members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the 517 answers, 493 have no beginning-of-sentence capitalization. Many of these answers have been around for a long time and have received large numbers of upvotes. Just 24 of her answers have some beginning-of-sentence capitalization. Thus, the community as a whole has accepted her convention in over 95 % of cases. Furthermore, this figure slightly under-represents the actual acceptance of her convention, since the answers with beginning-of-sentence capitalization include community wiki posts with multiple contributors and &quot;official&quot; statements from her employer(s) where she capitalized on her own, in addition to posts edited to correct her capitalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it appears that in a vast majority of cases, users of the site support (or at the very least accept) her convention. In addition, I personally view the convention as helpful. This is because I can distinguish a canonical recommendation from a personal one immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T17:52:03.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4514" CreationDate="2014-07-13T22:46:58.457" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see my name there with this; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SE policies and even internal consensuses seem to not be clearly communicated to users here on TeX.SE (two technically incorrect comments both received upvotes) (This btw is a larger problem with a couple of other communities as well, however this is one of the oddest cases I have found)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well this is very simple from my point of view, any TeX guru or TeX contributor who made this typesetting system possible for me to use TeX and to write stupid answers on this site, gets the priority. If barbara beeton wants to retain her style which has been established way before TeX-SE and known to the TeX world then I say &lt;em&gt;aye aye&lt;/em&gt;. Because instead of only hanging around here, &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; made the real contribution to countless people around the world, and I won't accept forcing a user comply with a rule set that is not even self-consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people here are OK with it, I'm OK with it. When you are signing up to the site you don't see a rock &lt;strong&gt;in the mount StackOlympus they said, laws you should abide&lt;/strong&gt; written on it. It's a TeX site and we have our nice environment. So why should we introduce some questionable policy that is not even relevant to our case. There is no mention of SO whatsoever. I'm not signing up for the whole network, I just care about TeX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might wonder why we are defending our inconsistent behavior, well because we don't care about consistency for the sake of OCD. Here are two more that would probably make you even more disappointed about us;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4267/our-do-it-for-me-and-draw-it-for-me-comments-dont-reflect-our-hypocrisy-can-th&quot;&gt;Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don&amp;#39;t reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3849/what-to-do-with-opinion-based-questions-which-are-accepted-by-the-community&quot;&gt;What to do with opinion based questions which are accepted by the community?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is a teaser for you; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I have seen at least seven users (that I remember) coming here and trying to impose those things that they are used to from SO. They always start from removing thanks and grammar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really say that it is the content that should be protected and crystallized why on earth any single of you don't start from MWE requests or answering questions but rather pick up on the most ridiculous detail to start contributing?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, get on the chatrooms of recently graduated successful sites and ask them where they got their welcoming behavior or downvoting schemes or block comments, you'll have a different picture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T23:04:23.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2097" CreationDate="2014-07-14T00:10:17.627" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that this seems to come up every now and again, generally brought up by users from Stack Overflow who wish to enforce the Right Way™ of doing things at TeX.SX,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I thought it might make sense to try to provide a more comprehensive answer, taking into account some of the discussion that has ensued, in particular the discussion in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2599/why-were-my-edits-rejected&quot;&gt;Why were my edits rejected?&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4514/consensus-vs-accepted-answers-on-meta&quot;&gt;Consensus vs accepted answers on meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three overarching points in this post. I've demarcated these three points with section headings.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;A positive argument based on copyright and attribution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I think Paulo Cereda has already made a great case for respecting a poster's style in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2614/32888&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2599/why-were-my-edits-rejected&quot;&gt;Why were my edits rejected?&lt;/a&gt; given reasons of copyright and attribution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see the SE network as an awesome Q&amp;amp;A knowledge base, a new tendency. But I fear that people misunderstand the real concept and see threads as collaborative wiki. If it's a wiki, everything is fine, because you are collaboratively editing stuff. The Q&amp;amp;A model is based on people asking and answering questions. The site footer gives us a hint:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;user contributions licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we take a closer look on these links, we find the following statement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Attribution - You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When we edit things from other users, we are signing a risky contract: we are somehow influencing the author's contribution - for better or for worse. But note that it's up to the author to decide if the modifications to his/her answer should really take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;A negative argument based on readability and comprehension&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Paulo does go on to mention that we should nonetheless keep in mind that edits &lt;em&gt;improving&lt;/em&gt; spelling and grammar are probably Good Things™.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can ask whether editing barbara's answers to fix capitalization would fall into the category of &lt;em&gt;improving&lt;/em&gt; spelling and grammar. The answer is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, at least not if we take &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; to mean something like 'make more readable, make more comprehensible, etc.'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that writing systems are &lt;em&gt;technological inventions&lt;/em&gt; is an underappreciated fact. They postdate human use of language, and they are, ultimately, nothing more than technological inventions that encode a set of conventions that we use to represent the &lt;em&gt;language&lt;/em&gt; in our heads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, certain conventions, such as consistent spelling, are arguably useful. Conventions that demarcate sentence boundaries are also arguably useful. In fact, they reflect prosodic cues that one gets in spoken language.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conventions that are used by this particular technological invention for encoding English happen to employ two methods of demarcating sentence boundaries: capitalization and punctuation. So, in a sense, we have some redundancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only a few edge cases where the use of these two methods is not redundant. Specifically, in cases where the conventions used for transcribing English employ a period to mark an abbreviation, such as in &quot;et al.&quot; or &quot;etc.&quot; we might see non-redundancy. An example of this might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in this case, you don't want to use the commands like &lt;code&gt;\bf&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\it&lt;/code&gt;, etc. you should use &lt;code&gt;\textbf&lt;/code&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, it's not immediately clear whether the second sentence is a separate sentence or not, just from inspecting capitalization and punctuation. Nonetheless, we &lt;strong&gt;can still figure out what was said&lt;/strong&gt;, and it's pretty easy to determine, based on context, what the sentence boundaries are. One user has &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2097/respecting-posters-style#comment12077_2607&quot;&gt;claimed that&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Barbara's posts as they currently stand are well-nigh unreadable gibberish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;patently false&lt;/strong&gt;. Any user that can read and comprehend English can read and comprehend barbara's answers. Though I tried searching the internet for studies on whether there is any &lt;strong&gt;empirical&lt;/strong&gt; evidence documenting a decrease in comprehension/readability based on lack of sentence-initial capitalization, I could not find anything.&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt; Nonetheless, I have an intuition&amp;#8212;an intuition that I suspect others share, if they are honest with themselves&amp;#8212;that there would be no significant difference in comprehension, should someone actually bother to conduct an empirical study.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2097/respecting-posters-style#comment6432_2097&quot;&gt;tohecz worries&lt;/a&gt; that this will lead to peOPlE adOPTing TeEN caSINg. First point to note: it is now 2014 (no longer 2012, the time of tohecz's comment), and, as far as I am aware, there has been no instance of this. Second point to note: there is actually an &lt;strong&gt;argument&lt;/strong&gt; to be made that fixing someone's post that uses &quot;teen casing&quot; improves readability/comprehension. Again, I haven't found any empirical studies, but I have an intuition&amp;#8212;as well as the phenomenological experience&amp;#8212;that reading &quot;teen casing&quot; is harder and takes longer than reading normal casing. I suspect this would be confirmed with an empirical study, should someone really want to waste their time carrying out such a study.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, this warrants editing the ridiculous behavior of the user who asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4514/consensus-vs-accepted-answers-on-meta&quot;&gt;Consensus vs accepted answers on meta&lt;/a&gt; because they eventually edited the question to include this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZG6kp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, editing such a post would &lt;strong&gt;improve the comprehension and readability&lt;/strong&gt; of the post for at least two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user does not conform to conventional English spelling (which makes it particularly hard for non-native speakers of English to understand); and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the use of code/keyboard markup might mislead one into thinking that &lt;code&gt;STYLEZ&lt;/code&gt;, for example, is a tag or a LaTeX package or something, a hypothesis which is probably easily dismissible, but might nonetheless confuse new users on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the &quot;consensus&quot;&lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt; on TeX.SX at the time of writing seems to be to respect &lt;strong&gt;barbara&lt;/strong&gt;'s style&amp;#8212;&lt;em&gt;which is readable and comprehensible&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8212;not &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; style. That is to say, there is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a rational argument in favor of &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; respecting &lt;em&gt;her particular style&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;A positive argument from changing the meaning of an answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, if one is able to delude oneself into thinking that lack of sentence-initial capitalization somehow really turns some writing into &quot;well-nigh unreadable gibberish&quot;,&lt;sup&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt; there is a further positive argument for respecting barbara's style, in addition to the one already sketched by Paulo. This one comes from David Carlisle in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4514/consensus-vs-accepted-answers-on-meta#comment14823_4515&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@DavidMulder You are ignoring the fact that your edit was simply a bad edit, irrespective of any general conventions about fixing grammar. It changes the meaning of the answer (given the statement on the user profile). Perhaps you think that's a bad convention for a user to have but making all following readers believe that a statement is an official policy statement of the American Mathematical Society when it was explicitly marked as not being so in its original form is a bad edit and should be reverted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The moral of the story&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, even if you don't buy the negative argument I've sketched (for whatever reason), we still have at least two positive reasons (actually, more than two, &lt;em&gt;cf.&lt;/em&gt;, fn. 2) for why we ought to respect barbara's style, which is not to say that we ought to respect &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; style, &lt;em&gt;if that style really makes a post harder to comprehend or read (especially for non-native speakers of English)&lt;/em&gt;. In such cases as those, editing is then probably the Right Way™ and a Good Thing™.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indeed, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4521/32888&quot;&gt;percusse counts seven such users&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The three points in this answer are tailored to the particular point under discussion: the poster's style (in particular, barbara's style), so I will not mention any of the points that were already made in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/when-is-and-isnt-it-acceptable-to-edit&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt; one of which is a further reason not to edit for spelling/grammar 'errors' because &quot;[e]diting a question/answer for such small issues has the undesired effect of bringing the question back to the homepage, which can become a nuisance for frequent users of the site&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prosody is just a fancy way of saying &quot;intonation&quot;. Intonation is often used to demarcate sentence boundaries, among other things, in spoken language. The specifics depend on the language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Probably because such a study sounds like a pointless waste of time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not like using this word to describe the state of affairs on Stack Exchange. See my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4518/32888&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or, alternatively, if one is so attached to prescriptivist ideals that one needs to change the definition of &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; to be something like 'conform to redundant conventions' in order to rationalize their vehement defense of editing all of barbara's answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T04:53:07.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3802" CreationDate="2014-07-14T05:30:44.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Etiquette: respecting OP's style, intent, and contribution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2097/respecting-posters-style&quot;&gt;Respecting poster&amp;#39;s style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2599/why-were-my-edits-rejected&quot;&gt;Why were my edits rejected?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4514/consensus-vs-accepted-answers-on-meta&quot;&gt;Consensus vs accepted answers on meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4509/should-we-edit-popular-questions-to-be-model-questions-new-users-can-pattern-a&quot;&gt;Should we edit popular questions to be &amp;#39;model&amp;#39; questions new users can pattern after?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T05:30:44.940" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-14T05:30:44.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2014-07-15T06:45:31.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Claudio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T06:45:31.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2014-07-15T06:49:50.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wtfpl.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;WTFPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T06:49:50.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4517" CreationDate="2014-07-15T08:21:17.740" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are printing using TeX, then yes it's on topic, if you are not printing using TeX then it's fairly clearly off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T08:21:17.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4528" CreationDate="2014-07-15T14:58:22.210" Score="9" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was a bit surprised by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/57/announcer&quot;&gt;Announcer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/58/booster&quot;&gt;Booster&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/59/publicist&quot;&gt;Publicist&lt;/a&gt; badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m2x8v.png&quot; alt=&quot;A snapshot of those three badges&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understood, those badges requires you to share links to questions with the form&#xA;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/[ID_of_the_question]/[your_id]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that I am constantly tracked on the net, and I don't think there is a need to overtrack my activities: if I want to share a link, I do not see why &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; should know that &lt;strong&gt;I, personally&lt;/strong&gt;, shared this link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, I guess that those badges could be easily won by a (ill-intentioned) person that artificially produces &lt;em&gt;fake&lt;/em&gt; visits, for instance by DDOSing &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, this is not exactly a feature-request, more like &quot;feature-delet-request&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I am still free to ignore those badges &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34551" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T06:04:59.230" Title="Usefullness of the Announcer, Booster and Publicist badges?" Tags="|feature-request|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4527" CreationDate="2014-07-15T21:19:12.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No need to your track your links and to match them with your account. StackExchange just needs that tracking to reward your links if you like, if you used that feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jay said in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/09/five-years-ago-stack-overflow-launched-then-a-miracle-occurred/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow blog post&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;people will do anything for fake internet points&quot;, and also the mentioned badges are such &quot;achievements&quot;. Well, kidding, it's about helping people, he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good content, moderation tasks, and promotional work of users is encouraged by points and badges, that's why also promotion badges exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T21:19:12.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4527" CreationDate="2014-07-16T06:04:59.230" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can just copy the link of the question title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V8pQA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to copying the link directly from the browser hyperlink bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This option includes the question title in the URL, with the format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://*.stackexchange.com/&amp;lt;post type&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;post id&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;post title&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and is void of any reference to you personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T06:04:59.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-17T13:53:44.283" Score="15" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/191877/37907&quot;&gt;another&#xA;question&lt;/a&gt; came up on&#xA;how the documentation for a command or a package can be found. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some similar ones, but all different in a way:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/62653/37907&quot;&gt;LaTeX, package documentation look-up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/81960/37907&quot;&gt;Finding package documentation [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/104242/37907&quot;&gt;Documentation for the animate package with TikZ&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some Q/A's deal with a special environment, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/169137/37907&quot;&gt;Where do I find&#xA;documentation for packages in a MiKTeX&#xA;installation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some can't be answered with the simple &lt;code&gt;texdoc &amp;lt;packageName&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/74434/37907&quot;&gt;Where is the documentation for the nth package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/122774/37907&quot;&gt;fp package documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do you see the need for a constructed canonical Q/A (community-Wiki)?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are different things that have to be considered: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CTAN provides the most recent doc, but that might not fit with the version installed on the user machine.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problem with a possible version discrepancy is true for &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texdoc.net&lt;/a&gt;, as well.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;texdoc&lt;/code&gt; behaves different in MikTeX and TeX Live (since it is an alias for &lt;code&gt;mthelp&lt;/code&gt; under MikTeX).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can i find out where the command i need help with is defined?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T08:47:45.620" Title="Single question: Find the package Doc?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4567" CreationDate="2014-07-17T19:38:24.380" Score="10" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently have make a post on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64/tools-for-automating-document-compilation/188627#188627&quot;&gt;Tools for automating document compilation&lt;/a&gt; which won a bounty. So I was thinking to make a git repository to put my code and even more documentation. Of course I'll put the link in my post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First what about this &quot;self-promotion&quot; of my own code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the other hand when I saw this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/191674/conditional-compilation-of-code-based-on-package-version&quot;&gt;Conditional compilation of code based on package version&lt;/a&gt; where the OP said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am working on a document with a colleague and we have different&#xA;  versions of PGF/Tikz installed -- I have version 3 and he has version&#xA;  2.10. This is causing a problem for compilation on our two platforms because the syntax for defining matrices in tikz changed slightly from&#xA;  version 2.1 to 3.0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking to post a link to the first link I made which could also be considered as auto promotion and even more if I made a &quot;real&quot; project on git repository.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/263018/3559896&quot;&gt;about self promotion&lt;/a&gt;, the link could be provide if it's a real answer not just a link. But for the second link the answer should be only: &quot;you can use my tools using this link&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is how should I deal with this if I make my project real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T17:27:46.347" Title="self promotion of an own code" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-18T22:41:36.633" Score="9" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like postings (and ideally comments) to show date and time instead of '5 hours ago' or '10 days ago'.  I've looked for a settings page without success, and also done various searches on the help page.  Surely this must be possible somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59332" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T02:22:48.320" Title="How can I display that date and time of postings?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4534" CreationDate="2014-07-19T10:22:43.097" Score="14" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Displaying backticks is apparently difficult. But it's not, just surround the inline code by more backticks than those that appear (concatenated) in the code. E.g., If you want &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; you need to write &lt;code&gt;`` ` ``&lt;/code&gt;, and if you want &lt;code&gt;`````&lt;/code&gt; you need &lt;code&gt;`````` ````` ``````&lt;/code&gt;. This is not so clean, but “works”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now try that on a comment. Does it work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that in a comment you need to use the &lt;em&gt;usual&lt;/em&gt;  markdown convention of escaping backticks, that is, if you want &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; you need &lt;code&gt;`\``&lt;/code&gt; (and the same for &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt;, you need &lt;code&gt;`\`\`\``&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So… the question is, is there a reason for this? Why not the same on both questions and answers? I see &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; written “bad” all the times, but this behaviour is even more confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21930" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-07-20T06:19:18.503" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T06:19:18.503" Title="Different code “convention” in questions than in comments" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4533" CreationDate="2014-07-20T06:18:57.573" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;the help on Markdown&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;StackExchange&lt;/em&gt; has programmed &quot;[&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; to] support only bold, italic, code and links; in addition, a few shorthand links [...]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments, in general, &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be used only or limited interaction between posters and other contributors. As such, providing the same markdown capabilities has (most likely) been decided as not necessary. Perhaps the same goes for its implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusion is therefore that this is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-by-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-by-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-by-design&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T06:18:57.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4538" CreationDate="2014-07-20T14:03:57.450" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I find necessary, predominantly in a comment, to give some users name and refer to a solution that user has made, which could be helpful in post under consideration too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am unsure, how to markup the other's name properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if there is a user called 'GandalfTheGray', what would be a good way to refer to her/him, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his example, user &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GandalfTheGray&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;GandalfTheGray&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;GandalfTheGray&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[GandalfTheGray]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;GandalfTheGray&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;GandalfTheGray&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;{GandalfTheGray}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;shows/comments/hints .... etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there some other markup possibilities? I personally find the bold version too strong, and the slanted version too weak, my favorite is &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;GandalfTheGray&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is no question on a feature-request, just my personal interest to make references to other people more outstanding in a post/comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2014-07-20T14:10:48.283" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T22:39:21.357" Title="Citing/referring (markup?) to another user on TeX.SX" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4532" CreationDate="2014-07-20T18:12:23.110" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no option on the site to enable this functionality. However, you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; do this using userscripts. On Google Chrome, I use &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tampermonkey&lt;/a&gt; to install and manage userscripts. Firefox users can use Greasemonkey, and there are equivalents for most modern browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The userscript to use is found on StackApps: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2528/display-absolute-timestamps-in-local-time&quot;&gt;Display absolute timestamps (in local time)&lt;/a&gt;. The hosting link is down, but the author, Kip, has posted the code. This may be copied and pasted into a new userscript in a userscript manager of your choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a look at the differences in the display with/without the script running:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3mHFG.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T02:22:48.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4530" CreationDate="2014-07-21T08:47:45.620" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to put the question in a nutshell, but the current state doesn't satisfy me at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When working with LaTeX one often finds the need to look&#xA;  something up in order to use a command correctly or learn about&#xA;  the basics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But where can i find the documentation for a package installed&#xA;  with my TeX distribution? Where can i find it for packages not&#xA;  installed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If i have an unknown command, how can i find out which package&#xA;  defined it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now it seems too broad. Please suggest as much improvements as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T08:47:45.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4535" CreationDate="2014-07-21T22:39:21.357" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would leave it as just plain unformatted text. Personally, I don't consider it necessary (or particularly useful) to distinguish names from the surrounding text with formatting; it's already clear from the context what the display name is. The only exception is, in a comment (not a question or answer), when I want to notify that user, if they have left a previous comment and are thus eligible for notification, then I will use @GandalfTheGray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I want to reference another user's contribution, I will link to that post directly. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Christian Hupfer posted a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4535/citing-referring-markup-to-another-user-on-tex-sx&quot;&gt;question about markup for usernames&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one wants to access the poster's profile, they can click through to the post and then to the profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that this is not merely a statement of opinion: in posts I see other people make, display names are &lt;em&gt;very rarely&lt;/em&gt; formatted any differently than the surrounding text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T22:39:21.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4539" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4540" CreationDate="2014-07-22T09:51:58.320" Score="17" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have by accident downvoted two questions (due to sloppy fingers on an iPad touch screen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I tried to correct the mistake, I got a message that my voting could only be changed if the question was edited. I then edited the question, and was allowed to correct my voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any good reason for denying me to directly correct the voting when it is so easy to circumvene that hindrance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="9632" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T19:40:31.970" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T19:40:31.970" Title="Downvoting by accident - why can't I correct my voting" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4539" CreationDate="2014-07-23T05:51:00.653" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/75477/168244&quot;&gt;Idea behind &amp;quot;Your vote is now locked in unless this answer is edited&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, the motivation behind locking ones vote stems from an attempt to perturb possible &quot;tactical down-voting&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tactical down-voting suggests that users could vote down other competing answers in an attempt to possibly let their own answer be more visible (it is possible to sort answers based on votes... in fact, it's sorted by score). While the action is reversible (via an edit to the answer), such a hindrance may be enough of a nuisance to discourage it. And again, while this is easy to do for those with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;the edit privilege&lt;/a&gt; (2K+ reputation), perhaps it would be more likely for lower-rep users to resort to such antics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, this is a decision made to pro-actively avoid this questionable behaviour and has been rolled out to all posts (not just answers, but questions as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T05:51:00.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4565" CreationDate="2014-07-23T21:45:29.773" Score="21" ViewCount="835" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/161390/168244&quot;&gt;What are the review queues, and how do they work?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;review queues&lt;/a&gt; (also known as review tasks) contain posts that possibly need community attention, as determined by the system or other community users. You are shown these posts, one at a time, and you &amp;quot;review&amp;quot; them. Like flagging, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/211/custodian&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/128/reviewer&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/212/steward&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what constitutes a &amp;quot;review&amp;quot;? It depends on the queue. The queues have one consistent option, though — the &amp;quot;skip&amp;quot; option. This permanently skips the post (you won't see it in the same review queue again) and is useful if you're not sure what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each user has their own copy of the queue — if you review a post in a queue, it is not necessarily removed from that queue for other users. It gets removed for all users after a few more reviews by other users (the exact amount depends upon the queue and review action done).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badge-hunters may be prone to falsely review posts in these queues without really considering their content. This despite there being mention of the &amp;quot;skip&amp;quot; button &amp;quot;if you're not sure what to do&amp;quot;. Reviewing without actually reviewing is called robo-reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; attempts to pro-actively perturb robo-reviewers/-reviewing by so-called &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/157121/168244&quot;&gt;review audits&lt;/a&gt; - tests to see whether reviewers are actually invested in the process. However, this is not active on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should the community deal with robo-reviewers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T10:05:29.297" Title="How to deal with robo-reviewers?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|review-page|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4541" CreationDate="2014-07-23T22:45:10.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll just briefly say some ideas I have concerning the improvement of the review quality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments on reviews: Each suggested edit would have a comment thread, allowing the reviews to be commented. These comments would be received by the reviewers and possibly the editor (but I'm not sure whether that would make a good idea).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Review flags: This has been discussed before.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Review agreement/disagreement: The ability to disagree with a review result; such suggested edit would make it back into the queue for more users to state their opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ability to somehow address the reviewer directly: this would be likely similar to comments on reviews. I would as well welcome the ability to address the editor directly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these work only for the Suggested Edits queue. The two other problematic queues (First Posts and Low Quality Posts) would use some completely different approach I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: These are very rough ideas. My intention is to open a discussion over the possibilities, not to give definite answers. As well, it's almost 1am just now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T22:45:10.313" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4550" CreationDate="2014-07-24T13:55:10.887" Score="12" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;when there is more than one entry in a review queue, i sometimes would like to&#xA;defer consideration of an entry until later, but look at entries that come after&#xA;it in the queue.  this possibility isn't available -- &quot;skip&quot; permanently removes&#xA;the entry from consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this &quot;question&quot; is a followup to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4541/579&quot;&gt;How to deal with robo-reviewers?&lt;/a&gt;, which nicely covers the&#xA;options that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T19:58:59.690" Title="I would like a &quot;defer&quot; function on review queues" Tags="|feature-request|review-page|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4543" CreationDate="2014-07-24T18:35:11.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a hack-ish way to defer your review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remember the URL (copy-and-paste it somewhere), and click Skip. While this will remove it from the review queue view (since it's been skipped) you can still access the review via the copied URL. When you're ready to re-review the item, paste the stored URL;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click the Skip button but remember the post involved in the review. When you want to re-review the item, find it in the review queue history and click on any review choice made by a reviewer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option (2) is similar to (1) since they both point to the same URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T18:35:11.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4541" CreationDate="2014-07-24T18:55:23.337" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the automated version of screening every detail on the site, though I see the need for it clearly. But&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be able to discuss this issue with robo-reviewers instead of ignoring the individuals and handling them super indirectly with a major code implementation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had this discussion mostly with Papiro and others but they don't care. I don't think any implementation would fix anything unless they change their own behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My major dislike about robo-reviewing is that whenever they form a symbiosis with a mass-editor who doesn't have enough points, it's very boring to see edits are coming in, reviewed and accepted before you even see the question and front page is filled with 3 years old questions with a comma or a letter changed in the name of an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to transfer my rep points(which again are useless) to them if they wish to stop their nonsense. Other than this annoyance I'm perfectly fine with any badge-craving behavior of any user though I still think they are stupid colored dots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T18:55:23.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4547" CreationDate="2014-07-24T22:01:51.897" Score="15" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this strange thing which is IMHO a bug:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BMsAQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that &lt;strong&gt;egreg&lt;/strong&gt; zapped the question using his golden &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xetex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xetex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xetex&lt;/a&gt; badge.  However, the question isn't tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xetex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xetex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xetex&lt;/a&gt;, it had the tag but lost it before &lt;strong&gt;egreg&lt;/strong&gt; voted on it. Sure &lt;strong&gt;egreg&lt;/strong&gt; could zap the question anyways using his golden &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbols&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, whether the system used the correct golden badge and displayed the wrong one, or used the wrong one directly. Or is it &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; that the original tags are considered when zapping the question by the golden badge hammer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T18:21:02.737" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T18:21:02.737" Title="Incorrect tag used to zap a question by the golden badge hammer" Tags="|support|design|close-reasons|dupehammer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4546" CreationDate="2014-07-25T06:10:06.273" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The notorious &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/254589/914686&quot;&gt;dupehammer gives superpowers to learned members of the community&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/230865/168244&quot;&gt;here are the rules&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You can instantly close as a duplicate any question that was originally asked with a tag you have a gold badge for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You can instantly reopen any question closed as a duplicate that was originally asked with a tag you have a gold badge for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You can only close or reopen a given question once (this hasn't changed).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you get in a fight with someone over whether a question should be closed, moderators will be notified and they'll &lt;s&gt;hit everyone with hammers&lt;/s&gt; lock everything down and tell you to go home.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first point is emphasized later in the same linked &quot;rule-post&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... If a question has a tag where you have a gold badge, and it was part of the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; set of tags applied to the question, you can mark it as a duplicate with a single vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore this is, as you mentioned, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T06:10:06.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4548" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-25T06:12:45.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Dupehammer&quot; refers to the ability of tag gold badge owners to unilaterally close and reopen duplicates which were asked in tags of which they have a golden badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/254589&quot;&gt;When did I get close-vote superpowers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/230865&quot;&gt;Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-07-25T06:12:45.080" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T06:12:45.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4549" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-25T06:12:45.080" Score="0" Body="&quot;The Dupehammer&quot; refers to the ability of tag gold badge owners to unilaterally close and reopen duplicates which were asked in tags of which they have a golden badge." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-07-25T06:12:45.080" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T06:12:45.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4543" CreationDate="2014-07-25T13:53:34.087" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a less hack-ish (but still suboptimal) way: If you don't want to take an action, go back to the list of review queues (using the &quot;back&quot; button or by clicking on the &quot;Review&quot; link on the top left). &#xA;The post you were just looking at will be temporarily removed from the queue, so if you select it again, you will see a different post. (I don't know at what point the &quot;skipped&quot; question reappears in the queue; from what I've seen, I'd guess 15 minutes or so. EDIT: I just tested it; seems more like 5-10 minutes) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16855" LastEditorUserId="16855" LastEditDate="2014-07-25T14:00:30.360" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T14:00:30.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-27T22:10:34.660" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posed a LaTeX question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/192392/adding-different-entities-to-a-table-of-contents-part-2&quot;&gt;Adding different entities to a table of contents, part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was answered and now can't get the MWE to work.  I don't know what happened.  Should I post as a new question, or modify the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to write a quick comment on the answer but the system won't let me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I just pose as a new question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32330" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T16:41:55.320" Title="Thought question was answered, but MWE now behaves as originally" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4541" CreationDate="2014-07-28T08:59:00.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Ignore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will suggest just to ignore such childish behaviour. Any harm the robo-reviewers may do is negligible and do not hurt anybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I earned two badges one of the last days for something I did not know exist. First, I accepted an minimal edit somebody had done (obviously I reviewed the question according to the system). Thereafter, I had to make some silly edits in two answers I had downvoted by mistake, just to be able to correct my mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Remove badges for reviewing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: After seeing the comments, I suggest removing the badges you can earn for reviewing answers. &lt;em&gt;Serious&lt;/em&gt; users do not care for badges and will continue to review without them. &lt;em&gt;Robo-viewers&lt;/em&gt; will not robo-view without badges, because the badges are the reason for robo-viewing. Sounds like a win-win for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Observation&lt;/em&gt;: I have obviously stepped on some badge-collector's toes, since I have deserved three downvotes for this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="9632" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T10:05:29.297" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T10:05:29.297" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4555" CreationDate="2014-07-28T17:19:29.377" Score="16" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about decorations in &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/193243/how-to-improve-on-this-twolines-decoration/193575&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and received two answers that have nothing to do with decorations or tikz, but sidestep the problem using pstricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the effort made by the answerers, but it doesn't answer the question, and at the same time the question vanishes from the list of unanswered questions, decreasing the chances to an on-topic answer. What can I do about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it may sound quite selfish to say &quot;I want my question answered properly and nicely&quot;. But I think that this is a general problem, I've seen this effect in other questions, leaving questions with unsatisfying answers around undetected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T06:33:03.887" Title="What to do about upvoted &quot;wrong&quot;/off-topic answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2014-07-29T02:56:41.677" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers that &quot;sidestep the problem&quot; by using a method other than the one you want might very well be useful to other visitors. You could ask your question again, making clear that you want the problem solved in a particular way. Link the two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T02:56:41.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2014-07-29T06:33:03.887" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Give up on the question in its current form, perhaps accepting one answer as &amp;quot;most helpful.&amp;quot; Then &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117/5764&quot;&gt;ask a follow-up question&lt;/a&gt; where you focus your request to be specific in terms of the requirements (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/pgf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in this case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Under certain conditions you can edit your question to specify certain (additional) criteria. This would bump the question back to the top of the main page where &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; questions are listed. As such, some attention will be brought back to the post, perhaps garnering an answer to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mention &amp;quot;certain conditions&amp;quot; for the following reason: It's off-putting to completely revise the question that makes &lt;em&gt;existing&lt;/em&gt; answers seem irrelevant. Note that this is a site driven by a community and should therefore also benefit the community... not just the person who asks a question. Surely the asker benefits from contributors' answers, but it\s also worth keeping the bigger picture mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;Offer a bounty&lt;/a&gt;! After all, bounties are meant to &amp;quot;draw attention to posts&amp;quot;. Of course, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2019/5764&quot;&gt;not everyone is interested in this approach&lt;/a&gt;, since bounties come with zero guarantee of a return on your investment. However, in my time here I've seen many valuable answers being posted under the tenure of a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &lt;s&gt;coerce&lt;/s&gt; ask someone in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; to answer your question. Sometimes a discussion in piece-meal might lead to a solution... even one you could write up yourself and earn some reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T06:33:03.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4541" CreationDate="2014-07-29T08:09:34.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I'll propose is a little bit different of the review tests as they exist now. What I've noticed is that the post is cleared from the review queue when it's seen one time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I can be done it's to modify the system and let the post on the review for 2 or 3 review, or for X minutes AFTER the first review. In this case if robo-reviewers make a different choice it's not count as a review to earn badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major problem from this idea is that the review queue will be bigger and so the possibility to earn badges too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T08:09:34.323" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4562" CreationDate="2014-07-30T23:37:54.970" Score="7" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/194028/export-image-as-eps-but-pi-symbol-changes-in-matlab&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/194028/export-image-as-eps-but-pi-symbol-changes-in-matlab&lt;/a&gt; was in my &lt;code&gt;Close Review&lt;/code&gt; queue. I voted to leave open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post mentioned is just an example, I do not refer to the content of that post at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4GSaD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some time, there were 2 close votes visible on the post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ji8jc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was curious if I could still vote for close, although the question was already in the queue and I voted as mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is: Yes, it is possible to vote for close! I did that, but retracted it afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is is this possible? As a chance to think again about a previous &lt;code&gt;Leave open&lt;/code&gt; vote? &#xA;;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is somehow related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4464/what-is-the-difference-between-these-two-kinds-of-close-votes&quot;&gt;What is the difference between these two kinds of close votes?&lt;/a&gt;, but is not a duplicate, in my point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vjnku.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PSkZ4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added some screen shots to show the proceedings...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T11:39:51.857" Title="Voting to Leave open, then still be able to vote for close?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|vote-to-close|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4563" CreationDate="2014-07-31T02:10:19.673" Score="11" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enumerate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enumerate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;enumerate&lt;/a&gt; tag description says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{enumerate} is about the enumerate list environment. If you use this&#xA;  tag, add the more general {lists} tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should we add a more general tag? Giving a more specific tag seems more reasonable to me. Or did I misunderstood the description?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21643" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T12:33:17.107" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T12:41:04.593" Title="Discussion: enumerate tag - list tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4560" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-31T05:17:52.643" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T05:17:52.643" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T05:17:52.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4561" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-31T05:17:52.643" Score="0" Body="The process by which users can vote a question re-opened if it is closed due to some users seeing it as off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the FAQ." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T05:17:52.643" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T05:17:52.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4558" CreationDate="2014-07-31T11:39:51.857" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that people can change their minds, this isn't a problem (in the same way that you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; retract a close vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't a good reason to disallow close votes - given that edits or additional comments may push the question to something that you'd rather close (for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25639" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T11:39:51.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4559" CreationDate="2014-07-31T12:31:00.833" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case of list environments, questions and answers about one specific type (&lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;itemize&lt;/code&gt;, ...) will often be useful for other types as well. Examples are Q+A's about spacing or page breaks before or after lists, spacing between list items, indentation of item labels, ... Therefore, the tag descriptions of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enumerate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enumerate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;enumerate&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/itemize&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;itemize&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;itemize&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/description&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;description&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;description&lt;/a&gt; recommend to add the general &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lists&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lists&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt; tag. If you're sure that a question is only applicable to a specific list type (e.g., cross-referencing items of an &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt; list), you may omit the general tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T12:41:04.593" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T12:41:04.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4564" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-01T15:38:11.617" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a question from someone who is obviously quite new to tex.SE.  (BTW: this site is awesome!)  If I am writing a question, how do I get Latex output to show up on this site?  I know how to write the code, but I can't seem to get the results to display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I can type:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{amsmath}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{equation}&#xA;x^2 + y^2 = 4&#xA;\end{equation}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but no output actually shows up.  Maybe I'm not explaining myself properly...please let me know if the question is not explained well.  Thanks so much in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56010" OwnerDisplayName="user56010" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T15:49:19.013" Title="How do I get latex output to show up on tex.SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2014-08-01T16:49:50.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4541" CreationDate="2014-08-04T19:16:16.167" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;While only some of the larger sites have automated review checking, the moderators are in a position to suspend review privileges for users if necessary. Thus if you believe there is a pattern of behaviour to be addressed, raising a meta question about it may be appropriate. Ideally, such a question won't 'out' an individual but will rather highlight for example questions/answers where the mods should investigate the review history. We have access to some data about reviews that is not public, and can look over this before making a judgement and if necessary implementing a ban. I hope it's clear that an answer to such a meta question will be of the form 'We will take a look' but not much else! As such, it may also be appropriate to ping one of the mods in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;, again being careful not to give details of the user of concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T19:16:16.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4531" CreationDate="2014-08-05T17:27:46.347" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rule of thumb about self-promotion: if you link one or two times to something you did (or even are just a fan of), it's fine, but if &lt;em&gt;every post you make&lt;/em&gt; contains a link to the same place, you're probably Doing It Wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, I don't see anything wrong with linking to this hypothetical project. Taking something that was already helpful and making it even better is always encouraged!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T17:27:46.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-05T18:31:15.033" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion (or my eyes are so bad), I think the hyperlink color is difficult to differentiate from the text. As a result, I always add a word &quot;click&quot; in the hyperlink to overcome this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be better if the hyperlink color is a bit contrast to the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example is taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/194995/simple-if-statement-latex/194999#comment451032_194999&quot;&gt;my previous comment (click)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fshnW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T09:06:09.050" Title="The hyperlink color seems to be difficult to distinguish from the text" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4543" CreationDate="2014-08-05T19:58:59.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/234909/131713&quot;&gt;we added the ability to see reviews you've previously skipped&lt;/a&gt;. If I understand this request right, the existing skip option now behaves like the defer option you were asking for, so this request is now obsolete (or, if you're feeling charitable, completed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T19:58:59.690" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-06T17:10:37.873" Score="5" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know how one uploads files to a question so that people can download full working examples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to explain my last question, and while people were fast to criticize the form of my response, they didn't read my explanation that the question space was too small to put the full file.  That would save a lot of explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56336" OwnerDisplayName="daemondave" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T13:33:34.617" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T13:33:34.617" Title="how do you upload files to support people answering questions" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4574" CreationDate="2014-08-08T16:42:59.540" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I made this question earlier&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/195480/pdflatex-stuck-compiling-gives-no-error&quot;&gt;pdflatex stuck compiling, gives no error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and a commenter pointed me towards what could be wrong, I changed my document accordingly and now everything works. I want to mark the question answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I wait for the commenter to post an answer or should I answer the question and add the changes I made to the document ??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T21:38:17.950" Title="A comment sort of answered my question, how do I marked it answered" Tags="|support|comments|answers|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4573" CreationDate="2014-08-08T20:51:01.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related/duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1731/what-if-a-comment-answers-a-question&quot;&gt;What if a comment answers a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often it happens that the problem is a typo or alike and we consider it off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case I would ask &lt;strong&gt;Ian Thompson&lt;/strong&gt; to provide an answer, since the question carries information that can be useful to others :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T21:38:17.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-09T00:47:18.613" Score="6" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ''answered'' a question, but later in a comment i watched that it wasn't the response expected by user (it didn't answer the original question). I'm sorry, that was an error. I click in &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt;  but after of 2 days this answer even appears (highlighted with the &lt;strong&gt;undelete&lt;/strong&gt; option).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really believe that this answer confuses to other users (and to me, although they do not see it) and i'd like that it disappears definitely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42912" LastEditorUserId="42912" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T00:53:57.520" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T03:51:56.653" Title="For how long a removed answer is shown?" Tags="|support|answers|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4575" CreationDate="2014-08-09T03:46:27.217" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your post has been deleted. It is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; that authors of questions/answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/173513/turbocharging-the-roomba-solutions-for-premature-deletion/177675#177675&quot;&gt;can always see their own posts, even if they have deleted them&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, users with access to the moderator tools (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt;, moderators and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;users with ≥ 10,000 reputation&lt;/a&gt;) can also see any deleted posts. (See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3267/how-can-i-turn-off-my-view-of-deleted-stuff&quot;&gt;How can I turn off my view of deleted stuff?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, to everyone except yourself and except those with access to the moderator tools, the post will not be visible—that is, it really has been deleted, even though you can still see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T03:51:56.653" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4578" CreationDate="2014-08-10T08:02:54.753" Score="10" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like to point the finger at people, but I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/38244/pushpen-paul&quot;&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt; has been making &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/38244/pushpen-paul?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;a lot of edits&lt;/a&gt; lately, many of them either incorrect or too minor, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See revision 5 on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/195610/revisions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/195610/revisions&lt;/a&gt;: the title was improved (good), but the TeXstudio tag was added and the word was made bold in the question; however, this is unwarranted because TeXstudio is sort of irrelevant here. This example is typical of his recent edit frenzy (probably a side-effect of the site's review badges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts on such edits? And, if you agree that they are questionable, what mechanisms are there to stop such an edit frenzy? Should the guy be contacted directly? If so, how? Is it up to the moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T07:37:18.160" Title="How do you stop an edit frenzy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4577" CreationDate="2014-08-11T07:37:18.160" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I've mentioned in the comments, there is no automated way to notify an editor or to otherwise 'stem' the flow of edits. This in part reflects the fact that the StackExchange model builds on the requirements of the StackOverflow site, and there the concerns we can have about 'flooding' the front page with edits simply do not apply. (They have &lt;em&gt;thousands&lt;/em&gt; of questions per day and also a different algorithm for filling the front page.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, we have to use the tools we do have if there is something to be raised. Obviously meta questions are one tool, but particularly during an ongoing 'edit spree' it's perhaps best to ping the three mods in the chat room (&lt;code&gt;@JosephWright&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;@StefanKottwitz&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;@MartinScharrer&lt;/code&gt;). Unlike 'normal' users we can chat message any user on the site, so can make a friendly request to watch the number of edits (or indeed anything else) in a short time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T07:37:18.160" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4580" CreationDate="2014-08-11T10:35:50.893" Score="5" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry for a very layman question. After trying for more than hour, I didn't succeed in writing&lt;code&gt;\unicode{f817}&lt;/code&gt;, which is a x with dot above and dot below. How we may write HERE in question ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37792" OwnerDisplayName="kaka" LastEditorUserId="37792" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T10:58:34.257" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T08:50:57.007" Title="How to write unicode letter in tex.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4579" CreationDate="2014-08-11T10:39:31.660" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use HTML entities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#xF817;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above was typed as &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#xF817;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, glyphs in the Private Use Area (PUA), that is from U+E000 to U+F8FF don't have a predefined meaning, so the output will be unpredictable. In my case, I see a “t with bar above”, but your browser could show something else (or nothing at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entity method is useful for characters outside the PUA, when you just know their code point and have no practical input method available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to get an “x with dots above and below” you can use a combining character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ẋ̣&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I typed the above by the combination &lt;code&gt;U+1E8B U+0323&lt;/code&gt;, that is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LATIN SMALL LETTER X WITH DOT ABOVE and COMBINING DOT BELOW&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can even use entities; the following was typed &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#x1E8B;&amp;amp;#x0323;&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#x1E8B;&amp;#x0323;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T10:46:04.773" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T10:46:04.773" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4571" CreationDate="2014-08-11T13:32:06.100" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there's no such possibility on StackExchange. Every post is limited to 30kB of text, and a bunch of figures, if you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Well, there's couple reasons (most of them were already summarized in the comments):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackExchange can't host large files.&lt;/strong&gt; Once you allow them, there's be a large lot of them, and that's at least very expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users aren't willing to download untrusted contents.&lt;/strong&gt; And they shouldn't be. It's not an issue with LaTeX that much, it's quite difficult to demage a computer from within a LaTeX file, but SE often deals with languages where &lt;code&gt;cat /dev/random | dd &amp;gt; SOMETHING&lt;/code&gt; can damage your computer within milliseconds. It's easy to eye-verify a short piece of code, but not large files.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's very hardly a question that can't be stated within 30kB.&lt;/strong&gt; In LaTeX, most problems are of the form: &quot;I don't know how to do XYZ,&quot; or: &quot;Using &lt;code&gt;\bar&lt;/code&gt; inside &lt;code&gt;\foo&lt;/code&gt; causes an error.&quot; Very likely, your question fits into one of these cases. The only necessary thing is to follow the steps in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE) FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and invest your own time into analyzing the problem before asking others to go through large bunches of your code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are places where you can upload a file.&lt;/strong&gt; The more creditted are e.g. Google Drive or Dropbox; for source code, GitHub can be handy, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In case you need to provide a 3rd party file.&lt;/strong&gt; It happens that for instance a university thesis class is troublesome. In that case, it's probably accessible from the university's webpages, so simply link it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Marked CW since it contains a summary of suggestions by several people.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T13:32:06.100" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-11T13:32:06.100" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4592" CreationDate="2014-08-12T02:57:09.250" Score="22" ViewCount="775" Body="&lt;p&gt;This help page on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;Serial voting reversed&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period of time, this is referred to as voting fraud. This could happen for a variety of reasons, such as a user finding a user's great answer and visiting all of their posts to upvote them, or a user getting into an argument with another user and downvoting their posts indiscriminately in revenge. No matter the cause, this sort of systematic targetting voting is not considered normal behavior and the system will not allow it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This very suspicious &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/59109/aboammar?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;string of upvotes&lt;/a&gt; was reversed a few minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5EfRg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a similar voting pattern occured the day before, &lt;strong&gt;which has not yet been reversed&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aDVHH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a few days earlier (also &lt;strong&gt;not yet reversed&lt;/strong&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tw76O.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, the vote pattern on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/195323/how-to-modify-a-sty-file/195329#195329&quot;&gt;this particular answer&lt;/a&gt; has raised some eyebrows...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the same &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;help page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it continues to happen between two users mutually or from one user towards another, or looks just plain suspicious in general, moderators and/or developers may investigate the matter. The votes involved will generally be invalidated as part of an automated process that runs every day and checks for signs of voting fraud. The votes may also be invalidated manually by the staff after an investigation. When the votes are invalidated, the reputation gain or loss from the votes is undone, which results in a record in the recipient's reputation history labelled &quot;serial upvoting reversed&quot; or &quot;serial downvoting reversed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the &quot;automated process that runs every day and checks for signs of voting fraud&quot; fail? Did the voting fraud escape the mods' attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T21:13:16.990" Title="Why didn't this obvious voting fraud get reversed?" Tags="|discussion|serial-voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4579" CreationDate="2014-08-12T08:38:27.710" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can view the characters in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Windows&lt;/strong&gt;: by opening the application &lt;a href=&quot;http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/open-character-map&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Character Map&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OS X&lt;/strong&gt;: by opening the application &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1518&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Character Palette&lt;/a&gt;, or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;X11&lt;/strong&gt;: by opening applications like &lt;a href=&quot;http://utils.kde.org/projects/kcharselect/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;KCharSelect&lt;/a&gt; if using KDE or &lt;a href=&quot;https://help.gnome.org/users/gucharmap/3.4/gucharmap-getting-started.html.en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GNOME Character Map&lt;/a&gt; if using GNOME.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="1410" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T08:50:57.007" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T08:50:57.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4584" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-12T21:03:17.423" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Serial voting is the act of casting many upvotes or downvotes on the posts of a specific user without proper reason. Such voting is abusive (also referred to as &quot;voting fraud&quot;) and is automatically detected and reversed on a daily basis; users found voting serially may be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;suspended&lt;/a&gt;.  For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T21:03:17.423" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T21:03:17.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4585" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-12T21:03:17.423" Score="0" Body="Serial voting is the act of casting many upvotes or downvotes on the posts of a specific user without proper reason. Also known as voting fraud." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T21:03:17.423" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T21:03:17.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-12T21:09:18.033" Score="7" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following review when viewed through Google Chrome:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hgSYp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the same review through Firefox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pdcA6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the same review through IE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3z6S3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Chrome and IE cut parts of the descenders off the post titles. Please fix this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Haven't tested on Safari or other browsers.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T21:14:23.423" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T21:14:23.423" Title="Post title font cut off under review queue" Tags="|bug|design|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2014-08-14T12:52:04.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that this has been discussed in other posts, but I would like to see MathJax, or equivalent, enabled on TeX.SX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arguments against seem to be that MathJax etc don't support all of TeX and that on this site we actually want to &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; the code, but I don't buy this. Currently to display the &quot;raw tex&quot; input we type &lt;code&gt;...raw TeX...&lt;/code&gt; or we indent the code. On the other hand, MathJax only operates (or could be made to operate) with the different markup of $...raw TeX...$ or $$...raw TeX...$$. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see there is no conflict in having MathJax convert basic TeX commands such as $\alpha$ to something that is friendlier to the eye --- clearly, we won't want to be able to display arbitrary TeX commands this way -- and using backticks and indentation to display the underlying code. Why can't we have the best of both worlds? Especially given the comments about &lt;em&gt;beauty&lt;/em&gt; above!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging from other posts, mine is a minority viewpoint. That's OK, I am happy to agree to disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30471" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T12:52:04.850" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2014-08-16T13:23:01.820" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to reanimate this question. We now have more than 4.000 unanswered questions and the list of them is full of questions, which have been answered in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now some folks come and delete answers, because they suffer under the delusion, a comment would be much more suitable! See here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/196636/4736&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/196636/4736&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what to do, but a list of unanswered questions, where at least half of them have an answer is of very limited use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T17:15:29.820" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4590" CreationDate="2014-08-19T16:43:46.727" Score="14" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether or not it is a local issue. Feel free to migrate to the global meta if necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience in the past, alpha-channel enabled images are displayed correctly in main site, meta site and chat rooms. But now they cannot be displayed correctly in the chat rooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the following image is well displayed here, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iSQFI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but in the chat room, it looks &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17225571#17225571&quot;&gt;odd (click)&lt;/a&gt;. Is it a bug or a new odd feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T10:31:08.590" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T10:31:08.590" Title="Why does the chat room no longer support alpha-channel enabled images?" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-completed|images|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4589" CreationDate="2014-08-20T10:15:47.130" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;What changed is that we started using imgur thumbnails by default in chat; so when you link to &lt;code&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iSQFI.png&lt;/code&gt;, we &lt;em&gt;display&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iSQFIm.png&lt;/code&gt;, but link to the original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;//i.stack.imgur.com/DmZBd.png&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;img src=&quot;//i.stack.imgur.com/DmZBdm.png&quot; class=&quot;user-image&quot; alt=&quot;user image&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;m&quot; suffix is &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.imgur.com/models/image&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;part of the imgur api&lt;/a&gt;, and generates a medium thumbnail, max 320x320 (preserving proportions) - ideal for chat... ish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be causing a few problems; I will disable this again - perhaps adding a new syntax for automatically thumbnailed images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2875" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T10:15:47.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-22T12:59:58.817" Score="20" ViewCount="820" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have a pretty complicated LaTeX figure, animated (if possible) for beamer. I'm modestly proficient in inkscape and some tikz, but can't imagine how to start this project. I suspect that if I ask for it some of the wizards here will rise to the challenge, and even enjoy it. Is it right to do that without even the beginning of an attempt of my own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I post the question should I entice people with a bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4267/our-do-it-for-me-and-draw-it-for-me-comments-dont-reflect-our-hypocrisy-can-th&quot;&gt;Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don&amp;#39;t reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T20:46:24.917" Title="&quot;Draw this for me&quot; etiquette" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4582" CreationDate="2014-08-22T21:13:16.990" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's always possible that a given case of inappropriate voting you see might look &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; legitimate enough to the vote fraud algorithm that it doesn't get automatically reversed. It's also possible that a series of downvotes in quick succession really do come from all different and respected users at coincidental times. (I wouldn't have thought so before I joined the team, but I've seen it more than once in the past year.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ever think you've spotted a situation where votes should be invalidated but haven't been after a day or two, feel free to let us know at &lt;code&gt;team@stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;. We'll always be willing to check it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T21:13:16.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4591" CreationDate="2014-08-27T12:52:28.183" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comments have convinced me that if I were to ask the question I really should provide an MWE (no matter how minimal). But in the meanwhile I've decided on another strategy entirely. If you're curious, read on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next month I'm giving a talk on the Spinor Spanner, using parts of this paper I wrote 41 years ago: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2318771?uid=3739696&amp;amp;uid=2129&amp;amp;uid=2&amp;amp;uid=70&amp;amp;uid=4&amp;amp;uid=3739256&amp;amp;sid=21104093201771&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2318771?uid=3739696&amp;amp;uid=2129&amp;amp;uid=2&amp;amp;uid=70&amp;amp;uid=4&amp;amp;uid=3739256&amp;amp;sid=21104093201771&lt;/a&gt;. I drew this picture then using ancient technology - pen and ink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cmu74.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've &quot;animated&quot; this for my talk by erasing pieces (using MS paint!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0y92E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and displaying beamer slides in succession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I still wanted the graphics in LaTeX I would suggest starting with one of the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/54193/how-to-draw-a-shaded-sphere&quot;&gt;How to draw a shaded sphere?&lt;/a&gt; . I think the rest of the picture would be hard to get right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find many nice spinor spanner animations on the web, but none that serves my particular purpose. Here's the best known: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link to my slides: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eb/ss/houdini.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eb/ss/houdini.pdf&lt;/a&gt; . Note no words - they were the talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T20:46:24.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4596" CreationDate="2014-08-28T08:47:09.820" Score="3" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;The silver badge &quot;Strunk &amp;amp; White&quot; -- Edited 80 posts is referred to Questions or Questions/Answer? I've edited more than 80 posts (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/56567/cornelius?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/56567/cornelius?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&lt;/a&gt;), but I unearned this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T22:31:30.913" Title="Strunk &amp; White badge" Tags="|support|editing|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4595" CreationDate="2014-08-28T17:18:43.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell which, but you may be short on any one of the restrictions in terms of the badge requirements. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/188732/168244&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; are the edit-related moderation badge descriptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Editor&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bronze; awarded once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit any post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;silver; awarded once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perform a total of 80 edits between questions, answers, and tag wikis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Copy Editor&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;gold; awarded once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perform a total of 500 edits between questions, answers, and tag wikis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following restrictions/requirements apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits on deleted posts do not count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to your own posts do not count (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/442/168244&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to community wiki posts &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; count (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/442/168244&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits that consist only of tag changes do not count (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/442/168244&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag wiki edits &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; count (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/442/168244&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits you suggest before gaining full edit privileges &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; count, once approved (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/76916/168244&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each edited post counts only once, regardless of how many additional edits you may submit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T17:18:43.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4598" CreationDate="2014-08-30T22:40:24.457" Score="18" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/198708/11400&quot;&gt;Prevent Texmaker from stealing focus after compiling a LaTeX document?&lt;/a&gt; received 4 close votes, all arguing that the question is off-topic on this StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt; that &quot;Related software and tools, BibTeX, MakeIndex, Lyx, etc.&quot; are on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I misread the help/on-topic page or those close votes are all wrong? I don't mind posting on SU instead, but last time I did for a similar question people advised me to post here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11400" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T06:21:31.020" Title="4 'off-topic' close votes for my question on Texmaker" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4597" CreationDate="2014-08-31T08:40:24.900" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;At present, none of the close voters have left comments on why they are voting to close. Thus the best we can do is speculate. First, I'll look at the general case I think we've got here, then move on to your question specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about (TeX-focused) editors are on topic in general, but there is an issue when an editor simply cannot do a particular thing. While we can answer questions of the form 'How do I change the settings in editor X to use tool Y?', we can't hope to give an answer to 'How do I add missing feature Z to editor X?' beyond&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a feature request for editor X: report it to the maintainer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such answers don't really add value, and so the convention is that a question which is a feature request is off-topic. (The same applies to for example out-and-out bug reports.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the question then becomes one of knowing if the post is a feature request or not: it's not always obvious. In particular, it's not always obvious that the person asking the question knew in advance that they were posting a feature request rather than believing that they'd 'missed something' in the editor. I'd therefore hope that anyone voting to close on this basis would leave a comment, and that at least some delay between a first suggestion of closing and others voting for closure would happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As altering the binaries for a program can only be done by the maintainer(s), this doesn't just apply to TeX StackExchange but to any open forum. Something like a message board run by the author of an editor/application is of course different. (As discussed in comments, when I say the changes 'can' only be made by the maintainer I'm thinking primarily that in order for a change to get into an official release of an editor the maintainer has to be happy to add it. Individuals may be allowed to modify the source of the editor they use and recompile it, depending on the license which applies, but the skills needed for this are not on-topic for our site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at your specific question in this light, I note that other (La)TeX editors I've used which have a 'stand alone' preview window also expect the focus to switch to that window at the end of the compile cycle. That applies both to ones where the preview binary is separate (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; WinEdt + Sumatra) and those where it's all one binary (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; TeXworks). At least in part I suspect that's because otherwise it might be tricky to know when the compile finished, if you've switched away, but also because a lot of programs seem to grab the focus when they refresh, a step that is needed to show the updated PDF. As such, without a clear statement on &lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; the Texmaker website that such a feature is available, I'd say your question does seem to fall into the 'feature request' category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-09-01T06:21:31.020" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T06:21:31.020" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-31T15:47:30.583" Score="7" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen questions and answers posting output from latex that appear to blend in well with the site. In looking at the html/css underlying these posts, it appears that all that is required is to block quote the image and supply an image with a transparent background. When I produce a pdf and clip a portion of the screen, the resulting image has a white background and looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tTfOi.png&quot; alt=&quot;romanurl&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rather than, like this (using a transparent background image):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hm2gC.png&quot; alt=&quot;anotherromanurl&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to capture latex output for use in questions/answers and is it best practice to block quote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61607" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T17:34:01.693" Title="What is the best method to capture latex output for questions and answers?" Tags="|support|answers|questions|formatting|best-practice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4599" CreationDate="2014-08-31T19:53:20.137" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to do this, since one can display transparency as an overlay against another background as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is purely up to personal preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I peruse the StackExchange network through Google Chrome. This allows me to copy-and-paste images directly via the image insertion capability (&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;G&lt;/kbd&gt;); no need for saving the image and uploading it - it's fast. However, this loses the capability to insert images that &quot;blend in nicely&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T19:53:20.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4605" CreationDate="2014-09-01T02:31:34.637" Score="12" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/epslatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;epslatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;epslatex&lt;/a&gt; tag? I was under the impression that &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/info/epslatex/english/epslatex.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;epslatex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is just a document (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt;, not a package) describing how images and graphics have worked in (La)TeX in the past and present, but is there something else that &lt;code&gt;epslatex&lt;/code&gt; refers to? If not, should the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/epslatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;epslatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;epslatex&lt;/a&gt; tag just be merged (or made a synonym of) the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eps&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T11:05:04.643" Title="What is the epslatex tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4599" CreationDate="2014-09-01T17:34:01.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took a little digging, but this approach works...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, there needs to be some latex (save as somefile.tex):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[12pt, preview]{standalone}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\Huge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function\_(mathematics)&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, turn the latex into a pdf:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdflatex somefile.tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then convert the pdf to png:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;convert -density 300 somefile.pdf -quality 90 somefile.png&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, create a block quote with the resulting png:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CeuEO.png&quot; alt=&quot;nicelookinglatex&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sure looks better than the alternative:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oFaPr.png&quot; alt=&quot;notnicelookinglatex&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61607" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T17:34:01.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-01T20:25:11.133" Score="4" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I make an account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/welcome-to-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX!&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;page suggests &quot;please consider registering your account&quot;, without saying how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I start from&#xA;tex.stackexchange.com&#xA;the option &quot;help&quot; presents me with the &quot;Help Center&quot; page,&#xA;but even the &quot;2-minute tour&quot; does not say how to register.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Google, I found&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/creating-accounts&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/creating-accounts&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/login-add&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/users/login-add&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and the &quot; Add a login using Google&quot;&#xA;takes me to the &quot;Top Questions&quot; site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11708" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T06:06:15.147" Title="How to make an account?" Tags="|support|new-users|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4603" CreationDate="2014-09-02T04:38:44.920" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand it, the technique is to click on the &quot;log in&quot; link in the top bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zrIZH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then log in using the same credentials you used on the source site (where you should have an existing account). This should automatically merge the two accounts (associate them with one another) and re-unite any migrated posts waiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have an account anywhere on the StackExchange network, click on &quot;sign up&quot; and follow the instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T04:38:44.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4601" CreationDate="2014-09-03T11:05:04.643" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/epslatex&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/epslatex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;shows that the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/epslatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;epslatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;epslatex&lt;/a&gt; are about gnuplot's epslatex output (which generates an EPS file with a tex fragment with a picture environment overlaying latex typeset text).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I just edited the tag wiki to say that is what the tag is for....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/epslatex/info&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/epslatex/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T11:05:04.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-04T10:11:21.030" Score="12" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the lights of increase in the number of questions without MWE, I was wondering how can we encourage the users to provide MWE prior to submitting the questions. Considering that in many cases these questions are asked by users who do not know about MWE and they will learn about it by the comments that they receive, I have an idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about adding a fade text to the question box and asking the users to include MWE. We gave guidelines about the titles, why not doing the same for the body of the questions. Something in the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xx9KJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be applied to other stackexchange siblings like stackoverflow (mcve) as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T17:55:03.893" Title="How about encouraging the users to provide MWE before asking questions?" Tags="|feature-request|asking-questions|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2014-09-04T20:54:03.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish or have published previously on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mikko Korpela&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23160" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T20:54:03.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-06T05:50:15.863" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Not really sure this question belongs here. But I'll give it a shot anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to use &lt;code&gt;myopenid.com&lt;/code&gt; for identifying on the SX network, and liked it. Now that it's gone, I'm using another provider (never mind which exactly), but it's not quite what I'm looking for. I need a provider which is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Free to use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is non-commercial, or at least, has a relatively harmless business model (e.g. showing you ads on the landing page or something silly like that).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is stable and available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can be expected to exist for a few years forward.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a relatively 'upstanding' image.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is highly unlikely to be sending all logs to the NSA, and more generally not evil (so, not Google or Yahoo or any of those).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is not part of some social network website.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last criterion is a must, since I'm connecting from behind a corporate firewall which is likely to block sites like my current provider; and so is the next-to-last criterion, for moral/political reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T05:50:15.863" Title="Need an OpenID provider meeting certain criteria for identifying on SX sites" Tags="|support|login|openid|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4611" CreationDate="2014-09-08T00:44:45.747" Score="14" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I was surprised to receive a comment suggesting that I replace JPG images with PNGs. I was surprised because the images I had uploaded had been PNGs. Moreover, the originals were still on my computer and there were no JPGs. (So I know that I am not just going crazy and exporting to the wrong format. At least, if craziness it be, I'm sufficiently crazy to probably be asking you about pea soup despite believing I'm asking you about marigolds.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under what conditions does the site do this? I'm guessing it has to do with the size of the image but I'd like confirmation and to know the exact criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post which triggered the comment was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/199993/39222&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. The images there now are PNGs because I uploaded three new images, reducing the scale to reduce the file size. These seem to have stayed PNGs which further suggests to me that size may be a key factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T02:50:35.320" Title="When does the site convert PNGs to JPGs?" Tags="|support|images|imgur|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4610" CreationDate="2014-09-08T02:49:42.180" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems status-by-design with IMGUR. That is when the size of the image reaches some threshold, conversion to JPG is automatically initiated. The threshold seem to be around 1MB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.userecho.com/topic/93338-png-file-changes-to-jpg-when-uploaded/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an external reference&lt;/a&gt; to a discussion on one of IMGUR's forums:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;PNG file changes to JPG when uploaded&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Posted by Kiana Gordon, updated Jan 28, 2012&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to upload a PNG image, but when I do so Imgur changes the file to JPG, even after stating it is PNG while uploading it.  It only ever does it on the one image.  I can upload smaller ones as PNG and they remain that when uploaded, but the file that keeps changing is only 0.98MB.  I read that the max size for a PNG file is 2MB, so why is it changing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really need it as PNG as I need the transparency.  Not to mention that the quality is severely diminished as a JPG file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer by Sushubh Mittal, Jan 28, 2012&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The maximum non-animated file size you can upload is 10MB. However, if the image is over 1MB then it will automatically be compressed or resized to 1MB, for better viewing on the net. The maximum animated file size (both GIF and PNG) is 2MB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PNG around 1MB are getting optimized I guess. You might try to drop the filesize a bit more before uploading to IMGUR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer by Sarah, Jan 30, 2012&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the inconvenience. This is by design. When a PNG is too big, it gets converted to a JPG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T02:49:42.180" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4613" CreationDate="2014-09-09T21:28:35.647" Score="10" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across the new (???) &lt;code&gt;Reject and Edit&lt;/code&gt; button on the 'Suggested edits' review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DeqH6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have (sorry!) multiple questions on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When was it introduced? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it TeX.SX - only?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who used &lt;code&gt;Reject and Edit&lt;/code&gt; so far? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there some feedback possibility to the user making the suggested edit, as I (and perhaps others too) requested (e.g. have a look on a previous question of mine:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4441/suggested-edits-giving-feedback-to-editor&quot;&gt;Suggested edits: Giving feedback to editor&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T17:38:38.047" Title="New button on 'Suggested edits' review" Tags="|discussion|review-page|suggested-edits|new-features|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4612" CreationDate="2014-09-10T04:02:07.257" Score="9" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was introduced on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/214543/168244&quot;&gt;September 5th, 2014&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/227991/168244&quot;&gt;live across the entire Stack Exchange network&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've used it once. The motivation for providing this options stems from the ease with which certain insignificant edits are considered helpful when the moderation requires additional edits. That is, when someone makes an edit that the moderator (anyone with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit privilege&lt;/a&gt;) feels is insufficient, the default &amp;quot;This edit was helpful&amp;quot; used to be pre-selected. So, if nothing was done by the moderator, the edit was considered helpful (scoring the editor +2 rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was felt that there should be a default &amp;quot;This edit was not helpful, yet a larger edit is in order&amp;quot; option, bringing forth the &amp;quot;Reject and Edit&amp;quot; button we see today. Click on the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239157/168244&quot;&gt;Improve edit&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; (also new, as of 2014-09-10) option to consider it both helpful and requiring more edit-worthy juice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No. For this you should follow the &amp;quot;Reject&amp;quot; option, where you can provide the editor with some feedback (either a canned or manual response).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above changes to the Suggested Edits review is accompanied with the following additions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-09-08: &amp;quot;Too minor&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/238039/168244&quot;&gt;was removed from the suggested edits reject reasons list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T17:38:38.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4615" CreationDate="2014-09-10T14:31:43.180" Score="11" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;after absence for a day i returned to checking what had happened while i was gone.&#xA;a question that i knew i had seen earlier reported &quot;asked yesterday&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8X5LY.png&quot; alt=&quot;signature block from referenced question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the date shown, on a mouse-over, is &quot;2014-09-08 19:25:37Z&quot;.&#xA;since it is now september 10 where i am (&quot;2014-09-10 14:31:43Z&quot; reported for the time of posting, though not of the edit to enter this info), and i &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; see this on september 8, albeit&#xA;late in the afternoon, surely more than 24&amp;nbsp;hours has elapsed at the host site, and&#xA;i would expect to see a more specific date.  what's up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the question referred to is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/200224/579&quot;&gt;Labelling aligned equations with text&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T19:05:04.227" Title="why does &quot;asked yesterday&quot; persist after more than 24 hours?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4614" CreationDate="2014-09-10T18:17:39.493" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;. Based on the current time of 2014-09-10 14:31:43Z,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;today&quot; is defined to be the time range 2014-09-09 14:31:44Z to 2014-09-10 14:31:43Z (or the past 24 hours) and is listed in a &quot;just now&quot;, &quot;Xs ago&quot;, &quot;X mins ago&quot; or &quot;X hours ago&quot; fashion;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;yesterday&quot; is defined to be the time range 2014-09-08 14:31:44Z to 2014-09-09 14:31:43Z (or between 48-24 hours ago);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;times prior to 2014-09-08 14:31:44Z (or more than 48 hours ago) will be listed in a &quot;X days ago&quot; fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time stamp 2014-09-08 19:25:37Z falls within the &quot;yesterday&quot; category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As reference, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/27199/168244&quot;&gt;current UTC time&lt;/a&gt; can be obtained by clicking on Achievements in the Top Bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7D5gw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T18:35:23.233" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4645" CreationDate="2014-09-11T15:25:58.207" Score="18" ViewCount="776" Body="&lt;p&gt;On TeX.SX we can help other people use TeX and friends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;what are some ways we can use TeX and friends to help other people?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most users here, it seems, are typesetting research theses, articles, reports, curricula vitae for their own use. I would like to know, first, if anyone here is using TeX to benefit someone else, preferably not for pay. Second, I would like to poll for ideas for how this could be done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we like LaTeX, ConText, etc. instead of proprietary document-production systems, and we think that convincing people to use our system will improve their lives. (Whether that's true for everyone is a separate discussion.) But I am looking for &lt;strong&gt;other ideas than simply promoting TeX.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For example,&lt;/strong&gt; one might be able to help a church set up a better system for producing bulletins or orders of worship, by using a LaTeX template linked to a database of the Scripture readings and Lilypond files for the music clips. The problem with this idea, though, would be teaching a busy church staff member to maintain the system, and keeping it simple and robust enough to be used for a long time by multiple maintainers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be great if &lt;strong&gt;comments&lt;/strong&gt; on the answers addressed such practical concerns with implementing each idea, including pointing to existing packages that could be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastEditorUserId="56233" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T15:48:40.223" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T14:06:52.183" Title="Using TeX to help others" Tags="|discussion|community|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4616" CreationDate="2014-09-12T06:26:29.813" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can not expect others give you ideas or solve practical issues pointing packages etc... That totally depend on the application and each application has different requirements. Not to mention that every time humans are involved you have to consider their ability to use the tool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll give you a practical example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an application I've recently developed for a friend who manages a hotel/restaurant. In this period of the year they have junior sport teams retreats. They need to know in advance what people is gonna eat, so they provide to the teams menus. Kids are may and don't eat a variety of things, so in the past they managed to print 6 menus per page. They were doing this with a well known commercial software and, honestly, that wasn't much practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, coming to the point, how to speed up things here? With LaTeX, obviously. Basically, I created a simple graphical interface&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hSMsQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that allows to select dishes from a database. This is possible with very limited knowledge of PHP and MySQL. Pressing submit, the interface redirects to a confirmation page &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkExc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but in background it creates, with LaTeX, a PDF: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kBMSQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source file is just create on the way on the basis of information provided (dishes, number of menus and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although there's LaTeX in background, the guys don't need to know anything about LaTeX. They just press few buttons of a ''traditional'' web page. And this really improved their workflow: no need of Word templates to re-arrange every time, the process is way faster and, most important &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;, they have guidelines to cut the menus (thanks TikZ, and &lt;code&gt;background&lt;/code&gt; package as well). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The experiment was very positive and now they're thinking to have an update to handle other types of menu more complicated and fancy than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T06:26:29.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4621" CreationDate="2014-09-12T13:17:26.013" Score="8" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/200836/tikz-how-can-i-draw-a-line-through-a-point-on-a-line-with-the-new-line-perpen/200841#200841&quot;&gt;TikZ - How can I draw a line through a point on a line, with the new line perpendicular to the old line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sUlVC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reply, while theoretically correct and probably quite sound and working, not related to the topic. It already has 3 upvotes. How should one deal with this, if at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not &quot;hang around&quot; SX a lot but I've noticed on some subsites anyway: that ideas/concepts of alternative software, which was not mentioned by the op, suddenly gets many upvotes. So, mods, should one flag it or rather ignore it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T07:21:58.450" Title="Sometimes I wonder if there are some marketing people or trolls around" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4619" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4620" CreationDate="2014-09-12T17:08:38.493" Score="7" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of days ago, the following question was put on hold as off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/125175/how-to-get-xelatex-unicode-math-output-as-close-as-possible-to-that-of-pdfla#comment465165_125175&quot;&gt;How to get &amp;quot;XeLaTeX + unicode-math&amp;quot; output as close as possible to that of pdflatex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked this question over a year ago to solve a real problem I faced at the time. It is no longer strictly relevant to me, but I do not see why it should be closed. It may become useful to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling the voters were a bit overzealous. I had a short discussion about this in the comments with tohecz. In the end he wasn't sure either. To summarize: it seems to me the question is on-topic, not subjective, and follows all the rules. The most that can be said is that it does not have an answer yet, or that the proper answer might be &lt;em&gt;&quot;There is no way to do this.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd be happy to be educated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T18:33:52.997" Title="Does this question qualify as off-topic? Does it violate any rules at all?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4619" CreationDate="2014-09-12T18:33:52.997" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what its worth I think it's a reasonable question which may not have a completely reasonable answer, but several partial answers, from using classic fonts instead of unicode math fonts to get exactly the same output to choosing a &quot;close&quot; unicode font to moaning at Will (see github:-) at places where unicode-math could perhaps be more compatible than it is.  Are you looking for reopen votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T18:33:52.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4618" CreationDate="2014-09-13T07:21:58.450" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As none answers this question and based on the given comments above, here the summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As long as the answer shows an alternative approach to solve the problem, it is fine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't abuse the flag button. Instead, just ignore it by optionally clicking the up vote button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T07:21:58.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-14T21:05:50.957" Score="51" ViewCount="1489" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ahem, this is going to be a rough one, so it's gonna be a long one too ala Pascal's famous quote. First, some context; we have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4541/&quot;&gt;How to deal with robo-reviewers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4045/&quot;&gt;Should we have a Grace period to avoid premature Voting to Close and Reopening Cycle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and more)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This thing is bothering me for some time already, especially after the migration of many users who do more or less exclusively reviewing on the site but not much of actual content contribution. Not that I am dismissing or underestimating the effort that goes in but there is a fine line between having a lust-driven relationship with review buttons and actually reviewing the questions properly (which means once in a while clicking that $%$%^#&amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;Skip&lt;/strong&gt; button if you don't have any idea about the subject). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun fact; I have tried a few identification experiments such that I found a recently closed question and then voted for reopening (i've chosen closed-with-valid-reasoning ones to maximize the effect) and some users who actually voted for closing also voted for reopening. Now no need for calling names for this but, if you excuse my French, this is bullock-cart-pulling-bullshit (emphasis is mine). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't know why you hang out here but I like being borderline useful while learning a lot. Also, as a recent-beginner of Python and Linux, I really feel the pain of some of the users that ask quick questions with haste because sometimes you really don't know what else to do and having copy/pasted every damn solution on SO or any other place, it quickly becomes a mess. Last thing you need is to put &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;-propeller-powered-jetillion nuances/rituals about what the site rules are or whatever the forum owners' girlfriend implemented somewhere. With a little bit of effort and gentle nudges, most new users give in without any sour feeling and make a MWE, it takes time and patience and we have a lot of it in here. Or had. Now all I see is dictating comments on how things operate here and &lt;em&gt;if you don't obey my warning, I'll call my mod brother and he'll whoop yo ass.&lt;/em&gt; attitude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hang on; another thing needs to be out-of-the-way; There are these things called Stackexchange network rules, nobody knows who come up with them and why but in their own environement they make sense (I hope). And through some law-abiding-never-law-questioning citizens of that network we are introduced to these things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a recent one that claims that I'm not informed well about a site that I'm not even registered see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4514/&quot;&gt;Consensus vs accepted answers on meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if this means that powers that be actually dictate what we are doing here then, first, it goes against the notion of community-driven Q&amp;amp;A site, second, I am out of this place, in the first instance (which has no impact of course but I'm out anyway). It bears no threat value just my opinion. The reason is that I didn't sign up for this, and truly I don't care what owner of SE network thinks about TeX-SX. All I know is that, there are users who really dedicate their time and patience to come up with the wittiest solutions that we all see and also there are these review-people who click on the buttons like crazy in the name of some obscure nonsense that is maybe applicable to a humongous site that is called Stackoverflow that bares no resemblance to this site, I mean, in any possible statistical aspect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My argument goes like this; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our number of question intake is not changing dramatically, so we were OK with not closing every question in 2 hours --&gt; We will be OK without closing them in 2 hours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our number of active users is amazing including those review-junkees, even spams don't last longer than a few 5-minutes --&gt; No need to fear about the unanswered/asked ratio, we are doing pretty good without closing them like crazy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New users were getting confused already with stock comments --&gt; Now they are more pissed off in average (based on my observation so no facts here) But this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/200168/&quot;&gt;Why is \rotate useless in deluxetable?&lt;/a&gt; believe it or not closed twice! Not once. We reopened it David wrote an answer and we closed it again. (The OP mentioned closing already but no we have to be faster, modern world doesn't wait, so in your face noobie, don't come back again)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The close voters don't read the comments or any discussion going on under the question or answers. To be honest they don't read at all as far as I understand. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This sucks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These close-voting-users however become the unofficial saint-of-the-noobs when they vote for suggested edits. Suddenly every edit ranging from very good ones to oh-it-was-my-screen-having-dust-not-an-actual-comma type of microscopic edits. All pass with flying colors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Closing remark&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are so eager to contribute, answer dem questions properly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of one of the pillars of TeX-SX : &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12/&quot;&gt;Vote early and often!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Review Late and Rarely!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, after all this tasteless rant, here is my actual problem; I'm tired of keeping track of wrongly closed questions or questions with threatening comments under them. I don't know any other way than actually pointing fingers to users which would cause even more bitter taste so question is how can we (assuming that I'm not the only one feeling this strange transition) reach out to these users without creating a primary school level snitching-to-mod game? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really want to get the attention of those frequent-voting users because I think we can arrive to a better understanding (though it seems difficult if they are high on badges and euphoric on their name up on the The Most Awesome Reviewer list). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Afteredit on an important detail&lt;/strong&gt; The reason why I seem to have a tone that targets individuals is because I don't expect the powers-that-be to unimplement this review system anytime soon. So the only way to change this situation is through reviewer behavior. Had this system not in place, they wouldn't be able to vote this quickly and erroneously. Hence while it is true that I speak mostly about reviewers, the target is indirectly and essentially these buttons that amplify and encourage careless reviewing behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T17:17:57.283" Title="Reviewers; what do you eat for breakfast?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="57" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4622" CreationDate="2014-09-19T08:19:07.777" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Executive summary' of the following answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The key aim of reading questions is to help the asker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting to close is thus (usually) something to do after comments or similar to improve questions have failed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rapid closing is ideally aimed at clear cases such as questioner agreeing, spam, massively off-topic, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minimal working examples (MWEs) are a useful part of this process but are not a 'requirement' nor always needed to understand a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking for a MWE is partly a way of helping the questioner help themselves: once they can do this, they are likely to be able to solve more problems themselves&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the questioner in mind: we were all beginners once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite what a 'real' answer here would be I'm not sure, but I think a summary of the consensus from the comments would be in some way useful. Before I do that, though, I'd like to observe that the question has a good number of votes (23 at the time of writing) and so presumably the concern raised is shared by a spectrum of 'active' users. (We know of course that votes on meta are a bit tricky to interpret.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to me to be two parts to the question: one part about closing votes, a second about comments on questions, and both have interesting comments here. I'll therefore try to each both of them and summarise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of voting to close, the general feeling seems to be that there is no need to rush to vote to close questions. Over time, some questions can indeed be closed, for example when clarity is never achieved, the problem clearly resolves to a minor issue (typo, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;), or for many other reasons. However, that doesn't mean that they have to be closed quickly. The latter action is something that the review queues do seem to encourage: they tend to pick up questions not long after asking, and it's then rather easy to vote to close without giving things time. In particular, and perhaps one that we might get the dev team to consider, it's notable that the buttons to vote to close questions in the queue come at the top of the page, making it rather easy to vote without reading the question, any comments, and answers. Moving the button might be a good idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with many things on the site, there are badges for reviewing, and there is at least some likelihood that a certain amount of motivation to review quickly comes from this. That's not just been raised as a concern here: it's come up on the main meta site too. At the moment, I can't say I see any change by the Powers being likely, so we have to adopt a sensible approach to reviewing (see below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the comments front, the main concern is about asking minimal working examples (MWEs). Experience suggests that most of the time a MWE is useful in dealing with a question: they help track down errors, give clear demonstrations of what's happening and so on. At the same time, there are perfectly clear questions that don't require a MWE. Importantly, asking for a MWE is a &lt;em&gt;request&lt;/em&gt; to the questioner to help us to help them: it's certainly not a requirement for asking a question. Hopefully the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; get this about right, but we can always revise them. (Of course, everyone is free to write comments however they like: the pre-written text is just there as a handy reference, really.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this area, it's perhaps worth noting something that happened when the close reasons got revised to drop the old 'too localized' and bring in 'unclear' plus custom 'off topic' reasons. The mod team can add a small number of custom 'off topic' reasons to the standard list, and as part of the roll-out the developers added some suggestions. One they put was 'off topic as there is no MWE' (or words to that effect), which the mod team didn't adopt. Over all, lacking a MWE is fine if the question can be understood, so the mod team reasoned that questions which need a MWE but never get one are 'unclear' and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; 'off-topic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overall approach that's been taken to date on the site to trying to improve 'sub-optimal' questions rather than closing them: after all, the idea of reading questions is to try to help the person asking. As such, the approach most users have taken is that voting to close is something to do &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; you've tried to guide the questioner to make things clear, and only when that seems to have failed. Of course, there are questions which are massively off-topic, where the OP agrees to them being closed and so on, and those can all get dealt with quickly. For a lot of questions, though, what is best is a bit of patience in helping the questioner to help us to help them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T16:25:39.630" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4622" CreationDate="2014-09-19T17:17:57.283" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we have seen from the comments, every detail leads to another full blown discussion and I am not the TeX-SX correspondant so I'll try to be a user again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there is user involvement that might lead to confrontation and since we are extremely avoiding it, I have to be very careful with the sentences I am using. Otherwise it starts to get dissected and my point gets lost. Since it has some upvotes and zero reviewer answers here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait actually there is a cute one but not so useful; I initially mentioned that instead of chasing down close votes I would rather prefer having my usual TikZ porn and this is a response&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have no time to discuss with you, sorry. I will not answer your question on meta. Good luck with your TikZ porn. I am not deciding in the name of everyone... I am rewiewing in my proper name, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lovely. So coming back to the essential reason of this whole long, long post is this last bit in the response. But anyway no need to make it personal; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reviews are not our personal toys, they are, no matter how terribly implemented, here for site moderation and consistency.  They define what is proper and suitable and what is not. They are also exemplary for future visitors to give an idea why a question is closed or why something is edited, retagged. You can't be on your own clicking buttons and not taking null responsibility. But from the look of it, we have no incentive to handle this so this opens for a possibility of everybody hanging around according to their leisure. This is a stronger version of the subtle question I've posted initially. So now we can put it on the table more suitably. This would undoubtedly cause a lot of trouble. If we are smelling the smoke, it won't help if we keep saying that it's still not that hot around here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking for MWE is, with all my respect, getting super-annoying. Here is a simple test; ask yourself this &lt;strong&gt;Am I going to answer this question if the user actually includes a MWE?&lt;/strong&gt; If your answer is no then don't bother commenting. The potential answerer can do the same. You are really really not helping. And it is not making anything easier. Because if you see it under every question, it loses its effect (already lost but nevermind).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions are unclear if the OP responds to and still doesn't include information. If two users are interacting, it's not your call to decide on the question. Stop marking every question as unclear. They are not. There is no time limit for a question it can be open for years. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you will invoke a &lt;em&gt;I'm keeping the site tidy&lt;/em&gt; argument, then start joining our Answer the Unanswered sessions. There you will have ample amount of happy-trigger satisfaction. No need to slam the questions to the users' faces. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this clarifies a bit about my point. Please come to the chat instead of commenting to this one because apparently this post didn't make any impact so no need for further surgery. Of course you are free to do so but I'm a little reluctant to reply to avoid extensive commenting (see above). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T17:17:57.283" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2544" CreationDate="2014-09-20T18:37:53.333" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This still hasn’t been worked out and I (doncherry) was about to ask the same question as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Status quo&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as of 2014-09-20:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;: {books} is for questions which deal with books about TeX, LaTeX and other topics of this site. […]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tutorials&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tutorials&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tutorials&lt;/a&gt;: Should be used when asking about obtaining tutorials, how-tos, introductory books etc. For questions about writing such material, use the tag {documentation} instead. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;: {documentation} is about the writing of *TeX package documentation and packages designed for documenting *TeX code, e.g. ltxdoc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt;: synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Problems&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;None of the opinions at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1751/tags-about-documentation&quot;&gt;Tags about documentation&lt;/a&gt; is followed regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;, although most of the top questions are not about the writing of documentation, but about existing (or not) pieces of documentation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we’re hypothetically accepting the current wiki meaning of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;, then:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt; shouldn’t be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don’t have a tag for package documentation – not writing it, but e.g. obtaining it, about some specific piece of documentation …&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Proposal&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the de facto-meaning of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; and change its wiki accordingly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation-writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation-writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation-writing&lt;/a&gt; and retag the few questions where it’s necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would rather have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manuals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manuals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manuals&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tutorials&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tutorials&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tutorials&lt;/a&gt;, but this didn’t seem to be the consensus at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1751/tags-about-documentation&quot;&gt;Tags about documentation&lt;/a&gt;, so we can keep that the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T18:37:53.333" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-09-20T18:37:53.333" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4627" CreationDate="2014-09-21T13:54:53.493" Score="16" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not certain whether something has changed but I don't remember running out of votes for comments in the past. At least, I certainly don't remember running out of them at all often. Then yesterday, I ran out of votes and was told I would have more in 1 hour. Today, I have run out and been told I cannot vote on comments again for 11 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many votes can I use for comments in what period of time? And how can I check how many votes I have left so as to conserve them for the most important uses when I am running low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I'm tending to comment when I would have up-voted a comment but this results in unnecessarily cluttering the comments. I'd like to be able to watch the number of votes I have. In that case, if I'm running out of votes, I could reserve those remaining for cases where I don't otherwise want to comment myself, and refrain from up-voting when I am planning to comment anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T16:05:09.743" Title="What limits are there on voting on comments and how do I tell how many votes I have used?" Tags="|support|comments|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2014-09-23T10:12:17.770" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was asked by Werner to write an answer, although I am not sure if the question is not already answered by the links Torbjørn T. provided and in the short comment by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each site on StackExchange has a daily voting limit for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts in the sense of questions and answers -- the limit is 40 votes per day, divided into 30 QA - votes (on questions and answers) and additional 10 Q - votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this question is not about badges, the explanation for the &lt;code&gt;Vox Populi&lt;/code&gt; - badge shows some background information here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments -- the limit is 30 votes per day, explained more detailed here:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17364/how-does-comment-voting-and-flagging-work&quot;&gt;How does comment voting and flagging work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, there is no way to see how many comment votes have been consumed for a current day, there was a question on Meta.SX about a year ago,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qaqTW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/186767/how-to-find-the-number-of-comment-votes-remaining-today&quot;&gt;How to find the number of comment votes remaining today?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a meta site is basically a site of its own, with own badges (but no separate reputation count), the same vote count limits hold for the meta site as well.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference in vote counts can be seen, for example, on my today's vote bank account, the snapshots are taken at the same time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vYCCG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Meta.TeX.SX&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fRcDR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T16:05:09.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-26T16:53:59.110" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I refreshed the page, but no change.  Note that there are no non-empty queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kqbN5.png&quot; alt=&quot;scrshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastActivityDate="2014-09-27T18:32:29.837" Title="What is this [4] doing there next to [review]?" Tags="|support|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4628" CreationDate="2014-09-27T18:32:29.837" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you now have more than 10K reputation, the number in the status bar no longer displays the number of reviews in &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; queue, but the number of questions currently in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; queue, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/212225&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/212225&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is in addition to the caching issue Werner pointed out, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266018&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266018&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16855" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-09-27T18:32:29.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4644" CreationDate="2014-09-29T02:09:39.000" Score="35" ViewCount="568" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a TUG member myself, this question does not strictly apply to me. But, I was reading some pages on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG website&lt;/a&gt; and noticed the following benefit of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/instmem.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;institutional membership&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition, institutions may have site-wide electronic access to the members area, without needing accounts for individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can our site's users (who are not TUG members themselves) realize this benefit? Is there a special account that should be used? If so, where can this information be found?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, are there any problems with the fact that our &quot;institution&quot; is public and community-based, hence any posting of this account information here makes it essentially public knowledge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-09-29T02:24:27.200" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T20:43:42.367" Title="How can users of our site (who are not TUG members) utilize the site-wide members area benefit of our TUG institutional membership?" Tags="|discussion|tug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4634" CreationDate="2014-09-29T08:34:01.883" Score="13" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is there a length limit on edits? One con to the limit is that it's not possible to correct some simple typos e.g. 'ture' for 'true'. Are there pros that outweigh this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="451" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-09-29T15:42:58.457" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T06:05:37.880" Title="Edit length limits" Tags="|discussion|editing|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4633" CreationDate="2014-09-29T19:13:33.200" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;All day, I have been unable to display any graphics that are included in tex.stackexchange questions and answers.  I figured there was something scrogged on the website and that it would remedy itself.  Now, 9 hours later, as questions continue to be asked and answered, I'm not sure if it is a website issue or if my system is merely blocking graphics from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the here and now question concerns the current issue, the more general question would be how does one learn of website functional status from the website itself?  Is there a place I can check to see if the website thinks itself to be fully operational?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25858" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T19:48:59.683" Title="tex.sx Website Status" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4632" CreationDate="2014-09-29T19:48:59.683" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Network-wide status is viewable on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackstatus.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Network Status&lt;/a&gt; (or on &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackStatus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for images not loading, on occasion... this is something that is independent of the SE network, as images are embedded from the host. So, if IMGUR is experiencing connectivity issues, it will most likely translate to you experiencing image viewing problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Troubleshooting could include restarting your browser, clearing the cache, or even viewing the contents through another browser. If none of these techniques yield any clue to why things aren't working the way they're supposed to, enter the lion's den on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/tavern-on-the-meta&quot;&gt;the Tavern&lt;/a&gt; and query the &quot;Who's Who&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T19:48:59.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4631" CreationDate="2014-09-30T06:05:37.880" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the limit on edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users with 2K+ reputation: These users have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit privilege&lt;/a&gt;, implying they can make edits without it requiring approval by peers;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users with &amp;lt; 2K reputation: These users are subject to peer-reviewed edits (by those above) &lt;em&gt;that should be substantive&lt;/em&gt;. Substantive here means at &amp;quot;at least 6 characters&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the motivation behind this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/77257/168244&quot;&gt;put into perspective by the SE founder Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a &amp;lt; 2k rep user, you should make reasonably substantive edits. The approval cost for your edit is not free, as it costs the attention of one or more users who have to look at your edit and think about it. This cost is high for extremely trivial edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will not be changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to make single-character trivial edits, earn 2k rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are a small community relative to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; and friends, and therefore mentioning &amp;quot;it costs the attention of one or more users who have to looad at your edit and think about it. This cost is high&amp;quot; seems like a non-issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the downside, some users who experience the gain in reputation from suggesting an approved edit (+2) sometimes do go crazy and suggest like it's nobody's business. Yes, incentives drive people to do this. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with your mention of the con to edit-limits, because the downside of a lot of small problems (like typos) leaves you with exactly that - a bunch of posts with small problems in them. There doesn't seem to be much upside to this edit-limit from your perspective (having &amp;lt; 2K reputation), but perhaps that's just it: earn the privilege through reputation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other options and/or opinions have been put forth and are worth the read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340/5764&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/122567/168244&quot;&gt;Allow non-bumping minor edits, but review them on /review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/116809/168244&quot;&gt;The flip side of no minor edits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/81520/168244&quot;&gt;How to overcome &amp;quot;Edits must be at least 6 characters&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/74430/168244&quot;&gt;Why are trivial edits discouraged?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/82865/168244&quot;&gt;Should tiny edits be accepted or rejected in review?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T06:05:37.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-30T10:51:40.730" Score="18" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know, I have too many badges, but since I'm aiming at 1000+ silver badges, the way the number of badges is shown in answers (for questions I can't tell) is annoying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hOAEh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, it shows 1625 bronze badges less than I actually have. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for comparison, here's the appearance for a well known StackOverflow user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9RBEE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="32245" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T07:03:30.457" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T07:03:30.457" Title="Bug in answerer's identity picture" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1951" CreationDate="2014-10-03T23:40:14.420" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything looks fine to me, using FF 22.0 on OSX.  I marking this is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-norepro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-norepro&lt;/a&gt;, not because it didn't happen, but because there's nothing to de bug anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T23:40:14.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2014-10-05T15:40:08.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law. Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T15:40:08.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2014-10-06T07:55:33.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JB&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T07:55:33.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-06T10:27:16.067" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite frequently see old questions reappear on the front page of TeX questions, under which it says &quot;modified Xm ago&quot;. Here's a current example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KQoZj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I look at the question, in this case &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/194808/an-error-with-xelatex-and-fontspec&quot;&gt;An Error with XeLaTeX and fontspec&lt;/a&gt;, I can't see any new activity whatsoever. I see this quite often (in this case it says it was modified by 'Community', but it often has a user's name there as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain what's going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T18:06:07.400" Title="Why do old questions suddenly reappear as recently modified?" Tags="|support|questions|community-user|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4640" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-10-06T16:49:03.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community ♦ user is an automated user agent that helps maintain Stack Exchange sites through various automated processes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;Who is the Community user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T16:49:03.307" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T16:49:03.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4641" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-10-06T16:49:03.307" Score="0" Body="For questions about the user named Community ♦ present on Stack Exchange sites." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T16:49:03.307" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T16:49:03.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4639" CreationDate="2014-10-06T18:06:07.400" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community user periodically &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19739/155160&quot;&gt;bumps unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; to get more eyeballs on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There (probably) are other ways a question could get &quot;bumped&quot; by a regular user and yet look like there are no changes. One way would be for someone to post a spam answer that's then removed. If/when you see other examples, let me know and I'll see what happened with those specific cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T18:06:07.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4406" CreationDate="2014-10-07T04:06:06.743" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag creation can't be achieved as a stand-alone process. That is, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/146950/168244&quot;&gt;to create a tag, one must apply it to an existing question&lt;/a&gt;. The reasoning here may involve the requirement of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;Create Tags privilege&lt;/a&gt; obtained at 300 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T04:06:06.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4630" CreationDate="2014-10-07T20:43:42.367" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;This statement is made on behalf of the TUG Board of Directors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entity that is an institutional member of TUG is the private company&#xA;StackExchange.  An institutional membership allows for up to eight&#xA;delegates from the institution to benefit from the same advantages as&#xA;individual TUG members.  StackExchange has chosen to leave to the&#xA;community the decision of which eight people receive this benefit; but&#xA;this is very different from everyone who registers on TeX.SX&#xA;automatically becoming a de facto TUG member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for site-wide electronic access, it was never contemplated that&#xA;this would extend to every individual who creates a free/automated&#xA;account, when an institutional member supports such accounts.  As has&#xA;already been pointed out, that would be tantamount to eliminating all&#xA;TUG member-only benefits, since anyone can create a TeX.SX account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we are here, we would like to express our appreciation to&#xA;StackExchange, and to all our institutional and individual members, for&#xA;their generous support of TUG and TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T20:43:42.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4616" CreationDate="2014-10-08T14:06:52.183" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX and friends play a very important role on things I do. Let me see if I can talk about a couple of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Religious&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm the coordinator of a small choir in a parish. I decided to come up with a personal songbook to help me on keeping track of songs we use during masses or processions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The songbook is typeset in LaTeX with help of several packages, most notably &lt;code&gt;songs&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;imakeidx&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;xpatch&lt;/code&gt;. I have a personal database (populated by me) with 1500+ songs and a program that generates the songbook source according to a certain template. I have a couple of scripts written in Bash, Ruby and Python, the database is provided by HSQLDB (I have an SQLite version of it as well) and I use Cheetah or Velocity as templating engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following images cover one of my templates. The first image show the main index of the book, sorting songs based on their titles alphabetically. We can also see TikZ doing a cameo in the letter titles. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/srFbB.png&quot; alt=&quot;img001&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following image presents the song itself. Catholic liturgy teaches us that music is an important part of the mass. So I had to have every rite or gesture mapped to the correct song, e.g, entrance song, Kyrie, Gloria, Alleluia, Presentation of the Gifts, and so forth. I also had to map songs according to their categories and also taking the time of the liturgical year into consideration, e.g, Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent and Easter. So I had to cross map all categories along the year. Besides, I also had to take into consideration the calendar of saints, feasts and the sacraments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every song is self-contained: number, title, list of authors, categories (represented by circles) and the liturgical time (represented by squares). For this version, I decided to go with a Sans version, but it's actually just a matter of taste. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2jAb1.png&quot; alt=&quot;img002&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I have several categories, I needed a wayto easily search songs according to their moments during the mass. That's where an index shines. For every category, I have a proper index. Note that, in the template, every time the category is typeset, the song title is already indexed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The liturgical time plays an important role too! So take a look at every entry in the index: there are five bullets. They represent Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent and Easter, in order! So it's a quick way for me to see if the song is appropriate to the current time and moment of mass: if we have a filled bullet, it means the song is appropriate to the corresponding liturgical time. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8LCvf.png&quot; alt=&quot;img003&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned before, thanks to templating engines, I can easily change the generated source. The next image shows another layout of the same songbook, now with TikZ all over the place. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/96RUW.png&quot; alt=&quot;img004&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of TikZ, thanks to vector editing programs like Inkscape, I can have a lot of &quot;macros&quot; in TikZ that draw religious elements in my songbooks and songsheets, like Christ himself in the following image. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OGeQb.png&quot; alt=&quot;img007&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I have a huge database of songs, I can generate songsheets for my parish. Here's one. Songs are semi-automatically selected in the database (I have a very nice algorithm), then I can analyze the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth mentioning that there are lots of things underneath this &quot;simple&quot; task. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fonts have to be easily readable by people of all ages, including the elder. The less effort to read, the easier to follow and sing along.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Songs are treated as atomic blocks, so they won't be spread amongst several columns or pages (so people don't need to keep flipping pages in order to follow a song).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a split is unavoidable, repeat important blocks, so there's one flow (for example, repeat choruses in the following column or page so you don't need to go back). As an counterexample, the following image does not cover this aspect, since it was a prior version of my algorithm. &lt;code&gt;:P&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an interaction between TeX and my underlying software infrastructure. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; TeX typesets it, tells the box info (height, width) to my subroutines and the algorithm takes control on what to do. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hy2ZW.png&quot; alt=&quot;img008&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ergonomy matters. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; Simple, very simple concepts (yet not so trivial to implement, I tell you) that make a huge difference. People sometimes come to me and say, &lt;em&gt;&quot;I love how you managed Word to achieve such nice layout!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Oh if they knew. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next image refers to a wedding sheet I did to a friend. We can see the Gospel according to Mark. The colour is green because of the liturgical time (ordinary time). I also have a mass sheet template in case we need to add the lectures, psalm, gospel and the eucharistic prayer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IBzTe.png&quot; alt=&quot;img006&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of eucharistic prayers, I had an old template for an order of mass. I actually need to rewrite a lot of stuff, but I guess you can get the idea from it (I don't like the icons too much). &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ShK8.png&quot; alt=&quot;img012&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have another (tiny) database of songs in which I have additional musical information (I usually know how to play most of the songs by heart, so I only populate this database according to the demand of other people). Here's one of my chorded songbooks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2LuoS.png&quot; alt=&quot;img009&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I am lazy, I used the very same database to generate a song sheet for my parish, so people could follow the lyrics and sing along, as we see in the following image. It is just a very simple text processing and everything is ready. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OryZ2.png&quot; alt=&quot;img011&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the holy week, we have a schedule of things that happen in the parish, from processions to masses. So I decided to give it a try and write this schedule in TeX and friends. I think the little clocks add a nice touch, don't you think? &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ftdtp.png&quot; alt=&quot;img010&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my lovely psalmists is learning how to read song scores. Meanwhile, we use this trick to help her know where her voice needs to go up or down. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; Very simple yet it works like a charm. Yay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i24Jg.png&quot; alt=&quot;img013&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I also have a transcript of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion in TeX and friends. We can see the original in German on the left, and the English translation on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JysIb.png&quot; alt=&quot;img014&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I have a couple more things, but I couldn't find them in my backup, so that's what I have to offer on the religious section. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a couple of jewels worth sharing on general stuff. At least it's a good way of seeing TeX and friends outside of the academic bubble. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a lovely happy birthday card we did for David Carlisle. Of course, David loved it. Nicola was also in charge of the cake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/umFRt.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also found a TikZ version of Pikachu. Just don't ask me why I had TikZ code that generates this yellow rat. Sean liked it though. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; It might be useful for someone's thesis, I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DZXtK.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I play Pokémon Y in my Nintendo 3DS, but I know nothing about types and stuff, so I had to come up with a table that helps me understand what the heck I was doing. Here it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d0Mn3.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Valentine's day, I had a song by John Denver written with the magic of TeX. Too bad it didn't work. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cltzK.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX and friends also help my mom. Every time she needs a recipe, I go to the computer and typeset it for her. Then I have the perfect excuse to eat the recipe afterwards. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rh7jH.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once tried to write a letter to Santa, but that didn't work. I got a rock. Stupid rock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N8ryR.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also we need to keep the football momentum in the chatroom, so we have our favourite Italian team!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5vkY.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we also have some internet memes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ooEJM.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bQJpA.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b7D1y.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also do book covers in TeX:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lRDzu.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once had to typeset a couple of dominoes, so I wrote some TikZ code that does the trick for me nicely. I can have any combination I want! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S6PVd.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at last but not least, a timeless StackOverflow classic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/moSGs.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Moral of the story&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of ways of using TeX and friends. Like clay in the hand of the potter, we shape TeX to do whatever our hearts desire. So we can use it to help others, in a way or another. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mere macro expansions. Simple yet insanely powerful concept. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T14:06:52.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-09T01:19:41.367" Score="12" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;This question was previously titled &quot;What is the code tag?&quot;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it was before, my question wasn't super useful. Since it looks like there isn't necessarily an overwhelming rhyme or reason to the tag (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4646/what-is-the-code-tag#comment15348_4646&quot;&gt;Paul's comment&lt;/a&gt;), the question should more appropriately be &quot;what should be done about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt; tag?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question as it was before&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt; tag? It has no wiki summary, and I can't really seem to find any apparent pattern among all of the questions that have been tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;, at least not immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T22:06:07.833" Title="What should be done about the code tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4646" CreationDate="2014-10-09T22:06:07.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Here is on suggestion. Feel free to suggest others in the answers section, if you have alternative suggestions. And then perhaps after a while we can decide on one course of action.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on Paul's inspection of the questions that are tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;, it seems that it might be appropriate to make the tag about typesetting code for (other) programming languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everyone likes this idea, then we should add that to the wiki summary and untag the questions that don't fit the category. (Doing this slowly over time, of course, so as not to bump everything to the top of the active questions list.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments/edits amending this suggestion are more than welcome! Or, again, feel free to suggest an alternative!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T22:06:07.833" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4651" CreationDate="2014-10-10T16:03:20.760" Score="11" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a follow-up to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1648/edit-marked-as-by-community-user&quot;&gt;Edit marked as by &amp;quot;Community User&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I've noticed that some &quot;Community&quot; edits are not associated with any revision. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/187371/using-lstinline-in-caption-of-lstlistings-with-multicol&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;'s a question that is reported to have been modified by &quot;Community&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5KB02.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I click on it, I don't see any revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NFDe0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did &quot;Community&quot; do, in this instance? Is it some automated task that the system runs to bump unanswered questions to the top?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T23:34:08.193" Title="What is &quot;Community&quot; up to, here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4650" CreationDate="2014-10-10T23:34:08.193" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally Community &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/36824/1438&quot;&gt;bumps questions that are unanswered&lt;/a&gt; in order to encourage people to answer them. In this case, the one answer to the question has not been upvoted, so Community assumes the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot;&gt;question hasn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; been answered&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5871" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T23:34:08.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-11T14:32:04.350" Score="9" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an active member of one of the more unusual stacks, I am well aware that each stack has its own community and to an extent its own norms. However, when it comes to the network-wide guidance on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;answering one's own question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Can I answer my own question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes! Stack Exchange has always explicitly encouraged users to answer their own questions. If you have a question that you already know the answer to, and you would like to document that knowledge in public so that others (including yourself) can find it later, it's perfectly okay to ask and answer your own question on a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it seems to be community consensus here that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3569/48314&quot;&gt;this is perfectly acceptable&lt;/a&gt;, and I agree completely with the conclusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... if someone with the same problem visits the question before it gets another answer, I think he will be glad to find an imperfect solution, instead of no solution at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am therefore puzzled as to why not one but two high-rep users thought that my answer to my own question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/205273/48314&quot;&gt;Cyrillic on Ubuntu Precise&lt;/a&gt; should be moved to be part of the question. I think most of us are familiar with the problem referred to in XKCD 979:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I Google an error and there&amp;#39;s one result. A thread by someone with the same problem and no answer http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone who finds the page by a Google search will see &quot;0 answers&quot; and isn't likely to read a long question to see whether it has any clues. I posted the self-answered question after spending 8 hours to get my document to compile in the hope that it would save someone else 7 of those hours, but moving the answer to the question seems to frustrate that hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should the answer not stand as an answer, at least until someone has a better one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48314" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-10-11T18:38:42.373" Title="Why does my solution belong in the question rather than the answer?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4652" CreationDate="2014-10-11T18:38:42.373" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it is rather simple: if it is an acceptable work-around (for the asker, that is you), it can be an answer. If it is a work-around but you are asking it to get a better solution, it belongs to the question (not as a partial answer, but as a &quot;this is what I've got, and this is why I don't like it&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution you propose indeed sounds more like a progress than an actual answer, but as said in the comments, if it works, there is no reason why it shouldn't be considered an answer. Maybe you should just make it clearer that it is a definitive answer rather than ongoing investigation, for example by adding some introduction like &quot;Short version: run (...), or, if you don't have administrative privileges, (...)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that unanswered questions are a problem that all Q/A sites face and try to mitigate. As you can see, on tex.sx we aren't doing too bad, with only 6.3% of all questions left unanswered (4611 out of 72982). Part of the effort to reduce that number on the stackexchange network goes through some regular &quot;Solve the unanswered&quot; sessions, during which people methodically go through &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;the list of unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; and try to provide an answer. Many of these unanswered questions will already contain a solution in the comments or in the question itself, in which case either the author of the solution will be pinged to make it an answer, or someone will move the solution into a community wiki answer. The point is your question would not have been left without an answer for more than a few months, and in particular not 10 years!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-10-11T18:38:42.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5655" CreationDate="2014-10-12T17:21:42.517" Score="11" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/205625/beamer-relative-overlay-during-a-given-number-of-slides&quot;&gt;Beamer: including items only some slides using a relative syntax&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6135/how-to-make-beamer-overlays-with-tikz-node&quot;&gt;How to make beamer overlays with Tikz node&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible for the voters to explain how it is a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;duplicate&quot; question is not about TikZ and is about relative overlay progression into item lists. The &quot;original&quot; question is about TikZ nodes and absolute overlay progression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had posted my answer to the original question it would have made no sense and vice-versa for the answers posted there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wDvv8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24483" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T18:48:22.053" Title="Duplicate vote clarification" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5664" CreationDate="2014-10-13T05:30:01.867" Score="5" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbol&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbol&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbol&lt;/a&gt; seems to suffer from bad titles quite often. This might only be subjective, but I have the feeling that there are often questions like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to I make this symbol?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where they really write &quot;this symbol&quot; and to not describe the symbol. (I've just corrected this problem for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/206840/5645&quot;&gt;What is this symbol consisting of a horizontal line crossed by a rotated vertial line?&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem of those titles is that it makes it hard for others who have the same question to find the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should mention that in the tag wiki. But I don't know how to formulate it. Could somebody please have a look at it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T08:50:22.920" Title="Improve tag wiki for &quot;symbol&quot; to mention that titles have to describe the symbol" Tags="|discussion|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5653" CreationDate="2014-10-13T16:29:00.350" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on some &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/17821/discussion-between-joseph-wright-and-dcmst&quot;&gt;discussion in chat&lt;/a&gt; and looking at the comments on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/205657&quot;&gt;answer by dcmst&lt;/a&gt; it seems clear that the question isn't a dupe but that the question also wasn't all that clear. I've therefore edited the question to try to make it clearer and also removed the duplicate mark. (I've also added a second answer, but that's a different aspect!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T16:38:49.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5653" CreationDate="2014-10-14T06:39:19.170" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a common concern with the community: Why are certain questions closed as duplicates of others when they ask for different things. It's simple: The answer to both questions lead to the same answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But wait... the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; is closed as a duplicate of another &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;, which is completely wrong when the questions don't ask for the same thing. Right? Correct. But also not really. I'll try to explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some instances the question asked may be different from another &quot;duplicate&quot;, but *the linked answers best answered the OP's question, or was the most helpful in finding the solution&quot; (taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XyrWD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tooltip text when accepting an answer&lt;/a&gt;). Viewed differently, consider the following two outrageous questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do I keep the rain off my back?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do I stay warm at night?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are obviously different. However, if Question 1 was &lt;em&gt;solved&lt;/em&gt; by the answer &quot;Build a house.&quot; and the poster of Question 2 felt that such an answer also &lt;em&gt;solved&lt;/em&gt; their problem, there's no use in duplicating the answer? If the post is marked as a &quot;duplicate&quot;, any visitor to question 1 will see the marked duplicate and find an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, but what if the answer &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; solve the problem to Questioner 3? Well then, they ask a new question with a reference to Question 1 and/or 2 with reasons why the answer didn't solve their problem - we've seen those questions pop up every now-and-again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think inherently the problem might just be with the wording of our responses for closures:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hhFH0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are limited by these. We sometimes close questions as being &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; because they are minor, yet the question is clearly on-topic (previously this would have been better filed as a &quot;too localized&quot; closure, but we don't have that option anymore). We sometimes close questions that aren't reproducible as being &lt;em&gt;unclear&lt;/em&gt; when it's perfectly clear that the OP has a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In closing, there are no hard-and-fast rules in terms of community decisions. Some people make decisions for the greater good. Other people make decisions out of personal gain/interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T06:39:19.170" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5658" CreationDate="2014-10-15T22:19:25.293" Score="10" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;An example:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/207351/how-to-define-a-macro-which-does-not-read-the-next-token-after-itself&quot;&gt;How to define a macro which does not read the next token after itself?&lt;/a&gt;, for which my planned question must appear here &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31091/space-after-latex-commands/207358#207358&quot;&gt;Space after LaTeX commands&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do to help OP and in the same time behave according to the suggestion of closing duplicates? I have thought that I should try to find a better answer, if he OP is not warned of possible duplication. But now I am afraid that I am acting against the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T23:16:15.793" Title="What should I do if the question is a duplicate, but I can find a new answer?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5657" CreationDate="2014-10-15T23:15:18.553" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is a clear duplicate, mark it as such. If you have an alternative answer to the already-posted answers, add it to the list. By virtue of the duplicate, your answer should still have value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T23:15:18.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5665" CreationDate="2014-10-16T20:16:23.480" Score="12" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt; tag? It has no wiki summary, and I can't really seem to find any apparent pattern among all of the questions that have been tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt;, at least not immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-11-04T16:38:01.943" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T16:38:01.943" Title="What should be done about the size tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2402" CreationDate="2014-10-17T21:12:17.433" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing this up. I cannot reproduce the close reasons issue with the current build of our network sites. Please let me know if the problem remains for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56846" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T21:12:17.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5662" CreationDate="2014-10-20T20:28:21.320" Score="7" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens fairly frequently that some one with very few reputation points posts an &quot;answer&quot; to a question that the community feels was more suited to being a &quot;comment&quot;. Some one then starts an action to delete this answer on the ground it it isn't an answer because it's a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than just deleting these posts, which sometimes contain useful information, wouldn't it be better if there was an option to convert an answer into a comment (of the main post, by default)? Or alternatively, allow users with insufficient reputation point to post comments that have to first approved in the same way that edits need approval before they are posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30471" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T08:47:50.550" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T08:47:50.550" Title="Recommending deletion" Tags="|feature-request|comments|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5661" CreationDate="2014-10-21T08:47:17.157" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the conversion of a non-answer to a comment, flag the post for moderator attention and request a conversion. Note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10K-users&lt;/a&gt; are able to view deleted posts and could flag them for conversion even then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The communication privilege that allows you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment anywhere&lt;/a&gt; is reached at 50 reputation. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/147529/168244&quot;&gt;For some, perhaps most&lt;/a&gt;, this is considered quite minimal to reach when you &lt;em&gt;contribute&lt;/em&gt; to the site. That is, &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; a question or ask one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;Remember that &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;s like these would have to be considered at a network-wide level. And, since there exists a way for converting non-answers to comments, it would be difficult to justify the need for something else.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T08:47:17.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5654" CreationDate="2014-10-22T08:50:22.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not clear describing the symbol in the title is always an improvement or helps later searches, in fact sometimes rather the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some special symbols need special answers but most likely these questions get answered by some general advice on how to look up a symbol, or get closed as duplicates of &quot;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&quot; in which case presumably any advice given is helpful to anyone looking up any symbol and so making it look like a specific question about say &quot;a pile of poo&quot; (Unicode U+F4A9) would just make it more likely that people looking for other symbols don't find the advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T08:50:22.920" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5659" CreationDate="2014-10-22T09:30:18.607" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems pretty much irredeemably broken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking over the first few questions tagged that way it seems to cover&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stretchy symbols \left\right stuff could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/delimiters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;delimiters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;delimiters&lt;/a&gt; if not already&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;large file sizes could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memory&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/database&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;database&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;database&lt;/a&gt; or ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;box sizing stuff. could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boxes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boxes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boxes&lt;/a&gt; if not already&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose if someone is bored on a rainy afternoon could go through and re-tag then delete &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T10:20:03.040" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T10:20:03.040" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-24T09:41:24.340" Score="8" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;help page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should I be concerned about reversal statements on my profile?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  No, not at all. It's only an indication of reputation change. After all, we can't control the actions of other users. It's very rare where we'd run across a user who was committing the voting fraud themselves on their own account, and in most instances of that, they will have already been dealt with accordingly. You should in no way be concerned with reversal statements in your reputation history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; reputation has been lost, so the figure shown for the current day is blatantly wrong. Here is a screen shot for the last days (and the serial upvoting has surely happened between the shown dates)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iioeh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My current reputation for the day is 210, not the absurdly ridicolous 70 that's shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are two cases: either the figures shown for the preceding days are wrong or there's a bug that seems to allow me getting over rep cap for the current day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T18:14:04.277" Title="Serial upvoting reversed shows incorrect day reputation" Tags="|support|reputation|voting|serial-voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-24T13:54:48.373" Score="5" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a answer here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/62679/angles-in-three-dimensional-space&quot;&gt;Angles in three dimensional space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in that post, the author is &quot;unregistered&quot;.&#xA;How can I specify that response as being posted by me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16405" OwnerDisplayName="Francisco Dutenhefner" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T08:04:23.117" Title="Author unregistered" Tags="|support|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5667" CreationDate="2014-10-24T14:54:35.513" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&lt;/a&gt; to contact the StackExchange staff: they can merge your accounts together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T14:54:35.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5666" CreationDate="2014-10-25T18:12:59.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The serial-voting reversal is posted as part of the reputation calculation for the day in which the reversal occurred. However, it may reflect the reversal of votes (and therefore also reputation) of previous days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, assume user ABC serially voted on your post on two separate days. X reputation on day one, and Y reputation on day two (let Z = X + Y). On day three, the reversal detection algorithm is ran (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/126829/168244&quot;&gt;every night around 03:00 UTC&lt;/a&gt;) and finds Z reputation is suspect and should be reversed. StackExchange's reversal doesn't remove X from day one and Y from day two. Instead it's &lt;em&gt;sufficient&lt;/em&gt; to leave the reputation for days one and two untouched, but remove Z from day three. Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/126857/168244&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever serial voting gets reversed, all days involved in the serial voting will be recalculated as if the serial votes had never happened, and any reputation you might have lost due to those serial votes hitting the reputation cap will be given to you at that time. Serial voters will not prevent you from gaining reputation that you deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mention here of reputation is only for what is lost (through down-votes), not gained. You only gained reputation (through up-votes) and therefore there is no reflection of reputation change other than the combined serial upvoting reversal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume the problems associated with this approach is fairly minimal. If badges were awarded based on the serial (up)voting, they won't be retracted anyway (as badges are never retracted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T18:12:59.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5659" CreationDate="2014-10-26T17:04:48.810" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started re-tagging the question, a bunch a day, about two dozens, so that it doesn't fill the front page completely. I don't think more interaction is needed, I'll let Joseph know when I'm finish so that the tag can be officially zapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being there, I discovered that we should probably synonymise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dimension-expressions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dimension-expressions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dimension-expressions&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dimensions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dimensions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dimensions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unit-of-measure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unit-of-measure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unit-of-measure&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/units&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;units&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;units&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T17:04:48.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5672" CreationDate="2014-10-26T19:20:20.413" Score="20" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Emacs.SE (currently in beta but &lt;a href=&quot;https://emacs.meta.stackexchange.com/q/165/2264&quot;&gt;is anticipated to graduate&lt;/a&gt;) has a pretty active &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auctex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auctex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auctex&lt;/a&gt; tag going on.  As TeX.SE is about the underlying TeXnology (and not really the editor), should we encourage new questions about AUCTeX be asked over on Emacs.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the Emacs.SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auctex&quot;&gt;(auctex)&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:52:45.633" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T07:20:25.380" Title="Should we migrate AUCTeX questions if/when Emacs.SE goes live?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5671" CreationDate="2014-10-26T20:54:26.440" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general rules on what are 'good' migrations are that the question should be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;well-written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on-topic on the target site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not on-topic for the 'source' site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last point is important in the sense that the original poster has made some form of choice of where to ask: it might be accidental, but it might equally be deliberate if the question is arguably on-topic for more than one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The case of Emacs and specifically AUCTeX questions falls at least partly within the 'TeX-related editors' area that we have been happy to have on TeX-sx. However, that's something of a compromise: we know that sometimes the 'TeX element' is more-or-less zero, but with no better place to point to we've preferred to give people the benefit of the doubt. The new site means we at least need to think about the balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that we can't make a blanket 'questions will be migrated' decision, at least at this stage. What we can do is look out for things that make the question more likely to be answered on the new site. Most obvious there would be ones that look likely to have general Emacs answers (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; the fact that TeX is involved is parenthetic) or where there is an element of Emacs programming involved. Less clear are those tied to AUCTeX where there is a strong 'TeX element': they are likely to be similar to questions asked about other editors where we would allow them. I'd be tempted in such cases to point the OP to the new site and suggest we can migrate if they want. That leaves the OP with some 'ownership' while still trying to achieve the point: get them good answers quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T07:20:25.380" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T07:20:25.380" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5673" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5674" CreationDate="2014-10-28T09:04:32.563" Score="15" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all: I wanted to share my desire to see one day the features of &lt;code&gt;cleveref&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;varioref&lt;/code&gt; all in one package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is not a real question. Is it OK to post it on TeX.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or -better- how can it be phrased so that it's not marked as &quot;not a real question&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="177" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T20:39:57.430" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T20:39:57.430" Title="Is it OK to propose package modifications or improvements?" Tags="|discussion|packages|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2014-10-28T15:51:38.477" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is not ok, surely not in a question. Remember that StackExchange is not a forum, questions have to be questions, and even beyond, have to be objective, one question per question etc. Package patch proposal doesn't sound like a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is, however, ok to propose a patch to an existing package, but only in an answer. I believe that the maintainer of the package should be notified, so that they either accept or reject the patch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a patch proposal, just contact the package maintainer. TeX.SE is not a place for doing this, nor for open-ended discussions about such proposals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T15:51:38.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-29T08:11:41.183" Score="11" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens to me quite often that I do an edit, only to realize, when I click the &lt;code&gt;Save Edits&lt;/code&gt; button, that I should comment on the edit in the &lt;code&gt;Edit Summary&lt;/code&gt;. However, this seems impossible (if I go again into the edit mode, and I'm still in the grace period, the changes into the edit summary are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this please be changed? The way how it works now seems to be confusing, and the feature is really missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="29990" LastEditDate="2014-10-29T09:53:22.347" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T09:53:22.347" Title="Editing the edit summary" Tags="|feature-request|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5679" CreationDate="2014-11-11T16:01:49.060" Score="14" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sveinung asks, in a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/211527/579&quot;&gt;Align equations on equal (=) symbol&lt;/a&gt;, whether closing a question because it&#xA;shows no no evidence of research effort is a valid reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the question merely shows a picture of what is wanted, an aligned continuing equation&#xA;composed primarily of fractions, but no code.&#xA;i noted in an initial comment that there are many examples of this use in this forum.&#xA;also, the title contains the term &quot;align&quot;, a good search term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;another comment reads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about a matter&#xA;  that could be resolved by consulting a basic latex manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yes, there are (many) other questions that discuss reasons for closing, but i couldn't&#xA;find one that deals specifically with this particular nicety of &quot;off topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i'm unable to answer Sveinung's question, and appeal to the moderators or other&#xA;knowledgeable participant to shed some light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T20:31:01.737" Title="is closing this question as &quot;off topic&quot; a breach of site policy?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5677" CreationDate="2014-11-11T23:22:59.430" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, as you know very well, the second comment is non-TeX.SX practice and probably a user of other networks which somehow they define this weird thing called &lt;code&gt;research&lt;/code&gt; and all users should be expert of it which often boils down to saying &lt;strong&gt;did you google it?&lt;/strong&gt; in a fancy and pompous way. So &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about a matter that could be resolved by consulting a basic latex manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does not simply apply here. We answer almost whatever we like. Not liking a question or triviality of it never was a closing reason and hopefully never would be. There are I don't know how many duplicates of this issue that I'm too lazy for it search. I invite the close voter to do his/her &lt;strong&gt;research&lt;/strong&gt; on our meta :P &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides  if we are feeling the irresistible urge for closing off-topic is the worst reason. &lt;em&gt;Unclear&lt;/em&gt; might be barely ok. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since there are two answers already I would say closing is pointless. Because, again as we discussed too many times before, we say it's closed for bla bla and 2 centimeters below there is a 7 voted accepted answer. It's because we are closing too early and very unnecessarily. This would have been counted as a answered but now marked as closed. It's even hurting statistics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are starting to get too good with TeX here and starting to belittle most of the questions. I would invite these, obviously not you barbara beeton, to go back and check their horrible (tongue-in-cheek) questions. And maybe they can remember what a new user feels like. We, if I may speak on behalf of old users, welcomed them and still do but I'm hoping they can continue same niceness instead of slamming the questions to OPs faces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last detail as a demonstration of the previous level; we don't close &lt;em&gt;what is this symbol?&lt;/em&gt; questions as a duplicate of Detexify answer if we cannot find it ourselves. If we were cynical we would close all those by the &lt;em&gt;do your research&lt;/em&gt; argument. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T23:22:59.430" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5677" CreationDate="2014-11-12T08:57:38.860" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very basic (La)TeX questions are a tricky area as at least to some extent many of them could be covered by the concept 'read a manual'. There should be a space for asking good basic questions, certainly when they are phrased such that the question is clear, self-contained and likely to help future user. More problematic are basic questions where that's not the case: the one raised here certainly isn't a great question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know, 'off topic' is one of the reasons the 'Powers' give us to close questions and is intended not only to cover out-and-out off-topic posts but also stuff not answered 'by convention'. In some areas, such as typos and bug reports, we have had the discussion and reached a consensus that at present 'off topic' is the most appropriate way to handle them. However, that I know of we've not had a general discussion about 'basic' questions and how to deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing questions isn't necessarily a negative thing: the idea for example of marking duplicates is to avoid repeated effort in answering questions (likely over time to lead to poorer answers) while pointing the questioner to useful resources and hopefully aiding anyone searching in the future. Similarly, closing as 'off topic' or 'too broad' doesn't mean that there is not a valid discussion to be had about something: it means that the format here isn't suited to such a discussion. Thus the issue is at least in part is what reason(s) are appropriate for closing (some)  general questions and how should this be phrased/commented to make the action helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One issue here is that not all 'general' questions are the same. Some as I say I think are very solid useful posts which deserve good upvotes and good answers. On the other hand, some questions we see are poorly formulated and difficult to assign to one specific issue. Those might be too broad or might be off topic. On the other hand, questions which we do have clear answers for (hopefully attached to clear questions) should be marked as duplicates: that applies generally. I suspect as such there is an element of 'use your judgement' here. I think what is important is that any closing has appropriate comments, that you are clear that any dupe does really answer the question, and that the questioner is given time to address comments before a closure happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to bear in mind is that having answers doesn't mean a question should not be closed. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5678/&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt; Percusse suggests that as the 'lead' question here has been answered that closing is not required. While there is some truth in the idea that closing is about site stats, it's also meant to be as I say not a universally negative step. It's quite possible for example for a dupe to be spotted after an answer is given: the question can still be a duplicate in those circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: I'd probably have gone for 'duplicate' here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One issue here that has been mentioned is that when there are a mix of close votes for different reason the system only marks with one reason. That's not something we can control locally, but is I always think rather odd. Perhaps one to raise on the main meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T08:57:38.860" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5677" CreationDate="2014-11-12T09:54:01.850" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that the question needs to be closed as off-topic. It doesn't show any research effort and it doesn't provide a MWE, which makes it &quot;question with no research effort&quot;. Such would deserve dozen downvotes on another sites and eventually get deleted. Here, we keep them at 0 or -1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the question it is clear that the issue is in the alignment. This makes it a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/105635/align-multiline-equation-with-expression-after-equal-sign&quot;&gt;Align multiline equation with expression after equal sign&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;cfr&lt;/strong&gt; found out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have got questions for many simple issues with simple answers. I don't think that this is wrong. However, we shouldn't keep duplicates among them. So the closure is fine, but the closure reason is a bit unfortunate. I was the last one to vote for re-opening, and I immediately voted to dupe it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T09:54:01.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1590" CreationDate="2014-11-12T22:34:42.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;i've finally unearthed my bibliography of items on &quot;mathematical typography&quot;.&#xA;i seem to remember that i once made a rash promise to post it as a blog entry when i found it.&#xA;(it's certainly not appropriate even for the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to a regular question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what i need now is a lesson on how to format it -- same markup as used for the q&amp;amp;a, or&#xA;something else? -- and assistance in actually getting it posted, with the ability to&#xA;edit it (e.g., add or change items) as i come across new material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;any support for doing this, or objections?  any volunteers for checking the content before&#xA;it's ready to &quot;go live&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T22:34:42.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-14T00:54:58.003" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am relatively new to the list, but I see that whenever I comment on a post to my question, I cannot use the return key to enter a new line. The moment I press the return key, the system assumes that I am done. How can one get around this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65460" OwnerDisplayName="Vinod" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-11-14T01:27:31.847" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T01:33:51.220" Title="Hard to use interface" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2014-11-14T15:54:36.273" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5682" CreationDate="2014-11-14T01:33:51.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't. StackExchange is very carefully designed (and very well designed, in my opinion) to restrict the content you can produce to the places intended for that content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule of thumb, then, if you find yourself asking how to do something, its most likely that you're doing it in the wrong place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are designed to be short questions or statements just a few lines long, asking or giving clarification on the question. If you need linebreaks, you should be either typing an answer or editing your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65567" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T01:33:51.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1902" CreationDate="2014-11-16T04:04:01.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realise that the discussion here is not very recent and things obviously change, which may well be colouring my response to this page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for what little it is worth, I think that it is completely unethical to knowingly assist people to cheat. It undermines the whole purpose of setting, marking and completing assignments, wastes instructors' time, and is not in the best interests of any students. (It does no favours to the person cheating in the long term, and it is quite unfair if LaTeX beginners' efforts are being marked alongside the likes of egreg!) It also undermines instructors' ability to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching and their ability to identify topics which they should revisit in light of students' difficulties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/212411/how-to-get-default-color-of-beginblock-command&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/212411/how-to-get-default-color-of-beginblock-command&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I realise that it is obviously very difficult to know, in many cases, whether a question is of this kind or not, I think that it would be useful to have some guidance concerning the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'red flags': features of questions which should cause one to pause&#xA;and ask for clarification, or pause and examine the asker's history&#xA;on the site.   (The question above is the fourth question the user&#xA;asked about this assignment. It seems to me that we should probably&#xA;have smelt a rat slightly earlier given that all the questions&#xA;concerned an 'assignment'.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;responding to the user: a comment block? What I'm thinking of&#xA;here is something to say when it has become clear that the user&#xA;is using the site illegitimately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;communication: how best to flag up the problem to other people so&#xA;that the user cannot keep asking new questions until the&#xA;assignment is completed by an ad hoc team from TeX SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this is the most egregious case I've seen here, it is far from being the only one. While users bear the primary responsibility for misusing the site, we are also to blame if we do not make some efforts not to allow them to do so. Obviously nothing we could do (consistent with the existence of the site) could prevent such misuse. Moreover, some things we might do to minimise it would have unacceptable costs in terms of their effects on everybody else's use of the site. But I am not at all comfortable with the way things work at present. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am particularly concerned given that we routinely answer questions which simply post an image or state a problem and include no evidence of any effort at all on the asker's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should say that I very much doubt that my view will be a popular one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also make clear that my concern is with cases in which the use of TeX is part of what is being assessed. I am not at all concerned about people asking for help formatting their theses on the nocturnal habits of koala bears or the lives of cats in Norman keeps. (Unless, of course, they are also asking us to fill in the details of koalas' night time festivities.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T04:04:01.740" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5688" CreationDate="2014-11-18T20:24:33.987" Score="18" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recorded many videos of conferences, including TeX conferences. For nearly 10 years I have been hosting these on www.river-valley.tv. The domain is now not under my control (long story), and the DNS has been changed, so the videos are inaccessible. I have transferred all videos to &quot;zeeba.tv&quot;, so any links will now work by adding &quot;zeeba&quot; before &quot;.tv&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of backlinks to &quot;.tv&quot; on StackExchange, in TeX-related questions. Is there any way of adding &quot;zeeba&quot; to all these, or at least alerting to viewers about the domain change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24616" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-12-09T20:41:50.070" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T20:41:50.070" Title="How can I change all links to river-valley.tv?" Tags="|discussion|support|status-completed|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5687" CreationDate="2014-11-18T22:30:55.610" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no automated way of doing this from your end. However, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;refine your search&lt;/a&gt; on the main/meta site to identify posts which have the now-defunct URL using the search query &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3A%22river-valley.tv%22&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;url:&quot;river-valley.tv&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This reveals only 24 posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WRvsK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to visit each post sequentially over the next couple of days (say 5 posts a day) and you'll be done within a week with the URL updates. The slowed updating process avoids the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;home page&lt;/a&gt; from being flooded by old posts - it lists &quot;active&quot; posts, which include those that has undergone a revision of some sort. As such, there's no real problem with doing it manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3A%22river-valley.zeeba.tv%22&quot;&gt;four posts&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; have already been updated (thanks @barbarabeeton):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/elCYl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T22:30:55.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5691" CreationDate="2014-11-19T13:43:34.660" Score="13" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I looked a few seconds ago, I couldn't find a &lt;em&gt;start a bounty&lt;/em&gt; link for this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/134638/showcase-tex-typography-for-tugs-calendar&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T17:11:10.643" Title="Where's the _Start a Bounty_ Link" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5689" CreationDate="2014-11-19T17:11:10.643" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have awarded the following bounties already on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134638/5764&quot;&gt;post in question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/208922/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to Gonzalo Medina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/206982/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to Yiannis Lazarides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/206733/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to commonhare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/201499/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to Sam Whited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/200451/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to dcmst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/188649/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to ChrisS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/188642/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to Paul Gessler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/150302/5764&quot;&gt;1,000 reputation to OSjerick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/151340/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to Thérèse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/150833/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to mrc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/149134/5764&quot;&gt;2,000 reputation to ChrisS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/149930/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to ChrisS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/148383/5764&quot;&gt;500 reputation to WillAdams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/146178/5764&quot;&gt;1,000 reputation to Nicholas Hamilton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties, when chosen, have to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/105639/168244&quot;&gt;increase at least two-fold&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We now double the minimum &quot;spend&quot; for successive bounties &lt;em&gt;on the same question by the same user&lt;/em&gt;. So if you started at 50: your next bounty on that question has a minimum of 100, the next 200, the next 400, the next (max).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You started out with awarding the maximum 500, so successive bounties can only be awarded at 500 reputation (the maximum). This is obviously doable by nature of your almost 10K reputation splurge. However, you can also only award the bounty when you have enough reputation. Currently you're at 140:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pfO4I.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try again when you reach 500. Note that with reputation loss comes privilege loss as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/16065/168244&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T17:11:10.643" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-24T16:23:52.667" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I post small examples of LaTeX code, I use the &lt;code&gt;convert -density 600 -trim file.pdf file.png&lt;/code&gt; method. This gives files that are extremely lightweight and integrate well into TeX.SE's quote environment to look really nice, like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uHs9p.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These images are very high resolution but extremely lightweight, the above is just 116 kb but 2,869px by 1,866px—large enough to actually show how nice LaTeX looks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we often get questions involving page layouts and margins, where this method doesn't work because we need to indicate where the page itself is. Usually this is done using screenshots, like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tyJz4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, these images don't integrate well into the surrounding text and are extremely low resolution, making the text blurry. There's also no way to guarantee the alignment (ok, I exaggerated here, it's not usually this bad), because you just have to guess using the selection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a better way to do this, preferably automated?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While typing this I found the question  &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4599/what-is-the-best-method-to-capture-latex-output-for-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;What is the best method to capture latex output for questions and answers?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which has a similar ImageMagic solution to mine (I do recommend the -trim option though) but I don't think it's a duplicate because my question asks how to show the whole page too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T16:23:52.667" Title="What is the best way to prepare LaTeX examples for posting on TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|images|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-26T22:23:18.340" Score="7" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two years ago, @YiannisLazarides asked if &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2278/color-coding-of-latex3-code&quot;&gt;Color coding of LaTeX3 code&lt;/a&gt; could be added to the syntax highlighter of TeX.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With posts using LaTeX3 code becoming be more and more frequent I would like to propose to re-open the request for some way to indicate LaTeX3 code and make it more readable on the site. Could a tag be added to somehow turn on proper coloring of LaTeX3 code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T22:23:18.340" Title="Syntax highlighting for LaTeX3?" Tags="|feature-request|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-27T14:34:26.073" Score="14" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just reviewed some unanswered questions to get on the list for&#xA;the next clean up. I stumbled upon the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag, the tag wiki&#xA;says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is for questions which deal with books about TeX, LaTeX&#xA;  and other topics of this site. For questions regarding design and&#xA;  layout of books use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-design&lt;/a&gt; instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 116 questions marked. I started with the&#xA;newest answers first, and most of them should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;instead. I collected the links to questions are are correctly&#xA;tagged (unexpectedly many I have to say). Some of them should&#xA;maybe tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;, but this is ok for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second part needs attention because neither &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; nor&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; apply. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;116 - 41 - 13 = 62&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;62 questions that could be retagged to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Unfortunately, i didn't collect the links to them. Would have&#xA;saved some time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we do? Retag them in the next two weeks? tohecz&#xA;retagged the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/space&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;space&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;space&lt;/a&gt; questions a while ago. &#xA;Are there any alternatives coming to mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The topic was raised in a little different manner a while back: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/883/the-books-and-book-design-tags&quot;&gt;The {books} and {book-design} tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tag applies&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/182872/books-for-library&quot;&gt;Books for Library&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/173207/what-is-the-best-book-with-american-typography-rules&quot;&gt;What is the best book with american typography rules?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/148968/are-there-good-books-retracing-the-history-of-latex&quot;&gt;Are there good books retracing the history of (La)TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124265/looking-for-an-ebook-about-typography-that-used-to-be-part-of-a-package&quot;&gt;Looking for an ebook about typography that used to be part of a package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/113158/what-non-free-books-are-available-and-recommended&quot;&gt;What non-free books are available and recommended?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/111703/why-should-i-buy-a-tex-latex-guide-book&quot;&gt;Why should I buy a TeX/LaTeX guide book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110836/electronic-version-of-knuths-&quot;&gt;Electronic version of Knuth&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;TeXbook&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/107413/latex-companions-third-revised-boxed-set-the&quot;&gt;LaTeX Companions Third Revised Boxed Set, The&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/101128/an-old-italian-translation-of-the-&quot;&gt;An old italian translation of The TeXbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/100060/&quot;&gt;The TeXbook: Spiral or hard-cover binding?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/99793/is-there-any-textbook-for-xelatex&quot;&gt;Is there any textbook for XeLaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84384/latex-introductions-in-languages-other-than-english&quot;&gt;LaTeX Introductions in languages other than English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79294/a-book-recommendation-for-doing-graphics-in-beamer&quot;&gt;a book recommendation for doing graphics in beamer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/77918/how-does-tex-actually-work&quot;&gt;How does TeX actually work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73239/where-do-i-start-learning-conditional-tests-in-latex&quot;&gt;Where‎ ‎do‎ I start ‎learning‎ conditional tests ‎in ‎LaTeX‎?‎&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66863/latex-companion-as-an-ebook&quot;&gt;LaTeX Companion as an ebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63884/new-edition-of-&quot;&gt;New Edition of TeXBook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/59402/ifnextchar-and-friends-documentation&quot;&gt;\@ifnextchar and friends documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58501/a-critique-of-tex&quot;&gt;A critique of TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57911/what-book-do-you-recommend-for-new-tex-users&quot;&gt;What book do you recommend for new Tex users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/56978/latex-presentations-like-openoffice-odp&quot;&gt;LaTeX presentations like OpenOffice .odp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51695/learning-tex-via-the-&quot;&gt;Learning TeX via the TeXbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40543/what-is-the-latest-edition-of-knuths-computers-typesetting-series&quot;&gt;What is the latest edition of Knuth&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Computers &amp;amp; Typesetting&amp;quot; Series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36968/resources-for-learning-about-contributed-packages&quot;&gt;Resources for learning about contributed packages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32012/beyond-bringhurst-mathematical-typesetting&quot;&gt;Beyond Bringhurst: mathematical typesetting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31758/if-im-about-to-write-a-book-on-latex-should-i-wait-for-a-latex3-release&quot;&gt;If I&amp;#39;m about to write a book on LaTeX, should I wait for a LaTeX3 release?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27941/topics-for-a-book-about-luatex&quot;&gt;Topics for a book about LuaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27636/which-books-can-i-read-via-texdoc&quot;&gt;Which books can I read via texdoc?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24671/how-on-earth-did-knuth-do-it&quot;&gt;How on earth did Knuth do it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24105/what-are-good-advanced-latex-books&quot;&gt;What are good advanced LaTeX books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13874/are-there-any-good-general-typesetting-books-references&quot;&gt;Are there any good general typesetting books / references?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13113/good-latex-book-for-math-beginner&quot;&gt;Good LaTeX book for Math beginner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/should-i-read-donald-knuths-the-&quot;&gt;Should I read Donald Knuth&amp;#39;s The TeXbook?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10187/brown-paper-strip-on-page-125-of-the-metafontbook&quot;&gt;Brown paper strip on page 125 of The METAFONTbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5711/good-xetex-books&quot;&gt;Good XeTeX Books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5688/help-in-choosing-latex2e-books-in-light-of-latex3-development&quot;&gt;Help in choosing LaTeX2e books in light of LaTeX3 development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5534/reference-about-modern-latex-usage-for-scientific-works&quot;&gt;Reference about &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; LaTeX usage for scientific works&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2839/where-can-i-find-good-context-documentation&quot;&gt;Where can I find good ConTeXt documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2124/is-there-a-comprehensive-and-complete-latex-reference&quot;&gt;Is there a comprehensive and complete LaTeX reference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66/which-manuals-are-on-your-tex-reference-shelf&quot;&gt;Which manuals are on your &amp;quot;TeX Reference&amp;quot; shelf?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11/what-are-good-learning-resources-for-a-latex-beginner&quot;&gt;What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Complete retag needed&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/170824/latex-does-not-work-well-for-people-who-have-sold-their-souls&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;LaTeX does not work well for people who have sold their souls&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/122496/links-of-book-templates&quot;&gt;Links of book templates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/111710/robert-sedgewick-algorithms-fourth-edition-style-in-latex&quot;&gt;Robert Sedgewick - Algorithms Fourth Edition Style in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/87072/typeset-like-jacksons-em&quot;&gt;Typeset Like Jackson&amp;#39;s E&amp;amp;M&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/62435/latex-style-that-resembles-the-one-used-in-some-computer-science-books&quot;&gt;Latex style that resembles the one used in some computer science books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57361/unix-text-processing&quot;&gt;Unix Text Processing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42594/tex-family-tree-with-timeline&quot;&gt;TeX family tree with timeline?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37379/references-for-learning-how-to-check-for-typesetting-problems&quot;&gt;References for learning how to check for typesetting problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24218/authoring-rpg-books-in-latex-what-packages-to-use&quot;&gt;Authoring RPG books in LaTeX: what packages to use?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16835/how-to-write-a-book-in-latex&quot;&gt;How to write a book in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14221/varying-images-at-varying-positions-in-book-and-memoir-class-chapter-styles&quot;&gt;Varying images at varying positions in Book and Memoir class chapter styles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10215/the-cross-reference-boxes-in-tex-the-program&quot;&gt;The cross-reference boxes in TeX: the program&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9680/comprehensive-book-on-kile&quot;&gt;Comprehensive book on Kile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T09:04:54.613" Title="What should be done about the books tag?" 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  <row Id="5698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5699" CreationDate="2014-11-29T15:05:35.430" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know if I want to make italic &lt;em&gt;some text&lt;/em&gt; in the body of my question I should put it between two *'s. Also if I want to make bold &lt;strong&gt;some text&lt;/strong&gt;, I should put it between **'s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How I can make some text bigger? I tried the html code &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;font size=&quot;7&quot;&amp;gt;some text&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; without success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39306" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-11-30T08:01:28.910" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T11:25:24.437" Title="How to make a text bigger in the body of a question" Tags="|support|asking-questions|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5698" CreationDate="2014-11-29T16:59:34.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't, since only a subset of HTML tags are supported in the network's visual editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is taken directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;Help Center on Formatting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When posting on TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange, you can use the &lt;strong&gt;visual editor&lt;/strong&gt; (for questions and answers, but not comments), &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1777/168244&quot;&gt;some &lt;strong&gt;HTML&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If you're new to Markdown, you may want to &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;visit the official Markdown syntax reference page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Some &lt;strong&gt;HTML&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; here refers to the following tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;              - hyperlink.&#xA;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;              - bold, use as last resort &amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;-&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;, and &amp;lt;strong&amp;gt; are &#xA;                   preferred.&#xA;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;     - specifies a section that is quoted from another source.&#xA;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;           - defines a piece of computer code.&#xA;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;            - delete, used to indicate modifications.&#xA;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;             - describes the item in a &amp;lt;dl&amp;gt; description list.&#xA;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;             - description list.&#xA;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;             - title of an item in a &amp;lt;dl&amp;gt; description list.&#xA;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;             - emphasized.&#xA;&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; - headings.&#xA;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;              - italic.&#xA;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;            - specifies an image tag.&#xA;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;            - represents user input (usually keyboard input).&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;             - list item in an ordered list &amp;lt;ol&amp;gt; or an unordered list &amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;.&#xA;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;             - ordered list.&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;              - paragraph.&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;            - pre-element displayed in a fixed width font and and &#xA;                   unchanged line breaks.&#xA;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;              - strikethrough.&#xA;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;            - superscript text appears 1/2 character above the baseline &#xA;                   used for footnotes and other formatting.&#xA;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;            - subscript appears 1/2 character below the baseline.&#xA;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;         - defines important text.&#xA;&amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;         - strikethrough is deprecated, use &amp;lt;del&amp;gt; instead.&#xA;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;             - unordered list.&#xA;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;             - line break.&#xA;&amp;lt;hr&amp;gt;             - defines a thematic change in the content, usually via a &#xA;                   horizontal line.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[some content clipped]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Important Notes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;HTML tags unlisted above are stripped from the output. They may render in the client preview, but they will always be removed on the server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must enter the tags &lt;em&gt;exactly as shown&lt;/em&gt;. Any deviation from this list—adding extra spaces, using single quote or no quotes, etc.—means the tag will be stripped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We do not (and will not) allow &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags. Sorry. This is intentional and by design. If you need a quick and dirty &amp;quot;table&amp;quot;, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and ASCII layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T16:59:34.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5698" CreationDate="2014-11-29T22:46:25.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing your last comment: You could easily include that in your MWE, compile it and add a picture of it as a whole. The MWE could look like this. I don't think it's much reasonable to try to resemble LaTeX's output by HTML this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;This is a text~\cite{one,two,three,four}.&#xA;&#xA;\begin{thebibliography}{MM}&#xA;\bibitem{one} Item One.&#xA;\bibitem[\mbox{\itshape 2}]{two} Item Two.&#xA;\bibitem[\mbox{\bfseries 3}]{three} Item Three.&#xA;\bibitem[\mbox{\Large 4}]{four} Item Four.&#xA;\end{thebibliography}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-11-30T07:24:26.140" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T07:24:26.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5701" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-30T21:57:28.997" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a big code and need to ask about it. How in the space for the question do I avoid adding 4 spaces to each line. I need do it faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62633" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T21:57:28.997" Title="How do I add 4 spaces to all the code when I want to ask a question?. Im doing it line by line(It take me a lot time)" Tags="|support|asking-questions|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-12-01T13:26:40.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5696" CreationDate="2014-12-09T09:04:54.613" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we have here a tag that is so broad as to be meaningless. As suggested in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5696/what-should-be-done-about-the-books-tag#comment16502_5696&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; should presumably apply to things specific to the &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt; class in analogy to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/article&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;article&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/report&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;report&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt;. On the other hand, I'm not really sure what &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; means: it might be books about TeX, creating books, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; I'd therefore suggest that one goes in favour of either &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-design&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/documentation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;documentation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;, as appropriate. Once that is done we can deal with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; by making it a synonym of one of the two 'better' tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T09:04:54.613" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-10T15:13:34.297" Score="104" ViewCount="1994" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am organising yet another lottery and Springer have kindly agreed to donate two copies of &lt;a href=&quot;http://csweb.ucc.ie/~dongen/LAF/LAF.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX and Friends&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springer.com/computer/media+design/book/978-3-642-23815-4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;also&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; This year I decided to be the judge of the lottery. The lottery closes when the judge has announced the last winner. The judge's decision is final and there shall be no discussion and/or correspondence about the outcome of the lottery.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To win the book you may guess &lt;strong&gt;two numbers&lt;/strong&gt; in the range 1--250. The first two people that guess the right number win a copy of the book. Please note that the time of arrival in TeX-SX is what counts, not the time of sending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give everybody a fair chance, you may submit only one number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one exception to the previous rule. If several contestants submit the same number, the contestant whose submission arrived first is valid. The other contestants may resubmit a new number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contestants must have been a member of TeX-SX before 10 December, 2014. (Without this restriction, people may start creating fake accounts and submit multiple guesses.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post your guess as &lt;strong&gt;an answer to this meta question&lt;/strong&gt;; &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; as a comment. Comments will be ignored. Please only put your guess in the body of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guesses will be checked every couple of days and the winner will be announced within a few days after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can sign the book at your request. Please note that I won't sign by default because I know some people want to keep their books pencil and ink free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At the time of writing there were no winners yet. To speed things up, contestants may choose two numbers in total.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** OK It's two days before Christmas and the remaining number still hasn't been guessed. I'm giving you one more try, so everybody may guess three numbers in total. **&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: the numbers were 126 and 197 have been guessed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11709/mrf&quot;&gt;mrf&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/50886/phollox&quot;&gt;phollox&lt;/a&gt; respectively&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to Winners !. Thanks all for participating. 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Include this 2x2 pixel image at the end of your guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![trivial answer checker avoidance](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T16:22:29.153" Title="Who Wants to Win another LaTeX Book?" Tags="|discussion|publicity|" AnswerCount="137" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T17:42:39.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;174&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;177&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T15:00:47.380" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T15:00:47.380" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:36:11.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go with 233, that's the largest Fibonacci number in the sheet. PS: If it's me, then signed please :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: &lt;code&gt;◖■◗&lt;/code&gt; I mean, &lt;code&gt;093&lt;/code&gt; :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third guess: &lt;code&gt;211&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T14:40:52.487" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T14:40:52.487" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:41:47.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My three numbers are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;249&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;109&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="586" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T14:07:06.197" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T14:07:06.197" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:43:21.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;241 please - highest prime in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since you have kindly invited us to choose a second, I'll take 53 as well please (another prime, but also connected with an event in 1962).  And by the way, thank you very much for your kind offer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15036" LastEditorUserId="15036" LastEditDate="2014-12-15T15:03:48.250" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T15:03:48.250" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:48:46.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;179 without a valid reason. I'm sure it is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61789" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T18:48:46.043" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:50:59.940" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1:&lt;/strong&gt; I picked a number which was already taken, so I got 220 now. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt; My second guess: 110 (the sum of three consecutive squares).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 3:&lt;/strong&gt; My third guess: 115 because pie. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T09:06:31.590" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T09:06:31.590" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:54:02.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://random.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Random.org&lt;/a&gt; says: 90&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T18:54:02.840" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:56:50.270" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;42, the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54852" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T18:56:50.270" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T19:04:11.507" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;64&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that's &lt;code&gt;2^6&lt;/code&gt;, a good binary power.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and i'd welcome a signed copy, should the unlikely happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; thank you for the extension.  227 for a second number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit 2&lt;/strong&gt; another extension!  107.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2014-12-26T15:06:23.730" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T15:06:23.730" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T19:04:56.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;87 (my current rep modulo 1000)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second number: 16 (the smallest free one)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third number: 240 (the highest free one)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T14:43:51.940" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T14:43:51.940" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T19:22:01.170" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 24, because why not :) !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60434" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T19:22:01.170" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T19:42:53.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;57 (first two digits of the question identifier)                                               &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;83 (my second choice)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;219 (third choice)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24483" LastEditorUserId="24483" LastEditDate="2014-12-25T11:59:06.937" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T11:59:06.937" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T20:11:26.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;009 Peer pressured into thinking of a reason. Identifier of the simulations I'm analysing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28869" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T20:11:26.973" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T20:12:14.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;strong&gt;245&lt;/strong&gt; (well, my wife did to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ow, just now I discovered that we can choose 2 numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my second one is &lt;strong&gt;146&lt;/strong&gt; because now is 21:46.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the 3rd number I choose is &lt;strong&gt;058&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastEditorUserId="14757" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T17:47:46.893" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T17:47:46.893" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T20:34:38.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Guess:  135.  Because it's one more than 134.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second choice:  199.  Because it's 65 more than 134.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6967" LastEditorDisplayName="user6967" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T22:34:21.753" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T22:34:21.753" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T20:49:19.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;193&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because it's just as good as any other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1860" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T20:49:19.253" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T21:03:46.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choice is 123, for the same reason I like vanilla ice cream.&#xA;And 202.&#xA;And 044.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastEditorUserId="56233" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T13:50:57.667" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T13:50:57.667" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T21:18:41.513" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 69. Just because. &lt;code&gt;:P&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: 43, because it is the next largest prime number compared to the answer to life and everything. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally 124, because... well because it's the third possibility!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7417" LastEditorUserId="7417" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T16:28:03.783" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T16:28:03.783" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T21:27:28.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go for 2. I like this number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My secong guess is 130.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13907" LastEditorDisplayName="user13907" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T02:56:03.563" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T02:56:03.563" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T21:57:23.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;128&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;because seven bits gives 128 ASCII characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18189" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T21:57:23.723" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T22:27:29.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number of pages in my most recent LaTeX run was &lt;strong&gt;54&lt;/strong&gt;, so that’s what I’m choosing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ETA: Second guess is &lt;strong&gt;246&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2966" LastEditorUserId="2966" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T17:34:59.183" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T17:34:59.183" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T22:38:33.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;27, because I like that number :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33933" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T22:38:33.120" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-10T22:55:19.967" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;26, my day of birth, and a number I usually encounter in pleasant circumstances. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second choice is the number 61.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My third choice is 226.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21963" LastEditorUserId="21963" LastEditDate="2014-12-25T17:40:55.333" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T17:40:55.333" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T00:01:03.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;143, for no reason. &#xA;051, also no reason&#xA;161, still no reason&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastEditorUserId="5049" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T23:20:18.760" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T23:20:18.760" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T00:10:38.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;19&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sum of the first 250 integers: &lt;code&gt;(1+250)*250/2=31375&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sum of the digits of 31375: &lt;code&gt;3+1+3+7+5=19&lt;/code&gt; (and it's prime, and everyone loves prime numbers &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;231&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as my second choice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. If it's me, then I would gladly welcome a signature &lt;code&gt;;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;168&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as my third choice. Thanks again &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43473" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T14:25:35.840" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T01:01:12.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;101&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T01:01:12.583" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T01:02:21.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;59, because it was 8:59 when I was writing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45081" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T01:02:21.190" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T01:28:44.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;127, cause that was the time I started writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2nd Number&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;180 because Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius died on 17 March(yaaaa, St. Patricks Day!) 180AD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3rd Number&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;078&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54029" LastEditorUserId="54029" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T02:02:19.613" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T02:02:19.613" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T02:31:37.610" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;30, because .... well .... 30.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second choice: 33&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third choice: 223&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="32888" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T22:02:24.583" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T22:02:24.583" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T02:44:07.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choice is for 22 (number of a famous brasilian football player in AC Milan few years ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T02:44:07.403" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T05:52:58.793" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;21, 35, 56&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;… seems like an OK number to me :)  Send Springer our thanks!  Hopefully this will make resource more popular – printed copies are always easier to truly learn from :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- Seems like 21+35=56 was the only real option here. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T15:41:44.067" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T15:41:44.067" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T06:30:39.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 23, of course. All hail Eris!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T06:30:39.360" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5737" CreationDate="2014-12-11T07:07:18.050" Score="8" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, the pseudo &lt;code&gt;Community&lt;/code&gt; user automagically edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/170716/14500&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (it replaced the &lt;code&gt;pgfmanual&lt;/code&gt; word by &lt;code&gt;pgfmanual&lt;/code&gt;!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T19:39:42.013" Title="Why `Community` user automagically edits an answer?" Tags="|support|editing|community-user|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2014-12-11T07:18:02.593" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like a suggested edit by I think a non-registered user. Community gets assigned quite a few of these sort of things: perfectly normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T07:18:02.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T08:15:38.347" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is 238 because it seemed like a good idea at the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43245" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T08:15:38.347" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T09:34:53.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;34&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The minute I posted this (just to generate a random number)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; The second number is 204 (just because it is still free)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third guess&lt;/strong&gt; 167&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16895" LastEditorUserId="16895" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T11:29:58.103" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T11:29:58.103" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T09:38:17.250" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;147, a maximum break in snooker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23155" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T09:38:17.250" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T11:03:40.103" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take 154 because the ISBN for the hardcover version of &lt;em&gt;LaTeX and Friends&lt;/em&gt; ends with these digits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25356" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T11:03:40.103" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T11:19:36.413" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;121&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...because it's an integer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take two: &lt;strong&gt;103&lt;/strong&gt; because it has the same sum of digits as 121.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third time Lucky: &lt;strong&gt;060&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45161" LastEditorUserId="45161" LastEditDate="2014-12-25T17:12:37.967" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T17:12:37.967" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-11T11:30:04.633" Score="4" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name of the user &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; is misleading: it's a bot and not a community of human beings, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;explanation&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi, I'm not really a person.&#xA;  I'm a background process that helps keep this site clean!&#xA;  I do things like ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might argue, my nick as well were misleading, 'cause no cookie I am. Yeah, but people know that I'm a real person, whoever. But the user &quot;Community&quot; with the rank of a moderator is something completely different and, being a bot, not connected to any connotation of the word &quot;community&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the purpose is to gather sympathy, but why do we need marketing blabla here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the age of more or less autonomous bots has started, let's separate them clearly, from the beginning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about &quot;TeX.se-Bot&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T01:51:52.317" Title="Rename &quot;Community&quot;" Tags="|discussion|community-user|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T11:41:10.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;137&quot;&gt;&#xA;137. &#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't get this any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11232" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T11:41:10.080" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T12:08:27.957" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;251&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to re-use the number from last year but I see you changed the rules, you don't trick me that easily, so it's a new number this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;502&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second number is twice the first and has exactly twice the chance of winning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1004&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because it's twice my last guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T17:56:28.917" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T17:56:28.917" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T12:34:19.533" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;memory’s failing, and going through the list of significant dates only comes up with &lt;strong&gt;28&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2411" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T12:34:19.533" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T14:27:07.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess 17, cause 17 is my day of birth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67007" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T14:27:07.097" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T14:52:55.527" Score="13" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;37&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's prime!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's your body temperature in degrees Celsius.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;37 * 2 - 1 = 73 (and this is the only number that does this in base 10)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and btw, 73 is prime as well)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AND it's a centered hexagonal number (take sides of 4 dots):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wy5ZM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AND it's a star number (take sides of 3 dots):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/icozk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and it has its own website as well: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thirty-seven.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://thirty-seven.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23992" LastEditorUserId="23992" LastEditDate="2014-12-12T14:17:51.853" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T14:17:51.853" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T15:09:58.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer 8. And although I know I don't have to say &quot;thank you&quot; I do. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second choice: 175&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third choice: 40&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="1952" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T17:19:39.897" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T17:19:39.897" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T15:20:04.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;004&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's random, so if you pick anything but the first available number you are not a mathematician ;)&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31377" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T15:20:04.680" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T15:54:16.723" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3030/3235&quot;&gt;The same every year;&lt;/a&gt; I go with 131&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AAH51.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T15:54:16.723" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T16:16:11.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;77&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 1: 122&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2: 49&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more useless text so the system stops complaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3954" LastEditorUserId="3954" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T22:13:16.537" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T22:13:16.537" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T17:22:35.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;190, because that's the only one worthy of being a number ;) Second choice: 099 (but I am too soft!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18401" LastEditorUserId="18401" LastEditDate="2014-12-20T17:02:44.907" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T17:02:44.907" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T20:15:18.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T21:40:40.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;141, first (3-digit) consecutive digits of Pi available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3345" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T21:40:40.710" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T21:40:40.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T21:49:57.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 205, it's similar to my lucky number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33937" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T21:49:57.607" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T21:49:57.607" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T22:05:20.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;206                              &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44160" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T22:05:20.490" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T22:05:20.490" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T22:10:30.913" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;216, because it's 6 cubed.  Lots of small factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52733" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T22:10:30.913" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T22:10:30.913" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T23:06:31.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;013&lt;/code&gt;. (I don't think it is gone.) Thanks very much for going to the trouble of organising this. [I would like to know - afterwards - how you selected the numbers.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot write the number without putting it in code? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second number: 242.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third number: 217.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="39222" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T20:09:17.520" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T20:09:17.520" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T23:06:31.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T23:14:02.400" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bGJep.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHQQe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8eHgb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19356" LastEditorUserId="19356" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T23:46:27.947" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T23:46:27.947" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T23:14:02.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-11T23:41:53.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go with &lt;strong&gt;071&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5872" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T23:41:53.153" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-11T23:41:53.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T01:59:00.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;229, because it is 1729 modulo 250. And 1729 is SO famous and beautiful number...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the second is 172, because it is 1729 divided by 10 (in TeX counters sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="26134" LastEditDate="2014-12-19T02:25:24.037" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T02:25:24.037" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T01:59:00.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T05:35:09.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to pick the number 31.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27081" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T05:35:09.450" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T05:35:09.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T06:17:30.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1st number: 215&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2nd number: 214&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11400" LastEditorUserId="11400" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T04:20:50.430" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T04:20:50.430" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T06:17:30.467" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T09:06:50.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;236 because my system time displays the same :) :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T09:06:50.750" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T09:06:50.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T09:07:01.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take &lt;strong&gt;010&lt;/strong&gt;, because the random number generator said so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that two guesses are allowed, my other choice is &lt;strong&gt;066&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My third guess is &lt;strong&gt;178&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23160" LastEditorUserId="23160" LastEditDate="2014-12-25T14:40:25.537" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T14:40:25.537" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T09:07:01.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T09:44:56.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12&lt;/strong&gt;, because it's the reciprocal of the opposite of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sum of all natural numbers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31416" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T09:44:56.813" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T09:44:56.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T11:46:58.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;208 (Yes, I have read &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the other answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and second guess 038 as the currently lowest available remaining &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A third guess before the new year: 139 (somewhere between the other two)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastEditorUserId="15925" LastEditDate="2014-12-28T15:52:50.190" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T15:52:50.190" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T11:46:58.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T12:40:15.330" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choice is &lt;strong&gt;247&lt;/strong&gt; because tex.se has a 24/7 service!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;My another two guesses are &lt;strong&gt;60&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;195&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EKHD6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-12-27T07:25:11.857" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T07:25:11.857" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T12:40:15.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T12:50:19.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;173 is mine! Simply because I threw a dart at my screen and that is where it landed. Also, awesome event! Oh, if I would be the lucky one, I would love a signature!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52072" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T12:50:19.277" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T12:50:19.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T13:11:11.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;075&lt;br&gt;&#xA;No reason.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;076&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Because it's next to my first guess. Think &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Battleship&lt;/a&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26169" LastEditorUserId="26169" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T18:20:00.520" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T18:20:00.520" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T13:11:11.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T13:53:17.920" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;176 = 2^4 x 11, and I would love to have it signed by you!&#xA;Thanks a lot and greetings to Springer :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31834" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T13:53:17.920" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T13:53:17.920" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T15:02:55.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;186 plus some other characters to make up the body length limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: 6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a third guess: 188&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10744" LastEditorDisplayName="user10744" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T04:24:42.940" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T04:24:42.940" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T15:02:55.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T16:42:31.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;96 (And now my character count &gt; 30.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9209" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T16:42:31.923" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T16:42:31.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T16:43:49.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;248, because it is 2^1 2^2 2^3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;second guess is 244, because it looks nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third guess: 221&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot for preparing this contest! In the improbable case of winning the book, a signed one would be the icing on the cake! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T22:08:47.953" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T22:08:47.953" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T16:43:49.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T17:10:00.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;108&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A spiritual number, they say.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27128" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T17:10:00.177" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T17:10:00.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T17:33:06.050" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;020 because I hope to have a first version of my thesis ready by the 20th :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And 218, for no special reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36313" LastEditorUserId="36313" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T16:17:27.740" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T16:17:27.740" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T17:33:06.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T17:37:37.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;70 because it's the 70th answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4885" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T17:37:37.260" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T17:37:37.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T19:46:24.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;113                           .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30392" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T19:46:24.010" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T19:46:24.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-12T21:20:59.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess 144, because 144 = 12 * 12 = 3^2*2^4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26401" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T21:20:59.930" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-12T21:20:59.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5743" CreationDate="2014-12-13T01:51:52.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please remember that he is not exactly a bot. His competences are much more than actively doing something. Basically when the system needs to put a name to an action that has no name associated, it's this user that gets the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;bots&quot;: the name is ridiculous, and certainly below the level of professionalism that StackExchange aims at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T01:51:52.317" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-13T02:53:15.910" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;72, cause its neat and I seem to get it often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36699" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T02:53:15.910" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-13T02:53:15.910" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-13T14:12:36.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;119&lt;/strong&gt;, because that's what LaTeX told me to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;    The random number I chose is&#xA;    \tikz{\pgfmathsetmacro\x{round(rnd*249+1)}\node at (0,0) {\x}}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a second guess, I take &lt;strong&gt;138&lt;/strong&gt; - same reason as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As third guess I'll try &lt;strong&gt;102&lt;/strong&gt; for no specific reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: thanks to @percusse for your suggestion, i wasn't aware of this possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65692" LastEditorUserId="65692" LastEditDate="2014-12-26T23:43:24.320" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T23:43:24.320" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-13T14:12:36.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-13T18:09:41.093" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;184, because I have a strong intuition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65669" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T18:09:41.093" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-13T18:09:41.093" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-13T19:01:02.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is 158. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second number is going to be: 074&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31941" LastEditorUserId="31941" LastEditDate="2014-12-21T00:56:37.017" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T00:56:37.017" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-13T19:01:02.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-13T19:21:32.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;163, as per my wife's suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46436" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T19:21:32.007" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-13T19:21:32.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-13T21:21:15.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;116&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because I can, and because it was the first thing I gazed upon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1549" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T21:21:15.727" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-13T21:21:15.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-13T22:15:00.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;14, for 'tis my age! Thanks for organising such an event, Marc! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S: A signed copy would be appreciated! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Second number is 15, ta!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, me again! I'll have a shot with 062, cheers! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63574" LastEditorUserId="63574" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T23:14:56.213" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T23:14:56.213" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-13T22:15:00.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T05:13:20.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;81&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going for 81 = 9 x 9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11145" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T05:13:20.593" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T05:13:20.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T14:28:29.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;239&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the largest prime still available)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T14:28:29.950" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T14:28:29.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T14:59:48.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;243.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T14:59:48.120" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T14:59:48.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T15:21:39.830" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;111 :D&#xA;Because is cool and because is...111&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68957" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:21:39.830" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T15:21:39.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T16:19:39.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If no one has taken 5 yet, I shall&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14210" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T16:19:39.293" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T16:19:39.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T17:52:20.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;165, because I feel it will be the winning number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will appreciate a signed copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28115" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T17:52:20.600" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T17:52:20.600" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T18:29:10.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;18 because it's pretty much the best number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6622" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T18:29:10.000" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T18:29:10.000" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T18:50:37.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, I will win 011&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; = 3&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt; books :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38074" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T18:50:37.057" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T18:50:37.057" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T21:07:25.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;136, because the ground state energy of the hydrogen atom is -13.6 eV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2014-12-19T11:39:02.093" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T11:39:02.093" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T21:07:25.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-14T21:15:58.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;120, because it is not caught yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T21:15:58.527" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-14T21:15:58.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-15T08:58:11.850" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;47&lt;/strong&gt;, my dice said so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second quess: &lt;strong&gt;181&lt;/strong&gt; (no dice)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third guess! &lt;strong&gt;230&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3622" LastEditorUserId="3622" LastEditDate="2014-12-25T19:24:48.827" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T19:24:48.827" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-15T08:58:11.850" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-15T12:25:27.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;strong&gt;192&lt;/strong&gt;, because my birthday falls on the 192nd day of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: since a second number is allowed, I was going to choose 158 (since that's the number of days since my birthday to today), but somebody else seems to have chosen that. So how about &lt;strong&gt;159&lt;/strong&gt;, since nobody has that yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9668" LastEditorUserId="9668" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T09:28:31.137" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:28:31.137" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-15T12:25:27.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-15T19:22:37.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;084&lt;/code&gt;, the year of the first release of Knuth's Tex book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: &lt;code&gt;052&lt;/code&gt;, just one of the remaining choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38475" LastEditorUserId="38475" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T00:57:58.237" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T00:57:58.237" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-15T19:22:37.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-15T19:41:16.220" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;117&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who knows? &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61789" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T19:41:16.220" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-15T19:41:16.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-15T20:17:18.507" Score="8" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know some basic information about printing, like types of paper, ink, their differences. Are these kind of questions appropriate for the site? If not, could you suggest another resource?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32143" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T15:56:34.973" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T15:56:34.973" Title="Where do questions about printing go?" Tags="|support|scope|site-recommendation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5803" CreationDate="2014-12-15T21:18:13.993" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to try &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;GraphicDesign.SE&lt;/a&gt;. The following is taken from their &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic help page&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;emphasis&lt;/em&gt; added to related on-topic category):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Graphic Design&lt;/strong&gt; is for questions targeted toward design professionals, students, and enthusiasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Graphic arts theory and history; &quot;Why&quot; we do what we do and not necessarily the &quot;how&quot; in logo design, fonts &amp;amp; typography, visual communication&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Web design&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Layout and printing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Illustration&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;3D graphics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Digital media&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Examples: video, Adobe Flash&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but not about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Simple &quot;How to&quot; questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Brainstorming or idea gathering&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Technical questions related to video editing software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Web site architecture and development&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Examples: HTML that doesn't include CSS, server-side issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Landscaping and architecture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:19.490" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T21:18:13.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5806" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-12-15T21:20:20.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the vast openness of the Stack Exchange Network, it can sometimes be confusing where exactly a question is supposed to go. If you are unsure after reading site FAQs, or if you cannot find an existing question here on Meta, consider asking a new question with this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give an example question you want to ask. If you're going to be vague, it's not going to be the best advice and you may find yourself in rough seas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not all questions belong on a Q&amp;amp;A site and not everything can find a home here at Stack Exchange.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-12-15T21:20:20.283" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T21:20:20.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5807" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-12-15T21:20:20.283" Score="0" Body="Don't know where to ask your question on the Stack Exchange Network or whether it's on-topic on the main TeX.SE? Give as much detail as possible about the question you'd like to ask, and the community will help you find the appropriate site." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-12-15T21:20:20.283" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T21:20:20.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T03:45:48.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;1, just because it's too simple to choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9790" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T03:45:48.430" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T03:45:48.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T10:16:09.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;097.&#xA;Because, for me, it is yellow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38435" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T10:16:09.483" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T10:16:09.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T10:43:37.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like 212 and 222, because that is an awesome number too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one of these is a lucky number, I would love an autograph!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52072" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T10:43:37.627" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T10:43:37.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T12:48:47.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{overly used quote}My name is Bond...\end{overly used quote}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh -- seven is taken already. 234 then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1416" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T12:48:47.397" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T12:48:47.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T14:06:59.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take 232.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RS232&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59848" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T14:06:59.770" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T14:06:59.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T14:24:09.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I go for &lt;strong&gt;63&lt;/strong&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; Mersenne number whose prime divisors all appear in the factorization of previous Mersenne numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and for the &lt;strong&gt;32&lt;/strong&gt;: number of faces of the truncated icosahedron. Soccer rules! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29639" LastEditorUserId="29639" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T18:21:09.787" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T18:21:09.787" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T14:24:09.270" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T15:00:34.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;157&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;203&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because these were first two non-taken results from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ python&#xA;&#xA;import random&#xA;print random.randint(0, 251)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="828" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T15:00:34.397" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T15:00:34.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T15:09:40.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;65&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A common U.S. retiring age.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9209" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T15:09:40.673" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T15:09:40.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T16:01:18.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like &lt;strong&gt;152&lt;/strong&gt; hasn't been taken yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone scoops me, I'll go with &lt;strong&gt;45&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for offering this lottery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37357" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T16:01:18.100" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T16:01:18.100" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T17:55:32.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 68 and 112&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51119" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T17:55:32.547" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T17:55:32.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T18:16:47.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;strong&gt;82&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;171&lt;/strong&gt; because they both look good in formal attire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45296" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T18:16:47.593" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T18:16:47.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T19:44:30.063" Score="1" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;237&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All the cool ones were already taken.&#xA;Since I can pick two, let's go for 118, the current number of elements in the periodic table.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18762" LastEditorUserId="18762" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T19:52:32.080" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T19:52:32.080" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T19:44:30.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-16T20:44:08.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;25 + 29 = &lt;code&gt;\hrule&lt;/code&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T20:44:08.583" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-16T20:44:08.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-17T01:44:23.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First number: &lt;strong&gt;25&lt;/strong&gt; because... &lt;strong&gt;XXV&lt;/strong&gt; is related to this &quot;Latex and Friends&quot; book :-) See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springer.com/computer/media+design/book/978-3-642-23815-4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.springer.com/computer/media+design/book/978-3-642-23815-4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second number: &lt;strong&gt;85&lt;/strong&gt; because &quot;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX was first developed in 1985 by Leslie Lamport&lt;/em&gt;&quot; - according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE (23-dec-2014):&lt;/strong&gt; So we can now add a Third number? That's great! I'm adding &lt;strong&gt;94&lt;/strong&gt; because LaTeX2e was released in 1994 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-project.org/ltnews/ltnews01.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://latex-project.org/ltnews/ltnews01.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also participated in the last time - &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3021/13063&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3021/13063&lt;/a&gt; - and didn't win. So I &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; to win this time. Right?! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; In the off chance that I &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; win, I would love that the book came signed/autographed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many Thanks to Marc van Dongen and Springer for making this possible.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13063" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T23:22:52.437" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-17T01:44:23.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-17T02:50:24.273" Score="16" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;What characteristic behaviour does our community exhibit? Is it possible to capture this through some statistic or visually through graphs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly! There is a host of information available through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt;. This post is meant to collate some of the discussions contained within &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1849/5764&quot;&gt;How can we explore the content of TeX.SX?&lt;/a&gt; as a showcase of the community's behaviour on an annual basis. For those interested in contributing statistics, considering adding an answer to the linked post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please provide an answer in the form of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; query and if not, explain in as much detail as possible the type of statistic you'd like to see. Consult the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2677/168244&quot;&gt;Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE&lt;/a&gt; for information on the variables and content. Well-formed constructions will make its way into this post's answer section shortly after New Year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to highlight activity of the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; and not to isolate &lt;em&gt;individual&lt;/em&gt; behaviour (although this may be the case naturally when it comes to &amp;quot;outlier users&amp;quot; - like those with &lt;em&gt;highest reputation&lt;/em&gt;, for example). This is not an absolute rule; exclusions may apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Examples of good inquiries/statistics:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the total number of badges awarded by class over time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statistic attempts to see whether merit (through posts, say) and participation (through moderation, say) act similarly. Does this change over time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a better time to post a question based on community activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Facebook is a good example of this, where posts aired at the time when most of your friends &amp;quot;wake up&amp;quot; (in the morning, hopefully) receives far more attention than those posted when everyone's asleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Examples of bad inquiries/statistics:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When will &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; receive my next &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;type&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; badge? Or, what badges will &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; receive next?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statistic is specific to an individual (again, exclusions may apply...) or doesn't attempt to address &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What time of day do most community members vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is (and always will be) anonymous. One way of protecting this anonymity is by removing time-stamps from votes in the SEDE (keeping only date-stamps). As such, it's not possible to ascertain this effectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T01:35:15.210" Title="Community statistics" Tags="|discussion|community|statistics|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-17T15:39:54.193" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is 196.  I tried to check, and I believe the number has not yet been taken.  Also is is a square, has 7 as a prime factor and the number is larger than my age in years, so this must be it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6294" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T15:39:54.193" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-17T15:39:54.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-17T17:44:19.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go with 224 and 225. Not that I expect anything more than a lump of coal in my stocking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Since you now kindly give us &lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt; guesses, like a proper djinni, I'll pick 126 for my third guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2225a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11709" LastEditorDisplayName="user10274" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T12:09:07.000" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T12:09:07.000" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-17T17:44:19.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-17T21:52:04.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess 105 and 198, because numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T21:52:04.230" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-17T21:52:04.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-17T23:57:39.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like 67 and 185.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="401" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T23:57:39.917" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-17T23:57:39.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-18T01:07:01.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;101 and 5 &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35209" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T01:07:01.610" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-18T01:07:01.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-18T04:21:27.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;21, because nobody is guessing low numbers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: and 11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42902" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T04:21:27.397" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-18T04:21:27.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-18T12:55:01.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will try with the numbers 039 and 169.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52406" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T12:55:01.250" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-18T12:55:01.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-18T13:28:45.320" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;041&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;197&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.clipartpanda.com/pie-clip-art-Rcdrbpzc9.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture of pie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50886" LastEditorDisplayName="user10274" LastEditDate="2014-12-19T14:14:52.780" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T14:14:52.780" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-18T13:28:45.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5698" CreationDate="2014-12-19T11:25:24.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could of course say: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It renders as &lt;h1&gt;[1]&lt;/h1&gt;  rather than [1]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T11:25:24.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-19T16:52:43.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;36 and 125&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T16:52:43.020" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-19T16:52:43.020" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-19T17:44:48.507" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First guess: &lt;strong&gt;65&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: &lt;strong&gt;237&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;code&gt;python3 -c 'from random import *;print(randint(1, 250), randint(1, 250))'&lt;/code&gt; says so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17697" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T17:44:48.507" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-19T17:44:48.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-20T07:00:22.267" Score="9" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current user-profile page shows the badges/numbers looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dudwp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a similar view of the top-bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5TQ7x.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the vertical alignment of the badges in the user-profile view should match that of the top-bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tested on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chrome 39.0.2171.95 m&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox 34.0.5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.17498&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T11:08:37.137" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T11:08:37.137" Title="Misalignment of badges/numbers on user-profile page" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|badges|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5936" CreationDate="2014-12-20T19:26:21.343" Score="8" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a question that received some upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/216206/tilted-planes-as-scopes&quot;&gt;tilted planes as scopes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However - I didn't get any answers, perhaps because the problem was a little involved. So I decided to offer a bounty, because I really needed a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with the bounty, it seems that nobody was interested  enough to work on an answer, so I invested some time and came up with an answer myself, which I accepted shortly before the bounty period expired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the bounty (and grace) periods have expired, my question has received more than 10 upvotes and my answer has received two upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question would have been answered by anyone else than myself, the situation would have triggered half of the bounty amount to be auto-awarded to the answer. As it stands, this didn't happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want my reputation back - after all, I offered it, knowing it would be gone for good. But somehow I feel that this kind of thing should be worthy of a badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a question is asked and receives at least 10 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a bounty is offered on the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the person asking the question answers their own question within the bounty period&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at the end of the bounty period, the answer of the person who asked the question has received more upvotes than any other answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think these would be sensible criteria for a badge? I personally think that having more badges would be nice, but I can also see how one might argue that too highly specialized badges would trigger people to behave strangely just to earn badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14750" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T18:57:42.620" Title="Why is there no badge for that?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-20T19:35:19.530" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Islam SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://islam.meta.stackexchange.com/q/608/156&quot;&gt;does not have [islamic-history]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chsitiantity SE is a bit more precise with &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.stackexchange.com/tags/history/info&quot;&gt;[history], [church-history], and [early-church]&lt;/a&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, surely on this site, a TeX context can be assumed, and [history] would be perfectly understandable as a tag in its own right, without the &lt;em&gt;tex-&lt;/em&gt; prefix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13746" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:56:53.990" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T19:35:19.530" Title="Why is there a tag called [tex-history]?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-20T22:59:40.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My selection is the following: 050 and 156&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59204" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T19:16:42.910" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T19:16:42.910" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-20T22:59:40.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-21T00:01:49.157" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;091, or 91, the only number less than 100 that looks like a prime but isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second number 100, for no particular reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T00:01:49.157" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-21T00:01:49.157" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-21T09:40:55.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;71 and&lt;/s&gt; 46 chosen by random number generator. I've checked, &lt;strong&gt;153&lt;/strong&gt; is still available!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32143" LastEditorUserId="32143" LastEditDate="2014-12-21T17:43:49.923" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T17:43:49.923" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-21T09:40:55.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-21T14:44:45.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guesses are the following: 38 and 166.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19748" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-12-21T17:28:19.310" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T17:28:19.310" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-21T14:44:45.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-22T11:12:48.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;213  because 13 was used by another one &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;088  no special reason, just for fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third guess: 201!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="16550" LastEditDate="2014-12-28T13:38:59.657" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T13:38:59.657" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-22T11:12:48.093" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-22T14:12:41.213" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;089&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;189&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because I'm born in 1989.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;strong&gt;170&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;highest finish in darts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47576" LastEditorUserId="47576" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T18:19:24.307" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T18:19:24.307" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-22T14:12:41.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-23T16:31:17.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;048, 086, and 183 (random number generator)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26878" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T16:31:17.113" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-23T16:31:17.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-23T22:41:29.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My two guesses: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;073 and 142 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60473" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T06:49:40.050" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T06:49:40.050" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-23T22:41:29.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-24T05:37:11.810" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;120 - its 5!, the symmetry of the icosahedron and of the pentachoron.  The  largest of the six polyopes in 4D has 120 faces, and ispend a good dealof time getting LaTeX to work in base 120&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;|◖■◗|&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47671" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T05:37:11.810" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-24T05:37:11.810" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-24T12:08:02.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guesses are:&#xA;132 133 134&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because this was the only consecutive triple left on the same row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21816" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T12:08:02.167" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-24T12:08:02.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-24T13:29:55.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My three guesses:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;55 Lowest remaining&lt;br&gt;&#xA;235 Highest remaining&lt;br&gt;&#xA;145 Average of the previous two&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(55 + 235)/2 = 145&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T13:29:55.550" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-24T13:29:55.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-24T15:59:29.133" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;98, maybe just because is 97 + 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61789" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T15:59:29.133" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-24T15:59:29.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-26T02:17:29.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;187&#xA;210&#xA;30&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRgZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;trivial answer checker avoidance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41998" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T02:17:29.097" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-26T02:17:29.097" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-26T06:21:08.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;47&#xA;152&#xA;17&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(No reason.  Just going by whatever my gut says.  (Why should I trust my gut, though?))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11250" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T06:21:08.410" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-26T06:21:08.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-27T14:25:05.897" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first and only attempt is 079, 080, 092!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14500" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T14:25:05.897" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-27T14:25:05.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5840" CreationDate="2014-12-28T19:52:24.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why Benefactor and Altruist couldn't be expanded to include not awarding the bounty manually if you answer the question yourself and if the answer has positive score. It would make much more sense than including yet another (and probably very rare) badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that this is going to be considered too minor change/impact to ever get implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T19:52:24.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2014-12-28T22:21:14.367" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another common situation is that a question is actually answered by a comment while no other answer is given. So such questions are shown as unanswered (and distract people trying to answer actually unanswered questions). A polite question to turn such comments into answers (e.g., &quot;@[name] Thank you for your great comment! It seems this actually answers the question, but is not declared as such. Would you mind writing the content of your comment as an answer?&quot;) might be something to add to the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69445" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T22:21:14.367" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-28T22:21:14.367" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-28T23:23:21.063" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the remaining primes in [100, 110]: 101, 103, and 109.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T23:23:21.063" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-28T23:23:21.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5870" CreationDate="2014-12-29T02:04:45.723" Score="9" ViewCount="908" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/219576/4573&quot;&gt;question about the validity of some research findings on LaTeX usage&lt;/a&gt; was placed on hold as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;, however it is not clear why this question falls outside the general standards of the community, when other similar questions do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there can certainly be multiple valid ways to answer the question any appropriate approach would need to be rooted in factual information about TeX and the specific findings of the study. The answers would not be pure speculation but the interpretation of &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; information from the study in the light of &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; information about TeX.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see no difference from this question and other open questions where answers could result from different approaches such as the following examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/102878/4573&quot;&gt;How can I convert my TeX-illiterate coworkers to LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/41116/4573&quot;&gt;Advantage of LaTeX presentations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/94889/4573&quot;&gt;How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about this question falls outside of the general community standards for questions that could have multiple valid answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4573" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T23:17:22.613" Title="Why was this question about research on LaTeX considered too opinion-based?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-29T02:35:47.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;1st guess: 108&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2nd guess: 142&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3rd guess: 242&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1135" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T02:35:47.113" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-29T02:35:47.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5866" CreationDate="2014-12-29T03:13:34.017" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well as I was involved a bit I can justify my take;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, &lt;em&gt;we are not consistent at about anything&lt;/em&gt;. Hence, why this is open but the other is closed is not going to solve anything. Half of the TikZ questions should have been closed but somehow didn't. The examples you give are also the same. So there is always a grappling aspect of any question. You might not like it (I also don't) but this is a social construct. Not a rule-based media. Moreover, as we discussed a lot of times earlier, the SO rules are self-conflicting so there is nothing to gain sticking to the rules that you might think appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then the obvious follow-up is that why this one didn't fit the bill. I can't talk for others but in my point of view, the article is really weak to start with. Even without downloading the extra files and checking the numbers, you can tell that it is, in many places, biased and unforgivably misinformed about TeX. So opening a discussion in the question/answer format is just going to compile a lot of answers which are reinforcing the obvious stuff about TeX. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It has weird conclusions such as saving time and wasting money and that kind of nonsense that any academic can spot the logical error. This item is not about why question is closed but about an article however, in turn, I have to confess that it is being taken too seriously for such weak, and borderline unethical, conclusions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, even though the article is weak and erroneous, we can't argue anything against it because we don't have any counter evidence. Alan Munn already took the initiative and set up the chat room for experiment design. So that covers much more than what this question would cover had it stayed open. I would recommend that we push our efforts in that direction instead of typing long answers to the question and gaining nothing. So in that sense, the question is truly opinion-based and should not be mixed up with half-baked and in some cases fun questions you have sampled in your post. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T03:13:34.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-29T04:04:11.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guesses shall be 104, 106, and 228.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10906" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T04:04:11.653" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-29T04:04:11.653" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5866" CreationDate="2014-12-29T10:10:51.820" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get a relatively small number of questions which may be viewed as off-topic or opinion based on the site. For these, there is a certain amount of discussion which can be had and as pointed out by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5868&quot;&gt;percusee&lt;/a&gt; you can argue things are not entirely consistent. As we are talking about value judgements that is perhaps not surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the question here, there are arguments for both 'off-topic' and 'opinion-based'. I will take the two arguments separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of topic, the PLOS ONE article seeks to compare TeX (LaTeX) with a word processor (Word). Thus at least in part it's already about something we don't cover: word processors. However, the bigger issue here for me is that the issue &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/219576/does-latex-really-perform-worse-than-word&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt; is raises  is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on this study can we conclude that Word works better than LaTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not about TeX and it's not about Word: it's about measuring productivity, specifically from the study in an academic setting but presumably more generally. That's a technical area (I'm sure there are experts on this type of measurement) but it's not what &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; cover as a site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the 'opinion-based' side, this is about more than 'there might be more than one answer'. (While the StackExchange model is best for questions where a single answer can be 'more correct' than any others, there is certainly some room for more nuanced situations.) Asking for a critique of a paper comparing Word and LaTeX on a site about TeX is only going to go one way, but it's hardly going to be objective. (Something like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/how-can-i-explain-the-meaning-of-latex-to-my-grandma&quot;&gt;'grandma' question&lt;/a&gt; is clearly a bit of fun, so people are likely to give them more leeway, whereas some of the promotion questions may be given more slack as they are not directly about criticising other approaches.) The entire thing seems much better suited to a threaded discussion format, which chat does better than a question but which is really better on a mailing list or on Usenet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over all, to me the two areas together suggest that this is not a good fit for the site: TeX-sx isn't the best place for &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; about TeX. The same might be said of some other questions, and I'd be wary of saying 'As X is open, Y &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be allowed too.'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Note: While my name is currently down as closing the question, this is because I was asked to 'tidy up' the close reason from 'off-topic' to 'opinion-based' as this seemed perhaps better. I did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; vote to close initially.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T13:45:56.677" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5703" CreationDate="2014-12-29T12:28:58.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guesses are 114, 162, and 182.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62428" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T12:28:58.800" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-29T12:28:58.800" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-29T13:13:17.803" Score="11" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the issue with Word vs LaTeX in the past days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110133&quot;&gt;Visual comparison between LaTeX and Word output&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/218567&quot;&gt;LaTeX vs Word&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/219576&quot;&gt;Does LaTeX really perform worse than Word&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some upcoming event, and one which I'm unaware of? Is Microsoft taking over? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T02:00:01.317" Title="What is this issue with Word vs LaTeX in the past days?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5872" CreationDate="2014-12-29T13:59:12.570" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;the last question cited was triggered by the appearance in a reasonably well known&#xA;open access journal regarding the relative efficiency of latex vs. word.&#xA;it contains a clear call for funding agencies to stop the use of latex, in favor of word,&#xA;since latex allegedly wastes time that should better be spent on research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;although the experiments on which the article was based are flawed, the conclusions&#xA;not (in my estimation) presented even-handedly, and the &quot;last word&quot; inflammatory,&#xA;the article may (since i don't know of any other on the subject) be given wider&#xA;&quot;authority&quot; than it deserves, to the detriment of scientists trying to use latex&#xA;to prepare their work for publication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i'm surprised that some of these points got past the referees; it certainly downgrades&#xA;my opinion of the value of the journal in which the article appeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T13:59:12.570" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5875" CreationDate="2014-12-30T19:40:42.200" Score="7" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/219945/good-latex-editor-and-compiler-for-beginners/219949#219949&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; that is marked as a duplicate and my opinion is that it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask how can I point it out? Should I flag it for moderator's attention and say my opinion or should I do something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment I have written a comment but most people (if not all) that have marked the question won't be able to see it. That will only happen if by any chance they visit the question again, which is highly unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T20:59:49.863" Title="Mark a &quot;marked as a duplicate question&quot; as not duplicate" Tags="|support|duplicates|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5874" CreationDate="2014-12-30T20:56:40.470" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until you have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;privilege to vote-to-close or reopen&lt;/a&gt;, you're left to your own devices to persuade the community. Here are some options (in order of preference):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a comment in the thread in question to get the attention of some of the users who voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; (of course, once you have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat&quot;&gt;chitter-chatter privilege&lt;/a&gt;) and discuss with the eager-to-listen folks the motivation behind your request. Most people there have the privilege to cast re-open votes and may be persuaded to do such.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;, since it is suitable here - asking questions about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; using the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; meta-tag. Users can then contribute their ideas in the form of answers until some community census is reached.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flag for moderator attention stating your case. It may be that the mod takes up option (2) before doing anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T20:56:40.470" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-01T03:22:43.957" Score="25" ViewCount="2917" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scripts packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt; (or &lt;strong&gt;440 x 500 pixels&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/247063/188148&quot;&gt;for high-resolution displays&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/5876&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T11:34:30.047" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2015" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="31" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-02-07T18:46:17.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T03:22:43.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="5888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-01T20:55:56.610" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lMwS.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX.SX Meta&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T20:55:56.610" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T20:55:56.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-01T20:57:32.443" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/tugboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iV9q1.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Communications of the TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T20:57:32.443" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T20:57:32.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-01T20:59:22.713" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.contextgarden.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DQdPB.png&quot; alt=&quot;ConTeXt User Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T20:59:22.713" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T20:59:22.713" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-01T21:00:29.020" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z6MDX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tex.SE Community Blog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T21:00:29.020" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T21:00:29.020" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5866" CreationDate="2015-01-01T23:17:22.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was also involved (as a reviewer). I'm neither statistician nor mathematician, so I can't comment on the stats or math involved. I am, however, a typesetter, and my research on editing systems for structured documents was cited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What fails to come through properly in the article is that the real distinction is between the Word &lt;strong&gt;interface&lt;/strong&gt; and the LaTeX &lt;strong&gt;interface&lt;/strong&gt;[s]; and we know that most of the interfaces to LaTeX — even LyX — are not the same as Word, despite the evidence I found in my own research that the majority of computer users prefer a typographically synchronous interface (what people inaccurately call WYSIWYG).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, most authors would indeed probably work faster using Word (&lt;strong&gt;leaving aside mathematics&lt;/strong&gt;, which the authors of the paper do acknowledge to be a special case). The reason seems to be that they just want to get the paper done, and they absolutely do not want to have to learn anything new to achieve that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few people, of course, &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; see the advantages of LaTeX, but even then, there is a strong tendency for them to use obsolete or unnecessary markup because they have been improperly instructed (or have resorted to guesswork), and they have not encountered the concepts of document structure and automation which lead to efficient use of LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have urged in a response on comp.text.tex that we (the [La]TeX) community should undertake some more research on this, and I am delighted to see Alan Munn's initiative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="355" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T23:17:22.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-04T17:02:29.643" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/cereda/arara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MOh1Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;arara -- The cool TEX automation tool&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5239" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2015-01-09T17:13:05.783" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T17:13:05.783" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-04T17:02:29.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-05T14:48:59.077" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p0DAc.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXblog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T14:48:59.077" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-05T14:48:59.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-05T17:09:09.477" Score="11" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/116332/4736&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; has been asked on May 27th, 2013 and closed the same day for the reason »This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; ...« &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today we have to realise that this question has got more than 5.000 views! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we avoid in future to make tex.sx look ridiculous, because questions that draw a huge interest have been closed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am well aware that the views are a result of the headline of the question. But however, people come and find a closed question to an issue they experience themselves! We have discussed a grace period here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4045/4736&quot;&gt;Should we have a Grace period to avoid premature Voting to Close and Reopening Cycle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T18:56:56.640" Title="How to avoid closing a question that gets more than 5k views!" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-05T17:24:17.463" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com/latex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3999y.png&quot; alt=&quot;Overleaf: Free online collaborative LaTeX editor with real-time PDF preview&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T17:24:17.463" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-05T17:24:17.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5899" CreationDate="2015-01-05T18:49:01.510" Score="13" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm Pops, one of the Community Managers at Stack Exchange. It's a new calendar year, which means it's time once more to either renew or cancel our TeX User Group institutional membership. Based on your enthusiasm &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4140/should-we-keep-our-tex-user-group-membership&quot;&gt;last year&lt;/a&gt;, I'm pretty sure my inbox is going to contain a lot of the word &quot;renew&quot; over the next few hours, but just to be sure: what say ye?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, one of the most direct benefits of membership for the community is the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1727/how-do-we-choose-tex-se-members-for-representing-se-in-the-tug&quot;&gt;select eight users for individual membership&lt;/a&gt;. Here's how that worked out last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4150/tug-membership-names-for-2014&quot;&gt;TUG Membership: Names for 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T21:04:55.117" Title="Annual TeX User Group membership question, 2015 edition" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5895" CreationDate="2015-01-05T20:25:08.723" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in a comment, a high number of views does not in itself mean that the question is a good one for the site. For example, a 'provocative' title may attract a lot of hits while meaning that the question does not fit the Q&amp;amp;A format or indeed be really about TeX at all. Views of questions come primarily from people searching for text, probably in the case in point the error message &lt;code&gt;! I can't find file `ecrm1000'.&lt;/code&gt; or some variant of that. That does not mean that the question or answers were &lt;em&gt;helpful&lt;/em&gt; to the viewer: that is what votes are there to show (of course, only a subset of viewers will vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can get closed while still being useful, and the correct thing to do there is to make the argument for reopening. That might involved editing the question to clarify how it is useful to others and so on. Thus the issue to decide on is whether that applies here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading over the text of the question linked here, it's clear that the issue the user has is not a general one as such but a problem with multiple TeX systems being installed. Beyond a rather general 'sort out your TeX system(s) so that each one is using its own files' there is not an answer we can give here. (Indeed, it's arguable that this is an OS issue as much as a TeX one.) That makes this particular question (historically) 'too localized' or nowadays probably 'off topic' (a configuration issue on an isolated system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, one might wonder if the error message suggests there is a general question to be answered. There almost certainly is, and we might arrange to have such a question on the site (if we do not already): someone could post a well-formed question and an answer at the same time. However, that is not the same as saying this question should be reopened: as I say, while the error appears general it's quite clear that the issue &lt;em&gt;in this case&lt;/em&gt; was not. (One could argue that we could remove the edit parts from the linked question to make it general and simply ignore the fact that the OP had TL2012 around at all. To me that seems to be taking an edit too far: the questioner wasn't really trying to get 'managed' TL working at all.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally, as a Q&amp;amp;A site the idea is that (open) questions should have some value beyond just the person posting them. That's why we tend to try to 'clear up' things like system misconfiguration, typos, misunderstandings and the like in comments. These cases don't make good general questions so are likely to be closed but at the same time we can try to help the person who asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2015-01-05T20:38:57.327" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T20:38:57.327" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5897" CreationDate="2015-01-06T16:23:55.570" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we're still benefiting from our TUG membership. Let's renew!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T16:23:55.570" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-06T16:23:55.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5897" CreationDate="2015-01-06T16:26:24.577" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nah, this has outlived its usefulness. No need to stick around for this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T16:26:24.577" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-06T16:26:24.577" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5902" CreationDate="2015-01-07T16:58:26.470" Score="10" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to ask a question and I got the following warning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and&#xA;  you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For help formulating a clear, useful question, see: How do I ask a&#xA;  good question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, edit your previous questions to improve formatting and clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19017/becko&quot;&gt;account page&lt;/a&gt;, I only have five questions on this site, I don't think they have had such a bad reception. Is this a bug? Or is there a reason I am receiving this message?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19017" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T11:52:08.280" Title="Warning: ... you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5901" CreationDate="2015-01-07T18:04:55.677" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I've checked with with other mods on the network. Broadly, the warning comes about here as you've got a relative small number of questions (currently 7). Of those, two are deleted and there is one downvote on one other: that makes three 'negative events' in seven questions so raises a warning. I note that both the deleted questions were about JabRef and were clearly off-topic for us, so there's not really a chance to edit and improve them for re-opening. As such, the best you can do is make sure new questions are carefully written: with a few more with a positive score you will probably be safe from a ban. Upvoted answers may also help (I'm not 100% about this: as I say in comments, we don't actually know how the ban system algorithm in detail.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T18:04:55.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5901" CreationDate="2015-01-07T19:27:24.550" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the question, how 'well-received' might be defined this excerpt on the 'Curious'-Badge will give some clue or information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pfRYa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there is another definition behind the 'question-rejection' but otherwise, it could be some explanation, especially the fact, that specific deleted/closed/downvoted questions count thrice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The excerpt can be found in full extent here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T11:52:08.280" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T11:52:08.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-08T07:41:30.880" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://qa.parsilatex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iGaKa.png&quot; alt=&quot;A Persian Q&amp;amp;A site for TeX, LaTeX, and friends&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-01-14T19:27:51.127" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T19:27:51.127" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-08T07:41:30.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-08T09:25:18.887" Score="30" ViewCount="1566" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5897/annual-tex-user-group-membership-question-2015-edition&quot;&gt;continues to support TUG with corporate membership&lt;/a&gt; (many thanks). With that come eight individual memberships that can be given out to members of the community. The time has come to select our representatives for 2015. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4150/tug-membership-names-for-2014&quot;&gt;TUG Membership: Names for 2014&lt;/a&gt; for last year's selection.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask people to put themselves forward. There are no restrictions on standing other than having to be a member of the TeX StackExchange site: in particular, the existing 'representatives' are very welcome to put their names forward to continue. [Note: I've called the people we put forward 'representatives', but that's mainly because I can't think of a better term. Nominees should not feel the need to represent TeX-sx other than being members of the site and therefore interested in TeX in some way!]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The model for selection of representatives is as follows. We will have a two stage process, first 'nomination' then 'election'. The first phase runs for five days, until 2100 GMT on 2015-01-12. Each person who wishes to be considered should post an answer, where they can (if they wish) say what makes them a good choice. They should then immediately delete their answer. Please don't vote on any answers during this phase: any votes cast will be ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second phase, all of the answers will be undeleted, and everyone should take a look at these answers and vote for deserving candidates: remember there are eight places available! Again, there will be five days to vote, ending 2100 GMT on 2015-01-17. At that stage, the top eight names will be forwarded to the StackExchange community staff for notification to TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the event of a tie in number of votes, the mod team will decide which of the tied members are put forward to StackExchange. The mod team may also include additional names if at the end of the voting process there are fewer than eight nominees with positive scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone is welcome to vote for as many or as few candidates as they wish. Remember that there are a total of eight places available to be selected. New nominations can be added during the voting phase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the voting period, the tallies were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10898/azetina&quot;&gt;azetina&lt;/a&gt;, 29&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/21891/jubobs&quot;&gt;Jubobs&lt;/a&gt;, 29&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/31729/christian-hupfer&quot;&gt;Christian Hupfer&lt;/a&gt;, 28&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/39222/cfr&quot;&gt;cfr&lt;/a&gt;, 28&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764/werner&quot;&gt;Werner&lt;/a&gt;, 24&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/963/yiannis-lazarides&quot;&gt;Yiannis Lazarides&lt;/a&gt;, 24&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/11002/yo&quot;&gt;yo'&lt;/a&gt;, 20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/17423/sean-allred&quot;&gt;Sean Allred&lt;/a&gt;, 19&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/30617/thomas-f-sturm&quot;&gt;Thomas F. Sturm&lt;/a&gt;, 19&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/32245/larifari&quot;&gt;LaRiFaRi&lt;/a&gt;, 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2417/ian-thompson&quot;&gt;Ian Thompson&lt;/a&gt;, 15&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; withdrew from the selection process. The top seven names (azetina, Jubobs, Christian Hupfer, cfr, Werner,  Yiannis Lazarides and yo') are therefore automatically selected as our 'representatives' and will be forwarded to StackExchange. Thomas Sturm has indicated he is happy to allow Sean Allred to take the final place, and so his name will be forwarded with the seven others to the network to be passed to TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T04:19:24.000" Title="TUG Membership: Names for 2015" Tags="|discussion|tug|sponsorship|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-08T16:35:09.190" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miktex.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ufcwE.png&quot; alt=&quot;MikTeX - a TeX distribution for Windows&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T16:47:38.927" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T16:47:38.927" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-08T16:35:09.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-08T16:40:45.110" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cervantex.es&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D3N32.png&quot; alt=&quot;CervanTeX - Spanish TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T16:45:33.963" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T16:45:33.963" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-08T16:40:45.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-08T20:33:07.410" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether I'm worthy, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/19441456#19441456&quot;&gt;the ever friendly Paulo Cereda suggested I put my name down&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only joined TeX.SX two years ago or so, but I was immediately awed by how friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable the TeX.SX community is. From knowing nothing about Tex &amp;amp; friends, I eventually learned enough, thanks to the community, to put a couple of packages together and successfully submit them on CTAN (more to come...). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remain active on the site (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=user%3a21891%20%5blistings%5d&quot;&gt;especially&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listings&lt;/a&gt; tag, but also in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz&lt;/a&gt; tag), which feels a bit like &lt;em&gt;home&lt;/em&gt;, at this stage. Here are some of the answers I'm most proud of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/116980/why-doesnt-tikzs-foreach-iterate-over-the-last-element-of-the-list/116990#116990&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t TikZ&amp;#39;s \foreach iterate over the last element of the list?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/75116/what-can-i-use-to-typeset-matlab-code-in-my-document/158816#158816&quot;&gt;What can I use to typeset MATLAB code in my document?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/161235/can-the-listings-package-be-set-up-to-highlight-prolog-code-like-minted-does/161237#161237&quot;&gt;Can the listings package be set up to highlight Prolog code like minted does?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159246/can-the-listings-package-highlight-by-regexp/159248#159248&quot;&gt;Can the listings package highlight by regexp?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/125244/how-can-i-produce-the-history-graph-of-a-git-repository-in-latex/198345#198345&quot;&gt;How can I produce the history graph of a Git repository in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/105822/rindler-coordinate-chart-family-of-parametric-curves-in-tikz/105857#105857&quot;&gt;Rindler coordinate chart (family of parametric curves) in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/126078/diagram-of-an-acoustic-doppler-current-profiler-adcp-in-tikz/126098#126098&quot;&gt;Diagram of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/116978/drawing-of-sun-earth-moon-system/117280#117280&quot;&gt;Drawing of Sun–Earth–Moon system&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/81676/how-to-highlight-all-words-of-the-form-0-9a-za-z0-9-immediately-following-a/164297#164297&quot;&gt;How to highlight all words of the form [0-9][A-Za-z0-9]* immediately following an equal sign?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must confess that, although I have read and learned from several TUGboat articles, I have yet to become a TUG member... but what a great opportunity to join! I would be honoured to be one of the members representing TeX.SX in the TeX User Group, and I would be delighted to attend TeX-related conferences (time and funding permitting) wearing the &quot;TeX.SX representative hat&quot;... or a duck lifebuoy, in honour of Paulo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Marc Van Dongen once gave me an idea that, I believe, would make for an interesting TUGboat article, but it's probably too early to announce it here. More details when I start cooking it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T02:09:58.390" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-09T16:51:29.640" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll be so brave to nominate myself. While I don't participate so much in answering questions recently, I concentrate on the community work: flagging, commenting, editing, following both the local and the big meta actively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also try to organize my time so that I can attend the TUG meeting in Darmstadt and hopefully give a talk there (I can give a talk about TeX.SX if I'm asked to, otherwise I have another thing in mind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't get nominated, I will get my TUG membership on my own, and I may cancel my nomination in the case there are other people on the list who can make a good use of the membership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-01-17T01:22:53.533" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T01:22:53.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-09T17:15:58.760" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I was kindly 'forced' by Paulo Cereda to put my name down here as well. I am not sure if I am the right person to obtain a TUG membership, being a TeX.SX member not for a long time right now, so please judge from my statements of 'what is' below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined TeX.SX in June 2013 just for getting information on something I could not solve on my own and got thrilled by the great wisdom on all issues about TeX -- I thought I would know a lot of LaTeX since I use it for almost 20 years now, but this was an error: I learned more TeX internals within just about one year since I am a member of TeX.SX than in the preceding 16 years before. Thanks to the TeX.SX community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoy this community, do a lot of reviews, flags and answer or post questions and the most times funny chat of TeX.SX. My main contributions are answers on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/counters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;counters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;counters&lt;/a&gt; and I have learned so much during this time that I wrote two packages and published them on CTAN/TeXlive in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a member of DANTE already and considered to get a TUG membership as well and would feel honoured to be a member of the TUG community as well. Besides that, the TUG 2015 meeting will take place in Darmstadt, which is only about 200 km away from my place here in Germany ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As can be found in my profile: I work as a teacher for Physics and Mathematics and use LaTeX exclusively for worksheets, presentations, examens and teacher home office organisation. And I try to persuade my colleagues to use LaTeX as well. In addition, I train young math/physics teachers and will provide courses in LaTeX in near future for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I am the guy from which egreg 'steals' text parts to use in his answers ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will vote for the other nominees as well of course (and not for me, even if I could)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T16:32:44.400" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T16:32:44.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5931" CreationDate="2015-01-10T10:10:49.053" Score="16" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I get to be a TUG member &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5897/annual-tex-user-group-membership-question-2015-edition&quot;&gt;associated with the StackExchange membership&lt;/a&gt; and I travel to the TUG conference in Darmstadt, can I get a TeX.SX T-shirt somehow in order to promote the fact that StackExchange in an institutional member of TUG? I thought of buying it, but unfortunately &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/137580&quot;&gt;the SE Store has been closed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edited by Paulo: and while you guys are on the T-shirt subject:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ElWJO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quack!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T10:20:41.480" Title="If I travel to a TUG conference, can I get a TeX.SX T-shirt?" Tags="|support|site-promotion|tug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-10T18:19:48.850" Score="27" ViewCount="621" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question got reopened and I question its reopening:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/222500/why-is-latex-so-complicated&quot;&gt;Why is LaTeX so complicated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't but see that the question is so opinion-based that it can't be answered objectively. This makes it &quot;bad&quot; in the StackExchange measures. Yes, I know that TeX.SX allows some types of questions that are not allowed elsewhere (for instance, we allow objective design questions, we allow big lists etc.). And while this question may be considered a design question, it can't be considered an objecitve one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I want to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What was exactly the motivation of the openers to open the question? (I hope they'll see this meta thread.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are we really on the way to tolerating (or even actively supporting) the existence of opinion-based open-ended questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T13:49:21.500" Title="Have we really started to want opinion-based questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5913" CreationDate="2015-01-10T20:50:46.933" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the persons who voted to re-open the posting in question, so let me take a minute to explain my reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I disagree with the claim that the posting in question is &quot;so opinion-based that it can't be answered objectively&quot;. The posting obviously expresses some very strongly held opinions, and I will readily note that not every locution was felicitous. However, as long as one isn't too put off by its tone or, worse, treats the tone as an invitation to engage in a shouting match, a lot can be learned from reflecting on the merits of its claims, bothering to write an answer, and/or reading the other answers that have been posted. The answers that have been posted so far, for the most part, do strongly take issue with one or more of the claims made by the OP, and in a reasoned manner. Taken together, IMO the answers make a lot of useful and interesting points, and &quot;useful&quot; and &quot;interesting&quot; are desirable attributes, in my book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will not be drawn into a debate about what the word &quot;objective&quot; may mean. Obviously, the word has a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of possible meanings, and little is to be gained from claiming that one's favorite meaning of the word is the best possible one. Naturally, I do believe that there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; lines that shouldn't be crossed with regard to postings that may fit the scope of this site. Some postings to me clearly lack either objectivity or the potential to elicit objective (or, at least, useful and interesting) answers, and I have no problems with voting to close such postings -- and with resisting calls to re-open them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to address your second question, except to say that I'm confident that I know a non-objective posting when I see one -- and will vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2015-01-10T22:20:49.457" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T22:20:49.457" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-11T15:03:49.597" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me start with an email I just recently sent to the TUG office. Here is how it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Angel,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On 01/05/2015 08:53 AM, Angel Zetina wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;My name is Angel Zetina, a current subscriber of TUG.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you kindly :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I was wondering if the office at TUG could give me some insight as to how many Belizean&#xA;(country of Belize) subscribers there are. I would like to initiate a&#xA;basic campaign to invite more Belizeans to join TUG and provide for them&#xA;a seminar about TeX and its uses.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is exactly one TUG member in Belize (for all years), and that,&#xA;  of course, is you. Wow. That's so surprising!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Note that I got my current subscription via tex.stackexchange.com as&#xA;contributing user.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Indeed! So great! Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wish I had better news regarding TUG member numbers in Belize.&#xA;  Certainly there are users. One obvious place to look would be&#xA;  university math departments or elsewhere in the university where&#xA;  students write technical papers. Let me know if I can help in any way.&#xA;  Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robin&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  TUG office&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well that was not a surprise for me but still it is sad as we have two major universities in my country; the University of Belize and Galen University. So far I have managed to help one of my colleagues to get interested in using LaTeX and by so doing trying to form a local TeX user group which I have called BTUG, short for Belize TeX User Group. My brother has joined in one of my colleagues has managed to publish a short story and workbook in LaTeX (independent of me helping which is great.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my corner, what have I achieved so far? Well, I managed to write the Students Handbook for my institution purely in LaTeX optimising the code day by day. By the way, I recently received the TUGBoat Vol 35 No. 1 and 2, 2014. Here are some snap shots of the handbook:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fj3eu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E1JiP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, I am still working on that book of mine. Here are two snapshots:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qoeV2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/57IYw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, what I have achieved is a compilation of everyone's advice and motivation here in TX.SX and continuous reading and practice. An invaluable person to my success so far, can't remember who it is, :), but quote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@azetina Admission to the guild of TeX wizards just costs work on the&#xA;  TeXbook and exercise. ;-) –  egreg Jan 5 at 17:30&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that is so true. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, with the current referal system that TUG has implemented I will do my best to send invitations to my colleagues and especially to the Universities in my country; we have a long way to go together. Thanks a lot for the past nominations and memberships at TUG. I honestly never imagined in my life form part of an outstanding group of intellectuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind I would like to put forward my nomination for the TUG Membership 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big thank you once more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T15:03:49.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5913" CreationDate="2015-01-11T19:20:35.330" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close as &quot;opinion based&quot; (and enough people did the same that it was closed).&#xA;But since that vote was overturned and people voted to open it, I added an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer does of course include subjective opinion, but democracy wins I suppose. It doesn't mean I think it's necessarily a good question (for this site) or necessarily a good answer (even if I got a Good Answer badge for it:-) but presumably the people voting to re-open wanted to see some answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems to me the site mechanics of voting to open or close worked more or less well enough in this case. Some people thought it wasn't a suitable question, some thought it was, they won the votes and on the whole the answers are fairly rational when on other sites they could easily have degenerated into a my language s better than yours slanging match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T19:20:35.330" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-11T22:58:56.237" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been a member of this site for some four years now and have a strong interest in TeX. I would be honoured to be nominated and I will submit an article to TUG. It will be an honor to be a member of the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="963" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T22:58:56.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-12T02:01:48.483" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am submitting my name as the result of a concerted campaign in chat to persuade me to do so. I do not think I deserve to be nominated and so I cannot give any reasons in favour of my nomination. I have only been a member of the site for just over a year. I have learnt a lot and it has been fun. But I only joined because somebody reported that people could not typeset Polish with a font support package I'd published on CTAN, and I needed to know if the fonts themselves provided sufficient resources for Polish in order to determine whether or not an update would actually solve the problem. So it was all something of an accident, I really don't know what I'm doing, and I think there are many much more deserving candidates. I recommend voting for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PqGt1.png&quot; alt=&quot;TUG cats&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\RequirePackage[rgb,pdftex,dvipsnames,x11names]{xcolor}&#xA;\documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{pifont,cfr-lm}&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{calc,intersections,backgrounds,shadows}&#xA;\pgfdeclarelayer{foreground}&#xA;\pgfdeclarelayer{pen}&#xA;\pgfdeclarelayer{corff}&#xA;\pgfsetlayers{background,corff,main,pen,foreground}&#xA;\makeatletter&#xA;% adapted (simplified version) from tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikzlibrarybackgrounds.code.tex&#xA;  \tikzset{%&#xA;    on foreground layer/.style={%&#xA;          execute at begin scope={%&#xA;            \pgfonlayer{foreground}%&#xA;            \let\tikz@options=\pgfutil@empty%&#xA;            \tikzset{every on foreground layer/.try,#1}%&#xA;            \tikz@options%&#xA;          },&#xA;          execute at end scope={\endpgfonlayer}&#xA; 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  <row Id="5920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-12T09:00:26.850" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joseph just linked me to this page and... oh, it's already the last day to go. Well, I did not know about these TeX.SX representatives until this very moment but actually I like this idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not such an advanced programmer like many others on this site but I like helping, testing, calling into question, treating super pedantic stuff ;-)... If I have time, I can get quite busy for TeX.SX and I like that. As I love the idea of the big open source community (and love TeX) but am not even able to program in TeX, I believe that it could be nice for TUG &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; me, to get me as a new member. At least, I would like to try that in order to widen my horizon. And I could get a platform to get involved and to give back for all I already took from you guys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be honoured to get nominated here. And, yeah, Darmstadt is really not far away from here... Maybe I can make it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32245" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T09:00:26.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-12T15:54:57.777" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will nominate myself for a TUG membership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My active involvement in the TeX community - mainly on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; - has taught me a great deal. It would be an honour to be granted a membership to TUG as support their goals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To encourage and expand the use of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont and related systems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To ensure the integrity and portability of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont and related systems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To foster innovation in high-quality electronic document preparation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking forward to another year of activities that would include the above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T15:54:57.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5924" CreationDate="2015-01-12T18:00:06.397" Score="6" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;This interesting &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222545/4686&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222545/4686&lt;/a&gt; answer was deleted by three community members. I looked in vain for a way to register somewhere my interest in this answer and my vote to undelete it. Is there really no way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that if this community site is to serve a long-term purpose, a chance should be given for perhaps wiser people of the future to ressurect past answers which were in their times not deemed compatible with the then prevailing mood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;update&lt;/em&gt; also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222610/4686&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222610/4686&lt;/a&gt; is a very interesting answer which has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;em&gt;update&lt;/em&gt;  and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222577/4686&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222577/4686&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strike&gt; (sorry about this one, as pointed out by &lt;code&gt;Mico&lt;/code&gt; this answer was owner-deleted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why all this deletion frenzy? we need freedom of expression, these answers do address the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222520/4686&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222520/4686&lt;/a&gt; also deleted? what does it put it apart from the previous three I cited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T18:16:22.963" Title="How to vote to reopen a deleted post?" Tags="|support|moderation|deleted-posts|vote-to-undelete|undelete-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-12T19:33:30.033" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using LaTeX since the late 1990s. Before that, I used to 'typeset' documents using Wordstar clones (VDE and later ZDE) on an Amstrad CPC. These had basic markup for bold, large, etc. so they weren't a million miles away from LaTeX (at least for basic&#xA;documents), but the final output could only be viewed by printing, in my case using a 9-pin dot matrix printer: 2 minutes per page. Those were the days. I tried Word for a while, but soon developed a visceral hatred for software in which the user's prior actions are not easily traceable. These days I use LaTeX for just about every document I create.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found TeX.SX after discovering what I thought was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5915/2417&quot;&gt;a bug in amsmath&lt;/a&gt; (it was). I've always been amazed by the speed with which difficult problems are solved, though this has its downside and I've been known to utter the odd swear word when my own nearly complete answer is beaten to it by a faster typing user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm more than willing to be more involved with the TeX community, but I'm not sure what contributions I can make.  It's probably fair to say that I know more than the average LaTeX user, but I am by no means an expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T19:33:30.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5922" CreationDate="2015-01-12T22:50:13.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;An existing feature of the StackExchange model allows for the resurrection of deleted posts. Yes, both questions &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; answers. Deleted &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; can be voted on for undeletion by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10K+ reputation users who have access to moderator tools&lt;/a&gt;, while the same holds for &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; in the case of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;trusted user (20K+ reputation)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exclusion here would be when the post was removed by a moderator; only moderators would be able to undo their actions in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When attempting to vote-to-undelete, consider whether the post was deleted by the community or by the original poster. Similar to original poster having control over rolling back edits made to their posts, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/53402/168244&quot;&gt;undeleting something that was purposefully deleted (by the original poster) may go against the original intent&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some steps to take in order to address your concerns (in order of preference):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's always good to consult the community, so perhaps visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; and discuss the concern with some experienced users and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt;. If persuaded they could be used to cast votes that may not be accessible to you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a question on meta to solicit community feedback on the motivation behind the action and/or future action (like undeletion); almost like taking a community poll or survey - something that can be used in support to justify an undeletion for a moderator (say).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Identify the users involved in the process and inquire about their choices and resolve the issue first-hand. Perhaps revisiting (1) and/or (2) above.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FAQ reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to &quot;register your interest&quot; to undelete an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; while your reputation is between 10K (able to see deleted posts) and 20K (able to undelete answers) is to flag it for moderator attention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QdD0b.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T22:50:13.157" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5925" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-01-12T23:08:49.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Voting to undelete&lt;/em&gt; posts is an option available to high-reputation users, allowing them to return content to the view of the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At &lt;strong&gt;10,000 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;, users gain &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;access to moderator tools&lt;/a&gt; which allow them to cast undelete votes on questions which have been closed for at least two days and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;strong&gt;20,000 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;, a user becomes a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;trusted user&lt;/a&gt; allowing them to cast undelete votes on any question or answer which has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users cannot vote to undelete posts which were deleted by moderators. If a post &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; deleted by a moderator, it must also be undeleted by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a certain threshold of undelete votes is reached, the post in question is automatically undeleted. Note that this does not reopen the question, if it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T23:08:49.520" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T23:08:49.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5926" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-01-12T23:08:49.520" Score="0" Body="The process by which users can vote to undelete and return it to the view of the public." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T23:08:49.520" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T23:08:49.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5927" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-01-12T23:09:40.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is meant for questions which have been deleted and the OP wishes for them to be undeleted for various reasons. Please provide details as to why the deletion reason for your post is invalid and the decision should be reversed. General support requests that offer no more detail than &quot;my post was wrongly deleted&quot; are likely to be closed and/or declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T23:09:40.380" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T23:09:40.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5928" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-01-12T23:09:40.380" Score="0" Body="For requests to have a question or answer undeleted." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T23:09:40.380" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T23:09:40.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5913" CreationDate="2015-01-13T07:57:22.707" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;»Why is LaTeX so complicated« could be answered on facts. The OP has asked a good question, he gave quite a few examples for his assumption (»LaTeX is complicated«). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could start an answer with a reminder of some LaTeX packages and come to the obvious conclusion that things are hard to understand because TeX is a complex beast and even LaTeX does not work without some complex approaches. Then you could compare to another programming language and then to using indesign. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the question why things are so complicated you need to investigate whether complexity hints at a severe error in the design of TeX or because the task was demanding a complex answer. You could consult the books and interviews of D. Knuth and L. Lamport to study their opinion. You'd e.g. find an interview with L. Lamport where he says, he missed the opportunity to convince Knuth to change some more things in the next version of TeX to the benefit of LaTeX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the background of such considerations I gave a very short answer and tried to generalise: Too little apprecation for the users' demands is the most serious obstacle to many open source projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's ponder in which subject of study you could write such a thesis. Obviously such a thesis would need the skills of a IT guy (or girl) &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; some skills you acquire in the humanities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here in tex.sx the engineers and IT people are the majority. To many of them, it seems, everything that can not be answered with an MWE is opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2015-01-18T13:49:21.500" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T13:49:21.500" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5913" CreationDate="2015-01-13T10:49:26.543" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see that we are accepting opinion-based questions. You might be alerted because of the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/220776/is-latex-used-for-novels&quot;&gt;Is LaTeX used for novels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/218567/latex-vs-word-improvements-of-latex-over-the-years&quot;&gt;LaTeX vs Word; improvements of LaTeX over the years&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/222500/why-is-latex-so-complicated&quot;&gt;Why is LaTeX so complicated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/219576/does-latex-really-perform-worse-than-word&quot;&gt;Does LaTeX really perform worse than Word?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case two of them passed hundred votes and the others are around twenty. Now saying &lt;em&gt;well it can be highly voted but still opinion-based&lt;/em&gt; is one thing, but a hundred vote is not something that five users would decide (order of magnitude!!). Especially with this stupid review system. I do think they are opinion-based but at the same time I won't bother if they are left open. Plus I think these are good publicity for the site. (See this comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/222500/why-is-latex-so-complicated/222543#comment522394_222543&quot;&gt;Why is LaTeX so complicated?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to get regular users rant about TeX is pretty nice. Because then we have a chance to modify some of the misconceptions that they might have been carrying over since the last decade. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides I think this is somewhat your personal dislike in disguise. I don't see the point why these are bothering you since if you compare with the number of regular questions that are asked in the same time frame, these are not even high enough to be called negligible. I think you are overreacting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a much bigger problem that 10-15 users keep closing every mildly mis-asked question. And I don't see the same grunt from hi-rep users and it is worrying me and annoying me at the same time. If you accept that review behavior, then you should not worry about these being reopened/kept open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T10:49:26.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5911" CreationDate="2015-01-13T20:24:29.730" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;theory&lt;/em&gt;, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, I'm not sure how much TeX SE swag we have left in the warehouse, or if there's any at all. (The original print run for this site was before I joined the company.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best thing to do is what Mad Scientist said: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; using the &quot;Other&quot; option, and we'll see what we can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T20:24:29.730" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-13T21:34:00.670" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;My apologies for being so late with my submission (I've been very busy sorting out housing for a new job nearly 1000 miles away), but I'd like to humbly put my name into that hat for TUG membership, a privilege I have thoroughly enjoyed this past year in reading and learning from the excellent articles and resources available to TUG members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been using LaTeX for about four years now.  I was at one time an incredibly active member of this site in particular, but this has since waned due to time and network constraints with my (old) job.  I am a huge supporter of TeX use in industry and have continually 'evangelized' TeX and its advantages in my field especially.  I've even implemented a TeX-based reporting workflow for my (old) job &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; (They like it very much!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping the time and support of my new job will finally allow me to continue writing and blogging in support of TeX and Friends (along with contributing further to this site) and I would be honored to be a representative for a platform I am so broadly passionate about.  I truly believe that the presentation and mechanics of StackExchange sites is the best resource available to those interested in TeX through the medium of traditional, merit-based 'advertisement by example', as I've successfully done significantly for at least two of my coworkers since I started this (old) job in June 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping to be blessed with listening ears at my new job to continue the growth (and much-needed support) of TeX and related systems &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; to an audience already familiar with the StackExchange format, to be blessed with the means to use my newly-acquired PTO to further the industry influence of TeX, and to encourage and empower the amazing user base (TeX.SX!) that inspires its continued development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After thinking about it for a little while, I think I have enough material / experience to write an article on TeX in industry &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt; and what steps may tip the tables in TeX's favor in the business world.  On a related note, if such an article already exists, would someone &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; post a link?  The idea sounds fascinating!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2015-01-13T21:56:59.270" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T21:56:59.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-13T22:49:28.150" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FontAwesome 4.2.0 contains a glyph for &lt;a href=&quot;http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/stack-exchange/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange icon&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any possibility to be created an icon for TeX.SE so we could use it with LuaLaTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T22:49:28.150" Title="TeX.SE icon in FontAwesome" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-14T20:50:57.137" Score="14" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes after a couple of minutes, sometimes hours, or days, I realized a nice drawing (most of them for math, sometimes physics). But I want to share (give things back to the forum) my work (and the work of others). &#xA;Is there a place where this can be done. Not like a question, but just giving the code and a screenshot of an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18866" OwnerDisplayName="Arne" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T17:55:21.573" Title="How can I contribute to others with examples" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2015-01-15T07:36:22.483" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to a kind notice from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/21891/jubobs&quot;&gt;Jubobs&lt;/a&gt;, I discovered the existence of this TUG membership list. But it was after the 'nomination' phase and I hesitated to put my name on the list afterwards. After &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/31729/christian-hupfer&quot;&gt;Christian Hupfer&lt;/a&gt; also asked me to put my name on this list, I do it now quite lately before the door closes. I apologize for rushing in   unpunctual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been using LaTeX since 25 years now. Since that time many software tools and languages were invented. More than once I thought &lt;em&gt;'I should dig into this or that new stuff when I have time'&lt;/em&gt;. But then the cool new stuff was &lt;em&gt;outdated&lt;/em&gt; before I found time to study it. The funny thing is that TeX/LaTeX still is present quite fresh and is not replaced by the next cool thing :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started using LaTeX to write my PhD thesis. The last years, my connections with LaTeX have become much stronger. Meanwhile, I use it for nearly everything :-) All written material I use as a professor for Mathematics is done in LaTeX and I do my very best to evangelize my colleages in this direction ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm the author of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/buch.html?&amp;amp;titel=latex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;introduction book for LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; and of some packages; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tcolorbox&lt;/a&gt; is the most time-killing one. I give lectures in LaTeX for my students and I try to be helpful at TeX.SX. Since I joined TeX.SX, I also learned more from all the other helpful members since in many years before. 2015 will be a very LaTeX-centric year for me since I have plans for a new package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would feel very pleased and honoured to be a member of the TUG community. At least, I want to fill up this list: StackExchange should not have the impression that there is not enough interest on a corporate membership - there surely is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30617" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T17:05:23.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5840" CreationDate="2015-01-15T18:57:42.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about this proposal for a while. At first glance, I like it, but I'm not quite sure what the purpose of the badge would be. All of the badges we've introduced recently have been intended to send a message. Mostly, those messages are along the lines of encouraging some kind of positive behavior that we want to see more of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess you could argue that this promotes people continuing to work on their problems, not simply giving up after offering a bounty. Or perhaps a consolation prize for bounties that didn't attract great responses, without being so broad that people would offer meaningless bounties just for a badge? Neither of those is particularly convincing to me, but I'd be happy to listen to arguments (especially if I missed the point you were going for).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I found roughly 20 posts on this site that could qualify for this badge, if it existed today. I say &quot;roughly&quot; because I took some shortcuts when searching, like ignoring the &quot;at the end of the bounty period&quot; criterion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What's that? Because cross-referencing against the vote timeline would have been a lot harder, that's why.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twenty is &lt;em&gt;juuuuust&lt;/em&gt; few enough that I don't mind linking them all for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31499&quot;&gt;How can I print only Author-Date of the parent crossref in the bibliography entry of the child of the crossref?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/212198&quot;&gt;Best Practices for Lua Modules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10558&quot;&gt;Use latexmk to filter the log file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/86114&quot;&gt;GitHub-like punchcard with the help of pgfplots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/136609&quot;&gt;Arrow with superscript in tikz-cd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/217797&quot;&gt;How to draw points in TikZ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12806&quot;&gt;Guidelines for customizing biblatex styles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14095&quot;&gt;Creating resources for a currently unsupported language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/150088&quot;&gt;Patched version of pdftex does not see what kpsewhich sees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/185419&quot;&gt;Poisson disc sampling implemented in luatex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/87155&quot;&gt;Frequently loaded packages: Differences between XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/97429&quot;&gt;A ligature for she/he&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/29049&quot;&gt;How to define the badness of a river?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/216206&quot;&gt;tilted planes as scopes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14217&quot;&gt;Handling different time zones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/27588&quot;&gt;Repetition of a word on two lines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/119272&quot;&gt;A collection of LaTeX equations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/38001&quot;&gt;PSTricks transparency does not work with MikTeX&amp;#39;s XeLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/151108&quot;&gt;Showcase of translations to Asymptote from TikZ/PSTricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/124291&quot;&gt;Revisiting producing structured PDFs from LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T18:57:42.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5922" CreationDate="2015-01-18T14:10:33.427" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Werner has already addressed the main subject of your query -- what the procedure may be for undeleting an &quot;answer&quot; -- so this posting will explain my reasons for having voted to delete the posting in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if we needed an &quot;Exhibit A&quot; for an opinion-based answer that's not in the least tinged by an effort to really address the subject at hand, the posting &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222545/4686&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/222545/4686&lt;/a&gt; certainly qualifies. Do we need such postings? I would argue that we don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first paragraph, an unsubstantiated opinion is offered as to what prompted Leslie Lamport to develop LaTeX (viz, to &quot;provide a lift for newbies&quot;). In the second paragraph, the writer tells us that he/she &quot;simply hate[s] LaTeX&quot;. Maybe unsurprisingly, he/she offers no reason as to why anyone else ought to care about that person's opinion. In the third paragraph, we are exhorted, somewhat patronizingly, to read, re-read, and re-re-read the TeXbook -- the reason for doing so, presumably, being that by mastering Plain-TeX (more) fully, one needn't rely on the inferior and troublesome LaTeX. It doesn't appear to occur to the writer that there may be persons out there who have read the TeXbook several times and still choose LaTeX rather than Plain-TeX for their papers and other documents. Are such people just hopeless renegades?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see how such an &quot;answer&quot; either contributes meaningfully to addressing the concerns voiced by in the original query or tells us anything that's not just pure personal opinion that's of no apparent relevance to others. And that's why I voted to delete the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T15:17:17.737" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2015-01-18T15:49:15.293" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Sectioning and blocks of text&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2347&quot;&gt;Avoiding page breaks shortly after section/subsection headings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Avoiding page breaks shortly after section/subsection headings](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2347)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/57857&quot;&gt;Overfull box and broken pagination with page that contains only section headings&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Overfull box and broken pagination with page that contains only section headings](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/57857)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5204&quot;&gt;How can I put a line above a section heading and prevent a page break between?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I put a line above a section heading and prevent a page break between?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5204)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/55197&quot;&gt;How can I number paragraphs (and sections) in the margin?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I number paragraphs (and sections) in the margin?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/55197)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/30757&quot;&gt;Change the word “Chapter” to something else&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Change the word “Chapter” to something else](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/30757)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30997/&quot;&gt;More section headings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[More section headings](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30997/)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/28333&quot;&gt;Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/28333)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6862&quot;&gt;How can I display a short chapter name in the header and a long chapter name in the ToC?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I display a short chapter name in the header and a long chapter name in the ToC?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6862)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Including/excluding &amp;quot;sections&amp;quot; of input code&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/246&quot;&gt;When should I use \input vs. \include?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[When should I use \input vs. \include?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/246)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/319506&quot;&gt;Why do \include and \input handle extension name differently?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why do \include and \input handle extension name differently?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/319506)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/108268&quot;&gt;Redefining \include&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Redefining \include](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/108268)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/142417&quot;&gt;What are your best practices to compile only a part of the document or presentation (or how do you prepare the big ones)?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What are your best practices to compile only a part of the document or presentation (or how do you prepare the big ones)?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/142417)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17816&quot;&gt;Commenting out large sections&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Commenting out large sections](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17816)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Material stored in boxes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/46480&quot;&gt;\setbox vs. \sbox and \savebox - What are the differences I need to know about?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[\setbox vs. \sbox and \savebox - What are the differences I need to know about?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/46480)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2022-04-02T18:51:23.827" LastActivityDate="2022-04-02T18:51:23.827" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-18T15:49:15.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-19T17:14:54.720" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://papeeria.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQYYC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Papeeria: free online collaborative LaTeX editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45864" LastEditorUserId="45864" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T23:51:44.230" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T23:51:44.230" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-19T17:14:54.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5922" CreationDate="2015-01-19T17:46:04.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I was one of the delete-voters on the two answers, I can explain my reasoning why it got deleted, and maybe a bit of an insight why I didn't vote to delete Keks Dose's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself is a bit misfortunate and I've already stated my opinion on this. However, I don't think that question asking for opinion-based answers should receive these. As couple people proved in their answers, there is a way how to answer reasonably, giving good answers to the specific issues the OP has and being &quot;on the spot&quot;. These answers are much better than the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the other answers are simply chatty. They &lt;em&gt;do not attempt&lt;/em&gt; to address the issues specified in the question (as e.g. David, percusse or Henri Menke do), nor to give any general background (as Brent does). They are at best comments saying &quot;me too&quot; or &quot;I agree, TeX is bad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why I personally didn't vote to delete the answers by Keks Dose and by Arne was, that I wasn't really sure what's gonna happen, I saw space for improvement there, so I didn't want to delete them (which would disallow the authors to improve them). Then, the close-and-reopen ping-pong started and I concluded that I'm not gonna bother myself anymore with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope my post here makes at least some sense. I'm free to discuss it further in the chat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T18:16:22.963" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T18:16:22.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-21T10:46:15.860" Score="32" ViewCount="580" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often ask questions that perhaps get one up-vote, then someone makes an answer that excellently adresses exactly my issue. That answer then gets five up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everything was about scoring points, then that would perhaps be entirely appropriate; after all, a person who comes up with a good solution to a problem deserves more credit than the one who could not solve it. My concern is rather of the question gets the attention that it actually deserves, if the question will ever be noticed by other people who may also find it relevant; and whether that happens has a lot to do with the score it gets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My logic is this: Suppose people found the answer relevant, and that the answer does &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what I asked for and nothing else (and does not provide any additional perspectives, like explaining how the TeX kernel functions). &lt;em&gt;Then&lt;/em&gt; it must be because they found the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; relevant, at least &lt;em&gt;to some extent&lt;/em&gt;. So why not up-vote the question, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-01-21T20:34:12.563" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T22:13:32.150" Title="Why vote for the answer, but not the question?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6217" CreationDate="2015-01-21T14:33:16.397" Score="10" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I found this by accident;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I am writing a list and start quoting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\some \codes \then \there \is \an \unexpected &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  Is it a bug or I should not do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51022" LastEditorUserId="1106" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T16:14:10.113" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T16:14:10.113" Title="Quoting codes in a list leaves a &lt;/li&gt;" Tags="|bug|status-completed|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5941" CreationDate="2015-01-21T20:32:31.950" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following statement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...a person who comes up with a good solution to a problem deserves more credit than the one who could not solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is completely subjective and in my opinion wrong. It's very easy to ask a question (good or bad), but it's not always easy to write a good answer. The SE reputation system subjectively supported this approach by awarding only +5 reputation for an upvote to a question, but +10 for an upvote to an answer (this was updated in &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/a/322016/168244&quot;&gt;November 2019&lt;/a&gt; to +10 on any post). Moreover, question can be downvoted without loss of reputation to the voter. Perhaps the motivation here is that the answer(s) have more value than the question. Of course, this is not a universal acceptance, since we have some good questions on this site, but that should be a consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;Good&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/18584/168244&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; require a combination of things, including (but not limited to)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10647/168244&quot;&gt;good title&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a show-of-effort that possibly &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;reproduces the problem&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;suggested attempts at fixing it (if possible);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;images showing the expected output (if possible); and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a consideration for the community and future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my motivations behind the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The title is important, as it draws the first attention from visitors. Don't use something like &amp;quot;ToC problem&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Help needed please&amp;quot; or anything that doesn't provide a &lt;em&gt;succinct&lt;/em&gt; description of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have a good title, it might not show up as expected in search, and users might not even click on the post when they see it in search results. It's like having a house without a proper address associated with; you won't get many visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When answering a question I don't want to recreate the wheel from scratch. I don't want to copy a code-snippet and spend even 5 minutes trying to wrap it into something that is compilable. I really don't and it's not necessary. That is something that the OP should do, because for them it is super-easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to walking into a big room full of clutter with a lonely light in the middle. Invariably, while I'm walking towards the light to understand what's going on, I'm &lt;em&gt;unnecessarily&lt;/em&gt; tripping on other things inside the room. Providing the community with a well-lit room makes the problem so much easier to absorb. Copy-and-paste-and-compile and tadaa. Done. To me that shows that the OP took the time to present the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Surely not everyone enjoys fixing things, and would much rather just scream &amp;quot;Fix it for me.&amp;quot; That's okay and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/172758/168244&quot;&gt;it can become a nuisance&lt;/a&gt; to request this with every post. However, if you show an attempt to fix it, it also highlights what your train-of-thought is, which could benefit from some explanation in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An image shows me a 1,000 words without typing it. Even if you create something in MS Word/LibreOffice (because of ease-of-use, say), then it's better than 5 paragraphs of textual positioning and fine-tuning. It makes the consumption of information just so much more fluent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even though you may have a problem that needs fixing &lt;em&gt;right this very minute&lt;/em&gt;, your post forms part of a community of knowledge. So, consider that when you ask a question, and incorporate all of the above suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Previously questions that were so specific and/or didn't show much community traction in terms of usefulness, may have been  closed as &amp;quot;Too localized&amp;quot;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is very subjective and should therefore not be considered too personally. As a consequence, people's feeling towards reputation also vary considerably. Some don't care for it, while others obsess over it. For some, it may be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...[all] about the points...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but for others it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voters could be more prone to voting for certain people rather than the type of post. Sometimes you want to vote without reading the post (question or answer), but because of a previous record from that specific user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I occasionally use a very literal interpretation of the voting buttons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Upvote: This [post] shows research effort; is useful and clear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvote: This [post] does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any of these motivations are not met adequately, then I might abstain from voting and consider my contribution neutral (even if I answered). Perhaps I don't understand the field being investigated, so it doesn't benefit from either up- or downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T22:13:32.150" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5941" CreationDate="2015-01-21T23:15:13.417" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My logic is this: Suppose people found the answer relevant, and that the answer does exactly what I asked for and nothing else (and does not provide any additional perspectives, like explaining how the TeX kernel functions). Then it must be because they found the question relevant, at least to some extent. So why not up-vote the question, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can tell you from experience that this is not always true. Sometimes I run across an answer which is very comprehensive and well written, even though I don't actually care about the problem it was written to solve. I often upvote those answers, but that doesn't make the question relevant to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, I don't upvote questions &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; for being relevant. A question worthy of an upvote, as far as I'm concerned, generally has to be reasonably well written and demonstrate prior effort on the asker's part to solve the problem. Granted, most of the time when a question actually helps me solve a problem I will upvote it, but if the question is particularly terrible I'll just abstain because it seems to be doing the site a disservice to upvote such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T23:15:13.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-22T03:27:27.080" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lLas.png&quot; alt=&quot;texdoc - TeX Documentation Tool in TeX Live&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T16:46:14.200" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T16:46:14.200" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-22T03:27:27.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-22T03:30:23.893" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dickimaw-books.com/latex/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SnzsG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Using LaTeX to Write a Ph.D Thesis by Nicola Talbot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T03:30:23.893" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-22T03:30:23.893" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-22T03:39:37.797" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texworks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vlukA.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXworks editor - Lowering the entry barrier to the TeX world&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T16:46:35.963" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T16:46:35.963" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-22T03:39:37.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5941" CreationDate="2015-01-22T19:26:50.253" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that there is a difference in the texts on the up/down vote buttons for questions and for answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers it is simply &quot;This answer is useful&quot;/&quot;This answer is not useful&quot;.  For questions however, the text is &quot;This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear&quot;/&quot;This question shows no research effort; it is unclear or not useful&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is thus a higher barrier to a question getting an upvote than an answer; it has to satisfy more criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastEditorUserId="15925" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T11:23:46.997" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T11:23:46.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5941" CreationDate="2015-01-23T12:51:56.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no relation whatsoever between the voting pattern and the usefulness of the question/answer. Everyone has a different model in mind. I use the upvote button for &lt;em&gt;Mark as read&lt;/em&gt;. Others vote for appreciation of technical whizz. Some vote for stuff they like. Some use it for evaluation. We have the most upvoting squad of the network. But our question quality is probably very similar to other networks. This implies that our behavior is different than others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cannot impose meaning on arrows as Stack network hopes to implement. There are more exceptions than the rule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might say this is a &lt;strong&gt;vote-for-familiar-user but not-for-strangers&lt;/strong&gt; OR &lt;strong&gt;belittling-the-noobz&lt;/strong&gt; OR &lt;strong&gt;I-don't-care-about-the-OP-give-me-problems-to-procrastinate&lt;/strong&gt; or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All or none of them might be true. Though I feel we are becoming more and more the first item. Stick around a few more months and the numbers would balance up. Plus we have more obey-SO-rules police officers than ever. Plus our network has changed quite significantly since last year so it is even harder to judge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T12:51:56.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-01-26T04:57:56.117" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bAStA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Minimal Working Example(MWE)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T13:43:56.773" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-26T04:57:56.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5952" CreationDate="2015-01-26T10:34:03.287" Score="9" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I've found&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37581/latex-figures-side-by-side?lq=1&quot;&gt;LaTeX figures side by side&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tdQMb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which as you can see is labeled as duplicate but not closed. After following the link to duplicated question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/111496/caption-issue-when-placing-figure-side-by-side&quot;&gt;Caption issue when placing figure side by side&lt;/a&gt;, I think they are not duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both titles explain why they are not duplicates. &lt;code&gt;LaTeX figures side by side&lt;/code&gt; is a question about placing two figures one beside the other. The author has problems doing that and answers solve this problem. While the author of &lt;code&gt;Caption issue when placing figure side by side&lt;/code&gt; knows how to place figures side by side but has a problem with a too long caption, and answers show how to format this subcaption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised because the &lt;code&gt;duplicate&lt;/code&gt; is not closed then I cannot vote to reopen . May be the question is too old, and politics about duplicates changed more recently. So, what can I do to propose label &lt;code&gt;[duplicate]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Possible Duplicate&lt;/code&gt; link being deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T15:17:23.890" Title="Question about &quot;possible duplicate&quot;" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5951" CreationDate="2015-01-27T18:17:12.503" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking back into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/37581/revisions&quot;&gt;the history of that problem&lt;/a&gt;, it was actually closed as an &quot;exact duplicate&quot; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5769/5764&quot;&gt;Two figures side by side&lt;/a&gt;. That means that all five close-voters elected to vote-to-close for the same post. The title of the linked post makes sense now, as they both want &quot;figures side-by-side&quot;. However, this suggested link was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/c2acb52d-dd6d-4404-92e3-a773c5caf216/view-source&quot;&gt;later changed&lt;/a&gt; (almost 3 years after the original closure) to point to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/111496/5764&quot;&gt;the duplicate you cite&lt;/a&gt;. The reason here seems intuitive, since the former itself was closed as a duplicate of the latter. It's not always logical to say that if A should be closed as a duplicate of B and that B should be closed of a duplicate of C, that A might just as well be closed as a duplicate of C. It works sometimes, but not always, since the (human) logic and discussion may not relate to one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that, at the time the decision was made, it sounded reasonable. And, things change over time. So, if you feel different about this, cast a vote to re-open, open a discussion in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; with regular visitors, or flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T18:17:12.503" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-02T01:22:49.793" Score="25" ViewCount="643" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many seem to &quot;effortlessly&quot; (well, maybe it seems effortless because there's no effort on my part!) display the output of their TeX &amp;amp; friends source code in their posts. They must have some way to easily transfer output to a nice imgur link for inclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to try doing it, I imagine I'd have to take the following steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generate source PDF.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open in Adobe PDF reader, take snapshot of relevant bit -- on my slow laptop, this can take a while. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste into MS Paint, and save as png. On my slow laptop, this can take a while.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tell SE where I have saved my picture when making the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too much work!!! What's the best workflow to get this done, while having it be relatively effortless, without hiring a full time slave? I think based on the information in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2136/how-can-i-upload-an-image-to-be-included-in-a-question-or-answer/2137#2137&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, I can shave off steps 2 and 3 by simply uploading the PDF? However, this is not working for me -- I get an error when uploading a PDF about it not being the right file type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49339" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2018-09-29T02:15:35.647" Title="Most efficient workflow for displaying (imgur hosted) output of TeX &amp; friends source?" Tags="|discussion|imgur|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-16T11:08:59.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5954" CreationDate="2015-02-03T03:03:38.760" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your reference to MS Paint, I assume you're running on Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my workflow, which is efficient for my use, and should be for yours as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get familiar with a medium of taking a (partial) screen grab. There are a number of options out there, including&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;PrtSc&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;PrtSc&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former grabs the entire window into the Clipboard, while the latter only grabs the active window. It works in a pinch, but no-one is interested in seeing the menu-items of &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; favourite editor/viewer when they're only interested in seeing the output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Windows Snipping Tool&lt;/a&gt; provides a focussed copy-and-paste of the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My preferred method, since it allows for post-capture editing, is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=775&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FSCapture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As browser, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Chrome&lt;/a&gt; since it allows you to copy-and-paste a captured image when using the &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;G&lt;/kbd&gt; interface.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above approach works analogous to a regular copy-and-paste, but for images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T03:03:38.760" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-16T11:08:59.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5954" CreationDate="2015-02-03T16:31:45.870" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Debian GNU/Linux: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compile PDF (I do my examples in &lt;code&gt;/tmp/&lt;/code&gt;, so &lt;code&gt;/tmp/file.pdf&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open with &lt;code&gt;mupdf&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;evince&lt;/code&gt; and magnify to desired size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;screenshot&lt;/code&gt; graphical application bundled with Gnome3 and select to take screenshot of selected area &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(In Gnome this can all be done by keyboard: press the spacebar, start typing &lt;code&gt;screen&lt;/code&gt;, hit enter when icon appears.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the area, save as &lt;code&gt;/tmp/file.png&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T16:31:45.870" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-16T11:08:59.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5954" CreationDate="2015-02-05T06:33:35.697" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;My (Linux) workflow is;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create the document with &lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&lt;/code&gt;, and add &lt;code&gt;\pagenumbering{gobble}&lt;/code&gt; to suppress page numbers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Run &lt;code&gt;pdflatex file.tex&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Run &lt;code&gt;pdfcrop file.pdf&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Run &lt;code&gt;convert -density 300 file-crop.pdf file.png&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upload.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is pretty fast (especially because it's automatable), and, IMO more importantly, produces very high quality output &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; transparent graphics.&#xA;You're not rasterizing the PDF in a PDF reader and then screen-grabbing that with the background&amp;mdash;instead, you're converting directly from pristine vector PDF to a transparent PNG.&#xA;Doesn't get much better than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For vim/LaTeX-Suite users, condense this to three keystrokes (assuming you have the page numbering fixed already):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;nnoremap &amp;lt;Leader&amp;gt;li :w&amp;lt;CR&amp;gt;:!pdflatex %; pdfcrop %&amp;lt;.pdf; convert -density 300 %&amp;lt;-crop.pdf %&amp;lt;.png&amp;lt;CR&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throw an &lt;code&gt;!xdg-open %&amp;lt;.png&lt;/code&gt; in there if you want to open the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37357" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T06:33:35.697" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-16T11:08:59.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5954" CreationDate="2015-02-06T16:32:56.430" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;My workflow on Mac OS X:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generate a PDF file with &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;lualatex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;latex+dvips+ps2pdf&lt;/code&gt; as necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open the PDF with Skim and choose suitable view settings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Press &lt;kbd&gt;Command&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;4&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drag over the area I want to show; releasing the mouse/trackpad button produces a file named &lt;code&gt;Screen Shot YYYY-MM-DD at HH.MM.SS.png&lt;/code&gt; on the Desktop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upload the PNG to Imgur with the interface (the naming convention with date and hour ensures the most recent file is last among those produced this way, so it can be easily found)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T16:32:56.430" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-16T11:08:59.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5954" CreationDate="2015-02-07T03:20:25.597" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two scripts I use. One is called &lt;code&gt;pdf2png&lt;/code&gt; – it takes a list of PDF files and places the PNGs (with the same base filenames) on my Desktop.  I could use an imgur CLI application to automatically upload these, but that would not put them under StackExchange's account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/usr/bin/env bash&#xA;&#xA;for pdf in ${@}; do&#xA;    dir=$(dirname $pdf)&#xA;    base=$(basename -s .pdf $pdf)&#xA;    pdfcrop &quot;${dir}/${base}.pdf&quot; &amp;gt; /dev/null&#xA;    convert -density 600 &quot;${dir}/${base}-crop.pdf&quot; &quot;${HOME}/Desktop/$base.png&quot; &amp;gt; /dev/null&#xA;done&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another one (that I just made after reading some of these) is a Python script that takes a list of TeX files and just does the same thing, but (obviously) compiles them with &lt;code&gt;arara&lt;/code&gt; first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/usr/bin/env python&#xA;&#xA;from __future__ import print_function&#xA;&#xA;import os&#xA;import sys&#xA;import subprocess&#xA;import shutil&#xA;import tempfile&#xA;import atexit&#xA;&#xA;if '--debug' in sys.argv:&#xA;    logmsg = lambda *a: print(*a, file=sys.stderr)&#xA;else:&#xA;    logmsg = lambda *a: None&#xA;&#xA;logerr = logmsg&#xA;&#xA;DEVNULL = open(os.devnull, 'w')&#xA;atexit.register(DEVNULL.close)&#xA;def runcmd(*args):&#xA;    &quot;&quot;&quot;Run a command with arguments&quot;&quot;&quot;&#xA;    logmsg('&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Running %s' % ' '.join(args))&#xA;    subprocess.check_call(&#xA;        ['/usr/bin/env'] + list(map(str, args)),&#xA;        stdout = DEVNULL)&#xA;&#xA;def compile(source):&#xA;    &quot;&quot;&quot;Compile SOURCE and return the path to a PNG rendition of it.&quot;&quot;&quot;&#xA;    if not os.path.exists(source):&#xA;        logerr('%s does not exist' % source)&#xA;        return None&#xA;&#xA;    oldsource = os.path.abspath(source)&#xA;    workdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()&#xA;    try:&#xA;        shutil.copy(source, workdir)&#xA;        os.chdir(workdir)&#xA;&#xA;        basename = os.path.splitext(source)[0]&#xA;        pdfname = basename + '.pdf'&#xA;        pngname = basename + '.png'&#xA;&#xA;        runcmd('arara', source)&#xA;        runcmd('pdfcrop', pdfname, pdfname)&#xA;        runcmd('convert', '-density', 300, pdfname, pngname)&#xA;&#xA;        shutil.copy(pngname, os.path.dirname(source))&#xA;    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:&#xA;        pngname = source&#xA;    finally:&#xA;        shutil.rmtree(workdir)&#xA;        return pngname&#xA;&#xA;for png_file in map(compile, sys.argv[1:]):&#xA;    print(png_file)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, piping the output to &lt;code&gt;xargs &amp;lt;some imgur uploader&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; would work, but you wouldn't be using StackExchange's account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding cruft files, I've developed a short yasnippet to help with that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# -*- mode: snippet; require-final-newline: nil -*-&#xA;# name: sxtmp&#xA;# key: sxtmp&#xA;# --&#xA;% arara: pdflatex&#xA;% arara: clean: { files: [ `&#xA;(let ((basename (file-name-base&#xA;                 (or (buffer-file-name) &quot;&quot;))))&#xA;  (mapconcat (lambda (ext) (concat basename &quot;.&quot; ext))&#xA;             '(&quot;aux&quot; &quot;log&quot; &quot;out&quot;) &quot;, &quot;))` ] }&#xA;&#xA;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\pagenumbering{gobble}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{mwe}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;$0&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2015-02-08T05:07:44.177" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T05:07:44.177" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-16T11:08:59.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5954" CreationDate="2015-02-11T06:31:21.747" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just another option to give you an idea of some more possibilities. I use Windows 7, TeX Live, and TeXnicCenter. I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imagemagick.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ImageMagick&lt;/a&gt; installed and on the system path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make a copy of each TeXnicCenter build profile I commonly use and rename it to &lt;code&gt;pdflatex (TeX.SX)&lt;/code&gt; or similar. To each of the profiles, I add a post-processor step called &quot;Create Image&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UhtcG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will call ImageMagick's &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; program at the end of each compilation, creating a &lt;code&gt;.png&lt;/code&gt; of the output PDF with a resolution of 300 ppi. If the output has multiple pages, an image for each page is automatically created. &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; can also produce animated &lt;code&gt;.gif&lt;/code&gt;s, but I do these manually since I don't use them frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have one TeXnicCenter &quot;project&quot; for TeX.SX testing. This is set up to use my special build profiles (I just have to select a different workflow every once in a while, but most of the time it's &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;). This project is nearly always open on my computer, ready to go for rapid-fire testing/answering. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I can copy an MWE, paste it in at the top of my file, and press F7 to compile. Once I have compiled a final result, I have a high-res PNG sitting in my working folder, ready to upload if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use the &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; class wherever possible, to avoid the need for manual cropping. But if I need to crop manually, I just use the basic Windows Paint program because it's the fastest to open and works fine for basic cropping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I have new code to test, it gets pasted at the top of the file, so my last &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; answers/experiments are still in the &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; file, ready to be resurrected if necessary. Every month or so I clean house, removing all the accumulated code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T06:31:21.747" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-16T11:08:59.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6098" CreationDate="2015-02-13T12:01:08.527" Score="11" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a new feature or just a temporary bug?  Meta TeX.SX Reviews link in TeX.SX review page &lt;em&gt;suddenly&lt;/em&gt; appeared when reloading the &lt;code&gt;Reviews&lt;/code&gt; page of TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Meta.SX site does not say anything about this (at least I found nothing about it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Crn6Z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime there is a general question on this on Meta.SX &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/248511&quot;&gt;Meta reviews on review page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T11:17:08.707" Title="Meta Reviews on TeX.SX main review page" Tags="|discussion|new-features|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5964" CreationDate="2015-02-13T21:00:38.397" Score="16" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the difference between our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/142540/1340&quot;&gt;Configuring latexmk to use a preprocessor (lhs2TeX)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.aspcode.net/view/635399273629833626247972/configuring-latexmk-to-use-a-preprocessor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://tex.aspcode.net/view/635399273629833626247972/configuring-latexmk-to-use-a-preprocessor&lt;/a&gt;? I see none, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.aspcode.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://tex.aspcode.net/&lt;/a&gt; seems to just have copies of some (not all) questions. Yet, Google prefers this other website to ours if I google &lt;code&gt;synctex preprocessors&lt;/code&gt;. Should somebody take action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies if meta is the wrong place for such reports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1340" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T16:47:49.530" Title="A website-importing clone" Tags="|discussion|clone|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5962" CreationDate="2015-02-14T04:12:54.093" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This actually happen quite often. Consider following the advice in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/200177/168244&quot;&gt;Updated procedure for reporting SCRAPERs&lt;/a&gt; (copied below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tl;dr: &lt;strong&gt;Send all reports of SCRAPERs to us via the form on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/contact&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;contact us&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; page, linked at the bottom of every page.&lt;/strong&gt; Please include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the URL of the copied post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the URL of the original post on SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;for high-rankers, the search string you used (and the name of the search engine, if not Google)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;any other details you noticed and want to share, because you're awesome&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(This is the end of the tl;dr section.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I used to be the &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt; curator of the two SCRAPER reporting posts here on Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/131846/168244&quot;&gt;one for attribution&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/71820/168244&quot;&gt;another for ranking&lt;/a&gt;. The community was pretty good about using them, but like all list questions, they eventually turned into unmanageable messes that were hard to search. I've just saved all of the information posted there and deleted them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The community team has been working on improving its internal process for SCRAPERs behind the scenes, and now that I've joined the staff, I'm going to be in charge of it. By funnelling everything through our usual support mechanisms, we can organize our own efforts better, and as a side effect, we won't be giving Google-juice to the very sites that are being called out for being naughty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/226470/168244&quot;&gt;also&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/mattcutts/statuses/439122708157435904&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original announcement tweeted by Matt Cutts&lt;/a&gt;, head of Google's anti-spam team (at the time of this writing):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;If you see a scraper URL outranking the original source of content in Google, please tell us about it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/scraperspamreport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/scraperspamreport&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T16:47:49.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5965" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-14T04:14:12.980" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-02-14T04:14:12.980" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T04:14:12.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5966" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-14T04:14:12.980" Score="0" Body="This tag is used for questions related to various external sites that are clones of the Stack Exchange concept." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-02-14T04:14:12.980" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T04:14:12.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5969" CreationDate="2015-02-14T13:02:13.307" Score="21" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's suppose a user has reached the 200 daily rep. Every further upvote is not considered because the 200 daily rep has already been achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if that user has a downvote and no more upvotes after that, the reputation is decreased by 2 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is: shouldn't the system compensate the downvote with an upvote that hasn't been counted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastEditorUserId="27635" LastEditDate="2015-02-15T19:35:19.253" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T08:43:28.577" Title="Why does a downvote change the daily reputation even when the user has not counted upvotes?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5970" CreationDate="2015-02-14T18:55:47.637" Score="18" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LilyPond&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LilyPond&lt;/a&gt; is a language for typesetting music. It's not actually LaTeX and requires knowledge of music notation. But it is integrated with LaTeX and has a lot of in common with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it allowed to ask the questions about it here? Is there a chance to get an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4035" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-02-15T15:03:16.073" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T11:15:26.173" Title="Is it allowed to ask LilyPond questions here" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5967" CreationDate="2015-02-15T05:38:08.403" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sadly this is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;, even though it sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes are accounted for at the time of casting, rather than at the end of the day. The only voting excluded from the per-day reputation cap of 200 are bounties and answer acceptance (+15).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/70158/168244&quot;&gt;What if I hit the daily rep cap and THEN get downvoted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/109027/168244&quot;&gt;Downvote after hitting rep limit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T05:38:08.403" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5968" CreationDate="2015-02-15T11:18:48.050" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer has to be no really. It seems to be stretching the &quot;related typesetting systems&quot; too far. There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lilypond&quot;&gt;lilypond tag on stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T11:18:48.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5968" CreationDate="2015-02-15T21:11:59.357" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lilypond originally was developed using LaTeX, but the current version does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; use TeX at all to produce its output of graphical music scores. So questions about Lilypond's syntax (or the Scheme syntax used to modify it) are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with any program that produces graphical output (Inkscape, Gimp, Photoshop), you can include the output graphic files into a LaTeX document using &lt;code&gt;\includegraphics&lt;/code&gt; from the &lt;code&gt;graphicx&lt;/code&gt; package. From the TeX engine's perspective these files are just big boxes to put on the page; it doesn't matter whether it's music or pictures inside. Questions about doing this are only on topic if they relate to how TeX gets and arranges that box on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Lilypond documentation gives the impression that the program is closely integrated with LaTeX because there is a &lt;code&gt;lilypond-book&lt;/code&gt; program that includes Lilypond images within a LaTeX file. This program is basically just an automated way of processing each separate image with Lilypond and then using &lt;code&gt;\includegraphics&lt;/code&gt;. (In fact in many cases it is, in my opinion, simpler just to do it that way manually.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an active Lilypond user, I would encourage users to please start posting and answering Lilypond questions on StackOverflow with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lilypond&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;lilypond&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag. The lilypond-user mailing list is currently the main place where lilypond questions are discussed, but the Q/A format and resulting knowledge base of SO would in my opinion be more helpful to the Lilypond community in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T21:43:27.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5968" CreationDate="2015-02-16T11:15:26.173" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is not on-topic &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, since LilyPond itself is hardly a &quot;related system&quot;, more than MathJaX is, for instance. The only exception is when you ask about the interaction between LilyPond and LaTeX, for instance through &lt;code&gt;lilypond-book&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have brought the question of where to ask about LilyPond up on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the Big Meta&lt;/a&gt; 2 years ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/168297/on-which-site-are-lilypond-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;On which site are LilyPond questions on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concensus seems to be that the correct place is either &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Music.SE&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;. The choice is yours, I would prefer SO for purely technical questions (about LISP/Scheme) and Music for all the other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T11:15:26.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-20T12:57:10.257" Score="7" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; rejected the following edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/62814&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/62814&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really think this answer should change because it typesets text in math mode. (There also other improvements.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I convince &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T15:37:46.093" Title="Community Rejected Edit" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|community-user|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5975" CreationDate="2015-02-20T15:27:42.873" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exactly as T. Verron says, your edit was rejected because it was conflicting with another edit by the OP, which overpowers suggested edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is strange, IMHO, that the OP's edit is actually verbatim the same as your edit.&#xA;Therefore another possibility is that the OP actually hit &quot;Reject and Edit&quot; in the review. However, his edit review is not in the system, which should mean that he didn't act on your review. But who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T15:27:42.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-20T16:42:01.733" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi to all and sorry if the question is off topic, but I do not know where do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, when we talk about equations in LaTeX, Why, we must do an upload of an image to explain the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion it is better and more faster for all, use the site for showing the effect of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not ask a LaTeX interpreter on line &quot;all inclusive&quot;, but if it is possible... :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69174" OwnerDisplayName="Giacomo Alessandroni" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T22:09:20.700" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T22:09:20.700" Title="Why does TeX.SX not use the MathJax add-on?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2015-02-20T20:04:39.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7342" CreationDate="2015-02-22T18:34:09.363" Score="11" ViewCount="543" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/70035/15616&quot;&gt;My answer&lt;/a&gt; is not displayed correctly. The internet archive has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20130302102612/https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69997/how-to-write-an-mn-matrix-in-latex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;correct version of the first revision&lt;/a&gt;, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vzWSd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this screenshot from archive&lt;/a&gt;. The difference is that now, though I didn't do any changes to that part, it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\[&#xA;M=&#xA;  \begin{bmatrix}&#xA;    1 &amp;amp; 2 &amp;amp; 3 &amp;amp; 4 &amp;amp; 5\        3 &amp;amp; 4 &amp;amp; 5 &amp;amp; 6 &amp;amp; 7\      \end{bmatrix}&#xA;\]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\[&#xA;M=&#xA;  \begin{bmatrix}&#xA;    1 &amp;amp; 2 &amp;amp; 3 &amp;amp; 4 &amp;amp; 5\\&#xA;    3 &amp;amp; 4 &amp;amp; 5 &amp;amp; 6 &amp;amp; 7\\&#xA;  \end{bmatrix}&#xA;\]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15616" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T23:10:24.737" Title="Something messed with my answers backslashes and newlines" Tags="|bug|answers|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-23T21:19:16.613" Score="10" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/profiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;profiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;profiling&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt; seem to be pretty similar: the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/profiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;profiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;profiling&lt;/a&gt; excerpt says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{profiling} is for questions involving the efficiency/speed of a macro, technique or construct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which seems to be a subset of what I would understand as &quot;performance&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current usage seems to draw no clear distinction between these two tags, compare e. g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75118/3323&quot;&gt;Why does it take LuaLaTeX so long to load fonts and can I speed it up?&lt;/a&gt; (tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/profiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;profiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;profiling&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/226747/3323&quot;&gt;unicode-math + siunitx + lualatex = long compile times. Why?&lt;/a&gt; (tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, there are 15 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/profiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;profiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;profiling&lt;/a&gt; and 39 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore propose to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/profiling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;profiling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;profiling&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;, as  the latter seems to be the more easily understood term to me and is therefore more likely to be found when looking for appropriate question tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T21:19:16.613" Title="Proposed tag synonym: {profiling} and {performance}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-23T22:36:09.577" Score="13" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/229525/house-of-medici-symbol&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; all the time, where someone wants us to draw something for them in TikZ or some other graphics package, without providing a minimal working example.&#xA;I'm wondering whether there could be an automated notification encouraging to provide an MWE while entering such a question. I would propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user tries to submit a question containing an image and no block of code, they should receive some feedback explaining that they should provide a MWE and possibly linking to some further information about this issue. This could be an error message that returns them to the editing window or an &quot;Are you sure? Your question is not likely to be answered.&quot;-Yes/No-dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T01:13:35.207" Title="Notifying the user when they are about to post a &quot;give me the codez&quot;-question" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|asking-questions|new-users|please-do-this-for-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-02-23T22:47:53.187" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;See all questions with active bounties http://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/tex.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T22:47:53.187" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-23T22:47:53.187" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5980" CreationDate="2015-02-23T23:34:22.740" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to be difficult, since it doesn't fall within the generic realm of StackExchange - site-specific features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead I propose we create a generic question that has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/please-do-this-for-me&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;please-do-this-for-me&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;please-do-this-for-me&lt;/a&gt; flavour and answer it in a generic way, pointing to some FAQs about usages for packages, other SE sites and even third-party applications. That way one can close the question as a duplicate and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP feels that it isn't a duplicate, they will be forced to update their post before anything else can be suggested answer-wise, making it cycle through the &quot;Reopen review queue&quot; and be eligible to be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; fit within the SE model and is community-driven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what happens when someone tags a question for which the person voting to close has a gold tag badge? Well then, the dupehammer will close the post instantly, making it less of a community-effort, right? In those instances, one would assume that the one wielding the dupehammer will at least take the effort to make sure that it's a duplicate. I doubt whether that will be a problem though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T23:34:22.740" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5980" CreationDate="2015-02-24T01:13:35.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Too long for a comment&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m not very active in the moment on TeX.sx (to be slightly euphemistic), so I may have missed something, but you could add a comment below the question. You can already find some suggestions in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430&quot;&gt;“Text building blocks” question&lt;/a&gt; – in current version you can find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;I want to do something very complicated: &quot;Just do it for me&quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Minimal effort / homework questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&quot;Just do it for me&quot; graphics questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one is forced to use them at all, and can also use them partially or only as basic template for own words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, in the past there was often the issue, that someone added one of these blocks, but nethertheless others gave valuable answers, what looks in my opinion later rather ridiculous – the comment could on the other hand still be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(Well, sh*t happens. Again and again.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T01:13:35.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-02-25T08:29:00.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEqOc.png&quot; alt=&quot;ShareLaTeX, online editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44805" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T08:29:00.593" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-25T08:29:00.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-26T00:27:06.733" Score="29" ViewCount="1455" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2015/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUG 2015&lt;/a&gt;, this years meeting of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Users Group&lt;/a&gt; will be in Darmstadt, Germany, from July 20 to 22.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who would like to go there? Does anybody plan to make a presentation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;April 10 - bursary application deadline.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;May 1 - deadline for abstracts for presentation proposals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;May 15 - deadline for early bird registration discount.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;June 1 - deadline for preprints to be in the printed program.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Thread plagiarized from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3336/who-plans-to-go-to-the-tug-2013-conference-in-japan&quot;&gt;last one by Stefan&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;late edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2015/program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;program and participants list&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;is posted on the TUG 2015 web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T22:41:34.493" Title="Who plans to go to the TUG 2015 conference in Germany?" Tags="|discussion|tug|conferences|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-02-26T00:28:52.223" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan to be there and I plan to submit an abstract, too, with the preliminary title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Creating university journal and theses LaTeX classes/templates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As a note, it seems that I have currently one empty seat for anybody on the axis Prague--Nuremberg--Darmstadt, probably Sunday overnight in and Thursday morning out.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T11:12:51.410" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T11:12:51.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-02-26T00:57:51.640" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan to attend, to put faces to names of many of the wonderful people here on this site (and elsewhere too), and also to learn about new, exciting developments in the world of TeX and Friends!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I submitted an abstract with the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pretty-printing Git commit history graphs with PGF/Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/tug2015/abstracts/gessler.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;My abstract&lt;/a&gt; was accepted by the conference committee and is now listed on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/tug2015/program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;program page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="21344" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T01:14:01.920" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T01:14:01.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5990" CreationDate="2015-02-26T20:52:46.390" Score="11" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;The top left of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/texmeta/img/bg-graph-top.png?v=869b540f883a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;background image&lt;/a&gt; contains the tengwar (elvish script) for &lt;em&gt;&quot;ash nazg durbatul&amp;uuml;k, ash nazg gimbatul,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (&quot;One ring to rule them all; one ring to find them&quot;) the first line of the inscription on the One Ring in Tolkien's &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?  And how is this relevant to TeX, besides the fact that it looks cool, and TeX produces good-looking text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73147" LastEditorUserId="73147" LastEditDate="2015-02-26T21:07:23.763" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T23:01:42.993" Title="Why are there tengwar on the TeX stack exchange background?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5989" CreationDate="2015-02-28T17:58:04.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/638/5764&quot;&gt;part of the site design process&lt;/a&gt;, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/650/5764&quot;&gt;went live around November 2010&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, the Tengwar text in the design was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/649/5764&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; as part of a font-related &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/tengwar.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Showcase&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following post also has related TeX content:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13015/5764&quot;&gt;What package allows Elvish in TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T17:58:04.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-02-28T20:53:43.467" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll be going: my first TUG meeting :-) The plan is to talk about the recent work I've been doing on case changing and other things that need Unicode data, so something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joseph's Adventures in Unicode-land&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;paired with one about the galley entitled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Through the &lt;code&gt;\parshape&lt;/code&gt;, and what Joseph found there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T16:58:34.860" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T16:58:34.860" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-03-01T10:43:07.887" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm planning to go. And I'll probably submit a paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not traveling by train, like Joseph, but by motorbike, of course. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T10:43:07.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5997" CreationDate="2015-03-02T09:30:28.227" Score="11" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I have obtained the &quot;vote down&quot; privilege. Some days ago I have obtained this privilege in other site of StackExchange, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But today I see this. The URL is correct and send to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but... what's happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7QgA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69174" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T18:24:22.730" Title="You've earned the &quot;反対投票する&quot; privilege! Learn more about it in the help center" Tags="|bug|status-completed|stackexchange|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-03-03T10:18:47.713" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Me too planning to come for TUG-15. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a  mailing list for TUG-15 possible attendees.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tug2015-attendees&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG-15 mailing list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be great to discuss travels plans  on mailing list. So that one can refer back to the information specially about travel plans etc. of others to join for travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8758" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T10:18:47.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-03-03T17:08:22.280" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to go as well but am not sure if it fits my schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7615" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T17:08:22.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-03-03T17:31:50.983" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will try to attend just for the lolz and of course a little bit of autobahn naughtiness...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any idea for an abstract yet and probably I won't anyways. So it depends on how much I can spare. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T17:31:50.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5993" CreationDate="2015-03-03T18:23:37.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Internationalization seems to be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-the-vietnam-of-computer-science/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vietnam of Stack Exchange Network&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fix has been pushed out and we've even improved the tools a bit, so hopefully this won't happen again&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* I'm not betting on that, though :)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T18:23:37.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-03-04T14:00:44.540" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will attend TUG 2015. I submitted an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/tug2015/abstracts/cretel.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;abstract&lt;/a&gt; entitled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Functional data structures in TeX&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="21891" LastEditDate="2015-05-30T15:04:50.943" LastActivityDate="2015-05-30T15:04:50.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-07T13:24:23.920" Score="7" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;The brown number appears next to the review button in the top bar only if there are at least 3 items to review. &lt;strong&gt;I would pretty much prefer to show this brown button whenever there is at least 1 item to review&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? We do not get so much traffic as other sites, and we do want to get more people involved in the review process. Currently, we have probably got some people who (I suppose by a script) &quot;click F5 every second on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review&lt;/a&gt; to know about any new reviews as soon as possible&quot;. While I don't mind them doing it&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;, I think it would be healthy for the community if this got changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second thing is, especially in First Posts, Low Quality and Reopen queues, it makes the best sense to act on the posts quickly; since the queues are empty almost all the time, this is not the case: Users do not notice there's something to review until there's at least 3 things to review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I'm sorry, I don't provide a screenshot, there's currently only 1 item in the queue and the button is therefore not shown. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Given their reviews are of very high quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-03-07T13:24:23.920" Title="Please lower the threshold for the brown review number to 1" Tags="|feature-request|design|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-03-07T15:57:22.837" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J178W.png&quot; alt=&quot;The LaTeX community is on Reddit!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T19:29:03.543" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T19:29:03.543" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-03-07T15:57:22.837" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6002" CreationDate="2015-03-10T14:06:41.593" Score="30" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/231241/footnote-in-bfseries-new-error-in-newpx-update&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to find out if an error I encountered after updating TeXLive was a bug. Even if it was a bug, I needed a short-term solution to continue my work until the package was fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@cfr provided such a solution and also confirmed that it was a bug. I reported it to the package author, who has since fixed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should I now delete the question, since the error is fixed?&lt;/strong&gt; Or might it still be valid for people who have not updated their systems or for the poor Debian repository-package users who will always be two years behind? Or could it serve as an example of how to handle problems that are possibly bugs? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if I delete it, will I deprive the answerer of deserved reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, do I accept the answer even though the real answer is the fix that the package author provided? Or should I add an answer explaining what the package author fixed?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3326/what-is-our-policy-for-reporting-bugs-for-the-tex-family-of-software-that-were&quot;&gt;What is our policy for reporting bugs (for the TeX family of software) that were discovered on TeX.SE?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2622/questions-which-are-bug-reports&quot;&gt;Questions which are bug reports&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/466/deleting-a-question-thats-likely-to-be-unimportant-very-soon&quot;&gt;Deleting a question that&amp;#39;s likely to be unimportant very soon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T14:24:19.963" Title="Answer reveals problem is package bug: Delete question?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6001" CreationDate="2015-03-10T14:24:19.963" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;We would typically keep bug-related questions around, but close them. Formerly it was a straight-forward &quot;too localized&quot; closure (which made sense), but now it's more common to vote as being &quot;off topic&quot; with some manual motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the &quot;policy&quot; part. From a structural point of view, you can't delete that question, since it has a positive-score answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on deletion criteria, see the Meta.SE FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T14:24:19.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6007" CreationDate="2015-03-10T14:38:06.757" Score="5" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just started revisiting and reading through some topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed a couple of &quot;power&quot; users[1] in regards to 2014 have either changed their names, lost a lot of reputation points or deleted their profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What on earth is going on? Does someone not like tex.sx or is there a new opponent in the stackexchange or latex world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] I'd say in this context, these are users who basically deliver a lot of helpful and/or supportive content. Whether it is through posting answers or helpful comments or giving rep for finding bounties aways or other means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25683" LastEditorUserId="25683" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T10:30:19.533" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T17:46:51.487" Title="Low reputation/karma count, deleted user profiles - did something happen?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-10T16:15:00.903" Score="11" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I've seen some questions about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; posted that were only tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; at the time of posting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/232369/improving-a-tikz-plot&quot;&gt;Improving a tikz plot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/232049/ybar-stacked-position-of-labels&quot;&gt;ybar stacked: Position of labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/227476/how-to-plot-with-tikz-without-graduations-in-the-axis&quot;&gt;How to plot with tikz without graduations in the axis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been editing the tags to add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplots&lt;/a&gt;, of course. But I'm wondering if leaving &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; adds anything for questions strictly about &lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt; is built on top of Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z/&lt;code&gt;pgf&lt;/code&gt;, but it has its own set of commands, keys, and conventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be sure, there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; questions that concern aspects of both packages (using &lt;code&gt;\draw&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\node&lt;/code&gt; commands inside &lt;code&gt;axis&lt;/code&gt; environments, for instance), and for these, both tags make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should questions about only &lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt; functionality (for example, &lt;code&gt;\addplot&lt;/code&gt; commands and keys defined in &lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt; itself) be tagged simply &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplots&lt;/a&gt; or including both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pgfplots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pgfplots&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T16:15:00.903" Title="Should the tag of a derived package (pgfplots)'s parent package (tikz-pgf) also be applied?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7336" CreationDate="2015-03-11T12:10:54.060" Score="11" ViewCount="421" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try to edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/9068/11002&quot;&gt;Thorsten Donig's answer to 'large braces for specifying values of variables by condition'&lt;/a&gt;, the following happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      0, &amp;amp; \text{if}\ a=1 \\&#xA;      1, &amp;amp; \text{otherwise}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      0, &amp;amp; \text{if}\ a=1 \          1, &amp;amp; \text{otherwise}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, if it wasn't the part of the answer I was about to edit, I wouldn't have noticed. &lt;strong&gt;This is a serious problem since &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; is commonly found at the end of line in LaTeX.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I run FF35.0.1, no userscripts or stuff, on Fedora 20, MATE 1.8.1. Reported on more systems in more browsers, so it seems it's on the server side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For anybody testing it: Please do not actually edit the answer! It seems to be a problem only for posts last modified in some given period of time, and you could spoil it! Thanks :-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T09:25:13.127" Title="‘double backslash + newline’ collapses to ‘single backslash’ when I hit ‘edit’" Tags="|bug|editing|code|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6003" CreationDate="2015-03-12T12:21:40.613" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think anything happened, except perhaps &lt;em&gt;life&lt;/em&gt;. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is a thriving place, but it's not anyone's entire life. Stuff happens. Priorities change. People need to take breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I (not that I'm a 'power user') was all but absent for a few months, and now I am back. That may happen again, and it could have happened for some of the 'power users'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that this community is comprised of volunteers. I like spending time here (and I'm sure others feel the same) because it's fun to solve problems and learn lots of new things. But sometimes things come up and &quot;something's gotta give&quot;. Certain people not spending as much time here doesn't necessarily mean there's been a falling-out. (And nothing that I've seen indicates that that's the case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address the other items in the question (some of this has already been mentioned in the comments):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Several users are known for being prolific &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/45/investor&quot;&gt;Investor&lt;/a&gt;s/&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/46/promoter&quot;&gt;Promoter&lt;/a&gt;s, transferring significant portions of their Reputation into bounties to encourage high-quality content on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One user (that I know of, maybe more) has a habit of changing his/her display name roughly as often as the new moon occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T12:21:40.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-03-12T16:11:31.980" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess the answer in my case is going to be yes (might even cycle there) and yes (I plan to give a talk) -- see you there folks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10109" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T16:11:31.980" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6003" CreationDate="2015-03-13T17:46:51.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm one of the Trusted users (this at least has a definition) who's changed his name. I know about another recent name change of a fairly active user. I mention it clearly in my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you met someone &quot;power&quot; with very low rep, it could be that you met a spammer. They like to adopt other community members' names in hope for quickly gaining reputation that would allow them to do worse things. Needed to say, you'd be quite Lucky Duke since most of the spam posts are zapped within seconds or minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T17:46:51.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2015-03-13T19:23:20.280" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Testing link prettification for &lt;code&gt;https&lt;/code&gt; URLs:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/208/21344&quot;&gt;Formatting Sand-Box&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Testing link prettification for &lt;code&gt;http&lt;/code&gt; URLs:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/208/21344&quot;&gt;Formatting Sand-Box&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Testing link prettification for protocol-less URLs:&#xA;//meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/208/21344&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:44.860" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T01:16:27.620" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-03-13T19:23:20.280" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6011" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-13T20:03:05.033" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/232958/21344&quot;&gt;another user's post&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that raw &lt;code&gt;https&lt;/code&gt; links to locations on the SE Network are not prettified in the previewer in the same way &lt;code&gt;http&lt;/code&gt; links are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When actually submitting the change and viewing the live post, the links (both &lt;code&gt;https&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;http&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; prettified as expected. So the problem seems to be limited to the previewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this behavior using Google Chrome Version 41.0.2272.89 m on Windows 7, with and without all userscripts disabled. Several users have confirmed the behavior on different browsers in the comments. I have posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6010/21344&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/208/21344&quot;&gt;Formatting Sand-Box&lt;/a&gt; for others to test on different browsers/platforms, if desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T21:12:01.257" Title="Raw https links are prettified in the actual post, but not in the preview" Tags="|bug|user-interface|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6014" CreationDate="2015-03-15T04:10:20.730" Score="10" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not possible to close a question for the reason that it is spam. It is not possible to vote to delete until it is closed. One can vote down or flag as spam, but the question remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top of the front page is currently a mixture of a spam question and various questions which have been bumped by somebody adding a non-answer. (A copy of the question or another answer.) These are marked, mostly, as modified by Community for reasons which currently escape me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems there is not really any very effective way to deal with this in the short term?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T16:59:06.203" Title="Is there any way to deal with spam effectively and relatively fast?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2015-03-15T07:51:31.003" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As detailed in the other questions on the same topic, the correct response to spam is to flag it as such if you have the privileges. Downinvoting also helps but does not provide the additional information that a flag does. The StackExchange back-end picks up spam flags in particularly and will auto-block users after a threshold number of flags has been raised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that even if a post is flagged very quickly by multiple people and thus auto-removed, this never reverses the fact that the something has happened. Thus a spam answer on a question will always bump the question up to the top of the front page. If the spam user gets destroyed (either by mod action or by the back-end) then this 'promotion' ends up being marked as dupe to the 'Community' user rather than a real person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As TeX-sx is relatively small compared with the main site, there is something of a time lag between a spam post appearing and being removed. On the main site a question will get removed within a few minutes by user votes, whereas depending on the time of day it can take longer for us. If you feel the response to these things needs to be more rapid then you should raise the possibility of a moderator election: moderator votes are binding but of course depend on the number and location of moderators (all currently based in Europe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T07:51:31.003" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2015-03-16T21:18:25.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would just add: While the important things are &lt;strong&gt;flagging as spam&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;downvoting&lt;/strong&gt;, you can also cast a &lt;strong&gt;close vote as off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; (since it is off-topic). It very likely won't change anything in the end (since it would take 5 close voters to close it; if they all downvote and raise a spam flag, it'll be auto-deleted probably), but it can't cause any harm. You at least show to all people following the review queues that there is a malicious post worth flagging and downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T21:18:25.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6020" CreationDate="2015-03-19T14:52:08.133" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/233680/position-punctuation-after-a-box&quot;&gt;position punctuation after a box&lt;/a&gt; I asked how to reformat punctuation that (as it turns out) is correct as is. There's an answer to my question as asked which I've upvoted. It doesn't seem quite right to accept it, but I don't want to leave the question without an accepted answer. Deleting the question destroys information someone might find useful some day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T18:53:44.453" Title="Question that needs no answer but has a good one" Tags="|discussion|accepting|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2015-03-19T16:59:06.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally I just flag as spam, things go soon enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a couple of cases where I thought the posting offensive rather than merely spam, and I didn't want to wait for automatic deletion, I in addition to the flag, edited the text deleting it all and replacing it by a line saying it had been deleted. Not sure if that is really sanctioned by the site guidelines, but it certainly works to get the text off the  default page instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T16:59:06.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6019" CreationDate="2015-03-19T18:12:46.473" Score="5" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I delete a answer, I can undelete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the other users, the common users, not admin, can they see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just delete a my answer because it is wrong and am wondering to whom it might still be visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69174" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T18:34:06.923" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T18:34:06.923" Title="A deleted post is it visible to other users?" Tags="|support|answers|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6018" CreationDate="2015-03-19T18:33:13.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted posts are visible to users having 10K+ reputation, as this is accompanied by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;Access to moderator tools privilege&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, this privilege entitles the user to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;View deleted posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast delete and undelete votes on questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Access moderator tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit tags inline&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is by default available to moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T18:33:13.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6016" CreationDate="2015-03-19T18:53:15.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a few choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delete the post entirely;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a comment to the current answerer asking to amend their proposal to suit your needs;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Provide your own answer;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a bounty to solicit answers that may be more betterer... :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the options based on the above choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can't, since the answer has a positive score. See the FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat contained in the answer already, but not explicitly. Suggesting to be a little more explicit and include others' comments in such a statement might make the answer suit your needs more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In some cases this is completely viable if your answer differs entirely from others. It may be awkward to grab that opportunity from someone else, but there's no guideline suggesting it can't/shouldn't be done. If you feel a self-answer will better-answer your own question, fill your boots.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this case it may be a bit extreme, but it's still an option for the non-rep-hoarding-kind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another totally acceptable choice. An upvoted answer to a post removes it from the list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; (...the criteria there being &quot;questions with no upvoted or [no] accepted answers&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T18:53:15.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="859" CreationDate="2015-03-21T23:27:52.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question never received an official answer, but it seems clear from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/859/3&quot;&gt;Anna Lear's revision&lt;/a&gt; that this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;; that is, expected behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T23:27:52.920" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-03-21T23:27:52.920" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6022" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-22T01:55:07.627" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;while connected to the chat on my laptop the other day (macbook pro, snow leopard, firefox), the format of the chat room suddenly changed from the &quot;usual&quot; format, with forward/back pointers and a list of miscellaneous stuff on the right, to a very &quot;depleted&quot; format with only bands the full width of the screen containing just the participant id, the text, and occasional timestamps.  although i can read what's going on, i'm unable to participate, and there's nothing on the screen that gives a hint of how to change the format or even to log out.  (there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; buttons that allow me to go to a different chat room, but that's not what i'm looking for.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this question appeared in the &quot;maybe your answer is here&quot; list when i launched my present question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3927/579&quot;&gt;Why I can't log in to chat room from mobile while I can in to main site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thinking that this seems potentially similar, i've taken a look, and tried to follow the suggestion to log out and back in again.  after quite a few random attempts, trying to click on every available button, i did manage to log out;&#xA;the only reason i'm fairly sure i succeeded is that i finally got a &quot;log in&quot; button that i was able to click on, and was reconnected.  however, the format hasn't changed, and the view is still &quot;unthreaded read only&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;obviously i have done something stupid.  it doesn't matter greatly at the moment, because i'm only 15 minutes from my office, where this problem hasn't arisen.  but in several weeks, i'll be a thousand miles away with only my laptop, and i really don't want to be locked out of the chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;can someone provide step-by-step instructions for getting out of this straitjacket?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T01:55:07.627" Title="have lost &quot;interactive&quot; view of chat; how can i get it back?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-03-22T06:32:19.713" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to get a move on to organise it, but I'd like to attend this year as well. Especially if Joseph will be there, since we've never met before! But I'll need to come up with something to talk about quick smart…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T06:32:19.713" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6025" CreationDate="2015-03-23T11:37:53.730" Score="7" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reviewing two of my questions I noticed the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/225787/penalty-enhanced-approach-to-float-placement&quot;&gt;Penalty-enhanced approach to float placement&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 answer, accepted &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Page title: &lt;em&gt;latex project - Penalty-enhanced approach to float placement - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/225795/penalty-enhanced-approach-to-float-placement-in-latex3&quot;&gt;Penalty-enhanced approach to float placement in LaTeX3&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 answer, accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;floats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;floats&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Page title: &lt;em&gt;Penalty-enhanced approach to float placement in LaTeX3 - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite being very similar questions and having very similar tags, the first has a tag listed in the page title, while the second does not. Furthermore, the tag that is listed is not the first tag on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first theory was that the second question had a longer title and the tag was not included to satisfy some target length for the page title. But I've found shorter question titles that did not have a tag in the page title (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/234617/natbib-package-error&quot;&gt;natbib package error&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; longer question titles that did have a tag in the page title (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/234609/can-i-install-texlive-on-windows-7-just-by-copy-paste-without-affecting-the-sys&quot;&gt;Can I install TeXLive on Windows 7 just by copy/paste (without affecting the system/registry)?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What determines the tags (if any) listed in the page title?&lt;/strong&gt; Is there some rhyme or reason behind this decision that I've missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T20:10:43.453" Title="What determines the tags (if any) listed in the page title?" Tags="|support|tagging|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6024" CreationDate="2015-03-23T17:42:50.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, when you tag a post, the list of tags at the bottom of the post is displayed in order of popularity (most-used to least-used). Hovering over the tags under the post will show the number of questions tagged as such:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l1Ke2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; is more popular than &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt;, which in turn is more popular than &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/user-interface&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;user-interface&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;user-interface&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange learned that &lt;a href=&quot;https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/6556&quot;&gt;it would be good to include tags as part of the post title when displayed in a browser as it improves SEO&lt;/a&gt;. That's the reason why they're in there in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which ones are used? The most popular &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; that is already included in the title. Moreover, only the first &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; tags are considered popular enough for inclusion. Based on your examples,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/225787/5764&quot;&gt;Penalty-enhanced approach to float placement&lt;/a&gt; already has the word/tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/float&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;float&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;float&lt;/a&gt; in the title, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt; is used;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0rrG4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/225795/5764&quot;&gt;Penalty-enhanced approach to float placement in LaTeX3&lt;/a&gt; already has the words/tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/float&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;float&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;float&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex3&lt;/a&gt; included in the title, so no further &amp;quot;optimizing&amp;quot; is required&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SN0Uz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above guidelines take pluralization into consideration. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%22float%22&quot;&gt;a title with &amp;quot;float&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; is considered similar to a title containing &amp;quot;floats&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question now could be asked whether or not one should include tags in your title or not, since they're included anyway (to some extent). Read up on the FAQ: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19190/168244&quot;&gt;Should questions include “tags” in their titles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;It's really useless to include the tag &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; in the form &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Tag&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Title&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Title&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Tag&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, since tags (should) provide the relevant context.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T17:47:35.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6030" CreationDate="2015-03-23T23:10:07.783" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a bunch of questions that are answered, but not marked so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to remove questions from the &quot;unanswered&quot; lists if they are obviously answered? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/198132/problem-with-mhchem-subscript-and-superscript-alignement&quot;&gt;Problem with mhchem subscript and superscript alignement&lt;/a&gt;. Here, the last statement from the author is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Problem solved with an update at home. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was asked by an unregistered user 6 months ago, with no further actions since, so I doubt, the author will ever mark that questions as answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73371" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T06:23:32.403" Title="Make old question answered" Tags="|support|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-03-24T13:29:34.197" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm planning to go. And I don't plan to submit a paper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T13:29:34.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6026" CreationDate="2015-03-26T06:22:27.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; are those &amp;quot;with no upvoted or accepted answers&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IxbcT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of ways this is dealt with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The community occasionally hosts an &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1560/5764&quot;&gt;Answer the Unanswered&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; event;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3640/5764&quot;&gt;solutions are found in comments&lt;/a&gt;, we ping the relevant parties and request a conversion. If this seems fruitless, some community members may step in and provide a community wiki answer;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The network attempts to bring these questions to the community's attention by occasionally pushing content to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main/active page&lt;/a&gt;; most notably this is visible when a post appears on the active page, modified by user &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tWD4s.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post can not be address by the above-mentioned methods/suggestions yet still seems solved (perhaps, as you mention, the OP states that it's solved without any idea of how), we may close it, since it doesn't really serve the future community much purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T06:22:27.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6031" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-26T06:28:14.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unanswered questions are those questions which have no up-voted or accepted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the main site, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;tab showing questions with no up-voted or accepted answers&lt;/a&gt;. This view can be further restricted to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=noanswers&quot;&gt;questions with no answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T06:28:14.913" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T06:28:14.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6032" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-26T06:28:14.913" Score="0" Body="Unanswered questions are those questions which have no up-voted or accepted answers." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T06:28:14.913" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T06:28:14.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-27T03:41:51.713" Score="23" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been flagging multiple answers on the board for the last couple of evenings where a 'new' user (with no reputation) has posted either the question, an answer, a selection of comments, or a combination of the previous.  It is just a text copy with no attempt to format.  I suspect we are beginning to see a deliberate attack on the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with these posts is that they mask the real new users whom we want to encourage to participate and learn.   It is a waste of time to open a posting and check the participation of a new user to see if they can be encouraged only to discover it is basically a Denial of Service attack (albeit very slow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect this is the actions of a single person and I wonder if the moderators can check the logs and see if this traffic is coming from the same IP address.  And if so, then just block it.   And I suggest that the moderators of other stackexchange sites be queried to see this problem is occurring elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9880" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-03-27T04:56:47.717" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T10:48:33.207" Title="Spam like answers occuring in the evening (10-11pm Eastern Standard Time USA)" Tags="|discussion|spam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6034" CreationDate="2015-03-27T04:56:32.950" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens occasionally. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3764/5764&quot;&gt;last such attack&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/192820/168244&quot;&gt;was around 1.5 years ago&lt;/a&gt; (although it feels like yesterday) and threatened different sites across the entire SE network at different levels of severity. I think the same is happening now, and we might just be a target hit more severely than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the same type of &quot;invasion&quot; is happening, just a little more skilfully; instead of posting watch-NFL-type easy-to-identify nonsensical jibber-jabber, they are now posted a mix-match of question/answer/comments from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, we should follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/Pn9vPG8s4ss?t=5m1s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the same procedure as last year&lt;/a&gt;: Flag as spam, possibly cast a delete vote, consider down-voting and move on. This too shall pass and perhaps the SE spam filters will be improved to thwart such nincompoops... until they strike again with some other witty wizardry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The act of dually &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/193916/168244&quot;&gt;flagging as spam and down-voting may be discouraged&lt;/a&gt;. However, we're a small yet wide-spread enough community that influx of garbage is quite swiftly taken care of by our janitors.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T10:48:33.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6042" CreationDate="2015-03-29T18:54:40.187" Score="9" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a view of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/235318/5764&quot;&gt;a code block&lt;/a&gt; on the full site (viewed through mobile/iPhone):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jyIq0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a view of the same code block on the mobile site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ekW6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a view of the same code block using the Stack Exchange App (from &lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/stack-exchange/id871299723?mt=8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt;... I'm sure it's similar on other devices):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cnyM2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the mobile versions show the proper, default, (La)TeX (&lt;code&gt;lang-latex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;lang-tex&lt;/code&gt;) syntax highlighting. Can this be enabled for the mobile versions on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/184108/168244&quot;&gt;What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T20:04:20.263" Title="No (La)TeX syntax highlighting on mobile devices" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|syntax-highlighting|ios-app|android-app|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6037" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-29T18:56:07.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is to be used for the Official Stack Exchange application only. The app is available in the App Store, for iOS 7+ on iPhones and iPads. See the release announcement on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/05/stack-exchange-for-iphone-is-here&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt;, and the support for iPad on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/11/stack-exchange-for-the-ipad-is-here-and-ios-apps-now-support-ios-8&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crash reports will be automatically reported back using &lt;a href=&quot;http://crashlytics.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Crashlytics&lt;/a&gt;. Bugs or feature requests should be reported using the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/ios-app&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'ios-app'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ios-app&lt;/a&gt; tag. When posting bug reports, please specify the app's version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T18:56:07.640" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T18:56:07.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6038" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-29T18:56:07.640" Score="0" Body="This tag is for the Official Stack Exchange application only. The app is available in the App Store, for iOS 7+ on iPhones and iPads. When posting bug reports, please specify the app's version." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T18:56:07.640" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T18:56:07.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6039" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-29T18:56:58.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Official Stack Exchange application was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/01/stack-exchange-for-android-is-here/&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; on January 27, 2014 for Android devices running 4.0+. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So today we’re excited to announce that &lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stackexchange.marvin&amp;amp;referrer=utm_source%3Dblog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange for Android&lt;/a&gt; is finally available for download on the Google Play store, for Android phones version 4.0 (ICS) and up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The app's version can be found out by choosing &quot;Help&quot; in the menu; please specify this version number when submitting bug reports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T18:56:58.663" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T18:56:58.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6040" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-29T18:56:58.663" Score="0" Body="This tag is for the Official Stack Exchange application only. The application is available in the Google Play store, for Android 4.0 and up only. When posting bug reports, please specify the app's version." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T18:56:58.663" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T18:56:58.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5934" CreationDate="2015-03-30T18:07:52.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;you may first try to think why your specific example of code/graphic is important to be shared with others. I am sure there are plenty of such cases since I spend daily some hours on reading code of other people to learn new things. simple because a graphic looks nice is not enough and will cause spamming but if there is a specific trick or algorithm inside what is unique then it is worth sharing.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;having clear why it is important to share you may create a question to how to do it. then you may answer your own question. it is not forbidden. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64487" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T18:07:52.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6036" CreationDate="2015-03-30T21:47:23.707" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;  This has been fixed in the apps for a while now.  There's no highlighting on mobile web because that's not a feature anywhere on the network.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/132636/why-is-the-code-syntax-color-highlight-gone-in-the-mobile-view&quot;&gt;Here's the feature request on MSE.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the beautiful red color of 12pt in the iPhone app.  We're doing something!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with the problem with the mobile apps is that the web has a concept of site level languages for syntax highlighting but hasn't exposed that to the apps. There are so many nuanced rules for sites it's overwhelming. Since there are only four sites that do this right now, I'm hardcoding it into the app and it will be in an upcoming release (not the next one but the one after).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MViqy.png&quot; alt=&quot;A screenshot of the app with same post from the question with proper highlighting.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;As far as mobile web goes, it looks like syntax highlighting is occurring, just none of the styling is coming through. I've pinged the design team about that.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75298" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T20:03:33.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6044" CreationDate="2015-04-02T15:55:33.917" Score="10" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to make sure whether this site would be an appropriate form to ask a question regarding Pandoc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I'm &lt;strong&gt;using Pandoc to convert Markdown to a Word DOCX file&lt;/strong&gt; so would the main site this be the proper location to ask about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask is that LaTeX is not involved (or at least not directly involved) but at the same time, I do see Pandoc questions here and feel that this user base may have the answer I need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75480" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T12:38:27.003" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T21:31:59.717" Title="Are &quot;Markdown to Docx using Pandoc&quot; questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|support|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6043" CreationDate="2015-04-05T21:31:59.717" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If no TeX is involved, then it's off-topic here. Stack Overflow is the right place to ask the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the same, many users on this site use &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; and Markdown, and have lots of experience converting document formats. So if you don't get an answer to your SO question you might ask in the chat room here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T21:31:59.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6046" CreationDate="2015-04-06T17:04:35.563" Score="10" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more a curiosity than a pressing question (even though I tagged it as &quot;bug&quot;).  But I noticed that my account &quot;tags&quot; seem to change over time.  I figured some algorithm looked at my questions and answers and somehow decided to tag what it thought my specialties to be, accordingly.  Then, today, I noticed my tags as &quot;greek&quot;, &quot;fonts&quot; and &quot;siunitx&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I can understand &quot;greek&quot; as a tag, since an old answer of mine recently received some attention concerning upright greek symbols.  Fonts?  OK, I'll buy that one too, though it is a bit of a stretch.  But &quot;siunitx&quot;???!  I am embarassed to admit it, but I've never even voluntarily loaded the package (except if the OP's preamble does).  Five hours ago, I left a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/237083/getting-instead-of-comparison-sign-in-cases&quot;&gt;Getting ! instead of comparison sign &amp;lt; in cases&lt;/a&gt; that mentioned the word &quot;siunitx&quot;.  The comment got 3 upvotes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that apparently enough to tag me as... what?  Proficient in &quot;siunitx&quot;?  If that is all it takes to tag a user, I had misplaced faith in the tagging algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25858" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T08:26:35.947" Title="How are a user's tags formulated?" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6045" CreationDate="2015-04-07T05:36:38.723" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the tags represented on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;Users page&lt;/a&gt; is dependent on the current time filter. So, you might see a different set of tags under each user depending on whether you filter by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=week&quot;&gt;week&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=month&quot;&gt;month&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=quarter&quot;&gt;quarter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=year&quot;&gt;year&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;overall&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's focus on the tags displayed under your user when filtering by week:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ColKa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've earned 120 reputation this week. Nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your tags are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/greek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;greek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;greek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/siunitx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;siunitx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;siunitx&lt;/a&gt;. These correspond to the &lt;em&gt;highest-voted&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; posts &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; are involved in &lt;em&gt;this week&lt;/em&gt;. To obtain a list of posts that match some of these criteria, we can use the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;ninja search&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=lastactive%3a7d..%20%5bgreek%5d&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;lastactive:7d.. [greek]&lt;/code&gt; and then sort by votes&lt;/a&gt;. Here are the top four results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hwzzd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing one of your tags is listed as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/greek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;greek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;greek&lt;/a&gt;, I've included that in the search query, since there's no other easy way to identify these posts. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/145926/5764&quot;&gt;top result&lt;/a&gt; possesses the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/siunitx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;siunitx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;siunitx&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/greek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;greek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;greek&lt;/a&gt; (sorted in order of popularity), matching those in your user flair (sorted in order of popularity associated with you). &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A25858+%5Bsiunitx%5D&quot;&gt;Since you're not that active under {siunitx}&lt;/a&gt;, it's listed last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T05:36:38.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-07T11:38:16.280" Score="4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;this website is so useful , but so far , it only has interface with users who type in English , it could be great if there was a section that could deal with the users of these languages , since I know that it's a bit more tricky to work on latex in these languages, but here could be the best place to get the feedback from the users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74294" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T11:37:13.180" Title="Is there a section in this website for right to left written languages? Like Persian?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-07T18:06:03.567" Score="10" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of questions about getting something tricky (well, maybe) done with WinEdt. But the 'Tour' does not make it clear enough how on or off-topic such questions are. Is this kind of question... welcome? Tolerated? Unacceptable? Meh-nobody-cares?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, due to public pressure, I'll be a bit more explicit: Getting WinEdt to automatically find the main file of an article when you haven't set it as the project main file, rather than trying to compile some included section, when you PDFTeXify it by mistake. But &lt;strong&gt;please&lt;/strong&gt; do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; answer this actual question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="4012" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T18:28:41.843" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T21:49:40.637" Title="How on-topic/off-topic are questions about 'tricks' with (La)Tex editors?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6047" CreationDate="2015-04-09T11:37:13.180" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; ask questions &lt;strong&gt;about&lt;/strong&gt; any particular language, including Persian, other RTL languages, CJK etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you &lt;strong&gt;cannot&lt;/strong&gt; do is to ask your question &lt;strong&gt;in&lt;/strong&gt; Persian. The only official language of this website is English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag we use is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/right-to-left&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;right-to-left&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;right-to-left&lt;/a&gt;, which can be accompanied by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/persian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;persian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;persian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arabic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arabic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arabic&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hebrew&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hebrew&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hebrew&lt;/a&gt; (for the three most common RTL languages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T11:37:13.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6048" CreationDate="2015-04-09T14:19:29.817" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;These sound like very appropriate questions to me :) We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/winedt&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/winedt&lt;/a&gt; tag that demonstrates your question won't be the first such question :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS: I think that &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/arara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;arara&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; might be able to help with your &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T14:19:29.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6052" CreationDate="2015-04-09T20:41:44.417" Score="8" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curiousity really, but I noticed in the recent days that one of my posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39017/how-to-influence-the-position-of-float-environments-like-figure-and-table-in-lat/39020#39020&quot;&gt;How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; get plus/minus 10 point votes recently (which I find a bit surprising) - could it be that I have hit an absolute limit with 420  plus votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T08:55:27.057" Title="Is there a limit on upvotes?" Tags="|support|reputation|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6051" CreationDate="2015-04-09T23:03:47.763" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902/914686&quot;&gt;ceiling is far higher&lt;/a&gt;... if there exists one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's happening is that some users have un-upvoted your answer and then re-upvoted it. Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/10109/frank-mittelbach?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;your reputation for today&lt;/a&gt;, you'll see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R1IyG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The -10 reputation stems from an un-upvote (actually upvoted on a different day) while it seems the un-upvote was immediately rectified (seconds apart) with a re-upvote. The re-upvote, of course, cancels the unnecessary un-upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T23:03:47.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6053" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-09T23:05:22.817" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-04-09T23:05:22.817" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T23:05:22.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6054" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-09T23:05:22.817" Score="0" Body="A specific answer refers to a particular and individual answer on the site. This tag is used to query the community on the specifics of a particular answer asked on the main site or the meta site." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-04-09T23:05:22.817" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T23:05:22.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6057" CreationDate="2015-04-09T23:21:02.723" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reputation history clearly says, that I have 'earned' (well ;-)) at least 200 reputation on 9 days (see the data at the end of this post, please)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is a mismatch with my reputation graph chart (count the spikes: there are 10 spikes ;-))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IMXhV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any apparent reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;code&gt;reputation history&lt;/code&gt; for the last days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 2    237679 (10)&#xA; 2    237679 (10)&#xA; 2    237792 (10)&#xA; 2    237776 (10)&#xA; 2    237792 (10)&#xA;-- 2015-04-09 rep +165  = 22592     &#xA;&#xA;** rep today: 165&#xA;** rep this week (2015-04-05 - 2015-04-11): 567&#xA;** rep this month (2015-04-01 - 2015-04-30): 567&#xA;** rep this quarter (2015-04-01 - 2015-06-30): 567&#xA;** rep this year (2015-01-01 - 2015-12-31): 6074&#xA;** rep from bonuses: 100&#xA;** total rep 22592 :)&#xA;&#xA;days represented 398&#xA;rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 4 days&#xA;earned at least 200 reputation on 9 days&#xA;earned 122 reputation from suggested edits&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full reputation history is available here &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/cdCVHHRB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reputation history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Werner identified the cause... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y67yL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T00:40:51.493" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T05:16:32.293" Title="Reputation data vs. Reputation chart mismatch in daily &gt; 200 rep" Tags="|discussion|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-10T11:05:18.753" Score="12" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visiting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1478&quot;&gt;2015 community ads on Academia.SX&lt;/a&gt;, I can see that TeX.SX does not have any advertisements on the site. Why does not TeX.SX have an ad there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always think that users who have questions about topics like publications, writing styles, journal paper submission, citations, etc. at Academia.SX are the most relevant users to see an advertisement about TeX and LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:17.577" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T10:45:56.913" Title="Why is there no TeX.SX community ad on Academia.SX?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6055" CreationDate="2015-04-11T05:16:32.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem can be isolated to the following dates: March 28 &amp;amp; 29, 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/31729/christian-hupfer?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Your reputation graph&lt;/a&gt; shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/72J9a.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows reputation gain of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+210 for March 28, 2015&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+110 for March 29, 2015&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/cdCVHHRB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;your reputation history&lt;/a&gt; shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-- 2015-03-28           = 21695     &#xA; 2    235611 (10)&#xA; 2    235611 (10)&#xA; 1    235611 (15)&#xA; 2    235611 (10)&#xA; 2    235702 (10)&#xA; 2    235702 (10)&#xA; 2    235702 (10)&#xA; 2    235617 (10)&#xA; 2    235702 (10)&#xA; 2    235611 (10)&#xA; 2    235702 (10)&#xA; 2    235702 (10)&#xA; 2    235707 (10)&#xA; 2    235741 (10)&#xA; 2    235741 (10)&#xA; 2    235741 (10)&#xA; 2    235779 (10)&#xA; 2    235779 (10)&#xA;              rep +185  = 21880     &#xA;-- 2015-03-29&#xA; 2    235779 (10)&#xA; 2    235702 (10)&#xA; 1    235702 (15)&#xA; 2    235882 (10)&#xA; 2    235882 (10)&#xA; 2    235882 (10)&#xA; 2    234019 (10)&#xA; 2    234019 (10)&#xA; 2    206919 (10)&#xA; 2    234019 (10)&#xA; 2    235882 (10)&#xA; 2    235882 (10)&#xA; 2    235882 (10)&#xA;              rep +135  = 22015 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows reputation gain of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+185 for March 28, 2015&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+135 for March 29, 2015&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The differences account for the missing &quot;at least 200 reputation on a day&quot; count. Here's what happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Opsxa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An accepted answer on one day was unaccepted and re-accepted on another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Another bug stems from the fact that your graph display doesn't match the other reputation timelines. The graph and reputation recalc points to the problem happening on March&amp;nbsp;28/29, while your timeline reputation view points to March&amp;nbsp;29/30.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T05:16:32.293" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-04-11T08:07:45.233" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://academia.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QlIlq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Academia Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52417" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T08:07:45.233" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-11T08:07:45.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-11T12:49:48.253" Score="17" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to propose TeX.SX and promote it on the Academia.SX's &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/community-promotion-ads-2015&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2015&lt;/a&gt; but I do not find any image to put in the advertisement. Is there any image for such purpose which is specifically designed for TeX.SX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][2]][3]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://clickthrough-url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3PVhc.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tagline to show on mouseover&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:17.577" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T15:31:12.073" Title="Which image to use in community promotions ads of other Stack Exchange websites for TeX.SX?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-12T18:46:59.223" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See question on feed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I've seen this question before…&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search for term.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expand question &lt;code&gt;A&lt;/code&gt; to read it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Not what I'm looking for…&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change search term and press enter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC is now applied to &lt;code&gt;A&lt;/code&gt;, the wrong question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retract vote (since it's not accurate).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can no longer VTC.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T16:41:30.163" Title="I accidentally voted to close a question as a dupe of another, unrelated question. How can I re-apply that vote to another question?" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-13T14:27:40.253" Score="29" ViewCount="1274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a designer for Stack Exchange, and I wanted to give everyone a heads that minor site design updates have just launched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the changes will not be visible; these tweaks go along with recent updates that were made to Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are moving the site's CSS to a newly refactored LESS system, so that it's easier for us to fix SE network CSS bugs globally and launch new features in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are updating the graphics to SVG for retina support.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We've fixed a LOT of obscure bugs that arose when new features were not thoroughly tested across the entire network.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visually it should &quot;feel&quot; the same as the old site with slight layout adjustments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This update should also retro-actively fix most of the old design bugs. If you see any new bugs, or old ones not yet fixed, please post an answer here to let us know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75498" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T10:39:24.833" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T01:22:06.820" Title="Site design updates are live!" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="29" CommentCount="33" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6060" CreationDate="2015-04-13T16:41:30.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only vote-to-close once on a question, and also only retract such a close-vote once. After that, you'll only be a spectator in the vote-to-close activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My typical &quot;hunt for duplicate&quot; approach is to use the main site to search for a duplicate. Once found I proceed to cast the vote-to-close rather than using the search-for-duplicate feature contained within the closure procedure. It avoids mishaps like you experienced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/167514/168244&quot;&gt;Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T16:41:30.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6059" CreationDate="2015-04-13T23:52:26.760" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of your users reached out to us over at GDSE in our chatroom. I have produced this for your community based on the graphics already used on your site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3gK3Q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;First Version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Updated with hyphen and attempted to justify as much as possible: &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8MNDa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Second Version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the help of Paulo Cereda the final version looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2aDqY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come and check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GDSE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; soon, we welcome typographical expertise with open arms. :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76173" LastEditorUserId="76173" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T15:31:12.073" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T15:31:12.073" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T08:16:42.823" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you please, while you're at it, finally fix the top title panel size? The integral on the right used to be completely visible (now the top of capital Phi is hidden), also the tengwar text on the left used to have a top padding. The arrow with &lt;code&gt;reduction&lt;/code&gt; in the chemical formula is ridiculously hidden under the tabs &quot;Users&quot; and &quot;Badges&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4007/11002&quot;&gt;Anna Lear suggest this has been solved&lt;/a&gt;, it has never been, and I wasn't able to convince her about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T17:56:48.217" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T08:51:47.563" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Code displays&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code displays are too tightly packed; here's what I see (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/238485/4427&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/238485/4427&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5p9Pm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Profile page&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the profile page, when hovering over the list of answers (sorry, can't look at the list of questions &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;) they “dance”: an underlining appears, pushing down the answers below by some pixels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't happen on Math.SE, for instance, where the changes have already been applied, AFAIK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I hover over the “Summary/Answers/...” bar, a “votes” moving button appears at random positions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;System data&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both with Safari 7.1.4 and Firefox 37.0.1 on Mac OS X&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T14:05:50.803" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T09:00:02.703" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask why are all fonts changed? Is it a temporary thing? (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;**I truly hope so!**&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question titles in the list are smaller, vote counts on the question page is lighter and greyer, tag names are extremely small, question text is extremly large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the comparison of what I see now vs what I saw before (thanks David for the archive link). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7QAoB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7QAoB.png&quot; alt=&quot;click to enlarge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply said: information density tends to zero, whitespace density tends to one. Why don't we simply display empty pages instead? It seems to be what you all want. &lt;em&gt;/rant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T13:41:02.073" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T13:41:02.073" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T09:09:14.167" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;s&gt;two&lt;/s&gt; three issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the homepage &lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/code&gt; all fonts seems to be a bit small (on 1920x1200 monitor). After the facelift, for a second I thought I have accidentally zoomed out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Ubuntu with Firefox the main logo is missing (both in the main and meta website). -- &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think in the body of questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; are shown a bit too small. (@yo' has already mentioned they are small in the homepage list as well.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ckwgr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T13:40:17.880" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T10:30:40.033" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to what the others have said so far, the fonts, the missing logos etc ... I see questions on their own line, i.e. some linebreak is introduced.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Same on meta, by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/33MoC.png&quot; alt=&quot;mainDistortedQs&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu 14.04, with Mozilla Firefox 37.0.1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the update, i see a definite improvement, or shall we say a slight change :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aSx4Y.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="37907" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T10:15:38.810" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T10:15:38.810" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T11:52:43.643" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question/answer links on user pages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Acuar.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my user page (Meta and Main), links to questions/answers get a double underline when hovering over a certain section of them. When hovering over other &quot;hot&quot; areas on the same question/answer link, only a single underline appears (as I would expect).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The appearance of the second underline also causes a slight change in the height of the element, which causes the list of links to shift up and down slightly while moving the mouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T13:57:35.287" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T13:57:35.287" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T13:22:28.710" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We still have this issue: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5839/5764&quot;&gt;Misalignment of badges/numbers on user-profile page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a view of some of the flair at the bottom of a post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DneHx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, a view of the user profile badges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gZsoh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T05:26:05.443" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T14:09:19.777" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'status-completed'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, remove the cold blue colour from the title page (&lt;code&gt;active&lt;/code&gt; etc. tabs). It's been mentioned in the comments here and you said that this is intentional. That doesn't change anything on the fact that it's ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T13:46:07.087" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T13:46:07.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T20:18:28.603" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;i'm not on the system i usually use, so it's hard to know whether the changes i see are system-specific, or intentional changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the community promotion ads seem to have disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the header (and already mentioned) it used to be possible to actually read the tengwar, and to see clearly whether there were any superscripts or upper limits on the math formula in the upper right.  what is there now is not valid, typographically speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T19:21:46.000" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T19:21:46.000" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T21:07:10.373" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; (Werner)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This seems to have been fixed. I gathered up as much patience as possible and waited for &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/osbAq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;multiple profile entries to have large numbers in front of them, and not wrapping occurred&lt;/a&gt;. I'm sure wrapping will occur if there are more items with larger numbers, but this may not affect many users, if any.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a number of &quot;unread&quot; content in the user profile, the &quot;votes&quot; tab doesn't fit on the screen horizontally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FK4PG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It dangles to the bottom-right of wherever you hover over the other tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Confirmed browsers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google Chrome 42.0.2311.90 m&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.17691&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mozilla Firefox 37.0.1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5IAse.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T01:18:51.450" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T01:18:51.450" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6048" CreationDate="2015-04-14T21:49:40.637" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation from the closing and down voting at this site is that all questions regarding &lt;em&gt;vim&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;emacs&lt;/em&gt; are on topic, questions regarding other editors will normally be treated as off topic :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T21:49:40.637" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-14T22:46:25.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the text being very small in the lists of tags (both favourite and related tags on the right of the main page), the interline space is huge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oYd5s.png&quot; alt=&quot;tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interline space was too large before the update for related tags. But now, the problem is worse because the text is so much smaller, and it also affects the list of favourite tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T14:01:05.033" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T14:01:05.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-15T10:36:25.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why the question title is sans-serif in search results? &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=numbering+braces&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=numbering+braces&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I suppose it's just a missing styling for the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UR8Hq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T14:05:06.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-15T14:23:56.333" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RkZG6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I mouse over a comment of mine, the remove button has an awful vertical alignment. &lt;code&gt;:(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T19:10:37.787" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:10:37.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-15T17:07:58.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on with the tags on the user profile pages?  There's a faint outline as if to shadow StackOverflow's boxy tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0tZAe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T08:51:08.520" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T08:51:08.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-15T17:19:54.753" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Profile tags seem a bit tight when their score contains 3 digits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Jizv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion: Perhaps a right-alignment with a fixed space as separator rather than a left-alignment would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T17:19:54.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-15T17:25:08.580" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hovering over the reputation graph underlines the graph/category labels, which shouldn't happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WMP3K.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T19:11:38.610" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:11:38.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-15T19:14:40.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the size of code in comments is noticeably larger than that of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this may actually be a good thing, because otherwise the shapes of some letters are close to identical in the two styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; now that i'm back at my usual platform, i find that the size&#xA;of code in the comments is a bit smaller than that of text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JJtov.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of comment example&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so it's distinguishable.  (it would be really nice if different systems didn't behave so differently.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T21:22:15.653" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T21:22:15.653" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-15T19:16:09.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-norepro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-norepro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when booting up a new session (presumably with an empty cache), the number of questions on the new page is exactly two. the option to increase this to 15/30/50 entries is offered (and the change, once made, persists), but the initial impression is very disconcerting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T19:14:11.753" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:14:11.753" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-15T19:33:49.853" Score="8" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;When booting up a new session (presumably with an empty cache), the number of questions on the new page is exactly two. The option to increase this to 15/30/50 entries is offered (and the change, once made, persists), but the initial impression is very disconcerting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: I'm running on a laptop, away from my usual setup, over guest wifi.  After the CSS relaunch, restarted from scratch, and was greeted with a much &quot;downsized&quot; view.  Now that I've restored my usual page size, I can't recreate the conditions, but it &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="2221" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T19:07:41.400" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T19:07:41.400" Title="Only two questions show on a newly launched session" Tags="|bug|design|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-15T21:19:28.420" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The brackets on TeX site logo were and should be filled with transparent white. Now, they are filled with opaque white as if they were holes in the page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old bracket:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hZ8oy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New bracket:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uLUoh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:05:23.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6085" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6086" CreationDate="2015-04-16T09:52:29.717" Score="8" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't seem to be able to find my statisticas previously described as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Days visited: x (y consecutive)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone tell me where it's gone (and preferably not to BitValhalla!)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T10:34:51.307" Title="New profile pages -- I can't find my &quot;days visited&quot;" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6085" CreationDate="2015-04-16T10:34:51.307" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brent, it took me a while, but I found it! Here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In your user page, make sure the &lt;em&gt;Profile&lt;/em&gt; tab is selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/apjXM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the right side of the screen, near your description, you will find the following box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UlRkt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last item in the list (visible only for you) contains the &lt;s&gt;droid&lt;/s&gt; info you are looking for (sadly, the fact the word &lt;em&gt;consecutive&lt;/em&gt; is truncated is driving me insane!). If you click it, a calendar will appear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7tQ48.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The days coloured in green mean the days you visited the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new profile page is surely confusing. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T10:34:51.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-16T10:39:31.747" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sub&gt;to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/253602&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L7uaH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word &lt;em&gt;consecutive&lt;/em&gt; is truncated. It is awful. I am very sad. Sad ducks are a sad image. Sad images make people sad as well. Please please please pretty please with sugar on top fix this. &lt;code&gt;:(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T20:05:57.597" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-16T16:26:42.463" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the, LaTeX 'tags' used on this site? Sorry, my terminology may be off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. on TeXworks on my PC its &lt;code&gt;\(&lt;/code&gt; to open and &lt;code&gt;\)&lt;/code&gt; to close.&#xA;its &lt;code&gt;\begin{equation}&lt;/code&gt; to open and &lt;code&gt;\end{equation}&lt;/code&gt; to have an equation on a new line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On physics forums its &lt;code&gt;##&lt;/code&gt; to open close, enter as usual for new line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tried a few things on here but can't get it.&#xA;Tried to search for some instructions too but couldn't find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76385" OwnerDisplayName="yourlazyphysicist" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:43:44.250" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:43:44.250" Title="How to render LaTeX equations on this site?" Tags="|support|mathjax|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-04-16T21:54:21.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6089" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T18:45:30.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathJax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MathJax&lt;/a&gt; is a JavaScript library that is used to display mathematical equations on the Stack Exchange sites where it is activated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about MathJax itself are off-topic here. If you're making a website and have trouble with MathJax, try &lt;a href=&quot;//stackoverflow.com/tags/mathjax&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. If you have trouble with MathJax rendering in your web browser, try &lt;a href=&quot;//superuser.com/tags/mathjax&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MathJax is only activated on sites where it is common to need mathematical equations, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//biology.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Biology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//chemistry.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Chemistry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//scicomp.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Computational Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//cs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Computer Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//electronics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Electrical Engineering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//mathematics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Mathematics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//mathoverflow.net/&quot;&gt;MathOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//physics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//psychology.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Psychology &amp;amp; Neuroscience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//cstheory.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Theoretical Computer Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tutorials&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//mathematics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Mathematics&lt;/a&gt; has a short tutorial, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020&quot;&gt;MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-10-04T18:15:59.463" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T18:15:59.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6090" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T18:45:30.323" Score="0" Body="MathJax is a JavaScript engine for displaying mathematics, available on some Stack Exchange sites." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:45:30.323" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:45:30.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-17T17:21:12.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-norepro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-norepro&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep number under each post looks a bit too loose now, as if it were letter-spaced:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aCHMP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem desirable -- the font was designed &lt;em&gt;not to be letter-spaced&lt;/em&gt;, and letter-spacing it is distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T19:13:39.620" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:13:39.620" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-17T20:45:20.800" Score="11" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/datetime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;datetime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;datetime&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/datetime2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;datetime2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;datetime2&lt;/a&gt; -- should they really be separate tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T00:49:19.380" Title="How should package sequels be represented with tags?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6092" CreationDate="2015-04-17T23:51:56.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they should: &lt;code&gt;datetime&lt;/code&gt; has been declare obsolete and not any more maintained. It is still in the distributions for allowing compilation of older documents without needing to change them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new package &lt;code&gt;datetime2&lt;/code&gt; is different and incompatible with its predecessor, so questions dealing with it should not be confused with those referring to the obsolete version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T23:51:56.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6092" CreationDate="2015-04-18T00:49:19.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, if the entity they represent is considered &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt;, then separate tags would be okay. However, never use version-related tags, as versions become outdated and therefore typically useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, while we do have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texlive2010&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texlive2010&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texlive2010&lt;/a&gt; tag, it was has been voted as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texlive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texlive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texlive&lt;/a&gt;, and rightly so. There would be little value in having a tag for each version of TeX Live. In the same way, version-specific tags for packages (or software) would not be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/85358/168244&quot;&gt;What are the guidelines for using version-specific tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T00:49:19.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-19T00:03:20.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the update, if I want to add a picture to a post, after selecting the picture I want to upload, I have to click on the 'Add picture' button in the 'Add image' dialogue rather than being able to just hit 'Enter'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is driving me nuts so I'm hoping it is not a 'feature'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T19:13:00.723" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:13:00.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6096" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6097" CreationDate="2015-04-19T01:02:21.190" Score="6" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new profile page reveals how to get the badges ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, at least in my case, there is a mismatch for the &lt;code&gt;Sportsmanship&lt;/code&gt; badge. (See the screenshot or on my Meta Profile.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now, it says, that I apparently upvoted 17 answers from other users on questions where I answered also. However, I 've got only 11 answers on Meta so far...   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this count include multiple upvoting by me for other answers on a single question too? I always thought that only one upvote per question does count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please note&lt;/strong&gt;: This is not a question on how to get this badge actually. I just noted this 'mismatch' by chance since the new profile system 'reports' &lt;em&gt;progresses&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I7L2o.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T02:59:05.487" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T02:59:05.487" Title="Mismatch in counts of Meta Sportsmanship badge" Tags="|support|answers|voting|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6096" CreationDate="2015-04-19T02:58:13.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/67397/168244&quot;&gt;Sportsmanship badge definition&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Sportsmanship&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;silver; awarded once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Cast 100 upvotes on competing answers (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/68156/168244&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you answer a question and earn a score of at least one, all other answers to that question are considered &quot;competing answers&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Deleted posts do not count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Retracted votes do not count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;em&gt;all other answers&lt;/em&gt; to a question where you have an answer score of at least one is considered &quot;competing&quot;. While you have posted only &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A31729+is%3Aanswer&quot;&gt;11 answers on Meta.TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qyxVq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;some of these questions have multiple answers by other users as well. You must have upvoted multiple competing answers on some of these posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without knowing your voting behaviour, it's impossible to say, but this would be my assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T02:58:13.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5961" CreationDate="2015-04-19T08:44:45.220" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently even the link provided by Martin Schröder (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/248511&quot;&gt;Meta reviews on review page&lt;/a&gt;) can't really answer my question, perhaps there is no answer at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to take it as it is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be better to highlight the active Meta Review as the &lt;code&gt;orange&lt;/code&gt; rectangle like for the main site as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to answer this question in order to 'close' it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T11:17:08.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-19T17:30:37.737" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi I'm new to this site and need some help with how it works. How do I accept an answer given to a question I asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76583" OwnerDisplayName="BubbleGum" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T17:47:08.913" Title="How to Accept an Answer in Stackexchange" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-04-20T00:25:45.883" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-20T06:10:37.170" Score="16" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when entering an old post, links are dead. Stack Exchange should add some quick button to mark a link as dead in old posts so that authors gets notified and can modify the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76427" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T21:12:26.443" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T21:12:26.443" Title="How to mark dead links" Tags="|discussion|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6100" CreationDate="2015-04-20T21:07:26.343" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This problem - aptly labelled &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link rot&lt;/a&gt; - is a problem on Stack Exchange which cannot be solved easily in general. As such, it's best handled on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best would be to comment on the post (thereby notifying the author) and request an update of the information. Such an update should - in the very least - separate the content from the link, making the post self-contained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prevention is better than the cure though. Therefore, rather than posting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... See, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://link/that/has/rotted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://link/that/has/rotted&lt;/a&gt;. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;without mentioning the details contained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://link/that/has/rotted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://link/that/has/rotted&lt;/a&gt;, it would be far better to use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... from &lt;a href=&quot;http://link/that/has/rotted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this reference on something&lt;/a&gt;, we have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;stuff from the original reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the above case, when the link grown stale, an edit to remove the reference still leaves the post relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A really round-about way of correcting the problem after-the-fact is to attempt finding the lost content on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/web/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt; (known as Wayback Machine). If the rotted content was somehow archived, one could hopefully find some relevant content and restore the post to a usable state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way of avoiding link rot &lt;em&gt;for images&lt;/em&gt; is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2136/5764&quot;&gt;use the dedicated image-upload dialog&lt;/a&gt;. This will ensure that images reside with SE's account on IMGUR, where they &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&quot;&gt;remain indefinitely&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T21:07:26.343" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6102" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-20T21:12:41.553" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T21:12:41.553" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T21:12:41.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6103" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-20T21:12:41.553" Score="0" Body="HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T21:12:41.553" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T21:12:41.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6106" CreationDate="2015-04-20T22:33:43.177" Score="13" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/writelatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;writelatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;writelatex&lt;/a&gt; has been renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Overleaf&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to rename the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/writelatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;writelatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;writelatex&lt;/a&gt; tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overleaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overleaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overleaf&lt;/a&gt; and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/writelatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;writelatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;writelatex&lt;/a&gt; a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overleaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overleaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overleaf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T16:58:22.893" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T16:58:22.893" Title="Rename {writelatex} to {overleaf}, keep {writelatex} as a synonym for {overleaf}" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-21T16:11:27.717" Score="13" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/145367/11400&quot;&gt;How can I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to write LaTeX math formulas by voice efficiently?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt;-specific, and I believe could be of interest to many &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; users, but indeed no speech recognition engine I am aware of is &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; specific. Does that make the question off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11400" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T22:16:27.087" Title="Are questions related to speech recognition to write TeX off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6104" CreationDate="2015-04-21T16:58:14.967" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed and implemented: see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overleaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overleaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overleaf&lt;/a&gt; :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T16:58:14.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6105" CreationDate="2015-04-21T19:30:24.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must admit, that I was one of close-voters (but not the initiating one) and I voted to leave it closed, so I am one of the bad guys ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself is nice and very intriguing to have some software that recognizes speech and transforms it into LaTeX commands, as the OP requested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it's a question that is very peripherally connected to LaTeX/TeX itself since the OP misses features in software basically nobody can contribute to, contrary to the fact that basically one of the LaTeX core developpers and package authors contribute to LaTeX/TeX or provide support to LaTeX code generators (which does not seem to be case for Dragon NaturallySpeaking software), so I hold the question, unfortunately enough, for off-topic, although the background is quite nice and justified with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accessibility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accessibility&lt;/a&gt; tag as Barbara Beeton suggested in her comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Franck, I hope you're not too disappointed about this and stay at our community nevertheless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T22:16:27.087" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T22:16:27.087" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6105" CreationDate="2015-04-22T04:13:20.220" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No they are not. We have some happy-trigger people who likes to see only what they want to see. And they vote to close on practically anything ignoring our long-lost grace period and wait-for-a-reply habits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how five people who have nothing else to do, can alienate users from once-known as a friendly place in the name of almost a hundred active answerers for a handful stupid colored dots and rep points next to their avatars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I should join the &lt;em&gt;well I'm not hanging out here anymore&lt;/em&gt; gang soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T04:13:20.220" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-22T11:58:21.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a very minimal issue which is not inconvenient but just a bit ugly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gmvJs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the image above, the close button of the pop-up is almost invisible (yes I know that I can click anywhere to close this window...). Interestingly, the same pop-up in SO has slightly brighter color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T11:58:21.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6111" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-22T14:54:12.403" Score="8" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This might have been asked before, but I could not find it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of questions and answers on this site have some piece of code (to be compiled with one of the standard engines) and a screenshot. As many online services prove, it is very easy to get TeX running on a server. &lt;strong&gt;So why do we not have a compilation engine built into this site, that you can use to compile your document and save a screenshot to be used in the question?&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;note: only if you explicitly ask it to, see the edit below&lt;/em&gt;). Obviously, there are concerns, like which part of the document should be on the screenshot, but that is a matter of letting the author specify this. Also, there are questions and answers that will not be compatible with such a feature, and will still require manual compilation and screen-capture; but those are, IMO, a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: How could it concretely work:&lt;/strong&gt; There are several formats (plain, LaTeX, ConTeXt), several engines (pdfTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX). We just need to support those; then it is up to the user to specify how they want their document to be compiled. A greater concern is that TeX changes, the packages get updated, and some of the old code on the site might not compile anymore. Well, this is obviously only an issue if we would like to ensure that people can recompile old code if they would like to update an old question. If we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; want to ensure backwards compatiblity, then we might use TeX Live, and include the version from each year. Then the user could specify that they would like to use, say, the 2014 version. This will not work for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions (like questions about extremely new versions of packages not yet included in the newest TeX Live version), but &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; of them. So in the majority of cases, I am confident the system would work; and for those that do not work, people can always stick to the good old manual solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; This question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1613/automatic-rendering-of-code-provided-in-questions-answers&quot;&gt;Automatic rendering of code provided in questions/answers?&lt;/a&gt;; that question (at least in its original statement) asks for a MathJax-like solution like the one found on Math.SE and Phys.SE. That was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what I referred to; rather, I want an engine to automatically compile MWEs using standard TeX engines. That being said, the question was modified to sound more like the present one. However, nobody answered the question in that form. In other words, that question did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &quot;solve my problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; People appear to have gotten the wrong impression that the feature would be forced upon you, that it would compile your code even if you didn't want it to. This is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; what I meant; it should only compile your code if you explicitly ask it to. That's what buttons are meant for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2021-06-06T16:45:15.093" Title="Why can't TeX.SE compile my TeX code?" Tags="|feature-request|code|code-example|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6111" CreationDate="2015-04-22T16:15:06.770" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be against this really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from any technical issues about setting it up, I post a lot of answers and a lot of those have images but almost never do I post a complete document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a multipage document I take a conscious decision which page or pages to show, and for a single page I usually crop to the area that I want to highlight in the answer. I also often need to state explicitly what tex distribution I'm using (TL2015 pretest currently). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can not see how having TeX run remotely rather than locally helps achieve any of those things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who posts answers rather than questions, I think it would adversely affect me as I think that it would tend to lower the quality of the examples as it encourages people to post their entire thesis rather than working to make a 6 line example they can post inline into a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encouraging the OP to make a useful example is the main technique for being able to post useful answers and so I'm against anything that seems to lead in the opposite direction (I know that isn't the &lt;em&gt;intention&lt;/em&gt; of the proposed change but human nature being what it is, I think it would be the result)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T09:47:08.287" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T09:47:08.287" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6111" CreationDate="2015-04-23T06:50:57.880" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not be fond of such a feature at all, but this is a personal point of view, I know, but there are some non-personal issues too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technical obstacles are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Providing the engine behind the post to compile and display the result is possible (as online TeX editors prove), but not so easy to include into the SX engine at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More overhead for loading pages &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When is the code compiled? Once when the post is edited? Each time a user lands on the post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have to introduce a possibility to upload/provide extra files, say &lt;code&gt;.bib&lt;/code&gt; or graphics, let alone one of the presumably 10^12 &lt;code&gt;thesis.cls&lt;/code&gt; floating around in the TeX world --&gt; more overhead and where are those extra files stored?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from technical issues, I don't like entering code online. I often copy it from my local editor and paste it into the TeX.SX post window (as I am just doing right now)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T07:08:07.347" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T07:08:07.347" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6111" CreationDate="2015-04-23T21:42:28.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this feature is a brilliant idea. Somebody who has a new question just needs to drag'n'drop their latex folder onto the question, and it compiles automatically (if it does), provides a stacktrace (however useless), and provides the full output at a finger click. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New questions would always have some (at least) partially executable code, not just single lines of potential issues, without no knowledge which packages have been loaded. If the questioning party uses cloud based software, an API could provide integration, and it would make TeX.se more accessible. Just remember the number of questions which were impossible to answer without a long discussion as the person didn't mention they were loading &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would no longer need to copy code to your local machine, no more need to make sure you have the same versions installed just to reproduce the problem - instead you could work with the exact same version in the browser, inspect their sources, all at your fingertips. No more grep-ing for defs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are technical challenges that need to be resolved, but in a day and age where most computations happen in a cloud far away where software like sharelatex supports automatic compilation form git repositories already, this cannot be too far away. Of course it will be a challenge, but it will make LaTeX more accessible for future generations and ensure that TeX.se will lead the way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17312" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T21:42:28.320" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6115" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6116" CreationDate="2015-04-24T12:39:38.443" Score="29" ViewCount="761" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says all. This I have been wondering for some time. I assume the answer is no; else I suppose I would have noticed him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope I do not break any rules by asking this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="19809" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T18:45:18.333" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T21:54:39.807" Title="Does Donald Knuth have a profile on TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6115" CreationDate="2015-04-24T13:14:54.643" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;don's personal presence on the internet is essentially limited to his web pages at stanford.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/abcde.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tex page&lt;/a&gt; he lists a contact for reporting &quot;purported errors&quot;. this still happens to be me, although the duty was officially turned over to karl berry as of 1 january 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as don has said many times, he does not have an e-mail address; he relies on the good offices of a secretary to communicate urgent messages.  his next scheduled tex review is in 2020, and he won't even look at tex and friends (except as a user, for his own work) until then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T13:14:54.643" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-24T20:33:57.937" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question titles in the main &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; meta pages are not aligned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2XCKQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare with the main page in Math.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6T3UX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2015-04-27T12:02:43.867" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T12:02:43.867" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-25T12:48:29.317" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6061/site-design-updates-are-live/6117#6117&quot;&gt;egreg's post in the dupe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The misalignment is very apparent.  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zULc3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Specific but post-layout-uglifying image.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FDIfK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;context&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-04-25T13:42:36.837" Title="Why are these questions not properly aligned?" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2015-04-25T13:35:26.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-28T15:09:23.147" Score="2" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a view of the badge description and checkmark for a specific badge (say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/50/mortarboard&quot;&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fjjVb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the same badge description from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;list of badges&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QASHO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we adjust the vertical alignment of the checkmark in the former display to match that of the second? I suspect adjustments would have to be made for both the checkmark and the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T15:09:23.147" Title="Adjust vertical alignment of checkmark for obtained badges" Tags="|bug|design|badges|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6115" CreationDate="2015-04-28T21:54:39.807" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an even better answer listed on his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;web pages&lt;/a&gt;, more specifically, on the page answering the FAQ question ‘&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/retd.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;So you’ve retired?&lt;/a&gt;’:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only way to gain enough efficiency to complete &lt;em&gt;The Art of Computer Programming&lt;/em&gt; is to operate in batch mode, concentrating intensively and uninterruptedly on one subject at a time, rather than swapping a number of topics in and out of my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This unambiguously means that unless he’s working on a TeX chapter right now (which I’m assuming to not be the case just by a stochastic estimate) he will be buried very deeply into a subject that is not TeX and therefore see no time to answer any TeX questions as interesting as they may seem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16347" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T21:54:39.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-04-29T07:22:11.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where is the &quot;log out&quot; option ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that, I am repeatedly faced with the same problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go on a page (not logged in),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;Add a comment&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A pop-up appears,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on &quot;Sign up using Stack Exchange&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Sigh… I mixed &quot;sign in&quot; and &quot;log in&quot; once again&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on &quot;Log in&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log in,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Well, this is not the page where I wanted to leave a comment, this is the front page !&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34551" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T07:22:11.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-30T07:29:19.137" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am repeatedly faced with the same problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go on a page (not logged in),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;Add a comment&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A pop-up appears,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on &quot;Sign up using Stack Exchange&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Sigh… I mixed &quot;sign up&quot; and &quot;log in&quot; once again&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on &quot;Log in&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log in,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I am logged in, but, this is not the page where I wanted to leave a comment, this is the front page !&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure this can be easily corrected, but I guess that on the page&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=&lt;/a&gt;…&#xA;the link on &quot;sign up&quot; ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/signup&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/signup&lt;/a&gt; ) should just be modified as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/signup?returnurl=&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/signup?returnurl=&lt;/a&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reason why I always make that confusion: at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/login&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/login&lt;/a&gt;, it is written &quot;Log in&quot; then &quot;Sign up&quot;, whereas the pop-up that appears says &quot;Sign up or log in&quot; (i.e. the opposite order).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://imgur.com/0V29U9P.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Steps to reproduce&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I think this question should be migrated to meta.sxe, and is not meta.tex.sxe specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34551" LastEditorUserId="34551" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T12:45:00.677" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T12:45:00.677" Title="Staying on the correct page after login" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-01T16:59:52.023" Score="39" ViewCount="1017" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this question has been raised before at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1538/22413&quot;&gt;policy on &quot;how do I draw this?&quot; questions&lt;/a&gt;. I know a lot of us are annoyed by these questions. But I'm not so sure, as in the linked discussion, that these sorts of questions add nothing to the site. I believe they could add something if we had an appropriate tag, such as &lt;code&gt;[how-to-draw]&lt;/code&gt;, or we came up with better titles that might help others doing a search for such things. A tag additionally could then be a place to first direct people to look to see &lt;em&gt;possibly similar&lt;/em&gt; figures that they wish to duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the learning curve for either TikZ or PSTricks is steep enough that people can generally be quite lost about how to do even the simplest things. I discovered PSTricks many years ago and got to be quite comfortable with it. I began using TikZ about the time I joined this site.  Though there are similarities, much is different. For example, I feel, TikZ requires a much deeper understanding of LaTeX's macro expansion process than PSTricks requires.&#xA;And, for those people who are new to LaTeX and haven't used any of the graphical packages, I think they can feel quite overwhelmed and lost. Some of the answers/comments to TikZ questions are just rather off-putting, like comments that read &quot;it's in the manual&quot;. Yes, that may be true, but the manuals are very long or broken across many different documents; finding what you want to do can be extremely challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about this policy of ours for a while. And it seems that increasingly we're becoming less &lt;em&gt;friendly&lt;/em&gt; toward people who may just be totally out to sea about how to even start something.&#xA;Recently I was downvoted for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/241587/22413&quot;&gt;answering such a question&lt;/a&gt;---and, I am &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; complaining about that; I understand the reason---but, that's prompted me to actually go ahead and post this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of us actually enjoy trying to answer such &lt;em&gt;how to draw&lt;/em&gt; questions: sometimes just because it challenges our own understanding of TikZ/PSTricks; other times just because it's fun to create the image. New people are always going to come to our site and post these sorts of annoying questions no matter how much we try to discourage it. I generally only answer such question for people with low rep. counts, which I take to be a sign that they may also be novice LaTeX (and family) users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually much more bothered by the repeated downvotes for the OP. I feel it casts us in a negative light when so much of what we do it supportive. I don't think it necessary that we view the people posting these questions as &lt;em&gt;vampires&lt;/em&gt; (unless it's the same individually repeatedly posting time and time again the same sort of &quot;do this for me&quot; sort of question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we come up with a policy that would make it more forgiving for OPs who may not even know where to start with TikZ/PSTricks? Could we please find a way not to be offended by these questions? After all, no one is saying, &quot;Hey you there, &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; must answer my post!&quot;. They're just reaching out hoping that someone will answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22413" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T22:46:03.693" Title="How do I draw this.....?" Tags="|discussion|please-do-this-for-me|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-05-01T22:46:24.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge-icons in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=topactivity&quot;&gt;user profile's &quot;Badge&quot; area&lt;/a&gt; displays like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dttgp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge icons circled in red uses the network-default dots, while the icons circled in blue uses the site-specific icons. The latter appears in most places (even when a question is closed using a gold-badge dupe-hammer) except in this location and under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=profile&quot;&gt;user profile&lt;/a&gt; and the accompanying &quot;Top Tags&quot; section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6SMRc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6SMRc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we provide a consistent use of the badge-icons across all the areas they're used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T00:00:33.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6125" CreationDate="2015-05-02T09:48:07.050" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also discussed this before: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4267/our-do-it-for-me-and-draw-it-for-me-comments-dont-reflect-our-hypocrisy-can-th&quot;&gt;Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don&amp;#39;t reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?&lt;/a&gt; and I was under the impression that it was settled. But things have changed since then. Our recent residents are getting really hostile more frequently. There is no other way of putting it. Especially in the chat room I'm witnessing a lot of &lt;em&gt;ah, look at this idiot&lt;/em&gt; type of comments on questions and especially drawing attention to a flaming commentary to show off how right they are. And I am actually waiting for the 100th monkey&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; to pick up this nasty behavior and change the color of the spirit here which is happening for some time now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should remind ourselves that this is only TeX we are dealing with. An obscure typesetting system for mostly academic purposes, not a cure for cancer. It is fun and beautiful nothing else. So non-TeX people have all the rights not knowing it. And it looks ridiculous and funny when users occasionally come to this site to ask something and see this small print popping under questions with serious attitude telling to do &lt;em&gt;yada yada yada&lt;/em&gt;. There is a difference between letting someone know about the style and registering them to your own club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't find this pretentious &lt;em&gt;oh let's teach him how to fish&lt;/em&gt; attitude comfortable. Because if you really want to teach (I don't know where this self-confidence comes from too) you try to be nice, you don't prove how correct you are. If there is a duplicate close it. If there is none let them be. We have more than enough means to deal with unanswered questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Housekeeping does not equate to repelling boring questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be boring questions. But of course if you feel like TeX-SX is your daily dosage of SuDoKu and you don't like your fun being spoiled by users who are not supplying enough fun, then you get grumpy and belittle questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being an old user or hi-rep doesn't give anyone the right to be the discipline police. Especially some users are quite annoying to be the first one to engage with some new users, piss them off right off the bat and move to the next question where they can fix lacking manners of another user with a hearty Welcome to TeX-SX and then following with &lt;strong&gt;here are the ways you fail: code blocks, thank yous, MWEs, usernames&lt;/strong&gt;. I have been tangentially involved in some of those code block compositions. Nobody back then thought that it would be a tool for the etiquette police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, often times a potential answerer has to deal with a overzealous response of the OP leading to &lt;em&gt;read my question properly&lt;/em&gt; type of response because someone pissed that user off before we can finish reading the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are recent three questions that are too broad (asks specifically a certain plot type) and unclear (really? with two downvotes) and the last one is also interesting because OP said something but failed to make the code work (!?). Just go through review queue there are lots of examples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244450/syntax-railroad-diagrams-in-latex&quot;&gt;Syntax/Railroad diagrams in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244472/how-to-make-a-minkowski-diagram&quot;&gt;How to make a Minkowski Diagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244325/text-bold-with-fontspec&quot;&gt;Text Bold with fontspec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we are very friendly indeed. There you go, evidence you wish evidence you find in there, tons of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you had the privilege to hang out in Math.Stackexchange you know exactly what I mean above (which is still apparently triggering &lt;em&gt;Oh, I don't see that happening&lt;/em&gt; type of turn-the-other-cheek behavior among us). I'm hoping that you won't classify MSE as a user-friendly place. However, amazingly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://math.blogoverflow.com/2015/05/10/growth-statistics-on-math-se/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here is a blog post&lt;/a&gt; showing precisely what is going to happen which I tried to hand-wave above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The icing-on-cake part is in the comments, I hope it rings a bell. Because I'm out of arguments if you still cannot see. Apparently my crystal ball is pretty shiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T22:22:02.710" CommentCount="28" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-03T18:40:30.147" Score="20" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the meta -&gt; main migration paths were removed. We are a community-driven site, and when someone posts wrongly a question (which happens quite often), I think we are well qualified to judge it well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the reasoning for removing most user-available migration paths: Many migrated questions are actually quite poor. However, one wouldn't migrate a bad question &quot;within his site&quot;, would he? On the other hand, you get people occasionally find meta first, and we're not strict on saying the newcomers that &quot;they're incompetent if they post on meta instead of main&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think that this path should be kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2015-05-03T22:20:54.317" LastActivityDate="2015-05-03T22:20:54.317" Title="Can we get back the meta -&gt; main migration path?" Tags="|feature-request|vote-to-close|migration|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-05-04T14:52:20.320" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the change to Retina graphics we seem to have lost the witty detail of having the meta site header echo the Metafont logo, as suggested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/666/nothing-indicates-that-the-meta-site-is-meta&quot;&gt;Nothing indicates that the meta site is meta....&lt;/a&gt;. Could we revert to that font please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what it looks like now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LN7iZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LN7iZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what it used to look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20140210014439/https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DKbjy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6984" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T01:22:06.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6125" CreationDate="2015-05-05T10:03:48.343" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like this type of question but not because of the &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; -- after all most questions are &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; questions. The problem is that the question is &quot;cheap&quot;, in German I would say &quot;hingerotzt&quot;. The OP didn't put any effort in it. There is no information about the system he/she used and for what the graphic is needed. No context or anything, only a picture. Even the name of the user is cheap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions try to get the maximum with minimum costs, and this imho is disrespectful towards all the generous people who spent their time to answer questions. I feel exploited by such questions. I want to see in questions at least an indication that the asker is aware that they address persons with a free will to ignore the question and not some slaves or machines bound to answer. A minimal example or some context may not always needed but neither is the tip in a restaurant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="15874" LastEditDate="2015-05-09T00:54:21.323" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T00:54:21.323" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6125" CreationDate="2015-05-05T23:49:30.370" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to post this as a response to @UlrikeFischer.  But then I realized I was saying something more than just a response, so I decided to make this one more idea to enter as an answer as part of this discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much like in math, when a new field of inquiry opens up, the initial results are relatively quick and easy to solve; as the field develops the results become harder to find and solve, and require ever deeper levels of mastery (and/or cunning).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, here on TeX-SX, many of the easy questions have been asked and answered.  That's not to say such easy questions are still not laying around waiting to be asked.  But, for the interested learner of LaTeX (and family), most questions they might come up with have likely already be posted and answered.  And thanks to some of the giants on this site, we have some very thorough and elucidating answers (or comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly as new packages get developed and attract new users, those rudimentary questions will open up once more.  But meanwhile, the questions either become rather abstruse and rarefied, or they are the questions of those---most likely---completely at a loss of where to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would like to see two developments on this site.  One is to develop a repository of well presented solutions to common typographical features: among which would be the creation of diagrams and charts using TikZ, pstricks, Metapost, etc. (more on this in the paragraphs below).  The second development is really outside of the scope of the posted question; nevertheless, I'll mention it: a collection of questions and answers on best practices (yes, I know this will result in a lot of opinions, but still I think those could be useful to learners).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's one approach I've been thinking of regarding the development of such repositories inspired a bit by @cfr 's comment to my original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;cfr suggests that the user simplify the diagram or pair down the question.  I think this is a great idea.  But also, I think some of these posters might just turn around and say, &quot;I don't know how to start any of this.&quot;  My suggestion is not to make the OP simplify the diagram.  Instead, we, as the more seasoned users of this site and more seasoned users of the tools, could create new questions and post answers that breakdown the OP's original question into stages.  On the one hand, this creates a bit of work.  On the other, it allows us to structure things in a way that is better organized and searchable than a newbie might know how to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, take the following question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/241917/22413&quot;&gt;Draw a picture where some parts are tables&lt;/a&gt;.  It can be broken down into various parts.  The tables on the left hand side could be structured in TikZ as split rectangles.  The table in the center could import a tabular environment into the picture for which there is already a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/9254/22413&quot;&gt;good answer&lt;/a&gt; though I'd like to see a way of doing it as a TikZ matrix or a &lt;em&gt;two-way&lt;/em&gt; split rectangle(??).  The right hand side could just be viewed as drawing connectors between the node:  a rather rudimentary level sort of thing to do in TikZ or pstricks, but I don't think we have anything illustrating plainly how to do this except buried in other questions and therefore not readily searchable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is that a solution be posted for each of these aspects of the picture.  While we do have some questions about working with split nodes, we don't really have a question which is &quot;how do I draw a split node?&quot; So, we in-the-know could post such a question (perhaps as a community wiki).  Then we could answer our own question illustrating the technique (again perhaps as a community wiki).  But then this would also allow others to come in and showcase how to do the similar technique in pstricks of Metapost.  Then we could go back to the OP's question and in the comments (or in a solution) link to the new posting or show how to integrate the various ideas.    In fact, my own question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/241964/22413&quot;&gt;Setting a length with a key to a TikZ node&lt;/a&gt; came up in an initial foray into answering the question about drawing the diagram mentioned at the start of the previous paragraph (I haven't posted anything yet about this because I just haven't had that sort of procrastination time available).  In this manner we would gradually build up respositories of techniques.  (Right now I can recall seeing many cool things done with TikZ, but then the question is how do I find it 9 months later and when I finally have a project where the cool thing would be useful.  Afterall, the original question could have been about something rather tangential to whatever coolness might have been there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this can be a lot of work.  It could get a bit haphazard too.  But I think it might offer a solution to how to make these &quot;draw this picture for me&quot; into something more general and useful to current and future users of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22413" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T13:29:36.143" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-05-06T10:23:28.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Howering over a community in the profile page shows up the reputation and number of badges, but the badges are cut-off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bkLFO.png&quot; alt=&quot;cutOffBadges&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T10:23:28.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-07T17:12:21.403" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;About two weeks ago, I am unable to list the active questions selected by chosen tag. For example, I am at main page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nlkdP.png&quot; alt=&quot;stackA&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where active questions are listed. Then I click to &lt;code&gt;{tables}&lt;/code&gt; (for instance) and I get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yv0bY.png&quot; alt=&quot;stackB&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I need to see the active questions from the selected tag no this message. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, I am not in Featured tab. I don't understand this. I tried to remove all my web-browser configuration and started with new login to the sx.com. Without effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that this is user dependent problem at server side. When I am not logged (i.e anonymous user) then all is OK. Only when I am logged as wipet then I have problems described above. I use Chromium 11.0.696.57 or &#xA;Mozilla Firefox 37.0.2 at two different computers and with the same problem. It means that it is not client-side problem, it is only wipet-side problem :(.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be I did something wrong in my personal configuration, but I don't remember that I did something with it. I am not familiar with such graphical level of abstraction, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-05-09T04:11:49.183" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T04:11:49.183" Title="I am not able to see the active questions selected by tag" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6139" CreationDate="2015-05-08T10:18:31.260" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to submit a graphic to texexample ( as suggested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5934/how-can-i-contribute-to-others-with-examples&quot;&gt;How can I contribute to others with examples&lt;/a&gt; ), but I repeatedly receive this from the contact page: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VorBU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Error from texexample contact page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I doing something wrong? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS I understand this is not &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; relatex to tex.sx but I tend to consider texexample.net a near relative...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38080" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T12:10:45.287" Title="Contributing to texexample --- error?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-05-11T21:53:33.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6138" CreationDate="2015-05-08T12:10:45.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I maintain this site, and there's an error in the protection against &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cross-site request forgery&lt;/a&gt; (CSRF) aka session riding, a kind of possible attacks. I still had not enough time to investigate and to fix it. I will do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you don't need to use the web formular. On the same page there's my email address, you can send your graphic via email to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not add examples since a quite long time, but I still have contributions in my mailbox, and I bookmarked some great TeX.SX examples for adding to the gallery. And some new of my own. So hopefully very soon we can see updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T12:10:45.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6137" CreationDate="2015-05-08T16:54:14.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem was between the keyboard and the chair, of course. I vaguely remember that I did select a tag-related page and I did click to the &quot;featured tab&quot; because a noticable and interesting blue number was presented here. Then I leaved this page and I forgot about this. Many days after, I tried to look to the actual questions selected by a tag and, Houston, we have a problem. Of course, there is typically none featured questions at tag-related pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I meant that the words &quot;info&quot;, &quot;newest&quot;, &quot;frequent&quot; are inactive because they are in grey color. And I meant that the tab type (&quot;active&quot; in main page) is inherited to the tag-selected pages. I didn't presume that this tab selection is saved to the memory in the server and it is separated from the tab selection at main page. Moreover, the word &quot;newest&quot; is different than the word &quot;active&quot; at main page. That all were sum for my mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T16:54:14.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6143" CreationDate="2015-05-10T12:52:38.383" Score="9" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a way of marking &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1704/3555&quot;&gt;questions that led to a new package&lt;/a&gt;. However, recently one of my own questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/244115/3555&quot;&gt;inspired me to create a program&lt;/a&gt; (written in Python) to help me manipulate tex-files. Is this something that we want to have a way of marking as well, or are these type of events too infrequent/not relevant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3555" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T10:08:27.137" Title="Question that led to a new program" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6125" CreationDate="2015-05-10T13:15:01.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Ulrike in her perspective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problems I've noticed are various. I understand that being polite is good and I often try to word the (few) comments I post in a neutral manner. And I'm also lenient to new users (especially completely new ones). But being polite and lenient doesn't mean and/or justify feeding the vampires. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I really love Tikz, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt;, I think that answering the &quot;gimme teh codez&quot; questions is not only not helpful to the OP (in the long term), but it's also harmful to the site in the way that we are simply a free workforce for people too lazy to even describe their problem, let alone post some code attempt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't demand that the code being posted works excellently, but I appreciate that there is an effort. It also depends on the case, I've answered questions without codes where I thought it was appropriate. Maybe I'm even wrong in those cases, but it was my call. And indeed, it's not even a &quot;is there a code in it?&quot; problem. It's more of a &quot;do I think this user attempted to look into it before asking?&quot; which is often not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it often happens that when I'm looking for how to answer a &quot;draw it for me&quot; question (for my own curiosity), I stumble upon very related and sometimes exact duplicates of the same question. This means that the OP didn't even take the time to google the general problem, let alone dig into the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I don't find these questions to be boring. Any Tikz-related question is fun for me (and often I resist the urge to just post an answer). What I don't appreciate is the thought that I'm &lt;em&gt;almost supposed&lt;/em&gt; to give an answer when the OP only posted an image with some &quot;Any help is appreciated. Thanks.&quot; with no context, no effort whatsoever or even a slight mention of said effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T19:18:47.763" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T19:18:47.763" CommentCount="50" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6141" CreationDate="2015-05-12T10:08:27.137" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would consider this as a part of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1702/mark-questions-that-led-to-creating-a-new-package/1704#1704&quot;&gt;Mark questions that led to creating a new package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason lies in the confusion by the word &lt;em&gt;package&lt;/em&gt; -- on one hand, it means &quot;a thing that has something to do with &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, on the other hand, it means &quot;whatever is a package on CTAN or elsewhere&quot;. Your new Python program IMHO falls into the 2nd definition of a package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shall as well be listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1721/which-questions-led-to-the-creation-of-a-new-package?rq=1&quot;&gt;Which questions led to the creation of a new package?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T10:08:27.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-12T13:35:45.570" Score="13" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the serial voting check algorithm is harassing me: I got &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;six&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; “Voting corrected” messages in my reputation tab in the last &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;seven&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This had no apparent effect on my overall rep, but it's very annoying to know that voting for my answers will be invalidated for obscure reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine what's happening, but I strongly suspect that every vote from a particular user is invalidated. Either if this is the case or not, I'd like to be informed about this and not only with vague justifications like “we cannot disclose details about the algorithm”. If my suspicion is correct I believe it is a bug in the algorithm, but at least the user should be notified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seven&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; events in eight days. Today, 13 May, nineteen votes have been invalidated. And the reputation page is telling lies, because my rep for 12 May was 230, not the ridiculously wrong 420 it reports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qNzwl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update (May 15). &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; events in ten days. This is becoming &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update (November 25). After six months, no trace of an answer, even for saying “it's none of your business, we know what we're doing”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2015-11-25T08:32:09.590" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T08:32:09.590" Title="Too many “Voting corrected” events" Tags="|support|bug|serial-voting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-13T11:36:47.497" Score="7" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a mathematical exercise written in LaTeX and it seems ugly to me. It is ok to ask what would be the best (and most beautiful) way to typeset it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exercise in question is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/idl4E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage[top=0.7in, bottom=1.2in, left=0.8in, right=0.8in]{geometry}&#xA;\usepackage{parskip}&#xA;\setlength{\parindent}{0cm}&#xA;\usepackage{amsmath}&#xA;\usepackage{unicode-math}&#xA;\usepackage{fontspec}&#xA;\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}&#xA;\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX, Extension=.otf, UprightFont=*, BoldFont=*Bold, ItalicFont=*It, BoldItalicFont=*BoldIt, Mapping=tex-text]{GFSArtemisia}&#xA;&#xA;\setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{GFSArtemisia.otf}&#xA;\setmathfont{latinmodern-math.otf}&#xA;\setmathfont[range=\varnothing]{Asana-Math.otf}&#xA;\setmathfont[range=\int]{latinmodern-math.otf}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{align*}&#xA;  &amp;amp;\frac{d H}{d p}= -(1-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p+\epsilon)\log(p-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p-a\cdot p+\epsilon)-a\cdot \log(a)-\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;(1-p+2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p+a\cdot p-\epsilon-a)\log (1-p+2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p+a\cdot p-\epsilon-a)=\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;=-(1-e\cdot \epsilon-a)\log(p-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p-a\cdot p+\epsilon)-\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;(1-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p-a\cdot p)\cdot\frac{1}{-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p-a\cdot p+\epsilon}\cdot (1-2\cdot \epsilon-a)-\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;(-1+2\cdot \epsilon+a)\log(1-p-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p+a\cdot p-\epsilon-a)-\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;(1-p-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p+a\cdot p-\epsilon-a)\cdot \frac{1}{1-p+2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p+a\cdot p- \epsilon-a}\cdot (-1+2\cdot \epsilon+a)=\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;-(1-2\cdot \epsilon -a)\log(p-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p-a\cdot p+\epsilon)-(1-2\cdot \epsilon-a)-\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;(-1+2\cdot \epsilon+a)\log(1-p+2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p+a\cdot p-\epsilon-a)-(-1+2\cdot \epsilon+a)=\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;-(1-2\cdot \epsilon-a)[\log(p-2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p-a\cdot p+\epsilon)+\log(1-p+2\cdot \epsilon\cdot p+a\cdot p-\epsilon-a)]&#xA;\end{align*}&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45524" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-05-13T17:08:56.263" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T17:08:56.263" Title="Question about correct typesetting" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6145" CreationDate="2015-05-13T12:36:30.213" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Phrasing a question to request a &quot;best way&quot; to typeset something &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; subjective, since &quot;best&quot; for me is different from &quot;best&quot; for someone else, in my opinion. This goes for the actual code or the rendered output. The same goes for something that &quot;looks ugly&quot; as &lt;em&gt;beauty is in the eye of the be(er)holder&lt;/em&gt;. Therefore I typically associate such questions as being &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; - one of the suggested reasons for closure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lxfpf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would much rather see someone show something &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; consider &quot;ugly&quot; and then also show what they've done to suggest a &quot;more beautiful&quot; presentation as opposed to purely making a &quot;this looks ugly; make it look better&quot; request. That may point solutions into a specific direction and be more focussed and perhaps factual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T12:36:30.213" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-15T06:14:13.837" Score="37" ViewCount="1527" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, this is exactly one year, when I firstly met this tex.sx.com. I found out that this is very interesting phenomenon from (web)-technical, TeXnical, social and psychological points of view. There are many very nice questions and answers here. Moreover, a group of very hyperactive users is here and I should ask them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do your activities at TeX.SE steal too much time from your real life?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Do you feel that you are absorbed by this site and your normal activities are faded?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Do you spend too much time in front of your computer monitor with TeX.SE open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally must answer: &quot;I do&quot; for all these questions. So, I decided today: &lt;strong&gt;to stop with my activities here&lt;/strong&gt;. This is my last post (except short comments, maybe). Compare, that I was not such hyperactive as other users. I selected only interesting questions where the beauty of TeX and of ideas can be shown. I didn't deal with questions where questioners are drown in the useless LaTeX complexity nor very simple questions with straightforward answers: &quot;read the manual&quot; or &quot;read the log file carefully&quot; or &quot;your misunderstanding is due to the different TeX and LaTeX terminology&quot; or, finally &quot;do it yourself, this site isn't a code generator&quot;. Such type of&#xA;questions are about 90 percent here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be better for me to stop my activities here because (for example) I&#xA;really don't want to dispute with @egreg (one of hyperactive users) again and again.&#xA;I hope I leaved the clear trace in my answers here with the messages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is not only LaTeX, don't forget the existence of TeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The solution using straightforward TeX tools are more elegant and more &#xA;simple and compact (but this was rarely understood and upvoted because &#xA;users don't know TeX, unfortunately).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It will surely pay to know TeX language firstly. The higher level&#xA;languages have a potential dangerous bend: they hide the TeX from your&#xA;thinking and TeX will repay you (for example) with the messages of the&#xA;type &quot;&lt;code&gt;missing \endcsname inserted&lt;/code&gt;&quot; which you cannot understand if you&#xA;avoid basic TeX principles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More and more complicated higher level layers do problem less and less&#xA;traceable (using &lt;code&gt;\tracingall&lt;/code&gt;, for example).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX was born as a template only (modular template: article, book,&#xA;report) for users-authors. It was supposed that a TeX-specialist is ready&#xA;to help users-authors during filling the template. But if an user-author&#xA;needs to do more (to program the document, to control the design) he/she &#xA;must to understand the TeX language first. LaTeX level only is not good &#xA;choice for this. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very bad practice is the blending of layers (mixing &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt; for example). The user is lost in the Babylon of languages. But the first language in the TeX word is only one: language of TeX primitives.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer explaining how TeX works is more valuable than the answer of&#xA;the type &quot;use this package and don't think how this is done&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good &lt;code&gt;\bye&lt;/code&gt;, tex.sx.com. If somebody needs to contact me, please use my email, no this forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: My decision to leave this site is not due to my opinion discrepancy&#xA;with LaTeX masses here but simply it is my personal failure: I feel that the&#xA;concept of this site drags me into a &quot;sx.com addiction&quot; and I want to&#xA;break this. This is the reason of my questions in this post. IMHO the sx.com concept can be very interesting subject for psychologists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastEditorUserId="51799" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T19:39:17.810" LastActivityDate="2021-09-09T15:47:44.600" Title="A risk when using tex.sx.com" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="28" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-16T13:59:59.713" Score="6" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I found a question dealing with the problem I was having and ended up using the solution proposed in the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I then re-wrote the code from scratch and “solved” the problem in a different way. Now, I am considering about posting my solution in order to get some feedback about my code, mainly about “brittleness” and best practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to post my code as an answer, should I expect that kind of feedback?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me know if I have to be more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prompted by @percusse's comment, here is the question I was referring to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/81809/work-breakdown-structure-wbs-tikz&quot;&gt;Work breakdown structure (WBS) TikZ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43473" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T03:06:03.557" Title="Should I post an answer to have some kind of feedback to my code?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6148" CreationDate="2015-05-16T17:11:30.000" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't your activities at tex.sx.com steal too much time from your real life? Don't you feel that you are absorbed by this site and your normal activities are faded? Don't you sit before the computer monitor with tex.sx.com too much time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trending in the direction of becoming more active. Nowhere near the most active users in terms of answers or questions, who usually help me rather than I being able to help them. But I am more active however than the average user, apparently. So perhaps my answer is worth something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use the site in three ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Randomly browsing periodically (as when I check the news) to improve my TeX usage. I hope to learn more elegant or productive ways to do whatever typsetting I'm already doing. For I am not an expert at it. Yes, I have taught TeX to grad students. But that's not because I'm any expert. Rather, whenever nobody else could be found to lecture on it...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Writing a paper with notation or figures easy to produce by hand but not so easy to typeset. Typesetting the handwritten article, to submit for publication, I tend to post a question. Maybe I'm making a presentation. Well, high chance there's another question in there. Also having to do with figures. I started out with questions about complicated commutative diagrams.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also answer questions, partly to clarify my own thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't cost too much of my time, I think. Measuring the results in terms of whether it ultimately saves me time when it comes to notes or publications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36667" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T21:09:21.577" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T21:09:21.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6148" CreationDate="2015-05-16T21:33:48.317" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll paraphrase the questions in a somewhat modified form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do your activities at TeX.SE steal too much time from your real life?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Do you feel that you are absorbed by this site and your normal activities are faded?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Do you spend too much time in front of your computer monitor with TeX.SE open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer to all three of these questions is a resounding &quot;Maybe...?&quot; It's because I have other things to do and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1867/5764&quot;&gt;sometimes need a break&lt;/a&gt;. So, I disappear for a while, perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/385/5764&quot;&gt;performing more janitorial and administrative stuff&lt;/a&gt; on the main and meta site rather than answer questions. While the site is driven by a Q&amp;amp;A style interface, it still requires some housekeeping...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined this because I had a question, and it was also my first &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/40/tumbleweed&quot;&gt;Tumbleweed&lt;/a&gt;... What I learned over the years is that you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; consider this community just like you would those that you regularly hang out with at the bar or restaurant. They're very similar in many ways. Some you see all the time, while others come and go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately you're dealing with people here, and people have emotions and feelings and the Internet. If you don't like it here, take a break. If you enjoy it, stay a while. If you love it, participate and &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. If you hate it, go and do good somewhere else. We don't expect &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/121595/168244&quot;&gt;a heartfelt thank you or departure&lt;/a&gt; with every user, just that you contribute to or learn from the body of knowledge that exists here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've been around for exactly one year. The site has been around for about 4 years, and many things have changed over this period. You're still very new in terms of the site's existence, in my opinion. If, for whatever reason, your &lt;code&gt;\bye&lt;/code&gt; turns into a new &lt;code&gt;\begin&lt;/code&gt;ning some time down the road, brush off the dust, accept that you're part of a community (again) and move on. The intent here is to be scientific in nature (mostly unbiased) and factual. If that's not the case, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds in the rough&lt;/a&gt; can be notified to sort things out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T21:33:48.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6148" CreationDate="2015-05-17T20:44:12.397" Score="25" Body="&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, Petr. I am Paulo. You probably saw a wacky duck avatar hanging out in the site, that's me. I will try to answer your questions the best I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do your activities at TeX.SE steal too much time from your real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish I had a real life. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; Seriously though, I wouldn't say TeX.sx steals much of my time because it became part of my real life. Granted, we express ourselves in here through a virtual representation, but IMHO it doesn't make less real than making eye contact with other people; there is someone sit in front of a computer, somewhere in the world, expressing him/herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two jobs and study. At the end of the day, I'm tired and sometimes frustrated; life sometimes gives us lemons and, despite the fact we should make lemonade (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6iTwVIiMM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and not make life take the lemons back, as Cave Johnson suggests us&lt;/a&gt;), it is still sour nonetheless; places where I can vent, talk nonsense, be myself, laugh, have fun, are the missing sugar to make this proverbial lemonade taste somehow better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.sx is my sugar. I hang out here because it plays an important role in my life. Of course I have my other sources of sugar and sweeteners, but this one is particularly at the distance of my click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember when I first joined. TeX.sx was different from start, and I decided to hang out in the chatroom for a while. I am usually very talkative, I like to be friendly, I like to make new friends; all of a sudden, there was I spamming the chatroom with random sentences, as we say in Portuguese, to break the ice (messages along the lines of &quot;Oh, it's cold here!&quot; and &quot;I like ice cream.&quot; and &quot;Do you guys enjoy soccer?&quot;). And the community was there for me. I know, for example, that Joseph Wright and Christian Hupfer are Monty Python fans, egreg doesn't like Chopin, percusse is a very skillful drummer, and David Carlisle is a heavy vim user in disguise. This information is surely not related in any way to TeX and friends, but it make us feel welcomed. That's why I wouldn't say TeX.sx steals time from me, it deservedly earned this time. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; They are not TeX users for me, they are my friends. And surely you are one of them too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you feel that you are absorbed by this site and your normal activities are faded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be completely honest, I don't feel I'm &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; absorbed, mostly because I am not good with TeX at all neither with janitorial work. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; So, besides of being a chatroom regular, there isn't too much for me to proactively contribute to the main site, apart from voting and eventually flagging something that deserves moderation attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I even miss questions that are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arara&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arara&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arara&lt;/a&gt;! I believe I somehow have the moral obligation of at least posting comments to them, since I am the author of such contraption and the one to blame in case of fire. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; This silly example probably illustrates how much of an abstracted person I am. What I do on a daily basis, almost religiously, is to use all my 40 votes; I think I am the top voter of the entire StackExchange universe for a reason. I have two downvotes so far, so I think I am more inclined to provide positive feedback and be supportive. Again, it's probably my nature, I like being friendly. Internet is already a heinous place, full of hate and aggressiveness, so I'm trying my best to encourage the good in people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you spend too much time in front of your computer monitor with TeX.SE open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My browser is opened almost all the time I am using the computer, and of the default tabs point to the TeX.sx chatroom. Once in a while, I take a look at the main site, and that is it. Sometimes, someone in the chatroom mentions a main/meta site activity, so I go there and take some action, if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will surely miss you. I wish someday I could understand the bowels of TeX as much as you do; your answers are fantastic (my research currently involves macroinstructions and I learned a lot from your code), and I really want to thank you for your invaluable contribution to this site and TeX in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want your message to sound like a &lt;em&gt;goodbye&lt;/em&gt;. How about &lt;em&gt;see you soon&lt;/em&gt;? At least, consider the possibility of hanging out a little in the chatroom, it would be great for us to say hi to you once in a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you, pal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T20:44:12.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6148" CreationDate="2015-05-18T08:26:52.713" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who was very active for a while (and at one point even tried to keep up with David Carlisle's rep) and then weaned my self off TeX.SE, I can relate a bit to how you feel and thought I should contribute to this thread. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do your activities at TeX.SE steal too much time from your real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never felt it &lt;em&gt;stole&lt;/em&gt; any of my time. Yes, it took up quite a bit of time (at still does sometimes), but it was (and still is) a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of fun for me. I learned a lot, and by participating here I learned the &lt;em&gt;hacking&lt;/em&gt; that I needed to start my project. I have received so much help here and for that I am so grateful.  I think you even answered a few of my questions.  Even though I probably did not use your plain TeX answers (more on that later), I am pretty sure I tested it and upvoted it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you feel that you are absorbed by this site and your normal activities are faded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absorbed? Yes? But then, the activities here are part of my &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; activities so I don't see a problem with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you spend too much time in front of your computer monitor with TeX.SE open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. But, it isn't too difficult to step away for a while and come back when I need to look something up, need a break from my work, or need to procrastinate as I have to do stuff that I don't enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The solution using straightforward TeX tools are more elegant and more simple and compact (but this was rarely understood and upvoted because users don't know TeX, unfortunately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this point, I have admit I am guilty. Many of the plain TeX and &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; solutions are just beyond me (not to mention expansion issues). I don't understand fully how they work and prefer to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to use them, even if they are more elegant and more efficient. The reason being is that if I don't understand it, it will be difficult for me to modify it, should I need to later at some point. Now, partly because of this, I am suffering form a very lengthy time to do a complete build. I really do wish I could better understand plain TeX and had the time to rewrite all my base code, but unfortunately that never really happens. I am slowly tweaking things and improving compile times when I can, but also do need to keep my project moving forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer explaining how TeX works is more valuable than the answer of the type &quot;use this package and don't think how this is done&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Totally agree. I spend quite a bit of time reading and rereading those answers, especially when I get stuck. But, at the end of the day, if a package does the job for me I'd prefer to use it as it is less work for me. If the package comes around much after I already have my solution working then I'll just leave my code as is until I run into a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One things that I would like to add is that to keep in mind that not everyone on this site is here for the same purpose. There are other uses for TeX/LaTeX other than just publishing a paper or writing a thesis.  I try very hard to make my questions generic, but sometimes it is difficult and they come across as bizarre. Two examples I can think of are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/165258/how-to-ignore-everything-in-the-document-environment&quot;&gt;How to ignore everything in the document environment?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52142/remove-page-number-from-index-entries&quot;&gt;Remove page number from index entries&lt;/a&gt;. All my questions have been actual problems that I needed to solve and really don't know how I would have been able to solve them without help from people like you. I am sure that there probably are many other people you have helped that you are not aware of.  If others disagree with you, I think that's ok as they are looking at it from a different point of view.  That shouldn't be taken as a negative thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In closing, if you need a break, take a break. If you find that at some point you are not having fun here, spend less time here. If you feel like contributing then do so. If not, we'll just have one less person here who actually knows TeX and that is a loss for the community, but you should do what is right for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T08:26:52.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6149" CreationDate="2015-05-19T03:06:03.557" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To start, remember that all questions should strive to be answerable and not matters of opinion (even though I sometimes love to offer mine). My basic rules of thumb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it answers the question, it belongs in the answers section.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're asking a question, ask a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two maxims are not mutually exclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the comments, I don't believe it's &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; inappropriate.  Take for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/244063/17423&quot;&gt;my question/answer on an application of coffins&lt;/a&gt;: The question was interesting and the answer was useful, so it received attention (and a bit of helpful criticism).  I wouldn't &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; constructive criticism for a self-answer, but I would expect the same level of moderation and community education that I see with normal answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I have also seen code posted here asking for review (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code-review&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154139/17423&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/204376/17423&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; in particular).  It's not unprecedented, but it has its philosophical drawbacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code-review&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;inherently&lt;/em&gt; opinion-based.  I don't mean to say we don't have many wonderfully opinionated resources on our site, but I do think we should take caution in what we allow as a rule.  Comments are a fine place for short discussion.  If you'd like a longer chat about it (and can find someone willing to make the time investment), post-spawned chatrooms are a good resource offered by the platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing more &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;code-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code-review&lt;/a&gt; on the site.  It's another way we can learn from each other – arguably more meaningful for the individual than the direct 'solve the problem' approach.  Even in this case, the wider community benefits from having more questions answered.  Still, exactly how this is approached might not be the best fit for the SE format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the confines of this platform, I would say asking a general question and posting a working self-answer (asking for criticism near the top) is the best course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T03:06:03.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6159" CreationDate="2015-05-19T04:37:59.207" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may have misinterpreted the purpose of the &lt;code&gt;close question status&lt;/code&gt;, so I welcome all comments about consequences that I haven't considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context:&lt;/strong&gt;  As a &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; user with limited experience, I am not able to contribute to a vast variety of questions... yet.  To maximize my chances, I like to use the sites features to sort questions e.g. &quot;newest&quot; AND &quot;unanswered&quot; AND a only those with a specific tag.  I am sure this is exactly the reason why these filters are available.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem:&lt;/strong&gt;  I constantly stumble across questions that have no answer, but the conversation evident in the comments clearly demonstrate a resolution satisfactory to the user.  There may not be an answer to accept or to upvote, and frequently, even if there is an answer, the user may have obtained their answer and left, never to accept the posted answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt;  Shouldn't these questions be voted to closed to prevent long lists of &quot;unanswered&quot; questions from wasting everyone else's time as we go searching for ways to be of help?  A closed question seems no less discoverable by an external search engine as people are troubleshooting their problems, so whats the point of leaving these questions open?  Is there a demerit to the reputation of anyone contributing (past, present, or future) to the question that then becomes closed?  Since this site provides such great recognition tools in the review menu to draw attention to the flagged post, cleanup in identifying for the purpose of closing these questions could be left to the people this really bothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Similar question allready on meta:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3640/how-to-end-the-unanswered-status-of-really-solved-questions-in-the-comments&quot;&gt;How to end the &amp;quot;unanswered&amp;quot; status of really solved questions in the comments&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;My question is more to figure out what the consequences are that prevent people from voting to close and keep a tidier site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69378" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T22:26:04.510" Title="Should a question that is answered in a comment be voted on to be closed?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6158" CreationDate="2015-05-19T19:58:29.857" Score="28" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes recommend non-TeX solutions to questions here.  For example, &lt;code&gt;pdftk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;pdfcrop&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;imagemagick&lt;/code&gt; are tools I've recommended.  My standard has been that I'll only recommend the non-TeX tool if I think it is better suited to the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes though I wonder if my recommendations are welcome in a group specifically focused on TeX.  There are many shades of gray.  For example, I doubt anyone here wants to know how to achieve an effect in MSWord.  However, if someone tags their question with &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;, is it appropriate to give an answer using &lt;code&gt;asymptote&lt;/code&gt;?  Does it change your opinion if the &lt;code&gt;asymptote&lt;/code&gt; solution is easier than the &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; solution? (I know that's subjective.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70641" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T21:05:18.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T21:05:18.270" Title="Are answers recommending non-TeX solutions welcome?" Tags="|discussion|answers|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6157" CreationDate="2015-05-19T20:05:17.217" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Solutions using alternative tools which fall within the 'TeX sphere' are entirely appropriate and have always been welcome. Obvious examples are that plain or ConTeXt solutions to LaTeX problems are often possible, or that picture mode, MetaPost, ... answers to TikZ question are often illustrative. For that to work, of course, there needs to be some care in how such answers are posted. In particular, they ideally will 'flag up' the difference of method and be written in a 'positive' way ('This is how I would achieve the effect using tool X ....').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T20:05:17.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6156" CreationDate="2015-05-19T22:26:04.510" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are different types of questions answered in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The perhaps most common ones are those where the issue is a package or distribution version problem or a simple input error (mistyped or inexistent command), which are solved with a software update or by fixing the input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, such questions should be closed as off-topic, because they aren't likely to help future readers. Maybe the “version problem” issues need a closer look, because a few cases are somewhat subtler than just “update your TeX distribution“: however, these will quite certainly already have a full answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case the issue requires some more than updating or fixing a typing mistake, the best policy is to prompt one of the commenters to provide an answer. Such questions will show up during the monthly “Answer the unanswered” session, so either the commenter is prompted again or a CW answer can be written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that sometimes the solution in comments is recognized by the OP without pinging the relevant commenter or the ping hasn't been acknowledged. Pinging again is the best strategy.&#xA;Sometimes the OP doesn't even add a comment, but a reader thinks the question should be answered anyway: pinging is the right way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T22:26:04.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6148" CreationDate="2015-05-20T04:24:11.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tex.sx.com is where I come when I get stuck---which is often---but I have asked only very few questions and I have never proposed an answer. (And this is my first, accidental, time on META.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I once bought a book on TeX which, unfortunately I still have to study but the little I read convinced me that Wipet is right: Truly to understand LaTeX, you need first to understand TeX. (But it is so easy &quot;just&quot; to LaTeX it!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All of this to say that I would urge both those who might have been a bit unfriendly and wipet to be a bit more ... &lt;em&gt;indifferent&lt;/em&gt; because, when somebody competent leaves, everybody loses. Obviously those who, like me, survive by scavenging existing answers, but also those who, directly or indirectly, caused someone to leave, and even the one who left. (I have been there and I know.) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15042" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T04:24:11.563" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6162" CreationDate="2015-05-20T11:45:13.760" Score="12" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer of mine received one vote to delete (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/245815/if-statement-inside-of-asymptote-function/245821#245821&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;If&amp;quot; statement inside of Asymptote function&lt;/a&gt;), but I think it is a good answer and it was accepted by the OP.  I would maybe learn something if I knew why I got that deletion vote.  Is there, or should there be, a way to see who voted to delete?  Should a comment be required with a delete vote so that the poster can learn from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70641" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T21:28:01.903" Title="Should a Vote to Delete Require a Comment" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6161" CreationDate="2015-05-20T12:08:07.613" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system auto-flags the answers if there is very little text but a lot of markup content (in your case code blocks) and it gets slightly more paranoid if the rep score of the user is not-that-high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should usually be ignored in the cases like your answer, however, because our reviewers stopped reading questions and answers and started to vote randomly, you get stuff like that. Sometimes people genuinely voted for deletion because they don't have enough coffee. So it's a mess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also examples of people voting &lt;em&gt;Looks OK&lt;/em&gt; to spam more than once. And yes we can see who voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wouldn't worry too much about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T21:28:01.903" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T21:28:01.903" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-20T13:18:15.967" Score="10" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been noticing (or may be it's just a feeling?) that many of TeX and friends contributors/enthusiasts are Europeans rather than North Americans despite that fact that the fathers of TeX and LaTeX are from the US. Am I right on this? If so, is this a general trend in the open source/free culture movement? Does it reflect a more socialist inclined societies? What are you opinions on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73830" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T21:02:20.380" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T12:11:51.983" Title="TeX &amp; Friends Demographics" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6165" CreationDate="2015-05-21T01:20:41.440" Score="5" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;@WilliamDeMeo closed his own question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/246121/22413&quot;&gt;translating mark up into LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; because it was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/236439/22413&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt;.  But it seems to me that because of the way he phrased the question and titled it, it would help others searching for similar material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is how to send a notice to the OP that perhaps he should &lt;em&gt;undelete&lt;/em&gt; his question?  (Obviously the way I wrote this, the OP in this case will be notified.  But it seems we shouldn't have to post to META or publicly a request to the OP.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22413" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T07:49:23.107" Title="Is there a way to message a user on this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6164" CreationDate="2015-05-21T07:49:23.107" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is quite deliberately no mechanism for direct messaging to other users. The StackExchange model is based around the idea that questions should have some general usefulness, rather than being just applicable to one person/use case. As part of that, the design of the back-end does not allow direct communication, other than public comments/chat messages. [Aside: moderators can directly contact users, but that is for serious issues only.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the specifics of deleting material, it is possible for other users to vote to undelete someone's question. However, most of the time it seems only reasonable that people can delete their own questions if there have been no answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T07:49:23.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6148" CreationDate="2015-05-21T09:05:49.240" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole Stackexchange concept is an evil genius. &amp;lt;-Period. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting reputation, getting badges, getting access to more tools for contributing ... This is online gaming addiction, the knowlege edition. Stepping back every once in a while seems to be a good idea. Having a &lt;code&gt;fanatic&lt;/code&gt; badge, not so much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To level up, you need a strategy, as noted on some help page here. Having a strategy means a need for efficiency and this is where the system tumbles over. A call for facts and clarification, where a slow approach would be more suitable for the user. The system does not allow the slow approach. I somehow feel like answering a completely different question. Somehow, this is not even an answer, but a pretty long comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see you around every once in a while, if you decide otherwise i wish you all the best. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T09:05:49.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-21T23:48:05.210" Score="11" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past I asked questions on SE sites with as much brevity as I could. I did not want to distract readers from my actual question. But this often led to answers and comments along the lines of &quot;why would you want to do this?&quot; or &quot;you shouldn't be trying to do this; here is what you should do instead&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I started offering background, to deter these kinds of responses. I'm trying to communicate that &quot;yes, I do have a good reason for wanting to do this, and even if you think I'm asking the wrong question, there are complications that make my question necessary all the same&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did that with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/246293/getting-superscripts-in-math-mode-without-the-character?noredirect=1#comment585664_246293&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and asked a LaTeX question that mentioned MathJax. Within an hour enough closure votes came in to put the question on hold, presumably because the users view MathJax as off-topic. But I feel like these voters weren't really reading the question. They were just distracted by the &lt;em&gt;mention&lt;/em&gt; of MathJax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is the culture here that we should just ask minimalistic questions? Had I simply asked &quot;Can I get superscript behavior in math mode without using &lt;code&gt;^&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; and left it at that, without mention of MathJax, would that be preferable? (And it may be that this cultural question has different answers at different SE sites.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8775" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T01:33:42.003" Title="Should questions be to the point or provide context?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6167" CreationDate="2015-05-22T01:18:21.250" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should questions be to the point or provide context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say, &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt;. I have struggled with this point now and in the past. It is an art (to me, at least) to provide enough background that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;potential X-Y problems&lt;/a&gt; are avoided, but not provide too much information that it confuses the objective or makes the question &quot;too localized&quot; and not of much benefit to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use a sometimes overused Einstein saying: &lt;em&gt;Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.&lt;/em&gt; In your particular case, leaving out MathJax is too simple, because the answer you were given does not work out-of-the-box with MathJax. This was already pointed out in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a successful answer to your question requires knowledge that you're seeking a solution for MathJax, I would argue that adding that information is necessary in this case. Also, the fact that special treatment is required for MathJax makes it off-topic in that form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I still think your question (and the current answer) could be useful if limited to (La)TeX usage only, leaving MathJax out of the picture. I searched around and saw &lt;code&gt;\sb&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\sp&lt;/code&gt; used in several places but not as direct answers to a pointed question similar to yours. Your question is already close to being reopened, but I think it's a better fit for the site without MathJax in play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this leaves you without an answer to your real question. To that point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As also mentioned in the comments, you may be able to define similar behavior with MathJax, but the success of these workarounds depends on the details of how &lt;code&gt;^&lt;/code&gt; is used as a control character in your institution's automated process. All of these things are off-topic for TeX Stack Exchange, but you may be able to find answers elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T01:31:19.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-22T01:31:31.360" Score="9" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just want to preface this by saying I understand and agree with the importance of including a MWE, but I am curious about the best information to supplement a question with when a MWE would only contain the class document environment initialization.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am getting ready to prepare a few investigative questions where I have a route in mind, but it's truly hacking my way through a package that I have gotten to know reasonably well, but it's probable there may be a more efficient alternative already.  Unfortunately these preexisting alternatives can be difficult to find because they weren't developed for this particular context and keywords won't match up with accurate results.  Given that the TeX community is one of the best you'll find anywhere, theres a good chance I could benefit from someone else's experience.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see plenty of really short questions asking &quot;is this possible&quot;, &quot;how can I do this&quot;, and &quot;what package do will do this?&quot;.  But would like to know how I can (in general):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;improve (broaden) the question (if necessary) so that it's helpful to many.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;maximize my chances of a user recognizing my 'obscure' request because of an alternate or general procedure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;avoid appearing like a parasite asking &quot;please do this for me&quot; - so far from my experience I don't think my long questions are helpful as I try and propose my considered approaches and/or providing a complete review of my possibilities but I am torn between proving I have put in an effort or keeping the question brief.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide adequate information to satisfy the site's policies in the absence of a MWE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69378" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T01:31:31.360" Title="Best information to include when a MWE isn't 'possible'" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|etiquette|policy|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6172" CreationDate="2015-05-24T05:32:17.583" Score="16" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are numerous examples of questions on TeX.SX and SX sites where the OP has asked a question, some one has provided at least one complete solution but the OP has not accepted any of the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Is it possible for a moderator to accept an answer for the OP in such cases?&lt;/em&gt; Alternatively, should it possible for the community to vote that a particular answer to a question be marked as correct when the question is &quot;abandoned&quot; by the OP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is motivated by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244645/i-try-to-draw-the-figure-by-using-tikz-but-cant&quot;&gt;#244645&lt;/a&gt;, which is exactly of this type. People are currently voting to close this question on the basis of the question being &quot;too broad&quot;, and hence implicitly unanswerable. This is wrong, however, because the question is easy to answer and some has done exactly this. The &quot;correct&quot; thing to do would be to give the person who answered the question (in this case Harish Kumar), credit for what they have done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30471" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T16:59:57.240" Title="Is it possible for moderators to accept an answer?" Tags="|feature-request|voting|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6171" CreationDate="2015-05-24T05:39:07.847" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Accepting an answer is purely the decision of the person asking the question, and does not have to reflect what others feel is the 'best' answer. It simply is a way of saying that it is the answer which helped the person asking the question the most. Of course, this can mean that a question with a good answer never gets an accepted answer: that is 'status bydesign' for the 'back end' of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T05:39:07.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6174" CreationDate="2015-05-24T14:29:56.780" Score="28" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am asking this purely out of curiosity: Why is there a specific Stack Exchange for TeX? There is no HTML.SE, Python.SE, Java.SE, etc. It appears to me that all other programming languages (and scripting languages or whatever you call them) are covered by Stack Overflow. While TeX is definitely quite unique among programming languages and has a somewhat different user base, I am sure that argument would work for some other languages, too. Furthermore, other languages exist with purposes similar to that of TeX. &lt;strong&gt;So why did TeX get its own Stack Exchange?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T19:06:42.677" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T19:06:42.677" Title="Why does TeX.SE exist?" Tags="|discussion|scope|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6173" CreationDate="2015-05-24T15:11:27.837" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;To understand why TeX-sx exists we need to think about the overall network aims and how sites inter-relate. I think to do that we first need a little history. The 'main site' (StackOverflow, 'SO') is about programming in general. The first sites that were created in parallel to SO (SuperUser and ServerFault, SU and SF, respectively) both have distinct audiences from SO. Whilst there is undoubtedly some programming in for example running a server, the core expertise is not the same (though the same &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; may be active on both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the 'Powers' decided to allow more StackExchange sites as part of a network, they were looking for areas that have a distinct identity and which don't directly overlap with one another. In the case of TeX-sx, there is some programming going on but also a lot of other stuff. A lot of using TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; is not about programming in the way someone on SO would understand it. Rather, we get questions about typography, document design, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; as well as some about TeX programming. Even within the latter category, TeX programming is rather different to many other languages and it's hard to see a large degree of overlap with many (most?) regular users on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line for the existence of any site on the network is having a distinct identity where the subject doesn't form a subset of the coverage of a larger site. Over the existence of TeX-sx we have I think found that our scope is different from SO, that many good questions here would be closed there, and that this site is therefore adding to the 'public good' (or however the Powers describe it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that SO does have tags for TeX, LaTeX and BibTeX and that they do have some question on them. However, they need to be pretty tightly about programming to be on-topic for SO. For example, something like adjusting the formatting of a TOC would be on-topic for us but I think off-topic for SO as it's not really a programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would note here that there have been issues with establishing what one might call 'programming-related' sites on the network as there has been a lot of tension about the degree to which they might be viewed as a subset of SO. The Programmers site, for example, deals with what one might view as 'conceptual' ideas about being a programmer, and so is regarded as distinct from SO, but there are borderline questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T15:11:27.837" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-26T00:57:12.183" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see the following question re-opened, which I just came across:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/245572/8747&quot;&gt;Automating extraction of Markdown-formatted tables from an (incomplete) LaTeX document&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been closed for the reason: &lt;em&gt;&quot;too broad [...] too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After having seen the same user posting in the Pandoc discussion forum in Google Groups, I now know how to answer his question perfectly well, and the gist of it will be very short: I'll use a pipeline of Pandoc and &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; commands to achieve the desired output. The answer fits into a single Tweet, I promise! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I've also tried to improve the wording of the question text and headline -- but it needs to go through review first...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8747" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T06:08:36.933" Title="Please re-open &quot;Automating Presentation of Markdown Pandoc Tables&quot; -- I know a short, working answer!" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6176" CreationDate="2015-05-26T06:08:36.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your request is granted: the question is open :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T06:08:36.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-26T18:29:18.233" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am running into problems with spacing and figures in my master's thesis. I would like to post it here to see if someone has a solution but I can't seem to get a MWE. The problem is that the template is provided by the school. The spacing issue works fine if I write a new Latex document so I have a feeling it has something to do with the template (ie, the package may be in 'clash' with another package from the template). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would I go about asking a question here when the MWE is too complicated to provide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="776" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T18:29:18.233" Title="How do I provide a MWE with a template?" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6173" CreationDate="2015-05-26T19:05:56.080" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; followed the regular &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;Area 51 proposal process&lt;/a&gt; to get where it's at today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Area 51 FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How do I start a new site?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your area of expertise doesn't already have a Stack Exchange site, propose it! Stack Exchange sites are free to create and free to use. All we ask is that you have an enthusiastic, committed group of &lt;em&gt;expert&lt;/em&gt; users who check in regularly, asking and answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The creation of Stack Exchange sites is a community-driven process. That does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; mean the majority of Area 51 users have to love your site idea. It simply means you have to recruit a community of users large enough so that questions get good answers quickly. Reach out to other experts to build support for your site; bloggers, enthusiasts, and support groups can all benefit from a world-class, canonical collection of expert answers to the hardest questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the proposal wasn't going to work, it would have been stopped during this proposal process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following may also have been a consideration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Should my idea be part of an existing site, or its own site?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if a site makes sense as part of a bigger site, it's better to have one big site than a bunch of little niche sites. Site X should be subsumed by site Y if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Almost all X questions are on-topic for site Y&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Y already exists, it already has a tag for X, and nobody is complaining&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're not creating such a big group that you don't have enough experts to answer all possible questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a high probability that users of site Y would enjoy seeing the occasional question about X&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, read the post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/merging-season/&quot;&gt;Merging Season&lt;/a&gt; on the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While some of the above suggestions might be true, not all of them are. As such, there may have been enough incentive to break free. Our scope is also somewhat broader than purely programming. That's supported by the fact that TeX - LaTeX performed really well during the three-step graduation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yM1E7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It showed there was enough interest to break free from the catch-all programming of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, suggestions like Python.SE, Java.SE, HTML.SE would not fit based on the following criteria: &amp;quot;In general, if a site makes sense as part of a bigger site, it's better to have one big site than a bunch of little niche sites.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T19:05:56.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6182" CreationDate="2015-05-28T17:01:25.913" Score="21" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;in werner's thorough answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6179/579&quot;&gt;Why does TeX.SE exist?&lt;/a&gt;, the summary of results accepting tex.sx after the area 51 beta states that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come from search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;okay, a noble goal.  but when it results in questions like this one, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/247354/579&quot;&gt;Why the the format look like this?&lt;/a&gt;, the only reaction is serious frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there's no way to reliably get back to the op to get more (necessary!) information, and if that isn't provided, this is going to end up as an unanswered, closed question, which doesn't do our statistics any good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i've just revisited the &quot;tour&quot; page, and i think it's a pretty good introduction.  but when i searched for two words on the page, &quot;detail&quot; (three instances) and &quot;example&quot; (not there at all), i could see that maybe newbies aren't getting all the guidance that's needed.  maybe something could be added about providing a &quot;mwe&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;not sure who'd be responsible for making such an update, or indeed that this is what a newbie coming from google actually sees.  (never mind that it might not be read, even if seen.)  but if we don't say what information we need in order to give a good answer, then everybody loses, and we've only ourselves to blame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how can we fix this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T09:05:50.790" Title="how to &quot;extract&quot; a good question from someone coming from a google search?" Tags="|discussion|mwe|tour|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6181" CreationDate="2015-05-29T06:18:55.283" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing to remember here is that the site exists to help people use TeX. In the end, provided that happens other factors (such as stats) are not so important. At the same time, of course, we want to make it as easy as possible for people to find the information they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the StackExchange model for a site, the idea is that good questions should be kept open and answered whilst poorer ones are closed but can be edited and improved. There is a question of timing: whether it is better to leave poorer questions open pending edits (as we've tended to do) or to close and await edits before reopening (as on the main StackOverflow site). However, in either case the situation is you need the original poster to clarify the question in order to improve it, or you need someone to take a guess as to what they mean. The latter is obviously more risky in terms of helping the OP but may make the question more useful to more people! What is certainly true is that while we can ask the OP for more detail, there is nothing we can do if they ignore such a request other than possibly close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's notable here is that closing questions isn't supposed to be a 'negative' outcome (in terms of site stats). What it's supposed to do is mean that &lt;em&gt;open&lt;/em&gt; questions are &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question, whether or not they are answered, and it's these open questions that hopefully should be searchable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's worth noting here that the classic difficult-to-search question type is the 'How do I draw X?'. These very often don't have any text giving away the nature of the diagram required, and are often very focussed on the needs of the OP (lacking generality). However, we've tended to tolerate such questions, partly as answers are often possible and partly as there is an assumption that we first want to help the OP, and only then worry about the wider audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of what we can do to help users ask 'better' questions, we are somewhat limited. The mods can edit some parts of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; page but not all of it (we can edit the intro and what to ask/not to ask). The way the Tour page is set up it does not feel to me as if detailed 'How to ask a question' ideas belong there: I'm struggling to see where 'Consider adding a MWE' would fit in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can also edit the first part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;' What topics can I ask about here? '&lt;/a&gt;. You'll see that in the latter there is already a line about providing a code example if possible. What it doesn't say is that one is &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt;: there was a suggestion from the Powers that we might want a custom close reason saying more-or-less 'Off topic as there is no MWE' but that seemed far too prescriptive. I'm sure we all appreciate that there are some excellent questions with no code in them at all. Moreover, I'm pretty doubtful that most people sit and study these help pages before asking questions. My usual impression (certainly my own experience on other StackExchange sites) is that you (hopefully) do a quick search for what you want, and failing to find it post what you think makes sense and hope for the best!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T09:05:50.790" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-31T11:42:11.203" Score="4" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often I'd like to compile code from tex.stackexchange or other sites to my machine and play around a bit with it. There are so many great answers here; there is so much great code in stack overflow, emacs beta, askubuntu and so on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But copying code from the website isn't really supported, at least it could be easier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get a new menu item &quot;in&quot; the &quot;right-click-menu&quot;: if the mouse points to a code area, the right-click-menu offers &quot;copy this code&quot; ?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T18:41:21.287" Title="Feature request: Better support for copying code from question or answers" Tags="|feature-request|code-example|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6183" CreationDate="2015-05-31T20:37:51.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, thanks to the comment of Werner, I read the discussion about missing support for copying. There were unnamed security concerns. Thinking about it and not being an IT guy, a function to copy code (which is not LaTeX) to a readers clipboard doesn't sound like a horrible threat, but however, you can obviously do something evil with it, especially if the code copied isn't the code which is displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the link provided by percusse I copied the script behind the link, installed the greasemonkey addon to firefox, imported the script there and now can copy without scrolling. But I limited it to tex.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And I thought I had a good idea. Sigh. Once in a lifetime.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="4736" LastEditDate="2015-05-31T20:43:30.597" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T20:43:30.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2475" CreationDate="2015-06-01T09:13:04.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Select code&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To copy code to the clipboard, one has to select it, which is especially cumbersome if one has to scroll up or down while selecting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6183/4736&quot; title=&quot;found&quot;&gt;&quot;found&quot;&lt;/a&gt; a usefull script on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/questions&lt;/a&gt; , which exactly provides a &quot;Select&quot; button, if the mouse is on a code field: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2553/select-code-block-buttons-script&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/questions/2553/select-code-block-buttons-script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the use within Firefox, one has to install the Greasemonkey addon and to import the script there as an userscript. For security concerns (a script that copies &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; code to the clipboard seems risky), I restricted the script to tex.stackexchange.com/* .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning: Installing makes procrastination of your work even easier.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:45.990" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T09:13:04.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6163" CreationDate="2015-06-02T20:53:25.990" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Base numbers: inhabitants of US and Canada: ca. 350 mn, Europe: more than 700 mn people. Occam's razor: forget about socialism in Europe being a reason for European inhabitants to use LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To say it in a more friendly manner: come to Europe and see it with your own eyes. Don't believe what people say who never have been here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T20:53:25.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6206" CreationDate="2015-06-04T02:55:01.633" Score="12" ViewCount="667" Body="&lt;p&gt;In tonight's review queue,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/156558/texmacs-does-not-interpret-commands&quot;&gt;texmacs does not interpret commands&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/195741/texmacs-page-header-alignment-and-page-numbering&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/195741/texmacs-page-header-alignment-and-page-numbering&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/226728/creating-hyperlinks-in-texmacs&quot;&gt;Creating hyperlinks in TeXmacs&lt;/a&gt;, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/175008/cannot-insert-image-in-texmacs&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/175008/cannot-insert-image-in-texmacs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all came up with several off-topic votes. The votes were for the generic reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not fall within the scope of TeX, LaTeX or related typesetting systems as defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, no custom reason was entered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know next to nothing about TeXmacs, but, at first glance, it seems quite similar to LyX. Questions about LyX are on-topic, per:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/432/first-faq-section-what-kind-of-questions-can-i-ask-here&quot;&gt;First FAQ section: What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2290/the-faq-list-of-topics&quot;&gt;The FAQ list of topics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center -&gt; Asking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texmacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texmacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texmacs&lt;/a&gt; tag, with some 11 questions. Some of these have been closed as off-topic, and others have stayed open and been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are questions about TeXmacs on-topic for TeX.sx?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T08:04:58.823" Title="Are questions about TeXmacs on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6191" CreationDate="2015-06-04T18:07:00.147" Score="15" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two solutions to the same problem have occurred to me within a few days. I tried to add the alternative solution, but the system suggested to edit my previous one. Should I add a new answer or edit a previous one in cases like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52679" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T19:55:13.183" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T19:55:13.183" Title="Should I add a new answer or edit a previous one" Tags="|discussion|answers|etiquette|questions|multiple-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6190" CreationDate="2015-06-04T19:53:58.713" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens occasionally, and the results have also been varied. In some cases, users provide multiple solutions in a single answer (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/54057/5764&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). In other instances, users may provide multiple answers, each of which provide a distinct solution approach (&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/322524/questions-with-multiple-answers-by-the-same-user&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;example query&lt;/a&gt;). The former scenario is more the norm in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question may request each answer to identify a separate instance/solution (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/782/5764&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). However, if there's no such requirement set out, it depends on the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system allows it, even though it provides a prompt when attempting to do so, so make sure it's not an addition to an existing answer and/or that it can be a &quot;stand-alone, distinct and valid response&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately the community has a say in whatever choice is made based on their voting behaviour. That is, if it's considered more of an edit to an existing answer rather than a separate answer, I'm sure community members will raise the question in comments (perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;), or via their voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/25209/168244&quot;&gt;What is the official etiquette on answering a question twice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/116426/168244&quot;&gt;Can a question be answered twice by the same person?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T19:53:58.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6192" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-04T19:56:57.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The process of adding &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/multiple-answers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;multiple-answers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;multiple-answers&lt;/a&gt; to a single question. These are stand-alone, distinct and valid responses to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T19:56:57.597" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T19:56:57.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6193" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-04T19:56:57.597" Score="0" Body="The process of adding {multiple-answers} to a single question. These are stand-alone, distinct and valid responses to the original question." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T19:56:57.597" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T19:56:57.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-05T06:46:39.773" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you wanna edit some post you can have this kind of warning message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to&#xA;  improve in this post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't submit your edit (at least when you haven't the edit privilege as in my case). Sometimes I want to edit a new post that I see because of missing command highlight or equivalent. And when you have only a few modification as only two &quot;`&quot; to put, you just can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why this limitation? Is it possible to go throught it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T06:46:39.773" Title="Minor edit limitation" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-06-05T14:24:01.810" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6196" CreationDate="2015-06-06T20:21:22.593" Score="5" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm about to award a bounty on a question. If it is possible I would like to split the bounty between two of the answers (one for elegance, one for effort). Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30471" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-06-07T05:17:16.947" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T05:17:16.947" Title="Is it possible to split bounties?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6195" CreationDate="2015-06-06T20:27:23.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. You can award more than one bounty on a question, so if they are to reward existing answers you can make that clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T20:27:23.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6189" CreationDate="2015-06-07T19:28:58.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my personal, controversial opinion, TeXmacs is a child of the TeX community, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; only because of its name. It seems to be intended to be a sort of spiritual successor to TeX, and my impression is that a lot of what happens under the hood is a reworking of TeX. It uses the TeX fonts, it uses BibTeX for bibliography management, it appears (to me, an outsider) to use a typesetting model based on TeX, and it can be used to generate TeX output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It belongs to one of the outer circles of the TeX community along with software like Asymptote, Biber, LyX, MetaPost, the TikZ output module in Geogebra etc. Therefore, &lt;strong&gt;I think questions about it are acceptable on this site&lt;/strong&gt;. This is especially so if the questions are about typesetting and document setup, since the answers to such questions can be just as useful for users of TeX. However, other questions are welcome, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6174/19809&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; (who appears not to agree with me in this case, however) remarks, questions about TeX have a certain spirit to them, different from those at StackOverflow: They are usually focused on good typesetting and document setup combined with a bit of simple programming. This is entirely equivalent to how questions about TeXmacs are likely to look, or questions about any other (semi-)code-based self-contained typesetting system. In the long run, as these typesetting systems gain more success, it should perhaps be considered changing TeX.SE into an SE with a more broad focus on technical typesetting. After all, because of dominant position of TeX in this area, it is very hard to start talking about technical typesetting at all without somehow getting TeX involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T15:12:38.040" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-07T20:12:47.030" Score="-1" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be nice to have commands on TeX.SE for writing T&lt;sub&gt;E&lt;/sub&gt;X, L&lt;sup&gt;A&lt;/sup&gt;T&lt;sub&gt;E&lt;/sub&gt;X etc.  in the same style as in TeX documents. In my opinion, these styles are part of the spirit of the TeX community and therefore belong on TeX.SE. Yes, I know, it is completely useless. Yet it should be even more completely trivial to implement, so why the heck not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know my attempts above were horrible-looking, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3ATeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; proves it can be done beautifully with some simple CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;texhtml&quot; style=&quot;font-family: 'CMU Serif', cmr10, LMRoman10-Regular, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;&quot;&amp;gt;T&amp;lt;span style=&quot;text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: -0.5ex; margin-left: -0.1667em; margin-right: -0.125em;&quot;&amp;gt;e&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;X&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="19809" LastEditDate="2015-06-23T10:23:26.400" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T10:23:26.400" Title="Writing TeX in TeX-style" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-07T20:43:32.337" Score="9" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a good template for formulating a question on this site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The model I use is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Introduce and state the broad issue at hand. Closely related questions are mentioned, and the motivation behind the issue (like &lt;em&gt;I am typesetting a thesis...&lt;/em&gt;) is stated here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formulate exactly what you want to accomplish. Highlight in &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; the one sentence that contains the essense of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Round off, mentioning the things you have tried, along with less important technical details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide one or more MWEs with screenshots immidiately following them. Do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; post anything more after this point. All comments to MWEs and output must be placed &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; point 4.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T22:46:55.310" Title="Template for question formulation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6200" CreationDate="2015-06-07T22:46:55.310" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are more exceptions to the rule of template-abiding questions. These are really good suggestions indeed. However they are not necessary only sufficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markup of the important points (bold, italic etc.) are really not that important if you can stick to the minimality. I think Hilbert's quote about math is also valid for TeX questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The art of asking a TeX.SX question consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis on the word &lt;strong&gt;art&lt;/strong&gt; !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T22:46:55.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6199" CreationDate="2015-06-08T11:04:34.600" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the TeXbook:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The&#xA;  correct way to refer to &lt;code&gt;\TeX\&lt;/code&gt; in a computer file, or when using some other&#xA;  medium that doesn't allow lowering of the 'E', is to type 'TeX'. Then&#xA;  there will be no confusion with similar names, and people will be&#xA;  primed to pronounce everything properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While our medium technically does allow lowering of the 'E' (and raising of the 'A' for LaTeX), the lack of kerning makes it look not very nice. Even if you figured out the kerning, it would get broken if the Powers do a site update that changes the fonts or if a user's web browser loads different fonts for personal or fallback reasons. Some more reasons are accessibility, search-ability, and copy/paste-ability. These sorts of HTML/Unicode tricks would reduce the &quot;search weight&quot; (totally made-up term) of our pages, which in my mind is one of the great strengths of the Stack Exchange network. For these reasons I think it's better to just use the plain-text versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point: If you think it's completely trivial to implement (I don't, btw), why don't you go ahead and implement it as a user-script? You can post it at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2475/useful-stackapps-and-other-user-scripts-for-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Useful StackApps and other User Scripts for TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;; then everyone can give feedback and use it if they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T11:04:34.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-08T20:04:56.417" Score="16" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people on this site deserve an exceptional amount of respect, since they contribute to this site in such a way that it is almost unbelievable. I shall not mention any names, but I think you all know whom I refer to---and anyway, a quick glance at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the &quot;Users&quot; section&lt;/a&gt; reveals their identities. With all the work they do, you would have thought answering questions on this site was their full-time occupation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this makes me wonder: &lt;strong&gt;How much time do you spend on this site per day? How do you get time to live a life outside of the TeX world?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I am asking mostly because I am deeply impressed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T13:25:29.367" Title="Do you have a life?" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-06-10T19:16:28.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6204" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-08T20:55:01.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Refers to &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/users&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;users&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; of the site. They contribute through posts - &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/answers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;answers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; - and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/voting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T20:55:01.693" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T20:55:01.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6205" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-08T20:55:01.693" Score="0" Body="Refers to users of the site. They contribute through posts - {questions} and/or {answers} - and {voting}." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T20:55:01.693" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T20:55:01.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6189" CreationDate="2015-06-09T05:22:53.477" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd put forth that TeXmacs should not be considered on-topic &lt;em&gt;unless &lt;strong&gt;perhaps&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; it's about its TeX export options (and even then, the idea leaves a bad taste in my mouth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repeating what's been said in the comments, TeXmacs ultimately uses a completely distinct typesetting engine that &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; TeX to produce its output.  While I don't personally like LyX questions here, at least they have the virtue of relying on TeX to get the job done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I come to the conclusion that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texmacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texmacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texmacs&lt;/a&gt; is ultimately the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathjax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathjax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathjax&lt;/a&gt;:  both of these technologies draw from the long history of TeX (whether to use familiar syntax or a familiar name), but neither actually &lt;em&gt;involve&lt;/em&gt; TeX in any step of the process.  As such, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texmacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texmacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texmacs&lt;/a&gt; should join &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathjax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathjax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathjax&lt;/a&gt; as a tag-flag for off-topic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, where &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; these questions belong?  TeXmacs is just another application after all, so questions about &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; it are on-topic for SuperUser.  Since it uses a Lisp for customization, I wouldn't be surprised to find &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; questions about customization on StackOverflow.  As for the more nebulous topics of what you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be doing with the software typography-wise, I'm sure such questions would be welcome on GraphicDesign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, read each site's help section to determine if your question is or is not on-topic before asking it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="17423" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T13:52:20.933" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T13:52:20.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-10T09:09:31.880" Score="21" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that it can be hard for new users on our site to push some existing but not answered question. If a new user finds such a post (maybe the first visit on our site), he will have only two choices: 'Answering' it with &amp;quot;I am having that problem, too&amp;quot; or asking a new question which creates a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially new users tend to the first approach and those answers get closed quickly as I just did on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/155150&quot;&gt;TeXShop search not working for multiple file source&lt;/a&gt;. They get a comment that they should use a bounty in order to push this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, for the post linked above, there have been two new users with interest in that solution but both with very low reputation. I thought: &amp;quot;I have no interest in that post (urgh, Mac... :-)) but as two new users asked for it in the last two month... I'll put some bounty as I have enough rep.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this resulted in an answer at once (thanks, Pouya, I hope someone tests it soon). I therefore asked myself two questions, which I want to pass further to you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is that the correct way to manipulate here or should I wait for &amp;quot;answer the unanswered&amp;quot; days, minor edits which have to be proofed by high-rep users, or (worst in my eyes) exact duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we think about some better approach on helping in such cases, as pointing to bounties does not help our new guests a lot? They can not even participate in chat or comment on the OP. Can't we improve the sentence&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not really answer the question. If you have a different question, you can ask it by clicking Ask Question. You can also add a bounty to draw more attention to this question once you have enough reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in order to help a bit more, and how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be cool, if new users could show their interest in some unanswered topic and ask the richies here for some bounty-partnership as I just have given. But I can't figure out some clever way on how to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, at least I just did formulate my plea to all of you that flagging, deleting, and commenting such &amp;quot;requests for assistance&amp;quot; could be followed by some generous donation from your bulging rep-wallet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32245" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T15:29:18.203" Title="How can we (and should we) help new users on pushing unanswered posts?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|bounty|new-users|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6199" CreationDate="2015-06-10T14:07:52.283" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree completely, just showing the image of your question should be reason enough&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yqNLP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why inflict such horrors on people interested in typesetting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T14:07:52.283" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6207" CreationDate="2015-06-11T05:30:00.430" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a noble initiative, but it is not sustainable since reputation is an &lt;em&gt;earned&lt;/em&gt; attribute and it's not in everyone to just doll it out at the drop of a new user. Of course, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/284343/top-bounty-spenders&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some folks&lt;/a&gt; do, but the majority of folks don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally the request for updating a &quot;vote-to-delete reason&quot; should be consistent network-wide. The critical part within this quote is &quot;...once you have enough reputation.&quot; That's just the way it is: while you can land here and ask/answer questions with only 1 rep, you generally have to work to gain trust. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/17440/168244&quot;&gt;reputation is how much the system trusts you&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some related/helpful links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/158853/168244&quot;&gt;Why is reputation so important and is it the only measure of things?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17424/168244&quot;&gt;Is reputation important?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/287040/914686&quot;&gt;Why are privileges only rep-dependent?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17204/168244&quot;&gt;Six simple tips to get reputation fast on any Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T05:30:00.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6212" CreationDate="2015-06-12T02:31:01.027" Score="12" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found that a few questions I have answered recently as &quot;new&quot; were in fact duplicates of old questions that were not answered at the time, or may accept alternative answers. How should I handle those &quot;past duplicates&quot;? Should I mark them as duplicates of the new questions, or should I mark the new questions as duplicates and reply both in the older one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52679" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T10:00:16.193" Title="how to handle &quot;past&quot; duplicates" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6211" CreationDate="2015-06-12T10:00:16.193" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;We typically close the one that doesn't have any answer (not necessarily the old one) as the duplicate of the one that has an answer. If the existing answers don't cover a particular detail, we also add another answer to the original one as an alternative. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If both of them don't have any answers, then the more generally asked one might be the one that should be left open for a broader audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But please keep in mind that sometimes it is not possible to decide because each covers a particular aspect so we can keep both open and answer them differently. There is really no point of closing if they are both answered and linked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So closing is not necessarily a good thing since it blocks the possible more general answers in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking it however, even in the comments, snaps it to the next of the question in the &lt;strong&gt;Linked&lt;/strong&gt; area and that is sufficient for the trail tracking (normally if there is no cross-link, then that field is invisible). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding, the linking, as I am more active in Stackoverflow lately, I'm basically noticing this problem much clearer that sometimes you can follow a 6-7 chain of duplicates randomly closed though none of them answer the originally closed question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I really think that our users who think that we should adopt SO rules should go and hang out a bit there and argue again here later. You can't even find the same question after a minute after it's asked if you don't remember anything about the title. It is raining questions. That place is fundamentally different and I don't think that we can speak about a SE network run by the rules that SO people set up. That's just impossible. So adopting their practice is not in our best interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T10:00:16.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6207" CreationDate="2015-06-15T07:49:01.310" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about adding an &quot;I'm having that problem too&quot; button? The button could disappear as soon as an answer is accepted. In the meantime, if a question has enough &quot;I'm having that problem&quot; votes (more than 5, say), accepted answers could come with an bonus (and the bonus could increase with the number of votes). This would be similar to a bounty, but wouldn't require anyone to set bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35711" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T07:49:01.310" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-17T02:55:48.987" Score="17" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do accept a comment as the correct answer to my question? As a newbie, I can't vote, and existing posts about this issue tell me I should click on the grayed out check mark next to the answer. But in the case of comments there's no such grayed out check mark. And if I 'Answer my own question', I would merely be repeating what the comment says. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suppose an answer (or comment!) offers a partial answer, but I want to continue the dialog, saying 'yes, but...'. Or suppose an offered answer (or comment!) simply didn't work and I want to report that fact? To the extent I've understood your etiquette so far, I should do so by editing my question itself. Is that right? So should I start this by saying something like 'According to one of the comments below...'?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79915" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T06:01:31.340" Title="Newbie Questions About Etiquette" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6215" CreationDate="2015-06-17T06:01:31.340" Score="21" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment requesting the user convert it to an answer. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3238/5764&quot;&gt;Why do people answer in comments?&lt;/a&gt; and  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3683/5764&quot;&gt;Adding the &amp;quot;accepted&amp;quot; mark to a question or to a comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Typically a &quot;discussion&quot; ensues within comments to the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. This brings attention to the answerer to possibly update it to suit the new requirements. On the other hand. If the question is solved in this way, some users tend to leave their original question as-is. Others tend to feel that a modified question more adequately reflects their (original) intent, and therefore do exactly that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always think that it's best to leave the post in a very general format, as it serves a purpose on its own. Explicitly stating &quot;Edit 1&quot; or &quot;Edit 2&quot;, or mentioning that &quot;some new request is as a result of some comment&quot; makes people have to find and read the related comments to fully understand what went on. And that isn't always necessary in my opinion. You can identify post edits by looking at the revision history, and comments vary in their usefulness and shouldn't always be referred to as being part of a question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is important though is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;asking a good question&lt;/a&gt; to start with. Yes, this is not always easy. Do your research before &quot;throwing in the towel&quot;... One thing that has shown to help time-and-time again is the construction of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt; (working) example&lt;/a&gt; (or MWE). Very often, when breaking down a problem into its minimal components, it reveals clues as to what the solution might hold. Moreover, it shows that you care and would serve the community a problem on a silver platter... rather than just dumping your question using a fix-this-for-me approach. &lt;em&gt;Never under-estimate the power of a minimal (working) example.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T06:01:31.340" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5942" CreationDate="2015-06-22T16:13:56.437" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/5942/revisions&quot;&gt;on the revision page&lt;/a&gt; which shows a live rendering of this question, this is fixed now. It's still visible in your question because the version displayed here is saved on submission; were you to edit the question now, the stray &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; would be gone from there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in some technical background on the problem, I gave a bit of explanation in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/153326/blockquotes-in-a-list-break-blockquotes-after-the-list/259111#259111&quot;&gt;Blockquotes in a list break blockquotes after the list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1106" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T16:13:56.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6228" CreationDate="2015-06-22T21:11:07.313" Score="21" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often come across questions that are old and worked for the OP, but could be made better (formatting, spelling, etc.).  These reasons don't really warrant it going back up to the front page -- is there a to mark the edit as 'minor'?  Should there be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If there should be, I'm willing to raise the question on Meta.SE where such a feature request would belong.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="2221" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T02:55:49.587" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T02:55:49.587" Title="Can I edit a post without bumping it to the front page?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|editing|bumping|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3989" CreationDate="2015-06-24T17:55:02.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/251996/5764&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The (original) image was created using &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/epix/ePiX.html#Source&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ePiX&lt;/a&gt; (available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/epix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CTAN&lt;/a&gt;). The source &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/epix/images/gallery-1.2/sphere.xp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sphere.xp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; can be compiled using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;elaps &amp;lt;options&amp;gt; sphere.xp&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/epix/images/gallery-1.2/sphere.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;produce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x8wZW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/epix/images/gallery-1.2/sphere.xp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sphere.xp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/* -*-ePiX-*- */&#xA;#include &quot;epix.h&quot;&#xA;using namespace ePiX;&#xA;&#xA;const double k(2*M_PI/(360*sqrt(3))); // assume &quot;degrees&quot; mode&#xA;&#xA;double exp_cos(double t) { return exp(k*t)*Cos(t); }&#xA;double exp_sin(double t) { return exp(k*t)*Sin(t); }&#xA;double minus_exp_cos(double t) { return -exp_cos(t); }&#xA;double minus_exp_sin(double t) { return -exp_sin(t); }&#xA;&#xA;int main()&#xA;{&#xA;  picture(P(-1,-1), P(1,1), &quot;2.5 x 2.5in&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;  begin();&#xA;  degrees(); // set angle units&#xA;  camera.at(P(1, 2.5, 3));&#xA;&#xA;  sphere(); // draw unit sphere's horizon&#xA;&#xA;  pen(Blue(1.6)); // hidden portions of loxodromes&#xA;  backplot_N(exp_cos, exp_sin, -540, 540, 180);&#xA;  backplot_N(minus_exp_cos, minus_exp_sin, -540, 540, 180);&#xA;&#xA;  pen(Red(1.6));&#xA;  backplot_N(exp_sin, minus_exp_cos, -540, 540, 180);&#xA;  backplot_N(minus_exp_sin, exp_cos, -540, 540, 180);&#xA;&#xA;  pen(Black(0.3)); // coordinate grid&#xA;&#xA;  for (int i=0; i&amp;lt;=12; ++i) {&#xA;    latitude(90-15*i, 0, 360);&#xA;    longitude(30*i, 0, 360);&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  bold(Blue()); // visible portions of loxodromes&#xA;  frontplot_N(exp_cos, exp_sin, -540, 540, 360);&#xA;  frontplot_N(minus_exp_cos, minus_exp_sin, -540, 540, 360);&#xA;&#xA;  pen(Red());&#xA;  frontplot_N(exp_sin, minus_exp_cos, -540, 540, 360);&#xA;  frontplot_N(minus_exp_sin, exp_cos, -540, 540, 360);&#xA;&#xA;  end();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible outputs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/CAL6q0VJ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX's &lt;code&gt;picture&lt;/code&gt; environment&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;code&gt;elaps sphere.xp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/8C4SgejN&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PSTricks&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;code&gt;elaps --pst sphere.xp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/yVxYCerp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TikZ&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;code&gt;elaps --tikz sphere.xp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T17:55:02.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-25T19:25:13.030" Score="11" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/125712/17423&quot;&gt;In TeXShop, is there a directive to select biber or BibTeX on a per-document basis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above answer is the 'correct' answer to the question, but the accepted answer was accepted before the feature was added to TeXShop.  Should a header be placed on the accepted answer along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This answer was useful in previous versions of &amp;lt;program or package&amp;gt;,&#xA;but updates have rendered this answer outdated.  Please see&#xA;[the community-recommended answer](&amp;lt;link&amp;gt;) to this problem.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is a direct link to an answer on the same question.  Normally, I would say that votes are the community's way of recommending an answer, but sometimes 'hot' answers receive more votes than can be reasonably overcome by the regulars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T19:25:13.030" Title="Is it appropriate to edit an accepted but outdated answer to refer to another?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6223" CreationDate="2015-07-06T00:18:37.647" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system has counted me as reaching the cap on reputation for the day when I have not, in fact, done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screen shot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rRecn.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture for posterity&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless I am just hitting a complete blind spot on this, I have 190 from stuff which counts towards the cap (upvotes) and 30 for stuff which doesn't (acceptances). That does total 220 as shown, but it does not mean that I've hit the cap. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the system is still counting me as reaching the cap. I know this because it just told me so which is why I noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T06:56:12.560" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T20:59:23.720" Title="System miscalculates reputation when determining if reputation cap is reached?" Tags="|support|reputation|daily-reputation-limit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6222" CreationDate="2015-07-06T06:51:55.033" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your reputation log (sorted by post) for that day (2015-07-05) looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PhgR7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All &quot;events&quot; show an accompanying reputation change (+10 for upvotes to answers, +15 for acceptance of answers). If you had reached the daily reputation cap for the day (+200 from non-excluded reputation gains), you would notice something like this (taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;egreg's reputation profile&lt;/a&gt; for the same day):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U9q3h.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the blank space for an upvote to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/253802/5764&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;This&lt;/em&gt; implies that the reputation cap for the day has been reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, 200-rep-per-day badges (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/41/mortarboard&quot;&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/42/epic&quot;&gt;Epic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/43/legendary&quot;&gt;Legendary&lt;/a&gt;) makes no consideration as to what gave you 200 reputation on any day; there is no distinction between reputation due to voting, accepting, suggested edits or bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, this was the notification you saw after having &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/42/epic?userid=39222&quot;&gt;received the silver Epic badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T20:59:23.720" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6224" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-06T06:58:14.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users may only earn a certain amount of reputation each day, with the exception of reputation coming from accepted answers and bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges that could be earned based on hitting this daily reputation limit include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/41/mortarboard&quot;&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/a&gt;: Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/42/epic&quot;&gt;Epic&lt;/a&gt;: Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/43/legendary&quot;&gt;Legendary&lt;/a&gt;: Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T06:58:14.547" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T06:58:14.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6225" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-06T06:58:14.547" Score="0" Body="Users may only earn a certain amount of reputation each day, with the exception of reputation coming from accepted answers and bounties." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T06:58:14.547" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T06:58:14.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6163" CreationDate="2015-07-06T12:11:51.983" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A big obstacle why TeX is not so much fiddled with in US is the academic practice that is one of the main driving forces, if not the biggest, behind the need to create/tweak TeX related things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In US, MSc and PhD theses are very tightly, and unfortunately often with very little typographical taste, specified. Hence, you don't get to procrastinate with TeX as much as in other countries when you feel like you need to adjust the timer of your toaster to UNIX time or assign seventh button of your mouse to tile your desktop windows according to the golden ratio. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on my biased perspective people who get hooked up with TeX during the studies either never touch it again or get more and more involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even PDFTeX is written by Hàn Thế Thành during his PhD thesis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To invoke a political argument, you need to invoke governmental and private sector contributions with actual numbers, otherwise it becomes yet another stereotypical justification to a hypothesis. If that was true, then we wouldn't have, say for Python world, IPython, the whole scientific stack NumPy, SciPy etc. which are equally &lt;em&gt;socialist&lt;/em&gt; in their nature and contributed mainly from US together with conferences such as PyCon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T12:11:51.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-09T00:57:22.483" Score="10" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the recommended strategy if posts are being poorly edited? Especially if a single editor is editing many posts and many of the edits are problematic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't vandalism. Most edits improve the posts in some ways, but they frequently also include edits which are at best unnecessary and at worst positively harmful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just partially undid an edit which included changing correct markup for a document element into incorrect markup. The code was definitely better prior to the edit. (I copy-pasted the original code back.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier, I restored text which was not strictly needed in the post but was an attempt to respond by the OP to suggestions in the comments on how to improve the question. Although the OP had misunderstood what was being requested, simply removing their attempt at improvement seemed problematic. Moreover, the text did help make a little more sense of the question, at least in the sense of understanding what the OP was trying to do in a broad sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't respond to the editor in comments because editing a question doesn't mean you can be pinged, and the editor is not leaving comments (at least on the questions I've been re-editing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't, as far as I know, offer to chat with an editor for the same reason. Nor can I flag an edit for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T00:57:22.483" Title="What to do when questions are being poorly edited?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6218" CreationDate="2015-07-09T02:54:31.067" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an idea that comes up fairly frequently, on all different sites, with the best of intentions. In addition to the link Paul gave, there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/258435&quot;&gt;Is it possible for me to edit my answer without bumping the question up the list?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/23241&quot;&gt;Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26483/could-we-have-the-ability-to-mark-a-change-as-minor-in-questions-or-answers&quot;&gt;Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/131508&quot;&gt;CHAOS-like option for moderators to edit without bumping&lt;/a&gt; (which &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/89?m=934917#934917&quot;&gt;cites long-time dev balpha&lt;/a&gt;), to name just a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there's a high potential for abuse, as Joseph alluded to. And in the more pleasant and common case of not-abuse, bumps give good older posts a chance to earn a few more upvotes and spread a little more knowledge to the browsing set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T02:54:31.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-09T14:34:13.547" Score="4" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions on this site ask community to code a picture they find over the net. Some of these questions do not have any minimum working example appended. Why do not we have a close reason for such questions? Should we add such close reason to the related closure menu?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the close reason I propose to be used which may be edited or changed;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No MWE exists&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question is type of &lt;em&gt;do it for me&lt;/em&gt; question which does not have&#xA;  any &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;minimum working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; appended. While your problem may have&#xA;  answers available, it is closed as no MWE is added to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T01:32:22.057" Title="Do we need a new closing reason for &quot;do it for me&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-07-09T17:29:28.400" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan to arrive Sunday and to stay for the whole conference. Luckily my job projects will allow it, even better, I can do it as a business travel. At work people saw my TikZ generated network architecture drawings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T17:29:28.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-07-11T17:06:05.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll be there; arriving on Sunday and departing on Thursday. We should organize a TeX.SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_feather_%28computing%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BoF&lt;/a&gt; session.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T22:38:55.237" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T22:38:55.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6233" CreationDate="2015-07-11T18:33:10.183" Score="17" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Three questions from a novice tex stack exchange user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What should I do if I need to include an image in the minimal working example for my question?  Is there some standard image that comes with every LaTeX distribution?  Or do I upload my own?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do I add latex output to a question?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What tag should I have used for this question?  I couldn't find an existing one that seemed appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74071" OwnerDisplayName="Delia Ruby" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T19:56:05.083" Title="Qs about how to ask Qs: putting images in source mwe and and adding output to questions" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6232" CreationDate="2015-07-11T19:47:24.597" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been answered in comments really but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For (1) for images traditionally you could use &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or simply replace the &lt;code&gt;\includegraphics{...}&lt;/code&gt; by &lt;code&gt;\rule{3cm}{1cm}&lt;/code&gt; in either case, getting a black rectangle, but most modern installations now include the examples from &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; so you can use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\includegraphics{example-image}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to get an image that people will have locally. It comes with several images of various sizes and shapes, see &lt;code&gt;texdoc mwe&lt;/code&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For (2) just take a screenshot (and possibly trim it using your system tools) and upload. As an image. Until you have the rep to post an image you can use the image upload form but remove the generated &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; in the markup, which makes it a link. A Higher rep user will put the &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For (3) use the meta site not the main one:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T19:56:05.083" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T19:56:05.083" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-07-11T19:47:24.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5985" CreationDate="2015-07-13T22:41:34.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;me ................................................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T22:41:34.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6229" CreationDate="2015-07-14T01:32:22.057" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I do not think we need such a close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember sort of recently that this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/252210/what-does-this-error-message-suggest&quot;&gt;what does this error message suggest?&lt;/a&gt;, received a close vote for being unclear even though the question is pretty clear and easy to answer based on the error message. (It received the close vote after Yihui answered and after the OP accepted that answer, too, if I recall correctly. Or, I at least reviewed it in the close queue after Yihui's answer was accepted; maybe the close vote was cast before that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, if we had such a close reason, I think it would only encourage people to cast close votes like this that aren't really justified and/or come way too quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/252210/what-does-this-error-message-suggest&quot;&gt;what does this error message suggest?&lt;/a&gt; might not be the greatest question on the site, but it's certainly a reasonable question and there's no reason to close it. Moreover, there are some really good and/or really popular questions on the site that do not have MWEs, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/246/when-should-i-use-input-vs-include&quot;&gt;When should I use \input vs. \include?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9363/how-does-one-insert-a-backslash-or-a-tilde-into-latex&quot;&gt;How does one insert a backslash or a tilde (~) into LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39017/how-to-influence-the-position-of-float-environments-like-figure-and-table-in-lat&quot;&gt;How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9559/drawing-on-an-image-with-tikz&quot;&gt;Drawing on an image with TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, at a minimum, I think your suggested wording of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While your problem may have answers available, it is closed as no MWE is added to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is not a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would suggest that those good and/or popular questions should be closed since they do not have MWEs. Of course, one could reword your suggested close reason, but even with a more nuanced explanation for the close reason, I think it would most likely just invite people to abuse it, and then we would end up with a lot of questions being closed that shouldn't be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6229/do-we-need-a-new-closing-reason-for-do-it-for-me-questions#comment17956_6229&quot;&gt;percusee's comment&lt;/a&gt; is right that each situation is different, and so, in my opinion, it would be better to keep the current generic close reasons, which, at least in principle, would force people to think a little bit about why they're casting a close vote and if it is indeed justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T01:32:22.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-14T17:18:00.783" Score="44" ViewCount="1802" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those us who are Mac users may be aware that the next version of OS X will change major aspects of the the way users can interact with the underlying Unix infrastructure of the OS. In particular, access to &lt;code&gt;/usr/&lt;/code&gt; will essentially be eliminated, even with admin privileges. As a result, starting from TL 2015, the location of TL in the Mac will be &quot;moved&quot; to &lt;code&gt;/Library/TeX/texbin&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;/usr/texbin&lt;/code&gt;.  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx/47074&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt; on the TeX for Mac OS mailing list for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently we have 127 questions that ask specifically about &lt;code&gt;/usr/texbin&lt;/code&gt;, and I'm sure many more answers in which it plays an important role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the old advice of &lt;code&gt;/usr/texbin&lt;/code&gt; will still work for a while, it will not work for those users running the new OS. Furthermore, it is only since TL 2015 that the &lt;code&gt;/Library/TeX/texbin&lt;/code&gt; link has been created, users with older TeX distributions but with the new OS won't just be able to be told to use the new directory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is the following: given the large number of questions and answers that refer to &lt;code&gt;/usr/texbin&lt;/code&gt; what should we do to gradually update them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T17:18:00.783" Title="Mac OS changes that affect lots of answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-15T03:54:36.013" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the (lack of) space between the header and the expander triangle.  Doesn't seem very 'touchable' in its current state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vqeqk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using Safari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T09:56:36.977" Title="Does anyone else see this weird spacing on our Markdown help page?" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-17T08:05:16.783" Score="21" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a new LaTeX learner, with what I have read and heard about it, I know its going to be a great tool for researchers in time saving and more, I have also discover that TeX, stack-exchange etc. has a lot of questions and answers (about LaTeX setting-up ie. its different accessories, parts such as version control and also document preparation) that are great and if well organised and placed together can make one's learning very easy and fast; but as a 'child' in LaTeX or TeX world one do not know which to know and practice first, although TeX is used for different purposes by different users, but still there should be a general sequence of learning that will enhance swift understanding of how LaTeX works from the vast arrays of intelligent questions and answers. My question still remain : can there be any orderly or sequential arrangement of question and answer that can help me and other new 'children of LaTeX'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80677" OwnerDisplayName="Gideon Ebelebe" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T12:23:09.027" Title="Is there any organised way by which new LaTeX learners can benefit from previous questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6239" CreationDate="2015-07-17T12:23:09.027" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer no. Long answer no due to the structure of the website. The main problem is our format is for specific questions receiving specific answers. Actually the more specific the better it is. Hence, at the very best it can replace &lt;em&gt;A TeX cookbook&lt;/em&gt;. Otherwise you really need the traditional book that takes you from &lt;em&gt;Hello World&lt;/em&gt; to more complicated stuff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, there is a big gap between two levels of questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OK, I can handle the common document formats and create my basic documents. What next? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.... some miracle happens ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I program TeX to achieve this regular expression, header adjustment, font autokerning etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a major problem that everything in between these two questions is found online with varying authority. Many sources are archaic and sometimes flat out wrong. Hence once you are at the first question level regardless of how you got there join us and fire away all your questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to get to the first question you might need some help from a well-known book that are listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11/what-are-good-learning-resources-for-a-latex-beginner&quot;&gt;What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would strongly recommend that you read these in order extremely slowly which will make your life much much easier: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21863/tex-distribution-and-engine&quot;&gt;TeX Distribution and Engine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13593/the-differences-between-tex-engines&quot;&gt;The differences between TeX engines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/49/what-is-the-difference-between-tex-and-latex&quot;&gt;What is the difference between TeX and LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a tiny glossary from some time ago (needs a few updates though):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58431/glossary-of-tex-and-latex-terms&quot;&gt;Glossary of TeX and LaTeX terms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T12:23:09.027" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-24T14:25:14.693" Score="2" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are quite some questions we can not answer, because the OP never returns to provide the necessary MWE or at least information. Well, this one e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/255873/4736&quot;&gt;forcing a footnote to split across mutiple pages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to close such questions a week later after somebody requested more info without the OP logging into tex.stackexchange. Let's say: &quot;Abandoned question -- neither the person, who asked the question, nor anybody else, provided requested information within a week, and the question has no answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T14:25:14.693" Title="New reason to close a question: &quot;Abandoned question&quot;" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6244" CreationDate="2015-07-27T16:59:57.500" Score="17" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions on the site ask for explanations of specific commands, &#xA;for TeX/LaTeX/Engine Foo. The informations is often directly available&#xA;in one of canonical books like &quot;TeX by Topic&quot;, &quot;TeX for the Impatient&quot;, and of course &quot;The TeXBook&quot;. At least some of these are freely and legally available &#xA;as PDFs (assume for the moment that distribution issues were suitably settled).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is technically quite simple to drop these PDFs on a website and provide&#xA;an in-browser viewer for displaying them, also allowing anyone&#xA;to link directly to a specific page of any hosted book. There may be&#xA;existing services (Scribd, once upon a time?) to do this, and if not,&#xA;Setting this up on github pages for example can be done with a couple of hours work. Knowing that the urls will work &quot;forever&quot;, participants on the site could provide a directly viewable link to a precise location in a specific resource in comments and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a concrete &lt;strong&gt;example&lt;/strong&gt; of how this could work, here is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html#page=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to the tech demo for the [PDF.js project][1] from Mozilla, an in-browser PDF viewer, displaying a CS paper on javascript engine tech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementation is easy, hosting is not a problem, assuming legal permission is obtainable or available, if there's no actual hinderance to putting this&#xA;in place, would it be useful or useless? is it a good idea? would it have negative side-effects on answer quality?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81550" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2015-08-03T13:35:24.943" LastActivityDate="2019-08-11T12:16:36.470" Title="Providing directly viewable links to specific PDF pages in various TeX manuals" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-28T12:48:09.747" Score="1" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the topics page, it does say TEX, LaTEX, etc... or &quot;and related systems&quot;, yet I am not sure if this is where I could try for PTC arbortext answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arbortext and styler are pretty common, but the consensus about it is that it lacks the most basic support. There is a forum where you can ask, and you will either get no answers, or a user-provided answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, since the answers are provided by the community, I don't think it's fair that they reside on the developer's forum. So I would love to see it on the SE network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is this where I should start asking questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82757" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T12:48:09.747" Title="Are questions about PTC arbortext welcome?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6242" CreationDate="2015-07-28T18:37:23.690" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in the comments, &lt;strong&gt;texdoc already provides this&lt;/strong&gt;—as long as your&#xA;browser is configured to view pdf file in the browser because, at least in firefox, appending &lt;code&gt;#page=123&lt;/code&gt; to the texdoc package url is sufficient to have the requested page opened directly. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;\looseness&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/texbytopic#page=288&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;explanation&lt;/a&gt; on Page 288 of &lt;code&gt;TeX By Topic&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/impatient#page=143&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Line breaking parameters&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;code&gt;TeX for the impatient&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;texdoc links (it seems) always point to the latest version, so absolute references to page number can break when manuals get revised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;@thewaywewalk points out that it's possible to link directly to a &lt;strong&gt;named destination&lt;/strong&gt; in the pdf by appending &lt;code&gt;#nameddest=&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to the url. Google turned up this &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13427302&quot;&gt;SO question&lt;/a&gt; and this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adobe guide&lt;/a&gt; on url parameters for pdf links.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Section 7.1 of the &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; manual: &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/beameruserguide.pdf#nameddest=subsection.7.1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are the named destinations created in the first place? &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; creates them for use with internal hyperlinks (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/hyperref#nameddest=subsection.3.2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;section 3.2&lt;/a&gt; of the manual), naming each one using its own convention. By using the &lt;code&gt;nameddest&lt;/code&gt; url parameter, you can link directly to any locations hyperref creates a named destination for, including section, subsection, figure, table, footnote, etc'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Here's a quick python script for listing all named destinations in a given PDF file (&lt;code&gt;pip install PyPDF2&lt;/code&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-python prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/usr/bin/env python&#xA;#&#xA;# Invoke from shell as `$ script.py foo.pdf`&#xA;&#xA;import sys&#xA;from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader&#xA;&#xA;pdf = PdfFileReader(open(sys.argv[1], &quot;rb&quot;))&#xA;x=pdf.getNamedDestinations()&#xA;for n in sorted(x.keys(),key=lambda x:x.rsplit('.',1)[0]):&#xA;    print(n)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81550" LastEditorUserId="89417" LastEditDate="2019-08-11T12:16:36.470" LastActivityDate="2019-08-11T12:16:36.470" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6245" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6246" CreationDate="2015-07-30T17:22:04.153" Score="6" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few questions on meta about what makes a question active, but I did not see any questions about the utility of making questions randomly active.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is actually a mechanism at work on the site that most people disdain; spam postings on questions, which then have to be downvoted, flagged, and deleted.  However, these spam posts frequently serve a useful function, to my mind---they make an &quot;oldie but goodie&quot; question active, so that it pops up the queue for those looking for recent site activity.  That is how I recently came across, for example, this fascinating post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/109969/how-to-practice-latex&quot;&gt;How to practice LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now don't get me wrong; I am as opposed to spam as anyone.  But it would seem to me that a nice feature would be for SX to randomly make old questions active (without the accompanying spam).  One can think of it as the featured question of the hour, or something like that, although &quot;featured&quot; implies a certain level of screening and thus human intervention.  What I have in mind is, for example, one question per hour that is randomly chosen and made active.  That would require no human intervention, but would allow a lot of older site wisdom to be reinvigorated over time, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I crazy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25858" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T22:48:39.177" Title="Making Questions Randomly Active (Feature Request)" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6245" CreationDate="2015-07-30T22:48:39.177" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really. I think this is nice aquarium pump action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think the powers-that-be implement such things for satellite networks in a standalone fashion. I've been hanging out there more often and in SO the whole idea is to bury down the questions as quick as possible. It is literally raining questions and the quicker they disappear the better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are really a lot of dedicated moderators trying to hold things in a manageable threshold which is incredibly complicated. And given their user-profile, everybody is trying to be the correctest. Hence, almost every question has a sour comment ping-pong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of someone accidentally reviving a question, I'm pretty sure some people track down the IP address of the poster and beat him up with o'Reilly books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for us, being the stop-and-smell-the-flowers-speed question and answer intake, this would be a nice addition. Besides everything, to recycle the old advices and replace them with new things that emerged in the meantime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if it doesn't make sense to SO people they think it won't make sense anywhere else thus I think this proposal will be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T22:48:39.177" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-04T02:07:43.893" Score="6" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it an intended feature of the new interface that nobody can edit a post if an edit of that post is stuck in the review queue awaiting enough votes for approval or rejection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether feature or bug, it is extraordinarily annoying. It is also new with the new site design. It did not used to happen like this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Case 1&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is by far the most annoying: it prevents me from editing my own post!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, if I edit a post, the system simultaneously logs me out and adds the edit to the review queue, marking it as submitted by an anonymous user. After logging back in, I can approve the edit but obviously that's just one vote in its favour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I've just edited the question again, the system has recognised me as logged in, and the edit has taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, however, if I click on &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt;, I get immediately pushed to the review queue even if I've already approved the edit, and told I can't approve again. Obviously that makes sense - I can only vote once. But I now cannot edit the post at all until, presumably, the edit has garnered enough votes to be approved or rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I assume this will happen to anybody else who tries to edit the post as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the question I unsuccessfully edited: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/256423/how-to-put-the-solarized-theme-in-texmaker-editor?noredirect=1#comment620522_256423&quot;&gt;How to put the Solarized Theme in TexMaker Editor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The Jul 22 edit is a previous edit by me. My unsuccessful edit of Aug 4 is not recognised as being mine.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this also means that I can immediately see - cannot, in fact, avoid seeing - which users approve or reject my edits. Is this intended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Case 2&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is impossible to improve the formatting, wording or content of a post with an edit pending approval or rejection. For example, I cannot currently tidy up the English in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/267292/inserting-code-using-listings-goes-off-page&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; because another user has edited it, but the edit has not yet been approved or rejected. Since the other user is probably the OP in this case, this is probably a function of the standard dual-account problem. But the general issue is independent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is less frustrating because, heck, it is somebody else's question and I can easily decide not to take much of an interest. Not great if it is your question, maybe, but not terribly annoying for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[But arguably my taking no interest is really the best thing that could happen to your question. So certainly the balance of benefits to costs may weigh on the side of the new feature in this case....]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side issue: when the review queue comes up it is now in one of those annoying floating window things. Worse still, depending where I am on the page, most of the floaty thing may be off screen. In this case, only about the bottom cm or so was actually visible. So there's just a dimmed screen with a white strip at the top. It took me some time to recognise this as the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T12:19:13.167" Title="How can I edit a post?" Tags="|support|bug|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6248" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-05T14:57:11.810" Score="16" ViewCount="612" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a linguist who uses trees for my work all the time, I'm very familiar with all of the tree drawing packages useful for linguistics.  One thing I've noticed of late is that almost any tree question that comes up, a couple of users (you know who you are...) jump in with a blanket recommendation that the &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt; package should be used, even though the original question did not ask about &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if someone is using the default &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; method for drawing a tree, by all means suggest using a tool better suited to the task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a big fan of &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt;, and I'm also in favour of recommending better solutions to a problem if they exist, but for many plain linguistics tree problems in particular, the widely used and excellent package &lt;code&gt;tikz-qtree&lt;/code&gt; does a fine job (and in some cases, IMO) a better job than &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt;.  To see what I mean, look at this example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/257289/2693&quot;&gt;Extending a tree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt; trees are from a linguistic perspective much harder to read IMO, and the packing algorithm of &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt; is responsible.  Furthermore, the default edge path in &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt; is not one used much in linguistics, and so needs to be changed to match common practice in the field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please, people, let's recommend &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt; in places where it clearly has an advantage, but don't just tell people using &lt;code&gt;tikz-qtree&lt;/code&gt; that they should be using &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt; instead, especially if their original question uses &lt;code&gt;tikz-qtree&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem has arisen before in the context of TikZ vs. PSTricks etc. answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3452/2693&quot;&gt;Best practise for answers which are for the community, not the OP (&amp;quot;tikz answer to pstricks question&amp;quot;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T14:57:11.810" Title="Not seeing the forest for the trees" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6252" CreationDate="2015-08-05T21:36:56.183" Score="12" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/258911/followup-to-how-does-one-type-chinese-in-latex&quot;&gt;Followup to &amp;quot;How does one type Chinese in LaTeX?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; raises an interesting problem. If one tries to paste the code by Leo Liu in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/17637/4427&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, pop up boxes saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Body cannot contain &quot;??&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWzYK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWzYK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where in place of &lt;code&gt;??&lt;/code&gt; the first used Chinese character appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to add Chinese characters in comments results in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments cannot contain that content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qumnd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qumnd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first Chinese character is U+6587, which, according to Google Translate, means “culture”, so it doesn't seem to bear offensive or disputable meaning. If I remove it, the second character triggers similar messages. Again according to Google Translate, the sequence&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;U+6587 U+7AE0 U+5185 U+5BB9&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;simply means “Article content”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can paste the characters in the code examples in other program windows; the same if I try copying and pasting the characters in the resulting PDF file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T08:18:20.337" Title="Typing Chinese character in the main site" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-07T06:53:11.170" Score="0" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I start working on LaTeX during my Master Thesis, I enjoy alot. After that I start working on LaTeX regularly and working on different LaTeX templates like CV, Cover Letters etc. Now I am totally depend on LaTeX. So tell me, Now I forget the MS Office and continue working on LaTeX.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46330" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T23:15:33.437" Title="Let start work on LaTeX and forget the MS Office" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-08-08T00:10:43.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6249" CreationDate="2015-08-07T09:08:49.310" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have has a spate of Chinese spam across the network - quite persistent too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As result we have taken the temporary measure of disallowing all Chinese characters across the network (barring the few sites where they are expected - Chinese language, Japanese language as well and Anime &amp;amp; Manga, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will remove the block once we see the spam attempts stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last recorded attempt was ~24 hours ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The block has been hit once again, two days ago. Looking at what has been blocked, most were legitimate posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I've lifted the block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25639" LastEditorUserId="25639" LastEditDate="2015-08-14T08:18:20.337" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T08:18:20.337" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-07T14:26:19.147" Score="22" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was really surprised to see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;egreg&lt;/a&gt; has written 100570 answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RZVcR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it's a bit too much, and indeed -- it is. The number of answers blends into the number of questions. In my opinion, this is at least non- aesthetic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T14:26:19.147" Title="Someone has written 100 thousand (!) answers (graphic design bug)" Tags="|bug|design|user-profile-page|statistics|typography|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6251" CreationDate="2015-08-07T23:15:33.437" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can remove it via Control Panel --&gt; Programs and Features&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T23:15:33.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6256" CreationDate="2015-08-16T16:12:17.963" Score="47" ViewCount="3600" Body="&lt;p&gt;Compared to StackOverflow, where you basically can post code snippets and ask questions about them, this community seems to require more or less the entire document to be posted. Why so, is it the nature of TeX, that have way too much in global scope, or is it just a different policy on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reference:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/4301&quot;&gt;I've just been asked to write a minimal working example (MWE), what is that?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47462" LastEditorUserId="4301" LastEditDate="2022-02-04T19:14:51.437" LastActivityDate="2022-02-22T10:54:08.747" Title="Why does TeX require such elaborate MWE:s" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2015-08-16T17:59:19.810" Score="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to make an example, look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/261653/europecv-stack-exceeding&quot;&gt;europecv stack exceeding&lt;/a&gt; which cannot be answered in the current form, as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{europecv}&#xA;\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}&#xA;\usepackage[magyar]{babel}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;x&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives no error whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;code&gt;.../tex/latex&lt;/code&gt; subtree of TeX Live there are currently 2066 directories, which correspond to more than 2000 packages. A question about a problem depending on one of these packages must, at least, mention what package is necessary. Also knowing the document class is often needed, because some classes redefine some commands such as &lt;code&gt;\title&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\maketitle&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt;: think to &lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt; that introduces a second optional argument for &lt;code&gt;\chapter&lt;/code&gt; and the other sectional commands; instead, &lt;code&gt;scrbook&lt;/code&gt; introduces a key-value syntax for the same set of commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that some packages are pairwise incompatible, or should be loaded in a particular order with respect to others. Knowing the list of needed packages is therefore essential in most cases. Another case that comes to mind is that of a &lt;code&gt;tikzpicture&lt;/code&gt; that uses features only available in additional libraries: these should be mentioned. Playing hide and seek is fun, but limits the chances to get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider that adding a suitable document preamble around a code snippet that doesn't mention the necessary class/packages requires a non-trivial effort from people trying to help: in several cases it's really impossible to prepare an answer, if information is insufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not really different from C snippets that depend on unspecified libraries and I'm quite sure that such questions would be fast closed on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't mean posting the entire document, but only a “compilable abridged version” that exhibits the issue, particularly when errors or unexpected output is concerned. It often happens that trying to make the MWE helps the questioner in pinpointing the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T20:50:04.377" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2015-08-17T13:32:20.310" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another very  important thing to note is language, as in written language. LaTeX uses easy-readable commands in plain english, this is great but not my point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here at TeX.SX are people of many many nations helping each other. Describing a problem in words can be very hard in a different language, espeacially when a special nomentclature is in use. I have seen the word title in many questions, some meant the real title which is set with &lt;code&gt;\title&lt;/code&gt;, some meant the page header, some meant the chapter title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine to be in a different country and your car breaks down without speaking the language. It will be very hard for you to explain to a mechanic what is wrong with the car, even more if your own knowledge of cars is limited and you don't know how the parts are called. Drag the mechanic to the car and use your finger to point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most LaTeX problems are purely mechanical as well. As you cannot drag us in front of your computer, and sending us a complete document isn't possible, boiling down the document (i.e. pointing with the finger) is an efficient way to get quick and &lt;em&gt;personalized&lt;/em&gt; help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T13:32:20.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2015-08-18T09:17:53.137" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some remarks about the &quot;global scope&quot; in the question: &#xA;Yes LaTeX  (not TeX) needs quite some global code. You can't compile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  hello world&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gives the error&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And adding only a document environment doesn't work either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&#xA;hello world&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives the error&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;! LaTeX Error: The font size command \normalsize is not defined:&#xA;               there is probably something wrong with the class file.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in most cases when I investigate a LaTeX problem -- may it be to find the cause of an error or to add some feature -- I work with complete documents and this means that a good question should contain all needed parts to create a complete document as test suite with as less fuss as possible. Such complete documents can be quite small, but there have been cases where a large graphic, or a large data file for a plot, or some other large file was either really necessary or couldn't be removed easily.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T09:17:53.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2015-08-18T16:27:52.773" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because in TeX, unlike other programming languages, the entire document to reproduce the problem is hardly ever longer than 30 lines long. And typing that much shouldn't be seen as a burden to get an answer from the community that is known to be very fast to respond already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most of the times, you find out the problem yourself while creating the minimal document because there is not enough places to escape (either package clash or wrong macro expansion order etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly specific to TeX and friends, the problems can be environment-aware that is, a particular preamble setup can cause errors in an otherwise perfectly viable document (document class quirks, package options and so on). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3406" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T23:38:30.103" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T23:38:30.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2015-08-18T16:57:36.333" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another reason why minimal examples are often required (meaning &quot;necessary to solve the problem&quot; not &quot;mandated by the site&quot;) is that errors in TeX are notoriously cryptic and the line number at which an error arises may be very far away from the actual source of the error. So, for example, someone gets an error and the posts the fragment of code that the log reports the error occurred at. But depending on the error, this fragment may be completely fine, but happens to be the first place at which the error state arises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And new LaTeX users are particularly susceptible to this problem, since if they bother to read the log file at all, they would expect it to be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/254478/2693&quot;&gt;! Paragraph ended before \@optionaltemp was complete&lt;/a&gt; for a very concrete example of this problem along with a detailed explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T16:57:36.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2015-08-19T15:56:54.910" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The effort to produce a minimal working example, in my case, almost always results in a solution and prevents me from posting a question on the site. Not that we want to discourage questions, but there is a lot you can do to debug a problem before you ask for help, and the MWE encourages that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T15:56:54.910" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-19T19:33:13.320" Score="7" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;The often seen &quot;Welcome to TeX.SX!&quot; message for new users may look like a URL to someone and therefore get used in such a manner (&quot;hey checkout TeX.SX, it's cool&quot;), but the website called tex.sx is not accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a big issue, but it somewhat irks me that this common abbreviation doesn't also function as a forward to the real website (see youtu.be and the like) and therefore might create problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75284" LastEditorUserId="75284" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T20:25:50.833" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T21:25:55.210" Title="&quot;Welcome to TeX.SX!&quot; might be misleading as such a website doesn't exist" Tags="|discussion|comments|new-users|publicity|acronyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6262" CreationDate="2015-08-19T21:25:55.210" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't consider this an issue, since people who see that message are already on this site. The suggestion is not &quot;Go to TeX.SX&quot; or &quot;Visit TeX.SX&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside: For those posting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;verbatim as a comment, they could consider changing this to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to TeX.SE!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as the &lt;code&gt;.SE&lt;/code&gt; suffix is more commonly used to represent the Stack Exchange network. Moreover, this is also supported by the use of network-wide &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/94000/168244&quot;&gt;magic-links&lt;/a&gt;. That is, consider writing &lt;code&gt;Welcome to [tex.se]!&lt;/code&gt; instead - you save a couple of keystrokes - since &lt;code&gt;[tex.se]&lt;/code&gt; will be converted to display&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T21:25:55.210" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6266" CreationDate="2015-08-23T20:50:36.857" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not clear how to add bounties for questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/262683/elements-of-typographic-style-subhead-styles&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt;. On my view of this question there's no &lt;em&gt;start a bounty&lt;/em&gt; button. Any help appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user10274" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T13:43:26.507" Title="Adding Bounties" Tags="|feature-request|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6264" CreationDate="2015-08-24T06:29:15.660" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;FAQ about bounty&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you’ve asked a good question, edited it with status and progress&#xA;  updates, and still are not receiving answers, you can draw attention&#xA;  to your question by placing a bounty on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question linked have already received an accepted answer. So you shouldn't be enable to give one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T06:29:15.660" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6264" CreationDate="2015-08-24T13:43:26.507" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/bounty&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A bounty can be started on a question two days after the question was&#xA;  asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/262683/elements-of-typographic-style-subhead-styles&quot;&gt;question you want to award a bounty for&lt;/a&gt; was posted on 2015-08-22 at 20:45:40Z, now it's 2015-08-24 at 13:41Z. You'll be able to start a bounty in 7 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no requirement for the question to be unanswered (one bounty reason is &quot;to reward an existing answer&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T13:43:26.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-24T14:37:30.687" Score="39" ViewCount="690" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our community is growing and many people are around who are expert in various parts of TeX and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the site is a very good place where looking for ideas and help when we have a problem to solve, a traditional paper about a topic might be much more helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few journals devoted to TeX, typography and related topics and contributing to them would surely improve the knowledge basis, especially considering that the journals' issues become free reading after a short time. Hence contributions to TeX related journals are Welcome! from fellow TeX Users to share their knowledge and experiences. Below is a few list of notable Journals and their website information for prospective authors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TUGboat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tug.org/TUGboat&lt;/a&gt; (main page)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html&lt;/a&gt; (information about submissions and deadlines)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ars TeXnica&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guitex.org/home/en/arstexnica&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.guitex.org/home/en/arstexnica&lt;/a&gt; (main page)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guitex.org/home/en/collabora-autori&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.guitex.org/home/en/collabora-autori&lt;/a&gt; (information about submissions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Die TeXnische Komödie&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de/DTK.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.dante.de/DTK.html&lt;/a&gt; (main page, German)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dante.de/DTK_en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.dante.de/DTK_en.html&lt;/a&gt; (main page, English)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Feel free to add other journals and suggestions&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2015-09-29T11:13:16.783" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T11:13:16.783" Title="Contributions to TeX related journals are Welcome from TeX community! TUGboat, Ars TeXnica, Die TeXnische Komödie" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6272" CreationDate="2015-08-25T18:18:16.897" Score="9" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have observed that my name (Przemysław Scherwentke) has in some automatic signatures the last &quot;e&quot; eaten. See, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/263086&quot;&gt;Tkz-berge graphs, equal arrows with unequal subfigures?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5WLus.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5WLus.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This didn't happen, say, half a year ago. What causes this unexpected behaviour and how can I obtain my full name back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T23:09:51.853" Title="What eats my name?! And how to fight it?" Tags="|support|flair|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-01-13T23:00:37.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6269" CreationDate="2015-08-25T20:32:14.450" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a limited amount of real estate at the bottom of a post since it's width is fixed. The site might be responsive to resizing horizontally, but the &quot;information width&quot; does not change. To this end, the &lt;em&gt;flair&lt;/em&gt; box width is also fixed. A similar problem is experienced when you have a large number of badges (see the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2516/5764&quot;&gt;Display bug causes number of badges to be shown incorrectly&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understandably Stack Exchange enforces some limit in terms of what can be displayed, but allows users the freedom to enter whatever they want for a name in their user/network profile. As such, some names are visually truncated, while others are not. Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/260589/168244&quot;&gt;another example on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T9fhM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T9fhM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T20:32:14.450" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6273" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-25T20:37:00.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flair is a bit of HTML including an image that you can use on non-Stack Exchange sites to show off your reputation and badges on the Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T20:37:00.770" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T20:37:00.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6274" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-25T20:37:00.770" Score="0" Body="Flair is an auto-generated image displaying a user's total reputation and badge counts on one Stack Exchange site or across all of them. It can be found on the &quot;flair&quot; tab of your user page." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T20:37:00.770" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T20:37:00.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6267" CreationDate="2015-08-28T12:36:03.420" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I've always thought it would be good to crowd-source the writing of the code for a particular journal article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got a lot of near real-time help on my 2003 article on fonts (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf&lt;/a&gt;) from Giuseppe Bilotta --- I believe that we could get a lot more articles w/ similar collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, naïve typographically-oriented person breaks an article down into question-sized chunks, posts the questions here, they get commented on, answered and edited, then the OP concatenates the whole, writes up some framing text and submits it as an article?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31151" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T12:36:03.420" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6290" CreationDate="2015-08-30T17:24:59.363" Score="11" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=makebst+is%3Aquestion+-%5Bcustom-bib%5D+-%5Bbiblatex%5D&quot;&gt;around 60 questions&lt;/a&gt; that contain &lt;code&gt;makebst&lt;/code&gt;, but no corresponding tag. Should we create one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8057" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T12:20:29.717" Title="Do we need a makebst tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6279" CreationDate="2015-08-31T07:24:33.993" Score="7" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was editing tags for a question of mine, and created the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cstom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cstom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cstom&lt;/a&gt; by accident (just by confirming the edit -- wanted to tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/custom-bib&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;custom-bib&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;custom-bib&lt;/a&gt; but hit &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt; too quickly). Now I can't seem to find a way to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be at least some kind of confirmation when a new tag is created...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8057" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T16:35:41.150" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T16:35:41.150" Title="How can I request a tag to be deleted?" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6278" CreationDate="2015-08-31T16:34:29.937" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; FAQ entry: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19753/168244&quot;&gt;How can we get rid of misspelled and unused (or &amp;quot;zombie&amp;quot;) tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags not associated with any question are automatically destroyed at 03:00 UTC every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags which are misspelled should have the questions under them retagged to the appropriate tag, which will result in its destruction due to having no uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T16:34:29.937" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6280" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-31T17:59:57.057" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw it several time in the last time, that new users receive a comment &lt;code&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX&lt;/code&gt; but without linking to the welcome page. Is there a reason for that? It thick it’s nice to just say hello, but guiding new users to the welcome page would be even more helpful …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T17:59:57.057" Title="“Welcome to TeX.SX” without link" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-31T18:56:32.903" Score="5" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice (on the TeX/LaTeX site)  to have next to the code samples  within the posts some location or word (like &quot;copy all&quot;) to click and then get the full code sample selected for copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could prove useful on other sites of stackexchange, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is there already such a feature which I overlooked ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T18:56:32.903" Title="Get the whole of a mwe in one click" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2017-11-01T18:07:43.337" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6286" CreationDate="2015-09-04T10:49:00.537" Score="13" ViewCount="449" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a big post about new documentation project: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-documentation-a-proposed-expansion-of-stack-overflow?cb=1&quot;&gt;Warlords of Documentation: A Proposed Expansion of Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, that LaTeX doesn't have good online documentation, almost everything is in pdf and is not structured very well. To search something about tikz I have to open the big pdf file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to move at least some docs to stack, but I think, that nobody would like to do it. Maybe, the authors of packages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4035" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:19.567" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T15:42:34.070" Title="Move LaTeX documentation on Stackoverflow" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6285" CreationDate="2015-09-04T12:10:45.690" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couple thoughts I have on this topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People mix &lt;em&gt;user manual&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;documentation&lt;/em&gt;. These are two very different things. Every LaTeX package that makes it to CTAN has to be documented, at least to some extent. Most packages are documented well, using docstrip or similar tools; however, this is often the technical documentation, which may not be what first-time users looks for. For first-time users there are other resources, though: this site, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stepping into a project that does not seem well thought out sounds like anything but a good idea. If something has to happen, it need not happen now and here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we want people at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; --- who have often very stupid (read, blatantly wrong) LaTeX habits themselves --- to produce documentation and use examples for anything LaTeXy? The internet is flooded by these, and people look at them rather than open the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People can get very good advice on a lot of things here. If they need to know how something is done, most likely it's covered by an easy-to-find question on this site. If it's not covered, then either it's too primitive, too technical to be covered by a community-driven documentation, or simply can be asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion I made for myself: Should we intend to participate? No, at least for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T04:47:51.800" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T04:47:51.800" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-04T16:40:36.197" Score="7" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/262772/use-system-fonts-mac-os-while-using-book-template&quot;&gt;Use system fonts (Mac OS) while using book template&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that it is a question about changing the font, but the asker was using the correct code to change font. My answer explains why it doesn’t work in this case, a problem which people may well have using fontspec on OS X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T12:17:46.040" Title="Why was this question marked as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|support|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6285" CreationDate="2015-09-06T07:29:16.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if StackOverflow would follow requirements of GNU FDL, LPPL, or other licenses of the original documentation, for parts SO would take over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, in official documentation in PDFs and on CTAN etc., where we would take over parts from documentation written on SO, we would always have to follow the SO licensing,  which is cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution: backlinks to each post and each involved user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T07:29:16.540" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6267" CreationDate="2015-09-06T16:25:55.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is laudable and I have a general suggestion to promote it: A good answer on this site not only answers the question, but links to further reading on the general topic in one of the scholarly journals on TeX or typography. Contributors may work their way up to writing an article if they start by recognizing related, published work when providing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user16581" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T16:25:55.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6276" CreationDate="2015-09-06T16:50:02.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Making this an answer, since it seems to have enough support.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/custom-bib&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;custom-bib&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;custom-bib&lt;/a&gt; tag, so really all that is needed is to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/makebst&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;makebst&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;makebst&lt;/a&gt; a synonym, and perhaps add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/custom-bib&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;custom-bib&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;custom-bib&lt;/a&gt; tag to some of the questions that are missing it. Oddly I don't have enough reputation in the tag to even suggest a synonym (SE works in mysterious ways...) but certainly a moderator could do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just be aware before going on a tagging spree, that adding a tag to a question bumps it to the front page, so it's best to do tagging in small sets over a few days if there are many questions in need of new tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T16:50:02.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6285" CreationDate="2015-09-07T21:50:59.050" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.gna.org/latexrefman/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeX Reference Manual&lt;/a&gt; is quite explicit about &lt;em&gt;Contributions wanted.&lt;/em&gt;  It is online, meaning HTML, among other formats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="339" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T21:50:59.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6287" CreationDate="2015-09-08T11:25:57.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the community agreed with you and the post got reopened. Thanks, it was a good catch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T11:25:57.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-08T13:04:22.247" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the msword tag has over 120 questions in it.  The tag dealing with Microsoft Word on Stack Overflow is called ms-word; for the sake of cross-site consistency, I propose that we change the name used in this tag (creating the obvious synonym) for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having tags ms-word and ms-excel was the most popular option in the two-year-old discussion, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3132/rename-msword-to-ms-word-or-create-generic-ms-office-tag-to-cover-office&quot;&gt;Rename {msword} to {ms-word}, or create generic {ms-office} tag to cover Office-related questions&lt;/a&gt;, although the issue of what to do with the questions already tagged msword was not addressed in that discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T07:38:31.767" Title="Rename tag msword to ms-word" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6296" CreationDate="2015-09-08T13:38:00.933" Score="1" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that some months ago I saw a question made &lt;strong&gt;from&lt;/strong&gt; Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and seems to me in this TeX/LaTeX room (but maybe I'm wrong about TeX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot re-found, do you want help me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the post being off-topic, if you know a better place to make this question... let me know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87305" OwnerDisplayName="sineverba" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T17:39:10.973" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T17:58:18.873" Title="Question made from Sir Tim Berners-Lee in TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6285" CreationDate="2015-09-08T15:42:34.070" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TeX community has an english FAQ, a german FAQ, a wikibook (translated into multiple languages) and several other places where &lt;em&gt;Information&lt;/em&gt; (of any quality) is stored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advantage here on the SE-network: shiny badges, reputation for participating, which is a motivator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, nice, cuople of general things though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who is doing the review? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High reputation does not mean high knowledge of a specific topic. What about robo reviews?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Often documentation is &lt;strong&gt;lacking in examples&lt;/strong&gt;, or the examples are trivial and don't demonstrate typical use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from the initial question. Agreed, either examples are non-existent or hard for a starter to process/understand. But doesn't that mean we need examples instead of documentation? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Active members of the community could make up examples of the often requested stuff, mail it to package authors and ask them to include the examples in the doc. Sanity check included. Sanity check missing here on the network (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; acceptible review).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who choses how to document a topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, let's assume the topic of page headers and footers? We have &lt;code&gt;fancyhdr&lt;/code&gt;, we have &lt;code&gt;titleps&lt;/code&gt; and we have &lt;code&gt;scrlayer-scrpage&lt;/code&gt; in general use. All packages work with the standard classes. The first two are not recommended with KOMA-script. &lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt; has stuff implemented, no package needed. How to document that on a website (here, wiki, faq, whereever) without confusing a beginner? And we are talking about beginners here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen so many bad advice (probably given quite a bit myself) in forum posts, blog-posts, wikibook and others, that i am scared, that instead of helping it creates another source of confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Remember: You cannot just delete stuff from the internet once it is written. There will be proof somewhere, that i am a penguin.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T15:42:34.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6294" CreationDate="2015-09-08T17:37:51.677" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sir Timothy John &quot;Tim&quot; Berners-Lee&lt;/a&gt; is also known as &lt;strong&gt;TimBL&lt;/strong&gt;. The only &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/1162584/timbl&quot;&gt;user&lt;/a&gt; having that name is on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6AbFz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6AbFz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has asked only &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/31345230/914686&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; to date (Jul 10 at 15:56). Moreover, he is involved only with StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No other similar users exist on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T17:58:18.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6299" CreationDate="2015-09-11T18:32:17.670" Score="12" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here I mean by Investor a person who starts a bounty for somebody else's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I discuss with an investor? does he receive comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71471" LastEditorUserId="71471" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T06:10:05.497" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T06:10:05.497" Title="How to ping a bounty poster" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6298" CreationDate="2015-09-11T22:15:39.303" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can notify a user who set a bounty on the question by leaving a comment with @TheirName under the question. Although the name does not autocomplete, the ping reaches the user. This works even if the bounty has long expired. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I verified this experimentally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3949721#3949721&quot;&gt;with the help of tchrist and rene&lt;/a&gt;, and updated the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43020&quot;&gt;reference post on Meta&lt;/a&gt; accordingly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then I found  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/129236&quot;&gt;an older post&lt;/a&gt; confirming this. It seems that everyone listed in the revision history of a post can be pinged, except for close/reopen voters without a binding vote (i.e., non-mods and non-gold-badge-holders).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user69318" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T22:15:39.303" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-14T07:44:30.237" Score="4" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sorry, I don't know if this question should be asked here or on TeX.SX.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is : Are there some good reasons to not move projects with large supporting community (like TikZ) to github.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I ask this question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that it is not up to the community to decide where some project should be hosted,&#xA;but maybe the community can influence the core team to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I believe that moving projects like TikZ to GitHub will benefit everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the pros to move to GitHub?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Let's take one concrete example with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/223510/9335&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/223565/9335&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If TikZ was on GitHub this bug could be fixed in minutes in the following way :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One person &quot;forks&quot; the TikZ repo, goes to file &lt;code&gt;tikzlibrarycalc.code.tex&lt;/code&gt; (on github.com directly), adds &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; on line 339 and creates a &quot;pull request&quot; with a message describing this change. &lt;em&gt;(2 minutes max)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The core team of TikZ receives this &quot;pull request&quot;, checks it and accepts it. &lt;em&gt;(2 minutes max)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And voilà, everybody can fix their personal copy of TikZ with a simple &lt;code&gt;git pull&lt;/code&gt; from the TikZ folder on their computer. &lt;em&gt;(less than a minute)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this example is not an isolated case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) A lot of big opensource projects are moving from SVN (sourceforge) to Git (github), but I don't know a single one that is moving in the opposite direction. Probably there is a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The same way, nobody is moving from SVN to CVS.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Big companies are moving their opensource projects from their own repos to GitHub (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/13/google-code-closing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/15/codeplex_repository_out_of_favour_as_microsoft_moves_major_projects_to_github/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt;) . Probably there is a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) GitHub has a solid business model that allows them to not have commercials on their site. This is not the case for SourceForge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the cons to move to GitHub?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see only one : if the core team of TikZ is not used to using Git, it has to learn it. And Git has a not so short learning curve. But honestly, learning Git is far simpler than learning TikZ ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9335" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2020-04-15T08:17:38.647" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T11:06:37.430" Title="Moving TikZ to github?" Tags="|discussion|tex-sx-package|tikz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6302" CreationDate="2015-09-15T15:08:40.690" Score="5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/266230/editors-that-can-hide-footnotes-endnotes-while-writing&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question because I found answers to previous versions of the question unsatisfactory. I phrased the new question in a way that referred to the old questions and made clear why I was asking again. The answer that I received was better than previous answers and, I believe, would have been considered so by those who posted the old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stumbled across various versions of the old questions mentioned and I now think that it would be useful for these to refer to my question so that users who encounter the problem are aware of what I think is a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an established protocol for this situation? Should I comment on the old posts with a link to my own? Or should I let the voting system sort things out naturally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25414" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T19:52:31.003" Title="Referring to new, similar questions in old posts" Tags="|discussion|questions|related-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6301" CreationDate="2015-09-15T19:48:51.170" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, such situations should be resolved by suggesting a bounty. That's how the Stack Exchange model has been set up. Understandably not everyone has an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/45/investor&quot;&gt;investor&lt;/a&gt;-mentality nor the reputation to throw at questions they doesn't meet their needs. So, asking a new question might be subject to closure...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, here are some options (consider OLD to refer to the older question(s), while NEW refers to the newer question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEW is similar to, but not a duplicate of, OLD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could refer to these questions as being &quot;related&quot;, and therefore post a comment to OLD using the form: &lt;code&gt;Related: &amp;lt;NEW URL&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will place a link in the &quot;Linked&quot; portion of the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xYJJK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xYJJK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no need to place &lt;code&gt;Related: &amp;lt;OLD URL&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; as a comment to NEW, as the link is necessarily established in both directions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEW is a duplicate of OLD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, the answers to NEW adds no (new) value to the question and/or is already covered by the answers in OLD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cast a vote to close NEW as a duplicate of OLD. Alternatively, flag for moderator attention, suggesting closure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEW is more general than OLD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, answers to NEW cover all of OLD and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that one could cast a vote to close OLD as a duplicate of NEW and let the community decide whether such a closure is favourable. Perhaps add an explanation (in comment on OLD) why this &quot;reverse closure&quot; is suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those with the privilege to review closures should use this responsibility carefully by examining the two.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anything else...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post a comment using the &lt;code&gt;Related: &amp;lt;NEW URL&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to OLD.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T19:48:51.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6303" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-15T19:52:56.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing a question, the &quot;Related Questions&quot; block is shown on the right side of the page and provides a system-generated list of questions similar to the current one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T19:52:56.937" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T19:52:56.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6304" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-15T19:52:56.937" Score="0" Body="When viewing a question, the &quot;Related Questions&quot; block is shown on the right side of the page and provides a system-generated list of questions similar to the current one." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T19:52:56.937" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T19:52:56.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-17T07:41:24.763" Score="18" ViewCount="508" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I found another example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/267935/how-to-make-a-16-gon&quot;&gt;How to make a 16-gon?&lt;/a&gt;. This question shows no research effort whatsoever, yet it has been upvoted with a net of 4. Not only that, it has been answered by 3 different people. I haven't seen this happen on other communities of SE, but I do see it repeatedly here. I have noticed that this community of SE is less strict on the site's policy and guidelines than others. I'm not saying I'm against it, in fact, I've seen other communities where the closing squad jumps the gun, which is the other side of the spectrum and leads to even more frustration if (arguably) unjustified. Is it the result of people wanting to build reputation? Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T16:31:38.383" Title="Why are poor questions still upvoted and answered?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6305" CreationDate="2015-09-17T08:08:47.897" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take the two factors separately and give what I understand here (I've neither voted for the question nor answered it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting for questions is essentially a positive action: downvotes on TeX-sx are in general sparse and usually used for cases where a real issue arises. For most of the 'regulars', simply not voting at all is a good indication of an issue with a question: most good questions should have significantly positive scores. Now, if a few people do decide to upvote weaker questions, that can lead to a net positive score as here. However, that shouldn't be a big issue: most of the really useful questions end up with much bigger values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of answering, this process is independent of the question in a sense. Using the 'crystal ball' approach is pretty common for answering TeX issues, so many of us are adept at it. Particularly for graphics questions there is a long-standing question/issue/tension about whether to answer 'draw it for me' questions (see for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4267/our-do-it-for-me-and-draw-it-for-me-comments-dont-reflect-our-hypocrisy-can-th&quot;&gt;Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don&amp;#39;t reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?&lt;/a&gt;).  For me, whilst I don't answer these in general I do see why people do: the OP needs help, setting up drawings from code is hard and they may really not know what to do. Certainly many of the answers to these questions show off some powerful techniques, so I have no problem uvoting such answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T08:08:47.897" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6305" CreationDate="2015-09-17T09:12:35.037" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Complementary arguments to Joseph's answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couple of things maybe you might take into account about this community: It is indeed a community. This doesn't make us immune to regular moderation and implementations of the rest of the network but in terms of behavior, at least I, can't care less what other networks impose. We have discussed these items lots and lots of times but let me briefly summarize: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Research effort&quot; is an ill-defined and ambiguous concept. Dumping some irrelevant code or copy-pasting a code from somewhere is also slacking. Instead of satisfying your inner police, you can simply answer it, if you understand the question. Forcing the user to ask as you wish it is asked, is detrimental. There is no need to act like a robot. (Not that I imply that you do this, just saying).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In general, people here rather amazingly act according to an unspoken pact such that if somebody already answered in the ball park of some methodology, others instead of posting a competing answer, ask for adding features of that particular method. You can hardly see answers that are duplicates of each other. And if somebody's answer is better we mostly delete ours voluntarily. That is pretty much not happening elsewhere as far as I know. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I vote to mark things as read. In SO people build career over that stuff. Here what would it matter if I had 20k, or 100k? So this rep points frenzy is not our problem. Hence you can use it as liberal as you wish. But for the sake of argument let's say voting is something important for some metric. Still voting is one-sided. For community building, a new-comer having -6 votes without even understanding what voting means is plain stupid to have on a place where it continuously brags about community-building. Because everybody knows what a negative number means. But you might not understand what a number means that is randomly increasing. And some of us, believe it or not, really don't care. I sometimes upvote just to make people get out of the beginner priviledge restrictions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the question is poor. It is pretty to the point. Some basic TeX document code would have been nicer but my answer is also not so long anyways. I think we all know what a poor question is by now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are not a cult. If we are claiming that people come here to ask questions, then we should act like so. Currently, I always feel like I'm on the customs authority office caught with some substance in my pocket, if I try to ask things on the other sites. It takes so long time, before the residents give a lecture about site rules and how to ask and by then I figure out by asking on an old fashioned mailing list or asking a colleague etc. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all these, I also agree that TikZ questions get unjustified upvotes occasionally. Because I guess seeing is believing though other answers, you really think hard for a few hours that fix stuff internally, hardly makes it to 5.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, if you read a question and you think it is not that trivial and you understand what is asked, just answer it. The community is free to appreciate it with clicking the arrows and making the number under your square increase. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We downvote to mark something is seriously wrong, and &lt;code&gt;-1&lt;/code&gt; is enough to be negative. How would you compare a &lt;code&gt;-6&lt;/code&gt; question &lt;code&gt;-13&lt;/code&gt; question? Is it twice as bad? Is &lt;code&gt;-6&lt;/code&gt; better than &lt;code&gt;-13&lt;/code&gt; in terms of question quality? Instead here negative vote is a boolean and one vote is enough to make it negative enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T16:31:38.383" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T16:31:38.383" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6310" CreationDate="2015-09-18T14:02:11.330" Score="6" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to start a bounty for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/213750/8323&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Am I missing the obvious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't I start a bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Screens&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See by yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rWOwJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rWOwJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as opposed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vdvyg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vdvyg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What happen if I click on &amp;quot;bounty is available&amp;quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UhFel.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UhFel.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:22:34.620" Title="Why can't I start a bounty?" Tags="|support|bug|status-bydesign|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6309" CreationDate="2015-09-18T16:21:53.443" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do not have enough reputation to add another bounty. You added a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/213750/revisions&quot;&gt;250 rep bounty&lt;/a&gt; on December 5th. For you to add another one, you must &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105275/abusing-bounties-for-unlimited-profit/105639#105639&quot;&gt;double the reputation&lt;/a&gt;. You do not have 500 reputation to offer such a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79795" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T16:21:53.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-21T03:38:57.660" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on here recently and started the process of creating an account, but when I clicked the &quot;set your password&quot; link in the confirmation email it just made me a new account. What's going on, and how do I get into my old account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88148" OwnerDisplayName="Ulysses" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T06:10:48.663" Title="Having trouble making account" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-09-21T21:44:58.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-23T19:02:28.923" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;When someone puts their answer to a question as a comment on the question, does that mean that the question was a bad question?  Does it have any particular meaning?  I don't see how I could mark that answer as an answer to my question if the answer is in a comment.  Is it always bad practice to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74071" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T19:02:28.923" Title="putting answers in comments" Tags="|discussion|answers|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2015-09-24T09:15:46.773" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-24T12:30:21.463" Score="7" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authorindex&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; under this tag refer to bibliographies, others to indexes -- perhaps it could be an alias to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indexing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indexing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indexing&lt;/a&gt; (or be burninated altogether)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8057" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T19:42:02.123" Title="What is the &quot;authorindex&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6316" CreationDate="2015-09-24T19:42:02.123" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;authorindex&lt;/code&gt; is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/indexing/authorindex?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTeX package&lt;/a&gt;. I have retagged all questions that do not relate specifically to that package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T19:42:02.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-24T20:03:33.047" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/269296/32888&quot;&gt;Comparison: umbcposter vs baposter vs tikzposter&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/341/32888&quot;&gt;How to create posters using LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the question is a duplicate. The answers in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/341/32888&quot;&gt;How to create posters using LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; mostly just provide a list of the different packages that you could use to make a poster. There is hardly any discussion of how they work, much less a comparison of the various options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen, but I've noticed that a lot of people have been voting to keep the question closed. I'm curious what the rationale is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could understand the question being closed as being too broad or opinion-based (but even then, I'm not so sure; but that would at least make more sense to me than being a duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't understand how it is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/341/32888&quot;&gt;How to create posters using LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So two questions, I guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is this closed as a duplicate; why are people voting to keep it closed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there isn't a good reason for keeping it closed as a duplicate, shouldn't it be reopened?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T20:03:33.047" Title="Why is this question about LaTeX posters being closed as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T20:50:25.860" Score="15" ViewCount="508" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be off-topic to have a question where people can showcase good preambles for some specific purpose (like assignments, books, lecture notes, letters, articles etc.)? I am thinking about a topic like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-beautiful-typography-done-in-tex-friends&quot;&gt;Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX &amp;amp; friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, but where you can show off concrete preambles that are useful for this and that particular purpose (obviously, we would need different questions for each purpose). I am not thinking about a topic like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40760/best-practice-on-organising-your-preamble&quot;&gt;Best practice on organising your preamble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which is more concerned with the theory of overall preamble design. Also, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/553/what-packages-do-people-load-by-default-in-latex&quot;&gt;What packages do people load by default in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is not what I am thinking of either, since it is for showcasing individual packages, not full preambles. There is currently (as far as I can see) no topic here that matches my suggestion, which might be because it would be considered opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect a lot of comments arguing that it is impossible to create one preamble that solves all problems, that it is better if people sit down and learn TeX themselves and find out which packages &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; need. The &lt;em&gt;reality&lt;/em&gt; is that many people never learn to write proper TeX at all, precisely because they are left alone in the vast jungle of classes and packages, many of which are obsolete, poorly written, unnecessary, do not work together, or break core functionality. Furthermore, there is an equally outdated collection of manuals on the Internet that promote bad coding practice and wrong solutions. As a result, a lot of people get started on TeX by taking over preambles from others, which are filled with precisely the mentioned kind of packages. For instance, I have found LaTeX preambles on the Internet that still use &lt;code&gt;\documentstyle&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, a lot of people would benefit from a topic on this page that showed up-to-date, well-written and well-documented preambles, created and maintained by some of the TeX oracles in here. They cannot and should not contain solutions to all problems, but should include the standard packages that many people will need in this particular situation. The usual Stack Exchange voting system would naturally regulate such a topic, the best preambles coming out on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T20:25:40.017" Title="Is a showcase of preambles off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|off-topic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="43" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T23:33:34.527" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some cases, it seems the pdf output of Tikz is more elegant and cleaner than capturing the image via screen capture softwares (e.g. Texmaker). Is there a way to upload the pdf directly rather than an image (i.e. &lt;code&gt;.jpeg&lt;/code&gt; or&lt;code&gt;.png&lt;/code&gt;) in the website? Image upload button allows uploading only images not pdf. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42366" LastEditorUserId="42366" LastEditDate="2015-09-27T08:01:29.503" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T08:01:29.503" Title="including a pdf as an image rather than png format" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6322" CreationDate="2015-09-26T16:52:43.903" Score="12" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finding duplicates for a question, if they exist, is not always easy. What techniques can I use to find question duplicates? How should duplicates be handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="15717" LastEditDate="2015-09-27T02:40:03.683" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T02:40:03.683" Title="How to search for duplicates and handle them?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|close-reasons|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6321" CreationDate="2015-09-26T16:52:43.903" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, understand that having duplicates on a site is not a bad thing. They provide multiple landing points for visitors seeking a very similar solution. That's correct: Different questions leading to the same solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps someone is asking for the sum 12+15 while someone else is interested in finding the product 3×9. The example may seem trivial, but the principle carries through to a large number of possible duplicates. To rephrase while voting to close Q1 as a duplicate of Q2 doesn't necessarily mean that Q1 is asking the same as Q2. They may be asking for entirely different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the above idea, I think about what would be required for an answer, and search for that. Additionally, in order to reduce the search results, adding appropriate tags help. Here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/268564/5764&quot;&gt;Highlight text in verbatim environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate search approach: I know &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/fancyvrb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;fancyvrb&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; allows for escaping to change colour, so before quickly writing up and answer, lets search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=fancyvrb%20%5bcolor%5d%20is%3aanswer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;fancyvrb [color] is:answer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, sorted by votes. Note the search specifically includes a reference to &lt;strong&gt;answers only&lt;/strong&gt;. Searching through the first page reveals &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/91261/5764&quot;&gt;Changing color of text snippet in a &lt;code&gt;verbatim&lt;/code&gt; environment&lt;/a&gt; which provides a viable solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keys to finding duplicates include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being patient (not just writing up a solution because you know the answer);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Searching and perhaps refining this search using some &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;ninja search options&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Switching to Google to search for solutions specific to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; by adding the search term &lt;code&gt;site:tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;. Google's search has often reveals far better hits than &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/160100/168244&quot;&gt;the search engine provided by Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10841/168244&quot;&gt;How should duplicate questions be handled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/37466/168244&quot;&gt;Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/157464/168244&quot;&gt;What constitutes a duplicate question? In particular, is a question a duplicate if the answer is contained in another question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/74080/168244&quot;&gt;“Close as duplicate” - what if only the answer is a duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/213976/168244&quot;&gt;Should I mark as duplicate if the question is answered elsewhere, but it's not the same question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/12182/168244&quot;&gt;When is a duplicate question not a duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T16:52:43.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6321" CreationDate="2015-09-26T17:23:00.247" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;in addition to the suggestions provided by werner, there's also a&#xA;very nice meta question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2419&quot;&gt;Often referenced questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which can be checked for possible duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if something is there, good.  if it's not, and you find a really great duplicate in your further search, add it to the list, to make the next person's job (or your own next search) easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and if a question you've found is &lt;em&gt;nearly&lt;/em&gt; &quot;perfect&quot; (i.e. completely&#xA;covers all possibilities), don't feel shy about adding another answer,&#xA;or editing an existing one, to provide that missing bit.  or add a comment,&#xA;asking the person who gave the best answer to improve it by adding&#xA;what's missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T17:23:00.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-26T19:27:15.567" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a question which shows how one can draw a new bracket style using &lt;code&gt;pict2e&lt;/code&gt;, and then apply it for use  as a bracket: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/220762/nice-curved-brackets-in-the-shape-of-prec-and-succ&quot;&gt;Nice curved brackets (in the shape of \prec and \succ)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a question whose answer goes into a wonderful description of virtual fonts in order to design new brackets: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/253614/design-of-new-brackets&quot;&gt;Design of new brackets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question's answer describes how to create extensible (stretchy) symbols, which are useful for new bracket shapes that have to be scaled relative to the size of the stuff they are bracketing: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/109699/how-can-i-create-a-new-extensible-symbol?lq=1&quot;&gt;How can I create a new extensible symbol?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question reminds us of &lt;code&gt;\DeclarePairedDelimiter&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;code&gt;mathtools&lt;/code&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/28042/how-to-declare-an-operator-with-automatic-argument-bracketing?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to declare an operator with automatic argument bracketing&lt;/a&gt;; which is great, except for the delimiters are not extensible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know if there is a general package that handles bracketing by putting together these various aspects. For instance, I give it a shape (either one drawn using &lt;code&gt;pict2e&lt;/code&gt;, or using a pair of existing glyphs), and then it does some of the finer work in the background (e.g. making the glyphs stretchy, and so on). This would be ideal for someone who is &lt;s&gt;lazy&lt;/s&gt; just wanting to get on with writing some math, and not be intimidated by the awesome complexity that is usually carefully hidden from us.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like this might be a question that has already been answered, but I am unable to find it using keywords like &quot;bracket design&quot;, &quot;bracket shape&quot;, &quot;new bracket shape&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you remember a question like this, or a question that produced a package solution like this? If not, would this question be okay for the main site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49339" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T19:27:15.567" Title="Is it okay to ask a question requesting information on which existing packages provide &quot;a general way to make new brackets&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-27T17:09:18.560" Score="14" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question and got a helpful, though not complete answer. I had to put in a bit of work to get it to the point it completely answers my question. I would like to post the complete answer, which is heavily build on the other person's answer. I also would like to give the other person credit. I'm not sure how the credit system works regarding accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two options for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a new post with the complete answer in which I write at the top that it is build on the other person's answer and accept my answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I edit the other person's answer and accept this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does accepting a person's answer give the person rep directly or only the up-votes that might follow from the acceptance?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I do the second option and the answer to my first question is there is no direct rep involved: Do we both get rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the one hand I'd like to give rep, on the other hand editing seems to be not so polity. What do I do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49283" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T13:38:59.443" Title="Answer is good, but not quite finished. I finished, what do I do?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="26" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-27T17:20:33.863" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a formatting bug. Can be seen for instance on &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting?page=2&amp;amp;sort=unanswered&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting?page=2&amp;amp;sort=unanswered&amp;amp;pagesize=50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ljLne.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ljLne.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T08:07:53.357" Title="Question listing formatting bug" Tags="|bug|design|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6319" CreationDate="2015-09-27T17:23:49.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, all showcase questions are off-topic. Citing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;the help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed, avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the view of this community is slightly different and we tend to twist the rules, in sake of usefulness. I can understand how exhaustive lists of all possible (useful) answers is useful, like in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/341/how-to-create-posters-using-latex&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/782/what-are-the-available-documentclass-types-and-their-uses&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/782/what-are-the-available-documentclass-types-and-their-uses&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58098/what-are-all-the-font-styles-i-can-use-in-math-mode&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;. However, &lt;strong&gt;these are not showcase questions&lt;/strong&gt;, and while voting can be subjective on them, there are attempts to make the available information objective, for instance by creating a template for the answers, as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;. The idea of a showcase being helpful seems at least weird to me, as they can hardly be objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T19:52:31.947" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6325" CreationDate="2015-09-28T15:20:02.957" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest an option 3:&#xA;Accept the answer that gave you the solution, and post your own answer.  We have many questions here with multiple valid answers, that's desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are flaws in the answer you followed (rather than it just not going far enough) then use the comments (and possibly edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere on SE I've accepted the answer that led to the solution and self-answered with some more detail (which may be more specific to my case anyway).  The answer was what I was looking for, not the rep, but I gained some upvotes anyway.  This approach may or may not suit your case of course; it's particularly suitable when the extra part you added is very specific.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two advantages of this method: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accepting the answer shows others that the problem is solved as soon as it is solved (i.e. without waiting for you to have time to write up the answer).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A full solution to the exact problem you were having is published.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is a means to an end, you'll gain more by playing nice than playing the system.  Not only that but self-answering and accepting doesn't gain anyone any rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T15:20:02.957" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6319" CreationDate="2015-09-28T21:10:10.150" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such a question would be clearly &lt;em&gt;on topic&lt;/em&gt; but should be closed for other reasons (too broad) or (opinion based). This is generally true of any such &quot;showcase&quot; question (despite the fact that one or two have been left to stand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But aside from general concerns about showcase questions, suggesting preambles would be a really bad idea. One of the more common problems we see is people just collecting ever larger preambles loading packages they don't need, specifying packages multiple times, and generally accumulating complexity and fragility for no gain.  We see this even in the suggested preamble in the comments under the question, where specifying both &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mathtools&lt;/code&gt; just slows things down at best and potentially causes errors if either of them is specified with package options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A beginner should simply start with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and add packages or change the document class &lt;em&gt;if they need&lt;/em&gt; some feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think any list of &quot;off the shelf&quot; preambles would just promote bad practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T21:10:10.150" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6325" CreationDate="2015-09-29T12:19:03.190" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently I'm the only one noticing questions in the question. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the other person is not you, it gives him 15 reputation, and you 2 reputation. Otherwise, 0.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As said above, you gain 2 reputation points. Additionally, if you don't have editing privileges, you'll have to suggest the edit, and if it is accepted it'll be another 2 rep for you. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is primarily &quot;given&quot; by bounties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvotes are also a way to award some reputation, but it has a visibility impact. If you can't give a bounty for an answer but you really want to, arguably, you could look up the users' top-voted questions and answers and give some upvotes. A post with high vote-count is usually deserving of these votes (at least on this site), that's why I believe it is arguably acceptable. It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; abusing the voting feature, technically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer has the effect of making it the first visible answer in a thread. This should not be used merely for giving reputation to a user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About politeness, opinions vary as you may have seen in the comments. I have chosen option 2 several times, on sites where I didn't have edit privileges, and my edits were welcomed every time. In my opinion, you're giving the answerer two favors: you upvote and accept his answer (immediate rep benefit + high visibility =&gt; more upvotes) and you improve on his answer (higher quality =&gt; more upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should probably leave a comment explaining the modifications, and maybe suggest that the answerer includes them himself if he prefers to. And in any case, I suggest that you clearly mark the editted part as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you shouldn't be ashamed of choosing option 1 instead, if the modifications are so drastic that the edit would change the whole answer. In other words, if your edit would be writing a new answer, write a new answer instead. But if the modifications are just about filling some blanks in the process, showing the complete code or answering some doubts formulated in the answer, commenting and/or editting is probably the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastEditorUserId="9517" LastEditDate="2015-09-29T13:38:59.443" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T13:38:59.443" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-29T18:59:32.627" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the following problem with my account. I posted some questions with an unregistered account with the name Noob (e.g.&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/270026/nomenclature-too-long&quot;&gt;Nomenclature too long?&lt;/a&gt;). I provided my E-Mail Adress which I also use for this account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the problem is that I cannot log-in with the Noob account (because I never registered it). But I want to write an important comment to my previous question (the question is very important for me). With the account MicFem (it is the account which I am using for writing this question) however I cannot comment on my previous question. This is why I posted my comment as an answer, but it was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do to comment on that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88630" OwnerDisplayName="Noob" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T19:59:47.537" Title="Problem with my account" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-10-01T02:18:20.023" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6319" CreationDate="2015-09-29T20:25:40.017" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow me to contribute a few concrete examples of hidden gems of preamble art&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/206987/beamer-not-compiling-presentation-properly&quot;&gt;Beamer not compiling presentation properly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/188114/sharelatex-swallows-80-pages-of-my-work-when-compiling-pdf&quot;&gt;Sharelatex &amp;#39;swallows&amp;#39; 80 pages of my work when compiling pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/106201/using-caption-package-with-thesis-class-undefined-control-sequence&quot;&gt;Using &amp;#39;caption&amp;#39; package with &amp;#39;thesis&amp;#39; class - undefined control sequence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/107164/thesis-class-error-extra-or-forgotten-endgroup-on-second-compile-not-first&quot;&gt;Thesis class error Extra } or forgotten \endgroup on second compile (not first) in float caption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and many many more (please keep adding if you remember more)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead have a look at this old question which is kind of what you might have in mind and see the answers gently saying &lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;noooooooooo, doooon't dooo thisssssss&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34128/good-latex-preambles-for-math-thesis&quot;&gt;Good LaTeX preambles for math thesis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T20:25:40.017" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-02T22:53:37.430" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone set a relation between those two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/239780/minted-caching-in-tikz-externalize-job&quot;&gt;Minted caching in tikz externalize job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/270492/problem-when-loading-minted-after-tikzexternalize&quot;&gt;Problem, when loading minted after \tikzexternalize&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it possible to suggest this relation within the questions directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29087" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T04:25:53.143" Title="Set related question for two questions" Tags="|support|related-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6333" CreationDate="2015-10-03T04:25:22.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any post link within the body of the post (question or answer) or in comment will be reflected in the &quot;Linked&quot; section of the accompanying post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in order to &quot;relate&quot; two posts, it is typically customary to add a comment in either post with the corresponding target post link. This can be achieved by any user having the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Comment Anywhere privilege&lt;/a&gt; (at least 50 reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T04:25:22.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6335" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-05T06:21:12.737" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The buttons for the different tabs on the Activity part of your personal profile page are aligned perfectly fine if you have no recent activity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sp32r.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sp32r.png&quot; alt=&quot;everything fine&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but as soon as you have new reputation changes, responses, ..., the line is too wide and the 'votes' button is displayed on the next line. Further, the 'votes' button &lt;em&gt;follows&lt;/em&gt; your cursor movement: If you move the cursor over the 'tags' button, you'll see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qLkuM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qLkuM.png&quot; alt=&quot;ugly line break&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you move the cursor over the 'answers' button, then 'votes' will be displayed below 'questions'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could reproduce this issue with a recent version of Chrome (45.0) and Firefox, both on Win7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug or a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65692" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T06:21:12.737" Title="Misplaced 'votes' button on profile page" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6338" CreationDate="2015-10-05T18:55:05.037" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how this is called and so I can't find information about it, and don't want to post a repeated questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have sentences which end in &quot;weight 1&quot; or &quot;line 2&quot;. And latex separates the number from the word. I was looking for a way to correct this automatically (and not by adding &lt;code&gt;~&lt;/code&gt;). I searched for orphan, single number, number next line... but didn't find this problem handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know how I can search this issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69635" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T00:48:02.843" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T19:22:27.647" Title="Number separated from the rest of the sentence" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2015-10-06T00:47:47.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a typographical side note, the following mnemonic describes the difference between an &lt;strong&gt;orphan&lt;/strong&gt; and a &lt;strong&gt;widow&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;An orphan starts alone, a widow ends alone.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An &lt;strong&gt;orphan&lt;/strong&gt; refers to a single word or line left at the bottom of a page, with the remainder of the paragraph appearing in the next column or following page;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;widow&lt;/strong&gt; refers to a single word or line that is forced to be separated from a paragraph that overflows into the next column or onto the following page;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(La)TeX refers to an orphan as being a &quot;club&quot; and provides an associated penalty for that - &lt;code&gt;\clubpenalty&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no specific search that covers this type of query, unless it's tagged that way, since Stack Exchange's search capability provides no discernment between letters and numbers - they're both characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your request seems to be more general that having a possible &lt;em&gt;widow&lt;/em&gt;, as you want to join end-of-sentence numerals with the preceding word. My guess is that this would require a LuaLaTeX approach as a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, get in the habit of following &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/29840/5764&quot;&gt;Mr.&amp;nbsp;Drofnats&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T00:47:47.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2015-10-06T19:22:27.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you can't find a question that would be the same as what you ask, simply go ahead and ask a question on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What you want is impossible, but not because TeX wouldn't be capable of such things (well, LuaTeX shall be able to solve this), but because it cannot know whether the number is &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the word like in your examples, or &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the word like in: &quot;The article is 5~pages long.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T19:22:27.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-09T12:29:23.900" Score="27" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; As requested by TeX friends, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/1NGnDa3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX Cookbook&lt;/a&gt; promotion has been extended by 1 week, until October, 31, there's a new 35% discount code: SVLIDA7. This time for &lt;em&gt;printbook and ebook&lt;/em&gt; because printbook was user requested but at first the publisher only allowed ebook discount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I recently made my LaTeX Guide available for free download for one day (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2015/03/latex-beginners-guide-available-for-download-today/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;), with permission of my publisher, some users had missed that occasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm happy to say that the publisher agreed with me to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make a discount of 50% for a longer time for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/1V5iQ7L&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beginner's Guide&lt;/a&gt; (applies until November 30th, 2015, use coupon code tDRet6Y, total number limited)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;make a discount of 35% for pre-ordering the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/1NGnDa3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX Cookbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; (valid until October 18th, 2015, use coupon code LXCB35)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I again wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.blogoverflow.com/2015/09/latex-cookbook/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;new blog post&lt;/a&gt; about it, no need to repeat that here. I just noticed, a blog post is hardly visible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not in the right side bar for some days, as it used to be earlier&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no mention of the blog post in the auto-generated TeX Stack Exchange newsletter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, before that occasion ends (in one week) I decided to mention it here on Meta. It's a valid place, since parts of the book are about this site, TeX Stack Exchange. How? I will write this as answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like the idea that TeX.SE members, who wrote a book and can offer it with a discount promotion, can tell it visibly our members, you could up vote the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6343/213&quot;&gt;Beginner's guide ad&lt;/a&gt;. With a minimum score of 6, it becomes visible from time to time (as there are many others with a lot higher score). I will delete both after promotion end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you consider it as undesirable promotion, independent if it's supporting publishing LaTeX books, you may downvote of course. But I hope a cookbook style one which is fully based on examples would be welcome. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in my answer you can see, that I made massive TeX Stack Exchange promotion in my books, mainly in the first one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you can get a quick impression of the new book by visiting the gallery &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-cookbook.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX-Cookbook.net&lt;/a&gt;. I put a &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-cookbook.net/articles/graphics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sample chapter&lt;/a&gt; there, and I am adding examples step by step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T22:13:37.437" Title="Learning LaTeX -- book promotions" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6344" CreationDate="2015-10-09T12:32:24.057" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I promised above, here are samples what my books are telling the world and specifically new TeX users about our site TeX.SE. I will post some pure screenshots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gUWYF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gUWYF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Intro&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cBAZo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cBAZo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Starting TeX.SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/juu0q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/juu0q.png&quot; alt=&quot;Using TeX.SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hsXXr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hsXXr.png&quot; alt=&quot;About TeX Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T12:32:24.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-11T16:09:00.450" Score="123" ViewCount="1792" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am Paulo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am the top voter of the &lt;em&gt;entire StackExchange universe&lt;/em&gt;. And I believe I fit the description of being a serial upvoter. It is my OCD. I like to upvote, it is one of my favourite hobbies and the way I found to help this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First things first: reputation does not mean anything. In my particular case, the fact of me being close to 30k does not make me better or wiser or more significant than anybody in the world. Au contraire, little do I know about TeX and friends. But I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; care about my TeX friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why I vote. That is why votes are important to me. I want to make people feel welcome. I would like to make our friends earn privileges and help build a better community. If a question shows effort, it deserves an upvote. If a question gets a answer, both deserve a token of gratitude. A gratitude for helping each and one of us discoverying a whole new world beyond our current knowledge and limitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX itself taught me a lot of things. But I could never learn such things if it weren't so many friends who dedicate a lot of their daily routine to be my mentors and help me overcome my own obstacles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very same way I feel welcome, I want to share it. That is why I upvote. That is why I serial upvote. I am the top voter for a reason. And this TeX community is &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, the serial voting algorithm had reversed a lot of my friends' reputation. This has happening for quite some time. I am deeply sorry for such inconvenience. At the same time, from my perspective, it is unfair to also invalidate all my upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't failed the Turing test yet. And I can guarantee I am not a robot &lt;em&gt;beep beep&lt;/em&gt;. I don't want my friends to have so abrupt changes in their reputation (although we really don't care about these numbers, they are only useful for eccentric palindromic reasons), but at the same time, I don't want to see a newbie getting privileges revoked or dreams shattered because my votes were all invalidated in this odd system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a defensive approach in the last three months, but I guess it is time to make things happen. Personally, I have nothing to lose: if my votes hold, the community gear keeps spinning, otherwise, I will annoy the living hell of this serial voting algorithm. And I will find out the logic behind it and crush it with the power of a million ducks. Quack. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Let us add a question, so it looks like a meta thread: can my votes be valid, please? &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; I don't think I should be considered a robot. Also, the other questions about voting reversals are not totally covered and explained by the SE staff, I think we need some clarification to both ends: serial voters and affected users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T19:19:26.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T09:12:01.710" Title="I am a serial upvoter" Tags="|discussion|support|serial-voting|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2015-10-11T16:16:57.190" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cwac!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A rhai cwaciadau pellach i gadw'r system yn hapus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;EDIT&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up vote for 'Cwac!'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down vote for 'Na chwac!'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abstain if you are not a hwyaden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="39222" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T16:18:51.080" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T16:18:51.080" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2015-10-11T16:25:56.160" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really think that people who use more than 30 votes in a day should get the threshold for triggering the anti-voter bot increased by at least 30%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for instance, if for me, who votes only 20 times a day, I need to give 8 votes to E to trigger the bot, it should be at least 12 for Paulo who uses all his votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, this is a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T16:25:56.160" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6354" CreationDate="2015-10-11T20:43:17.957" Score="14" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user posts a code snippet/mwe stating a faulty behavior, but the code actually perform the correct action, is there something akin to a &quot;Can not reproduce&quot; type of flag? Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/272407/line-arrow-using-tikz&quot;&gt;Line/arrow using tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in the comments the code already behaves as expected, but what happens to the thread - does it stay open or does someone close it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68974" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T09:10:00.397" Title="What is the correct action when it's impossible to reproduce an error?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2015-10-11T22:20:35.347" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;SE algorithm thinks that Paulo Cereda is a robot?! Stupid algorithm, go to a corner and blush!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="3406" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T08:43:36.680" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T08:43:36.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2015-10-11T22:36:40.373" Score="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a TeXnical broadcast in behalf of the &lt;strong&gt;Paulo Supporter Party&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paulo Cereda has definitely a lot of positive traits...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paulo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is one of the kindest users I met here (there are other kind users too, of course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is the greatest Duck fan ever,ever,ever -- positively obsessed by ducks ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;knows a lot of Computer Science and TeX (as the whole bunch ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has a huge knowledge about Monty Python (and other important shows) ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;supports new users as well as older ones (We have some really old blokes here -- mummies -- say no more!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;knows German (a little bit ;-) -- don't mention the war!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His votes are 'necessary' for all of us and if he is a serial upvoter, so his is one, but certainly no robot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should become a serial upvoter too.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like Paulo support his question -- vote for the Paulo Supporter Party &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-05-28T09:12:01.710" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T09:12:01.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2015-10-12T06:18:50.630" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if you're a robot, I hope a you'll be able to read my post &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta.SE there is a post to explain everything about serial upvote: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in particular fore the reputation loss:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why don't I get to keep the reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reputation was removed because it is not proper behavior and it is&#xA;  not allowed. The votes were completely invalidated by the system and&#xA;  thus the reputation gain from them was also invalidated. The only way&#xA;  you can gain this reputation back is to go post some more and get some&#xA;  legitimate upvotes on those posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever, I think the vote limitation is needed on site like SO where some people use it to find a job (based on reputation...) but I don't think it's important on a site like TeX.SE where the community is smaller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T06:18:50.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6350" CreationDate="2015-10-12T07:44:30.227" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, the post shouldn't be closed first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @cfr explained in comment, the OP can have the problem and not knowing why this doesn't work for him/her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the error is a old TeX system and updating it to a current version is the best way to solve the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the MWE first provided by the OP didn't show the proper behavior: the OP made it quickly without compiling and you have to wait to see if a package use can be in conflict with the code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my answer is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment and say you can't reproduce the error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP modifies the code, retry and go to point 1 if needed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP admits a mistake on their side, vote to close, or flag the question for moderator intervention saying describing why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@cfr pointed in the comment: the system can make an automatic deletion of a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/enable-automatic-deletion-of-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006&quot;&gt;Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?&lt;/a&gt; if the OP doesn't respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T09:59:52.680" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-12T10:50:27.953" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recent days I observe unpleasant behavior of SE website. At submitting of answer or comment it says &quot;an error happens ...&quot;. Also including images make the some problems. In all cases the second try is successful (yet). I also observe, that after this sometimes the question and answer disappear for while (about 10 minutes) from list of top questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone experienced this? To whom I should report this problems? It seems that meta-TeX is not right place to report such website technical issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18189" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T10:50:27.953" Title="SE website recently doesn't work properly" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2015-10-12T19:50:08.597" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take a contrary view here. The serial voting algorithm, although probably imperfect, is enforcing a rule that for better or worse the SE people as a whole think is A Good Thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you have stated that your main purpose in voting is to help build community, and it's undeniable that such voting can probably help that.  But this is expressly not what the SE powers want the voting system to be for. But at the same time you mention that &quot;your friends' reputation&quot; has been reversed. Now it's possible that you have used 'friend' here with a very broad interpretation, namely anyone and everyone on the site counts as a friend. But if that's not the case, then your voting pattern isn't actually building community, per se, but boosting the reputation of some subset of the community (even if that subset is quite large).  Now I count myself as one of your friends in this smaller set, but I don't really want you to upvote my answers just because I'm (I hope) a good member of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now of course, you can argue that my (and other high-rep users') answers are independently worthy of upvoting, since we generally supply good answers, but I think that this still artificially inflates the score for some people over others. And certainly for high reputation users in particular, the last thing we really need is more reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, could your voting penchant be directed in another way, perhaps to new users whose questions are well asked?  (Forgive me if these kinds of votes are also being undone.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just some thoughts from a friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt; Just so it's clear to others, I am in no way suggesting that Paulo just upvotes some (fairly large) set of his site friends to the exception of others with whom he has no connection at all. I know this is not the case. But I do think that if that group is the group subject to the cancelled votes, then my comments stand. Unfortunately it's difficult (if not impossible) to tell whether all of the votes are being undone or just some of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T02:08:35.810" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T02:08:35.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-14T21:37:04.840" Score="12" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if it allowed/ethical to &quot;promote&quot; ones package on TeX.SE? Evidently I'm talking about free and open-source packages so not with a (direct) financial benefit. The idea is that many programmers write nice (hacky) packages for some need, but fail to attract other users/programmers to use/contribute to these packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea could be to ask some question like: &quot;&lt;em&gt;How can you do X effectively?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; And the answer: &quot;&lt;em&gt;With package Y&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (and evidently with a short introduction to the features Y offers). Since answering is open, other programmers can come up with their own package and its features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short question&lt;/strong&gt;: will this practice be supported, or should these questions be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2601" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T08:41:57.683" Title="Can one use TeX.SE to &quot;promote&quot; ones package" Tags="|discussion|questions|site-promotion|packages|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6359" CreationDate="2015-10-14T22:18:25.550" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you actually find questions that are related to your package content, then you can fire an answering frenzy by mentioning &lt;em&gt;you can also do this with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;insert package name&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and so on. Then I don't see why it should be a problem since we have loads of package authors answering questions with their own poison of choice. And it is a very very good thing since you get the information directly from the source. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it is a pretty obscure subject, say counting the keystrokes that left/right hand presses for typing a document&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, then you can ask one-two questions, which really means &lt;strong&gt;please don't overdo it&lt;/strong&gt;, with really well prepared content including those obscure keywords such that others can find it via googling, and then answer yourself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you better prepare the questions a bit better as you can see there is a defensive mode for such best practice stuff even though the whole site is about best practice answers instructing &lt;em&gt;don't do this, don't use that, those are deprecated&lt;/em&gt; etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1) I trust the nerdiverse that it must exist somewhere&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T22:18:25.550" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6362" CreationDate="2015-10-16T06:35:16.167" Score="8" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we look at community user profiles (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;main&lt;/a&gt;), we can see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some&#xA;  attention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So sometimes I see old question poked and put on the front page of active questions. Most of the time when I see this, it is about a question with some tags with some answers from me: For example this morning I saw only poked questions with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;emacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;emacs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone see the same question(s) poked or is it user dependent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T10:44:55.373" Title="Community and old question poke" Tags="|support|community-user|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6361" CreationDate="2015-10-16T06:53:25.840" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everybody sees the same question that is poked (maximum of one such question per hour), so it's independent of the user. It is dependent on the question though, and as mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community user profile&lt;/a&gt; - old and unanswered. More specifically, questions eligible for bumping have gone at least 30 days with no activity, have at least one answer scoring 0 and none scoring more than that, and no accepted answer (also, they can't be locked or closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19738/168244&quot;&gt;Who is the Community user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T06:53:25.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6359" CreationDate="2015-10-16T08:41:57.683" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strange, mostly I use the site for the opposite use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't use longtable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55083/longtable-vs-supertabular-which-is-right-for-which-job#comment115385_55083&quot;&gt;Longtable vs. supertabular: Which is right for which job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't use xspace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/86620/1090&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/86620/1090&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't use tabularx&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/192656/alignment-in-tabularx-environment#comment444837_192656&quot;&gt;Alignment in tabularx environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/176257/column-width-table-in-tabularx-environment#comment407922_176257&quot;&gt;Column width table in tabularx environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/145918/1090&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/145918/1090&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/241411/1090&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/241411/1090&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't use xmltex&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/42207/1090&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/42207/1090&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/113820/xml-or-other-markup-to-latex#comment251068_113820&quot;&gt;XML or other markup to LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T08:41:57.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-20T08:41:24.530" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was redirected from a web search to &lt;code&gt;tex DOT dingding DOT com&lt;/code&gt;, which appears to be a mirror of tex.SE.  I only noticed the URL when it asked me to log in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait…  Did I just mention I was about to give my login/pwd ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure this website isn't legit — or is it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61949" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T16:46:56.317" Title="Is this website phishing SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-20T11:32:59.437" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84753/summary-of-tikz-commands&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on Tex.SE asking about a &quot;Summary of Tikz commands&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added somethings I thought were relevant &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/84757/revisions&quot;&gt;revision 10&lt;/a&gt;. But @percusse thought &quot;that's not what this answer is about.&quot; and reversed my editing. Unfortunately  he has not answer my question of what is this answer about, then?/Why not this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T15:08:50.990" Title="What is &quot;Summary of Tikz commands&quot; about?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6366" CreationDate="2015-10-20T15:08:50.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you did is expanding command to how it can be used but that is already in the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;path specification part&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. We discussed this when the answer was shaping back then. See the &lt;strong&gt;Path Specification&lt;/strong&gt; section of the answer for your addition given in a more detailed fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T15:08:50.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6365" CreationDate="2015-10-20T16:46:56.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a site provides copies of SE-related content, it needs to adhere to two simple rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Attribution: You have to provide &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution&lt;/a&gt;. Simple links to the original post and author info are just fine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subsequent re-use: You have to allow other people to use your content, as long as they follow these very same rules.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't you can report it. Read more about it in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/200177/168244&quot;&gt;A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What do I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T16:46:56.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2015-10-21T07:04:28.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at my profile I have the track next privilege right now and since I have reach 2k rep it changes. It seems that create &quot;tag synonyms&quot; is larger than &quot;edit privileges&quot; and so the little wheel on the right that enables one to switch between track privileges and track next tag badges disappears:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4edcc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4edcc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have it back &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="50058" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T12:15:57.733" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T12:15:57.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6350" CreationDate="2015-10-22T09:10:00.397" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the &quot;loop&quot; posted above by Romain Picot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case the unreproducible error stays visible on one side, but is not to detected on the other side, I strongly suggest to send this person to the Bugtracker of the used Software and/or Linuxdistribution (for example the Debian or Ubuntu bugtracker) and ask them to have a look at the discussion regarding the issue discussed at stackexchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases unreproducible errors are &quot;real&quot;[¹], they just don't show under any conditions. It may happen for example that one problem occurs only in conjunction with other packages installed, or only if an underlying library has build in version x, or only if you are on a certain kind of hardware. &#xA;Having a broader overview of the used components is only possible if people know this system from heart. Sometimes these people that can help better with system debugging than the &quot;avarage tex wizzard&quot; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats why software projects in general and Linux Distributions in particular have Bugtrackers - please do use them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;¹: not-that-serious-sidenote: compare Heisenbug at Wikipedia &#xA;&quot;a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter&#xA; its behavior when one attempts to study it&quot; &#xA;(Wikipedia contributors, &quot;Heisenbug,&quot; Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,&#xA;https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heisenbug&amp;amp;oldid=686213998&#xA;(accessed October 22, 2015).) &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34927" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T09:10:00.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6373" CreationDate="2015-10-22T15:27:02.427" Score="8" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose that the site ceases ordering answers according to the number of upvotes. The default ordering should be with the newest answers on top, and a very highly visible button to order according to the number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rationale: the current scheme makes it very difficult to propose newer answers to old questions, or even not so old questions in case one of the answers already gathered a significant number of upvotes and/or was accepted (sometimes hastily) by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a new answer is added, most site visitors will see the question on the list, end up visualizing the accepted or already highly upvoted one and many will get impressed by this and add one upvote, not even going to the new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that clicking on &quot;modified ...&quot; should bring the visitor to the new answer, but perhaps many site visitors don't, and for example on my computer it doesn't work when I am in private browsing mode on firefox (which I am always).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also people coming to the site after a google search will be presented with sometimes very old accepted answers, and possibly better newer ones will not even be read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the long run, the accumulated knowledge in such a system is in peril of obsolescence; &lt;code&gt;TeX/LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; is special due to its great stability, nevertheless it goes through evolutions, and if the site is to keep its utility in twenty years from now, it should slow down rather than encourage gregarious voting behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="80872" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T08:56:37.773" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T09:12:29.583" Title="Proposal for an alternative order for answers" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6372" CreationDate="2015-10-23T08:56:22.007" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things that make the Stack Exchange sites useful is that &lt;em&gt;when we have the answer&lt;/em&gt;, it's literally the first thing you see on the page once you've read the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very valuable, and it's one of the things that make Stack Exchange sites more useful than forums or mailing lists for Q&amp;amp;A (I'm speaking from a Q&amp;amp;A perspective specifically — forums and mailing lists are better for other use cases).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't want to lose that.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are definitely some issues with the current sorting, and we're trying to work through those, but I think the cure you're proposing here is worse than the disease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some posts where this was discussed on Meta Stack Exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/261817/how-do-we-encourage-edits-to-obsolete-out-of-date-answers&quot;&gt;How do we encourage edits to obsolete/out of date answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/264045/lets-move-some-negatively-scored-answers-from-the-top-spot&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s move some negatively scored answers from the top spot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T09:12:29.583" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2015-10-24T13:30:05.897" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Classes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;General&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42114&quot;&gt;Why should the minimal class be avoided?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why should the minimal class be avoided?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42114)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Class options&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70381/the-article-class-ignores-14pt&quot;&gt;The article class ignores 14pt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[The article class ignores 14pt](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70381)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/49277&quot;&gt;What does the draft mode change?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What does the draft mode change?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/49277)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-04-04T00:57:38.120" LastActivityDate="2023-04-04T00:57:38.120" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-10-24T13:30:05.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6376" CreationDate="2015-10-25T23:31:13.073" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am searching for many days answers regarding font selection and until this point I have found nothing, not only in our main site but generally. I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/274491/piece-of-code-regarding-languages-and-fonts&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; in the main site a few days earlier but while the answer was helpful I was confused even more while searching trying to understand it. As this is I believe an elementary question I am not really sure if it is a good fit for the main site so I want your opinion if I should post it there. My question is how to change the font in a document. What should I take care of? Should I take care of its math aspects? What about its sans aspects? Should I check if the font supports all the above? What are the correct code lines to insert the new font? Should I download it and save it somewhere particularly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45524" LastEditorUserId="45524" LastEditDate="2015-10-25T23:36:43.843" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T09:11:07.317" Title="Question regarding font selection" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6375" CreationDate="2015-10-26T09:11:07.317" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very nice of you to raise this issue. Unlike the general mantra in SO, in TeX-SX, elementary questions are also valuable for newcomers to TeX. Because these questions help to isolate the beginner confusions or similar problems. You might experience some &lt;em&gt;do your research&lt;/em&gt; type weirdness potentially but with some patience it usually goes OK, if you can keep your cool with such users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, you have to avoid the duplicate questions which is your part of the deal. A new font question in particular depends completely on the document class (which goes into &lt;code&gt;\documentclass{}&lt;/code&gt; the packages you are trying to use (any font packages or are you trying to use a system font such as Verdana, Comic Sans, Ubuntu, Windows fonts and so on) and the compilation chain LuaTeX? XeLaTeX? and most importantly why you want to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often users ask a question about problem X to solve the problem Y which is called an XY problem. If you instead can describe problem X properly and avoid duplicates then fire your questions as many as you like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T09:11:07.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6378" CreationDate="2015-10-28T10:39:41.183" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a chat room to promote the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/74083/korean-language?referrer=_bGLWL4a0nyN5qIsOP5VxA2&quot;&gt;Korean Language Proposal&lt;/a&gt; at Area51 here:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/30769/korean-language-discussion-room-commit-stage&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/30769/korean-language-discussion-room-commit-stage&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However during creation it got associated to TeX.SE by mistake. It turns out that I can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/268517/how-can-i-change-the-related-site-for-a-chatroom-after-the-room-is-created&quot;&gt;neither change this nor delete the chatroom to start over&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/268517/how-can-i-change-the-related-site-for-a-chatroom-after-the-room-is-created#comment870466_268517&quot;&gt;I was told that a moderator at TeX.SE should be able to do it for me&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I request the powers that be at TeX.SE to change the association of this chat room to something else (preferably travel.SE, or if that is not possible for some reason, then to Area51 itself)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T13:55:28.973" Title="Please change the association of my chatroom from TeX to Travel SE" Tags="|support|chat|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6377" CreationDate="2015-10-28T11:58:12.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should now be done: I hope this shows up for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T11:58:12.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6380" CreationDate="2015-11-01T13:38:22.853" Score="4" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not see some of my comments. Specifically I can name at least one which I remember very well, and which is not there anymore - in comments on the answer in this topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/275218/how-to-compile-lm-fonts-from-sources&quot;&gt;How to compile LM-fonts from sources?&lt;/a&gt; I left a comment &quot;I did not see &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; recipe... Did you?&quot; (verbatim). Can anybody delete them besides me? This is just unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I do not see some topics which I opened. I can name at least two which I remember and they are not there anymore. Why did they disappear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please check what's going on. I'm ready to provide required info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70900" OwnerDisplayName="Igor Liferenko" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T06:00:46.740" Title="Why topics and comments disappear from a post?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2015-11-01T13:57:43.470" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are intended to allow &lt;em&gt;passing&lt;/em&gt; clarification, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; on questions or answers. Quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are temporary &quot;Post-It&quot; notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not generate reputation. There's no revision history, and when they are deleted they're gone for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt; part: comments (and indeed other content) can be removed not only by the original author but also by the moderators or SE staff. In particular, long threads of comments are not encouraged by the StackOverflow model and may be removed/reduced once they have done their job. (The back-end of the site automatically flags up any question with 20 or more comments.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers can be deleted manually or automatically. The latter happens to avoid a build-up of closed, unanswered questions with low views, so that searching the site will (hopefully) give useful data. This process is automated: I note one question from you that has been deleted by the back-end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, the aim of the site is to provide useful questions and answers not only for the original asker but for a wider audience. (The basic idea of 'not a forum, not a wiki, ...' is covered in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&lt;/a&gt;). All posts are therefore subject to the site license and may be edited/removed by others under defined conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On comments, anyone posting them should work on the basis that they might be removed at some stage. Comments are quite deliberately not given the same status as Q/A content. They cannot be searched, they cannot be edited by others (wiki-like), they do not gain rep, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; This is part of the site design and is intended to make the &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; the place where the 'value' is.  Extended discussion works poorly in comments in any case, and is best handled in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the back-end retains all data posted to the site. Removal is carried out to keep the visible content focussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T06:00:46.740" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2015-11-01T18:37:14.163" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stumbled into this post, and although I'm not active here, I thought I could contribute...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Gilles has probably passed me now, until recently &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; was the person who voted the most across all SE sites: over 40,000 votes on the site where I'm most active, 17,000 on the next most active, and over 100,000 across all SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you're not even close to being the top voter in the whole SE universe.  Sorry.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all my voting, I've been reversed for serial voting maybe 3 times, resulting in a handful of votes being reversed.  One reason it doesn't happen to me is that I mostly vote on questions as they come, I don't go looking for them.  e.g. I read and vote on pretty much every question (and any answers) on some sites.  On ServerFault there are too many questions for that (although I used to do it) , but I'm the most active close and re-open reviewer and I vote on almost all the questions (and often the answers) I review.  Voting this way naturally spreads my votes over a lot of users, which seems to be enough to avoid triggering the serial vote reversal algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91182" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T18:37:14.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-04T02:09:27.120" Score="17" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being new to this stack, I'm curious whether the community welcomes questions that present a problem and (working) solution, and subsequently ask whether there are better alternatives to the approach taken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/276410/how-to-match-width-of-tcolorbox-box-in-this-cornell-notes-template&quot;&gt;first question&lt;/a&gt;, I later posted an answer. Say I had been able to arrive at that solution on my own: Would the question of whether the approach could be improved be on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T22:38:45.373" Title="To what extent are code-review-style questions welcome?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6382" CreationDate="2015-11-04T22:17:17.147" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not really a fan of such questions, as it remains really open-ended (or too broad). Answers can be as simple as &amp;quot;No, that's the best you can do&amp;quot; to 10 answers each doing it in different ways. You may even have both these options (no + a bunch of yes's and/or alternatives) in the same set of answers, depending on the end-user's expertise, making it somewhat opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to this, here's the vote-to-close reasons that fall within the scope of such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T22:17:17.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1263" CreationDate="2015-11-06T09:03:48.433" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this name change is unfortunate and should be changed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very common for (especially new) users to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt; for any question related to any part of the tex system, whether a problem with a specific package or with an editor or general latex syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost invariably someone then does a tag edit to remove the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this site this constant retagging is time wasting and confusing but using &quot;latex project&quot; as a name for &quot;anything about TeX&quot; leads to other misunderstandings. In particular we see people coming to &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-project.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://latex-project.org&lt;/a&gt; reporting bugs in contributed packages or looking to obtain a TeX distribution such as miktex or texlive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latex-project.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://latex-project.org&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; for general tex questions or distribution: it is the project site for the core LaTeX code maintainers, so LaTeX2e base, tools, graphics (and amsmath, babel and psnfss) and also the LaTeX3 and expl3 codebases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stackexchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt; tag should be reserved for subjects that would be appropriate on that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDITS DONE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general LaTeX tags are now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-base&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-base&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-base&lt;/a&gt; for discussion of the latex base distribution, that is the classes and packages covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/base&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/base&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt; for discussion of the LaTeX project and its aims (that is the core development sources for LaTeX2e and LaTeX3, including expl3). That is subjects that are in scope for the project website at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.latex-project.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-misc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-misc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-misc&lt;/a&gt; for general LaTeX questions where no more suitable tag exits. this is also used for several legacy questions that were formally tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-project&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-project&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-project&lt;/a&gt;, just to ease the conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T10:51:10.167" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T10:51:10.167" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1263" CreationDate="2015-11-06T10:29:35.390" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look how many new users post replies to comments as an answer. Users are still used to general forums, where tagging a question &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; is completely allright. Naturally, they want to tag their question here as well, of course with the &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; tag. The system is smart and completes that to &lt;code&gt;latex-project&lt;/code&gt;, which is in most cases wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not simply let the users tag the questions with &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; and teach our &lt;em&gt;smart&lt;/em&gt; system to automatically drop the tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That of course does not mean, that the existense of a &lt;code&gt;latex-general&lt;/code&gt; tag is impossible for questions that really deserve the tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would work if a user provides multiple tags, but as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11002/yo&quot;&gt;yo'&lt;/a&gt; points out: Many questions have just one single tag, which in that proposed case would mean the question would be untagged. So, not a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T13:42:20.183" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6387" CreationDate="2015-11-08T05:13:36.877" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question that got a pretty good answer.  But the answer requires me to change something in my preamble where I only want to make a one-time change within a single list.  (This involves the enumitem package.)  I put a comment on the answer asking how to get the local fix (it's not obvious to me how to do it, and I don't understand the enumitem documentation very well).  How do I know if the original answerer has seen my comment?  What I I do if he never responds to my comment?  Do I ask the question again, specifically stating that I know about the putting-it-in-the-preamble solution?  Do I edit my original question?  Should I give the original answerer a chance to respond to my comment?  What's the best practice here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's a meta-meta question: should I give specific detail about my question and its answer here in this meta question?  Or would that just be distracting?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74071" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T07:11:21.657" Title="What if an answer is good but not completely usable?" Tags="|discussion|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6386" CreationDate="2015-11-08T07:11:21.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interestingly you ask about non-responding users concerning their answers -- the opposite about people requesting something in their questions and never react on comments or give any kind of feedback to answers is far more frequent and my impression is that this a growing 'feature' unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any user that answered a question will see the comments below his or her answer in his inbox or in the &lt;code&gt;responses&lt;/code&gt; menu. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bunch of users are quite active here and get a lot of comments as responses -- it might take a while until the user will respond too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The particular question and answer(s) to it is in general no topic for Meta.SX unless in very special cases about style or spam or has offending content (but even then it's more of a moderator issue)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the user will address your request, just give some grace period -- users go to sleep after some time ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility: Ask the user in the TeX.SX chat about the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T07:11:21.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6389" CreationDate="2015-11-09T20:24:33.453" Score="7" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/277470/42315&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; was posted recently. Werner commented. I saw this through the LQ queue, and I commented. This motivated me for this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That comment template:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post - you can always comment on your own posts, and once you have sufficient &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt; you will be able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment on any post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems like a -- typically correct -- remark, and nothing more. A user seeing this comment is left with &quot;Well so what? I can't «critique» till I have enough rep?&quot;, and no knowledge of possible conversions. Perhaps we should add a sentence to the template to mention this? Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flagged&lt;/a&gt; this &quot;answer&quot; for moderator attention, requesting it be converted to a comment to &lt;em&gt;the question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way the user knows something is being done about this inappropriate placing. It is also unfortunate that the user of the linked answer can't yet flag…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42315" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T04:07:54.787" Title="Edit to comment template?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|answers|low-quality-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6388" CreationDate="2015-11-10T16:39:39.667" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some points to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This template forms part of the Low Quality/LQ review queue &quot;delete&quot; reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0czVt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0czVt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it's a canned response and should cover a whole host of possible &quot;non-answer answers&quot;. By adding this to the response, you have to ask yourself the question: &quot;Is it really necessary to convert all non-answers into comments?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind the LQ review queue is to remove the moderation burden partially from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt;. As such, having a canned response direct content back to them seems to defeat the purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment is a privilege&lt;/a&gt;. Sure, it's a pain to raise your voice when you're just starting out, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/214173/168244&quot;&gt;there are reasons for this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the above in mind, I'd suggest to leave the burden of conversion-to-comment up to the community members through flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756/168244&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/214173/168244&quot;&gt;Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T04:07:54.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6390" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-10T17:48:23.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a low quality post?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As described by the &quot;very low quality&quot; flag reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has severe formatting or content problems. This question is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For further information on how to properly flag answers as very low quality, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/93606&quot;&gt;see this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question refers to flagging, please include a flag-related tag, such as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/flagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;flagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;flagging&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How the review task comes into play:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The review task is meant to root out those low quality posts which have a very short length, since those types of posts tend to follow this rule more often. Of course, the algorithm can never be 100% accurate; that's where the community comes in with reviewing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question refers to low quality posts as seen in the review task, please include the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-11-10T17:48:23.457" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T17:48:23.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6391" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-10T17:48:23.457" Score="0" Body="Anything related to posts of low quality, such as flagging posts for &quot;very low quality&quot;, or the low quality posts review task." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-11-10T17:48:23.457" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T17:48:23.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6382" CreationDate="2015-11-10T22:38:45.373" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really; &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Codereview.SX&lt;/a&gt; exists and has a {&lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex&quot;&gt;TeX&lt;/a&gt;} tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:07.587" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T22:38:45.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6394" CreationDate="2015-11-11T12:39:49.713" Score="43" ViewCount="1140" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/38/12440&quot;&gt;topmost answer&lt;/a&gt; in the very popular question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11/12440&quot;&gt;What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner?&lt;/a&gt; recommends &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the LaTeX Wikibook&lt;/a&gt;. I found it helpful as well when writing my thesis, because it provides hands-on practical advice (and because it is always among the first hits on a web search about LaTeX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the comments it is implied that there are errors and/or bad advice in the Wikibook. It is pointed out that the commenters could easily edit the book, but the discussion ends there. A beginner reading this could be detracted from the Wikibook by these comments (I guess that's their purpose after all) even after these potential flaws were fixed (if there are any).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To underline this, the Wikibooks guidelines tell you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Be_bold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;be bold when editing books&lt;/a&gt;. My understanding is that replacing Bad Advice™ with better advice in a book would be desirable, especially because the book are meant to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Policies_and_guidelines#Wikibooks_is_an_instructional_resource&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;instructional resources&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I'd like to pick up the thread started in the comments of the above-mentioned answer. Since we (as a community) recommend the Wikibook (it is the topmost answer in the &quot;Resources for beginners&quot; question, after all), and the possibility to improve it exists, we should strive to improve the book wherever we see potential for improvement, for the benefit of LaTeX beginners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't feel knowledgeable enough to discern bad LaTeX advice, but there are people here who can easily tell what's A Bad Idea™ from years of experience. And if those people among us pointed out flaws in the book, we could discuss and eventually fix them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not sure how one would organize such a quest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A community wiki question on the meta site or on the main site, where people can point out flaws which they found, which can then be discussed in the comments and subsequently fixed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some sort of chat event, like the &quot;Answer the Unanswered&quot; events? (disclaimer: I've never taken part in one).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Determine that this is not our job and &quot;the Wikibook community&quot; should fix it? (wait for the problems to &quot;fix themselves&quot;, so to say)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Determine that, actually, there are no flaws in the book, and this post is superfluous?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T19:19:16.687" Title="How can we, as a community, improve the LaTeX WikiBook?" Tags="|discussion|best-practice|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6393" CreationDate="2015-11-12T14:43:53.280" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wikibook only will improve through people with a good LaTeX knowledge actively helping and working on the wikibook. Everybody can join and make changes to the pages there. However, instead of just registering and working on the pages or even just working on the pages without registering it is better to first to try communicate with the people there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each wikibook page has an associated discussion page where one can join the current discussion, make suggestions what to improve (and maybe also &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I registered a few days ago and started working on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX-Kompendium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;German wikibook&lt;/a&gt; (and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX-W%C3%B6rterbuch:_InDeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;associated dictionary&lt;/a&gt;) after I saw what they presented for chemical typesetting. I started on improving that section but I also corrected errors elsewhere, joined discussions on other topics, made suggestions, waited for feedback and finally applied my changes. My impression was that the people are very happy about new people willing to improve things and are glad to help with any question you might have. So far the experience has been quite fun! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If enough of us do the same then in the end the wikibook will improve even if it may be a slow process. (I'll stick with the German version for the time being, though…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T14:43:53.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6393" CreationDate="2015-11-13T02:36:09.307" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it would obviously be wonderful if the wikibook was improved, it seems to me that the real problem here is that it is the top-voted resource. Even if the wikibook is improved this second, we have (collectively) been directing people to a poor resource for however long. That's a problem &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm aware that it is not necessarily a TeX SE problem specifically. It may be that the SE voting mechanism is not, in general, very good at selecting better answers. Or that it is not very good at selecting better answers to certain kinds of questions. I'm not saying this is so - perhaps people just vote badly here or perhaps there's some weird interaction between the SE voting system and TeX users. But when I say it is a problem &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, I just mean that it is a TeX SE or SE or... problem, as opposed to a wikibook problem. It is 'our' problem in a way that the state of the wikibook itself is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I'm not saying it wouldn't be great if it were improved. It would also be great if all those templates were updated, corrected and made sane. Not just good in general. But good for this site. Even so, those are not 'our' problem in the sense that a highly-voted recommendation to use those templates would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T02:36:09.307" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6393" CreationDate="2015-11-13T18:31:12.683" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;A wiki is essentially a reference source. As being such it is a very bad place to be a reference material for the beginners and intermediate users of &lt;strong&gt;La&lt;/strong&gt;TeX. Surely you can place some information about how to use &lt;code&gt;\date&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\author&lt;/code&gt; but the complexity increases substantially if you just want to push that title down a bit and make a line break in the institution name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To do this simply, people do a lot of ugly-as-hell hacks which rub people here the wrong way. Simply because we know better. But it just works why should anyone bother about what we think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest obstacle in TeX to convey is that there are gazillion-many ways to do the same thing since only the expanded tokens matter. How it got to that point is not relevant and that is the major obstacle in making people learn TeX. Coincidentally this is the same reason why old and wrong habits don't die. Because they kind of work for some years and break down out of the blue sky.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike other programming languages the inplace replacement nature of TeX makes it almost impossible to treat the subject in a Wiki fashion. Also it serves as a horrible source of confusion since internet supplies an authoritative tolerance to anything that bears the prefix wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of wasting the time and effort of the community, if there will be a collaborative effort, I would put my money on an intermediate level TeX treatment of an online book (Distilled TeXbook if you like). That would for example, eliminate lots and lots of discussions, edit wars and so on that you see even on math pages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be much better with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://readthedocs.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Read The Docs&lt;/a&gt; type of format such that the wikibookness can be kept (if that is absolutely necessary) but the flow would be much better with a GitHub-powered pull-merge intake and we can have indices, table of contents and much more. Even better, a LaTeX3 solution can be incorporated to all this at any point. A LaTeX3 based introduction can finally make a clear distinction between the document level and programming level formats. So much so that new generation can give up on the old style and start from scratch without the need of learning every LaTeX version before they can perform the simplest hack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the lesser-likened opinion that this much of backwards compatibility is not useful for any purpose other than bragging about it. Things have changed and so have people. The engines are still around and if you are dying to replicate the 30-years old document you still can. That doesn't mean we have to get stuck with a system because somebody wants to compile a 30-years old document. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irrelevant opinion: In fact, if TeX can't get out of this PDF-output lock, it will be one of those archaic things because interactivity is killing everything on its way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T20:08:27.873" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T20:08:27.873" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6393" CreationDate="2015-11-15T18:32:44.713" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mathe_f%C3%BCr_Nicht-Freaks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;textbook in Wikibooks&lt;/a&gt; since many years and I am one of the admins in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Hauptseite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;German Wikibook community&lt;/a&gt;. Thus I can only underline the answer by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5049/clemens&quot;&gt;Clemens&lt;/a&gt;: We are really happy that he (and other authors of this site) started to improve the German Wikibook about LaTeX in the last weeks and I want to encourage you all to do the same!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to supplement his answer by additional notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikibooks and tex.stackexchange.com share the same license (namely &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC-BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;). Thus you can copy and paste any answer from tex.stackexchange.com into Wikibooks. Take care that you add an URL + the answer's author name into the summary of the edit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A good place to report errors are the talk pages which are associated to each article. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_talk_pages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Help:Using talk pages&lt;/a&gt; for a tutorial how to use them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikibooks uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_markup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikitext&lt;/a&gt; which is similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt; (Markdown is used on this site). Thus it shall be easy for you to learn the syntax of Wikibooks. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Help:Wiki markup&lt;/a&gt; for a good summary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For LaTeX code you should use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;syntaxhighlight lang=&quot;latex&quot;&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;/syntaxhighlight&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; See &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Extension:SyntaxHighlight&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you need help in editing you can make a question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/Assistance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikibooks:Wikibooks:Reading room/Assistance&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Ich_brauche_Hilfe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikibooks:Ich brauche Hilfe&lt;/a&gt; for the German project about LaTeX)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional note for the German LaTeX project:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Before Clemens, Johannes and others started to make improvements to this project, the project was not actively maintained. Thus you can make changes there directly and I would also encourage you to do so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31701" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T19:19:16.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6403" CreationDate="2015-11-18T23:37:17.993" Score="11" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the mechanism for awarding extra reputation to an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T10:13:55.247" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T23:37:40.000" Title="How to award extra reputation for an answer?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6399" CreationDate="2015-11-19T06:16:08.047" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are willing to offer some of your own reputation for a correct answer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot; title=&quot;set a bounty&quot;&gt;set a bounty&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79241" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T06:16:08.047" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6399" CreationDate="2015-11-19T07:23:20.940" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the help center reputation are gain in particular for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;answer is voted up: +10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;answer is marked “accepted”: +15 (+2 to acceptor)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;bounty awarded to your answer: + full bounty amount&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;one of your answers is awarded a bounty automatically: + half of the bounty amount (see more details about how bounties work)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; as @smpl suggests in his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you may also want to accept answer which gave 15 rep points to the answer's OP. This enables one to track easily the answer that the OP judges the more useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T07:23:20.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2015-11-25T11:34:30.047" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://szhorvat.net/pelican/latex-typesetting-in-mathematica.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e6lSK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Publication quality figure labels with LaTeX and Mathematica&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6302" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T11:34:30.047" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-11-25T11:34:30.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6399" CreationDate="2015-11-30T23:11:19.823" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system is network wide so can't be changed just for tex.sx, so you'd need to raise a change request on the main meta. Note that one user known for offering &quot;2000 point&quot; bounties does that by awarding bounties of 500 points on &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; questions.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you want to bump someone by 75 points, choose any good answer of theirs and give them 75. You can give a bounty giving the standard reason &lt;strong&gt;Reward existing answer&lt;/strong&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/09/bounty-reasons-and-post-notices&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/09/bounty-reasons-and-post-notices&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T23:37:40.000" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T23:37:40.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6405" CreationDate="2015-12-02T06:28:07.250" Score="22" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the exact same problem as this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/79906/13646&quot;&gt;LaTeX producing black background with transparent png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question was asked in 2012, but I have the same problem today. I could compose my own question, but it will end up being identical to the 2012 question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My assumption is that my problem will have a different cause and a different answer (I could be wrong). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you like me to approach this? Ask a new question anyway and reference the 2012 question, or somehow encourage new answers to the old question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13646" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T07:18:22.110" Title="What's your policy on asking the same question twice?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6404" CreationDate="2015-12-02T07:18:22.110" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me the policy is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does any answer(s) solve my question or not? If it's the case, no need to ask a new one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If no answer(s) satisfy the question (and the OP have the same error as you), you can add a bounty and writing in comment why you add this bounty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Otherwise you can ask a new question linking to the previous one saying that no answer(s) staisfy your problem and giving all what should be needed to solve it (MWE, LaTeX code, ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T07:18:22.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6407" CreationDate="2015-12-04T05:13:36.100" Score="16" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year, TeX.SE opted out of participating in &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/12/winter-bash-2014/&quot;&gt;Winterbash 2014&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Winterbash 2015&lt;/a&gt; will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/270189/168244&quot;&gt;begin shortly&lt;/a&gt; (December 14th, 2015 GMT). Are you interested to have TeX.SE join this year? The mods need to let SE know by December 10th so vote early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;More on the Winterbash&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winter Bash is a fun, lighthearted event SE runs every year as a way of celebrating the many amazing people who make the communities awesome. It's open to any Stack Exchange site that chooses to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During Winter Bash, users earn virtual hats by completing certain tasks. They're sort of like badges, but they're more visible and less permanent. Hats can be &quot;worn&quot; on users' avatars just about anywhere avatars show up on the network. Here's an example of what some hats looked like last year, taken from the network leaderboard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R61FX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R61FX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, SE is rolling out an all-new assortment of hats for this year's event, as they have in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Details&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This year's event will start on 14 December 2015 and run up to and including 03 January 2016. Users will be able to see all the hats they've earned on &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;. That site will also have an FAQ to explain how things work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual users who don’t want to participate, don’t want to see hats, and/or are generally anti-hat will have an “I hate hats” option available. And just like last time, at the end of the event, all hats will go back into storage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only visual change to the Stack Exchange sites themselves will be the presence of the hats and the “I hate hats” button in the footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T13:40:32.390" Title="Winterbash 2015 participation" Tags="|discussion|community|winterbash-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6406" CreationDate="2015-12-04T05:13:54.883" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote = Yes! Please sign us up for hats!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote = No thank you, I'd rather enjoy a regular day at the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T05:48:11.207" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T05:48:11.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6409" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-04T05:21:17.020" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T05:21:17.020" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T05:21:17.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6410" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-04T05:21:17.020" Score="0" Body="For questions about the Winter Bash (or holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year 2015." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T05:21:17.020" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T05:21:17.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6412" CreationDate="2015-12-05T14:40:38.107" Score="7" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just stumbled over a situation that irritates me. After I used up my 40 votes for a day (I must admit, after voting 31 times I just wanted to earn that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/88/vox-populi&quot;&gt;Vox Populi badge&lt;/a&gt; and actively looked for further questions and answers that I deemed worth voting upon), I could not access the review queues anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this done on purpose because voting is one of the actions that could be done for reviewing? But there are many more actions possible (in particular commenting -- or skipping if voting would be the right thing to do). So I wonder what the reason for disabling the review queues is when there are no votes left for the day. I don't think it is a big issue, but I'm just irritated and curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69445" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T21:28:27.883" Title="No review when used up votes for a day" Tags="|support|voting|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6411" CreationDate="2015-12-05T21:19:36.417" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; as certain review-related actions are considered rate-limiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following was taken &lt;em&gt;verbatim&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/147052/168244&quot;&gt;Why am I unable to continue reviewing first posts after reaching the vote limit?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, it's definitely by-design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The following tools are available to you when reviewing first posts&#xA;  from the review queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Voting up/down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Voting to close (on questions) or delete (on negatively-scored answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Flagging&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Commenting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All&lt;/em&gt; of these except for editing are rate-limited in some way. And of the five, voting and editing are the two most important - not only are&#xA;  they critical to the overall quality of the site, but specifically in&#xA;  the case of new users they are our primary means of welcoming new&#xA;  users and demonstrating our commitment to high-quality questions and&#xA;  answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So if you can't vote, you're left with editing as your primary tool in&#xA;  this queue. While I'd love think this was enough, in practice folks&#xA;  vote a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more than they edit - even on Stack Overflow, there are&#xA;  only 2 people &lt;em&gt;consistently&lt;/em&gt; averaging more than 30 edits a day.&#xA;  Editing takes more time and effort than any other action on that list,&#xA;  hence the lack of external rate-limiting. If you're diligently editing&#xA;  all or most of the posts you review, more power to you - and if you're&#xA;  done for the day in the First Posts queue, you might find your skills&#xA;  put to good use by either the Low Quality or Suggested Edits queues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I find editing/close votes/comments to be a better tool personally&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Close votes are also rate-limited, can only be used on questions, and&#xA;  even then only used on a minority of questions. If you have close&#xA;  votes to burn, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/review/close&quot;&gt;there's a whole queue waiting for you&lt;/a&gt;... Comments&#xA;  are nice, but also the most toothless of the bunch - and they also&#xA;  suffer from the same problem as editing: leaving &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; comments takes&#xA;  more time than anything else. If those were the only tools available&#xA;  to you, it would be a pretty useless queue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting is the easiest, fastest, and IMHO most useful thing you can do in the First Posts queue&lt;/strong&gt; - if you do nothing else, please vote.&#xA;  And if you burn through all of your votes reviewing first posts,&#xA;  consider that the sign of a job well done. &lt;em&gt;Thank you&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T21:19:36.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6457" CreationDate="2015-12-06T15:08:55.260" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is kind of a duplicate (kind of because a real duplicate seems to have the need of being asked in the same SE forum and the duplicated question is on the main meta forum - apart from that it is almost an exact duplicate) of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2786/accept-multiple-answers-or-split-bounty-among-several-users&quot;&gt;Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By looking at the new Christmas challenge on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/280771/december-challenge-create-an-advent-calendar&quot;&gt;December challenge: Create an Advent Calendar&lt;/a&gt;, I saw an interesting link in the comments leading me to this blog post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/04/putting-the-community-back-in-wiki/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/04/putting-the-community-back-in-wiki/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I fully agree with the decision not to automatically turn a post into a community wiki, I was wondering whether it would be possible to have something between accepting a single answer (giving big credit to a single answerer) and making a combined answer as a community wiki (in effect giving less credit to both or more than two answerers). I also found these questions on the topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3587/how-to-choose-between-two-equally-good-and-equally-helpful-answers/3588#3588&quot;&gt;How to choose between two equally good and equally helpful answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3176/choosing-to-accept-between-an-answer-that-helped-me-the-most-and-a-more-popular&quot;&gt;Choosing to accept between an answer that helped me the most and a more popular answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that more people encounter situations where there is not a single answer that they deem worth accepting. I just had such a situation in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/281426/define-macro-for-sequence-list-tuple-macros&quot;&gt;Define macro for sequence/list/tuple macros&lt;/a&gt; where I tried to solve that by accepting one answer and editing the question to explicitly mention another answer that was very useful to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think in such a situation it would actually be more suitable to accept more than one answer. So here comes my feature request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would it be possible to accept more than one answer and distribute the 15 reputation points among the accepted answers at the discretion of the questioner?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would also give a natural limit for when an answer by several people should be made a community wiki (i.e., at the latest when more than 15 people are involved). Would more people be interested in such a feature? Would it be technically doable (maybe over time)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69445" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T01:33:20.313" Title="Accepting more than one answer" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-07T13:20:05.277" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/281927/blank-page-is-inserted-at-the-beginning-of-the-thesis&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; through review -- a first post. The question is perfectly clear: the user has a problem and is asking for a solution. So it is not &lt;code&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/code&gt;. I cannot say it is &lt;code&gt;too broad&lt;/code&gt; since I do not know how broad it might be because there are no details, and it certainly doesn't seem that broad. I cannot say &lt;code&gt;spam&lt;/code&gt; because it decidedly isn't. It doesn't seem &lt;code&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/code&gt; and I do not know of anything it is a &lt;code&gt;duplicate of&lt;/code&gt;. So I go under &lt;code&gt;off-topic&lt;/code&gt; and I find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vGuK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vGuK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WHAT?? Where is &lt;code&gt;missing context&lt;/code&gt; and all the other reasons present on Math SX? Should I leave it open? Should I choose &lt;code&gt;too broad&lt;/code&gt; because an answer as of now would be guesswork? Why do we only have these two specific off-topic reasons? I believe the others at Math are pretty useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N1CYO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N1CYO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where have they gone? Were they ever present here? Why were they removed if they were? Can we have them back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joseph points out &lt;code&gt;missing context&lt;/code&gt; is not &lt;code&gt;off-topic&lt;/code&gt;, but still I think we should have that close reason. This way a question without context can be closed as such, so the poster will perhaps be incentivize to add this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42315" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T13:26:53.293" Title="Off-topic closure: why so few specific reasons?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|close-reasons|off-topic|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6418" CreationDate="2015-12-08T22:10:17.237" Score="20" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starting a few months ago, I believe, the StackExchange site software began adding an &quot;impact&quot; statistic to a user's profile. The impact statistic is posted in the upper-right portion of the screen that's shown when one clicks a user's profile. The impact is expressed as the number of people one has reached. For instance, TeX.SE currently estimates my impact at &quot;~ 5.5 million people reached&quot;. Very flattering -- actually, perfectly mind-boggling!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perusing the profiles of the 5 TeX.SE users who have more than 200k lifetime points at present, one finds impact estimates ranging from a high of 14.7 million people  to a low of just [!] 6.4 million people. Among the 11 users whose lifetime total point count is currently between 100k and 200k, the impact estimates vary between 2.1 million and 9.3 million people reached. Among the 6 users with a current lifetime point count between 50k and 55k (a fairly tight band), the impact ranges from a low of 271k to a high of 2.9 million -- a ratio or more than 10:1!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, one's lifetime point count and the impact statistic are not exactly tightly linked. How does the site estimate/guesstimate the impact factor? What informational value does the impact estimate possess?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T22:22:50.187" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T13:21:40.070" Title="How is a contributor's &quot;impact&quot; estimated/calculated/determined?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6416" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7365" CreationDate="2015-12-09T03:04:12.047" Score="10" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a Mac OS X 10.11.1 running Firefox 42.0, hovering over an item in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&lt;/a&gt; causes an underscore to appear before the reputation number, the icon, and the description of the privilege (is this reproduced in other environments?):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fewdT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fewdT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not happen on, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8qDqp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8qDqp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this therefore a bug? If so, can it be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="94863" LastEditDate="2017-08-03T06:52:28.110" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T06:52:28.110" Title="Hovering over items in /help/privileges causes underscores to appear" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-completed|design|privileges-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-09T10:08:54.677" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lets say I want to answer someone and get that person &amp;quot;That Guy&amp;quot; notified. How do I do that? Which of the following options are valid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@That Guy: That was a great post, thanks! (1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@ThatGuy: That was a great post, thanks! (2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@That Guy : That was a great post, thanks! (3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@ThatGuy: That was a great post, thanks! (4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49283" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T10:08:54.677" Title="How do I answer someone?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-12-09T14:46:09.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6415" CreationDate="2015-12-11T13:12:29.677" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've checked the highest voted question TeX-SX which the grandma stuff. It has been viewed 51K times. An answer with 104 votes and the poster has no other questions/answers on the site has the impact of ~51K. So I guess it considers it as a great answer and added all the views. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then if you select one of those with 3/4 voted answers at the bottom they have ~5-6K impact even when they have other contributions in the form of questions and answers. That means even if everyone visited the page sees the same answer set, some of them don't make an impact one tenth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However Mattallegro's answer is voted as 4 and he has 104K impact. So it comes from elsewhere. But it is more than the 104 voted answer owner. So small things should matter but didn't matter for the other 3-4 voted ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion, this is yet another ego-boost pack from SO that doesn't even mean anything. Moaaar rep, moaaaaar impact !! Touch the screen...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WGJKn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WGJKn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you Mr. Mico, don't need any confirmation, we know how big your impact here is. Gratitude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bz0jF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bz0jF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A million for the xkcd thingy, a million for the fireworks. So only mine is correct as usual. I wish I wasn't this perfect all the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T13:21:40.070" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T13:21:40.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6422" CreationDate="2015-12-13T21:47:53.883" Score="14" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I wondered what the algorithm for the placement of floats in TeX is. So I searched this site for &quot;float placement algorithm&quot; and did not find a suitable question - at least not directly. While starting to write my question, I noticed two questions that were suggested as related and came somewhat closer to what I was looking for and, finally, in one of these questions I found a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39017/how-to-influence-the-position-of-float-environments-like-figure-and-table-in-lat&quot;&gt;How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so I found the answer that I was looking for, but I guess other people might also try the search phrase I used and maybe give up their search before arriving at the existing question and answer. So my question in such a situation is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should I ask an existing question in different words (and directly flag it as a duplicate) to improve the findability of the existing question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternative, I could of course also edit the existing question and add alternative formulations, but I guess that could easily flood the post and distract from the actual content of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69445" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T11:06:37.143" Title="Asking existing questions differently to improve findability" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6423" CreationDate="2015-12-14T16:09:46.543" Score="26" ViewCount="1193" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a history of closing questions about magazine formatting or (effectively) not answering them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/127532/2693&quot;&gt;Typesetting magazine style articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/156341/2693&quot;&gt;Designing Magazines in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/212008/2693&quot;&gt;Latex template for an article from a popular (science) magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this one &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/283037/2693&quot;&gt;Magazine template?&lt;/a&gt; seems on its way to being closed too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now although I share some of the reservations expressed with the questions that they are potentially too broad, I think that there are enough commonalities to the issue of magazine formatting (narrow columns, exact placement of images, callouts, grid formatting, etc.) that at least one of these questions deserves a real answer since it is clear that the question is one that will continue to arise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of just closing every &quot;How to format a magazine&quot; perhaps we should think about constructing a decent community wiki answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem to me seems to be that there is no middle ground making such question immune to closing: the only way to make such a question acceptable seems to be to break the problem down into its component parts &quot;I want to know how to place text around images&quot;, &quot;I want to know how to do narrow columns&quot; etc.  But I think this is the whole point of having a question that covers many of these things, so &quot;improving&quot; the question is not the issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T02:59:28.600" Title="Magazine questions" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6419" CreationDate="2015-12-14T19:07:34.930" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not being able to find something has its root with searching on the site. However, this itself provides a catch-22-type problem: You need to know what to and how to search properly in order to find something meaningful. Sometimes a direct Google search (appending it with the &lt;code&gt;site:&lt;/code&gt; tag, as in &lt;code&gt;site:tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;) is more effective than using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/160100/168244&quot;&gt;integrated SE search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think a duplicate post is really something that should occur &lt;em&gt;naturally&lt;/em&gt;, since it may just be that you couldn't find what you're looking for based on your search terms. Something that could have been avoided if you'd used more appropriate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;ninja search tools&lt;/a&gt; or Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, of course, the flip-side of this argument could be that if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; had a problem finding what you're looking for, then most likely there are &lt;em&gt;others&lt;/em&gt; who are/will be experiencing the same issue. Therefore, posting a duplicate seems logical and a benefit to the entire site/community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there's nothing stopping you from doing as you wish and posting and flagging a direct duplicate. Duplicate questions don't fall under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;automated delete criteria&lt;/a&gt; and should be safe from a purge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T19:07:34.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6420" CreationDate="2015-12-15T02:59:28.600" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just have answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/283037/2693&quot;&gt;Magazine template?&lt;/a&gt; because is not a technical question, but it is clear and specific. He do not ask how to make a magazine. He asks if there's anything out there to not make it from scratch. This might be answered narrowly with a &quot;&lt;em&gt;No, sorry&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Sure, go here and there&lt;/em&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;em&gt;Well, more or less. Look at this and that, and so you get the picture&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. IMHO should not be closed because the answer could be  &quot;I do not know, but you can use &lt;code&gt;multicols&lt;/code&gt; in this way ... plus &lt;code&gt;pincipar&lt;/code&gt; ... plus &lt;code&gt;wallpaper&lt;/code&gt;  ... plus ... etc.&quot; that evidently need to be a too broad (endless) answer, but this do not mean that the question by itself is broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, even if the question is not well stated,  for people searching for magazine templates any answer could be more useful than find  a dead end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T02:59:28.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-17T23:53:48.807" Score="55" ViewCount="725" Body="&lt;p&gt;We strive to be a friendly and rational community here, but the question below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/283668/2693&quot;&gt;Reducing the huge space before the first line of the KOMA letter class&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was just closed as &quot;Too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a question that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a minimal working example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a request for changing the spacing in the example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a frustrated &quot;Please help me to make the rest of my life better&quot; sentence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a purely literal meaning of 3, a comment was made by cfr (in jest) that making the OP's life better is off topic and too broad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly people voted to close the questions as &quot;Too broad&quot;.  Since cfr herself &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; vote to close, I would bet that she was in fact being tongue in cheek, and wasn't seriously considering the question as too broad. [She has since confirmed this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26269619#26269619&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So PLEASE people pay attention to the content of the question when you vote to close. There is absolutely no way in which this question can possibly be construed as too broad &lt;em&gt;except&lt;/em&gt; by treating 3 completely literally.  And if we can't understand basic pragmatics, well I give up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another explanation of this is robo-reviewing which is just as bad.  And this is an issue that has been discussed before too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4622/2693&quot;&gt;Reviewers; what do you eat for breakfast?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last explanation (which may be the correct one) is even worse: people voted to close the question in retaliation for a somewhat inappropriate and frustrated sounding title, even though this was commented on and very quickly fixed before more than one close vote had been registered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of vigilantism is INAPPROPRIATE. At best the question deserved the initial downvote that it got, but it never deserved being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T13:06:24.060" Title="Close voting is not a sport" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2015-12-19T20:58:12.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;On OSX, try &lt;a href=&quot;http://pierre.chachatelier.fr/latexit/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaTexIt&lt;/a&gt;, which comes with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/mactex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MacTeX&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will want to copy the essentials of your preamble to the the &quot;document preamble&quot; (which can be made visible by choosing LaTeX-&gt;Show preamble).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, copy the essentials of what lies between &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt; into the main box. (If it is an equation, the best is to copy what lies between the delimiters and select the appropriate environment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An image can then be easily exported or copied to the clipboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48379" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T20:58:12.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="821" CreationDate="2015-12-23T18:44:10.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have created another Greasemonkey (Firefox) / Tampermonkey (Chrome) script that use &lt;a href=&quot;https://zenorocha.github.io/clipboard.js/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;clipboard.js&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;When you hover a code section (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) there is a small &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; sign that appears on the top right corner of the script. You click it and voilà !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gjGnl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gjGnl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code is available on &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/kpym/30d90be41ab5c248cdf7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Gist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to use it :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Install &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; (Firefox) / &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=fr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tampermonkey&lt;/a&gt; (Chrome) for your browser.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read the code in the Gist &lt;em&gt;(if you do not understand some code, do not install it)&lt;/em&gt; ! Click on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/kpym/30d90be41ab5c248cdf7/raw/Copy%2520code%2520from%2520SX.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;raw version of the gist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Install it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit : I have created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/kpym/30d90be41ab5c248cdf7#file-copy-code-from-sx-v2-user-js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;second version&lt;/a&gt;. In the first version the button is not visible if the code is scrolled down. In the second version it stays visible ... and it has a different appearance (more &lt;code&gt;\tex&lt;/code&gt; one ;)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9335" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T21:03:48.423" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6419" CreationDate="2015-12-24T11:06:37.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An addition I just noticed: This behavior (asking a question and flagging it as a duplicate) is actually discouraged by the system since duplicate questions are counted as &quot;bad questions&quot; (see, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4501/69445&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4501/69445&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4423/bad-question-warning-without-any-negative-question&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Bad question&amp;quot; warning without any negative question&lt;/a&gt;). While it is disputable whether this classification is correct, this is the current situation and it does not seem to change in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69445" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T11:06:37.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6430" CreationDate="2015-12-25T13:06:24.060" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's review the complete original question to see of there's any reason to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Just reducing the f***ing huge space before the first line&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is obscene language. Sean later took the time to clean it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question text:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Please help me to make the rest of my life better, found nothing here...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code:&lt;/strong&gt; was added without formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to have such questions on our site? Imagine not just a singular instance but hundreds of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't have a problem to put this question &lt;em&gt;on hold&lt;/em&gt; as it was done. From meta.SE: &quot;This is meant to convey that the question requires improvement and may be reopened if improved. During this period, if the question is edited by the asker (now by anyone), it will be added to the reopen queue.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe &quot;too broad&quot; is not the perfect close reason statement, but the other 4 predefined close reasons (off-topic, duplicate, opinion-based, unclear) are also not very applicable to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T13:06:24.060" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-26T10:57:16.273" Score="13" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;While looking through old questions I noticed the majority of questions is answered by around a dozen of people. &#xA;New questions reach a stunning short answering time, which makes it difficult for Newbies to stack up reputation by answering questions. &#xA;While I really admire the passion and afford the pros put into answering questions, I think this could scare off Newbies. Even if new users answer a question, people tend to upvote answers by people with a higher reputation - which are often better, to be fair. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any way to encourage new users to answer questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23052" LastEditorUserId="23052" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T11:05:46.903" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T11:05:46.903" Title="Maintain motivation for new members" Tags="|discussion|answers|new-users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2015-12-26T19:11:40.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2015-12-26T15:13:04.077" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Front matter&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Title page&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/244399&quot;&gt;Are there any packages providing collections of title pages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Are there any packages providing collections of title pages?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/244399)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/85904&quot;&gt;Showcase of beautiful title page done in TeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Showcase of beautiful title page done in TeX](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/85904)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/22346&quot;&gt;How to customize &lt;code&gt;\titlepage&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to customize `\titlepage` in `beamer`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/22346)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/209993&quot;&gt;How to customize my titlepage?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to customize my title page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/209993)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/214255&quot;&gt;Inserting a picture in a title page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Inserting a picture in a title page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/214255&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;ToCs, Lists of figures/tables&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/199599&quot;&gt;Wrong page number in contents&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Wrong page number in contents](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/199599)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/306858&quot;&gt;List of listings similar to list of figures&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[List of listings similar to list of figures](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/306858)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/173102&quot;&gt;Table of equations like list of figures&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Table of equations like list of figures](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/173102)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using optional argument to get different caption: &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/83392&quot;&gt;Change caption in List of Tables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Change caption in List of Tables](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/83392)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/103998&quot;&gt;How to force a Table of Contents to start new page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to force a Table of Contents to start new page](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/103998)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10943&quot;&gt;How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?&lt;/a&gt; (memoir) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10943)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7415&quot;&gt;Roman numerals become “too wide” in table of contents&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Roman numerals become “too wide” in table of contents](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7415)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33841&quot;&gt;How to modify the space between the numbers and text of sectioning titles in the table of contents?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to modify the space between the numbers and text of sectioning titles in the table of contents?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33841)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/303446&quot;&gt;How to get dotted leads in ToC using book class&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to get dotted leads in ToC using book class](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/303446)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35433&quot;&gt;Creating unnumbered chapters/sections (plus adding them to the ToC and/or header)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Creating unnumbered chapters/sections (plus adding them to the ToC and/or header)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35433)&lt;/code&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Adding running head for unnumbered (starred) chapter: &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Creating unnumbered chapters/sections (plus adding them to the ToC and/or header)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/91468)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/20337&quot;&gt;Adding word 'Table' before each entry in List of Tables&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Adding word 'Table' before each entry in List of Tables](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/20337)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/96969&quot;&gt;Add the word “Algorithm” before each entry in the List of Algorithms&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Add the word “Algorithm” before each entry in the List of Algorithms](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/96969)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;ToCs vs. bookmarks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/18743&quot;&gt;Is it possible have the PDF bookmark level go deeper than the table of contents depth?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is it possible have the PDF bookmark level go deeper than the table of contents depth?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/18743)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other things that appear at the top of a document&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/170511&quot;&gt;Footnotes without numbering&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Footnotes without numbering](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/170511)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-09-20T01:33:02.537" LastActivityDate="2023-09-20T01:33:02.537" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-12-26T15:13:04.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6440" CreationDate="2015-12-28T13:01:04.080" Score="14" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posts on StackExchange are closed for numerous reasons, and ticking of the right box for the exact reason might not always fit the question quite right, or the reason might sometimes be very vague. For new users, knowing exactly why ones question was closed is not always clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I am not suggesting that we add a whole new bunch of close reasons, but simply to add a new field where the user flagging to close needs to write a short description of why the question is being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fo instance, sometimes the reason to close are added as a comment as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/284840/why-is-my-bibliography-in-italic-style#comment687510_284840&quot;&gt;Why is my bibliography in italic style? [on hold]&lt;/a&gt;, but not always. It would also be a lot cleaner if the reason was given in the reason-box, and not in the comment only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it at the moment, the default reasons for closing, are just categories. These could benefit from an additional mandatory field where a more fitting reason is supplied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by &lt;code&gt;David Carlisle&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Alan Munn&lt;/code&gt;, this request should be made on the main meta site. Therefore the question has been posted there, for those who are interested in the discussion, see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272047/feature-request-add-mandatory-field-for-more-precise-reason&quot;&gt;Feature request: Add mandatory field for more precise reason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T14:30:06.590" Title="When flagging for close: Adding a reason" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|close-reasons|new-users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6438" CreationDate="2015-12-28T15:25:30.447" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heartily agree that close voters should give reasons, preferably in a comment so that the questioner is engaged in the process and not just informed of the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, however, this behaviour a product of the reviewing system which allows users to click through close votes without ever interacting meaningfully with the question at all. And we have quite a few of these types of reviewers, (unfortunately IMO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the following question for some discussion of the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4622/2693&quot;&gt;Reviewers; what do you eat for breakfast?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I only close duplicates, and in that case an automatic comment is left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately this is a social problem exacerbated by the ease with which questions can be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we don't have control over the closing interface at the site level, as a feature request this would need to go on the main meta site.  But the need for fast closing is much greater on the larger sites, and so any change to the current system is likely to be met with a lot of skepticism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T15:25:30.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6438" CreationDate="2015-12-28T16:12:26.987" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes questions are closed right away, which is unfortunate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SE policy states that closing isn't closing right away, but putting the question on hold, i.e. pressing the pause button. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an active question is closed, i think a comment is left in 90 percent of cases.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Often the cause is  off-topic. Typos, missing braces are also considered off topic, since there is an infinite amount of those question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Another reason: the question is a duplicate and is already answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other reasons to close are often (in my experience) first stated in a comment before the first flag rises. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inactive questions get closed after a few months in case that there is no real solution to provide that answers the question. Often because the question is unclear and the OP did not react efficiently to comments. In other words, get rid of cold cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except for the very first sentence, i think we are quite ok on the current way we are dealing with flagging. But this is completely unrelated to the review system, which is another topic &lt;code&gt;:-/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T16:12:26.987" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6438" CreationDate="2015-12-28T20:09:33.140" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The feature you're requesting already exists. When closing as Off Topic, you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; add a custom reason if you feel that the default ones are not appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p4qcS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case a comment is automatically posted with the reason you wrote in that box. I don't remember at the moment if other close reasons generate auto-comments (in the case of choosing Off Topic). All close reasons generate a small text in the close box, and if the auto-comment was generated, it's used in lieu of the default text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, keep in mind that &quot;voting to close&quot; and &quot;flagging to close&quot; have two different meanings on the SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastEditorUserId="4778" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T20:31:17.363" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T20:31:17.363" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-31T20:16:39.970" Score="7" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;When hovering over questions on the front page (either on the main page or on meta), there is an underline associated with the hyperlink that extends across the entire question block (when viewed under Chrome 47.0.2526.106 m):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Aco7r.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Aco7r.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the same view under Firefox (43.0.1) where the underline only spans the question title width:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/727IL.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/727IL.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not appear to be the case with other sites on the network (tested on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T20:16:39.970" Title="Mouseover on questions show a horizontal rule" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6445" CreationDate="2016-01-02T13:09:50.510" Score="23" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really can't imaging nobody has asked this but since I wasn't able to find anything I bring it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would I be appropriate to rename Questions to improve search results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/285567/coloring-example&quot;&gt;Coloring Example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This questions title is not helpful at all. Renaming it to something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Colorize Theorem Label&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could provide much more informations while searching for something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23052" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T10:00:14.410" Title="Renaming question for better search results" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2016-01-03T00:00:05.500" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a new question ask the O.P. in a comment to find a better title &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question has aged, but the O.P. is still active → ask too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is basically abandoned, just edit the title such that fits the content/request&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done so multiple times and in case of no reaction by the O.P. I changed the title after some grace period, so I would say, this kind of editing is alright if it improves the question, especially for searching issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... a suggestion, nothing more.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T00:14:12.663" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T00:14:12.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2016-01-03T05:56:50.373" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guided by the following ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Titles are used by the community as the main gauge for suitability. This is similar in the nature with which we review search results when performing a regular search engine query. Most (if not all) of your search selection rests on the title. As Jon Skeet mentions in &lt;a href=&quot;http://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2010/08/29/writing-the-perfect-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his blog entry&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;When a reader first sees your question, they’re likely to be scrolling down a list of snippets. The most eye-catching part of the snippet will be the title – so use that text wisely.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange network accommodates for this type of community behaviour. If something you changes doesn't suit the needs, it can be rolled back or re-edited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in favour of adapting post titles to something more suitable for searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/18584/168244&quot;&gt;How to ask a smart question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T16:02:53.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2016-01-04T10:00:14.410" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the others about respecting the original meaning, although you don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to ask the original author. You can tell them if you want, but you don't have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So feel free to do it, but remember that editing &lt;strong&gt;bumps&lt;/strong&gt; the question, so don't edit like 20 in a row, because those are going to be bumped all together to the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T10:00:14.410" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T10:50:12.037" Score="14" ViewCount="1003" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; states the following:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A résumé [...] is a document used by persons to present their backgrounds and skills. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to secure new employment. A typical résumé contains a &quot;summary&quot; of relevant job experience and education, as its French origin [...] implies. The résumé is usually one of the first items, along with a cover letter and sometimes an application for employment, which a potential employer sees regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview. The curriculum vitae (CV) used for academic purposes in the UK (and in other European countries) is more akin to the résumé — a shorter, summary version of one's education and experience — than to the longer and more detailed c.v. that is expected in U.S. academic circles. Generally, the résumé is substantially shorter than a CV in English Canada, the U.S. and Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We currently have just 5 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cv?sort=newest&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;cv&lt;/a&gt;, but 256 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt;. The tag info for resume reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{resume} is about creating résumés and CVs with (La)TeX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question is: Do we keep on retagging cv question or just alias &lt;code&gt;cv&lt;/code&gt; to be &lt;code&gt;resume&lt;/code&gt;? Questions tagged &lt;code&gt;cv&lt;/code&gt; will keep on coming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T16:47:32.163" Title="Tags for resume and cv" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6449" CreationDate="2016-01-06T14:57:37.990" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases a résumé is (much) shorter than a C.V, most times restricted to some personal information, education and job experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A C.V. contains more information, much more personal data and interests, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cv&lt;/a&gt; would be the larger set actually compared to the less informational &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important thing is (as Johannes stated already by citing Wikipedia) that there's no general definition what belongs to a Resume and which (more) contents build up a C.V. There are (huge) differences in the concept of Resume/C.V. between U.S. and Europe for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The typesetting issues however (Lists, tables, header etc.) are pretty the same, so we can say that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cv&lt;/a&gt; can be made an alias &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T14:57:37.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6529" CreationDate="2016-01-07T16:05:42.023" Score="11" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this for quite some time, but I suppose the time has come to do something about it. At least for me to speak about it, hoping to cause some change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links on TeX SE Main are invisible. Hard to locate unless you really put the cursor on. The color is a blue so dark it's almost black and it basically blends with the rest of the text. This is how it looks on Tex, can you see them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jcXkg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you couldn't see them fast enough, there's a problem. There were three links in that screenshot. Here's where they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6l9ov.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's the text version, if you want to test it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec lacus eros, &#xA;pellentesque vel elit at, pretium porttitor nulla. Vestibulum eget quam vitae nisi &#xA;semper sagittis sit amet [sed dui](http://tex.stackexchange.com/).&#xA;Curabitur elit neque, ultricies sit amet dictum nec, molestie non leo. &#xA;Ut pellentesque lectus quam, at posuere nibh hendrerit sit amet. &#xA;Vivamus [at](http://tex.stackexchange.com/) condimentum odio. Mauris &#xA;pulvinar [ligula](http://tex.stackexchange.com/) a ornare accumsan. &#xA;Aliquam consequat vitae nibh in feugiat.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In comparison others sites have much more visible links, and that's how it should be. I picked two examples from non-beta sites, because the beta sites have very bright blue links and they are all visible, while on non-beta sites, themes change and we can see various versions. And that's another point: why are the links on this site &lt;em&gt;blue&lt;/em&gt; when the theme is mostly yellowish with some maroon and red?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Skeptics SE&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wjibD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wvv5p.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T19:00:27.633" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T19:00:27.633" Title="Links are invisible on the Main site" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|design|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6460" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:30:27.583" Score="40" ViewCount="652" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I post a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13509&quot;&gt;the following useful question&lt;/a&gt; I cringe a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PQSQ6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PQSQ6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think everyone is familiar with the idiomacity in English of this phrase &quot;X for idiots&quot; or &quot;X for dummies&quot;, and for those people we stand to sound rather patronizing, by implicitly calling them an idiot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we change this title to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Biblatex for absolute beginners&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm raising it in meta first rather than changing it directly, because not everyone might agree.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T17:54:14.497" Title="biblatex for idiots" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|title|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6452" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:57:21.807" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very least, include &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a reference to the &quot;for Dummies&quot; series&lt;/a&gt; to clarify its usage. Perhaps even including an image to highlight it visually... in the spirit of being &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt;, I mocked this up from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/LaTex-Fur-Dummies-uuml/dp/352770406X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a German version&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tZgD2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tZgD2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, I support the change. I think&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Biblatex for beginners&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;sounds more generic, as there's probably little difference between an &quot;absolute beginner&quot;, a &quot;complete beginner&quot; and a &quot;beginner&quot;. Other options may include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Biblatex for a beginner&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Biblatex for a novice&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A novice's guide to using biblatex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T19:57:21.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6454" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:58:50.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is for issues of what is allowable or desirable in question titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T19:58:50.717" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T19:58:50.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6455" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:58:50.717" Score="0" Body="This tag is for issues of what is allowable or desirable in question titles." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T19:58:50.717" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T19:58:50.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6452" CreationDate="2016-01-08T01:20:32.210" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;5 years of display and 200 votes are not good enough evidence that it is not offensive because people probably identify this as a self-deprecation of the OP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the homepage of the user, I'm sure he is aware of what idiot means. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, notice that all the edits were concerned about how to spell biblatex instead of the &lt;em&gt;idiots&lt;/em&gt; parts which was (and is-ish) one of the reasons why I spent so much time here on TeX-SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T01:27:01.067" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T01:27:01.067" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6413" CreationDate="2016-01-08T01:33:20.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to accept more than one answer and distribute the 15 reputation points among the accepted answers at the discretion of the questioner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, such a request would have to have a broader impact, and not just local to TeX.SE. I am confident this request would not garner greater acceptance, because...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the SE network already provides a means for distributing value to multiple answers through a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6399/5764&quot;&gt;How to award extra reputation for an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this doesn't fit your needs exactly, as bounty offers sequentially increment, and don't seem all that small for low-rep users. However, such a feature exists and accommodates your request to a reasonable extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately you have to make a &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt; decision as two which answer help you most. If there is no such &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt; answer, but you feel they are equally worthy, you don't have to accept one. You can upvote both, thereby equally distributing reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T01:33:20.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6459" CreationDate="2016-01-08T01:33:29.923" Score="6" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this question has been asked before. Basically, some questions have answers in other websites which are somehow related to this site. For example, there are several examples in here &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texample.net&lt;/a&gt;. Now if someone asks a question and it happens that the answer is in the aforementioned website, can we consider the question duplicate? An example for this scenario is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/285906/can-someone-write-a-latex-code-for-this-because-i-dont-know-how&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; where the solution is in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/multiplexer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link &lt;/a&gt;. I'm asking this because external links can be removed or moved any times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T09:45:26.413" Title="can we consider a question duplicate if there is an answer but not in this site" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6458" CreationDate="2016-01-08T02:00:27.670" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions can only be considered duplicates or other questions &lt;em&gt;on the same network/site&lt;/em&gt;. In both instances one could answer the question with a link &lt;em&gt;as reference&lt;/em&gt; (and therefore proper attribution), but include the main components of the linked answer as part of your answer. That way you preserve the answer on the page people read the question, and avoid having to click-through to another location. A secondary benefit is that the answer is preserved (and therefore still meaningful) even if the attribution link fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the network's perspective, such questions are not duplicates since they're not closed as such. That is, they have a valid answer that is not duplicated on the specific site that the community can vote on. In some such instances, users who post such linked answers typically do so as a community wiki post (since &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;such posts do not garner reputation for the answerer&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T02:00:27.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6452" CreationDate="2016-01-08T04:33:57.320" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in support: a lot of visitors to TeX.SX don't speak English very well, and this makes the post's intent clearer; I also don't see a downside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing which influenced my decision was that if one &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22for+idiots%22&quot;&gt;searches for the phrase &quot;for idiots&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, the only results are &quot;BibLaTeX for Idiots&quot; and several links to it. If there were several such posts, perhaps the idiomatic meaning would've been clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=%22for%20dummies%22&quot;&gt;plenty of results for &quot;for dummies&quot;&lt;/a&gt;,  including several titled &quot;[Something] for Dummies,&quot; and I think the &quot;...for Dummies&quot; series of books is better known than the &quot;...for Idiots&quot; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55879" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T04:33:57.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T06:53:41.613" Score="3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that there's a limit to the number of Chinese characters you can put in a post.  I understand it's an anti-spam feature.  Now how do I post a LaTeX source file with a short paragraph of Chinese text in it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27800" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T01:13:08.917" Title="Chinese character limit on this site" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6463" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T12:30:24.257" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to correct a typo (&quot;file contents&quot;=&gt;&quot;filecontents&quot;) in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/286742/95516&quot;&gt;How to add adsurl field as link to bibliography&lt;/a&gt;, but when I try to do so I see the message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since there is nothing else to improve this restrictions is bad and should be removed!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T18:01:27.817" Title="Why can I not correct a typo" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2016-01-11T22:35:53.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6462" CreationDate="2016-01-11T20:41:31.227" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6249/typing-chinese-character-in-the-main-site/6252#comment18859_6252&quot;&gt;The block has been removed&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks, Oded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27800" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T01:13:08.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5824" CreationDate="2016-01-12T03:21:23.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;2011&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first full year of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; since going public on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3175/5764&quot;&gt;Aug 2, 2010&lt;/a&gt;, and its subsequent graduation (on Nov 11, 2011).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Posts (Questions and Answers)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts by day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sz5td.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sz5td.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Average posts by day-of-week&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6zEpA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6zEpA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts by time-of-day; post activity peaks around 4PM UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lNiC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lNiC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;50% of questions are answered in under 35 minutes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4rVj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4rVj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Major network events related to posts that may influence the site behaviour&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-03-10: Auto-deletion of low score, zero answers questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81887/what-happens-to-unanswered-questions-from-deleted-accounts/82408#82408&quot;&gt;has been extended a bit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-04-29: Users &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/89217/168244&quot;&gt;are limited&lt;/a&gt; to posting &lt;s&gt;70&lt;/s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/89365/168244&quot;&gt;50&lt;/a&gt; questions over the last 30 days.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Queries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/404604/questions-answers-by-date-2011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions/answers by date (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/400408/questions-answers-time-to-answer-2011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions' answers (time to answer) (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/400755/answer-count-by-post-2011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Answer count by post (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comments&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Number of comments by post type; typically one can expect fewer comments on answers than on questions (218 comments per 100 questions and 186 comments per 100 answers), even though there were almost 50% more comments on answers than questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vlBSH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vlBSH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Roughly 27% of all comments in 2011 (15,601 out of 57,234) were made by 10 specific users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e0BmI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e0BmI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HOFgp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HOFgp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Queries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/404633/comments-2011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comments (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/404635/top-comments-2011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top comments (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/406122&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top 10 commenters (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Badges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total gold/silver/bronze badges over time (by month)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kX7Ds.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kX7Ds.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total badges awarded by type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bZEAO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bZEAO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total gold/silver/bronze badges by class and day-of-week&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIXpa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIXpa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Top 5 badges: 1 - Student, 2 - Supporter, 3 - Scholar, 4 - Nice Answer, 5 - Editor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/opdKu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/opdKu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Major events related to badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-02-09: Flagging for moderator attention now counts for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/8/citizen-patrol&quot;&gt;Citizen Patrol&lt;/a&gt; (gold) badge. This change applies retroactively.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-02-22: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/76/outspoken&quot;&gt;Outspoken&lt;/a&gt; (silver) badge introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-02-22: Requirements for achieving the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/a&gt; (silver) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/49/copy-editor&quot;&gt;Copy Editor&lt;/a&gt; (gold) badges &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/80260/168244&quot;&gt;have changed&lt;/a&gt;. Now it only counts how many revisions are made, not individual title or body changes. Each requires 80 and 500 revisions respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-07-07: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/97/synonymizer&quot;&gt;Synonymizer&lt;/a&gt; (bronze) badge added for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/97822/168244&quot;&gt;first approved tag synonym&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-08-06: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/102/proofreader&quot;&gt;Proofreader&lt;/a&gt; (bronze) badge for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/101171/168244&quot;&gt;reviewed 100 suggested edits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-08-15: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/104/excavator&quot;&gt;Excavator&lt;/a&gt; (bronze) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/103/archaeologist&quot;&gt;Archaeologist&lt;/a&gt; (silver) badges added for editing posts that were inactive for 6 months.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-08-22: New gold badge &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/108/marshal&quot;&gt;Marshal&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (gold) for achieving a flag-weight of 749.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-08-24: New bronze badge &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/109/analytical&quot;&gt;Analytical&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (bronze) for visiting every section of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-11-07: New bronze badge &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/128/reviewer&quot;&gt;Reviewer&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (silver) for reviewing 300 posts and acting on over 60 of them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2011-11-08: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/111329/168244&quot;&gt;The Reviewer badge has been changed to a silver badge with the requirements increased to 1000 reviews and acting on at least 200&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Queries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/400305/badges-by-date-2011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Badges by date (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;(1) Disclaimer: The Stack Exchange network's bank of knowledge is a living database with content being editable by the entire community. As such, query results pulled from &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; may differ from the above.&#xA;(2) All references to time is based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://time.is/UTC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;UTC&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T01:35:15.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2610" CreationDate="2016-01-12T22:58:45.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little late after the question, still, may be it will help someone -- there is my solution for the bad edge cone problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[]{article}&#xA;\pagestyle{empty}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{calc}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz,tikz-3dplot}&#xA;\usepackage{geometry}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;%polar coordinates of visibility&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\th{60}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\az{110}&#xA;&#xA;\tdplotsetmaincoords{\th}{\az}&#xA;&#xA;%parameters of the cone&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\R{1}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\v{1}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture} [scale=5, tdplot_main_coords, axis/.style={blue,thick}]&#xA;&#xA;\coordinate (O) at (0,0,0);&#xA;&#xA;%draw axes&#xA;    \draw[axis,dashed] (0,0,0) -- (\R,0,0);&#xA;    \draw[axis,-&amp;gt;] (\R,0,0) --(1.5*\R,0,0) node[anchor=north east]{$x$};&#xA;    \draw[axis,dashed] (0,0,0) -- (0,\R,0);&#xA;    \draw[axis,-&amp;gt;] (0,\R,0) --(0,1.5*\R,0) node[anchor=north west]{$y$};&#xA;    \draw[axis,dashed] (0,0,0) -- (0,0,\v);&#xA;    \draw[axis,-&amp;gt;] (0,0,\v) --(0,0,1.5*\v) node[anchor=south]{$z$};&#xA;&#xA;% % computation of tangential points&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\cott{{cot(\th)}}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\fraction{\R*\cott/\v}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\angle{{acos(\fraction)}}&#xA;&#xA;% % angles for transformed lines&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\PhiOne{180+(\az-90)+\angle}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\PhiTwo{180+(\az-90)-\angle}&#xA;&#xA;% % coordinates for transformed surface lines&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\sinPhiOne{{sin(\PhiOne)}}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\cosPhiOne{{cos(\PhiOne)}}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\sinPhiTwo{{sin(\PhiTwo)}}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\cosPhiTwo{{cos(\PhiTwo)}}&#xA;&#xA;% % angles for original surface lines&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\sinazp{{sin(\az-90)}}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\cosazp{{cos(\az-90)}}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\sinazm{{sin(90-\az)}}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro\cosazm{{cos(90-\az)}}&#xA;&#xA;% % draw basis circle&#xA;\tdplotdrawarc[tdplot_main_coords,thick]{(O)}{\R}{\PhiOne}{360+\PhiTwo}{anchor=north}{}&#xA;\tdplotdrawarc[tdplot_main_coords,dashed,thick]{(O)}{\R}{\PhiTwo}{\PhiOne}{anchor=north}{}&#xA;&#xA;% % displaying tranformed surface of the cone (rotated)&#xA;\draw[thick] (0,0,\v) -- (\R*\cosPhiOne,\R*\sinPhiOne,0);&#xA;\draw[thick] (0,0,\v) -- (\R*\cosPhiTwo,\R*\sinPhiTwo,0);&#xA;&#xA;% % displaying original surface of the cone (rotated)&#xA;\draw[thin] (0,0,\v) -- (-\R*\sinazm,-\R*\cosazm,0);&#xA;\draw[thin] (0,0,\v) -- (-\R*\sinazp,+\R*\cosazp,0);&#xA;&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mx3Rr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mx3Rr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47866" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T22:58:45.227" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-12T22:58:45.227" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T09:47:45.170" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there must be some kind of consideration to new ways of solving old problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93793" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T09:56:34.197" Title="How often may a question be asked again?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|duplicates|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6467" CreationDate="2016-01-13T09:56:34.197" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange model is that questions should be asked once (with duplicates closed as appropriate), but that answers can be added, edited or deleted over time. Thus for an older question where there is a change resulting in a new answer, the correct approach is to post a new answer (or if you also wrote the existing one perhaps to edit it). If you don't know the answer but believe a change is possible, adding a bounty will make the question 'active' and draws attention to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T09:56:34.197" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T21:23:58.017" Score="9" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;A suggested edit is accompanied by a comment. This comment is displayed when reviewing it from within the Suggested Edits Review Queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tQLLW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tQLLW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comment is lengthy, the line-wrapping is truncated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;Using Google Chrome 47.0.2526.106 m.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T21:23:58.017" Title="Suggested edit comment width is too narrow" Tags="|bug|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6471" CreationDate="2016-01-14T06:49:13.703" Score="9" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some days ago, I asked in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/286706/troubleshooting-for-biber&quot;&gt;Troubleshooting for biber&lt;/a&gt; for guidelines what to do/check if biber does not produce any output. The occasion to ask this question was of course that I had such a situation myself. However, I already suspected that my particular problem was an easy issue that I just did not check yet. Just to have a concrete example (and to get my problem fixed) I added the description of my particular situation to the question. As suspected, it was an easy problem: There was an old version of biber somewhere in the OS path. This was discovered very quickly through the comments. Then the question was closed as off-topic since my particular problem was due to old software. But the question itself was never restricted to that particular issue (it was explicitly focussed on general guidelines from the very beginning). I answered the comments left for the reason of closure, I edited the question, but there was no reaction to my comments or edits. So I'm asking here on Meta whether this question is actually considered off-topic and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69445" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T07:09:06.340" Title="Are troubleshooting questions off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6470" CreationDate="2016-01-14T07:09:06.340" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Troubleshooting questions are quite welcome but the issue has always been how to answer them. The usual pattern is that a series of comments, none of which can really be viewed as an answer, are posted and we end up with the user saying 'Ah this solves it'. However, normally this comment thread is tied to the issue for the questionner, and it's unlikely that any other user will have the same issue, or at least that they are unlikely to read the question and any answer that could be constructed and use it without having to ask again. At the same time, there are an ever-expanding set of questions that come down to 'you've got an old version of X somewhere' or 'this was true in an old version but it's already been fixed so you should update'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aim of the StackExchange network is (broadly) to build up Q&amp;amp;A info that &lt;em&gt;is valuable to multiple people&lt;/em&gt;. Posting answers that only help one person as they are very 'localised' is therefore not something that's been popular. (It can also look a bit like 'rep harvesting' as the solution is already sorted and the gain for other users is not clear.) The convention has thus been that troubleshooting questions normally get closed once a solution has been worked out. Historically, we closed such cases as 'too localized' but the network got rid of that reason, and the 'Powers' favour calling such issues off-topic. As none of the other reasons fit any better, we've tending to use that though I think its fair to say a better reason would be preferable. (Such things are network-wide so are not up to the TeX site to decide on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of 'troubleshooting Biber' the problem with a general question is I think that it's unlikely to be possible to cover everything and you have to wonder if a new user would find it (and find it useful). For the common example of the cache issue, I'd imagine they're likely to search for the weird error (&lt;code&gt;recode_data.xml not found in ...&lt;/code&gt;), which is in the title of the 'master' question we have on that. Moreover, general questions tend to be best asked &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; rather than starting from a single issue. So if you feel that a general Biber debugging question is needed, probably think carefully about how to phrase is then post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T07:09:06.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6451" CreationDate="2016-01-14T16:17:33.193" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the sites were recently re-designed across the network, a lot of them were left with standard blue links and blue coloring for elements like the bounty count (from Stack Overflow, I guess). In some cases -- like TeX.SE -- the blue color doesn't go well with the site.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, I wrote myself some user styles to override these blue links on various sites I use across the SE network. TeX.SE is one of them (I actually hadn't noticed the problem you pointed out because I had modified the link colors already), and here is a user style to improve the link colors (this also affects meta.tex.stackexchange.com):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;tex.stackexchange.com&quot;) {&#xA;  /* Red for most links (link is already underlined when the mouse hovers over it) */&#xA;  a, a:hover { color: rgb(180, 50, 50); }&#xA;&#xA;  /* Brown for visited links in posts only */&#xA;  .post-text a:visited { color: rgb(188, 124, 61); }&#xA;&#xA;  /* More links to color red (e.g. username links and mod diamonds) */&#xA;  .started a:not(.started-link), .started a:hover:not(.started-link), span.mod-flair, .started .mod-flair, .started .mod-flair:hover {&#xA;    color: rgb(180, 50, 50);&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  /* Red for bounty related elements to match main link color */&#xA;  .bounty-indicator, .bounty-indicator-tab, span.bounty-award { background-color: rgb(180, 50, 50); }&#xA;&#xA;  /* Match the community bulletin background color with the highlight color for questions that use a followed tag */&#xA;  .module.community-bulletin, .module.newuser {&#xA;    background-color: rgba(236, 225, 194, 0.25);&#xA;    border: 1px solid rgb(235, 235, 235);&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a before and after comparison of the link colors from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/116076/61108&quot;&gt;an example post&lt;/a&gt; (one link has been visited, the other has not):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NGIfe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NGIfe.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX SE before&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/On5RN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/On5RN.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX SE after&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I chose the colors in an effort to try to match the site design. Here is a screenshot of my view of the main page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9sJxg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9sJxg.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX SE main&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you can change these colors if they don't work for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a nice &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/a/465964/474180&quot;&gt;set of instructions on using user styles on SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this workaround will help you and others until SE decides (if ever) to change the colors as you requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Another example is EE.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0Mfg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0Mfg.png&quot; alt=&quot;EE SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EE.SE was re-designed to use orange as its main color (notice the logo and the &quot;sign up for the newsletter&quot; button) but still uses blue for its links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T20:05:08.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:26:15.943" Score="27" ViewCount="2026" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 2016 now, and we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272563/were-standardizing-the-sidebar-width-at-300px-on-all-sites&quot;&gt;made some changes to the sidebar size&lt;/a&gt;. As such, we can now restart the Community Promotion Ads for 2016!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, we have updated some of the guidelines compared to previously - the changes are marked in bold in the Image Requirements section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scripts packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;300 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of &lt;strong&gt;150 kB&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/6473&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:26:33.167" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2016" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="30" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:26:15.943" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackTex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YGbeX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:25:28.187" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:25:28.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:18:38.933" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oSXKV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit our chatroom!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:13.087" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:13.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:20:09.763" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBoxv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit our chatroom!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:37.920" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:37.920" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:38:00.843" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cD26F.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit our chatroom!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:22.960" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:22.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:39:10.447" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hT4Hj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit our chatroom!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:17.923" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:17.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:40:15.797" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGRC0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tagline to show on mouseover&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:23:49.600" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:23:49.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6480" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:46:10.570" Score="15" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ladies and gentlemen, ducks and penguins, boys and girls of all ages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the Powers that Be decided to change the dimensions of the current ads, we decided to come up with a new ad series to promote our friendly chatroom, in which we talk about virtually everything but TeX. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6473/community-promotion-ads-2016&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the template we use, written in TeX, of course. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; The Polaroid code is provided by Paul Gaborit in his answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/195083/&quot;&gt;Polaroid photo effect in tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[12pt]{article}&#xA;\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}&#xA;\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}&#xA;\usepackage[&#xA;  paperwidth=300px,&#xA;  paperheight=250px,&#xA;  left=0.5cm,&#xA;  right=0.5cm,&#xA;  top=0.2cm,&#xA;  bottom=1cm]{geometry}&#xA;\usepackage{tgpagella}&#xA;\usepackage{inconsolata}&#xA;\usepackage{graphicx}&#xA;\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;&#xA;\newcommand\drawborder[2]{%&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]&#xA;\filldraw[line width=5mm, draw=#1, fill=#2] (current page.north west) -| (current page.south east) -| cycle;,&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}}&#xA;&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{fit,calc,shadows,backgrounds,positioning}&#xA;\tikzset{&#xA;  polaroid/.cd,&#xA;  at/.store in=\polaroidat,&#xA;  at={0,0},&#xA;  graphics options/.store in=\polaroidgraphicsoptions,&#xA;  graphics options=,&#xA;  rotate/.store in=\polaroidrotate,&#xA;  rotate=0,&#xA;  caption/.store in=\polaroidcaption,&#xA;  caption=,&#xA;  caption distance/.store in=\polaroidcaptiondistance,&#xA;  caption distance=1mm,&#xA;  top margin/.store in=\polaroidtopmargin,&#xA;  bottom margin/.store in=\polaroidbottommargin,&#xA;  left margin/.store in=\polaroidleftmargin,&#xA;  right margin/.store in=\polaroidrightmargin,&#xA;  vmargin/.style={top margin=#1,bottom margin=#1},&#xA;  hmargin/.style={left margin=#1,right margin=#1},&#xA;  margin/.style={vmargin=#1,hmargin=#1},&#xA;  margin=.2cm,&#xA;  caption default/.style={font=\bfseries,node distance=1mm},&#xA;  caption options/.style={caption default/.append style={#1}},&#xA;  frame default/.style={draw,inner sep=0},&#xA;  frame options/.style={frame default/.append style={#1}},&#xA;}&#xA;\newcommand\polaroidset[1]{\tikzset{polaroid/.cd,#1}}&#xA;\newcommand\polaroid[2][]{&#xA;  \bgroup&#xA;  \tikzset{polaroid/.cd,#1}&#xA;  \pgfmathsetmacro\polaroidrotate{\polaroidrotate}&#xA;  \begin{scope}[shift={(\polaroidat)},rotate=\polaroidrotate]&#xA;    \node[rotate=\polaroidrotate,inner sep=0]&#xA;    (shoot) {\expandafter\includegraphics\expandafter[\polaroidgraphicsoptions]{#2}};&#xA;    \path (shoot.north) ++(0,\polaroidtopmargin) coordinate (polaroid top);&#xA;    \path (shoot.south) ++(0,{-1*(\polaroidbottommargin)}) coordinate (polaroid bottom);&#xA;    \path (shoot.west) ++({-1*(\polaroidleftmargin)},0) coordinate (polaroid left);&#xA;    \path (shoot.east) ++(\polaroidrightmargin,0) coordinate (polaroid right);&#xA;    \node[rotate fit=\polaroidrotate,fit=(polaroid top)(polaroid bottom)(polaroid left)(polaroid right),polaroid/frame default]{};&#xA;    \node[rotate=\polaroidrotate,inner sep=0]&#xA;    (shoot) {\expandafter\includegraphics\expandafter[\polaroidgraphicsoptions]{#2}};&#xA;    \coordinate (caption center) at ($(shoot.south)!-1 * \polaroidcaptiondistance!(shoot.north)$);&#xA;    \node[anchor=north,rotate=\polaroidrotate,polaroid/caption default]&#xA;    (caption) at (caption center) {\polaroidcaption};&#xA;  \end{scope}&#xA;  \egroup&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\pagestyle{empty}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\drawborder{Wheat}{Wheat!30}&#xA;&#xA;\centering\large Christian prefers\\ Arabic numbers.&#xA;&#xA;\vspace{1em}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;  \polaroid[rotate=-10,&#xA;  frame options={line width=1pt,draw,rounded corners=.5mm,fill=white,drop shadow},&#xA;  graphics options={width=1.5cm, height=1.5cm}]&#xA;  {example-image-a} % Christian's avatar&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;&#xA;\vspace{1em}&#xA;&#xA;What have \verb|{\the\roman}|s\\ ever done for us?&#xA;&#xA;\vfill&#xA;&#xA;{\Large Visit our chatroom!}&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The resulting &lt;code&gt;.png&lt;/code&gt; images are generated with this command:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ convert -density 400 ad.pdf -scale 300x250 ad.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you prefer the old ads back, we can remove these new ones. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T13:51:52.493" Title="Our new ad series" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:57:47.450" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texblog.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A7o27.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXblog - News and ideas about TeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:51.810" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:51.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T13:00:26.567" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ymFLF.png&quot; alt=&quot;comp.text.tex TeX Usenet group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:25:47.150" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:25:47.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="6489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T14:16:13.033" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texwelt.de/wissen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i86BI.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXwelt - Fragen und Antworten zu TeX auf Deutsch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-04T08:25:04.510" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T08:25:04.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T14:25:04.107" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDlFZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Users Group (TUG)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:25:01.323" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:25:01.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-15T14:34:48.323" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gYqMV.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Live - cross-platform TeX software&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:08.447" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:08.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-16T00:31:09.900" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9D64.png&quot; alt=&quot;Detexify: automated LaTeX symbol recognition&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13423" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:23:56.090" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:23:56.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6496" CreationDate="2016-01-17T09:24:10.413" Score="12" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask if the following question is acceptable in our main site. It is directly related to LaTeX but it is not about it. I would like to ask it in our main site because I believe that LaTeX users would be the best audience for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Is there a good software in which you can draw but also support math in LaTeX inside the drawing? I would like the drawings to have excellent integration in a LaTeX document in the sense that they don't stand out.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45524" LastEditorUserId="45524" LastEditDate="2016-01-23T18:41:34.967" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T18:41:34.967" Title="Is a question regarding 'drawing packages with math support' acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|support|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6494" CreationDate="2016-01-17T18:18:15.607" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this not TikZ or PSTricks? Or are you referring to some GUI tool?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what you'll need to do is add more detail to what you mean by &quot;software&quot;, &quot;integration&quot;, etc. Otherwise, if you were to ask this question on the main site, it is likely to be closed as &quot;already asked and answered&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49339" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T18:18:15.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6494" CreationDate="2016-01-17T18:26:29.430" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is in principle not an off-topic question, since it does relate to TeX and related tools.  However, to avoid it being closed as a duplicate, you might want to check out the following questions already on the site and only craft a new one if those answers don't answer your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/205/2693&quot;&gt;What graphics packages are there for creating graphics in LaTeX documents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/78968/2693&quot;&gt;Best option to create vector graphics with LaTeX labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/26972/2693&quot;&gt;What GUI applications are there to assist in generating graphics for TeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/78850/2693&quot;&gt;Best Drawing software for engineering/scientific illustrations with LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just a few questions already on the site that are quite similar.  Also, if you do post a new question, make sure you explain clearly what you mean by &quot;drawing&quot; since that is a very vague term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T18:26:29.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6528" CreationDate="2016-01-18T12:58:06.953" Score="29" ViewCount="344" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't like them. But maybe this is beyond the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were we consulted about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T18:59:11.733" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T19:27:08.240" Title="Tags displayed in bold" Tags="|bug|status-completed|tagging|design|fonts|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6498" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-18T13:14:11.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, tag viewer, we bid you 'ello! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T13:14:11.043" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T13:14:11.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6499" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-18T13:14:11.043" Score="0" Body="It is well documented that a large number of species in the Anatidae family show dislike for emboldened font weight in tags." OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T13:14:11.043" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T13:14:11.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6497" CreationDate="2016-01-18T13:24:50.723" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the main site looks a little bit silly now. In the following screenshot, the things encircled in red need to be bold as well.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The content of the blue circle needs to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;super-mega-bold&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to fit again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MzcCz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MzcCz.png&quot; alt=&quot;boldTags&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just reverting the bold tags to normal would be easier and better, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T13:24:50.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-01-19T10:56:48.580" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cervantex.es/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tZ7eu.png&quot; alt=&quot;CervanTeX: Spanish TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:42.907" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:42.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T03:10:29.850" Score="9" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;In TeX.SX the tags XeTeX and XeLaTeX are the same, but there is a big diference between this two topics, so when we look for something specific we get also results of little help. The same case happens with LaTeX an TeX. Thus splitting in two separate tags is of use, more opinions like this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92396" OwnerDisplayName="Brian Mayer" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T08:44:47.017" Title="TeX and derivatives tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2016-01-19T21:57:05.180" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19862/nicola-talbot&quot;&gt;Nicola Talbot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/novices/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX for Complete Novices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/emjVJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/emjVJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;book image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/thesis/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/woIB4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/woIB4.png&quot; alt=&quot;book image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/admin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX for Administrative Work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G2FM2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G2FM2.png&quot; alt=&quot;book image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T21:57:05.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2016-01-20T08:44:47.017" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tagging approach taken here is quite deliberate. Whilst TeX-sx covers the TeX world generally, LaTeX is by far the dominant format in use (plain TeX and ConTeXt are much less widely used). As such, it was clear from the earliest days of the site that questions should be treated as about LaTeX &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; they are explicitly not. Thus we have tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plain-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plain-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plain-tex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt;, plus for low-level questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For engine variation, we have tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdftex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdftex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdftex&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xetex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xetex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xetex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luatex&lt;/a&gt;. These are used to show that a question is about that engine specifically but &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; specify which format is involved. Thus a question which is about a questions specific to using the plain format with the XeTeX engine should be tagged both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xetex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xetex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xetex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plain-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plain-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plain-tex&lt;/a&gt;. (The latter tag is used not just for Knuth's TeX90 format but any of the 'essentially plain' derivatives.) On the other hand, a question specific to XeLaTeX should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xetex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xetex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xetex&lt;/a&gt; plus whatever packages are important (likely to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fontspec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fontspec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fontspec&lt;/a&gt; or perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fonts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fonts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fonts&lt;/a&gt;, though it could be of course a question about drivers or the like).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T08:44:47.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6497" CreationDate="2016-01-20T17:14:08.740" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The unannounced change should be reverted as soon as possible. I would even remove boldface from the current tab name, normally &lt;strong&gt;active&lt;/strong&gt;, because the rule under the tab name is sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boldface is a device to be used very sparingly, because it catches attention: with the current setup, tags are more prominent than question titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T17:14:08.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6497" CreationDate="2016-01-20T17:24:16.333" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly the SE sites have generally very good designs and very nice choices in regards to how things appear, but the tag change is really a punch in the eye. The tags now are as black as the text, making them virtually indistinguishable from the text at a first sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll just say this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using bold for everything is like using the highlighter pen for the whole book you're studying: it is pointless and kills your eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T17:24:16.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6508" CreationDate="2016-01-21T08:22:37.503" Score="38" ViewCount="1168" Body="&lt;p&gt;When is it correct to answer &quot;Please, RTFM because this is what I'm doing to answer your question/comment?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit that sometimes I answer not formally correct questions (without MWE, which doesn't show any effort, ...), just like some other users, but I do so hoping that the answer encourage OP's effort in understanding it and LaTeX in general. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have to say that a lot of my answers are possible after reading/consulting package manuals or searching through TX.SX because my memory is not good enough to remember the big amount of &lt;code&gt;TiKZ&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;tcolorbox&lt;/code&gt; options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't feel comfortable when questioners make new questions in comments or editing the original which can be easily answered after a quick view to package documentation. I'd like to answer RTFM. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But being polite as we are in this site,&#xA;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/288396/1952&quot;&gt;just politely comment and|or edit the answer&lt;/a&gt;, introduce a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/287285/1952&quot;&gt;documentation reference&lt;/a&gt; or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/276950/1952&quot;&gt;documentation snapshot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the correct behavior? After how many questions can we answer RTFM without breaking TeX.SX etiquette? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After David's suggestion: Of course I won't answer RTFM under no circumstances. But I think we should more frequently suggest to take a look at package documentation, even more if we know it's worth to do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2020-04-23T17:22:49.803" Title="About RTFM etiquette" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6507" CreationDate="2016-01-21T09:31:03.700" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost every question here can be answered by reading a manual (or the documented sources) so mostly I don't think a &quot;read the manual&quot; answer is appropriate (and definitely not that particular acronym which isn't that polite in most versions of its meaning).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, if I think the user really could have tried harder, I do mention the manual. If an answer starts off &quot;As it says on page 1 of the manual....&quot; then that is (I hope) an implied hint that perhaps the OP could have found that without needing to ask...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue about new questions in comments is really a different one. There, if it is just a &quot;clarification&quot; I usually amend the answer or reply as a comment but if it is really a new question, just ask the OP to ask as a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T09:31:03.700" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2016-01-21T13:51:52.493" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do these ads actually work for anything? I don't see any point of having ads. We can instead hack them and put MWE requests, or practice tips such as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;minimal&lt;/code&gt; is too minimal!!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;\bf&lt;/code&gt; is not your bff. &lt;code&gt;\it&lt;/code&gt; is a cheater.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T13:51:52.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6507" CreationDate="2016-01-21T16:33:26.450" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although telling people to the read the documentation can have a therapeutic effect on ourselves, it's not necessarily helpful to the questioner for reasons that may not be apparent to us.  Here are some:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone reads English sufficiently well to make sense of documentation, even though with a couple of examples to get them going they can then figure things out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if you are a native English speaker, the conventions of documentation writing which  seem obvious and clear to those of us with a computer science or programming background may be quite non-obvious to those who do not come from such a background (and there are many such users of LaTeX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if you are a native speaker and have a programming background, some documentation is just plain crappy and hard to understand to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And independent of these reasons, if there is a &amp;quot;purpose&amp;quot;  to be on the site it should be to be helpful to others on a voluntary basis. So if you don't want to help, don't help, and that's fine. If you want to help, help, don't practice behaviour modification.  For some questions I think it's appropriate to point out that the question is answered on p. &lt;em&gt;xx&lt;/em&gt; of the documentation, but only as a gentle reminder not as an admonishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And remember, as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3235/percusse&quot;&gt;wise man&lt;/a&gt; once described himself &amp;quot;turning the TikZ manual into reputation since 2011&amp;quot; just think of all those points you can get from reading the FM yourself. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T16:59:43.290" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6497" CreationDate="2016-01-22T03:31:42.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks particularly ugly on Firefox 43.0.4 on Ubuntu 14.04, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of extra space around the name of a tag and the &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vrhsh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vrhsh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T03:31:42.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-25T12:50:07.213" Score="2" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always been curious why LaTeX is so fast and why attempts to improve it have failed.  In order to make that question more precise, I could ask which &lt;strong&gt;algorithms&lt;/strong&gt; are used and how.  I heard there is lots of legacy code still that has not changed in decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is the appropriate place to ask such a thing?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3586/is-it-appropriate-to-ask-questions-about-the-design-of-latex&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate to ask questions about the design of LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13256" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T01:24:24.487" Title="Where do I ask questions about the LaTeX engine itself?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6514" CreationDate="2016-01-25T16:39:23.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who has made it through at least a few pages of the WEB source code for TeX (before getting way over my head!), I would love to see some questions on this site about  how the TeX program itself--as opposed to the TeX language--works at a very low level. &#xA;Questions about Knuth's algorithms in the source code of TeX would be on topic, I believe, even if only a few users here could answer them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can turn these questions into more conceptual ones (e.g., about the philosophy behind Knuth's strategy of memory allocation) then you might get better answers on Programmers.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T16:39:23.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T11:26:02.357" Score="11" ViewCount="578" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of sounding overly pedantic and drawing attention to my own failings…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Acronyms” are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/acronyms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;defined as&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;words formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as they are spelled, not as separate letters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples include “laser”, “scuba” and “NATO”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Initialisms” are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/initialisms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;defined as&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;abbreviations which consist of the initial (i.e. first) letters of words and which are pronounced as separate letters when they are spoken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples include “BBC” and “CD”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add to the fun, we also have “contractions”, which are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/contractions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;defined as&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a type of abbreviation in which letters from the middle of the word are omitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(such as “Dr” or “Mr”) and “shortenings”, which are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/shortenings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;defined as&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;abbreviations in which the beginning or end of the word has been dropped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(such as “rhino” or “cello”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all sub-categories of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/abbreviations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;abbreviations&lt;/a&gt;, but in the TeX world many of us seem to be using “acronym” as a synonym for “abbreviation”. This isn't helped by packages such as &lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt; — mea culpa. (As a writer whose first language is English, I hang my head in shame.) I've tried to address this with &lt;code&gt;glossaries-extra&lt;/code&gt;, which treats acronyms as specific types of abbreviations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This misuse of the term actually dates as far back as &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/acronym209&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX 2.09&lt;/a&gt;, and I suspect this is like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet#Guillemet_vs._guillemot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;guillemet/guillemot&lt;/a&gt; issue that once established is hard to rectify, but given how pedantic we can be about typesetting and the use of semantically correct commands I think we ought to exercise some pedantry with our tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/acronyms&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;acronyms&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;acronyms&lt;/a&gt; tag is currently defined as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{acronyms} is about formatting acronyms and abbreviations using customized commands or specific packages like acronym or {glossaries}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/abbreviations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;abbreviations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;abbreviations&lt;/a&gt; tag is currently just a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/acronyms&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;acronyms&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;acronyms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/abbreviations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;abbreviations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;abbreviations&lt;/a&gt; as the main tag for general abbreviations with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/acronyms&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;acronyms&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;acronyms&lt;/a&gt; redirecting to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/abbreviations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;abbreviations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;abbreviations&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{abbreviations} is about formatting abbreviations (such as acronyms or initialisms) using customized commands or specific packages like acronym, acro or {glossaries}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Alice and Bob Scenario 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alice asks a question with a MWE that contains&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;blah \textsc{abc} blah&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: btw don't use &lt;code&gt;\textsc&lt;/code&gt;, define &lt;code&gt;\newcommand{\acronym}[1]{\textsc{#1}}&lt;/code&gt; and use &lt;code&gt;\acronym{abc}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alice: it's an initialism not an acronym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: &quot;acronym&quot; is a commonly-used term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alice: I &lt;em&gt;commonly&lt;/em&gt; see people use &lt;code&gt;\textsc&lt;/code&gt; so why can't I?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: That's different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heated &lt;del&gt;argument&lt;/del&gt;discussion ensues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Alice and Bob Scenario 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alice asks a question with a MWE that contains&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;blah \textsc{abc} blah&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: btw don't use &lt;code&gt;\textsc&lt;/code&gt;, define &lt;code&gt;\newcommand{\acronym}[1]{\textsc{#1}}&lt;/code&gt; and use &lt;code&gt;\acronym{abc}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alice: it's an initialism not an acronym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: yes, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6516/the-acronyms-and-abbreviations-tags&quot;&gt;acronyms and abbreviations&lt;/a&gt;. Use &lt;code&gt;\initialism&lt;/code&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LaTeX conversation resumes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T09:34:12.760" Title="The acronyms and abbreviations tags" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6514" CreationDate="2016-01-27T17:37:24.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The operation of the LaTeX engine is certainly an interesting topic about which many questions could be asked. To determine whether they should be asked &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, I think you'd need to consider another question first: &quot;Are the people who are good at &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX (i.e. this site's user base) also people who would generally know a lot about its implementation?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know the answer to that question, but if it's &quot;yes,&quot; I would think this would be a good place to ask, and if it's &quot;no,&quot; I would look for a more code-oriented site in the network, depending on the specifics of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T17:37:24.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-27T18:33:54.320" Score="31" ViewCount="1302" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5897/annual-tex-user-group-membership-question-2015-edition&quot;&gt;continues to support TUG with corporate membership&lt;/a&gt; (many thanks). With that come eight individual memberships that can be given out to members of the community. The time has come to select our representatives for 2016. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5905/tug-membership-names-for-2015&quot;&gt;TUG Membership: Names for 2015&lt;/a&gt; for last year's selection.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask people to put themselves forward. There are &lt;em&gt;no restrictions&lt;/em&gt; on standing other than having to be a member of the TeX StackExchange site. The existing 'representatives' are very welcome to put their names forward to continue. [Note: I've called the people we put forward 'representatives', but that's mainly because I can't think of a better term. Nominees should not feel the need to represent TeX-sx other than being members of the site and therefore interested in TeX in some way!]  There is &lt;em&gt;no need&lt;/em&gt; to have any particular level of site reputation, TeX experience or wider 'reason' to put yourself forward other than an interest in TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may nominate others but the mod team will need confirmation from the nominee that they are happy before voting starts. The mod team will check this with any such nominees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The model for selection of representatives is as follows. We will have a two stage process, first 'nomination' then 'election'. The first phase runs for five days, until 2100 GMT on 2016-02-01. Each person who wishes to be considered should post an answer, where they can (if they wish) say what makes them a good choice. They should then immediately delete their answer. Please don't vote on any answers during this phase: any votes cast will be ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second phase, all of the answers will be undeleted, and everyone should take a look at these answers and vote for deserving candidates: remember there are eight places available! Again, there will be five days to vote, ending 2100 GMT on 2016-02-06. At that stage, the top eight names will be forwarded to the StackExchange community staff for notification to TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the event of a tie in number of votes, the mod team will decide which of the tied members are put forward to StackExchange. The mod team may also include additional names if at the end of the voting process there are fewer than eight nominees with positive scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting stage: Everyone is welcome to vote for as many or as few candidates as they wish. Remember that there are a total of eight places available to be selected. New nominations can be added during the voting phase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the voting period, the tallies were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/39222/cfr&quot;&gt;cfr&lt;/a&gt;, 30&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/43317/esdd&quot;&gt;esdd&lt;/a&gt;, 29&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2891/michal-h21&quot;&gt;michal.h21&lt;/a&gt;, 28&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1952/ignasi&quot;&gt;Ignasi&lt;/a&gt;, 27&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4778/alenanno&quot;&gt;Alenanno&lt;/a&gt;, 26&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/26134/przemys%C5%82aw-scherwentke&quot;&gt;Przemysław Scherwentke&lt;/a&gt;, 24&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/18189/zarko&quot;&gt;Zarko&lt;/a&gt;, 24&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/36296/samcarter&quot;&gt;samcarter&lt;/a&gt;, 9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are exactly eight names here, so all will be sent to the StackOverflow staff to be forwarded to TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T00:31:11.130" Title="TUG Membership: Names for 2016" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tug|sponsorship|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6514" CreationDate="2016-01-28T01:24:24.487" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you are asking is actually a prime example of literate programming not being as literate as often CS people claim it to be so. There is definitely not a shortage of geeks who can implement X in Y but TeX has so far eluded everyone. The same problem holds for Fortran linear algebra libraries. They are amazingly fast but they have been optimized almost to the point where the memory management is done manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is surely on topic but not so easy to get an answer even from our wizards because to my very biased eyes it's a spaghetti code (for good reasons that are not relevant to the matter here). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T01:24:24.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6525" CreationDate="2016-01-28T11:18:24.947" Score="11" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1731/what-if-a-comment-answers-a-question&quot;&gt;What if a comment answers a question?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and in most cases I am supposed to ask the user who commented to give an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is the instance&#xA;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/150530/timeline-for-overlapping-multi-year-events&quot;&gt;Timeline for overlapping (multi-year) events&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. I have some choices (in order to remove the question from Unanswered-list):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask @ClaudioFiandrino to give an answer. But there is nothing to explain! Why bother?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer it with a MWE and some explanation. But the OP did not ask for it; they are satisfied with the comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close as &lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt;. This is how we treat &quot;do it for me&quot;-questions. But again, OP is satisfied with the comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close as &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;, since theoretically one can accomplish it in many ways. But using &lt;code&gt;pgfgantt&lt;/code&gt; seems to be the &quot;consensus&quot;, not an opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close as &lt;strong&gt;duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;, to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63877/gantt-chart-package&quot;&gt;Gantt chart package&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. This is subtle. Can we mark questions as duplicate just because they have the same answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do now? I encounter this kind of questions pretty often, where either the OP needs to read the manual more carefully, or they just do not know the proper search terms, thereby failing to find an reference they seek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51022" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T19:59:35.190" Title="What if a comment answers a question by a keyword/hint?" Tags="|discussion|support|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6507" CreationDate="2016-01-28T13:51:33.183" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a big difference between an RTFM (even if that exact phrasing isn't used) and a supporting reference to the documentation. For example, &quot;Section/Page n of the manual for the X package says you always need to load X after Y&quot; is an attribution that supports the answer, whereas &quot;If you'd read the manual, you'd know that X must be loaded after Y&quot; is an RTFM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange network generally encourages the use of attribution in answers. This is more important for sites such as english or scifi where answers can easily become opinionated, and answers without attributions may be downvoted because they're unsupported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this site, an answer such as &quot;you need to load X after Y&quot; can be easily verified by trying it out. We also have users on this site who are part of the LaTeX3 Project Team, or have been involved with the development of TeX for many years, or who are package/class authors. This naturally lends weight to their answers, but only for those readers who are aware of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often land on StackExchange sites through web searches. I don't have time to do the site tour or find out about the users on that particular site. I just want an answer to my problem. An attribution helps to validate the answer, but it also provides a next step for my search if the question is only similar rather than exactly the same as mine and the answer doesn't solve my problem or doesn't solve it completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So personally I don't view a supporting reference to documentation as a cry of RTFM any more than I view a link to a related question as a cry of &quot;why don't you use the flipping search box&quot;. The key thing here is about correctly phrasing attributions rather than emphasis on teaching users to read the manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an attribution for this answer ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;&quot;How to write a good answer&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (section &quot;Provide context for links&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Links to external resources are encouraged, but please add context around the link so your fellow users will have some idea what it is and why it’s there. Always quote the most relevant part of an important link, in case the target site is unreachable or goes permanently offline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T13:51:33.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-28T15:35:08.977" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see question and answeres where below or top of the code is a the generated output (PDF) of the tex code. How can I do that? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83388" OwnerDisplayName="buhtz" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T16:21:21.863" Title="How to execute and show tex-code within a question on tex.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-01-28T18:46:28.283" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6522" CreationDate="2016-01-28T19:12:30.920" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;: I would vote to close this as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63877/5764&quot;&gt;Gantt chart package&lt;/a&gt; based on the OP's comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my comments based on your choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ask @ClaudioFiandrino to give an answer. But there is nothing to explain! Why bother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what I can see, @ClaudioFiandrino is not affiliated with that post in any way. So, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer it with a MWE and some explanation. But the OP did not ask for it; they are satisfied with the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't really matter. If you want to add an answer then so be it. The mentioned comment by @JLDiaz is very generic and doesn't really suggest &quot;ownership&quot; over some form of answer... Technically comments aren't answers; we extend a &lt;em&gt;courtesy&lt;/em&gt; towards the author of a possible answer-in-comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Close as &lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt;. This is how we treat &quot;do it for me&quot;-questions. But again, OP is satisfied with the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is too broad, just by looking at the volume inside the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63877/5764&quot;&gt;Gantt chart package&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically there are small things that could be fine-tuned in terms of a Gantt chart, and without those specifics people will end up answering the question in its current and possibly be bombarded with additional fine-tuning requests...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Close as &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;, since theoretically one can accomplish it in many ways. But using &lt;code&gt;pgfgantt&lt;/code&gt; seems to be the &quot;consensus&quot;, not an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say no here, just because it's very broad. Perhaps there might be some overlap, but I don't think the question is posed in such a way that &quot;it solicits primarily opinion-based answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Close as &lt;strong&gt;duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;, to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63877/5764&quot;&gt;Gantt chart package&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. This is subtle. Can we mark questions as duplicate just because they have the same answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6458/5764&quot;&gt;Most certainly!&lt;/a&gt; The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/180032/168244&quot;&gt;Guidelines for reviewing Close Votes&lt;/a&gt; mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember we are asking whether an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/166514/183887&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; is found at the duplicate-linked question&lt;/a&gt; moreso than whether the questions are identical. You should look at the question linked and verify that it has an answer to the question being proposed for closure. If it doesn't, it should not be closed as a duplicate. (You can't vote to close questions as duplicates when the proposed target has no upvoted or accepted answer(s).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use this approach regularly, since people approach problems from different angles, thereby leading to different questions. However, they're essentially after the same thing, which provides the common answer. Moreover, if others don't share your sentiment they can opt to vote differently; the SE network setup allows for that. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T19:59:35.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6497" CreationDate="2016-01-28T19:44:50.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a difference in the colour of the tags. Here's a screen grab from the &quot;legend&quot; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SEVcQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SEVcQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;{required-tag}&lt;/code&gt; has RGB = (68,68,68)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;{tag}&lt;/code&gt; has RGB = (85,85,85)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is too close to discern when both are &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;. For example, on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; one is required to have one of the four tags &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; which are one-boxed in &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;. With the current setup &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; tags are &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6YtS1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6YtS1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoy the feature of having certain tags represent something other than the usual content. For example, the red colour of the moderator-only tags: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/featured&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;featured&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-reproduced&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-reproduced&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-reproduced&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-norepro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-norepro&lt;/a&gt;. This is lost though with the addition of making all tags &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T19:44:50.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6518" CreationDate="2016-01-29T09:27:30.040" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose my self. I'm LaTeX user since my degree project, long time ago, and I've been actively participating in this site and some other latex-related-lists like Cervantex, comp.text.tex, miktex-users, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I think that it is not my better answer, my most voted answer until now is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29926/how-to-prevent-pgfplots-from-using-the-10n-notation-for-axis-ticks/29929#29929&quot;&gt;How to prevent pgfplots from using the 10^n notation for axis ticks&lt;/a&gt; which shows that I'm good &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6507/1952&quot;&gt;reading manuals&lt;/a&gt; ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't plan to attend any TeX conference or writing any paper related, but I would like to be able to read some TUGboat on time and not next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T09:32:35.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6497" CreationDate="2016-01-29T17:53:30.483" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;We tracked down the bug. The Tex community has a few special classes for text formatting and those happened to conflict with a recent mixin that was added to a global file. The change was unintentional and an update is rolling out soon. Thanks for the catch and your patience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75498" LastEditorUserId="75498" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T19:27:08.240" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T19:27:08.240" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6451" CreationDate="2016-01-29T19:00:12.770" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your input. We've adjusted the links and they are now red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75498" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T19:00:12.770" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6518" CreationDate="2016-01-30T21:44:17.817" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;As suggested by Ulrike I put my name on the list. I have been a member of dante for about 10 years and of tex.sx for 2 years. At the moment my main tags are the KOMA-Script ones. While I am answering a question I also use this example to test the beta version of KOMA-Script. I am also active in some German forums like TeXwelt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T21:44:17.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6518" CreationDate="2016-01-31T11:34:58.887" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will nominate myself for a TUG membership. I am a member of GUST: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gust.org.pl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.gust.org.pl/&lt;/a&gt; and this helps me to understand, how restricted is my TeX knowledge, but in the same time helps to push boundaries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to have access to current TUG articles, but TUG membership is rather expensive for me. Certainly, I can wait, but especially &quot;TeX friends&quot; need much time to be assimilated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I am trying to give answers to easy or intermediate questions. One of them, not the best, even not accepted, is now to the memory of Kees van der Laan: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/117826/censoring-curse-words-with-grawlixes/117859#117859&quot;&gt;Censoring Curse Words with Grawlixes&lt;/a&gt;. His beautiful article in GUST Bulletin helped me to understand FIFO queues in TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T11:34:58.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6518" CreationDate="2016-01-31T21:13:31.897" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm honoured to have been hwyaden-nominated by Paulo. I am reluctant to take advantage of this since I have enjoyed the benefit of a subscription this year and think that others should have their turns. However, since barbara has urged me to put my name forward despite this, as there are more spots available than there are nominees. (Though I'm not sure this is a reason to give me a second turn.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoy reading TUG Boat and I would be very pleased to enjoy another subscription. However, I would urge that preference be given to those who have not received a membership before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My most popular question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/255709/&quot;&gt;Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/255711/&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to it is my second most popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, popularity is fickle and scarcely a reliable indicator of quality or, indeed, of seriousness. (The unconvinced should note &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/266179/&quot;&gt;my most popular answer&lt;/a&gt; before protesting this assertion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have particular interests in support for 'traditional' TeX fonts, which can be used with engines such as TeX and pdfTeX, and in typesetting logic and tree diagrams. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am the author of the following font support packages: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/nfssext-cfr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;nfssext-cfr&lt;/a&gt; which extends the extension of the New Font Selection Scheme provided by Philipp Lehman as part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/fontinstallationguide&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Font Installation Guide&lt;/a&gt;. Several of my font packages use this to provide intuitive access to weights, widths, shapes and styles not supported out-of-the-box by the standard LaTeX-2e font commands. For example, &lt;code&gt;\plstyle&lt;/code&gt; to switch to proportional, lining figures or &lt;code&gt;\textsi{&amp;lt;text&amp;gt;}&lt;/code&gt; to typeset &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;text&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in italic small-caps.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Three packages which extend or provide LaTeX-2e interfaces for fonts already distributed as part of standard TeX distributions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/cfr-lm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cfr-lm&lt;/a&gt; which provides extended access to the Latin Modern fonts e.g. italic small-caps, alternative widths and weights, upright italic and all four styles of figures.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/cfr-initials&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cfr-initials&lt;/a&gt; which provides LaTeX packages supporting access to the various decorative fonts provided by &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/initials&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;initials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/ebgaramond-maths&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ebgaramond-maths&lt;/a&gt; which provides limited support for the use of EB Garamond 12 in maths mode and was originally a response to a question here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Several packages which provide support for fonts from the Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF), including type1 versions of the fonts themselves:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/adforn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;adforn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/adfsymbols&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;adfsymbols&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/baskervaldadf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;baskervaldadf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/berenisadf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;berenisadf&lt;/a&gt; (including specialist (i.e. hacked) support for the Welsh characters Ŵŵ and Ŷŷ)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/electrumadf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;electrumadf&lt;/a&gt; (in all its many weights!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/libris&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;libris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/romandeadf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;romandeadf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/venturisadf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;venturisadf&lt;/a&gt; (three serif and two sans serif families, including titling and swash)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently working on three 'proper' LaTeX packages (i.e. not fonts), two based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://ctan.org/pkg/forest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;forest&lt;/a&gt; and developed in response to questions here. Now the new version has been published to CTAN, I hope to update the code in my experimental versions and will upload &lt;strong&gt;prooftrees&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;justtrees&lt;/strong&gt; as soon as I find the time to write documentation and the courage to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I sometimes use TikZ to draw &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39149/how-can-we-draw-a-christmas-tree-with-decorations-using-tikz/219610#219610&quot;&gt;cats&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244368/tikz-draw-a-cooking-pot/244378#244378&quot;&gt;cauldrons&lt;/a&gt;. Though whether this is a reason to vote for me or against me, I can't really say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rPhdn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rPhdn.png&quot; alt=&quot;TUG cats&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Code for this picture is around somewhere. Ask if curious and you can't find it. I now use a custom cat code TikZ library, but that's based on answers I've posted here somewhere.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T21:13:31.897" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6518" CreationDate="2016-01-31T23:59:17.077" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;As suggested by cfr and encouraged by Christian Hupfer and Paulo Cereda I put my name on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First time I use LaTeX about 25 years ago when wrote an article for IEE conference. After than I use it on regular basis for writing articles, presentation, examines, expertise memos and text books. Recently I use TikZ with big joy in (re)drawing all my illustration. For my text books and Ph.D. thesis of my students I developed document classes. During this years I gain some experiences with LaTeX, which I glad to share with beginners. With this I become more active recent year also here, on SE. For me the SE I is rich treasure of knowledge, from which I learn a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless if I will elected or not, I will continue in my spare time with my activity on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18189" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T23:59:17.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6518" CreationDate="2016-02-01T22:43:49.647" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yo', Egreg and Johannes B insisted to nominate myself. I am active on TeX.sx for five years,  originally to find some help for my first LaTeX package &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/michal-h21/biblatex-iso690&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;biblatex-iso690&lt;/a&gt;, I was hooked since then. I happened to create some packages which are included on CTAN, most notably &lt;code&gt;tex4ebook&lt;/code&gt; for TeX to ebook conversion and &lt;code&gt;odsfile&lt;/code&gt;, LuaLaTeX package for reading OpenDocument Spreadsheet files. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My top voted answer is just  an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17579/how-can-i-design-a-book-cover/17580#17580&quot;&gt;example from xcoffins manual&lt;/a&gt;, which confirms the fact that number of votes is inversely proportional to time and energy spent on an answer. Some more useful answers include &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68916/convert-latex-to-mathjax-html/68962#68962&quot;&gt;Mathjax powered HTML from LaTeX siurce&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55779/is-there-a-software-in-ubuntu-that-can-analyse-the-cross-references-theorems-l/56394#56394&quot;&gt;semantic web in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/65601/2891&quot;&gt;optimizing set of images layout using Lua&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T22:43:49.647" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6518" CreationDate="2016-02-02T16:53:37.897" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4778/alenanno&quot;&gt;Alenanno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bloke. ^^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T16:53:37.897" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-02-02T18:05:10.867" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BmqI0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Overleaf - Free Online LaTeX Editor with Automatic Preview&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23931" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:33.487" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:33.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-02-03T16:45:28.080" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://papeeria.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UwyUo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Papeeria: free online LaTeX editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97369" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:24:47.760" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:24:47.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2016-02-03T19:42:01.957" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Table formatting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/332902&quot;&gt;My table doesn't fit; what are my options?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[My table doesn't fit; what are my options?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/332902)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/34466&quot;&gt;Error with square bracket in table&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Error with square bracket in table](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/34466)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/114421&quot;&gt;extrarowheight vs arraystretch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[extrarowheight vs arraystretch](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/114421)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/37107&quot;&gt;Error: extra alignment tab has been changed to &lt;code&gt;\cr&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Error: extra alignment tab has been changed to `\cr`](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/37107)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hyphenate first word in cell: &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/338354&quot;&gt;Multirow without centering (but multiple problems on my way there)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Multirow without centering (but multiple problems on my way there)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/338354)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/394077&quot;&gt;Table column text exceeds column width&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Table column text exceeds column width](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/394077)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2441&quot;&gt;How to add a forced line break inside a table cell&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to add a forced line break inside a table cell](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2441)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/346237&quot;&gt;Table and \flushleft&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Table and \flushleft](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/346237)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12703&quot;&gt;How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/12703)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unexpanded bold numbers for better alignment &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/318372&quot;&gt;Align numbers by decimal point using siunitx and bfseries&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Align numbers by decimal point using siunitx and bfseries](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/318372)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6350&quot;&gt;How to disable pagebreak on \hline in longtable?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to disable pagebreak on \hline in longtable?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6350)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32683&quot;&gt;Rotated column titles in tabular&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Rotated column titles in tabular](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32683)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-06-30T19:16:54.933" LastActivityDate="2023-06-30T19:16:54.933" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-02-03T19:42:01.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-02-03T19:52:46.780" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/tugboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UtgWQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:25:06.457" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:25:06.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-05T06:16:39.247" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think relatively new users get a bit confused when they read on the page &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat-rooms&quot;&gt;Help Center &gt; Privileges &gt; create chat rooms&lt;/a&gt;, that after creating a new chat room I can invite someone &quot;using the &lt;code&gt;invite&lt;/code&gt; room menu option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just created the first time a new room and was searching that menu option, but couldn't find it. Where can I find that option? But reading a bit on the meta page I think there is only a &quot;fast&quot; invite option for people already being in a chat like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3673/95441&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, I recommend to adapt the text below the item &quot;What happens when I create a new room?&quot; to something similar as mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3592/95441&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. That would it make much clearer that (non-chat)TeX.SX and chat.TeX.SX are somewhat different &quot;rooms&quot;/&quot;features&quot; (sorry, don't find the right words).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95441" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T07:59:33.063" Title="&quot;Help Center &gt; Privileges &gt; create chat rooms&quot; `invite` room menu option missleading?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6518" CreationDate="2016-02-06T12:56:15.783" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last day of the election and only 7 nominees for 8 positions? That is kind of sad, so I will add myself to the nominees, even if I am much less qualified than the others -- no TeX development or something, just a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am an enthusiastic LaTeX user since the beginning of my studies in 2007, and after years of reading Q&amp;amp;As on this site, I actively joined it in 2013 when I wanted to know &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/132370/36296&quot;&gt;How to number slides with an increasing number of digits of pi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I got incredibly good and fast answers to my question, so I stayed and mostly answer beamer questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, the favourite answer of mine is probably&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/171482/36296&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/171482/36296&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might not be the one with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/165087/36296&quot; title=&quot;most votes&quot;&gt;most votes&lt;/a&gt;, but with the most colours :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T12:56:15.783" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6545" CreationDate="2016-02-06T22:35:04.897" Score="7" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Help Center I find a lot of information on how to open a chat, but so far I couldn't find out what to do, when I don't need the chat any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I have to close it somehow or is just leaving the chat room the right choice and it will be closed/get frozen after some time by itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95441" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T04:11:37.777" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T04:11:37.777" Title="How can I close a chat or freeze it?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6544" CreationDate="2016-02-07T19:12:13.320" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#retention&quot;&gt;Chat FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person&#xA;  actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if&#xA;  it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rooms not worth retaining which are inactive for 7 days will be&#xA;  deleted. Rooms worth retaining which are inactive for 14 days will be&#xA;  frozen. Frozen rooms do not allow any new messages to be sent, and are&#xA;  not shown in the default room list to prevent cluttering the rooms&#xA;  interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only moderators can take action to remove/freeze rooms; normal users cannot and must wait for an automatic action by the system as described above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T19:12:13.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6516" CreationDate="2016-02-09T09:34:12.760" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that distinction of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms is useful from the point of view of LaTeX typesetting. Therefore, I think that one tag is sufficient to cover all these linguistic phenomena.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt it is important which of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/acronyms&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;acronyms&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;acronyms&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/abbreviations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;abbreviations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;abbreviations&lt;/a&gt; is the &quot;master&quot; and which is the &quot;slave&quot;, and I would leave it be as is. The tag excerpt is clearly mentioning both notions, so if someone is confused, it is not due to the system being wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T09:34:12.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6551" CreationDate="2016-02-11T11:11:21.310" Score="32" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's suppose I think a question with &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt; tag is a duplicate of another one, but because I'm not sure about it I prefer someone else help me to decide it. The problem is that I have a gold medal with this tag, so if I flag the question it will be immediately closed. What should I do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T16:39:57.000" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T16:39:57.000" Title="How to propose a question as duplicate without closing it due golden privilege?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|vote-to-close|dupehammer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6549" CreationDate="2016-02-11T18:35:26.303" Score="9" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should there be a tag for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;index&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package? Being a rather generic term, it's hard to search for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indexing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indexing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indexing&lt;/a&gt; which covers generic index-related issues. This isn't necessarily appropriate for issues that are specific to one particular package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index&lt;/a&gt; with only two questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/292100/how-to-display-index-entries-on-the-same-line-as-the-text-being-indexed&quot;&gt;How to display index entries on the same line as the text being indexed&lt;/a&gt; which is about LaTeX's built-in indexing facilities, and the question I just posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/292410/babel-and-index-both-redefine-markboth-and-markright&quot;&gt;babel and index both redefine \markboth and \markright&lt;/a&gt; which is about the &lt;code&gt;index&lt;/code&gt; package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a tag is warranted, what should it be called? &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index-package&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index-package&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index-package&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tag called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index&lt;/a&gt; is likely to be used to mean indexing in general.&#xA;In fact, should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index&lt;/a&gt; be made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indexing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indexing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indexing&lt;/a&gt; to avoid being recreated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1731" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T18:52:41.943" Title="Tagging the index package as opposed to indexing in general" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6548" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:53:15.177" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index&lt;/a&gt; should be made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indexing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indexing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indexing&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/index-package&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;index-package&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;index-package&lt;/a&gt; should be created for the package, as barbara suggests. This is similar to the situation with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;citing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cite-package&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cite-package&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cite-package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T20:53:15.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6547" CreationDate="2016-02-14T20:30:52.850" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such a feature has been discussed before on the big meta (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/231504/170190&quot;&gt;How Do I Opt Out of Privileges?&lt;/a&gt;). It has been rejected, with a very simple reason: &lt;strong&gt;Nobody&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e., not even the casual voters) &lt;strong&gt;should vote for duplicating unless they are 100% sure it is the correct action.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are not sure, you should simply comment, not vote to close, and see where it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T22:17:36.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-02-16T21:17:02.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-latex-equations/iaainhiejkciadlhlodaajgbffkebdog?utm_source=texSOAd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kEuME.png&quot; alt=&quot;Auto-Latex Equations add-on for Google Docs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88144" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:26:21.837" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:26:21.837" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6554" CreationDate="2016-02-17T12:46:46.923" Score="2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any mechanism to check solutions again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at this thread &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/168144/i-cannot-determine-the-error-between-hyperref-and-hypdvips&quot;&gt;I cannot determine the error between hyperref and hypdvips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem was posted, problem was solved. But I am not able to compile this example, I have posted a very similar one, and also failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there any mechanism of example which are solved and compiled for each update. In my opinion each solved example must run after each update of the system, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a good idea to ensure that solutions stay solutions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17295" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T15:45:16.943" Title="Check again an example which was solved in the past" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6553" CreationDate="2016-02-17T15:44:41.603" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to bring attention to this is to place a comment in the answer that you've deemed to &quot;not work anymore&quot; and request an update from the original poster. If that doesn't work, update the post yourself. If a new solution presents itself using some completely different method, post a new answer so it can form part of the existing knowledge base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One great example of this might be questions around &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moderncv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moderncv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moderncv&lt;/a&gt; - the class experienced a &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; change in design when the code was &quot;refactored into heads, body, foot and icon substyles&quot; for version 2 (see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/CHANGELOG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;change log&lt;/a&gt;, 28 July 2015). It is likely that many of the patches, additions or manipulations suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=%5bmoderncv%5d%20is%3aquestion%20created%3a..2015-07-28&quot;&gt;up to that point&lt;/a&gt; for versions &amp;lt;&amp;nbsp;2 no longer work as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be impossible to suggest all users keep all their answers (and questions!) up-to-date to function as expected with the most recent distribution update, since package authors can change functionality at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T15:44:41.603" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6556" CreationDate="2016-02-18T17:05:03.550" Score="7" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I recognized a change of the behaviour of the review pages. Now after opening an question in the first post queue to be reviewed you see all three buttons enlighted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cr4lh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cr4lh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me astonishing is that button &lt;code&gt;I'm done&lt;/code&gt; is activated at once.  It should be activated after a done review, for example upvoting or editing ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other pages there is the old behaviour ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that a bug or missed I something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T17:14:20.010" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T23:48:57.543" Title="Bug on the review web page?" Tags="|feature-request|bug|design|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6555" CreationDate="2016-02-18T17:13:09.520" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been updated to something that clearly reflects the possibilities available to the reviewer; an updated mouse icon as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1p65s.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1p65s.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xtx5M.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xtx5M.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, please change this. The following highlights some of the visual problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;No Action Needed&quot; is &lt;em&gt;inactive&lt;/em&gt;, while &quot;I'm Done&quot; and &quot;Skip&quot; are &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YNo7c.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YNo7c.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FnvXO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FnvXO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The differences are barely visible, even on mouse-over (apart from the icon change).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only discernment between &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;inactive&lt;/em&gt; seems to be a mildly visible blackened border and a slight change in the tone of redness upon mouse-over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;No Action Needed&quot; and &quot;Skip&quot; are &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt;, while &quot;I'm Done&quot; is &lt;em&gt;inactive&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qXnOv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qXnOv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An interactive view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dWvME.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dWvME.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T23:48:57.543" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T23:48:57.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-02-18T22:19:02.400" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texstudio.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NahNR.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXstudio - LaTeX made comfortable&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24770" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:26:01.650" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:26:01.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-19T09:02:06.517" Score="12" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;tex.stackexchange.com is great, active and better &lt;em&gt;IMHO&lt;/em&gt; than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LyX specific forum&lt;/a&gt;, even though it presumably was TeX only in the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1) Is there an agreed branch or identifier to post LyX questions (other than the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lyx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lyx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lyx&lt;/a&gt; tag) to avoid LaTeX only members getting upset and LyX instruction sets and LyX only content? See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66902/latex-template-for-writing-a-novel/227273#227273&quot;&gt;@onewhaleid&lt;/a&gt;. For using LyX LaTeX code isn't directly useful, and to a LaTeX user anything else is meaningless. A LyX user potentially needs to know everything a LaTeX user needs, but also needs the additional LyX instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 2) Is there an agreed syntax for posting LyX command sequences and instructions here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 3) Are there better/more appropriate forums for LyX specific posts? Could the LyX tag be made &quot;Don't complain about LyX content&quot;? When I entered it for this post I read that it indicates this, but how to you post a LyX answer to a non-LyX tagged question without provoking complaint?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LaTeX posts can be very helpful to LyX users attempting slightly advanced/specific tasks beyond LyX, so I am not stirring divorce: Just a new forum member avoiding flames :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88877" OwnerDisplayName="Jethro Belle" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T14:46:16.387" Title="LyX Specific Posts" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6558" CreationDate="2016-02-20T04:46:20.400" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;My (subjective) answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let SE = &quot;tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The LyX tag is sufficient. It marks the question as LyX-related. What else&#xA;could be desired?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Command-sequences could be marked using code, such as &lt;code&gt;char-delete-forward&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lyx-users list is quite active and is full of only LyX lovers, if that&#xA;is what you want. SE is not designed to be that. It is a mix of all kinds of&#xA;users that use LaTeX in all kinds of creative ways. This diversity of workflows&#xA;to me is what makes SE a special and creative place. Again, if you want a&#xA;LyX-focused place join lyx-users. I will describe my experience on SE, as a LyX&#xA;user. I have found that non-LyX users on SE are extremely helpful and patient&#xA;when answering LyX questions. Some of them even have LyX installed on their&#xA;computers for the sole purpose of writing instructions to help LyX users. It is&#xA;true that often non-LyX users do not answer in a way that is directly helpful&#xA;to LyX users. In these cases, it is best to work together to come up with a&#xA;different answer that is more fit for LyX users. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To answer the second part of your 3rd question, if a question on SE doesn't&#xA;explicitly mention LyX, the answer should not depend on LyX because it would&#xA;not be answering the question. EDIT: in the comments below, @yo' points out that LyX answers to non-LyX questions could be encouraged after there is already a non-LyX answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12212" LastEditorUserId="12212" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T21:37:09.937" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T21:37:09.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6565" CreationDate="2016-02-21T20:40:43.660" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;On TeX.SX, if you look at your profile and click on the 'choose which badge to track' button, the badges spill over the bottom side of the pop up window:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDoDf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDoDf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not happen on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZUrV9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZUrV9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I assume this is a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can reproduce this bug on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mac OS X 10.11.3 &amp;amp; Firefox 44.0.2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mac OS X 10.11.3 &amp;amp; Google Chrome 48.0.2564.116&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mac OS X 10.11.3 &amp;amp; Safari 9.0.3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="98262" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T01:39:45.643" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T01:39:45.643" Title="In 'choose which badge to track' things spill over the bottom of the pop up window" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-02-23T11:26:39.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/Russian-Phd-LaTeX-Dissertation-Template&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RKglj.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX-шаблон для русской кандидатской диссертации и её автореферата (LaTeX template for russian PhD thesis)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79756" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:26:27.747" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:26:27.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-24T05:09:16.677" Score="13" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used some answers here to help make figures and do other things in documents I've created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make the question specific, consider this question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/274857/drawing-oddly-shaped-nodes-to-contain-existing-nodes-in-tikz&quot;&gt;drawing oddly shaped nodes to contain existing nodes in tikz&lt;/a&gt; which will affect a figure I'll be publishing soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the question comes - how do I attribute this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answers&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; addresses attributing things, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required?cb=1&quot;&gt;the license&lt;/a&gt; has since been updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is basically - do I just need a comment in .tex file saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;%this method comes from &amp;lt;url&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or do I need something in my bibliography?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or something directly where the figure appears in the text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70067" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T20:13:39.470" Title="How to give attribution for answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6562" CreationDate="2016-02-25T20:13:39.470" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put comments in my source code, and this in the Preface to the book where I thank folks for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wizards at \url{tex.stackexchange.com} were always quick to answer&#xA;  \TeX{}nical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T20:13:39.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6564" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T14:49:32.773" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I learned a lot while reading Stack Exchange. Two days ago, I asked my first question and I received an excellent answer from the user Alenanno.&#xA;Unfortunately, I'm not able to comment my OWN question.&#xA;Every time I tried it, a message appeared saying I must at least have 50 repuations.&#xA;Does anybody know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greets&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99211" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T14:49:32.773" Title="Can't comment my own question" Tags="|support|comments|reputation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6560" CreationDate="2016-02-27T01:39:34.643" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting this issue. The problem arose because font the filter tabs use have a wider letter-spacing. Combine that with having the selected filter in bold, and that pushed the input field down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been corrected. It should look like this now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W2M1F.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W2M1F.png&quot; alt=&quot;Badge popup screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98262" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T01:39:34.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6567" CreationDate="2016-02-29T22:18:48.917" Score="9" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have again been tempted to answer a bad question with an encyclopedia-style answer. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/296616&quot;&gt;Questions regarding the distinction between XeTeX and XeLaTeX and how they relate to TeX and LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;) &#xA;Would it be better to post this as an additional answer to the linked dupe? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T19:55:44.937" Title="Answer in search of a question" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6566" CreationDate="2016-03-01T19:55:44.937" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The network is designed to link questions that have a reference added (either in comment or in the posts), so there's no issue with adding an answer in either location. See the right-hand column when viewing the question to see which posts it may be linked to. Note that the answer has to be just that, an answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the broader picture in mind, it may be of more interest to add encyclopedia-style answers to the &quot;bigger question&quot;, whichever that may be. Of course, this may be subjective as some may see the bigger question as the one with the most views/up-votes, while others may see it as the question with the most duplicate targets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this doesn't matter now, the mentioned question has already been closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T19:55:44.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-03-02T21:36:16.663" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;//stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/tex.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;See all questions with active bounties&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T21:27:15.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-08T06:26:20.143" Score="1" ViewCount="1103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have another Stack Exchange account on &lt;code&gt;Mathematics&lt;/code&gt; using a different email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can't switch to it because I can't seem to find the log out/sign out button anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user99143" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-03-08T16:21:59.140" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T16:21:59.140" Title="How do I log out?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2016-03-20T23:20:48.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6569" CreationDate="2016-03-08T10:32:21.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, locate the &quot;StackExchange&quot; button at the top-left of the screen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TlJVV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TlJVV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, click on the little downward-pointing arrow next to &quot;StackExchange&quot; and bring up the following menu (only the top part is shown):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p43CV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p43CV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, locate the &quot;log out&quot; button and click on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mission accomplished!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T10:32:21.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-08T16:17:09.660" Score="47" ViewCount="679" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in the process of experimenting with river detection in paragraphs and as part of the research I would like to get a questionaire filled out by TeX users (and perhaps users of other systems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering if posing a community question or so (with a link to the questionaire) would be a good and acceptable way to reach hopefully a good number of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts or alternative advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10109" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-03-08T18:01:08.020" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T18:01:08.020" Title="Running a questionaire across the TeX user base" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-11T02:56:07.673" Score="14" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; update has caused (as many here are well aware) a problem with mismatched versions of &lt;code&gt;biber&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt;, and (sometimes) contributed &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; packages. @moewe and I recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/297649/8528&quot;&gt;traded some comments&lt;/a&gt; about creating an artificial question that addresses this since neither of us could point to an already existing question that might serve as a good candidate for this. (That is, I assumed such a question existed, I just didn't want to track it down.) Is this something that would be of use? The idea is that all such questions could be closed with pointer to the 'canonical' question and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, we could take an existing question and use it as a starting point. This &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/297649/8528&quot;&gt;most recent question&lt;/a&gt;, e.g., might serve as a decent candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8528" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T02:56:07.673" Title="Canonical biblatex &quot;version&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6574" CreationDate="2016-03-16T14:19:30.340" Score="10" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using converters like Pandoc, it is possible to use a substantial amount of LaTeX in a markdown document and convert it to a PDF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions involving such use cases allowed on this site? And if so, shouldn't there be a separate tag for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61993" OwnerDisplayName="eshansingh1" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-03-17T06:59:01.690" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T06:59:01.690" Title="Are questions using markdown with LaTeX allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6573" CreationDate="2016-03-17T06:58:21.673" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Issues using a variety of software - &lt;a href=&quot;http://pandoc.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pandoc&lt;/a&gt; included - are on topic here as long as the issue relates to (La)TeX in some way. As mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;TeX - LaTeX Tour page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formats like LaTeX, ConTeXt and plain TeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Engines like pdfTeX, LuaTeX and XeTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Distributions like TeX Live, MiKTeX, and MacTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Related software and tools, BibTeX, MakeIndex, LyX, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't ask about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything not directly related to TeX, LaTeX or related typesetting systems&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that are primarily opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the support for Pandoc might be small (due to the number of questions), I'd suggest spoon-feeding your audience with as much detail as possible, and &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; include a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;minimal example&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T06:58:21.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-22T13:21:36.920" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I attach (or paste in-line) a jpg to a question if I don't have a server to point the link to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101286" OwnerDisplayName="Mark Tucker" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T13:45:05.643" Title="Attaching Images to Questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2016-03-25T21:51:50.783" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-27T20:32:58.253" Score="0" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;When posting MWEs, I always make a file in my editor, then copy-paste it, then turn it into preformatted text. It would be more convenient (and foolproof) to just save it, then click a button on SE with &quot;Upload code&quot; ... Does anyone else think this might be a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32679" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T17:52:59.200" Title="Could a feature be made that lets you upload code directly?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6576" CreationDate="2016-03-28T21:48:44.053" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The feature would simplify posting codes for both questions and answers -- this is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think this idea is useful in general (we had similar questions why TeX.SX does not provide online-compilation etc.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @PaulGessler stated: People would upload a bunch of files, their thesis, not focussing on the main issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other reasons &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People often forget to strip personal data (mail addresses, phone numbers etc.) from their posts then. &#xA;A MWE does not prevent doing such mistakes of course ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uploading the document text does not solve the issue about potential missing graphics or &lt;code&gt;.bib&lt;/code&gt; files.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since documents often have &lt;code&gt;\include{chapter/foo}&lt;/code&gt; statements, this would either mean that the servers of SX should maintain a similar directory structure per post or to transform this into something that is being downloadable with a click (as it has been uploaded before)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T17:52:59.200" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T17:52:59.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-29T16:29:10.087" Score="13" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new on this community. I tried to leave a comment a few minutes ago on the page &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301362/section-numbering-in-tufte-book&quot;&gt;section numbering in &amp;#39;tufte-book&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, but i accidentally post an &quot;answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The given MWE uses &lt;code&gt;tufte-book&lt;/code&gt;. I suspect that &lt;code&gt;tufte-book&lt;/code&gt; uses the package &lt;code&gt;titlesec&lt;/code&gt;. The most recent version of &lt;code&gt;titlesec&lt;/code&gt;, which is a week old, causes the same error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/96090/formatting-subsections-and-chapters-in-tufte-book&quot;&gt;Formatting subsections and chapters in tufte-book&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is stated &quot;...The tufte documentclass loads the titlesec package...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this makes me believe that &lt;code&gt;titlesec&lt;/code&gt; is the cause of the problem, even if this package isn't visible in the shown MWE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't able to rectify my post, because it was deleted. I now have to have 50 point, but i don't know how to get them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kind regards,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user101863" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T17:24:47.277" Title="deleted post few minutes ago" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-30T11:58:10.823" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;After it became clear that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/301442/78282&quot;&gt;a recent question of mine&lt;/a&gt; was connected to issues with {makeindex} I tagged it with that tag name. Only after that I realized that I had thereby just created that tag. Before there was only a generic tag {indexing}. In the description it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{indexing} is about creating an index or similar lists for your&#xA;  document, usually by means of executing makeindex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is an own tag {xindy}, for example. In my opinion, my tag choice makes sense for such a question since it is essentially not referring to how to create some sort of index but boils down to a setting of &lt;code&gt;makeindex&lt;/code&gt;. I understand the {indexing} tag as more general. Is that valid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78282" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T11:58:10.823" Title="created new tag &quot;makeindex&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-30T20:25:45.380" Score="20" ViewCount="454" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the posts here have acronyms or initialisms that befuddle me.  After some time perusing other posts with the same acronym, I have been able to deduce most.  However, would it bet possible to add, or is there currently a glossary of acronyms.  Ones I've encounter and been able to deduce (how correctly, I don't know):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MWE Minimum Working Example&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CV Curriculum Vitae&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DOI i haven't a clue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MWEB ibid.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48678" OwnerDisplayName="TommyK" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T08:33:28.583" Title="Say What? Is there a glossary?" Tags="|discussion|acronyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2016-03-31T08:07:51.477" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Meta TeX.SE&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt; (pre-written common replies)  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Text building blocks](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/430) (pre-written common replies)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;I've just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;code&gt;[I've just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3343&quot;&gt;What makes a good MWE?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What makes a good MWE?](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3343)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SX!](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11866&quot;&gt;Compile a LaTeX document into a PNG image that's as short as possible&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;(preparing output of a MWE for posting here)&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Compile a LaTeX document into a PNG image that's as short as possible](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11866)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1272&quot;&gt;Why doesn't maths render as maths?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why doesn't maths render as maths?](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1272)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4564&quot;&gt;How do I get latex output to show up on tex.SE?&lt;/a&gt; (read the comments) &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do I get latex output to show up on tex.SE?](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4564) (read the comments)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2021-07-11T15:41:10.920" LastActivityDate="2021-07-11T15:41:10.920" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-03-31T08:07:51.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6580" CreationDate="2016-03-31T12:16:16.770" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the (start) of the glossary about TeX.SX specific terms (Well, there might be duplicates with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40353/stack-exchange-glossary-dictionary-of-commonly-used-terms&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms&lt;/a&gt;, however)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;CervanTeX&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CervanTeX is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cervantex.es/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spanish-speaking user group&lt;/a&gt;, is a group of Spanish-speaking user of TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;CTAN&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comprehensive TeX Archive Network&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;the cen­tral place for all kinds of ma­te­rial around TeX&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;DANTE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dante.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V.&lt;/a&gt; located in Germany but meant for all German speaking TeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;DOI&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;digital object identifier&lt;/a&gt; (DOI) is a serial code used to uniquely identify objects. The DOI system is particularly used for electronic documents such as journal articles.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;foo.tex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually no acronym, but stands for an arbitrary &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; file name to be compiled, i.e. an example file name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;GuIT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guitex.org/home/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX&lt;/a&gt; is the official group for Italian TeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;GUST&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gust.org.pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX&lt;/a&gt; &quot;was founded in 1992 to promote in Poland the use of the computer typesetting system called TeX and its companion system Metafont/Metapost for designing fonts.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;LC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-community.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX Community&lt;/a&gt; site -- a more forum - like site about TeX &amp;amp; Co. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MWE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example&lt;/a&gt; document that shows the issue/request. This includes a compilable document (depending on the &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; flavour) and &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; files that are needed to compile the document. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MWEB&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MWE with working bibliography file(s)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MNWE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;inimal &lt;em&gt;N&lt;/em&gt;on &lt;em&gt;W&lt;/em&gt;orking &lt;em&gt;E&lt;/em&gt;xample, i.e. the full code, but that has an issue (typos, syntax errors) but should compile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;NTG&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ntg.nl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nederlandstalige TeX Gebruikersgroep&lt;/a&gt; is the group for Dutch-speaking TeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original poster of the question (or answer) or the original post (depending on context).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TL &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Live&lt;/a&gt; is a free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts. TeXLive comes in major releases every year (in May or June) is often referred to as TL 2014, TL 2015, etc. Older releases are still available. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ToC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Table Of Contents&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TUG&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Users Group&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;founded in 1980 to provide an organization for people who are interested in typography and font design, and/or are users of the TeX typesetting system invented by Donald Knuth&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;VtC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote to Close&lt;/strong&gt; (this acronym may exist on other sites as well, of course)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T08:33:28.583" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-03-31T12:16:16.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6634" CreationDate="2016-04-01T14:31:55.793" Score="17" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/301769/64454&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; that was - long story short - answered by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;strike&gt;app'&lt;/strike&gt; package for that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This package indeed fully addresses my needs, but I was not aware of it (even after web search). In my question, I am thus showing my effort to develop this functionality (since I didn't succeed in finding the package by myself, so assuming it didn't exist). I explore various ways to solve my issue: some are successful but partial, some are unwieldy, and some are plain cul-de-sac.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;So I think this question (and my attempts/partial solutions) still has some value for future user, who want - as I was - to use environments developed in the &lt;code&gt;tufte&lt;/code&gt; class without using this class, and without knowing the existence of the &lt;code&gt;sidenote&lt;/code&gt; package. However, expressed as it is now, this trials are &quot;noise&quot; between a simple and clear question, and its simple and clear answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General question:&lt;/strong&gt; Once one got an answer to his/her question, what should be trimmed in the original post in order to make it as valuable as possible for future users?&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(That means in my particular case: what should I trim in my original post -- that is, I admit, a bit dense -- in order to make it valuable?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., Should I remove all the work I did (trying to replicate &lt;code&gt;tufte&lt;/code&gt; functionality) showing my efforts in my MWE, but that is now useless? It would make the question cleaner, but will lose content and potential &quot;entry points&quot; for people having same issue I had. &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Or should I post it as an answer (so that this work is not lost) but with a disclaimer saying that it's for archive only (and that DG' gave the satisfactory answer)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T01:06:04.733" Title="How to tidy up/improve my question after I got the solution" Tags="|discussion|editing|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-02T14:12:29.397" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;At Stackoverflow and other coding-related sides, it is kept a best practice to avoid asking and/or answering questions which simply ask to get the code for a particular (often oddly specific) scenario. Should we practice this at TeX.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Examples&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302088/customizable-timeline&quot;&gt;Customizable Timeline&lt;/a&gt;. This one is better than most others since the original asker has very clearly tried writing a substantial part of the code himself. Maybe we should give credit since ultimately his customizations required TikZ, but he wrote most of the code in another package himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/272541/how-to-create-a-timeline-without-integer-number-for-events?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to create a timeline without integer numbers for events?&lt;/a&gt; This one is worse since it doesn't really demonstrate whether the asker has put any effort at all into the question. The asker also asks for specific requirements in the accepted answer's comments which the answerer has to edit his question to fit. Granted they are not substantial but still. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/301742/turn-off-caption-prefix-without-using-caption-package&quot;&gt;Turn off caption prefix WITHOUT using caption package&lt;/a&gt;. This is one of my own. Yes, I'm guilty of this myself. I didn't write any code to even &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to figure it out, I just asked. As you can see this question's comments pan out similarly to the comments in the one above, with me continuously demanding requirements from &lt;code&gt;egreg&lt;/code&gt; (the answerer) to fit my specific needs. I didn't need to put any effort into it except copy-pasting his code into my document. And this time, the edits to fit the requirements are substantial and require (a lot of) thought.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are plenty more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do you think about this? If you agree that such questions should be discouraged, why? How exactly should we word it and implement it? If you disagree, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T19:21:55.517" Title="Should we avoid &quot;gimme the codez&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|please-do-this-for-me|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2016-05-13T08:28:50.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6588" CreationDate="2016-04-04T15:04:29.143" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm somewhat missing line numbers when code is posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to have them added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100482" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T06:01:08.037" Title="Line numbers be added when posting code" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6587" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-04T19:52:39.683" Score="4" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some difficulty in writing a MWE. Could someone explain please how to write and format a MWE on here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56633" OwnerDisplayName="Mike" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T20:07:54.310" Title="How to write and format a MWE" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2016-04-05T15:47:20.577" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6586" CreationDate="2016-04-05T06:01:08.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be received with mixed interest, as the interface for Stack Exchange provides users the opportunity to post code snippets for which line numbers might not make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta.SE-related posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7119/168244&quot;&gt;Why are there no line numbers in the code listings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/216914/168244&quot;&gt;How to add line numbers to the code lines?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T06:01:08.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-06T14:07:47.310" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, how do questions and answers become community wiki owned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do we have community owned anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who decides what becomes community owned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What type of questions are eligible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What type of answers are eligible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a type of question or answer that &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be community owned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90087" LastEditorUserId="90087" LastEditDate="2016-04-06T15:39:28.973" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T15:39:28.973" Title="How do questions become community wiki owned" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-04-11T14:48:26.507" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.tips/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UCYS3.png&quot; alt=&quot;visit TeX.tips!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:25:42.317" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:25:42.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-15T06:16:50.503" Score="13" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an appropriate spot on here to advertise a latex-related job/commission? Alternatively, would it be appropriate to privately message some users and invite them to apply for a job/commission? Or would this be generally frowned upon as being not what this site is intended for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88148" LastEditorUserId="88148" LastEditDate="2016-04-15T09:13:14.737" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T15:15:02.720" Title="Job advertising?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|scope|policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-04-15T10:12:14.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d9UXr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help writing and improving a wiki-book on LaTeX!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41085" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:26:15.967" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:26:15.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6591" CreationDate="2016-04-15T17:59:08.927" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it would be appreciated here, the proper place on stackoverflow would probably be &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;careers.sx&lt;/a&gt;, although that's too expensive for only one job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TUG has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/jobboard.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jobboard&lt;/a&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T17:59:08.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6591" CreationDate="2016-04-16T03:13:23.233" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just signed up for &lt;a href=&quot;http://freelancer.ca&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;freelancer.ca&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(see edit below for more details)&lt;/strong&gt; and basically you can look for freelancers in specific areas to do your &quot;projects&quot;, including LaTeX. From what I can see, some of the freelancers seem to have really solid reviews and even have examples of their work. You can also post your &quot;project&quot; and have freelancers bid on it (but stick with the LaTeX tag only; otherwise, you'll end up with a LOT of bids from freelancers who know nothing about it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternative to this, it really would be nice to have somewhere on here as a &quot;LaTeX-for-hire&quot; job listing forum. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/jobboard.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TUG jobboard&lt;/a&gt; seems to be pretty dead (no new jobs since July 2014), and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/consultants.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;their consultant listing&lt;/a&gt; seems to be mainly geared towards heavy/intense/professional jobs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, the freelancer website seems to be the best place for getting smaller jobs done (although they can do big ones as well, but I would rather have bigger jobs done by a professional with their own website or an owner of a prominent LaTeX package, etc). There really should be an SE alternative to this for smaller jobs (not for &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;huge ones&lt;/a&gt;) IMO, or at least a LaTeX-specific one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I just finished a project I assigned to someone I hired on there, and he did a pretty good job! There was a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of back-and-forth communication to make sure the TikZ pictures (in my case) came out the way I wanted them to, but the person I hired at least (can't speak for others) worked pretty hard to make sure I was satisfied. There are some PhD students on there, but I just hired a physics grad student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you don't pay for the entire project at once, you actually just give a small deposit fee first, and don't pay them more until they give you deliverables/updates half way (you can customise this to set more milestones than just halfway too). This is a good thing since you don't have to worry &lt;em&gt;as much&lt;/em&gt; about money going to waste. Of course, as Johannes said, with freelancers you never know what you'll get, but I think this system helps minimise the risks of that (with the payment structure I mentioned). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is just &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; experience, but I think if you choose a freelancer wisely you can end up with similar results. I should also say I don't work for the website or anything like that, I was just desperate to get some drawings done for a (overdue) paper and that's why I used them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastEditorUserId="41981" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T15:15:02.720" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T15:15:02.720" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6598" CreationDate="2016-04-16T04:29:19.223" Score="19" ViewCount="745" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of good questions and answers on TeX.SE. It's likely that each person has their favorites. Wouldn't it be nice for this site, and others among other (not all) SE to have somewhat of &lt;strong&gt;a crash course&lt;/strong&gt; for beginners and intermediates indicating a series of posts? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some recommendations point out to read some excellent books, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53/what-is-the-best-way-to-learn-tex?lq=1&quot;&gt;Knuth's&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11/what-are-good-learning-resources-for-a-latex-beginner&quot;&gt;The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2&lt;/a&gt;. But what can one read directly from the site in a pragmatic one by one case? I think that focusing on online resources, and on building a positive possible path is unique in what I'm asking. My question is similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6239/is-there-any-organised-way-by-which-new-latex-learners-can-benefit-from-previous&quot;&gt;another similar one that got a negative response&lt;/a&gt;. The problem with that, in my opinion, is that it remains as if one said to all new-comers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;mdash;no, the maze has no map or compass of any kind.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...just go one step at a time kiddo, then all will come together&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that this may be true. However, it remains dark and frightening for those who see an exagerated steep way ahead. There shouldn't be a necessary and mysterious moment of glory that comes like magic whenever it wants to pop up. Learning comes by steps but you should be able to follow paths, even when every choice to where, when and how much to advance is a personal one. Even the comments on the post recommend it to be continued. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another answer seems &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16808/i-am-a-latex-enthusiast-i-am-finding-it-very-difficult-to-produce-documents?lq=1&quot;&gt;a good abc&lt;/a&gt; for learning TeX, just a little short, and more for using the site, and not as much about using TeX and a progression on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T14:03:37.930" Title="a nice online abc for beginners" Tags="|discussion|best-practice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6597" CreationDate="2016-04-17T04:04:41.663" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;A basic, and maybe extended, abc could go something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't like lists (but who cares, right?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;check that you have &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; properly installed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make your first &lt;strong&gt;hello world&lt;/strong&gt; document&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;understand what a &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; is&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3343/what-makes-a-good-mwe&quot;&gt;how/when to use it&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4407/how-to-write-a-mweb-minimal-working-example-with-bibliography&quot;&gt;Do it with bibliography&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5) &lt;em&gt;write a book!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47964/how-to-write-a-book-in-latex?rq=1&quot;&gt;Fill your files with content. This will take 99% of your time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/528/style-class-tutorials?lq=1&quot;&gt;a &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; about styles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;again: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/139873/what-are-the-most-common-mistakes-that-beginners-of-latex-and-friends-make&quot;&gt;beware of the infinite progression of design with no content&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19264/techniques-and-packages-to-keep-up-with-good-practices?lq=1&quot;&gt;becoming friends with &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; code&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/134972/cleaning-my-tex-code?lq=1&quot;&gt;keeping it clean&lt;/a&gt;, also getting to &lt;strong&gt;no errors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to learn (code and &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/31/tips-and-resources-for-beginning-designers&quot;&gt;graphic) design&lt;/a&gt; stuff&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25701/bibtex-vs-biber-and-biblatex-vs-natbib?lq=1&quot;&gt;how to handle .bib stuff&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliography_Management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki reference&lt;/a&gt;), even in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/125744/how-to-print-a-bibliography-for-a-particular-author-only&quot;&gt;one case scenario&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12668/where-do-i-start-latex-programming&quot;&gt;understanding LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47437/resettable-variables&quot;&gt;how to customize macros&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51865/how-to-write-a-latex-class-file-for-my-thesis&quot;&gt;how to write for your specific academic purpose&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;focus on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22431/everyday-latex-and-workflow?lq=1&quot;&gt;the writing&lt;/a&gt;, day to day, on the content &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the code &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course many people could edit here, and remove and/or add tons of stuff, and be a really dynamic post. Maybe I'm missing something because I'm somewhat new too, but I still think it could be awesome. Though, not sure if it could appear in meta or directly in TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're a pro already? Good that you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19553/where-can-i-find-people-for-hire-with-latex-skills-and-designer-skills?lq=1&quot;&gt;work using LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:19.490" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T14:03:37.930" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6605" CreationDate="2016-04-24T15:09:24.673" Score="0" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; something wrong with justified text in online media (compared to &lt;em&gt;print&lt;/em&gt; media) nowadays?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia says at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment&lt;/a&gt;, that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A common type of text alignment in print media is &quot;justification&quot;, where the spaces between words, and, to a lesser extent, between glyphs or letters, are stretched or compressed to align both the left and right ends of each line of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example, from a long post with several answers (the topic being absolutely irrelevant), how unjustified text looks like: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6347/i-am-a-serial-upvoter&quot;&gt;I am a serial upvoter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a link to a seven year old discussion from the sister site SO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/315845/should-i-avoid-using-text-align-justify&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/315845/should-i-avoid-using-text-align-justify&lt;/a&gt; with a lot of good points about this issue, but some of the more recent comments indicate that &quot;&lt;em&gt;thigs are slowly changing&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is a more recent post (actually, the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; post here at M.TEX.SE containing both the words &quot;justified&quot; and &quot;text&quot;): &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2197/why-doesnt-tex-sx-use-tex-fonts&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t TeX.sx use TeX fonts?&lt;/a&gt; showing an awesome rendering of justified text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, online media, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://time.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://time.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wsj.com/europe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.wsj.com/europe&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://edition.cnn.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://edition.cnn.com/&lt;/a&gt; does not seem to use justified text, so this seems to be the &quot;industry standard&quot;, as of today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that justified text in certain environments could look strange, e.g. when the text width got resized together with the window size. However, this does not seem to be the case here, at TEX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any, (if so, then what?) technical obstacles in implementing a justified text to a website? One possibility I could think of is that justification might require extra resources (i.e. slows things down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any typographical reasons against using justified text in online media?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is left-aligned text the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; choice for an online typographical site, and is this the state-of-the art? There is really nothing better to do? Is the site TEX.SE an &lt;em&gt;exemplary&lt;/em&gt; online media site, based on its typographical outlook? If the consensus is, that automatic/mandatory justification cannot work, would it be possible to format existing/new posts, where appropriate, to justified text? Would such a feature-request would make any sense, and would anyone actually support such a feature request? Again, it seems to me that the width of the posts and comments are fixed, so window-resizing wouldn't cause things to go crazy. So, to summarize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;why the text at TEX.SE is not justified?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80509" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T09:40:28.603" Title="There is no place for justification in online media?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-25T11:18:22.550" Score="6" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do I just have to spend hours trawling the site to find that one unanswered question that I happen to know the answer to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4353" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-04-25T18:02:00.127" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T15:26:50.107" Title="How do I get my reputation up to 15 so I can upvote?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6603" CreationDate="2016-04-25T18:01:20.450" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be one of the biggest issues new users face on any site on the Stack Exchange network: You want to contribute in a meaningful way, but are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;restricted&lt;/a&gt; until you've contributed in a meaningful way. There's no easy out of this conundrum as it is a network-wide initiative that attempts to set a boundary between noise and quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are a friendly bunch, so join in when you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/17250/168244&quot;&gt;Here are some suggestions&lt;/a&gt; that might help one gain reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post quality answers.&lt;/strong&gt; This should be numbered 1, 2 and 3. But a good answer will more often than not trump a fast answer. Though there are cases where it does not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monitor the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;frontpage&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;new questions list.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Learn their cache time and refresh accordingly or use the tag pages to get live updates on new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setup a good but short list of Interesting and Ignored tags.&lt;/strong&gt; For example, one may have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macros&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt; as interesting tags. This will help you see questions, which you can answer, quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avoid Wall of Text questions.&lt;/strong&gt; They take way too much effort for little reward. And usually are syntax errors or bad structure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post an answer even though the question has 1–2 or even 3 answers.&lt;/strong&gt; In these cases, take your time and answer well. This will usually net you a good sum of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn when to edit.&lt;/strong&gt; Post a short answer at first and then edit. You have &amp;lt;5 minutes to make that answer shine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be humble, thorough and fair.&lt;/strong&gt; There are a lot of smart people out there and many will know much more than you about the subject. Be thorough in the code you post, check it for syntax errors and make sure it fits the question. And if you see that the correct answer is already there, upvote it, that person deserves the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17204/168244&quot;&gt;Six simple tips to get reputation fast on any Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T18:01:20.450" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6602" CreationDate="2016-04-25T18:13:13.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because there is no need to blend online and printed media here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; may find beneficial - having justified text online/here - may not work well for others. Perhaps, using a similar discussion, there has been a related request to render (La)TeX via MathJax. However, this site is dedicated to the code &lt;em&gt;behind&lt;/em&gt; the printed media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1272/5764&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t maths render as maths?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T18:13:13.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6602" CreationDate="2016-04-28T09:40:28.603" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Text justification is not a straightforward matter. When used without a computational overhead almost always leads to poor results (for example any Microsoft Word version until the last one 2013 I guess) the reason is that the user base has ridiculously diverse text sizes and you have to make sure that the display is uniform across all platforms. That implies that there must be a TeX like dynamic engine (that is what Kindle, Kobo etc. has) that handles the justification. That then implies that page loading becomes more resource demanding. That implies a lot of other problems in terms of user experience, for example screen resizing; you can't make them wait just to resize the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead you just leave it unjustified and HTML rendering does a simple if doesn't fit break it to the next line job. Personally I don't like justified text as it is often visible to see the stretched out spaces in between words (unless I typeset stuff with TeX which tries a lot to make things smooth). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Text justification problems appear on many places if you spend some time on google. Here is one after half a minute of searching &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pws-ltd.com/sections/articles/2009/justified_text.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.pws-ltd.com/sections/articles/2009/justified_text.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also other issues with hypenation etc. in the narrow column context ala news portals and so on but an expert can tell more about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T09:40:28.603" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-29T09:46:06.957" Score="16" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user edits her/his own question frequently, it's ensured that it stays high up on the front-page. This is an easy way of continously bumping one's own question up. Is this desired? (How) Can this be prevented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I am not asking whether it can be prevented that my question is bumped up when I edited it, but whether it can (or should) be prevented/discouraged that users bump their questions by making minor edits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33758" LastEditorUserId="33758" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T11:29:31.153" LastActivityDate="2020-01-21T10:51:04.003" Title="Editing own questions to move up on frontpage" Tags="|discussion|editing|bumping|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2016-04-29T14:39:21.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's annoying and people shouldn't do it because it is annoying. That should be an enough preventive indication.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T14:39:21.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2016-04-29T19:25:23.890" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no formal way of preventing this behaviour as editing a post is assumed to &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; it, and the subsequent bump is a by-product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the site is community driven, improper use of this technique can be discussed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; - to seek confirmation (just to make sure you're not seeing things that aren't there) and perhaps brought to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;moderator&lt;/a&gt; attention. They would be able to super-ping the user (if they're not in the chat room already) requesting a change in behaviour if deemed necessary (with an accompanying explanation of why meaningless edits are not helpful) or perform more rigorous actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My (a general) suggestion would be to stagger edits when editing multiple questions rather than lumping them together at one time. Also, avoid deliberately staggering edits to a single question. While this still dilutes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;front page&lt;/a&gt;, at least it doesn't bombard it and/or bury other active posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T03:19:14.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-30T00:16:22.053" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I attach some files to a question? Or can I?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't like my grammar. If it were done when it were done it were well it were done quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104427" OwnerDisplayName="Ewan" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T02:02:20.930" Title="How to attach files" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-04-30T12:14:23.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6603" CreationDate="2016-04-30T02:35:33.397" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that you have accounts on other sites in the Stack Exchange network, some of which have higher reputation than your TeX.SE account. Once any of your accounts reaches 200 reputation you will receive an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/141649/299342&quot;&gt;association bonus&lt;/a&gt; of 100 reputation on all your accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also suggest edits to other users' posts -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;you will gain 2 reputation for each suggested edit that is approved by users with higher reputation&lt;/a&gt;. You should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;edit posts&lt;/a&gt; to correct spelling or grammar mistakes, fix code or quote formatting, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T03:30:05.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2016-04-30T13:16:25.587" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is the way StackExchange works, I assume it is absolutely OK. If not, I am sure this feature will be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regularly, I reread my own questions and answers. If I see errors, or a sentence that should be rephrased to improve the language, I will do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="9632" LastEditDate="2020-01-21T10:51:04.003" LastActivityDate="2020-01-21T10:51:04.003" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2016-05-01T14:31:08.087" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is bad then people would downvote/close it.&#xA;If that does not happen, and we assume the question is intrinsically worth asking / answering, then the bump should have no significant effect in the long run I feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81360" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T14:31:08.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2016-05-02T04:51:56.587" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the help topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/no-one-answers&quot;&gt;What should I do if no one answers my question?&lt;/a&gt; users are encouraged to &quot;edit your question to provide status and progress updates. Document your own continued efforts to answer your question. This will naturally bump your question to the homepage and get more people interested in it.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if someone edits their question only in order to bump it to the front page, I didn't think that was a problem.  It demonstrates that they are still interested in getting their question answered, or might not have gotten the answer they needed.  I just started using StackExchange a few months ago and after reading through the help topics this is exactly how I thought I &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be doing it.  If someone abuses the feature then actions can be taken either by downvoting or by bringing it to moderator attention as suggested.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100817" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T02:20:21.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6603" CreationDate="2016-05-02T14:39:02.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also suggest to &lt;strong&gt;ask (good) questions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, some questions are more 'trendy' and thus more likely to get dozen of up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But an interesting and well asked question is likely to be rewarded by a few up-votes, what is enough to reach the 15 rep cap. &#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interesting&lt;/em&gt; means a question that matters (if it really matters to you, it matters for us and it is not too specific or spam!) and have not been already answered (no: all questions have not been already asked!). &#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well asked&lt;/em&gt; means clear and concise, well formatted (using code blocks, text formatting), with a MWE (if needed), and tagged appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, this adds to the quality/interest of the site... and it's the first step in this virtuous circle: learning LaTeX -&gt; enhanced LaTeX skills -&gt; more knowledge to share... and more will to learn new areas!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastEditorUserId="64454" LastEditDate="2016-05-02T15:26:50.107" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T15:26:50.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-05-02T20:53:16.213" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/gallery/#glossaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gbnK8.png&quot; alt=&quot;visit glossaries gallery&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:25:56.347" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:25:56.347" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-03T00:58:08.700" Score="4" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to upload a screen shot of error message with 4Mb capacity using image link, but failed. How I will solve this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user104509" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-05-06T16:35:26.293" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T18:28:43.567" Title="Failed to upload a screen shot on questions?" Tags="|discussion|imgur|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2016-05-03T04:40:46.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sorry&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;I didn´t know this happened.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;And I believe I may speak for others too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only after reading this post I find out that questions/answers get bumped by making minor edits. And that it´s annoying.  Now I realise both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we could take into account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;many many newcomers just post a few times, hence, maybe ignoring this rule of the site is somewhat spread… &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the whole site everyone is supposed to do all in best faith, why assume that bumping was on purpose, just to get attention?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93818" LastEditorUserId="93818" LastEditDate="2016-05-03T17:40:19.730" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T17:40:19.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2016-05-03T09:00:31.030" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Indexing and Glossaries&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Generating External Files (Running &lt;code&gt;makeindex&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;xindy&lt;/code&gt;):&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36530&quot;&gt;Index not created in pdf output, even though idx file is present&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Index not created in pdf output, even though idx file is present](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36530)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/110095&quot;&gt;List of Acronyms is not displayed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[List of Acronyms is not displayed](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/110095)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13152&quot;&gt;How to makeglossaries with TeXworks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to makeglossaries with TeXworks?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13152)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/61099&quot;&gt;Using Texmaker with glossaries on Windows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Using Texmaker with glossaries on Windows](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/61099)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/483383&quot;&gt;TeXnicCenter and glossaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[TeXnicCenter and glossaries](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/483383)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/306995&quot;&gt;latexmk reaches maximum runs when including new glossaries entries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[latexmk reaches maximum runs when including new glossaries entries](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/306995)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/27824&quot;&gt;Using package nomencl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Using package nomencl](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/27824)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/309233&quot;&gt;What can interfere with glossaries to prevent printing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What can interfere with glossaries to prevent printing?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/309233)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42999&quot;&gt;makeglossaries hangs waiting for input on mac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[makeglossaries hangs waiting for input on mac](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42999)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Indexing:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/461985&quot;&gt;Index with text different from structure text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Index with text different from structure text](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/461985)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scan document for keywords (no markup):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/398627&quot;&gt;How to generate an automatic index (concordance) in a large file?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to generate an automatic index (concordance) in a large file?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/398627)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/472&quot;&gt;How can I have two or more distinct indexes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I have two or more distinct indexes?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/472)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/356285&quot;&gt;Use xindy to sort by bible book instead of ABC – or: How to add custom letter groups?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Use xindy to sort by bible book instead of ABC – or: How to add custom letter groups?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/356285)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;acro&lt;/code&gt; package:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/130293&quot;&gt;How to define acronyms being part of another acronym? (using acro.sty)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to define acronyms being part of another acronym? (using acro.sty)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/130293)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;acronym&lt;/code&gt; package:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/160665&quot;&gt;Print acronym + full name in brackets at the first occurence of \ac{XYZ}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Print acronym + full name in brackets at the first occurence of \ac{XYZ}](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/160665)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/47318&quot;&gt;How to escape ampersand in \acro command?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to escape ampersand in \acro command?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/47318)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt; package:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lists and Sorting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No vertical gap between letter groups (&lt;code&gt;nogroupskip&lt;/code&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/129294&quot;&gt;How do I remove alphabetical grouping of acronyms in the list?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do I remove alphabetical grouping of acronyms in the list?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/129294)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/251171&quot;&gt;Glossary remains empty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Glossary remains empty](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/251171)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/305370&quot;&gt;Glossaries are not printed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Glossaries are not printed](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/305370)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/367086&quot;&gt;How to print all the acronyms?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to print all the acronyms?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/367086)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/437772&quot;&gt;Glossary WITHOUT location numbers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Glossary WITHOUT location numbers](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/437772)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/365680&quot;&gt;How to make the term “page” show in the Glossary list?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to make the term “page” show in the Glossary list?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/365680)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/480959&quot;&gt;Counter in front of the glossary name&lt;/a&gt; (enumerating top-level terms)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Counter in front of the glossary name](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/480959)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/339361&quot;&gt;Both sorted and unsorted glossaries with glossaries package?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Both sorted and unsorted glossaries with glossaries package?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/339361)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/389875&quot;&gt;No printed glossaries when switching to \makenoidxglossaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[No printed glossaries when switching to \makenoidxglossaries](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/389875)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/404724&quot;&gt;Unusual sorting of greek letters and math mode symbols when using glossaries package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Unusual sorting of greek letters and math mode symbols when using glossaries package](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/404724)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/191644&quot;&gt;glossaries package reference non-glossary item in see also&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[glossaries package reference non-glossary item in see also](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/191644)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/437161&quot;&gt;When showing list of acronyms using glossaries package, only show those that are mentioned at least 4 times in the document&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[When showing list of acronyms using glossaries package, only show those that are mentioned at least 4 times in the document](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/437161)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Linking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/140666&quot;&gt;Glossaries: Hyperlink to First Entry not List of Acronyms&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Glossaries: Hyperlink to First Entry not List of Acronyms](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/140666)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Section Headings and Table of Contents&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/198140&quot;&gt;Glossaries and custom section headings broken&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Glossaries and custom section headings broken](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/198140)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/98196&quot;&gt;Include glossary in table of contents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Include glossary in table of contents](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/98196)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Defining Terms/Symbols&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/412062&quot;&gt;How can I have an acronym within another acronym with an uppercase first letter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I have an acronym within another acronym with an uppercase first letter?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/412062)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/426863&quot;&gt;Glossaries package with recursive terms (eg TCP/IP)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Glossaries package with recursive terms (eg TCP/IP)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/426863)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/316777&quot;&gt;Symbols with optional parameter in glossaries with \newglossary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Symbols with optional parameter in glossaries with \newglossary](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/316777)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/461428&quot;&gt;glossary with diacritic marks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[glossary with diacritic marks](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/461428)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Including &lt;code&gt;\cite&lt;/code&gt; on first use and in glossary:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/461432&quot;&gt;Cite first instance of an acronym&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Cite first instance of an acronym](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/461432)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Formatting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/320507&quot;&gt;Position of powers/subscripts when using symbols/symbolslist via glossaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Position of powers/subscripts when using symbols/symbolslist via glossaries](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/320507)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/94885&quot;&gt;glossaries: fail to expand in tabularx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[glossaries: fail to expand in tabularx](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/94885)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/321177&quot;&gt;Abbreviation not shown correctly by long-short style (acronyms &amp;amp; glossary)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Abbreviation not shown correctly by long-short style (acronyms &amp;amp; glossary)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/321177)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/303888&quot;&gt;Different formatting for acronyms and glossary entries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Different formatting for acronyms and glossary entries](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/303888)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/425432&quot;&gt;How to highlight text that includes glossaries and citations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to highlight text that includes glossaries and citations?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/425432)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/435617&quot;&gt;Glossaries - expand acronyms for first-time use within each chapter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Glossaries - expand acronyms for first-time use within each chapter](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/435617)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Errors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154781&quot;&gt;debug No room for a new \write problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[debug No room for a new \write problem](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154781)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/419368&quot;&gt;New command within glossaries ›first‹ needs to be protected?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[New command within glossaries ›first‹ needs to be protected?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/419368)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;nomenclature&lt;/code&gt; package:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/374753&quot;&gt;Add column headings to nomentbl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Add column headings to nomentbl](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/374753)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/321392&quot;&gt;How to make Two column nomenclature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to make Two column nomenclature](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/321392)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/223376&quot;&gt;How to make section in Nomenclature?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to make section in Nomenclature?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/223376)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31562&quot;&gt;nomencl package and vertical bar |&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[nomencl package and vertical bar |](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31562)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;General:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100354&quot;&gt;List of abbreviations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[List of abbreviations](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/100354)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/287080&quot;&gt;Best solution for acronyms, abbreviations, glossary and index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Best solution for acronyms, abbreviations, glossary and index](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/287080)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/348640&quot;&gt;How to effectively use List of Symbols for a thesis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to effectively use List of Symbols for a thesis?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/348640)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/199211&quot;&gt;Differences between “xindy” and “makeindex”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Differences between “xindy” and “makeindex”](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/199211)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/158796&quot;&gt;MiKTeX and Perl scripts (and one Python script)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[MiKTeX and Perl scripts (and one Python script)](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/158796)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-05-30T16:07:07.890" LastActivityDate="2023-05-30T16:07:07.890" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-05-03T09:00:31.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6621" CreationDate="2016-05-06T15:21:14.417" Score="27" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have, after learning some LaTeX, in trying to understand more about what I am doing, started to learn some plain TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has naturally led to me using some plain TeX control sequences in the latex that I write. It has also led to me asking questions that have MWE's that begin with &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt; and end with &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt; but nonetheless contain &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt; and other primitives and plain TeX macros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I asking a LaTeX question or a plain TeX question when I do this? Does it really matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/308110/can-two-vtop-boxes-exist-side-by-side&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can two \vtop boxes exist side by side?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90087" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T08:36:48.433" Title="What makes a question plain tex versus latex? Does it really matter?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6620" CreationDate="2016-05-06T15:58:12.923" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have two tags that try to separate the differences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt; is about format-independent questions involving TeX the language, and so it can be used for LaTeX questions involving TeX primitives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plain-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plain-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plain-tex&lt;/a&gt; is about the &lt;code&gt;plain&lt;/code&gt; TeX format, and is mainly there for people who use it so that their questions don't get lost in the sea of LaTeX questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you are asking about TeX primitives in the context of a LaTeX document, add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt; tag; if your minimal example ends with &lt;code&gt;\bye&lt;/code&gt; and can be compiled with plain TeX, then use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plain-tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plain-tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plain-tex&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-05-06T16:01:15.233" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T16:01:15.233" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6617" CreationDate="2016-05-06T16:35:03.603" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask yourself whether the full resolution image is actually necessary... in most cases it's probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a limit to the file size that can be uploaded using the native IMGUR uploader on Stack Exchange. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/133138/168244&quot;&gt;It's roughly 2MB&lt;/a&gt; as suggested by the upload dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sXcLh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sXcLh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reduce the file size in an external program before uploading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, users are inherently throttled in their participation depending on their reputation. More reputation leads to more &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt; which leads to more freedom (and responsibility). While this doesn't relate to image size, such limitations hopefully educates the community in terms of the suggested site behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/25051/168244&quot;&gt;Resizing an image in a post?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/234591/168244&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;framing is not allowed&amp;quot; error when uploading gif file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/101439/168244&quot;&gt;Please do something to encourage people to scale down their giant heavyweight photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T18:28:43.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6620" CreationDate="2016-05-07T08:36:48.433" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that you can not actually use plain tex in latex. plain is a different format defined in plain.tex which is not input into the latex format. There are of course some macros with the same name in both plain and latex and (some) of those have the same definition, but it's not really plain tex whatever you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you want to ask how to do a floating insert and want people to answer using &lt;code&gt;\topinsert&lt;/code&gt; and with code that requires the command &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; rather than &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; to process it, tag your question &lt;code&gt;plain-tex&lt;/code&gt;  but if you are asking about the use of a primitive such as &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt; in latex, tag it &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt; if you want to ask about a macro such as &lt;code&gt;\loop&lt;/code&gt; tag it as &lt;code&gt;macros&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;latex-base&lt;/code&gt; or some such (&lt;code&gt;\loop&lt;/code&gt; being an example of a low level macro with similar but different definitions in plain and latex).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just want to ask a question and don't know how to tag it just tag it with anything reasonable, it doesn't matter that much anyway and the tags can always be changed once the answer and context is clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T08:36:48.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-05-09T10:06:47.307" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2016&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G5yFQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;10th International ConTeXt meeting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:25:51.780" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:25:51.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2016-05-10T05:17:59.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's slightly out of scope, but if you notice abuse of that feature,&#xA;maybe you can document properties of the behaviour (e.g. &quot;100 updates per day&quot; or sth like that) and than propose to StackExchange (as it's feature generally available on many sites) some kind of throttling (for example &quot;move question up, on first 50 edits of given question per day. Move question up also if user did not exceeded 1000 edits per day on given site.&quot;, etc.). Such kind of throttling such allow people to continue edits, but prevent them from making it in robotic abusive manner to be constantly on top. Aparat from this, I bare that &quot;downvoting bit&quot; mentined by  @kabZX , place role in making this system healthy by-itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7128" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T05:17:59.177" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-05-10T05:17:59.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-13T12:23:31.407" Score="45" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathematica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathematica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathematica&lt;/a&gt; tag is for questions relating to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wri.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mathematica&lt;/a&gt; software.  People (typically newcomers) sometimes mistakenly add this tag to questions when they really mean math, not Mathematica.  This misunderstanding is very common, and not surprising, given that typing &quot;mat...&quot; causes the autocompletion to suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathematica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathematica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathematica&lt;/a&gt; and that &quot;mathematica&quot; is the term used for math in many languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I corrected two such misuses of the tag today. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/309012/how-to-type-rectangle-norm-symbol-in-math&quot;&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/303388/binom-frac-the-way-i-need-them&quot;&gt;(2)&lt;/a&gt;.  This is not a popular tag, currently there are only 68 uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have the same problem with the site name of &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Mathematica.SE&lt;/a&gt; and it's so common that we need to migrate questions to &lt;a href=&quot;http://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Math.SE&lt;/a&gt; daily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow had the same problem with their &lt;code&gt;mathematica&lt;/code&gt; tag and they solved it successfully by renaming it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wolfram-mathematica&quot;&gt;wolfram-mathematica&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/219890/164803&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose doing the same on TeX.SE.  Rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathematica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathematica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathematica&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wolfram-mathematica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wolfram-mathematica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wolfram-mathematica&lt;/a&gt; &lt;del&gt;but keep &lt;code&gt;mathematica&lt;/code&gt; as a synonym&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/29630196#29630196&quot;&gt;Link to chat discussion on the topic.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; It seems people are in favour of just renaming the tag to &lt;code&gt;wolfram-mathematica&lt;/code&gt; and not having any synonym for it, so I'm modifying the proposal to suggest this solution (i.e. no synonym).  If you disagree, please comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6302" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T11:13:06.200" Title="Proposal: rename mathematica tag to wolfram-mathematica" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6632" CreationDate="2016-05-13T15:28:56.780" Score="20" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you try to edit a question, there is a request to not make trivial edits.  I wonder what counts as trivial?  Adding better tags?  Expanding an abbreviation in the question title?  Enabling syntax highlighting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52686" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-05-16T18:39:47.960" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T18:39:47.960" Title="What is a trivial edit" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-15T20:08:37.133" Score="5" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the rules for re-using code? I'm publicly posting a document that used code verbatim from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/302589/alignment-of-tikz-pictures-in-subfigures&quot; title=&quot;this link&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;, and I don't know what kind of accreditation I am to give, let alone whether I am allowed to do this at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85396" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T20:29:22.687" Title="Copyright/reuse rules" Tags="|support|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6630" CreationDate="2016-05-15T20:29:22.687" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;At present, the situation for the entire network is that all posts are subject to &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC-BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt; as linked at the bottom of every page. That was brought in pretty early in the life of the network as a way of making sure people's contributions couldn't be taken without credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's a problem with this for code as the license was never really meant for that use case (the license was meant for the 'text' of answers, and indeed the line between 'text' and 'code' is one of the problems with this entire thing). This has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required&quot;&gt;discussed on the main meta site&lt;/a&gt; as the StackExchange staff are trying to 'fix' it. The situation is complicated as (particularly on StackOverflow) different users have different views on how they expect their code to be used and as licensing code is itself complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here on TeX-sx we've tried to address this as the original poster of an answer can choose to 'dual license', saying 'as well as CC-BY-SA 3.0, you can also use my code under XXX'. We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answer&quot;&gt;dedicated meta question&lt;/a&gt; on this. You can also post a comment on a question specifically asking about relicensing if that is necessary for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in terms of copyright there is no transfer when you post to the site, so it remains with the author of material. Life gets a bit more complex when you start to look at stuff that is say modified in a answer from something in a question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T20:29:22.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6629" CreationDate="2016-05-16T17:45:43.907" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally edits should &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; a post. However, minor typos - things that don't change the context of the post - should really be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest reason behind this stems from the fact that an edited post becomes &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt;, and active posts get bumped to the front page. In that case, chaning &quot;teh&quot; to &quot;the&quot; or removing &quot;Thanks!&quot; doesn't really help, since no new value has been added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I've made minor edits to post if they've just been bumped as there is no real harm in doing that to an already-bumped post. I consider those just edits missed by the other person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A broad discussion on (in-)acceptable edits is available from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340/5764&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/74430/168244&quot;&gt;Why are trivial edits discouraged?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/82893/168244&quot;&gt;Remove trivial edit restriction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T17:45:43.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6633" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-16T22:16:51.613" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a stupid question, but I am encountering some problems with my thesis. I would like to post a question about an error in a tabular format. How do I write down the codes so that someone can see them in the grey-box like this one? Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WW9g0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WW9g0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105607" OwnerDisplayName="rjkvc" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T22:45:17.720" Title="typesetting LaTeX codes in a question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-05-17T19:25:46.467" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6584" CreationDate="2016-05-20T01:05:34.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Others go through the same process as you and therefore may use the same search path or approaches you did. So, if the attempts/code you present may provide value to the community or future visitors, then leave the post as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One may, in general, present your question in a &lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Attempts&lt;/strong&gt; order, where the start of the question provides the core inquiry (that is, the post is &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;oo &lt;strong&gt;L&lt;/strong&gt;ong and some people &lt;strong&gt;D&lt;/strong&gt;on't want to &lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;ead the entire thing), followed by your &lt;strong&gt;Attempts&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T01:05:34.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6628" CreationDate="2016-05-20T14:34:48.460" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should now be done: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wolfram-mathematica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wolfram-mathematica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wolfram-mathematica&lt;/a&gt; set up. I've removed the old tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-05-21T19:38:52.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T19:38:52.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6636" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-21T20:04:03.437" Score="62" ViewCount="2018" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that I've found vaguely weird about this site for some time: the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;reputations of top users&lt;/a&gt; are insanely high here. Today I got curious and went to other big sites on the network, and this site does feel anomalous: the top users on &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; would make 7th and 13th here, despite both sites being &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;rather older&lt;/a&gt; and with a higher turnover in terms of questions per day. On sites with a similar age and questions-per-day turnover as Tex.SE such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;Electrical Engineering&lt;/a&gt;, the top two rows of users have much less reputation than here. You have to go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;Mathematics&lt;/a&gt; to find something comparable, among sites with a similar age, but they're churning through something like seven times as many questions as here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it's quite possible that in terms of total amounts of reputation things are a bit more in line, but there I don't quite have the statistics chops to make a meaningful comparison. Either way, TeX.SE must either have (a) much more rep (hence also votes) to go around as other comparable sites, or (b) a much more skewed rep distribution curve. &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/206518/reputation-histogram-log-log-scale#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This query&lt;/a&gt; sort of vaguely supports the latter but then again you'd have to be quite careful with your comparisons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, though, I want to ask this community what you think this says about this site. Does this strike you as a reasonable observation? What would you attribute it to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a strong emphasis in the responses on the total number of votes, and I don't think I quite buy it. It is &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/superuser/query/492368/total-upvotes-and-downvotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;very easy&lt;/a&gt; to query for the total upvotes and downvotes in a site, and the data isn't at all unambiguous. For the comparisons above, it currently looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;        TeX.SE   Super User   Server Fault   Physics        EE    Mathematics&#xA;  ↑  1,440,460    1,964,282      1,261,362   575,663   466,268      3,511,289&#xA;  ↓     17,360      254,889        168,570    91,254    78,871        380,931&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, there's a few points worth emphasizing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compared to sites equivalent in age and current turnover, Physics and Electrical Engineering, TeX.SE does have way more upvotes around.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similarly, the downvote count does seem rather low compared to everyone else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;However, SuperUser has a lot less rep on the top pages than TeX.SE... but it still has sizably more upvotes in the database.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site with a comparable leaderboard, Mathematics, has more than twice the total rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While SU and SF do have more downvotes than TeX.SE, the negative effect of downvotes on rep is 1/5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of an upvote, and the count of (upvotes - 0.2 downvotes) for SU is still higher than the total upvotes of TeX.SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That means that explanations along the lines of &quot;we don't downvote&quot; that don't address that ratio have rather low explanatory power.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, that says that there also needs to be more concentration of rep on the top tiers, which ties in with (and provides evidence for) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1867/should-high-rep-users-hang-back-a-little&quot;&gt;Should high-rep users hang back a little?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, just to be clear,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, rep is just fake internet points and ultimately doesn't matter. However, metrics like these do carry a nontrivial amount of information about each community and they are a reflection of the informal culture in the group.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Along similar lines, most of the comments saying 'it doesn't matter' and the like seem to come mostly from people whose experience on the SE network is here or on StackOverflow, and who may not be in a position to see just how crazy-high that rep board looks like. Trust me - it's anomalously high, and very much so. Hence this question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:16.797" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T00:23:05.537" Title="Why do (top) users on this site have such high reputations?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|voting|community|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-05-21T20:25:04.810" Score="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We vote a lot, and we vote up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have a narrow scope, which means there are people who can answer almost any question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For some people, TeX and friends is almost a religion which they practise through this website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh and I forgot to say: We vote a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Did I mention that we vote a lot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2016-05-21T21:03:55.633" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T21:03:55.633" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-05-21T22:52:33.390" Score="30" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mae hwyaden TeX SE yn pleidleisio'n aml iawn.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Esbonnir popeth gan hwyaid.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IVL4H.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IVL4H.png&quot; alt=&quot;Gerald_G, *Rubber Duck Family*&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://openclipart.org/detail/8883/rubber-duck-family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gerald_G, &lt;em&gt;Rubber Duck Family&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;TeX SE's duck votes frequently.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Everything is explained by ducks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="39222" LastEditDate="2016-05-22T14:52:39.660" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T14:52:39.660" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-05-22T10:16:47.240" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;A more 'technical' type of answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason is just that the top users are deeply involved in the development of (La)TeX core itself or very prolific in package writing. This naturally enables them to answer 'any' question on TeX related topics and get the upvotes and reputation by a corresponding accept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Concerning other programming languages etc. I doubt that there are many core developers active on SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit(1): Although I have a rather high reputation meanwhile by myself I don't regard myself as a top user on TeX.SX of course. I am only a LaTeX user that develops packages (with limited usability ;-)) and use LaTeX to create my worksheets to teach Math and Physics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit(2): &lt;code&gt;cfr&lt;/code&gt; is of course right with her statement that a package author can provide a single, very popular package, that enables him/her to answer many related questions and getting a high reputation count. &#xA;I used the term 'prolific' to include this cases as well - the author contributes by maintenance, documentation of a single package as well, in this case he/she is prolific as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other refer to the 'We vote much' attitude of this SE site, so I don't have to repeat that. But the &lt;code&gt;voting&lt;/code&gt; system is a little bit biased, in my point of view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit (3):&#xA;I just wanted to add that although I have some high reputation by now this was just by kind upvoting of many more kind users and by reading their posts (and answers). I was a skilled LaTeX end user before coming to TeX.SX, but I learned so much here in about 3 years compared to 15 years of LaTeX usage before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit (4): We have some strange downvoters here as well &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-09-07T20:41:35.993" LastActivityDate="2016-09-07T20:41:35.993" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-05-22T11:14:56.767" Score="53" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Tom and David mentioned in the comments, we just upvote. Even if one feels the urge to downvote a question or an answer, we encourage different approaches, like leaving a comment to help make the content better or point crass errors, or simply do not upvote the content at all (but still pointing what is going on). A question or answer that shows effort always deserves an upvote. And even in the rare cases where a question or an answer gets a downvote, we never ever downvote it below the score of &lt;code&gt;-1&lt;/code&gt;. It's quite difficult to recover from mass negative score, so if we act like this, we kill all the chances of the user to coming back to track and fix the content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have a voting squad. Good questions and answers deserve attention and appraisal. Sometimes, due to some unexpected traffic on the front page, we lose good threads, so there's a team to point out such questions and answers in order to give them the attention they deserve. We want every user in here to feel welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When upvoting good answers, the threads get off the list of unanswered threads in this site, so upvoting good content also helps the janitorial work. There's even a monthly session to discuss unanswered questions in order to provide answers or upvote content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was the top voter of the entire StackExchange universe, so I am partially culprit for serial upvoting lots and lots of questions and answers in here. I had to refrain from voting because I was causing a lot of headaches to my friends's reputations (as the StackExchange serial voting detection algorithm was going bonkers with my voting pattern). I might even consider going back to the game and start giving these StackExchange blokes a good run for their money.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt; I think the most important bit when talking about high users and reputation here at TeX.sx is: &lt;em&gt;we do not care about reputation&lt;/em&gt;. Clearly, reputation gives us some sort of helpful tools in order to keep the site clean and under control, but we do not care about numbers. We even make recurring jokes in the chatroom about reputation and how fond we are about palindromic occurrences. Also, my credit card. Reputation does not reflect much in here, we only like to have fun with &lt;code&gt;!!/battle&lt;/code&gt; once in a while. The point is: we want to make everybody feel welcome, so we do not &quot;punish&quot; bad content, we encourage learning and improvement over time, through self-discovery and a warm poking from this friendly community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And cfr is absolutely right: everything is explained by ducks. Quack! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T11:14:56.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-05-23T10:36:37.277" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Had they had been voting as much as we did then it would be an anomaly. We can easily cover their two pages with our very same top rows, compare them too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU voters: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EE2aM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EE2aM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SF voters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HxxKK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HxxKK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, on behalf of a few other users, I vote for &quot;mark as read&quot; almost always. Because as mentioned, we don't care about the votes except those two misters &lt;em&gt;you know who&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mbLLq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mbLLq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T10:36:37.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-05-23T21:56:02.500" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to some of the observations that we vote a lot, I think there's another reason why that voting occurs: we value substantial answers over short one liners, and we tend to comment on answers to make them better rather than post a competing answer which is minimally similar to an existing one.  See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3238/2693&quot;&gt;Why do people answer in comments?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end result of these two practices is that we have a lot of very high quality answers, and a relatively small number of answers per question. But when there are multiple answers, they are usually distinct in ways that all of the answers get some degree of upvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and we vote. A lot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T21:56:02.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6649" CreationDate="2016-05-24T10:54:04.423" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;A common user question is ‘how do I install a package on platform X?’  There are a couple of hints of this on here, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/299796/latex-install-packages-in-home&quot;&gt;a simple ‘adjust TEXINPUTS’ question&lt;/a&gt; and an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/142155/install-packages-in-ubuntu&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;apt-get install&lt;/code&gt; question&lt;/a&gt;, and there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2670/should-how-to-install-package-x-on-ubuntu-questions-be-consolidated&quot;&gt;‘should we consolidate “how to install” questions’ meta-question&lt;/a&gt;.  But I can't find a high-rep general answer, and the meta-question, though it has a good answer drafted, doesn't seem to have made it to the main site in a few years.&#xA;Have I just failed to find such a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought there'd be masses of duplicates of this question, but on reflection I can see why (&lt;em&gt;pace&lt;/em&gt; my first sentence) this might not be as common as I'd have guessed: most people probably install pretty complete LaTeX installations rather than a bare-bones+tlmgr installation; and very few people will install packages from author tarballs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My particular motivation is that I pointed to a beta version of a package in an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/311096/96&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, whereupon the questioner (reasonably enough) asked ‘fine, but how do I install that?’ I almost pointed towards Robin's venerable &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-inst-wlcf.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;UK TeX FAQ answer&lt;/a&gt;, but thought I could surely do better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T12:42:38.677" Title="Is there now a canonical ‘how to install packages’ question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-24T17:57:15.747" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;There is a similar popular question at&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/6424/requests-for-reopen-undeletion-votes-etc-volume-10-2012-12-2014&quot;&gt;MSE&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require exceptional handling. This includes &lt;strong&gt;requests for reopen and undeletion votes&lt;/strong&gt;. A request should be posted as an answer below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do not use this thread to engage in debates on contentious matters (e.g. reasons for closure). That should be done in a separate linked thread. The goal is to keep this meta thread free of tension, so that everyone feels comfortable posting here. Please be polite, and respect the many different viewpoints in our diverse community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75358" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T17:57:15.747" Title="Requests for Reopen &amp; Undeletion Votes" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|big-list|vote-to-undelete|undelete-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-24T20:43:11.977" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to ask a question that involves some latex characters in math mode&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I type in &lt;code&gt;$\mathcal{Z}$&lt;/code&gt;, which works on math.stackexchange and various other SE sites, and nothing appears&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone provide an instruction as to how you would type in math mode on tex.stackechange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81548" OwnerDisplayName="Look behind you" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-05-24T20:59:06.233" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T20:59:06.233" Title="How to use math mode on tex.stackexchange?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-05-24T21:29:48.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-25T17:10:03.483" Score="14" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; is the modern tool for bibliography creation you&#xA;really might want to use when writing your thesis. You can quite&#xA;easily change the appearance of your bibliography; you can change&#xA;the punctuation between fields, you can change the format of a&#xA;field, you can change the order of the fields.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You can even&#xA;define completely new fields and entry types, making it possible&#xA;to handle a database of different addresses for serial letter&#xA;creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many question on site deal with at least one change of the above&#xA;mentioned list. So far all those questions are tagged {biblatex}.&#xA;This makes it a bit hard for helpers as well as starters to find&#xA;some relevant information that could have been categorized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think that a few additional tags are useful to better find&#xA;similar questions and answers?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Tags i could think of would be&#xA;(for example) called {biblatex-punct}, {biblatex-format}, or&#xA;{biblatex-order} (not to confuse with &lt;code&gt;sort&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T21:47:54.517" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T21:47:54.517" Title="Are extra sub-tags for biblatex needed?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-25T21:25:08.937" Score="27" ViewCount="459" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions along the lines of the following one on topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Have look at these 1-3 sample pages of my document.&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;sample pages as images&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;maybe some TeX code&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA; 1. Is this good typography?  &#xA; 2. Would you change something?&#xA; 3. Do you also think that part xyz of this document looks bad? How could I improve it?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Pro&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another possible place to ask this would be graphicdesign.SE or the typography.BETA. However, those can only tell you what is bad about your TeX genereted document, but not how to fix it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Con&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question is too specific, nobody else would benefit from this question and your bad typography&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not listed in the official &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;On Topic&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, hence close the question because it is off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Especially 1) and 2) are too broad, hence close the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Good typography is totally opinion-based and subjective, hence close the question &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have no idea what you are doing, you should not mess around with all those beautiful classes and templates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe related: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3818/why-are-typography-and-best-practices-possible-tags-but-are-not-mentioned-in&quot;&gt;Why are &amp;quot;typography&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;best-practices&amp;quot; possible tags but are not mentioned in the list of &amp;quot;What topics can I ask about here&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/679/what-should-the-policy-be-on-typography-design-questions&quot;&gt;What should the policy be on typography/design questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82624" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T02:19:20.787" Title="Are &quot;Is this good typography?&quot; questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6647" CreationDate="2016-05-26T03:26:17.117" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, since it solicits mostly opinion-based answers, which may not be fact-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is more about the code than the visuals or output. While the latter does matter, the former is something that this site is geared towards. As such, typographic questions are inherently questionable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T03:26:17.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2016-05-26T12:42:38.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the meta site the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2419/often-referenced-questions&quot;&gt;Often referenced questions&lt;/a&gt; post is the best place for lists of useful questions. This includes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2426&quot;&gt;Installing&lt;/a&gt; section, which lists the canonical &quot;How to install&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T12:42:38.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-26T13:51:10.023" Score="3" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed some images through documents and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/149604/holiday-contest-drawing-a-picture-of-krampus-for-yule/149616&quot;&gt;on site that use Krampus&lt;/a&gt; as part of a certain iconography. Where does this come from? Maybe related to GNU? But why/how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T13:51:10.023" Title="What is the meaning/importance of Krampus?" Tags="|discussion|design|images|fun|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6647" CreationDate="2016-05-26T16:52:56.360" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are three different kinds of questions which could be considered relating to typography. One kind is inherently subjective and opinion based and therefore off topic, while the other two I think are usually on topic. Unfortunately the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typography&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typography&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt; tag is a bit of a mess in terms of what kinds of questions it picks out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Document layout questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions regarding document layout are generally opinion based: some (made-up) examples below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I use the default document class  margins or should I change them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should floats be placed at the top or bottom of page?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It it better to use margin notes or footnotes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should fonts for headings be different from the body text?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In almost all cases these questions will be a matter of opinion and therefore off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Typographical practice questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More fine-grained questions about best practices in implementing certain things are a bit of a grey area. To a certain extent, best practices questions are also opinion based, but in many areas there is a good deal of wisdom and consensus from the user base here to the point that these questions really have fairly definitive answers.  In particular, questions relating to best practices in typesetting particular aspects of mathematics, for example.  Of course in some areas, different typographical practices are in place, (there are numerous differences across languages, for example) but as long as these constraints are made clear, most questions of this sort should be on topic. Some examples from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typography&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typography&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt; tag are given below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14821/2693&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the proper way to typeset a differential operator?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2229/2693&quot;&gt;Is a period after an abbreviation the same as an end of sentence period?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions about implementing particular aspects of typography&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are definitely on topic.  Some sample (real) questions of this sort from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typography&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;typography&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt; tag are given below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/29049/2693&quot;&gt;How to define the badness of a river?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/86150/2693&quot;&gt;Torn page effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36894/2693&quot;&gt;underline omitting the descenders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T02:19:20.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6676" CreationDate="2016-05-27T20:57:09.910" Score="75" ViewCount="2513" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Friends, the contest is over! The winning number was &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;, picked by &lt;strong&gt;R. Schumacher&lt;/strong&gt;. Thanks everybody for joining the contest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'ello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, ducks and mallards, children of all ages! It is time for organizing another amazing community lottery, our beloved &lt;strong&gt;duck giveaway 2016&lt;/strong&gt;! Quack!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The prize&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prize will be a lovely duck! Not a real one, I am afraid (note to self: organize another lottery with &lt;em&gt;real ducks&lt;/em&gt; in the future), it will be a hand puppet duck:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4XjfZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Quack!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lovely, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Again, why a duck? Why not a lion?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in the thread linked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4076&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I always like to provide examples with ducks when I write answers. To my surprise, the theme got a very positive feedback from the community and it spread to everybody. Of course, a lion would be better, but hey, it's free! And it's a duck! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why a hand puppet?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be our second lottery offering a duck puppet and I still have absolutely no idea. But since I got this duck again, I thought it would be a good idea to start a contest! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rules&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules from last lottery still apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To win the duck you must guess a number in the range 1-200. The first person who guesses the right number gets the duck.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contestants may submit 2 valid guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please post your guess as an answer to this meta question, not as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contestants must have been a member of TeX.sx before 1 March, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two additional mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If two or more people choose the same number, only the oldest entry will be considered. The other guesses will be automatically disqualified.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you win the contest, I will need your real name and address for shipping and customs purposes (you can contact me through email, so only I will have privileged access). If you seek anonymity, we advise you to not enter this contest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please don't forget to edit the punch card with your numbers.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The lottery&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As seen in the last lottery, I'll use the following code to pick the winner (special thanks to the awesome LaTeX Project for LaTeX3):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}&#xA;\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{expl3}&#xA;\usepackage{xparse}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{pgf}&#xA;\pgfmathsetseed{\number\pdfrandomseed}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOn&#xA;&#xA;\prop_new:N \g_duck_contest_prop&#xA;\int_new:N \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int&#xA;\bool_new:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;\bool_set_false:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;\tl_new:N \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;\int_new:N \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand { \person } { m m }&#xA;{&#xA;    \clist_map_inline:nn { #1 }&#xA;    {&#xA;        \prop_if_in:NnTF \g_duck_contest_prop { ##1 }&#xA;        {&#xA;            Hey! ~ #2 ~ wants ~ to ~ be ~ naughty! ~&#xA;            The ~ number ~ ##1 ~ was ~ already ~ chosen! \par&#xA;        }&#xA;        {&#xA;            \prop_gput:Nnn \g_duck_contest_prop { ##1 } { #2 }&#xA;            \int_gset:Nn \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int&#xA;            {&#xA;                \int_max:nn { \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int } { ##1 }&#xA;            }&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand{ \winner } { }&#xA;{&#xA;    \bool_do_until:Nn \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;    {&#xA;        \pgfmathrandom{1, \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int}&#xA;        \prop_get:NoN \g_duck_contest_prop { \pgfmathresult } \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;        \quark_if_no_value:NF \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;        {&#xA;            \bool_set_true:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    \int_set_eq:NN \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int \pgfmathresult&#xA;    \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\cs_generate_variant:Nn \prop_get:NnN { No }&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand{ \winningnumber } { }&#xA;{&#xA;    \int_to_arabic:n \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOff&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;% add yourself here&#xA;% ==============================&#xA;% For example, in the following line&#xA;% I picked 1 and 27, but I'm not&#xA;% participating in the contest :)&#xA;% \person{1,27}{Paulo Cereda}&#xA;\person{5,29}{Ulrike Fischer}&#xA;\person{42,108}{Christian Hupfer}&#xA;\person{0,201}{David Carlisle}&#xA;\person{1,200}{egreg}&#xA;\person{88,97}{yo'}&#xA;\person{6,28}{Matsmath}&#xA;\person{17,23}{Martin Schröder}&#xA;\person{13,111}{cfr}&#xA;\person{50,150}{Werner}&#xA;\person{199,91}{Kurt}&#xA;\person{133,55}{Arun Debray}&#xA;\person{123,132}{A Feldman}&#xA;\person{2,198}{Peter Grill}&#xA;\person{52,190}{Paul Gaborit}&#xA;\person{7,70}{Henri Menke}&#xA;\person{8,63}{Ignasi}&#xA;\person{84,157}{Sigur}&#xA;\person{18,67}{EngBIRD}&#xA;\person{131,68}{percusse}&#xA;\person{119,120}{Marijn}&#xA;\person{101,102}{runartrollet}&#xA;\person{80,112}{Alan Munn}&#xA;\person{113,86}{barbara beeton}&#xA;\person{3,197}{R.\ Schumacher}&#xA;\person{16,109}{Przemysław Scherwentke}&#xA;\person{64,144}{Mico}&#xA;\person{57,167}{ppr}&#xA;\person{4,76}{René B.\ Christensen}&#xA;\person{161,33}{Rmano}&#xA;\person{26}{Davïd} % pick another number&#xA;\person{22,171}{Claudio Fiandrino}&#xA;\person{9,11}{marczellm}&#xA;\person{39,196}{ebo}&#xA;\person{19,99}{Alenanno}&#xA;\person{187,115}{JP-Ellis}&#xA;\person{125,147}{silvascientist}&#xA;\person{128,32}{Mathias711}&#xA;\person{191,192}{azetina}&#xA;\person{41,43}{jknappen}&#xA;%\person{31,62}{Emre} % user does not meet criteria&#xA;\person{122,175}{mvkorpel}&#xA;\person{48,53}{martin}&#xA;%\person{53,187}{Penbeuz} % both numbers were taken&#xA;\person{69,96}{Saravana Kumar}&#xA;\person{38,77}{daleif}&#xA;\person{142,184}{Romain Picot}&#xA;\person{10,100}{Kevin}&#xA;\person{179,40}{carnendil}&#xA;\person{21,12}{Jon Mark Perry}&#xA;\person{92,90}{Canageek}&#xA;\person{93,105}{Ethan Bolker}&#xA;\person{167,103}{Saz} % 167 was taken&#xA;\person{20,46}{Vadim}&#xA;\person{83,98}{MattAllegro}&#xA;\person{165,166}{Douba}&#xA;\person{31,118}{ArTourter}&#xA;\person{121,141}{Azor-Ahai}&#xA;\person{74,193}{Diaa Abidou}&#xA;\person{51,127}{rekire}&#xA;\person{24,89}{Thoge}&#xA;\person{135,155}{jat255}&#xA;\person{61,172}{Kevin}&#xA;\person{37,73}{John}&#xA;\person{65,47}{Matthew Leingang}&#xA;\person{178,15}{Fran}&#xA;\person{54,154}{Calvin Khor}&#xA;\person{49,81}{Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine}&#xA;\person{168,169}{Oxinabox}&#xA;\person{164,45}{Habi}&#xA;\person{14,25}{Jake}&#xA;%\person{2,25}{Xylius} % user does not meet criteria&#xA;\person{136,58}{jaam}&#xA;\person{85,100}{SHY.John} % 100 was taken&#xA;\person{36,153}{wipet}&#xA;\person{137,170}{Earthliŋ}&#xA;\person{27,71}{FvD}&#xA;\person{129,134}{Andreï Kostyrka}&#xA;\person{82,195}{Kumaresh}&#xA;\person{35,78}{Akiiino}&#xA;\person{186,177}{Mostly Harmless}&#xA;\person{181,182}{biozic}&#xA;\person{126}{Shane} % pick another number&#xA;\person{72,79}{Alvaro Carril}&#xA;\person{173,107}{TobiO}&#xA;%\person{106,107}{pfuhlert} % user does not meet criteria&#xA;\person{30,34}{Kurt Pfeifle}&#xA;\person{87,116}{Jason Zentz}&#xA;\person{114,56}{Brydon Gibson}&#xA;%\person{17,89}{René G} % both taken&#xA;\person{163,145}{Eridan}&#xA;\person{66,110}{JCSalomon}&#xA;% ==============================&#xA;&#xA;% the announcement&#xA;The winner is \winner, with \winningnumber! Congratulations!&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will run this code with all the contestants, post a video of it and announce the winner. The &quot;accepted answer&quot; in this thread will reflect the winning number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The date&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, I will get the code running on July 1, 2016 (Friday), and announce the winner. There will be enough time for guessing the numbers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck! And by the way, welcome to TeX.sx, the friendliest and most awesome community in the whole StackExchange network! They give us hats, right? We give ducks! Quack! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|044|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|058|059|060|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|062|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|075|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|094|095|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|104|◖■◗|106|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|117|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|124|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|130|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|138|139|140|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|143|◖■◗|◖■◗|146|◖■◗|148|149|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|156|◖■◗|158|159|160|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|162|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|174|◖■◗|176|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|180|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|◖■◗|◖■◗|183|◖■◗|185|◖■◗|◖■◗|188|189|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|194|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|◖■◗|&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&#xA;◖■◗&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Results&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner of the duck in this edition is &lt;strong&gt;R. Schumacher&lt;/strong&gt;, and the chosen number was &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;! I recorded the results in my terminal and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://asciinema.org/a/enctln9bodyao7og6jprqii1b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;session is available here&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks everybody for joining the contest! And thanks for being part of this amazing community! Quack! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T10:14:52.423" Title="The duck giveaway 2016" Tags="|discussion|fun|publicity|ducks|" AnswerCount="89" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T21:10:05.110" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;29 and 5 and some text to fill up to fill up to fill up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="2388" LastEditDate="2016-05-27T21:25:55.387" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T21:25:55.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T21:10:45.617" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am opting for the number &lt;code&gt;42&lt;/code&gt; (not because of Douglas Adams, but because that's my current age) and &lt;code&gt;108&lt;/code&gt; (No, that's not my real age ;-))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't want to win this duck -- it's scratched :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T17:47:50.233" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T17:47:50.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T21:19:00.567" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;0, 201&#xA;.....................................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T21:19:00.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T21:23:09.570" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;1 and 200 (just to be more daring than David)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T21:23:09.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T21:56:34.777" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97_%28number%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;97&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_%28number%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;88&lt;/a&gt;, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sage: randint(1,200)&#xA;97&#xA;sage: randint(1,200)&#xA;88&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2016-05-27T22:55:24.763" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T22:55:24.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T22:21:05.380" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am opting for the two &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;perfect number&lt;/a&gt;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_%28number%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;6&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_%28number%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;28&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80509" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T22:21:05.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T23:21:48.283" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17_%28number%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;17&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;23 Skidoo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T23:21:48.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T23:26:40.533" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;13 and 111.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cwac, cwac a chwac!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T23:26:40.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-27T23:48:40.727" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;50 and 150 are how much I value yellow ducks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T23:48:40.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T00:25:14.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;199&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;91&lt;/code&gt; because they both build my last reached palindrome rep &lt;code&gt;19991&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T00:25:14.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T03:17:57.473" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;133 and 55.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip;do stressed ducks quack under pressure when their goose is cooked? (Sorry if you're not pond of these daffy puns.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55879" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T03:17:57.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T04:16:39.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;123 and 132 are my picks.  Mostly because I really want that duck! Next year maybe ... duck dinner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90087" LastEditorUserId="90087" LastEditDate="2016-05-28T23:58:51.337" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T23:58:51.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T06:32:53.143" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;2 and 198 (to be close to both egreg and David because they seem to always know what they are doing on TeX.SE)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T06:32:53.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T07:51:08.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choice: 052, 190 ............&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14500" LastEditorUserId="14500" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T05:07:18.337" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T05:07:18.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T09:56:45.090" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;007&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;070&lt;/strong&gt;.  Help me win this, James Bond!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/npEkT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/npEkT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T13:47:32.267" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T13:47:32.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T10:32:07.097" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;008 and 063 and some more characters to pass the minimum required&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: 037 third number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="1952" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T10:14:52.423" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T10:14:52.423" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T13:19:10.207" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;084&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;157&lt;/code&gt; but I don't know why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T13:19:10.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T14:00:44.973" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;18 and 67 for the years of Canadian confederation.  While not ducks, the Canadian goose is considered waterfowl...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69378" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T14:00:44.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T14:16:51.397" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As always; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;131&lt;/strong&gt;; I'm a random number generator myself and this is the result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also another generator agrees;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AAH51.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have generated another one which is 68.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T14:16:51.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T14:49:21.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;119 and 120, because they are neighbors!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T14:49:21.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T16:08:18.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;101&lt;/code&gt;,&lt;code&gt;102&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;\person{101,102}{Runar Kristoffersen}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awesome duck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89976" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T16:08:18.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T18:24:06.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;80 and 112.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason involves character conversion and &lt;del&gt;multiple&lt;/del&gt; another language&lt;del&gt;s&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Guesses as to the exact method solicited in the comments.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T19:45:41.650" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T19:45:41.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-28T18:44:50.823" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;113 and 86 (the ages of my mother and sister if they had survived this long).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T18:44:50.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T03:41:32.913" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing better than good prime duck, so 3 and 197 (lowest and highest available prime numbers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9880" LastEditorUserId="9880" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T21:34:49.417" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T21:34:49.417" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T04:37:52.367" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;16 and 109 (the present year and my reputation modulo 200, corrected from 108 as in comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duck, duck. Quack, quack!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="26134" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T02:14:08.200" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T02:14:08.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T07:02:42.013" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;64 and 144 -- two square numbers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T07:02:42.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T07:38:40.117" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;57 and 167 for me !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This giveaway should be sponsorised by &lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DuckDuckGo&lt;/a&gt; (the search engine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28474" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T07:38:40.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T09:18:10.520" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, obviously the numbers have to be generated from &quot;DUCK&quot; and &quot;QUACK&quot;, so my choices are 004 and 076.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generated by concatenating the binary ASCII-representations of each letter, taking the remainder modulo 200 of the resulting binary number, and finally adding 1 to ensure that the result is in the desired range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45161" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T09:18:10.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-29T14:17:16.487" Score="6" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to do a BibLaTeX tutorial (Video, YouTube) with a step-by-step explanation using TeXmaker and also the command line. Would it be appropriate to show you guys here my example before I do the tutorial? I am not 100 % sure if I understand all the encoding subjects correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14649" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T18:48:09.897" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T18:48:09.897" Title="BibLaTeX Tutorial: May I show you my example *before* publishing it" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T15:45:49.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, to honor my &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; &quot;creative&quot; group (photography), I chose 161 and 33... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hint for 161: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/146583/38080&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/146583/38080&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and 33 is quite trivial. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38080" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T15:51:38.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T17:18:12.017" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;026 + {197}&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; are the lowest/highest available numbers which total to my rep. Most other users here would have to add a &quot;k&quot; after it! Is there a consolation prize for &quot;lowest rep user to participate&quot;? :)  (The {197}&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; also gets me close to the Big Hitters.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;† Alas! 197 was already taken, so I will just submit a single entry -- which is allowed by The Rules, and fitting for one such as I! :)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46980" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T20:05:17.330" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T20:05:17.330" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6682" CreationDate="2016-05-29T18:43:02.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; would be a good fit as meta-type questions typically ask questions about the main site. So questions here would be with regards to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;, which yours seems to not be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your aim was to ask on the main site, then it seems like you don't really have a question (at the moment)... you just want some feedback on a possible tutorial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rephrase your current tutorial in the form of a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; and then post it, together with your tutorial (with code and pictures and links and such) as an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. That's more like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T18:43:02.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T19:50:27.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As in the previous context was already taken, I'll go for &lt;code&gt;022&lt;/code&gt; this time. Second: &lt;code&gt;171&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T19:50:27.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-29T20:57:47.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;009 and 011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwSWEJmQgkE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwSWEJmQgkE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21963" LastEditorUserId="21963" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T21:42:28.823" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T21:42:28.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-05-29T22:18:59.873" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been here for a long time, but there's something different about this group, and it's way more than voting so many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, this community is way more friendly than, for example, Stack Overflow (in my opinion). In fact, by just looking at the questions one can learn more, thus, giving the answers and their authors what they deserve: votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, here the members encourage you not to just ask and use, but to &lt;em&gt;read the documentation&lt;/em&gt;. As this site focus on TeX and friends, and, as I realised, some members actually are the creators of a bunch of useful packages, it's common that some questions are solved on their docs. Not directly, but that helps a lot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this group doesn't focus on just reputation, but &lt;em&gt;to create quality questions and answers&lt;/em&gt;. I mean, it'll be way more useful to look up and find interesting approaches in almost no time, than to clean up the &quot;garbarge&quot; before finding something actually useful. That's what I can conclude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And don't think I'm advanced on this, I'm a beginner using LaTeX, and I've learned a lot since I signed up to here! &lt;code&gt;=P&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user101590" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T22:18:59.873" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-30T09:26:02.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;code&gt;duck&lt;/code&gt; shall be the answer, and since even random seems to be duck-dependant in this case, I choose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;39&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; because &lt;code&gt;DUCK = 4+21+3+11&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;196&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; because &lt;code&gt;DUCK = 4*21*3*11 = 2772&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;2*7*7*2=196&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T09:26:02.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-30T10:58:23.417" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I'll choose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;019 and 099&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because they are my fave numbers. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastEditorUserId="4778" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T16:06:40.890" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T16:06:40.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-05-30T16:21:56.423" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote. A lot. People vote for my answers, so I &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's rare I don't upvote a question I answer to: as one of the moderators once told me, “if you deem a question worthy answering, then it's also worth a vote”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also vote answers: when they solve a problem in a “good way”, I think they deserve a vote. What a “good way” is probably depends on my approach to TeX/LaTeX; if I see an answer written the way I'd write it, it's obvious upvoting it. I always vote for answerers who show skills I don't have (the TikZ area, in particular).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong? I don't think so. Leaving a good answer at zero score just because the OP accepted another one is silly. Even a not so good one, but which could be improved (I also add a comment, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I rarely downvote: some cases &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; need a downvote, because the answer is blatantly wrong or the question is very ill-posed. But I &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; leave a comment about the downvote. Most often the downvoted answer gets removed, because the OP realizes his/her error, or fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is reputation something really important? Not so much, so long as mine is larger than David's. I'm heading to 500K (expected by the end of August 2016) and of course I am grateful to all the people who rewarded my efforts for helping them, but my real aim is just helping people by sharing my skills and trying to &lt;em&gt;teach&lt;/em&gt; how to better use TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T16:21:56.423" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-31T04:04:02.330" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Oracle of Mathematica has foretold that the numbers will be either &lt;code&gt;187&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;115&lt;/code&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26980" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T04:04:02.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-31T05:23:38.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;125 and 147, because Mathematica's &lt;code&gt;RandomInteger[{1, 200}, 2]&lt;/code&gt; has decreed it so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71888" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T05:23:38.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-05-31T12:16:03.840" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;128 and 32! That were the first two integers that were both free, and were foretold by Python's numpy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39088" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T12:16:03.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-01T04:52:58.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;191 and 192 it is, I think :).........&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10898" LastEditorUserId="10898" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T04:26:16.690" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T04:26:16.690" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-01T09:29:43.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;41 and 43 for they are the smallest available twin primes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50351" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T09:29:43.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-06-01T11:10:22.473" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few factors I don't &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; have been mentioned above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's often more than one right way to do things, or a best way and a most suitable way.  This can lead to multiple highly-voted answers for a given question.  A simple example: &lt;em&gt;How do I draw...?&lt;/em&gt; with a &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; and a &lt;code&gt;pstricks&lt;/code&gt; answer. My limited experience of SO is that this is less often the case (though at SU and unix this may happen again).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SO is huge.  Although it has more questions per day, it doesn't necessarily have more questions &lt;em&gt;for a given user's experience&lt;/em&gt;.  And questions drop off the bottom of the homepage quite quickly, meaning that votes from the casual user thinking &quot;that's interesting&quot; and upvoting the question, and answer or both are time limited. This also applies to SU.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because SO is busier and broader, I tend to arrive from google, rather than visiting the homepage regularly.  So I miss out on interesting questions and the chance to vote.  Again, this is true on SU as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastEditorUserId="28808" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T12:20:27.287" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T12:20:27.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-06-01T21:24:04.757" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we do vote a lot, but I think it's much more than that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This community is very positive.  We don't compete against each other (except perhaps playfully when we comment along the lines of &quot;you beat me to the answer by 2 seconds&quot;).  We share our ideas freely.  We encourage people:  in how to get a solution that works for them, in how to write better code, etc.  And, I think that makes all the difference.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say how often I am shocked when I go to other sites and I see how nasty, negative, and condescending people can be, and how utterly lacking in sympathy for the individual struggling to learn and understand.  After a while, I don't want to participate in those groups.  And so I stop voting in those groups too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a period of time when I contributed almost on a daily basis.  I always appreciated the feedback I got.  I don't think I can remember even once when I got a disparaging remark, though there've been a few times I've revisited old questions or answers of mine and wished I could bury my head in the sand out of shame.  Yet the comments are generally very supportive, sometimes even full of praise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I've just sort of been hovering in the background.  My life has taken a turn so I have less time to participate here.  And yet, I do come back---if not daily, at least 4 or 5 times a week to see what's going on.  And, I continue to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you build a community that is positive, encouraging, sympathetic, and truly supportive, people will stick around and keep coming back.  The more people there are who stick around, the more people there are to upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22413" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T21:24:04.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T03:16:48.580" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choice: 31 and 62. I hope this is not too late. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100264" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T03:16:48.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T07:47:40.957" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choices are 122 and 175, chosen by random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23160" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T07:47:40.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T09:13:36.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choices: 48 and 53 because the sum is my reputation at writing (and they're not yet taken).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60974" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T09:13:36.767" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T09:15:41.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;151 152 because my favorite numbers were taken&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26249" LastEditorUserId="26249" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T15:43:33.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T15:43:33.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T12:50:35.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;69 and 96 ;) (Body must be at least 30 characters; I have entered whaaaat?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94063" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T12:50:35.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T14:14:34.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;38 and 77, and because the system wants me to here are some filler text ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3929" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T14:14:34.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T16:37:26.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;142&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;184&lt;/code&gt;. Why? Because &quot;Coin Coin !&quot; &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50058" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T16:37:26.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T18:26:23.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Others have used random number generators to come up with their guesses. But ultimately, random number generators still depend on physical processes. They have stochasticism, but I can do better. By selecting numbers myself, using my own imagination and creativity to do so, I am tapping into something that is neither deterministic nor random, but something yet more unpredictable - the free will of the human spirit! Controllable, yet not controlled by the rules of nature!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Um, I'll go with 10 and 100. That sounds good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37795" LastEditorUserId="37795" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T18:37:46.157" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T18:37:46.157" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T19:40:16.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;1 (bronze badge)&lt;/del&gt; and 179 (my reputation). That's me today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 is taken, but I think 40 (my age) is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31685" LastEditorUserId="31685" LastEditDate="2016-06-06T01:38:17.040" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T01:38:17.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T19:52:28.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;okay second time lucky; 21,12 because of the album by Rush&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75919" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T19:52:28.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-02T20:43:49.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go with 92, the number of protons in Uranium, and 23, the holy number of Discordia (Because 2+3=5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: 23 is taken. I'll replace it with 90, the atomic number of Thorium. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastEditorUserId="7880" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T18:36:38.670" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T18:36:38.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-03T17:52:43.403" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;93 (because 91 - the only number less than 100 that looks like a prime but isn't - is taken)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;105 (because it's 3*5*7 and what 7 subway tokens cost in NY years ago)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="12496" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T18:16:36.143" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T18:16:36.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-03T21:51:25.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Umm umm umm ... &#xA;I'm thinking.. Umm.. 167 and 103&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97745" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T21:51:25.680" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-06-03T23:45:58.457" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I google a LaTeX issue, I end up on tex.SE. Now, that may have to do with my filter bubble, but it's also the best resources for LaTeX-related trouble, no questions asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I routinely get here, find good stuff, and then of course upvote it.&#xA;I can only hope that this happens to many people, i.e. they land here, get help, &lt;em&gt;and already have the account to vote&lt;/em&gt; (because you had to ask that one question, anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compared to other sites, programming questions lend themselves &lt;em&gt;better to google&lt;/em&gt; and it's often &lt;em&gt;easy to identify working answers quickly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare that to, say, cs.SE (my main site): questions are inherently hard to google (many contain mathematics) and you have to read, digest, and understand most answers before you figure out whether it helps you towards your ultimate goals. So it is plausible to me that we may get fewer drive-by voters on most questions than you do here; for us, it's probably mostly a few core users and the OPs doing the voting.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(This seems to be a claim that's easy to investigate with the data explorer -- not today.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3213" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T23:45:58.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-04T00:33:59.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take 20 and 46 since they are the only left numbers in the duck-duck-goose game sequence &lt;a href=&quot;http://oeis.org/A182459&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://oeis.org/A182459&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93331" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T00:33:59.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-04T06:50:56.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;83 and 98...years of birth of me and my brother :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49683" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T06:50:56.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-06-05T15:54:10.813" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting is free, upvoting is fun. There are many different reasons to upvote a question or answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh interesting question, upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, somebody posted an answer to my question, upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or as a high and welcome, leave a positive vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you think: Oh, nice answer. Leave an upvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you think? How fast is this man typing? Does egreg have a chip in his brain directly sending his thoughts to the &lt;em&gt;Your Answer&lt;/em&gt; interface? He types an answer faster than i can read the question. Leave an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh somebody posted an alternative solution. Upvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to wait 8 hours till i can vote again. I used up all my 40 possible votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvoting is very easy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, we are lazy downvoters. Before a downvote is done, usually two or three comments are left with suggestions for improvement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For now, though, I want to ask this community what you think this says about this site. Does this strike you as a reasonable observation? What would you attribute it to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody races other users, nobody wants to reach a certain treshold &lt;em&gt;before XYZ reaches it&lt;/em&gt;. So we upvote each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am really not surprised.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="37907" LastEditDate="2016-06-06T07:58:55.947" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T07:58:55.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-06T11:00:15.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;165, 166. Because.&#xA;An answer is an answer is an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27017" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T11:00:15.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2016-06-06T17:46:41.407" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it has been said numerous times now, that we like to upvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not active on the other mentioned SE places, but i would bet they don't have the users that contribute by giving good answers, getting reputation points and give them away later with the help of bounties.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; One user gave 60k away just doing this. Those 60k gotta be somewhere, most likely with the most active and busy people, the people with the highest rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more detailed list can be found with the help of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/65683/top-investors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T17:46:41.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-07T00:15:49.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go for 031 and 118. not the same method to get these numbers but couldn't get two available numbers using the same so here you go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12332" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T00:15:49.853" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-07T00:17:52.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;121 and 141 because I like palindromes and there's something nice about an even number being flanked by odd numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82290" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T00:17:52.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-07T00:20:32.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess 74 and 193&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good duck ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="2288" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T12:23:30.980" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T12:23:30.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-07T11:37:52.040" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take &lt;code&gt;051&lt;/code&gt; because my current IP ends with that number and &lt;code&gt;127&lt;/code&gt; because it is 0x1111111. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9534" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T11:37:52.040" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-07T14:46:30.153" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;24 and 89&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;%ToDo think of a witty joke to insert in your answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22308" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T14:46:30.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-07T20:08:35.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;135&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;155&lt;/code&gt;, please! (30char)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8910" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T20:08:35.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-07T21:14:02.173" Score="10" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted my first answer on this site, sharing a solution I've found to a problem that was not yet listed. Given a high enough reputation score on another SE site, I received 100 reputation bonus upon joining this site. However I was still being asked (for the first time ever in using this network) to fill out a third party CAPTCHA before my answer was posted. Why did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it uses Google's CAPTCHA service, logging my visit here to a company that has already more than enough data on everyone. Now I don't mean to start a discussion about how bad or benign this is (as a developer I fully understand the choice to use that service), but because of this I am more curious to hear the justification for asking an active, logged-in user with a good reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107500" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T20:50:53.577" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T20:50:53.577" Title="CAPTCHA despite logged in with good reputation" Tags="|discussion|status-bydesign|stackexchange|captcha|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-07T22:39:28.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;61 and 172 -- just two random numbers :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12677" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T22:39:28.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6727" CreationDate="2016-06-08T10:06:55.267" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a user with good reputation doesn't mean you will never see a CAPTCHA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does mean that you won't see it as much as a new/anonymous user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of different factors that go into when it comes up (including posting many posts in a short time period).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25639" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T10:06:55.267" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-08T13:29:11.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose my lucky number 37 and its reverse 73. Oh how I want that duck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39498" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T13:29:11.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-08T14:17:04.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take the first two numbers given by random.org that weren't taken: 65 and 47.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T14:17:04.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6732" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-06-08T16:34:17.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkTpB.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkTpB.gif&quot; alt=&quot;This StackExchange community is duck-friendly&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;oh boy oh boy oh boy, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ducks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ducks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ducks&lt;/a&gt; tag!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ducks are birds in the family &lt;em&gt;Anatidae&lt;/em&gt;. Ducks are closely related to swans and geese, which are in the same family. The main difference is that ducks have shorter necks, and are smaller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other swimming and diving birds, like grebes and loons, are sometimes called ducks, but they are not. A baby duck is called a duckling, and a male duck is called a drake. Most ducks are aquatic birds. They can be found in both saltwater and fresh water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ducks lay eggs once a year and are omnivorous, eating aquatic plants and tiny animals. Dabbling ducks feed on the surface of water or on land, or as deep as they can reach by up-ending without completely submerging. Along the edge of the beak there is a comb-like structure called a pecten. This strains the water squirting from the side of the beak and traps any food. The pecten is also used to preen feathers. Diving ducks dive deep to get their food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many ducks are migratory. This means that they spend the summer months in a different place than the winter months. Ducks show a cosmopolitan distribution, they can be found all over the world, except for Antarctica. Some duck species live on the South Georgia and Auckland Islands, which are subantarctic. Many species have established themselves on remote islands, such as Kerguelen or Hawaii.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ducks are bred and kept by humans. They are not wild ducks. They are kept to provide food (meat and eggs), or to use their feathers for pillows and other items in the house. Especially in Asia, many people like to eat duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ducks are sometimes kept as pets. They are often kept by groups of people on public ponds for their beauty and calming nature. People commonly feed ducks in ponds stale bread, thinking that the ducks will like to have something to eat. However bread is not healthy for ducks and can kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="117218" LastEditDate="2022-05-16T15:15:02.793" LastActivityDate="2022-05-16T15:15:02.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6733" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-06-08T16:34:17.027" Score="0" Body="This tag is used for duck-related content in our meta website. In case of doubt, quack." OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T16:34:17.027" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T16:34:17.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6727" CreationDate="2016-06-08T18:34:37.657" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Oded mentioned, there are a number of factors that may cause a CAPTCHA to appear. One of these is time. Perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/2293/168244&quot;&gt;the time was very &lt;em&gt;short&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've typed up answers while riding the bus, and switching to a different network before posting made CAPTCHAs appear as well. Not sure whether there might be linkage with the locality (network) when it comes to saving/posting content... purely speculative, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1343/168244&quot;&gt;How often do CAPTCHAs appear?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/38008/168244&quot;&gt;Eliminate the captcha on long questions &amp;amp; answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T18:34:37.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-08T20:36:31.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I let the great o&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;acle to speak for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; sample(1:200,2)&#xA;[1] 178  15&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T20:36:31.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-09T17:53:42.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;54 and 154? has a non-mathematical ring to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48773" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T17:53:42.850" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-09T23:46:33.580" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ll guess 49 and 81 — two nice squares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And can someone with &gt;2k rep punch the card for me, please?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T23:46:33.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-10T07:23:01.977" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will take in 168, 169&#xA;Thankyou&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone with &gt;2K rep punch for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T07:23:01.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-10T14:21:22.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;164 and 45, as suggested by random.org&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="828" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T14:21:22.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6740" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-06-10T20:51:35.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;CAPTCHA&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;ompletely &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;utomated &lt;strong&gt;P&lt;/strong&gt;ublic &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;uring test to tell &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;omputers and &lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;umans &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;part) is an anti-spam measure to prevent or reduce the effect of &quot;spam bots&quot; submitting junk to the site by presenting a problem that is easy for a human to solve but difficult-to-impossible for a computer. Some common methods are identifying &quot;squiggly&quot; letters, reading numbers from a slightly blurry photo, identifying an animal in a photo or drawing, simple arithmetic, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions about the CAPTCHA used on Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T20:51:35.563" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T20:51:35.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6741" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-06-10T20:51:35.563" Score="0" Body="For questions about the CAPTCHA used on Stack Exchange sites to verify that you're a person and not a spam-bot." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T20:51:35.563" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T20:51:35.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-12T07:48:27.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;14 and 25, because those are the lowest numbers that are still available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T07:48:27.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-12T15:35:15.330" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;58, 136 (because I can) xxxxxx     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92015" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2016-06-14T10:35:57.833" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T10:35:57.833" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-13T02:04:51.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;85&lt;/code&gt;: My birthday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;100&lt;/code&gt;: The marks I really want in exams (and 100% always not)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27618" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T02:04:51.830" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-13T08:52:00.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 36 and 153. (dummy text: Body must be at least 30 characters)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T08:52:00.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-13T11:03:06.897" Score="6" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/314353/pgfplot-cross-section-of-a-3d-line-plot-poincare-sections&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; for which I am very desperate to get an answer. For some reasons I do not understand, the question did not get enough attention. I'd happily place a bounty on that question to get attention, but I am 9 points short to do it. Is it possible/advisable to request someone to place a bounty on my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize in advance if that is not a good practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94063" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T22:52:45.837" Title="Is it possible/advisable to request someone to place a bounty on my question?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-13T12:58:23.537" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ducks are my favourite animal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guesses are 137 and 170.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28115" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T12:58:23.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-13T19:09:00.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take 27 (for ASCII ESC - pressed on VIM many many times while editing LaTeX) and 71 (for ASCII G - as in Great contest!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15214" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T19:09:00.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6748" CreationDate="2016-06-14T16:05:14.243" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking is free, so you can definitely inquire. Either comment on your own question (requires no reputation if you're the owner), start up a conversation in chat (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat&quot;&gt;requires 20 reputation&lt;/a&gt;) or comment on an existing post that matches your requirements yet you're not the owner (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;requires 50 reputation&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, with an informal agreement between members in chat, you could reciprocate/repay the bounty offered once you have enough reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T16:05:14.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-14T23:39:13.957" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;129&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;134&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for fun: I did some research and found out that if two numbers are distributed evenly on [0;1], the expected value of their absolute difference should be 1/3 (e.g. not too far apart). Of course no prior research can leverage guessing a random number... But I love birds so much! Keeping decorative chickens and quails at many points in time, and also consuming foie gras with great pleasure! Does everyone remember the hunter (played by Graham Chapman) in Monty Python’s flying circus? “I love animals. That’s why I kill ’em!” So any kind of duck will do: a puppet, a live animal or a nice package of sliced duck breast... Yummi!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o8rBz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o8rBz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Rick Dees and his Disco Duck&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least... Rick Dees and his Disco Duck (A.K.A. if only wearing those bell-bottom jeans in 2016 paid off for me!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19642" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T23:39:13.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-15T06:48:26.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;82 (year of birth) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;195 (height in centimetre)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75818" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T06:48:26.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-15T16:05:53.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;35 and 78. I got these numbers by asking strangers on the street, so they must be random =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user92191" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T16:05:53.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-15T17:28:16.287" Score="13" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the use of TikZ, I am a beginner ..... One can easily judge this by looking at my points (showed next to my username). I am trying to learn these tools to make effective documents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, whatever I have been able to do with my documents has been with the help of the Stack Exchange community. Manuals are very lengthy and reading them gets me nowhere. And whenever I post my question at &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;, the answers usually contain code that works like magic, but which I really don't grasp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that many answers contain details that I don't understand. &#xA;Take, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/314929/help-required-to-understand-tikz-code&quot;&gt;Help required to understand tikz code?&lt;/a&gt;. The code some user gave as an answer solved my problem, but I don't understand how it works. Without really understanding, I end up doing copy-paste. With this approach I get through my current problem but this does not make me understand the tools and to do things on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here is a suggestion I want to make. If the question is posted by someone like me who does not have expertise in LaTeX, it will be really useful if people added comments to their answer's code. This will enable me and other users to understand the solution better and improve our skill set as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78770" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T22:52:01.353" Title="A suggestion to improve learning curve for new users of TikZ" Tags="|discussion|answers|tikz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6748" CreationDate="2016-06-15T22:52:45.837" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It didn't fit in the comment so pasting it here for the question specifics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is missing a few ingredients. First one is that I don't understand the idea of a cross section of a line. It would just be dots. Do you mean that or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second we don't have the data. So we can't try anything. That means we can't try stuff out. However a similar difficulty arises if you just dump x mb of text file that we can't handle. There must be a balance for some convenience. For example I would not bother to sign up for those websites to download your data. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently your second question is answered in the comments and the third one is here &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/97056/does-pgfplots-support-spatial-plotting&quot;&gt;Does pgfplots support &amp;quot;spatial&amp;quot; plotting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first one you need to make the question a bit convenient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.007" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T22:52:45.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-16T00:09:37.430" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took &lt;code&gt;177&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;186&lt;/code&gt; because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;42&lt;/code&gt;, which I obviously would have taken because it is the &lt;em&gt;Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything&lt;/em&gt;, was already taken by someone else unfortunately &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6654/4009&quot;&gt;for much less obvious reasons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and because they have some partly correlations with some important figures in my life &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and because I want to win the duck.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;:-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4009" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T02:06:26.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-16T06:33:40.270" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just read part of the controversy about enabling TeX math markup in&#xA;tex.stackexchange questions (mostly &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1272/why-doesnt-maths-render-as-maths&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current practice of to put the math text into an image and then&#xA;put the image into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, what if I need to write a tex.stackexchange question that is mostly&#xA;normal text with just a few mathematical characters or small equations in it ?&#xA;I cannot create a png that is just made of a few characters and will display as&#xA;a normal snippet of text (rather than an image separated from all the rest), can I ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also considered creating a big image of the whole question (compiled&#xA;with tools that do implement math markup). But that has drawbacks as well (people&#xA;will no longer be able to correct/edit part of the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those thoughts came to me after somebody suggested I change my markup &#xA;in one of my recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/314818/merge-eight-tikz-commands-into-one-using-if?noredirect=1#comment768567_314818&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;So far, none of the alternatives to the current markup of the question seems worth&#xA;the trouble to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any advice appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40960" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T06:33:40.270" Title="How to put drops of math text into an ocean of normal text in a tex.stackexchange question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6756" CreationDate="2016-06-16T19:19:13.000" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't understand something in someone's answer to your question, you can ask them to elaborate on their code. Here's what the &quot;add a comment&quot; tooltip says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LKaD3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LKaD3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answerer doesn't clarify to your satisfaction, then you can ask another &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117/5764&quot;&gt;follow-up question&lt;/a&gt; that highlights the specific details you have difficulty understanding, requesting a more formal clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific to TikZ, I'd suggest reviewing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/pgfmanual.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PGF manual&lt;/a&gt; as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cremeronline.com/LaTeX/minimaltikz.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;minimal introduction to TikZ&lt;/a&gt;. It may help you formulate your questions better when requesting clarification of content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;That's a subtle way of saying that you shouldn't just ask: &quot;Explain the following code for me ...&quot; type questions.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2272/5764&quot;&gt;Can you explain how this code works?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/274612/5764&quot;&gt;Can someone explain what TikZ Calendar code is doing step by step?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/184624/5764&quot;&gt;Seeking an explanation for a &lt;code&gt;tikzpicture&lt;/code&gt; code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T22:52:01.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-06-16T23:04:27.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The layout has been completely changed and now resembles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFaoa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFaoa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the main error (font) doesn't show anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T23:04:27.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6764" CreationDate="2016-06-17T14:15:22.343" Score="10" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked for the wrong question, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3438/i-asked-for-the-wrong-thing-and-so-made-the-answers-to-my-question-uncomplete-h&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/close-your-own-question-with-no-real-possible-answer&quot;&gt;I may not get a real possible answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main problem: Should I say some answer was fine? I think sadly, not.&#xA;I'm not sure to check on my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/311721/how-can-i-place-a-1-cm-margin-to-a-set-pdf-book-a6-to-print&quot;&gt;answered question&lt;/a&gt; as ok because it seems that, &lt;em&gt;unintentionally, &lt;strong&gt;I made a trick question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: cause the answers are always going to be flawed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, on the one hand, it's possible to get a scaled result as required, and it's also possible to not change the original pdf... However, on the other hand, to keep design proportions it'd be needed to eliminate too much white spaces in the margins (literally cutting with scissor/cutter the physical paper off). This was not intended as end result, but there was no awareness on my side that this w/could happen in the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, if one wants an a6 paper printed in the end and asks how to add offset for a6 result (keeping proportions! Heck, we're in LaTeX here!) one of two bad things are bound to happen. Or either things get shrinked and out of proportion (yuck), or else the end result needs severe trimming (yikes) which was not contemplated before nor seems acceptable in the community either. How to give &lt;strong&gt;feedback on a paradox?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, the post got some nice feedback that was and still is very useful to me. It's a topic that would do well if it can get some good canonical answers. This is why I didn't incline much to deleting the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T15:36:03.823" Title="unintentionally, I made a trick question. So answers are not possible, or inaccurate" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6763" CreationDate="2016-06-17T15:36:03.823" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say fix your question based on the answers given such that they answer the right thing. So their effort don't get wasted. Then ask a new question with your additional specs and link back to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you would have the option to either answer your own question or have someone go at it. Maybe they'll have something else to say that would be more appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a vague social platform anyways. Come to chat or ask the answerers opinions via comments etc. Don't consider deletion that fast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T15:36:03.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-18T22:30:40.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;181&lt;/code&gt;, because it's yet another palindrome, and &lt;code&gt;182&lt;/code&gt;, because it sits next to a palindrome. I don't particularly like those numbers, but wait and see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23879" LastActivityDate="2016-06-18T22:30:40.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-20T00:00:35.323" Score="6" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the greatest things about the users providing answers on this site is that their experience frequently leads them to answer questions with insights about what the original poster &quot;intended to&quot; or &quot;should have&quot; asked.  I can't even count the number of times this has proved helpful to me in improving my understanding of how a specific package or TeX in general works.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course every rule has an exception and occasionally I would love to be able to prompt the community to answer the question that was asked (even if it already solved the original posters question (who also may no longer be active on the site)) so that I don't have to create a duplicate question that is tap dancing around the wording to create a new distinct question. How should I go about doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here are some of the thoughts I have had:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't think that leaving a comment to the authors of the answer are&#xA;  necessarily going to be productive because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The expertise behind the answer may not have lent itself to answer the broader question, hence the version that was provided.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The author may no longer be active&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments don't re-add old questions to the to the front page to receive some attention from contributors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Far (less likely (particularly on this branch of stack overflow) and I don't want to offend anyone) but some folks are reputation oriented and if they can't get an accepted answer are less likely to add their own spin on a question with an accepted answer and an OP who has left the site and can't change their mind about the best answer that has been provided.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would leave a bounty with a comment on the original question, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lead time and upvotes that the accepted solution may already have may discourage anyone who is motivated by the bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am currently trying to build my rep because I want to be able to contribute to the moderation of this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the same reason I want to help moderate the site (and may be evident with some of my other meta questions) I may be a little compulsive about organization and closing duplicates, or porting between sites so that they are organized in the right place for users to be able to find and make use of them...   So I am pretty strongly opposed to knowingly creating a duplicate even for my own benefit because that doesn't help keep the site usable (long term).  It's getting hard enough to find answers from google because of all these duplicates with only subtle difference in the wordings.  And I wish I could be part of a moderation effort to help alleviate this problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edits could be made to the question to reflect the answer that was&#xA;  accepted, allowing for the creation for a duplicate of the &quot;original&quot;&#xA;  but current version of that question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This just strikes me as inappropriate, Just because it worked, doesn't mean the OP doesn't deserve the credit for trying to answer a broad question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It will cost an obsessive compulsive like myself extra time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the real solution is seems to be the need of a way to reopen a question to &quot;The question as is wasn't answered, and still has interest even if it's not the OP's interest&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope the above is sufficiently detailed to be clear and not a duplicate of either (the answers I didn't find entirely useful to each of these questions is in my lists above):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3780/how-to-go-about-resurrecting-an-old-question-that-already-has-an-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;How to go about resurrecting an old question that already has an accepted answer?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3692/resurrecting-old-questions-without-being-flagged-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;Resurrecting old questions without being flagged as duplicate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I apologize for the obvious inconsistency here in asking this question which is clearly not a new issue!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69378" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T09:12:20.287" Title="Old questions creating duplicates because of &quot;Do what I want, not what I said...&quot;" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-20T08:05:57.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pydjV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pydjV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Am I adding something you?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A provocative question. But, indeed, I am adding something new -- so far nobody has selected the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer, which is, of course, &lt;strong&gt;126&lt;/strong&gt;. Why is it correct? Because I selected it. Anybody who selected two numbers is simply admitting that they fear that their first choice may be incorrect. Not I. As David has already done, I refuse to take a second number. In the Trumpian future, it is better to be sure you're right and wrong than to be an uncertainty-admitting coward. Only David and I will prosper. To whoever wins this duck, enjoy your duck. For now. Soon David and I will own all ducks, everywhere. And most geese. Then we'll see who's honking...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12991" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T08:05:57.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6769" CreationDate="2016-06-20T09:05:52.450" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;When submitting a Minimal Example how do I attach the resulting .pdf output?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11837" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T09:32:35.073" Title="Including a .pdf to acompany the pdfLatex code that generated it" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6768" CreationDate="2016-06-20T09:32:35.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange does not support file attachments.  You have two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take a screenshot of the relevant part of the PDF and insert it in the question.  This is the best option in most cases because it focuses on the problem and it is immediately visible to readers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use an external file hosting service such as Dropbox or &lt;a href=&quot;http://ge.tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ge.tt&lt;/a&gt; to upload the PDF and link to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6302" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T09:32:35.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6766" CreationDate="2016-06-20T17:19:33.877" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you mention, it is an exception so just ask it again. Mention the question and say why you need the new question while the original is there. Strip off a &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; MWE. Then point to the part where it doesn't suit your needs. Add a concrete question and you are done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not librarians. If there is sufficient difference we shouldn't close anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please if there is any chance, avoid moderation unless absolutely necessary. We are suffering from over moderation already with the duplicate closings and so on. The site has been proved itself already. &lt;em&gt;Long term&lt;/em&gt; is not a proper or necessary argument. We can&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; fix the google problem. Everybody has a different way of asking questions and it can't be forced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T17:19:33.877" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6766" CreationDate="2016-06-20T19:28:11.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One option not mentioned, is the use of &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. I'm confident that some poking and prodding might get frequent visitors to review a question and answer it in the way it was asked (if that is at all possible). Negotiations over compensation for such an answer (through a post-answer bounty, say) is also a possibility...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T19:28:11.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-20T19:44:48.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;72 and 79 are luckily still available! They're my grandparent's ages and just this saturday I tried to explain to them what LaTeX is (using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/94910/45978&quot;&gt;Paulo's wonderful answer&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45978" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T19:44:48.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-21T21:36:40.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Updating from another answer:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;173 and 107 as new try&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22447" LastEditorUserId="22447" LastEditDate="2016-06-22T16:39:45.900" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T16:39:45.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6766" CreationDate="2016-06-22T09:12:20.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you ask a new question referencing an old then I would expect that it is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; unlikely  to be closed as a duplicate of that question (or at least not with extensive comments asking for clarification).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your aims do seem contradictory though, your main issue seems to be a fear of asking a question that would be closed as duplicate, and yet your stated aim is to be able to get more rep to be able to close more duplicates (and so presumably make that fear more real?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T09:12:20.287" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6780" CreationDate="2016-06-22T09:51:13.073" Score="11" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question came to mind when looking at a recent post &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315732/swirling-hexagon&quot;&gt;swirling hexagon&lt;/a&gt; now on hold.  It seemed to me that this post, while likely to be closed and thereafter disappear, represents a precious example of TeX.SE humor, and should be somehow not permitted to electronically wither. Is there someplace where the &quot;best hits&quot; of TeX.SE reside?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90087" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T03:54:33.097" Title="Can a post that was put on hold and looks to be closed be preserved for its historical, humorous or other merit, rather than disappear?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-22T15:08:45.477" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My pick is 30 and 34. &lt;em&gt;(But unfortunately I cannot edit the LaTeX file and add my &lt;code&gt;\person{30,34}{Kurt Pfeifle}&lt;/code&gt; line, because the edit link is grayed out for me.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I win, I'll give the duck to whoever answers my recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/315531/8747&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;How to get a 'thousands' separator in &lt;code&gt;spreadtab&lt;/code&gt; (wrapping &lt;code&gt;longtable&lt;/code&gt;)?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8747" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T15:08:45.477" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6473" CreationDate="2016-06-22T19:53:34.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://szhorvat.net/pelican/latex-typesetting-in-mathematica.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SF6fk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Publication quality figure labels with LaTeX and Mathematica&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6302" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T10:26:33.167" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:26:33.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6775" CreationDate="2016-06-23T03:52:56.377" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/315743/5764&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; didn't receive the attention it has, then perhaps it may have been different, but the post won't be deleted, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;it doesn't fit the criteria laid out for deletion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/78048/168244&quot;&gt;Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt; (FAQ)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T03:52:56.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-23T19:37:07.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;087&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;116&lt;/code&gt; — based loosely on my birth year and the year I finished my PhD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42880" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T19:37:07.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-23T19:55:18.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;114 and 56. Gonna be friends with my 'talk to the duck' ducks at my desk!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I'm not allowed to edit the punchcard&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72552" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T19:55:18.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6787" CreationDate="2016-06-24T17:43:25.720" Score="6" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the responses from users in one of my recent meta question, I have discovered that having questions flagged as duplicates isn't always a bad thing.  It's in fact a good way of adding new keywords and diagnostic information to potentially make a problem easier to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ironically, however, my most recent question to date (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315628/biblatex-and-beamer-and-ieee-problems&quot;&gt;Biblatex and Beamer and IEEE problems&lt;/a&gt;) was a perfect example of a duplicate solution so narrowly described in the original question, that it never appeared in my searches, so rather than delete it, I linked it to the duplicate, and voted to close.  Unfortunately, in the confirming votes to close it, some bad advice was offered with someone adding a link to a 100% unrelated question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now because I can't edit this, I am debating whether I should delete the question because the addition of this link reduces the usefulness of this duplicate as a way of accepting more keywords to direct a future user to the solution they need. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69378" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.243" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T18:37:41.777" Title="Bad link provided to a question already identified as a duplicate" Tags="|discussion|support|duplicates|vote-to-close|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-26T00:04:44.473" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;17, 89.......................................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54762" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T00:04:44.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6786" CreationDate="2016-06-27T16:14:48.903" Score="21" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/316881/579&quot;&gt;Glossaries with more hierarchical categories&lt;/a&gt; has a pending edit that only removes spaces before colons and an exclamation mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i hesitate to reject it, since it appears to have been made in good faith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;however, the op is a resident of france, where the convention is to use a space&#xA;before such punctuation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so the question is, how intrusive should one be in such a situation?  there is no facility (that i can find) that allows for comments on why an edit is rejected.&#xA;if such a facility existed, i would use it and reject the edit, but without the&#xA;ability to comment, i hesitate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T17:28:18.280" Title="edit criteria regarding &quot;national linguistic&quot; practices" Tags="|discussion|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6785" CreationDate="2016-06-27T16:26:24.133" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well we've had this discussion on other grounds too, as you well know, but I think that since the language of the site is English, editing other-language typographical practices doesn't seem to me to be so out of line, especially if the question is already active.  While it's true that it could be thought of as too minor an edit, and could be rejected on those grounds, I still  think it's reasonable to accept the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the analogy to British vs. American spelling (or punctuation) practice is relevant here, since those are both valid ways of writing in English, and therefore should never be subject to edits on those grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other consideration: we all consider it helpful to clean up grammatical and spelling errors in English since many users of the site are not native English speakers. And I think this help is generally appreciated by those users, since it makes their question more understandable to all. I don't really see why typographical practice shouldn't fall under the same rubric. I find it unlikely that a French speaker who puts spaces before punctuation out of habit of writing in French is &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; using such practice when writing in English, just as they are not &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; making any other kind of English error. This again is different from the case of British vs. American spelling conventions, which for some of us are quite conscious decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2016-06-27T17:28:18.280" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T17:28:18.280" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6783" CreationDate="2016-06-27T17:32:54.840" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Option 1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the perspective of the community, the Stack Exchange system (or interface) allows for correcting this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cast enough re-open votes to remove any closure statements from the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Re-cast close-votes using the appropriate duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would further suggest that the process could be sped up when collaborating with the folks in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. There are typically enough users hanging around with vote-to-re-open and vote-to-close privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Option 2&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contact a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;moderator&lt;/a&gt; (in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, if needed) and request the change. They can unilaterally re-open and subsequently close the question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving the post as-is with two references to possible duplicates together with a comment about one of them being incorrect solves the problem at the source (to some extent). However, it doesn't fix the problem at the duplicate targets, as they will still link back to your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T18:37:41.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-27T18:23:30.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a fan of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ramanjan's Constant&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;code&gt;e^(pi*sqrt(163))&lt;/code&gt;, so I will submit the number &lt;code&gt;163&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My choice of &lt;code&gt;145&lt;/code&gt; has a bit more background to it. In math competitions I participate in, a perfect score is a &lt;code&gt;150&lt;/code&gt;, and one wrong is &lt;code&gt;145&lt;/code&gt;. I know that exactly one of my answers to this question will be wrong, so I am submitting the score I would get if this were a math competition and I got one question wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR &lt;code&gt;145&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;163&lt;/code&gt; :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66955" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T18:23:30.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6790" CreationDate="2016-06-30T09:21:12.987" Score="14" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is this site called TeX and not LaTeX? Does it have to do with copyright?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109158" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T14:26:33.763" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T14:26:33.763" Title="Site name - TeX versus LaTeX" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6789" CreationDate="2016-06-30T09:29:33.677" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site name is formally 'TeX - LaTeX StackExchange'. This reflects the fact that TeX is more than LaTeX (plain TeX, ConTeXt, related tools, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;). Calling it just 'LaTeX' would be restrictive, whilst just 'TeX' could put off LaTeX users: by user numbers LaTeX is the dominant form of TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T09:29:33.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6792" CreationDate="2016-06-30T16:27:52.867" Score="6" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1024/2011-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-digest/1034?s=11|0.1185#1034&quot;&gt;2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest&lt;/a&gt;, the answer is yes.  And here I thought my memory was going!  But still, making gratuitous changes is rather childish, and forces me to delete the comment entirely (if I notice it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T19:26:21.313" Title="Is it possible for moderators to edit my comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6791" CreationDate="2016-06-30T16:31:25.640" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it is possible for moderators to edit comments. In practice this is normally done only if the commenter requests it (as they've spotted an error but have missed the editing window) or where there is a typo that is clear and correctable. (Both cases are rare so I can't readily point to an example, though I know I've corrected things for people on occasion; I normally let them know this has been done.) Far more common is simply deleting comments, for example ones that are no longer relevant (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; 'Please add a MWE' after this has happened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T16:54:07.347" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T16:54:07.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6652" CreationDate="2016-06-30T18:03:43.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;66 &amp;amp; 110, because I noticed those unclaimed numbers before others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2966" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T18:03:43.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6791" CreationDate="2016-07-03T19:26:21.313" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, moderators can edit comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6792/61108&quot;&gt;The other answer&lt;/a&gt; lists a few cases in which this is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator on another site, I've also edited comments to remove rude/offensive content if the same comment also contains useful information (e.g. in a debate in the comments). Similarly, comments can be edited to remove personal information (such as an e-mail address) while keeping useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:37:24.867" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T19:26:21.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-03T20:11:46.963" Score="43" ViewCount="791" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have red-green colorblindness. I don't really notice it, except on two occasions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When I see an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_test&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ishihara plate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When hyperlinks are styled using &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; a color that normal people have no trouble distinguishing from non-hyperlinked text, but which I do. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example of what I mean, see any TeX.SX post with a hyperlink (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/315532/bblmainlanguage-error-in-biblatex&quot;&gt;here's&lt;/a&gt; one of my own). For another example, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/welp-that-s-weird-but-of-course-it-is&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Talking Points Memo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the biggest deal in the world, but it can be rather frustrating. Sometimes it is clear from the context where a hyperlink is, and all is well. Sometimes it is clear that there is a hyperlink, but unclear where it is; this requires a bit of searching. Sometimes none of this is true, and I have to hover over nearly every bit of text groping for possible links; that's annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple ways this might be addressed. Different color schemes could be used, but there are other kinds of colorblindness that would need to be kept in mind, and so this solution is not very robust. Even better, some other kind of formatting could be added to links (e.g., underlining), or the link color could have a different intrinsic brightness from the main text (so even the totally colorblind could make out where the links were; I believe the TeX.SX Meta links are like this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77582" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T13:56:25.527" Title="Colorblind, links hard to see" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6795" CreationDate="2016-07-07T21:14:04.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest the use of more of the options available when answering such as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;blockquoting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;code&gt;preformatting&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Too much coloring of answers and comments (I have yet to see this on SE sites) can be a real nuisance.&#xA;But, this is why developers use CSS to improve their GUIs and UIs to make their software colorblind-friendly.&#xA;I highly suggest that &lt;code&gt;Tex&lt;/code&gt; improve their blockquoting background color for improved visibility. Math utilizes a yellow background for blockquoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109003" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T21:14:04.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6795" CreationDate="2016-07-08T03:28:28.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I intend to provide a comprehensive, scientifically-backed discussion of possible steps, a TeX document creator could implement to create more user-friendly TeX Documents, websites, software, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DOCuG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DOCuG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Electromagnetic Spectrum Comparison&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Potential Problems with TeX and WWW Conventions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link Color&#xA;In TeX and the WWW, links are generally in blue. Some avoid red as color for emphasis text and elect for blue; however, this affects those with blue-yellow colorblindness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quantity of colors available&#xA;Only so many colors can be used on a TeX document and WWW before it starts too look unprofessional. This, obviously, affects readers with colorblindness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okabe and Ito have developed a &lt;code&gt;Color Universal Design&lt;/code&gt;, where they offer the following guidelines, which will help TeX Doc creators.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid the following colors: red, yellow, green, and orange. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use shapes instead of colors to distinguish types/classes of information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Specify colors when defining color-based terminology in documentation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope Stack Exchange and TeX document creators keep this in mind when designing/creating next time. @Simon C, please accept my answer if this helped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109003" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T03:28:28.730" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6795" CreationDate="2016-07-08T18:33:49.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are two things that all of us can do fairly easily that might help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid inline links wherever possible.  This is especially true of links to non-contentful word like &amp;quot;this&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;here&amp;quot; which are annoying IMO even to people who can see they are links.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make links  explicit by using a list mark-up and explain that they are links in the accompanying text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes very little time to do this, and will generally make answers more readable for everyone anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples (I've made all links just link to this question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find an answer to this second question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6795/2693&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find an answer to this second question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6795/2693&quot;&gt;Colorblind, links hard to see&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even more explicitly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find an answer to this second question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6795/2693&quot;&gt;Colorblind, links hard to see&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T20:30:25.073" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6795" CreationDate="2016-07-12T13:56:25.527" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's reasonable to expect &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; poster to specially mark hyperlinks. There are two ways out of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask the designers to choose a &lt;a href=&quot;http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/colorblind/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;color palette&lt;/a&gt; (or other highlighting elements) that makes the site accessible to individuals with color perception issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hack the web yourself, e.g. with Firefox addon &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, the following simple script gives you very clear indicators of where links are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a:before {&#xA;  content: &amp;quot;[&amp;quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;a:after {&#xA;  content: &amp;quot;]&amp;quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a {&#xA;  border: black solid 2pt;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The possibilities are (almost) endless; pick whatever you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can apply it to some sites, or to the whole web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T13:56:25.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6804" CreationDate="2016-07-21T01:02:06.920" Score="7" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know if the present appearance of main TeX site, in black and blue, and all elements in strange places is a temporary bug or a new, disgusting idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have checked some other sites and they are not spoiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/woLTf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/woLTf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-07-21T06:59:47.333" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T06:59:47.333" Title="New horrible appearance?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6803" CreationDate="2016-07-21T02:19:54.453" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are looking at the mobile version of the site. (Which means you must have clicked &quot;mobile&quot; in the footer to get there). To escape, scroll down and click &quot;full site&quot; in the footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user69318" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T02:19:54.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7372" CreationDate="2016-07-21T20:35:22.937" Score="34" ViewCount="513" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; team has just announced a new service called &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2016/07/introducing-stack-overflow-documentation-beta&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Documentation&lt;/a&gt;.  Users can post examples of code usage and other can vote and edit.  I'd like to have this for TeX.SX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of the fact that most documentation people use to learn LaTeX is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6393&quot;&gt;outdated or just wrong&lt;/a&gt; it would be a great advantage if we at TeX.SX had a community-driven reference.&#xA;Also, many search online for &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johannesbottcher/templateConfusion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX templates&lt;/a&gt; and find some 1000 line file which “includes everything”.  A collection of simple examples with minimal boilerplate sounds like a great alternative to me and might succeed to convert people to follow &lt;em&gt;the right path&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/latex/3010/how-to-get-the-standard-titlepage#t=201607231249458258272&quot;&gt;example of documentation&lt;/a&gt;. That is the available &lt;em&gt;template&lt;/em&gt; to fill with content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dIuux.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dIuux.png&quot; alt=&quot;documentationExample&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T04:25:46.107" Title="Will there be TeX.SX Documentation?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-25T18:27:50.220" Score="28" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am talking about the star in the right side of questions. It is a method to keep track of important questions. However for me, it is a list of important solutions for those problems that I probably will face again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is, sometimes there are lots of answers, some of them are outdated/wrong/not working for me. I prefer to bookmark those answer. With current bookmark method, I can only bookmark the question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it not be nice if we can also bookmark the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93219" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T18:30:52.693" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T18:30:52.693" Title="Wouldn't it be nice if we can also bookmark the answer?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6809" CreationDate="2016-07-30T14:49:25.960" Score="12" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this question has been asked before or not, but sometimes I fail to make some package working properly. Additionally, it may take long time to go through several similar questions to find a solution to (maybe) simple question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wonder if support can be given from the package author when I tag it in my question by means of notifying him/her on either TeX.SX account or his/her email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-08-14T11:39:22.563" LastActivityDate="2016-08-14T11:39:22.563" Title="Does package author get notified by tagging his/her package inside my question?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6808" CreationDate="2016-07-30T15:20:30.283" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there's no such automatic notification of package authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please be aware, that not every package/class author is a member of TeX.SX at all!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; system can be applied in some sense of notification if users have the relevant tag in their mail notification ('newsletter') that there are new questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; -- however, not every user of TeX.SX has enabled (me included)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are many users that can help you although they are not the author/maintainer of the package under consideration. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Although most packages that are used in questions here can be found at CTAN, TeXLive or MikTeX, there are a lot of template packages etc. which are spread through the Internet nowadays and there's no clear authorship/maintainership any longer -- it would be difficult to notify the 'authors' of those packages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; - notification feature would be very &lt;code&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/code&gt; specific, not any of the SE sites has the concept of &lt;code&gt;authors&lt;/code&gt; etc. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-07-31T16:21:05.587" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T16:21:05.587" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-31T14:18:12.480" Score="7" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a beginner LaTeX user, many questions/answers are encyclopedic to me and expand my knowledge and understanding. However, favoriting tons of questions doesn't help that much to keep the information fresh in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there a possibility in the future to make users able to follow reputable questions and get notified in case of every new answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-07-31T16:38:20.407" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T17:15:38.207" Title="Is it possible to follow a question and get notified whenever a new answer is added?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6812" CreationDate="2016-08-02T18:11:51.810" Score="11" ViewCount="473" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I know some active TeX experts roaming in the site, and, as I think, they can answer my unanswered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, would it be acceptable to comment on answers of theirs in similar questions and ask them to consider my unanswered question, or it would be considered something annoying and unwelcome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I meant to put a link to my question on similar question answer; it will not be spamming random questions and irrelevant answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My own&lt;/strong&gt; history in the main TEX.SX site has nothing to do with this &lt;strong&gt;general meta&lt;/strong&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="2288" LastEditDate="2016-08-08T14:57:09.043" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T17:07:28.397" Title="Drawing TeX experts attention to my unanswered question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6811" CreationDate="2016-08-02T20:16:30.680" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some ways to draw more attention to a question (if it is going to be awarded the &lt;code&gt;[tumbleweed]&lt;/code&gt; badge ;-))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question from time to time (ok, this is not the best way ;-))&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Award a bounty on your own question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the TeX.SX chat and link your question there, asking for support on it (or leave some hint that the question is not yet answered (or not sufficiently)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the TeX.SX chat (again) and ask someone to be very generous and add a bounty for your question ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure the rep hunters wait for such a prey and appear pretty soon ;-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving comments on answers by the experts is not really helpful, in my point of view -- it's some kind of last resort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-08-02T20:25:23.237" LastActivityDate="2016-08-02T20:25:23.237" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-03T08:42:30.690" Score="11" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;For many questions (although not all), a MWE is helpful (see, e.g.,  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/477/should-minimal-examples-be-required-or-just-encouraged-for-questions-to-be-ans?rq=1&quot;&gt;Should minimal examples be required, or just encouraged, for questions to be answered?&lt;/a&gt;). However, many posts don't include one (especially in case of first time users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been proposed to add MWEs to other people's posts by editing (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1083/should-minimal-examples-be-completed-for-the-submitter-if-they-only-provide-a-co/1086#1086&quot;&gt;Should minimal examples be completed for the submitter if they only provide a code excerpt?&lt;/a&gt;), but this has disadvantages, the OP not being forced to provide research effort being one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the Ask Question page does not mention MWEs directly, and also the linked How to Ask etc. are not clear about this (if I'm not overlooking something). Adding to this may help increase the number of questions with MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a more direct approach may give better results. If the OP tries to post a question without the text &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt; in it, a warning can be issued. This warning should be polite to cover cases where a MWE is not necessary. Would this be a good idea or are there disadvantages I didn't think of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T15:21:10.223" Title="automatic check for MWE" Tags="|feature-request|mwe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6813" CreationDate="2016-08-03T16:40:55.853" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; idea, for a few reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, despite the fact that people like to demand MWEs, it's not really the case that &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question demands one. Yes, they are important in lots of cases, but there are plenty of good questions which don't need them at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, plain TeX users or ConTeXt users would never be able to ask questions without an annoying reminder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, questions concerning installation, editors, or other related tools, which are all on topic also don't require a MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourth, nagging users is a way to make the site more unfriendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2016-08-03T19:00:21.503" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T19:00:21.503" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6811" CreationDate="2016-08-03T20:04:16.503" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are for discussing the post that you are commenting on. Commenting on an unrelated post in order to gain attention for your question is an abuse of the commenting system. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;help center's explanation for the &quot;comment everywhere&quot; privilege&lt;/a&gt; says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;When &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; I comment?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary discussion&lt;/strong&gt; or debating a controversial point; please use chat instead;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there are some relevant posts on Meta.SE about contacting users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/57537/299342&quot;&gt;How do I contact other users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/431/299342&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/a&gt; (answer: no, and that's by design)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first of those two posts recommends using the chat system and notes that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One might use comment replies to notify a user of a comment. But remember: even comments should be relevant to the post, and can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17364/how-does-comment-voting-and-flagging-work&quot;&gt;flagged as noise&lt;/a&gt; if they are not, so this is not recommended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience TeX.SE is one of the most friendly and welcoming sites on the SE network, so you probably won't get into too much trouble using comments for this purpose here. Nonetheless, you should be advised that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users are well within their rights to flag such comments for deletion (e.g. as &quot;not constructive&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;moderators might decide to take action if you do it too much (e.g. the users you contact start to complain)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you might be more likely to get into trouble on other sites in the SE network that are less friendly &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you decide to use chat, your best bet is probably the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;TeX.SE main chat room&lt;/a&gt;. From there you can link to your question and possibly ping a specific user (post a chat message with &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt;, though that only works if the user has been in chat recently). You can also invite a specific user to a chat room from his/her chat profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to get attention for your question, the system you're really looking for is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/16065/299342&quot;&gt;bounty system&lt;/a&gt;. From the answer to the Meta.SE FAQ on the bounty system (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A bounty is a special reputation award given to answers. &lt;strong&gt;This feature was designed to motivate answerers, and help questions get the answers they deserve&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to spend your own reputation (at least 50) to post a bounty, but in exchange your question is put on the highly visible &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;feature tab&lt;/a&gt; for the duration of the bounty (up to 1 week). Furthermore, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6812/61108&quot;&gt;@Christian Hupfer&lt;/a&gt; mentioned, you might be able to convince a kind high-rep TeX.SE user to offer the bounty for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T20:04:16.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6811" CreationDate="2016-08-09T17:07:28.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If&lt;/strong&gt; you think the same technique can be used:&#xA;copy/paste it and see why it doesn't work and ask that by referring to the previous question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ElseIf&lt;/strong&gt; you think the same person answers those kinds of questions, first ask the question and then go to the chat room and ask about the user (if they hang out in the chat) to draw attention if they haven't reacted already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ElseIf&lt;/strong&gt; you think that some users should definitely know how but can't be bothered then don't bother them and ask without any referrals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elseif&lt;/strong&gt; Just ask the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Else&lt;/strong&gt; Ask the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finally&lt;/strong&gt; Ask it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;End&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T17:07:28.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6810" CreationDate="2016-08-09T17:15:38.207" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you favorite a question that has your favorite answer, you'll get a ping at the user profile page or whatever that is called by SO -- probably kernel panic room or something tastes like nerdburger like that -- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I have 4 changes happened to stuff that I have favorited before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0s7ah.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0s7ah.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T17:15:38.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6820" CreationDate="2016-08-10T14:17:26.733" Score="15" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I've incurred in a situation analogous to what explained here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2387/changing-acceptance-after-a-long-time?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Changing acceptance after a long time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a question of mine, I had accepted an answer by JPi but then I accepted another by egreg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if I prefer egreg's one, the two answers were similar and both good, so I was sorry to take away 15 points from JPi's  reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, is it too complicated to decrease JPi's reputation only by 5 points or to trasform the previous acceptance in a (second) upvote by me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obvioulsly only once per answer, otherwise I can switch between Jpi's and egreg's one again and again and make their reputation go to infinity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T14:16:39.990" Title="Proposal for rewarding former accepted answers" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6819" CreationDate="2016-08-10T17:33:10.523" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't feel bad. You're selecting the answer &quot;that helped you most&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There already exists a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; system you can use to reward contributors beyond voting and acceptance. Here you can select from as low as 50 reputation up to 500 to give to someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T17:33:10.523" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6819" CreationDate="2016-08-11T14:00:04.263" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although you have nothing to feel guilty about in changing who you award the tick to, there is something you might ponder on the back of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, I suppose, is one of the reasons why people may sometimes be encouraged to wait a little while (some people really do wait weeks, but 24 hours seems fair) before accepting an answer. Not only does it avoid giving rep and then taking it away, it leaves the question open, which may attract a little bit more attention. On this particular site, people tend to be very good at posting an answer if they have an answer to post, but still, if a question is marked as solved, people may not feel much need to weigh in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter point is the received wisdom on some sites, but I personally am more compelled by the former. Although there's no real harm in moving the tick mark around, it seems prudent to give everyone a chance to have their go before announcing a winner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only danger is that you might forget to award a tick at all, so do bear that in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16968" LastEditorUserId="16968" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T14:16:39.990" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T14:16:39.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6813" CreationDate="2016-08-11T15:21:10.223" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I somewhat disagree with Alan Munn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is true that not every questions needs a MWE, but the majority does.  Think of your email program; if you mention »attached« in the text the program asks you whether you have forgotten something.  The same could be done here; if the MWE is missing, ask the user whether he maybe want to add it for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree that scanning for &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt; is a bad idea.  I would scan for an indented code section instead.  Obviously, this doesn't help against incomplete examples but reminds the do-it-for-me fraction that posting only an image is ill-advised.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Agreed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users have to be reminded about site policy.  If everyone had read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1436&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX!&lt;/a&gt; we wouldn't be discussing this.  Also, there could be a privilege at, say 500 rep, which allows you to skip the nagging (or you can keep it as your own reminder).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.637" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T15:21:10.223" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-12T12:16:34.487" Score="7" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use HTML/CSS since 3 years and I used often Stack Overflow to solve problems about it. Anyway, I'm a beginner in LaTeX world and I discovered LaTeX site in Stack Exchange. I ask me, Why not use Stack Overflow for LaTeX ? LaTeX is a markup language, HTML&amp;amp;CSS too. Can't you create a site for markup language or ask in Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111444" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2016-08-15T18:02:41.850" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T18:02:41.850" Title="Why not use Stack Overflow?" Tags="|discussion|scope|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2016-08-16T09:56:47.743" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6824" CreationDate="2016-08-12T18:59:03.647" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a summary of the comments, so that we can get an answer.  There are a number of reasons why TeX.se exists, and StackOverflow is not the best place for asking TeX related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, the Stack Exchange model is based on user choices: new sites can be proposed by anyone on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area 51 site&lt;/a&gt; and if the site gains enough visitors, questions and answers, it gets promoted to being a full Stackexchange site.  For TeX.se, this happened almost 5 years ago. The site was proposed, and very quickly there was strong support for it.  Ultimately this is the only answer to your question: there's no need to use Stack Overflow since TeX.se exists and is strongly supported. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TeX is not really a markup language, but a fully fledged programming language, albeit one designed with typesetting in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is aimed mainly at programmers, but most TeX &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; are not TeX &lt;em&gt;programmers&lt;/em&gt;, since the goal of TeX is to produce documents, not to program things.  The questions that are addressed here are therefore not mainly about programming, but about how to achieve particular document output.  Of course, since TeX &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a programming language, we also have programming questions, but these are in some sense the minority.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T18:59:03.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-13T10:44:52.670" Score="6" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to filter search in &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt; to those have code in them. Also how to search inside the codes themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110404" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-08-14T17:24:32.287" LastActivityDate="2016-08-14T17:24:32.287" Title="Search posts that contain code" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6826" CreationDate="2016-08-13T12:43:43.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply &quot;hascode:yes&quot;, &quot;hascode:1&quot; or &quot;hascode:true&quot; should be added to search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110404" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T12:43:43.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6826" CreationDate="2016-08-14T17:23:55.033" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching for posts that contains code can be achieved using the boolean operator &lt;code&gt;hascode&lt;/code&gt;. More specifically, &lt;code&gt;hascode:&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;yes&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;true&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt; returns only posts that contain code blocks; &lt;code&gt;no&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;false&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;0&lt;/code&gt; returns only posts that contain &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for posts where &lt;em&gt;inline&lt;/em&gt; code (via backticks or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; markdown) contains a specific &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;string&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is achieved using &lt;code&gt;code:&amp;lt;string&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More search options are available from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search help center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-08-14T17:23:55.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-15T12:51:31.307" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I can't find answers to my questions, then later, I stumble across the solution either by accident or trial and error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the bright side, I have solved my problem, while on the dark side, I would forget the way I solved it. So how acceptable is it to ask a question then answer it to be a future reference for me and anyone else comes across the same inquiry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T12:51:31.307" Title="Can I share a finding in the shape of answered question for future reference?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="18" ClosedDate="2016-08-15T19:55:14.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6833" CreationDate="2016-08-17T06:03:40.347" Score="32" ViewCount="646" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I read questions from Newbies (like me) that are either too basic or which have already being asked many times and have accepted answers (judging from the links shown at the right of the web). Whenever I look up for help, I also find many questions that provide fairly similar answers. If you are not lazy enough, many times there is no need to ask a question at all, unless the problem is very specific or current solutions - having being tried - do not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than a criticism, this is a question about understanding why there is so much tolerance in the TeX network to clear duplicates, not being marked as such. Coming from other networks such as AskUbuntu where the tolerance to duplicates is low, I find this intriguing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because of the volume of questions? Is it because people come up with their own MWE, which might contain apparent differences - but rather irrelevant - with other posts? Is the ratio of moderators per newbies to low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: an example (the actual question that motivated this post) is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/325194/77895&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. A quick search shows 284 questions. Yes, not all related, but the third one (second if we omit the actual post in question) has an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HtrpW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HtrpW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77895" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T16:51:14.813" Title="Duplicates tolerance is huge in this site" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="26" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-17T19:58:49.463" Score="8" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there is already the question about adding documentation here. However, the Stack Overflow documentation has a section for LaTeX documentation where several people are trying to pull something together. I think that as a community, we should help in this endeavor. I personally have tried to help as best I can, writing about the (admittedly few to none) topics I feel like I can say something about and trying to review edits and such. I know, though that there are many people on this site so much more suited to this endeavor than I am. The consensus on the previous question was that we should wait and see if the documentation was a success. But shouldn't we help &lt;em&gt;make&lt;/em&gt; it a success? Some of the people on this site wrote the packages the people on Stack Overflow are trying to document. Others are just amazingly good with LaTeX. Why don't we try to help those on Stack Overflow working on the LaTeX documentation? I know I find it hard to read through the already existent documentation when I'm really just looking for a simple solution, and I think that LaTeX documentation would be of so much assistance to many, that I think working on it fits right in with the goal of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess my question is, why not help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I should point out that there are some people from TeX.SX working on the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111470" LastEditorUserId="111470" LastEditDate="2016-08-17T20:08:26.183" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T21:20:32.317" Title="LaTeX documentation on Stack Overflow" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6831" CreationDate="2016-08-18T02:49:03.103" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the comments;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is partly because of the nature of TeX. There is never a single way of doing things in TeX and every documentclass is nuanced (for better or worse). Because of this every question has the high probability that the dupe won't work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, most TeX newcomers are obsessed with shorthand notations (under the impression that TeX works like C,Java, Python...) and often their shorthand macros break stuff in common packages due to picking a common macro name or defining fragile commands, moving arguments etc. or basically don't work. Though their question might seem like a duplicate, the underlying problem is usually different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blindly closing questions based on title or content just makes unnecessary noise such as &lt;em&gt;I've read the other question but it's not working in my case&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;why is this KOMA example not working in memoir&lt;/em&gt; etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our gold badge users also have a good nose for duplicates and they use the duplicate-closing power sparingly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, due to some fortunate coincidence, users here tend to give ridiculously complete answers and others get out of the way. That is really good on almost all points but has the effect of being very specialized to the problem at hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, the duplicate business here is trickier than other network sites. And our moderators are quite specialists in TeX hence they can see through the argument in terms of technical detail. As Joseph Wright mentioned, you can always consult them in case there is a dead-on duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-08-18T02:49:03.103" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2016-08-19T08:22:17.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Additional (math) operators, relations and so on&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/671/define-additional-math-operators-to-be-typeset-in-roman&quot;&gt;Define additional math operators to be typeset in roman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Define additional math operators to be typeset in roman](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/671/define-additional-math-operators-to-be-typeset-in-roman)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/573850&quot;&gt;How to create a new math operator?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to create a new math operator?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/573850)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2022-10-10T03:44:04.953" LastActivityDate="2022-10-10T03:44:04.953" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-08-19T08:22:17.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6838" CreationDate="2016-08-19T23:18:52.143" Score="5" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the list of Featured questions now appear to include questions which do not currently have available bounties? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, it now seems to include some questions which involve bounties but where all bounties have been awarded. I thought perhaps it is including questions whose bounties have recently been awarded, which it used not to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a recent screenshot from the 'featured' list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aKkyD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aKkyD.png&quot; alt=&quot;featured questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here's the bountiless question included:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpOdP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpOdP.png&quot; alt=&quot;bountiless question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it also includes questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/320036/cut-off-graphs-using-dot2texi-with-tikz&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EP6Z9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EP6Z9.png&quot; alt=&quot;bountiless question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which offers no bounty and which has no answers already awarded bounties. So perhaps it also includes questions whose bounties recently expired, including expiry of the grace period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T12:10:22.420" Title="Why does the list of Featured questions now appear to include questions which do not currently have available bounties?" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6836" CreationDate="2016-08-22T12:09:36.110" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks; there was a bug on the &quot;tag engine&quot; (the backend system that deals with this stuff) that failed to update the &quot;count&quot; of an index when that index was being reduced to zero (it is fine when reducing in general - just the zero case is the problem). This meant it was happily reporting data that it &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; wasn't &quot;featured&quot; (or whatevever) any more. Essentially (not the actual code!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// rebuild a filtered+sorted index...&#xA;int matches = workspace.ApplyFilter();&#xA;if(matches == 0) {&#xA;     // nothing to do&#xA;} else {&#xA;    workspace.ApplySort();&#xA;    index.UpdateCountAndCopyFromWorkspace(matches , workspace);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the zero case, it would never actually mark the index as being empty (the &quot;nothing to do&quot; was wrong - it should still have updated the count). Entirely my fault. A permanent fix for this will deploy today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2875" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T12:09:36.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6831" CreationDate="2016-08-24T09:17:27.693" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: TeX and LaTeX newbie here. Here are some of my thoughts on this subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm no programmer guru, but I'd say that I'm a relatively experienced software developer, having worked on online computer game engines, desktop software and web applications for the better part of a decade. As such, I consider myself to be relatively adept at using technical documentation and understanding how software tools work in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I gravitated towards TeX and LaTeX, thinking something along the lines of: &quot;Yes! Finally, I can free myself from the constraints of WYSIWYG-editors, leverage my knowledge from software development and version my documents in source control.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter LaTeX. As it turns out, there are so many different approaches one might take to solve a particular problem and a myriad of packages, that it's easy to get lost. I need to take a step back and begin by figuring out how much I don't know. Unknown unknowns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I have a particular question, I'm usually been able to dig through this site to find the answer that I'm looking for, but I often need to adapt the solution provided in the answer to my particular context. Sometimes, this requires a certain level of technical adroitness and experimentation. Often a proposed solution will use one or more packages that I've never heard of before, so I need to figure out how to use those along with the packages that I'm already using in my project, and how to combine them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the temptation to take the path of least resistance and post a question without trying to figure out a solution for oneself. We live in a word where patience and persistence have become rare virtues and commodities. I imagine that the predominant &quot;easy-come mindset&quot; is a significant factor in the equation of duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46362" LastEditorUserId="46362" LastEditDate="2016-08-24T09:23:31.233" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T09:23:31.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6851" CreationDate="2016-08-24T09:38:38.213" Score="24" ViewCount="594" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice the traffic of TEX.SX is heavy, for example, from 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM UTC. So, is it a good idea to wait for that time to ask a question to get enough attention/support from plenty of visitors? or the difference is not that much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6851/2288&quot;&gt;this graph&lt;/a&gt; gives a better idea that the time factor is quite important, which makes sense because high percentage of LaTeX experts are living in this timezone, and, intuitively, they have more free time to answer questions after their workdays in the evening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I know the question quality is important to draw attention/support, but here, I am asking about the weight of the timing factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T08:03:42.097" Title="Is it better to ask in the high traffic time?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6840" CreationDate="2016-08-24T11:25:47.633" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might seem better to ask in the high time but actually it doesn't matter. Because: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You ask in the high time, more people are online (mostly CET day time). More people can look at it. You have high chance of getting an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You ask in the other hours, but because there are not many people online for the same reason, there not many questions either. Hence, in morning of the same people of the previous bunch, your question is still on the list. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in terms of getting an answer it doesn't matter. In terms of waiting time for an answer can move a few hours but that's still negligible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion it won't matter. This is only valid for our TeX-SX network though. It might be different for other networks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also users tend to look at the unanswered lists and sweep through anyways so it will be seen as you can judge from the smallness of the number of Tumbleweed badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T11:25:47.633" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6846" CreationDate="2016-08-24T15:08:15.913" Score="9" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to ask general typesetting questions on TeX.SE, even if not TeX- or LaTeX-related? If not (or maybe even if so), is there another or a better place where such questions belong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, conventions for how to layout text in a document, indentation, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Based on comments, I'm trying &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/76569/conventions-for-indenting-subsections-in-a-document-word&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on Graphics.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112669" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:19.490" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T07:28:46.200" Title="Typesetting and typography related questions" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6831" CreationDate="2016-08-24T16:51:14.813" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pedantic search-related point&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to note that if one restricts the search to look only at questions with &lt;code&gt;is:q&lt;/code&gt;, then one finds that there are &quot;only&quot; 177 questions for &lt;code&gt;change font size title is:q&lt;/code&gt;, rather than &quot;284 questions&quot; as OP has it. I note this for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to mention explicitly this &quot;advanced search&quot; trick; I can't remember how long it took me to find them, and there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;quite a few more&lt;/a&gt;; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when one realizes that there are 177 questions but only 248 posts in total -- including answers -- quite a few of those questions must have been quietly ignored! And, in fact, 14 &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; been &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=change+font+size+title+duplicate%3Ayes&quot;&gt;closed as duplicates&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/01k6T.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/01k6T.png&quot; alt=&quot;search screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46980" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T16:51:14.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6832" CreationDate="2016-08-24T21:20:32.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;CTAN does a perfect job IMHO. All package documentation is already there.&#xA;And then there is Latex section on Wikibooks, which is awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37570" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T21:20:32.317" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2016-08-25T17:07:24.473" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest yet another addition that tries to encourage accepting an answer in case of &quot;Thank you/problem solved&quot;-comments to the answer. The above building blocks only deal with &quot;Thank you&quot;-answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Good to hear that the answer helped you. If you are satisfied with the solution, please consider accepting it (by clicking on the checkmark ✓, see [How do you accept an answer?](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/1852)). This shows others that the question is solved and will remove it from the list of unanswered questions. As a bonus, this will not only give a reward to the answer, but you will get 2 reputation points, too.&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T10:16:01.657" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T10:16:01.657" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-08-25T17:07:24.473" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6842" CreationDate="2016-08-26T07:28:46.200" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typography&quot;&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt; tag on this page. The questions there though should be more about how to achieve certain typographical features in TeX or about TeX-nical typography (e.g. a question about whether to use &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\colon&lt;/code&gt;). More general typography questions are probably &quot;too broad&quot; or &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more general typography questions you could try &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Graphic Design Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, they also have a dedicated &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/typography&quot;&gt;typography&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on what exactly the question is about you could also ask at one of the language sites, &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Maths&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Academia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:58.887" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T07:28:46.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6849" CreationDate="2016-08-26T16:15:53.557" Score="13" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we somehow improve the experience for users, who have useful comments but can only post (non-)answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We regularly recommend deletion of (or delete for the top users) &quot;answers&quot; from new users. That is mostly fine as many are &quot;Thank you&quot; or &quot;Having another question&quot; answers. But from time to time there are answers with useful and eligible content which we categorize as &quot;better suited as a comment&quot;. However the ever-present problem: the new users cannot comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine being young again with no reputation: This must be quite frustrating. Getting the feedback that something is better suited as a comment but at the same time no being able to comment. I guess for important cases one could bring it to the attention of your moderators, they can convert things to comments, see related question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5661/recommending-deletion&quot;&gt;Recommending deletion&lt;/a&gt; [However this system might need improvement, as I feel that only very few deleted answers are flagged for moderator attention].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is about the &quot;small&quot; cases. One example (not the best, but they are hard to find) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/325303/36296&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/325303/36296&lt;/a&gt;. A new user, apparently willing to help, wants to ask for clarification. I would not want to trouble moderators with that, as other users asked for the same information shortly after. But wouldn't it be helpful if the deleting review would include a field &quot;recommend conversion to comment&quot; and with sufficient votes from experienced users, such cases could either be automatically converted or grant the new user the privilege to comment on this specific question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example above was from the &quot;low quality review&quot;. Available options in this queue are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No comment needed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is commentary on another post, not an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a “thank you” comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is an “I’m having this problem, too” comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a different question posted as an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a link-only answer (and not spam)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so no direct opportunity to flag for moderator attention. However when the answer opens one can click on the &quot;flag&quot; link below the question. But this is not very intuitive, because as soon as the window with the deletion options is open, it is hidden behind it and once having clicked for deletion the queue automatically jumps to the next answer and (at least before gaining the ability to see the history) it is very hard to find an answer again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I admit, I also voted to recommend deletion, because it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; better suited as a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T19:29:10.920" Title="Improve experience for new users with helpful comments" Tags="|feature-request|comments|review-page|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6847" CreationDate="2016-08-27T17:21:56.143" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is well intended, but it will fall on the deaf ears of those who are targeted. The mob we are talking about gets a kick from harassing under the guise of enforcing the rules. They hold grudges forever if one of their peers is criticized for doing so, and wage vendettas in response to what they perceive as crimes against their fragile egos. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: @Johannes_B, who has the audacity to claim he doesn't know what frustration @samcarter is talking about. He and @Kurt wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/326709/scrlttr2-yourref-and-place-dont-mix&quot;&gt;disingenuous comments in my latest post&lt;/a&gt;, probably to avenge the person I criticized earlier, whose pseudo I don't (care to) remember, after he deleted an answer for the glaringly abusive motive that it was off topic. It's likely a bait to make me lose my temper, so the mob can use the pretext to censor/exclude me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a pest to contend with, but it can't hurt to expose it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112708" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2016-08-27T17:21:56.143" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6847" CreationDate="2016-08-28T16:55:41.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two suggestions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We already have a method for converting answers into comments - flagging a post for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't let the review queues define your actions. Go to the post and flag it. If it does warrant a review, you can find still find the post by viewing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/history&quot;&gt;Low Quality Post history tab&lt;/a&gt;. Alternatively, click the &lt;em&gt;Back&lt;/em&gt; button on your browser after reviewing, and then click the permalink for the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Yut3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Yut3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/70039/168244&quot;&gt;A request similar to yours&lt;/a&gt; was to add this feature as a 20k+ rep user privilege. However, it was decided that his still is a moderator-only privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was again suggested as part of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/252691/168244&quot;&gt;30k+ privilege&lt;/a&gt; under the umbrella of comment moderation, with the following addendum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;... I think comment moderation is mostly a waste of time. I'd much rather let the system handle comments. Unfortunately, there are already so many comments that should have been edits (or even answers) instead that we can't blindly hide/delete old comments. Creating this privilege will mean committing to manual comment moderation for the foreseeable future. Comment moderation is tedious and unrewarding so I'd rather have our top users do something more productive with their time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing argument: If you really feel an answer of a new-user is better-suited as a comment, make a comment in that regard and flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;Note that your request here speaks to the design of the user experience and is therefore not really limited to this site. As such, it may be better-suited on &lt;a href=&quot;http://s.tk/meta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; (pun intended).&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/214173/168244&quot;&gt;Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead?&lt;/a&gt; (FAQ)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/12119/168244&quot;&gt;Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/71284/168244&quot;&gt;Convert to comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/35175/168244&quot;&gt;Should moderators be able to convert answers into comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/70039/168244&quot;&gt;Propose a new 20k reputation privilege&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/252691/168244&quot;&gt;What privilege should 30k users get?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T19:29:10.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6840" CreationDate="2016-08-30T16:42:44.923" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/530878/percentage-of-questions-answered-by-time-of-asking#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; to determine the amount of asked and unanswered questions grouped by the hour of asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what the data looks like when plotted with gnuplot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uhKN1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uhKN1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Plot of question asked/answered by time of day&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There percentage of answered questions fluctuates between 57.78% and 62.88%. &#xA;From the graph it looks like questions asked between 5 and 7 are less likely to be answered and i'm sure one can find a correlation that explains this(More people asking than people answering questions online?), but i doubt that there is a statistical significance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another plot of the data, with the amount of questions asked in an hour on the x-axis and the percent of questions answered in an hour on the y axis for the 24 hours of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vUtbw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vUtbw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Another plot of answer-percentage against question asked in the same hour&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also ran &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/revision/530912/670829/average-wait-time-for-question-being-answered-based-on-hour-of-asking#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a query to determine the average wait time&lt;/a&gt;, but i do not see any connection to the time of asking. (This query only measures the time between asking the question and the &quot;accepted&quot; answer being posted, so it also only includes questions with an accepted answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think i also came up with &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/revision/531536/672018/average-wait-time-for-first-response-based-on-hour-of-asking#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a query to determine the average time it takes for a first answer to be posted&lt;/a&gt; (ignoring unanswered questions). But i'm unsure how to interpret it. It looks like you can get a first answer a lot quicker, if you ask it at 4, taking an average of more than 8 days. In comparison to asking at 7, when it takes an average of 12 days for a first answer to be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not an expert on statistics or the stackexchange-data-api so take this with a grain of salt. The data provided might be misleading or not suitable for answering the question at all. Feel free to point out any mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script used for plotting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;set datafile separator &quot;,&quot;&#xA;f = &quot;QueryResults.csv&quot;&#xA;set xlabel &quot;Hour of asking&quot;&#xA;set ylabel &quot;Questions&quot;&#xA;set y2label &quot;Percent Answered&quot;&#xA;set y2tics&#xA;set ytics nomirror&#xA;set xtics (0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24)&#xA;set format y2 '%2.0f%%'&#xA;plot f using 1:2 with linesp title &quot;Question Asked&quot;, \&#xA;f using 1:3 with linesp title &quot;Question Answered&quot;, \&#xA;f using 1:($4*100) with linesp axis x1y2 title &quot;Percent Answered&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;set ylabel &quot;Percent Answered&quot;&#xA;set xlabel &quot;Questions Asked&quot;&#xA;set format y '%2.0f%%'&#xA;set  xtics auto&#xA;unset y2label&#xA;plot f using 2:($4 * 100) with linesp notitle, '' using 2:($4 * 100):1  with labels point  pt 7 offset char 0.5,0.5 notitle&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28396" LastEditorUserId="28396" LastEditDate="2016-08-31T08:03:42.097" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T08:03:42.097" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2016-08-31T14:56:25.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a suggestion for a new building block: the &quot;It didn't work&quot; response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;What do you mean by &quot;it didn't work&quot;? Did it fail to compile? What errors did you get? Perhaps you could include your log file. Did it compile but look wrong? How did it look? Perhaps you could include a picture.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T14:56:25.213" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-08-31T14:56:25.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6854" CreationDate="2016-09-01T09:48:36.587" Score="13" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How should I flag questions that are about software bugs only and, therefore, off-topic here?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a contributor to the JabRef reference manager and, thus, am following the JabRef tag on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite some of questions with this tag are essentially bug reports that are not specific to TeX (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/327128/10721&quot;&gt;see for instance this&lt;/a&gt;). If I understand the policies of the community correctly, such questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1773/10721&quot;&gt;are no good fit for this site&lt;/a&gt; and, therefore, should be closed as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As usual on stackexchange sites, I would flag such questions for moderator attention when I come across them. However, it is not clear to me what reason I should select from the &lt;em&gt;flag as off-topic&lt;/em&gt; dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;duplicate of&lt;/em&gt;: does not fit, as such questions are normally new&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt;: does not fit, since the error is normally quite localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/em&gt;: does not fit, since the question is normally not based on an opinion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;unclear what you are asking&lt;/em&gt;: does not fit, since the problem is normally quite clear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;off-topic because&lt;/em&gt;: seems to be the reason to go with, but leads to another selection with &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blatantly off-topic&lt;/em&gt;: Not true, the question is related to TeX, in a sense&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;belongs to another site&lt;/em&gt;: Just leads to meta.tex.stackexchange, where this question does not belong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my only option left is the generic &lt;em&gt;in need of moderator intervention&lt;/em&gt; in the initial flagging dialog, where I can specify the reason in free text. I guess this is the way I should do this at the moment, or is there a better option? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it wouldn't be better, for users and moderators, to have an additional option in the &lt;em&gt;close as off-topic&lt;/em&gt; dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10721" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T15:35:03.013" Title="How to flag a question concerning a software bug" Tags="|discussion|scope|close-reasons|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6853" CreationDate="2016-09-01T09:55:06.443" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flagging using the generic 'needs mod attention' function is fine (though we tend to be conservative about closing). Whilst we can add a limited number of custom close reasons for the site, the number of uses has never seem worth it: we don't have one big use of flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T09:55:06.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6858" CreationDate="2016-09-01T17:01:49.937" Score="8" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wonder why bounties are irreversibly spent and can't be claimed back in the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the awarded question is appreciated by many upvoted (suggestion for full claim)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the question is answered after very short time of spending bounties and the OP has no more interest in getting more attention to the question (suggestion for partial claim)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I haven't needed to use them, but I would like to know the reason behind this strict requirement of irreversible spending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-09-01T17:30:47.333" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T22:37:11.953" Title="Why are the bounties irreversibly spent?" Tags="|discussion|questions|bounty|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6855" CreationDate="2016-09-01T17:12:41.127" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, regarding point 1, if you post the bounty on your own question, then, if it is upvoted a lot, you will get a good chunk of rep from that which might well pay back some of the bounty. For example, if you post a 50 points bounty and the question then shoots straight to the top of the homepage and spends a weak on the featured tab, it could easily get 5 or 10 upvotes, which would repay 50-100% of the bounty. Recouping 250 or 500 points is much harder, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, if you post the bounty on your own question, the idea is really that you're doing it because you want to get a really good answer - the forthcoming answers should then be your reward, not meaningless rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If (as you don't seem to bring up in your question) you don't actually get the answers you're hoping for, that is unfortunate. However, the word 'bounty' has always been a bit of a misnomer, it's really more of an advertisement. You've put up your rep, your question has been given attention, people have been given the incentive, and that comes at a rep price. You can't undo the fact that it went to the top of the homepage and took its place on the featured tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, of course, you post the bounty on somebody else's question, well that is supposed to be a charitable act, an act of generosity. Also, again, either you post the bounty because you really want to know the answer to the question as well (in which case the answers are the reward, again), or you're trying to help or reward somebody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my satisfaction, at least, 2 is also essentially covered there. You put up the bounty that you think it's fair to pay. If you then get an answer, well fantastic, that's what you put the bounty up for, isn't it? You can award it quickly, or you can wait it out and allow yourself the possibility of being surprised by an even better answer that might yet come along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16968" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T17:12:41.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6855" CreationDate="2016-09-01T19:40:10.637" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't want to have the pranks related to putting the bounty and after having the interest pulling it back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep points don't mean anyth.... anyways, that's why. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T19:40:10.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6855" CreationDate="2016-09-01T22:37:11.953" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/16067/168244&quot;&gt;a bounty may be reversed or cancelled&lt;/a&gt;, if it can be justified...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the bounty systems acts like an advertisement in the real world. You pay for something to entice visitors/viewers, but there is no guarantee that such an investment will result in people buying &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; of your product. In a similar vein - the non-real SE world - there is no guarantee that your bounty will reap the rewards you intended when sowing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasoning behind this is supported in the way the bounty reputation is removed from the user placing the bounty &lt;em&gt;at the time it is placed&lt;/em&gt;. Payment up front, they say. The system also warns you that you cannot revert it once it's placed, putting this under the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/system-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;system-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;system-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; umbrella.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/16065/168244&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T22:37:11.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6860" CreationDate="2016-09-02T13:40:00.410" Score="18" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing through my old answers (looking for a bit of code I wrote) I notice that many of them are on questions for which an answer has never been accepted, even when there are multiple upvoted answers.  In some cases the OP has come back and thanked someone in a comment but never accepted.  Sometimes I've upvoted and provided an alternative, for example; so it's not about rep for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere within the network questions with decent answers tend to get an acceptance pretty quickly; at least it seems so to me.  Is something different here?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T20:00:03.347" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T20:41:06.760" Title="Do we have a low answer-acceptance rate here?" Tags="|discussion|community|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6859" CreationDate="2016-09-02T19:59:23.183" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a timeline of how things changed on this site since 2011 (I used a year-specific extraction of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/91713/what-percentage-of-questions-have-accepted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;data query&lt;/a&gt;). More specifically, it shows the cumulative questions and accepted answers as well as this ratio (or percentage) as the site grows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fuweW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fuweW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                    With accepted &#xA;         Questions     answers     Percentage  Growth&#xA;2011        13108       10095        77.01&#xA;2012        30159       22006        72.97      -5.26&#xA;2013        52625       35886        68.19      -6.54&#xA;2014        77097       50031        64.89      -4.84&#xA;2015       102148       63772        62.43      -3.79&#xA;2016 YTD   119297       72239        60.55      -3.01&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is more likely that older questions will have accepted answers as they've been around longer (and there's no limit on when one can accept an answer), hence taking a cumulative view on the site over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a decline in the accept percentage, but other sites show similar declines. Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MnBkb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MnBkb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                    With accepted &#xA;         Questions     answers     Percentage  Growth&#xA;2011       2319972     1617512       69.72&#xA;2012       3983113     2678124       67.24      -3.56      &#xA;2013       6057454     3843306       63.45      -5.64&#xA;2014       8234853     4985830       60.55      -4.57&#xA;2015      10563270     6067815       57.44      -5.12&#xA;2016 YTD  12311318     6745451       54.79      -4.62&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's reasonable to assume that one may lose answer acceptance over time, with the decline of year-over-year acceptance slowing (perhaps plateauing) as the site grows. This may be as a result of site dilution (through increased scope) and an increased user base (which results in more questions but not necessarily more answers being accepted), amongst other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related queries on &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data.SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/91713/what-percentage-of-questions-have-accepted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What percentage of questions have accepted answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/949/what-is-my-accepted-answer-percentage-rate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What is my accepted answer percentage rate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/528947/longest-time-when-an-accepted-answer-is-posted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Longest time when an accepted answer is posted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T19:59:23.183" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6862" CreationDate="2016-09-03T18:04:19.427" Score="18" ViewCount="523" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some distinguished answer contributors to this site who used to write lots of excellent answers (for which they deservedly got many upvotes and accepts) but who are no longer as active as they used to be. Slowing down a bit and focusing one's energy and attention somewhere else are of course entirely legitimate -- and possibly even quite commendable. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed in recent weeks, though, that some of these formerly-active contributors continue to receive lots and lots of upvotes even though they haven't logged on to the site for weeks or even months. I absolutely don't mean to single out any person for the sake of this discussion, and I certainly in no way mean to insinuate that they are to blame for these patterns, let alone that they instigated this problem. Nevertheless, it's worth providing details on the upvoting patterns that affect some of these users. For instance, one user -- who last logged in more than 3 months ago -- received 15 upvotes in the span of a few minutes today; 2 days ago: 14 upvotes within 10 minutes (as well as 4 other upvotes at other times during the day); Aug 31: 15 upvotes within 6 minutes; Aug 24: 16 upvotes within 6 minutes; Aug 23: 15 upvotes within 4 minutes; etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to avoid getting the impression that there's an organized process that's behind these concentrated waves of upvotes. Question: &lt;strong&gt;What, if anything, is being done -- or could or should be done -- to discourage such behavior?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure: About a year ago I briefly was the unwitting &quot;beneficiary&quot; of such waves of upvotes as well. To this day, I have no idea who the person was that was behind this campaign or why I was being single out for his/her/their attention. Initially, I was amused, but I quickly got annoyed. After a week or two, i.e., once it became clear that it wasn't going to end on its own, I contacted the site moderators and asked if they could put a stop to it. I don't know what they did, but the serial upvoting ended immediately. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-09-03T19:45:18.253" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T20:44:20.093" Title="source of chronic serial upvoting that affects (afflicts!?) some highly-rated contributors" Tags="|discussion|up-votes|serial-voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6861" CreationDate="2016-09-03T20:44:20.093" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst voting is in general anonymous, the moderator team have access to some data about unusual voting patterns. I can see from that one case which seems to fit the description in the question. I have taken some action (which I am sure you appreciate I cannot give more details about), and will be monitoring this in the coming days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T20:44:20.093" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-05T11:41:13.437" Score="6" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that my avatar beside my user name has been modified, not by me. Has anyone noticed this (their own avatar, not mine!)? I had a generic blue and white patterned tile, now it is grey and white and a slightly different pattern. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really bothered by the avatar but has my profile been changed without me knowing it/approving it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4885" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T11:41:13.437" Title="Avatar changed automatically" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6859" CreationDate="2016-09-05T20:41:06.760" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Acceptance is something that new users genuinely don't know about. Contrary to the common belief that Stackoverflow is super well-known it is basically not known outside coding circles. As these circles include more esoteric subjects some people drawn to it and ask/answer questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is part of a general discussion of why we should or should not bother with new users being lectured about a wall length of text to ask a simple question. Most of the users only do accept when they are told so because they don't really bother with the site itself but only their question and don't even notice the tick mark next to the answer (based on first hand experience too). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, acknowledging the user base behavior is more important than keeping an utopia statistics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T20:41:06.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-05T20:45:08.627" Score="17" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt; tag has 399 questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its current short description is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;{highlighting} is about highlighting document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be highlighted.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are a mixture of questions about highlighting things in the output PDF and syntax highlighting in the source document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was some discussion of this 5 years ago here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1047/2693&quot;&gt;Some tagging questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we have a lot of both sorts, but they really have nothing in common, I've created a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax-highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax-highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax-highlighting&lt;/a&gt; to distinguish editor highlighting from other sorts. I've added the following tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many editors are able to highlight TeX keywords and other document components with different colours within the source code. Use this tag in conjunction with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt; tag and the tag for your specific editor to ask questions about modifying the syntax highlighting for your particular editor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless there are some objections I think it makes sense to gradually split apart the two sorts of questions. I'll also adjust the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt; tag accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T19:04:25.403" Title="highlighting tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6867" CreationDate="2016-09-06T12:38:59.310" Score="11" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/327961/datetime2-define-dates-globally-outside-of-begindocument&quot;&gt;datetime2 define dates &amp;quot;globally&amp;quot; outside of \begin{document}&lt;/a&gt; has been marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/327956/formatting-datetime2-in-latex-to-4th-september-2016-without-the-current-day&quot;&gt;Formatting datetime2 in LaTex to 4th September, 2016 without the current day?&lt;/a&gt; but the questions aren't actually duplicates even though the code in the answer of one is a subset of the code from an answer in the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question is asking how to &lt;strong&gt;define&lt;/strong&gt; dates in the preamble for later use (migrating from &lt;code&gt;datetime&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;datetime2&lt;/code&gt;). Although it's been tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;formatting&lt;/a&gt;, the question isn't actually asking how to format the date. The minimal answer to this question is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{datetime2}&#xA;&#xA;\DTMsavedate{sample}{2017-01-31}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\DTMusedate{sample}&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question is asking how to &lt;strong&gt;display&lt;/strong&gt; the date in a particular format (using either &lt;code&gt;datetime&lt;/code&gt; or, preferably, &lt;code&gt;datetime2&lt;/code&gt;). The minimal answer to this question is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}&#xA;\usepackage[useregional]{datetime2}&#xA;&#xA;\DTMlangsetup[en-GB]{ord=raise,monthyearsep={,\space}}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\today&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this question provided a slightly modified MWE from the first. When I answered it, I automatically converted the date storage command used in the MWE, so the OP was able to correctly deduce the answer to the other question from it and posted the solution, but the question was then closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no discussion about the questions being duplicates before the answer was posted, and the first answer to be posted in the second question certainly doesn't answer the first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I've seen other questions where an answer has taken a subset of code from another answer (although I can't remember examples off the top of my head), follow-on questions quite often contain code from an earlier answer, and if the OP had posted one question with two parts (storing and displaying) it might've triggered an &quot;ask one question per post&quot; comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the reasoning behind the close vote when there are plenty of follow-on questions that expand on an answer to an earlier question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T16:08:15.450" Title="Non-duplicate question with overlapping answer" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6866" CreationDate="2016-09-06T16:08:15.450" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the first to cast a vote-to-close for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/327961/5764&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;datetime2&lt;/code&gt; define dates &quot;globally&quot; outside of &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/327961/timeline&quot;&gt;post timeline&lt;/a&gt;) as I am a firm believer that a duplicate &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; is defined by the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; 99 times out of 100. I noted the OP posting &quot;The answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/327964/5764&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&quot; as the lead-in to the answer, visited the link and saw similarities, so I voted to close. I should have read the differences in the answers more closely...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No harm seems to have come from it as it has been re-opened - something completely in line with the network functionality and community behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T16:08:15.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6870" CreationDate="2016-09-09T08:57:05.980" Score="21" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just came across a question which didn't have any tags apart from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt;.  I was a bit baffled by this and clicked the tag to find that there about ten questions with this tag (and no others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these posts are migrated from other sites and I believe that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; is a result of migration stripping all non-existent tags as also discussed here &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/926/problematic-migration-change&quot;&gt;Problematic migration change&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/245708/hieroglf-vs-t1-fontenc&quot;&gt;this question by Lars&lt;/a&gt; is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; and has &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; been migrated which means that users can actively select it.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; tag is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;oxymoron&lt;/a&gt; and its pure existence allows users to tag questions with it which makes even less sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should get rid of this, in my opinion, absolutely nonsensical tag and replace it with a, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/migrated&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;migrated&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;migrated&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T16:16:07.350" Title="Why is there an {untagged} tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6869" CreationDate="2016-09-09T09:11:50.533" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every question has to be tagged, but it's possible for all valid tags to 'vanish'. This is most obviously true for migration but can also occur if tag cleanup removes a tag. In these cases questions will be marked 'untagged'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T09:11:50.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6869" CreationDate="2016-09-10T16:16:07.350" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are now only five questions in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; tag. I've edited all the ones I could to get rid of that tag (and otherwise improve them). The ones that are left are closed (4 out of the 5) or a duplicate (1 out of the 5; it's merged with another question, I think) so I cannot edit them. I don't know if this is an &quot;amount of rep&quot; thing; if so, maybe someone else can edit those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111470" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T16:16:07.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6865" CreationDate="2016-09-15T19:04:25.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, one possibility is to find a good word for &quot;highlighting teh output not teh code&quot; and ban &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt; completely; this would force people to choose one of the more specific tags and hopefully avoid using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syntax-highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syntax-highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syntax-highlighting&lt;/a&gt; should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlighting-output&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlighting-output&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlighting-output&lt;/a&gt;, even though it's not optimal as a tag name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T19:04:25.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-19T09:52:54.557" Score="9" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;[This post is basically a copy of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10144/3253&quot;&gt;similar post at meta.sf&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag excerpts are very useful. They provide a brief “&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/tag-excerpts&quot;&gt;elevator pitch&lt;/a&gt;” for a tag, explaining the meaning for those unfamiliar with a series. At least as important, excerpts and wikis can also help clarify the usage of tags, particularly those that tend to be used incorrectly, e.g. frozen, aliens, or humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of this post, though, nearly 600 tags lack both tag wikis and tag excerpts! A query (updated only once a week) to show how many can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/445925/most-common-tags-with-short-long-or-missing-excerpt-or-wiki?MaxBodyLength=0&amp;amp;MaxExcerptLength=1&amp;amp;MinBodyLength=-1&amp;amp;MinExcerptLength=-1&amp;amp;PlotMinimum=1&amp;amp;Bin=1&amp;amp;BinCount=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I know that somewhere here we have an expert for every tag, whether they have 2 reputation or 200,000: someone who can provide a well-written, original tag excerpt or tag wiki for a tag that was previously forlorn and undescribed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are benefits to editing tag wikis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have less than 20,000 reputation, as do most people on this site, and you create a tag wiki (which requires approval), you will get a nice shiny +2 reputation. What’s more, tag wikis and tag excerpts count as separate posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have more than 20,000 reputation, you can edit tag wikis freely. You might also progress toward &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/56/tag-editor&quot;&gt;any&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/150/research-assistant&quot;&gt;of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/49/copy-editor&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers are the lifeblood of this site, but the little things that hang around the periphery are important too! &lt;strong&gt;This month, in the spirit of Answer the Unanswered Questions, let’s try to provide tag excerpts (and when needed, wikis) for as many of those blank tags as we can.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guidelines for writing tag excerpts are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/tag-excerpts&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. And, although it is not mentioned there, a tag wiki and excerpt &lt;strong&gt;should be &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt;: no Wikipedia lifting!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T23:29:41.117" Title="Fill the empty tag excerpts" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6875" CreationDate="2016-09-20T17:03:32.060" Score="16" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;When clicking on the &lt;code&gt;share&lt;/code&gt; button below a question or answer, the number after the last slash is the id of the user creating the link. The link also works without this last part. Why does SX include user information in the link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110998" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T17:10:30.840" Title="Why do share links include the user id?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6874" CreationDate="2016-09-20T17:10:30.840" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; which are awarded for your promoting the site (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/57/announcer&quot;&gt;Announcer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/58/booster&quot;&gt;Booster&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/59/publicist&quot;&gt;Publicist&lt;/a&gt;). These work by using links with your ID in them: the site can only know that you've done some promotion if there is data to show this. Of course, you can happily delete the user ID part of the link: they still work just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T17:10:30.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6898" CreationDate="2016-09-21T08:16:05.683" Score="18" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; tag without any wiki and 127 questions and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; tag with a wiki and 367 questions (and the synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apple&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apple&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apple&lt;/a&gt;). IMHO we don't need &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; tags (I don't see anybody discussing e.g. problems with TeXLive on Linux on Apple systems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposal: Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; a synoym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-10-09T15:13:21.427" LastActivityDate="2016-10-09T15:13:21.427" Title="Merge [mac] and [osx], making [mac] a synonym of [osx]" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6876" CreationDate="2016-09-21T18:17:04.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To help people find tags with a few letters, I feel some interest in hyphenated tags. And to avoid tag recreation, would something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apple-mac-osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apple-mac-osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apple-mac-osx&lt;/a&gt; suit your needs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30315" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T18:17:04.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6884" CreationDate="2016-09-22T09:05:18.537" Score="6" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is pretty self explanatory, but to give a little background: I see a lot of questions (specially new users) that are, in fact, statements like: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/330763/114143&quot;&gt;I want to load my .txt file from another Directory&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/330760/114143&quot;&gt;Set width of a single colummn according to Content&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/229346/114143&quot;&gt;Need to add for loop to add a lot of .csv files in the tikzpicture&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/330778/114143&quot;&gt;When i right-click i Texmaker the box that usually appears is almost at the top of the page&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should those sort of &quot;questions&quot; be edited to turn into proper questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I belive this is relevant to improve Performances of Google searches but if it's not relevant please explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81905" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2016-09-25T13:01:07.870" Title="If a question is asked as a statement should it be edited?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6879" CreationDate="2016-09-22T09:37:25.247" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion: If it is clear what the the problem is, I would not edit them. This often makes the question title shorter and easier to understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the google argument: I don't think this has a big influence. Search terms like &quot;why&quot;, &quot;how&quot; etc. usually are not important for the search. Of course I don't know googles algorithms, but searching for &quot;How to load .txt files from other directory?&quot; will probably find the question from you example, as the important words like &quot;load&quot;, &quot;another&quot;, &quot;directory&quot; and &quot;txt&quot; are all present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise: mentioning the right keywords is more important for the search then grammar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The great search function from TeX.Stackexchange is another subject ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2016-09-22T13:19:03.230" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T13:19:03.230" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6882" CreationDate="2016-09-22T13:33:38.710" Score="14" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/330653&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; without thinking too much, and then it occurred to me that something similar must have been addressed before, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/49061&quot;&gt;I found it&lt;/a&gt;. Should I remove my answer and mark the question as duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T14:57:22.253" Title="Should I remove an answer which turns out to be a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6881" CreationDate="2016-09-22T13:43:48.563" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; mark the question as a duplicate.  but &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; remove your answer.  although the answer may be essentially the same as the one for the question identified as a duplicate, someone coming to the site in the future may find this question first,&#xA;and the fact that the answer is there may save that person from an additional&#xA;step in finding an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(on the other hand, if you find the duplicate before you've written an answer,&#xA;just link it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;some good guidelines appear in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2770/579&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (which could conceivably be considered a duplicate of the present one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T13:43:48.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-24T18:16:13.053" Score="7" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently run into code posted to this site which I'd like to see in rendered form in order to quickly decide whether it fits my needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opening a document just to do this often feels like a hassle. Are there any plans to add the ability to, for instance, just hover the cursor over a block of code or press some button below it and have a popup appear that shows what the output looks like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62340" LastEditorUserId="62340" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T12:24:01.623" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T13:27:48.860" Title="Any plans to add on-site compilation to preview MWEs/solutions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|user-interface|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6879" CreationDate="2016-09-24T20:28:23.500" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a syntax question. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with most of the questions you refer to is a different one, I think. I don't think the problem is that they aren't questions, but the fact that they include first person subjects or verbs that express needs and desires of the speaker, such as &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a question like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want to stop a macro from gobbling spaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you turned it into a question without changing anything else would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I stop a macro from gobbling spaces?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to phrase it would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to stop a macro from gobbling spaces?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change here is to remove the first person subject and instead use a &quot;generic&quot; subject (in this case an understood &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I think that the titles of questions are always interpreted implicitly as questions, so editing them just to turn them into questions isn't particularly helpful, and may even be detrimental.  So personally I much prefer a syntax more like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stopping macros from gobbling spaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I like this syntax,  I don't think there's much to be gained from changing questions like the one above into a &lt;em&gt;how-to&lt;/em&gt; version of the question, nor am I proposing the elimination of all questions with first person subjects. So if that's the only change you make, I don't think it's at all appropriate. It's much more important to make the question &lt;em&gt;contentful&lt;/em&gt;. In this respect I agree entirely with Sam's answer too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But question phrased like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My macro keeps gobbling spaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could likely stand to be rephrase without using &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One final point. Sometimes rephrasing a statement into a question simply adds useless information.  If the statement states a clear problem like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Memoir inserts a blank page before chapter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then rephrasing it as a question would simply make it much more wordy, and really doesn't add anything of value at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I stop memoir from inserting a blank page before a chapter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same kind of logic applies to most questions that concern unexpected behaviour or errors. These questions  should almost certainly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be restated in the form of an actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; proposing that all questions should be turned into this syntax. Questions like &lt;em&gt;How do I stop a macro from gobbling spaces&lt;/em&gt; are just as concise as &lt;em&gt;How to stop a macro from gobbling spaces&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also &lt;em&gt;absolutely opposed&lt;/em&gt; to any idea that this proposal (were it to become very popular) be instituted as a &quot;site rule&quot;, since I think having rule-enforcing posses is just as bad as the behaviour that those self-appointed posses are trying to stomp out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Bottom Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the wording of otherwise clear questions just to meet the criteria I've suggested here is &lt;em&gt;a bad idea&lt;/em&gt;.  And searching out particular wordings in old questions to edit is also a &lt;em&gt;bad idea&lt;/em&gt;. Changing unclear or very vague questions to something clearer or less vague is usually helpful, although as with all minor edits, it's better to do this with recent questions than with old questions. As Sam says, searchability should be the key factor.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2016-09-25T13:01:07.870" LastActivityDate="2016-09-25T13:01:07.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2016-09-27T00:46:40.407" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be very similar to requesting MathJax support, which has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1272/5764&quot;&gt;declined here&lt;/a&gt; as we're more interested in the code rather than the output. That doesn't mean the output is not important, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, many of the code posted by users here contain errors which they don't know how to correct. Or, it contains customizations that are found outside of the default distribution(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; implemented something similar as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/269753/914686&quot;&gt;a feature request&lt;/a&gt;, although limited in language scope. The extendability of (La)TeX as well as it's different compilers would be difficult to implement easily, if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's best if users can add an image of the output they see (or expect to see) as pictures are often worth a 1000 words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:19.567" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T00:46:40.407" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6886" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-09-27T06:33:22.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related posts to formatting code in a post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/1192&quot;&gt;How do I mark code blocks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T06:33:22.573" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T06:33:22.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6887" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-09-27T06:33:22.573" Score="0" Body="For questions or problems relating to the use of code in questions or answers on a site or the way that markdown works with code/preformatted text." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T06:33:22.573" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T06:33:22.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6888" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-09-27T06:36:23.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about the /review path where users can view and act on posts by other users that the system thinks may need attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many different tasks to be completed in the review panel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close Votes&lt;/strong&gt; - Vote whether or not to close questions with close votes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-close&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reopen Votes&lt;/strong&gt; - Vote whether or not to reopen closed questions with reopen votes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-reopen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-reopen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-reopen&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Posts&lt;/strong&gt; - Review first posts from new users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/new-users&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;new-users&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;new-users&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested Edits&lt;/strong&gt; - Approve, reject, or improve edits suggested by users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/suggested-edits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-edits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-edits&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Low Quality Posts&lt;/strong&gt; - Identify, then improve or delete low-quality posts.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/low-quality-posts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;low-quality-posts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;low-quality-posts&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Late Answers&lt;/strong&gt; - Review late answers from new users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If your question is specific to this task, supplement your question with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/late-answers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;late-answers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;late-answers&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T06:36:23.770" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T06:36:23.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6889" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-09-27T06:36:23.770" Score="0" Body="For questions about the /review path where users can view and act on posts by other users that the system thinks may need attention." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T06:36:23.770" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T06:36:23.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2016-09-28T13:27:48.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @paul-gessler has commented, this has been asked several times before, and the community of TeX.SE is generally against such a feature, mostly because of problems with erroneous code, compatibility, or output that requires multiple files (like bibliographies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am strongly in favour of this feature, if it is implemented with a separate syntax. In this way a normal code block is be shown as code, which is indeed the most sensible behaviour for this site. However, if the user wants, the output can be shown as well. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# \documentclass{article}&#xA;# \begin{document}&#xA;# Hello World&#xA;# \end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Analogous to the syntax for block quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would save time for almost every time you post an answer where you want to include a screenshot of the output. Creating a new file, copying the MWE, compiling, making the screenshot, cropping, saving, uploading sometimes takes me more time than answering the question itself (for example with answers like &quot;use &lt;code&gt;\phantom&lt;/code&gt;&quot;) and I do this for practically every answer. Another use case is in-line code, like &quot;the &lt;code&gt;$\sum_{\alpha\in\{-5,-10\}\cup\mathbb{Z}^+}$&lt;/code&gt; is not aligned with the &lt;code&gt;$\sum_\beta$&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.SE could support for example something analoguous to the &lt;code&gt;texlive-full&lt;/code&gt; package in Ubuntu. This supports almost everything. If the result is different from what the OP or the answerer has on his own system, then he can choose to show a screenshot instead. If the question or answer depends on a specific engine, command line options, fonts installed, ..., then a screenshot can be used. But in the many, many cases where the setup doesn't matter, the users can benefit from a compilation feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T13:27:48.860" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2016-10-02T06:47:27.453" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've gone through a number of changes in my behaviour on the site since I joined more than 5 years ago. The reputation bug is a big driver for any newcomer to the site. However, while &lt;em&gt;receiving&lt;/em&gt; reputation is awesome, &lt;em&gt;giving&lt;/em&gt; it (through voting) &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be reciprocated. If a post &lt;em&gt;adds&lt;/em&gt; value, cast your vote. If that addition is negative or useless, downvote; if it's positive, upvote. If you're indifferent, then perhaps abstain. This is a fairly simple understanding of how the community grows. And it's really easy to get with the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you who don't vote, challenge yourself. Try to vote at least once a day. I find myself often looking at user's profiles to see their voting activity. High-rep users with low voting behaviour is really a behaviour I don't fully understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I know &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5824/5764&quot;&gt;the community votes a lot&lt;/a&gt;, it is definitely telling to see that there had only been a &quot;handful&quot; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/61/sportsmanship&quot;&gt;sportsmanship badges&lt;/a&gt; awarded thus far. In fact, there had been more &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/48/altruist&quot;&gt;altruist badges&lt;/a&gt; awarded (first bounty on &lt;em&gt;someone else's&lt;/em&gt; question). One way of interpreting this could be that people are really not willing to vote on competing answers because they may not end up on top, or, are only willing to vote if they've been voted for. Well then, if it's all about reputation for you, then know that without others voting, you won't be receiving much reputation yourself... reciprocate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T06:47:27.453" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6893" CreationDate="2016-10-02T11:05:38.260" Score="8" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if it is also possible to search for questions which are unanswered AND also lack any comments? I could not find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or using Google. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69578" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T14:10:36.750" Title="Search questions without comments" Tags="|support|comments|search|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6892" CreationDate="2016-10-02T13:21:50.637" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only link the two databases containing &lt;code&gt;posts&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;comments&lt;/code&gt; using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/548225/positive-scoring-unanswered-questions-that-are-not-closed-and-without-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The following query&lt;/a&gt; lists questions on the main site, sorted by their last activity date (oldest to newest) with these attributes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No comment&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not closed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Positive score&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 1000&#xA;    p.id as [Post Link],&#xA;    p.lastactivitydate as [Last Active]&#xA;from posts p&#xA;left outer join comments c on c.postid = p.id&#xA;where p.posttypeid = 1 -- Questions&#xA;and c.id is null&#xA;and answercount = 0 &#xA;and p.score &amp;gt; 0&#xA;and closeddate is null&#xA;order by lastactivitydate&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-10-02T14:10:36.750" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T14:10:36.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6894" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-06T13:31:44.083" Score="8" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I press on the Ask Question button. One of my old questions is exhibited. &#xA;Must I assume therefore, that if I edit the old question and press the Submit button, my old question will be substituted by my new question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a completely avoidable result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, the user should be informed that the old question is exhibited only for templating or for other reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114719" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-10-07T03:02:29.980" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T03:02:29.980" Title="Asking a new questions opens and old question" Tags="|support|asking-questions|draft|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6894" CreationDate="2016-10-07T03:01:15.807" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;All posts are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1177/168244&quot;&gt;saved before posting as a draft&lt;/a&gt; once every 45 seconds. You'll notice a &lt;code&gt;draft saved&lt;/code&gt; below the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5qn49.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5qn49.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only once the draft is saved, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/207723/168244&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;discard&lt;/code&gt; draft option will be made available&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discard any drafts - you're allowed one per question and answer - to avoid seeing it again when posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1177/168244&quot;&gt;Allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T03:01:15.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6896" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-10-07T03:03:14.993" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-10-07T03:03:14.993" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T03:03:14.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6897" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-10-07T03:03:14.993" Score="0" Body="A draft is the version of your post that is saved before you actually complete and submit the post." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-10-07T03:03:14.993" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T03:03:14.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6876" CreationDate="2016-10-09T15:13:14.337" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've merged the tags here, leaving &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; as the 'master' (as noted, MacOS X is being replaced by Apple by 'macOS').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-10-09T15:13:14.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-10T13:54:17.053" Score="25" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I am Brazilian and I've seen a few questions in TeX.SX regarding the two Brazilian Standards (ABNT - &lt;em&gt;Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas&lt;/em&gt;, in English &lt;em&gt;Brazilian Association for Technical Standards&lt;/em&gt;) related packages (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pirbot.com/mirrors/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/abntex2/doc/abntex2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;abntex2&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pirbot.com/mirrors/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/abntex2/doc/abntex2cite.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;abntex2cite&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). So I took the curiosity to see if there was a tag for those and surprisingly enough there is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/abntcite&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;abntcite&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;abntcite&lt;/a&gt;. But as you can see it holds only 1 question (what a tag huh?), but don't give up on me just yet. If you search for &lt;code&gt;abntex&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=abntex&quot;&gt;you get 19 results&lt;/a&gt;, and for just &lt;code&gt;abnt&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=abnt&quot;&gt;50 results&lt;/a&gt;! So,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The problem&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag is a reference to a deprecated package, &lt;code&gt;abntcite&lt;/code&gt; which gave its way to the former linked &lt;code&gt;abntex2cite&lt;/code&gt;. And the poor &lt;code&gt;abntex2&lt;/code&gt; class is left tagless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My Proposition&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We take &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/abntcite&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;abntcite&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;abntcite&lt;/a&gt; and make it just &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/abnt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;abnt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;abnt&lt;/a&gt; which would be meant for all questions regarding documents with format following the ABNT Standards!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81905" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T11:10:56.027" Title="A tag for Brazilian TeXers (ABNT)" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2016-10-10T23:34:15.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes! This tag, {abnt}, should be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But does this mean that other language-type-tags shall appear? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time'll tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93818" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T23:34:15.447" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2016-10-12T11:10:56.027" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seized the initiative and created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/abnt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;abnt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;abnt&lt;/a&gt; tag. I just assigned it to a question that clearly falls in the scope of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I leave to our Brazilian friends, so fond of their beloved ABNT, to retag other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T11:10:56.027" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6903" CreationDate="2016-10-14T06:40:31.717" Score="7" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a little technical matter, if I:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add to an answer of mine a comment sent to another user and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; I delete my answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;put the same&#xA;kind of comment on a &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt; answer of mine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;do the other user receive the alert and can he/she see my comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T21:15:55.343" Title="Comment on deleting/deleted answers" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6902" CreationDate="2016-10-18T21:15:55.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer seems to be &quot;yes, but...&quot; based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/180013/can-i-get-more-information-on-an-inbox-notification-for-a-comment-on-a-deleted-a&quot;&gt;Can I get more information on an inbox notification for a comment on a deleted answer?&lt;/a&gt;. The notification will persist, but you'll only get to see as much of the comment as the inbox shows (until you reach 10k rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T21:15:55.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6906" CreationDate="2016-10-24T11:44:45.070" Score="28" ViewCount="523" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/141525/animuson&quot;&gt;animuson&lt;/a&gt; of the Stack Overflow team said &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285478/blogoverflow-text-overflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blog Overflow is actually going to be shutting down completely soon,&#xA;  so it doesn't make sense for us to invest time in fixing any bugs for&#xA;  it. We'll be reaching out to all the individual communities who&#xA;  currently have a blog on their site's Meta over the coming weeks to&#xA;  discuss whether they want to let their blog die or transfer it to an&#xA;  alternate blogging platform and maintaining it on their own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To have more time for deciding and doing things, I already ask here now: do we want to continue with the blog? What is your opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.893" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T20:11:20.210" Title="Should we continue our blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6905" CreationDate="2016-10-24T11:44:45.070" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's move the blog to a new platform, to keep it and to improve it and to have even more fun with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why to keep it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blog article authors investested time and effort, this should never be lost.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We got a wonderful interview series, established by the incredible Paulo Cereda.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Responsive design for better viewing on phones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Featured images in lists for more fun browsing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Infinite scrolling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more: we can discuss in a separate meta post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a quick demo with this temporary name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex-talk.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tex-talk.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to show that we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; migrate, we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; change the design, we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; go on. There's still a lot to improve (spam protection, security, code highlighting, MarkDown support, images, ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding a name: we can suggest names and vote on it in a separate meta post - if we decide to continue that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2016-10-24T13:52:12.270" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T13:52:12.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6905" CreationDate="2016-10-24T20:11:20.210" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything on the blog that couldn't really go into a meta question. In some cases the blog layout formatting is nicer than what could be done on meta, but in most cases I think the meta mark up tools are sufficient. New &quot;blog&quot; posts on meta could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blog&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blog&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; so they can be easily found and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/featured&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;featured&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt; initially so they are given attention. All the old blog posts (and to an extent the comments) could be copied over to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big advantage of moving to meta is simply a reduction of effort maintaining a blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10038" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T20:11:20.210" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-27T03:09:51.177" Score="13" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information on the project and a call for help from the community can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286329/project-reduplication-of-deduplication-has-begun?newreg=7b0c1d5760144367890caa3f8ed80afe&quot;&gt;Project Reduplication of Deduplication Has Begun!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In it, Tim Post mentions that Doris Hoogeveen (me) will post a message on the different meta sites to let you know that we're ready for help. This is it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a brief summary, the project is about finding ways to automatically determine if two questions are duplicates, and also to detect the opposite: falsely tagged duplicates. To validate our methods, we need manual judgements from people who really know the data. This is where we need your help. It is impossible to manually annotate all the data from Stack Exchange, and so we have applied several filters to make sure we only show you questions pairs with a high likelihood of being duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is completely optional, and there's no minimum time requirement. If you are interested in participating in the project, please head over to the annotation interface, which can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/se-annotate/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/se-annotate/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can log in with your Stack Exchange account, so no sign up is required. The site also contains some more information on the project, which might answer some questions you may have. And I'm also happy to answer them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117287" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T00:27:12.880" Title="Project Reduplication of Deduplication - TeX" Tags="|discussion|support|duplicates|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6908" CreationDate="2016-10-27T15:50:40.673" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, your website does not show enough information to decide if they are duplicates&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;comments are missing, and often crucial information and clarification is only revealed in comments&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;answers are missing. I already miss them in the normal review queue for two reasons &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to check if the other question actually has an answer that solves the current problem. [Sometimes even in the in the comments to answers]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I tend to define duplicates based on if the answer solves the current problem. There are cases that an answer solves different questions, which can obviously not be assessed from the question alone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At least link to the original questions would greatly improve your site!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="21344" LastEditDate="2016-10-27T16:22:37.377" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T16:22:37.377" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6908" CreationDate="2016-10-29T13:33:03.290" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost all question here deal about the document of a single user. The documents and needs of the users posting a question are as unique as the different users themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, our duplicate rate is much lower (c.f. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6831/duplicates-tolerance-is-huge-in-this-site&quot;&gt;Duplicates tolerance is huge in this site&lt;/a&gt;) than on other siites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also caused by often multiple (small) details in questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tested the site. Out of 13 possible duplicates, 2 were related, one was a duplicate. Some of the proposed dupicates were surprisingly different. For example displaying CJK versus a problem with &lt;code&gt;xparse&lt;/code&gt; and math-mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-10-29T13:33:03.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6926" CreationDate="2016-11-09T09:05:23.010" Score="41" ViewCount="1393" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Duck Giveaway 2016, Seasonal Edition&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Friends, the contest is over! The winning number was &lt;strong&gt;50&lt;/strong&gt;, picked by &lt;strong&gt;CarLaTeX&lt;/strong&gt;. Thanks everybody for joining the contest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'ello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, ducks and mallards, children of all ages! It is time for organizing another amazing community lottery, our beloved &lt;strong&gt;duck giveaway 2016, seasonal edition&lt;/strong&gt;! &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6652&quot;&gt;The previous giveaway&lt;/a&gt; was a huge success, so let us try that again! Quack!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The prize&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prize will be a lovely duck! Not a real one, I am afraid (note to self: organize another lottery with &lt;em&gt;real ducks&lt;/em&gt; in the future), it will be a hand puppet duck:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4XjfZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Quack!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lovely, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Again, why a duck? Why not a lion?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in the thread linked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4076&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I always like to provide examples with ducks when I write answers. To my surprise, the theme got a very positive feedback from the community and it spread to everybody. Of course, a lion would be better, but hey, it's free! And it's a duck! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why a hand puppet?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be our third lottery offering a duck puppet and I still have absolutely no idea. But since I got this duck again, I thought it would be a good idea to start a contest! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rules&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules from last lottery still apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To win the duck you must guess a number in the range 1-200. The first person who guesses the right number gets the duck.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contestants may submit 2 valid guesses. &lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Let us spice things up! you can now select a &lt;em&gt;third&lt;/em&gt; entry! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please post your guess as an answer to this meta question, not as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contestants must have been a member of TeX.sx before 1 November, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two additional mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If two or more people choose the same number, only the oldest entry will be considered. The other guesses will be automatically disqualified.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you win the contest, I will need your real name and address for shipping and customs purposes (you can contact me through email, so only I will have privileged access). If you seek anonymity, we advise you to not enter this contest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please don't forget to edit the punch card with your numbers.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The lottery&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As seen in the last lottery, I'll use the following code to pick the winner (special thanks to the awesome LaTeX Project for LaTeX3):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}&#xA;\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{expl3}&#xA;\usepackage{xparse}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{pgf}&#xA;\pgfmathsetseed{\number\pdfrandomseed}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOn&#xA;&#xA;\prop_new:N \g_duck_contest_prop&#xA;\int_new:N \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int&#xA;\bool_new:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;\bool_set_false:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;\tl_new:N \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;\int_new:N \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand { \person } { m m }&#xA;{&#xA;    \clist_map_inline:nn { #1 }&#xA;    {&#xA;        \prop_if_in:NnTF \g_duck_contest_prop { ##1 }&#xA;        {&#xA;            Hey! ~ #2 ~ wants ~ to ~ be ~ naughty! ~&#xA;            The ~ number ~ ##1 ~ was ~ already ~ chosen! \par&#xA;        }&#xA;        {&#xA;            \prop_gput:Nnn \g_duck_contest_prop { ##1 } { #2 }&#xA;            \int_gset:Nn \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int&#xA;            {&#xA;                \int_max:nn { \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int } { ##1 }&#xA;            }&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand{ \winner } { }&#xA;{&#xA;    \bool_do_until:Nn \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;    {&#xA;        \pgfmathrandom{1, \g_duck_contest_upper_limit_int}&#xA;        \prop_get:NoN \g_duck_contest_prop { \pgfmathresult } \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;        \quark_if_no_value:NF \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;        {&#xA;            \bool_set_true:N \l_duck_contest_winner_bool&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    \int_set_eq:NN \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int \pgfmathresult&#xA;    \l_duck_contest_winner_tl&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\cs_generate_variant:Nn \prop_get:NnN { No }&#xA;&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand{ \winningnumber } { }&#xA;{&#xA;    \int_to_arabic:n \l_duck_contest_winning_number_int&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOff&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;% add yourself here&#xA;% ==============================&#xA;% For example, in the following line&#xA;% I picked 1 and 27, but I'm not&#xA;% participating in the contest :)&#xA;% \person{1,27}{Paulo Cereda}&#xA;% ==============================&#xA;&#xA;% the announcement&#xA;The winner is \winner, with \winningnumber! Congratulations!&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will run this code with all the contestants, post a video of it and announce the winner. The &quot;accepted answer&quot; in this thread will reflect the winning number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The date&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, I will get the code running on December 30, 2016 (Friday), and announce the winner. There will be enough time for guessing the numbers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck! And by the way, welcome to TeX.sx, the friendliest and most awesome community in the whole StackExchange network! They give us hats, right? We give ducks! Quack! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|037|038|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|053|●●●|055|056|057|058|059|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|065|●●●|067|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|075|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|091|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|104|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|118|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|122|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|134|135|●●●|●●●|138|139|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|145|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|150|●●●|152|●●●|154|●●●|156|157|158|●●●|160|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|163|●●●|165|●●●|167|168|●●●|170|●●●|172|●●●|●●●|175|176|●●●|●●●|179|180|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|182|183|●●●|185|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; Friends, we are now accepting a third entry. I will check the winning number on the answers list, based on the posted date. Note that the edit history will also be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Results&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner of the duck in this edition is CarLaTeX, and the chosen number was 50! I recorded the results in my terminal and the session is &lt;a href=&quot;https://asciinema.org/a/8pbxouyt2h2k4m5muuzu0m8br&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;available here&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks everybody for joining the contest! And thanks for being part of this amazing community! Quack! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.577" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T09:00:08.463" Title="The duck giveaway 2016, seasonal edition" Tags="|discussion|community|fun|publicity|" AnswerCount="76" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T09:14:49.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yipee! I'd go for &lt;code&gt;13&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;17&lt;/code&gt;, as well as &lt;code&gt;123&lt;/code&gt;!&#xA;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastEditorUserId="64454" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T21:20:03.600" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T21:20:03.600" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T09:15:02.203" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;apparently 0 and 201 I used last time broke the rules, so this time I choose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; Third choice now allowed, I choose &lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T12:44:50.620" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T12:44:50.620" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T09:19:41.840" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As always; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;131&lt;/strong&gt;; I'm a random number generator myself and this is the result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also another generator agrees;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AAH51.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have generated another one which is 68.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T09:19:41.840" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T09:23:38.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;147&lt;/code&gt; (Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;125&lt;/code&gt; (no need to explain what opus number this refers to)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;97&lt;/code&gt; (currently listening to KV 297), so modulo 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T13:59:59.637" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T13:59:59.637" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T09:24:45.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go for 86 and 92.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: third choice is 96 (punched)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which are the median and rounded average of all prime numbers between 0 and 200, respectively. All this calculations should give me some luck... &lt;code&gt;:D&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81905" LastEditorUserId="81905" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T16:16:17.050" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T16:16:17.050" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T09:48:37.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take the numbers  119 and 199 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: third number: 132&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3929" LastEditorUserId="3929" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T13:49:11.740" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T13:49:11.740" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T10:26:33.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;42&lt;/code&gt; for obvious reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;3&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I pick &lt;code&gt;180&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100482" LastEditorUserId="100482" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T15:02:03.790" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T15:02:03.790" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T11:00:56.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go for 22 and 87 and some more words ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T11:00:56.423" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T11:40:17.357" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll select two not so random numbers: 8 and 63.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T11:40:17.357" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T12:24:19.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;069 and 151. Nice visualisation of punched numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My third choice is 134&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18151" LastEditorUserId="18151" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T18:28:53.997" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T18:28:53.997" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T12:36:05.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go for 23 and 124 and some lore ipsum...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T12:36:05.137" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T13:47:00.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This time I can participate! Hurrah!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I choose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;10&lt;/code&gt; my favorite number and even the base of any number system&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;50&lt;/code&gt; something that you should never ask a lady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My third choice is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;100&lt;/code&gt; thank you Paulo!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T12:48:39.563" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T12:48:39.563" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T14:10:27.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;026&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;090&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118171" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T17:03:07.190" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T17:03:07.190" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T14:44:13.923" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;30 and 155&#xA;stumbled over this while reading about some TeX oddities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addendum: 179&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27606" LastEditorUserId="27606" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T14:45:57.293" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T14:45:57.293" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:09:03.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T15:17:51.357" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;12 (For the number of wing feather tips on the last contest duck)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 (For the number of top knot feather tips on the last contest duck)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Huxc0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Huxc0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. He says you have to rerun the winner selection if these are chosen. (Duckie says &quot;he is unique, and wants to remain unique!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9880" LastEditorUserId="9880" LastEditDate="2016-11-09T15:28:58.337" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T15:28:58.337" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T15:17:51.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T16:42:21.883" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 101 and 191, the smallest and largest palindromes among the choices.  okay, third number: 076.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T13:49:38.037" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T13:49:38.037" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T16:42:21.883" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T17:13:29.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose the numbers 071 and 142.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choices punched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77655" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T17:13:29.953" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T17:13:29.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T19:25:12.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;1 and 146 (sticking to my strategy from the last time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;79 (third choice)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="4301" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:04:30.757" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T14:04:30.757" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T19:25:12.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T21:07:41.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose the numbers 16 and 116.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22640" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T21:07:41.730" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T21:07:41.730" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T21:27:10.903" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;29&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;129&lt;/code&gt; ...............&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T21:27:10.903" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T21:27:10.903" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-09T23:21:14.107" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;4&lt;/code&gt; randomly generated by a fair roll of dice :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;196&lt;/code&gt; because 200 - 4 = 196&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;34&lt;/code&gt; as third choice. Thanks to @Paulo Cereda for the extra chance! ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43473" LastEditorUserId="43473" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T18:12:41.310" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T18:12:41.310" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-09T23:21:14.107" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T01:46:53.373" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FhIdl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FhIdl.png&quot; alt=&quot;cathod&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;024 &lt;em&gt;cat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;054 &lt;em&gt;cathod&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;cath&lt;/em&gt; is already taken :(]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveat: I may have counted incorrectly ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;EDIT&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus 161&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fu2ez.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fu2ez.png&quot; alt=&quot;TSPCD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code for pictures is around and about. All ducks courtesy Paulo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="39222" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T21:22:18.443" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T21:22:18.443" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T01:46:53.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T04:26:48.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;35&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;112&lt;/code&gt;, because I'm a perfect random number generator :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As my third, and winning number, I chose &lt;code&gt;149&lt;/code&gt; because that's better than the previous two numbers combined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26980" LastEditorUserId="26980" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T16:28:30.043" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T16:28:30.043" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T04:26:48.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T08:43:33.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Symmetric numbers for me! 88 and 181&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third option: 13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41054" LastEditorUserId="41054" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:37:30.973" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T14:37:30.973" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T08:43:33.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T09:07:00.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will choose 14 and 44 please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: my 3rd choice is 73, as that's my average grade at university ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93564" LastEditorUserId="93564" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:52:28.563" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T14:52:28.563" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T09:07:00.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T10:37:25.607" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;006&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;195&lt;/code&gt; . . . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;code&gt;182&lt;/code&gt; is my third choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75818" LastEditorUserId="75818" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:14:33.043" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T14:14:33.043" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T10:37:25.607" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T11:44:34.590" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;2&lt;/code&gt; because it is &quot;one little duck&quot; in bingo and &lt;code&gt;25&lt;/code&gt; because it's &quot;duck and dive&quot; in bingo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73570" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T11:44:34.590" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T11:44:34.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T15:01:47.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After consulting Matlab I decided to try 192 and 126&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95544" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T15:01:47.377" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T15:01:47.377" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T16:45:00.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\person{127,177}{gernot}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the lottery program above can't decide on the number, it tells me each time that I've won. This is a good sign, for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110998" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T16:45:00.397" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T16:45:00.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-10T23:22:10.587" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose you &lt;code&gt;7&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;107&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7561" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T23:22:10.587" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-10T23:22:10.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-11T02:26:28.660" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take 111 and 171 for a lucky duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And 187 for a third.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69378" LastEditorUserId="69378" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T16:51:38.727" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T16:51:38.727" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-11T02:26:28.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-11T15:50:23.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;120&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;130&lt;/code&gt;, because people like to pick crooked numbers with 7s at the end for some reason, and I want to swim against the stream (like I give a flying duck). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14750" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T15:50:23.583" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-11T15:50:23.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-12T02:26:30.760" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;89&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;51&lt;/code&gt;, because 17 is best number but all to taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &lt;code&gt;109&lt;/code&gt; as the third, because I saw it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96079" LastEditorUserId="96079" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T17:04:45.680" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T17:04:45.680" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-12T02:26:30.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-12T15:53:26.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;093&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;173&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and my third number is &lt;code&gt;094&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49193" LastEditorUserId="49193" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T04:11:37.880" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T04:11:37.880" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-12T15:53:26.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-12T16:43:21.363" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate the following three bright and shiny numbers: &lt;code&gt;61&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;62&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;64&lt;/code&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:00:11.437" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T14:00:11.437" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-12T16:43:21.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-12T17:03:47.237" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to my random number generator I choose &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;99&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dmHS7.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dmHS7.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T17:03:47.237" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-12T17:03:47.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-12T17:39:35.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;39&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;36&lt;/code&gt;, which is 42 in base 11 and in base 12. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2552" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T17:39:35.257" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-12T17:39:35.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-12T22:42:08.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I chose the following numbers: 77 and 21&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24864" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T22:42:08.717" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-12T22:42:08.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-12T22:53:19.047" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are my numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1st Number: &lt;strong&gt;32&lt;/strong&gt; (current Paulo Cereda's age, according to his profile page)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2nd Number: &lt;strong&gt;85&lt;/strong&gt; because &quot;&lt;em&gt;LaTeX was first developed in 1985 by Leslie Lamport&lt;/em&gt;&quot; according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I understood that the numbers in the lottery will be randomly picked... but that does not mean my guesses have to be random as well! &lt;strong&gt;;-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already punched these two numbers in the original post &lt;strong&gt;:-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13063" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T22:53:19.047" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-12T22:53:19.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-13T14:50:41.467" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;128&lt;/code&gt;, because the Dreamcast had quite a few Donald Duck games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;52&lt;/code&gt;, because it's &lt;code&gt;42&lt;/code&gt; in octal and, you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: And 169 because it is a nice number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59514" LastEditorUserId="59514" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T17:08:21.873" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T17:08:21.873" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-13T14:50:41.467" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6957" CreationDate="2016-11-14T11:19:50.053" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, users with an account get the upvotes to their answers reported via a small greenish thing with the number of such upvotes. It gives a pop-up window with links to the answers (or questions I don't recall now). The only way I know of to get rid of the upvote indicator is to click on it (which displays the useful pop-up window, allowing to quickly go back to one's own recent upvoted answers and check if others have contributed answers too in the meantime).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, as far as I know this thing is sticky until clicked on it. It would be nice if that indicator were to silence itself after say 6 hours.&#xA;In this way, the registered users would less be under influence of the recompense circuits in his/her brain when connecting to the site. This would make for a saner relationship with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My preference would be for the total suppression of this indicator: only the pop-up window would be retained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T18:16:40.133" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T09:42:37.397" Title="Suggestion: suppress green upvote indicator in topbar" Tags="|feature-request|achievements-dialog|top-bar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-14T12:12:32.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, the time goes fast! Another year is ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My numbers now (I already edited the post to insert &lt;code&gt;●●●&lt;/code&gt; there):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;074&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;174&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3rd. &lt;code&gt;176&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastEditorUserId="14757" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T19:34:50.177" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T19:34:50.177" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-14T12:12:32.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2016-11-14T16:35:04.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will repeat here the tip obtained at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/286939/344080&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/286939/344080&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited my &lt;code&gt;/chrome/userContent.css&lt;/code&gt; in my Firefox profile to contain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(tex.stackexchange.com) {&#xA;&#xA;    .topbar .icon-achievements { display: none !important; }&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suppressed indeed the green rectangle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are further questions on the top meta site, a few years back, which are somewhat related to the spirit of my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40777/how-to-disable-remove-all-badges-and-reputation&quot;&gt;How to disable/remove all badges and reputation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11586/options-to-hide-reputation-info-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Options to hide reputation info on StackOverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21458/hide-the-rep-and-badge-count-on-a-users-info-box-on-answers&quot;&gt;Hide the rep and badge count on a user&amp;#39;s info box on answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of the above I have now completed my &lt;code&gt;/chrome/userContent.css&lt;/code&gt; like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(tex.stackexchange.com) {&#xA;&#xA;    .topbar .icon-achievements { display:none!important; }&#xA;&#xA;    .topbar .topbar-links .topbar-flair { display:none!important; }&#xA;&#xA;    .user-info .-flair { display:none!important; }&#xA;&#xA;/* needed for &quot;Top questions&quot; */&#xA;&#xA;    .started .reputation-score { display:none!important; }&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firebug came quite handy to identify the relevant css elements, although in retrospect the css is not obfuscated thus human logical deduction would have been possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now benefit from a sanitized view, much to my satisfaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I primarily spend (at some periods in the year) my time on the &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; sub-domain, I did not bother experimenting with other domains. It does work here on meta.tex.stackexchange.com, hence presumably using &lt;code&gt;domain(stackexchange.com)&lt;/code&gt; would work universally, not tested yet. (because I need to quit and relaunch Firefox, afaik, to let it know about the new userContent.css)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;em&gt;yes, I confirm&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;domain(stackexchange.com)&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;works universally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; not quite because not everything is subdomain of &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;, for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com&quot;&gt;http://stackapps.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not being knowledgeable in other systems/browsers I am sorry I can't provide detailed instructions beyond the above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the time being I will accept this answer, of course I will move the tick to any better answer should one come up in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T09:42:37.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-14T17:40:44.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;And here I am with &lt;code&gt;017&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;113&lt;/code&gt;, thank you for the nice duck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59109" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T17:40:44.407" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-14T17:40:44.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6959" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-11-14T18:17:12.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This dropdown contains recent reputation, badges, and privileges earned across all Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T18:17:12.943" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T18:17:12.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6960" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-11-14T18:17:12.943" Score="0" Body="A dropdown containing recent reputation, badges, and privileges earned across all Stack Exchange sites" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T18:17:12.943" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T18:17:12.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6961" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-11-14T18:21:27.830" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Various links that appear in the top bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User profile link (or login)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Review, Help, etc&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inbox&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reputation change indicator or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/achievements-dialog&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;achievements-dialog&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;achievements-dialog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search box&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This newly designed top bar was rolled out across the entire Stack Exchange network on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/207420/168244&quot;&gt;December 4, 2013&lt;/a&gt;. It's black and uniform across all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T18:21:27.830" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T18:21:27.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6962" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-11-14T18:21:27.830" Score="0" Body="The black bar across the top of every Stack Exchange site" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T18:21:27.830" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T18:21:27.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-14T20:59:31.140" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can haz &lt;code&gt;048&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;148&lt;/code&gt; plz? Because reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third choice: &lt;code&gt;184&lt;/code&gt; (I have already punched it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30821" LastEditorUserId="30821" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T18:41:45.693" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T18:41:45.693" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-14T20:59:31.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-15T13:40:46.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for fun: &lt;code&gt;121&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;080&lt;/code&gt; ...&#xA;Third number: &lt;code&gt;188&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastEditorUserId="16550" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T12:31:43.907" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T12:31:43.907" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-15T13:40:46.390" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-15T18:37:24.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;020&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;040&lt;/code&gt;, since they’re nice and symmetric.  Could some ≥2k user punch ’em for me, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T18:37:24.920" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-15T18:37:24.920" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-16T19:31:55.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;33&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;84&lt;/code&gt;, and I trusted a random number generator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T19:31:55.270" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-16T19:31:55.270" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-18T12:04:05.960" Score="6" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are only about five (5) ads available. Namely, Carlisle and cricket, Carlisle and Undocumented features, Cereda and the duck, Beaton's lowercase, and Hupfer's Arabic numerals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened with the rest? thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eReKb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eReKb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36131" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T12:04:05.960" Title="Community promotion ads page not found 404" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-20T07:15:46.747" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll choose &lt;strong&gt;49&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;144&lt;/strong&gt; for the two irrelevant reasons: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is very common to wobble something with an idiom ``Seven times seven equals 49'' in Cantonese. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;$12\;\times\;12$&lt;/code&gt; is the largest multiplication that I have learnt, and still remember. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27618" LastActivityDate="2016-11-20T07:15:46.747" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-20T07:15:46.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-20T21:43:57.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;136 and 186, because... They're as random as every other ones &#xA;164 added and punched! Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38080" LastEditorUserId="38080" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T16:23:30.503" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T16:23:30.503" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-20T21:43:57.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-21T10:43:15.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take 115,178:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\person{115,178}{Knut}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6563" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T10:43:15.757" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-21T10:43:15.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-21T11:53:17.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;011 and 197 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope the random algorithm is really random :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115048" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T11:53:17.387" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-21T11:53:17.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-21T20:47:13.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;code&gt;015&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;200&lt;/code&gt; as the smallest and biggest numbers available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100943" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T20:47:13.927" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-21T20:47:13.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-23T06:45:31.460" Score="3" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it allowed to post in TeX.SX a job offer, if I represent a publishing house looking for a professional capable of making books in LaTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34311" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T10:58:36.463" Title="Is posting of a job offer allowed?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2017-10-19T04:22:26.783" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-23T23:19:19.423" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This contest is awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;137 because, if I won, the fine-structure constant (or, in this case, its inverse) would finally have a proper use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;28 because 10^28 is roughly the number of atoms in a duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;135 because 1.35 is the refractive index of blood plasma across most of the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum (&lt;a href=&quot;http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-8949/91/1/015503/meta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99104" LastEditorUserId="99104" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T00:35:04.833" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T00:35:04.833" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-23T23:19:19.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6976" CreationDate="2016-11-28T06:45:03.387" Score="24" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6406/5764&quot;&gt;Last year&lt;/a&gt;, TeX.SE joined in on Winterbash 2015. Winterbash 2016 is around the corner and sites will soon have the option of opting in/out. In order to solicit opinion from the community, please cast your vote in the answer below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;More on the Winterbash&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winter Bash is a fun, lighthearted event SE runs every year as a way of celebrating the many amazing people who make the communities awesome. It's open to any Stack Exchange site that chooses to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During Winter Bash, users earn virtual hats by completing certain tasks. They're sort of like badges, but they're more visible and less permanent. Hats can be &amp;quot;worn&amp;quot; on users' avatars just about anywhere avatars show up on the network. Here's an example of what some hats looked like last year, taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackpromos.com/promos/16/winter-bash-2015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the network leaderboard&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nx0i9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nx0i9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, SE is rolling out an all-new assortment of hats for this year's event, as they have in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Details&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This year's event will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/287412/168244&quot;&gt;start December 19th, 2016 and run through January 8th, 2017&lt;/a&gt;. Users will be able to see all the hats they've earned on &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;. That site will also have an FAQ to explain how things work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual users who don’t want to participate, don’t want to see hats, and/or are generally anti-hat will have an “I hate hats” option available. And just like last time, at the end of the event, all hats will go back into storage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only visual change to the Stack Exchange sites themselves will be the presence of the hats and the “I hate hats” button in the footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-12-21T17:47:34.567" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T17:47:34.567" Title="Winterbash 2016 participation" Tags="|discussion|community|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2016-11-28T06:45:03.387" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote = Yes! Please sign us up for hats!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote = No thank you, I'd rather enjoy a regular day at the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T06:45:03.387" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-28T11:52:01.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 27, which is the number corresponding to 'duck' in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mnemonic major system&lt;/a&gt; (and also the number of sporadic groups).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also 95, which is the number corresponding to 'Paulo' in the MMS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My third number is 141, because 041 (Cereda) is already taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9857" LastEditorUserId="9857" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T19:02:21.133" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T19:02:21.133" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-28T11:52:01.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-29T00:36:27.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;105 because it's the product of the first three odd primes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;143 because it's the product of the next two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third number: 114 (I think it's a stable island in the periodic table for the transuranics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="12496" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:00:47.237" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T14:00:47.237" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-29T00:36:27.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-29T20:44:57.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe, 198 , 180, 189.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="2288" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:31:48.687" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T14:31:48.687" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-29T20:44:57.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-11-30T09:11:03.940" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 72 and 98. My third number is 062.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21963" LastEditorUserId="21963" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T15:08:00.650" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T15:08:00.650" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-11-30T09:11:03.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6983" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-11-30T17:23:07.960" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-11-30T17:23:07.960" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T17:23:07.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6984" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-11-30T17:23:07.960" Score="0" Body="For questions about the Winter Bash (holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year 2016." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-11-30T17:23:07.960" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T17:23:07.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-02T23:52:46.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;41 and 43, the only remaining pair of twin prime numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69818" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T23:52:46.183" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-02T23:52:46.183" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7008" CreationDate="2016-12-04T16:43:49.523" Score="15" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some time ago, I asked how we should handle bug reports: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2622/questions-which-are-bug-reports&quot;&gt;Questions which are bug reports&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2625/73&quot;&gt;top answer at the time&lt;/a&gt; split questions into two&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those which are asked where is seems clear that the poster &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; they are bug reports&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those where it becomes clear they are due to bugs or where this is 'obvious' to another user, but where the original poster did not know that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion then was that the first case get closed and the second get answered with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is basically a bug in the package/program and as such, it should be reported using the way explained in its manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been prompted to raise this again following &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/49543/discussion-between-joseph-wright-and-e-p&quot;&gt;some discussion&lt;/a&gt; about making sure things are transparent to users, in particular new users. Looking over meta, I think we have some issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What has tended to happen 'in the wild' doesn't match the above (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6001/answer-reveals-problem-is-package-bug-delete-question&quot;&gt;Answer reveals problem is package bug: Delete question?&lt;/a&gt; for a statement that suggests a different policy, for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The nature of the closure types available to us has changed since the earlier discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a need to consider people other than the OP arriving &lt;em&gt;via&lt;/em&gt; search: do they get useful information? In particular, will they pick up subtleties in comments (as opposed to actual answers)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the speed of (likely) fixing a bug relevant?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What (if anything) is different for questions where the OP knows something is a bug but is seeking a workaround (and does this vary between things solvable in TeX/Lua code and those which need work on supporting binaries)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What (if anything) is different between bugs which are fixed and bugs which are still 'live' (and of course does this have a knock-on if the bug is live when the question is asked but fixed X months later)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do such questions relate to formal issue trackers (where available)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the above, I'd like to seek a clear position which can be used as a reference when handling these cases. This will be useful as a reference point and can be linked to as part of discussion of handling of individual questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T10:12:53.880" Title="Questions which are bug reports, revisited" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2016-12-04T16:52:19.673" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;One man's bug is another man's feature...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think whether the OP considers it to be a bug is that relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the problem has been identified and fixed by the package author in an updated version of the package then we can consider treating the question by some special mechanism for &quot;bug reports&quot;  otherwise it is best to assume that it's a permanent feature that may need a permanent workaround and an answer on the site is as good a place as any to detail that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the problem was accepted by a package author and it's already fixed so the OP just needs to update, I think it can be closed initially.  (Note that in comments it has been suggested that an answer here is useful. If the question is answered with a code workaround if the package is not updated, then I'd agree (this is no different from if the question and been answered before an update became available) but if the answer is just &quot;you have an old version, update your system&quot; then to me just leaving that as a comment and closing seems OK, but if someone answers I wouldn't object)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If later the package gets fixed, answers can be updated (I do that for my own answers about my own packages (or the latex kernel) when I remember, but I don't delete the answer or vote to close the question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise if the bug is in one of the many packages with uncertain or slow update mechanisms, having a workaround in the answer is a good thing and the question should be left open as normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T12:43:53.463" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T12:43:53.463" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2016-12-04T17:55:53.233" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for posting this - it goes a long way towards addressing the concerns I raised in chat. This site is entitled to whatever customs it deems necessary to keep up the quality of the content (or, as I suspect many here would phrase it, to &quot;not talk about the things we cannot fix&quot;), but the site does owe a minimal measure of clarity in why it shuts threads down. This is both to the OP, but also to future visitors who arrive via search and are trying to evaluate whether this site will be helpful to their question or not. (In particular, such users will have no knowledge of meta, and no access to chat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's as far as the transparency of closures goes: having an informal consensus is good, but past a certain point this site should have some appropriate go-to place where newer users can catch up with what the deal is. (In usenet parlance &quot;lurk for a while and read the FAQ&quot; only works if the FAQ is accessible, discoverable, and up-to-date, though I would question the requirement to &quot;lurk for a while&quot;.) This thread is precisely that place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I'd like to say I'm really weirded out by an attitude that I've seen several times on this site, including David Carlisle's answer here, which goes along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if a question asks about behaviour which can be reasonably attributed to TeX, but which turns out to be due to a bug in a related binary (such as MikTeX or TeXlive) which has already been solved, the question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strikes me as wrong-headed and entirely against the spirit of Stack Exchange. Again, this site's community is entitled to whatever standards the consensus feels are reasonable (as long as they are transparent enough), but I really disagree with this one. In short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the answer is &quot;this behaviour is due to a bug in (X), which has since been patched; to solve the problem, simply update your system&quot;, then that is &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that the correct approach to this class of questions is to keep them open and provide the above as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple reasons for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The typical audience for a Stack Exchange page is normally much broader than just the original poster. Over a several-years lifetime, very many more people will see the thread, and find it helpful (or not).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Normally, this additional audience comes in directly from a search engine, and they will normally not be registered on the site. This means that arguments like &quot;if people have more questions they can comment&quot; don't actually work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX error messages are normally very specific, which means that if I encounter that error, and the error message is reproduced in some question on this site, I'm very likely to end up there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More generally, Stack Exchange pages tend to be ranked very highly on multiple search engines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is very common for many TeX users to run their distributions, packages, and associated software using very old versions. This is partly due to the outstanding stability of TeX, but it can also be because e.g. Ubuntu came pre-packed with texlive 2011 even in 2015 (or so). This means that even for &quot;solved&quot; bugs there is still a significant user base running software without the patch.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the approach in my first quote only serves to litter the internet with yet &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; useless search result that is simply not helpful. If the answer is simply &quot;oh, I just need to update and everything will be fine&quot;, the Stack Exchange is the best place to be told that in a simple and clear manner. Closing those questions instead of answering them strikes me as being deliberately unhelpful to the majority of the question's audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13423" LastActivityDate="2016-12-04T17:55:53.233" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-05T02:52:50.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;66 and 166 because if she weighs the same as a duck... she's made of wood! (and 666 is the number of the beast and these are the closest numbers available).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZP2U2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZP2U2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(punched)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30471" LastEditorDisplayName="user30471" LastEditDate="2016-12-05T09:35:33.357" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T09:35:33.357" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-05T02:52:50.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-05T13:55:05.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I now pick 018 and 046 as my favorite # clashes :-D !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18678" LastEditorUserId="18678" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T18:46:09.073" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T18:46:09.073" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-05T13:55:05.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-07T10:16:16.900" Score="-3" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joseph Wright pointed out the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/699/why-does-tex-not-show-up-in-my-question-at-least-in-the-preview?rq=1&quot;&gt;Why does TeX not show up in my question (at least in the preview)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/181/can-we-turn-off-math-tex-please&quot;&gt;Can we turn off math-tex please?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1272/why-doesnt-maths-render-as-maths&quot;&gt;Why doesn't maths render as maths?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where we see a divide in the TeX Exchange Community regarding whether or not to have TeX allowed on the site. Namely because people tend to not properly mark their source code in their questions and thus the rendering of TeX actually hinders the forum. However, a simple reminder when posting new questions may be enough to resolve that issue...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally am in favor of having &lt;em&gt;TeX&lt;/em&gt; on TeX Stack Exchange. Especially having used &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mathjax.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MathJaX&lt;/a&gt; which is implemented on other S.E. sites like Mathematica Stack Exchange in conjunction with TeX source code (as Mathematica has a &lt;code&gt;TeXForm&lt;/code&gt; function and its behavior may wish to be modified) without issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Solutions?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would like to propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As it would make sense -- in &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; cases -- to be able to render some things in TeX when asking questions can we not have MathJaX on the site, with a reminder when asking new questions (or under the How To Format box on the right) to make sure source code is not rendered &lt;code&gt;\(...\)&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, could TeX Stack Exchange get an account with an online TeX editor like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ShareLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; thereby allowing us to upload our M.W.E.s for others to see and comment solutions / problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions on StackOverflow with tags like javascript or html tend to have links to online editors such as JS.Fiddle, which is useful for showing how to get around a specific bug. While there is no official standard on S.O. for how to answer javascript questions, one would be hard pressed to find questions lacking a link to such a site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sharelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ShareLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; as it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has access to all the ctan packages without having to download them which some users may have to do if they wish to answer the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has various compilers like LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;allows for collaborators (users answering the question) and chat (thereby clearing up chatty comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;serve as a reference point to find code that answers new questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115091" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T18:48:50.370" Title="Why is there no TeX on TeX exchange? Putative solution proposed" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2017-01-05T01:23:18.253" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-07T12:40:57.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 45 and 70. Good enough for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113546" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T12:40:57.490" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-07T12:40:57.490" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6993" CreationDate="2016-12-07T12:59:50.340" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are not divided at all but anyways, just to summarize the previous discussions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As the name implies MathJax is for ... Math. It is not a TeX support at all. MathJax is nothing related to TeX. It emulates the syntax of the &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt; (and a little TeX) but from its output to how it renders stuff is completely different. So when you say TeX support, you mean math rendering of TeX. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reminding the users don't solve anything. As we constantly see in the newcomer questions, many people don't even read the warnings after TeX compilations let alone coming here and bothering to read the reminders. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copying the code locally (with our greasemonkey scripts) and clicking a button is much faster for many of us rather than waiting for sharelatex, overleaf or any other online platform. Besides you have to rely on the external party. We don't control which version of TeXLive they use. We don't want to wait or we can't see what happens on MikTeX or Windows or etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX has a lot of friends such as ConTeXt and so on. They cannot be handled properly (including plain TeX flavors). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time has shown that we (askers and answerers regardless of rep points) can operate pretty well without having things rendered. Also page loading behavior is pretty nice. I cannot say the same for Math.SE or mathoverflow sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compiling a JS or any other language is more tedious than a TeX document which can even be compiled on a terminal inline. Thus those benefits are not carried over here. Also versions of those languages change very slowly. For TeX every recent package has an update period of 3-4 months.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence the benefits stated here are not valid. But I'm hearing a lot of positive stuff about KaTeX. For my subjective view, I would leave some room to change my opinion if it can be integrated into SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T12:59:50.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-08T06:36:46.053" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;110 and 159. Just because. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(punched 140 on 28 Dec because 3rd punch available!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="226" LastEditorUserId="226" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:09:46.410" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T14:09:46.410" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-08T06:36:46.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7006" CreationDate="2016-12-08T09:44:48.283" Score="6" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started last week posting questions issues in this Q&amp;amp;A space. I had no idea how to use LaTeX. Now I learned a lot of thing thanks to many people helped me. I want to recognize your help in my thesis document, which is still in progress, so I hope more and more people will help me in the future. Is there any way to access to some kind of stats of my profile in order to cite all the authors helped me? (for example, those who comment or posted answers more frequently)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119890" OwnerDisplayName="Juan Linares" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T19:23:45.993" LastActivityDate="2016-12-24T14:47:19.027" Title="How can I find stats about all the people contributed to my posts?" Tags="|discussion|answers|statistics|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-08T14:13:31.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll chose &lt;code&gt;102&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;103&lt;/code&gt;. &#xA;Because of reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90297" LastEditorUserId="90297" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T17:41:36.607" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T17:41:36.607" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-08T14:13:31.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7002" CreationDate="2016-12-08T16:10:56.793" Score="5" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible for a bounty-awardée to reject a bounty in order to prevent the decrease of the bounty-starter's &quot;reputation&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T08:11:38.617" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T08:11:38.617" Title="How to reject a bounty?" Tags="|support|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7003" CreationDate="2016-12-08T16:30:20.500" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;When writing answers to questions, I sometimes would like to add remarks that get removed or replaced by other remarks automatically after a day or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example with one answer I wished to point out that I just submitted a package to CTAN which should be available via CTAN in a day or two.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;After a day or two that remark should be changed to pointing out that there is a package available at CTAN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is automatizing such things possible via the web interface of StackExchange or will I have to wait for two days and then log in at StackExchange and edit my answer &quot;by hand&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T18:02:06.277" Title="Is it possible to have remarks removed/replaced automatically after a period of time?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7000" CreationDate="2016-12-08T17:44:04.447" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Bounties are there to give questions additional &lt;em&gt;exposure&lt;/em&gt; and are removed from the 'donors' reputation at the point they are set up. Even if the question involved does not gain any answers as a result, the bounty is &lt;em&gt;not returned to the donor&lt;/em&gt;. The question will have been 'promoted' by the bounty (there is a dedicated bounty list which is &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; smaller than the full list of questions, or even of unanswered questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T17:44:04.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7001" CreationDate="2016-12-08T18:02:06.277" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;By 'remarks' you might mean either part of the text of an answer or a comment on an answer. In either case the answer is 'no, there is no automation' but the reasoning is I suppose slightly different. For answers, they are explicitly supposed to be written by someone as dealing with the matter raised in a question. As such, they are quite deliberately never auto-changed. Comments are intended as &lt;em&gt;not the answer&lt;/em&gt;: they are not searchable, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; There have been questions in various places about some 'auto-cleanup' of comments (which would leave answers unchanged), but this has never been agreed by the network. (Various arguments have been put forward on both sides, from memory.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T18:02:06.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-08T20:06:41.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I get 019 and 078? just because!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12332" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T20:06:41.343" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-08T20:06:41.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-09T17:31:36.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I chose 137 and 127 and hope this are my lucky numbers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95109" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T17:31:36.907" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-09T17:31:36.907" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6997" CreationDate="2016-12-09T19:22:33.093" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;While these aren't really statistics, you can find out who answered your questions using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/593974/who-has-answered-my-questions?UserId=119890&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; which lists the User ID, display name and answer/post link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;declare @UserId int = ##UserId##;&#xA;-- Who Has Answered My Questions?&#xA;&#xA;select u.Id as [UserId], u.displayname as [Name], a.Id as [Post Link]&#xA;from users as u &#xA;inner join posts as a on a.owneruserid = u.id and a.posttypeid = 2&#xA;where &#xA; (a.ParentId in (&#xA;   select id &#xA;   from posts &#xA;   where owneruserid = @UserId and posttypeid = 1&#xA;  ))&#xA;order by u.displayname&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The query on SEDE requires a User ID as input and is therefore generic. However, you can find your User ID in the URL of your SE User Profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/71e63.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/71e63.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that SEDE lags the active data retrievable from the online site by about a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, view &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/119890/juan-linares?tab=questions&quot;&gt;your questions&lt;/a&gt; sequentially and identify the users who provided answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T19:22:33.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-10T10:44:37.957" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;163 and 164 because one comes after the other!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4885" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T10:44:37.957" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-10T10:44:37.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2016-12-11T10:46:59.633" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, questions due to bugs should be treated no differently from any others. Thus provided the question is clear and reproducible it should be kept open, and (ideally) answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For issues which are &lt;em&gt;acknowledged&lt;/em&gt; bugs which have been fixed, it may be that the most straight-forward answer is 'update your TeX system' (for bugs in (La)TeX packages)/'update XXX' (for bugs in &lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; editors). This information &lt;em&gt;constitutes an answer&lt;/em&gt;. Suggested text for updating the TeX system is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This behaviour is due to a bug in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;name-of-package&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; which is fixed&#xA;  in the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;date/version&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; release. Where possible, you should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/55437&quot;&gt;update your TeX&#xA;  distribution&lt;/a&gt; to install the&#xA;  current release. If this is not possible, for example if you want to&#xA;  change only this one package or where you do not have the privileges&#xA;  to update the entire distribution, you will need to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1137&quot;&gt;install the&#xA;  package locally&lt;/a&gt;.  This option should be considered a last resort, since for more complex packages there may be package dependencies that will make local installation more complicated and error-prone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a more detailed analysis of the bug (perhaps including a work-around and version(s) affected) is available this should also be part of the answer. If there are more details of the bug (and fix) in a public issue tracker then a link is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where behaviour appears to be defective and is not explicitly covered in documentation, it &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be a bug. Likely examples are loading a package with particular options leading to excess characters in output, leading to a complete failure to complete the TeX run, or where code given in the relevant documentation cannot be reproduced. (A counter-case would be the fact that &lt;code&gt;booktabs&lt;/code&gt; does not work with vertical rules: this is a documented design decision not a bug.) For such 'open' cases, a statement that the behaviour 'appears to be a bug' &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where possible, any steps taken to report the issue should also be included, &lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; 'I have reported this issue by email'/'I have logged the bug as YYY in the issue tracker'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T15:50:21.693" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7153" CreationDate="2016-12-12T10:03:00.150" Score="71" ViewCount="1015" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am organising a lottery and Springer have kindly agreed to donate two copies of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783642238154&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX and Friends&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; The lottery closes when the judge (I) announces the winners. The judge's decision is final and there shall be no discussion and or correspondence about the outcome of the lottery. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To win the book you must guess a number in the range 1--200 and post it as an answer to this question. The first person who guesses the right number wins the book. Please note that the time of arrival in TeX-SX is what counts, not the time of sending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give everybody a fair chance, you may post only two numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one exception to the previous rule. If several contestants guess the same number, the contestant whose guess arrived first is valid. The other contestants may post a new number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contestants must have been a member of TeX-SX before 1 December, 2016. (Without this restriction, people may start creating fake accounts and submit multiple guesses.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post your guesses as an answer to this meta question; not as a comment. Comments will be ignored. Please only put your guess in the body of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guesses will be checked every couple of days and the winner will be announced within a few days after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winners must send me a delivery address for the book to my personal email address. I shall keep these addresses private. If a winner wants to have their book signed, I can do so at their request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following numbers have been taken (numbers marked with &lt;code&gt;●●●&lt;/code&gt; are already chosen):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|020|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|034|035|●●●|●●●|●●●|039|040|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|046|●●●|●●●|049|050|●●●|●●●|●●●|054|●●●|056|●●●|058|059|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|062|●●●|●●●|065|●●●|●●●|068|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|074|075|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|080|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|082|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|092|●●●|●●●|●●●|096|●●●|●●●|●●●|100|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|102|103|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|114|●●●|●●●|●●●|118|●●●|120|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|122|●●●|124|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|138|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|145|●●●|●●●|148|●●●|150|●●●|●●●|153|●●●|●●●|●●●|157|158|159|160|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|161|●●●|163|164|●●●|●●●|167|●●●|●●●|170|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|176|●●●|178|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|●●●|182|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|190|●●●|●●●|193|●●●|195|196|●●●|●●●|●●●|●●●|&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: This is not getting anywhere.&lt;/strong&gt; All guesses are wrong so far:( From 18 December, 21:14 GMT on, everybody is allowed to submit up to two guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: 48 was one of the winning numbers. Congratulations to Torbjørn. One more number to go.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: We're almost there.&lt;/strong&gt; Only one guess has been right so far:( From 22 December, 11:49 GMT, 2016 on, each (valid) contestant (see above for rules) is allowed to submit up to three guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: 124 was the second winning number. Congratulations to Ryan. End of lottery.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-12-23T14:10:44.853" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T15:54:06.273" Title="Who Wants to Win a LaTeX Book in 2016?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="123" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2016-12-23T13:59:13.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T12:25:14.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot for doing this lottery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is 42, but I need a more characters to submit this answer ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second guess is 142.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And my third guess is 129.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T16:23:42.733" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T16:23:42.733" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T13:16:06.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;i'll spring for this.  my guess is 113.  thanks for the opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since you've opened it up to two guesses, i'll add a second -- 76.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;third try: 031.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T17:42:06.690" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T17:42:06.690" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T13:25:48.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;175&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._5_(Mozart)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.&lt;em&gt;5&lt;/em&gt;(Mozart)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;15&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opus number of Beethoven's first piano concerto now playing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T13:26:20.160" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T13:26:20.160" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T13:36:56.937" Score="4" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;010&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you like to make me happy? Give me a book!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second chance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;110&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;030&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T18:28:32.577" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T18:28:32.577" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T14:01:47.620" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a great book! My guess is 22.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T14:01:47.620" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T14:11:34.060" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;117&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import numpy as np&#xA;print(np.random.randint(1,200))&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;48&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastEditorUserId="586" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T11:50:02.047" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T11:50:02.047" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T14:15:32.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's guess 23, free lunch! (if a book were lunch)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T14:15:32.510" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T15:15:16.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;184 for me please&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sample(1:200,1)&#xA;[1] 184&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43920" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T15:15:16.053" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T15:55:56.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here was my algorithm for choosing a number: I looked for a book in my office that had a bookmark in it. First I picked up Dretske's &lt;em&gt;Knowledge and the Flow of Information&lt;/em&gt; but the bookmark was at p.214. Damn. Then I found Stalnaker's &lt;em&gt;Inquiry&lt;/em&gt; with its bookmark at p.90. So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;90&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T15:55:56.300" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T16:06:12.733" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;135 &#xA;Just an odd number chosen at random (also the combo for my bike lock in the previous millennium!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9880" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T16:06:12.733" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T17:09:19.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am really interested and hope I win this time ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My lucky number would be 21 and I hope that not the bank wins...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95109" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T17:09:19.373" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T19:42:58.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;53 is my guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the opportunity, Marc!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21344" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T19:42:58.683" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T22:31:30.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;144, because &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fibonacci&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T22:31:30.933" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-12T22:58:51.473" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;12!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Today is 12th of the 12th. Question was posted &quot;12 hours ago&quot;, as I type......)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46980" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T22:58:51.473" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T00:18:23.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll guess 78 because encrypted.google.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54762" LastEditorUserId="54762" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T17:16:24.370" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T17:16:24.370" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T02:52:41.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK. I don't understand how punch cards work in this question as opposed to the duck one and am very confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I guess&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have my reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="39222" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T03:07:09.290" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T03:07:09.290" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T04:16:23.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll submit 173 as my answer.  Just getting to thirty characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62287" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T04:16:23.247" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T04:53:59.620" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;14, one plus the previous answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100138" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T04:53:59.620" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T05:32:45.567" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;because it's the smallest prime number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess -&gt; 27&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For random reasons :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95405" LastEditorUserId="95405" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T06:54:05.330" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T06:54:05.330" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T07:30:59.363" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;77 and 179 (since we are now allowed two guesses).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="4301" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T02:42:52.263" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T02:42:52.263" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T10:03:37.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll guess one (1), because you gotta start somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114269" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T10:03:37.487" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T10:15:15.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yay, a book! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will go with &lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; because I have no idea why! Also, ducks are very good at picking random numbers! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the contest, Marc!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T10:15:15.803" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T10:59:38.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll guess &lt;strong&gt;165&lt;/strong&gt; which is not a random number to me although it has nothing to do whatsoever with TeX or the contest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the lottery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Second guess is &lt;strong&gt;151&lt;/strong&gt;, also for obvious non-reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10119" LastEditorUserId="10119" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T10:56:04.957" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T10:56:04.957" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T11:07:25.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Onehundredandthirtyone (131)..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T11:07:25.890" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T11:27:45.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe 97? I'm sure it is not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61789" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T11:27:45.477" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T11:44:15.320" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go with the current lower extreme: &lt;strong&gt;002&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81905" LastEditorUserId="81905" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T11:49:04.413" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T11:49:04.413" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T12:08:35.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;108 .......... .......... .......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79165" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T12:08:35.650" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T12:39:44.390" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;152                           .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88209" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T12:39:44.390" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T12:56:45.683" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;85 Eighty-five. ...............&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73371" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T12:56:45.683" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T14:01:29.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;121 (because it is 11^2, and a palindrom)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7712" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T14:01:29.420" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T14:03:38.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go with 199 because its the largest prime (less than 200) which can be expressed as sum of squares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32181" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T14:03:38.087" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T16:18:53.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;106, cause it's a number and &amp;lt; 200&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87046" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T16:18:53.970" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T17:32:15.713" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eleven (11) for reasons that are obvious in my head. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the lottery &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T17:32:15.713" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T17:50:01.227" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;137 is my guess. For some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113546" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T17:50:01.227" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T18:03:18.047" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much for organizing this lottery. Here is my guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{pgfmath}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;    The random number I choose is&#xA;    \pgfmathparse{int(rnd*199+1)}\pgfmathresult.&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The random number I choose is 192.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As a second guess is allowed from now on, I had to recompile a couple of times until I got a second valid guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The random number I choose is 155.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65692" LastEditorUserId="65692" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T01:31:02.760" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T01:31:02.760" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-13T18:15:22.597" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;116 and 133 because I'm late and these are not taken yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15636" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T18:15:22.597" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-13T18:15:22.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T18:20:58.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going with 171! But that sentence is not long enough. May now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15636" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T18:20:58.177" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T18:44:12.440" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will guess 191.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3197" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T18:44:12.440" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T19:07:53.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;63, because of Graham's number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107497" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:07:53.693" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T19:12:42.893" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;3! My number, if I can reach the 30 characters, is the three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97054" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:12:42.893" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T19:31:42.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;107 (one hundred seven) .......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67436" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:31:42.157" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T20:43:28.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I originally went for ●●●, but as that has gone I decided to go for 86 instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Note to the punch-card squad: you're too slow, I got there first.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T20:43:28.687" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-13T20:46:45.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going for 162 and 193, otherwise known as ●●● and ●●●.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T20:46:45.167" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-13T20:46:45.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T22:16:52.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;013­­­­­­­&#xA;...............&#xA;...............&#xA;...............&#xA;...............&#xA;...............&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79756" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T22:16:52.213" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T22:46:36.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure to contribute something new (hopefully, haha): I take the number 069! Would be great :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88417" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T22:46:36.873" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T23:44:42.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;126&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(adding characters here to reach the minimum!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102042" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T23:44:42.927" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-13T23:48:17.313" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;188, for no particular reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65419" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T23:48:17.313" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T00:21:37.700" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;169, because it's 100 more than the maturest number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82443" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T00:21:37.700" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-14T01:25:51.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 31 and 194, because it is the first and the last free number in this moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quack, quack!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the third number is 108: the central free in the central verse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quack, quack, quack!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="26134" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T15:13:49.217" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T15:13:49.217" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-14T01:25:51.280" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T01:29:17.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 105: my present reputation modulo 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T01:29:17.043" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T02:19:54.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;123 - obviously the right choice ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82189" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T02:19:54.087" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T03:33:07.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go with &lt;code&gt;006&lt;/code&gt; . . . . . . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75818" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T03:33:07.413" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T04:54:30.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is 073. My guess is 073. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30304" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T04:54:30.387" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T09:27:05.997" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;111, because 110 is police and 112 is fire department!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3190" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T09:27:05.997" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T09:45:37.683" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;037&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T09:45:37.683" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T10:08:25.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;28 It is the largest perfect number in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6341" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T10:08:25.680" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T12:02:26.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;139 and some more characters to reach thirty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T12:02:26.233" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T12:21:45.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;026.....................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79756" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T12:21:45.340" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T12:41:10.897" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 156 because meh ......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;82 and 158 are my two new numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastEditorUserId="9077" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T15:54:06.273" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T15:54:06.273" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T14:14:04.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have 112, in germany, thats the number of the fire brigade.  It is also the first checkbox of Zapf Dingbats, if I recall correct!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bye and merry christmas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120477" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T14:14:04.037" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T17:51:21.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;166, because it is nice to say &quot;one hundred and sssixty sssix&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22308" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T17:51:21.783" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T20:39:26.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=random+number+between+0+and+200&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=random+number+between+0+and+200&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Result:&#xA;45&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: And the second guess from wolfram:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Result:&#xA;88&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82624" LastEditorUserId="82624" LastEditDate="2016-12-18T22:25:43.543" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T22:25:43.543" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T22:55:05.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;47&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's see if I get lucky :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121137" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T22:55:05.050" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T23:21:33.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;CL-USER&amp;gt; (+ (random 200) 1)&#xA;8&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13991" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T23:21:33.633" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-14T23:53:45.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;101&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.....................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T23:53:45.930" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T00:57:59.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;147, feels like it must be correct&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111381" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T00:57:59.630" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T05:03:37.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choice is 174 because it's my sons height&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29728" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T05:03:37.817" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T07:59:22.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;33 please. Good luck everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second guess:&lt;/strong&gt; 180.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73570" LastEditorUserId="73570" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T09:39:24.190" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T09:39:24.190" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T11:54:23.360" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A book! Nice! (Although I have it at the university's library, it would be nice a personal copy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I choose &lt;strong&gt;198&lt;/strong&gt; because it's the highest prime minus one (and 199 was taken) Why a prime? Because it's the fist thing that occurred to me... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38080" LastEditorUserId="38080" LastEditDate="2016-12-15T18:19:27.507" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T18:19:27.507" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T12:19:43.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for this offer. My number is: 25&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118358" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T12:19:43.637" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T13:02:31.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;104 for me, please. Hopefully I'll be lucky!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23155" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T13:02:31.723" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T13:23:33.840" Score="1" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;69&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because if 6 turned out to be 9 then 69 would not be possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39194" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T13:23:33.840" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T13:29:24.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;177 024 ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏064 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T17:35:01.987" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T17:35:01.987" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T14:01:36.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;LaTeX versions are representations of Pi with increasing precision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import math&#xA;math.round(3.1415926535897)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 3, I choose you!! (But if 3 is taken, I'll take the closest unpunched value to 3.14159)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit by CarLaTeX: I've punched &lt;code&gt;004&lt;/code&gt; for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61268" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2016-12-18T09:05:56.103" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T09:05:56.103" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T15:22:12.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;191&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The largest Sofie Germain prime less than 201.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31771" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T15:22:12.437" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T16:00:24.213" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;72&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9736" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T16:00:24.213" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T16:54:43.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;, the smallest Perfect Number in the lot! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10349" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T16:54:43.107" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7093" CreationDate="2016-12-15T21:10:18.930" Score="9" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in an embarrassing situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote an answer to a question. I got many upvotes and reputation for that answer. But that answer is flawed in a subtle way. Obviously those who upvoted did not see the flaw either. I will delete that answer and replace it by a new one where the flaw is rectified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definitely don't want my reputation to be increased for an answer that is flawed. Therefore the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I delete/annul my own posting/answer, how can I ensure that any reputation increase due to upvotes is also annulled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2016-12-16T10:13:50.583" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T10:13:50.583" Title="When I delete/annul my own posting/answer, how to ensure that reputation increase due to upvotes is also annulled?" Tags="|support|answers|reputation|deleting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-15T21:30:51.490" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose &#xA;31&#xA;because is my birthday. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73145" LastEditorUserId="73145" LastEditDate="2016-12-18T12:09:56.873" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T12:09:56.873" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7089" CreationDate="2016-12-16T01:12:07.760" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you delete the answer the rep points also go away (I think). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you have a problem with that, delete your answer and post a new one without the votes if you are really loosing sleep. I have loads of stupid and deleted answers here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead I would recommend: mention why the old version is wrong/falls short and add your fixed one on the upper part of the answer. So people can avoid doing the same mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't think too much about points, it's the answer that is important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T01:12:07.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-16T01:37:48.433" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;168, hope no one else has chosen this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96382" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T01:37:48.433" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7089" CreationDate="2016-12-16T03:23:08.237" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Stack Exchange FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation changes from bounties, votes (both up and down), and acceptances on deleted posts (including answers to a deleted question) are nullified. (Exception: Reputation earned for posts with a score of three or higher, and where the post has been visible on the site for at least 60 days, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/03/reputation-and-historical-archives/&quot;&gt;is retained&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your updated answer will be similar in nature than the original, flawed answer, then just update the answer &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt;. There's very little benefit in adding a &quot;Edit:&quot; or &quot;Update:&quot; field, since the incorrect part is still... incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the updated answer will be substantially different from the original, then you can delete the existing answer and write a completely new one. The deletion will only affect you (your reputation) and possibly anyone that downvoted the post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:32:26.780" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T03:23:08.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-16T08:16:44.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is 128, not random but seemed right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50522" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T08:16:44.317" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-16T08:19:42.077" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 65 and 132, no particular reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third choice: 75, fingers crossed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50522" LastEditorUserId="50522" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T19:06:47.023" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T19:06:47.023" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-16T08:19:42.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-16T08:32:01.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be a nice present I'm not sure I could convince my wife to offer me &lt;code&gt;(-;&lt;/code&gt;. Thank you for the lottery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd entrust my luck to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;017&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;! (Card punched)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; My second choice is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;130&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for no rational reason, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastEditorUserId="64454" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T09:33:40.587" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T09:33:40.587" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-16T17:00:29.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;99 because if 6 turned out to be 9, then 69 (already taken) would be 99. Which I hope has not been taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39194" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T17:00:29.803" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-16T20:56:44.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take 127, because I just like it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74131" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T20:56:44.087" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-17T00:56:46.973" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;115, because of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;expr 1 + $(tr -cd '0-9' &amp;lt; /dev/urandom|fold -w 3|grep -E '^[01]'|head -1)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80496" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T00:56:46.973" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-17T01:12:09.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 153 and 190, because they are 18 choose 2 and 20 choose 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third Number: 129&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80496" LastEditorUserId="80496" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T17:55:08.190" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T17:55:08.190" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T01:12:09.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-17T10:11:38.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;007&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Bond asks you to donate the book to refugees from the war in Aleppo (I blame Putin for the ongoing fatalities there). Or simply to a library in need of support, maybe a university library in a struggling country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10812" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T10:11:38.993" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T10:22:38.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-17T15:22:25.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go with 162, because it looks so nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105667" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T15:22:25.823" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T15:22:25.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-17T17:54:12.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I take 095? It's nineteen times five.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93349" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T17:54:12.640" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T17:54:12.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-17T19:30:33.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LyX ERT&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;&lt;code&gt;The random number I choose is \pgfmathparse{int(rnd*199+1)}\pgfmathresult.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Premable&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;&lt;code&gt;\usepackage{pgfmath}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Result&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;The random number I choose is 149.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Following &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7046/23423&quot;&gt;hbaderts&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T19:30:33.130" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T19:30:33.130" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-17T20:21:10.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;057&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because it is equally good to any other number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107530" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T20:21:10.333" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T20:21:10.333" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-17T21:34:08.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;81&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(081). Because I want to win!!!!!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89949" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T21:34:08.477" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T21:34:08.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-17T22:12:07.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;93&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you should probably send the book to &lt;a href=&quot;https://random.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://random.org&lt;/a&gt; if I win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76508" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T22:12:07.387" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-17T22:12:07.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-18T10:04:57.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well … really, no Lua?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;%!TEX TS-program = lualatex&#xA;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\pagestyle{empty}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\Huge\directlua{tex.sprint(math.random(200))}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ROF8w.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ROF8w.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Using this I chose &lt;strong&gt;067&lt;/strong&gt;.  That must be exactly right, it was computed with a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E3RSx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E3RSx.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;… and I chose an additional number as granted.  It’s the &lt;strong&gt;197&lt;/strong&gt;, and this must be correct, too, because it was computed with a computer, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Punched it out myself, this time.  Sorry if this wasn’t correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77667" LastEditorUserId="77667" LastEditDate="2016-12-18T22:45:40.023" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T22:45:40.023" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-18T10:04:57.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-18T22:07:57.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;146&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is my second guess&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107530" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T22:07:57.730" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-18T22:07:57.730" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T00:19:13.407" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;125, 187&#xA;answer must be at least 30 characters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82026" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T00:19:13.407" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T00:19:13.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T01:58:38.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's just pick &lt;strong&gt;43&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;143&lt;/strong&gt; semi-randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72189" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T01:58:38.960" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T01:58:38.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T02:54:07.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;184&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just because I saw this number wasn't taken by anyone. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60819" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T02:54:07.040" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T02:54:07.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T06:17:55.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks very much for this cool betting game. I already feel lucky that I just stumbled across it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's guess some numbers to see if I can reach even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;71&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;172&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A nice Christmas time to all of you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32245" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T06:17:55.417" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T06:17:55.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-19T06:29:41.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A duck? Damn, I just bet on some ordinary book in some other thread... :-) I hope, Fortuna is not getting overwhelmed with me when I bet some more numbers here: Let's make it &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;47&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;117&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, Paulo!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32245" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T06:29:41.037" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T06:29:41.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T06:38:31.603" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose the numbers 44 and 133.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4011" LastEditorUserId="4011" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T06:44:36.973" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T06:44:36.973" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T06:38:31.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T09:29:57.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My numbers are&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;38&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;119&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I hope I win this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T09:29:57.050" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T09:29:57.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T09:46:06.490" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let it be 005 (my second choice). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29728" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T09:46:06.490" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T09:46:06.490" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T09:50:35.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;154 for the first guess&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;194 for the second one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85803" LastEditorUserId="586" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T14:58:22.023" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T14:58:22.023" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T09:50:35.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T11:16:59.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;79 and 52, in that order. No fewer, no less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36422" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T11:16:59.240" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T11:16:59.240" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T12:05:03.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose 16 and 98 in that order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110287" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T12:05:03.233" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T12:05:03.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T12:43:31.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;083 and 084 because ... nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T12:43:31.743" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T12:43:31.743" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T12:54:07.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First guess not already chosen: 36&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second guess: 94&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tglase@tglase:~ $ cat x&#xA;# arc4random(3) in Pure mksh™&#xA;set -A seedbuf -- $(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=257 count=1 2&amp;gt;&amp;amp;- | \&#xA;    hexdump -ve '1/1 &quot;0x%02X &quot;')&#xA;set -A rs_S&#xA;typeset -i rs_S rs_i=-1 rs_j=0 n&#xA;while (( ++rs_i &amp;lt; 256 )); do&#xA;    (( rs_S[rs_i] = rs_i ))&#xA;done&#xA;rs_i=-1&#xA;while (( ++rs_i &amp;lt; 256 )); do&#xA;    (( n = rs_S[rs_i] ))&#xA;    (( rs_j = (rs_j + n + seedbuf[rs_i]) &amp;amp; 0xFF ))&#xA;    (( rs_S[rs_i] = rs_S[rs_j] ))&#xA;    (( rs_S[rs_j] = n ))&#xA;done&#xA;rs_i=0&#xA;rs_j=0&#xA;typeset -i rs_out&#xA;function arcfour_byte {&#xA;    typeset -i si sj&#xA;&#xA;    (( rs_i = (rs_i + 1) &amp;amp; 0xFF ))&#xA;    (( si = rs_S[rs_i] ))&#xA;    (( rs_j = (rs_j + si) &amp;amp; 0xFF ))&#xA;    (( sj = rs_S[rs_j] ))&#xA;    (( rs_S[rs_i] = sj ))&#xA;    (( rs_S[rs_j] = si ))&#xA;    (( rs_out = rs_S[(si + sj) &amp;amp; 0xFF] ))&#xA;}&#xA;(( n = 256 * 12 + seedbuf[256] + (RANDOM &amp;amp; 0xFF) ))&#xA;while (( n-- )); do&#xA;    arcfour_byte&#xA;done&#xA;(( n = rs_out ))&#xA;while (( n-- )); do&#xA;    arcfour_byte&#xA;done&#xA;&#xA;typeset -Uui16 -Z11 arc4random_rv&#xA;function arc4random {&#xA;    # apply uncertainty&#xA;    arcfour_byte&#xA;    (( rs_out &amp;amp; 1 )) &amp;amp;&amp;amp; arcfour_byte&#xA;    # read four octets into result dword&#xA;    arcfour_byte&#xA;    (( arc4random_rv = rs_out ))&#xA;    arcfour_byte&#xA;    (( arc4random_rv |= rs_out &amp;lt;&amp;lt; 8 ))&#xA;    arcfour_byte&#xA;    (( arc4random_rv |= rs_out &amp;lt;&amp;lt; 16 ))&#xA;    arcfour_byte&#xA;    (( arc4random_rv |= rs_out &amp;lt;&amp;lt; 24 ))&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;# arc4random_uniform(3) in Pure mksh™&#xA;function arc4random_uniform {&#xA;    # Derived from code written by Damien Miller &amp;lt;djm@openbsd.org&amp;gt;&#xA;    # published under the ISC licence, with simplifications by&#xA;    # Jinmei Tatuya. Written in mksh by Thorsten Glaser.&#xA;    #-&#xA;    # Calculate a uniformly distributed random number less than&#xA;    # upper_bound avoiding “modulo bias”.&#xA;    # Uniformity is achieved by generating new random numbers&#xA;    # until the one returned is outside the range&#xA;    # [0, 2^32 % upper_bound[. This guarantees the selected&#xA;    # random number will be inside the range&#xA;    # [2^32 % upper_bound, 2^32[ which maps back to&#xA;    # [0, upper_bound[ after reduction modulo upper_bound.&#xA;    #-&#xA;    typeset -Ui upper_bound=$1 min&#xA;&#xA;    if (( upper_bound &amp;lt; 2 )); then&#xA;        arc4random_rv=0&#xA;        return&#xA;    fi&#xA;&#xA;    # calculate (2^32 % upper_bound) avoiding 64-bit math&#xA;    # if upper_bound &amp;gt; 2^31: 2^32 - upper_bound (only one&#xA;    # “value area”); otherwise (x &amp;lt;= 2^31) use the fact&#xA;    # that ((2^32 - x) % x) == (2^32 % x)&#xA;    ((# min = upper_bound &amp;gt; 0x80000000 ? 1 + ~upper_bound :&#xA;        (0xFFFFFFFF - upper_bound + 1) % upper_bound ))&#xA;&#xA;    # This could theoretically loop forever but each retry has&#xA;    # p &amp;gt; 0.5 (worst case, usually far better) of selecting a&#xA;    # number inside the range we need, so it should rarely need&#xA;    # to re-roll (at all).&#xA;    while :; do&#xA;        arc4random&#xA;        ((# arc4random_rv &amp;gt;= min )) &amp;amp;&amp;amp; break&#xA;    done&#xA;&#xA;    ((# arc4random_rv %= upper_bound ))&#xA;}&#xA;tglase@tglase:~ $ arc4random_uniform 200&#xA;tglase@tglase:~ $ print $((1+arc4random_rv))&#xA;23&#xA;tglase@tglase:~ $ . ./x&#xA;tglase@tglase:~ $ arc4random_uniform 200&#xA;tglase@tglase:~ $ print $((1+arc4random_rv))&#xA;36&#xA;tglase@tglase:~ $ arc4random_uniform 200&#xA;tglase@tglase:~ $ print $((1+arc4random_rv))&#xA;94&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I like my Korn Shell ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43807" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T12:54:07.757" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T12:54:07.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T13:29:54.023" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My numbers are&#xA;030 and 100 &#xA;I hope I will win............ :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121016" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T13:29:54.023" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T13:29:54.023" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T13:41:03.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go for &lt;strong&gt;87&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;132&lt;/strong&gt; - because of reasons...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17237" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T13:41:03.953" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T13:41:03.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T16:21:27.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love 55 because it is nicely framed by 054 and 056.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120477" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T16:21:27.693" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T16:21:27.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T16:30:11.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;66&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;code&gt;140&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49193" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T16:30:11.387" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T16:30:11.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T16:42:08.513" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;185 ..................................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79165" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T16:42:08.513" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T16:42:08.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T17:38:50.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;89 and 116&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I am wondering how the book might be sent? in pdf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T17:38:50.277" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T17:38:50.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-19T19:00:46.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose the numbers 19 and 91&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54029" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T19:00:46.213" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-19T19:00:46.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T00:15:43.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let my second answer be 51.  No particular reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62287" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T00:15:43.997" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T00:15:43.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T00:59:39.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Boy, for some reason 60 is also calling my name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65419" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T00:59:39.530" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T00:59:39.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T04:29:46.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;61  because it is the smallest Centered hexagonal number left&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16895" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T04:29:46.670" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T04:29:46.670" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T07:52:06.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will have 018. &#xA;But surely we all have zero probability of success, unless the answer is an integer? Hope springs eternal...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Second guess: 041, for the rare case when 42 doesn't quite work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15565" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T07:52:06.960" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T07:52:06.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7141" CreationDate="2016-12-20T08:26:19.233" Score="23" ViewCount="655" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking for something I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://texnorte.blogspot.fr/2013/10/beamer-bibliography-icon.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt; claiming that the author write an article&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D7Av6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D7Av6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. However, this is only a copy paste of this answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/68081/97981&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/68081/97981&lt;/a&gt; publish one year before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, what can we do? What we have to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97981" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:09.907" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T16:27:14.770" Title="What do we do when we see plagiarism of a TexStackExchange answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7137" CreationDate="2016-12-20T09:57:07.320" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing in my opinion. There is no ownership claim anyways. And also, the answers here are CC licensed (see the bottom of the page) so the link is only missing attribution. I don't know Gonzalo's point of view but most of us already waived even that requirement in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answers&quot;&gt;Relicensing code from answers&lt;/a&gt; (assuming that this re-licensing actually matters). If you are really bothered by this you can place a comment below the page so people can find it back here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is just annoying to not to have the source but I would not go as far as plagiarism although pedanto-technically yes it is. Note that, the whole stackexchange network is duplicated all the time by other websites. Take a popular question search for its text in google and you'll see lots of copy-SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, answering questions here and then claiming ownership of the answers seems a bit contradictory for me. If you are supplying that much of quality in the answer &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; want to stay as the owner at the same time, then why are you answering a question on a public domain Q&amp;amp;A site. How is it different than &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look I actually solved your problem, but it's my solution. Ya ain't gettin' it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading a bit more on the list in &lt;a href=&quot;http://texnorte.blogspot.nl/p/indice-de-post-por-fecha.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texnorte.blogspot.nl/p/indice-de-post-por-fecha.html&lt;/a&gt; we see that the owner mostly skips attribution on TeX-SX answers but the others do have some attribution, thus it might also be the case that the owner thought StackExchange is CC0. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.160" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T10:07:21.853" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T12:30:25.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My third and last guess is 136&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29728" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T12:30:25.177" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T12:30:25.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T14:25:03.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I choose the number 29 and 134.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109487" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T14:25:03.053" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T14:25:03.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7137" CreationDate="2016-12-20T15:11:12.220" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&lt;/a&gt; there is the possibility to report sites which reproduce the content of this site without attribution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QfcBz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QfcBz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in the e-Mail you will receive after reporting such a site, the powers that be are not very optimistic that much can be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T16:27:14.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T15:28:29.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chosen by purely mental processes: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;32&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;109&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38377" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T15:28:29.503" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T15:28:29.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T16:35:59.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take a shot with following numbers: 70 and 189.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T16:35:59.147" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T16:35:59.147" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T18:22:40.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My third choice is 170 ....................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62287" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T18:22:40.217" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T18:22:40.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T18:47:33.103" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll guess 158!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second Guess 124.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65567" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T18:47:33.103" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T18:47:33.103" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T20:32:56.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only now I saw this topic. Hopefully I could vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I choose&#xA;102&#xA;103&#xA;068&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T20:32:56.807" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T20:32:56.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T21:00:48.367" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will go with the first non-taken number, so ... 034&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19023" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T21:00:48.367" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T21:00:48.367" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T21:15:24.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;And for my second guess ... 193&#xA;:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19023" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T21:15:24.583" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T21:15:24.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7009" CreationDate="2016-12-20T21:16:51.937" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The winning numbers were 48 and 124. They were generated by the following &lt;code&gt;Java&lt;/code&gt; program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  import java.util.Random;&#xA;&#xA;  public class Lottery2016 {&#xA;      public static void main( String[] args ) {&#xA;          final long SEED = 123456;&#xA;          final Random rand = new Random( SEED );&#xA;&#xA;          final int fst = 1 + rand.nextInt( 200 );&#xA;          final int snd = 1 + rand.nextInt( 200 );&#xA;&#xA;          System.out.println( &quot;First winninng number is:  &quot; + fst );&#xA;          System.out.println( &quot;Second winninng number is: &quot; + snd );&#xA;      }&#xA;  }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I apologise for not having generated the numbers  with LaTeX or TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10274" LastEditorDisplayName="user10274" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T22:04:41.703" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T22:04:41.703" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-20T21:16:51.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6997" CreationDate="2016-12-24T14:47:19.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most answerers on this site contribute their knowledge for the good of the community, the wish to read nicely typeset documents,  and the fun of it, and don't need individual recognition. This is what I put in the acknowledgements of a book that just came out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wizards at \url{tex.stackexchange.com} were always quick to answer&#xA;  \TeX{}nical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2016-12-24T14:47:19.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2016-12-26T10:55:30.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this could be useful for someone: the &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; command of ImageMagick has an option which allows you to cut out the written part of an image: &lt;code&gt;-trim +repage&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use &lt;code&gt;arara&lt;/code&gt; package you may use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/339227/101651&quot;&gt;a rule like this&lt;/a&gt; to do the conversion automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if you have this &lt;code&gt;myfile.tex&lt;/code&gt; (I've setted the background to red only to show the trimming):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% arara: pdflatex&#xA;% arara: convert: {background: red, otheroptions: -trim +repage}&#xA;\documentclass{book}&#xA;\pagenumbering{gobble}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;    Quack&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and you run:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;arara myfile,tex&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you will get this &lt;code&gt;myfile.png&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mvudD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mvudD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you can get the same result if you have &lt;code&gt;myfile.pdf&lt;/code&gt; and run:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;convert -background red -alpha remove -density 150 -trim +repage &quot;myfile.pdf&quot; -quality 100 &quot;myfile.png&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2016-12-26T10:55:30.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-27T14:33:19.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will use -42 and -43 (my negative current age and my negative upcoming age ;-) ... and -44&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T16:12:22.493" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T16:12:22.493" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-27T14:33:19.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-28T17:14:57.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For my third choice I that the first displayed palindrome  ---  060   AND I punched the number.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9880" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T17:14:57.587" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-28T17:14:57.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-29T00:15:49.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take 165 for my third number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113546" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T00:15:49.870" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-29T00:15:49.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-29T09:57:21.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take 106 as my third number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15636" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T09:57:21.757" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-29T09:57:21.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2016-12-29T15:01:24.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guesses are: &lt;code&gt;081&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;082&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;083&lt;/code&gt;, nice lottery to everyone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14524" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T15:01:24.243" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-12-29T15:01:24.243" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-31T20:04:29.630" Score="13" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question, and a discussion started in the comments, &quot;Why would you wanna do that&quot;, etc.  After a while, I figured out the answer to the question, which I posted as an answer.  However, that didn't quite solve the whole problem, since there was an aspect of it remaining unsolved.  Neither the question nor the answer had any votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid confusing people reading the discussion by radically modifying the question, I decided instead to ask a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/346499/how-to-refer-to-corollaries-numbered-by-lemmas&quot;&gt;new question&lt;/a&gt;, and reference the old one.  Did I do the right thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62133" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.410" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T00:48:52.300" Title="Updating a question, vs. asking a new question" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2016-12-31T21:21:59.607" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my point of view updating questions leads often to frustation of answerers if they have given a working solution yet and their solution gets invalidated by the question update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case a follow-up question is better, in my point of view. (Yes, opinion - based answer, but the question here is opinion-based ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no answers have been given and the update would clearify the question or the question has not gained attraction, extend the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this is not the case for the relevant question the O.P. referred too, updates frequently tend to spread the confusion and request enters a completely different direction afterwards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2016-12-31T21:56:54.897" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T21:56:54.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2016-12-31T21:58:09.267" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no hard-and-fast rule here: it's a value judgement. If you feel that an update clarifies or enhances the question &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; doesn't make existing answers confusing (or plain wrong), then an edit is appropriate. If what you want to know is a clear stand-alone question which you can see is distinct from the original, ask a new one. If you are somewhere in the middle, probably asking a new question is the 'safer' option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T21:58:09.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7166" CreationDate="2017-01-02T17:09:04.840" Score="8" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the right column on the &quot;questions&quot; page there is a box &quot;Upcoming events&quot; with an entry &quot;Answer the unanswered in 5 days&quot;. Where do I find more information on what this event is about? Clicking on it leads to the chat room &quot;TeX, LaTeX, and friends&quot;, which seems to be unrelated and is a bit surprising .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110998" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-01-02T18:43:48.430" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T18:53:30.627" Title="Upcoming event &quot;Answer the unanswered&quot;" Tags="|support|chat|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7165" CreationDate="2017-01-02T18:43:07.120" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a time when active community members felt the number of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt; was growing too rapidly. Perhaps the community seemed more inclined to focus on a steady stream of new, answerable questions than to worry and/or deal with questions that may be out-of-scope or lack too much detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result was a scheduled time when everyone can join in and collaborate on sorting out the unanswered pool as best they can. From closing questions as being off-topic, unclear what is being asked (if not reproducible or no minimal example to support a claim) or turning comments into answers. &quot;Answer the Unanswered&quot; is this community event, and it's informally hosted within &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;the regular chat room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1560/5764&quot;&gt;Regular “Let's deal with unanswered questions” chat meetings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#technology-percentanswered&quot;&gt;List of &quot;Technology&quot; sites sorted by &lt;em&gt;percent answered&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/385/5764&quot;&gt;Things to do on a slow day at TeX-SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T18:53:30.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-08T16:38:30.557" Score="14" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two tags used to indicate ConTeXt questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;context&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context-mkiv&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;context-mkiv&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Would it be better to rename the tags: &lt;code&gt;context&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;context-mkii&lt;/code&gt; (for MkII related questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Context (pun intended): ConTeXt MkII refers to PDFTeX and XeTeX engines while ConTeXt MkIV refers to LuaTeX engine. For a few years now, the recommendation is to use ConTeXt MkIV. Few users still use MkII for existing projects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think that it is better to use the tag &lt;code&gt;context&lt;/code&gt; for MkIV related questions (maybe even make it a synonym for &lt;code&gt;context-mkiv&lt;/code&gt;) and use &lt;code&gt;context-mkii&lt;/code&gt; for MkII related question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is okay, what is the best way to go about retagging the questions? This is not as simple as just renaming the tags because some questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;context&lt;/code&gt; are about MkII while others are about MkIV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: I started making the changes. I thought that I'd proceed as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look at all questions that are tagged with &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;context&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;context-mkiv&lt;/code&gt;. Delete the &lt;code&gt;context-mkiv&lt;/code&gt; tags. (there were about 300 such questions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go through all the questions that are tagged &lt;code&gt;context&lt;/code&gt; and check if they need to be tagged as &lt;code&gt;context-mkii&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rename &lt;code&gt;context-mkiv&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;context&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as I edited the tags in about 10-15 questions by hand, I was wondering if there are any mod tools that can be used to do step 1 automatically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323" LastEditorUserId="323" LastEditDate="2017-01-11T08:03:57.610" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T08:03:57.610" Title="context vs context-mkiv tags" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-11T22:30:50.363" Score="41" ViewCount="4942" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not the first time it happens on the site, so it's time to raise the problem in Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is similar, but distinct from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6005/double-backslash-newline-collapses-to-single-backslash-when-i-hit-edit&quot;&gt;‘double backslash + newline’ collapses to ‘single backslash’ when I hit ‘edit’&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 26 '10); what happens is that code with lines ending with &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; gets randomly transformed, without &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; intervention, into a single backslash and the following line becomes a continuation of the line previously ending with &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code for sure &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; double backslashes when it was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the edit history at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/146730/revisions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/146730/revisions&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 24 '13) for the last time I was made aware by it in some code of mine, look at the comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/146723/how-to-typeset-row-operations-on-augmented-matrix/146730#comment854996_146730&quot;&gt;How to typeset row operations on augmented matrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another case I remember is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27283/how-to-correctly-format-and-align-a-latex-proof&quot;&gt;How to correctly format (and align) a LaTeX proof?&lt;/a&gt; (Sep 2 '11) where my answer was fixed by Andrew Swann and, when I went to see what edit had been done, I discovered the same problem in azetina's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is another example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44450/how-to-align-a-set-of-multiline-equations/44451#44451&quot;&gt;How to align a set of multiline equations&lt;/a&gt; (Feb 13 '12) (a second degraded answer, by Werner, fixed; Feb 13 '12; except that the intended fix isn't present, but fixed now)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/85216/2&quot;&gt;Vertically align cell table in figure&lt;/a&gt; (Dec 2 '12)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/131555/3&quot;&gt;Set math fonts to predefined color&lt;/a&gt; (Sep 4 '13)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50483/using-gather-and-align-together&quot;&gt;Using \gather and \align together&lt;/a&gt; (Apr 3 '12) (all answers, but not the question, are affected)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/59732/2&quot;&gt;Label rows of a matrix by characters&lt;/a&gt; (Jun 13 '12)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/135225/hyperref-textfields-dontt-work-when-in-tabular-environment-with-xetex&quot;&gt;Hyperref TextFields dont&amp;#39;t work when in tabular environment with xetex?&lt;/a&gt; (Sep 26 '13) (the question)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/47171/revisions&quot;&gt;How to write conditional equations with one-sided curly brackets&lt;/a&gt; (Mar 7 '12)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/113823&quot;&gt;Commutative Diagrams&lt;/a&gt; (May 23 '13)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/5365/revisions&quot;&gt;How to create alternating rows in a table?&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 14 '10) (an answer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/96210/2&quot;&gt;Modify &lt;code&gt;eqnarray&lt;/code&gt; to match that of &lt;code&gt;amsmath&lt;/code&gt;'s &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Jan 31 '13)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/83734/3&quot;&gt;Table overlay in &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; on multiple rows&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 21 '12)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/32687/2&quot;&gt;Rotated column titles in &lt;code&gt;tabular&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 25 '11)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/132471/5&quot;&gt;Diagram of an artificial neural network&lt;/a&gt; (Sep 9 '13)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/33380/3&quot;&gt;Aligning plain &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;cases&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 1 '11)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/18521/101651&quot;&gt;TikZ matrix as a replacement for tabular&lt;/a&gt; (May 18 '11) (both question and answer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/88972/vertical-lines-in-a-multirow-and-multicolumn-table/88975?noredirect=1#comment871408_88975&quot;&gt;vertical-lines-in-a-multirow-and-multicolumn-table&lt;/a&gt; (Jan 2 '13)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In view of the provisional answer given below, please only add examples that appear to be affected &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;after February 22, 2015&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, below this comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Latest date (so far) of corrected example:  December 20, 2013: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/150816/579&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/150816/579&lt;/a&gt;.  (Please update&#xA;this date if a later example is found.  The aim is to pinpoint the likely period in which the offending change was applied in order to determine the cause.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Examples&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(empty, for now, hope it remains so)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update: April 27, 2017&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nick Craver seems to have found the origin of the problem. While he blames himself, I think we shouldn't put him at the wall and fire. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposal he made seems quite appealing, particularly if the items edited while in the specific review queue aren't bumped to the top page. With all candidates collected in a queue, we should be able to get away with the issue soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional request would be to have two buttons: “Fix” and &quot;Pull off the queue”, the latter for posts that are just false positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good search criterion for a post being included in the list seems to be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it contains a backslash followed by four spaces or a TAB, and has been posted before 2013-12-31&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2017-04-26T13:15:13.400" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T09:29:42.133" Title="Double backslashes disappear from code" Tags="|bug|markdown|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6908" CreationDate="2017-01-12T00:27:12.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The project is drawing to a close, and I am planning to take down the annotation interface this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much to everyone who helped out, and thank you for all the valuable feedback and suggestions. Hopefully the collected annotations will lead to the development of better duplicate question detection systems, especially for StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117287" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T00:27:12.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7170" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7171" CreationDate="2017-01-12T22:02:27.537" Score="3" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear users I sent the following request to the Stack Overflow team who suggested I submit it to the website contact &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;. I sent on 12/30/16 but still have not had any response. Could anyone give me some advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As a Italian teacher, in relation art.1, paragraph 124, of Law 107 of 2015 concerning teacher training, are obliged to have played a certain number of hours, to be diluted in the three-year duration of the training plan issued by the Ministry of Education University and Research. I ask if it is possible to improve the site, inserting a clock, indicating the duration of access weekly, monthly and yearly.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dear Werner,&#xA;I thank you for your very comprehensive detailed response and I apologize for the delay from bad internet network connection in my area. Unfortunately the pages are in Italian, and you insert the link of the 107/2015 law that relates to my professional training. If you enter a watch that would mark the time of access to the site is not possible, it would, at least for my teaching activities, useful to have a certificate generated by the site where you can detect my skills up to date on progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.agendadigitale.eu/smart-cities-communities/la-formazione-docenti-e-non-solo-nel-piano-nazionale-scuola-digitale-tutto-cio-che-c-e-da_2781.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.agendadigitale.eu/smart-cities-communities/la-formazione-docenti-e-non-solo-nel-piano-nazionale-scuola-digitale-tutto-cio-che-c-e-da_2781.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.orizzontescuola.it/guida/formazione-docenti-nessun-monte-ore-obbligatorio-collegio-dei-docenti-e-libero-di-fissarlo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.orizzontescuola.it/guida/formazione-docenti-nessun-monte-ore-obbligatorio-collegio-dei-docenti-e-libero-di-fissarlo/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oggiscuola.com/web/2016/12/20/formazione-nessun-limite-minimo-ore-cosa-sara-importante/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.oggiscuola.com/web/2016/12/20/formazione-nessun-limite-minimo-ore-cosa-sara-importante/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will wait patiently your reply hoping that I can, oneday to have a document for my supplementary educational activities. The service offered by Stack Exchange are excellent from every point of view and I had the chance to know, albeit virtually, teachers / highly trained people like you.&#xA;My best regards.&#xA;Sebastiano&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2017-01-27T17:01:08.873" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T17:01:08.873" Title="A clock into StackExchange to access time counting" Tags="|discussion|editing|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7170" CreationDate="2017-01-13T01:43:18.967" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange keeps track of the &lt;em&gt;day&lt;/em&gt;s you were active on the site, but not the separate hours. So you won't be able to see how long you have been active, but you will be able to see the days on which you logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To view this, click on the &quot;calendar&quot; in the bottom-right of your profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k8H4j.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k8H4j.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can scroll back and identify the days where you were active on the site (in UTC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, it would be possible to extract content from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; in terms of your activity. That is, extract the times of your posts (questions and answers) as well as comments and estimate the time you spend on the site. However, an exact duration of active involvement would not be possible. For Stack Exchange to keep that amount of information on every user would probably be prohibitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T01:43:18.967" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-25T10:55:36.033" Score="23" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I was looking for some information, I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/134980/multiple-paragraphs-in-a-multirow-cell&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about the exact problem I'm having. Unfortunately, the provided solution requires manually spacing row heights. And I'm a bit unsatisfied with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm not complaining about the answer. It's a perfectly valid solution! But it's 3 years old. I was hoping that a better solution might be available today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would I go about this? I dropped a comment there, but it doesn't seem that this adds any visibility to the question. Considering it was posted 3 years ago, I think my chances of getting an answer (possibly new) are pretty slim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to open new question in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35362" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T08:57:03.763" Title="How can I know whether an answer is obsolete?" Tags="|discussion|answers|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7174" CreationDate="2017-01-26T07:38:13.933" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typical procedures include the following sequence of elevated proposals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment on the answer, requesting some feedback on your updated request/criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; and see if one of the local experts have time on hand to look into modifying the existing (or creating an altogether new and awesome) solution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spend some of that well-earned reputation on issuing a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt;. There's nothing like reputation that stirs the creative juices of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2117/5764&quot;&gt;Ask a follow-up question&lt;/a&gt; that references the old question, why your question is different &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; that current the solution doesn't suit your needs. Yes, the question should clearly state how it's different from the original, otherwise it could be considered a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave some time between elevating your requests to make sure you've given individuals or the community enough time to respond, if anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T07:38:13.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-26T19:58:49.907" Score="7" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/capacity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;capacity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;capacity&lt;/a&gt; has nine questions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memory&lt;/a&gt; has 86. Both have no wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/capacity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;capacity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;capacity&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memory&lt;/a&gt; (they cover the same topic, but we should keep the lemma).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T19:58:49.907" Title="Make [capacity] a synonym of [memory]" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7170" CreationDate="2017-01-27T13:36:22.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expanding just a little on @Werner 's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps, it would be possible to extract content from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; in&#xA;  terms of your activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would require a little database programming. Perhaps you could find a user (not a stackexchange administrator) to do that by asking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; . You wouldn't be able to show what you'd done on your own to answer the question except point to this discussion, but maybe someone would be challenged to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T13:36:22.047" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-01-27T13:36:22.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-28T20:06:00.787" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to draw a picture here: in SE. I have seen that people paste in the end of the code something similar to [1] http://...... Can you help me? For example I let here a code of a picture, that it's correct in tex, but it doesn't draw anything here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{center}&#xA;    \begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;\draw[-&amp;gt;]       (- 4, 0) -- (4,0) node[below left] {$x$};&#xA;\draw[-]       (-0.1,1) -- (0.1,1);&#xA;\draw[-]       (0,-1) -- (0,1) node[left] {$1$};&#xA;\draw[-]       (-0.1,3) -- (0.1,3);&#xA;\draw[-]       (0,0) -- (0,3) node[left] {$3$};&#xA;\draw[-&amp;gt;]       (0,-1.1) -- (0,4) node[below left] {$({\chi}_{[- 1 , 1]} * {\chi}_{[- 2 , 2]})(x)$};&#xA;&#xA;\foreach \i in {-3,...,3}&#xA;{&#xA;\draw (\i,0) -- + (0,-0.1) node[below,font=\scriptsize,fill=white] {\i};&#xA;}&#xA;\draw[red,     samples=1000, domain=-4:-3] plot(\x, 0);&#xA;\draw[red,     samples=1000, domain=-3:-1] plot(\x, 3+\x);&#xA;\draw[red,     samples=1000, domain=-1:1] plot(\x, 2);&#xA;\draw[red,     samples=1000, domain=1:3] plot(\x, 3-\x);&#xA;\draw[red,     samples=1000, domain=3:4] plot(\x, 0);&#xA;    \end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{center}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120355" OwnerDisplayName="joseabp91" LastActivityDate="2017-01-28T20:27:17.700" Title="How can I draw in SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2017-01-28T22:40:30.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7180" CreationDate="2017-02-02T06:15:50.013" Score="32" ViewCount="949" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know (a moderator?) who is the user that has been removed which yesterday night caused to many of us a great amount of lost reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think he is Harish Kumar, who had a very high reputation, because the rules say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This removal occurs whenever a user is deleted, &lt;strong&gt;unless that user had a very high reputation score&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2017-02-11T22:42:58.507" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T22:42:58.507" Title="Who is the user removed in February 2017?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7179" CreationDate="2017-02-02T06:57:31.340" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was openly discussed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; today...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user was Papiro (User 13907). It was &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35130086#35130086&quot;&gt;initiated by him&lt;/a&gt; and subsequently &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35130458#35130458&quot;&gt;actioned&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35142921#35142921&quot;&gt;Personal motivations&lt;/a&gt; were cited. You can follow further discussion in the recent chat history, starting &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35157337#35157337&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was not Harish Kumar (User 11232). A large amount of reputation was removed due to voter fraud. At that time it was found that his reputation may have been boosted through sock-puppets. This was around &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/32155504#32155504&quot;&gt;early September 2016&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="56233" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T00:07:26.457" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T00:07:26.457" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:01:47.397" Score="18" ViewCount="972" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/7182&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:02:33.623" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:24:56.077" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2017" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="30" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:01:47.397" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackTex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YGbeX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T14:01:47.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7207" CreationDate="2017-02-02T17:28:34.533" Score="43" ViewCount="1366" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX.SE is addictive, we have recently had evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is only due to the reputation mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the little games available on FB have a similar reward mechanism: you win points, and you can compete with your friends, but they don't give me any form of addiction (maybe it's not the same for other people, of course). I play them only when I'm talking on the phone with my long-winded cousin (to tell the truth, &lt;em&gt;she&lt;/em&gt; talks and I listen to her playing Candy Crush).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than anything else, I believe that it's due to something similar to the Stendhal syndrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the sort of pleasure you feel when you see a gorgeous answer on TeX.SE, even if it is not useful for you, or when you manage to do a beautiful output with LaTeX, even if nobody else will see it. I reached the nirvana with &lt;code&gt;halloweenmath&lt;/code&gt; package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: which trick can we suggest to users that want to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\resizebox{\normal-passion}{\TeX-addiction}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. = Papiro, please come back!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T03:17:11.033" Title="How to recover from TeX.SE (or, in general, TeX-LaTeX) addiction?" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-02T17:49:40.643" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texwelt.de/wissen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i86BI.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXwelt - Fragen und Antworten zu TeX auf Deutsch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T17:24:56.077" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:24:56.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-02T17:50:56.450" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.contextgarden.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZmrQX.png&quot; alt=&quot;ConTeXt User Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T17:50:56.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-02T23:12:37.787" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/tex.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;See all questions with active bounties&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T20:07:04.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-02T23:56:01.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ymFLF.png&quot; alt=&quot;comp.text.tex TeX Usenet group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T12:01:52.330" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T12:01:52.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-02T23:57:26.330" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tex.ac.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XOYR.png&quot; alt=&quot;UK TeX FAQ - Questions and answers about TeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T12:01:39.787" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T12:01:39.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7179" CreationDate="2017-02-03T00:05:00.303" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more of a comment and proposition than an answer. Because it is too long to fit in a comment I wrote it up as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the policy of removing an SE member is very wrong. This does not just punish the member that is removed, but all members, including those who wrote answers to questions of the removed person and the rest of the community as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, with the recent removal of one of the TeX.SE community participants, about one hundred of my answers were deleted (just a rough estimate, my reputation loss was about 2800), and from some more valuable members even more. I'm convinced that this loss cannot be neglected and that it noticeably degrades the wealth of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a possible solution I propose that, in similar situations, the non duplicated and community related questions with all answers be preserved and the removed questioner designated as &lt;em&gt;questioner has been removed from the list&lt;/em&gt; or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kindly ask all members of weigh in here and try to convince the SE management/decision makers to change this policy. This would be a benefit to existing and future SE users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18189" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T04:06:15.193" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T04:06:15.193" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T00:38:46.033" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDlFZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Users Group (TUG)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T12:02:51.387" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T12:02:51.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T00:41:30.320" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gYqMV.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Live - cross-platform TeX software&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T12:02:34.207" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T12:02:34.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T00:42:29.193" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9D64.png&quot; alt=&quot;Detexify: automated LaTeX symbol recognition&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T12:02:43.927" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T12:02:43.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T04:59:52.653" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXWI6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vi and Vim Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77871" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T04:59:52.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T09:06:46.603" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cervantex.es/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tZ7eu.png&quot; alt=&quot;CervanTeX: Spanish TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T09:06:46.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T09:08:48.073" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miktex.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sw85q.png&quot; alt=&quot;MiKTeX: LaTeX system for windows&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="1952" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T09:46:18.123" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T09:46:18.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2017-02-03T09:17:36.593" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having had a &quot;mild&quot; case myself, this is what helped me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Set a time limit and enforce it. I use &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/leechblock/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LeechBlock&lt;/a&gt; myself; it allows you to set block times, daily limits, and restrictions of the form &quot;Xmins every Yhours&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Less invasive variants just create an artificial delay before showing you certain websites; that's to prevent check-for-updates-eritis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/akerbos/152d7891d2b8b34edf3a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Block the Hot Questions bar&lt;/a&gt; using &lt;a href=&quot;https://userstyles.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt; -- it would lead me from one catchy question title to the next, across the network.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, since in my case most time was spend on moderation activities: stop caring so much. The site exists without you and will be mostly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use 1 and 2 to break harmful habits¹, and then form new ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: It is important not to treat (bad) habits like addictions -- the two are distinct phenomena! That said, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; you are addicted you should get medical help, not advice on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You might just want to read &lt;em&gt;The Power of Habit&lt;/em&gt; by Charles Duhigg; I found it quite enlightening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3213" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T09:17:36.593" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="7202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T12:11:16.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.tips/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UCYS3.png&quot; alt=&quot;visit TeX.tips!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T12:11:16.787" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T12:24:04.630" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texnique.fr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q5iDJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX questions and answers in French&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T12:24:04.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="7205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-03T13:29:06.777" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CYXdw.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX online documentation lookup system&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2017-02-09T21:40:32.137" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T21:40:32.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-04T09:23:07.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tikzedt.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RWLVS.png&quot; alt=&quot;Plea for TikzEdt&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-02-05T20:43:45.737" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T20:43:45.737" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2017-02-04T11:08:54.970" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was to become addicted some time ago...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first things I used to think, when I woke up, were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I must look whether my rep has grown up or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I must look at any new question I can answer, so I can get some more rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, at work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I must find some time to answer some questions at TeX.SX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have to check if I got any upvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a certain point, I've remembered that I had a job, a wife and a son...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I wake up and think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's wait for my wife to wake up, so I can tell her how much I love her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's wait for my son to wake up, so I can tell him how much I love him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, at work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have to do my best, so my students can be better than they are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.SX used to occupy my whole day, while now I enter TeX.SX (like I'm doing now) only when I've nothing else to do!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T11:08:54.970" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2017-02-04T11:24:02.390" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have to make a distinction here. The addiction is due to Stackexchange network elements not TeX itself. There is also question answering addiction which is even more damaging because you end up working on things way way more than your life permits and the result is absolutely useless such as my many pointless TikZ answers. Unfortunately that's the norm for many PhD students due to procrastination. That is an absolutely different type of addiction and requires either career change or a reorganization of life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, however, something which is sometimes called &quot;idle-game addiction&quot; type of behavior creeps in. I'm not a neuroscientist obviously so I can't discuss the causes and mechanism but the general trend is there is a reward that comes ever so slowly that it borders on your patience. If it is a bit more slower you get bored if it is a bit faster then you run out of rewards too quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the part SE network taps into with the badge and reputation stuff. It diminishes the value of an answer and emphasize on the success. But anyway there are better people suited for such analysis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would really suggest is to stay away from that reward part of the site. It has nothing to do with TeX and gives you uber-falsch incentives. That would also avoid the fake &quot;we own this place&quot; attitude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is just a place where you ask and answer questions. Regarding the TeX-SX addiction itself, try switching to package writing or other open-source avenues such that you can pace yourself in your own time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I never did the statistics (because I don't procrastinate anymore, see?) but if you ignore our few wizards who write code without even testing, most popular package authors either don't have or very little activity here. My premise is that this should be due to the satisfaction of seeing their work being used by many people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, don't put all your eggs in one basket, here procrastination being your eggs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DISCLAIMER: I have been openly criticizing Papiro and others whenever I could because for quite some time I have argued that they abused the review system for that stupid colorful dots and they have replied for themselves elsewhere that they strongly disagree (search on meta). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then s/he got into the voting badge hunt apparently which is much harder than the other badges because you have a limited vote numbers to cast. And it borders on your patience very nicely. I know because I was one of them for some time when I was drawing fireworks or other weird stuff on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T11:24:02.390" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-04T16:28:56.193" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/gallery/#glossaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gbnK8.png&quot; alt=&quot;visit glossaries gallery&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T16:28:56.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-04T23:50:14.330" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/rsmenon/pygments-mathematica&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jue7X.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mathematica syntax highlighter for LaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124585" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T23:50:14.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-05T08:30:00.453" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guitex.org/home/it/forum/index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ac9C6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-02-05T20:34:36.773" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T20:34:36.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-07T09:23:00.330" Score="22" ViewCount="909" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a community we have institutional membership of TUG paid for by StackOverflow. (Thanks to StackOverflow for this support and to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;the initial idea&lt;/a&gt;!) The membership entitles us to nominate eight people to benefit directly from this, receiving copies of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tugboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;TUGBoat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and so on. As in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6518/tug-membership-names-for-2016&quot;&gt;previous years&lt;/a&gt;, the aim of this question is to solicit nominations for those places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first stage, I would like to ask for nominations for the places. Nominations should be made by posting an answer here with any reasoning you like, then immediately deleting the answer. In a second stage, I will undelete all of the answers to allow the community to vote: any 'stray' votes before the second phase &lt;em&gt;will be ignored&lt;/em&gt;. Nominations can be made by the 'candidate' themselves or you can nominate someone else. In the latter situation the mod team will check that the nominee is happy to appear in the 'ballot'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no restriction on standing in the ballot beyond needing to be a member of TeX-sx as-of this morning (0900 GMT on 2017-02-07). In particular, the aim of the memberships here is to allow TeX knowledge to be disseminated: candidates do not have to have 'strong' TeX knowledge, 'community standing' or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first phase (nominations) will run until 2200 GMT on 2017-02-11, after which there will be a five day voting phase. In the event of a tie in votes, the mod team will decide which name goes forward. The mod team may also include additional names if at the end of the voting process there are fewer than eight nominees with positive scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting phase is open until 2200 GMT on 2017-02-16. Additional nominations may be added during this phase. At the end of this period the top eight names will be passed to the StackOverflow staff. (Note: at the time of writing there are nominations which have not been made 'active' as the nominees have not yet confirmed they are happy to go forward.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the voting period the tallies were&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/39222/cfr&quot;&gt;cfr&lt;/a&gt; 21&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/101651/carlatex&quot;&gt;CarLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; 19&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/26134/przemys%c5%82aw-scherwentke&quot;&gt;Przemysław Scherwentke&lt;/a&gt; 18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/25858/steven-b-segletes&quot;&gt;Steven B. Segletes&lt;/a&gt; 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/69818/gustavo-mezzetti&quot;&gt;Gustavo Mezzetti&lt;/a&gt; 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/16819/sa%c5%a1o-%c5%bdivanovi%c4%87&quot;&gt;Sašo Živanović&lt;/a&gt; 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/36296/samcarter&quot;&gt;Sam Carter&lt;/a&gt; 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/18189/zarko&quot;&gt;Zarko&lt;/a&gt; 12&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/120477/jan&quot;&gt;Jan&lt;/a&gt; 11&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With eight places available, Jan misses out (sorry) and the others are selected: we will let the staff know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2017-02-17T07:10:01.887" Title="TUG Representatives for 2017" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tug|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-07T13:42:54.843" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck would like to be a TUG member!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since he lives at my home at the moment, he asked me to write down my name here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I accept the membership on his behalf!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Paulo Cereda, Ulrike Fischer, Christian Hupfer, yo' and Jan for their kindness!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-02-09T21:13:19.050" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T21:13:19.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-08T03:07:21.857" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, I don't  like nominating myself for anything, but TUG membership is  an exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tex.sx says that over 1 million of people viewed my helpful posts. My access to TUGboat should enlarge this number. And last but not least: they had ducks in TUGboat last year!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T03:07:21.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-02-09T08:59:11.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://szhorvat.net/mathematica/MaTeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tPjfW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Publication quality figure labels with LaTeX and Mathematica&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6302" LastEditorUserId="6302" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T10:37:20.830" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T10:37:20.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2017-02-09T14:57:49.860" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add a contrary view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm retired from my day job as a mathematician and home a lot for various personal reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My stackexchange addiction really helps me stay sane. I answer mostly at  &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;mathematics&lt;/a&gt;, where I can put my expertise to best use, but my addiction began here at TeX when I got extraordinary help with a book manuscript and felt I wanted to give back when I could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:08.057" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T14:57:49.860" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-09T16:43:59.510" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominee Sam Carter, as Christian Hupfer was kindly asking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/36296/samcarter&quot;&gt;@samcarter&lt;/a&gt; speaking):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much for nominating me! I am honoured to be this years representative and I would happily do it again. However when casting your votes, please first consider the candidates, which did not yet have the privilege to be our representative at TUG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I counted correctly, my last year's &lt;em&gt;duck number&lt;/em&gt; on TeX.SE was 8, from which &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/344842/36296&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/344842/36296&lt;/a&gt; was the most fun to write. I hope I can increase this number this year (currently I'm only at 2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120477" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T12:11:49.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-09T22:15:02.067" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/69818/gustavo-mezzetti&quot;&gt;Gustavo Mezzetti&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since he gave us the wonderful package &lt;code&gt;\halloweenmath&lt;/code&gt;, he deserves a TUG membership!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TV97g.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TV97g.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T09:12:44.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-09T22:20:29.347" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/39222/cfr&quot;&gt;cfr&lt;/a&gt;, to ask her to help us to create a &lt;code&gt;tikzducks&lt;/code&gt; package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T21:00:51.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-09T22:51:34.847" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/252495/jan&quot;&gt;Jan&lt;/a&gt; because he is too modest to do it by himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T22:51:34.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-10T04:37:32.030" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/18189/zarko&quot;&gt;Zarko&lt;/a&gt; because I like his answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T21:01:41.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-10T11:57:41.473" Score="15" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/25858/steven-b-segletes&quot;&gt;Steven B. Segletes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;^^ this bloke. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T11:57:41.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-11T18:10:30.967" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just stumbled around on TeX.SX and found some questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;terminal-output&lt;/code&gt;. This tag has no description. Currently it is used for some questions just because they include error messages from the terminal and for some questions really dealing with terminal output (e.g. via &lt;code&gt;\typeout&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is that tag really for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124577" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T18:10:30.967" Title="What for do we use the `terminal-output` tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7212" CreationDate="2017-02-13T17:12:48.297" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/16819/sa%c5%a1o-%c5%bdivanovi%c4%87&quot;&gt;Sašo Živanović&lt;/a&gt; who has created the wonderful &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt; package, which now dominates all tree related answers. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yALdF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yALdF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.280" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T18:07:14.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2017-02-13T22:35:16.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're asking on the wrong site. The audience of this site is most likely still active on TeX.SE, therefore the sample is biased as all people, which quite completely, are missing from the pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2017-02-13T23:00:14.520" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T23:00:14.520" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2017-02-14T07:26:44.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This more of a comment, but already trimmed it as much as I could and still too long so posting it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I keep coming back question to this and feel like I should contribute to it. However, most of my thoughts on this issue are already covered here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6148/4301&quot;&gt;A risk when using tex.sx.com&lt;/a&gt;.  The first part of @karlkoeller's answer is a good description of what I was like before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do miss chatting with the folks here, but trying hard to stay focused on my project, which brings me back here on a daily basis, so the risk of falling back into the addiction is real, but so far I have been ok. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary: if it is causing a problem, figure out a solution: Papiro's is one way, but there are other solutions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:40.043" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T07:26:44.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2017-02-14T13:19:28.987" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also I want to add : &lt;strong&gt;If you can't answer then up vote it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125107" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T13:19:28.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2017-02-15T13:44:15.413" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add my point of view on the matter, because I was deeply addicted to website for about 3 months and have been forced out of it due to a vacation which I could not bring my laptop with me (this post is from my cell phone), though I believe I'll fall back to it as soon as I get my hands on my pc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the addiction came from the two way street where the site is built. Sometimes, in order to answer something I had to do a bit of research first and ended up learning something in the process, also repeating some of my already acquired knowledge helped on reinforcing such information. So in the end I was too gaining from the site, as much as (or even more) than I was giving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I think the matter at hand may be more of time management than TeX.SX addiction. If you feel you are &lt;strong&gt;wasting&lt;/strong&gt; your time here but cannot shake it off, perhaps consulting a specialist might be in order rather than posting a question on the very website your addicted to. If you feel you're just spending too much time here try pushing the website to a low priority (do the important stuff first) and &lt;strong&gt;avoid procrastinating &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; at all costs&lt;/strong&gt; (procastinate somewhere else, if needed be). Those are my thoughts on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81905" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T13:44:15.413" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7168" CreationDate="2017-02-17T12:07:07.353" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've looked into it and I couldn't find anything specific. The thing is, we don't ever modify markdown w/o recording history. So when you read about rebakes and other stuff we do, those are affecting the conversion from markdown to html, with markdown always staying the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this looks like a one off job that somebody ran on the DB that touched post history (where markdown is stored). This would still leave the HTML of the post the same. The same holds true for markdown updates. Everything happens in the rebake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, however, we did multiple rebakes. One was adding &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&lt;/code&gt; to links in order to mitigate the &lt;code&gt;window.opener&lt;/code&gt; vulnerability, and another one was for fixing imgur links to https (which again was only a rebake). Those rebakes then surfaced the markdown change, long after it happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question that still has no answer is, who touched the post history (and when). Unfortunately I couldn't find the answer to that. But it's definitely not caused by anything that's running in production currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35590" LastActivityDate="2017-02-17T12:07:07.353" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-19T16:40:01.070" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to ~\cite{} an answer from stackexchange? Should be cited by the question, or by the user, any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18280" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T16:40:01.070" Title="How to `~\cite{}' an answer from stackexchange?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-02-19T16:49:28.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-03-05T16:30:48.533" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texstudio.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YF4oB.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXstudio - LaTeX made comfortable&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24770" LastActivityDate="2017-03-05T16:30:48.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1883" CreationDate="2017-03-22T17:32:18.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who is new to LyX and completely new to Latex I couldn't agree more with Daniel. But I also agree with Charles Stewart. The point is rather than these things being mutually exclusive they are actually interdependant or mutally supporting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I write technical training manuals which are used both in the classroom and as a reference afterwards. When writing a new course we have to identify prioritize and clarify lots of interelated areas; technical content, scope, levels of detail, learning objectives, skills objectives, presentation, clarity, conciseness/economy, consolidating practicals, course timings, classroom environment, technical build etc etc. All of these issues need to be reflected in the final document. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure nobody is going to suggest one would write this off the top of their head directly in LaTeX. Our experience suggests that to develop the basic structure of the course/manual a good outliner is absolutely essential as a minimum. A mind mapping tool can also be very useful. &#xA;LyX has a pretty good Outliner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have the basic outline structure you have to develop the subsections and bullet points into paragraphs, pages, section and chapters. &#xA;For this you need the basic document formating tools which LyX also has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However while we're developing the 'text' component of the manual we also have to think about how the content will be presented live in the classroom. Hence we design some of the diagrams for the slides early in the process and write the text content around the slide content. Consequently the slide/graphic development proceeds hand in hand with the textual content. LyX has great (LaTeX) tools for both text and slide development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally we proof and adjust the content, length, layout and graphics of the document. Here the LaTeX underpinning of LyX really comes into it's own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single tool which allows one to progress from high level general outline down to detailed print layout and which takes care of much of the details for you is a really powerful concept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We simply wouldn't consider using LaTeX by itself to develop our manauls simply because it is too low level for us. Nor would we consider using LyX if it didn't have the LaTeX underpinning. Although we feel that the WYSIWYM is a better paradigm than WYSIWYG, LyX without LaTeX would not offer enough for us to migrate from using two tools; Word and Impress to using one tool; LyX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is LyX a LaTeX editor? Probably not but who cares! Many people probably don't use a LaTeX editor because they like writing LaTeX but because they want the great quality and control it offers. It's the great output that matters and the time and effort it takes to achieve it. Any tool that makes that process easier for a given use case is to be praised and recommended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98349" LastEditorUserId="98349" LastEditDate="2017-03-22T18:26:27.843" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T18:26:27.843" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-28T08:26:32.707" Score="4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently some rather new user was removed since yesterday (not much effect on the votes). I'm curious for what reason, mainly to understand how this platform operates and which behavior of users actually occurs that leads to exclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Maybe I just found the answer myself. Apparently user3749929 was merged with Solomon. Votes probably are transferred, but in case both have voted on the same post, one vote gets lost. Is this what has happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110998" LastEditorUserId="110998" LastEditDate="2017-03-28T08:35:43.993" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T08:35:43.993" Title="Why was a user removed in March 2017?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7242" CreationDate="2017-03-30T08:27:31.293" Score="25" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anything that can be done to answers already provided some time ago, that are currently out of date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean: I may have a problem, and find on TeX.SE the answer to that. Only that the answers uses inferior packages which were perfectly fine then but now they aren't anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I find my question answered, I proceed to implement the possibly ugly solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything that can be done to mark off some questions as &quot;not-applicable anymore&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is adding one such feature viable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89949" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T12:25:28.133" Title="How about &quot;deprecated&quot; answers to old questions" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7241" CreationDate="2017-03-30T12:25:28.133" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange model is that over time the 'best' answers get upvoted whilst less good ones float downward. When an answer becomes outdated, one can therefore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a comment asking the original author to adjust it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggest an edit to the original&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a new answer which draws attention to the reasons that it is preferable&#xA;to the older one (perhaps linking to the other answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last approach is likely the best where the answers are long-standing: this will move the question to the top of the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T12:25:28.133" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-31T17:01:02.663" Score="24" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have observed several times now that new users (just a few questions, rep below 50, but definitely no robots) try to participate in discussions, but since commenting is a privilege requiring at least 50 reps and answering isn't, they add their comments as answers. Isn't this a bit weird? This just generates &quot;low quality answers&quot; keeping us busy and frustration on the side of the new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to lower the threshold for commenting, say to 5 or 10? If not, shouldn't our policy then be to lift new users that look reasonable as quickly as possible above this limit by upvoting their first questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks for the informative answers and comments. Here's a summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changing the reputation limit for commenting is not an option since it is managed site-wide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Commenting on one's own post is not restricted by the reputation level anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason for allowing new users to answer but not to comment is that SE is set up in a way such that answers are reviewed but comments aren't, so problematic answers are less of a problem than problematic comments, as paradoxical it may seem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Upvoting for the sake of granting the privilege for commenting is not considered as adequate by all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The current procedure for handling answers/comments seems to work well enough, no need for changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110998" LastEditorUserId="110998" LastEditDate="2017-04-07T14:45:39.173" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T14:36:33.643" Title="Policy of upvoting new users above comment threshold?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7243" CreationDate="2017-04-01T07:46:36.850" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The network thinking here is that answers automatically move a question to the top of the front page, and so such information is going to get reviewed. In contrast, comments simply 'sit' where they are, so could contain anything (comments are not viewed as part of the long-term value of the site). The barrier to commenting is not high &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; you can always comment on your own questions. Thus, the idea is that the rep requirement here is a balance between being able to contribute and allowing spam or simply misguided postings from newer users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I say, this is not a TeX-sx-specific thing: it's part of the design of the entire network. It's been raised several times on the main meta site: I suspect a change is unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T07:46:36.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7243" CreationDate="2017-04-01T15:17:21.523" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right that there are some new users misusing the answer box to post a non-answer which is a comment (or a tiny follow - up question, which qualifies as a comment rather too), so those 'answers' gets either transferred into a comment (by moderators) or are deleted rather quickly either by voting process or by moderator action (again). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lowering the reputation treshold for comment privilege will reduce this problem, of course, but other than 'answers' comments can't be deleted in a review queue, they must be flagged and its up to the moderators to delete them. Having a lower treshold will provoke more spam comments, most likely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am unsure that upvoting (new) users over the 50 reputation limit in order to allow them to leave comments everywhere is a useful strategy. If they've posted a good question/answer somewhere they will have those upvotes rather soon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Joseph said: The treshold value is a SE - wide limit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please take into account that the limit for participation in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;Chat&lt;/a&gt; is actually only at 20 reputation points, so this could be achieved easily, in my point of view. The relevant user can ask or post a comment regarding a question another answer in chat, although it's most likely not as effective as on the main site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T14:36:33.643" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T14:36:33.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7250" CreationDate="2017-04-06T02:24:26.563" Score="22" ViewCount="383" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the times when I see a question that I (think! I) can answer, I leave a comment first checking if that solution is really helpful to the OP, or not. This is to prevent providing answers that are misguided/ just plain wrong, because of a misunderstanding of the question etc. I assume others are practising the same. That is, only providing answers if they are absolutely sure that it answers the OP's original question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose someone else leaves a comment that I believe solves the problem as well. What's the etiquette to follow here? I feel like if I leave an answer to the question, then it's like &quot;stealing&quot; from the original commenter/answerer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/362289/117534&quot;&gt;how to center equations in parentheses&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;(disclaimer: I am in no way targeting any one in that question, but it does exemplify what I'm trying to say here. This is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about rep as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few things an incoming &lt;code&gt;I-know-the-answer-but-someone-else-has-provided-it-in-the-comments&lt;/code&gt; person can do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment for the commenter to add the comment as an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just answer the question because it doesn't matter who makes it, as long as the answer answers the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the second option, how long should we wait before actually providing an answer (going back to the point about &quot;stealing&quot;)? Is this just something really minor and that I am overthinking (or maybe over-feeling)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ps. The title is a little clumsy. If anyone has a more concise way of phrasing it, feel free to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117534" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:08.463" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T15:36:12.573" Title="What is the etiquette for providing an answer already in the comments?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-06T18:15:20.773" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Latex code is not working in preview so i am asking a question to see if it really works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;\frac{a}{b}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129588" OwnerDisplayName="user129588" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-08-11T11:28:34.113" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T11:28:34.113" Title="Latex code is not working in preview?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2017-04-06T18:47:46.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7248" CreationDate="2017-04-06T19:32:26.980" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will express my opinion as an answer instead of a comment do to its length, but please mind that mine is not the “correct” etiquette, simply my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often find myself commenting instead of answering for many reasons: an answer usually has to be written completely, compiled, tested… maybe I don't have the time to compile the code, make sure it works, pretty print it, etc…  maybe I don't have the answer but some pointers or suggestions, which nevertheless may prove decisive to solve the original problem.  I usually write my comments as answers only when requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually think that &lt;em&gt;stealing&lt;/em&gt; an answer from a comment is kind of wrong, unless one takes the care of expanding the comment (after making sure that the original commentator has no interest/time of doing that himself). After all it's not my idea, and maybe the original comment-poster has some code going already (so I would probably waste time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, one should always strive, in my opinion, to form a complete and thorough answer whenever possible, not only for the benefit of the person who asked the question, but for making the question/answer pair more easily searchable in the future. A comment is not that visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, sometimes it can also happen that, while creating a thorough (or at least tested) answer (which can take some minutes: creating the code, explaining it, compiling, snipping the pics to be uploaded) someone else answers it better or summarizes all you want to say in a poignant comment. Well, it happens! (And it happened in the question you linked) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89949" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T19:32:26.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7243" CreationDate="2017-04-06T21:18:29.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often (usually?) those comments are on the OPs question. Perhaps the policy could be to allow comments there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's probably a change not worth the effort of the SE programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frequently the comments should be edits to the question. I suggest that to the new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T21:18:29.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7248" CreationDate="2017-04-11T08:17:17.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Further opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fairly new user (or new to answering) should be encouraged to write the answer themself.  They could use the rep (of course they've got enough to comment if we're asking this, but it could be a self-answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An old hand can be assumed to know what they're doing.  By providing a quick fix in the comments they sort out the OP's problem and save the effort of writing the rather thorough answers that are common here.  I do this myself, especially if I'm on the train (patchy mobile signal). I can only speak for myself at  this point, but if someone comes along and fleshes out my comment into an answer -- great, the system is working.  A mention is nice of course. Rep is nice, but I doubt it's why many of us are here -- in fact some are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; active on comp.text.tex (I might be if I had decent usenet access) where rep isn't measured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best case: a fairly new user asks a question that turns out to have a simple answer (but of course not a duplicate), an answer appears in the comments, and the OP writes their own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I throw down a quick comment (&quot;try &lt;code&gt;\command&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;code&gt;package&lt;/code&gt;&quot;) and I intend to write an answer immediately, I'll normally say so in the comment:  something like &quot;I think &lt;em&gt;xxx&lt;/em&gt; should work, I'll have a play&quot;.  On the other hand I've also been known to comment things like &quot;&lt;em&gt;xxx&lt;/em&gt; might do the trick. I'll write an answer if I get the chance later, but someone else might get there first&quot; as a hint that I'm not bothered if I'm beaten to it (and will quite likely forget to come back in any reasonable time). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend only to answer when someone else has commented if (i) there's still a bit of work to do (this could be a very snmall but IME important step), (ii) some time has elapsed, and (iii) I'm interested in learning something from the attempt. As I'm not the quickest at writing an answer, especially if it's going to take a bit of debugging, I'm unlikely to get there before anyone else who starts ahead of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one factor behind the thorough answers I mentioned is that we're populated by people who not only are helpful, but come from a background involving academic or technical writing and &lt;em&gt;think about their writing&lt;/em&gt;, leading to a reluctance to commit to the permanence of an answer if it's not done properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastEditorUserId="28808" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T15:36:12.573" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T15:36:12.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7256" CreationDate="2017-04-13T16:53:47.273" Score="9" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to open a discussion on this matter, because to the best of my knowledge, there has not been an answer covering, &lt;em&gt;poorly researched questions&lt;/em&gt; in Tex SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For clarity purposes I am not talking about: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4267/our-do-it-for-me-and-draw-it-for-me-comments-dont-reflect-our-hypocrisy-can-th&quot;&gt;Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don't reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4591/draw-this-for-me-etiquette&quot;&gt;“Draw this for me” etiquette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am referring to, are questions that are &lt;strong&gt;not low quality&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;do not have long, complicated solutions&lt;/strong&gt; and could be &lt;strong&gt;resolved by a careful Google search&lt;/strong&gt;. There are not low quality since they are valid questions but at the same time these questions could be resolved by looking instead of asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Made up&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How can I make my figure/table/equation/... do this&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do you do this&quot;, which &quot;this&quot;, is something specific that can be resolved by including the appropriate package. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are valid questions and more people might have them but since, a solution has already been provided (on the internet not in Tex SE) and it is easy to find and implement, shouldn't they be distinguished from the rest of the questions? Like the &lt;em&gt;Documentation&lt;/em&gt; section in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these questions be treated as &quot;Do-it-for-me&quot; questions, should they be flagged as low-quality or is there an alternative way of handling them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123723" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T22:41:05.900" Title="Etiquette for poorly researched questions?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7255" CreationDate="2017-04-14T22:41:05.900" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every so often this sort of question comes up, and although it gets posed usually as 'etiquette' it's often more about 'policing' or 'teaching people a lesson'. Personally I think such 'policing' behaviour is never productive for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have noted in the comments, most things can be figured out by reading the documentation or Googling. But documentation isn't always the easiest thing to read (even though some is very good) and users may not be native English speakers, in which case reading documentation may be more difficult than you might think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a fairly simple question, I often google for &lt;em&gt;things that would appear in an answer&lt;/em&gt;. This allows me to find duplicates on the site quite easily.  But I'm googling because I know what the answer should be. But the person asking the question presumably doesn't know that, so their googling task is in fact much harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to RTFM type answers, I think it's always helpful to point out that the answer can be found in the documentation, but only if you are willing to provide an answer independently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want to do that, then don't.  All of us have different motivations for answering and participating on the site. If you don't think a particular kind of question should be answered, then simply ignore it, and answer the questions that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; find interesting and worth answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If others want to answer these questions, they will, and that should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T22:41:05.900" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7257" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-14T23:19:18.120" Score="39" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently a new pattern is emerging that is worrying me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A new user asks a question that may need some clarification. Well, it's the first question in a new forum, often by a TeX novice, often by a non-native English speaker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;S/He goes away, as new users usually do not expect that there is an immediate reaction. (I remember well that after my first question I was quite surprised to see how fast the first responses came.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some hyper-active members of our community start to close the question shortly after as being too broad, unclear or whatsoever, sometimes even without a single attempt to clarify the issue, or without waiting for the user to return to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is rather frustrating to see ones question closed so quickly, without any communication taking place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we agree to (try to) talk to people first and then to close such questions only with some delay, say two days (maybe more if it's weekend)? (I'm not talking about obvious duplicates, clear off-topics, or spammers. But even then, apart from spammers, some comment seems appropriate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110998" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T16:31:53.080" Title="Please, can we stop closing questions before the OP had a chance to react?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-15T09:17:32.783" Score="12" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit confused about this procedure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean: I know that sometimes one solves the question in the comments, and the comment itself is something that need not be transformed in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also understand that seeing an unsolved answer (when it's already solved by comment) may attract some weird and unnecessary answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the practice is to close those questions, why there is not a specific flag to do so? I.e. &quot;flag-&gt;should be closed...-&gt;solved by comment&quot;. I think it would be best, also for referencing (one has the same problem, searches and finds the yellow band saying that the answer is solved in the comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89949" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T01:25:24.467" Title="Solved by comment -&gt; how to flag" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|flagging|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7261" CreationDate="2017-04-15T17:52:35.020" Score="13" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;consider this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/280846/579&quot;&gt;Is it possible to make xelatex to compile just once?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it has one self-answer, with one up-vote, and is more than a year old.  yet it has reappeared with the banner  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;bumped to the homepage by Community♦ 35 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;community profile&lt;/a&gt;, this shouldn't be happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i am confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[also, the community avatar seems to have changed on the main page.  probably not related, but may indicate that they're &quot;adjusting&quot; the system again.  i hope we don't have to be prepared for double-backspace disasters ...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;it has been hypothesized that a question with no up-votes and a very low vote on&#xA;a single unaccepted answer is fair game to be bumped.  okay, but in that case,&#xA;the community profile should be amended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2017-04-15T19:17:06.083" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T11:55:48.230" Title="has the Community mandate for bumping questions changed?" Tags="|discussion|bug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7259" CreationDate="2017-04-15T19:56:54.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is the same definition of &quot;unanswered&quot; as the unanswered tab in the main question list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this has always included postings that have 0-vote answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A short definition is given if mouse hovering over &quot;unanswered&quot;: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HjtZB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HjtZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2017-04-16T11:55:48.230" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T11:55:48.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7259" CreationDate="2017-04-16T05:23:44.590" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the documentation I could find on meta.stackexchange.com about the definition of &quot;unanswered&quot; and when the Community user bumps a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99672/community-should-discriminate-more-when-bumping-unanswered-questions/99690#99690&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood, July 2011&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Just to be 100% clear, our definition of unanswered is &quot;no upvoted answers&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18870/why-does-the-unanswered-questions-tab-show-questions-that-have-answers&quot;&gt;Why does the “Unanswered Questions” tab show questions that have answers&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;“The Unanswered Questions tab shows questions that have no answers with a positive score nor an accepted answer. (That includes questions with no answers at all.)”&lt;/em&gt; See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2008/09/30/ok-now-define-answered/&quot;&gt;OK, Now Define “Answered&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;em&gt;sic&lt;/em&gt;] on the Stack Overflow blog.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48578/what-can-cause-a-question-to-be-bumped&quot;&gt;What can cause a question to be bumped?&lt;/a&gt; (via this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;): &lt;em&gt;The Community user will bump non-negatively scored questions that have at least one answer scoring 0 and none scoring more than that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184485/community-seems-to-be-bumping-new-questions-more-frequently-than-usual/184511#184511&quot;&gt;Community ♦ seems to be bumping new questions more frequently than usual&lt;/a&gt; (updated recently): &lt;em&gt;Note that the posts eligible for bumping are those scoring &gt;= 0 that have gone at least 30 days with no activity, have at least one non-deleted answer scoring 0 and none scoring more than that, and no accepted answer (also, they can't be deleted or closed).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T05:23:44.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-16T13:11:15.900" Score="6" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;This comment by @Gernot in response to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7258/solved-by-comment-how-to-flag&quot;&gt;Solved by comment -&amp;gt; how to flag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all questions are worth an answer or to be preserved, but&#xA;  nevertheless should be solved. Just think of the syntactic errors,&#xA;  like missing braces, where the solution will help no one else. Or&#xA;  sometimes the OP reports him/herself to have solved the problem,&#xA;  somehow. What's wrong is to give as reason &quot;because solved in&#xA;  comments&quot;. I fully agree that this is no reason. Instead it should be&#xA;  something like &quot;syntactic error&quot; or &quot;unclear&quot;. Or, as Clemens points&#xA;  out, there should be a real answer, if there is any chance that&#xA;  someone else with the same problem will stumble across the post. –&#xA;  gernot yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;prompts this question from me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is really a one-off typo that no one else will encounter (or find this question if they do) should we answer (perhaps in a comment) and suggest that the OP delete the question when satisfied with the answer? Perhaps if the OP is a newbie, thank him/her for asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2017-04-16T20:20:20.937" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T20:20:20.937" Title="questions answered by pointing out simple typos" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-17T14:10:59.310" Score="17" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I ask questions after I failed to come up with my own solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how nice is it to ask a follow-up question for knowing what is wrong with my code not for solving the &lt;strong&gt;already-solved-problem&lt;/strong&gt; in order to learn more about why my code is bugged or not working?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="2288" LastEditDate="2017-04-17T15:46:35.467" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T15:46:35.467" Title="Asking for the sake of learning or debugging my own solution to already-solved-problem" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7265" CreationDate="2017-04-18T18:33:53.483" Score="28" ViewCount="587" Body="&lt;p&gt;How come that some people seem to know about everything about LaTeX?&#xA;How do they get there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, I use LaTeX whenever needed to produce a paper (by now my diploma thesis), but I never get into the depths of all this macro programming works and all this stuff I consider fancy. &#xA;But I don't get the concepts very much, especially when using TikZ at the moment, I have no idea what is all possible and just use trial and error, copy and paste together some stuff and so on. I am sure many people can relate to that, since LaTeX is always &quot;only a tool&quot;. When compared to e.g. C++ one would go into depth naturally, because C++ is not just a tool but the thing itself. I am really sorry, although LaTeX is really the best text formatting program ever, I never seem to find it necessary to dig deeper. &#xA;By now I have written a few documents in LaTeX, but never got deeper into the fancy stuff. &#xA;Where are the people that do dig deeper, and what motivates them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; This is not exactly a question that needs an answer, I just want to hear some peoples thoughts on that topic, because this thought has been in my head for a while and in a way I only want to talk about it. I hope this is ok. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit.&lt;/strong&gt; As response to Peter Flynns answer: I hope nobody is actually offended by my provocative statement, that C++ is the &quot;real thing&quot;, while TeX is not. &#xA;I am happy to see someone who is as enthusiastic about Latex as most people I know are about programming languages for example. &#xA;A comparable thing in Germany is the Deutsche Bahn (public trains) which most people are always dissatisfied with. When you're late and say:&quot;My train was late.&quot; You will most likely hear some ranting about how stupid and bad the DB is. If you are late, however, due to a traffic jam, people will not be as hateful about the streets here as they are about the DB. &#xA;I think Latex is a little like that: If I am having a math problem, I would not blame math, that it's stupid and it's math's fault that I don't get it. When my software does not work as expected, I would rather feel angry on myself than on the language. But when my text-program does not deliver what I want, I tend to blame that stupid Latex. &#xA;I could as well RTFM, but I have this strange feeling that some things just have to work as I intend, without me giving it the appropriate amount of attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies for stealing: I think most people would not dare steal something from a shop, but I don't know anyone who has never dodged the fare (the direct German translation is schwarzfahren - black riding), or watched a movie online they hadn't payed for. &#xA;Although both are &quot;the real thing&quot; (stealing) only one is considered as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, I owe Latex an apology for not taking it serious enough...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks for all the comments. This gives me some insight on how you view this topic, and how you proceed with learning Latex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is more about, &lt;em&gt;what motivates you&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;how you do it&lt;/em&gt;. &#xA;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81372" OwnerDisplayName="jjstcool" LastEditorUserId="81372" LastEditDate="2017-04-21T21:45:12.013" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T13:37:33.503" Title="When would one learn Latex, the right way?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7264" CreationDate="2017-04-18T22:07:30.383" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several things going on here which need separating out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do some people seem to know all about LaTeX? As &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/9057/schweinebacke&quot;&gt;Schweinebacke&lt;/a&gt; said, read, read, read. But also do, do, do, for many years. I've been using TeX and then LaTeX for 30 years, and I've written about it and I teach it, but I'm still basically a user, not a computer scientist, and I will never know as much about it as people who have studied CS and know every line of TeX code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting the concepts isn't hard, but it depends on how you learn. The very worst way is &quot;sitting by Nellie&quot; (old industrial slang for learning by sitting beside an older worker and copying everything they do — faults and all). Your colleague in the lab or library is probably the worst person to learn from. Better is a course or class, and even better if you RTFM as well. Learning the concepts makes learning the detail &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; easier and faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get some of the concepts in TikZ either, because I haven't used it enough, and I haven't read enough of the documentation yet, and I don't know of a course or class. The trial-and-error, copy-and-paste approach is not really sustainable, although it's always excusable if you're under pressure to get that thesis submitted by the deadline. But LaTeX should &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; be &quot;only a tool&quot;, though: you wouldn't treat your car or your power screwdriver with that kind of disdain — at least, I hope not — and you shouldn't do so to software either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comparison with C++ is entirely bogus. [La]TeX &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the &quot;real thing&quot; in its field, just as C++ is in its field. They are languages of comparable complexity, and it's possible to be a novice user and move towards becoming a guru over time in either of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What motivates people to dig deeper? I suspect similar chemical drivers to those that motivate people to climb higher or run faster or find out more in any field. In my case, I started typesetting at an early age, and just wanted to master it (still waiting for that to happen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some people lack the time, or the inclination, or the level of interest, to learn any more than absolutely necessary on each occasion. They may feel they are winning, but over time they will probably spend more hours being frustrated than they would have spent learning &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="355" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T22:07:30.383" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7264" CreationDate="2017-04-21T17:06:53.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Especially highlighting Peter's first and last paragraphs, my own practical expertise came from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) Try &quot;it&quot; (like TeX) out and &lt;strong&gt;decide&lt;/strong&gt; that it would be worth learning and to &lt;strong&gt;commit&lt;/strong&gt; time to the task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) &lt;strong&gt;Study&lt;/strong&gt; the manuals and examples to figure out how to produce something basic. Focus on one problem at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c) Extend capability over time by &lt;strong&gt;making a point&lt;/strong&gt; to figure out how do (something new/alternative/fancier) instead of just repeating what you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131036" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T17:06:53.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7257" CreationDate="2017-04-22T01:22:34.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not an active user anymore but it's strange to see that this is still an issue. I can give a summary as I have tried to convince many people and failed miserably back in the day. It's funny to see that not much has changed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some go for badges and some go for the review queue. But some think this place have rules (they weren't around when these alleged rules supposedly being set at all so mostly they make stuff up). They also think that new users are mostly leeches who are trying to take advantage of extremely worthy users and their efforts. As if TeX is something really important in any line of business they borrow most of this new user jargon from Stackoverflow where professionals really try to slack off by asking questions. But that's just nonsense for TeX. Thus they don't see the obvious logical fallacy of educating others if the number next to the nickname is not high.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other users just ask and answer and enjoy working with TeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just need to learn to filter out the first and stick to the second type. If you vote for reopen the close-voters will also vote for opening even though they voted for closing already in the first place. It's just a stupid system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T01:22:34.907" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7258" CreationDate="2017-04-22T01:25:24.467" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask the comment owner, wait for a few days then post an answer if this really bothers you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T01:25:24.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7257" CreationDate="2017-04-23T11:56:18.933" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was tempted simply to agree with the comments; but I do feel this deserves (another!) actual answer, and I don't 100% agree with the one that has been given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary: Except in the very clearest cases, no question which might in due course be answered should be closed until at least 48 hours have passed. And unless the question obviously doesn't deserve an answer, we shouldn't normally vote to close a question that we wouldn't fee competent to answer ourselves (whether or not we would be inclined to do so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, there are only only a few clear cases where a question should be closed before an answer has been given or a reasonable time (at least 48 hours) has elapsed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is unequivocally spam.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is an absolute duplicate &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; (see below) to one that already has a good answer and, preferably, the OP has confirmed that it is, i.e. that the answer given to an earlier question has worked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is clearly off-topic, or opinion-based, so that it will &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; deserve an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If, as often happens, the questions was the result of some truly &quot;one-off&quot; problem or snafu on the part of the OP and has been resolved in comments. As we know, there's not pat category for this, and the practice is to close it as off-topic, IIRC. Anyway, the key point is that the question doesn't need an answer. But we have to be careful because people often make the same mistakes, and so these questions can be valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In nearly every other case, it is right to wait before closing a question, even if it seems &lt;em&gt;very likely&lt;/em&gt; that it will in the end be closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is not clear. Give the OP a chance to clarify it. Be as specific as possible about what is not clear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question lacks truly essential information to enable it to be answered (e.g. as to a package or class that is being used). Give the OP a chance to provide that information. Be as specific as possible about what is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate to another similar but not identically worded question. In that case, point the OP to the question and ask if it is really a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we have always to remember these things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A duplicate &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; is not the same thing as a duplicate &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt; know that an answer that tells you how to change a title to, say, italics, will also probably tell you how to change it to bold. A new TeXer won't. Experts are cursed with knowledge, and can't see that what is obviously the same problem for them looks quite different to others. The practice of referring posters to a selection of related answers as if they were duplicates is counter-productive. We are answering questions, not writing a manual.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manual-shaming is shameful. Manuals vary in quality. Even good ones are often dense, and not always well-organised. In the case of some of the &quot;mega-packages&quot; (&lt;code&gt;KOMAscript&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;fontspec&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;) the manuals are hugely forbidding and not at all structured for quick &quot;task and finish&quot; reference. RTFM is the pedagogical equivalent of observing that a language is Turing complete -- it really doesn't help in practice. Much better either to ignore the question, or answer it (with a reference to the manual, if you feel like it, or a reference to other more discursive material that may  be more suitable for a new TeXer).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saying &quot;welcome&quot; is not the same thing as making someone feel welcome. Saying &quot;welcome, now please take off your shoes, don't touch the objets d'art, don't sit in my favourite chair, read this set of rules for the house&quot; ... it's not actually welcoming. This stuff needs to be done with tact, remembering that people come here with vastly different background knowledge and sometimes not very good English.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New users have real problems creating MWEs, which we should be much kinder about than we often are. How often do we see the inconsistent criticisms: &quot;you left out some package you are using&quot; vs &quot;you have listed a load of packages that don't matter&quot;. Experts have a hunch, usually, what packages are likely to matter and which are not. New users often come with weird &quot;templates&quot; which load up all manner of deprecated cruft; they don't &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; about things like &lt;code&gt;\filecontents&lt;/code&gt;, standard bibliography examples they could use, or example graphics. These things need to be handled quite delicately. It's often better and easier simply to edit the example when answering the question than to complain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is nearly never right to &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; a question because it is a &quot;bad&quot; question. One downvote and no answers is the way to deal with those.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's just as important to upvote well written questions. There's a lot of stick around here sometimes, and not enough carrot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also venture a suggestion: those who do the valuable work of triaging questions (and it is valuable) should try to focus on questions that they feel they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; conceivably answer, i.e. they understand enough to answer or at least to know how they would work an answer out. Just searching for similar questions if you don't understand the area, or demanding MWEs if you aren't personally going to use them, often doesn't help. Sometimes a person who could answer the question finds it quite clear without a fully compilable MWE, for instance. I'd say the same goes for voting to close. One should be pretty cautious about voting to close questions that are quite outside one's ability to answer, if the substance matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5404" LastActivityDate="2017-04-23T11:56:18.933" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7264" CreationDate="2017-04-23T14:00:03.377" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone said to me once: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A computer is a machine and it has to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, a computer is a tool. So is a hammer. Or a bike. Tools to get something done (get on the internet, write a thesis, get a nail into the wall, riding to the supermarket).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are not interested in bikes, you probably still know how to ride a bike and do so on a regular basis. If you are interested in bikes, you know why they work, you know how they work and you probably know how to fix a bike if it is broken. You might even know some cool tricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the &lt;em&gt;being interested&lt;/em&gt; part that makes the difference.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If  you  are interested to a specific field, you will learn that bits and pieces you find interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2017-04-23T14:00:03.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-23T15:48:22.683" Score="15" ViewCount="610" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be the community's fault that we give the readers an impression that you can ask anything and get answered, yet &lt;strong&gt;arbitrarily&lt;/strong&gt; treat new users really bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/366074/&quot;&gt;Create this Diagram/Plot in Latex&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tfTxM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tfTxM.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/366223/&quot;&gt;Drawing random signal shape in tikz?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gZxCZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gZxCZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51022" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2017-04-23T17:09:53.563" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T12:53:11.540" Title="questions/366074/ and questions/366223/; I am speechless" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7264" CreationDate="2017-04-24T13:37:33.503" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; know everything about LaTeX, but I do know quite a lot, so hopefully I'm qualified to give my own view on this. I learned LaTeX properly because the time invested in the short term pays itself back hundreds of times over in the long term (at least it does if you write a lot of documents). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wrong way is to learn a little, then get by with botched solutions, fragments of bad code off random internet sites, bad document templates provided by others (usually with many unnecessary &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; commands), etc. Then, when things go wrong, trying to fix them is extremely frustrating. This sort of approach is probably the biggest cause of wasted hours across many branches of computing. An example: I have seen two long documents in which all the equations were aligned using multiple nonbreaking spaces (~). Compare the time needed to do this over and over again with the time needed to read the appropriate sections of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctan.org/pkg/amsmath&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;amsmath&lt;/a&gt; package manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The right way is to read a decent book, then consult package manuals where necessary. If something is really difficult, compose a decent MWE, ask a question on stackexchange, and wait a few minutes for @egreg or @David Carlisle to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2417" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T13:37:33.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7271" CreationDate="2017-04-25T09:09:54.847" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the title of the former doesn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We say we don't want &quot;do this for me&quot; questions, and this effectively has &quot;do this for me&quot; in the title.  There isn't even a link like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat_algorithm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat_algorithm&lt;/a&gt; to tell us what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time the questions' scores are too extreme IMO.  I don't downvote questions (in practice, it's not a decision).  I flag/closevote if necessary and &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; if I think the question isn't up to much.  If I remember to come back after commenting and the question doesn't look like it's going to get better, it's probably worth a VTC as unclear/too broad/off topic.  I just checked, and I've cast exactly &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; downvote here (on an answer that didn't answer the question).  I'm quite sparing with my upvotes on questions too -- neither of these would be interesting enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastEditorUserId="28808" LastEditDate="2017-04-28T12:53:11.540" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T12:53:11.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7257" CreationDate="2017-04-25T15:47:34.667" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;So here's the thing. Most importantly, bear in mind that a question being placed on hold does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; prevent the user from doing anything that they could do otherwise. The &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; two effects it has is it prevents &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; (which won't usually be possible if the question is unclear, anyways), and, of course, it makes the question a candidate for deletion later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, I believe the wrong questions are being asked here, and also the premise is &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You keep saying &quot;closed&quot; but, at least for certain reasons (like &quot;unclear&quot;), you mean &quot;on hold&quot; (see e.g. the wording in the box). This is significant: Long ago this wording was changed specifically to highlight the fact that the state is often temporary. (It remains &quot;on hold&quot; for 5 days until it is labelled &quot;closed&quot;, although that is only a wording thing, the possible actions a user can take are not affected.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As mentioned, the user can still do everything they could do before. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;on hold&quot; box says &quot;edit the question&quot; -- that's the reaction the user should take, and they can still take it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Putting a question on hold isn't bad. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What you should really be doing is pushing for people to reopen more quickly and stop treating a question being put &quot;on hold&quot; as some sort of showstopper, which it isn't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be pushing for polite explanatory comments from existing users when a question is put on hold, explaining to the user how they can clarify and that their question can and will be reopened once they do clarify. &lt;em&gt;This&lt;/em&gt; is the most valuable thing here: In addition to what is displayed in the box, &lt;strong&gt;friendly, constructive comments are what makes the difference between &quot;on hold&quot; being perceived as good vs. bad&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you believe the &quot;on hold&quot; instruction box is unclear to new users thus leaving them not knowing what to do, you should push for better wording.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More subtle of course, your post &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; unintentionally contribute to a larger problem: By making a post like this you cast &quot;on hold&quot; in a negative light, thus increasing its undeserved bad rap, and it's a bit of a spiral.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-or-on-hold-question&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;quot;closed&amp;quot; or “on hold” question?&lt;/a&gt; for further info about the intent and process, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two MSE feature requests you may be interested in supporting: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/93842/230261&quot;&gt;Notify users when their question is closed / on hold&lt;/a&gt; (thus drawing more attention to the fact that a change should be made), and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/267675/230261&quot;&gt;Notify users when a question they've voted to close is nominated for reopening&lt;/a&gt; (thus encouraging review of questions that may have been improved and speeding up potential reopens).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;on hold&quot; system isn't bad. It's good. It's good because it prevents wandering answers to unclear questions, &lt;em&gt;and that's the &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; thing it prevents&lt;/em&gt;. Having a question be put on hold is independent of whether or not the user can react, and therefore it does not matter if it's placed on hold before or after the user has reacted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is exactly one situation where it actually can create a bit of friction, which is the relatively rare situation where 5 people deem the question is e.g. unclear, but then somebody comes along who is actually able to make sense of it but can't post an answer. This &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; happen sometimes. If this happens and you are that potential answerer, what you should do is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question to make it clearer for everybody, since you are able to make sense of it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nominate it for reopening if you have the privilege.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment explaining what you did.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a last resort you can always solicit reopen votes for a question you've legitimately improved on meta or in chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is just for that one edge case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/662948&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some data&lt;/a&gt;, if you want it, limited to the past year:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Total Questions:        27001 &#xA;Open Questions:         21203  (includes reopened)&#xA;Closed Questions:        2704  (not deleted)&#xA;Deleted Questions:       3094    &#xA;Closed Unclear/Broad:     387  (not deleted)&#xA;Reopened Unclear/Broad:    35                   &#xA;Reopened Total:           144      &#xA;Avg. Time to Close:     21810 minutes (~15 days, all reasons)&#xA;Min. Time to Close:         1 minute  (all reasons)&#xA;Max. Time to Close:    492441 minutes (~11 months, all reasons)&#xA;Median Time to Close:     245 minutes (all reasons)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of non-deleted questions, 387 out of 27001 were put on hold as unclear / too broad, and of those, 35 were reopened. This data is not meant to sway anything one way or the other, it is only data, interpret as you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60076" LastEditorUserId="60076" LastEditDate="2017-04-25T16:31:53.080" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T16:31:53.080" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7271" CreationDate="2017-04-25T21:48:01.143" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zarko's answer to the second listed question was posted in less than two hours (1h 34m, to be precise). Torbjorn's took about 25 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that the question is of the “do-it-for-me” kind, but this should not restrain anybody to give an answer if they find the question interesting in itself, particularly if it doesn't require extensive research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first listed question was closed after one day (about 29 hours). This makes the difference, I believe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the votes: I agree that -3 for the first listed question is too much and the same is +13 for the other one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2017-04-26T09:26:37.253" LastActivityDate="2017-04-26T09:26:37.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7168" CreationDate="2017-04-26T12:36:53.343" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;strong&gt;This was almost certainly my fault.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On December 20, 2013 I moved the TeX (and meta) databases to new homes. I'm not sure how the original problem occurred, but TeX and its meta had a very odd database collation. Of the hundreds of databases, it was only those. We didn't recognize this for several years until we started aggregating data across databases for several network screens (think: top bar, achievements, rep, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to fix this &lt;em&gt;online&lt;/em&gt; and permanently (not ending up with a two-off database with a different structure) was to make a new Tex database and migrate things over. This happened by making TeX/meta read-only, moving the data in the background, and swapping the connection over at the end. But it appears that the strange collation the database was on handled double backslashes particularly in an odd way that did not convert to &lt;code&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS&lt;/code&gt; cleanly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked back at our internal chat logs, and a hint that this was an issue didn't reach our ears until July 15th, 2015. Unfortunately, we don't keep data forever and by years later, those database backups were long gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't just fix this because we don't have the data, but we're looking at options to help scale out fixing this quickly, for example possibly a new review queue we can populate with these posts for quick fixing by many. We don't have the data to do this with 100% accuracy, and we can't trust a query would be 100% accurate either, but populating a queue to very quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before we go down that road, &lt;strong&gt;is that an appealing option?&lt;/strong&gt; There are other uses for such functionality, e.g. when we detect images that are no longer there and posts need some love, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="740" LastActivityDate="2017-04-26T12:36:53.343" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-27T08:48:06.600" Score="12" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;When voting to close a question as off topic, and entering a custom close reason, should not that text be used in the &quot;closing banner&quot; that is displayed in the post? Given that all close-voters use the same reason, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This came up after &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/366810&quot;&gt;\lvert \rvert with unicode-math&lt;/a&gt; was closed. The banner looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/feuiR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/feuiR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see the default text is used here. But I'm fairly sure all who voted to close used the reason entered by CarLaTeX, seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/366810/lvert-rvert-with-unicode-math?noredirect=1#comment904459_366810&quot;&gt;her comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1E5lr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1E5lr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was the fourth to cast a close vote, and the dialog indicated that the three before me had used the same, custom, reason. gernot also used this reason (I asked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the banner be made to use the custom text, instead of the default &quot;not in scope&quot; text? Even if the custom text is added in a comment, I think it would be better if the banner used the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="586" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T08:48:06.600" Title="Closing as OT with custom reason: why not use the custom text in the close banner?" Tags="|feature-request|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-27T20:52:33.510" Score="4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/366244/plural-cref-to-theorem-like-environment-singular-cref-to-enumerate-item-inside&quot;&gt;Plural cref to theorem-like environment, singular cref to enumerate item inside it&lt;/a&gt; had had an extended answer by @Mico. That answer disappeared as soon as I added a comment to the answer about the method failing in certain situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I tell who deleted the answer, and when? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13492" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-04-28T19:28:35.643" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T19:28:35.643" Title="How tell who deleted an answer and when?" Tags="|support|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7281" CreationDate="2017-04-28T07:16:14.220" Score="9" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a question and opened a bounty to get some attention. Fortunately, I received two good but wildly different answers. The differences as I see them are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seems like a more automated, flexible, and general solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not exactly what I asked for, but a great alternative. (Solves the problem but not in the way I proposed.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More complicated than the Answer 2. I like simplicity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Due to its complexity, I have not been able to implement this solution for all my possible use cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very simple and easy to understand (other people will need to understand my preamble).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not exactly what I asked for, but a good alternative. (Solves the problem but not as automated as I had hoped.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Needs manual adjustment of white space if things are changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have implemented this answer properly in my document.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I select the best answer? I feel like I need to take this more seriously as there is also a bounty included. Both answers were made after the bounty was opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I select an answer, what is the best way to make it clear that both answers are good. Should I write a comment to clarify my choice? Or would that be frowned upon like writing &quot;Thanks&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51079" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-04-28T19:41:33.137" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T19:41:33.137" Title="How to select the correct answer and award the bounty" Tags="|discussion|answers|accepting|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7278" CreationDate="2017-04-28T19:28:12.050" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/366257/5764&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; deleted by its owner (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5001/mico&quot;&gt;Mico&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DnwI3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DnwI3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such views (like the one above) are only available to users with at least 10K reputation as part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;moderator tools privilege&lt;/a&gt;. However, it is still included in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt;. The following query extracts all the answers to your question - referenced by &lt;code&gt;ParentId = 366244&lt;/code&gt; (found via the &lt;code&gt;share&lt;/code&gt; link at the bottom of your question, or the question URL):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT *&#xA;FROM PostsWithDeleted&#xA;WHERE ParentId = 366244;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the SEDE lags by about 1 week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T19:28:12.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7279" CreationDate="2017-04-28T19:41:14.107" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the privileges of asking a question. It allows &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; to decide which answer helped &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; most. Like voting, your decision-making process doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be disclosed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be that if neither answer addresses your question in its entirety that you request more clarification or improvement from those who posted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no answer meets your needs at the end of the bounty period, you don't have to award it to anyone. There is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;automated awarding process&lt;/a&gt;, giving 50% of the bounty to the highest-voted answer having a score of at least 2 that was posted &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the bounty was created. Regardless, 100% of the bounty is removed from your reputation at the initiation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T19:41:14.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-29T16:00:53.337" Score="4" ViewCount="841" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to start a discussion with the latex community about the lack of a Helvetica-like font package that has full math support. From the research I've done, such a package does not exist, but many people would benefit from it. There are many questions about this in the main site (I've linked a few below), but I want to ask the more &quot;meta&quot; question about whether a different solution could or should be created. Here are the relevant points that I've thought of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I think it does not exist yet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helvetica makes a poor choice for setting the main text of a scientific document. In paragraph form, it can be hard to read, and the fact that some characters are indistinguishable (capital I (i) and lower case l (L) makes it dangerous for math, where meaning is carried by individual characters rather than words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I still think the package should exist (and why it's important)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the main text of a scientific document, Helvetica fails. But as the font choice for graphics in scientific papers, it is the de facto standard! Some journals (Nature and Science) prefer all the text in figures be set in Helvetica or a close relative. For graphics, readability is not as crucial because text is limited to single words or phrases. Also, any ambiguity introduced by identical characters in the figures should be obvious to those who read the the figure captions or main text. What seems to matter most for figure text is having the right style, and the neo-grotesque fonts like Helvetica have become the standard for that neutral, familiar, scientific look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scientists use latex as a tool to produce good-looking documents without having to be specialists in typesetting or design. However, while scientists rarely have to typeset documents, they are often required to typeset figures. Figures are both the only parts of published articles that scientists are expected to typeset themselves and the parts for which latex does not provide an adequate solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see the state of scientific graphics in 2017, browse a well-respected journal, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://journals.aps.org/prx/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PRX&lt;/a&gt; (it's open-access for y'all), and notice how figures mix serif math with sans-serif text, and even randomly use different sans-serif fonts in the same figure as if they are identical (these mixed solutions are even recommended by tex.stackexchange in the links below). I believe TeX can help solve these problem! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What options exist for typesetting graphics (and why they are inadequate)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, my experience in creating figures for scientific purposes is mostly from using python's matplotlib library, which allows you to use latex to typeset all or some of the text. When choosing fontsets, the easiest to work with are those that come in a latex package that includes math support. Most of such packages are for serifed fonts, but for the most part, people avoid serifed fonts in figures. Usually the body text of a paper is set in a serif font, and unless you match it exactly in typeface and size, you can create some typographical dissonance. It is much more common to use a san-serif font so that contrast with the main text is explicit and so that the smaller sizes needed in the figures can still be rendered and easily read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads us to search for sans-serif font latex packages with math. One option is the package Arev, which provides the font DejaVu Sans with math support (this is the default choice in matplotlib 2.0). Another option is Computer Modern Bright. Browsing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/mathfonts.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;latex font catalog&lt;/a&gt;, those two are really the only options for consistent sans-serif math. Other sans options on the list are either Frankensteins (one font for text, another for math, like FiraSans with &lt;code&gt;newtxsf&lt;/code&gt;, which uses Stix Sans for math) or are just not suited for scientific figures (in my opinion) due to their unique and potentially unprofessional looks (iwona, kurier, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are Arev and CMBright good enough for professional-looking scientific graphics? I think they could be, but they do bring their own unique style to the figure, and many scientists just want their figure text to look good, standard, and unremarkable. DejaVu (through Arev) and Computer Modern bright are good fonts, but they are quite different from Helvetica (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=Helvetica&amp;amp;second=DejaVu%20Sans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=helvetica&amp;amp;second=CMSS&amp;amp;q=Go&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). To my eye, both fontsets give a more humanist, optimistic feel than the more neutral Helvetica. While either choice may be better than Helvetica for typesetting a full paper, for the figures of a paper using a Times-like serif font, I think Helvetica is the more appropriate choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are ways to get fake math support for Helvetica using packages like &lt;code&gt;sansmathfonts&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;mathastext&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;sfmath&lt;/code&gt;. In my experience, using these packages can work, but it is a slippery slope to the world of endless hacking and tweaking, making it difficult to get a truly professional-looking result. What we need is something as easy as &lt;code&gt;\usepackage{helvetica-with-math}&lt;/code&gt; that includes a Helvetica-looking version of all the greek letters in italics and upright, as well all the mathematical symbols that might be reasonably needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching around leads to many threads in both the latex and matplotlib communities of people looking for a solution to this problem. Here are just a few I came across:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/197813/how-to-combine-another-sans-serif-math-font-with-helvet-for-text&quot;&gt;How to combine another sans-serif math font with helvet for text?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/359530/setting-up-a-sans-serif-document-including-math-in-2017-using-pdftex?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Setting up a Sans Serif Document Including Math (in 2017, using pdftex)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://3diagramsperpage.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/matplotlib-figures-with-helvetica-labels-helvet-vs-tgheros/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://3diagramsperpage.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/matplotlib-figures-with-helvetica-labels-helvet-vs-tgheros/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39827/math-font-to-match-helvetica&quot;&gt;Math font to match Helvetica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39042/helvetica-font-and-ohm-symbol?rq=1&quot;&gt;Helvetica font and ohm symbol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/151529/combining-helvetica-and-symbol-fonts-with-mathspec?rq=1&quot;&gt;Combining Helvetica and Symbol fonts with mathspec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/160381/specific-font-for-specific-characters-with-mathspec-package?rq=1&quot;&gt;Specific font for specific characters with mathspec package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2537868/sans-serif-math-with-latex-in-matplotlib/20709149#20709149&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2537868/sans-serif-math-with-latex-in-matplotlib/20709149#20709149&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a latex and python user trying to make figures for my scientific papers. I've realized how hard it is to make what I thought should have been the simplest choice of using a Helvetica-like font for both text and math. It seems to me that a quality Helvetica clone package with full math support would solve most of these problems, and my feeling is that such a package could quickly become the standard package used in scientific plotting engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two good future scenarios. 1) The e-Gust foundry (creators of the Tex Gyre Heros font) develops math support for Heros and releases it as a latex package. 2) The Stix project, which solved a similar problem by giving us a Times-like font with full math support, produce a Helvetica-like font. The Stix project was funded by a group of publishers who use the fonts, and it would be great for them and us if they released a font package for figures. The figures in their journals would improve, and the scientific community would finally have an adequate answer to this recurring question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to see if anyone agrees with me. Is this a real need? Is anyone working on it? Am I missing a simple solution? How do we commission the package I'm suggesting? What challenges am I unaware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61010" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:39:44.313" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T16:00:53.337" Title="Latex's need for a Helvetica package with full math support (for scientific graphics and figures)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2017-04-30T05:42:53.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7283" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-30T14:03:02.573" Score="30" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stats on the two tags&lt;/strong&gt; (as of time of writing):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parenthesis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parenthesis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parenthesis&lt;/a&gt;: 33 questions total, 2 unanswered, no tag wiki written&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parentheses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parentheses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parentheses&lt;/a&gt;: 30 questions total, 3 unanswered, well-written tag wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across this when retagging one of the questions on TeX.SE involving parentheses. Considering how these two terms are just singular/plural forms of each other, I suggest we make them synonyms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117534" LastEditorUserId="117534" LastEditDate="2017-04-30T17:11:09.933" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T16:20:24.247" Title="Make {parenthesis} a synonym of {parentheses}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5967" CreationDate="2017-04-30T22:16:58.697" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not an answer but an extended comment on your observations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation you've described -- losing 2 rep points due to a downvote, with the downvote counting against the maximum possible daily rep total -- becomes &lt;em&gt;even worse&lt;/em&gt; in the event of an &quot;un-upvote&quot;, i.e., a reversal of a previous upvote -- &lt;em&gt;even if the unupvote is quickly reversed&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following screenshot (from today's rep count):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6iVo3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6iVo3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how the unupvote costs 10 rep points, not just 2 points. (In case anyone cares: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/280011/5001&quot;&gt;The query in question&lt;/a&gt; was posted back in Nov. 2015. My answer was the only one that was provided, and up until today both the query and my answer had only ever attracted one upvote each. Not a &quot;hot&quot; posting, for sure!) Interestingly, within a minute after the unupvote occurred, somebody -- for all I know, the very same person who had just unupvoted my answer; who knows, maybe it was a fat-fingers problem all along -- &lt;em&gt;upvoted&lt;/em&gt; the very same answer. Unfortunately, the net effect of these seemingly offsetting votes is that I'm stuck at a maximum of 205 points for today, not the 215 points I would have earned if the unupvote hadn't occurred. :-( &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T08:43:28.577" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T08:43:28.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-05-01T18:41:34.453" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/Russian-Phd-LaTeX-Dissertation-Template&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QbDJC.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX-шаблон для кандидатской диссертации и её автореферата (LaTeX template for russian PhD thesis)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79756" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T18:41:34.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7283" CreationDate="2017-05-04T16:20:24.247" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually you might consider making them both aliases for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brackets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brackets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brackets&lt;/a&gt;  which covers much the same ground, for example this question only has the brackets tag and has parenthesis in the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/360996/universal-parentheses&quot;&gt;Universal Parentheses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T16:20:24.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-05T12:01:24.277" Score="9" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was adding some wiki information to the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texmf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texmf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texmf&lt;/a&gt;, and found to my surprise that the wiki information concerning the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/folders&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;folders&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;folders&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory&lt;/a&gt; are empty, too, and that the information for the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paths&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paths&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paths&lt;/a&gt; seems to be odd. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far we have &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;around 300 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paths&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paths&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;around 60 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/folders&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;folders&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;folders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;around 40 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, there are different but overlapping usages for each of the three tags. I try to summarize here the most common usages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have questions related&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to including files from subdirectories&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to aspects of the TeX Document structure, e.g. the paths to certain packages and classes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to make a graphic of a directory structure in the document&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to write certain output files to different directories&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;… &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, there are certain other tags which relate to the usages listed here, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texmf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texmf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texmf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kpathsea&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kpathsea&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kpathsea&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/include&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;include&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;include&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/output&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;output&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;output&lt;/a&gt; (also undefined), …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the unclear usage of tags mentioned in the title of the question, I would like to put this to discussion here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should these tags be organized in a better way?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we define the separate usages as distinct tags? Should one of these tags (maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paths&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paths&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paths&lt;/a&gt;) be a kind of parent tag? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28751" LastActivityDate="2017-05-05T16:26:11.113" Title="Organizing the tags {folders}, {directory} and {paths}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7287" CreationDate="2017-05-05T16:26:11.113" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see any way to distinguish &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/folders&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;folders&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;folders&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory&lt;/a&gt; they should be synonyms it's telling that currently the first link in the directory list has &quot;folder&quot; in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paths&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paths&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paths&lt;/a&gt; wiki page is implying that it should just be used in the sense of the PATH environment variable for executables, but I suspect that's a lost cause and as suggested in the question that you link to it should be re-described as pertaining to filesystem paths. If that is not done almost all the existing questions tagged paths need retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2017-05-05T16:26:11.113" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7289" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7292" CreationDate="2017-05-07T01:08:35.000" Score="18" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering what is the etiquette regarding Te[X/ch]nical questions asked on the main chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have indeed seen people (including myself) posting their questions on the chat and being answered. However, it is not really convenient (notably for posting MWEs), it might interfere with others' discussion, and (more importantly) knowledge is not stockpiled as other would hardly retrieve the question later.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;My current personal guideline is thus the following: I ask on chat when I think my question is silly/simple and not very valuable for others. In other words, if I think that the question could be answered in less than one line and one minute by someone who has the relevant experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However not quite sure if it really works that way. I thus would like to know when I should ask on chat (if ever), and when it is better to write a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T09:46:30.427" Title="Chat's etiquette regarding questions" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|chat|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7289" CreationDate="2017-05-07T06:27:35.297" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're should feel free to use the platform the way you choose, whether it's for chatting about ducks, or whether it's asking questions. Those who are here to help will do exactly that. Others might be inclined to request you ask it on the main site (perhaps with the intention of answering it and receiving the accompanying reward).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've often been able to resolve an issue in chat for similar reasons you've asked - it seems simple enough for an experienced user, yet I've never had that kind of experience/exposure. So, I think it's not worthy of main site question. Another reason is that if the timing is right, you could probably get a sufficient answer really quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always post your question and test the waters there. It'll start the discussion, and if there are those willing to answer it, you can move it to the main site. It's really up to you and those you engage with in the chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T06:27:35.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7289" CreationDate="2017-05-07T07:54:12.637" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the other discussions are about ducks or food, please interfere! You'll make David happy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd do as you described; in chat, it is better to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;simple things that on the main site would be &lt;em&gt;answered in comments&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;something too specific for your problem and that wouldn't probably interest anyone else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;things that need some interaction, which is easier to have in chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what you are not sure is on topic (or other doubts) and, if they are, ask an official question later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I'd always prefer the main site, because your question will remain for future users with the same problem. Many times I found useful posts voted only by few people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T07:54:12.637" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7289" CreationDate="2017-05-07T09:46:30.427" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's OK to ask on chat but you should not expect an answer (although you may get one anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Q&amp;amp;A site is designed for asynchronous help, you ask a question and it stays visible and can be answered by anyone at any time that &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; feel convenient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask in chat then although the archives are available, the default site mechanics will mean that the question will quickly scroll out of view pushed out of sight by discussion of the latest Juventus football results and other pressing issues.  That means that asking in chat is effectively directly asking the people in the room at that point to answer the question &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, which is OK occasionally but can be annoying if done too often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand if it is really just a one liner and you ask in chat and get an answer no harm is done. But if you don't get an answer, then just leave another comment to say you'll ask again on the main site, and ask there rather than re-asking on chat or pinging people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T09:46:30.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7293" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7299" CreationDate="2017-05-08T15:41:33.537" Score="11" ViewCount="369" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't understand the reason behind it. By voting I participate on the site and in my opinion, downvoting should not be discouraged like that. There are already all these &lt;em&gt;nice&lt;/em&gt; popups on the site (&quot;consider leaving a comment&quot;, &quot;you have x votes left today&quot;, &quot;please come back in x hours to be allowed to vote again&quot; etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will continue to downvote whenever appropriate and don't care about my reputation that much and I do consider the effects on morale and I consider wheter to leave feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious, though. Does the system detect a downvote without comment (possibly giving feedback for improvement)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75284" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T15:01:41.933" Title="Why does downvoting reduce my own reputation?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2017-05-08T16:12:30.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Databases&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;CSV / Text Files&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/178904&quot;&gt;Use datatool to read a row from a CSV file, then use the variables in the document?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Use datatool to read a row from a CSV file, then use the variables in the document?](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/178904)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/402291&quot;&gt;Import CSV file generated from Excel To LaTeX with Datatool with accent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Import CSV file generated from Excel To LaTeX with Datatool with accent](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/402291)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Relational Databases&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/327749&quot;&gt;pgfplots with SQL data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[pgfplots with SQL data](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/327749)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/48193&quot;&gt;Reading data from a relational database into a LaTeX table&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Reading data from a relational database into a LaTeX table](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/48193)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3697&quot;&gt;Is it possible to connect a database to LaTeX to produce data-driven documents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is it possible to connect a database to LaTeX to produce data-driven documents?](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3697)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;General&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/331594&quot;&gt;Using an exercises package to build lots of Math/Calculus exercise lists and tests&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Using an exercises package to build lots of Math/Calculus exercise lists and tests](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/331594)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="19862" LastEditDate="2017-12-02T09:57:02.060" LastActivityDate="2017-12-02T09:57:02.060" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-05-08T16:12:30.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7297" CreationDate="2017-05-11T23:16:45.090" Score="8" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to contact the administrators of the tex-talk blog (which used to be the TeX blog on this network before that got closed down), but in the transfer from the SE network it would appear that the formatting of some old posts has been lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically (but I suspect not uniquely), &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex-talk.net/2011/08/do-the-knuth-shuffle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this old post&lt;/a&gt; shows the raw markdown instead of the formatted output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T10:46:52.207" Title="Can the blog formatting be cleaned up?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-12T08:42:18.843" Score="5" ViewCount="729" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please look at my comments to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/13716/30810&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/13716/30810&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They cannot be copied and compiled because there are zero-width non-joiners and and zero-width spaces (&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;zwnj;&amp;amp;#8203;&lt;/code&gt; in HTML source code) inserted in the code snippets. (You also see weird behavior in some text editors when you copy and paste this.) After the first two times, I thought this might have been the result of copy-and-pasting this from somewhere, so the third time, I typed the whole comment without pasting from anywhere. Interestingly, these things appear mid-word in different places. Is this a browser bug (Windows 10, Chrome, 58.0.3029.110), or is this a results os TeX.SX processing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30810" LastEditorUserId="35590" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T09:26:37.517" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T09:26:37.517" Title="Zero-width non-joiners and and zero-width space inserted in code" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|code|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7295" CreationDate="2017-05-12T10:29:37.180" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you! I fixed the post. It was actually just opening and saving, since the markdown plugin is installed but the imported post needed applying it. In addition I adjusted to GeSHi syntax highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will look through the other posts. I went through them after the transfer but it seems that I did not complete that yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks again for that notice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: further posts already found and fixed, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex-talk.net/2012/10/i-tex-therefore-i-toast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I TeX Therefore I Toast&lt;/a&gt;. Luckily I can let wordpress search for markdown keywords to find untouched markdown posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2017-05-12T10:46:52.207" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T10:46:52.207" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-15T08:14:34.523" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just encountered a question tagged with &lt;code&gt;{bbl}&lt;/code&gt;. As far as I can tell this is no useful tag as most of the questions are either closed or deal with problems with bibliographical auxiliary files. So should &lt;code&gt;{bbl}&lt;/code&gt; become a synonym of &lt;code&gt;{auxiliary-files}&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124577" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T08:14:34.523" Title="Should {bbl} be a synonym for {auxiliary-files}?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7293" CreationDate="2017-05-16T15:01:41.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is to remind people that downvotes shall be sparse and to encourage positive attitude towards people. The rep loss is small (it's actually small even for the receiver, not only for the voter) but it is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shan't stop you from downvoting spam as once the spam message is deleted, your points will return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T15:01:41.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7301" CreationDate="2017-05-17T11:30:11.200" Score="18" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt;, I saw (in the section titled &lt;em&gt;Improve posts by editing or commenting&lt;/em&gt;) a sample comment that only provided a thanks, nothing else. On StackOverflow I learned to avoid this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the rules here different? (I mean, a thanks here and there helps to create a friendly atmosphere)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not I'd suggest to change this tour section. Thanks ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133651" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T18:02:35.883" Title="Are thanks-only comments appropriate at this SE site?" Tags="|discussion|comments|tour|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7300" CreationDate="2017-05-17T12:57:43.310" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;As on all StackExchange sites, the idea of comments here is that they are ways of allowing clarification or feedback on questions/answers but should always be viewed as 'less important' than the material they are attached to. In particular, they &lt;em&gt;may be deleted&lt;/em&gt; where moderators deem this appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of 'Thanks' comments, they are not &lt;em&gt;encouraged&lt;/em&gt; here and certainly if flagged may be removed, but at the same time there is no particular need to 'track them down'. As such, it's likely that you will come across 'Thanks' comments, particularly if a question was asked/answered recently. (A 'thanks' message is more likely to be removed if it's 'older' than if it's just been left on a freshly-answered question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T12:57:43.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7168" CreationDate="2017-05-27T05:27:42.193" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/revision/646030/806504/corruption&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;\\ corruption&lt;/a&gt;, I've created a new query&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/676480/tex-sx-corruption-based-on-user-id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX.SX \\ corruption (based on user ID)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which I hope will help anyone to find their own posts affected by this bug!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. The database is updated every sunday, so the query will return also updated Q&amp;amp;A until the database is refreshed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastEditorUserId="27635" LastEditDate="2017-06-03T17:48:52.760" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T17:48:52.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7300" CreationDate="2017-05-29T09:40:48.580" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A pure phrase &quot;Thanks!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;is a direct acknowledgment,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;often (though not always) has the connotation that no more action is needed, and the author of &quot;thanks&quot; sees the problem as (at least) partially solved, or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;is often (though not always) an implicit marker for the end of the conversation from the side of the author of &quot;thanks&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Said that, whenever a &quot;thanks&quot; clearly serves more than one of the purposes above, having it is actually helpful. Whenever a &quot;thanks&quot; conveys a message already stated by a different means, there is no need to restate the message, and &quot;thanks&quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counterproductive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;counterproductive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user108682" LastEditorDisplayName="user108682" LastEditDate="2017-05-29T18:02:35.883" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T18:02:35.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-03T02:27:59.613" Score="21" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have started using Stack Overflow and one thing I noticed is that their &lt;kbd&gt;close&lt;/kbd&gt; dialog is much more feature rich than ours.  Let's see a picture of their &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eYmD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eYmD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wow!  This makes a lot of sens to me.  In our close dialog on the other hand we have the custom message thing, which allows the close voter to specific a reason in written text.  This was previously discussed and introduced here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3644&quot;&gt;Off-topic closure: predefined reasons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, often times I do not want to type so much and there are a lot of reasons which come up quite often, for example, the typo.  Of course, I could save some text building block on my computer but simply clicking a button seems more comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I propose to add the following reasons for voting to close as off-topic (stolen and adapted from Stack Overflow):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking us to &lt;strong&gt;recommend or find a package, font, book, documentation or other off-site resource&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic on this site as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, produce a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; to reproduce the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This question was caused by &lt;strong&gt;a problem that can no longer be reproduced or a simple typographical error.&lt;/strong&gt; While similar questions may be on-topic here, this one was resolved in a manner unlikely to help future readers. This can often be avoided by identifying and closely inspecting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt;  necessary to reproduce the problem before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time it would be advantageous to be able to migrate questions on MathJAX to Stack Overflow.  Currently, one can only vote to move to Meta.  But I guess that is another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T18:20:02.377" Title="Please add more off-topic close reasons" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7305" CreationDate="2017-06-07T18:20:02.377" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;One I think uncontroversial close reason is for things which are typos or which cannot be reproduced: these are about TeX but are unlikely to help any future readers. Thus something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question was caused by a problem that can &lt;em&gt;no longer be reproduced&lt;/em&gt; or &#xA;  a &lt;em&gt;simple typographical error&lt;/em&gt;. While similar questions may be on-topic &#xA;  here, this one was resolved in a manner unlikely to help future readers. &#xA;  This can often be avoided by identifying and closely inspecting the &#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; necessary to reproduce the problem before &#xA;  posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T18:20:02.377" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7308" CreationDate="2017-06-08T15:07:57.677" Score="28" ViewCount="837" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/373942/132800&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; was changed; I agree with most of the changes but it also involved changing from british to american spelling (specialised -&gt; specialized and initialising -&gt; initializing). As a continental european, I have accustomed to writing in british spelling; Is this deprecated here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132800" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T13:04:38.737" Title="American or British English" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7307" CreationDate="2017-06-08T15:21:12.710" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site language is 'English' but (within reason) the idiom of the original poster should be preserved. In particular, there should generally not be an issue with using either US or UK conventions on spelling. When editing, I would normally correct typos or make other changes in line with the author's intention, but would not change US/UK spelling and where adding any information always use the form chosen by the original author. (I am from the UK so prefer UK English, but if editing a post in US English leave that alone.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one more grey area is where the idiom rather than spelling might cause confusion. This is likely to be very rare, but where it occurs I would tend to look for a 'neutral' presentation (so avoiding either UK- or US-centric expressions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-06-09T13:04:38.737" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T13:04:38.737" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-08T18:36:31.830" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, a lot of my old answers are being edited  because instead of &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;  in table or some other code appear &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;. joined with the next line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is impossible that I posted so many answers with this mistake. In a site so active it is also impossible a wrong code undetected for a long time, not to say dozens of answers with positive votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone has noticed the same problem? What happened? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T18:36:31.830" Title="What happened with `\\` on my answers" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-06-08T19:07:00.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7312" CreationDate="2017-06-11T09:06:49.477" Score="13" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before you close this question as a duplicate: I know that the common sense in the meta answers is &quot;TeX questions on Stackoverflow are on-topic there and we separately answer questions, even if they are duplicates on SO&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The motivation for this post is the following: Lately there have been some question I know I found answers to in the past. I wanted to mark them as duplicate, but recognized that the answer is on SO. Well, I could have answered the question, but essentially it would have been a c&amp;amp;p of the SO answer. Posts like &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/1398127&quot;&gt;this one about tables and multiple columns&lt;/a&gt; f.i. have a pretty good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow even maintains a documentation about LaTeX (basic coverage in their documentation project), has about 5,600 questions about LaTeX and only their tag about LaTeX suggests using the TeX.SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: Why should one reinvent the wheel and write answers that already have been given? Isn't there an option for marking it as duplicate of an SO question, if both sites deal with LaTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124577" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T13:12:16.787" Title="TeX questions on StackOverflow" Tags="|discussion|answers|questions|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7311" CreationDate="2017-06-11T14:11:55.253" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;By-design, the network treats each site as a separate entity, so there is no possibility of marking as a duplicate between different sites. As such, the only ways to answer such questions are to post an answer or to close and migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stated aim of the network is to develop repositories of knowledge on the range of topics covered. So if someone chooses to ask on TeX-sx, they are entitled to answer there, and on StackOverflow they are entitled to one there. We see the same idea where there are good resources outside of the network: an answer should be entirely contained within the site but can reference such a resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been some tensions concerning the existence of sites with overlapping scopes. In particular, there have been suggestions that as StackOverflow covers programming, there should be no other sites that have any programming content. The argument in favour of a dedicated TeX site is that the overlap is at best partial: a lot of our content would be off-topic on StackOverflow as it's not strictly 'programming', while TeX programming is sufficiently unusual that most general programmers would struggle to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, migration of older questions between sites has been ruled out by the Powers. The logic here is that these older questions &lt;em&gt;were on topic for their current site when posted&lt;/em&gt;, so have good reason to stay. Moreover, given differences in the approach on different sites, migrations tend to be more in need of editing than is the general position. Both of these factors mean that migrations are restricted to new(ish) questions, where 'active' engagement by the poster and others can be expected. So questions on StackOverflow about LaTeX will to stay there unless they are being asked now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-06-12T13:12:16.787" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T13:12:16.787" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-13T10:44:24.843" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an identity/account but cannot comment, or post answers. How do I extricate myself? I posted a comment as an answer because I couldn't post a comment, I forget which, and was told off. I once posted a perfectly reasonable question, got a good answer and then was told it was a bad answer. I appear to have been blocked because of the most stupid things, and I can't even figure out how to remove my identity/account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87448" OwnerDisplayName="Alison Lees" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-06-13T10:54:25.267" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T10:54:25.267" Title="How do I get a new identity" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7316" CreationDate="2017-06-13T13:20:24.807" Score="15" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody asked a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I take solving the issue for a nice challenge which requires communicative interaction with the person who asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e., I see several ways of approaching the issue, with different benefits and different drawbacks. What to consider the best approach depends on the specific needs and the workflow on the side of the person who asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e., testing and feedback might be interesting during the process of developing a solution which - when that process is terminated - can, e.g., be posted to TeX-LaTeX StackExchange as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I would like to contact the person who asked the question in order to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;express my point of view, i.e., that effective help requires communicative interaction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;convey my own e-mail adress as a means of communication.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way the person who asked the question is free to decide whether s/he is inclined to communicate/interact with me and whether to reveal contacting details to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best way of doing this via TeX-LaTeX StackExchange given that the person who asked the question does not provide contacting details in her/his profile and given that I don't like making my own e-mail adress available to the public?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2017-06-13T18:47:00.290" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T13:32:49.290" Title="What is the best way for offering private communication to a questioner?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7314" CreationDate="2017-06-14T10:48:48.537" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;By-design, there is no 'private' communication on the StackOverflow network. (Exception: moderators can send direct messages for serious issues.) The reason for this is that as a Q&amp;amp;A site the aim is that both questions and answers have value for not only the original poster but also for future readers. As such, any clarification should be sought in public, possibly as a comment or possibly in a chat room. The question should then be updated to make this clear, or potentially answer(s) may make it clear that they cover one or more of several possible approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are occasions where mail-based communication is helpful, most obviously where an issue needs a full &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; and source files. For those, some public email address is the only way to go: for example, I am happy for my 'home' one to be used. Some people may wish to use a 'secondary' mail address for such purposes, or simply to avoid tackling these issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T10:48:48.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7314" CreationDate="2017-06-14T13:32:49.290" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also proceed as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create an &quot;alias&quot; at a website like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yopmail.com/en/alternate-email-address.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;yopmail&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.topbestalternatives.com/yopmail/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;any other &quot;disposable&quot; mail service&lt;/a&gt; that offer to redirect disposable emails to your &quot;real&quot; address.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indicate that alias address in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment offering to contact you &lt;em&gt;via&lt;/em&gt; the address indicated on your profile. The message will be forwarded to your &quot;real&quot; email address.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, you can feel free to disclose your &quot;real&quot; email address, ignore the message, or even change or re-configure the disposable email if you feel like it was compromised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34551" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T13:32:49.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7326" CreationDate="2017-06-14T13:49:31.647" Score="62" ViewCount="1627" Body="&lt;p&gt;First things first, the background for this meta thread is the following issue reported by Enrico Gregorio (&lt;code&gt;egreg&lt;/code&gt;) at the beginning of the year (January 11, 2017):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7168/double-backslashes-disappear-from-code&quot;&gt;Double backslashes disappear from code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, a lot of users (from high ranked to newbies) have devoted a significant part of their online times to manually fix the codes in thousands and thousands of questions and answers. At the risk of forgetting someone (please, forgive me if I do so), we the TeX.sx people would like to thank&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1090/david-carlisle&quot;&gt;David Carlisle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/579/barbara-beeton&quot;&gt;barbara beeton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/89949/moriambar&quot;&gt;Moriambar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/27635/karlkoeller&quot;&gt;karlkoeller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/117534/troy&quot;&gt;Troy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/36296/samcarter&quot;&gt;samcarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/48/shreevatsar&quot;&gt;ShreevatsaR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;[add more names here]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and many other heroes that want to make good, correct, compilable code available to the entire community for the greater good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Thank you very much!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A warm note to the Powers that Be: please, note the community effort to fix (or at least mitigate the effects of) the reported issue, which harmed a great deal of TeX knowledge gathered here. The answer took more than three months to arrive; in the meantime, we were desperately waiting for a feedback. I kindly ask to look at us more closely from now on, please. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="27635" LastEditDate="2017-07-15T06:47:56.873" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T00:27:45.933" Title="Community effort in fixing the double backslashes issue" Tags="|discussion|editing|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2017-06-17T21:32:54.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cseducators.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B6fyK.png&quot; alt=&quot;You can also join us in the CS room, http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/59701/join-cs-educators&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111470" LastActivityDate="2017-06-17T21:32:54.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-21T04:51:58.713" Score="6" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question earlier that was quickly closed as a duplicate. Looking at the earlier question, I can see that it kinda sorta &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; is a duplicate. However, the other question isn't clearly expressed and is mostly on a different topic, and while the answers do provide an answer to my question it's hidden among answers to a different question, and might not be the best/cleanest way to do what I'm trying to achieve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is whether my question should count as a duplicate in this case, or whether it would be better to leave it open as a question specifically on this topic. I don't mind much myself, but I think future visitors will have a hard time finding the other question if they have the same problem as me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376013/how-can-i-print-out-the-exact-dimensions-of-my-images?noredirect=1#comment930724_376013&quot;&gt;How can I print out the exact dimensions of my images?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53497/how-do-i-control-the-exact-dimension-of-a-picture-in-latex&quot;&gt;How do I control the exact dimension of a picture in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;. This question was originally called &quot;How do I &lt;em&gt;get&lt;/em&gt; the exact dimension of a picture in LaTeX&quot;, but I proposed an edit to the title because the question body is mostly about changing the dimensions of the image, not getting them. (Though it does also ask for that as well, which is the issue.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12461" LastEditorUserId="12461" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T05:27:13.947" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T16:19:59.760" Title="Is my question a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7320" CreationDate="2017-06-21T16:19:59.760" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;By editing the duplicate question title, (from &amp;quot;How do I get the exact dimensions...&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;How do I control the exact dimensions...&amp;quot;) you've made it appear less of a duplicate than it is. But the duplicate question absolutely starts out with exactly the question you are asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is pretty simple: I'd like to have the possibility to get the exact size of a picture in LaTeX with, for example, the macro &lt;code&gt;\the&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I've founded the way &lt;code&gt;\settoheight{}&lt;/code&gt; and so on, but it didn't work at all. What I've got doesn't match with what I can see in the image properties (I suppose that's the name in English). The result: 8pt versus 1300 pixels. It's may be a mis-use...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while it's true that the end goal of that user's question was different, the question still remains, and there is an answer (Jake's) that clearly explains how to find the size of an included image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments to your question, you say that Jake's solution&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems to solve my problem, but it does it in a really inconvenient way, requring me to reenter the includegraphics command twice, and printing the answer into the document itself instead of the console.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But surely these are minor details.  Or if they are not, then the standard procedure is to edit your question using the linked proposed duplicate solution and then explain why that answer isn't sufficient.  (In this particular case, the issue of how you output the values seems trivial to me, and so I would still think the edited question was a duplicate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you do want to edit your question in this way, you could ask for it to be reopened.  Your question is a clearer question in many ways than the duplicate, for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But duplicate questions don't typically get deleted, so people will still find your question in searches anyway, so I'm not sure that it's such a big issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T16:19:59.760" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7323" CreationDate="2017-06-22T18:37:50.137" Score="10" ViewCount="454" Body="&lt;p&gt;While observing new questions I have found this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376325/citation-with-see-or-cf&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376325/citation-with-see-or-cf&lt;/a&gt;. Which, as pointed out in the comments, was already asked by the same user. I have looked the profile of the OP and it seems that s/he asks this question for the third time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376194/how-to-solve-missing-delimiter-inserted-endeqnarray/376200#376200&quot;&gt;How to solve &amp;quot;Missing delimiter (. inserted) \end{eqnarray*}&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376115/miktex-tex-studio-missing-delimiter-inserted&quot;&gt;Miktex, tex studio, &amp;quot;Missing delimiter (. inserted)&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; the questions are the same from the same user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, one user provides strange answers (which are sometimes not answers) with screenshots, but no code, which might be very confusing for new users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376223/how-can-i-write-exponential-function-with-base-other-than-e/376226#376226&quot;&gt;How can I write exponential function with base other than e?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376202/problem-with-align-command/376211#376211&quot;&gt;Problem with align command&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376215/why-is-the-caption-of-table-at-the-bottom-of-it/376218#376218&quot;&gt;Why is the caption of table at the bottom of it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reverse engineering should be applied to the answers (produce &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;code&gt;.pdf&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question may seem vague, but is anything to be done with the users who behave themselves like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; One user today asked the question they asked two days ago.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376100/latex-typesetting&quot;&gt;Latex typesetting&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376555/latex-file-for-matrix&quot;&gt;LaTeX file for matrix&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like a typical situation I have discussed above, &lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; this first one has got the score of &lt;strong&gt;-2&lt;/strong&gt;, no answers and is on hold, while the question asked today has &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes and two answers with score +6 and +7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two improvements in the second question: photo of &lt;em&gt;do-it-for-me&lt;/em&gt; matrix is cleaner and a code was added as an MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this difference in up/down voting? The questions are really the same and are duplicates of each other, but have so different score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100689" LastEditorUserId="100689" LastEditDate="2017-06-24T13:09:08.027" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T08:28:12.717" Title="OP asks the same question two or three times or does the same strange things several times" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2017-06-26T08:28:12.717" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you raise two unrelated issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one is a bunch of poor answers. There I think really the site is working as designed, the answers have few votes (negative total in some cases) which is the site's mechanism for distinguishing good from bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first issue with new users repeat posting is &lt;em&gt;very common&lt;/em&gt; . As happened in some of the cases that you link to, it is very common for a user to ask a poorly phrased question, or a question with no example, and to get a comment on the question saying that the question should be rephrased, or an example added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not uncommon, or particularly unreasonable, that a new user addresses this by posting a new question rather than editing the existing one. It takes a while to get used to the editing concept and mechanisms in place in these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When this happens no real harm is done, just leave a comment to the OP saying it would have been better to edit than ask a new question, then vote to close the older question as a duplicate of the newer improved one.  Most of the questions that you link to have been closed in this, or similar ways already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T08:28:12.717" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5934" CreationDate="2017-06-26T17:55:21.573" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you having an account on GitHub would be very good. GitHub is a platform hosting code for version control and collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134085" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T17:55:21.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-29T20:21:14.533" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about requesting a tag for the Legrand Orange template that is very popular in this community. But is this possible? Is this a kind of advertising or would it not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this template seems not to be so popular, let's imagine that I find another one that is really popular, requesting a TAG for the given template would be feasible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134085" LastEditorUserId="134085" LastEditDate="2017-06-29T21:29:07.533" LastActivityDate="2017-06-29T21:29:07.533" Title="A tag for the Legrand Orange template" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7317" CreationDate="2017-07-03T10:42:51.400" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;A list of (probably) all posts that show this problem is returned by the following query&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/695628/posts-probably-affected-by&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/695628/posts-probably-affected-by&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which returns 11554 postings, this shows all the pre-2014 postings on the site whose initial unedited markdown has a single backslash followed by four spaces, or spaces and a tab.  This is a (very) small over-estimate of the posts corrupted. A few tens of posts had ASCII-art  diagrams involving &lt;code&gt;\␣␣␣␣&lt;/code&gt; and a few less than that had &lt;code&gt;\␣␣␣␣&lt;/code&gt; in actual tex code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So fixing this problem meant applying a regular expression replace of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &quot;\([^\\]\)\\\(␣␣␣␣\|␣*\t\)&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;\1\\\\\n␣␣␣␣&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could have been applied in about a couple of minutes by anyone with write access to the back end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially a different search was used in SEDE (and similar searches using &lt;code&gt;code:&lt;/code&gt; in the live site web search)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/685412/bug-no-filter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/685412/bug-no-filter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which currently returns no results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows all posts prior to 2014 with HTML with a single backslash followed by a tab or four spaces (tabs are are normalised to spaces in the SQL data dump HTML)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in March of this year, after several posts had already been fixed before this data query was produced, this was showing 7322  posts, as noted in a comment under m0sa's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As will be explained later, this missed over 4000 corrupted posts, but this was not realised at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A purely automatic method of fixing these posts was complicated by the fact that there were some (less than a hundred) posts with legitimate use for backslash-four spaces. Typically &quot;ASCII art&quot; renditions of trees. For postings prior to 2014 as returned by the above query these have all been changed to use a form not returned by the query (using non-breaking space for ASCII Art or just formatting the tex code not to have four spaces after a single &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;) This was done to prevent the same postings re-appearing and requiring human intervention each time anyone tried to search remaining bug instances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Stackexchange failed to provide any tools to address this issue, the bulk of the questions were addressed by running variants of the above query, which provided links directly to the edit page of the affected post.  Then copying the text to a buffer in an emacs text editor which had the required replacement function already defined. This function fixed the text and put the replacement text back in the operating system clipboard in a few keystrokes, which could then be pasted back into the browser edit window and saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The emacs lisp used query-replace so that the edits could be checked for false positive cases as described above, these had to be handled by hand, but for the bulk of cases a posting could be fixed in around 10 seconds. For ~7500 postings that is still 21 hours, and actual elapsed time was certainly greater than this as people slow down, or the site flagged issues with images in edited posts that required manual intervention, or any other reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data-query and emacs based workflow described above was used by Moriambar and myself, Barbara Beeton who was the other person to do bulk edits used a variant using site search directly on the live site (apart from anything else having the alternative search helped fix some issues in our data queries). Many other people helped out by fixing smaller numbers of queries, in particular fixing their own posts that had been affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the first version of this answer was published it was realised that the search on the live site or the data-explorer post table is checking the pre-rendered HTML, The SQL was modified to instead check the last edited entry in the posthistory table which records the underlying markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This link does check the markdown (by looking in the post history)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/695037/bug-query-on-markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/695037/bug-query-on-markdown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially produced 4573 missed posts, and after a couple of days when the SEDE dump was refreshed on the 18 July this was down to 790, and I believe these are now fixed, so it should be 0 next week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This massive increase in productivity was due to ShreevatsaR providing a javascript solution replacing the need to use an external editor and allowing the whole operation to be done with two keystrokes per post, at around the site maximum rate of 5 seconds per post (the site locks you out if you post edits faster than that) Note that this throttling to 5 seconds would have been unnecessary had authorised access been used, and would have brought the total time down to seconds rather than hours) This was applied by ShreevatsaR, Moriambar and myself on subsets of the list returned by the SEDE query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of everyone who edited a pre-2014 posting in 2017 is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/685628/users-with-the-most-edits-of-old-posts-in-2017&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/685628/users-with-the-most-edits-of-old-posts-in-2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that by far the largest number of edits is by &quot;Community&quot;  with 3 times as many edits as the next person. These would (mostly) be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&amp;amp;page=2&quot;&gt;edits to change URL from http to https&lt;/a&gt;. Note this was done as a silent back-end edit to the collection, without flagging each question as an edited question and raising to the top of the home page, and without requiring dozens of hours of manual volunteer work to make the change. It is a shame that Community could not have been coerced into fixing this issue. (Bulk editing the full list followed by a manual check for the few cases where the edit was not required would have been &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; quicker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the &quot;2nd batch&quot; of 4300 posts looked OK on the site&#xA;but the underlying markdown was corrupt, so any edit to the question would put corrupted text with missing &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; into the edit box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue is the reason for the related question on meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6005/double-backslash-newline-collapses-to-single-backslash-when-i-hit-edit&quot;&gt;‘double backslash + newline’ collapses to ‘single backslash’ when I hit ‘edit’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also the reason why the issue surfaced particularly strongly this year, three years after the initial corruption took place. Earlier this year Stackexchange edited all postings with images replacing http URL with https.&#xA;On this site that would have re-generated thousands of old posts that were visibly OK but had corrupted markdown, so exposing thousands of corrupted postings on to the public site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T00:27:45.933" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T00:27:45.933" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-03T16:36:56.107" Score="6" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question, then obtain a question in response, how do I enter and respond to the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137454" OwnerDisplayName="Milt Riggs" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-07-03T17:40:25.260" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T17:40:25.260" Title="How do I respond to a response?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7327" CreationDate="2017-07-03T17:00:10.787" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To simply put this into an answer: You should use the comment feature to respond to users or to ask for clarification. You can always comment on your own questions and answers. Once you earn 50 reputation, you can comment on anybody's post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to mention a user in your comment you ping him with &lt;code&gt;@user&lt;/code&gt;, but substitute &lt;code&gt;user&lt;/code&gt; for his name. So if you want to ping me you would type &lt;code&gt;@TeXnician&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments you can use the usual markdown you can use in questions/answers (code highlighting, font adjustments etc.), but avoid putting too many important information in there. Sometimes you should edit your own question instead (or of course answer, if you found a solution).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124577" OwnerDisplayName="TeXnician" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T17:00:10.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7317" CreationDate="2017-07-06T16:22:59.633" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;On behalf of the team, &lt;strong&gt;thank you very much&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; who participated in fixing the backslash problem. &lt;strong&gt;It really was excellent, amazing work.&lt;/strong&gt; Editing is always underappreciated, and this must have been all the duller to do by hand because it was looking at the same bit of code formatting over and over rather than cleaning up prose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize for our inability to do more to help you, and for our poor communication. In the spirit of &quot;better late than never,&quot; here's a very short post-mortem. Several developers and CMs did spend a significant amount of time &quot;behind the scenes&quot; trying to identify the cause of the bug and create a fix. As has been mentioned, the errors were initially caused by a change on our end, but we could not track down the exact original details due to a combination of age and poor record-keeping. Regardless, we considered solving the problem by performing a mass edit on the backend, but every edit strategy we tested seemed to break as many posts as it fixed, and we erred on the side of not introducing new bugs. Not knowing the original list of affected posts hampered us there. Ultimately, of course, we did not solve the problem. We did learn a lesson about keeping better backups, which should help you as well as the rest of the network going forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to acknowledge that a big part of the problem here was &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; we were working: as I said earlier, it was behind the scenes. As such, you had no way of knowing whether we were working at all, or even that we cared. I often give the advice that a bad perception can be as damaging as a bad reality, and in this case I failed to heed it myself. We on the team have a tendency to think of ourselves as transparent&amp;#8212;because that is our honest intent&amp;#8212;while falling into the trap of waiting &quot;just a little longer&quot; until we have something more substantive to announce, when in many cases &quot;just a little longer&quot; turns into &quot;a lot longer&quot; or &quot;never.&quot; We've become more aware of the problem recently, and are working on it. In short, we'll try to be more communicative with you about what steps we are taking as we are working, in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the suggestion of your moderator team, Stack Exchange will be making a contribution in TeX SE's honor to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/tug2018/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUG 2018&lt;/a&gt;, the annual meeting of the TeX Users Group (TUG) which will be held in Rio de Janiero next year. (This is separate from/in addition to the annual donation we make to TUG that grants this community &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7212/tug-representatives-for-2017&quot;&gt;institutional membership benefits in that organization&lt;/a&gt;.) The exact details are still in the works but will be announced when possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a more tangible show of gratitude, we will be sending some TeX SE &quot;swag&quot; to users who contributed to the editing effort. If that includes you, be on the lookout for an e-mail from Stack Overflow (or just e-mail us yourself, referencing this meta post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2221" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T16:22:59.633" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-11T12:34:55.063" Score="26" ViewCount="1167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it happens to receive a lot of votes for a simple answer, ten minutes' work, whereas an excellent or elaborated one earns fewer votes it deserves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A famous example of the first kind is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/94891/101651&quot;&gt;David Carlisle's answer to the grandma's question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent instance of the second type is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/378062/101651&quot;&gt;another David's post&lt;/a&gt; which is the cleanest among the answers to that question but not the most upvoted (at the time I wrote this post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is your best answer among the ones which received few votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are too humble to point out your own answer, you could highlight another user's one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also extend this to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-07-23T21:35:36.607" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T10:31:19.323" Title="Which is your best underestimated (by other users) answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7330" CreationDate="2017-07-11T13:39:40.350" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add this answer of @moewe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/170321/36296&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/170321/36296&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This basically creates a completely new style and for all the work it did not even get accepted by the OP and only a single upvote :( There are many similar answers of her/him but I guess since most bibliography questions are about tweaking something to fit some very particular style, they are often not widely applicable and therefore terribly underrated - but maybe it's just the missing ducks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T13:39:40.350" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7330" CreationDate="2017-07-11T15:27:51.887" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I have sentimental attachment to this answer of mine, which was one of the first few questions I answered.  It was very instructive on how the reputation system actually works.  The answer took quite a bit of sleuthing, but received only four votes. At the same time  answering simpler questions that could be answered simply by reading package documentation could gain many more votes.  And then of course there's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz&lt;/a&gt; automatic bonus. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7996/2693&quot;&gt;lineno and syntax package incompatibilities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also answer a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linguistics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linguistics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linguistics&lt;/a&gt; questions which since few people use those specialized packages tend not to get many votes. I do, however, get many thanks from random people at linguistics conferences, which makes up for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T15:27:51.887" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7330" CreationDate="2017-07-12T14:13:40.720" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one of mine which required a good slice of work but got only 1 upvote is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/365756/117050&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question &quot;Justifying ('ragged right/left, center') all the tables in a document&quot;. There might be others but I think only 1 upvote is a bit harsh even if this answer is not applicable for anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T14:13:40.720" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7335" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-12T17:44:30.343" Score="4" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of yesterday, there is a strange problem when I try to include an image with my tex.sx questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I click on the image icon or hit &lt;code&gt;ctrl-G&lt;/code&gt;, and I get the upload&#xA;dialog box, but it tells me that my image is too big to upload, &lt;strong&gt;even&#xA;though I haven't selected an image yet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then, when I click one of the&#xA;several instances of &lt;code&gt;cancel&lt;/code&gt;, or the X icon at the upper right of&#xA;the dialog box, nothing happens; I have no way to get back to my&#xA;question. I have to close the browser tab and start over.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would post a screengrab of the situation, but, well, I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on here, and how, if at all, do I fix it? So far I have tried logging out and back in; I haven't been able to think of anything else to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted an image of the problem &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aA4di.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VjpsL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VjpsL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update 2&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem occurs in Chrome, but not in Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36448" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T13:37:04.377" Title="Can no longer post an image with my questions" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6005" CreationDate="2017-07-13T09:25:13.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The linked question has now been fixed as part of a general fix of several thousand similarly affected posts, see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7326&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7326&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T09:25:13.127" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7168" CreationDate="2017-07-13T09:29:42.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This and the linked question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6005/double-backslash-newline-collapses-to-single-backslash-when-i-hit-edit&quot;&gt;‘double backslash + newline’ collapses to ‘single backslash’ when I hit ‘edit’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are two manifestations of the same issue, see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7317/1090&quot;&gt;Community effort in fixing the double backslashes issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a summary of how this got fixed in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T09:29:42.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7330" CreationDate="2017-07-15T16:49:59.030" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two of my answers that I am rather fond of are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/215322/multiple-marginnote-commands-on-the-same-line-in-math-environment/216037?s=5|0.3198#216037&quot;&gt;Multiple \marginnote commands on the same line in math environment&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/230464/pgfplots-placing-legends-individually-to-the-end-of-lines/238464?s=13|1.0256#238464&quot;&gt;Pgfplots: Placing legends individually to the end of lines&lt;/a&gt;, both dealing with how to place text at specific vertical locations without overlapping them.  (I really should go back are redo the first using macros instead of dimen registers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T16:49:59.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7330" CreationDate="2017-07-16T01:36:27.887" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one.&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2017-07-27T11:02:10.250" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T11:02:10.250" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5978" CreationDate="2017-07-16T23:10:24.737" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The linked question has now been fixed (along with ~11,000 similarly corrupted postings) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7317/1090&quot;&gt;Community effort in fixing the double backslashes issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a summary of how this got fixed in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T23:10:24.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7335" CreationDate="2017-07-18T13:37:04.377" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the problem was a certain browser extension: disabling it solves the problem. I have no idea why &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; extension, which has never created problems before, should do so now, but I'll deal with that later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Behold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LUymg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LUymg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Gypsy Spellweaver for the tip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36448" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T13:37:04.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7345" CreationDate="2017-07-18T14:41:50.890" Score="7" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following question was closed as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/381071/2693&quot;&gt;NSF fastlane removes hyperref links from PDFs when fontspec is used&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't think this question  should have been closed. We have other questions e.g. dealing problems with uploading to arXiv which are considered on-topic. We don't know for sure that the problem is simply one of the fact that NSF redistills the uploaded PDF.  NSF receives thousands of submissions and many users use LaTeX, so there might be a real solution out there but closing the question will prevent any new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the type of off-topic question that will attract lots of irrelevant answers, so I think that leaving it open has more potential benefits than closing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T00:44:28.190" Title="Reopen NSF Fastlane question" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7344" CreationDate="2017-07-20T00:44:28.190" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has now been successfully reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T00:44:28.190" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7347" CreationDate="2017-07-20T07:56:41.840" Score="7" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gained recently the &quot;privilege&quot; of talking in chat on TeX.se, but I cannot figure out how can I access to the chat room as there's no indications. I found a very long path by going on all the chats of all communities of Stackexchange, and still (on 55 pages of chats) couldn't find TeX.se one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how can I access chat briefly from my main page? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Npyc0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Npyc0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120984" LastActivityDate="2023-07-15T07:49:53.383" Title="How to access the chat from the main page?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2017-07-20T08:51:17.177" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the dropdown to see the rooms and the main chatroom is available there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CZXdg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CZXdg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T08:51:17.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2017-07-20T09:39:56.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; (click on the large red &quot;TEX&quot; at the top of every page) there is a link at the left hand side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qdxc9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qdxc9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or bookmark the chat :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T19:47:41.273" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T19:47:41.273" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2017-07-20T18:08:42.990" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scroll the main page all the way down, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W7AuO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W7AuO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42366" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T18:08:42.990" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7330" CreationDate="2017-07-21T15:24:57.510" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/369953/9057&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/369953/9057&lt;/a&gt; is a typical example of mine for answers that are in a mad challenge with an answer of @egreg (see David's comment to the question above). If egreg answers a question the best you can do is either to not try to answer it too or—if you have already answered it—delete your answer before someone else can see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/366576/9057&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/366576/9057&lt;/a&gt; was a 5 minutes answer (most of the time was needed to make all the links) with too much votes for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the answer which made me crazy was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/350024/9057&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/350024/9057&lt;/a&gt;. After getting more than 10 votes for this answer, I've asked myself whats wrong with this world. And I found the answer: Germany will get 12 points never ever again. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9057" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T15:24:57.510" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2017-07-24T07:20:49.223" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a suggestion in case of a question too early put in the Close Votes list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;To the close-voters: wait a few days before closing: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KSSY4.png. &#xA;Let's give the OP time to refine his/her question!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a brief version of the comment for the &lt;em&gt;just-do-it-for-me&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For old users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Please add a [minimal working example (MWE)](//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) of what you've tried so far.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for very old users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;You've been a member for more than ... years/months.  You should know what a [minimal working example (MWE)](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) is. Please edit your question adding what you've tried so far; as it is, it's a _just-do-it-for-me_ one.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and new users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at [our starter guide](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436) to familiarize yourself further with our format. In particular, please add a [minimal working example (MWE)](//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) of what you've tried so far.&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2017-12-10T13:40:27.187" LastActivityDate="2017-12-10T13:40:27.187" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-07-24T07:20:49.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-24T18:59:10.300" Score="17" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/383023/73371&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/383023/73371&lt;/a&gt;, I wrote a short answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot for reporting this and all your research into that matter. Thanks @egreg! This seems indeed to be a leftover of an experiment I did once and did not completely reverse. And my (wrong) code stopped working with an expl3 update. I will publish an update of mhchem during the next couple of days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got a delete vote and a comment I should neither say thanks nor announce a future update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What's your policy on a package author saying &quot;I am working on this&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As a package user, I would find it helpful. (The participants were talking about contacting the author, anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What's your policy on announcing upcoming updates?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As a package user, I would find it helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What's your policy on a package author explaining a bug.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I would find this interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What's your policy on saying thanks along the way (not as the only part of a message)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question will be closed anyway after the update, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73371" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T10:39:18.957" Title="Policy on upcoming updates and saying thanks" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2017-07-24T19:38:09.187" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Broadly, questions about bugs are fine provided they are not of the form 'I wish to report a bug in ...' (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; they are questions). Typically, an answer would be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A description of what is causing the issue with perhaps a work-around, where the  bug has not yet been fixed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A statement that the bug is fixed in release X, where the bug is fixed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above might be combined in a single answer when a bug is fixed: 'It's is now fixed but this what caused it and how you can work around if you can't update'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above doesn't require that a package author is posting. Where one is, the same guidelines would apply. Things such as 'I am working on a fix' would constitute a &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; on such an answer, whether or not the answer is your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On 'thanks', that would normally be a comment, though one can put a link between answers where they are complementary. ('As described in the answer by X, one can do ... but I would instead do ...'.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T19:38:09.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2017-07-25T03:06:36.963" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the extent that the answer &quot;I'm working on it&quot; has relatively little long term value, it's probably best as a comment. Once the bug is fixed it would be fine to add an answer saying that it has been fixed, although an bit of an explanation might also be nice.  Such an answer does have some longer term value since people don't always update all the time. Thanking people in that answer shouldn't be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that the &quot;no saying thanks&quot; comment you got was somebody not reading the answer so carefully, so I wouldn't read much of anything into that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T03:06:36.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2017-07-26T10:39:18.957" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I would have used a comment (actually 2: 1 for the thanks, 1 for the announcement), but I wouldn't flag/downvote the answer either.  It's clearly well-intentioned and something of a placeholder. An answer would be more appropriate when the update is ready for testing (or released).  In some cases we've seen a workaround (or even a suggestion of one) from the package author -- again that's good in an answer, and probably requires the formatting available to answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T10:39:18.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7330" CreationDate="2017-07-28T07:22:45.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eventually, I managed to find a  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/331329/101651&quot;&gt;Steven B. Segletes's answer&lt;/a&gt; that I remembered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a simple and very useful way to align text within table cells (a thing particurarly complicated to beginners).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment I'm writing, it earned only 3 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T07:22:45.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-29T14:29:00.233" Score="18" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;In five days the hacker camp &lt;a href=&quot;https://sha2017.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SHA2017&lt;/a&gt; will start. The name means &quot;Still Hacking Anyway&quot;, and it is part of a series of hacker camps happening every four years. This year it will be in the Netherlands, and we expect more than 3500 people attending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DANTE members (Doris, Moss, Martin, Jonas, Stefan) will be there, with some TeX-Friends, making workshops and celebrating LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information can be read here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;German: &lt;a href=&quot;http://texwelt.de/blog/latex-dante-camp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXwelt.de&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;English:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex-talk.net/2017/07/latex-dante-camp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX talk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few tickets left, and one free ticket from our team (DANTE provided 6 tickets).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody who would like to join, let us know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if it happens that you are there anyway, visit us. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2017-08-02T09:39:28.783" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T09:39:28.783" Title="Still hacking anyway – TeX at the camp" Tags="|discussion|conferences|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7367" CreationDate="2017-08-02T09:34:43.733" Score="9" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding these two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/383784&quot;&gt;Different Font for different Languages (mixed in glossaries)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/383918&quot;&gt;Glossaries and \libertineGlyph and \makebox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered the second question which turned out to be a followup on the first question which hadn't been solved. My answer to the second question also answers the first, but they're not duplicates. There seem to be several possible options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit my answer on the second question, moving the bulk of it to answer the first question, leaving just the bit that directly answers the question. (Will this cause confusion, especially since the comments are directed towards the first part?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Move the entire answer (and comments) from the second question to the first and trim off the small part that answers the second question. (Needs a mod?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the first question with a brief summary. (Future visitors wanting to know the details would need to go over to the original answer, which would be a nuisance.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question is more likely to be of general use to future visitors, so I don't think it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best way to deal with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T14:39:01.537" Title="Answer to followup questions also answers original question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7364" CreationDate="2017-08-02T14:25:22.753" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main site's &lt;code&gt;/users&lt;/code&gt; page, if you hover over the pagination, there is a line that appears between the items:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ki3b1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ki3b1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not happen on the meta site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wP670.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wP670.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor does it happen on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qPeUl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qPeUl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that this is therefore a bug on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For what it's worth, the screenshots are from Firefox, but I can also reproduce this behavior with Google Chrome and Safari.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32888" LastEditorUserId="94863" LastEditDate="2017-08-02T14:48:33.373" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T14:48:33.373" Title="Apparent bug when hovering over pagination items of the /users page on the main site" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7363" CreationDate="2017-08-02T14:48:24.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting. I've just pushed fix to repo and it should be live with next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94863" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T14:48:24.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6416" CreationDate="2017-08-03T06:52:18.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting this one as well and sorry it had to wait so long.. I've just pushed fix to repo and it should be live with next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94863" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T06:52:18.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7362" CreationDate="2017-08-04T14:05:41.083" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I decided that the best solution was to split my original answer so that the main bulk of it now answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/383784&quot;&gt;Different Font for different Languages (mixed in glossaries)&lt;/a&gt;. This question title is more relevant to the answer than the other question and is more likely to be found through searches, so I think that's more generally useful to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've trimmed down my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/383918&quot;&gt;Glossaries and \libertineGlyph and \makebox&lt;/a&gt; so that it's now a follow-up to the previous answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="19862" LastEditDate="2017-08-04T14:39:01.537" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T14:39:01.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7375" CreationDate="2017-08-04T13:48:47.883" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question that I had no useful reply, just comments which did not answer it. How can I delete this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93617" OwnerDisplayName="Hany" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-06T17:56:32.977" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T17:56:32.977" Title="deleting a question I have posted to stackexchange site" Tags="|support|delete|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7370" CreationDate="2017-08-04T15:13:23.713" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a flag that I have 2 unread inbox messages. I have many posts. How can I locate and read these new messages without going through all my posts which is a time consuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93617" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T15:22:01.650" Title="How to locate and read the inbox messages" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7369" CreationDate="2017-08-04T15:22:01.650" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each message in your 'inbox' is a hyperlink to where it comes from: simply clicking on the message title/text summary should take you to the relevant question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T15:22:01.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7378" CreationDate="2017-08-04T16:15:03.687" Score="12" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original title of this site was, as I recall, &quot;TeX, LaTeX, and friends&quot;. That seems to have now been trimmed down to just &quot;TeX - LaTeX&quot;, but other variants such as ConTeXt are still on topic. How broad does it get?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be specific, I'm trying to generate PDF documents from PHP. There will be a standard template, but different actual content each time. Escaping values from PHP to produce valid LaTeX looks very very tricky. It would be easy to introduce all sorts of subtle security bugs by missing some escape sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SILE has a similar aim to LaTeX, but has two syntaxes, one intended to be human-editable (and similar to LaTeX), the other based on XML. XML is a mature technology easy to manipulate with a programming language. Using SILE instead of LaTeX may be an excellent idea. On the other hand, if I run into difficulties with SILE, can I ask about them here? Is it on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A search on Meta for SILE finds nothing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13746" LastEditorUserId="13746" LastEditDate="2017-08-14T11:07:07.597" LastActivityDate="2017-08-14T11:07:07.597" Title="How broadly do we define &quot;friends&quot; of TeX?" Tags="|discussion|off-topic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6806" CreationDate="2017-08-05T04:25:46.107" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, because Stack Overflow Documentation is being &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-documentation&quot;&gt;discontinued&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T04:25:46.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7374" CreationDate="2017-08-05T04:37:55.690" Score="0" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I log out from my account when I am using a public computer, because closing the window does not log out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93617" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T05:02:09.677" Title="How to log out from my account" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-08-05T06:20:40.420" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7373" CreationDate="2017-08-05T05:02:09.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on &lt;code&gt;StackExchange&lt;/code&gt; at the top left, and then on &lt;code&gt;log out&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8b77J.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8b77J.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T05:02:09.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7368" CreationDate="2017-08-06T17:53:40.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of the question there is an option to &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jYdZl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jYdZl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that deletion may not be possible as there are certain criteria that has to be met. Read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T17:53:40.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7376" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-08-06T18:08:53.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;All things must come to an end. When a post has lived out its useful life and no longer serves a purpose, it should be removed, left to sleep in the bosom of the database until a time comes when it is needed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-06T18:08:53.750" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T18:08:53.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7377" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-08-06T18:08:53.750" Score="0" Body="For questions about posts, deleted by their owners, through automatic processes, or by moderators." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-06T18:08:53.750" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T18:08:53.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-08-06T21:29:08.347" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, to me it seems that there are four categories of software:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX-based software.&lt;/strong&gt; To see whether your software is TeX-based, there are IMHO two basic questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are vast majority of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX primitives&lt;/a&gt; relevant to the software in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the software based on an expansion language?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to both questions is certainly &quot;yes&quot; for LaTeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX3, e-TeX, Lua(La)TeX etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX-inspired software.&lt;/strong&gt; There is certainly MathJaX and LilyPond here, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software with LaTeX output.&lt;/strong&gt; Think GnuPlot, PanDoc or even SageMath and Maple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Auxiliary software.&lt;/strong&gt; These are stuff like BibTeX, MakeIndex, PDFCrop etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, (at least in my opinion) &lt;strong&gt;Categories 1 and 4&lt;/strong&gt; are clearly covered, &lt;strong&gt;Category 2&lt;/strong&gt; is clearly not covered (unless you in some way compare such software to something from category 1, this could be on-topic), and &lt;strong&gt;Category 3&lt;/strong&gt; is covered partially (based on whether it's the output code that's discussed or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two main reasons for the strong distinction between Categories 1 and 2. First, pragmatically, people here specialize in TeX-based software. Second, conceptually, we tend to strongly distinguish the way how the software works inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SILE seems to be in Category 2 and whence is not covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T13:08:23.473" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T13:08:23.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-08-07T08:29:34.630" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need to start here by thinking about the broader picture. The aim of TeX-sx is to provide answers to questions on topics 'somewhat' related to TeX. In particular, the site needs to offer a realistic chance of the questions being answered well, and for there to be some logic to looking here rather than elsewhere. This fits into the general StackOverflow model: provide &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; answers to both the original questioner and to others with the same issues/queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site has always been 'TeX, LaTeX and friends' to avoid limiting just to LaTeX and to have 'LaTeX' in the title so 'TeX' doesn't put people off! That's a bit wordy hence the 'TeX-sx' or similar abbreviation. At the same time, we've never aimed to cover 'Computer typography' or 'Programmatic typography' as a whole. So how do we define the 'friends' to fit in with the above idea of wanting answers? There needs to be some reasonable probably of a good answer (or answers) from a set of people with relevant expertise (both to answer and to review/vote). (People may well have expertise on non-TeX topics too, but those questions can still belong elsewhere.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7378&quot;&gt;answer by yo'&lt;/a&gt; has provided four categories of material that we might divide questions into, and he suggests that SILE falls outside of our scope. I'd look at this slightly differently (though not massively). Where a question is about SILE ('How do I do X in SILE?') it seems to me to be off-topic: it's not something 'we' have expertise on and is likely directly at a single person (the SILE author). On the other hand, where there is some link to TeX code we &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; regard it as on-topic. For example, a 'compare and contrast' for the paragraph-breaking algorithm, which might contrast SILE with TeX90 &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; ask what can be done in LuaTeX to match SILE might well be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-08-07T08:29:34.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7384" CreationDate="2017-08-09T09:14:17.397" Score="8" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main site there are two tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/minion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;minion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;minion&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/minionpro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;minionpro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;minionpro&lt;/a&gt;. Both tags seem to cover identical material. Should they be synonyms or did I miss some details?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124577" LastEditorUserId="117050" LastEditDate="2017-08-14T09:12:54.270" LastActivityDate="2017-08-15T02:38:01.280" Title="Why do we have a minion and minionpro tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2017-08-10T13:36:36.523" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proposal for &lt;em&gt;Acceptable&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updating code in old answers following software updates (e.g., a new package version)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provided that the original code is preserved, to facilitate users with older versions and to show the effort of the original answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3844/updating-an-old-answer-when-my-knowledge-improves-or-a-package-is-updated&quot;&gt;Updating an old answer when my knowledge improves, or a package is updated&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T13:36:36.523" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-08-10T13:36:36.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7383" CreationDate="2017-08-14T01:01:06.743" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344818/holiday-present-ation-vs-content-contest&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the hyphen in title intentional? (Strong) perhaps, yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was it put there? To attract attention? Or to convey some kind&#xA;of connotation? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14103" LastActivityDate="2017-08-14T05:43:20.543" Title="Hyphenation in title" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7382" CreationDate="2017-08-14T05:43:20.543" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hyphen is intentional, since it draws attention to the word 'present', something that is commonly associated with Christmas, in cultures that celebrate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2017-08-14T05:43:20.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7380" CreationDate="2017-08-14T10:11:51.757" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion they should not be synonyms but the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/minion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;minion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;minion&lt;/a&gt; tag should be removed and questions retagged to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/minionpro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;minionpro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;minionpro&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fontspec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fontspec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fontspec&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;  I have retagged all questions in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/minion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;minion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;minion&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/myriad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;myriad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;myriad&lt;/a&gt; (which I stumbled upon) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/39418842#39418842&quot;&gt;pinged the moderators&lt;/a&gt; to remove the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make sense to have tags for different font faces because there are infinitely many.  At the same time we do not have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/palatino&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;palatino&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;palatino&lt;/a&gt; tag even though this is one of the most popular non-standard fonts for LaTeX documents (used, e.g., in &lt;code&gt;classicthesis&lt;/code&gt; and the &lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt; docs).  Usually font questions revolve around how to use them in LaTeX which is font independent in the case of OpenType fonts and package dependent for Type1 fonts for which there are package tags (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/times&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;times&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;times&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eulervm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eulervm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eulervm&lt;/a&gt;, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do not want to generalize the statement about font tags to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/computer-modern&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;computer-modern&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;computer-modern&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latin-modern&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latin-modern&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latin-modern&lt;/a&gt;.  These still deserve special treatment as they are the standard fonts which most users are confronted with on a daily basis.  Therefore I consider them to belong to the circle of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371&quot;&gt;TeX and friends&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2017-08-15T02:38:01.280" LastActivityDate="2017-08-15T02:38:01.280" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7411" CreationDate="2017-08-14T19:49:13.983" Score="14" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the descripton of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/curve?page=1&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=30&quot;&gt;{curve}&lt;/a&gt;-tag it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Curve is a Latex class for typesetting resumes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I look at the questions with this tag I just discover 4 of 34 which correspond to this description. All others use this tag in the context of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot;&gt;{Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z-pgf}&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfplots&quot;&gt;{pgfplots}&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would suggest removing the tag and using for example the more common tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot;&gt;{resume}&lt;/a&gt; for the 4 correct uses. For deleting, I think a high reputation is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any better way for such suggestions than to have a question here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123129" LastEditorUserId="123129" LastEditDate="2017-08-15T07:27:30.593" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T11:15:12.047" Title="Ambiguous {curve} tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7387" CreationDate="2017-08-14T20:05:48.857" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/385947/creating-a-contingency-table&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question. I think that there is no final answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there are 2 votes for the question, it seems to be interesting. And since there are 4 formatting-suggestions, there seem to be different opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe other users want to provide their solution and maybe after a while the community will have voted up its most popular solutions and give other users a chance to decide on their own which they want to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110154" LastActivityDate="2017-08-15T03:46:46.907" Title="How do we handle questions, where there just isn't a final answer, only opinions?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7386" CreationDate="2017-08-15T03:46:46.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are often multiple solutions to the same problem (one could call them opinions).  For such a case the model of Stackexchange was invented, where better solutions get more upvotes and the questioner decides which one fits best in his context by marking one as accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the question leaves too much space for opinion, e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;”What is the best way to do [...]?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;”Which [...] do you recommend?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it should be closed as primarily opinion-based.  It's the last option in the close dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e3XOC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e3XOC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2017-08-15T03:46:46.907" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-15T17:48:14.207" Score="9" ViewCount="554" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is so frustrating to have so many first posts that miss a MWE or simply show lack of understanding of the style of a Q&amp;amp;A site (vs a forum).&#xA;To avoid the tedious comments and big duplication of effort, there could be a short mandatory tutorial + test to be taken before the first question can be asked.&#xA;The tutorial could cover just the basics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to mark text as code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what is a MWE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to check if the question has already been asked and what to do in that case&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what is a question, an answer and a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the test could be a multiple choice between good and bad examples of questions/answers/comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be annoying to go through it but I think it would only discourage the very bad questions, not well-intentioned new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36686" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T18:51:04.053" Title="Proposal: can we add a tutorial+admission test for new users?" Tags="|feature-request|new-users|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7388" CreationDate="2017-08-16T18:01:43.673" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question to be asked is why you are so frustrated. Past first page you wouldn't even see new questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a tendency in the residents; a bit of &quot;come on ask me an interesting question&quot; urge combined with a pinch of OCD which is perfectly fine. That's why they become residents. But that should stay as such otherwise this becomes a police station.Don't use this, don't do that, don't load that don't comment here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is about questions and answers. There is no such nonsense as historical value or quality. Otherwise we only need about 500 questions answered by our gurus and we can lock the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the new users don't act accordingly it means that SE design is broken and can't guide them into proper way of behavior. It &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; mean that new users are bunch of assholes coming here and stealing your efforts. If you don't like the question then don't answer it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would strongly vote against this and would speculate that this would simply break the site as we know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T18:01:43.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7388" CreationDate="2017-08-16T19:54:32.097" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think discouraging newbies is a bad idea - we were all newbies once. If I'd faced a test before being allowed my first post I'd probably have gone away (and never known  enough to regret that choice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps showing a newbie a short sample question before they proceed to their own might help. Most people would probably dismiss it with a click (do you read all the licenses you accept) but a few would linger enough to learn something useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or provide a (link to) a template to edit (put your mwe here ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12496" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T19:54:32.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7391" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-19T15:24:04.777" Score="0" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some time before, I had a discussion with @Mico on changing the title of a question to be more useful. The general idea is to make it more useful for search engines. Since the question as was before was down-voted (and I can understand this) the new question is not a feature request but opinion on the suggested edits on the titles of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question (I will answer too):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have to edit titles of users-questions? Anf if &quot;yes&quot; when do we have and what we have to keep in mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Old question (feature-request)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the site there are many too specific posts and unrelated with the title of the question like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/387153/why-are-my-sections-titles-smaller-than-the-subsections/387223#387223&quot; title=&quot;unusefull question-answer&quot;&gt;unuseful question-answer&lt;/a&gt;. I think that it would be a nice solution to add something like [TOOSPECIFIC] or [NOTREALLY] in their title, so that when someone have already used our community will know that the &quot;google search&quot; returned something not really useful. (This will give fewer clicks too and will not allow such questions-answers to take a high google rating).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another solution would be to gather all these kinds of questions-answers in one topic with common newcomers mistakes or something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastEditorUserId="120578" LastEditDate="2017-09-11T06:23:05.310" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T06:46:51.673" Title="Edit in title of questions" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7393" CreationDate="2017-08-22T13:34:56.593" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay I know I've worded the question horribly. We all know to make code visible in a box e.g:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to shift it 4 spaces to the right so that it becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to shift an entire group of text to the right instead of doing it line by line, like highlighting and then pressing the space bar, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118110" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T12:59:45.893" Title="Is there any way (keyboard shortcut) to shift an enitre piece of text?" Tags="|support|feature-request|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7392" CreationDate="2017-08-22T13:41:23.007" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;take a look at the line of icons above the answer box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;one of them is &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; -- that indicates &quot;code&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;highlight the lines in your answer that you want presented as code,&#xA;then click on the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt;.  done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as noted by @JosephWright, Ctrl-K works as a shortcut after you've highlighted.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2017-08-23T12:59:45.893" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T12:59:45.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-22T23:38:15.717" Score="5" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question here and now it is on a different website too. I can't edit the question there, and that could be a problem since there are other people's names on that code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to proceed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137380" OwnerDisplayName="BadWolf" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-23T17:02:34.870" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T17:02:34.870" Title="I found my post on a different website. How should I proceed?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7395" CreationDate="2017-08-23T17:00:55.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are most likely looking at a SCRAPER of the site (different from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2267/168244&quot;&gt;clone&lt;/a&gt;). There would usually be no affiliation with Stack Exchange, but there should be some form of attribution for the content they post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more about this and how it can be handled in this Meta.SE post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/200177/168244&quot;&gt;A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What do I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T17:00:55.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-24T13:43:01.343" Score="-1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I answer a question, I prefer to make the answer extensive - with a good MWE, a screenshot, some code comments, links to other questions, a solution that possibly goes a bit further than asked for. It takes some time to write an answer like this, and often it happens that somebody else posts an answer before I am fully finished and happy with the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the other answer has the same solution or a better one (shorter/easier/better results) then I discard my own answer. When my solution is different but equally good or perhaps better, or possibly interesting for showing some general techniques, etc., I post it as a second answer. However, when I do discard my answer, I feel like my effort has been for nothing (except for learning something new myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I would like to have some kind of &quot;I am working on an answer&quot;-button, so potential answerers can see that there is somebody who is, well, working on an answer, and decide not to start an answer of their own at this point - or to speed up :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatives would be to leave a comment (seems like the wrong place), to post an incomplete answer (seems wrong in general), or to announce in chat (will reach only chatroom regulars). Any thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T05:42:35.520" Title="show intent to answer question" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7397" CreationDate="2017-08-24T20:15:49.213" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider this regarding your request: Who will this benefit? Not the community, and possibly not even the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main purpose of this seems to be personal. That is, you want to tell others &quot;please don't answer this question, because &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; am answering it.&quot; Fine. I doubt it'll change people's behaviour and make them stop considering to answer a question. Why? You don't know who's writing up the answer (not that it should matter) nor what they're writing. Moreover, even though this remains a &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt;-driven knowledge base, &lt;em&gt;reputation&lt;/em&gt; remains a driving force behind people's contributions and this is &lt;em&gt;individual&lt;/em&gt;-based. So, people will still feel like they can contribute something before someone else, because they may end up gaining some reputation from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a better course of action is to answer a question without even considering that others may also answer the same question. Write it up to the best of your abilities, adding as much information as possible and posting it. If the answer is completely covered by someone else, then delete it. If yours has an advantage over someone else's hopefully the community will using their voting power (and logic) to distinguish the answer rank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A counter-argument to your suggestion would involve considering how to deal with the following scenario: Someone clicks the &quot;I am working on an answer&quot;-button but takes a week to completely write up their (comprehensive) answer. Should the community sit in anticipation for this answer without doing anything? By that time, the OP may have moved on to other forums looking for help. Speed in answering remains one of the things that questioners come here for. The other surely is quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the &quot;answer that helped [the OP] most&quot; will be selected as the &quot;correct answer&quot; and this is very subjective. You could end up writing &quot;the best answer ever&quot;, only to &quot;lose out&quot; to someone else's code-only answer (say).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-08-24T20:15:49.213" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7388" CreationDate="2017-08-24T20:37:06.417" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a more lively tutorial can work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dynamic version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bzDCt.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bzDCt.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Static version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CTOYE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CTOYE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CSdrx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CSdrx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZekH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZekH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2PwLO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2PwLO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{beamer}&#xA;\usepackage{lmodern}&#xA;\usepackage{graphics}&#xA;\usepackage{ellipsis}&#xA;\usepackage{csquotes}&#xA;\usepackage{framed}&#xA;\usepackage{tabularx}&#xA;&#xA;\usetheme{Madrid}&#xA;\setbeamersize{text margin left=30pt,text margin right=30pt} &#xA;\title{How to ask \emph{good} questions on \texse}&#xA;\author[Prof.\ Paulinho van Duck]{Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck}&#xA;\institute{Quack University}&#xA;&#xA;\newcommand{\texse}{\TeX.SE}&#xA;\newcommand{\mwe}{MWE}&#xA;\newcommand{\mweb}{MWEB}&#xA;\newcommand{\op}{OP}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{tikzducks}&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{positioning}&#xA;&#xA;\newbool{toleft}&#xA;\global\booltrue{toleft}&#xA;\newcommand{\duckfamily}[1][1]{%&#xA; 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   \begin{frame}&#xA;    \titlepage&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{You are lucky, there's a ducky!}&#xA;\begin{columns}[c]&#xA;    \begin{column}{.35\textwidth}&#xA;        \begin{tcolorbox}[adjusted title={Prof.\ van Duck},&#xA;            attach boxed title to bottom,&#xA;            ]&#xA;            \centering&#xA;            \begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;            \begin{scope}&#xA;            \clip (0,0) -- ++(2.2,0) -- ++(0,2.6) -- ++(-2.2,0) -- cycle;&#xA;            \duck[body=yellow!50!brown!40!white,&#xA;            crazyhair=gray!50!white,&#xA;            eyebrow,&#xA;            glasses=brown!70!black,&#xA;            book=\scalebox{0.2}{\bfseries \texse},&#xA;            bookcolour=red!20!brown]&#xA;            \end{scope}&#xA;            \end{tikzpicture}   &#xA;        \end{tcolorbox}&#xA;    \end{column}&#xA;    \begin{column}{.57\textwidth}&#xA;        Hi, \TeX/\LaTeX\ friends!&#xA;        \smallskip&#xA;&#xA;        I am \mbox{Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck}.&#xA;        \smallskip&#xA;&#xA;        I would like to help newbies to ask \emph{good} questions on \texse. &#xA;        \smallskip&#xA;&#xA;        That's the correct way to have rapid and smart answers, quack!&#xA;    \end{column}&#xA;\end{columns}&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{How you should \emph{not} ask: \emph{just-do-it-for-me} questions}&#xA;\emph{Just-do-it-for-me} questions do not show any effort by the \op\ &#xA;(the Original Poster in the \texse\ jargon).&#xA;\begin{columns}[c]&#xA;\hspace{.02\textwidth}&#xA;\begin{column}{.47\textwidth}&#xA;    \begin{framed}&#xA;        \centering&#xA;        \textbf{How can I do this in \LaTeX?}&#xA;        \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.7]&#xA;        \begin{scope}[xscale=-1]&#xA;        \duck[longhair=brown,&#xA;        water=cyan!50!blue]&#xA;        \end{scope}&#xA;        \begin{scope}[xshift=12pt]&#xA;        \duck[crazyhair=orange,&#xA;        water=cyan!50!blue]&#xA;        \end{scope}&#xA;        \end{tikzpicture} &#xA;    \end{framed}&#xA;\end{column}&#xA;\begin{column}{.47\textwidth}&#xA;    \vspace{10pt}&#xA;&#xA;    Posts like the one on the left have many flaws:&#xA;    \begin{itemize}&#xA;        \item generic title&#xA;        \item no explanation of what the problem is&#xA;        \item no example of code.&#xA;    \end{itemize}&#xA;\end{column}%&#xA;\end{columns}&#xA;\bigskip&#xA;&#xA;Please \emph{never} ask such stuff. &#xA;&#xA;A little duck cries when he sees them, quack!&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{How you should \emph{not} ask: \emph{crystal ball} questions}&#xA;Questions like the one below give not enough&#xA;information to be answered.&#xA;\begin{columns}[c]&#xA;\hspace{.02\textwidth}&#xA;\begin{column}{.47\textwidth}&#xA;\begin{framed}&#xA;    \noindent\textbf{Why doesn't my code work?}&#xA;&#xA;    \vspace{\belowdisplayskip}\noindent My code worked till yesterday, but &#xA;    now it gives me an error. Why?&#xA;\end{framed}&#xA;\end{column}&#xA;\begin{column}{.47\textwidth}&#xA;\vspace{10pt}&#xA;&#xA;Do you think we have a \mbox{crystal ball}? &#xA;\smallskip&#xA;&#xA;Or that we can read \mbox{your mind}?&#xA;\smallskip&#xA;&#xA;Which is the error? &#xA;\smallskip&#xA;&#xA;Where is an example of your code?&#xA;\end{column}%&#xA;\end{columns}&#xA;\bigskip&#xA;&#xA;Please \emph{never} ask such stuff. &#xA;&#xA;A little duck despairs when he sees them, quack!&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{The asking-a-good-question guidelines}&#xA;On the contrary, if you are a smart user, you will follow these guidelines:&#xA;\bigskip&#xA;&#xA;\begin{tcolorbox}[adjusted title={Van Duck's rules},&#xA;attach boxed title to top]&#xA;\begin{enumerate}&#xA;\item Read the package manuals&#xA;\item Look at the log generated by the code&#xA;\item Search on \texse\ and, in general, on the Internet&#xA;\item Add a minimal working example (\mwe) to your question&#xA;\end{enumerate}&#xA;\end{tcolorbox}&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{What you should do \emph{before} asking: read the \emph{manuals}}&#xA;One of the biggest benefits of \TeX/\LaTeX\ is its rich documentation.&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;Reading the package manuals could be boring, sometimes &#xA;even impossible (the Ti\emph{k}Z \&amp;amp; PGF one has more than 1,000 pages, quack!)&#xA;but information such as the incompatibilities or the loading order &#xA;is usually written at the beginning. &#xA;\medskip &#xA;&#xA;At least a rapid look at the documentation is mandatory, quack!&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{What you should do \emph{before} asking: look at the \emph{log}}&#xA;The log is your friend in the case of errors.&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;OK, \TeX\ error descriptions are not the ultimate in clarity, quack!&#xA;But if you search them on the Internet, you'll find the solution or, &#xA;at least, you'll understand what they mean.&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;The most important error is the first one, the &#xA;others may be a consequence of that one.&#xA;&#xA;\duckdecor&#xA;&#xA;The command \texttt{\string\listfiles} writes on your log the versions of all &#xA;the packages you are using (it also works when there are no errors).&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;Many problems could be solved merely updating your \TeX\ distribution, quack!&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{What you should do \emph{before} asking: \emph{searching}}&#xA;If you have a problem, it is very likely that someone else had the&#xA;same before: search on the Internet, quack!&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;Pay attention: like everything you find on the web,  &#xA;some information could be incorrect or obsolete.&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;Here a list of the reliable resources:&#xA;\url{https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/162/101651}.&#xA;\duckdecor&#xA;You could also directly use the search field on the top right of&#xA;\texse\ main site home page.&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;For more info: &#xA;\url{https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching}. &#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{How you \emph{should} ask}&#xA;If all your searching was fruitless, let's see how to ask a question:&#xA;&#xA;\begin{enumerate}&#xA;\item the title: be specific! Do not write things like&#xA;\emph{How can I do this in \LaTeX?} or \emph{Why doesn't my code work?}&#xA;\item the body: give all the details to understand &#xA;your problem and add your \mwe\&#xA;\item the tags: add the correct tags!&#xA;Look at the tag description before using it. &#xA;\end{enumerate}&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;For more info:&#xA;\url{https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask}.&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{The essential: the \emph{minimal working example (\mwe)}}&#xA;How to write an \mwe:&#xA;&#xA;\begin{enumerate}&#xA;\item the \texttt{\string\documentclass}: always indicate it. Many things can &#xA;change if you are using \texttt{beamer} &#xA;instead of \texttt{article}, for example.&#xA;\item the packages: list all the packages needed to reproduce your problem,&#xA;and only those, do not be verbose, quack!&#xA;\item the \texttt{document} environment: &#xA;put your code within \texttt{\string\begin\string{document\string}} and &#xA;\texttt{\string\end\string{document\string}} and add only the lines strictly &#xA;necessary to reproduce your problem. &#xA;Do not post only code snippets.&#xA;\end{enumerate}&#xA;&#xA;Test your \mwe\ before adding it to your question.&#xA;You have to be sure it works or, if it does not &#xA;work, it gives the same error you are struggling about.&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{Packages and pages useful for \mwe\ writing}&#xA;Many packages help you to create an \mwe. &#xA;\medskip &#xA;&#xA;\texttt{lipsum} and &#xA;\texttt{blindtext} produce some text with no &#xA;meaning, just to fill your pages preserving your privacy or copyright. &#xA;&#xA;\texttt{graphicx} allows you &#xA;to use some example images. &#xA;&#xA;There is also an \texttt{mwe} package, guess what it is for, quack!&#xA;&#xA;\texttt{showframe} could be handy in case of&#xA;\emph{Overfull hbox} or, in general, for refining the alignment.&#xA;\duckdecor&#xA;For more info about \mwe: &#xA;\url{https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228}&#xA;&#xA;and about \mwe\ with bibliography (\mweb):&#xA;\url{https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4407}. &#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{What you should do \emph{after} asking}&#xA;Once you have posted your question, your work is not over.&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;Pay attention to the possible comments of other users&#xA;and reply to them. Usually, they ask for clarifications.&#xA;\duckdecor&#xA;When someone posts the answer with&#xA;the solution you were waiting for,&#xA;accept it by clicking the specific tick.&#xA;&#xA;\duckdecor&#xA;If you have more than 15 reputation points, you can also &#xA;upvote all the answers which are useful for you, please do it, quack!&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\begin{frame}&#xA;\frametitle{The correct way to say \emph{thank you!}}&#xA;Users who answered are&#xA;not paid for it, accepting and upvoting are the correct ways to say &#xA;\emph{thank you!}&#xA;\medskip&#xA;&#xA;\begin{tcolorbox}[adjusted title={How to thank},&#xA;attach boxed title to top]&#xA;\vspace{-4pt}\centering&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}[%&#xA;tondo/.style={circle, draw=orange, thick, text width=1.5em},&#xA;quadro/.style={%&#xA;rounded corners, draw=orange, thick, &#xA;align=center,&#xA;font={\small},&#xA;text width=12em,&#xA;minimum height=9ex&#xA;},&#xA;freccia/.style={orange, thick, -stealth}&#xA;]&#xA;\node[inner sep=0pt] (foto) {\includegraphics[width=.11\textwidth]{tick}};&#xA;\node[tondo, above right=-26pt and -24.5pt of foto] (upv) {};&#xA;\node[tondo, below right=-20pt and -24.5pt of foto] (acc) {};&#xA;\node[quadro, right=10em of upv.north, anchor=north] (dupv) &#xA;{Click here to \emph{upvote} \\ any useful post};&#xA;\node[quadro, right=10em of acc.south, anchor=south] (dacc)&#xA;{Click here to \emph{accept} \\ &#xA;the best answer to your question};&#xA;\draw[freccia] (dacc.west) -- (acc);&#xA;\draw[freccia] (dupv.west) -- (upv);&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{tcolorbox}&#xA;\end{frame}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. = if someone can manage to share the pdf in a better way, I'll be grateful!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-08-26T05:24:58.390" LastActivityDate="2017-08-26T05:24:58.390" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7401" CreationDate="2017-08-26T08:35:21.913" Score="41" ViewCount="599" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it frustrating that I cannot vote anything up or comment on anything unless I ask a question.  I don't know how many answers and comments have helped me from this site, none of which received any feedback from me due to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, will you vote this question up if you agree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will also have the side effect of allowing me to participate in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71507" OwnerDisplayName="pf4d" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T17:40:02.887" Title="I just want to be able to participate" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7400" CreationDate="2017-08-26T09:27:20.053" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are the user we would like to have!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you have always found a solution just searching, it means that you are correctly following the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7399/101651&quot;&gt;Third van Duck's Rule&lt;/a&gt;! :):):)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since you would like to upvote, it means that you know our way to say: &quot;Thank you!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, you are a perfect user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please try to answer a question, we will be happy to upvote your post and make you earn the privilege to upvote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2017-08-26T09:27:20.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7403" CreationDate="2017-08-28T07:04:31.753" Score="7" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I type a left quote inside an inline quote? For instance, how can I quote the following snippet from the TeXbook: &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WkMVs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WkMVs.png&quot; alt=&quot;left quote&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; inline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I use a single left quote: &lt;code&gt;\catcode&lt;/code&gt;\{=1`&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I use a double left quote: &lt;code&gt;\catcode``\{=1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I escape the left quote with a backslash: &lt;code&gt;\catcode\&lt;/code&gt;{=1`&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21685" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-08-28T16:02:32.490" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T16:02:32.490" Title="How to quote a left quote inline?" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7402" CreationDate="2017-08-28T10:22:25.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; backticks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;``\code`\{=1``&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T10:22:25.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7400" CreationDate="2017-08-28T17:40:02.887" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree wholeheartedly with CarLaTeX, I believe this is important to say.  Not too long ago I found myself feeling similarly to you, pf4d.  I have found that one of the most important pages I have read on this site is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.  This is for 2 reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Reputation is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you&quot;:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I, and many others like yourself, have been using LaTeX for ages and solving our own problems before we join this site.  However, that knowledge hitherto potentially not shared, cannot simply be trusted based on our relatively anonymous word.  We must take the time to join in the community, share our knowledge, and help others to grow as we have.  You may find, as I have, that we end up learning and growing more ourselves than we were before.  Then our reputation demonstrates our trustworthiness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;We don’t run this site. The community does.&quot;:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Everyone working together, sharing information, and learning is what this site was based on, and what makes it keep going.  Join the community!  &lt;strong&gt;We're happy to have you here!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some suggested actions to take:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finish reading the entire &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;What is reputation?&lt;/a&gt; page that I'm talking about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have found that editing questions and answers is a great way to start gaining rep, and to help others.  Some people do not speak English as a first language, and it can really help everyone to improve the spelling or grammar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer questions when you are able.  Share that awesome knowledge that you have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Engage in community discussions like this one to grow your understanding of what the goals of this community are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have not already, read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;the tour page&lt;/a&gt; to get better acquainted with what you can do to help out and gain rep.  You get a badge just by reading it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this helps, and I hope that you decide to keep participating :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88525" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T17:40:02.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-29T15:30:17.910" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could anyone give me a list of commands which could be useful for people who are new to this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to insert TeX code or any other type of code or any other simple commands, such as equations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142112" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-08-30T06:32:06.983" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T06:32:06.983" Title="How to insert basic commands?" Tags="|discussion|code|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-09-15T09:36:17.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7408" CreationDate="2017-08-29T22:48:22.227" Score="25" ViewCount="1103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I would like to thank SE for paying me my assassin's wages, which have now arrived. Apparently, they had to be repacked for security reasons, so I got lots of extra yellow tape on my box.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Though I would have &lt;/em&gt;really&lt;em&gt; liked a TeX SE mug :-).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just discovered that gmail had an urgent-sounding message from SE waiting in one of those tabs it uses for the endless stream of offers CVS pharmacy keeps sending me. (No idea who they are or why they think I'm in such a dire state of health, if not wealth, but that's a different matter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message was sent last month, but I'm surprised nobody tried to contact me again since, according to the subject line I'm (was?) killing TeX SE. Rather alarmed, I thought I'd better read it, even if a bit tardily. Much to my astonishment, they seem to want to send me a T-shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence the question. Is TeX SE really dying? Or, by now, dead? If so, am I really its murderer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is this a convoluted scam by a member of Nigeria's royalty, hoping to blackmail me if I give them my size details?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I wrote this only half in jest. I inferred the intended meaning, although I am not at all familiar with it. In light of Alan's answer, I consulted OED:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Draft additions June 2015 Categories &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;»    trans. colloq. (orig. U.S.). To do or perform (something) impressively or conclusively. Also: spec. to do extremely well at (an&#xA;  examination subject). Frequently in to kill it. Cf. nail v. 6d. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1899  Werner's Mag. Jan. 376/2   Kill, to do easily. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1906   Dial. Notes 3ii. 143   Kill, to pass an examination perfectly. ‘I killed math.’&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1968   C. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study 147   Kill&#xA;  it, do well on an exam. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1982   Campus Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) Spring 5   Kill, to do something extremely well: She killed that song. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2001   Snowboard U.K. Sept. 43   Hamish McKnight was killing it&#xA;  on a Burton Junkyard snowskate, pulling off big indys and even getting&#xA;  close to 360 flips over the first box in the boardercross. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2011   T. Rayburn Pulse (2012) xiv.   Matt said you totally killed the&#xA;  interview. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2012   P. Coughter Art of Pitch ii. 48   You have to go out&#xA;  there and kill it, make them love us right now, and inspire the team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, if the SE crachach are going to communicate with an international audience like this, then I think they should throw in a copy of Webster's along with that T-shirt. An informal style is one thing, but some kind of mutually intelligible vocabulary is still required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="39222" LastEditDate="2017-09-22T01:19:09.940" LastActivityDate="2017-09-22T01:19:09.940" Title="Is TeX SE really dying? If so, am I really its murderer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7407" CreationDate="2017-08-30T00:58:48.743" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt;, verb, transitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to cause to become dead. &lt;em&gt;He killed the duck&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to turn off. &lt;em&gt;He killed the lights&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to emphatically succeed in something. &lt;em&gt;The comedian killed it last night&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One supposes that you are killing TeX.SE in the sense of (3).  So to answer your questions, No, No, No, and No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No ducks were harmed in the creation of this dictionary entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2017-08-30T01:44:47.547" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T01:44:47.547" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7407" CreationDate="2017-09-01T18:35:06.340" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tB0aW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tB0aW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Penguin&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;A MURDER?! INDUBITABLY!!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T18:35:06.340" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7385" CreationDate="2017-09-05T11:15:12.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is not really a better way to deal with such tags/ suggestions than meta. (Martin)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As result and summary of the comments:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I renamed the tags of the 4 correct uses to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/curve-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;curve-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;curve-class&lt;/a&gt; according to yo' s suggestion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All other uses of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/curve&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;curve&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;curve&lt;/a&gt; were removed manually.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Empty tags are pruned automatically. (Henri Menke)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notes:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators cannot remove non-empty tags, only developers can. Moderators can rename, or merge, or synonymise tags. (Martin)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/368324&quot;&gt;When to burninate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only SE developers can blacklist a tag. See the procedure given in the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/239189/368324&quot;&gt;How should we make tag blacklist requests?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123129" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T11:15:12.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7391" CreationDate="2017-09-11T06:46:51.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that the titles of the questions have to be edit if while or after are answered they don't seem to be easily findable from search engines or they don't describe the problem in a (somehow) efficient way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) They don't describe the problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;-If the title of the question describe an error message (that is not really the problem) that is possible to be searched I suggest no edit (because it is already useful for future searches). Of course always exists exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-If the title of the question do not describe the actual problem but it is possibly a common problem and only after the answer the real problem appears, I also suggest no edit because more people will find it without knowing their mistake before. Some exceptions too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-In most of the other cases that we are against a question with a title that don't describe the problem I suggest to open a discussion (with a flag or something -This discussion could be used to if many of you agree... And I could copy this answer to the question to leave space for title changes on specific questions... But some other place accessible from more experienced users, I suppose would be better- ) about the suggested title and see if it really have to be changed or not. (I already have some flags of this kind that are &quot;helpful&quot; but I did not show a change).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change has to be as efficient as possible to be found by search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the title describes the problem but has no possibilities to be found&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kind of question titles are often and the main problem is that even they use too good English (like &quot;How could I accomplish to...&quot;-&gt; No search engine will find easily the rest of the keywords).. or they missing the suggested keywords (like &quot;legend&quot; of a figure for problem with figure or &quot;width&quot; for problem on fixing the width of a table etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would like to see somewhere suggested edits on the titles to make the questions more useful, but I recommend this edits to be done after discussion and not too easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my opinion in bad English but I think you can get what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T06:46:51.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-16T04:59:43.760" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/391625/emulating-closures-in-postscript#comment972708_391625&quot;&gt;This comment by Henri Menke&lt;/a&gt; has reminded me a question I wanted to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every now and then, a good question appears, but which is not concerning LaTeX and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can only close it as off-topic but not migrate it to another SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="3323" LastEditDate="2017-09-16T10:30:50.043" LastActivityDate="2017-09-16T10:30:50.043" Title="Why can't we migrate off-topic questions to other StackExchange sites?" Tags="|feature-request|close-reasons|migration|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3303" CreationDate="2017-09-16T11:35:27.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the paths already mentioned, I would say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Code review&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://emacs.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Mathematics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-09-16T11:40:28.667" LastActivityDate="2017-09-16T11:40:28.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-21T13:11:59.783" Score="19" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to setup a CTAN mirror but didn't get far after reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/mirrors/register/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.ctan.org/mirrors/register/&lt;/a&gt; . I'd like to post something like &lt;em&gt;Idiots guide to setting up a CTAN mirror&lt;/em&gt; as a question on tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer to my question would probably revolve around current web server practices best suited for such a mirror, and so potentially be off-topic. But since the main audience would be LaTeX users, this seems a more natural fit. The question would be answerable: I would know upon successfully setting up such a mirror that the answer given was right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18414" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2017-09-28T15:32:10.227" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T15:32:10.227" Title="Is a question on setting up a CTAN mirror on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-23T19:42:47.260" Score="8" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prospective question:&lt;/strong&gt; How can I use LuaTeX to detect the position of a math symbol (unary vs. binary, after/before parantheses) in order to put a custom amount of spacing around it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/391885/how-to-redefine-infix-binary-relational-operator-spacing-so-that-precedence-c&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; along with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/392081/how-does-tex-figure-out-whether-a-should-be-typeset-as-unary-or-binary&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; showed the importance of writing something akin to your own parser to allow dynamic spacing (i.e. dynamic '\medmuskip') around operators. I found out that someone else asked a similar question a while back: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/121848/using-operator-spacing-to-indicate-precedence&quot;&gt;Using operator spacing to indicate precedence&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to figure out how to write such a parser, using LuaTeX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suspected issue with the question:&lt;/strong&gt; it requires the answerer to do a lot of work/shows that I didn't do enough of my own research, because one could argue that I could probably figure out the answer if I spent enough time reading docs etc.? Am I just being too lazy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your thoughts? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49339" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T19:42:47.260" Title="Am I being too lazy in asking this question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-25T12:32:49.940" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to receive email notification about new post with selected set of tags. Is it possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3831" LastActivityDate="2017-09-25T17:07:22.097" Title="Email notification on a selected tag" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7418" CreationDate="2017-09-25T17:07:22.097" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/filters&quot;&gt;https://stackexchange.com/filters&lt;/a&gt; and create a filter for your selected set of tags and set instructions about email notifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lAmgU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lAmgU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe an alternative which is easier to manage and customise: using a newsfeed instead of email. For every {tag} you'll find the link at the bottom of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGUbf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGUbf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2017-09-25T17:07:22.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7421" CreationDate="2017-09-27T12:54:05.517" Score="0" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a long-term personal questioning about the fact if Markdown + Mathjax (which is great on math.SE for example) could be one day derived into a typesetting tool for printed documents.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Before asking the question anywhere on SE, I decided to investigate&lt;/strong&gt; what website is more appropriate about tag &lt;code&gt;[markdown]&lt;/code&gt;, to avoid off-topicness: the answers are in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/301375/295738&quot;&gt;first&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/301329/which-se-site-is-appropriate-for-questions-about-markdown&quot;&gt;second&lt;/a&gt; questions in meta.SE. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9bCrp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is also a useful screenshot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I did read this meta.tex.SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/273/27733&quot;&gt;highest upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt; which seemed quite open to TeX's cousins. After all MathJax is &lt;em&gt;not so far&lt;/em&gt; to TeX: at least the general idea of having a language/syntax for maths (same syntax in fact!). For those who disagree, you don't need to explain -- I use and know TeX since decades, I know the differences: rendered-HTML vs. typesetting software, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aforementioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/273/27733&quot;&gt;highest upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think (2) &lt;em&gt;[Tolerate them, but leave notes to the effect of &quot;Probably not the best site for this question&quot;]&lt;/em&gt; is the best balance. They are within the 'TeX, LaTeX and Friends' area, I guess, but probably outside of the experience of many people here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see a will of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389/promoting-tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;promoting TeX, LaTeX and friends&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the fact SO wouldn't be appropriate for my question (not directly a &lt;em&gt;code&lt;/em&gt; question), and that the question was about a TeX's cousin, I posted the question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/393405/can-markdown-mathjax-be-turned-into-a-typesetting-solution-for-printed-documen&quot;&gt;Can Markdown + MathJax be turned into a typesetting solution for printed documents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is now closed, with lots of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Discussion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the real harm done in authorizing 0.1% of &lt;code&gt;[mathjax]&lt;/code&gt; questions in tex.SE? I think the highest probably to find MathJax specialists on SE is probably here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't tex.SE be the place to speak about MathJax (except if it's a code question, then SO, of course)? I was told that some top contributors here in tex.SE are in the technical commitee of MathJax. So wouldn't it make sense to host the small number of questions about &lt;code&gt;[mathjax]&lt;/code&gt; here (once again, not the implementation/programming ones, which belong to SO)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More generally, is it a good idea to be so restrictive to TeX? &#xA;I mean: we must accept the truth: in 2017 many new TeX users will probably come after having discovered MathJax in math.SE. Why trying to erase this truth and to deny the obvious connection between both?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TeX was built in the 70s, LaTeX in the 80s, isn't it a good idea to accept questions here about the evolution / future of TeX? I don't say MathJax is the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; future of TeX, of course not, I still use LaTeX for papers, etc., but MathJax is certainly a (small?) part of the future of TeX.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another evidence: we all know that lots of software now have an equivalent in the browser (maybe just a trend or a long-term move in software development, I don't know). Isn't MathJax and editors providing MathJax typesetting in the browser (such as StackEdit) just &lt;strong&gt;one more example&lt;/strong&gt; of the &quot;standalone software&quot; =&gt; &quot;app in the browser&quot; move? Why refusing to face this reality?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272/how-do-we-feel-about-mathjax-jsmath-other-spin-offs&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; isn't really a duplicate because it doesn't specifically the points 2., 3., 4., 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27733" LastEditorUserId="27733" LastEditDate="2017-09-27T14:12:31.127" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T15:56:14.567" Title="TeX, TeX, and nothing else?" Tags="|discussion|scope|markdown|mathjax|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2017-09-28T22:55:57.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7420" CreationDate="2017-09-27T15:56:14.567" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if Markdown + Mathjax (which is great on math.SE for example) could be one day derived into a typesetting tool for printed documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of question is not appropriate anywhere on Stack Exchange, regardless of what other words appear in place of &quot;Markdown&quot; and &quot;Mathjax&quot;.  It's inviting speculations about the future. Such a question could be well-received on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt;, however. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in 2017 many new TeX users will probably come after having discovered MathJax in math.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly yes, although you may be extrapolating from own experience too far. It doesn't affect the topicality in any way. Most students of Computer Science came to the subject after some experience with programming; this doesn't make programming questions on-topic at &lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Computer Science&lt;/a&gt; site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MathJax is certainly a (small?) part of the future of TeX. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what this means. They will both exist in the future, sure. Neither is going to replace the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isn't MathJax and editors providing MathJax typesetting in the browser (such as StackEdit) just one more example of the &quot;standalone software&quot; =&gt; &quot;app in the browser&quot; move?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it is not. Websites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Overleaf&lt;/a&gt; are &quot;TeX app in the browser&quot;. You will notice they don't use MathJax, or have any connection with MathJax. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, it appears that you think of TeX as a tool for typing formulas, and paint a picture distorted by this misunderstanding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user69318" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T15:56:14.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7416" CreationDate="2017-09-27T22:40:38.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your true meta question: Yes, such questions are on-topic. The fact that they revolve around &lt;em&gt;operating&lt;/em&gt; TeX rather than &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; it does not disqualify them. What is not on-topic are trivial questions (even in this area, there are trivial questions) and questions irrelevant to the TeX side of the problem (like asking how to install/setup an Apache server or a cron job).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some insights in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/119316/establishing-a-new-latex-repository-in-the-university&quot;&gt;Establishing a new LaTeX repository in the university&lt;/a&gt; (as pointed out by Paul Gaborit), make sure your question is significantly different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T22:40:38.233" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4325" CreationDate="2017-10-02T04:35:18.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that has been (feature) requested back in 2011 on Meta.SE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/14756/168244&quot;&gt;Formatting Keyboard Shortcuts for Comments&lt;/a&gt; and is truly something that will have to be implemented network-wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/14760/168244&quot;&gt;automated suggestion&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2103/27724&quot;&gt;web-script&lt;/a&gt; that you can install via &lt;a href=&quot;https://tampermonkey.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tampermonkey&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-10-02T04:35:18.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-03T12:47:45.860" Score="15" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently working on a package that extends the functionality of dblfnote. I've finished a method for placing the footnote rule at an arbitrary horizontal location (more specifically, centered on the page), and I'm in the process of debugging a way to have two column paragraph footnotes (which is coming along in a promising way. You can see what I have in &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/rabbiveesh/dfn-para&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;my github repo&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: how can I ask for help in testing and implementing these features? Is this the right place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, how should I let people know about my work. I feel like I'm not the only person who wants paragraph footnotes in two columns. Can I ask a question about it on the main site, and post my package as an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112191" LastEditorUserId="112191" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T09:12:22.323" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T09:12:22.323" Title="How to ask for help writing a package?" Tags="|discussion|support|packages|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7429" CreationDate="2017-10-03T13:17:28.660" Score="7" ViewCount="511" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I make fillable form using &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; package, I face many problems and I sometimes don't get wanted features.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, then I ask a question in this site for this feature. When someone give the answer then I implement that. After some time I face another problem for another feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/394323/how-to-insert-and-in-when-using-hyperref-package&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;,&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; problem on using &lt;code&gt;hyperref&lt;/code&gt; package. One give the answer. Now, I want to get the clickable option of &lt;code&gt;ChoiceMenu&lt;/code&gt; before the field.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, should I edit the previous asked question with new required feature or ask a new question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128718" LastEditorUserId="128718" LastEditDate="2017-10-03T13:22:31.367" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T18:12:55.663" Title="Should I ask one question with many requirements instead of many questions on same topic?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-04T04:27:52.797" Score="1" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently that question appears and I am not sure why when many people use and develop LaTeX, it is still free and we can download the program without any problem. That is so much good as strange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know also Linux is free and so on, but it seems different with LaTeX, which is available even for paid Operative Systems (OS) as Windows or Apple. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: Why latex is free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user134500" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T21:59:08.127" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T21:59:08.127" Title="Why LaTeX is free?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-10-04T05:43:24.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-04T10:11:57.827" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moving the course across the links in the sidebar makes them jump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cGCYe.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cGCYe.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is with FF 54.0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3213" LastActivityDate="2017-10-04T10:11:57.827" Title="Notification sidebar style makes links jump on hover" Tags="|bug|design|sidebar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7434" CreationDate="2017-10-05T07:42:17.130" Score="12" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often have questions about using LaTeX in Rmarkdown, specifically about changing the header of the TeX file from within Rmarkdown, using &lt;code&gt;header-includes&lt;/code&gt; and suppressing some of the default functions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/96125/144923&quot;&gt;this solution&lt;/a&gt; works in a TeX file, but does not work in &lt;code&gt;header-includes&lt;/code&gt;, because of spaces, enters, or entire commands that cannot be entered there.* Removing spaces and commands until it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; work is often the only solution. As far as I'm concerned, &lt;code&gt;header-includes&lt;/code&gt; sends arguments followed by a dash &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; to a new rule in the header, so I'd like to understand &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; certain commands don't work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Googling these problems, there is often limited information concerning Rmarkdown specifically so I would like to know if there is a better place for these questions or whether they are appropriate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking because of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/394646/144923&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question that I have been meaning to ask, but wasn't sure whether I could ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* Removing all comments, &lt;code&gt;{}[]&lt;/code&gt; after each new command and removing all enters and spaces works in Rmarkdown, but I do not understand the reason for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;To clarify, I am referring to using LaTeX in an Rmarkdown file, not using Rmarkdown's own syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144923" LastEditorUserId="144923" LastEditDate="2017-10-07T00:40:01.500" LastActivityDate="2017-10-07T23:48:00.843" Title="Is this the right place to ask questions about LaTeX in Rmarkdown?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7425" CreationDate="2017-10-05T18:12:55.663" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should ask only one question per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This helps everyone involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are more likely to receive an answer if you ask one thing, because you don't discourage people who know the answer to only one of several questions you have from answering.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those answering your question don't get tangled up in the details of several tangentially related requests and can focus on one specific issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People with a similar problem will have a better chance to find the answer that helps them quickly and efficiently if they don't have to dissect an answer that addresses several points at once.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of a Q&amp;amp;A site is that you ask one clearly defined, abstract question that is useful for a wider audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it is tempting to stuff several requests into one question, because they seem related and it is easier to have to click the 'Ask Question' button and paste a code example once. And eventually someone who can answer all of your question might come along to answer all of your questions at once, and you will only have to copy and paste the code and you'll be good to go. Even though it might seem easer for you, for others this will mean more work, and it might even prevent you from getting good help quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can ask too many separate questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/asking-rate-limited&quot;&gt;even though some automatic quality contol system might disagree with me here&lt;/a&gt;) as long as they are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;good questions&lt;/a&gt;. Interesting, clear and overall good questions benefit everyone on this site. Take some time to describe the problem you have as precisely as possible, do some research, add an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/35864&quot;&gt;MWE&lt;/a&gt;, and try to make your question useful to others, give it a good title, ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also raise the point about editing questions after they have been answered. There was a similar question a while ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3625/35864&quot;&gt;When is it Kosher to edit one’s own question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the sentiment of both answers and would like to draw attention to egreg's distinction between answered and unanswered questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is fine to edit unanswered questions with additional information. I would even go so far as to say that you could &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; the question (other people may feel differently), in that case make sure that title and tagging is still appropriate. If no one has yet invested their time to answer your question, then no harm is done (of course you can't really know if people have played around with your question a bit, then realised they couldn't help you, and consequently didn't post an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have already received an answer, you should be very careful to edit your question. If you edit at all, you should make sure that your edit does not invalidate the answers you got. You should not change the essence of the question, you should not add additional requirements and desiderata (unless clarification is specifically requested). Even seemingly minor details can require drastic changes to answers; that does not mean that minor edits are absolutely &lt;em&gt;verboten&lt;/em&gt;, but it might be nice touch to comment on the answers first and be prepared to be asked to ask a follow-up question. You should definitely not edit your question if you only realised after asking or after seeing the answers that you actually wanted something different (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2449/35864&quot;&gt;XY-problem&lt;/a&gt;-like).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case you ask about you should definitely ask a new question. The first question was about &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;\ChoiceMenu&lt;/code&gt;. The second question is about the layout of &lt;code&gt;\ChoiceMenu&lt;/code&gt;. So while both things have to do with &lt;code&gt;\ChoiceMenu&lt;/code&gt; they are so fundamentally different that a new question is warranted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T18:12:55.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-06T17:00:05.260" Score="3" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I comment is some question or answer in this including all SE sites I noticed that it shows suggestion if I start with &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, it is boring to me to use mouse to select the commenter's name.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any short key to insert the name? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128718" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-10-06T17:13:58.940" LastActivityDate="2017-10-06T17:13:58.940" Title="Is there any shortkey to insert the commenter name in a new comment?" Tags="|support|comments|comment-replies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7430" CreationDate="2017-10-06T17:09:33.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the &lt;kbd&gt;TAB&lt;/kbd&gt; key to switch between possible suggestions which should auto-complete the full @-mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6HdWq.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6HdWq.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details on @-replies, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/43019/168244&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-10-06T17:09:33.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7432" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-10-06T17:15:15.673" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments in reply to a specific previous comment can include @UserName to direct the comment to that User Name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Basics are explained in &lt;a href=&quot;/editing-help#comment-reply&quot;&gt;Editing help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More details can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43019/how-do-comment-replies-work&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-10-06T17:15:15.673" LastActivityDate="2017-10-06T17:15:15.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7433" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-10-06T17:15:15.673" Score="0" Body="For questions about comment @replies, also called pings." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-10-06T17:15:15.673" LastActivityDate="2017-10-06T17:15:15.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7428" CreationDate="2017-10-07T23:48:00.843" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that such questions are on-topic, although if you just post the RMarkdown code itself you probably limit the number of site users who will be able to answer the question, and you may get push back in comments about the question being off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do get comments about closing, and my answer here gets upvoted with no opposing answers, then I would keep this link handy; sometimes close voters get trigger happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as you've posed it seems fine to me, since you've added the generated LaTeX file as well as the RMarkdown source.  I think that's a good strategy for any further questions you might have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2017-10-07T23:48:00.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-11T06:27:45.803" Score="16" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/301845/168244&quot;&gt;new top bar is live&lt;/a&gt; and has been receiving mixed reviews after its &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/300829/168244&quot;&gt;initial anouncement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some things that are network wide that will most like not change (deemed &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;), but anything specific to TeX.SE and it's child meta can be addressed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T13:25:51.137" Title="New top bar... feedback?" Tags="|discussion|design|top-bar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2017-10-11T06:36:39.263" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red colour of the textual highlights across the main site work on a light background, but is difficult to read on the black top bar, and becomes almost illegible upon hovering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/748nz.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/748nz.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: Historically we used to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6451/5764&quot;&gt;blue textual highlights/links&lt;/a&gt;, which were subsequently &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6529/5764&quot;&gt;changed to red&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T06:36:39.263" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2017-10-11T08:21:25.423" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Issue now solved, thanks to an update of the top-bar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to emphasis the fact that the choice of the red color for the StackExchange logo is not, imho, very successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jm3xR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jm3xR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, due to the red color, every time my eye comes closer to the top-left region, it triggers something in my mind like &lt;em&gt;&quot;I got a message / there is an error / Something has to be done...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which is quite disturbing on the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would rather suggest a more &quot;neutral&quot; color, e.g. something close to the brown-yellowish background of TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastEditorUserId="64454" LastEditDate="2017-10-11T12:26:51.577" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T12:26:51.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2017-10-11T08:51:20.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the ugly color of the word &quot;StackExchange&quot;, I would have preferred to have the search field on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T08:51:20.797" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2017-10-11T09:20:08.350" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is now really hard to see if there is something in the review queue. There is no notification on the symbol itself and after clicking on it, the only indication is a pale grey dot on a pale background: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gY9m7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gY9m7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="64454" LastEditDate="2017-10-11T12:04:23.287" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T12:04:23.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2017-10-11T13:25:51.137" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;yet another case of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RmnXC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RmnXC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T13:25:51.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7444" CreationDate="2017-10-13T02:59:19.187" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed the following in my user activity -  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGpVW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGpVW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the 9/5 mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128718" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-10-14T04:53:33.280" LastActivityDate="2017-10-14T04:53:33.280" Title="What does mean by 9/5 in Next badge section?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7442" CreationDate="2017-10-13T11:33:06.677" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This means (as CarLaTeX already wrote) that you asked a well-received question on 9 separate days, although only 5 are required to earn this badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However you need to get a positive question record for this badge to be awarded to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124577" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T11:33:06.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-16T13:52:13.067" Score="7" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions state that ShareLaTeX or Overleaf is used. This often causes or complicates the problem or invalidates/complicates answers, e.g., with installing packages, version problems, using ConTeXt, shell escape, latexmk/arara, debugging, data synchronization and remote data, etc. Such issues could be (partially) resolved by using a local installation (TeX Live/MiKTeX/MacTeX and such).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am often tempted to leave a comment saying 'install something &lt;s&gt;proper&lt;/s&gt; locally and come back if the problem persists'. However, as always we should refrain from imposing habits onto users (see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1883/is-lyx-an-editor-which-should-be-recommended&quot;&gt;Is LyX an editor which should be recommended?&lt;/a&gt; where the consensus is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to discourage LyX even though it has clear limitations). Moreover, there are good reasons to use an online environment (collaboration with others, lack of permissions to install things locally, preference for being device independent, preference for having a ready-to-use environment). Yet I feel that questioners could profit from being encouraged to install a distribution, and answerers could spend their time more productively by not having to address the mentioned issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question is: should we recommend (in comments or otherwise) against the use of online platforms? If yes, only when problems are directly related to the use of the platform, or in general (cf. &quot;btw, don't put 25 packages in your preamble if you use only three of them, even though everything works fine now&quot;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-10-17T16:09:08.947" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T16:09:08.947" Title="Commenting on the use of online editors" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7447" CreationDate="2017-10-17T16:07:42.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No since, as you say, there is a place for online editors, especially when local installations are not possible or collaboration is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to make sure that the question is specific to the online environment, rather than just some regular problem that is being typeset online. Questioners frequently tag posts with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sharelatex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sharelatex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sharelatex&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overleaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overleaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overleaf&lt;/a&gt; and include that as a reference in their posts, yet the actual problem has nothing to do with the online editor; it's just the environment they use. In those instances, edit the post and remove the information (including tags) specific to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, just posting links to shared, online projects deserves an edit to post the online code within the Stack&amp;nbsp;Exchange network. This positive correction improves the scope of the problem so it can be (consumed and) addressed by others more readily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created an account on Overleaf and ShareLaTeX that I use to address those asking questions specific to the environment in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T16:07:42.387" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7397" CreationDate="2017-10-27T05:42:35.520" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to waste your time answering questions some top user will answer better and quicker than you, you could try my technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, when I work, I don't have time to spend here. So, when I see a post I could answer to, I flag it as my favorite clicking on the star under the upvote/downvote icons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Te7oX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Te7oX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I have time, I scroll the list of my favorites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vau8J.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vau8J.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and, if there is already a good answer to the question I marked, I click again on the star to de-flag it. If there is not, I answer being (almost) certain not to waste my time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T05:42:35.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7388" CreationDate="2017-10-27T18:51:04.053" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a shared sentiment here that while we want to help guide users to write better questions, we don't want to create a system that becomes a discouraging wall or obstacle to a new user. As has been noted in the comments we're playing around with a few changes here and there on Stack Overflow to address some of this, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357951/what-can-we-put-in-a-question-template-to-help-people-ask-better-questions&quot;&gt;potentially creating templates on the ask page&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/353845/stack-overflow-mentorship-research-project&quot;&gt;mentoring users&lt;/a&gt;. But those are still in much of test phases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For stuff we can accomplish now, there's a few things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask/advice&quot;&gt;interstitial shown to new askers&lt;/a&gt; could be turned on, and further modified to cater specifically to the needs of TeX here. We've tried these on a few sites, the success seems highest in situations with a lot of dupes available for search (roughly half of closed questions here are marked duplicates), so this could be a handy way to target users when they're beginning to ask.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How To Ask&lt;/a&gt; page (which, yes, shares the same title as the previous but is distinctly different) can also be customized to further address the needs of TeX specifically. This page gets linked to when a question is closed as Unclear or Too Broad (which 30% of closed questions here are), so this is more of a recovery for those who have already asked astray.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The sidebar shown on the Ask Page can also be modified, though offers less room. An example of customization can be found on sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Mathematica&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Customized warnings based on tags used (&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e2lbM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;example from Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;) can be implemented if there's particular tags that tend to draw more work attention to them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour page&lt;/a&gt; is already editable by moderators.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In experience, what tends to help a bit more than a required test or a long static tutorial (while cute, the current top answer's tutorial is... extremely meaty in length) is to have well-written and maintained advice kept, either in specific places like outlined above or on Meta, that can be succinctly and conveniently linked to askers in the moments most appropriate that they need them. Places like close reasons or tag warnings or sidebar notes can all be used for this manner of linking, to provide a more readable experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's still interest in pursuing this direction, we can look at implementing changes to the sections noted above. We'd need folks to band together and figure which parts they'd like to target, and what they'd like to see as the end result though, and submit it as a complete feature request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T18:51:04.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-28T07:45:58.577" Score="15" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all: I do not want to blame someone, so the example here is only an example no statement against a person!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/398329/revisions#&quot;&gt;this revision 3 to a question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/439pE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/439pE.png&quot; alt=&quot;revision image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, someone asked a question, got answers and then he/she has rewritten the question to something completely different using the answer(s) they have already got. Now the old answers, which were useful for answering the original question, are more or less no longer useful for the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we revert this question to the original one (and also delete new answers to the new question) or should we accept the question as it is now and delete the old answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking about what to do, if someone has a follow-up question. We all know, that he/she should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2117/ive-just-been-told-i-have-to-post-a-follow-up-question-why-and-how&quot;&gt;ask a new question&lt;/a&gt;. But what to do, if someone has not asked a follow-up question but replaced his/her original question by a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9057" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2017-10-30T21:51:36.873" LastActivityDate="2017-10-30T21:51:36.873" Title="How to handle completely rewriting questions instead of asking follow-up questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7453" CreationDate="2017-10-29T10:18:20.467" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange model works as answers (and thus questions) have value beyond the original asker. To make that work, we have conventions such as answers always being separate from questions, and allow editing of questions to make them clearer. In the same vein, a question which has good answers should not be edited to a completely different one. Instead, a new linked question should be asked. Thus in the scenario described, I would expect a roll-back plus a comment pointing out why this happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T10:18:20.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-29T18:40:51.690" Score="10" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be it is not really a big problem, but it would be a nice addition to the site features if there was a button over or after the code to select all the code. I think it is useful more in cases you use a semi-broken mouse (my case) that forgets that a button is clicked and &quot;unselects&quot; a big part of a big code... And I have to go back to start to select again (Don't ask for my mouse brand because some &quot;Bill&quot; will go after me)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Independent of my specific problem, in big files it is really useful and many communities use such buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-10-31T20:06:44.723" LastActivityDate="2023-09-27T08:11:32.933" Title="Add button &quot;Select All&quot;" Tags="|feature-request|code|user-interface|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-10-31T23:00:14.690" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-29T19:56:45.557" Score="6" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I want to see what is available under review I select &quot;Close Votes&quot; to take a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, the only actions there are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V4yjp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V4yjp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have the next problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am not a native English speaker and sometimes I can not really give myself the right to vote on specific questions (like voting &quot;unclear&quot; if the unclear thing for me is the language and not the post)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some topics based for example on &lt;code&gt;MikTex&lt;/code&gt; or similar, are not my dignity point and I don't want to participate in the voting about something I am not even familiar with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The action that seems to be correct, is to press &quot;Skip&quot;. But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't appear again in my review actions (and if ,for example, I skipped just to give some more time to the op to edit, I would like to have the opportunity vote some hours or a day after)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I don't press &quot;Skip&quot;, I can not even see the next &quot;under review&quot; questions or answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a button (like &quot;Next&quot;) to navigate inside the &quot;under review&quot; questions or answers is a useful addition that solves such problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T19:56:45.557" Title="Button &quot;Next&quot; in review actions" Tags="|feature-request|review-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7455" CreationDate="2017-10-29T21:53:08.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For firefox there are nice add-ons to add this missing feature&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/codecopy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/codecopy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cfZsn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cfZsn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-code/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-code/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IYhS0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IYhS0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With these add-ons every code block has a little button at the top right which copies the whole block to your clipboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2023-09-27T08:11:32.933" LastActivityDate="2023-09-27T08:11:32.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7453" CreationDate="2017-10-29T23:41:44.237" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2449/what-does-xy-problem-mean&quot;&gt;XY questions&lt;/a&gt; are rather common on this site and, I guess, also on other sites of the StackExchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case, I left a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/398329/set-geometry-offset-but-keep-page-number-in-the-middle#comment991174_398393&quot;&gt;comment to my answer&lt;/a&gt;, replying to the OP, and rolled back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are cases where the edit is not really minor, but better explains the problem and updating the answers is easy or almost straightforward, or even unnecessary, just requiring a comment or a small edit. This one wasn't of the kind: instead it was an almost complete rewrite of the question asking for several unrelated things. It's the “unrelated” that makes the difference. I acknowledge that judgment comes in at this point, but the case seemed clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T23:41:44.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7455" CreationDate="2017-10-31T20:06:03.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/6091/27724&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Extras (SOX) script&lt;/a&gt; provides this functionality through a very minimal icon in the top-right corner of a code display:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X8vgM.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X8vgM.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the script activated via Tampermonkey in Chrome, but it is supported in other browsers as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T20:06:03.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4495" CreationDate="2017-11-01T03:15:16.643" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not have enough reputation to comment on the answer, so I am adding a new answer. (Please help me with a right code of conduct if it is different.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not agree with Werner that it is not a &quot;problem&quot; because someone might wait &quot;little bit longer&quot;. &quot;Little bit&quot; is subjective and might change depending on the computer. An advanced user might know this problem and might wait, but an unfamiliar user might just consider it as broken (which I assume every time when something does not respond for several minutes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is that, should stackoverflow be only for advanced users instead of addressing all the users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127900" LastActivityDate="2017-11-01T03:15:16.643" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7462" CreationDate="2017-11-05T18:39:07.027" Score="10" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Ccs_set_eq&quot;&gt;search on TeX - LaTeX for &lt;code&gt;\cs_set_eq&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, only one result is returned: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/122190/18401&quot;&gt;&quot;Q: Patch font with LuaTeX&quot;&lt;/a&gt; whereas e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/398268/18401&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; contains code containing &lt;code&gt;\cs_set_eq&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you know what's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18401" LastActivityDate="2017-11-06T19:43:22.620" Title="Questions or answers containing \cs_set_eq not found" Tags="|discussion|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7461" CreationDate="2017-11-06T19:43:22.620" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching for &lt;code&gt;xyz&lt;/code&gt; finds results that are listed in the &lt;em&gt;text only&lt;/em&gt; and not the &lt;em&gt;code&lt;/em&gt; part, &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; that code part is set using the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags. So, this type of search excludes code segments that are not set via the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags (indented by 4 spaces).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to search within those segments, you need to use &lt;code&gt;code:&quot;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. This, however, requires an exact match for a code segment. So searching for &lt;code&gt;code:&quot;xyz&quot;&lt;/code&gt; would miss code segments with &lt;code&gt;xyzz&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;xxyz&lt;/code&gt; in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In-line code content (those between backticks &lt;code&gt;`&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;`&lt;/code&gt;) seem to fall within both categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference here stems (I guess) from the fact that there's two different versions of question content that is active in the background - a &quot;raw&quot; and a &quot;baked&quot; format. The latter is an HTML (or visual/display) format for representing content within the browser, while the latter is the content as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't combine these searches, since the OR operator is only used for combining &lt;em&gt;tags&lt;/em&gt; (as in, &lt;code&gt;[widgets] or [geegaws]&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Ccs_set_eq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\cs_set_eq&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JZxpR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JZxpR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=code%3A%22%5Ccs_set_eq%3ANN%22&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;code:&quot;\cs_set_eq:NN&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JvZch.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JvZch.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is often better to search using a site-specific Google search, as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.ca/search?q=%22cs_set_eq%22+site%3Atex.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;cs_set_eq&quot; site:tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. However, since questions and answers are contained within the same visible page, the search results will necessarily cover both (as opposed to having a &lt;code&gt;is:question&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;is:answer&lt;/code&gt; operator).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9mEAj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9mEAj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching is definitely not perfect on the network and takes some practice getting used to. Escaping characters may also cause issues, and this is especially true on TeX.SE where the use of &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; is prevalent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/160100/168244&quot;&gt;A new search engine for Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;How to search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/55473/168244&quot;&gt;Search just code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-11-06T19:43:22.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3587" CreationDate="2017-11-10T18:52:24.507" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the two answers are absolutely of the same value, I think it could be a good practice to accept the one of the user with &lt;em&gt;the lowest&lt;/em&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, you should vote/accept the answer, &lt;em&gt;not the answerer&lt;/em&gt;, but when there are two equally good answers, I think it is better to reward the user with the lowest reputation. It could be a way to make him/her more affectionate to TeX.SE!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-11-10T19:21:27.663" LastActivityDate="2017-11-10T19:21:27.663" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-10T22:46:14.103" Score="15" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of useful Perl scripts distributed with TeX and friends. Perl deprecated the use of unescaped literal characters in regular expressions in version 5.16 and &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.26.0/pod/perldelta.pod#Unescaped_literal_%22%7B%22_characters_in_regular_expression_patterns_are_no_longer_permissible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;now they're no longer permissible and will cause an error&lt;/a&gt;. Some of the Perl scripts in the TeX distributions suffered from this problem in the past but have now been fixed, but users are still picking up old versions that don't work with new versions of Perl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a definitive list of all Perl scripts provided with TeX distributions that have fixed this issue (with version number) for easy reference whenever there's a new question that includes an error message like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by &amp;lt;-- HERE&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="19862" LastEditDate="2017-11-11T11:07:18.703" LastActivityDate="2017-12-11T13:19:30.177" Title="List of Perl scripts that have fixed the unescaped literal character problem" Tags="|discussion|big-list|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7464" CreationDate="2017-11-10T23:31:28.150" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Fixed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/biber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;biber&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fixed version 2.8&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/395654&quot;&gt;Biber gets perl warning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;latexdiff&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fixed version 1.2.0 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff/issues/61&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Issue #61&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/latexindent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;latexindent&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fixed version 2.2 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/323617&quot;&gt;latexindent: it does the work, but emits these messages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;makeglossaries&lt;/code&gt; fixed in version 2.17 (distributed with &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/glossaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; version 4.20 2015-11-30, &lt;code&gt;makeglossaries&lt;/code&gt; version number is now synchronized with &lt;code&gt;glossaries.sty&lt;/code&gt; as from v4.33).&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/376726&quot;&gt;Error with Perl interpreter and glossaries package on Windows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/texdef&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;texdef&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fixed in version 1.7c 2017-12-09 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/377168&quot;&gt;How can I avoid this regex error when attempting to use texdef?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/xindy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xindy&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fixed version 2.5.1.20160104-2 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826507&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bug report #826507&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fixed in Repository but Pending New Release&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/makedtx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;makedtx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not Yet Fixed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Deprecated&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There won't be any new versions of these.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;csvtools.pl&lt;/code&gt; (distributed with the obsolete &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/csvtools&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;csvtools&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;makeglos.pl&lt;/code&gt; (distributed with the obsolete &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/glossary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;glossary&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; package).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;makejmlrbook&lt;/code&gt; (distributed with &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/jmlr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;jmlr&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). This no longer conforms to PMLR (formerly JMLR W&amp;amp;CP) guidelines. Production editors should use the newer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/software/makejmlrbookgui/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;makejmlrbookgui&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="19862" LastEditDate="2017-12-11T13:19:30.177" LastActivityDate="2017-12-11T13:19:30.177" CommentCount="14" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-11-10T23:31:28.150" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-11T16:38:54.133" Score="10" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;in trying to deal with unanswered questions about &lt;code&gt;amsart&lt;/code&gt;, i came across two that are, for all practical purposes, identical.  both are unanswered, and the reasons for the lack of an answer are given in a comment to one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the questions involved are these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/324907&quot;&gt;Correct the zigzag-form align of a TOC (article)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/141009&quot;&gt;Table-of-Contents items appearing flush against the edge of the left margin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the example shown in the first makes it a better illustration of the ptoblem, so i tried to close the other one.  however, the &quot;close&quot; script returned the comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and refused to accept it.  an alternative was suggested, but it is not appropriate, as it uses a different document class that relies on a different formatting mechanism.  i left a comment identifying the duplicate but would really like to close the &quot;less clear&quot; question.  i don't want to cite another reason, since none of the others are appropriate.  (the &quot;off-topic with reason&quot; &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be used, but is far from ideal.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is there any alternative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2017-11-11T16:38:54.133" Title="how to close a question as a duplicate of another question that is also unanswered?" Tags="|discussion|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-12T20:46:57.317" Score="1" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would to know if I have a problem with my account. Since a month I'm no longer eligible to accept or reject reviews since it has been changed the icons on this site. When I get a badge, the cup rarely becomes green and I do not see the badge achieved. In addition, the badges arrive very late. &lt;strong&gt;Proofreader&lt;/strong&gt; seems stuck; I do not see the number to approve or reject the change. Is there a solution? I attach some picture of my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Nq1R.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Nq1R.png&quot; alt=&quot;There is blocked&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mGOTR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mGOTR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-11-13T23:42:19.910" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T09:37:11.967" Title="A block badge Proofreader for my account" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7468" CreationDate="2017-11-13T23:41:38.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4628/5764&quot;&gt;a number written in the top navigation bar&lt;/a&gt; to identify the number of reviews available to the user. However, this was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/187216/168244&quot;&gt;not always accurate&lt;/a&gt; with the blame put on caching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/300829/168244&quot;&gt;new top bar&lt;/a&gt; now puts a silver bullet next to an item when there's &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; items to review; here's a view from the Stack Overflow top bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jXal7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jXal7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a queue has an &lt;em&gt;extreme&lt;/em&gt; number of items in it, the silver bullet turns red, and it also lights up on the review button in the toolbar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PtuqG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PtuqG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new top bar &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/300864/168244&quot;&gt;doesn't fix the caching problem just yet&lt;/a&gt;, but it's apparently an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are unsure when last you may have received some badge, you can follow the click sequence [User profile &gt; Activity &gt; all actions &gt; badges and see when you received what:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GbAZq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GbAZq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T05:08:09.343" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T05:08:09.343" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7897" CreationDate="2017-11-20T17:43:18.483" Score="7" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;The input of my comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/402194/18401&quot;&gt;egreg's answer&lt;/a&gt; is just:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you say &quot;However, see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/329209/4427&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/329209/4427&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, do you just mean &quot;&lt;code&gt;thmmarks&lt;/code&gt; is evil!&quot; or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the output is (note the spurious semicolon):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you say &quot;However, see also tex.stackexchange.com/a/329209/4427&quot;;, do you just mean &quot;thmmarks is evil!&quot; or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18401" LastEditorUserId="75298" LastEditDate="2018-10-16T23:40:34.523" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T23:40:34.523" Title="Spurious semicolon" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7473" CreationDate="2017-11-26T19:47:05.293" Score="3" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be helpful to have a shorthand link to the duckboat for use in comments, similar to the ones for meta and faq and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would encourage the linking of the article to help new users in a fun way, and get them used to the community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be posting links to it, I'd just find it more convenient if there was a short link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112191" LastEditorUserId="112191" LastEditDate="2017-11-26T19:54:42.697" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T22:18:18.393" Title="Short Link to the Duckboat" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7472" CreationDate="2017-11-26T20:55:38.193" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;short link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb38-3/tb120duck.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The DuckBoat -- News from TeX.SE: Asking effective questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[The DuckBoat -- News from TeX.SE: Asking effective questions](http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb38-3/tb120duck.pdf)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2017-11-26T22:18:18.393" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T22:18:18.393" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-27T21:11:02.280" Score="9" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I've lost 15 points due to an unaccepted answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/afZO5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/afZO5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I click on the trophy of the menu bar I don't see the negative votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tMedi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tMedi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, with the old menu, the negative votes were displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does my memory fail or did they change something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-11-29T06:58:59.217" LastActivityDate="2017-11-29T06:58:59.217" Title="Doesn't reputation counter show downvotes anymore?" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7480" CreationDate="2017-11-28T14:43:43.127" Score="40" ViewCount="1167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, TeX and friends are far beyond of just academic usage. I would like to propose the inclusion of a greyscale duck (courtesy of &lt;code&gt;tikzducks&lt;/code&gt;) in our background image. This is the current image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sd6Gn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sd6Gn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following image is a concept sketch. Note how graceful the duck is when compared to the other elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1otKE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1otKE.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, dear community, should we go one step further towards quackiness? &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="117050" LastEditDate="2017-12-05T14:36:37.260" LastActivityDate="2017-12-10T15:46:43.317" Title="A proposal to include a duck in our background image" Tags="|discussion|ducks|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7475" CreationDate="2017-11-28T14:44:20.817" Score="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Yes, definitely!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YR3m1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YR3m1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2017-11-28T15:16:14.320" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T15:16:14.320" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-11-28T14:44:20.817" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7475" CreationDate="2017-11-28T14:45:29.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;No way, this is far too silly!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2017-11-28T15:05:29.453" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T15:05:29.453" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-11-28T14:45:29.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7475" CreationDate="2017-12-07T04:03:38.507" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Attractive though the addition of a duck is, I am not in favour of this proposal. However, I am not opposed on the grounds that it is 'too silly'. I am opposed on the grounds that it would institutionalise what is essentially an 'in joke' and thereby symbolise a kind of exclusivity which I would not like to see the site embrace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that, in practice, people are unlikely to even notice the duck. However, I think that the image is a statement about the community and this community's attitude to visitors, including both regular members, newbies and passers-by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may not be explaining this objection very well and I do not expect this post to be popular. I post it because, after considerable thought, I concluded that &lt;em&gt;somebody&lt;/em&gt; should say it. Unfortunately, nobody else has stepped up, so the somebody happens to be me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2017-12-07T04:03:38.507" CommentCount="12" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-12-07T04:03:38.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7475" CreationDate="2017-12-09T20:59:19.817" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Everybody can decide for themselves&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily there are browser addons which can exchange the default background image by a version including the duck, so every user can decide if he/she wants to use one of these addons to have a duck in the background image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addons capable to do the image exchange are for example &lt;code&gt;stylish&lt;/code&gt; or from the &lt;code&gt;greasemonky&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;Tampermonkey&lt;/code&gt; family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to add instructions for more browser/addon combinations!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Instructions for firefox with greasemonkey&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Install greasemonkey addon: &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;add a new user script via &lt;code&gt;tools-&amp;gt;greasmonkey-&amp;gt;New User Script...&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8W3X4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8W3X4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the following dialogue, choose a name of your choice and add &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;http://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;http://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to the &lt;code&gt;Included Pages&lt;/code&gt; field.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now click on &lt;code&gt;Edit this User Script&lt;/code&gt; and copy &amp;amp; paste the following code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name _TeX SE, Swap header background&#xA;// @match *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;#header {&#xA;background: transparent url('https://i.stack.imgur.com/LVfSC.png') no-repeat 50% -25px !important;&#xA;}&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Save, close and consider upvoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/19392142/2777074&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/a/19392142/2777074&lt;/a&gt; as this answer made the above script possible&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;enjoy the duck&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5W0Pg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5W0Pg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Instructions for Opera with &lt;code&gt;Custom Style Script&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7475/a-proposal-to-include-a-duck-in-our-background-image/7482?noredirect=1#comment22359_7482&quot;&gt;comment by Ulrike Fischer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Install the &lt;code&gt;Custom Style Script&lt;/code&gt; addon: &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/custom-style-script/?display=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/custom-style-script/?display=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;add &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#header {&#xA;background: transparent url('https://i.stack.imgur.com/LVfSC.png') no-repeat 50% -25px !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as a css rule&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2017-12-10T15:46:43.317" LastActivityDate="2017-12-10T15:46:43.317" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-12-09T20:59:19.817" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-12T07:32:54.160" Score="9" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pros and Cons of each &lt;code&gt;\marginpar&lt;/code&gt;, sidenote, scrlayer-notecolumn and other maginalia packages (question I was thinking of answering)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/60778/fundamental-differences-pstricks-tikz-pgf-and-others&quot;&gt;Fundamental differences : PSTricks, TikZ/PGF and others&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/83037/difference-between-ref-varioref-and-cleveref-decision-for-a-thesis&quot;&gt;Difference between ref, varioref and cleveref. Decision for a thesis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/214840/5834&quot;&gt;array, table, tabular, tabularx, longtable, supertabular, longtabu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25701/5834&quot;&gt;bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26771/a-big-list-of-every-keyval-package&quot;&gt;A big list of every keyval package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like these are interesting questions.&#xA;I am constantly like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Argh, I need a special table, now what was the difference between tabularx and and tabulary. Maybe I should be switching to a cool new table making option...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these are best when they are written in Big-list form.&#xA;With only one package/method per answer.&#xA;Of which only the last is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't trust my instincts though for big-list questions though. As they are forbidden on almost every other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are these good on-topic questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it generally agrees that for this kind of question the big-list, one answer per package is the best format?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it reasonable to reask some of the existing questions (listed above) as big-list questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastEditorUserId="5834" LastEditDate="2017-12-21T08:03:09.837" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T08:03:09.837" Title="Questions about the differences between a set of packages" Tags="|discussion|big-list|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7485" CreationDate="2017-12-16T23:22:45.580" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently came across a user profile that I felt was offensive and was wondering there are any rules in place for the type of content one can post in your profile. Is everything OK, even, say, pornographic content? For me this would be hard to accept and seriously rethink if I should continue being a member of Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-12-17T10:55:52.277" LastActivityDate="2017-12-17T10:55:52.277" Title="What is the boundary for acceptable user profile images?" Tags="|support|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7484" CreationDate="2017-12-17T07:58:24.923" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;User profiles are granted as much liberty as possible, but there should be some common sense in terms of the content being posted there. User profile pictures especially, since these make their way into the mainstream site content more readily than the description (in the user flair).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have reasonable doubt as to the social acceptance of a user profile, share the information with moderators (flagging any of their posts as &quot;other&quot; and explaining the concern; if they don't have any posts, bring it up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If an average person would clearly take offence at an avatar or profile due to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Graphic violence, nudity or sexual content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Targeting of any race, religion, gender or ethnic group&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Exceptional cases where very poor taste would be likely to offend most people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... then you should flag it for moderator review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/208551/168244&quot;&gt;Offensive profiles - where to draw the line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-12-17T07:58:24.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7487" CreationDate="2017-12-17T09:48:42.827" Score="7" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I read very interesting questions and answers and I would like to keep track of them in order to refer to them later. Does this site provide a bookmarking mechanism or something similar that allows a user to store the interesting pages for future access?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143674" OwnerDisplayName="Athanasios Margaris" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2017-12-18T16:28:50.347" LastActivityDate="2017-12-18T16:28:50.347" Title="Bookmarks on Stack Exchange" Tags="|support|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7486" CreationDate="2017-12-17T11:41:12.567" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of stackexchange is probably to use &quot;favourites&quot; for this, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7486/bookmarks-in-texstackexchange#comment22375_7486&quot;&gt;Johannes_B mentioned in his comment&lt;/a&gt;. However I consider them pretty useless (no notification, many false positives...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead I use RSS feeds to keep track of interesting question. At the bottom of every question there is a link &quot;question feed&quot;, which can be used to subscribe to this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ETzuq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ETzuq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notifications etc. are then handled by the program you use to retrieve the feed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2017-12-17T11:41:12.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7486" CreationDate="2017-12-18T16:27:18.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way Stack Exchange handles bookmarks is through something called favourites. It's the star just below the question voting buttons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l4Yus.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l4Yus.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a question is starred, you'll find it in your favourite's tab (with the URL &lt;code&gt;//&amp;lt;site&amp;gt;/users/&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;?tab=favorites&lt;/code&gt;). Updates to favourites are indicated by a boxed number next to the tab when viewing your user profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B0E0M.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B0E0M.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can only add &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; to your list of favourites and this will necessarily include the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; associated with it. You can, of course, also &lt;em&gt;bookmark&lt;/em&gt; any page using your browser's default bookmarking functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/53585/168244&quot;&gt;How do favorite questions work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1569/168244&quot;&gt;Is there any way to favorite/bookmark an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2017-12-18T16:27:18.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-22T09:02:58.890" Score="1" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the questions in the recent week do not have a clear description and also MWE is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we block questions for further process where the description is not clear and MWE is missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastActivityDate="2017-12-23T14:25:11.183" Title="Questions do not have MWE" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7489" CreationDate="2017-12-22T09:25:20.257" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but you can if you wish vote to close. We've tended to feel that it's better to ask for a MWE but leave open in the first instance ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-12-22T09:25:20.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7489" CreationDate="2017-12-22T11:48:07.180" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you don't understand the question leave it to someone else or ask for MWE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is already stupid to have questions closed because of 5 people clicking yes and 4 people clicking leave open but the system only counts 5 and doesn't add -4 to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2017-12-22T11:48:07.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7489" CreationDate="2017-12-23T09:53:06.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the correct practice is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;leave a comment asking for an MWE (linking this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;minimal working example (MWE)&lt;/a&gt; or Professor van Duck's duckboat article: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb38-3/tb120duck.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The DuckBoat -- News from TeX.SE: Asking effective questions&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if the question is really badly written, you can eventually downvote it (but we are too good on TeX.SE, even when it's not Xmas time, and rarely downvote)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;after a couple of working days, if there is no news from the OP, vote to close. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To remind you where you left your comments, you could go to your user profile -&gt; all actions -&gt; comments. If this is too boring, you could&#xA;temporarily star the question as your favorite (and unstar it when the OP add the MWE or when you vote to close it). In this case, you can easily find it listed in your user profile -&gt; favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2017-12-23T14:25:11.183" LastActivityDate="2017-12-23T14:25:11.183" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7503" CreationDate="2017-12-26T20:32:06.330" Score="56" ViewCount="2351" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And the winner is: yo'! Congratulations!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As prize yo' selected a scout duck with neckerchief:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uq1mT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uq1mT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(it is already available in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/samcarter8/tikzducks/commit/dac798f62d7efa5f8e1b99dc2782c51ac82d3871&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;development version&lt;/a&gt; of the tikzducks package and will be included in the next release)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this little game you have to guess when egreg will reach a reputation of 654321 (or higher) on TeX.Stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put your guess in an answer (not comment) to this question before 15 January, 2018 (23:59 UTC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The entry with the closest prediction (either + or -) will win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please add your time as precisely as possible (up to seconds). Missing values for hours/minutes/seconds will be replaced by 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If two entries state the exact same date and time, the one posted first will be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unless otherwise stated, all answers are assumed to be UTC (if you answer in some other time, it would be nice if you would already include a translation into UTC). The frame of references is Earth, exposing @egreg to time dilation (putting him on a rocket to Alpha Centauri, tuning his bike...) will not change anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only one answer per user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contestants must have been a member of TeX.SE before 26 December, 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;@egreg is not allowed to participate (sorry :), but of course you can add an answer for fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am excluded as well, my answer below is just for fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time lords in possession of a working Tardis are also excluded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Participants are disqualified if they offer a bounty specifically for @egreg - this means if someone offers a bounty to attract attention to a question and @egreg answers it, that's fine, offering a bounty to reward an existing answer from @egreg is also fine, you just cannot win this contest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the winner will only be announced a day after @egreg reached this reputation, just in case some serial upvoting or similar will be corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;13&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't change your voting behaviour because of this contest - don't try any serial voting for @egreg. This would not help, as @egreg is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation capped&lt;/a&gt; most days anyway and serial voting is automatically reversed by the site!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;14&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any legal action is precluded.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Prize&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner may wish an addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzducks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tikzducks package&lt;/a&gt;. For example a new accessories, some kind of hat, clothing, a duck based on you or your avatar ... (I reserve the right to reject a wish because of moral scruples).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xysp7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xysp7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Currently submitted entries&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Format is YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-03-14 15:09:26 RobtAll&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-04-01 19:00:00 Tobia Tesan&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-04-20 11:10:28 (corey979)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-01 11:23:47 Sigur&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-04 16:04:04 CarLaTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-05 17:05:00 marmot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-06 03:14:15 (samcarter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-06 19:04:03 mrclary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-07 07:05:18 BMWurm&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-08 08:15:32 Paulo Cereda&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-12 12:34:56 Ulrike Fischer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-13 07:12:00 (swarm intelligence)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-13 14:55:25 thewaywewalk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-17 10:52:00 Alan Munn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-17 14:58:36 anderstood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-18 08:05:08 yo'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2018-05-19 15:44:38 egreg crossed the 654321 threshold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-22 23:55:42 koppor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-23 12:00:00 Werner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-23 22:59:39 Axel Sommerfeldt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-05-25 18:57:00 Sverre&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-06-01 00:00:00 Raoul Kessels&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018-09-08 08:13:32 A Feldman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2019-01-01 00:00:00 David Carlisle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;????-??-?? ??-??-?? (egreg)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After excluding the first and last two entries the mean value is MJD 58251.3 -&amp;gt; let's see if swarm intelligence really works :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GATav.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GATav.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(please tell me if I missed anything obvious in the rules section -- this is my first contest)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T17:28:07.187" Title="When will @egreg reach 654321" Tags="|discussion|reputation|fun|users|ducks|" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="37" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-26T20:32:06.330" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As approximately stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=40710281#40710281&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=40710281#40710281&lt;/a&gt; my guess is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sunday, 6 May 2018, 03:14:15 am (UTC)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2017-12-26T20:50:53.893" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T20:50:53.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-26T21:13:54.090" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;May the Force be with egreg!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Friday, 4 May 2018, 04:04:04 pm (UTC)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I win, I would like to have a girlfriend, or, better, a female-duck-friend, for Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-03-24T05:58:24.120" LastActivityDate="2018-03-24T05:58:24.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-26T21:32:16.947" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Renaissance mathematicians did, I'll give my guess in encrypted form so as not to influence other participants. I expressed my guess in the format YYYY-MM-DD and issued &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;echo ZZZZZZ YYYY-MM-DD | shasum -a 256&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where &lt;code&gt;ZZZZZZ&lt;/code&gt; is my old landline phone number (six digits) getting the fingerprint&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;8ab685f7a789f83d8c79f770e8c085be847a99b2c0feb574ca81e06771f354d1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is to make it useless to type in all dates in order to get a matching SHA256 checksum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the contest will be finished, I'll reveal my guess, so anybody can check the matching of the data with the checksum. The old phone number cannot be used any longer, so it will be irrelevant information when revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;UPDATE 2018-05-19&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out I was a bit optimistic in my estimate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;655401 2018-05-13&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to yo' for being the winner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2018-05-19T19:45:03.760" LastActivityDate="2018-05-19T19:45:03.760" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-26T21:43:04.477" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Saturday, 12 May (2018 naturally), 12:34:56&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I win I want a vampire duck&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P0LEH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P0LEH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May the royal flush magic do its work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OhgOj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OhgOj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="2388" LastEditDate="2018-01-07T13:27:52.827" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T13:27:52.827" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-26T22:26:21.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;code&gt;1525767332&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I already know I am going to win, you can start working on my prize: I want a EG duck to rival our DPC duck. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T22:26:21.773" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-26T22:34:49.247" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May 17, 2018 10:52:00&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T22:34:49.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-27T12:03:43.793" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he will never get to the target in 2018 due to several thousand questions about &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; at end of line being reclassified as duplicates and deleted resulting in a loss of most of his Rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I win I think the tikzducks should be re-implemented in picture mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkfce.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkfce.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T12:03:43.793" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-27T13:59:13.133" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/775343&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; and linear extrapolation, it should be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May 13th, 2018, 14:55:25&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36835" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T13:59:13.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-27T14:06:28.847" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;18-05-18 08:05:08 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T14:06:28.847" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-27T16:38:42.750" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2018/05/05 05:05 pm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... because that's when the marmots awake from hibernation ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T16:38:42.750" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-27T18:12:10.820" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I don't know if there is some limit for daily reputation I am not able to try to predict. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'll answer just for fun (and of course based on some other people's vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2018-05-01 11:23:47&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14757" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T18:12:10.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-28T13:34:45.393" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess: April 1st, 2018, 19:00:00 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just in case some well thought out April fools' joke gains the guy a reputation boost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59514" LastActivityDate="2017-12-28T13:34:45.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-28T17:30:55.693" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The majority seems to be very sure that it will happen in May, but since I am in Chemistry and lower temperature gives lower reaction rates, the winter should slow down the daily reputation increase ;-).&#xA;So I will place my guess a bit ahead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2018-06-01 00:00:00&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53956" LastActivityDate="2017-12-28T17:30:55.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-28T23:01:26.530" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2018-05-23 22:59:39 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(assuming egrep will earn an average rep. of 234 per day)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2574" LastActivityDate="2017-12-28T23:01:26.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7509" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-29T21:43:49.073" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to save a question I wrote into a nice pdf file but I have no idea of how to go about it. Surely there is a simple way? Any help is much appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151566" OwnerDisplayName="idiot" LastActivityDate="2017-12-29T22:59:27.473" Title="How to I convert a stackexchange question into a pdf file?" Tags="|discussion|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-12-31T11:10:41.493" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2017-12-30T00:42:52.557" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously 2018-03-14 15:09:26, Using 09 instead of 92.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user139954" LastActivityDate="2017-12-30T00:42:52.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2018-01-01T19:15:36.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is: 2018-09-08 08:13:32                               &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90087" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T19:15:36.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2018-01-02T05:28:51.037" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;May 23, 2018 at around 12:00 noon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the cumulative, annual reputation of @egreg, post 2011 (the first year of joining):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011: 54,140&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012: (+ 92,699; +71.2%) 146,839&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013: (+ 98,357; +6.1%) 245,196&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014: (+ 97,496; -0.9%) 342,692&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015: (+ 96,697; -0.8%) 439,389&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016: (+ 92,547; -4.3%) 531,936&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2017: (+ 88,897; -3.9%) 620,833&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TgOWJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TgOWJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used the top-ranked 2D function suggestion via &lt;a href=&quot;http://zunzun.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ZunZun's function finder&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;y = c * atan(exp((x-a)/b)) + Offset&#xA;&#xA;Fitting target of lowest sum of squared absolute error = 2.0467080344324614E+05&#xA;&#xA;a =  2.0128116742956618E+03&#xA;b =  8.0055160074372509E+00&#xA;c =  1.5744218139080477E+06&#xA;Offset = -1.0100039377450938E+06&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solving for &lt;code&gt;y = 654321&lt;/code&gt; yielded a solution of &lt;code&gt;x = 2017.3933394731732&lt;/code&gt;, or halfway into &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.epochconverter.com/days/2018&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;day 144 of 2018&lt;/a&gt;. This lies somewhere between May 23rd and 24th (2018).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-01-02T07:29:27.873" LastActivityDate="2018-01-02T07:29:27.873" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-02T17:50:51.577" Score="11" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are occasions where I see a new question and know it's one that is asked frequently, yet we don't have a comprehensive question-and-answer(s) to address it. It would be good if we could implement something to that effect, similar to what SO's documentation tried to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have some of these scattered across the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/503/5764&quot;&gt;Why is &lt;code&gt;\[ … \]&lt;/code&gt; preferable to &lt;code&gt;$$&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/196/5764&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;eqnarray&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39017/5764&quot;&gt;How to influence the position of float environments like &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2275/5764&quot;&gt;Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1137/5764&quot;&gt;Where do I place my own &lt;code&gt;.sty&lt;/code&gt; files, to make them available to all my &lt;code&gt;.tex&lt;/code&gt; files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/82993/5764&quot;&gt;How to change the name of document elements like “Figure”, “Contents”, “Bibliography” etc.?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion with this post is to broaden the search for FAQs, or beefing up existing posts to such status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers to this question should propose a frequently asked question on the main site. Voting and comments can be used to fine-tune the proposal. Once consensus&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; is reached, a post can be made&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; on the main site and answers will follow. These posts can then also be added to our list of &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2419/5764&quot;&gt;often referenced questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I propose we tag such questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;, similar to what is available on &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/tags/faq&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;Consensus to a proposed FAQ implies a positive answer score of at least 10.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;This will be a community effort in many cases. Should posting the question (and subsequent answer(s)) be posted as &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/11740/168244&quot;&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt;? Understand that there might be a lot of effort put into answers to document content, and CW remove voting reputation from posters.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6806/5764&quot;&gt;Will there be TeX.SX Documentation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-01-20T00:06:23.460" Title="TeX and friends FAQ posts" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7514" CreationDate="2018-01-02T19:32:03.360" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see a question that has been asked before, vote to close it as a duplicate. So it gets a link to the earlier question (choose a good one if there are several candidates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, frequently asked questions (and frequently referred questions) are those that get the most links to them. So the FAQ list grows and gets sorted over time, automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be accessed, sorted by backlink count, via the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=frequent&quot;&gt;frequent&lt;/a&gt; tab. And this works also when it's filtered by a tag (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/floats?sort=frequent&quot;&gt;frequent float questions&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't see a benefit in adding another post for each case on the main site, claiming to create a frequently asked question. A new post would start with zero backlinks on the &quot;frequent&quot; list, way behind existing frequently linked questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closing more obvious duplicates to strengthen the main version by adding links, so it gets pushed up the &quot;frequent&quot; list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;polishing that main post (or make it with its answers more comprehensive)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good strategy for closing and linking, when spotting a duplicate: click its main tag, click the &quot;Frequent&quot; tab, so you can see the frequently asked (referred) questions for that tag, that are sorted by relevance, so there's a good chance to see the one to link to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2018-01-02T19:46:52.517" LastActivityDate="2018-01-02T19:46:52.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7520" CreationDate="2018-01-05T10:17:40.530" Score="8" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new user posted a &lt;em&gt;sort of&lt;/em&gt; question in the answer section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/408893/4301&quot;&gt;A better \pm symbol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this got deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will that user still be able to see the comments so that he knows to post a new question? If, yes, then it makes sense to delete. Otherwise, we should undelete it long enough to give the OP a chance to see the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-01-06T07:16:48.777" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T07:16:48.777" Title="New User posted a &quot;question&quot; in &quot;Answer&quot; Section which was deleted" Tags="|discussion|support|new-users|delete|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2018-01-05T17:33:44.503" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stored egreg's last 90 days rep (&lt;a href=&quot;http://view-source:https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/4427/egreg?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;from this page source&lt;/a&gt;), then used &lt;em&gt;Mathematica&lt;/em&gt; commands:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;fit = FindFit[data, a*t + b, {a, b}, t]&#xA;Show[ListLinePlot[data, PlotStyle -&amp;gt; Red], &#xA;     Plot[a*t + b /. fit, {t, 0, Length@data}, PlotStyle -&amp;gt; Dashed]]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That gives the following plot (data in red, fit in dashed blue)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6VXW6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6VXW6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and date:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;n = -Length@data + (654321 - b)/a /. fit;&#xA;DatePlus[DateObject[{2018, 1, 5}, TimeZone -&amp;gt; 0], n]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2018-05-17 14:58:36&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;code&gt;2 StandardDeviation[Differences[data]]/Sqrt[n]&lt;/code&gt; returns about &lt;code&gt;6&lt;/code&gt;, so, assuming the daily rep follows a normal distribution, the 95% confidence interval is plus or minus 6 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34258" LastEditorUserId="34258" LastEditDate="2018-01-05T19:47:04.007" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T19:47:04.007" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2018-01-05T19:13:13.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7518/151941&quot;&gt;anderstood's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;data&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163119/predicting-when-a-se-user-will-reach-a-given-rep&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/321751/predict-when-a-se-user-will-reach-a-given-reputation&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I used &lt;em&gt;Mathematica&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;code&gt;FindFormula&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;data2 = Transpose@{Range[Length@data], data};&#xA;ff = FindFormula[data2, x, 10]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/otT72.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/otT72.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Plot[Evaluate@{ff[[2 ;; 10]], 654321}, {x, 1500, 1650}, Frame -&amp;gt; True]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/toSZa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/toSZa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;pred = Table[x /. FindRoot[ff[[i]] == 654321, {x, 1560}], {i, 2, 10}]&#xA;ListPlot[pred, Frame -&amp;gt; True, PlotRange -&amp;gt; All, DataRange -&amp;gt; {2, 10}]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zhcE3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zhcE3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;time = Mean@pred - Length@data&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to get&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DatePlus[DateObject[{2018, 1, 5}, TimeZone -&amp;gt; 0], time]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fri 20 Apr 2018 11:10:28 GMT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151941" LastEditorUserId="151941" LastEditDate="2018-01-05T19:32:02.630" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T19:32:02.630" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7517" CreationDate="2018-01-05T19:50:47.040" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/151884/michael-mcclendon&quot;&gt;user&lt;/a&gt; in question will not see any notifications in their inbox, since their last visit to the site was more than 1 hour after the post was deleted (combination of 1 and 2 below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vIv4M.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vIv4M.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only notifications they would see is if comments were made on the deleted post by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;moderator&lt;/a&gt;, but this was not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user can access their &quot;recently deleted answers&quot; by visiting their user profile &gt; answers &gt; scroll to the bottom and click on &quot;deleted recent answers&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5mHGT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5mHGT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or visiting the URL &lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/recently-deleted-answers/&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Once they find the deleted answer, they can read the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case I don't think there's any concern with them not having seeing the comment(s). In particular, they were last seen on the site at &lt;code&gt;2018-01-05 03:16:20Z&lt;/code&gt; (thanks to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/6091/27724&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Extras (SOX) script&lt;/a&gt;) while the first informative comment was placed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50792/a-better-pm-symbol/408893#comment1020315_408893&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;2018-01-05 02:43:30Z&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (about 30 minutes before the user's last activity on the site). They surely would have seen this comment as a notification in their inbox. Perhaps they didn't know how to proceed from there and abandoned their quest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general it does seem harsh to comment on what is happening, then deleting it and (now) knowing they won't truly understand what's going on unless they dig to find out. However, the following worst case is fairly harmless: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User can't find their post (answer), so they post again as an answer. If they hang around long enough (this is literally not long; we don't have any backlog in our review queues), they'll have an opportunity to discuss things via comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps as a last resort, one could ping the moderators and request they comment on the deleted post, which will then stay in their notifications inbox until it's read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/231668/168244&quot;&gt;How do notifications on deleted posts work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T19:50:47.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2018-01-06T00:56:23.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using anderstood's data, I noticed that egreg consistently required about 120 days from Jan 4 to increase is reputation by 32289 for each of the first 3 years; last year was an outlier at 128 days. You see, one has to consider seasonal effects ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going with 2018-05-06 19:04:03, 121.79 days after Jan 5 00:00:00&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35636" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T00:56:23.217" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2018-01-08T21:43:55.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the other answers so far, there seemed to be a strong&#xA;consensus for it happening in &lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;, so I went with that. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;7th&lt;/strong&gt; wasn't yet taken, so I thought I'd pick that one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the &lt;strong&gt;time&lt;/strong&gt; only a palindrome could ever be correct, so it picked itself:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; (20)   18-05-07 07:05:18    (,02 seconds)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59615" LastActivityDate="2018-01-08T21:43:55.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2018-01-09T09:34:16.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2018-05-22 23:55:42&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This date diff between beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;https://jabcon.jabref.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;JabCon&lt;/a&gt; and that date is 106 if one includes start and end date. I plan to have published &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/jabref/info&quot;&gt;JabRef&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/milestone/17&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;4.2&lt;/a&gt; on that date. 100 days is the normal time one allows to settle down (like governments). 100 + 4 + 2 = 106. 23:55 is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;5 minutes before twelve&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://latextemplates.github.io/scientific-thesis-template/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;scientific-thesis-template&lt;/a&gt; contains two (out of 16) questions, where egreg took part (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/50638/9075&quot;&gt;http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/50638/9075&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21097/how-to-display-cover-page-alone-in-the-two-page-view-mode/21109#21109&quot;&gt;How to display cover page alone in the &amp;quot;two page view&amp;quot; mode&lt;/a&gt;). 2+16 are the seconds missing to midnight. Thus, 60 - (2+16) forms the seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9075" LastEditorUserId="9075" LastEditDate="2018-01-09T22:24:03.117" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T22:24:03.117" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2018-01-14T09:41:09.440" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tex-for-gmail-inbox/gjnmclkoadjdljnfmbnnhaahilafoeji?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/88BVq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123139" LastActivityDate="2018-01-14T09:41:09.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2018-01-14T09:55:14.197" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php?lang=en-en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v55Gc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123139" LastActivityDate="2018-01-14T09:55:14.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7493" CreationDate="2018-01-15T18:30:05.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;May 25, 2018, 18:57 UTC. (extra characters here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T18:30:05.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7514" CreationDate="2018-01-19T01:18:34.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proposed question title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I want to change my document layout (page dimensions and configuration). How can I achieve that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed question body:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wish to change the document layout to fit better with my text. Changes include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changing the paper size&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adjusting the margins&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Switching from a single-column layout to a multi-column (2+) layout&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adjusting the space between the text block and surrounding page elements (like where margin paragraphs are placed, or the header/footer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visualizing the page layout&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the above changes be applied globally? Can I apply it for a specific portion of my document as well?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed answer(s) should cover:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How to adjust the page layout without any packages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use of &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/geometry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;geometry&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and what the parameters mean/influence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use of specific document class(es) that provide their own means of layout changes (like &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/memoir&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/koma-script&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;KOMA-script&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/71172/5764&quot;&gt;Why are default LaTeX margins so big?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/55502/5764&quot;&gt;Modern book design, margins and typed area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-01-19T01:43:03.637" LastActivityDate="2018-01-19T01:43:03.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7514" CreationDate="2018-01-19T01:34:27.337" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proposed question title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I format the way my list items are printed and/or referenced?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed question body:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While the default lists (&lt;code&gt;itemize&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;description&lt;/code&gt;) provide a sufficient means to list items, I'd like to change the formatting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change &lt;code&gt;1.&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;2.&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;3.&lt;/code&gt;, ... to (say) &lt;code&gt;a)&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;b)&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;c)&lt;/code&gt;, ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the horizontal spacing between list items and their label&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the vertical spacing between list items&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the layout of the list (from vertical stacked to inline, or horizontal)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the way a reference to an item looks (perhaps it's set as &lt;code&gt;3.2)&lt;/code&gt;, but I want &lt;code&gt;\ref&lt;/code&gt; to return &lt;code&gt;3.2&lt;/code&gt; only)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I achieve these modifications? Are there packages that can help with these?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed answer(s) should cover:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How to change the item representation without any packages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use of &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/enumitem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;enumitem&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for list formatting and cross referencing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use of other packages that provide different layouts (horizontal, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/142/5764&quot;&gt;How can I make an enumerate list start at something other than 1?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2291/5764&quot;&gt;How do I change the &lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt; list format to use letters instead of the default Arabic numerals?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10684/5764&quot;&gt;Vertical space in lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1669/5764&quot;&gt;Resuming a list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-01-19T01:34:27.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7529" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-19T15:41:08.787" Score="23" ViewCount="843" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://tug.org/tug2018/t2018-thumb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The lion!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, ducks and mallards, marmots and capybaras, Darth Vaders and parrot owners, children of all ages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DM5ox.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DM5ox.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lion&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tug2018&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;39th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group (TUG 2018)&lt;/a&gt; will be held in the awesome city of Rio de Janeiro, from July 20 to 22, as an official satellite conference of International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 (ICM 2018). It will be the very first TUG meeting in South America!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'd like to ask our beloved community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who would like to go there?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does anybody plan to make a presentation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2018-02-27T09:20:04.493" LastActivityDate="2018-03-12T10:25:04.180" Title="Who plans to go to TUG 2018 in Rio de Janeiro?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-19T15:50:06.720" Score="18" Body="&lt;h1&gt;I will go! Woooooooooooo!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan at least one presentation, hopefully about &lt;code&gt;arara&lt;/code&gt;4.0, which I also plan the official release around that time, as part of the celebrations. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I will try bringing my TeX lion puppet to the conference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wrs1w.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wrs1w.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quack&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I plan a lot of silly activities. Beware, for I am very friendly: if you pass by, I will say hello and start talking nonstop because we ducks are very talkative! &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; I am also trying to improve my German and Italian as a means to annoy people in other languages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you haven't seen it, here's a link to my &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/243630927&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;invitational video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See you in Rio de Janeiro! Quack!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;It's also worth mentioning that, for reasons unbeknownst to me, the TUG blokes thought I should be part of the local committee, so that makes me some sort of official spokesduck of the event. So feel free to ask stuff! I will do my best and try to answer!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2018-01-19T15:50:06.720" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-19T17:09:13.680" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan to come to Rio and I look forward to a great event!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be happy if I could contribute a bit. Possible presentations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX in Industry:&lt;/strong&gt; more stuff about using TeX in a network engineer's life&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TeX Websites:&lt;/strong&gt; could be a survey of various websites (supported by TUG &amp;amp; DANTE) and specifically presenting a new webservice for TeX users (details later)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An announcement of some useful thing (in progress, details later)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;optional, if somebody is interested,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Graphics in TeX and LaTeX:&lt;/strong&gt; showing today's graphics capabilities with a lot of pictures and sample code lines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2018-01-19T17:09:13.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-19T17:18:28.083" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently planning to go (time/funds allowing). Likely topics for talks are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;l3build&lt;/code&gt; (it is written in Lua ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;siunitx&lt;/code&gt; v3 (fingers-crossed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unicode 'stuff'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-01-19T17:18:28.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-19T17:44:34.860" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;My husband and I&quot; are planning to come. I don't know yet if I will give a talk -- I would need a good idea first ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I already made an advertisement (an animated version with suitable background music can be found in the  tikzducks christmas extravaganza video, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/405060/2388&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/405060/2388&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xCniF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xCniF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some are excited already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UMIeV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UMIeV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KOlM7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KOlM7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="2388" LastEditDate="2018-03-12T10:25:04.180" LastActivityDate="2018-03-12T10:25:04.180" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-19T20:41:17.253" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me. I hope to give a talk or a package in preparation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="48" LastEditDate="2018-01-20T02:43:36.350" LastActivityDate="2018-01-20T02:43:36.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-19T22:15:40.160" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm Arthur, an adventurous &lt;code&gt;tikzduck&lt;/code&gt;. I'd like to hitchhike to Rio. Is there anyone who could give me a lift? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry I have my towel and guide with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope to see you all soon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GRbG6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GRbG6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@samcarter speaking: unfortunately I cannot come to Rio myself, but I'd love to sent a talk about the &lt;code&gt;tikzduck&lt;/code&gt;. If anybody would be interested to show a few slides, please ping me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2018-01-19T22:15:40.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7514" CreationDate="2018-01-20T00:06:23.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;proposed question title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are causes of the error messages &quot;There's no line here to end&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there are myriad questions with this error message in the title, and&#xA;nearly as many conditions that result in the error.  a single question&#xA;with all possible conditions covered would be a valuable addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the present question is posted as community wiki, with an invitation&#xA;to list the conditions that trigger the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;known conditions triggering this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ending a paragraph with &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;use of &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; at the beginning of a component of &lt;code&gt;\maketitle&lt;/code&gt; (and&#xA;possibly elsewhere) (reported in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/101427&quot;&gt;Problem with \maketitle: &amp;quot;there&amp;#39;s no line here to end&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;use of &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt;, triggered at &lt;code&gt;\end{frame}&lt;/code&gt; (reported in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134228&quot;&gt;There&amp;#39;s no line here to end. \end{frame}&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;use of &lt;code&gt;\newline{}&lt;/code&gt; at the end of the last line of an element in&#xA;&lt;code&gt;moderncv&lt;/code&gt; (reported in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/384065&quot;&gt;\cventry ! LaTeX Error: There&amp;#39;s no line here to end&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;including text in a graphics file (reported in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/259021&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/259021&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;please add other situations that aren't already covered by this list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2018-01-20T00:06:23.460" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-20T00:06:23.460" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-22T03:33:27.933" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really, really nice to know it will be in Brazil. Unfortunately I don't know if I can go but, if anyone need help with Brazilian stuff (tips, Portuguese language, etc), let me know. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48991" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T03:33:27.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-22T11:43:54.387" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;How sad it is, but from Japan it is financially hardly feasible for me, and above that I would have a hard time explaining the trip to my company.  So how much I would love to see Rio, I see no chance to make it over :-(&#xA;I could give quite a lot of talks, though :-(((&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone enjoy the time and the conference, it will surely be great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10829" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T11:43:54.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2018-01-22T19:51:52.777" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Beamer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/146908/36296&quot;&gt;Beamer overlay specifications for a tikzpicture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Beamer overlay specifications for a tikzpicture](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/146908/36296)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/326787/36296&quot;&gt;Shortcuts for &lt;code&gt;\begin{frame}&lt;/code&gt; are a bad idea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Shortcuts for `\begin{frame}` are a bad idea](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/326787/36296)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/142569/36296&quot;&gt;Full width image in beamer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Full width image in beamer?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/142569/36296)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27302/36296&quot;&gt;How does beamer build the frame?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How does beamer build the frame?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27302/36296)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/197234&quot;&gt;Why does &lt;code&gt;! Missing $ inserted.&lt;/code&gt; occur when using \verb in beamer?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why does `! Missing $ inserted.` occur when using \verb in beamer?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/197234)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/140719&quot;&gt;Verbatim in beamer showing error: &amp;quot;File ended while scanning use of @xverbatim.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Verbatim in beamer showing error: &amp;quot;File ended while scanning use of \@xverbatim.&amp;quot;](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/140719)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/244183&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\section&lt;/code&gt; inside frame causes error due to nested frames&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[`\section` inside frame causes error due to nested frames](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/244183)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2023-10-11T11:18:48.317" LastActivityDate="2023-10-11T11:18:48.317" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-22T19:51:52.777" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-23T01:20:24.097" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm seriously looking into going to Rio. Funds are a bit tight at the moment, though. If I go -- and if the organizers are amenable, of course -- I could give a presentation on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/selnolig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;selnolig&lt;/a&gt; package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T01:20:24.097" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-23T01:22:53.243" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am 90%–95% sure I can make it! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I present it will be hurried and last minute. And I promise not to run ridiculously overtime like in Portland :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T01:22:53.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-23T19:58:26.707" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have liked, but I cannot go. A pity when there is so much to see in Brazil (and don't be evil minded, I am thinking now in nice waterfalls, wild sparrows ... and well, in the conference also, of course). I hope a nice time in Rio to all participants!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T19:58:26.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-25T08:44:42.690" Score="23" ViewCount="1111" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a community we have institutional membership of TUG paid for by StackOverflow. (Thanks to StackOverflow for this support and to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/do-we-want-stack-exchange-to-become-an-institutional-member-of-the-tug&quot;&gt;the initial idea&lt;/a&gt;!) The membership entitles us to nominate eight people to benefit directly from this, receiving copies of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/tugboat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;TUGBoat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and so on. As in previous years, the aim of this question is to solicit nominations for those places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first stage, I would like to ask for nominations for the places. Nominations should be made by posting an answer here with any reasoning you like, then immediately deleting the answer. In a second stage, I will undelete all of the answers to allow the community to vote: any 'stray' votes before the second phase &lt;em&gt;will be ignored&lt;/em&gt;. Nominations can be made by the 'candidate' themselves or you can nominate someone else. In the latter situation the mod team will check that the nominee is happy to appear in the 'ballot'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no restriction on standing in the ballot beyond needing to be a member of TeX-sx as-of this morning (0900 GMT on 2018-01-25). In particular, the aim of the memberships here is to allow TeX knowledge to be disseminated: candidates do not have to have 'strong' TeX knowledge, 'community standing' or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first phase (nominations) will run until 2200 GMT on 2018-02-03, after which there will be a voting phase. In the event of a tie in votes, the mod team will decide which name goes forward. The mod team may also include additional names if at the end of the voting process there are fewer than eight nominees with positive scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting phase is open until 2200 GMT on 2018-02-09. Additional nominations may be added during this phase. At the end of this period the top eight names will be passed to the StackOverflow staff. (Note: at the time of writing there are nominations which have not been made 'active' as the nominees have not yet confirmed they are happy to go forward.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the voting period, the votes were as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/36296/samcarter&quot;&gt;samcarter&lt;/a&gt; 23&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/48/shreevatsar&quot;&gt;ShreevatsaR&lt;/a&gt; 22&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/89949/moriambar&quot;&gt;Moriambar&lt;/a&gt; 18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/121799/marmot&quot;&gt;Marmot&lt;/a&gt; 16 [1]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/51799/wipet&quot;&gt;wipet&lt;/a&gt; 14&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/134574/phelype-oleinik&quot;&gt;Phelype Oleinik&lt;/a&gt; 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/101651/carlatex&quot;&gt;CarLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; 12 [2]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/26134/przemys%c5%82aw-scherwentke&quot;&gt;Przemysław Scherwentke&lt;/a&gt; 11&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/38080/rmano&quot;&gt;Rmano&lt;/a&gt; 9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/39222/cfr&quot;&gt;cfr&lt;/a&gt; 8&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus samcarter, ShreevatsaR, Moriambar, Marmot, wipet, Phelype Oleinik, Przemysław Scherwentke and Rmano are elected as our representatives: I'll pass the names to the StackOverflow staff. Congratulations to all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1]: Had one vote before formal voting period started&#xA;[2]: Withdrew at the end of the voting period&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-02-10T13:38:19.240" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T12:35:57.027" Title="TUG Representatives for 2018" Tags="|discussion|tug|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-01-25T11:01:41.203" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/101651/carlatex&quot;&gt;@CarLaTeX&lt;/a&gt; to be one of our TUG representatives this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1nV3c.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1nV3c.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the voting: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42482518#42482518&quot;&gt;She was already nominated last year and wishes that you consider new nominees first&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-01-25T14:23:13.247" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T14:23:13.247" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-25T11:01:41.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-01-25T12:27:53.517" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I (Christian Hupfer) nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/7544/revisions&quot;&gt;samcarter&lt;/a&gt; for her outstanding support regarding TikZ and &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; related questions (and other topics as well, of course) here on TeX.SE (but grossly unfortunately underrated, being a user with the most zero votes answers most likely :-( ) and for her package &lt;code&gt;tikzducks&lt;/code&gt; (Fortunately Duck Vader is not missing any longer :-) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@samcarter speaking: It is a great honour to be nominated! I have been elected as representative the past two years and although I'd love to continue I would encourage everybody to first vote for new nominees, please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did someone complain about a missing Duck Vader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TikZ force is strong in her...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bmCXN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bmCXN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T12:35:57.027" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T12:35:57.027" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-25T12:27:53.517" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-01-25T15:26:49.270" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/134574/phelype-oleinik&quot;&gt;@Phelype Oleinik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BvHm2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BvHm2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(approval by the nominee: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42487117#42487117&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42487117#42487117&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-01-26T01:08:33.833" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T01:08:33.833" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-25T15:26:49.270" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-01-25T16:11:24.717" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate myself because (a) Paulo Cereda suggested it, (b) I really like this community and (c) marmots are underrepresented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/laEca.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/laEca.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-01-25T16:30:22.170" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T16:30:22.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7529" CreationDate="2018-01-25T18:31:07.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm from Argentina and I'd love to go, but unfortunately I'm studying at university (although learning to use TeX better every day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my place as an apprentice and reader of this site I wish the speakers the best for this 39th Annual Meeting of the TeX User Group!! And for more adventurous &lt;code&gt;tikzducks&lt;/code&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: Will I be able to see the talks offered on the Internet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152550" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T18:31:07.370" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-01-25T20:45:19.647" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/89949/moriambar&quot;&gt;Moriambar&lt;/a&gt; for his significant effort to mend the &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/57xiR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/57xiR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T22:17:18.440" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T22:17:18.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-01-25T21:55:51.390" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate myself. I should remind you, that last year the situation was the same.&#xA;I am writing this, looking at page 301 of TUGboat, Volume 38, No. 3. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PClCs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PClCs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T22:12:53.770" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T22:12:53.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-01-26T01:17:28.397" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/39222/cfr&quot;&gt;@cfr&lt;/a&gt; to be one of our TUG representatives this year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure: cfr had been TUG representative twice -- nevertheless I think she would be a good choice for this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1cwm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1cwm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(approval by the nominee: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42498695#42498695&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42498695#42498695&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T01:17:28.397" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-26T01:17:28.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7557" CreationDate="2018-01-27T21:00:48.673" Score="-2" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would propose a &lt;code&gt;+1&lt;/code&gt; point for the important comments that are voted by the users. Is it possible to do something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the figure below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QzLN1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QzLN1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2018-06-18T09:34:25.043" LastActivityDate="2018-06-18T09:34:25.043" Title="A proposal to have a score for a comment" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-06-22T01:52:27.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7556" CreationDate="2018-01-27T21:44:53.350" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's possible, otherwise, you'll get reputation points for a standard comment like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AUacv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AUacv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or funny comments like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qd0jE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qd0jE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you can earn some badges for comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0G8V.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0G8V.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please remember that we are here to help the other users, not to compete for reputation (egreg and David excluded).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-01-27T21:44:53.350" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-29T05:08:57.680" Score="9" ViewCount="511" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt; for this year now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/7559&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T21:44:29.650" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2018" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-02-07T13:28:06.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-29T05:08:57.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackTex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YGbeX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7030" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T05:08:57.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-29T06:32:12.190" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guitex.org/home/it/forum/index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ac9C6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T06:32:12.190" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-01-29T11:46:43.640" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate myself because I have spent a lot of time with tex.stackexchange and with explanation that TeX is not equal to LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zq20p.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zq20p.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T21:51:41.713" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T21:51:41.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-30T14:18:23.750" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDlFZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;The TeX User Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125223" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T17:16:12.797" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:16:12.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-30T14:21:05.790" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.latex-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sx2ec.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125223" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2018-02-23T07:06:56.913" LastActivityDate="2018-02-23T07:06:56.913" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7556" CreationDate="2018-01-31T01:38:15.740" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments have always been considered lower-class citizens across the entire network. They're meant to request clarification, but otherwise clutter the main aim of the site. What is this aim? ...to pair up good &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; with solid &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attempting to make comments just like posts have been proposed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/214173/168244&quot;&gt;Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is an &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; that questions why you can post content (questions and/or answers) with only 1 reputation point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1170/168244&quot;&gt;Cancelling upvote on comment?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet they remain small potatoes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/3615/168244&quot;&gt;Allow downvoting comments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/45273/168244&quot;&gt;Allow more than one @name notification per comment&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/296/168244&quot;&gt;Reputation for comments?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, there are actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://winterbash2017.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Winterbash hats&lt;/a&gt; dedicated to clearing up comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://winterbash2017.stackexchange.com/itsa-me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W9bJU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://winterbash2017.stackexchange.com/this-is-fine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gBxDf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation gained from comments may not give a true reflection of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756/168244&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T01:38:15.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-31T14:46:27.543" Score="14" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just came across this &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an ideal world the workflow would be &quot;1) tell your collaborators to use LaTeX 2) live happily ever after&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4145/workflow-for-converting-latex-into-open-office-ms-word-format#comment6123_4145&quot;&gt;comment by Seamus&lt;/a&gt; and thought &quot;wow, I haven't seen a comment with so many upvotes so far.&quot; So I wondered what the comment with the most upvotes on TeX.SE was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117274" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T17:05:13.487" LastActivityDate="2018-02-12T10:16:25.683" Title="What is the highest voted comment on TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|comments|score|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7566" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:03:05.320" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-do-i-make-my-document-look-like-it-was-written-by-a-cthulhu-worshipping-madm#comment57793_29402&quot;&gt;current highest-voted comment&lt;/a&gt; has a score of 208:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NAZvU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NAZvU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can run &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/795241/top-100-highest-voted-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; to see the top 100 highest-voted comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:03:05.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7568" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:08:28.180" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term 'score' means the total number of upvotes minus the total number of downvotes. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comments&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comments&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; also have a score which only considers upvotes -&#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3615/allow-downvoting-comments&quot;&gt;downvoting is not allowed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions&quot;&gt;badge requirements&lt;/a&gt; are based on score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T17:08:28.180" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:08:28.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7569" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:08:28.180" Score="0" Body="means the total number of upvotes minus the total number of downvotes" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T17:08:28.180" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:08:28.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:14:49.987" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/tex.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;See all questions with active bounties&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:14:49.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:17:14.627" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9D64.png&quot; alt=&quot;Detexify: automated LaTeX symbol recognition&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:17:14.627" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-31T17:17:14.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:19:34.347" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gYqMV.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Live - cross-platform TeX software&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:19:34.347" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-31T17:19:34.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:21:02.860" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CYXdw.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX online documentation lookup system&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:21:02.860" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-31T17:21:02.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:23:30.350" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MqJfh.png&quot; alt=&quot;TEXample.net&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:23:30.350" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-31T17:23:30.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-01-31T17:24:30.807" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texwelt.de/wissen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i86BI.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXwelt - Fragen und Antworten zu TeX auf Deutsch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:24:30.807" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-31T17:24:30.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-02-01T04:54:26.053" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hesitantly I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/48/shreevatsar&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt;. As “justification”, I humbly offer the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Participation on this site: Apart from being one of the early (2-digit user ID!) enthusiastic users from the “closed beta” days, which I think suggests my enthusiasm for TeX and for this site, over the last year I have spent a fair amount of time answering and commenting on this site (quantitatively: about 100 answers in 2017), including &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/367058/wheres-an-example-of-the-bad-typesetting-that-inspired-tex/367133#367133&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/385645/is-nts-new-typesetting-system-the-java-implementation-of-tex-usable-today/385648#385648&quot;&gt;unusual&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401604/book-on-a-single-poster-page/403353#403353&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt;. Mostly I like to explain things (whatever little I know) and share knowledge, which I believe aligns with one of the goals mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other contribution to this site: For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7317/community-effort-in-fixing-the-double-backslashes-issue&quot;&gt;double-backslash issue&lt;/a&gt; where StackExchange had corrupted thousands of posts, I wrote and shared a script, using which I fixed over 1000 posts and further 1000+ by others (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1090/david-carlisle&quot;&gt;David Carlisle&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/89949/moriambar&quot;&gt;Moriambar&lt;/a&gt;). I didn't receive any swag for it either. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd really benefit from the TUG membership. Mostly I'd like to read &lt;em&gt;TUGboat&lt;/em&gt; as soon as possible. :-) At this time last year, I'd have said my interest in TeX history meant I was reading mainly the older issues of &lt;em&gt;TUGboat&lt;/em&gt;, which are freely available. But right now there at least three articles in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents38-3.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;current issue&lt;/a&gt; that I'd really love to read. Similarly in the issue before that. And future issues, I imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Eievv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Eievv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(image borrowed from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/391184/36296&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/391184/36296&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T21:56:10.343" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T21:56:10.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-02-01T10:31:07.290" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pgfplots.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EXWrb.png&quot; alt=&quot;PGFPlots Plot example gallery&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T10:31:07.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-02-01T10:32:10.410" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latex.org/forum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vv98z.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX Community Forum - Talk about TeX and LaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T10:32:10.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-02-01T10:33:13.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex-talk.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HZ1ht.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX talk - news and interviews&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T10:33:13.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-02-01T10:34:33.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texnique.fr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q5iDJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX questions and answers in French&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T10:34:33.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-02-01T16:20:39.470" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/gallery/#glossaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gbnK8.png&quot; alt=&quot;visit glossaries gallery&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T16:20:39.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7583" CreationDate="2018-02-01T20:03:48.177" Score="14" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are (many) occasions where a questioner does not respond/acknowledge any answers to their question. Currently an answerer is prohibited from given any kind of recognition to their answer even after many days of non-response from the questioner. My feeling is that if someone asks a question then at least one of the responders should be able to take some kind of credit for devoting time and energy trying to be helpful.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-02-01T21:15:30.590" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T21:11:53.447" Title="Questioners not responding to answers" Tags="|discussion|questions|users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7582" CreationDate="2018-02-01T20:36:04.753" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that most of the 'value' of the site is meant to come not from dealing with the original poster but rather the wider user base. As such, a good answer should gain upvotes from several (or even many) people: that is the key to determining which answers are best. Answers being accepted by the original poster is certainly welcome, but it's far from the main determinant of answer ranking. As such, I'm not sure what one can say here beyond 'it happens'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T20:36:04.753" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-02-02T01:35:33.263" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://vi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXWI6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vi and Vim Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77871" LastActivityDate="2018-02-02T01:35:33.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7543" CreationDate="2018-02-02T11:24:09.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I an not a real TeX-master (much more powerful wizards live here) I would like to nominate myself for the TUG experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am an Electronic Engineer and using TeX and LaTeX since more time than I like to say... my Ph.D. thesis was written in plain TeX (1992). Now I am more the sort of a middle-power user than a TeXhacker, trying to evangelize for my current University (I have taught, and sometimes I repeat it, a Ph.D. seminar about writing papers in LaTeX)... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I love ducks! &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CSXVT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CSXVT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38080" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T21:45:44.903" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T21:45:44.903" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-02-03T07:23:49.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6lf2q.png&quot; alt=&quot;The LaTeX Font Catalogue&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7883" LastEditorUserId="106162" LastEditDate="2018-02-04T14:30:19.350" LastActivityDate="2018-02-04T14:30:19.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7582" CreationDate="2018-02-04T08:10:07.680" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the internet. Asking a question takes just a few seconds. We are a help desk, and we help free of charge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can end a phone call saying &quot;Works, Thanks mate&quot; and hang up without waiting for any response. Internet communication is not instant. You never know if the person asking the question is waiting for an answer, or asked a question, grabbed some luggage and goes on a holiday trip. Or the computer crashed 10 minutes after posting the question. Or the user posted on a smartphone while walking and fell into a pit ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no guarantee to hear from the OP ever again, and there is no obligation to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is good, it will attract upvotes by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2018-02-04T08:10:07.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7582" CreationDate="2018-02-04T22:07:20.940" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer is more a response to Peter's comments on Joseph's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that a user accepts an answer or responds to it is neither necessary nor sufficient evidence for the validity of an answer anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes users accept an answer which is demonstrably worse than another competing answers. This can be for a variety of reasons, ranging from the speed at which users accept (accept the first answer that seems to work for them) to accepting an answer that although hackish, is at a level of code they can understand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The vote count on answers is often a reasonable proxy for the worth of the answer, so in the case of point 1 above, a competing answer may well have more votes than the accepted answer.  This is especially true in our case, since we are quite diligent voters as a group, so good answers do tend to get upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good answers are very often accompanied with a complete MWE, even when the original question didn't include one. This fact alone makes it relatively simple for anyone to test whether a solution actually works or not (and non-working solutions rarely go unnoticed.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T21:11:53.447" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T21:11:53.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7591" CreationDate="2018-02-09T12:25:30.737" Score="11" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how this is possible, but I get&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the TeX SE blog for &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex-talk.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://tex-talk.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and a completely different page for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex-talk.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tex-talk.net&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/05rev.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is happening here? How is it possible? What can be done against that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154572" LastEditorUserId="154572" LastEditDate="2018-02-10T09:16:24.210" LastActivityDate="2018-02-11T14:47:11.557" Title="HTTP vs HTTPS in blog link" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7590" CreationDate="2018-02-10T17:19:45.187" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update: HTTPS support installed, certificate made with &quot;Let's Encrypt&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex-talk.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tex-talk.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, I will soon get a certificate for the blog and that will fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blog wasn't https enabled yet, so it happened that it fell back to the next https enabled site on the same server, that's the german FAQ site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will update this answer then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2018-02-11T14:47:11.557" LastActivityDate="2018-02-11T14:47:11.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7566" CreationDate="2018-02-12T10:16:25.683" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, Werner is not completely right. The thing is, the highest voted comment is on Meta.TeX.SE, namely at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls/1565#comment3702_1565&quot;&gt;TeX Community Polls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Live&lt;/a&gt;, the collaborative distribution of TeX user groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2018-02-12T10:16:25.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-02-24T01:44:40.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.contextgarden.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZmrQX.png&quot; alt=&quot;ConTeXt User Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2018-02-24T01:44:40.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-03T22:07:34.053" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to ask about &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{itemize}&#xA;  \item[] $a$       \linebreak \tabto{1.5cm} Effective earth radius [km] calculated from (16).&#xA;  \item[] $a_a$ \linebreak \tabto{1.5cm}  An adjusted effective earth radius [km] shown in Figure 8, from (104).&#xA;\end{itemize}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but copying and pasting makes it look nasty above. What should I do differently? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156298" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2018-03-04T07:09:54.317" LastActivityDate="2018-03-04T07:09:54.317" Title="Copying and pasting ShareLatex into Tex StackExchange editor window" Tags="|discussion|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-03-06T21:55:27.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2018-03-06T21:44:29.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/Russian-Phd-LaTeX-Dissertation-Template&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QbDJC.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX template for russian PhD thesis (LaTeX-шаблон для кандидатской диссертации и её автореферата)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79756" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T21:44:29.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7601" CreationDate="2018-03-09T14:18:11.097" Score="18" ViewCount="658" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I was alerted to how questioners choose which of the answers best solve their problem(s). I observed that, especially for beginners, that they did not select the best answer from the available ones, but rather one that imposed the smallest change to their question and in some cases preserve the clutter and bad solution in their code example (in my opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow I understand such an approach. Beginners, especially those who are for some reason forced to use LaTeX and therefore not likely to learn more than the bare minimum for their temporary needs, have a very narrow LaTeX horizon. Consequently, they aren't aware of better possibilities for writing theirs LaTeX code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example, which illustrate above description is the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/419286/improving-the-footnote-on-my-table&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. This question received three answers. However, the OP selected the first post answer, which in my opinion (well, here I'm slightly biased) is not the best choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the acceptance of an answer is up to questioner. However, &lt;em&gt;how does one politely warn her/him that (s)he should reconsider other answers again&lt;/em&gt;, because they present a better/nicer result, or have removed all the clutter in the OP's code, or suggested code that is more clear and intuitive, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18189" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-03-10T05:38:49.013" LastActivityDate="2018-03-13T06:37:12.690" Title="How to politely tell someone that his choice of answer is poor?" Tags="|discussion|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7600" CreationDate="2018-03-10T00:35:49.603" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the accepted answer is provably wrong, it seems fine to add a comment saying so.  But the comment IMO should be aimed at the answerer, not the questioner, and the answerer should suggest unaccepting the answer if that's the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if your opinion is that another answer is better, then again, it's fine to add a comment to &lt;em&gt;that answer&lt;/em&gt; saying something like &quot;I think this should be the accepted answer because...&quot;, but again, not aimed at the questioner as an attempt to tell them to change their acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People accept non-optimal answers for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it's the first answer they get. Sometimes it's the answer that has code that they can understand, as opposed to a 'better' answer with more complex/ingenious/tricky code.  Sometimes people like a hack, even when a more general solution is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only people who should try to change people's acceptance may be people who have answered the question and think that their own answer is inferior in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2018-03-10T00:35:49.603" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7603" CreationDate="2018-03-12T12:46:23.277" Score="11" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell there's only ever been one post utilizing the &lt;code&gt;ducks&lt;/code&gt; tag without the &lt;code&gt;tikzducks&lt;/code&gt; tag. might they not just as well be merged? or would it be acceptable for me to start asking about duck-trivia on TeX.Se as long as I use the &lt;code&gt;ducks&lt;/code&gt; tag?&#xA;Will the site slowly turn into a duck encyclopedia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125223" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2018-03-13T20:57:03.173" LastActivityDate="2018-03-17T10:19:56.147" Title="What is the point of the ducks tag in non meta tex" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tag-synonyms|ducks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7602" CreationDate="2018-03-13T00:18:54.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ducks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ducks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ducks&lt;/a&gt; tag is quite pointless outside of Meta.  Since ducks are sort of an inside joke on TeX.SX, I have retagged all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ducks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ducks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ducks&lt;/a&gt; questions (following the same reasoning as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7480&quot;&gt;A proposal to include a duck in our background image&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2018-03-15T04:54:51.827" LastActivityDate="2018-03-15T04:54:51.827" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7600" CreationDate="2018-03-13T06:37:12.690" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user chooses a solution that is not as robust as your own, it may be (as I think you suggested) that they do not yet understand the intricacies of Latex code and needed a solution they could most easily (and quickly) understand. I don't know if being in a pinch necessarily says anything about their ambitions, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on the subject of tone, maybe start by thinking about how people prefer to receive input in person:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person asks a question. A knowledgeable person's response might begin by restating the question being asked, so the person asking knows that the nature of his problem is understood (useful if the original question is rambling). The answer provided is ideally phrased in a way that people with a broad range of expertise can understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person answering thinks the asker has misunderstood something, or intends to say something else, he/she should absolutely go out their way to NOT imply that they think the asker is foolish, or inexperienced (which they may be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker does not care about your intentions if you make them feel embarrassed for asking a question, and will be less likely to ask more questions. An asker will almost always volunteer their inexperience in exchange for not feeling called-out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155948" LastActivityDate="2018-03-13T06:37:12.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7608" CreationDate="2018-03-16T08:26:47.337" Score="5" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand what the this definition - part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/91/socratic&quot;&gt;gold Socratic badge&lt;/a&gt; - means :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45209" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-03-16T16:30:43.777" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T18:46:44.647" Title="Socratic badge meaning" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7330" CreationDate="2018-03-16T10:31:19.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/413018/134574&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; is exactly the opposite. I just showed OP the utilization of &lt;code&gt;\hyphenation&lt;/code&gt; and got about 15 upvotes in that day and a couple more a few days later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was one of the easiest questions I answered and it is the most upvoted &lt;code&gt;:P&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T10:31:19.323" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7605" CreationDate="2018-03-16T16:29:40.010" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a full description of the entire badge family:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Curious&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bronze; awarded once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintained a positive question record&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Inquisitive&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;silver; awarded once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintained a positive question record&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Socratic&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;gold; awarded multiple times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintained a positive question record&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional criteria for this badge family:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are four different counts that are tracked when calculating the criteria for this badge:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Positive: Number of questions asked on this day that have a score greater than 0.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Negative: Number of questions asked on this day that have a score less than 0.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closed: Number of questions asked on this day that are currently closed and the current closure date occurred within 60 days of being asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deleted: Number of questions asked on this day that are currently deleted and the current deletion date occurred within 60 days of being asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any day that has at least 1 Positive question and also has no Negative, Closed, or Deleted questions counts as a GoodDay which increments the counter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A positive question record means you don't have too many closed, downvoted or deleted questions, overall. The formula is &lt;code&gt;(TotalQuestions - Negative - Closed - Deleted) / TotalQuestions ≥ 0.5&lt;/code&gt;. Questions that qualify as Negative &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Closed &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Deleted count three times in this calculation!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/67397/168244&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T16:29:40.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-17T05:49:37.887" Score="25" ViewCount="580" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are people who can mark a thread as &quot;duplicate&quot; by single click. &#xA;On the other hand, there are people who can only &quot;vote&quot; about it. &#xA;Moreover, there are people who can do nothing about such decision.&#xA;And at the last, there are people who are totally unable to see such &#xA;marked threads because redirection is done automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My wish is determined to the first sort of people: do your decision very &#xA;honestly and thoughtfully. In order to avoid &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/420161/&quot;&gt;such situations&lt;/a&gt;. This is not &#xA;isolated example here, I have seen more similar situations, where OP was &#xA;searching simple solution and it was linked to very complex answers and&#xA;to a thread where such simple solution is incompatible as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somebody can be preparing an answer at the time of your click (about&#xA;&quot;duplicate decision&quot;), he invested much time to do this and your single&#xA;click can baffle to realize his anwer on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site distorts human relations. Somebody says: my true is absolute&#xA;because I can do single click, but you must to &quot;vote&quot;. And he is unable to&#xA;accept that his decision is bad using simple arguments. He insist only on&#xA;&quot;voting&quot; mechanism. This is uncommon in normal human environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T17:25:26.030" Title="Too rash decision about &quot;duplicate&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7602" CreationDate="2018-03-17T10:19:56.147" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is too long for a comment, but it's meta anyway. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember when I saw this question in our main site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/153389/latex-template-for-the-journal-blood&quot;&gt;LaTeX template for the journal &amp;quot;Blood&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost instinctively, and having myself enough reputation, I decided to lighten up the mood and did the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FuUep.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FuUep.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vampires&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I giggled for almost 3 minutes (&lt;em&gt;hee hee vampires&lt;/em&gt;), but then later I realized it wouldn't be fair to the community, as I was misusing the tagging system (which serves a very important purpose) for a something other than keeping organisation and classifying topics of interest. Three minutes later, there was my edit once again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L5baI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L5baI.png&quot; alt=&quot;No more vampires&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(in the meantime, Tom had correctly added the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/journal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;journal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;journal&lt;/a&gt; tag to the question)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we (the community) owe a great deal to fantastic people who devoted their online time to tagging questions, in particular (to name one) Thomas Titz (aka &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/510/lockstep&quot;&gt;lockstep&lt;/a&gt;). So keeping the system in good health is important for new users and even for us regulars, for making information easily searchable and honour the efforts of our peers to make knowledge reachable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, of all users here, love the silliness in our duck-related jokes, but I think sometimes we need to refrain ourselves of a too bold move. Tagging is perhaps one of few dogmatic entities around, so it's better to not poke it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In meta, well... meta is a different thing. &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2018-03-17T10:19:56.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2018-03-17T15:03:21.193" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem of questions being closed too fast is a perennial one, and you're right that the people who have a Gold tag badge for one of the question's tags can close unilaterally.  So this is definitely something that should be used very carefully, and usually is.  But it's never a problem to have a reminder like this meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think you draw a very important distinction between 'voting to close' which allows for others to weigh in on the decision and 'deciding to close', which the 'gold hammer' unfortunately allows. And as others with gold tag badges have pointed out, they don't always remember that they have that power. So I agree that gold tag badge holders should be extremely careful with their use of it, perhaps by first leaving a comment rather than simply applying the hammer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the system &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have a fairly reactive way to undo such close votes: people can vote to reopen a closed question, and provided they leave a comment explaining why, such reopening usually happens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible to drop into the chat and suggest reopening a question. One of our mods, Joseph Wright is there a lot, and is extremely responsive to mod requests. And even if he's not around, the usual chat room people are happy to add reopen votes themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the comment thread on the question you linked to, you seem to be saying that you don't want to participate in the reopening voting procedure, because you don't like the voting system altogether. This is of course your right, but then I think your complaint about the system doesn't quite ring true.  It's really not hard to reopen a question, if you agree to participate in the methods described above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some related discussion on closing more generally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6430/2693&quot;&gt;Close voting is not a sport&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4622/2693&quot;&gt;Reviewers; what do you eat for breakfast?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2018-03-20T17:25:26.030" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T17:25:26.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2018-03-18T01:16:54.860" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a fan of the 'golden hammer', to be honest. It is too easily abused or inadvertently misused, and its effect is determined rather arbitrarily in practice, since questions are often not even tagged appropriately in the first instance. Incorrect tagging further exacerbates the problem of inadvertent misuse, by which I mean intending to vote, but actually closing unilaterally. Furthermore, I'm not convinced that a golden badge for even an appropriate tag guarantees any particular expertise in identifying duplicate &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, especially since people often seem to erroneously think of duplication in terms of duplicate &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, however, actions of this kind - inadvertent or otherwise - are, as Alan Munn points out, easily reversed. Moreover, refusing to participate in this system on the grounds that it is unlike 'normal' human environments is, I think, wrong-headed. I can think of various more-or-less persuasive reasons for refusing to participate, including a judgement that the system is unfair, arbitrary, anti-democratic, non-consensual, objectionably hierarchical and supportive of anti-social, tyrannical and community-destroying behaviour. But the claim that it should be rejected because it fails to reflect 'normal' human environments is, in my opinion, untenable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, SE is not a 'normal' human environment in any sense. No online environment is normal, but SE is doubly abnormal, if not triply so. It is downright weird in so many other ways that the voting system is surely a mere trifling detail. The only adequate way to reject its abnormality is to never visit. I'm not at all suggesting you do that: I'm just saying that this is the logical implication of your position. Indeed, I would prefer to view this as an &lt;em&gt;reductio ad absurdum&lt;/em&gt; of that position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, 'normal' is a fraught word and it isn't clear what is meant here. Statistically normal? That's no objection: if SE were friendlier and more helpful than statistically normal human environments, that would be a point in its favour and certainly no reason against. Presumably, there is rather a notion of what a human environment &lt;em&gt;ought&lt;/em&gt; to be like. And the objection is that the system is unfair, unjust etc. and that human environments ought not to be this way. I think this is arguably correct. Whether or not it justifies participating in the site but not participating in this particular aspect of the system, I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the objection is that the voting/hammer system is anti-egalitarian, that's true, but the entire site is designed to promote anti-egalitarian aims, so it isn't clear why this particular feature should be picked out for rejection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the objection is that the voting/hammer system is not effectively meritocratic, although this is (presumably) the intention, that is not implausible in the sense that the system in practice provides rather arbitrary powers which typically bear a somewhat tenuous relationship to pertinent expertise. However, this is equally true of many, if not most, other aspects of SE's design, so it is not clear why this feature should be singled out for rejection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is, of course, true that paradigmatic cases of 'voting' are one-person-one-vote. However, this is not an essential feature of voting systems and is, in fact, an extremely recent innovation which is still far from perfectly realised even by the best of democratic systems. Moreover, outside of special contexts, one-person-one-vote is the exception rather than the rule. (Statistically) normal human environments are ones in which the power of individuals varies hugely. Most of these don't use voting at all, of course, but many do: when shareholders in companies vote, the rule is not one-person-one-vote and many of those most affected by their decisions may have no votes at all. And there is probably less reason to think shareholders enjoy votes in proportion to their expertise than there is to think that SE users do. This is not to say that such systems are just, but they are certainly 'normal' human environments at this point in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that the SE environment generally, including its voting system, is, like all human environments, messy, flawed and imperfect. Parts of it reflect design purposes I don't endorse; other parts imperfectly realise purposes I do. As with all human systems, SE's users introduce additional flaws into the environment. They further frustrate the ends of the designers - both those I agree with and those I don't - and they find ways to use features for purposes which were never intended. In this sense, SE is absolutely typical of human environments - 'absolute' because true in the strongest possible sense. There are simply no exceptions because no human environment is perfectly designed, no human designer pursues entirely ideal ends and no human beings fail to frustrate both the best and worst of other humans' purposes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2018-03-18T01:16:54.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7615" CreationDate="2018-03-19T15:46:26.303" Score="2" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/422010/134641&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; appeared to me to be a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/336041/134641&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/422010/urgent-help-with-no-date-in-biblatex?noredirect=1#comment1055078_422010&quot;&gt;flagged&lt;/a&gt; it as a potential duplicate. I also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/422015/134641&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; the question, restating the essential portion of the answer provided in the putative duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user, however, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/422010/urgent-help-with-no-date-in-biblatex?noredirect=1#comment1055080_422010&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; that my actions were not in accord with best practice. Multiple other &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/422010/urgent-help-with-no-date-in-biblatex?noredirect=1#comment1055070_422010&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/422010/urgent-help-with-no-date-in-biblatex?noredirect=1#comment1055081_422010&quot;&gt;requested&lt;/a&gt; a MWE. The suggestion WRT my response was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The duplicate nature of the question cannot be determined in the absence of further information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is indeed a duplicate, my answer worsens matters, by &quot;simply adding to the duplication.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I provide my own rejoinders to these allegations in turn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it is worth noting that the title was prefixed with &quot;Urgent Help&quot;. In my experience, this suggests that the OP has some deadline and likely lacks the time to provide a MWE. One could of course argue that others' need not expend their effort to answer a question posed with such minimal effort. I was, however, already aware of the putative duplicate to this question. Accordingly, I could easily respond and provide that answer. I maintain that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My flagging the question as a duplicate, to suggest that moderators to evaluate it, is the correct course of action in this circumstance. Even absent further information, while we cannot be certain this is a duplicate, it is &lt;em&gt;probable&lt;/em&gt; and this is &lt;em&gt;sufficient&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The provision of an answer directly within the posed question, in this circumstance, is of greatest benefit to a time-constrained OP. Accordingly, my quoting from the duplicate answer is &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; and is (as far as I can tell) often done.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user who composed the answer to the (possible duplicate) that I linked to has &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/422010/urgent-help-with-no-date-in-biblatex#comment1055095_422015&quot;&gt;replied&lt;/a&gt;, providing reasons why my answer is unlikely to be helpful. They also kindly updated their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would appreciate feedback from this community regarding this matter, especially any links to any relevant established policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134641" LastEditorUserId="134641" LastEditDate="2018-03-19T15:51:39.557" LastActivityDate="2018-06-30T06:09:07.110" Title="Insistence upon MWEs, duplicates, and answers thereto" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7614" CreationDate="2018-03-19T16:00:06.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;note that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My flagging the question as a duplicate, to suggest that moderators to evaluate it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a bit misleading, it doesn't (directly) bring it to the attention of the moderators. It just means that you think it is duplicate (and if 5 people think the same then it is closed as duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in general I think there is no harm in answering a question that ends up being duplicate. It often happens that I answer a question, then someone  suggests a duplicate, and if I agree I'll vote to close as duplicate, I very rarely delete the answer already posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice I don't do things in the order that you suggested (vote to close as duplicate, then answer, for anything for which you have a tag badge that isn't possible anyway) But since the end result on the site is the same whether you answer then vote to close or vote to close then answer, I can't see it matters much either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T16:00:06.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2018-03-20T00:56:36.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting - and the associated reputation - separates Stack Exchange from other networks. It forms part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;core philosophy&lt;/a&gt; for the network, so that will not change. It is by far the simplest and most effective way to add value (positive or negative) to other's work. It's used throughout Internet forums and other Q&amp;amp;A's to rank the value of contributions. And that's why voting adds value elsewhere, but also here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory behind &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;moderation by the community&lt;/a&gt; is another fundamental design principal that contributes to the network's foundation and ties in well with the idea of voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not into voting (maybe 1 vote every week, stemming from &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5gg0C.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;171 votes&lt;/a&gt; over &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jM3me.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;46 months&lt;/a&gt; compared to other &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;voting contributors&lt;/a&gt;) because it is flawed, you shouldn't be so hard-up about the decisions others make when voting. Just contribute in the way you're comfortable. For you this is predominantly through answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further to the two posts in question; they have the same goal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/420161/5764&quot;&gt;accumulator variable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Is there ... some way to define a floating point register to perform ... arithmetic operations?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/15526/5764&quot;&gt;Floating point calculations in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I am looking for a method to do ... floating point ... calculations in LaTeX, ...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and that's why I voted to close; that's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/420161/accumulator-variable/420665#comment1052262_420161&quot;&gt;careful thinking&lt;/a&gt; I used to make my decision. There is no declaration requesting a solution that didn't use specific packages, and using a comprehensive packages like in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/420662/5764&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/420648/5764&quot;&gt;solutions&lt;/a&gt; doesn't warrant proposals that are not simple (one could argue the OP requested &amp;quot;simple arithmetic&amp;quot; and therefore a &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;elementary&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;non-package&amp;quot; solution). It could be argued that you are using a non-simple technique as well since the calculations are obscured using dimensions to perform simple floating point arithmetic, since the OP is not interested in lengths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question remained closed (for whatever reason) and you still felt that the OP needed a solution that only you can provide, you are more than welcome to contribute with only the necessary amount of artillery needed by using a comment, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/420161/accumulator-variable/420665#comment1052375_420161&quot;&gt;just like I did&lt;/a&gt;, even if that means code is hosted off-site. This has been used &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/825946/links-to-pastebin-in-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;often&lt;/a&gt;, with some code still available since the start of this site (around 2010) - &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1811/utf8-or-latin1-encoding-german/1813#comment2471_1813&quot;&gt;example comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T01:05:32.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2018-03-20T09:07:15.447" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's worth noting that the &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt; of marking things as a duplicate is supposed to be positive, along the lines of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;your question is similar to previous ones, this answer should solve your problems...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the fact that the site mechanics for marking duplicates is so similar to the mechanics of marking off topic or unclear questions, means that there are undeniably negative connotations so people should take care when closing with new users. (To be honest I'm less worried about closing affecting site regulars who may have potential answers). For example by dropping a specific solution hint in a comment in addition to the stock duplicate link comment that is generated by the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have commented, the gold tag close privilege is a pain, it is easy to forget which tags you have the badge for, or not notice which tag the question has. I usually don't vote to cast a close vote unless there are several other votes already if I notice I have the relevant tag badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if you have an answer ready and the question gets closed (it happens to us all:-) it is not really a problem as you have several options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the duplicate does cover the new question, just forget it and move on, the OP has an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add your answer in the &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; question if it is a near duplicate but the existing answers don't cover everything. (This is rather rarely done on this site but is I think the intended way that duplicates work on the network)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vote to open the new question. It takes fewer votes to re-open than it does to close so this normally doesn't take long to get the question re-opened, and if you &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; ping the people who closed or just drop in to chat and say &quot;I have an answer for question ..., could someone vote to re-open&quot; then I have never seen it take more than a few minutes to re-open a question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the site mechanics and the voting system are imperfect and have some strange artifacts in the way particular postings are handled but overall it works well enough so I don't think there are major problems and certainly the whole thing is sufficiently arbitrary and artificial that I think your attempt to infer human motivations and failings from the actions of users on site are not really valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T09:07:15.447" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7614" CreationDate="2018-03-20T09:10:44.823" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow me to express a dissenting opinion (it may turn out not to be as dissenting as initially thought, but bear with me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment&lt;/strong&gt; First off, I think you were absolutely right to leave a comment suggesting the duplicate. Even if the OP had already tried that solution, at least others can benefit from finding it. This is especially useful since the original question mentioned other questions and answers without linking to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Early close votes&lt;/strong&gt; I would refrain from voting to close (or flagging) as a duplicate so early, though, doubly so without input from the OP. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/114/35864&quot;&gt;Timing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4045/35864&quot;&gt;&quot;premature voting&quot;&lt;/a&gt; have already been &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/264/35864&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4622/35864&quot;&gt;extensively&lt;/a&gt; on meta. Definitely in the early stages when it is likely that the OP will respond, duplicate suggestions should not be used to suggest to moderators to evaluate the question, but should rather suggest possible solutions to the person asking the question. In this particular case it is doubtful that anyone besides the OP could evaluate the merits of a possible solution from the original version of the question. The idea here is that especially so shortly after a question has been asked the primary concern should be to help the user and solve her problem, while concerns about &quot;keeping the site clean&quot; should come second or third. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not to say that I never vote to close. I think it is perfectly reasonable to vote to close if the OP agrees that the question is a duplicate (assuming I agree with her) or if there has been no reaction for a while and the question is deserted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MWEs&lt;/strong&gt; I would like to take up the &quot;insistence upon MWEs&quot; from your title. &quot;Insistence&quot; has a slightly negative ring to my non-native ears, so please allow me to comment on that as well. It is true that many people on this site (including me) often ask for an MWE if a question lacks one. It is also true that not all questions require an MWE to be understood or answered (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3386/35864&quot;&gt;Are there questions where we can recognize that a MWE is not necessary?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6813/35864&quot;&gt;automatic check for MWE&lt;/a&gt;). Even then an MWE can be helpful to get started and test possible answers, so while I am &quot;guilty&quot; of asking for an MWE even if it may not be &quot;required&quot;, I at least try to make it clear in my comments that this is the case. On the other hand, there are many questions that I believe cannot be answered properly without seeing an MWE (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6255/35864&quot;&gt;Why does TeX require such elaborate MWE:s&lt;/a&gt;). While it may be possible to guess the right solution, there are just too many variables we don't know about. MWEs are particularly helpful if the OP confuses package names or other terms in the text of their question or in the tags (e.g. &quot;I'm using &lt;code&gt;natbib&lt;/code&gt;&quot; when only &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt;'s &lt;code&gt;natbib&lt;/code&gt; compatibility mode is used, &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; vs BibTeX, adding the LaTeX3 tag for no reason, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the OP mistakenly tagged their question with the &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; tag and mentioned that package explicitly in the title and body of the question, even though they actually used the BibTeX style &lt;code&gt;ACM-Reference-Format.bst&lt;/code&gt;. This only became clear after an &lt;strike&gt;MWE&lt;/strike&gt; excerpt of the preamble was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that the OP had time constraints and that they may not have been able to invest time into making a truly minimal MWE, but I believe that time is better spent creating an MWE than being sent on a wild goose chase of possible solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering duplicate questions&lt;/strong&gt; Like David I believe that there is absolutely no harm in answering a question even if it is indeed a duplicate. If writing an answer is quicker than finding and linking a good duplicate, then surely that can only benefit the OP. If the new answer puts a different spin on things, or shows how to implement a solution in the context of the new question then that is fine as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see the point in restating an answer if there is little additional value to be gained from doing so and the duplicate link is already at hand, as was the case here. If there would have been an MWE, additional value would have been gained from implementing the answer with the given MWE. I personally would only have added such an answer after the OP replied that they had problem getting the suggested answer to work, but if you think that the OP benefits from that right away, who am I to stop you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do object to, however, is simply copying over an answer (I'm not suggesting you did that, this is purely to explain my views). That does not really add value to the site or the OP. The OP is only one click further from the solution if you simply link to it. Even if they are really pressed for time, I cannot imagine that being a huge disadvantage. At worst, copying an existing answer is harmful because it means that &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; answers spread outdated information after a while (one seemingly being more up-to-date than the other), and it means that two answers need to updated. In case the answer has flaws or bugs, there are now two places where they can be reported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copying over only bits of an answer might work, but if done badly can actually combine the two disadvantages of simply linking and copying the answer. Originally &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/422015/1&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/422015/1&lt;/a&gt; was not really helpful without the link to the existing answer, since there was no indication whatsoever as to where the code changes needed to be made. This is worse than a simple link because the answer gets the OP's hopes up and requires cognitive load to be processed, only to then find out that the answer lies elsewhere. In that case a simple link and a short note to look there would have been more efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that this particular case has not been very kind to your approach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It turned out that an MWE was actually useful, since it cleared up a confusion about &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; vs. BibTeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The suggested duplicate was not actually the suitable answer here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer in the suggested duplicate was improved by updating. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one or more of these had turned out otherwise, in hindsight your approach would have been more successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My strategy for cases like this is to ask for clarification/an MWE, so that possible answers can be found and evaluated.&#xA;If I know of a possible duplicate, normally I only leave a comment with a link and maybe a short explanation. I suggest you do not flag or vote to close at that point. Instead wait for a response. If the OP is happy with the duplicate, flag and vote away, if the OP agrees it might not even need to go through the normal review queue.&#xA;If the OP has trouble getting the suggested duplicate answer to work, I'll then proceed to post an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2018-06-30T06:09:07.110" LastActivityDate="2018-06-30T06:09:07.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2018-03-22T14:15:19.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Date and Time&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/88282&quot;&gt;Query regarding usage of \date&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Query regarding usage of \date](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/88282)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastActivityDate="2018-03-22T14:15:19.097" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-03-22T14:15:19.097" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7624" CreationDate="2018-03-26T22:12:29.850" Score="6" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have recieved a few good answers for a [code-bound] question I asked. Since they all make different contributions, I would like to write my own answer combining approaches and snippets of code from two different answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be acceptable to accept my own answer (nice redundance, by the way)? Or should I rather accept one of the other answers? Or perhaps tell one of the authors to add the contributions from the other answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155867" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-03-27T19:21:19.683" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T20:10:22.977" Title="When is it acceptable to accept one own's answer?" Tags="|discussion|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7623" CreationDate="2018-03-27T08:21:58.333" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is (call it 'my' accepting -- etiquette, ;-))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is no answer yet and one has found a solution of one's own in the meantime, it is perfectly ok to accept the own answer. If someone else posts another (good) answer later on, it is very nice to unaccept the self-answer and accept the other one. (I've done so with one of my questions)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of accepting a self - answer the relevant post can be transferred into a community wiki - answer as well, in order to allow for other answers to gain reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there are other answers but yet unsatisfying, it might be alright to accept the self-answer, but ask the other users to 'improve/change' their answers before, such that one of them can be accepted, but don't urge the users to incorporate content from other answers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is or are (many) good answer(s) posting a compilation answer and accepting it is not really nice, since it is some kind of 'stealing' the good content from other ones. Don't do that. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2018-03-27T20:10:22.977" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T20:10:22.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7626" CreationDate="2018-03-27T11:26:30.147" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking for an answer to my question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/423429/plot-a-function-between-two-values&quot;&gt;Plot a function between two values&lt;/a&gt; But searching for this didn't come up with anything, however, when I clicked 'Ask Question' and typed the title the thread: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114528/pgfplots-to-plot-a-function-from-4-4-001&quot;&gt;pgfplots to plot a function from [4,4.001]&lt;/a&gt; came up.&#xA;So I went ahead, created the new question and marked it as a duplicate, this I did to make future navigation to the question with the answer easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I considered creating a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/duplicate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;duplicate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; tag for the question, to clearly show that the question was always meant as a new path to that question, but creating a new tag for something like this seemed a little abusive to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question then comes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this practice of creating dupes to make hard to find answers easier to find okay?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to create a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/duplicate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;duplicate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; to mark that these questions where always intended as duplicates (so other people don't waste their time looking at the question)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Edit:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason to have a &lt;code&gt;diliberate dupe&lt;/code&gt; tag would be so people wouldn't have to spend time marking it as a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125223" LastEditorUserId="125223" LastEditDate="2018-03-27T17:42:52.100" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T17:42:52.100" Title="Creating duplicates for easier navigation, and possibility for a duplicate tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7625" CreationDate="2018-03-27T15:33:42.973" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there's no need for creating a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/duplicate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;duplicate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; tag. People would most likely not search under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/duplicate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;duplicate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; tag, since there is no guarantee that the &quot;duplicates&quot; are all they're after. Moreover, you can leave a comment with the post if you want to deter people from wasting time to answer the to-be-closed duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The inherent problem here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/160100/168244&quot;&gt;search functionality&lt;/a&gt; of the network. It's not always that great. I'd suggest also using &lt;a href=&quot;//google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;code&gt;site:tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; search criteria added. This usually provides good search results in case you don't find anything using the network search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gWbDm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gWbDm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative approach to posting duplicates would be to post a question here and discuss whether one can update the text from some post to be more generic (and therefore possibly more searchable) or canonical. As long as the answers still remain valid and no-one loses sleep over the adjustment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-03-27T16:21:34.640" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T16:21:34.640" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-28T06:53:35.213" Score="15" ViewCount="847" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Help pages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is voting up?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting up is how the community indicates which questions and answers&#xA;  are most useful and appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I vote up?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever you encounter a question, answer or comment that you feel is&#xA;  especially useful, vote it up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, it often happens that upvotes are used in the same way as a &quot;like&quot; on a social network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which are, in your opinion, the main reasons for such behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my own answers to this question, there are the ones I think are the most common, but, of course, you can add any other suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can upvote for more than one answer to this post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please read all the answers before voting, don't stop at the first ones!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: to clarify, for &quot;wrong&quot; I intend &quot;not in line with what written on the Help pages&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The poll results will be used by Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck in his third article on the TUGBoat (the second is already in press). He reserves the right not to include an answer in his research because of moral scruples.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-03-31T06:45:43.947" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T18:22:50.010" Title="Poll: &quot;wrong&quot; reasons to upvote" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-28T06:54:21.073" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post has some duck-related content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Of course, I'm not against the duck-related content, but it should not be the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; reason to upvote.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T06:54:21.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-28T06:55:21.130" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post contains a stunning image (made in &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;pstricks&lt;/code&gt;, picture mode, you name it) or a beautiful typographical object (a drop cap, a decoration, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; Of course, I'm not against voting posts with beautiful images, but it should not be the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; reason to upvote.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T06:55:21.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-28T06:56:23.313" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post is funny. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; Of course, I'm not against funny posts, but fun should not be the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; reason to upvote unless there is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fun&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fun&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-03-30T09:54:25.080" LastActivityDate="2019-03-30T09:54:25.080" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-28T06:58:08.110" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post is by one of the top-users, I upvoted on trust.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; Of course, I'm not saying that upvoting a post by a top user is wrong, if they are top users, it's very likely their posts are excellent! &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; I'm saying it is wrong if I upvoted &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because the post is by a top user, without even reading it and without reading the other alternative answers. &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T06:58:08.110" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-28T07:54:35.340" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is the first of the list, it solves my problem, I have no time/will to read the others, even if they could be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T07:54:35.340" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7635" CreationDate="2018-03-28T07:55:19.077" Score="5" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;After having &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/423485/how-to-adhere-to-copyright-when-using-protected-content-w3c-document-license&quot;&gt;asked this question&lt;/a&gt; I realized that it would better be suited on a different site.&#xA;In that case, should I delete the question or vote to close?&#xA;Is there something like a best practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81982" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T15:27:34.333" Title="“Close” or “delete” own question?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|best-practice|delete|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-28T08:08:10.743" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question already has many votes (list by votes) and the user is trying to “earn” a badge related to voting. The user upvotes the question and the top answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81982" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T08:08:10.743" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7633" CreationDate="2018-03-28T15:27:34.333" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off-topic questions with zero votes here can be deleted. If not, they may be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;deleted automatically&lt;/a&gt; based on the following conditions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/168244&quot;&gt;automatically delete&lt;/a&gt; closed (not as a duplicate), unlocked questions with zero or negative score having no positively scored or accepted answers or pending reopen votes, that were closed 9 or more days ago and haven't been edited in the past 9 days. (&lt;code&gt;RemoveAbandonedClosed&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/168244&quot;&gt;automatically delete&lt;/a&gt; unlocked, unanswered questions that have negative score that are at least 30 days old. (&lt;code&gt;RemoveDeadQuestions&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other conditions may also apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T15:27:34.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-28T18:25:36.260" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The post is in the top charts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two types of &quot;top charts&quot;, the one everyone can see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7jXNT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7jXNT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the one only users with reputation 10k or more can access:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xi6nB.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xi6nB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling that once some post is in the charts, the votes become more extreme. At the time of writing, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/423566/are-there-any-research-papers-about-tex&quot;&gt;Are there any research papers about TeX?&lt;/a&gt; and its answers dominates the positive votes, and my impression is that once a post makes it to the top charts, it gets additional attention and, as a consequence, more votes. This goes in both directions, posts with negative votes become also more negative very quickly once they made it to these charts. I stress that I have no real data on this, these are just my impressions. I am also not saying that this necessarily a bad thing. And whether or not this is a problem, depends on two things: (1) How seriously one takes the reputation score and (2) whether or not the positive effect that some (seemingly) important questions get more attention (and hence possibly an even better answer) outweighs the negative effect that the attention for other posts decreases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-03-28T18:44:04.743" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T18:44:04.743" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-28T20:02:05.467" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user hasn't enough understanding about TeX &amp;amp; Friends and pushes the vote (up) button although the question or answer is not really good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As CarLaTeX stated: This happens also for the 'Accept' button. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2018-03-29T09:50:31.363" LastActivityDate="2018-03-29T09:50:31.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-29T10:55:48.560" Score="6" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am coming from this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/423808/xelatex-plus-sign-undefined/423814#423814&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/423808/xelatex-plus-sign-undefined/423814#423814&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That deleted in minutes after answered and without a specific reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem is not the possible votes or something, but the right of the OP to delete the question in minutes if already answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I could give a nice answer with my material (lets say copyrighted).. and the OP could just delete it and make my answer a proprietary software... And some days after I could not even find my answer in my profile. (need more than 10K point as I read).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the feature request, is to need at least a moderation attention for a OP to delete an answered question and in any case the member who wrote the answer has to be notified (Could not even imagine that doesn't even get a notification about his lost answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastEditorUserId="120578" LastEditDate="2018-03-29T11:58:59.380" LastActivityDate="2018-04-02T13:26:05.327" Title="Request for minimum time and/or moderation attention before an Answered Question can be deleted" Tags="|feature-request|deleted-posts|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-29T11:16:25.033" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two identical (or almost identical) in code answers, and the vote goes to the newer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the newer could have a better description of the problem or explanation or whatever... And possibly could be a question that the explanation matters than a simple correction of a mistake in the code...&#xA;But I am not talking about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastActivityDate="2018-03-29T11:16:25.033" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-29T21:35:37.123" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted to mark it as &quot;read&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-03-29T21:35:37.123" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-30T14:17:07.280" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has no upvoted answers, so I choose one at random and upvote it in order to remove the question from the unanswered queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Such questions are automatically bumped up by the system from time to time in the hope the answers get a review and, perhaps, an upvote. On the other hand a careful review might reveal that none of the given answer is really good; in this case either don't upvote or, preferably, write a better answer.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T14:17:07.280" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7652" CreationDate="2018-03-31T00:30:46.343" Score="9" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have already been several examples of trivialities, here, apropos ducks, and I think that this one is not much worse than others…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Motivation&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This evening I saw an ad on this site from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The LaTeX Font Catalogue&lt;/a&gt;: it was screaming something like (I don’t remember exactly) “We feature quick foxes… Sleazy dogs…”, and, all of a sudden, it hit me that &lt;strong&gt;no mention at all was made of ducks!&lt;/strong&gt;  I’m becoming so biased in this regard that I felt immediately compelled to invent a pangram involving ducks, to be used for displaying the full set of lowercase letters in a font.  Unfortunately, my limited English vocabulary didn’t permit me to go any further than&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The jumping yellow duck quacks from the overfull horizontal box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(actually, I didn’t try that hard!), which is 54 character long, so I thought of seeking help from my friendly fellows at TeX.SX!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Question and Rules&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is to find a short English sentence that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;makes sense;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;contains all the 26 English &lt;em&gt;lowercase&lt;/em&gt; letters (the first letter&#xA;of the sentence must be uppercase, so it does not count,&#xA;nor does any other letter in the sentence that must be&#xA;capitalized according to the rules of the English grammar);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;makes explicit mention of ducks, not necessarily as the subject&#xA;of the sentence; note, however, that the word “duck” must refer&#xA;to the bird (so, for instance, using the verb “to duck” doesn’t&#xA;suffice, in itself, to comply with this rule);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;contains at least an implicit, but clearly recognizable, reference&#xA;to (La)TeX (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt;, the “overfull horizontal box”, in our example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shortest sentence wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Clarification about the rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing a few answers, I think there are a couple of points that should be clarified:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using explicitly the words “TeX” or “LaTeX” as references to the&#xA;(La)TeX world breaks what is perhaps the most important rule about&#xA;word puzzles: in a riddle on the checkerboard, you cannot use&#xA;the word “checkerboard”; but in any case, we all agree upon the&#xA;rule that those words—&lt;em&gt;when referring to (La)TeX&lt;/em&gt;—&lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; be&#xA;capitalized in the “usual unusual” way, so they would only make you&#xA;gain a couple of vowels.  Of course, you can still mention&#xA;Tex Willer… ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7642/english-pangrams-with-ducks/7652?noredirect=1#comment23032_7650&quot;&gt;One could argue&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;that mentioning ducks is, in itself, a reference to TeX:&#xA;well, no, your answer must contain a reference &lt;em&gt;independent&lt;/em&gt; of ducks&#xA;(and also of marmots)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Comment&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On second thought, perhaps this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the most stupid question ever asked here, even restricting to those concerning ducks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-04-05T22:26:42.543" Title="English pangrams with ducks" Tags="|discussion|ducks|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="25" ClosedDate="2018-04-05T23:13:08.283" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-03-31T12:05:28.787" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two identical (or almost identical) in code answers, and the vote goes to the first to be posted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the older could have a better description of the problem or explanation or whatever... but often if an answer to a simple question is posted quickly it is devoid of explanation, or is less useful than the newer answer that took longer to type up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often such answers will be posted between 1 second and 30 minutes apart, and in that time a non-zero number of upvotes may already have gone to the first answer, thus creating &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7632/126822&quot;&gt;this effect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;This answer is self-demonstrating... ish. Original and antonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7639/126822&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I have mostly noticed this effect on Stack Overflow, but have also seen it here occasionally.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126822" LastActivityDate="2018-03-31T12:05:28.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7646" CreationDate="2018-04-01T05:16:46.363" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;When today accessed CTAN To read news about changes on packages with Opera 51 and in a second access, FireFox 59.0.2, obtained in both cases a superimposed panel that asked that I should update my navigator, because CTAN due to the lack of funds, have recruited the assistance of a firm to create revenue placing ads. The link to the advertising partner goes to &lt;strong&gt;nsa.gov&lt;/strong&gt;; my question is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this legitimate or its a hack?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1076" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2018-04-01T06:58:37.093" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T06:58:37.093" Title="CTAN has been asking to change our web navigator today 31 -- mar -- 2018. It is ok?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7645" CreationDate="2018-04-01T05:22:55.037" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1st of April is the day dedicated to jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more infos, see here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/361547/how-to-draw-a-fish&quot;&gt;How to draw a fish?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T05:22:55.037" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-01T10:33:12.433" Score="31" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friends,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of you might have noticed the presence of a yellow duck in the lower right corner of our site, acting as the fabled Clippy bloke from the Office family. I know there has been &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of duck-related content in this community lately, to the point of people getting justifiably annoyed by them. Just for the sake of not raising the public outrage any more, and also for the sheer fact that I do not enjoy being chased by an angry mob carrying pitchforks and torches (or any other pointed sticks), I must point out that this duck is not particularly related to us or the inner jokes of this community. It's a global April Fools thingy, and incidentally they had chosen a duck. In short, quoting a very wise bloke&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;It is not my fault.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T12:14:11.730" Title="Quack overflow on our site" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7647" CreationDate="2018-04-01T11:56:43.400" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe you. I believe you run the whole duck show on all of the SE network (which doesn't have to be a bad thing, btw).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117274" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T11:56:43.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7647" CreationDate="2018-04-01T12:14:11.730" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a wonderful coincidence. If I could, I'd happily keep the duck even past April Fools' day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28100" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T12:14:11.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7642" CreationDate="2018-04-01T15:33:57.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REVISION&lt;/strong&gt;: A bit longer but with a marmot (and reference to latex):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marmot vows to help best friend quacking tikz duck enjoy latex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for those with access to Mathematica: here is a short script that might help prevent you from getting mad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;mystring = &#xA;  &quot;Marmot vows to help best friend quacking tikz duck enjoy latex.&quot;;&#xA;Complement[CharacterRange[&quot;a&quot;, &quot;z&quot;], &#xA; Union[StringPartition[mystring, 1]]]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-04-01T21:57:56.657" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T21:57:56.657" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7642" CreationDate="2018-04-01T21:37:01.620" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found a shorter sentence myself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ducks wearing pyjamas squeezed into an overfull hbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It contains 44 lowercase letters.  By comparison, the usual&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;has 34 lowercase letters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; One letter shorter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eight ducks with pyjamas squeezed in an overfull box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, removed jargon (“hbox”)‚&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2nd Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; 40 lowercase letters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eighty-two ducks jump squeezed in an overfull box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something one could try to illustrate with the help of the &lt;code&gt;tikzduck&lt;/code&gt; package…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69818" LastEditorUserId="69818" LastEditDate="2018-04-03T00:05:26.400" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T00:05:26.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7642" CreationDate="2018-04-01T21:51:42.880" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's one with 36 letters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A jovial duck with zany plumage foxes breqn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is like code golf but for words. Here's one with 34 letters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A jive duck with zany plumage foxes breqn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now &lt;s&gt;the same length as&lt;/s&gt; one shorter than the classic one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2018-04-01T23:47:40.033" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T23:47:40.033" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7638" CreationDate="2018-04-02T13:26:05.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than asking the system for protection, you might relax your expectations from answering a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lately I don't have access to a working TeX installation, hence I'm trying to answer things using overleaf (emphasis on trying). People usually beat me to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, my typical answering effort goes like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Hey, I can answer this one&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opens a tab, mumbles some TeX gibberish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tries...waits... tries...waits... (&quot;&lt;em&gt;ha it works!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy/pastes and makes a code block but the page suddenly shifts down a bit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scroll up to see &quot;Click to see new answer&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Swear a few seconds. Carry on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can replace the 5th item with anything else: OP did this, OP said this, user did that etc. It doesn't matter, if you are seeing each answer as an effort to be rewarded with something (badges, points, praise or else), probably you are doing it for the wrong reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially if you have proprietary material (or open source that you feel sentimental about) you should stop answering questions using them on these sites and point to the repository or to the pricing pages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;No offense to Overleaf! It is not designed for answering TeX-SX questions :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-04-02T13:26:05.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-04-03T11:59:47.447" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Structure and Formatting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question/answer is &lt;strong&gt;well structured&lt;/strong&gt; (using heading etc.) and &lt;em&gt;usefully formatted&lt;/em&gt; -- you see that the person put effort into the Q/A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Additional Visual or Graphical Effort&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition, I find it appealing if there is a visual/graphical component such  as the output&#xA;  of the code or even an animated GIF!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ty8qM.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ty8qM.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14649" LastEditorUserId="14649" LastEditDate="2018-04-03T12:18:57.793" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T12:18:57.793" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-04-03T12:05:44.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP has obviously &lt;strong&gt;little LaTeX-related experience&lt;/strong&gt; (newbie, only a few or no previous questions) but includes a fairly &lt;strong&gt;minimal&lt;/strong&gt; but complete &lt;strong&gt;code example&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;strong&gt;upvote&lt;/strong&gt; it almost despite the content of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14649" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T12:05:44.563" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-04-03T12:07:53.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; reaction after a &quot;long&quot; time: I am happy that someone is listening to my problems and &lt;strong&gt;upvote&lt;/strong&gt; (not accept) whether the answer solved my problem or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14649" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T12:07:53.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-04-03T12:13:21.913" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;OP is rude&lt;/strong&gt; (in comments or the question itself) and I &lt;strong&gt;upvote&lt;/strong&gt; the answer of the &lt;strong&gt;'opponent'&lt;/strong&gt; to show my support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14649" LastEditorUserId="14649" LastEditDate="2018-04-03T12:19:10.763" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T12:19:10.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7659" CreationDate="2018-04-03T21:38:54.593" Score="7" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have flagged an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/424272/10995&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; which should have probably been a comment as “not an answer“.  Today when I wanted to flag another answer for a different reason, I noticed this message in the flag dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JEqtB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JEqtB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I followed the link to find&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1VGaM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1VGaM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand this at all.  This &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/424272/10995&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; is neither technically inaccurate, nor is it wrong per se.  It just does not answer the question and should therefore be a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I have done differently here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-04-04T15:29:37.067" LastActivityDate="2018-04-06T12:41:20.173" Title="How to flag comments posted as an answer for removal?" Tags="|discussion|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7658" CreationDate="2018-04-04T06:22:42.850" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is one where it's borderline: I suspect the person answering did think it was about the issue, though personally I would say this is more of a comment. The 'clear cut' cases where flagging as 'not an answer' work are where the post is actually a new question, is totally off the topic in hand, etc. One might argue that downvoting is appropriate for the case highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T06:22:42.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7658" CreationDate="2018-04-04T15:28:27.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Joseph on this call, that the &quot;answer&quot; might be an edge case - it's difficult to quickly establish whether the post provides an answer, or whether it should be a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title of the flag might have been misleading here. True, this &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; not have been an answer, but it's difficult to validate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case I'd suggest commenting on the post and request more detail so the problem can be replicated (even if it's an answer and not a question). That way one can more readily validate the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is some background on the procedure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flagging an answer as &quot;not an answer&quot; puts it in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot;&gt;Low Quality review queue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reviewers decide the fate of the post. &quot;Looks OK&quot; votes negate the flag, resulting in it being declined (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/145710&quot;&gt;as in this case&lt;/a&gt;), while &quot;Recommend Deletion&quot; or &quot;Delete&quot; votes validate it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it stays there too long, moderators get to take action as it becomes part of their list of notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/185073/168244&quot;&gt;How do I properly use the &quot;Not an Answer&quot; flag?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/243477/168244&quot;&gt;How to review comment-as-an-answer in Low Quality queue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/161390/168244&quot;&gt;What are the review queues, and how do they work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/146273/168244&quot;&gt;Add 'Change (answer) to comment' option to review page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T15:28:27.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-05T13:09:49.207" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently tried to help on tex.stackexchange and what stroke me was the great amount of newcomers, unfortunately lacking some useful habits such as posting a MWE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consequently, a lot of comments on questions are about posting a MWE or adding a code snippet ...&#xA;Fortunately several posts exist on how to write a correct question / MWE but are sometimes not well-known to average-experienced tex users willing to help (such as myself). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, don't you think it would be nice to have a short list of links including &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; for instance, just when writing a comment to a question, in order to have sort of a constant process to help newcomers ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may not be appropriate or even useful, but anyway I'd like to exchange opinion on this matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141947" LastActivityDate="2018-04-05T13:09:49.207" Title="Button to reach a list of useful links" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7642" CreationDate="2018-04-05T22:26:42.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure it is perfectly grammatical (or if it makes much sense), but here is a attempt with 40 letters and no jargon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;eight squab latex ducks improve frozen jetways&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10119" LastActivityDate="2018-04-05T22:26:42.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7658" CreationDate="2018-04-06T12:41:20.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is up to the poster to decide. There is even a badge for it &quot;peer pressure&quot; or something similar. It is an answer and relevant not necessarily correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here package defaults might have made the difference about the caption distance. It's just an answer and answers are not kept depending on their correctness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't understand your willingness to delete it which made you come over here and open a question. So things are relative hence if we are so eager to trust the review system for close votes here system worked out as &quot;successfully&quot; as usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-04-06T12:41:20.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7671" CreationDate="2018-04-08T06:54:30.760" Score="7" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm searching my posts which contain &lt;code&gt;\multicolumn{1}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code:&quot;\multicolumn{1}&quot; user:me&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code:\multicolumn{1} user:me&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but they both give 0 results, whereas there is at least one post of mine which match that conditions:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/318490/makecell-in-the-header-how-to-get-rid-of-the-space-after-the-last-column-of-th&quot;&gt;\makecell in the header: how to get rid of the space after the last column of the table?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I doing wrong or how can I properly search for these posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-04-17T00:20:39.360" LastActivityDate="2018-04-17T00:20:39.360" Title="A search of a code string within my posts doesn't work" Tags="|support|code|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7672" CreationDate="2018-04-08T07:46:57.260" Score="9" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago a new user answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/153168/how-to-set-document-font-to-times-new-roman-by-command/424988#424988&quot;&gt;How to set document font to times new roman by command&lt;/a&gt;. This answer basically is the same as the accepted answer, just recommending an outdated package (according to &lt;code&gt;l2tabu&lt;/code&gt;) and not answering the 14pt chapter heading requirement at all. Another user commented it would be a good first post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me it seemed that similar to the accepted answer that I thought it would be more of a comment on the accepted answer, because the only noticeable difference (to me) was another package recommendation. Thus I flagged it as &quot;Not an answer&quot;, which was &quot;disputed&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eOt1h.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eOt1h.png&quot; alt=&quot;review result&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question:&lt;/em&gt; If an answer seems to duplicate the accepted answer (and maybe doesn't even fully answer the question) should I flag or downvote it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I've used the search on Meta to find some previous questions, but I'm not sure any of the answers I found (which are also in the related links section on the right) answers my question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124577" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-04-18T05:06:04.717" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T05:06:04.717" Title="Answers that contain the main idea of the accepted answer" Tags="|discussion|answers|voting|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2018-04-09T14:05:11.270" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Text as text&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/425453/36296&quot;&gt;Why not scale elements that contain text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why not scale elements that contain text](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/425453/36296)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/534&quot;&gt;Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/534)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/44618&quot;&gt;Dynamically count and return number of words in a section&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Dynamically count and return number of words in a section](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/44618)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/47324&quot;&gt;Superscript outside math mode&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Superscript outside math mode](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/47324)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2022-10-17T20:47:29.637" LastActivityDate="2022-10-17T20:47:29.637" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-04-09T14:05:11.270" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-10T21:43:34.663" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to add some details to my profile page, such as location and birthday.&#xA;I did not try to change my profile picture, because I've a good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after clicking the Save Profile button, only outcome is red text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Invalid image type&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and location, birthday &amp;amp; about me fields remains unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144309" LastActivityDate="2018-04-10T21:43:34.663" Title="&quot;Invalid image type&quot; without reason" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2018-04-12T11:21:05.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;package&lt;/strong&gt; I was not aware of but after discovering it saved my life is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122095" LastActivityDate="2018-04-12T11:21:05.323" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-04-12T11:21:05.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-14T13:00:21.270" Score="20" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just offering some feedback as a person who gets a lot of assistance from the TEX.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two highly voted question regarding putting two figures on the same page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5769/two-figures-side-by-side&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37581/latex-figures-side-by-side&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The first one is older, and so the second one was eventually closed in favor of the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, based on the content of the answers, Gonzalo Medina's answer to the [closed] duplicate is much better. In it, he explains the difference between putting two figures next to each other and two subfigures next to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strictly speaking, this doesn't answer the question any better than the answers to the original, since it just provides superfluous information. But for many use cases, this information will be very helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem was I was trying to stack three vertical subfigures side by side with another set of figures. The combination of minipages and subfloats befuddled me, until I say Gonzalo's explanation of the two different types and saw the differences between the two code snippets he put in. This allowed me to figure out what each latex command was doing and solve my problem within a few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I would appeal that the best single answer to any of the &quot;Two figures&quot; questions on the site is sitting on a closed question, and perhaps it would be better if the questions were merged, a la this discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3470/117970&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117970" LastActivityDate="2018-04-14T13:00:21.270" Title="One 'Two figures' is better than another" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2018-04-16T01:06:33.103" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;the question or answer concerns or references a package that i wrote or for which i have responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2018-04-16T01:06:33.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7664" CreationDate="2018-04-16T15:52:25.937" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll have to route your query through &lt;a href=&quot;//data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt;. I think the reason here is the difference between the stored content of the post (what you actually typed) and the &lt;em&gt;baked&lt;/em&gt; content (what is visualized through the browser). This difference is needed because of Stack Exchange accepting Markdown as input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/840246/search-for-a-specific-code-string&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This query&lt;/a&gt; hopefully provides what you're looking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT&#xA; Id As [Post Link],&#xA; *&#xA;FROM&#xA; Posts&#xA;WHERE&#xA; (OwnerUserId = 101651) And&#xA; (Body LIKE '%multicolumn{1}%');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We search for all fields within the records of the &lt;code&gt;Posts&lt;/code&gt; table, but only records where you posted something and there is &lt;code&gt;multicolumn{1}&lt;/code&gt; somewhere in the body. The first field returned will be a hyperlink to the post. This would be synonymous to a regular search resembling&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;user:101651 &quot;multicolumn{1}&quot;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since &lt;code&gt;multicolumn{1}&lt;/code&gt; could appear in a baked or unbaked form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only drawback is that SEDE is updated with roughly a one week lag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-04-16T15:52:25.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7665" CreationDate="2018-04-18T05:04:09.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My approach would be to flag it as Very Low Quality, pushing it to the &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot;&gt;VLQ review&lt;/a&gt;, where the community can further decide what to do with it. That pushes it into the right direction. I'd also post a comment to the answer with a justification as to why the answer is of low (or poor) quality. This will help users voting within the VLQ review as only the question (not the other answers) is visible from within the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it does answer the question, flagging it as Not An Answer seems incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T05:04:09.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-18T09:46:25.697" Score="6" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, as you can see they have a different spelling, but since they derive from PDF/A and PDF/X which have structurally the same form, the tags should do as well.  Thus I think one of them should be renamed, such that we have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;either&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf-a&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf-a&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf-a&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf-x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf-x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf-x&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdfa&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdfa&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdfa&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdfx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdfx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdfx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out that this approach is flawed because it clashes with the &lt;code&gt;pdfx&lt;/code&gt; package.  Actually, we'd need three tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf-a&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf-a&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf-a&lt;/a&gt; Questions about the PDF/A standard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdf-x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdf-x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdf-x&lt;/a&gt; Questions about the PDF/X standard (does not yet exist)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pdfx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pdfx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pdfx&lt;/a&gt; Questions about the &lt;code&gt;pdfx&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2018-04-24T06:44:06.530" LastActivityDate="2018-04-24T06:44:06.530" Title="Harmonize tags pdf-a and pdfx" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7677" CreationDate="2018-04-23T06:17:41.823" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose I wants to reply to two users in the comments. How to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in one of question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/427958/how-to-print-bibliography-using-biblatex-just-as-enuemeration-using-keywords&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; I wants to reply to two different users namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/35864/moewe&quot;&gt;moewe&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/36296/samcarter&quot;&gt;samcarter&lt;/a&gt; saying that I have edited my question as they have suggested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48478" LastActivityDate="2018-04-23T06:35:51.807" Title="How to reply to two users" Tags="|feature-request|comment-replies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7676" CreationDate="2018-04-23T06:35:51.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only reply to one person in one comment, so if you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to reply to two people, you need to use two separate comments. The question though is whether you need to reply at all: I'm not sure you do here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-04-23T06:35:51.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7679" CreationDate="2018-04-23T14:18:06.333" Score="20" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I asked a question about problem X. Someone provides an answer how to solve problem X. I test their code and observe that it does not work for me because it is not compatible with something else I need to include in my document. However this was not foreseeable to the answerer from either my description of the problem or from my MWE. So although the answer solves the problem described in my question perfectly, I still have more or less the same issue as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I edit my question and hope that somebody recognizes the new version contains a problem which is not yet solved in the answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I accept the answer to my original question and ask a new question »How to solve problem X in a way compatible with my piece of code Y«?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user157036" LastActivityDate="2018-04-24T05:34:35.327" Title="My question has an answer which is of little use to me because of incompatibilities" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7678" CreationDate="2018-04-24T05:34:35.327" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general my preferred course of action in this case would be option 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I accept the answer to my original question and ask a new question »How to solve problem X in a way compatible with my piece of code Y«&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you edit your question with additional requirements &lt;em&gt;after an answer has been posted&lt;/em&gt; you are not unlikely to invalidate that answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who answered judged your original question worthy of an answer (and their time), so and argument could be made that they imply it is a good or interesting (or at least easy-to-answer) question that is worthy of being kept on this site for future visitors with a similar problem.&#xA;Think of it that way: The answer to your original problem might have been chosen for its simplicity and elegance. If incompatibilities in your document require a different approach, it would be unfortunate for people who don't suffer from these incompatibilities to be presented with a potentially more complicated workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions on Meta are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3625/35864&quot;&gt;When is it Kosher to edit one’s own question?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7425/35864&quot;&gt;Should I ask one question with many requirements instead of many questions on same topic?&lt;/a&gt;. An acceptable reason for editing your question mentioned there is to provide (requested) clarification. It is not entirely clear from the outset what constitutes an acceptable clarification and what is an unacceptable edit to your question. I'm inclined to say that requested clarifications are allowed more leeway than clarifications you want to add after you have got an answer. See for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/428091/35864&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt; where clarification was requested in the comments and the question was edited after the first answer was posted. In that case I'd argue that the question could not be properly answered without clarification since it was missing the crucial information which bibliography package was used and an answer depends on that information. Questions that can be answered properly, however, should not be edited to include new requirements. (I'm aware that this puts initially &quot;bad&quot; questions into a better position with regards to later edits than questions that were good from the start and thus got a good answer quickly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the general approach would be to ask a new question. Ideally linking back to the old question and mentioning that and why the answer there did not work for you. Of course you can always leave a comment on the answer first and ask nicely if there is a quick work-around before you ask a new question, but be prepared to be asked to ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2018-04-24T05:34:35.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7682" CreationDate="2018-04-26T12:20:56.087" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to flag a question, which asks a problem which is not a problem at all? E.g. the poster asks help with a code which cannot be compiled, but the code simply can be compiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81639" LastActivityDate="2018-04-26T21:07:19.290" Title="How to flag a question when it contains no problem?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2018-04-26T21:07:19.290" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could ask in a comment what the user precisely wants. And if that doesn't help, one can vote to close the question because it's &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2018-04-26T21:07:19.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7685" CreationDate="2018-04-27T13:26:30.937" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the question there is an option like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email,&#xA;  Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I could not find an option to contact somebody in tex.stackexchange itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway that I can send the link of my question to someone requesting the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48478" LastActivityDate="2018-04-27T14:10:42.117" Title="Is there anyway that I can send the link of my question to someone requesting the answer in SE?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7684" CreationDate="2018-04-27T14:10:42.117" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;By-design, StackExchange does not have any feature of direct user-to-user communication.* The aim of the network is to build up knowledge/Q&amp;amp;A with general scope, which is almost always the opposite of what user-to-user communication would be for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*The one exception is that moderators can directly contact users, but this is for serious moderation issues only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-04-27T14:10:42.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-28T17:42:16.463" Score="9" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;Motivated by the fact that Dr. Manuel Kühner seems to have also missed at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/428772/pgfplots-x-axis-in-log-prevent-scaling-scientific-notation-for-extra-x-tick/429024?noredirect=1#comment1073970_429019&quot;&gt;one message&lt;/a&gt;, and that this happened to me, too, I would like to know if this is a well-known problem. My impression is that this started only recently. The problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some messages get suppressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not dare to tag this &quot;bug&quot; since (a) it is not inconceivable that both of us did something incorrect (even though it happened to me a few times) and (b) this cannot be reproduced easily. Yet I believe to have now enough evidence to bring this up, but of course apologize in advance in case I did something stupid and/or missed something basic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification&lt;/strong&gt;: I am asking about all the inbox items (I am familiar with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments on questions and answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chat;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer to my question has been submitted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are at least two different levels of the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There might just not be a red number popping up or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the message may not be present at all in the response tab. Notice also that there are two ways of looking up the messages, either in the inbox &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qqce5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qqce5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or in the responses &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zyhgf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zyhgf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, to find out whether or not this really happens, there must be a way to prove it. I am, however, not really sure how such a proof could work if &quot;only&quot; the red number does not show on the inbox. Any ideas would be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-05-02T21:47:01.723" LastActivityDate="2018-05-04T09:45:18.690" Title="Do you also fail to get some message(s)?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-29T04:44:39.810" Score="7" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm logged in and I search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz*&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[tikz*]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I obtain as result &lt;code&gt;[tikz-pgf] or [tikz-styles] or [tikz-arrows] or [tikz-trees] or [tikz-external] or [tikz-cd] or [tikz-qtree] or [tikz-matrix] or [tikz-3dplot] or [tikzposter] or [tikz-node] or [tikz-graphs] or [tikzmark] or [tikz-pic] or [tikz-feynman] or [tikz-uml] or [tikz-shape] or [tikz-circuit-lib] or [tikz-graphdrawing] or [tikzscale]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I'm not logged in and I search for the same &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz*&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[tikz*]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I obtain as result only &lt;code&gt;[tikz-pgf] or [tikz-styles] or [tikz-arrows]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea why this difference ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I tried to search for 4 tags when logged off, and my query was cut down to 3 tags. So probably this is related to maximal number of tags that non logged user can use in a query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9335" LastEditorUserId="9335" LastEditDate="2018-04-29T20:16:13.173" LastActivityDate="2018-04-29T20:16:13.173" Title="Looking for multiple tags with *" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7686" CreationDate="2018-05-04T09:45:18.690" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, note that pings in the chat have two special behaviours:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since about a year ago, it's been impossible to ping people who hadn't visited the chat for a while. Their name won't appear in the auto-complete, and I'm not sure you can reply to very old messages either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A chat message appears in the inbox only if you haven't read it for X minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, not related to the chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you click on the inbox icon too early and the page is still loading, the behaviour is strange. Just now I lost a message this way I think.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2018-05-04T09:45:18.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-06T12:25:13.620" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, one of my flag &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; was declined. I google it and I was in other questions that the warning &lt;em&gt;Your last flag was declined - please review it before flagging this post!&lt;/em&gt; remains until more of 90% of the flags in the last seven days result &lt;em&gt;helpful&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I don't really understand the word &lt;em&gt;review&lt;/em&gt; in the worning. Is it suppose to mean that I should look at the flags that I gave or is it suppose to mean that I should send a review of the declined flag explaining why I flagged it as duplicated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89662" LastActivityDate="2018-05-06T12:25:13.620" Title="Meaning of 'review' in 'Your last flag was declined - please review it before flagging this post!'" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7691" CreationDate="2018-05-07T20:16:54.467" Score="5" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to understand why when the system asks me to close a question I have only three options and the other options are not visible. For example it is not viewable: the question is resolved in the comments or other possibilities that I see from the closure of other users and not when I decide to close a question on my screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jc0mL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jc0mL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-05-07T21:16:17.967" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T21:16:17.967" Title="Not all options listed in voting to close" Tags="|support|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7690" CreationDate="2018-05-07T21:15:11.773" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reasons you note that is absent in the choices for voting to close a question as off-topic stems from the original close-voter using the &quot;Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)&quot; choice and writing an appropriate comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll note that there is no mention within the closure notification added to a question other than it's off-topic. Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/430225/5764&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt; that was closed as off-topic via the &quot;Other ...&quot; method:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6dVyI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6dVyI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment added by the original close-voter is added to the list of comments below the question in order to notify the original author:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PhitM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PhitM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the &quot;Other ...&quot; closure option is chosen and a comment is added, it's added as one of the reasons within the closure dialog for future visitors that have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;vote-to-close privilege&lt;/a&gt;. The upvotes accompanying the closure-comment gives an indication of the number of users that chose that exact same reason to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The suggested comment for closure is prefixed with &quot;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because&quot; so as to make sense within the voting structure. However, you could add whatever detail you want as a comment.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T21:15:11.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-12T14:35:37.017" Score="8" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;Turns out it's (maybe) not a sign error, but the vertical line in the plus might be hidden by the parenthesis in the background. It still appears like an error!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed this today, on the site header (bottom right of the TeX-logo, both on meta and the main site):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PcQDb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PcQDb.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which I read to say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bw2t6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bw2t6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=e%5Ex+(cos(y)+%2B+i+sin(y))+%3D+e%5E(x-+i+y)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wrong&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=e%5E(x-+i+y)+%3D+e%5Ex+(cos(y)+-+i+sin(y))&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;correct expression&lt;/a&gt; I believe to be $\cos(-y) + i \sin(-y)$ which simplifies to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U3jAD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U3jAD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be either to change exp(x-i y) to the more conventional&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mr0z2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mr0z2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(or at least insert the minus sign in the right hand side).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85834" LastEditorUserId="85834" LastEditDate="2018-05-19T19:35:55.077" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T01:46:43.117" Title="Sign error in Eulers formula in header on front page?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-14T10:05:29.430" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that a lot of users asked for a way to insert support for LaTeX code (or at least equations) like math.stackexchange and other SE sites. All of them received as comment/answer that this site is about (La)TeX, so all of the user need to see the actual code and not a result that can change based on different factors. In fact, I'm not asking to a way to insert (La)TeX code like other sites, I'm asking why we could not have a snippet, like the one on stackoverflow for HTML, JS and CSS, that has TeX Live on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there will be cases when this is not enough, in these cases one could simply use the classical way of asking questions, i.e. post the TeX code and the resulting pdf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not sure that this wasn't asked before, but I googled it and the only question that I found were about the possibility to insert (La)TeX code like math.stackexchange, not with a snippet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89662" LastActivityDate="2018-05-14T10:05:29.430" Title="Why tex.stackexchange cannot have a snippet to run (La)TeX?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-05-14T18:12:00.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-16T17:19:22.337" Score="24" ViewCount="556" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because I'm curious whether people with high rep are significantly better at answering than other people.&#xA;If you are above 10k (or thereabout), I have these questions for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long (approx) did it take you to get to 1k?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you were to create a &lt;em&gt;new user&lt;/em&gt; and start over, how long do you think it would take for you to gain 1k rep? Do you accept this challenge?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are you mostly gaining rep from old questions or new ones?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:&#xA;Interestingly, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6203/do-you-have-a-life&quot;&gt;Do you have a life?&lt;/a&gt; showed up on the top of &quot;Questions that may already have your answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: @DavidCarlisle shared &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; where you can check some of your stats&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85834" LastEditorUserId="85834" LastEditDate="2018-05-17T17:34:53.763" LastActivityDate="2018-05-21T23:33:38.443" Title="People &gt;~10k rep: If you were to start over, how long do you think it would take for you to gain 1k?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7695" CreationDate="2018-05-16T21:39:07.347" Score="23" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How long (approx) did it take you to get to 1k?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the site stats, I joined this site in May 2011, I posted my very first answer on 16 July 2011 -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23193/5001&quot;&gt;siunitx: how can I avoid adding decimal zeroes?&lt;/a&gt; which, by the way, got accepted/checkmarked: woohoo! -- and I reached the 1k rep mark on 30 August 2011, or about a month and a half after my first posting. Still according to the site stats, I reached the 10K rep mark in mid-December 2011, or about 3.5 months after reaching the 1k rep mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you were to create a new user and start over, how long do you think it would take for you to gain 1k rep? Do you accept this challenge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the many things I've learned while contributing to this site is how to write &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;, i.e., more focused and also [I sincerely hope!!] more helpful answers. I've also learned how to write answers more quickly and efficiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking back at some of the answers I posted in very the beginning, I can't help but feel that quite a few of the upvotes I received back then were sympathy/encouragement votes from &quot;oldtimers&quot; for this newbie contributor. During this initial phase, I also got quite a few helpful and encouraging comments on how an answer might be improved -- and I was really glad to receive such feedback. E.g., on that very first answer I posted, I got helpful advice from none other than Paolo Cereda on how to pretty-print LaTeX code -- you know, the indenting-by-four-spaces part... (Aside: I'm still happy to get feedback!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, should I somehow have to start over, I'd hope that I'd reach the 1k rep mark more quickly than in 45 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you mostly gaining rep from old postings [not just questions] or new ones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, definitely from new answers. Even on a good day, I usually don't get more than 3 or 4 upvotes, total, per day for &quot;old&quot; postings, i.e., those that got posted more than a few days ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The distribution of upvotes tends to be extremely skewed across answers: Just 7 answers of mine have received 100+ upvotes over time. I suspect that the reason these answers have tended to attract so many upvotes is that they show up regularly in Google searches related to LaTeX (hopefully not &quot;latex&quot;...) topics. In contrast, ca 250 answers have never received &lt;em&gt;even one&lt;/em&gt; upvote. :-( Interestingly, a good fraction of the zero-upvote answers were nevertheless accepted/checkmarked by the persons who posted the queries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2018-05-16T22:43:39.887" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T22:43:39.887" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7693" CreationDate="2018-05-17T08:04:22.790" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure... Seriously, I'm not sure. Below is an aggressive filtering. I think it could be just anti-aliasing (hinting) fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yICbt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yICbt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T08:04:22.790" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7695" CreationDate="2018-05-17T21:41:52.603" Score="21" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure but probably something like a year. I didn't understand the whole privilege system for quite a while (can't say I understand now) and only after I passed 2K the popups told me that I did something good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I'm doing a PhD, I would probably go bananas and get it in a week, probably. You go a bit nutty if things don't work out with your daily work. I remember working on a problem for three days for no rational reason and then user deleted that question... that was not fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I do it now, probably a few weeks as I got a bit fed up with the whole SE thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hardly get any votes, other than once in a while, say 1 on a tuesday, 4 on a thursday and nothing in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing about the early times, there was a lot of people building this site with inhumane effort (and many of them didn't have matlab excuse as I did because of the speed it did the computations). The retagging, the voting, and other community forming habits made rep building really a by-product. Now as people become more picky and hard-to-impress that effect is diluted. So you might be seeing that effect too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a David Carlisle, egreg just snatched all our rep with no shame. To this day, that injustice persists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at my first question, I couldn't even ask it properly which speak volumes &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19142/block-diagrams-multi-input-multi-output-components-in-tikz&quot;&gt;Block Diagrams Multi Input - Multi Output Components in TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T21:41:52.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7700" CreationDate="2018-05-18T22:48:25.013" Score="7" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/431423/os-x-blurry-beamer-presentations-on-sierra-high-sierra&quot;&gt;OS X: Blurry Beamer presentations on Sierra / High Sierra&lt;/a&gt;, which is about workarounds for the broken PDF rendering on recent versions of OS X that bite especially those of us, who are presenting with LaTeX &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few days later (spotted by user samcarter) the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/325622/what-pdf-viewer-can-be-used-to-present-slides-on-high-sierra&quot;&gt;What PDF Viewer can be used to present slides on High Sierra?&lt;/a&gt; appeared on &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Ask Different&lt;/a&gt; (the Apple users SE site), which is about the very same problem and setting and, thus, would qualify as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a helpful action for others seeking for advice, I had duplicated the answer of user DG' to Ask Different and linked to the original. However, such kind of redundancy is generally discouraged at SE sites. On the other hand, both, the question and the answer (arguably) fits the scope of both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how to handle cross-site dupes? If either one gets removed, will there be the common &quot;duplicate&quot; box pointing to the related question on the other site?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3751" LastActivityDate="2018-05-19T18:35:44.330" Title="What is the recommended way to handle cross-site duplicates" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7699" CreationDate="2018-05-19T13:05:58.030" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no real solution for cross-site duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion: leave it as it is, the duplication of the information seems fine in this case. Technically one could argue, that the question about a viewer problem is probably off-topic for tex.stackexchange, BUT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;we already have many other questions about viewer problems, so it is probably not necessary to change the course right now&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the good answer you got here speaks for itself. Before you posted your answer there, the question on ask.different just got (now deleted) answers like &quot;use openoffice instead&quot; or comments like &quot;convert the pdf to powerpoint&quot;, which I don't perceive as good solutions to present a high quality pdf as it is produced by latex. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-05-19T18:35:44.330" LastActivityDate="2018-05-19T18:35:44.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7695" CreationDate="2018-05-21T23:33:38.443" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long (approx) did it take you to get to 1k?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About six months. There was several reasons for this long period. No idea of LaTeX, nor SE rules (written and no written), my poor English not used to deal with programing &amp;amp; typography jargons, no pressure to gain reputations, pressure of my dogs that need walk daily, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not seem difficult to win 1K but impossible, because in the rare case of know a good solution,  there is someone faster and more expert able to reply in few minutes as soon as you look away  while you are wasting 20 minutes making a good example and some explanation. So most of y solutions ended in the trash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were to create a new user and start over, how long do you think it would take for you to gain 1k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure, but munch less. With now years of writing only with LaTeX and procrastinating in SE everyday, who not will learn something about LaTeX, make effective answers and the written and not written &amp;quot;netiquette&amp;quot; in SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you accept this challenge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Among few things that I learned (not only here) one is not to  tempted excessively by challenges where the reward are fake points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you mostly gaining rep from old questions or new ones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old question. My most frequent silver badge is &lt;em&gt;Necromancer&lt;/em&gt; ...  I know. Is the terrible strategy to gain reputation.  Who hits first hits twice. Recent question have highest attention to possible solutions and there are not still answers from competitors, so you have munch more chances of be accepted  and upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I focused more in older questions, even with several accepted answers and one accepted, out of the top list, because probably I could work quietly in provide  alternative solutions, without the risk of post too late. The problem is that will receive visits occasionally, and then people will see your non accepted answer of 0 upvotes beside others with maybe several dozens of votes, so the first feeling is that your solution is probably wrong. But I do not care, my motivation was never reach the top users of TeX.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have a life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mean other life that read dozens of useless messages in your email account, dozen of silly dialogs in Whatsapp distracting you of talk with person in front of you, consume trash TV, see yet another zombie movie,  listen the lies of politicians, fill every day several forms that stupids bureaucrat have devised ?  &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-05-21T23:33:38.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7693" CreationDate="2018-05-22T01:46:43.117" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX is not limited to typesetting correct maths beautifully. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is equally capable of typesetting incorrect maths beautifully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, even if the equation is actually incorrect, it still reflects the purpose of the site as well as if it was correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the equation appeared incorrect on maths SE or if the equation here looked ugly, whether correct or not, that would be quite a different kettle of porridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it doesn't and it isn't, so it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T01:46:43.117" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-22T03:55:19.293" Score="15" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;If one acquires a score of 1000 points or more on a given tag, one gets awarded the &quot;privilege&quot; to single-handedly close questions. This is also called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4546/incorrect-tag-used-to-zap-a-question-by-the-golden-badge-hammer&quot;&gt;golden hammer&lt;/a&gt; privilege. But what if someone does not want to have this? Is there a possibility to have my vote just recorded without immediately closing the question? Please don't get me wrong, I do not want to tell others with a gold badge what to do or what not to do, but I would find it nice if I could just vote to close instead of closing a question without others having to agree of it. From my point of view, the ideal way resolving this issue would be if there were two buttons, one &lt;code&gt;vote to close&lt;/code&gt; and another one &lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt;, such that users with that score would have this choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUESTION&lt;/strong&gt;: Is it possible to provide the &quot;golden hammer&quot; users the option to just vote to close rather than closing single-handedly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ADDENDUM&lt;/strong&gt;: It might not be easy or even possible to have this feature on this site. Another way of dealing with that is that the first golden badge user (who doesn't want to close the question on her or his own) just leaves a message &quot;I think this is a duplicate of post X&quot; and if enough others say &quot;Me too&quot; then one of the golden hammer users can close it. Of course, this is just a thought, but it would be nice if you could express your opinion or possible ways of improving this &quot;code of conduct&quot; in a comment or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: To my greatest embarrassment, I found that my question is (in a way) a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6547/how-to-propose-a-question-as-duplicate-without-closing-it-due-golden-privilege&quot;&gt;Ignasis question&lt;/a&gt;. I guess the main thing that is different is that I would not have accepted the answer that says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are not sure, you should simply comment, not vote to close, and&#xA;  see where it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because IMHO it is not at all to the point. Even if I am sure, this does not mean that I am right. On a daily basis one can find on the main site disagreements between expert users. Sometimes A is right, sometimes B, and sometimes none. That's why we have open discussions here, they are supposed to help us finally finding or approaching the true or best answer. And this works only if if it is not in the hand of one single user to decide. (And in a way that is also how democracy works.) So, in short, my question is different from Ignasi's question in that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6551/121799&quot;&gt;it's accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; is not to the point. My question is simply how to maintain some quality control over question closures. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-05-23T12:06:28.693" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T12:06:28.693" Title="Is it possible to give away the golden hammer &quot;privilege&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|privileges|dupehammer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-05-23T15:59:10.793" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7703" CreationDate="2018-05-22T05:37:17.270" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. In the same way that mod votes are binding as we are expected to have experience in using them, once you have shown knowledge in a particular tag it's expected that you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know about it. So you are in a position to judge if a question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T05:37:17.270" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-24T19:14:00.543" Score="5" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;After editing a golf code style answer I decided to change my display name to make a stupid joke by taking a name (and an avatar) close to a famous golf pro player. So far so good, but when I decided to get back my usual name few hours later there was a red message : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bYXXw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bYXXw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to put a red warning before to accept a name change telling something like : &#xA;&quot;Display name may only be changed once every 30 days. Are you sure that this is what you want ? Check the spelling before to press ok.&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to allow the changes in the first 24h, for example, in a way to be able to correct some misspelling?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;N.B. The positive side of the story is that I won't participate in TeX.SX in the next 30 days. And I needed a cure ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9335" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T10:49:37.880" Title="Warning before accepting name change" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-27T21:15:26.323" Score="10" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike the other sites, including that of Mathematics and Physics (see image below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tE2hS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tE2hS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the background color of the favorite tags for TeX.SE is a very pale pink color that is barely visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I change it or should I ask moderators or site managers? I have attached the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vCeZ6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vCeZ6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ADDENDUM 10/08/2018&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the site has changed in graphics the pale pink color has remained the same. Why was there no change after my report? Can we not all do something about it? And after the main site administrator have changed the colors of the tags from blue to pink. Weak choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T20:18:20.753" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T15:32:08.620" Title="Change the background color Favorite Tags" Tags="|feature-request|design|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-02T18:40:49.047" Score="1" ViewCount="568" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, in a totally &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/434595/does-there-exist-a-curly-multiplication-symbol&quot;&gt;unrelated post&lt;/a&gt;, someone asked for a mathematical symbol (a &lt;em&gt;curly&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;\times&lt;/code&gt;). One user pointed out the fact that such symbol resembles the swastika of Nazi Germany and he will not teach how to construct such symbol on TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was thinking. Has TeX.SE or SE some policy regarding such contents? What is your idea of this topic? I'm not speaking of something that is clearly a Nazi propaganda. I'm speaking of guys that ask how to draw in TikZ the SS bolts, or which is the font used in the first edition of Mein Kampf, etc. (i.e. technical questions, and for this reason are completely on topic on TeX.SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89662" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-06-03T02:37:27.973" LastActivityDate="2018-06-09T07:47:59.310" Title="Is wrong to ask on TeX.SE how to draw a swastika in TikZ (or question that involves Nazi in general)?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7707" CreationDate="2018-06-02T22:31:11.040" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user is free to decide not to answer any particular question. But adding a comment to the effect of &quot;I will not answer this&quot; seems unnecessary. I would flag that comment as no longer needed, since nobody would benefit from reading it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The imitation of symbols/fonts etc associated with a time period has uses unrelated to propaganda, such as recreation of historical events in some form of art. Banning technical questions based on imagined offensive uses would be a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user69318" LastActivityDate="2018-06-02T22:31:11.040" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-04T05:32:49.463" Score="12" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;with the acquisition of Github by Microsoft I am getting more and more wary to use Github, and would like to probe opinions of other developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently maintaining the &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/TeX-Live&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX-Live group&lt;/a&gt; on Github which provides mirrors of the TeX Live source, luatex sources, texdoc, tlcockpit, as well as some others. Other groups that are relevant is &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/texjporg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Japanese TeX Developer Community page&lt;/a&gt; and probably quite some more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am contemplating the following options, and would like to hear opinions. Generally, there are two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;move to a hosted environment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;host your own git collaboration suite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ad 1.) here are several options, mostly based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://about.gitlab.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gitlab&lt;/a&gt;, a open source clone of Github:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gitlab: free for OSS projects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://salsa.debian.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Debian's Gitlab instance&lt;/a&gt;: also free for DFSG OSS projects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ad 2.) we could host either Gitlab or one of the small-footprint variants (&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitea.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gitea&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://gogs.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gogs&lt;/a&gt;) on either the tug.org or the texlive.info server, or set up a new dedicated server for TeX related git stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advantages of using Gitlab is that carry-out is easy, and everyone can set up one's own Gitlab server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking forward to any comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10829" LastActivityDate="2018-06-04T21:47:17.763" Title="TeX (Live) development and Github going Microsoft" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2018-06-08T10:30:46.910" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7709" CreationDate="2018-06-04T21:47:17.763" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I completely share the sentiment (I really really do), this is simply a knee-jerk reaction. You don't hunt down every service that uses Azure backend and also you don't even know what GitHub was doing with their services using Electron etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that our code means nothing compared to GitHub's enterprise services in that business model. So in that sense this would only make a gesture. Guilt by association doesn't work well here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know what kind of evil MS can and did pull off in the past but that doesn't necessarily call for action immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snatch this man back instead!!!111!!!!!Exclamation Mark!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n8PSk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n8PSk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-06-04T21:47:17.763" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7718" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-07T21:00:15.060" Score="9" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while I discover myself in the need of improving the placement of the tombstone symbol such as ∎ or □ at the end of various environments. (The latest example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/435459/qed-for-cases-and-tables-in-the-presence-of-margin-notes-and-todonotes&quot;&gt;QED for cases and tables in the presence of margin notes (and todonotes)&lt;/a&gt;, and I am very likely to ask more.) Some other folks wish to color the symbol, use two different Halmos symbols in the same document simultaneously, and so on. I was surprised to find out that no tag exists for the topics around the Q.E.D. symbol, intentionally vaguely speaking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm wondering whether the community is likely to welcome or reject this new tag. In case of acceptance: should old questions concerning QED (652 as of now) be considered as candidates for re-tagging?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for naming, my personal opinion would be not to choose QED/Q.E.D./qed (quod erat demonstrandum, &quot;what was to be demonstrated&quot;), due to the various usages (e.g., example end, definition end, the end of the statement of a lemma &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a proof) and various symbols (including, e.g., ◊ and ⧫, as well as those &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(typography)#/media/File:Halmos_symbols.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;suggested by Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;). Something else, say, &quot;end-of-environment-symbol&quot;/&quot;end-of-theorem-symbol&quot;/&quot;tombstone&quot;/&quot;tombstone-symbol&quot;/&quot;halmos&quot;..., could be more appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the suggestion to use the already established tag {theorems}, some folks have tried to remove this tag from &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/436359/qed-for-tabbing-svmono-todonotes-geometry-newtx-ntheorem-amsthm&quot;&gt;QED for tabbing +SVMono +todonotes +geometry +newtx -ntheorem -amsthm&lt;/a&gt; just right now. This is probably due to the fact that the MWE there has no theorems at all. So, there is at least one person except me who thinks that {theorems} might be not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user161109" LastEditorDisplayName="user161109" LastEditDate="2018-06-13T21:44:17.560" LastActivityDate="2018-06-13T21:44:17.560" Title="Suggestion: tombstone/qed/halmos/end-of-environment... tag" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7707" CreationDate="2018-06-07T22:35:34.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are misinterpreting his point. &#xA;I don't think Mico refused to show you how to make a swastika because it is a Nazi symbol, but rather because using something that looks like a swastika would be a poor solution for the actual question of an &quot;approximately times&quot; symbol. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no doubt there would be no issue with someone asking &quot;How can I create a swastika/SS symbol for my paper on symbolism?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82290" LastActivityDate="2018-06-07T22:35:34.583" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7718" CreationDate="2018-06-08T10:12:42.033" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly if a tag is added &lt;code&gt;qed&lt;/code&gt; should be the tag name rather than &lt;code&gt;tombstone&lt;/code&gt;, but I think the existing &lt;code&gt;theorems&lt;/code&gt; tag should be fine, although several questions asking about this do not currently have the theorem tag and could have that tag added&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T10:12:42.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7707" CreationDate="2018-06-09T07:42:02.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I'm posting this answer mainly because I think the posting has missed a very important aspect of the exchange of views that's alluded to in the posting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One user pointed out the fact that [the symbol requested by the OP] resembles the swastika ... and [that] he will not teach how to construct such [a] symbol on TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my view, a very important aspect of TeX.SE's appeal as being a successful and (I hope!) welcoming site is that it's remarkably free of trolls and other types of vermin. This is not just some happy accident. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It certainly helps that all postings that are clearly inappropriate (e.g., vulgar, off-topic, spam, etc) are quickly identified and removed. Importantly, the community itself takes the lead in removing queries that they deem to be inappropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I'd say that this happy state of affairs also owes, in no small part, to most answers being structured in a way that doesn't attract trolls and other undesirables. And, yes, the desire not to attract trolls can prompt a decision not to post an answer in the first place. If would-be contributors of answers didn't apply some restraint and wise judgment, TeX.SE would certainly be nowhere nearly as successful and welcoming as it is now. For me, that's far more valuable and important than teaching somebody how to draw a symbol that looks like a swastika. Aside: Does the world really need still more instructions on how to draw symbols that look like swastikas? Surely not!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has TeX.SE or SE some policy regarding such contents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's either necessary or sufficient to formulate a site-wide policy regarding what's entirely inappropriate.  Letting users (especially experienced contributors) apply good judgment should be the first line of defense. Happily, to date letting the community apply good judgment seems to be working remarkably well. If the community didn't uphold and enforce standards of decency and fair play, then imposing the policies you seem to have in mind will have come too late: most decent users will have already left the site for good. I, for one, certainly would leave and never come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2018-06-09T07:47:59.310" LastActivityDate="2018-06-09T07:47:59.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-09T09:16:31.933" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HE5Xr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HE5Xr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVUQ6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVUQ6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2h72Z.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2h72Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NgNLz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NgNLz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I want to edit a post in the chat then the text in the edit text box is white.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By selecting the text I can read it, but it's hard to edit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I use Google Chrome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/101651/carlatex&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/101651/carlatex&lt;/a&gt; reported teh same problem (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45066478#45066478&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45066478#45066478&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14649" LastActivityDate="2018-06-09T09:16:31.933" Title="Bug / Problem: Chat Function | Edit Feature | Readability | Browser &quot;Google Chrome&quot;" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7725" CreationDate="2018-06-13T20:18:12.680" Score="13" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope that is not a duplicate. Probably most of you have seen questions in which the OP presents a code which is very likely not written by the OP, but the OP does not provide a link to the original code. While I do not really care about some &quot;implicit&quot; copyrights for answers, I really feel that one could give better and faster answers if the source of the code was available. Then one would have many or most of the potentially relevant posts available right away, and not discover that one just reinvented a solution someone else found earlier. We all know that the searching tools on the main site have some considerable room for improvement, the selection of related posts is a bit obscure (e.g. for pretty much all Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31775/is-plotting-exponential-graphs-a-known-source-of-bugs-in-tikz?rq=1&quot;&gt;&quot;Is plotting exponential graphs a known source of bugs in tikz?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; gets identified as related). So given that the links provided at the main site are not optimal, I have the following&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: Is there a way to politely convince users to disclose the source of their posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the purpose of this question?&lt;/strong&gt; Apart from learning some nice strategies to convince the OPs to reveal the source of &quot;their&quot; codes, I hope to collect in the answer(s) good reasons why doing so beneficial for them. One may use the answer(s) then to tell the OP why they should add the link to the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-06-13T20:32:34.953" LastActivityDate="2018-06-14T11:45:46.257" Title="What is the best strategy to deal with posts in which the source of the code is not disclosed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7724" CreationDate="2018-06-14T11:45:46.257" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several arguments one could try. I'll let you be the judge of their strength and effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Politeness&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is polite to acknowledge other people when you copy or build upon their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Help for other people&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revealing the origins of code may help other people with a similar problem who could for some reason (bad tagging, not the right search terms, ...) not find the original question but only the new question. The original answer may contain more details, explanations or alternative solutions and would thus be of interest. Vice versa, having the new question link to the old one will make it appear in the 'linked' section on the right and can help people find the new question from the old, which is particularly useful if the new question is a natural extension of the old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Code maintenance/bug reporting&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it turns out that there are problems with the code, knowing where it came from and where to complain/report/fix the bug helps improve the code for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Context&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original code and answer (and also the question) can help investigate the current problem. &#xA;Knowing where the code comes from may help to establish context which in turn helps to understand the question better and more quickly.&#xA;Maybe the undesired behaviour happened because the code was not copied in its entirety or modified in some way. Maybe the original answer mentions limitations or possible useful extensions of the approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can appeal to manners, altruism and egoism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I doubt people need to be convinced to disclose the source of their code. If you ask them in the comments I suspect most people will happily point to the source of their code if they know where it came from. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7724/what-is-the-best-strategy-to-deal-with-posts-in-which-the-source-of-the-code-is#comment23465_7724&quot;&gt;Like samcarter&lt;/a&gt; I assume that many people simply can't remember where the code came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2018-06-14T11:45:46.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7728" CreationDate="2018-06-20T08:02:21.743" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that many sites now come with a left panel, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a3LY7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a3LY7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309349/left-nav-responsive-design-and-theming-next-steps&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; might be one of the announcement posts on &lt;code&gt;stackexchange&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seaching &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/left-navigation&quot;&gt;this tag&lt;/a&gt; I find many hits such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/369106/how-do-i-hide-the-left-navigation-sidebar&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;  (I restricted to &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt; for not particular reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a very good rationale for this opened space on the left: to add advertisements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I use AdBlockPlus I may not get the normal view of the other sites. So far it seems tex.stackexchange has not changed its design. Is it coming to us? If yes will it be possible to disable it entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/310908/live-left-nav-new-theming-and-responsiveness&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; seems to be the main one for discussion on meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorDisplayName="user4686" LastEditDate="2018-06-21T06:57:21.660" LastActivityDate="2018-06-22T11:18:10.057" Title="Rationale for the added whitespace in global site (left panel)?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-21T12:11:23.613" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Mozilla Firefox 52.8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This error message is a permanent nuisance when using tex.stackexchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FrMhL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FrMhL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a bug on your side or should I fix anything on my side?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the hint be here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rizg4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rizg4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114719" LastEditorUserId="114719" LastEditDate="2018-06-22T09:52:08.477" LastActivityDate="2018-06-22T09:52:08.477" Title="secure connection failed" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7726" CreationDate="2018-06-22T11:18:10.057" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The left navigation bar seems to be planed also for our site, but don't worry, it is easy to disable it. Go to your profile page and edit the preferences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAQXC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAQXC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment this has to be done for each site separately, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/311528/237989&quot;&gt;Hide Left nav everywhere with a global preference&lt;/a&gt; indicates that it will be possible to globally disable the navigation bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2018-06-22T11:18:10.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-24T02:18:40.873" Score="14" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering about a question which is closely related to the question with almost identical title: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2893/editing-minimal-working-examples-mwes&quot;&gt;Editing Minimal Working Examples (MWEs)&lt;/a&gt;, in which the focus was on the minimizing part. More precisely, the discussion was whether or not it is OK to kick out unrelated things such as unnecessary packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am mainly wondering about the &quot;working&quot; part. Specifically,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it OK to make a non-working M&lt;s&gt;W&lt;/s&gt;E working?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I am not thinking about questions of the type &quot;why does that code not work?&quot;. Rather, I am wondering whether it is OK to add the document preamble and cure obvious mistakes like a missing semicolon at the end of a Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z path, say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see reasons why one might consider making the code compilable: more users may play with it because the threshold is lower, and hence a btter answer may emerge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there are good reasons &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to do it. In the worst case, one may introduce errors. Or one may just upset others by loading packages that are not essential and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, this is only a very partial list of pros and cons, and the purpose of this question is to inquire the opinion of the community on this. (I plan not to accept an answer, rather votes should give an impression how the majority feels, and I really would like to collect all pros and cons.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2018-06-24T18:16:41.727" Title="Editing Minimal Working Examples (MWEs) - the W part" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7729" CreationDate="2018-06-24T08:18:53.253" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd leave the code as it was posted by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add &lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&lt;/code&gt; and then you find out that the OP is using &lt;code&gt;\documentclass{beamer}&lt;/code&gt;, for example, the answer could differ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd correct only the formatting issues (new users don't often use the {} button) and leave a comment asking the OP to add a &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-06-24T08:18:53.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7729" CreationDate="2018-06-24T11:08:39.463" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tricky question! In most cases I agree with @CarLaTeX's answer and would leave it to the OP. However I also see the good intention to give other users working code as some starting point for working on an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a compromise maybe one could use a strategy I already saw a couple of times on the main site: Leave the code from the questions as it is and add the working code at the end of the post &lt;strong&gt;clearly&lt;/strong&gt; marked as edit by user @xyz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be used in cases where the preamble etc. is simply missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Example:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the original question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    with code fragments&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which are not compilable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit by @xyz to include a working example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;code fragment&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-06-24T11:19:50.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7729" CreationDate="2018-06-24T18:16:41.727" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In almost all cases I just leave a comment suggesting that the OP fixes the example however sometimes I edit the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For edits I think it's important to distinguish &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the example isn't working/complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The posted example was never tested and has typos that suggest it wasn't used to generate the output or error described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case I'd just leave a comment to the OP to fix the example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The posted example looks like it is a fragment of a working example that produced the output or error, but the OP has (un)helpfully trimmed it for posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, for new users I may just add the missing preamble and &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt; and leave a comment that the example has been completed to help people test answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But generally (and for not so new users) I'd just leave a comment, or perhaps not comment and answer anyway, depending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is in fact quite tricky and the OP has had genuine difficulty to isolate the problem in order to generate an example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here (especially if I don't have a good answer to hand) I may add an example with a heading saying it's been added as shown in samcarter's example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-06-24T18:16:41.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-27T01:13:34.303" Score="16" ViewCount="694" Body="&lt;p&gt;I catch myself answering questions that are not well asked (without MWE, question not clear to everybody,...), sometimes with comments that request exactly what's missing, because I think I understand the problem and I can solve it. But I realized, it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be a bad idea to answer those questions until the minimum amount of work of the asker is done properly (i.e. they do what is advised/requested in comments, like providing a MWE or clarifying the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to help users and, since this mainly affects new users, I don't want to discourage them. But I'm not sure. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97512" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T10:22:27.237" Title="Should we &quot;educate&quot; (new) users by not answering until...?" Tags="|discussion|answers|new-users|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7733" CreationDate="2018-06-27T01:53:30.053" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure that you won't accept this answer, but anyway I'd say &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? This site is meant to provide answers and useful information for everyone, not just for the one who asks a question. So if you think you have got something (moderately) useful to say, or if you are able to fix some problem, just do it. You may thus help someone who deserves it. I personally don't see myself educating others how to ask questions properly. This does not mean that I do not comment on questions, it just means that I do not want to force anyone to change her or his behavior (unless it is rude, offensive or in similar ways inappropriate). Of course I often &lt;em&gt;wish&lt;/em&gt; that the question was clearer or the OP would have made more effort, but again I do not want to impose a certain behavior on the OP. Needless to say that I do of course not upvote such questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you will find the above self-contradictory in that I try to argue that one should not impose things on others, but if others follow this, I have in a certain way imposed some behavior on them. So if you decide not to follow my arguments, that's of course perfectly fine. The only thing I want to avoid is that some get blamed for giving reasonable answers to questions by lazy users. These answers may help some not so lazy other users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2018-06-27T01:53:30.053" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7733" CreationDate="2018-06-27T06:05:37.840" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to tell you what happened to me some time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning, I answered also questions without MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day I answered telling the OP: &quot;Next time, please add an MWE&quot; and he promised me he would do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Little time after that, he asked again a question without MWE, and again I answered telling him: &quot;Next time, please add an MWE&quot; and again he promised he would do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few days after, he asked again without MWE. Honestly, I had the feeling of being mocked. I only left a comment asking for an MWE, but it was useless since someone else answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that day, excluding very exceptional cases of interesting questions, my policy is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I leave a comment asking for an MWE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the OP is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a new user (let's say a new user is one with less than 100 reputation points, complimentary bonus excluded), I downvote the question (if it wasn't already downvoted by someone else)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the OP is responsive and tries to add an MWE, I answer (if I can, of course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;after some days, if there is no news from the OP, and nobody else answered, I close the question as &lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that answering questions without MWE gives a wrong signal and it is unfair to those who have lost time to create one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I think priority in answering should be given to questions with MWE and, at least, questions without MWE are not to be answered &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, questions without MWE are often also unclear, and I think they will rarely appear in a search by people with the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this applies only if the MWE is necessary, otherwise, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7736/101651&quot;&gt;David's answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, when needed, creating an MWE is useful also to the OP because it helps to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reason on the problem, not to act as a monkey copy-pasting the correct solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;find the solution by herself/himself (just happened to me at this moment!).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-07-01T07:10:14.180" LastActivityDate="2018-07-01T07:10:14.180" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7733" CreationDate="2018-06-27T12:00:01.267" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think you should only ask for a MWE if the presence of an MWE would help &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A MWE almost always helps even if only to avoid the answerer having to write some standard article class boilerplate to make a test file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it doesn't always help, and unless you have contemplated producing an answer and the lack of an MWE is hindering that, it is best not to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather too often I've seen one of the &quot;standard comments&quot; inserted asking for MWE when it's fairly clear that the question is not document related. For example if the error message says tex isn't found, then it will say that whether or not a document exists and posting an example document to the question doesn't clarify that in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-06-27T12:00:01.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7733" CreationDate="2018-06-27T18:03:10.183" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once made very bad experiences with a specific user. I asked that particular one several times to post an MWE and he never did. In the end I posted a longish comment that I will never answer any questions of him again if he doesn't post a &lt;em&gt;perfect&lt;/em&gt; MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact I was so mad about him it took me an one hour walk to calm down after I also posted to chat about that user (which certainly is bad behaviour).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I keep the user profile of that user pinned in my Firefox to remind me of my promise. Up to today I did not see a question of him meeting the criterias I set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I often ask for an MWE, sometimes I post answers before that MWE is delivered, this is dependend on my current mood. Mostly I do this if I think the question is clear enough, sometimes this leads to incompatiblities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think good practice is what CarLaTeX does, but I don't downvote already downvoted questions. If that practice would be common to all or most of the users new users would still get good answers but the overall quality of the questions would be increased, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastActivityDate="2018-06-27T18:03:10.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7733" CreationDate="2018-06-27T22:50:22.183" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely disagree with the proposition that we should refrain from answering questions &lt;strong&gt;in order to educate new users&lt;/strong&gt;. I simply don't think it's my job to &lt;strong&gt;educate&lt;/strong&gt; new users about how to ask questions. And I don't really agree with the idea that withholding useful information is a good way of educating people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like all of us, I don't theoretically like (what seem to me) to be lazy questions of the &quot;do this for me&quot; type, and I'd sooner ignore them unless they happen to pique my interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are lots of reasons for &quot;bad questions&quot; including lack of familiarity with the very weird and complex LaTeX ecosystem, and quite often language issues as well. When you &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; how to do something difficult (whether that is driving a car, playing a musical instrument, solving an equation, writing LISP or LaTeX or finding answers on TeX.sx) it's very easy to  forget how difficult it is to learn and attribute bad faith where there is none. LaTeX is a vast (over-)complicated &quot;system&quot; built in a ramshackle way (I can install Ubuntu faster than TeXlive, or at least not much slower!). It's idiosyncratic to an almost absurd degree. Its documentation is both wonderful and, often, more or less useless to anyone who actually needs it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I like to be slow to assume bad faith. And we should bear in mind that the &lt;strong&gt;primary&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;educational&quot; role this site can serve is to &lt;strong&gt;teach people about TeX&lt;/strong&gt; and not &lt;strong&gt;to teach people how to ask questions on TeX.sx&lt;/strong&gt;. I'd really rather put up with a few annoying jerks than put off sensitive potential users with real needs. An inexperienced person who is browsing and considering whether to ask a question will very likely not understand why what looks (to them) like a reasonable request is being treated with disdain: they may well just see the disdain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we behave like oracles, who will only speak when the supplicant has duly performed arcane rites to perfection---the archive meticulously searched, the MWE melodiously intoned, the log-file scrupulously offered---we will find ourselves sitting in an empty temple before a cold altar, while doctoral students write their theses in Word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, all that being said, nobody is obliged to answer, and if you think &quot;I can't be bothered to answer&quot; don't. But there's no need to say that this is done out of the high purpose of &lt;strong&gt;educating&lt;/strong&gt; anyone; it's quite alright just to say &quot;I can't be bothered answering if someone can't be bothered to ask a question to a certain standard&quot;. That's up to you. And if other people &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; be bothered answering, that's OK too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For myself, I will answer any question if, however badly it seems to be written, I am reasonably confident that I know what the answer is, and have the time to spend to answer it. I'm not going to answer if I am completely in the dark about what the questioner wants, because I may be wasting everyone's time. And I may not answer if the questioner is so confused that it's going to take endless backwards-and-forwards with comments to set things straight, when the problem is simple and dull. But otherwise: sure, I'll answer, because I think it is more conducive to the lively and widespread use of TeX (which I care about) if people with urgent and immediate problems get them solved than if we build up (yet another!) comprehensive and intractable pool of wisdom, or a set of fossilised formal conventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5404" LastActivityDate="2018-06-27T22:50:22.183" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7741" CreationDate="2018-07-05T10:02:52.867" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found myself answering to a question of a new user in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX.se&lt;/a&gt;. Actually he said that that was for him a good solution, but since he wasn't use to the functioning of the wheel he did not choose best answer, so now that question is fluctuating in the TeX.se servers as it was a not answered question, which I don't find very good for organising archived problems and opened ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was the very first time for me, but going around the site I found may situations like that, so I guess that it should be make  more clear that &lt;em&gt;choosing a best answer is not just a good action for those who answers, in order to give them &lt;strong&gt;reputation&lt;/strong&gt; but, also a necessary practise not to obstuct the whole site with &quot;answered question which appears not to be answered&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This phenomenon in my opinion is also responsible for what I call the &lt;em&gt;well of forgetfulness&lt;/em&gt;, or &quot;all the question &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; without an answer that people don't look anymore since nobody will give them best answer&quot; and also because nobody wants to check question per question which are the ones solved or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem also should be discussed in the future (tons of question that will be not answered so they should either be closed, cancelled or &quot;brought to new life&quot;), but is not a good use to make more than one question at time &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made the question probably unclear with the last two paragraph in which I introduced another question aside the one about &lt;strong&gt;question without BEST anwsers&lt;/strong&gt;, that is the one with &lt;strong&gt;not answered questions&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning that a question without best answers on stackexchange, although it has answers, itdoes no have a &lt;strong&gt;solution&lt;/strong&gt;, which is probably the term I was looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answered question without a choosen best answer is an UNSOLVED question, and I guess there is a big need to distinguish the two category, which in most cases are distinguished by the OP of the questions by voting &lt;em&gt;best answers&lt;/em&gt;. When they do not select the best answer is clear for me that, even an answered question, in an unsolved question, and so it should be clear for people that search for their own interest or for solving it whether the question is already solved or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this reasoning the necessity of making clear to new users that &lt;em&gt;&quot;choosing a best answer is not just a good action for those who answers, [...] but, also, a necessary practise&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (self quote from above), and in the case that the new users find their solution but do not select a best answer the necessity of making clear to anyone who find a certain question whether it has a solution or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jut to clarify further I'm just speaking about answered questions, meaning that is problematica sometimes to understand if there's the need of other answers or not, since TeX.se maybe should also have an encyclopedic function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120984" LastEditorUserId="120984" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T13:09:30.413" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T17:37:38.620" Title="New entries not choosing best answer, should we make it more clear?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6171" CreationDate="2018-07-05T16:59:57.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly agree with @Andrew, the point is not taking away the possibility to people of choosing the best answers, but there are plenty of cases in which people are satisfied with answers but they just forget (mostly because they're new, or also because they are not really interested in the community but just in a single question, then they'll fly away and so on...) to click on the best answer (see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2753/is-it-okay-to-ask-the-op-to-accept-the-answer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This create plenty of questions which is not clear if they're solved or not, while if a question is solved it would be extremely useful to know (by seeing that the OP has choosen a best answer) whether there's a missing answer over there or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe more clarity should be make about the fact that choosing a best answer is not just a way to say &lt;em&gt;thanks&lt;/em&gt; to people who answered, but also to distinguish solved question from unsolved, which is necessary for the encyclopedic intent of the TeX.se community (in order not to have to ask the same questions all the time, and to help people who look for old question without a solution to answer them not to find questions already solved but in which the OP has just commented &quot;That worked, thanks!&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120984" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T16:59:57.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2018-07-05T17:37:38.620" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tick for the answer is the subjective part. It means &quot;&lt;em&gt;this answer satisfies me&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. It doesn't mean that it necessarily solves the problem in the best possible way even when a better answer exists under it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New or old, users are free to decide whatever they wish to do with their questions. Similarly, you can answer a question regardless of having ticked or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T17:37:38.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-09T18:20:56.627" Score="-16" ViewCount="1382" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/ch-ch-ch-changes-left-nav-responsive-design-themes&quot;&gt;mentioned on meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; several months ago, all network sites will be getting updated themes. TeX is one of the first sites that will be updated. As such, I'm posting the design here so you can see how the new theming will be applied to your site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to acknowledge that this will be a painful change for sites that have rich, custom themes. I want to reinforce that the theme changes are a required step to deliver ongoing value to the sites with as little friction as possible. We released changes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/312180/354333&quot;&gt;tag watching&lt;/a&gt; (aka favorite tags) this week and will be releasing a beta of custom question list functionality soon. The only way to make sure Q&amp;amp;A improvements are quickly available to all Q&amp;amp;A sites is to fix our themes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To recap from the original post on themes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every Q&amp;amp;A site has its own theme. But there is great inequality in the level of theming that we support. A few (~10) get &lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Cadillac treatment&lt;/a&gt;, some (&amp;lt;50) are more like a &lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Honda&lt;/a&gt;, while most (~100) are a &lt;a href=&quot;https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Yugo&lt;/a&gt;. The reality is we created a theming system that we didn't have the design resources to fully support, thus the inequity. In addition, as currently defined, our theming gets in the way of releasing new features on the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to deliver the left nav, responsive design and future improvements to all sites we've created a more standardized way to support theming. This will reduce the burden of supporting designs as we make Q&amp;amp;A improvements. The result is that most sites will see an improvement in the level of theming that they can get. While some sites will see a reduction. All of Q&amp;amp;A (Enterprise, Teams, etc) will standardize on this new theming scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/ch-ch-ch-changes-left-nav-responsive-design-themes&quot;&gt;Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, &amp;amp; themes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Next steps&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Schedule&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Early July: Collect and respond to feedback from this post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Late July: Update the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Feedback&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please review the mockups and feel free to provide constructive feedback in answers below. We aren't going to revisit the choices we've made around simplification, so it would be more productive to keep feedback focused on the application of the new theme scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm leaving on vacation later today, but didn't want to delay getting these designs posted. As such, I'll have limited time/ability to respond to feedback and comments until I return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Enough talk, show me the money&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can click on the mockups below to see the image in a larger format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TeX&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nnLOk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nnLOk.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX home page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8oae.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8oae.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX question page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166416" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-23T19:10:27.150" Title="New TeX site theme coming soon" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7743" CreationDate="2018-07-09T20:08:26.080" Score="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; We will take another run at the top site banner and take into account the feedback below where possible. - Joe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Background image&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The placement of the background picture looks odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all who don't understand what I am talking about because the&#xA;contrast is too low for their screen, here is a higher contrast&#xA;version of the image from the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aa382.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aa382.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the most important point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it seems to be much smaller, making it impossible to recognise any of the writing/symbols. I think it would be better to make it a bit wider, even if this means cutting of even more of the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S46aL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S46aL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other comments which might be harder to address:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the alignment on the right hand site looks like the background image is trying to hide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The slightly darker shading of the triangle in the centre was previously used to emphasis the &lt;code&gt;{TeX}&lt;/code&gt; logo which was aligned on top of it. Now most of the background image is basically invisible - besides a inexplicable darker region at the top right. Without knowing the background image, I'd think that my screen is broken...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quick and dirty mock-up without the dark triangle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2xXL8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2xXL8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Previously the background image was used behind text and other elements. For this purpose the very low contrast was ok, but for its new usage as pattern (like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yz4ll.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yz4ll.png&lt;/a&gt;) the contrast is too low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the way it is currently used, I'd say it would be better to leave it completely out, unless you can fix some of my points above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T22:04:30.263" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7743" CreationDate="2018-07-10T16:24:35.340" Score="27" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; After further discussion we have decided to keep the unified design for tags. While we appreciate the desire from communities who have them to keep them, it does add to the support cost. - Joe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Tags&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Curly brackets&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case the tags can be customised I would love to see the curly brackets come back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;{foo}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of the bland blue rectangle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Colour&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; We have allowed the color of tags and links to be modified so that it matches better with the site colors. - Joe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue of the tag buttons does not blend in particularly well with the warmer colour scheme of the rest of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Links in the right column/sidebar&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the screenshot the links are blue and don't match the colour of other links on this site. I'd prefer links matching the link colours in the middle column.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-23T19:10:27.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7733" CreationDate="2018-07-12T10:22:27.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think that they should be some automatism here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I decide if I want to try to answer a question a lot of factors are involved: my free time, does the question look interesting, do I know something about it, do I know the user and naturally also the &quot;quality&quot; of the question. A missing or bad minimal example is normally a negative factor but it doesn't overrule all other factors automatically and it also doesn't have a fix weight. E.g. if a package has a bug after an update the first question normally requires an example to analyze the problem but the follow-up questions do not and so the importance of a good MWE drops. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I decide to answer despite a bad MWE I often add as small nudge some remarks like &quot;untested due to missing example&quot; or &quot;I can only guess ...&quot;,  or I remove lot of unnessary code in my answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I decide &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to answer I don't care if someone else answers. Most factors and their weights for my decision are quite personal and can be different for others. But I do find it irritating if people answer and at the same time complain a lot about the missing MWE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I decide &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to answer I often quit without comments (or even run away if the question is too horrible). But also quite often I leave a comment indicating what I miss. If the question is improved I reconsider, if the user ignores my comment I go away. If the user claims not to be able to make a better MWE I sometimes help to train this (important) skill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't let the user bully or persuade or &quot;educate&quot; me to answer if the question isn't improved before or some new important data emerges. I stick to my (normally sound) decision. I have seen too many people quitting support frustrated and feeling abused and pushed around because they answered too many question they actually didn't want to answer but weren't able to say &quot;NO&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T10:22:27.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7750" CreationDate="2018-07-12T21:44:52.193" Score="9" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I know that this is a Q&amp;amp;A website, and of course I am always happy to get answers to my good and even naive questions from the Latex experts on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this pushed me to ask this question in order to understand how some latex expert gets their motive to open this site and look for questions asked several hours nad even days before, then thought about the possible solutions and finally answered them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It always amazes me to find that my question asked almost day or more before got an answer, and I wondered where this motive to dig for unanswered questions came from, and how it could be sustained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2018-07-13T18:32:35.677" Title="What is your motive to put time and effort into looking for unanswered questions? would it cease someday?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7743" CreationDate="2018-07-13T08:27:42.463" Score="14" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Type &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sans serif type in the main column (center, with the question links) should be serif like in the current model. The “asked/answered/modified” tags can be sans serif like now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rectangles &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are too many boxed rectangles, whereas the current model has none. The proposed shape is too much “Stack Overflow” alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Tags &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should continue to be braced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="166416" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T18:31:46.970" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T18:31:46.970" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-13T13:17:53.950" Score="10" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;For many questions a Minimal Working Example (with Bibliography) can be very helpful and for some it is even detrimental to the answering of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My suggestion is to point the user to MWE(B) tutorials when they are writing their question, by adding links to them in the yellow box on the side.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A small change could already cause improvements. Consider the change: &quot;Provide details. Supply a Minimal Working Example when it could help. Share your research.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wk8ST.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wk8ST.png&quot; alt=&quot;The current advice box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: &lt;strong&gt;Is there any reason to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; provide this advice to users submitting questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In previous suggestions there have been some discussions on how to get askers to help us help them by providing MWEs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6813/automatic-check-for-mwe&quot;&gt;Prompting the user about a missing MWE&lt;/a&gt; is too disruptive and not always the correct course of action as there are scenarios in which MWEs are not helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7388/proposal-can-we-add-a-tutorialadmission-test-for-new-users/7399#7399&quot;&gt;Having the user go through a tutorial&lt;/a&gt; creates an entry-barrier that is too high.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more meta posts I could link to, but it should be clear that this is an area that needs improving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion fixes these issues. Yes some users might not read the yellow box, but even if only 5% of people read it, it would still make TeX.SE better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion focuses on the same problem as discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4606/how-about-encouraging-the-users-to-provide-mwe-before-asking-questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but provides a different solution that could be used alongside this solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I'll have to convince anybody here about the usefulness of MWEs, but just in case, here's an extra reason MWEs are helpful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal experience with making MWEs has been that while reducing the problem down to its core I already found the cause of the problem before even submitting the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A small improvement that could be made if this feature is added, is to scan the tags and question for &quot;bibliography&quot; or &quot;bib&quot;. In the event those are found the MWE suggested on the side could dynamically change to a MWEB. That way users needing an extra bit of help are instantly sent to the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally if this feature gets added we need to decide on what to link to. There already exist very &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;extensive guides&lt;/a&gt; on writing MWEs (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4408/116425&quot;&gt;MWEB&lt;/a&gt;s). Maybe a concise wiki article would be better as to not present new users with a wall of text, which might deter them. I propose to have this discussion after we decide on whether to add this feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116425" LastActivityDate="2018-07-13T13:17:53.950" Title="Suggest users to add a MWE or MWEB to their question" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|asking-questions|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7747" CreationDate="2018-07-13T18:32:35.677" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It always amazes me to find that my question asked almost day or more before got an answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the world is in fact round and some people are asleep when you ask the question. So any answer that comes within 24 or even 48 hours is essentially &quot;current&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But unanswered questions are not good for the site, which is supposed to be a site of &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to questions, so the site makes it easy to list unanswered questions so every now and then people can go through the unanswered list and answer some. Also there are (or used to be) semi regular &quot;answer the unanswered&quot; sessions organised in the  linked chat site when once a month people would make a concerted effort to answer these questions, or close them as duplicates of other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that when viewed as a long term reference site, the needs of the person asking the question are somewhat secondary, what matters is to post good answers to good questions. So, if someone 5 years ago asked a good but hard question that was not answered at the time, it is still useful to answer that question even though (hopefully) the person who asked the question is not still waiting for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-07-13T18:32:35.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7743" CreationDate="2018-07-13T21:54:48.787" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;So basically we go back to Area51. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't you just delete the CSS file altogether? That would save you a lot of time and money and we would hardly ever notice it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image below was a joke but thanks for taking it seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L4Spd.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L4Spd.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-07-13T21:54:48.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-21T12:20:08.793" Score="26" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3M2rC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TeX Users Group 2018 annual conference was held in Rio de Janeiro (at the mathematics institute called IMPA) in July. Many TeX.SE users participated and even gave talks there. You can watch videos of the talks online now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/user/impabr/videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YouTube channel of IMPA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/tug2018/program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conference program/schedule&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/80267/tug2018&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dedicated TeX.SE chat room&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy, everyone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-08-04T19:55:27.060" LastActivityDate="2018-08-04T19:55:27.060" Title="Videos of TeX Users Group 2018 conference talks are online!" Tags="|discussion|community|tug|conferences|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7743" CreationDate="2018-07-21T14:53:48.687" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, decide whether:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The design is professional typesetting-looking as it was before, i.e., not using sans-serif fonts, not using rounded corners, not using button-like things, boxed links etc. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site looks like SO in dark pink.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing you propose is a mess between the two that looks like nothing. Note that in the old design, originally, basically every little bit was well thought out. This is being lost slowly and this big change will simply make it disappear. Just to mention a few that are in the old one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are no prominent boxes. All boxes are very subtle in toned colours, without borders. &lt;strong&gt;This is lost.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are moreorless no vertical lines and no rounded corners. The header is designed in such a way that it looks like a table header from a well-typeset book. &lt;strong&gt;This is lost.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are almost no cold colours. The first introduced was the black top bar (yes, black looks cold in this context), and there's the bounty stuff that's bright blue. But that's it. &lt;strong&gt;This is lost.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All text larger than paragraph size is sans-serif, giving a printed-like look. &lt;strong&gt;This is lost.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The header contains a well balanced showcase of interesting typographical examples possible in (La)TeX. Moving it to some corner and giving it a very little space means &lt;strong&gt;this is lost&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are beautifully and well drawn pen-like vote arrows. &lt;strong&gt;This is lost.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think I could continue for quite a long time if I saw more screenshots.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Request&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it seems you are not willing to take variant one from the options above, go for variant two. Simply drop all the stuff that resembles professional typesetting, especially:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drop the warm colours. Choose a neutral SO/SE-complaint colour scheme in which all the bright green and blue does not stand out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drop serif fonts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drop the header images altogether (the ones now on the right), just maybe keep the &lt;code&gt;{TEX}&lt;/code&gt; logo, in newly chosen colours. However, drop the mechanical print effect on the logo as it doesn't make any sense any more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Bottom line&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site will necessarily lose it's unique look that distinguished it from other TeX support sites out there. Nobody else than SE designers and TeX.SE users have ever put that much effort into having a professional-looking TeX site, and it's gonna be a big loss. I'm just saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2018-07-22T01:31:59.463" LastActivityDate="2018-07-22T01:31:59.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7755" CreationDate="2018-07-22T20:44:23.773" Score="7" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that there is a data query that will find this for me, but it's been a while since I last ventured onto the data site and I'm hoping that someone will be able to answer this quickly for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to shifting websites a few years back, many of my posts here contain dead links.  I get the odd notification when someone notices it, but I don't always have the time to deal with it there and then and so when I do have time (such as now), I don't always remember where they are - and I have rather a lot of posts so going through one by one is prohibitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is anyone able to quickly put together a search on the data query site (and remind me where that site is!) for me to find them?  The key criteria are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user: 86&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post contains: ntnu&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I can figure out which documents I need to upload to my new website (or github) and stop getting notifications about dead links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2018-07-27T10:15:12.810" Title="Can someone help me find dead links in my posts?" Tags="|support|hyperlinks|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7754" CreationDate="2018-07-24T09:42:53.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following query could be a starting point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/877843/find-links#resultSets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/877843/find-links#resultSets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that it returns a few &quot;false positives&quot;, i.e. answers by other users, but maybe it is good to leave them in so that these posts can be fixed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just learned that there is a &lt;code&gt;url&lt;/code&gt; key for the search&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Awww.math.ntnu.no%2F%7Estacey&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Awww.math.ntnu.no%2F%7Estacey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-07-27T10:15:12.810" LastActivityDate="2018-07-27T10:15:12.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7757" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-25T09:18:43.797" Score="24" ViewCount="594" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am surprised that most questions have fewer votes than the answers. It often happens that a question has no vote, or even a negative vote, but the answers have several votes.&#xA;As egreg says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if you deem a question worthy answering, then it's also worth a vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6692/138900&quot;&gt;Why do (top) users on this site have such high reputations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why answer a question that doesn't deserve a vote? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastActivityDate="2018-07-28T10:01:56.897" Title="Why answer a question that doesn't deserve a vote?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7757" CreationDate="2018-07-25T20:56:17.387" Score="27" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The vote differential&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some unsubstantiated musings on some of the reasons for the vote differential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The picture effect. Answers with pictures get lots of votes. Questions with pictures not so much.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The drive-by voter effect. Much of the traffic on the site is casual &quot;drive-by&quot; users who don't necessarily participate in the site actively but come via Google to solve a particular problem. Answers solve their problem, questions don't. (Even though obviously the answer depends on the question). So answers always get more votes than questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The vote-for-the-person effect. High reputation users rarely ask questions, but answer a lot. Some high reputation users are rumoured not to know &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to ask a question. :) But an answer from a high-reputation user will tend to attract upvotes just because it's from a high-reputation user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upshot of these three factors (and there may be more I haven't though of) is that answers will inevitably gain more upvotes than questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answering crappy questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes really bad questions can in fact be answered, and the answers will be useful to others. There are a couple of sort of these types of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;just do it for me&quot; question.  The topic of endless meta debate (should we or shouldn't we...) these sorts of questions are inherently bad because they often just post an image of the desired output and nothing else. But since there are plenty of people who enjoy making nice TikZ drawings just for fun, they often get answers, and the answers are very good. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The crystal ball question. Some questions are bad because the information given is really just not adequate to provide an answer. But many of us have extremely good crystal balls which allow us to figure out a good answer anyway.  Such answers often end up answering the question (or the question is partially clarified in comments), but it's still a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With both of these sorts of questions, a vote differential between question and answer(s) is almost inevitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added by @percusse for testing the vote differential hypothesis #1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zuqYe.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zuqYe.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="3235" LastEditDate="2018-07-28T10:01:56.897" LastActivityDate="2018-07-28T10:01:56.897" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7757" CreationDate="2018-07-26T12:09:17.807" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7757/why-answer-a-question-that-doesnt-deserve-a-vote?cb=1#comment23590_7757&quot;&gt;comment of marmot&lt;/a&gt; above notes a key aspect of this issue: many questions are badly asked, but still answerable, and the answers to such questions can be good, so the question does not deserve an upvote while the answer does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question can be bad because it lacks an MWE or the MWE is too long, which means that the answerer needs to spend time making an MWE or trimming it down. Or the question fails to specify what the error is or what the desired output is, which means the answerer does not know whether or not he is solving the right problem and whether his solution is correct. Or the question shows code in a screenshot. Or the question shows too much or too little backgorund information. Or the question is is clearly made up and unrealistic - etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, despite all the extra work and guessing involved, somebody answers the question, and the answer provides clear code, good explanation, a screenshot of the result, etc, then I think an upvote for this answer is deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I do it the other way around as well, i.e., vote for the question and not the answers, because I want the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/44/electorate&quot;&gt;electorate badge&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2018-07-26T12:09:17.807" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7757" CreationDate="2018-07-27T01:58:00.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That egreg is always right is, of course, axiomatic. However, what you claim follows does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if you deem a question worthy answering, then it's also worth a vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why should we answer only questions we deem worthy of answering? At any rate, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; don't only answer questions &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; deem worthy of answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if you deem a question worthy answering, then it's also worth a vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what if we have answers left but no votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if you deem a question worthy answering, then it's also worth a vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've certainly seen zero-vote questions with answers by egreg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not inconsistent since egreg may answer questions egreg does not deem worthy of answering, egreg may have answers when egreg has no votes, egreg may not vote for everything egreg thinks worth a vote or egreg may not have inferred the implications of a general policy to the effect that egreg votes for all questions egreg answers for every instance to which that policy applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2018-07-27T01:58:00.610" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-27T09:08:10.560" Score="13" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is an old question that has received no or inadequate answers, it is likely not going to get an answer without intervention, as it is not appearing high enough on the lists of new or unanswered questions to get the attention of people who may be capable of providing an answer. If someone wants to see a particular question answered, what are the different methods they can use to get it the attention it needs? Is there a way to bump questions up these lists? Are there different methods available for those who are the original poster vs those who aren't? Are there any rules of etiquette that should be adhered to as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88148" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T09:20:27.910" Title="How should I bump a question?" Tags="|discussion|bumping|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7764" CreationDate="2018-07-29T09:44:14.833" Score="16" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I originally arrived here from the mathematics stackexchange website. I'm also interested in TeX, but I am by no means an expert. I found out I have asked 10 questions already, and provided 0 answers. Is it okay for me to keep asking questions, while making minimal contributions to the answers here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32576" LastActivityDate="2018-07-29T19:00:46.537" Title="Bounds on the questions/answers ratio" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7765" CreationDate="2018-07-29T14:36:26.923" Score="1" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've posted a question for a single problem, and I've got 2 equally satisfying answers giving me the same result I am looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I can only accept one answer. I've read the answers posted to similar request; and I am hoping you can find a solution for this situation; because both answers satisfy my needs equally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93617" LastEditorUserId="16968" LastEditDate="2018-07-29T19:13:47.163" LastActivityDate="2018-07-29T19:58:39.947" Title="Is it possible to accept two equally satisfying answers?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7762" CreationDate="2018-07-29T19:00:46.537" Score="15" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it okay for me to keep asking questions, while making minimal contributions to the answers here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A high quality contribution is a high quality contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other people may have the same problem that you are having and if you've already asked a good question they can find the answer and that's great. You can also get the information you need to enjoy your (La)TeX-ing. And maybe with time you'll learn more and get better and be able to help others, but it doesn't matter if not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some users here who are the complete opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top five users have just 108 questions between them, but 41,666 answers and 2,188,246 rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top two have no questions between them, but 25,526 answers and 1,131,507 rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16968" LastActivityDate="2018-07-29T19:00:46.537" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7763" CreationDate="2018-07-29T19:10:33.363" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that I can only accept one answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed you can, multiple accepted answers would seem to defeat the purpose of the green tick a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you could do if you really can't choose between them is democratise the process. You could leave it a few days and see if one collects more votes. That might suggest it was a little bit better explained or a little bit more preferable to a wider audience. Alternatively you could give the tick to the one with fewer votes in order to give it a bit of a signal boost and extra love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could simply give the tick to whoever got there first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or I suppose you could toss a coin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally I'd be more inclined to award a tick for an answer which had a bit more explanation if that applies in your case. Or if the answer came with a screenshot showing the output. Or if the answer added an extra tip. Or maybe the code was simpler. Or, for me personally, I quite like a more primitive answer. Many wise and experienced people advocate the use of packages to do cool things and make your life easier. After all LaTeX is basically just a huge bundle of TeX macros and templates and presets and stuff. But I find an overly big preamble can be awkward, packages can clash, they can go obsolete, they can be updated and break. I quite like the answer that uses basic commands you can find in Leslie Lamport's book, possibly, I'll be honest, for no other reason than because I took the time to read that book and understand them well once :P Perhaps you will prefer an answer like this too, or perhaps you'd rather learn about a cool new package that can save you five or five dozen extra lines of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16968" LastEditorUserId="16968" LastEditDate="2018-07-29T19:58:39.947" LastActivityDate="2018-07-29T19:58:39.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2018-08-01T00:23:05.537" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect to get grilled for this answer, but nevertheless I'd like to present this here. I have not much experience and I can only compare two communities: physics and LaTeX. I believe that I understand physics much better than LaTeX, and, frankly better than those I had the &quot;pleasure&quot; to interact on the physics site. The upshot is that top users on this site know what they are doing, after all they include many of those who actively develop LaTeX. So I think users like egreg, David, cfr, percusse, Christian Feuersänger, Martin Scharrer Torbjørn T. and many others deserve every vote they got. Among the physics site it is hard to find a top physicist. Of course, there are some very good ones, but no leaders of the field (as far as I can see). Hence the quality of the posts is also not as good as it might be, which also gets reflected by the votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more practical reason is that on this site you can very easily check if an answer works. Compile it and it either works or it doesn't. On the physics site, there are several answers that are simply wrong, but it is not as straightforward to disprove an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the upshot is that here some of the top users are leaders of the field, which is not the case at least in some of the other communities. So it is not surprising that they get more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T00:23:05.537" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7768" CreationDate="2018-08-01T14:23:42.470" Score="23" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;Motivated by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6636/why-do-top-users-on-this-site-have-such-high-reputations?noredirect=1#comment23657_7766&quot;&gt;comment by Barbara Beeton&lt;/a&gt;, I was wondering if there is a way to show the average activity on this site vs. time of the day? I am interested in a plot of the following type (&lt;strong&gt;I stress that there is no real data underlying this plot, this is the data I am interested in!&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBexo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBexo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get this data? If so, how? Where can one read more about how to access this data?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Barbara Beeton pointed that one has, of course, to specify the time zone. I was thinking the natural choice will be the time zone in which the reputation gets binned.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-08-01T14:31:56.103" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T22:59:24.503" Title="Activity on this site vs. time of the day" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7767" CreationDate="2018-08-01T17:20:36.270" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/881889/distribution-of-posts-by-time-of-day#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; for the distribution of the creation dates of questions and answers by time of day (in UTC): At time of writing, the result looks like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4HlW5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4HlW5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data comes from the entire time TeX StackExchange existed until 2018-08-01, 19:20.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following graph only analyzes posts from 2017 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/881918/distribution-of-posts-from-a-given-year-by-time-of-day#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE query&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/99j1i.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/99j1i.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell this is not possible for votes: While votes are accessible using the Data Explorer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/933/why-is-vote-time-missing-in-the-se-data-dump-and-sede&quot;&gt;the time is considered private information&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is a LaTeX forum, one can also plot the data with LaTeX means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{pgfplots,filecontents}&#xA;\begin{filecontents*}{allquestions.csv}&#xA;Hour,Name,Activity&#xA;0,Question,0.02742403306&#xA;1,Question,0.02445506715&#xA;2,Question,0.02222056242&#xA;3,Question,0.0215981377&#xA;4,Question,0.01952546339&#xA;5,Question,0.0200545244&#xA;6,Question,0.02334092691&#xA;7,Question,0.03000087139&#xA;8,Question,0.04025843074&#xA;9,Question,0.04803873971&#xA;10,Question,0.05047242036&#xA;11,Question,0.05041017788&#xA;12,Question,0.0528002888&#xA;13,Question,0.05857639018&#xA;14,Question,0.06190013817&#xA;15,Question,0.06244787192&#xA;16,Question,0.06130883469&#xA;17,Question,0.05616138228&#xA;18,Question,0.05274427058&#xA;19,Question,0.05022345047&#xA;20,Question,0.04956990452&#xA;21,Question,0.04505732531&#xA;22,Question,0.03954886656&#xA;23,Question,0.0318619213&#xA;\end{filecontents*}&#xA;\begin{filecontents*}{allanswers.csv}&#xA;Hour,Name,Activity&#xA;0,Answer,0.02900122291&#xA;1,Answer,0.02304429242&#xA;2,Answer,0.02030228914&#xA;3,Answer,0.01757939389&#xA;4,Answer,0.01709691596&#xA;5,Answer,0.01880708526&#xA;6,Answer,0.02365097259&#xA;7,Answer,0.03209194787&#xA;8,Answer,0.04143100087&#xA;9,Answer,0.04653284671&#xA;10,Answer,0.04889746627&#xA;11,Answer,0.04756945771&#xA;12,Answer,0.05039267015&#xA;13,Answer,0.05562827225&#xA;14,Answer,0.05880020636&#xA;15,Answer,0.05993235754&#xA;16,Answer,0.05978427026&#xA;17,Answer,0.05552795505&#xA;18,Answer,0.05219360262&#xA;19,Answer,0.05225570374&#xA;20,Answer,0.05434803378&#xA;21,Answer,0.05271429663&#xA;22,Answer,0.04531948637&#xA;23,Answer,0.03709825352&#xA;\end{filecontents*}&#xA;\pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{allquestions.csv}\qtable&#xA;\pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{allanswers.csv}\atable&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;    \begin{axis}[&#xA;        width  = 0.85*\textwidth,&#xA;        ymin=0,&#xA;        height = 8cm,xmax=24,xmin=0,&#xA;        ylabel = {activity},xlabel={time of day},&#xA;        legend cell align=left,&#xA;        legend style={&#xA;                at={(1,1.05)},&#xA;                anchor=south east,&#xA;                column sep=1ex&#xA;        }&#xA;    ]&#xA;    \addplot table[x=Hour ,y=Activity,col sep=comma]{\qtable};&#xA;    \addlegendentry{questions}&#xA;    \addplot table[x=Hour ,y=Activity,col sep=comma]{\atable};&#xA;    \addlegendentry{answers}&#xA;    \end{axis}&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vDcVw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vDcVw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the plot for the 2017 data. To produce it, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/881918/distribution-of-posts-from-a-given-year-by-time-of-day#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&#xA;link&lt;/a&gt; and download the file &quot;QueryResults.csv&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;remove the obnoxious &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;cr&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;with dos2unix and remove all apostrophes in that file&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you will be able to compile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{pgfplots}&#xA;\pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{QueryResults.csv}\datatable&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;    \begin{axis}[&#xA;        width  = 0.85*\textwidth,&#xA;        ymin=0,&#xA;        height = 8cm,xmax=24,xmin=0,&#xA;        ylabel = {activity},xlabel={time of day},&#xA;        legend cell align=left,&#xA;        legend style={&#xA;                at={(1,1.05)},&#xA;                anchor=south east,&#xA;                column sep=1ex&#xA;        },&#xA;    ]&#xA;    \addplot table[x=Hour ,y=Activity,col sep=comma,&#xA;      skip coords between index={24}{49}]{\datatable};&#xA;    \addlegendentry{questions}&#xA;    \addplot table[x=Hour ,y=Activity,col sep=comma,&#xA;      skip coords between index={0}{24}]{\datatable};&#xA;    \addlegendentry{answers}&#xA;    \end{axis}&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to get &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ly3nI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ly3nI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80496" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-08-01T22:59:24.503" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T22:59:24.503" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7901" CreationDate="2018-08-03T23:52:02.193" Score="21" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;TUG is considering making all publications to TUGboat open-access.  To this end they have started a survey.  The survey also addresses non-members, so to be representative it needs as many participants as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not being directly about the site itself, I think this would greatly influence the TeX community which this site is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello TUG member!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The TUG board is considering making TUGboat a fully open access journal,&#xA;  with all material immediately available online to anyone, upon publication.&#xA;  (We expect the print journal to continue to be produced unchanged.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We only want to do this if it will help TUG, not hurt it. Memberships&#xA;  are what pay the bills, and we just cannot predict whether this change&#xA;  would cause a crash in memberships or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thus, we ask you to carefully consider and answer the one-question survey at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/TUGboat/survey.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://tug.org/TUGboat/survey.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;about the effect this change would have on your renewing your membership.&#xA;  It is completely anonymous. (Please only submit it once.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks for your support of TUG,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TUG Board of Directors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-08-17T16:38:12.750" LastActivityDate="2018-11-07T04:22:45.433" Title="TUGboat open-access survey" Tags="|discussion|tug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-04T20:41:55.670" Score="9" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier this evening, I posted an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/444620/5001&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to the query &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/444616/5001&quot;&gt;Coloring in Table of contents&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I was already at the daily limit for rep points prior to posting this answer, the first 3 upvotes didn't increase my rep total. Nothing unexpected so far. But then something novel and quite unexpected happened: The &lt;em&gt;fourth&lt;/em&gt; upvote yielded two [2!] more rep points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/87Hf4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/87Hf4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, this is the very first time that I've received 2 points for an upvoted answer, instead of the customary 10 points. (Of course, one doesn't get 10 points after the daily rep point limit is reached.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: Is my receiving these 2 rep points due to (a) some new site-wide policy regarding rep points, (b) some site-specific software glitch, or (c) some other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two additional pieces of information: (a) No downvotes, and hence no un-downvotes, today -- or, for that matter, in at least a month. (b) The answer that generated 2 rep points upon the fourth upvote received no rep points upon a subsequent firth upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2018-08-05T01:04:40.827" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T09:50:40.000" Title="How or why does one gain 2 rep points for posting an answer?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7770" CreationDate="2018-08-05T09:50:40.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This morning, about 10 hours after I posted my query, I re-checked my rep count for yesterday. At present, this rep count is back to &lt;code&gt;+245&lt;/code&gt;, i.e., down 2 points from the &lt;code&gt;+247&lt;/code&gt; tally shown in the screenshot posted in my query. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have received no explanation for why I received 2 rep points for the fourth upvote of my answer to &quot;Coloring in Table of contents&quot;. And, I've received no explanation for why the 2 points were taken off subsequently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to think that the correct answer to my question, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is my receiving these 2 rep points due to (a) some new site-wide policy regarding rep points, (b) some site-specific software glitch, or (c) some other reason? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is simply&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(b) some site-specific software glitch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T09:50:40.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7773" CreationDate="2018-08-05T15:13:05.763" Score="3" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a novice TikZ user, I can only draw some lines after spending hours reading the TikZ manual, which made me go with Adobe Illustrator to quickly draw what I want despite the ton of features I left behind by not drawing with TikZ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I thought many times of asking &lt;code&gt;How to draw this?&lt;/code&gt; questions, but quickly realized that I will get the typical response of &lt;code&gt;Show us what you have tried&lt;/code&gt;. However, what if I don't know the basic knowledge that can make me able to go to a starting point since the manual can swallow me for days without knowing what I should do or where I can start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my main question is: can TikZ experts be tolerant and not push the user for having an MWE considering that even an initial MWE is difficult for some of the OPs including me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="2288" LastEditDate="2018-08-05T16:44:14.563" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T23:57:27.233" Title="Can TikZ/PGF experts be lenient with the existence of MWE?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7772" CreationDate="2018-08-05T21:00:35.253" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can add incomplete MWEs, here is an example (with bonus frustration)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{..., ..., ...}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;  \begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;  % I have these coords&#xA;  \coordinate (A) at (0,0);&#xA;  \coordinate (B) at (1,1);&#xA;  ...&#xA;  % How the $☢@# can I make the following work? &#xA;  \somemagicaltikzstuff&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  % but there should be something like this &#xA;  \draw[nicely=True, easily=0.5] from (A) to (B);&#xA;&#xA;  \end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Picture of what I want]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Picture of what I have] (optional)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then others will know exactly what the problem is and how to fill in the missing parts. This is of course not set in stone but makes the life of others much easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T21:00:35.253" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-06T22:19:27.953" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I adding the images of last mounth because I receive any downvotes by some user who does not tell me what's wrong with my question/answer. I wonder whether there is any reason for this. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/suygP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/suygP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRNcg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRNcg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/094wr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/094wr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T22:19:27.953" Title="Explanations for continue downvotes" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7772" CreationDate="2018-08-06T23:57:27.233" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need a drawing quickly for a current publication there is nothing wrong with making it in illustrator or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asking a question it always helps to give a MWE (as Samcarter commented even if it's only &lt;code&gt;documentclass...&lt;/code&gt;  but if you started to draw a sample figure and get stuck it is far better to ask about &lt;em&gt;just that one item&lt;/em&gt;. So rather than ask how to draw a complete aircraft schematic &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/114847&quot;&gt;for which systems other than tikz&lt;/a&gt; may be more suitable anyway, just ask about one thing, how to do a shadow or a fill or some 3d perspective effect or whatever. So basically you should always be able to make a MWE being the drawing up to the point at which you need to ask a question, the end result of the question doesn't need to be an answer with a publication-quality plot, just something that illustrates one of the (many:-) dark corners of tikz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T23:57:27.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-07T07:13:56.493" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am slowly becoming a frequent user in this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in this site, I am wondering is there analytics to see which is (are) the peak hour(s) (on an average).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if possible, are there any ways for me to see those stats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastActivityDate="2018-08-07T07:13:56.493" Title="Peak hour in tex.SE" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2018-08-08T06:31:38.837" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-07T15:39:35.403" Score="15" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since that happened to me a few times, I am wondering how to deal with the following question. A user asks a question, gets an answer, seems to be happy with it, and accepts it. Some time later, (s)he changes her or his mind, and wants some additional feature. (The &quot;some time later&quot; part is important here, I am not talking about some immediate requests.) Then the user would &quot;unaccept&quot; the answer, and only accept it again if the additional request is met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/446124/121799&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a concrete example for such a living question. (I stress that I do not want to criticize the OP, who is a rather new user and asks very interesting and clear questions. However, what I do want to achieve is that the unacceptance of egregs nice answer gets reversed, and that the additional requirements become part of a new question. Egreg's answer in its current form will be useful for many.) In this example, a question got asked, an excellent answer was given, and accepted. So far, so good. The unfortunate part is that the answer got unaccepted later and the question got extended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several reasons why I don't like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original question may be of interest for other users. Modifying it later to become considerably different will erase some potentially useful information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user has &lt;em&gt;lower&lt;/em&gt; chances that her or his new request will be addressed because updated question is not at the top of the list. Only the answerer will know immediately about this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't see a reason why someone would do that. After all, the questions are free.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is how to deal with such situations. One way to go would be some sort of agreement that no one will answer such questions. I'm pretty confident that this would prevent the situations described above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main question: how should one deal with such situations? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-08-20T21:47:11.877" LastActivityDate="2018-08-20T21:47:11.877" Title="How to deal with &quot;living&quot; or &quot;evolving&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2868" CreationDate="2018-08-08T21:04:51.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cockos.com/licecap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Licecap&lt;/a&gt;. It provides the end user with &quot;simple animated screen captures&quot; and functions on all major distributions (Windows, OSX, Linux). Features include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Record directly to .GIF or .LCF.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Move the screen capture frame while recording.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pause and restart recording, with optional inserted text messages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Global hotkey (&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Space&lt;/kbd&gt;) to toggle pausing while recording&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adjustable maximum recording frame rate, to allow throttling CPU usage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Basic title frame, with or without text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Record mouse button presses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Display elapsed time in the recording.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-08-08T21:04:51.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-09T10:47:26.327" Score="5" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often (or mostly) we all encounter, when a new user asks a question that there is no &lt;code&gt;MWE&lt;/code&gt; (done that myself). Also, we mostly ask them to post an &lt;code&gt;MWE&lt;/code&gt; via comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, apart from giving a tour of the site when they join, will it be a good idea to inform the users (only when they ask their first or first-few questions) about the &lt;code&gt;MWE&lt;/code&gt;? For instance, a &lt;code&gt;marque&lt;/code&gt; or a &lt;code&gt;highlight&lt;/code&gt; on top of the page where the question is being typed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastActivityDate="2019-04-27T02:03:01.913" Title="Informing new-users about the MWE" Tags="|discussion|questions|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:06:38.673" Score="-67" ViewCount="4981" Body="&lt;p&gt;We rolled out the new site theme for TeX. It is now live. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What new theme?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're like, &quot;What the heck are you talking about?&quot;, then you should read the Meta Stack Exchange post entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312365/rollout-of-new-network-site-themes&quot;&gt;Rollout of new network site themes&lt;/a&gt;  (and maybe the posts it links to for the full background).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Your help needed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are one of the first sites to get a new, unified theme. I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7743/new-tex-site-theme-coming-soon&quot;&gt;previously posted the designs for theme&lt;/a&gt; in meta. The feedback given to that post was considered prior to rolling out the theme. Please help us look for issues/bugs and post the details (including images where needed) as an answer below. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have concerns or issues regarding the left nav then &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/310908/live-left-nav-new-theming-and-responsiveness&quot;&gt;this Meta Stack Exchange post&lt;/a&gt; is the right place for feedback. If you have issues with any functionality that is unrelated to the new theme, then please post a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166416" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-09-06T14:50:49.173" LastActivityDate="2018-11-14T05:56:48.703" Title="TeX new site theme is live" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="38" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:33:47.893" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Code highlighting colours&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy to see that the final theme turned out less blue than I feared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code highlighting is blue, however, and I would love to see it back in its older, warmer colours&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/27BcR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/27BcR.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/444016/35864 showing code hgighlighting in blue&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T20:16:25.170" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:35:54.033" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Badges on meta&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On meta the badge seem to be missing a bit on the left&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NCnAI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NCnAI.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of a user profile on meta, the circular badges all miss a bit on the left&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T16:55:59.957" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T16:55:59.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:40:39.230" Score="32" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Tag curly brackets&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love for the tags to get back their curly brackets, but I fear that has been struck down finally (I'll still try though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Tag colours&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue of the tags just does not fit well to the rest of the colour scheme. Would it be possible to find more suitable colours for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Post-owner box colour&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The box of the question owner is also blue, again not fitting the rest of the colour scheme&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CbDtk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CbDtk.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of a question with the question owner box in blue&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-15T22:06:28.560" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T22:06:28.560" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:41:56.893" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The background image&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7744/128068&quot;&gt;the original discussion&lt;/a&gt; about the background image (from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7743/new-tex-site-theme-coming-soon&quot;&gt;New TeX site theme coming soon&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was some discussion about the placement of the background picture in the site mockups. In the mockups, the header design was squeezed into the right hand corner. This made it difficult to recognise the writing/symbols because they were very small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This size issue has been addressed in the latest redesign, and the header image has been made bigger and placed more centrally. However, in its current form, it's actually &lt;em&gt;impossible&lt;/em&gt; to recognise the writing/symbols because they have nearly all been partially cut off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The new site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bSImr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bSImr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare it to the original site&lt;/strong&gt; - where the writing/symbols are not cut off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xqKX6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xqKX6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new site design has a thinner header than before. Trying to squeeze the old design into this space seems unsatisfactory because elements get cut off. So perhaps a new design is needed for the header? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that when @samcarter brought up the issue of the header being too small, the redesigns that were proposed did not involve elements being partially cut off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, see this proposal below, which re-positions the elements and removes the dark shaded triangle. The original purpose of the dark shaded triangle was to emphasise the &lt;code&gt;{TeX}&lt;/code&gt; logo, but it feels out of place once the &lt;code&gt;{TeX}&lt;/code&gt; logo is no longer on top of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One of the proposals by @samcarter&lt;/strong&gt; (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7744/128068&quot;&gt;the original discussion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3G05J.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3G05J.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-15T22:03:33.143" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T22:03:33.143" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:45:54.940" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Fonts on meta&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the main site retained its serifs in titles, the meta site did not. It has sans serif titles. I'm not sure if that is intentional, but this certainly takes away from the &quot;meta is greyscaled main&quot; effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T16:48:53.767" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T16:48:53.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7787" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:51:56.697" Score="55" ViewCount="1930" Body="&lt;p&gt;A collection of user scripts to make the main site look a bit better again, after the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7781/11002&quot;&gt;new design has gone live on August 3, 2018&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scripts can be used e.g. with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tampermonkey (Chrome)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Greasemonkey (Firefox)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7811/&quot;&gt;fix for recent versions of Firefox and GreaseMonkey (4.x)&lt;/a&gt; by @PaulGaborit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7824/128068&quot;&gt;userContent.css example&lt;/a&gt; by @Skillmon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7817/128068&quot;&gt;Adjusting the fonts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8653/2693&quot;&gt;Adjusting the line spacing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7903/36296&quot;&gt;Badge icons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7808/&quot;&gt;Bring back the top bar links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7826/128068&quot;&gt;Centre the TeX logo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7789/&quot;&gt;Change the background image&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7828/128068&quot;&gt;Change the colour of the items in 'Active', 'Featured', 'Hot', 'Week', 'Month' buttons.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7813/36296&quot;&gt;Changing colour of questions with accepted answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7807/&quot;&gt;Declutter the right hand side bar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7809/&quot;&gt;Disable left hand menu side bar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7840/36296&quot;&gt;Disable responsiveness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7831/128068&quot;&gt;Make the content area wider&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7816/36296&quot;&gt;Making the community bulletin less yellowish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7788/&quot;&gt;Making the white background less white&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7834/128068&quot;&gt;Recreating the old header&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7805/&quot;&gt;Remove blue background from the post owner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7814/128068&quot;&gt;Remove borders around boxes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7812/36296&quot;&gt;Replace TeX logo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7791/&quot;&gt;Restore {Tag} braces&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7801/&quot;&gt;Restore the old code appearance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7791/&quot;&gt;Restore the old voting icons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7815/128068&quot;&gt;Shrinking/moving the right hand sidebar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7825/128068&quot;&gt;Suppress &amp;quot;Watched Tags&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Ignored Tags&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7833/128068&quot;&gt;Turn boxed navigation into tabs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-08-29T20:00:51.630" LastActivityDate="2020-08-29T21:25:40.723" Title="Make TeX.SX look nice again!" 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  <row Id="7788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:52:34.463" Score="17" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Making the white background less white&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        _TeX SE, Swap background colour&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     #content {&#xA;        background-color:#fefef6  !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g6bh6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g6bh6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the exact colour can be adjusted to fit your personal taste, at the moment it matches the background colour outsides)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T16:08:22.137" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T16:08:22.137" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-09T16:27:45.973" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Change the image&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I managed to exchange the background image with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.site-header--container{&#xA;background-image: url(https://i.stack.imgur.com/9tasx.png)  !important;&#xA;background-size: 5% !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the size of 5% must be adapted to the picture you use)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3VhcB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3VhcB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I only need to make a good image with lots of ducks and bears ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Some possible images to choose from:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1d1sg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1d1sg.png&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1d1sg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1d1sg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A99lA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A99lA.png&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A99lA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A99lA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jkXH3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jkXH3.png&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jkXH3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jkXH3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/981KO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/981KO.png&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/981KO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/981KO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original image for own modification: &lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/bg-header-ill.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/bg-header-ill.png&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/bg-header-ill.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/bg-header-ill.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T22:01:28.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T16:36:56.713" Score="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of our suggestions in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7743/new-tex-site-theme-coming-soon&quot;&gt;New TeX site theme coming soon&lt;/a&gt; has been taken into consideration. None. You could have simply avoided asking about the changes and deploy them without notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, the Meta post about the site change might have been:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear users of TeX.StackExchange, in a few days our sites will become all the same as Stack Overflow, because we like that site's design. Best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dislike the new design with all my heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least, could you make the code display as before? Now it's too tight and the coloring is awful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Previous and current&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dVZSx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dVZSx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AJBbZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AJBbZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="166416" LastEditDate="2018-08-13T17:55:49.543" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T17:55:49.543" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-09T16:56:48.553" Score="20" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Restore {Tag} braces&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, braced tags&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .post-tag::before {&#xA;        content: &quot;{&quot;;&#xA;     }&#xA;     .post-tag::after {&#xA;        content: &quot;}&quot;;&#xA;     }&#xA;     .post-tag {&#xA;        border-width: 0pt !important;&#xA;        color: #444 !important;&#xA;        background-color: transparent !important;&#xA;        padding: 0pt !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/150YJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/150YJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Restore the old voting icons&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, legacy vote icons&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .vote-accepted-on, .vote-accepted-off, .vote-up-on, .vote-up-off, .vote-down-on, .vote-down-off, .star-on, .star-off {&#xA;        background-image: url(&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/sprites.svg&quot;) !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;     .vote-up-on, .vote-up-off, .vote-down-on, .vote-down-off {&#xA;        height: 48px !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wfyHJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wfyHJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80496" LastEditorUserId="80496" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T21:23:47.637" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T21:23:47.637" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T17:22:36.523" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Too many different colour shades&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are too many different colour shades. Take for example this small part of the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9vRtO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9vRtO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It includes 3 different shades of red. The colour of the TeX logo is much brighter and the colours of the upvoted question button and the &amp;quot;Ask Question&amp;quot; button look like they ought to be the same but are slightly different - this looks odd!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a colour picker tool, I get the following colours for the elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the TeX logo: 194/73/74&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask Question button: 159/57/61&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvoted button: 153/71/68&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T16:53:15.103" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T18:11:52.987" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The background colour of the content area&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the site mockup that was posted in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7743/new-tex-site-theme-coming-soon&quot;&gt;New TeX site theme coming soon&lt;/a&gt;, the background colour of the content area was the familiar warm colour it has always been. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The original mockup&lt;/strong&gt; - posted by @JoeFriend&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6hp6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6hp6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in the new site, this has been changed to white...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The new site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FSbFC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FSbFC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the reaction &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7788/128068&quot;&gt;Making the white background less white&lt;/a&gt; is getting in the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7787/make-the-site-look-nice-again&quot;&gt;Make TeX.SX look nice again!&lt;/a&gt;, it seems a lot of users much prefer the warm look of the original site design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, this change to a white background has arguably made the blue tags stick out more, which is what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7784/128068&quot;&gt;Tag colours post&lt;/a&gt; by @moewe is addressing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it intentional to change this from what was being proposed to us? Because we were never consulted on this particular change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T16:49:38.867" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T16:49:38.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T18:32:19.260" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fixed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fixed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fixed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Question titles&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new titles look like they're squeezed to half there natural width. Perhaps it's just me, but it looks odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastEditorUserId="117050" LastEditDate="2018-08-16T17:11:36.267" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T17:11:36.267" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T18:54:54.197" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Comment field glow on Meta&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can live with the blue highlighting of a currently selected text input box on the main site, on Meta the box gets highlighted with a red border with green (or blue?) glow. Please change this and while you're at it, perhaps also change the blue from the main site and other input boxes to something warmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T16:40:22.387" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T16:40:22.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T19:12:27.527" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Boxes around everything&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it necessary to draw hard borders boxes around everything? In most places it isn't very intrusive but particularly bad looks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QvMsG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QvMsG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not speaking of the red box I drew to make it clear what I meant)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastEditorUserId="166416" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T19:20:11.857" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T19:20:11.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T19:22:38.633" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Inconsistent square boxes?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is a bug? In the site mockup posted in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7743/new-tex-site-theme-coming-soon&quot;&gt;New TeX site theme coming soon&lt;/a&gt;, the boxes around 'answers' had rounded edges which matched the design of the other boxed elements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The original mockup&lt;/strong&gt; - posted by @JoeFriend&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFU6U.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFU6U.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the new site, these boxes now have sharp corners?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The new site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CTgbS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CTgbS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it intentional to change this? I notice all other boxed elements have remained the same from the mockup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Following the update (11th August 2018)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boxes around answers are still inconsistent. On the 'Questions' page, the boxes have been changed to have rounded edges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BwneD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BwneD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, on the 'Home' page, they have square edges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TunQJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TunQJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing this is just a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="128068" LastEditDate="2018-08-11T14:57:26.460" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T14:57:26.460" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T20:43:16.933" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Please make old TeX logo and voting icons available for download&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way people can modify the site with the help of user scripts etc. to fit their taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The images can be found at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;old TeX logo: &lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/logo.png?v=da&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/logo.png?v=da&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;old voting buttons: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/sprites.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/sprites.svg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T17:11:22.190" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T21:12:53.267" Score="46" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Boycott this site until and unless the old look is restored! If it's not restored, let's say goodbye and good luck to this site entirely.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I say this? It's because I suspect that the only way that the powers that be will ever respect and listen to our views is if we -- and especially the most active users -- state unequivocally that we refuse to go along with the awful changes that have been foisted on us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hereby announce that starting immediately, I will no longer contribute any answers, not respond to queries, not issue any welcome messages to new users, and not provide any other forms of input to TeX.SE until the site's old look is either fully or at least mostly restored. For the next week or so, I will stop by maybe once a day, to check if the old look has been restored. That's all I will do. If in a week or so nothing positive has happened, I will ask the admins to delete all of my 5000+ answers, to delete all of my comments on other postings, and to strike all of the 30,000+ votes I've cast of other folks' answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's so special about me, you may ask? Not that much, in many ways. For what it may be worth, though, I've been quite active on this site for more than 7 years, and I recently became the user with the fifth-highest rep point total on TeX.SE. Once in a while, I happen to get a sappy message of praise from the powers that be, about how very much my contributions are valued. Well, let's see if this official valuation is sufficiently sincere to make the powers that be show even a tiny bit of regard for my opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T21:12:53.267" CommentCount="38" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-09T21:20:31.983" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I wholeheartedly agree with this attempt, I refuse to do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any site that has this much traffic should be able to hire proper UX experts and get rid of this mind-numbing stupid design. And I would like to emphasize that I choose my words very carefully. Anybody knows me over the years know that I really don't target any individuals but this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an incredibly bad design that has all the don't-do's of web design. Whoever with that diamond next to their nickname reading this; only either a cheap replacement or a really stupid team lead can go against years of design experience. Just google 100 busiest sites and look at how many of them has still 3 column design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unbelievable that you have this many experts, and you end up with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T21:20:31.983" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-09T22:02:21.880" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; The style has been fixed in the &quot;vanilla&quot; website. This change seems no longer necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Restore the old code appearance&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, code display&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .kwd, .dec {&#xA;         color: #894a16  !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;     .pun {&#xA;         color: #c11c21  !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;     .prettyprint {&#xA;         line-height: 1.5  !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an approximate attempt based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7790/106069&quot;&gt;egreg's screenshot in the linked thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jOxIV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jOxIV.png&quot; alt=&quot;current&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hSt1K.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hSt1K.png&quot; alt=&quot;updated&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106069" LastEditorUserId="106069" LastEditDate="2018-08-11T09:12:18.387" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T09:12:18.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T22:33:50.203" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note: I had to upvote Mico's answer, he has a point. And actually, SE should be damn happy that this all happened after TUG AGM (TeX Users Group Annual General Meeting). If the timing was slightly different, you would very likely be mentioned there and it would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a nice mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to make things clear, regular participants to TUG meetings have TeX.SE reputations (and ranks): 673k (rank 1), 461k (rank 2), 194k (rank 8 + mod), 175k (rank 12), 68k, 57k, 38k etc. You are ignoring these peoples' opinions, and note that these people gather at TUG meetings because they are of the most important developers in the current TeX world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, as a member of TUG and a participant in the AGM, I would have proposed to the TUG Board to look into options how to migrate content from TeX.SE to a TUG hosted website. And the reason is not &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; particular change in design; it's the long-standing policy of ignoring sites' beautiful looks. I understand that SE becomes an internet Titanic, but maybe this is just another reason why to quit it before it sanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T22:33:50.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T22:37:00.453" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, remove the serif fonts in titles (and everywhere), they simply do not fit in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-15T22:12:55.467" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T22:12:55.467" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T22:38:54.933" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On narrow screens, the content area is very small, on top of the site it's as low as 23%, after scrolling down it goes to 44%. That's way too low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either make the sidebars shrinkable or make them collapse much sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="166416" LastEditDate="2018-08-13T18:40:40.400" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T18:40:40.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-09T22:48:59.970" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Remove blue background from the post owner&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you who aren't fans of the new blue colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PecA5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PecA5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZPgiO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZPgiO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can make it &lt;code&gt;transparent&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, remove post owner background&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .owner {&#xA;        background-color: transparent !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you can change it to whatever colour you want. Using &lt;code&gt;#f7f0de&lt;/code&gt; returns it to how it used to be. Note that I have my content area background colour set to &lt;code&gt;#fefefa&lt;/code&gt; as shown in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7788/128068&quot;&gt;Making the white background less white&lt;/a&gt; by @samcarter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mk2vU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mk2vU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .owner {&#xA;        background-color: #f7f0de !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="128068" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T23:05:48.680" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T23:05:48.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-09T23:26:06.017" Score="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Width of main content&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tM6Ee.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tM6Ee.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Added .gif by @Milo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0NooK.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0NooK.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise the middle section is just the boring bit where the users chat about their interests and the sidebars are the interesting places where stackexchange can insert revenue earning links, but really is it too much to ask that a question and answer site leaves more room for the questions and answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image shown is with the browser not full screen but not at a particularly unusual width, full screen the question/answer posts are still cramped with space lost to the more or less useless left bar and apparently completely dead space to the left of the left sidebar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ozQ6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ozQ6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just focused on the column layout here but other aspects mentioned in other answers such as colouring, and ugly boxing make the site a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; less pleasant to use than it was previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="166416" LastEditDate="2018-08-13T18:28:27.863" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T18:28:27.863" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T01:35:19.720" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Declutter the right hand side bar&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a proposal which declutters the right hand side bar, which I often find is filled with things I don't want to see - e.g. the newsletter sign up, the blog/meta sidebar and hot network questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Home page - before and after&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S2Bjh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S2Bjh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question page - before and after&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pm4Wj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pm4Wj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name       TeX SE, declutter right hand sidebar&#xA;// @match      *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @match      *://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;var bar = document.getElementsByClassName('module community-bulletin')&#xA;for (var i = 0; i &amp;lt; bar.length; i ++) {&#xA;    bar[i].style.display = 'none';&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    var bar = document.getElementById('hot-network-questions');&#xA;    if (bar) bar.style.display=&quot;none&quot;;&#xA;})();&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    var bar = document.getElementById('newsletter-ad');&#xA;    if (bar) bar.style.display=&quot;none&quot;;&#xA;})();&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    var bar = document.getElementById('chat-feature');&#xA;    if (bar) bar.style.display=&quot;none&quot;;&#xA;})();&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    var bar = document.getElementById('feed-link');&#xA;    if (bar) bar.style.display=&quot;none&quot;;&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="128068" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T12:49:18.843" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T12:49:18.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T01:53:42.433" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Bring back the top bar links&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jYRuz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jYRuz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/7938/top-navigation-bar-script&quot;&gt;Top Navigation Bar script&lt;/a&gt; on stackapps.com. In particular see the modified solution by @samcarter - &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/a/7974&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/a/7974&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T01:53:42.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T02:15:30.953" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Disable left hand menu side bar&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note this is not a user script, this feature is built into the StackExchange website.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been mentioned in the comments, but just for reference here are the full steps outlining how to disable the left  hand menu side bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The new default layout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gm7F9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gm7F9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To disable this go to '&lt;strong&gt;Edit Profile &amp;amp; Settings&lt;/strong&gt;' - you can find this by going to your TeX.SE user profile page. Note that from your meta user profile page it appears as just '&lt;strong&gt;Settings&lt;/strong&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under '&lt;strong&gt;Site Settings&lt;/strong&gt;' click '&lt;strong&gt;Preferences&lt;/strong&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then in the '&lt;strong&gt;Navigation&lt;/strong&gt;' section you will see '&lt;strong&gt;Hide left navigation&lt;/strong&gt;' and can activate this setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S7JZQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S7JZQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The result&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yM69b.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yM69b.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you can access the menu by clicking the three horizontal lines which now appear to the left of the StackExchange logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SGEWX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SGEWX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="128068" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T10:12:59.450" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T10:12:59.450" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-10T07:41:04.280" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-norepro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-norepro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reviewing the Low Quality Posts with Google Crome on Wimdows 10 I get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1bOR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1bOR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I shift the bar to make the other options on the top right appear, I get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BDG1u.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BDG1u.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text of the post is shifted but the buttons don't show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T23:32:31.480" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T09:42:40.557" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;GreaseMonkey 4.x example&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;With recent versions of Firefox and GreaseMonkey (4.x), the &lt;code&gt;GM_addStyle&lt;/code&gt; function is no longer provided.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my script with a new &lt;code&gt;GM_addStyle&lt;/code&gt; function (new constraint: just one CSS rule by call):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, my modifications&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @run-at      document-end&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;function GM_addStyle(css) {&#xA;  const style = document.getElementById(&quot;GM_addStylePG&quot;) || (function() {&#xA;    const style = document.createElement('style');&#xA;    style.type = 'text/css';&#xA;    style.id = &quot;GM_addStylePG&quot;;&#xA;    document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style);&#xA;    return style;&#xA;  })();&#xA;  // console.log(css);&#xA;  const sheet = style.sheet;&#xA;  // console.log(sheet);&#xA;  sheet.insertRule(css, sheet.cssRules.length);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .post-tag::before {&#xA;        content: &quot;{&quot;;&#xA;     }&#xA;`);&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .post-tag::after {&#xA;        content: &quot;}&quot;;&#xA;     }&#xA;`);&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .post-tag {&#xA;        border-width: 0pt !important;&#xA;        color: #444 !important;&#xA;        background-color: transparent !important;&#xA;        padding: 0pt !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .kwd, .dec {&#xA;         color: #894a16  !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;`);&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .pun {&#xA;         color: #c11c21  !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;`);&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .prettyprint {&#xA;         line-height: 1.5  !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14500" LastEditorUserId="14500" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T12:19:42.670" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T12:19:42.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T11:57:14.177" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Replacing TeX logo&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the new TeX logo is too bright. The following script replaced it with a tuned down version (based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/119556/192282&quot;&gt;fantastic answer of Brock Adams&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        StackExchange TEX, replace logo&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @require     https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;    .site-header--link &amp;gt; img {&#xA;        width:  135px;  /* Sizes taken from default/native logo*/&#xA;        height: 47px;&#xA;    }&#xA;` );&#xA;&#xA;document.addEventListener (&amp;quot;DOMContentLoaded&amp;quot;, tweakLogo);&#xA;&#xA;function tweakLogo () {&#xA;    var siteLogo = $(&amp;quot;.site-header--link&amp;quot;);&#xA;    if (siteLogo.length === 0) {&#xA;        console.error (&amp;quot;TRB userscript: Site logo not found. Page structure changed?&amp;quot;);&#xA;        return;&#xA;    }&#xA;    //- Change image&#xA;    siteLogo.find (&amp;quot;img&amp;quot;).attr (&amp;quot;src&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;//i.stack.imgur.com/nwd7Y.png&amp;quot;);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AYZSo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AYZSo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T12:02:39.303" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T13:01:20.800" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Changing colour of questions with accepted answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following script changes the colour of this green square&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MNXii.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MNXii.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GRpQx.png&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        StackExchange TEX, Swap accept square&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .answered-accepted{&#xA;          background-color:#4c9067  !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T14:02:31.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T13:21:37.580" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Remove borders around boxes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Motivated by @Skillmon posting about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7796/128068&quot;&gt;Boxes around everything&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7781/tex-new-site-theme-is-live/&quot;&gt;TeX new site theme is live&lt;/a&gt;, this is a script to remove the border around the 'Active', 'Featured', 'Hot', 'Week', 'Month' buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Before&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p16oM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p16oM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;After&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A1AeZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A1AeZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code&lt;/strong&gt; - with thanks to @UlrikeFischer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Updated with &lt;code&gt;border-radius&lt;/code&gt; set to &lt;code&gt;0px&lt;/code&gt;, so the rounded corners go as well, as these have no relevance once the border is gone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, remove borders&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @match       *://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;    .s-btn {&#xA;        border-style: none !important;&#xA;        border-radius: 0px !important;&#xA;      }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="128068" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T17:26:07.063" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T17:26:07.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T13:28:18.577" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Shrinking/moving the right hand sidebar&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the browser window is really narrow, the right sidebar disappears. That is good. And when it it really wide, it doesn't take up too much space, I think. But at intermediate widths, it is too dominating, taking space away from the main content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do we need the sidebar on a question page, anyhow? &lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Because we want to have the “Related” module. See below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;New&lt;/strong&gt;) So instead, on a question page, we reduce the sidebar to &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; the “Related” module, and move it from the sidebar position to sit underneath the mainbar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following can be imported directly into &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openstyles/stylus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylus&lt;/a&gt; using the Import button. The first part (above the blank line) fix #1, and the rest fixes #3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackexchange.com&quot;) {&#xA;#sidebar { max-width: 25%; }&#xA;#mainbar { min-width: calc(75% - 24px); }&#xA;&#xA;body.question-page div#mainbar { width: 100%; }&#xA;body.question-page div#sidebar &amp;gt; :not(.sidebar-related) { display:none }&#xA;body.question-page div#sidebar { float: none; clear: both; width: 100%; max-width: 100%; }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adjust the percentages to taste, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Equivalent code for Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey&lt;/strong&gt; - added by @Milo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, shrink right hand sidebar&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @match       *://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     #sidebar {&#xA;             max-width: 25% ;&#xA;      }&#xA;     #mainbar {&#xA;             min-width: calc(75% - 24px);&#xA;      }&#xA;     .question-page #sidebar {&#xA;             display: none;&#xA;      }&#xA;     .question-page #mainbar {&#xA;             width: 100%;&#xA;      }&#xA;&#xA;     body.question-page div#mainbar {&#xA;             width: 100%;&#xA;      }&#xA;     body.question-page div#sidebar &amp;gt; :not(.sidebar-related) {&#xA;             display:none&#xA;      }&#xA;     body.question-page div#sidebar {&#xA;             float: none;&#xA;             clear: both;&#xA;             width: 100%;&#xA;             max-width: 100%;&#xA;      }&#xA;   ` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1424" LastEditorUserId="1424" LastEditDate="2018-08-18T20:52:23.083" LastActivityDate="2018-08-18T20:52:23.083" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T13:32:42.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Making the community bulletin less yellowish&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        StackExchange TEX, Swap Bulletin Color&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;&#xA;     .module.community-bulletin{&#xA;           background-color:#fdfbed !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DctYZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DctYZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T13:32:42.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-10T15:27:46.507" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Adjusting the fonts&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how the fonts in the old site used to look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The old site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FOwHS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FOwHS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the font used for the question titles was bigger beforehand. This point has been raised by @Skillmon in the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7794/128068&quot;&gt;Question titles&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7781/tex-new-site-theme-is-live&quot;&gt;TeX new site theme is live&lt;/a&gt; - &amp;quot;new titles look like they're squeezed&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The new 'squeezed' question titles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ry6z0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ry6z0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increasing the &lt;code&gt;font-size&lt;/code&gt; of the questions improves this somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P60hY.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P60hY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the font of the body text (e.g. as seen in the question excerpt and tags) is not what it used to be. I leave this as an open problem for others to try and solve. Please do improve this code to try and return the look and feel of the text as it used to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, adjusting fonts&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @match       *://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;.question-hyperlink {&#xA;    font-size: 18px;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T15:32:47.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-10T18:56:01.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like the new layout because the avatars and screen shots look now soooo much better in comparison. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T18:56:01.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7819" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-10T20:24:38.450" Score="-1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't some users add images when posting a question or answer? I believe that, at least for me, sometimes when the question is not very clear, the drawing helps to understand what you want. Do you think it is possible to insert an &lt;strong&gt;automatic alert&lt;/strong&gt; between &lt;em&gt;options, delete, flag, closed&lt;/em&gt;, etc.. where you ask to insert an image?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T14:23:49.497" Title="Insert an image into a MWE of a question or answer" Tags="|discussion|design|images|new-users|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-10T21:26:38.960" Score="34" ViewCount="492" Body="&lt;p&gt;The page asking for comments on the new site design is so heavily downvoted that it doesn't appear on the Active Meta page, nor does it appear in the Hot meta questions. It intermittently appears on the Featured on Meta for reasons that aren't quite clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we upvote this question, we can make this question appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7781/2693&quot;&gt;TeX new site theme is live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't post your comments on the site design here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T23:28:56.677" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T23:28:56.677" Title="Comments on the new site design" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-10T23:02:02.460" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-90s-calling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-90s-calling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-90s-calling&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/boxes-boxes-everywhere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boxes-boxes-everywhere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boxes-boxes-everywhere&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/look-even-tags-are-boxes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;look-even-tags-are-boxes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;look-even-tags-are-boxes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-if-yahoo-can-why-shouldnt-we&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-if-yahoo-can-why-shouldnt-we&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-if-yahoo-can-why-shouldnt-we&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/screen-space-is-overrated&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen-space-is-overrated&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen-space-is-overrated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget to install our favorite Stackexchange AOL toolbar and SE! Messenger&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6qCh0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6qCh0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3235" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T23:02:02.460" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-11T06:59:46.597" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Tab colours&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the new non-white background colour (thank you for that change!) the &quot;tabs&quot; for sorting questions or in the review queue don't integrate seamless into the rest of the page any more. They are still white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could argue that this is intended for tags that are not selected since they stand out from the background that way, but it looks odd for the active tab, which looks like it should be connected seamlessly to the content below it (it has no lower border).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cEVyM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cEVyM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tabs to sort answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the effect is more visible if the background colour is a bit darker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/logXe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/logXe.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tabs to sort answers with background colour turned to pink so the effect is more pronounced&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(added by @Milo) Note the problem also occurs on your user profile page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ow25k.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ow25k.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YaPJD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YaPJD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-15T22:11:15.550" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T22:11:15.550" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-11T07:48:27.387" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I add a new comment and I want to change something i can edit it, when i come back 1 hour later I only have the possibility to delete my comment, but I can't edit my own comment, the symbol is grayed out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it has to do something with 50 reputation treshold.&#xA;Wouldn't it be better to enable user from begin on to edit their own comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167906" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T07:48:27.387" Title="Why can't I edit my own comments after some time has passed?" Tags="|discussion|comments|reputation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-11T08:29:22.687" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;userContent.css example&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the site without any addons in Firefox (guaranteed to work on Firefox 61.0.2 but should work on other versions, too):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Linux create a file &lt;code&gt;~/.mozilla/firefox/&amp;lt;your-profile-id&amp;gt;/chrome/userContent.css&lt;/code&gt; (I do not know the correct folder on Windows). In this file you can specify rules for specific domains with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(tex.stackexchange.com), domain(tex.meta.stackexchange.com) {&#xA;    /* your rules here */&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Windows you can find the correct folder to put the &lt;code&gt;userContent.css&lt;/code&gt; into with &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/a/319322/393639&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/a/319322/393639&lt;/a&gt; (thanks @BMWurm for sharing that link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In it you can specify any css content (I don't think that functions work). Changes to that file require a Firefox restart to take effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. my current file looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(tex.stackexchange.com), domain(tex.meta.stackexchange.com) {&#xA;    .post-tag::before { content:&quot;{&quot;; }&#xA;    .post-tag::after { content:&quot;}&quot;; }&#xA;    .post-tag {&#xA;        border-width:0pt !important;&#xA;        color:#444 !important;&#xA;        background-color:transparent !important;&#xA;        padding:0pt !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    #sidebar {&#xA;        max-width:20% !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    .module.community-bulletin{&#xA;        background-color:#fdfbed !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    #sidebar .related a.question-hyperlink{font-size:12px !important;}&#xA;    #mainbar { min-width:77.5% !important; }&#xA;    .question-hyperlink {&#xA;        font-size:16px !important;&#xA;        font-family:'DejaVu Serif' !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    .s-btn {&#xA;        border-style:none !important;&#xA;        border-radius:0px !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    .kwd, .dec {&#xA;        color:#894a16  !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    .pun {&#xA;        color:#c11c21  !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    .prettyprint {&#xA;        line-height:1.5  !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    .vote-accepted-on, .vote-accepted-off, .vote-up-on, .vote-up-off, .vote-down-on, .vote-down-off, .star-on, .star-off {&#xA;        background-image:url(&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/sprites.svg&quot;) !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;    .vote-up-on, .vote-up-off, .vote-down-on, .vote-down-off {&#xA;        height:48px !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results with my file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7wtiS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7wtiS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Credits for all those changes go to the other answers in this thread, I just tweaked some of them. Also @William provided&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#sidebar .related a.question-hyperlink{font-size:12px !important;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which lets you choose a different font for the sidebar's community bulletin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastEditorUserId="117050" LastEditDate="2018-08-13T13:59:22.047" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T13:59:22.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-11T11:20:40.647" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Suppress &quot;Watched Tags&quot; and &quot;Ignored Tags&quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#sidebar div.module.js-tag-preferences-container {&#xA;    display:none !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(No user-script code around it, I'm sure you can add it if you need it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T11:20:40.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-11T12:06:01.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Centre the TeX logo&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;div.site-header--container {&#xA;    justify-content:center !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y0qrg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y0qrg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T12:06:01.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7819" CreationDate="2018-08-11T12:53:14.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking for an image to illustrate the problem of an otherwise unclear question is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone posting an answer should be allowed to decide for themselves if he/she wants to add an image. Don't harass people with comments to include images if you are not involved in either the question or the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165927" LastEditorUserId="165927" LastEditDate="2018-08-11T14:23:49.497" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T14:23:49.497" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-11T13:26:03.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Change the colour of the items in 'Active', 'Featured', 'Hot', 'Week', 'Month' buttons.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following changes the colour of the active element in that top right nav bar (the ugly boxed one) to the same as &quot;Ask Question&quot; (I'm somewhat unhappy with that colour, but didn't manage to come up with a warm, beauty, fitting colour):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/* colour of selected */&#xA;.s-btn.is-selected {&#xA;    background-color: hsl(358, 47%, 42%) !important;&#xA;    color:white !important;&#xA;}&#xA;/* colour of hover */&#xA;.s-btn:hover {&#xA;    background-color: hsl(358, 47%, 84%) !important;&#xA;}&#xA;/* colour of the new elements counter (this colour choice is particularly bad, find something better! */&#xA;.bounty-indicator-tab{background:hsl(27, 53%, 38%) !important;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q6g1b.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q6g1b.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that in my picture below the ugly borders are removed thanks to @Milo and @UlrikeFischer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastEditorUserId="117050" LastEditDate="2018-08-11T13:44:06.643" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T13:44:06.643" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-11T14:14:03.743" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Colour of &quot;cancel&quot; button&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue colour of the &quot;cancel&quot; button seems odd (now that we finally god rid of all the other blue elements - thank a lot for the update!). I suggest to make it black or gray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2CLt1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2CLt1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="168224" LastEditDate="2018-08-15T22:09:37.403" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T22:09:37.403" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7854" CreationDate="2018-08-11T15:14:30.990" Score="11" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/445633/2288&quot;&gt;This question figure&lt;/a&gt; looks familiar to me since it is relevant to the heat conduction through the material, which is related to what I am currently working at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wonder if it is possible or beneficial to ask the tikz drawing questioner to write down in the title, for example, the technical name of this figure/drawing as widely used in their area since it will reduce the future requests of such similar figures and help anyone looking for such a drawing to put in their report, thesis, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T18:10:34.003" Title="Wouldn't it be helpful in the future if the TikZperts ask the OPs to write down the name/description of the requested drawing?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-11T15:26:37.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Make the content area wider&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the big complaints about the new design has been about the width of the main content area. As @DavidCarlisle remarks - &quot;full screen the question/answer posts are still cramped with space lost to the more or less useless left bar and apparently completely dead space to the left of the left sidebar&quot;. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7806/128068&quot;&gt;Width of main content&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7781/tex-new-site-theme-is-live/&quot;&gt;TeX new site theme is live&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a way to increase the width of the content area. (with thanks to @HaraldHanche-Olsen and @Skillmon)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can adjust the &lt;code&gt;min-width&lt;/code&gt; percentage accordingly. Note that &lt;code&gt;100%&lt;/code&gt; would make the content area stretch 'edge-to-edge' at full screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        TeX SE, increase width of content area&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @match       *://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;     .container {&#xA;        min-width: 90% !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;     #content {&#xA;        min-width: 90% !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JMTTT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JMTTT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GtMMc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GtMMc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128068" LastEditorUserId="128068" LastEditDate="2018-08-11T15:48:42.213" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T15:48:42.213" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-11T15:48:43.963" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Links are hard to notice&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the relative dark colour, links are hard to notice in posts and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a hidden object game for you. Who can find the link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TCrMg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TCrMg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T22:09:37.497" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-11T16:15:55.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Turn boxed navigation into tabs&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7814/35864&quot;&gt;Remove borders around boxes&lt;/a&gt;, this code tries to turn the ugly boxes into the tabs found elsewhere on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group .s-btn {&#xA;  border-width: 1px 1px 0 1px;&#xA;  border-color: transparent;&#xA;  border-radius: 0;&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group .s-btn:focus {&#xA;  box-shadow: none;&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a:before {&#xA;  content: &quot;&quot;;&#xA;  position: absolute;&#xA;  top: -1px;&#xA;  left: -1px;&#xA;  right: -1px;&#xA;  height: 2px;&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a.youarehere:after {&#xA;  content: &quot;&quot;;&#xA;  position: absolute;&#xA;  top: 30px;&#xA;  left: 0px;&#xA;  right: 0px;&#xA;  height: 2px;&#xA;  background-color: #fefefb;&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a:hover {&#xA;  background-color: hsl(46, 42%, 97%);&#xA;  border-color: hsl(46, 42%, 95%);&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a:focus {&#xA;  background-color: hsl(46, 42%, 80%);&#xA;  border-color: rgba(228, 230, 232, 0.25);&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a.youarehere {&#xA;  font-weight: 600;&#xA;  background-color: transparent;&#xA;  border-color: #e4e6e8;&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a.youarehere:hover {&#xA;  background-color: hsl(46, 42%, 90%);&#xA;  /*#efe9d7*/&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a.youarehere:focus {&#xA;  background-color: hsl(46, 42%, 70%);&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a.youarehere:before {&#xA;  background-color: #f69c55&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a.youarehere:hover:before {&#xA;  background-color: #f48024&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a.youarehere:hover:after {&#xA;  background-color: hsl(46, 42%, 90%);&#xA;}&#xA;.tabs-filter.s-btn-group a.youarehere:focus:after {&#xA;  background-color: hsl(46, 42%, 70%);&#xA;}&#xA;.mb16 {&#xA;  margin-bottom: 0px !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit:&lt;/em&gt; more specific CSS selectors for fewer &lt;code&gt;!important&lt;/code&gt;s and fewer possible seide-effects. Hack to integrate the tab seamlessly into the border below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iIXAD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iIXAD.png&quot; alt=&quot;navigation before: with boxes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mUAll.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mUAll.png&quot; alt=&quot;navigation after: with tabs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2018-08-12T06:38:11.217" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T06:38:11.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-11T16:24:30.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Recreating the old header&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My humble attempt to recreate the former page header. It is not finished yet, but @Milo asked for it (because it was in my screenshots). Feel free to edit the answer if you manage to get closer to the original page header.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here are my current &lt;code&gt;div.site-header--container&lt;/code&gt; settings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;div.site-header--container {&#xA;    justify-content:center !important;&#xA;    height:140px !important;&#xA;    background-image: url(https://i.stack.imgur.com/1otKE.png) !important;&#xA;    background-position:left top !important;&#xA;    background-size: 100% !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CmpFy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CmpFy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T16:24:30.473" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-11T19:49:19.457" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Recreating the stylograph pen&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like it to be restored the stylograph pen to which I was fond and gave a touch of class and elegance, and to eliminate the classic triangle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T19:49:19.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7837" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-12T08:49:26.017" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some cases I would like to have the possibility to use a linefeed in a comment, is there any way to do so? If i press enter the comment is posted immediatly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167906" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T08:49:26.017" Title="Linefeed in comments" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-12T12:07:06.290" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Hide tag-excerpt in the active question list&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please hide the tag excerpt on the active question tab of a tag, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex?sort=active&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biblatex?sort=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These information are accessible via the tag-info tab. Maybe the current behaviour is good for new users, but once a user has a certain amount of reputation or a badge for this tag, it seems like a waste of space to display it every single time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YL6v2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YL6v2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T12:36:52.490" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-12T12:20:58.303" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Highlight colour in tool bar&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The orange highlight colour when hovering with the mouse over one of the elements in the post tool bar seems out of place. Can it be replaced with the red TeX.SE color?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7sfnH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7sfnH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T12:20:58.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-08-12T15:20:14.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Disable responsiveness&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the responsiveness which squishes the interesting main column first while displaying left and right columns at full width, there are good news: it can be disabled with a link hidden at the very bottom of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGznV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGznV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T15:20:14.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-13T06:46:03.073" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This seems to have been fixed in the course of revisiting links for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7832/35864&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7832/35864&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Border below images&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On meta links are marked with an underline (which I personally quite like, this is definitely an option that could be explored re the links on the main site, which are hard to notice at times &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7832/35864&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7832/35864&lt;/a&gt;). Since images are usually included with a link here that means that images have a &quot;bottom border&quot; now, which looks odd&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GK06T.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GK06T.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of a question on this site with an image, a pixeled border runs along the bottom of the image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2018-08-17T19:57:15.570" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T19:57:15.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-13T09:03:50.420" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Title background&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7744/11002&quot;&gt;We asked about this before&lt;/a&gt;, but you seem to have missed that one (it got marked as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt; almost a month ago, but nothing happened), so I repost the request here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, do something about the title background. It does not make &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; sense as it is now. To make clear what I mean, here is a high contrast version of the spot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wOFU7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wOFU7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It used to be well thought and well designed, now it is not. I see two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask the community for new ideas on how this should look like. However, seeing how you ignore people's opinions, I'm not sure they will be willing to pu any effort into this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remove the thing altogether, as zero quality is more than negative quality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2018-08-16T09:01:11.447" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T09:01:11.447" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-13T09:21:05.890" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only buttons that bring you back to the &quot;home&quot; place are in the left column, whereas all people work with is in the main column (well, do you still consider it &quot;main&quot;?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, add some way in the main column to navigate back to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; when you are viewing a question. Before, there was no need to navigate away from the central column, and that was actually a nice feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G6AsS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G6AsS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T09:21:05.890" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-13T11:04:54.793" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Make &amp;quot;Disable Responsiveness&amp;quot; global and persistent&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By chance (and not because it was communicated in any way) I found the &amp;quot;Disable Responsiveness&amp;quot; button at the bottom of the page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Et537.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Et537.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if this would automatically apply to the whole network and one wouldn't need to press it on each site and meta site separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would also be nice to have this as option in one user preferences. Currently the setting is lost every time the browser cookies are cleared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T15:49:05.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7706" CreationDate="2018-08-13T15:56:41.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just do it yourself and you can select whatever colour you want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        StackExchange TEX, fav bgr colour&#xA;// @match       *://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @grant       GM_addStyle&#xA;// @run-at      document-start&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;GM_addStyle ( `&#xA;&#xA;     .tagged-interesting{&#xA;         background-color:#d5dde9 !important;&#xA;     }&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;` );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gW7PR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gW7PR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-08-14T15:32:08.620" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T15:32:08.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-14T01:01:38.700" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following with compositing (normal display):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2vdKb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2vdKb.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and without compositing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0rRYr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0rRYr.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see four large astroturf-green boxes on a beige-brown background and a black navigation bar. The background is mostly empty, but there's some stuff which might be meaningful, but is obviously of relatively little importance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page is trying to tell me something about or with the bright green boxes. Aside from suggesting what colour scheme I should avoid at all costs, it isn't clear what this message is. Nothing else leaps out: nothing interesting, engaging or intriguing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boxes a bit glarey, so the page bothers my eyes a bit, though I realise they must be very, very important to the site. Far more important than anything else. That's a bit weird and there's the glare, so I really just want to leave now or, if at all possible, sooner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is the message SE wants me to find here. Perhaps it is. But that is the message the site currently sends, and that message dominates everything else, even though I don't know what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm gone by now, of course, to somewhere with a more comfortable feel to it which offers something intriguing, engaging or interesting to explore or read or do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the world wide web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastEditorUserId="39222" LastEditDate="2018-08-15T02:05:36.513" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T02:05:36.513" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-14T08:07:36.607" Score="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of real anger about the changes here, and I think it's important to convey &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this is. I'm going to try to do that from my own point of view: as a moderator, I'm not at all happy with the way things have been handled by the Powers That Be. (I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312365/rollout-of-new-network-site-themes#comment1022335_312406&quot;&gt;Rollout of new network site themes&lt;/a&gt; sums it up pretty well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We (the 'TeX-sx community') have always known that StackOverflow support the site for their own reasons, most likely as promotion for the 'main site' (StackOverflow itself). There's always been reasonable concern about the 'community building' statements from the Powers: at best these ideas are usually poorly handled. (For an example of this, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7317/community-effort-in-fixing-the-double-backslashes-issue/7329#7329&quot;&gt;Community effort in fixing the double backslashes issue&lt;/a&gt;: many hours of effort by a small number of active users were needed to fix a problem introduced by the Power &lt;em&gt;that could have been fixed easily by them&lt;/em&gt;, and which &lt;em&gt;fundamentally broke 1000s of answers&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite clear that the TeX site falls into the 'Cadillac' set of network sites: we got set up several years ago and got a lot of design support when we graduated. So any design changes were always likely to be risky (detrimental) from a 'site improvement' sense: the old design wasn't broken. At the same time, I think most users can see that the network staff do have a complex task supporting the 'back end' of all of the sites, and can accept that some change will happen. What it needs to be is &lt;em&gt;properly explained&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;proportionate&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;actually informed by user opinion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The changes that have been made have been 'sold' as 'improvements for the network as a whole'. However, the reality is that there's nothing here for &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; or I suspect many other longer-established sites. Features that are useful for the main site or one or two other &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; large ones (SuperUser, ServerFault) don't make any positive contribution if you have under 100 questions per day. The Powers might imagine users using lots of network sites, but I doubt I'm alone in visiting basically just (this) one in any regular sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two fundamental problems with the changes. The first is the 'big picture': the three-column layout that uses up a lot of the screen space for 'filler'. I suspect that this makes sense if you are using a massive desktop monitor as one of a two- or three-screen setup, with your web browser maximised: in other words, the set up of a professional programmer using StackOverflow. I'm however not like that: I'm writing this on a 13&quot; laptop with my browser window about 2/3 of the screen width. (I've disabled the left sidebar, too, precisely because the design &lt;em&gt;doesn't work&lt;/em&gt;.) The fact that this change has been made and not rolled back &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt; shows a total lack of &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; engagement with users. Telling us 'this will help you' is a non-answer to the criticism: the new 'features' we are being told we'll get are &lt;em&gt;totally useless&lt;/em&gt;, at least as currently described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second aspect is the smaller changes to design. There's a suggestion that these are needed to bring the 'back end' of sites into line, but they feel &lt;em&gt;arbitrary&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;poorly implemented&lt;/em&gt;. For example, there are no obvious technical reasons why we have to loose custom graphics for voting buttons. I can think of only two reasons for this. The first is that StackOverflow wants to make the sites look more similar for advertising reasons. The second is that newer sites won't be getting custom graphics for resource reasons, so those of us who already have them loose out as 'it has to be fair'. Crucially, neither of these &lt;em&gt;is anything to do with the community on this site&lt;/em&gt;. If there are things that have to be done for management reasons, including balancing resource usage, then &lt;em&gt;tell people&lt;/em&gt;: the network is full of people with a technical background, for goodness sake. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312404&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312404&lt;/a&gt; for another place that things feel entirely arbitrary, from a non-TeX site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A boycott has been raised, and some people will doubtless walk away, primarily because of the completely tone-deaf approach of the Powers That Be here. (It shows yet again that all of the 'community building' stuff is so much guff.) I'm not about to walk away, but as a community we are lucky that there is TeX beyond TeX-sx: we do have an international user group, people with server experience, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; So if some sense of listening doesn't happen, I would not be surprised if a truly 'community owned' Q&amp;amp;A were to be established. I'd certainly register for such a site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should StackOverflow do? I think you need to &lt;em&gt;roll back the changes&lt;/em&gt; (network-wide), and think about what message you are actually trying to put across. If you really believe in community building, then listen to users. Moreover, if there are corporate reasons that some changes have to happen, then front-up and say that: we can understand 'The company has to balance its books, and this will help by ....'. The design changes should have been made step-wise over a period, not all in one go with both layout and resources changing. The key is to &lt;em&gt;actually show you are listening&lt;/em&gt;, and to recognise that &lt;em&gt;each site is independent&lt;/em&gt; (see for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312406&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312406&lt;/a&gt; pointing more-or-less exactly that for another site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-08-14T19:44:16.650" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T19:44:16.650" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-16T09:14:45.700" Score="15" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt; We are working on addressing this issue. It is covered here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/314417/3543330&quot;&gt;Can we show new/anonymous users more Q&amp;amp;A?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Unregistered vistors view&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picture worth a thousand words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U3zko.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U3zko.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT'S ALL BLACK!&lt;/strong&gt; If I came to a site with this amount of black, I would frighten away! The middle black thing is so dominant that you barely see anything else. Maybe it's the intent, to separate this message from the site's contents, but the cost is huge. Also, before the site title was large, now it's small, so the &lt;code&gt;{TeX}&lt;/code&gt; logo is not even dominant to the page. This all seems very confusing and unwelcoming. **Maybe even simply reducing the main black message to the central column would lessen the blackness of this page, see below. Anyway, changing the colour would be the best.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is three black blocks and three things to close: Code of Conduct, Sign in, Cookies+Privacy+ToS. I don't think anyone is gonna read any of the messages anyway. I believe that Code of Conduct should be merged into the middle or the bottom stuff, certainly for users who happen to see all three messages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please unify the link style here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HZAvC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HZAvC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="166416" LastEditDate="2018-08-23T19:16:50.153" LastActivityDate="2018-08-23T19:16:50.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-16T10:06:25.720" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a problem with the new theme (not many questions here have so many answers that sorting is really needed)  but I just realized that you can only sort answers so  that the oldest answer is on top. I find this odd as normally if I sort by date I'm interested in what's new and don't want to have to scroll all the page down first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pWPWc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pWPWc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T10:06:25.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-16T13:20:20.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Missing line below all tabs with a count badge&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The faint gray line below all inactive tabs with a blue count badge is missing for zoom levels unequal to 100% (both smaller and higher zoom level)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zfP8m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zfP8m.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as I hover over the tab, the line is visible again (see the &amp;quot;favorites&amp;quot; tab in the picture below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J1srT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J1srT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T13:39:07.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-17T18:55:34.477" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question may be too broad to be relevant, and it is maybe (probably ?) a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I am almost all day long on TeX.SE, I always go through google to fallback here to find relevant answers to my questions (yes, it's a very clever workflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While writing this post I just figured there was a dedicated &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;search page&lt;/a&gt; on this site (which I had no idea about up to know) ! This page (I guess) works the same way than the search bar that is always visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when writing a question, in particular the title, the page proposes former questions to ease the research for duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here comes my question&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't the main search bar or the search page propose such dynamic information ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A subsidiary question that I just found: why is there no &quot;search&quot; button near &quot;questions&quot; ... if there is a separate search page ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for any help !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141947" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T18:55:34.477" Title="Question about the search page/bar" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7830" CreationDate="2018-08-20T23:04:23.547" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an answer based on the discussion in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Vague titles can and should be edited&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vague titles are indeed a problem, and they are exactly the kinds of things that make appropriate edits. I don't think there's much need to ask posters to change their titles, since the people who post the vaguest titles are often those who have the least engagement with the site.  Some examples of overly vague titles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I make this diagram?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want to draw this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Problem with TikZ diagram&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How specific is too specific?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be careful, however, in not making revisions to titles so specific as to make them only understandable to a very small base of users &lt;em&gt;if the problem is more general&lt;/em&gt;. This might be quite tricky to implement in reality.  Here are some guidelines that might be helpful to distinguish the cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is about drawing a diagram of something, then reference to the actual content of the diagram is likely to be less useful to other users than reference to particular types of TikZ elements that make up the diagram.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A concrete example of this would be the question linked in this question: a description such as &quot;Heat conduction through a material&quot; is not really very helpful to others, since this describes the scientific content of the image, but not anything about the image itself. In that case the suggested &quot;3D boxes with transparent gradients&quot; is better ('3D gradients' is itself somewhat technical, but so are all our &lt;code&gt;[tex-core]&lt;/code&gt; questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Technical terms are not always inappropriate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is about a particular kind of structure that is used in a particular field, then a technical term &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be appropriate, but a TikZ description might also be helpful. This case is harder to judge, and my opinion falls a bit more on the side of the technical term, but others may disagree.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a question like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/240361/2693&quot;&gt;Autosegmental Representation in tikz-qtree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would not be helped with a title that made it more accessible to non-linguists. The reasons for this are two-fold: the representations are specific to a field, and as a result there are specific packages that  can be used for them, and even when no specific packages exist, using the technical term in the question will attract answers from people (in this case like me) who have the requisite technical knowledge of the field to propose solutions that are usable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar cases would be things like commutative diagrams, Feynman diagrams, automata, Karnaugh maps, Young tableaux, Optimality Theory tableaux etc., all of which could in principle be described in less technical terms but to the detriment of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making such question titles &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; general is IMO a mistake, since it invites ill-conceived answers from people who don't know the field, and may also cause people with the requisite knowledge who might also know of specific packages, to ignore them. Personally I don't tend to look for TikZ questions to answer, but I will look at any linguistics or tree questions in particular. I'm sure others in other fields have similar tactics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-08-21T18:10:34.003" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T18:10:34.003" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-08-22T19:59:06.833" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Answer/votes/views boxes not aligned&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem of the not rounded borders of the answers boxes has been solved already. But what is even more annoying to me is the fact that these boxes are not at all aligned vertically. See the following picture that illustrates the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJR0N.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJR0N.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While “votes” and “views” are aligned, the text “answers” is shifted downwards a bit and another bit if there is a border around this box (i.e. if there is at least one answer). This is not only a problem on this site, but, as far as I can see, it appears on other SX pages as well that already use the new theme. The effect also appears in the questions tab of the user’s activity page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem can be solved quite easily by setting the padding of all three boxes to the same value via CSS (but consider the border that adds another 2px!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47927" LastActivityDate="2018-08-22T19:59:06.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7858" CreationDate="2018-08-22T20:02:55.327" Score="17" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times, simple questions came across my mind, which made me google them to find their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since I am not a native English speaker, I might not be able to find the right discription of the problem whose solution is what I am searching for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my plan A is to ask in the chat room for the closest already-asked question to the one in my head. However, in case of not getting a response, is it ok to go with asking this question and wait for anyone answering it or referring me to the original one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2018-08-22T23:10:14.573" Title="Asking a seemingly duplicate question in case of not being able to find the original" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7857" CreationDate="2018-08-22T23:10:14.573" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course, it would be a lovely idea to pop by the chat room first and it's always a good idea to look to see if your question has been answered before, in order to avoid the site getting cluttered by lots of duplicate questions we've seen before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, although it's easy to see having your question closed as a punishment (and I too obviously don't want to ask a question that will be closed), it isn't! It doesn't reflect badly on you. Having too many duplicates hanging around is obviously messy and boring. But there's a good reason duplicate questions aren't deleted. They serve as useful sign posts. If you couldn't find the question when you looked, chances are other people won't either. And your new question, possibly with a clearer title, that might be easier to find, might not be &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt; but it can point people to the answer and make it easier to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't worry too much! If a question is closed as a dupe, simply be happy to have found the answer and make sure to leave an upvote on the answer if you like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, thanks for trying hard to do your own research - that's great - and I certainly don't want my answer to seem like it's encouraging people to just ask whatever they want without even checking to see if somebody's already asked!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16968" LastActivityDate="2018-08-22T23:10:14.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2018-08-24T06:08:31.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code or in general anything of mine that I publish or have published previously on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; is free as in &quot;free of charge&quot; and &quot;freedom&quot;. You can claim it as yours. No attribution or permission is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May the source be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RGS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T06:08:31.523" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7761" CreationDate="2018-08-24T08:53:46.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might sound strange, but just upvote the existing answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the authors are still around this works remarkably well to trigger an update of outdated answers because many of the users will have a look at their post if they receive an upvote to an very old answer and sometimes within a couple of minutes they will update an outdated post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if this does not work, it certainly is worth a try - you can't lose anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165927" LastEditorUserId="165927" LastEditDate="2018-08-24T09:20:27.910" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T09:20:27.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-01T11:08:13.020" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some colleagues and I are creating a database of LaTeX based graphs (TikZ, PgfPlots, etc) to be used in Economics (by students, academics, professionals, etc). This will be an online database, freely accessible to anyone. Code will be licensed under open-source license. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although some graphs are being done by us, we are thinking to taking some examples from this site. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-worry-about-copyright-issues-for-code-posted-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;As far as we understand&lt;/a&gt;, this is a valid/legal action, as long as we license the content using CC. I'm a bit puzzled however by the following phrase in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#licensing&quot;&gt;ToS&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may download or copy the public Network Content, and other items displayed on the public Network for download or personal use provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained in such Public Content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can provide the code with that license, but just as anyone can come to this site and use the code for commercial or other uses without proper licensing, they can do the same in our case. But that is surely not our responsibility, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77895" LastActivityDate="2018-09-01T11:08:13.020" Title="Repository of LaTeX graphs, code from this site and licensing" Tags="|discussion|licensing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7864" CreationDate="2018-09-02T20:15:56.973" Score="6" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;vim-latex&lt;/code&gt; tag has no proper description&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The vim-latex tag has no usage guidance, can you help us create it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my understanding as a longtime vim and latex user, &lt;code&gt;vim-latex&lt;/code&gt; is the short form of 'vim-latex-suite'. A google search for 'vim-latex' will show links to 'vim-latex-suite' as the two top most results - followed by 'vimtex'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;code&gt;latex-suite&lt;/code&gt; has a proper description for the vim-latex-suite and links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net&lt;/a&gt; (Note the subdomain vim-latex).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question tagged with 'vim-latex' seem to be all related to vim-latex-suite, although I can't be sure what the asker meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these two synonyms? Can we alias these two tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the proper way to handle this? It is causing a little bit of a confusion - at least for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150531" LastEditorUserId="150531" LastEditDate="2018-09-03T17:05:11.183" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T12:45:59.260" Title="Is the tag [vim-latex] an alias for [latex-suite]?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7863" CreationDate="2018-09-03T10:32:06.407" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, it seems these two tags should be synonyms. Probably it would best to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-suite&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-suite&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-suite&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim-latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim-latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim-latex&lt;/a&gt; because it should be found by searching for &lt;code&gt;vim&lt;/code&gt;. In addition, the tag description should be copied to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim-latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim-latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim-latex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proper way to handle this is to get a user with score 5 in the &lt;code&gt;vim-latex&lt;/code&gt; tag (and 2500 rep) to suggest the synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt; I have added a description to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim-latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim-latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim-latex&lt;/a&gt; tag. So we just need someone to make them synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update 2:&lt;/em&gt; The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex-suite&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex-suite&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex-suite&lt;/a&gt; is now empty, so this issue is resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124577" LastEditorUserId="124577" LastEditDate="2018-09-04T12:45:59.260" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T12:45:59.260" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7867" CreationDate="2018-09-06T19:46:45.547" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear users I ask you the reason because my new inserted question has a white shadow as shown in the figure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RkP9R.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RkP9R.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2018-09-08T19:48:20.073" LastActivityDate="2018-09-08T19:48:20.073" Title="White shadow on my question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7866" CreationDate="2018-09-06T20:34:21.853" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;support&lt;/code&gt; tag is in your list of ignored tags. Remove it and you'll see it at full opacity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165927" LastActivityDate="2018-09-06T20:34:21.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2018-09-08T19:56:47.607" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any TeX code of mine I publish and published on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby license as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beer-Ware&lt;/a&gt;. If you reuse it it should contain the following comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;% &quot;THE BEER-WARE LICENSE&quot; (Revision 42):&#xA;% Jonathan P. Spratte  wrote this code.  As long as you retain this notice you&#xA;% can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think&#xA;% this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Jonathan P. Spratte&#xA;% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any non-TeX code I publish and published on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby license under the terms and conditions of the GPL, version 3 of that license or later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastEditorUserId="117050" LastEditDate="2019-05-23T12:50:06.197" LastActivityDate="2019-05-23T12:50:06.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7871" CreationDate="2018-09-09T01:03:39.593" Score="14" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I've posted a question about something I consider more a general pattern than a specific problem, and that question already has an answer that sketches a solution idea. Based on where the problem originated from and the comments to the question I'd now like to add a more elaborate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm a bit unsure what is the best way to do that. There are three ways I can see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Modify the question, add all the explanation there, and accept the given answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;modify the given answer and accept it; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add a completely new answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially in the last case the problem is whether to accept the given answer (more polite) or to accept the new one (because it's &quot;better&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the preferred way to deal with this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastActivityDate="2018-09-15T10:53:58.810" Title="Preferred way to answer own question that already has an answer" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7873" CreationDate="2018-09-09T02:25:59.463" Score="5" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recalling that tikz-pgf and pgfplots tags are the top and fifth most mentioned in questions on the main site, I wonder if it is a good idea to make a chat room solely for TikZ/PGFplots discussions, inquiries, getting started with some figures/graphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, a lot of askers may go there first to ask about some minor points that can help them polish their questions or even answer them without the need for asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T05:06:04.670" Title="Does creating a chat room for TikZ/PGFplots discussions help eliminate the do-it-for-me or bad questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7869" CreationDate="2018-09-09T07:46:38.073" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the details of the specific case you have in mind, but there are a few general principles that can guide you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Do not answer your question in the question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering in the question is potentially confusing (why is there an answer already in the question? is it not good enough ...? are the answers in the answer section better than this answer?), makes answers harder to find (especially if the question is long, people with a similar problem might not want to read the entire question, they are looking for answers) and undermines the voting mechanism. The idea is that answers should be judged by their merits and voted upon so that the best answer 'rises to the top'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers should only be given in the answer space.&lt;/strong&gt; Whether that means that in your specific situation you should add an answer of your own is open for debate, but adding an answer to your question is definitely worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Do not edit your question in a way that invalidates existing answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have already gotten answers, people have invested their time to solve the original question. They deemed the question interesting enough to answer and put in effort to write up something useful. Remember that question on a Q&amp;amp;A site are supposed to be useful for other people as well, so even if it turns out the question and its answers did not help you as you initially expected, they may well help someone else. Destroying that by changing the question, invalidating the answers and forcing them to be edited seems like a bad idea. It creates confusion, because the question and answer don't seem to be about the same thing. Just ask a new question, questions are free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are many edge cases here. What if you haven't gotten an answer yet? What if the original question was ambiguous or did not contain enough details? What if there was a genuine misunderstanding between question and answer? You will have to use your judgment to decide whether to edit your question in that case or to ask a new question. But I would urge you to err on the side of asking a question too much rather than invalidating existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you edit your question or ask a new question you can always leave a comment under the answer and ask for a few improvements. And I would urge you to do that, people are generally happy to apply small changes to their answers to accommodate your wishes. But prepare to be asked to ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3625/35864&quot;&gt;When is it Kosher to edit one’s own question?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1290/35864&quot;&gt;Posting a question very close to an already solved one&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7678/35864&quot;&gt;My question has an answer which is of little use to me because of incompatibilities&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7425/35864&quot;&gt;Should I ask one question with many requirements instead of many questions on same topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Try to refrain from editing other people's answers significantly&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say 'try to' and not 'do not' because editing is an essential part of the stack exchange system. Editing typos, adding links, formatting etc. is obviously OK, but putting words or code in other people's mouths is a more delicate matter. After all, their name is still attached to the post and they will get notifications about it (not the editor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have on a few occasions edited other people's answers significantly (mostly to make sure the code works with newer versions of &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt;). But usually I only do that after leaving a comment asking for the change is gone unnoticed for a long time, or if the user has not been seen for long time. I also try to keep the changes as small as possible and only modernise the code as far as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in the point above the first step would be to leave a comment asking for the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/340/35864&quot;&gt;When is (and isn&amp;#39;t) it acceptable to edit?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/263/35864&quot;&gt;Etiquette: when is it acceptable to edit anothers&amp;#39; answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Self-answers are absolutely fine&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is absolutely fine to answer your own questions. It is still fine to answer your own question if you have gotten other answers. &lt;strong&gt;But you should answer the question as is&lt;/strong&gt;: Do not answer a different question, do not answer the question you intended to ask, but failed to. Remember: People come here to look for the answer to the question-as-asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think your answer might not be an exact answer to the question-as-asked, but you still think it can be useful, ask a new question and add a self-answer immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Accept the answer you want to accept&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is entirely up to you to decide which answer you accept (if at all). It may feel more polite to accept someone else's answer instead of yours, but if you genuinely feel that your answer is better, by all means, accept your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2706/35864&quot;&gt;How soon should I accept an answer and when is it appropriate to accept a different answer?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/216/35864&quot;&gt;(Further) guidelines on accepting answers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7623/35864&quot;&gt;When is it acceptable to accept one own&amp;#39;s answer?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6171/35864&quot;&gt;Is it possible for moderators to accept an answer?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7739/35864&quot;&gt;New entries not choosing best answer, should we make it more clear?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all I would tend towards asking a new question and possibly answering it yourself in the situation you describe. But there are many nuances, so commenting on answers first and suggesting improvements is definitely worth a try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2018-09-15T10:53:58.810" LastActivityDate="2018-09-15T10:53:58.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2018-09-09T17:01:41.997" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place under the LPPL, version 1.3 or later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2018-09-09T17:01:41.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7870" CreationDate="2018-09-10T05:06:04.670" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on my expierence on FreeNode's LaTeX IRC channel over the last years, I don't think an extra channel dedicated to TikZ questions only would solve the problem of &quot;lazy&quot; new users. Additionally to what has already been mentioned in the comments, my concerns are the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The chat room is hard to find. It took me several months on this platform before I even noticed that TeX.SX has its own chat room. At the time I joined it, there were about 20 users in it and it didn't seem pretty active.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Especially new users tend to be really impatient when waiting for an answer. This isn't probably so much a problem on the main site, as opening new threads/questions doesn't indicate real-time responses. But in a chat room people want their answers &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;. I've seen this so many times that people aren't able to wait at least 10 minutes for someone to respond to their questions. Of course, not all people are like that, but the impatience threshold in a chat room is certainly lower. So would there even be enough people around in a TikZ-only channel that are able to respond fast enough?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand, users that are already more familiar with how the platform works know they cannot just post &quot;Please, how to draw this picture???&quot; questions without just getting a comment asking about what they have already tried. These people probably would only use the chat if they have an easy or quick to solve problem for which it would take too much time to prepare a full example document. However, if the channel isn't very active and an answer would take as much time as waiting for an answer on the main site, they probably still wouldn't use the chat much.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be more helpful, in my opinion, is an FAQ-like thread with links and small examples to the most common graphics problems people are trying to solve. Something similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample&lt;/a&gt; but more concentrated and perhaps also with non-TikZ-based options. You need a simple function plot? Here's a small code snippet how to draw one using &lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt;. Change this line to plot another function. Follow this link if you want to customize the axes. You need to print a hierarchical tree structure? Here are your options. etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we had such a really concentrated overview which provides starting points to further examples and references, it could be used in the standard response comment, just like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;MWE&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4407/how-to-write-a-mweb-minimal-working-example-with-bibliography&quot;&gt;MWEB&lt;/a&gt; usually are. I don't think this will reduce the number of those do-it-for-me questions, but I presume it would be more helpful to the users asking such questions than an extra chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T05:06:04.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-10T07:06:41.827" Score="12" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;h3&gt;update January 18, 2019&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday or so I first noticed this issue seemed to have been solved (possibly network-wide). It my have been so for weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know where to link to, if that issue has been discussed elsewhere on the network. With this information added, I guess that question can be closed. Ah no sorry, I confused with issue trackers. So if an answer linking to suitable network resources is provided I shall check its correctness and validity and validate the answer (despite my incomptence in all things CSS and JavaScript).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot with added red line (which I tried to make vertical):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hlrpd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hlrpd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The left alignment is deficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a site problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As reported in comments, (initially triggered by this additional image:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dow6L.png&quot; alt=&quot;two lines&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at least the amount of additional indentation seems to be decided by the styling of the number of answers: the shortest is &amp;quot;1 answer&amp;quot; (whether it has been accepted or not), then &amp;quot;0 answers&amp;quot; is wider although unframed, and &amp;quot;2 (or more) answers&amp;quot; is even wider due to its framing (be it filled or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/&lt;/code&gt; the layout is vertical, and I perceive no raggedness, did not check thoroughly though. The horizontal layout of &lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/code&gt; is an ingredient of this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in comment by @samcarter, this is network-wide problem as one can see at &lt;code&gt;meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y4lqg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y4lqg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user4686" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T21:30:34.137" Title="Ragged alignment of question titles on main page" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-12T17:43:24.110" Score="-1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I want to ask a question it is somehow difficult to explain what I want exactly (especially whent it is a TIKZ issue). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I am lazy to open something like paint, draw a picture, make a shot or use the file and upload it here, it may could be easier to directly implement a very basic canvas tool in the question editor. There I can directly draw a very basic picture which can explain my issue better than words (also the possibility to edit the picture afterwards).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really know how complex this would be to implement and, of course, if it is a dumb or a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167628" LastActivityDate="2018-09-13T15:28:41.133" Title="Implementing a canvas in the body editor?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7875" CreationDate="2018-09-13T15:28:41.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no need for this since there exists a number of default tools on most operating systems already providing this functionality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Windows: MS Paint (distributed by default)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mac: &lt;a href=&quot;https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PaintBrush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linux: &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pinta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are others as well. I use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=775&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FS Capture&lt;/a&gt; on Windows for capturing screen shots and editing/annotating them. If you don't want to work on something from your computer, you can use a free online image editor like &lt;a href=&quot;//pixlr.com/editor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pixlr&lt;/a&gt; (similar to Adobe Photoshop).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you don't have to work with &lt;em&gt;files&lt;/em&gt; when trying to post an image. You can &lt;em&gt;copy&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt;) an image (like a screen shot), open the Insert an image dialog and &lt;em&gt;paste&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;V&lt;/kbd&gt;) them as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-09-13T15:28:41.133" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7879" CreationDate="2018-09-15T17:33:53.207" Score="5" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=unanswered&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=unanswered&lt;/a&gt; the answers appear to be listed in order of number of votes. Which means it basically never changes (most voted first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see unanswered questions listed with most recent first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T07:08:35.390" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T07:08:35.390" Title="View unanswered questions with most recent first" Tags="|support|search|unanswered-questions|sorting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5954" CreationDate="2018-09-15T18:02:28.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My method to build MWE for TeX.SE in Linux:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Select the MWE of the question in the browser with the mouse (It is a bit annoying that in TeX.SE there are not a button to select the code, all the code and only the code). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Open &lt;strong&gt;Gummi&lt;/strong&gt; with a new document and Ctrl-V to paste the MWE (why this simple editor? because it show a &lt;strong&gt;live preview&lt;/strong&gt;, not the best for a long project, but ideal to test a MWE). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Solve the problem of the code (this is the longest part).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C (select all the code and copy to clipboard)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Run &lt;code&gt;ksnapshot&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This capture program can take a snapshot only of the preview window or a manually fixed rectangular area, so I will not need further processing of the image with other tools. I just have to press the &quot;Save  as ...&quot; button. A new filename is proposed automatically, so I just have to accept it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the browser, Ctrl-V to paste the code and  Ctrl+G, select the saved image and upload it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All points, except the third, takes only a few seconds each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2018-09-15T18:02:28.857" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-09-15T18:02:28.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7877" CreationDate="2018-09-15T18:25:46.727" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a special &amp;quot;unanswered&amp;quot; list which can be sorted by date: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=newest&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For everybody who is like me hiding the left hand sidebar, this can be hard to find as it hides behind the three horizontal lines at the top left of the headline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d7T0g.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d7T0g.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly there are some differences and the two list don't show the same questions, but I forgot which differences this are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-09-15T18:25:46.727" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7880" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-09-18T07:09:16.383" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question, answer, and other lists on the Stack Exchange sites allow a number of different sort orderings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the most common are &quot;newest&quot; (in descending order, by the date stamp on the question), &quot;active&quot; (in descending order, by the most recent activity) and &quot;votes&quot; (in descending order by vote score).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T07:09:16.383" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T07:09:16.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7881" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-09-18T07:09:16.383" Score="0" Body="For questions related to the sort orderings of questions, answers, and other lists on SE sites." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T07:09:16.383" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T07:09:16.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7780" CreationDate="2018-09-28T23:59:05.253" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been &quot;migrated.&quot;  I think your question is very important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7883/170846&quot;&gt;&quot;How to&quot; on MWE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The request for an MWE is so common that I can't help but wonder whether the submission process isn't aided by a &quot;how to.&quot;  I expect there'd be more submissions and less need to request if the OP had some level of confidence regarding the mechanics of getting code into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170846" LastActivityDate="2018-09-28T23:59:05.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7891" CreationDate="2018-09-29T01:52:32.060" Score="3" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some (La)TeX answers indicate load sequence preferences. Is there a tag for those questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170846" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-09-30T15:53:09.977" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T09:05:44.017" Title="Is there a &quot;load sequence&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-30T02:56:27.937" Score="-5" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disambiguation.  For the Community, this intends to be the very short One-Question/One-Answer the original started out to be. So, for comments on this, please see and participate in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7882/how-do-i-submit-an-mwe?noredirect=1#comment24369_7882&quot;&gt;the original thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the \LaTeX typesetter submitting the question.  Welcome to Tex.SX.  You've just submitted your question.  You're new to this whole Q&amp;amp;A resource, including this website.  An early response asks you for an MWE (minimal working example).  How do you provide that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170846" LastActivityDate="2018-09-30T02:56:27.937" Title="How do I submit an MWE? -- The Help 101 Series by Saphar Koshet" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-10-01T21:55:34.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7889" CreationDate="2018-09-30T02:56:27.937" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Submitting the MWE of the issue you're asking about is as easy as copy/paste from your .tex file into the question window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it.  That's all there is to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could ask for a copy/paste of the essence of a working example of the problem from your .tex file, but it's shorter to say, &quot;Please submit an MWE.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Troy recommends using the &quot;{}&quot; feature in the website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What's that?&quot; you ask, because you're new to the site? There's an orangish, redish link right above this box labeled &quot;advanced help&quot; that takes one to the additional details on the features available in this window.  There are many features, and the one of focus for submitting an MWE is the &quot;{}&quot; button.  If all else fails, just push a few buttons and see what happens. Nothing is submitted until you submit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those new to the site may also benefit, as this author has, from knowing that where one pre-indents one's code before copying, the necessary leading four spaces on each line that this website needs for &quot;knowing&quot; that what's being placed into the window intends to be code, are already in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Troy's approach &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; more efficient, once one gets the hang of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@marmot, @Werner, and others, also admonish understanding &quot;minimal,&quot; which is addressed in the &quot;dissertation&quot; found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Some typesetters have very long and involved documents, and what &quot;minimal&quot; encourages, basically, is removing everything that doesn't matter for the problem. (Yes, make a copy of the original, of course, and prune the copy down to the MWE.) At the extreme bottom of that &quot;dissertation&quot; is the needle in the haystack provided above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We look forward to addressing your question. Having the MWE typically makes processing your question that much more time efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this has been helpful for you, please participate long enough to earn enough points to come back and vote this up as something that helped you when you needed help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170846" LastActivityDate="2018-09-30T02:56:27.937" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7885" CreationDate="2018-09-30T08:58:08.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That I know of, this area has not had enough questions for someone to tag questions in a useful way. Tags are 'dynamic' in the sense anyone can tag questions as they like. So there is nothing to stop people using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/load-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;load-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;load-order&lt;/a&gt; or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-09-30T08:58:08.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7885" CreationDate="2018-10-08T08:55:07.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;answers indicate&quot; is the wrong approach. Tags belong to the question and should not be added because one of the answers discovers a problem or uses a special package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefor the suggested edits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/158144&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/158144&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/158068&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/158068&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/157927&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/157927&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/157890&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/157890&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;have been rightfully rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise we end up with pervert situations like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/443821/revisions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/443821/revisions&lt;/a&gt; where a tag is added to a question just because one in five answers uses it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165927" LastEditorUserId="165927" LastEditDate="2018-10-08T09:05:44.017" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T09:05:44.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-10T10:13:40.667" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;When posting a question or an answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; I often start by creating a MWE with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;overleaf&lt;/a&gt;. Then if I want to include the resulting PDF I have to download it to my local system first before inserting it into the post. My question is as follows: is there a way to include the PDF directly from overleaf without download it to my local system? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91130" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2018-10-10T10:21:47.293" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T03:16:18.957" Title="Add directly a PDF image from overleaf to a question or an aswer edit" Tags="|discussion|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7895" CreationDate="2018-10-11T03:16:18.957" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of now, Stack Exchange only provides &lt;strong&gt;image uploader on all sites&lt;/strong&gt; using Imgur's service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While some SE sites got their customization like Code Snippet (SO, etc), MathJax (Mathematics.SE, etc), embedded YouTube video (SciFi.SE, etc), ABC notation (Music.SE)... but &lt;strong&gt;PDF uploader is not one of them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community of Blender.SE provides &lt;a href=&quot;https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/630/announcing-blend-exchange-a-new-solution-to-blend-hosting&quot;&gt;an unofficial way to upload .blend file&lt;/a&gt; (maintained by their community instead of SE) since they need the file to reproduce the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, TeX has simple textual markdown, and it's rendered visually, so... why the hassle of uploading a PDF file when you can just upload an image that is directly shown on the post? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64191" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T03:16:18.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7471" CreationDate="2018-10-16T23:40:26.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now fixed as described on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/83857/235711&quot;&gt;MSE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most cases it will produce the correct URL. For all cases it won't add a semicolon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75298" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T23:40:26.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-06T13:58:38.353" Score="27" ViewCount="1399" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the impression that a disproportional large fraction of overleaf users don't notice error messages, a typical comment stream often goes like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question: Why is the image placed incorrectly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;me: Can you add a MWE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OP: sure, here is the overleaf link: ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;me: Your example code does not compile and results in error messages about &lt;code&gt;Undefined control sequence&lt;/code&gt;. You need to define &lt;code&gt;\foo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OP: My code does not have errors. Look at the overleaf link, it compiles fine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;me: Just because overleaf is exceptionally good at hiding error messages, does not mean that there are no error messages&#xA;  ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above dialogue is fictional, but many of you have probably experienced similar situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there might be some possibilities to tweak their UI to make users more aware of error messages (maybe some dialogue message &quot;there are errors - go back to editor to fix or ignore and show pdf&quot;, just a quick idea off the top of my head).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it probably won't make much impression on overleaf if a none customer like me writes them &quot;I have the impression your users are unaware of errors&quot;, but if there would be a list of questions which demonstrates this problem, maybe the impact would be higher. Unfortunately it is hard to search for this on the main site, because this problem is often discussed in comments and the questions are (correctly) not tagged with overleaf, because the tex problem is unrelated to the platform used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please help me to compile a list of questions, which were caused or made more complicate to solve because the OP did not notice error messages on overleaf&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(my plan would be to collect examples over the next month or so and depending a bit on how many are found until then, write to overleaf)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that also many users of editors like texstudio ignore error messages, but I have the impression that most of them are aware that there are some red messages highlighted at the bottom left, they just argue that &quot;the pdf looks fine&quot; and ignore them anyway, which is equally bad, but another problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2019-06-07T00:32:04.303" Title="Examples of Overleaf users not noticing error messages" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7898" CreationDate="2018-11-06T13:58:38.353" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;List of questions, which were caused or made more complicate to solve because the OP did not notice error messages on overleaf:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/458482&quot;&gt;Put 2 logos (left and right)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/457880&quot;&gt;How to make a pgfplots barplot not fuse with the y-axis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/461282&quot;&gt;Position library does not work in Overleaf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overleaf users which are aware of error messages but ignore them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/458865&quot;&gt;Submitting paper to arXiv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overleaf users not getting an error while there is an error on standard LaTeX installations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/494574/121799&quot;&gt;todo notes inside tcolorbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-06-07T00:32:04.303" LastActivityDate="2019-06-07T00:32:04.303" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-11-06T13:58:38.353" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7898" CreationDate="2018-11-06T14:39:37.733" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overleaf and ShareLaTeX recently merged into Overleaf v2. Before the merger, errors on Overleaf looked like this:¹&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMTsB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMTsB.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of Overleaf showing errors&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a big red rectangle with the error message over the problematic line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Errors on ShareLaTeX looked like this:²&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cRiVB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cRiVB.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of ShareLaTeX showing errors&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows a red box with a white cross in it next to the line number. The error message shows as a tooltip. The right panel shows more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the merger, Overleaf v2 has adopted the ShareLaTeX approach of showing a red box with a cross in it next to the problematic line with the mouseover message, shown below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lArq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lArq.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of error showing in Overleaf v2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving the mouse over the red box shows the error message. The &quot;logs and output files&quot; button has a red box with the number of errors in it (1 in this case). Click on that button to show more details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Warnings show up as a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark inside it and the number of warnings shows up in an orange box over the &quot;logs and output files&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FT7SN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FT7SN.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of Overleaf document with warnings&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where there are both warnings and errors, the total number is shown in a red box over the &quot;logs and output files&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5FDvF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5FDvF.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of Overleaf document with error and warnings&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on the &quot;logs and output files&quot; button then a summary of the errors and warnings is displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tV0fa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tV0fa.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of Overleaf document with log summary&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the new v2 interface has the more discreet ShareLaTeX style of alerting users to a problem, but if you do notice the little numbered box over the &quot;logs and output files&quot; button and click on it, then it does actually provide some useful information for a beginner who may find the usual LaTeX messages a bit baffling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹Image taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/admin/html/onlinetex.shtml#fig:overleaf-error&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Figure 13.8: Overleaf — Error Handling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;²Image taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/admin/html/onlinetex.shtml#fig:sharelatex-error&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Figure 13.9: ShareLaTeX — Error Handling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastEditorUserId="19862" LastEditDate="2018-11-06T19:02:27.423" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T19:02:27.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7769" CreationDate="2018-11-07T04:22:45.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The survey is closed, the results are available here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/TUGboat/survey.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tug.org/TUGboat/survey.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2018-11-07T04:22:45.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-13T09:56:14.480" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both in questions as well as in answers I frequently see code (for example an MWE) followed by the printed output that code produces, something I have never managed to achieve. How is this done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11837" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T09:56:14.480" Title="Printed output of a .tex document" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-11-25T09:12:22.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-11-13T11:34:00.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Badge icons&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get back the previous badge icons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  .badge1, .badge2, .badge3 {&#xA;     background-image: url(&amp;quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/tex/img/sprites.svg&amp;quot;) !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if the normal icons are too boring, they can be replaced by ducks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  .badge1, .badge2, .badge3 {&#xA;     background-image: url(&amp;quot;https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samcarter/shared/master/TeXse/sprites.svg?sanitize=true&amp;quot;) !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MPEGP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MPEGP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T11:34:00.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8090" CreationDate="2018-11-13T16:48:41.747" Score="4" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a weird behavior in user profile. The code blocks span beyond the boundary as shown in the following screenshot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hYed2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hYed2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T14:09:58.313" Title="Code blocks leak in user profile" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7781" CreationDate="2018-11-14T05:56:48.703" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't make the page like an IDE (integrated development environment, such as Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition, any Video editing software, Adobe Illustrator, etc) in which users can freely change the look and feel of their work-space by hiding, showing, enabling, disabling, activating, deactivating, adding, removing, docking, undocking, repositioning  the tool windows, menus,  font colors, font type, style-sheet, skins, etc such that users and the developers are always happy with their own decision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastActivityDate="2018-11-14T05:56:48.703" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-11-14T05:56:48.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-17T11:19:06.080" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why MathJax is blocked on this forum, but not on math.stackexchange.com ? I tried $,$$, and no way i can't do latex formulae.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174897" OwnerDisplayName="mathlinux" LastActivityDate="2018-11-17T11:43:53.703" Title="Why MathJax is blocked on this forum, but not on math.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|discussion|mathjax|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-11-17T17:23:30.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7912" CreationDate="2018-11-18T16:29:07.347" Score="8" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that the &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/badges/13/yearling&quot;&gt;Yearling badge&lt;/a&gt; is awarded once a year for members who earn 200+ reputation in that year. But I was awarded this badge four times within last 20 days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how does it really work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28557" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-11-19T03:24:56.047" LastActivityDate="2018-11-19T03:24:56.047" Title="Four Yearling badges within 20 days" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7911" CreationDate="2018-11-18T17:54:54.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/13/yearling&quot;&gt;Yearling badge&lt;/a&gt; is awarded for being an &quot;Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation.&quot; However, it can be awarded &lt;em&gt;retroactively&lt;/em&gt; if you've been around for a while but only recently started contributing. Here is a view of your reputation over time (&lt;a href=&quot;https://pastebin.com/JaYNPVkR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;data&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o976l.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o976l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You triggered the Yearling badge on the following dates, based on your reputation change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;May 17, 2014: Joined TeX.SE&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;May 17, 2015: Been a member on TeX.SE for 1 year with reputation 178 (&amp;lt; 200); eligible for 1 Yearling badge&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;May 17, 2016: Been a member on TeX.SE for 2 years with reputation 198 (&amp;lt; 200); eligible for 2 Yearling badges&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;May 17, 2017: Been a member on TeX.SE for 3 years with reputation 198 (&amp;lt; 200); eligible for 3 Yearling badges&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;May 24, 2017: Earned 10 daily rep to achieve 208 total reputation &gt; First Yearling badge&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;May 17, 2018: Been a member on TeX.SE for 4 years with reputation 228 (&amp;lt; 400); eligible for 4 Yearling badges&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oct 28, 2018: Earned 130 daily rep to achieve 448 total reputation &gt; Second Yearling badge (reputation &gt; 400)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nov 10, 2018: Earned 114 daily rep to achieve 641 total reputation &gt; Third Yearling badge (reputation &gt; 600)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nov 16, 2018: Earned 137 daily rep to achieve 820 total reputation &gt; Fourth Yearling badge (reputation &gt; 800)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nov 18, 2018: Earned 200 daily rep to achieve 1,115 total reputation &gt; Fifth Yearling badge (reputation &gt; 1,000)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/237081/168244&quot;&gt;How does the Yearling badge now work over multi years?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-11-18T17:54:54.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2018-11-20T22:02:28.440" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Fix incorrect colour of icons in post editor&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A userscript to change the icon colour from the default Stackoverflow orange to your red is available from &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/53400946/2777074&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/a/53400946/2777074&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WG3l.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WG3l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T22:02:28.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-20T21:52:46.987" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I find an answer to a question I would like to be able to save the text of the question and answer(s) and also the code in text format so that I can study and modify it for my own use. Is there a simple way of doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly I would like to be able to go back to a Q &amp;amp; A by, e.g., a simple designation (numbers/letters etc). Is there a way of doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77940" OwnerDisplayName="morris roger" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T00:04:11.447" Title="Referencing and saving Stack Exchange Questions and Answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-22T21:37:00.403" Score="10" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reviewing the questions marked for reopening, I quite often wonder why that question was marked for reopening. For example, I've seen questions closed as duplicates, and the OP added a comment or edit why this question is different to the one linked. In this case a vote-to-reopen makes perfect sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But consider this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/461223/dividing-a-page-into-several-horizontal-minipages&quot;&gt;Dividing a page into several horizontal minipages&lt;/a&gt;. I can't see a reason why someone would like this question to be reopened. It also doesn't seem to have been edited, such that e.g. a simple tag edit perhaps could have triggered the reopen voting automatically (I'm not even sure if it actually can be triggered automatically).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or another example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/458865/submitting-paper-to-arxiv&quot;&gt;Submitting paper to arXiv&lt;/a&gt;. This question had been closed and then was marked for reopening. I voted against reopening because I couldn't see a reason for it. However, this question is open again now, so apparently other people &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; see a good reason for reopening it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there any way to get a hint why a question was marked for reopening? Should I prefer voting for reopening a question even if I don't see a good reason for it? Or is there at least a way to see who marked the question for reopening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT:&lt;/em&gt; Because there seems to be some confusion about the intends of this question, I just want to add that the question didn't aim at asking for new features (although opening a request for adding an optional reopen reason might actually be worth a try). The aim was to ask for hints or things to consider I haven't thought of when reviewing the reopen proposals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reviewing close proposals feels much easier to me, because there's usually a lot of information available you can use to come to a decision, like an explicit reason, links to duplicate questions, name of the user suggesting the closure, comments that lead to the proposal etc. Reopen votes apparently lack all such useful information; they often seem somewhat arbitrary to me. Hence my question how to gather more information to come to a reasonable decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastEditorUserId="23765" LastEditDate="2018-11-28T13:19:28.680" LastActivityDate="2018-11-28T13:19:28.680" Title="How to gather more information for decisions on reopen votes?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2018-11-23T01:34:14.813" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is a discussion question, here is an answer that does not really answer the question. I guess that you implicitly ask that the rules of this site are to be changed in such a way that one has to specify a reason for why the question is to be reopened. And I almost fully agree with this request: after all, one also has to specify a reason for the closure of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is one point that one has to consider IMHO. If a question has been closed, it is always clear why this has been done (duplicate, unclear, off-topic, ...). This almost automatically implies that if one votes to reopen the question, one simply does not agree with the assertion made. That is, if I vote to reopen a question that was closed as a duplicate, this simply means that,in my opinion, it is not a duplicate. (The question how precisely a duplicate is defined is nontrivial, but I do not think we have to delve into this here.) Therefore, the reason for reopening is automatically clear and there is no need to &lt;em&gt;enforce&lt;/em&gt; that it has to be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, as in the case of closure, it is always nice to have some explanation for the vote. If your question is just to encourage users to consider adding explanations, I fully support this encouragement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-11-23T21:11:21.930" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T21:11:21.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-23T10:58:33.770" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;While editing questions, previously, I remember that we can re-edit the questions by other users while it is being reviewed and the lastest edit is the one that will be reviewed: to either get approved or rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, now I see that, as soon as I make an edit to a question, it goes to the queue and any changes that I make to the question after my current edit (which is under review now) doesn't get reflected for the review. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this makes the editing and review process more complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this due to new update in the site or is it the way it was from the beginning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PS: here when I say update, it means updating my own edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T10:58:33.770" Title="Unable to update the edits while the initially performed edit is in progress" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2018-11-23T16:11:20.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions are closed for no good reason. Moreover, those who voted for the closure do not want to go back on their vote at all, regardless of the arguments. For example, it was closed for no reason and reopened at @Mico's request, not without difficulty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/440572/how-to-migrate-from-numprint-to-siunitx-while-keeping-the-same-font&quot;&gt;How to migrate from numprint to siunitx while keeping the same font?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question you should ask yourself is this: &lt;strong&gt;was there a real reason to close the question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastEditorUserId="138900" LastEditDate="2018-11-24T08:18:24.093" LastActivityDate="2018-11-24T08:18:24.093" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7920" CreationDate="2018-11-23T16:11:28.037" Score="12" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;The top &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37169/1280&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; of the top question of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rubber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rubber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rubber&lt;/a&gt; tag currently states that rubber is not actively developed. While it may be true that rubber development was in a hiatus around the time the answer was posted, it is no longer true that rubber is unmaintained. In fact, the latest release (1.5.1) was published only two months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/161007&quot;&gt;submitted an edit updating the answer, but unfortunately it was rejected&lt;/a&gt;. The reasons given where&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits&#xA;  that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of&#xA;  the post's owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if I would agree with this. The main part of the answer (the original intent if you want), the list of differences between rubber and latexmk, was not edited at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the rationale behind rejecting my edits? How does keeping outdated parts of an answer improve tex.SE? Do we really want to drive away people from, an IMHO excellent, software by keeping outdated statements in an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1280" LastEditorUserId="1280" LastEditDate="2018-11-23T16:33:24.783" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T16:40:09.590" Title="Why are edits correcting an answer to reflect the current state of affairs rejected?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7919" CreationDate="2018-11-23T16:40:09.590" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the issue is that the answer started with the proviso then moved on to the comparison, rather than the other way around. That made it look like the 'no development' part was the most important aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say, the question is about a feature comparison, for which the 'health warning' is clearly secondary. As such, I feel the edit was fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T16:40:09.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2018-11-23T21:48:44.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only general voting behaviour that requires an explanation is closure. All other voting (including up-voting, down-voting, voting to re-open and voting to delete) can be done without adding any reference or motivation. So, without any additional comment, or explanation under those circumstances, you have make a judgement based on what is contained within the post/original content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said this, you should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; make an educated judgement/informed decision based on the original content or current state of the question. Don't just assume something in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/reopen&quot;&gt;re-open vote review queue&lt;/a&gt; should be re-opened, or that every question in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close&quot;&gt;close vote review queue&lt;/a&gt; should be closed. Make an informed decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T21:48:44.257" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7925" CreationDate="2018-11-25T09:11:58.087" Score="3" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear users I have recently offered a new bounty. If the answer is modest or inconsistent or insufficient what are the actions I should take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-11-26T16:34:52.633" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T16:34:52.633" Title="Bounty for bad answer" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7922" CreationDate="2018-11-25T09:20:18.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, you can start a dialogue to make the answer more substantive, consistent and coherent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastActivityDate="2018-11-25T09:20:18.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7922" CreationDate="2018-11-25T11:38:06.287" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of bounties is to get attention for the question - they don't guarantee to receive good answers or even any answers at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the answer you get, live with it or start a new bounty after the current bounty is expired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171147" LastActivityDate="2018-11-25T11:38:06.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7922" CreationDate="2018-11-26T16:34:31.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The unfortunate thing about bounties are that they are irreversible. Once issued, it's an immediate withdrawal from your reputation bank. At best, the bounty adds more attention to your question by bumping it to the top of the active questions list, as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;featured questions tab&lt;/a&gt;. At worst, no additional interest is shown at the end of the bounty period, leaving you with no return on your investment. Here's an excerpt on how the bounty system works in the latter case(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If after the end of the bounty period a question has no answers, no&#xA;  bounty will be awarded and the question will no longer be featured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Part of what you're &quot;paying for&quot; with a bounty is for higher question&#xA;  visibility and increased answerer motivation.  A bounty does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  guarantee a response and is &lt;strong&gt;not refunded&lt;/strong&gt; if none are received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;What happens if I feel my question is still unanswered? / What is automatic awarding?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/147577/168244&quot;&gt;Approximately&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  24 hours after the end of the bounty period (once the grace period&#xA;  ends), if the bounty starter has not manually awarded the bounty, the&#xA;  bounty may be awarded automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the author offered the bounty, and accepted an answer that was&#xA;  posted after the bounty was started, that answer is awarded the full&#xA;  bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Otherwise, all or half of the bounty is awarded to the highest-scored&#xA;  answer out of those which...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...were posted &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the bounty was started, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...have a score of at least 2 (at the time the automatic awarding takes place), and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...were not written by the bounty starter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the chosen answer was accepted by the question owner, it will&#xA;  receive the full bounty. Otherwise, it will receive half the bounty.&#xA;  If two eligible answers have the same score, the older answer is&#xA;  chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If no answer meets any of the above two criteria, the bounty is not&#xA;  awarded to any answer, and is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; refunded to the bounty starter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may still be hope! Perhaps find similar questions than the one you posted a bounty for and see who wrote answers to those or commented favourably. Ping them with a comment and see if they could spend some time answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/16065/168244&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T16:34:31.530" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-30T06:46:03.060" Score="22" ViewCount="672" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7735/101651&quot;&gt;already said&lt;/a&gt; that answering just-do-it-for-me questions gives a wrong signal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, it makes this site become a just-do-it-for-me(-for-free) service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, it leads to comments like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/462107/projection-onto-polar-and-convex-cone?noredirect=1#comment1163226_462107&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; by a serial just-do-it-for-me asker, please note the  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WCAdK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WCAdK.png&quot; alt=&quot;I hope you stop voting me down because I see lots question posted in similar fashion or even more with out MWE.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to suggest, when we answer to a similar question, to make a premise to the answer or comment the question like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question is a just-do-it-for-me one, you should add a minimal&#xA;  working example, I'm answering &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you are a new user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I think your question is interesting, anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I have some spare time, I'm answering just for fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I am a reputation seeker.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some clarification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; saying &quot;do not answer bad questions&quot; (I, too, do it every now and then) I am only &lt;em&gt;suggesting&lt;/em&gt; (I do not want to oblige anybody) to write an answer like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/459875/101651&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; or leave a comment like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/459301/centralized-lateral-boxes-with-squared-round-edges#comment1155333_459301&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, a user will always ask just-do-it-for-me questions and will be annoyed if someone asks him/her to add it.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the long run, it is good also for the users. If they only cut and paste the solutions, they will never learn how to do things by themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Further clarification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want the answerers to justify themself for answering, I would like to make the OPs know that, even if they got an answer, it is not fair to post a just-do-it-for-me question, they got an answer only because they are new users, etc., not because the question is perfect and they can continue to ask such questions in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that seeing many questions with the classical request for the MWE and then answered, gives the OPs a wrong signal, if the answer begins with &quot;you should have provided a MWE but I'm good and answer anyway&quot;, the ones who required an MWE would appear less bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this is only &lt;em&gt;my opinion&lt;/em&gt;, you are free to think and act differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-12-02T06:19:03.313" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T23:32:14.223" Title="Explicitly indicate the reasons why answering a just-do-it-for-me question" Tags="|discussion|answers|please-do-this-for-me|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="31" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7926" CreationDate="2018-11-30T18:01:11.890" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This attempts to &amp;quot;force a policy&amp;quot; onto the community that might not align with everyone's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Enforcement&amp;quot; of this seems like it will clutter comment sections with &amp;quot;Please see [this Meta post]&amp;quot;, suggesting answerers now have to edit there post to conform to something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may end up alienating new and existing users who don't want to follow this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let users be free to ask do-this-for-me questions as is the current state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;voting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to establish the site behaviour. That is, if you don't think someone has done their research (as indicated by the hover text on the voting buttons), then down-vote the question. That's literally what the voting system is designed for. Down-voting is not something that one should be scared of doing. It's one of the only (anonymous) ways we have to distinguish between relevant/good content and irrelevant/bad content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you can vote-to-close with a reason of the question being &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot;, as there are no specifics in the question for which help is requested. New users who take advantage of this will soon learn that such behaviour is not well received here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This allows users who want to have fun in answering do-it-for-me question to do so. If a question is closed before they can answer, then cast a re-open vote, or ping a moderator, or start a discussion in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; where you'll find plenty of support to re-open something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T18:01:11.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-30T19:49:07.867" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;TeX.SE is listed on Area 51&lt;/a&gt;. However, the right-hand column only references that &quot;this site launched ... 8 years ago.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nuIBB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nuIBB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;was &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FUu4o.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; on June 2, 2010;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9jCG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;commitment start&lt;/a&gt; on June 22, 2010;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;went into &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MAz3u.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;private beta&lt;/a&gt; on July 26, 2010; and finally&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;went into &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/66rLj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;public beta&lt;/a&gt; on August 2, 2010&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;before launching. When was the actual launch day/graduation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not possible to establish this date purely based on questions on the site, since questions asked during the establishment phase on Area 51 - private and public beta - eventually end up on the site and therefore precede the launch date. As an example, the first question on TeX.SE (by reference in the URL as &lt;code&gt;/questions/1&lt;/code&gt;) - &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1/5764&quot;&gt;Automatically define macros in LyX documents&lt;/a&gt; - is dated July 27, 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/q/20646/90733&quot;&gt;Tooltip showing date/time of site launch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T19:49:07.867" Title="When exactly did TeX.SE graduate?" Tags="|discussion|area51|graduating-sites|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-12-01T06:25:33.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7929" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-11-30T19:50:11.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//area51.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Area 51&lt;/a&gt; is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange_Network&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Network&lt;/a&gt; staging zone. It's where groups of experts come together to build new Q&amp;amp;A sites that work just like other sites on the Stack Exchange Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Area 51 has &lt;a href=&quot;//area51.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;its own discussion site&lt;/a&gt; which acts as its own meta site. If a question is only related to Area 51, then it is better to ask it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-11-30T19:50:11.597" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T19:50:11.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7930" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-11-30T19:50:11.597" Score="0" Body="Area 51 is the Stack Exchange Network staging zone. It's where groups of experts come together to build new Q&amp;A sites that work just like other sites on the SE network. Area 51 has its own discussion site - area51.meta.stackexchange.com. If a question is only related to Area 51, then it is better to ask it there." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-11-30T19:50:11.597" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T19:50:11.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7931" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-11-30T19:51:26.127" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-11-30T19:51:26.127" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T19:51:26.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7932" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-11-30T19:51:26.127" Score="0" Body="For questions about site graduation, which is the process of moving from the beta stage (where a site's scope is defined and the user base is grown) to a full-blown member of the Stack Exchange network." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-11-30T19:51:26.127" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T19:51:26.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7934" CreationDate="2018-12-01T00:27:43.477" Score="8" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is to report a curious effect. I just lost 2 reputation points (not that I care) and my indicator shows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/urNkx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/urNkx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/403645/after-multicolumn-follow-line-is-strange&quot;&gt;linked post&lt;/a&gt; is a deleted question, and all I did was to add a comment there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bA1Df.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bA1Df.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is strange in two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can one lose reputation points through a comment?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can one lose reputation points through a deleted post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I also know that minus times minus is plus, but I do not accept this as an explanation here. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-12-01T01:58:01.007" LastActivityDate="2018-12-01T01:58:01.007" Title="How can one lose reputation by posting a comment?" Tags="|support|comments|reputation|delete|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7933" CreationDate="2018-12-01T01:24:36.740" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did more than leave a comment. You also suggested an edit to that question back in Nov 2017 (just &gt;1 year ago):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oukb0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oukb0.png&quot; alt=&quot;pic&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and notice the &quot;edit approved&quot; status. It suggests your reputation back then was not high enough to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;immediate edits&lt;/a&gt;. It also means when your edit &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; approved, you earned a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;2 point bonus&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the question has been deleted by the &quot;community&quot;, it's just a matter of TeX.SE reversing that 2 point bonus you earned from that edit. Nothing to do with earning rep from comments whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117534" LastEditorUserId="117534" LastEditDate="2018-12-01T01:29:40.247" LastActivityDate="2018-12-01T01:29:40.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7926" CreationDate="2018-12-01T05:00:03.290" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some simple ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to answer just-do-it-for-me questions, answer them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't want to answer them, don't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to leave a comment explaining why you answered, leave a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't want to leave a comment explaining why you answered, don't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, trying to legislate behaviour, especially of people who are giving answers freely, is the best way to alienate people. I used to participate on English Language and Usage until people started downvoting my perfectly reasonable answers to &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; they deemed not sufficiently researched. Let's not get to that stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2018-12-01T05:00:03.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-01T20:04:31.933" Score="0" ViewCount="525" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are two real facts that show that prominent contributors close questions without taking the time to read them carefully and verify that they are really a duplicate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;First issue:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/462727/138900&quot;&gt;Labeling points on a circle [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;it was asked at 5:56 p. m. and is closed &lt;strong&gt;after one hour&lt;/strong&gt; because of a duplicate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the OP explains that it cannot apply the answer codes: and for good reason, because the other question does &lt;strong&gt;not solve&lt;/strong&gt; its problem at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A closer look at the question shows that this new collaborator did not see the essential difference between the two questions: he uses the operation &lt;code&gt;\node&lt;/code&gt; to draw the regular polygon while in the other question he uses a &lt;code&gt;\foreach&lt;/code&gt; with on a &lt;code&gt;\draw&lt;/code&gt; operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Second issue:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same problem arose with this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/460236/138900&quot;&gt;I want a figure to be positioned above a tikzpicture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was asked at 4:57 am and a request for closure was asked in &lt;strong&gt;less&lt;/strong&gt; than &lt;strong&gt;an hour&lt;/strong&gt;. However, it was different because it was another problem due to the &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I replied, then I added the &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; tag and the closing request was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkIUp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkIUp.png&quot; alt=&quot;comments&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My questions:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Isn't this speed in itself a problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Isn't this a consequence of the inherent speed of computers and networks?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shouldn't we change the closing rules and leave a few days of latency before we can close a question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Can you reopen these questions?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask for this question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/462727/138900&quot;&gt;Labeling points on a circle [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;) to be reopened because it makes it possible to clarify Tikz's various concepts and operations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-02-02T22:24:32.797" Title="Why are the eminent contributors in such a hurry to close questions?" Tags="|support|bug|close-reasons|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7936" CreationDate="2018-12-01T21:32:29.807" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The network model is that closing has a &lt;em&gt;higher barrier&lt;/em&gt; than reopening: it takes more votes to close a question than it does to reopen one, and any edits to a closed question put it in the reopen review queue. As such, the entire network model is to favour closure of unclear/possible duplicate questions. The idea there is that clarification will lead to reopening, and the number of duplicate &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;/unanswered-but-open questions will be kept lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving questions 'alone' (perhaps along with a comment) is fine, but it's hard to find such questions after any length of time unless one is very organised. At the same time, other than mods/gold badge holders, a single vote doesn't close a question. That means a consensus must have been reached. (The mod team are wary about closing and very happy to reopen as required.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-12-01T21:32:29.807" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7936" CreationDate="2018-12-01T21:34:53.540" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/strong&gt;: This is a response to a series of personalized attacks. The attacks on me are gone after clarification by Joseph Wright that I did not vote to close any of the posts. This prompted me to re-edit this response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My problems with your post&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two main problems with your post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A personalized criticism of @CarLaTeX. I do not think that this is appropriate, and below I will explain why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An IMHO incorrect description of &quot;facts&quot;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I disagree with your criticism of CarLaTeX? IMHO you just pull things out of context. Let us recall how the dialogue starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ciQYE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ciQYE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things to be noted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As you can see, in a comment I suggested something to which the OP responded that it worked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My second comment was a response to @CarLaTeX's suggestion to write an answer. I did not want to write an answer because I thought there are already much better answers available. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From the above, my conclusion was that the questions was solved. How else would one interpret &quot;it worked&quot;? Isn't our main concern to solve the problems of other users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CarLaTeX retracted her close vote. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what precisely is your issue here? Is it legitimate to close a question because it has been solved in the comments? Yes, I think so. (Again, I did not close the question, but I do believe that anyone seeing the comment &quot;it worked&quot; by the OP has a very legitimate reason to close the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The main point here is, similar to what Joseph is saying, that this is a democratic model. Even if a user closes a question by mistake (which did not even happen here), it is not the purpose of the meta site to launch personalized attacks. Rather, democracy just means that you can vote to reopen a question. As explained by Joseph, apart from the gold badge thingy (which I personally do not want to use) this site is very democratic. All voters have the same weight, and the reputation threshold to become a voter is not really huge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, how do you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that &quot;However, it was different because it was another problem due to the standalone class.&quot; is true? After all, your answer did, at the time of writing, not get accepted. On the other hand, my comment got at least a reply that &quot;it worked&quot;. (I am not saying that your answer is necessarily wrong, all I am saying is that there is no clear evidence that shows that it is the true answer. So there is a real chance that the OP is happy because their problem is solved and we have a huge unnecessary and emotional discussion here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the other issue, I disagree with what you write in the sentence that starts with &quot;A &lt;strong&gt;closer look&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. (It might however be that you &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt; to say the correct thing.) I just want to urge you not to try to advertze your personal opinion as a fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, yes, of course, there are are lots of miscommunications and language problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eWaU2.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eWaU2.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-12-02T01:53:50.423" LastActivityDate="2018-12-02T01:53:50.423" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7898" CreationDate="2018-12-04T15:54:21.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only questions but also answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here both Dũng Vũ and I didn't notice the error:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/462924/put-additional-features-for-elementary-row-operations-in-latex&quot;&gt;Put additional features for elementary row operations in latex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overleaf shows this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/umENf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/umENf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only if you click on &quot;Logs and output files&quot; and then on &quot;View Raw Logs&quot; you'll see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PmbeH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PmbeH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-12-04T15:54:21.147" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7954" CreationDate="2018-12-05T00:48:43.010" Score="19" ViewCount="756" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;code of conduct&lt;/a&gt; of this site, I was a bit surprised not to see any explicit mention of &amp;quot;academic honesty&amp;quot; there. According to how I read this, you can shamelessly copy tricks or code from other posts as long as you are polite and friendly on the surface. The issue itself has, to some extent been discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1020/a-case-of-intellectual-honesty&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. Personally I would define it slightly broader, i.e. go beyond the question whether or not a user has converted a code fragment to an MWE. In fact, personally I would wish that anyone learning a trick from another answer and using it in their own answer mentions the origin of the trick. Yet the purpose of this post is not to discuss these &amp;quot;details&amp;quot;, rather to urge the &amp;quot;powers&amp;quot; to extend the code of conduct by the item &amp;quot;academic honesty&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the reply by the officials&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi marmot,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for contacting us.   I hate to send you off in a new&#xA;direction, but the best way to get your idea seen is to post it on the&#xA;community’s &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;. Stack Exchange is&#xA;collaboratively built, maintained, and ultimately designed by the&#xA;community. Right now, this email is somewhat walled up in a back room&#xA;while most of our design is done collaboratively in public view. The&#xA;best way to get ideas seen is to get it out there where the users and&#xA;developers can vet your idea and discuss the benefits and any&#xA;potential issues. Meta is the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards, Stack Overflow Team&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am writing this post because I got told to do that, and, more importantly, to have a basis for a discussion with the &amp;quot;authorities&amp;quot;. The first step seems to be that we agree within the TeX community on whether or not we want such an addition. Any feedback, of course also critical feedback, is welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further clarification&lt;/strong&gt;: There are very different levels of &amp;quot;academic honesty&amp;quot; one may think of. In the nice answer by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7943/121799&quot;&gt;Raoul Kessels&lt;/a&gt;, a very strict implementation is discussed. This is not exactly what I had in mind when bringing this up. I guess if one really was to go for this, we would have to amend a one-line answer by a lengthy list of references. What I had in mind is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if there is already an answer or a comment that goes into the same direction, one may want to acknowledge this. (Sometimes it happens that one sees a question, knows how to answer it, and when one is ready with writing the code, a comment has popped up going in the same direction. I personally still write &amp;quot;As pointed out by ..., one can do ...&amp;quot;, as this does not imply that I learned this from the comment, but just to give feedback that the two of us independently thought about something similar.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Of course, if one makes use of another post, which is in turn based on yet another post, I personally think one should only &amp;quot;cite&amp;quot; the more original one unless the later one adds something important. That's of course just my personal opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If one learns something from another post rather than a manual, say, and uses this much later in an answer, I personally do not think one has to quote the post as long as this does not go beyond the manual. This does not at all mean that answers that &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; point to a specific place of the manual are worth less. It just means that after some long time it may not be possible to recall where one got the information from, and if it is in a manual, then this might qualify as the &amp;quot;original&amp;quot; source.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As for the question of enforceability: this is no different from the other things discussed in the code of conduct, and I never had &amp;quot;enforceability&amp;quot; in mind when writing this. As far as I understand, the code of conduct does not really get enforced. The reason why I am bringing this up is to say that the expected behavior is to give credit to sources of information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T22:22:25.700" Title="Proposal to add &quot;academic honesty&quot; to the code of conduct" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-05T09:57:23.703" Score="17" ViewCount="827" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This question does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; relate to TeX or LaTeX.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wish the question is answered &lt;strong&gt;not only&lt;/strong&gt; by high-reputation users, but also users having lower-reputation. Once you have enough reputation to answer, I'm looking forward to your answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter how long you have been on TeX.SE, you must have many special and nearly-unforgettable moments here. Now let's show your feelings in such moments, by answering some of the following questions, or even your own questions, if you like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do you feel when...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you made your first question on TeX.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for the first time, one of the answers of your question really helped you / solved your problem(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for the first time, one of your answers helped people and was marked &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you got the first downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you were awarded the Association Bonus&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for the first time, you reached 200 reputations without the Association Bonus?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you got the first gold badge?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you reached 1,000; 10,000; 100,000; 500,000 reputations?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you became a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2018-12-06T04:09:56.970" LastActivityDate="2018-12-21T19:01:37.360" Title="Your special moments in TeX - LaTeX StackExchange" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7940" CreationDate="2018-12-05T13:31:35.810" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, while desirable, it is also very difficult to accomplish, even in the most honest way. &#xA;The problems with all know-how, including code and all kinds of technology, is that once you know it, it stays. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that, many times, it is honestly impossible to give credit to whom gave you the idea. &#xA;Even if it is exactly the same stuff. &#xA;You know it, you use it and in the end it comes naturally. &#xA;You just do not remember where it came from. &#xA;Much worse if you have modified slightly some details or simply some command, from &lt;code&gt;\zzz&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;\mycmd&lt;/code&gt; for instance, to keep track of what is happening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, it is still worse when you see so many examples daily, as in this site. &#xA;You copy something somewhere, use it, use it somewhere else and when you post an answer, you just do not know where the code came from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/359189/looping-over-strings&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, I was already using the codes and had to do an explicit search to find all the authors of the different formats. &#xA;I did it because it improves the question and obviously it was not my code in any case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in my opinion, it desirable and it should be encoraged, but it might be impossible even being honest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53956" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T13:31:35.810" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7942" CreationDate="2018-12-05T15:32:31.937" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that I am really qualified to answer, but just to make a start. Most of the things I actually do not remember except for :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When I asked my first question, I was impressed by the friendliness of the users who commented and/or answered. (I was expecting an answer of the sort: &quot;Come on, that's absolutely trivial, how can one not know this?&quot;, but got a really nice and friendly answer.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;N/A&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I just looked up my first accepted answer. Well, looking at it now I'd say a comment would have done as good a job. (Of course I could use the excuse that at that time I could not comment on posts by others. ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No recollection. I only recall the most crazy downvote, which I got because I told another user that it is not OK to sell my answer as his. If this question is about downvotes cast by me, the site says I cast 6 of them, out of which I only remember 3. They were for (IMHO really gross cases of) academic dishonesty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No recollection.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No recollection. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No recollection. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I hardly remember how I felt when I reached 100k or 500k, not even sure it happened. ;-) Other than that, I don't recall any special emotion when I reached any of the 10^n scores. However, after joining the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; started to look whether or not my score hits a paliprime (palindrome prime). This is because that is sort of ironic. A prime has a meaning regardless of whether we are using decimal, binary, hexadecimal or what ever scheme to write our numbers, but clearly a palindrome does depend on this. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just an anecdote: I never really cared for reputation so I did not check how much reputation one gets for what. I was under the impression that you earn more reputation if you answer a question that has more votes. Therefore I thought it was shabby to upvote questions that I am going to answer, and did not do that. So I'd like to apologize to all of those whose questions I answered and did not upvote. (Now I cannot do that since there is a chance it will be considered serial voting. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-12-05T20:39:47.647" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T20:39:47.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7942" CreationDate="2018-12-05T18:46:40.960" Score="10" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Er…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Er…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/14200/4427&quot;&gt;first answer&lt;/a&gt; got accepted the day after it was published. I don't think I paid much attention to reputation, but I felt happy to have been helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/18234/4427&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/18234/4427&lt;/a&gt; earned my first downvote, but it was compensated by a 200 bounty for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/18299/4427&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/18299/4427&lt;/a&gt;. Some downvotes have left me a bit puzzled. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No bonus, this is the first StackExchange site I subscribed to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nine days after first contact. No recollection, as I said, I didn't even know what rep is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/43/legendary?userid=4427&quot;&gt;Legendary&lt;/a&gt; a few months after association, but Martin Scharrer beat me to be the first getting it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Big party for 100K! And 700K a few days ago. I was quite proud to have reached 20000, too, because it opened access to every tool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Overtaking every high rep user has always been very satisfying. &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt; I've not overtaken one high rep user, he has always been behind me except for the first days. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2018-12-05T22:57:34.940" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T22:57:34.940" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7942" CreationDate="2018-12-05T22:12:05.280" Score="11" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was a bit disappointed because nobody answered (I answered by myself after some time: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/303310/problem-with-authoryear-icomp-and-ibidem-in-citation-using-biblatex&quot;&gt;Problem with authoryear-icomp and ibidem in citation using BibLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm really proud of this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/318490/makecell-in-the-header-how-to-get-rid-of-the-space-after-the-last-column-of-th&quot;&gt;\makecell in the header: how to get rid of the space after the last column of the table?&lt;/a&gt; because years after I used it to answer another question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/459372/pgfplotstable-remove-space-before-first-and-after-last-column?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;pgfplotstable - remove space before first and after last column - @{}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was happy and surprised&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember the first, it makes me sad once when I tried to answer a very unclear question and the user replied my answer was poor and downvoted it&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I awarded the Association Bonus on other sites because I'm trusted here, I think it's a sensible feature&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was happy, but it rarely happens&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was happy to reach the 20,000 points to have all the privileges&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a moderator&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the biggest satisfaction: to steal a tick to egreg with a simple answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/408040/iterate-over-an-array&quot;&gt;Iterate over an array&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T22:12:05.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7942" CreationDate="2018-12-06T14:27:21.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am definitely not a super-user as far as Lalalala&lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; is concerned :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do think I have my moments of joy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not so long ago, when I got so frustrated because of the figures/tables/captions getting automatically shifted to a new page or unpreffered locations (with a SW whose name one should not utter), I decided &quot;that's it, from now on, I am going to use whatever &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; that works for me&quot;. At that time, I had no idea about our Lalalala&lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt;s. I just started with &lt;code&gt;pdftex&lt;/code&gt;, coincidence ;) and no idea how to use it. This made me ask my first question (again I just got bumped into this site by accident): &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/224165/how-to-include-headers-in-first-page-of-list-of-tables-contents-etc&quot;&gt;How to include headers in first page of list of tables ,contents, etc&lt;/a&gt;. Also I remember deleting some questions during that time (of course due to embarrasements for asking a stupid question).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My first answer was for my second question (when looking at the transcript).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feeling more stupid now, and also similar as @marmot comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do not remember anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly something popped-up saying you got &lt;code&gt;+100&lt;/code&gt;, I was like &quot;okay, good!&quot;. But at that time, I had no idea why I was awarded that though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do not remember anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do not remember anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recently reached 10^3 and it was a nice feeling indeed. In a manner, atleast my knowledge is useful for someone in a &lt;code&gt;(x,y,z,t(x,y,z))&lt;/code&gt; (in the earth).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;x. Over time, I was thrilled to learn what the things I could do with &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt;, still striking!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="70891" LastEditDate="2018-12-06T14:35:58.943" LastActivityDate="2018-12-06T14:35:58.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7942" CreationDate="2018-12-06T21:53:55.520" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How do you feel when...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;1. you made your first question on TeX.SE?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was not my first question that impressed me the most but the third: It was answered by two eminent contributors who dazzled me with their knowledge of TeX. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/384175/138900&quot;&gt;What are tokens used for?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;2. for the first time, one of the answers of your question really helped you / solved your problem(s)?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relieved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;3. for the first time, one of your answers helped people and was marked accepted?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an answer I knew perfectly well because I had spent hours on this error when I started LaTeX. I was glad to have answered before the high-profile contributors. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;4. you got the first downvote?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember that. How can we find the first downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;5. you were awarded the Association Bonus&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highly reputable contributors told me that one of my questions was not about TeX and to go elsewhere.  It didn't please me. Finally, I went there and got a 100-point bonus.  It comforted me. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;6. for the first time, you reached 200 reputations without the Association Bonus?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No memories. Oh yes, it happened to me very recently and only once. I have difficulty understanding this voting system because I have written very simple answers that have been over upvoted for no reason (in my opinion) and difficult answers that have had no vote (although they deserve it). The voting system questions me more than anything else: what does it represent? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;7. you got the first gold badge?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My one and only gold badge was easy to get: just come here for 100 consecutive days. It looks pretty on the screen. It's a nice color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;8. you reached 1,000; 10,000; 100,000; 500,000 reputations?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time I reached 1000, I was very surprised. And with each passing to the next thousand just as much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;9. you became a moderator?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given my difficulties with the English language, this is not likely to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;10. When did you start reading the TeXbook?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was very intrigued by the modification of the tokens and wondered why Donald Knuth did it.&#xA;Since that day, I would like to ask him two questions and I hope he will answer &lt;em&gt;(before he disappears)&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For what purpose did you permit the modification of the tokens? Is it to make TeX a very low level language from which it is possible to create others like TikZ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did not you copy the C or Pascal calculation capabilities into TeX?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastEditorUserId="138900" LastEditDate="2018-12-09T20:22:36.287" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T20:22:36.287" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7940" CreationDate="2018-12-07T02:06:28.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: In the following I consider &quot;Academic Honesty&quot; as the &quot;loose&quot; definition from items 1.-4. in the question, not the very strict definition from Raoul Kessels answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is only one acceptable reason why academic honesty is not yet in the code of conduct: because it should be a givens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately some posts on the main site disprove my view. The problem is even broader than copying from other posts without mentioning the source, copy &amp;amp; pasting whole text passages from external websites without disclosing the source is also not unheard of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I strongly support that &quot;academic honesty&quot; should be added to the code of conduct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case we can't convince stackexchange that its addition is a must, we could think about finding an internal solution for tex.stackexchange. Maybe a meta post similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1255/relicensing-code-from-answers&quot;&gt;Relicensing code from answers&lt;/a&gt; where people can enter their username if they support academic honesty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T02:11:50.197" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T02:11:50.197" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8004" CreationDate="2018-12-07T12:56:36.797" Score="18" ViewCount="1097" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope we all know that Christmas is fast approaching. This indeed means that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\begin{holidays} with a hope that it never ends \ldots but \ldots \end{holidays}.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, before we start celebrating the new-year, christmas and our holidays, I think we can have a contest where one should design an &lt;code&gt;avatar-with-a-sweater&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this sweater can be ugly/pretty. And, it's upto the participants' choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rules:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] You can have any number of designs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[2] You must explicitly specify under which category you want your avatar to be evaluated. Those include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   a. Beautiful avatar with an ugly sweater.&#xA;&#xA;   b. Beautiful avatar with a pretty sweater.&#xA;&#xA;   c. Both **a and b** ;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[3] Winner is chosen based on the number of up-votes!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[4] The competition ends on &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;31-12-2018 23:59:59&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be two-winners:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beautiful avatar with a pretty sweater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beautiful avatar with an ugly sweater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, our own &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ducklings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; are more than welcome!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let the &lt;code&gt;TeX-mas&lt;/code&gt; begin :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: The &lt;code&gt;ducks&lt;/code&gt; tag is just here because I like &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DUCKS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results of this event is available as an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T14:27:16.240" Title="Let us have some TeX-mas fun [completed]" Tags="|discussion|fun|ducks|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7940" CreationDate="2018-12-07T15:49:25.647" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether something is stated explicitly in the code of conduct or not is (almost) irrelevant, to the extent that it really only can come into play if the SE &quot;powers&quot; are engaged in policing the behaviour by e.g., implementing suspensions or banning users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all other cases, behaviour on the site is by mutual understanding with (mild) &quot;enforcement&quot; of those standards by way of comments. For example TeX.se has a community practice of preferring to comment on unclear questions and waiting for responses from the OP before voting to close such questions. On other parts of the site, this is not the norm. It works for us, however, and we see it as a more friendly way of dealing with new users than closing and subsequent reopening when the question is clarified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a tradition of commenting on answers to improve them rather than simply posting a competing answer with almost the same content by with a minor change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of us are also good at referring to answers on the site we use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does everyone do this? No. Should they? It would be nice, but it's unlikely to happen. So what can we do about the people who don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post comments with links to answers that are copied from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit answers to include links to copied content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an edit gets rolled back, then &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; behaviour (assuming it's unwarranted) can be policed if needed by our own moderators. Obviously we don't want to start edit wars, so posting a comment first would be the prudent first approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T15:49:25.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2018-12-07T20:32:12.640" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following sweater features a scene created by @UlrikeFischer from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/246256860&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Great TikZducks Christmas Extravaganza 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f0ek7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f0ek7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like my avatar to enter the contest of pretty sweaters - after all it has ducks, so how can it be ugly? :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T02:10:55.533" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T02:10:55.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7940" CreationDate="2018-12-08T09:03:20.683" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course, I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone takes your answers, makes some little changes and post it without mentioning the origin is undoubtedly unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also agree with Raoul Kessels, sometimes it could be difficult to find the origin of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/463778/101651&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; more or less copying from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/393568/101651&quot;&gt;previous answer of mine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That previous answer was more or less copied from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/141969/101651&quot;&gt;link indicated in the question&lt;/a&gt;, which was copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/141969/101651&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, eventually, I copied from this last link, but re-build the chain could not be easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-12-08T09:20:23.527" LastActivityDate="2018-12-08T09:20:23.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7940" CreationDate="2018-12-08T11:59:41.877" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me just throw around a few thoughts here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code of conduct in its current form (as found on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/conduct&lt;/a&gt;) seems to focus mainly on being friendly and welcoming and tries to shut down offensive and offending behaviour. Many of these things are more concerned with how things are said and how they are received and perceived rather than with what is said. Academic honesty is about what is said and acknowledged in answers. I feel that it operates on a slightly different level than the focus of the current code of conduct. When the code of conduct was created, other patterns of behaviour were targeted than the factual contents of answers and their origin and background. That is not to say that I think it academic honesty can't or shouldn't be added to the code of conduct, but I believe that it explains why there is no mention of it in its present form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a technical level crediting other answers whenever one copies content is probably already required due to the license of the content. gusbrs &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7940/proposal-to-add-academic-honesty-to-the-code-of-conduct#comment24636_7940&quot;&gt;mentioned that in the comments under the question already&lt;/a&gt;. As far as I understand you remain the copyright holder of your post and would thus have the right to pursue license violations. I'm not sure if you would have a case against the individual that posted the copyright violation or only against Stack Exchange (with which the terms of service seem to agree a separate license agreement &quot;pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC-BY-SA)&quot;). But license issues are terrible enough as they are and I can understand that one would not want to evoke them in this context. (After all I would assume that most posts that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; refer back to other people's work on this network would not meet the formal requirements of &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt; as clarified in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/25/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/25/attribution-required/&lt;/a&gt;. And most answers usually don't acknowledge the MWE for the question as starting point.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If academic honesty is to be added to the code of conduct it should be clear which level of honesty we are talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that (almost) everyone agrees that credits should be given if an integral or non-insignificant part of the answer or the idea of the answer is taken from a different post. Especially if the new post was created by copying and pasting larger blocks of code from elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other cases are less clear cut, you may have learned a certain trick somewhere on this site (Skillmon &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7940/proposal-to-add-academic-honesty-to-the-code-of-conduct#comment24660_7940&quot;&gt;mentions &lt;code&gt;\if\relax\detokenize{#1}\relax&lt;/code&gt; in the comments&lt;/a&gt;), but might have gotten so used to it that its application becomes normal. Most answers are collections of many such idioms and tricks and so it seems nearly impossible to credit all sources of inspiration. See also Raoul Kessels' &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7943/35864&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure if the point 3 in the &lt;em&gt;further clarifications&lt;/em&gt; is going to help a lot here: Naturally, if things are in a manual one could try to defend against a 'you didn't cite my answer' claim by pointing to the manual as possible source of the idea. But then why should there be no obligation to quote the manual? Would the manual of a random package really be a good source for a common or even uncommon trick if there is no further explanation of the trick and no indication that the author is the 'inventor' of the trick? What about small tricks that are not in a manual?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re point 1 in the &lt;em&gt;further clarifications&lt;/em&gt;: I don't think there should be a requirement to acknowledge previous similar work if you did not use it to come up with your idea (and especially if you were not aware of that work at the time of writing your own post). This community is generally quite good at avoiding writing multiple answers using the same methods and usually ideas from the comments are not usually 'snatched' by other people. TeX.SX is not like academia where novelty is important and a survey of related work is expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Academic honesty could be enforced via the same channels as the rest of the code of conduct and I believe that the mere fact that it would be part of the code of conduct would already make people aware of the fact that attribution is important and not just best practice or a nice gesture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I fear that it might be harder to enforce than offensive, unfriendly or unwelcoming behaviour. For the latter the community must accept (and I assume has accepted) that there are no universal objective standards and that at least some of it comes down to subjectivity and feelings. If I flag a comment as offensive it is implied that I think it is offensive or could offend some people. If a moderator then agrees with my assessment the comment is removed. There can be little disagreement about 'the facts' in those situations since it is accepted that feelings play an important role here (indeed the feelings are the fact). With academic honesty, on the other hand, there could be discussions about 'the facts': If you claim that I did not behave academically honestly by not crediting a certain answer, I could try to appeal starting a discussion about whether or not the answer is relevant, about whether or not the idea could have come from somewhere else (a manual that need not be credited?), about whether I had seen the answer before I posted mine etc. That could get messy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the subject of enforceability (see also the comments), I believe that a code of conduct does not live exclusively through being enforced, it also shows the will of the community (or the powers that be) and their position of what is and what isn't acceptable behaviour. But the code of conduct (at least in its current form) should be enforceable if need be. So the question of enforceability is not one we can completely ignore when we aim to add something to the code of conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I didn't think a code of conduct was required: We are all decent &lt;strike&gt;human&lt;/strike&gt; beings after all. But apparently it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; needed. I didn't think academic honesty (at least in a the sense of citing other people's work if one's answer is based on it to a significant degree) would have to be added to the code of conduct, but I accept that I am very likely wrong about that as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I thought that the code of conduct was a network-wide thing, so I'm not sure how much our thoughts matter here. At some point this would probably have to be discussed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2018-12-08T14:29:59.557" LastActivityDate="2018-12-08T14:29:59.557" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2018-12-08T19:05:19.840" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;clearly this entry is in category b,  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; --- see avatar here ----------------------------------------------&#xA;                                                                  |&#xA;                                                                  |&#xA;                                                                  V&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-12-08T19:05:19.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2018-12-09T05:33:24.263" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without ducks. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[border={1cm 3.14mm 1cm 3.14mm}]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{tikzlings} % https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA; \marmot[whiskers,teeth,3D,shadow]&#xA; \fill[top color=blue!70,bottom color=blue,shading angle=-30] &#xA; (-0.56,1.35) to[out=-10,in=190] (0.56,1.35) &#xA; to[out=-80,in=85] (0.58,0.6) to[out=-175,in=-5] (-0.58,0.6) &#xA;  to[out=95,in=-100] cycle;&#xA; \shade[ball color=brown!50!black,rotate around={70:(0.385,0.93)}] (0.385,0.93) ellipse (0.24 and 0.13);&#xA; \shade[ball color=brown!50!black,rotate around={-70:(-0.385,0.93)}] (-0.385,0.93) ellipse (0.24 and 0.13);&#xA; \penguin[yshift=0.7cm,scale=0.25]  &#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IWYaF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IWYaF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T05:33:24.263" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-11T15:07:50.783" Score="11" ViewCount="494" Body="&lt;p&gt;An interesting issue has arisen with the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401990/how-to-use-georgia-as-a-font-in-latex&quot;&gt;How to use Georgia as a font in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/401990/1&quot;&gt;OP's original question&lt;/a&gt;, (s)he demonstrates with a code snippet how (s)he is able to use the Georgia font in lualatex with &lt;code&gt;fontspec&lt;/code&gt;, a procedure that obviously wouldn't work in pdflatex. The OP is now asking how one can use the Georgia font with latex, and explicitly mentions that (s)he is not asking how to do this with xelatex or lualatex (which the OP already knows the answer to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone has provided a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/464076/9077&quot;&gt;long answer&lt;/a&gt;, but this answer focuses almost exclusively on how to use the Georgia font with xelatex/lualatex, which the OP explicitly said (s)he wasn't asking for. I pointed this out in a couple of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401990/how-to-use-georgia-as-a-font-in-latex/464076?noredirect=1#comment1167806_464076&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the author of the answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401990/how-to-use-georgia-as-a-font-in-latex/464076?noredirect=1#comment1168255_464076&quot;&gt;agrees with my feedback&lt;/a&gt;, but nevertheless feels that his/her own answer would be useful enough for someone who wanted to know how to use Georgia in xelatex/lualatex that the answer should stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the OP's question and the provided answer now don't match very well, the author of the answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/401990/how-to-use-georgia-as-a-font-in-latex/464076?noredirect=1#comment1168257_464076&quot;&gt;decides to alter the OP's question to fit the answer (s)he himself/herself provided&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My aim is not to raise this as an issue for this specific incident, but it can stand as an example of a general question: When a question is clear and well formulated, is it ok to change it in order to fit an answer that strictly speaking does not answer the question, only because the answer would be a good answer to a different question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastEditorUserId="9077" LastEditDate="2018-12-15T15:08:25.700" LastActivityDate="2018-12-15T15:08:25.700" Title="Is it ok to change an OP's question to fit an answer?" Tags="|discussion|editing|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7958" CreationDate="2018-12-11T17:43:41.023" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the situation you described I should say &quot;absolutely not&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the correct way to act, to not waste the answer, is that the answerer should ask a new question where to put his/her answer and delete the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way the original question remains unanswered (someone else will answer, seeing its status) and the original answer is recorded for future users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="9077" LastEditDate="2018-12-11T17:54:44.933" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T17:54:44.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7958" CreationDate="2018-12-11T20:50:45.117" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing this up.  I’ll defer to the consensus here if there is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of the original question was, “I want to use Georgia in LaTeX and use different TeX engines.  Here’s a MWE I came up with that works in all but one TeX engine.  How do I use it in the remaining TeX engine?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent, it seemed to me, was more to use Georgia in any TeX engine.  I was specifically motivated to post this answer here because a friend of mine asked for my advice on TeX formatting, and when she searched for how to use Georgia in LaTeX, this question came up.  I wanted to post my answer to her here, where it would also help other people with the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the original question is poorly-phrased in two ways.  First, it uses “latex” as an alias for the PDFLaTeX executable, which isn’t wrong, but causes ambiguity.  People searching for an answer more often want to know about the LaTeX kernel running on any TeX engine.  At least one person I know has already had that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, it’s phrased too narrowly.  As written, it totally excludes any answer that would be helpful to the vast majority of people asking.  There are legitimate reasons to use PDFLaTeX over LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX: you need DVI output, you need 100% compatibility with classic TeX, you like it and don’t want to change, your professor orders you to because she likes it and doesn’t want to change, and so on.  However, since the OP also tried LuaLaTeX first, I think the last sentence may have been more limiting than they themselves might have wanted if their own question had come up in a search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I didn’t think the literal wording of the original question should be enforced to make the answer less useful to most people reading it.  If the OP was asking about “latex” and ordering answers not to mention the most common LaTeX engines at all?  Well, then they should not have done that in the first place.  But splitting off a new question might be a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should I make a new question and self-answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61644" LastEditorUserId="61644" LastEditDate="2018-12-11T21:44:32.093" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T21:44:32.093" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2018-12-12T18:07:08.480" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To give @samcarter the credits back, here the shirt/sweater I made with the nice chess figurine she made for me. It naturally enters in b too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6LKfc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6LKfc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T18:07:08.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2018-12-13T12:58:28.283" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my entry for Category B (pretty sweaters). It features my avatar (a Ulysses butterfly) on a sweater. If it displays right, the wings should flap intermittently. I coded this image using just the &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;animate&lt;/code&gt; packages, and using &lt;a href=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Papilio_ulysses_ambiguus_Rothschild%2C_1895.JPG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this image&lt;/a&gt; as a reference for the butterfly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for fun, I gave myself the personal challenge of creating this using only the default features of these packages, i.e. no pre-made images, no additional libraries, no more than the basic colours, and no significant contributions from other packages (I've got &lt;code&gt;times&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;geometry&lt;/code&gt; in there as well, just for a nicer font and some margin controls, but that's it). I had a lot of fun doing this and really expanded my knowledge of &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;, which I'm really pleased about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Larger version of the butterfly can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkjcP.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/en2pm.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/en2pm.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Butterfly sweater by Ulysses&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone who wants to know how I did this, below is my complete code. Please note that you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the resulting animated pdf (which I highly recommend checking out as the above gif just does not do it justice). Also be aware that I'm still quite the newbie when it comes to LaTeX and &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; so there may be a few quirks. Any hints and tips would be much appreciated. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[a3paper,landscape]{article}&#xA;% All design and code created by Ulysses. Please credit me if you use a significant portion of this anywhere.&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage[margin=0.5cm]{geometry}&#xA;\usepackage{animate}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;\usepackage{times}&#xA;&#xA;\newcommand{\halfwing}[1]{&#xA;\begin{scope}[yscale=1,xscale=#1]&#xA;    % Lower Wing&#xA;    \filldraw[fill=black!90!white!,draw=black,thick,rounded corners=1mm] (0,0.2) -- (0,1.4) -- (-2,1.4) .. controls (-4,0.8) .. (-4.3,0.2) .. controls (-4.48,0.08) .. (-4.5,-0.15) .. controls (-4.9,-0.5) and (-4.9,-0.7) .. (-4.7,-0.9) .. controls (-4.7,-1) .. (-4.6,-1.1) .. controls (-4.9,-1.8) .. (-4.2,-2) -- (-4,-2.4) .. controls (-4.1,-3) .. (-3.6,-3.1) -- (-3.25,-3.7) .. controls (-3.5,-4.5) .. (-4.1,-5.4) .. controls (-4.2,-5.9) and (-3.6,-5.9) .. (-3.5,-5.4) .. controls (-3.55,-5.1) and (-3.4,-4.8) .. 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  <row Id="7963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7964" CreationDate="2018-12-13T16:12:47.560" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been observing that some users insert images of their very young children. Some photos are probably either downloaded or taken somewhere. I was wondering if this is correct considering that I, personally, believe that young children should be protected from the risks of the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-12-13T16:36:42.777" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T16:36:42.777" Title="Children's photo in the profiles" Tags="|discussion|support|user-accounts|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7963" CreationDate="2018-12-13T16:35:25.470" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see something that is untoward in terms of users' profiles, then you can flag something posted by that user (question, answer or comment) for moderator attention and explain your concern. If they have posted nothing, then find a moderator in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. The moderator should follow up with the user and could take further steps if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are many users, not just here, that use loved ones in part of their avatar, or even completely as their avatar with no ill intent. This is completely fine, as long as they don't start impersonating that individual, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/279085/168244&quot;&gt;this is prohibited&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related/reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/279108/168244&quot;&gt;How far should we go in disallowing 'impersonation' in profiles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/13039/168244&quot;&gt;Is it OK to impersonate a public figure?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/279079/168244&quot;&gt;Official position on use of images on avatars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T16:35:25.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7942" CreationDate="2018-12-14T20:37:26.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm always having special moments on TeXExchange when I witness another example of this particular community being distinguishedly more user- and newbie-friendly than any other of the StackExchange communities I know (and there is no particularly &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;un&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;-friendly community I know either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You guys can be really proud of this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My Question No. 11...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11. How did you feel after answering some specific questions and why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember to have felt quite satisfied with myself after clicking 'Save' when I wrote these two answers[^1]. This may sound very strange to you, but when you read below, maybe you can understand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/61216/8747&quot;&gt;Detecting all pages which contain color&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/464230/8747&quot;&gt;Export PDF for two printer - one PDF with just the pictures, the other one with the text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both involved new features which had recently been added to Ghostscript. In both cases I had discovered a road to answer related questions only because I had had a close look at Ghostscript's published changelogs. These new features where/are not widely published or known in the internet -- so my answers remain one of the few places were you find details about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm growing old, my brain power is deteriorating and I do not remember things very well or for long: I tend to 'search-engine' for some topics again and again -- and these two answers came up in my own googling more than once, and they served me well each time... haha!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[^1]: The answers here may not have been the first or only occasion I provided them publically. But this site sticks with me for its prominence in Google and for the friendliness of its community.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8747" LastEditorUserId="8747" LastEditDate="2018-12-21T19:01:37.360" LastActivityDate="2018-12-21T19:01:37.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2018-12-16T08:18:03.567" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both categories!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfutX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfutX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} &#xA;\usepackage{tikzducks}&#xA;\usepackage{tikzlings}&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{positioning}&#xA;\definecolor{marrone}{RGB}{215,151,66}&#xA;\newcommand{\lett}[1]{\huge\bfseries\textcolor{red}{#1}}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document} &#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;    \begin{scope}[scale=12]&#xA;        \duck[longhair=brown!20!black,  &#xA;            squareglasses=brown!50!black, body=red, head=yellow] &#xA;    \end{scope}&#xA;  \marmot[&#xA;    yshift=7cm,xshift=3cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{H}},&#xA;      signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ];&#xA;  \bear[&#xA;    yshift=7cm,xshift=5cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{a}},&#xA;    signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ]&#xA;  \koala[&#xA;    yshift=7cm,xshift=7cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{p}},&#xA;    signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ]&#xA;  \owl[&#xA;    yshift=7cm,xshift=9cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{p}},&#xA;    signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ]&#xA;  \mouse[&#xA;    yshift=7cm,xshift=11cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{y}},&#xA;    signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ]&#xA;  \begin{scope}[yshift=3cm,xshift=4cm, scale=1.5]&#xA;    \duck[ &#xA;      body=yellow!50!brown!40!white,&#xA;      crazyhair=gray!50!white,&#xA;      eyebrow,&#xA;      signpost={\lett{T}},&#xA;      signcolour= gray,&#xA;      signback=white,&#xA;      glasses=brown!70!black,&#xA;      ]  &#xA;  \end{scope}&#xA;  \sloth[&#xA;    yshift=3cm,xshift=7cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{e}},&#xA;    signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ]&#xA;  \begin{scope}[yshift=3cm,xshift=8cm, scale=1.5]&#xA;    \duck[cap,&#xA;      signpost={\lett{X}},&#xA;      signcolour= gray,&#xA;      signback=white,]&#xA;  \end{scope}&#xA;  \coati[&#xA;    yshift=3cm,xshift=11cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{m}},&#xA;    signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ]&#xA;  \snowman[&#xA;    yshift=3cm,xshift=13cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{a}},&#xA;    signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ]&#xA;  \penguin[&#xA;    yshift=3cm,xshift=15cm,&#xA;    signpost={\lett{s}},&#xA;    signcolour= gray,&#xA;    signback=white&#xA;    ]&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T08:23:27.983" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T08:23:27.983" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-18T05:04:07.800" Score="11" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't miss the article. No MWE for this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11837" OwnerDisplayName="Reinhard Neuwirth" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2018-12-18T08:11:28.333" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T10:10:49.953" Title="Question: Are you all reading about Donald Knuth, &quot;The Yoda of Silicon Valley&quot; in the New York Times today?" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2018-12-18T09:32:02.280" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we are all reading&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1c6tS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1c6tS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T09:32:02.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2018-12-18T14:53:20.943" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the purest form of art is ASCII art, the following enters in category 1. But since I'm aware that beauty lies within the eye of the beholder, it also enters in category 2. So in terms of the alphabetic numeration of entry types in &lt;code&gt;[2]&lt;/code&gt; of the rules, this is a &lt;code&gt;c&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Without avatar&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that, since this is TeXed ASCII art, it doesn't contain my personal avatar, but there is a bunny on the sweater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QNmo8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QNmo8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I was asked to, here is the code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[border=2mm]{standalone}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{ducksay}&#xA;% Originally I didn't want to load TikZ, but I'm more familiar with it than with&#xA;% picture mode (shame on me), and I was too lazy to align the stuff with skips.&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOn&#xA;\NewDocumentCommand \DrawASCII { +v }%&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&#xA; 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         a@@@&#xA;   a@a   a@@@@&#xA;(__@@@@@@@@@@@__&#xA; (_______\_\_____}%&#xA;}%&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&#xA;\setbox\sweaterBox\hbox{%&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&#xA;\DrawASCII&#xA;{                     _,,-&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,,_&#xA;           ,,,,--==-=;,                ,;=-==--,,,,&#xA;       _-&amp;quot;'&amp;quot;&amp;quot;         ';,            ,;'         &amp;quot;&amp;quot;'&amp;quot;-_&#xA;     ,&amp;quot;                 &amp;quot;,,        ,,&amp;quot;                 &amp;quot;,                       &#xA;    /                     &amp;quot;,,    ,,&amp;quot;                     \                    &#xA;   /                        ';,,;'                        \                 &#xA;  (                           &amp;quot;&amp;quot;                           )              &#xA;  |                                                        |&#xA;  |                                                        |&#xA; 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O~&#xA;                  .                     ,                                                .           .    .   . 888.        ?  .    .&#xA;                              ,                                                                            :. .          , ,}%&#xA;}%&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&#xA;&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;  \node {\boxy[2]{sweater}};&#xA;  \begin{scope}[yshift=-.5cm]&#xA;    \node {\boxy{village}};&#xA;    \node[rotate=-30] at (-2,2) {\boxy[.65]{sleigh}};&#xA;  \end{scope}&#xA;  \node at (2,-5.2) {\boxy{message}};&#xA;  \node at (4,6) {\boxy{bunny}};&#xA;  \node at (-5,7) {\boxy[.1]{avatar}};&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T20:01:03.670" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7975" CreationDate="2018-12-19T09:01:42.143" Score="9" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that we should not downvote &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; bad questions/answers. So in what case should we downvote those questions/answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-12-19T18:06:28.547" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T23:23:20.727" Title="In what case should we downvote questions/answers?" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7976" CreationDate="2018-12-19T13:13:47.630" Score="6" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is there no &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reputation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reputation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to &lt;code&gt;enter a new tag&lt;/code&gt;, but only users with a high reputation as 300 are able to generate a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178079" OwnerDisplayName="Markus Hauschel" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-12-20T01:48:26.080" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T01:48:26.080" Title="How do I get reputation?" Tags="|discussion|support|tagging|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7972" CreationDate="2018-12-19T14:51:18.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, this is completely up to you. Of course, the understanding is that you might downvote a question if &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and an answer if&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This answer is not useful.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of a question, the first part on the research effort can be judged rather objectively. However, whether or not a question or answer is useful is very subjective IMHO. I guess the idea is that, since there are many users, on average useful questions will receive a higher score than not so useful ones, whereby &quot;useful&quot; is an opinion that emerges after averaging over many users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another question is what this might be good for. Probably the idea is that highly voted posts are more visible, and a highly voted answer may be the one which is endorsed by more users than not so highly voted answers. In practice, of course, this model turns out to be far from perfect. For instance, posts with a rather popular tag &lt;s&gt;such as &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/s&gt; get read by more users, and may thus receive more votes than posts under a more &quot;exotic&quot; tag. (According to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7979/121799&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt; is not exceptionally strong in drawing votes. I wrote these lines before I knew the data, and now I feel I need to avoid singling out &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt; here. The question why so many users feel that &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt; is particularly good at attracting votes is very interesting, but I do not think I can answer it. In any case the data seem to indicate that the votes depend on the tag. So the score of a post has, at best, a relative meaning.) Yet it is probably hard to come up with a better scheme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally downvote very rarely, and if I do, it is in cases of severe academic dishonesty, i.e. someone trying to advertize the post of another user as their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree with @moewe's comment below. In particular, downvotes should IMHO be cast with care. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main message is that it is up to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom-line: vote as you think is right. If everyone does that, an average opinion may emerge that could be somewhat useful, at least on a tag by tag basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-12-20T23:23:20.727" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T23:23:20.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7972" CreationDate="2018-12-19T18:05:55.263" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First separate the question into two categories: Posts on Meta and posts on the Main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Meta posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on meta doesn't influence your reputation and therefore people might be more willing to downvote, especially questions. Regardless, voting on meta is considered different from voting on the main site since the posts deal with content on the main site. This includes things like a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; about certain functionality. Voting is often used as a form of support for/against a proposal. The proposal might be well-written and show a lot of research effort, but you're against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Main posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting (including accepting) is the main way to rank content on the site. Posts with higher scores are considered more useful than others. So, have that in mind when voting. You have 3 choices: Upvote, Downvote, No vote. Downvote if the content is bad and doesn't benefit the community; don't feel bad about it, it's your choice. Upvote if you feel the opposite. Abstain if you're indifferent or otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current spread of votes from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;top 10 voters on the main site&lt;/a&gt; points to 0.4% downvotes (1,510) compared to 99.6% upvotes (356,448), or one downvote for every 200 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LK4hc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LK4hc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is associated with reputation loss (there used to be &lt;a href=&quot;//stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/&quot;&gt;reputation loss when downvoting questions&lt;/a&gt; as well). So people tend to (should!) think twice about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/15863/168244&quot;&gt;Why do you lose reputation for downvoting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-12-19T18:05:55.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7973" CreationDate="2018-12-20T01:47:15.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In essence, you receive reputation by contributing to the main site. This is achieved by any one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask a question that shows you've done some research, but still need help solving. This should include a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;minimal working example&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;highlighting&lt;/em&gt; the main problem and be isolated to that problem &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt;. Upvotes on questions earn you +5 in reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Write up &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/7656/168244&quot;&gt;a good answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question. Upvotes on answers earn you +10 in reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Write up &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/7656/168244&quot;&gt;a great answer&lt;/a&gt; and have it accepted by the questioner. Accepted answers receive +15 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Write up &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/7656/168244&quot;&gt;an awesome answer&lt;/a&gt; and be awarded a bounty by some donor (questioner or otherwise). Bounties can earn you anywhere from 50-500 per award.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggest edits to existing posts or tag wiki's that improve the content. Accepted edits receive +2 reputation, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/76251/168244&quot;&gt;up to +1,000&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Join a site while having at least 200 reputation on another. This automatically earns you an association bonus of +100 reputation on the newly-joined site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related/reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/150010/168244&quot;&gt;How can I get reputation? I can't seem to gain any&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/17204/168244&quot;&gt;Six simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/146472/168244&quot;&gt;What is the best way to increase my reputation and privileges?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/33398/168244&quot;&gt;The surest way to gain lots of reputation on Stack Overflow - ask questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/7656/168244&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer to a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/7237/168244&quot;&gt;How does &quot;Reputation&quot; work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T01:47:15.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7979" CreationDate="2018-12-20T07:22:02.813" Score="13" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all have the feeling that every TikZ post, even the most trivial one, gets a lot of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: on the contrary, which are the topics that deserve more upvotes than the ones they usually get?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The poll results will be used by Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck in 4th third article on the TUGBoat (the 3rd is already in press). He reserves the right to not include an answer in his research because of moral scruples.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-12-21T04:46:22.497" LastActivityDate="2018-12-22T21:29:49.533" Title="Poll: which are the &quot;Cinderella&quot; topics?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7977" CreationDate="2018-12-20T16:57:13.167" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SEDE queries suggested by samcarter (&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/888155/average-answer-score-by-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/888155/average-answer-score-by-tag&lt;/a&gt;) and me (&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/950955/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/950955/&lt;/a&gt;) in the comments show the average answer score. The average, however, is very sensitive to outliers and therefore probably less useful to analyse 'your &lt;em&gt;average&lt;/em&gt; question'. A more robust measure such as the median might be more useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;fun&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;cervantex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;big-list&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;research&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;triskaidekaphobia&lt;/code&gt; are amongst the top tags by average answer score. Not only are there very few questions with those tags, they are also not representative of the majority of questions on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many tags also have a small number of highly-voted questions. Some of these questions are about common pitfalls and therefore often linked, some have evolved to go-to duplicate questions, others are of very wide interest or just produce interesting, unexpected, or stunning output. Those questions are usually also not representative of the voting behaviour for that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the following query &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/951095/average-answer-score-by-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/951095/average-answer-score-by-tag&lt;/a&gt; that gives the number of answers for a given score and tag I came up  with the following crude R script (the data was downloaded to &lt;code&gt;tag-score-answercount.csv&lt;/code&gt;). It analyses the 16 tags with more than 5000 answers (to keep things manageable)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sede &amp;lt;- read.csv(&quot;tag-score-answercount.csv&quot;)&#xA;tags &amp;lt;- unique(sede$TagName)&#xA;tags.anscount &amp;lt;- sapply(tags, function (s) sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==s]))&#xA;&#xA;toptags &amp;lt;- tags[tags.anscount &amp;gt;= 5000]&#xA;toptags.anscount &amp;lt;- tags.anscount[tags.anscount &amp;gt;= 5000]&#xA;&#xA;revectorise &amp;lt;- function(x, count){&#xA;  rep(x,count)&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;fd &amp;lt;- data.frame(tag=c(), score=c())&#xA;&#xA;buildfakedata &amp;lt;- function(s){&#xA;  data.frame(tag=s, score=revectorise(sede$Score[sede$TagName==s], sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==s]))&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;for (s in toptags){&#xA;  fd &amp;lt;- rbind(fd, buildfakedata(s))&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;histlims &amp;lt;- c(min(fd$score), 20)&#xA;breaks &amp;lt;- seq(histlims[1], histlims[2])&#xA;opar &amp;lt;- par(no.readonly = TRUE)&#xA;par(mfrow=c(4,4))&#xA;par(mar=c(1,1,1,1)+0.1)&#xA;for (s in toptags){&#xA;  hist(fd$score[fd$tag==s &amp;amp; fd$score&amp;lt;=20],&#xA;       breaks=breaks, xlim=histlims, ylim=c(0,.23), freq=F,&#xA;       ylab=NULL, xlab=NULL, axes=FALSE, main=paste(&quot;Histogram for&quot;, s))&#xA;}&#xA;par(opar)&#xA;&#xA;bp &amp;lt;- boxplot(score~tag, fd, outline=FALSE)&#xA;title(&quot;Answer score by tag&quot;)&#xA;abline(h=0,lty=3)&#xA;abline(h=median(fd$score))&#xA;abline(h=mean(fd$score), col=&quot;red&quot;)&#xA;means &amp;lt;- tapply(fd$score,fd$tag,mean)&#xA;points(means,col=&quot;red&quot;,pch=19)&#xA;&#xA;scorecutoff &amp;lt;- 50&#xA;fdtrim &amp;lt;- fd[fd$score &amp;lt;= scorecutoff,]&#xA;&#xA;boxplot(score~tag, fdtrim, outline=FALSE)&#xA;title(paste(&quot;'Typical' answer (score &amp;lt;=&quot;, toString(scorecutoff), &quot;) score by tag&quot;, sep=&quot;&quot;))&#xA;abline(h=0,lty=3)&#xA;abline(h=median(fdtrim$score))&#xA;abline(h=mean(fdtrim$score), col=&quot;green&quot;)&#xA;means &amp;lt;- tapply(fdtrim$score,fdtrim$tag,mean)&#xA;points(means,col=&quot;green&quot;,pch=19)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The histograms are chopped off at +20 (arbitrary cut-off) and -6 (the absolute minimum score in the 16 tags). They show the probability/relative frequency and all have the same bin sizes (intervals of one from -6 to 20) as well as the same y axis (from 0 to 0.24)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7iBzy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7iBzy.png&quot; alt=&quot;16 histograms for top tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here &lt;code&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;floats&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;tables&lt;/code&gt; show comparable poorer scores with very light tails and a high concentration on the lower bins. &lt;code&gt;symbols&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;math-mode&lt;/code&gt; have heavier tails (i.e. a higher proportion for answers with higher score).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following box plots show scores over all answers for a tag. The red dot marks the mean answer score for a tag, the red line shows the overall mean. The whiskers extend up to 1.5 times the IQR from the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/evzLL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/evzLL.png&quot; alt=&quot;box plots over all answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plots confirm the intuition we got from the histograms that &lt;code&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;floats&lt;/code&gt; perform worse than the other tags. &lt;code&gt;symbols&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;math-mode&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;macros&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;fonts&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt; show higher median scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned above, highly-scoring outliers can skew the results so that certain tags appear to perform better than they usually do. Since boxplots rely on more robust quantile measures, big changes are not expected if outliers are excluded, provided there are only a few. The following plots are restricted to answers with scores of no more than 50. This time the green colour shows the means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As expected the mean goes down (after all the mean is very susceptible to outliers), but perhaps less expectedly there are subtle changes in the boxes for &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;floats&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;fonts&lt;/code&gt;. At least for &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; that change seems to be down to the fact that the 0.75 quantile is just at the border between 5 and 6 (the full data set has the border at 0.747/0.748, the reduced set at 0.751/0.752, this difference of 0.004 comes down to about 25 answers on a total of 6242 answers) which means that removing even few high scoring answers (28 answers in this instance) can let the quantile drop. I haven't looked into the other tags, but I suspect similar effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IsYy1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IsYy1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Box plots over &amp;#39;typical&amp;#39; answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A word of warning: We are dealing with integer data whose overall distribution seems 'pretty close'. Mean and standard deviation are quite susceptible to outliers, but even the more robust measures of our box plots can't escape small side effects, so that differences of ±1 may well be due to edge effects rather than a stable underlying trend (see the changes in the plots for &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; examined above). The median score over all tags is three, one additional vote can have quite the effect there. If one wants to compare specific tags, looking at the boxplots and histograms alone won't cut it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a slightly more sophisticated (but still naive) version of the script above. The interesting things are now packed up in functions, so they are easier to reuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data still comes from &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/951095/average-answer-score-by-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/951095/average-answer-score-by-tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sede &amp;lt;- read.csv(&quot;tag-score-answercount.csv&quot;)&#xA;tags &amp;lt;- unique(sede$TagName)&#xA;tags.anscount &amp;lt;- sapply(tags, function (s) sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==s]))&#xA;&#xA;cycle.colours = c(&quot;blue&quot;, &quot;red&quot;, &quot;seagreen&quot;, &quot;deeppink&quot;, &quot;orange&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;# concentrate on tags with more than cutoff.ansnum answers&#xA;cutoff.ansnum &amp;lt;- 2000&#xA;toptags &amp;lt;- tags[tags.anscount &amp;gt;= cutoff.ansnum]&#xA;toptags.anscount &amp;lt;- tags.anscount[tags.anscount &amp;gt;= cutoff.ansnum]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;# This function plots the &quot;tails&quot; of the score distribution,&#xA;# i.e. the relative frequency of answers with score at least s&#xA;# input: scorevec  a vector of scores&#xA;#        sort      a TRUE/FALSE flag on whether to sort the tags&#xA;#                  by the tail frequency for the first score&#xA;plot.scoretails &amp;lt;- function(scorevec, sortby=NA){&#xA;  # no vectorisation here :-(&#xA;  a &amp;lt;- matrix(NA, nrow=length(toptags), ncol=length(scorevec))&#xA;&#xA;  for (i in 1:length(toptags)){&#xA;    a[i,] &amp;lt;-&#xA;      sapply(scorevec,&#xA;             function(s) sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==toptags[i] &amp;amp; sede$Score&amp;gt;=s])/&#xA;               sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==toptags[i]]))&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  if (!is.na(sortby) &amp;amp; is.element(sortby, scorevec)){&#xA;    a.sort &amp;lt;- a[,match(sortby, scorevec)]&#xA;&#xA;    toptags &amp;lt;- toptags[order(a.sort)]&#xA;    a &amp;lt;- a[order(a.sort),]&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  ylim = c(0,max(a))&#xA;  plot.colours &amp;lt;- rep_len(cycle.colours, length(scorevec))&#xA;&#xA;  par(mar=c(9,4,4,1)+.1)&#xA;  magicoffset &amp;lt;- 0.028&#xA;  plot(a[,1], type=&quot;o&quot;, pch=19, col=plot.colours[1], ylim=ylim, xlim=c(1,(1+magicoffset)*length(toptags)),&#xA;       xaxt = &quot;n&quot;, xlab=NA, ylab=expression(F(X&amp;gt;=s)), frame=F,&#xA;       main=&quot;Rel. frequency of answers with score at least s&quot;)&#xA;  for (i in 2:length(scorevec)){&#xA;    points(a[,i], type=&quot;o&quot;, pch=19, col=plot.colours[i])&#xA;&#xA;  }&#xA;  text(length(toptags)+magicoffset*length(toptags), a[length(toptags),],&#xA;       labels=sapply(scorevec, function(s) as.expression(bquote(s==.(s)))), col=plot.colours)&#xA;&#xA;  axis(1, at=1:length(toptags), labels=toptags, las=2)&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;plot.scoretails(c(3,4,5,6,10,20), sort=10)&#xA;plot.scoretails(c(5,7,10,12), sort=5)&#xA;&#xA;plot.scoretails(c(8,10,15,18,20), sort=20)&#xA;&#xA;plot.scoretails(c(80,100,250,200), sort=80)&#xA;&#xA;# to make things easier for histograms and boxplots we reverse engineer a data frame&#xA;# with the data for each &quot;answer&quot;&#xA;revectorise &amp;lt;- function(x, count){&#xA;  rep(x,count)&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;fd &amp;lt;- data.frame(tag=c(), score=c())&#xA;&#xA;buildfakedata &amp;lt;- function(s){&#xA;  data.frame(tag=s, score=revectorise(sede$Score[sede$TagName==s], sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==s]))&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;for (s in toptags){&#xA;  fd &amp;lt;- rbind(fd, buildfakedata(s))&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;# histograms are arbitrarily chopped at 20&#xA;histcutoff.right &amp;lt;- 20&#xA;&#xA;histxlims &amp;lt;- c(min(fd$score), histcutoff.right)&#xA;breaks &amp;lt;- seq(histxlims[1], histxlims[2])&#xA;opar &amp;lt;- par(no.readonly = TRUE)&#xA;par(mfrow=c(4,4))&#xA;par(mar=c(1,1,1,1)+0.1)&#xA;for (s in toptags){&#xA;  hist(fd$score[fd$tag==s &amp;amp; fd$score&amp;lt;=max(histxlims)],&#xA;       breaks=breaks, xlim=histxlims, freq=FALSE, ylim=c(0,.24),&#xA;       ylab=NULL, xlab=NULL, axes=FALSE,&#xA;       main=paste(&quot;Histogram for&quot;, s))&#xA;}&#xA;par(opar)&#xA;&#xA;# Boxplots&#xA;plot.boxplot &amp;lt;- function(fd, ylim=NA, showMean=TRUE, showSD=FALSE, col=&quot;red&quot;, title=&quot;Answer score by tag&quot;){&#xA;  par(mar=c(9,3,3,1)+.1)&#xA;  if (missing(ylim)){&#xA;    bp &amp;lt;- boxplot(score~tag, fd, outline=FALSE, las=2, frame=F)&#xA;  }&#xA;  else{&#xA;    bp &amp;lt;- boxplot(score~tag, fd, outline=FALSE, ylim=ylim, las=2, frame=F)&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  title(title)&#xA;  abline(h=0,lty=3)&#xA;  abline(h=median(fd$score), lwd=2)&#xA;  if (showMean){&#xA;    abline(h=mean(fd$score), col=col, lwd=2)&#xA;    means &amp;lt;- tapply(fd$score,fd$tag,mean)&#xA;    points(means,col=col,pch=19)&#xA;    if (showSD){&#xA;      sds &amp;lt;- tapply(fd$score,fd$tag,sd)&#xA;      points(means+sds,col=col,pch=1)&#xA;      points(means-sds,col=col,pch=1)&#xA;      abline(h=mean(fd$score)+sd(fd$score), col=col, lwd=1, lty=2)&#xA;      abline(h=mean(fd$score)-sd(fd$score), col=col, lwd=1, lty=2)&#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;plot.boxplot(fd, ylim=c(-6,25), showMean=TRUE, col=&quot;red&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;# we exclude outliers by considering only answers with score no more than 50&#xA;# the first plot verifies that this is not too bad,&#xA;# this should cover more than 90% of questions per tag&#xA;# for the more common tags even more than 97%&#xA;typcutoff &amp;lt;- 10&#xA;fdtrim &amp;lt;- fd[fd$score &amp;lt;= typcutoff,]&#xA;&#xA;typfreq &amp;lt;- sapply(toptags,&#xA;                  function (s) sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==s &amp;amp; sede$Score&amp;lt;=typcutoff])/&#xA;                    sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==s]))&#xA;&#xA;plot(typfreq, type=&quot;o&quot;, xaxt=&quot;n&quot;, xlab=NA, frame=F, ylab=NA)&#xA;title(paste(&quot;Rel. frequency of answers with score no more than&quot;, typcutoff))&#xA;axis(1, at=1:length(toptags), labels=toptags, las=2)&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;plot.boxplot(fdtrim, ylim=c(-6,25), showMean=TRUE, col=&quot;seagreen&quot;,&#xA;             title=paste(&quot;'Typical' answer (score &amp;lt;=&quot;, typcutoff, &quot;) score by tag&quot;, sep=&quot;&quot;))&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;# plot empirical distribution or survival function (tail probability) for list of tags&#xA;# restrict the plotted x range with xlim to see local behaviour&#xA;# ymin is usually 0, but for small x ranges it might be convenient to get auto-detect with ymin=NA&#xA;# survival plots (almost) the survival function F(X&amp;gt;=s) instead of the distribution function F(X&amp;lt;=s)&#xA;plot.ecdf &amp;lt;- function(tags, xlim=NA, ymin=0, survival=FALSE){&#xA;  if (missing(xlim)){&#xA;    xmin &amp;lt;- min(sede$Score[is.element(sede$TagName, tags)])&#xA;    xmax &amp;lt;- max(sede$Score[is.element(sede$TagName, tags)])&#xA;  }&#xA;  else{&#xA;    xmin = min(xlim)&#xA;    xmax = max(xlim)&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  xseq &amp;lt;- seq(xmin,xmax,1)&#xA;&#xA;  plot.colours &amp;lt;- rep_len(cycle.colours, length(tags))&#xA;&#xA;  a &amp;lt;- matrix(nrow=length(xseq), ncol=length(tags))&#xA;&#xA;  if (survival){&#xA;    cdf.f &amp;lt;- function(x,i=i){&#xA;      sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==tags[i] &amp;amp; sede$Score&amp;gt;=x])/&#xA;        sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==tags[i]])&#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  else{&#xA;    cdf.f &amp;lt;- function(x,i=i){&#xA;      sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==tags[i] &amp;amp; sede$Score&amp;lt;=x])/&#xA;        sum(sede$AnswerCount[sede$TagName==tags[i]])&#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  for (i in seq_along(tags)){&#xA;    a[,i] &amp;lt;- sapply(xseq, function(x) cdf.f(x, i))&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  if (is.na(ymin)){&#xA;    ymin &amp;lt;- min(a)&#xA;  }&#xA;  ymax &amp;lt;- max(a)&#xA;&#xA;  par(mar=c(5,4,4,2)+.1)&#xA;  plot(xseq, a[,1], type=&quot;o&quot;, pch=19, ylim=c(ymin,ymax), col=plot.colours[1],&#xA;       xlab=&quot;Answer score&quot;, ylab=&quot;Rel. frequency&quot;)&#xA;  if (length(tags)&amp;gt;1){&#xA;    for (i in 2:length(tags)){&#xA;      points(xseq, a[,i], type=&quot;o&quot;, pch=19, col=plot.colours[i])&#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  if (survival){&#xA;    legpos &amp;lt;- &quot;topright&quot;&#xA;    title &amp;lt;- &quot;Empirical survival function (tail probabilities): Score at least s&quot;&#xA;  }&#xA;  else{&#xA;    legpos &amp;lt;- &quot;bottomright&quot;&#xA;    title &amp;lt;- &quot;Empirical distribution function: Score less or equal than s&quot;&#xA;  }&#xA;  title(title)&#xA;  legend(legpos, tags, pch=19, col=plot.colours, title=&quot;Tag&quot;, bty = &quot;n&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;plot.ecdf(c(&quot;cross-referencing&quot;, &quot;lyx&quot;, &quot;biblatex&quot;, &quot;luatex&quot;, &quot;tikz-pgf&quot;), xlim=c(1,4), ymin=NA, survival=T)&#xA;plot.ecdf(c(&quot;cross-referencing&quot;, &quot;lyx&quot;, &quot;biblatex&quot;, &quot;luatex&quot;, &quot;tikz-pgf&quot;), xlim=c(0,10), survival=T)&#xA;plot.ecdf(c(&quot;cross-referencing&quot;, &quot;lyx&quot;, &quot;biblatex&quot;, &quot;luatex&quot;, &quot;tikz-pgf&quot;), xlim=c(0,20), survival=T)&#xA;plot.ecdf(c(&quot;cross-referencing&quot;, &quot;lyx&quot;, &quot;biblatex&quot;, &quot;luatex&quot;, &quot;tikz-pgf&quot;), xlim=c(10,20), survival=T)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script analyses more tags (here all tags with at least 2000 answers, but that can be modified in &lt;code&gt;cutoff.ansnum&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following plot shows the relative frequency of answers scoring at least s by tag. The list is sorted not alphabetically but by the relative frequency of answers scoring 10 or more (that's why the curve for s=10 has no bumps, while all other curves have ups and downs). The lines are just there because I found them easier on the eye than just points, but they serve no real purpose. In particular there should be no implication that the points on a curve somehow influence each other or should follow a particular shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UB9wb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UB9wb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Rel. frequency of answers scoring at least s&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again &lt;code&gt;symbols&lt;/code&gt; scores quite well, but the absolute top tag here is &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;lyx&lt;/code&gt; (perhaps unsurprisingly), &lt;code&gt;bibliographies&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;tables&lt;/code&gt; perform below average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GJ2T4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GJ2T4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Boxplots over all answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4qDLy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4qDLy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Boxplots over &amp;#39;typical&amp;#39; answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned above it might be quite interesting to compare several tags directly. The plot below shows the 'survival function' or 'tail probabilities' of scoring at least s. A higher probability/relative frequency would be better. For more detailed interpretations it would be necessary to compare the behaviour of these functions over several 'windows' of x/s ranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lm0ys.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lm0ys.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tag comparison&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2018-12-22T21:29:49.533" LastActivityDate="2018-12-22T21:29:49.533" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2018-12-23T12:32:40.607" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt like doing another entry, so here's one for the ugly sweater category (A). It's based on a Christmas tree I created earlier this month, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39149/how-can-we-draw-a-christmas-tree-with-decorations-using-tikz/465984#465984&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It has tinsel, baubles, flashing fairy lights, and a matching hat. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IzCiF.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IzCiF.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Christmas Tree Sweater&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[a2paper,portrait]{article}&#xA;%\documentclass[export]{standalone}&#xA;% All design and code created by Ulysses. Please credit me if you use a significant portion of this anywhere.&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage[margin=0.5cm]{geometry}&#xA;\usepackage{animate}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{snakes,shapes,fadings}&#xA;\usepackage{times}&#xA;&#xA;% Fairy light&#xA;\tikzfading[name=littleglow,inner color=transparent!0,outer color=transparent!100]&#xA;\tikzfading[name=bigglow,inner color=transparent!30,outer color=transparent!100]&#xA;\newcommand{\light}[1]{&#xA;    \fill[fill=white,path fading=littleglow] (#1) circle (0.2cm);&#xA;    \fill[fill=white,path fading=bigglow] (#1) circle (0.7cm);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\newcommand{\jumper}[2]{&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;    % Person&#xA;    \filldraw[fill=cyan!20!white!,draw=black, line width=3pt] (-6,13) -- (-2.5,13) -- (-2.5,16) -- (2.5,16) -- (2.5,13) -- (6,13) -- (6,5) -- (-6,5) -- (-6,13);&#xA;    \filldraw[fill=cyan!20!white!,draw=black, line width=3pt] (0,19.5) ellipse (4.5cm and 5.5cm);&#xA;&#xA;    % Jumper&#xA;    \filldraw[fill=green!40!black!,draw=black, line width=3pt] (-5,13) arc (180:360:5cm and 3cm) -- ++(5,0) -- ++(10,-17) -- ++(-4,-2) -- ++(-6,10.2) -- ++(0,-17.2) -- ++(-20,0) -- ++(0,17.2) -- ++(-6,-10.2) -- ++(-4,2) -- ++(10,17) -- ++(5,0);&#xA;    \filldraw[fill=green!30!black!,draw=black, line width=3pt] (-5,13) arc (180:360:5cm and 3cm) -- ++(1,0) arc (180:360:-6cm and 4cm) -- ++(1,0);&#xA;    \filldraw[fill=green!30!black!,draw=black, line width=3pt] (20,-4) -- ++(-4,-2) -- ++(-0.5068,0.862) -- ++(4,2) -- ++(0.5068,-0.862);&#xA;    \filldraw[fill=green!30!black!,draw=black, line width=3pt] (-20,-4) -- ++(4,-2) -- ++(0.5068,0.862) -- ++(-4,2) -- ++(-0.5068,-0.862);&#xA;&#xA;    % Hat&#xA;    \filldraw[fill=green!40!black!,draw=black,line width=3pt] (-5,21) -- ++(5,12) -- ++(5,-12) -- ++(-10,0);&#xA;    \draw[draw=black,line width=3pt,double distance=7mm, double=yellow!80!black!,cap=round,dash pattern=on 1mm off 6mm] (-5,21) -- ++(10,0);&#xA;&#xA;    % Star&#xA;    \filldraw (0,33) node[fill=yellow!90!black!,draw=black,line width=3pt,star,star points=4,star point ratio=4,scale=4] {};&#xA;    \filldraw (0,33) node[fill=yellow!90!black!,draw=black,line width=3pt,star,star points=4,star point ratio=4,scale=4,rotate=45] {};&#xA;&#xA;    % Tinsel&#xA;    \draw[draw=black,line width=3pt,double distance=7mm, double=yellow!80!black!,cap=round,dash pattern=on 1mm off 6mm] (10,13) .. controls ++(-1,-4) and ++(4,-2) .. 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  <row Id="7984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7985" CreationDate="2018-12-25T07:15:57.717" Score="2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;If our question gets upvotes, we gain our reputation. People think our question is useful or good, so they 'award' us  reputations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If our answer gets upvotes, we also gain our reputation. That means people are appreciating us because our answer is good and helpful, or it answers the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, sometimes I see some very good comments which get a lot of upvotes. They can be funny comments, useful comments, or even comments which is actually a complete answer for the question. Such comments can get hundreds of upvotes depending on the popularity of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 'authors' of such comments really deserve reputations!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think that should we award reputations for good comments? For example, each upvote gets +1 rep or +2 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even think that we should set bounty for comments!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T20:49:51.673" Title="Reputation on Comment Votes" Tags="|feature-request|comments|reputation|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7984" CreationDate="2018-12-25T07:33:49.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is a site of &quot;questions and answers&quot;. It is true that some contributors respond in comments. This profoundly changes the nature of this site which thus becomes more and more a site of &lt;strong&gt;questions and comments&lt;/strong&gt;. A comment that gave the answer, nobody answers the question anymore, which then makes no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving points for comments is in my opinion a bad idea: as it is &lt;strong&gt;much faster&lt;/strong&gt; to leave a comment than write an answer, in order to be the first to answer, more and more people will respond via comments and not by making real answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very quickly, this site will be only the shadow of itself: there will be no more answers built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T07:33:49.450" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-25T11:21:56.113" Score="0" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I see flawed answers in this forum which are not really suitable for accomplishing the task described in the question and which nonetheless get a lot of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I suppose that there is a considerable number of people who - when they like/worship the author - click the &quot;upvote&quot;-button either without thinking about the quality of the answer and/or without grasping the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another thread someone asked for guidelines for clicking the &quot;downvote&quot;-button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hereby ask for serious guidelines for clicking the &quot;upvote&quot;-button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such guidelines could, e.g.,  explicitly demand that you only click the &quot;upvote&quot;-button when you understood the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People could be allowed to ask questions on TeX-LaTeX Stack Exchange in any case. But answering/commenting could be restricted to accounts whose keepers/maintainers were able to pass a knowledge-test where they have to answer at least a few basic questions related to the ways in which (La)TeX works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178375" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T05:39:59.563" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T14:20:19.137" Title="Guidelines for clicking the &quot;upvote&quot;-button/Knowledge test/What is a reputation system worth where people get &quot;upvotes&quot; based on sympathy?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7986" CreationDate="2018-12-25T12:02:59.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is true that there are a significant number of people who vote for the answers or for questions by pure sympathy.&#xA;There are several reasons for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;these people have already made great answers and benefit from a vote of presumption: yesterday's correct answers allow us to assume that this one is also a great answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting for people and not for answers is economical: it avoids having to read and understand the code of the solution, which saves time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, it is regrettable and difficult to avoid since the mathematicians, the scientists and the computer scientists behave like fans of the show &quot;the Voice&quot;: we vote for love and not for reason!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the remedy that you propose: it is impossible to implement because it would then be necessary to ask someone (and who?) To create knowledge test MCQs for each package. It is a gas plant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T12:02:59.123" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7986" CreationDate="2018-12-25T19:18:24.883" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Central point&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like in any democratic model, it cannot be excluded that some votes are undeserved by certain standards. However, I would like to argue that the alternative of restricting the participation too much likely to make the situation worse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the current situation?&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;The moderators can, in principle, undo so-called voter fraud. Examples include serial upvoting or targeting a specific user. However, they use this very rarely, for very good reasons IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the current system &quot;flawed&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I do not share the opinion of AndréC, who states that &quot;At the same time, it is regrettable and difficult to avoid since the mathematicians, the scientists and the computer scientists behave like fans of the show &quot;the Voice&quot;: we vote for love and not for reason!&quot;. In fact, I'd like to argue that one should be very careful with such statements. Who is &quot;we&quot; referring to? I could imagine that someone reading this is feeling wrongly criticized. Rather, I think that overall the system works OK. There is a correlation between the quality of the answer and the score. True, the system is not perfect, but I do believe changes along the lines you are suggesting are more likely to make it worse than better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why am I not supporting your proposal?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA; The basic point is that if someone feels that a given vote is undeserved, it is still just one personal opinion. The idea of a democratic model is that each of us has a personal opinion. Each opinion has the same weight. So if a user thinks a given post does not deserve a vote and 100 think it does, the post gets 100 votes. IMHO it would be very unfortunate if a single user, regardless of whether or not their reputation score is enormous, could override the opinion of the majority. Your proposal may lead to this situation: there will be &quot;better&quot; users who have passed some test and &quot;less important users&quot; who did not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can you do if you think an answer is off?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;It can happen that answers are incorrect. You can leave a comment. If there is a serious problem with the post, you can flag it in order to alert the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bottom-line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of us has the right to vote. Use your voting power to upvote those posts which deserve it. If everyone does that, those posts which are considered more useful by more users will win. Of course, reminders like yours about what one should use as a basis for the decision to up- or down-vote are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2018-12-26T20:10:52.990" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T20:10:52.990" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7984" CreationDate="2018-12-26T20:49:51.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been addressed at the network-level and was considered &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;. The main reason here is that comments are fleeting in nature and meant for clarification, not answering. Sure, sometimes an answer is written in comment as a way of testing whether the suggestion actually solves the OP's problem. However, in general, answers are written up as &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt;, where they receive the regular reputation-related voting treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/296/168244&quot;&gt;Reputation for comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T20:49:51.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7986" CreationDate="2018-12-27T05:39:06.577" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the following semi-objective criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does the post show research effort? Is it useful and clear?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is literally the tooltip text associated with an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does the post benefit the broader community?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If it's a question, it could be simple, but still benefit the broader community. If it's an answer, does it explain what is being done to solve the question (perhaps through comments, or using a discussion)? Code-only answers don't entice my trigger finger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does the question make it easy to answer it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Don't tell me &quot;it doesn't really warrant a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;minimal example&lt;/a&gt;&quot;... I really don't want to copy your code and then wrap it into a &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;document&lt;/code&gt; environment when you can so easily do it. Make the effort to support the folks who's trying to help you. Honestly, we'd much rather want to just copy-and-paste-and-compile and be on the same &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; page as you. It's not that difficult, and it helps immensely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T05:39:06.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7993" CreationDate="2018-12-27T13:04:45.793" Score="4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a possibility to revoke one's vote-to-reopen a question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the procedure and the correct indications to follow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-12-28T05:16:09.453" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T05:16:09.453" Title="Revoke reopen: correct procedure" Tags="|discussion|support|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7986" CreationDate="2018-12-27T22:49:19.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope of the problem and appropriateness of measures&lt;/strong&gt; It is not clear to me whether there is a significant number of flawed answers with (undeserved) high scores. I don't doubt that there are instances of this pattern, but I would like to see hard data that confirms that this is indeed an issue that warrants new 'upvote rules' or even a radical change to the workings of the site (it should be noted that 'we' can't unilaterally change the way this site works in a way to require a knowledge test before one can answer, comment or vote and that the powers would quite probably not look favourably upon such a proposal since Stack Exchange is already seen by some as an elitist place). I have probably backed myself into a corner demanding hard data on vote patterns (which are not openly available), but I feel that it is important to realise that a stark change in the site's dynamic needs a good reason: You don't want to shoot sparrows with cannonballs as they say in German.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What level of flaws are we talking about?&lt;/strong&gt; It is probably true that some highly-voted answers have flaws by some standard or another. But keep in mind that one person's flaw might be another person's feature. Sometimes a balance needs to be struck between catering for every eventuality and keeping the code short and its explanation understandable. The concept of a flaw and the question whether or not a flaw is bad can therefore be quite subjective. At the same time the question whether or not an answer is suitable for the task described in the question is to a lesser degree subjective as well: Sometimes an answer gives the question a new framing or goes about resolving a XY problem. One may feel that the question has not properly been answered in that case, but one can also feel differently about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt that there will be a lot of highly-voted answers that are outright factually incorrect. On the other hand I have no doubts that there are some answers that could be improved or for which more elegant alternatives exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post score as a measure of quality&lt;/strong&gt; It is also true that some (many?) people have had the experience that the answer score does not always reflect the post's quality or the time and effort spend on that post. One of my highest-voted answers is an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/393773/35864&quot;&gt;Force periods in &amp;quot;Ph.D. thesis&amp;quot; in biblatex&lt;/a&gt; that essentially just consisted of one redefinition of a string – I mean, the information is correct (in that the code will do what one would expect) and usable, but I would not rank this answer among the top ten of my answers on this site. On the other hand posts like my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/179836/35864&quot;&gt;How to make biblatex treat the prenote like an author list?&lt;/a&gt; only score 1 even though the question is much more intriguing, was more tricky and I spent a lot longer working out that idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting baselines can be different&lt;/strong&gt; Different topics and kind of questions generate different levels of interest and so comparing scores across questions is probably not always a good idea: It would be more relevant to compare scores of answers to the same question. But even then the baselines can be seriously skewed by answers coming in much later than existing answers. The effect is amplified by the usual sorting order of highest ranking first, which means that people who are just looking for a working solution and are not shopping around for the 'most elegant' or 'conceptually nicest' answer vote for the first solution. Remember that for many people LaTeX is just a tool to get the real work done. The TeX code itself is almost never of interest, the result matters and so often one can get away with subpar or less elegant code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want votes to truly and comparably reflect the quality of an answer (leaving aside subjective criteria of which there are still going to be a lot), you need a significant overhaul of the voting system. It would not only be about who is allowed to vote, it would also have to be about everyone voting on all posts to ensure a fair baseline. If that brings down the number of votes significantly below the current level (there are some highly voted an answers, but the median score of answers is around three), a simple up-down system might not give enough nuance any more, a more complicated voting/scoring system might be needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guidance on voting behaviour&lt;/strong&gt; In general there seems to be very little official guidance or rules about voting. This makes sense since an idividual's voting behaviour is not part of the public record and so there can be no enforcement of any sort of rules except for extremely abusive behaviour of the voting mechanism (serial voting, 'downvote targetting', ...) carried out by Stack Exchange staff. I personally think that it (only) makes sense to vote if one (firmly) believes that the post deserves that vote and that usually that belief should come from an understanding of the contents of the answer. But there are different levels of understanding an answer and probably only the highest levels of understanding allow for the judgement you seem to hope for. In particular then, only people who already know the answer should vote. People who by having read the answer have gained an understanding of the issue at hand and believe that the answer did well in enabling that would have to be barred from voting because their basis for voting would be the presentation of the answer and not the underlying facts themselves. I can't speak for anybody else, but a not insignificant portion of my votes were spent on answers that explained things that I did not know before well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for restricting answering (and commenting!) to people who have passed a knowledge test, that would go completely against the spirit of this network. The idea is that anyone here can ask and answer questions and share knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Level of the admission test&lt;/strong&gt; I'm also not convinced that this is going to help much. Depending on your interpretation of 'flawed answer' you might have to set the bar pretty high to avoid small flaws slipping into answers (for highly voted answers serious flaws should be quickly identified if many people are allowed to vote and leave comments, but small corner cases may need very specialised knowledge that is not found in many). That may just turn the entire site into &lt;em&gt;the seven gurus of TeX answer your questions&lt;/em&gt; – an interesting idea maybe, but certainly not in the spirit of Stack Exchange. Setting a low bar will mean that those who are able to find small flaws and never post answers with flaws themselves will be in the minority again. (Especially if one accepts that there are few answers with serious flaws that makes the restriction to people who pass a test not very attractive.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A general test or tests for tags?&lt;/strong&gt; Even though the TeX world may be small by some standards it is still so large that some people have specialised set of skills. You would probably be fine reading my &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; answers, but whether a &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt; answer of mine is going to be good is a different question. Some people are great with Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z, other with picture mode. A generalised knowledge test is not going to cut it if you want to cover more than the pure basics. Admitting users for different tags separately is going to be a huge ask. You need people setting the questions, you need a committee approving them, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll close this ramble by echoing marmot's advice (from their &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7988/35864&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; which I also otherwise agree with) on what you can and should do if you notice something is wrong with an answer: Leave a comment. Explain what is wrong. If you think you have a better solution, post an answer yourself (though you shouldn't expect it to rise very high if you are late to the party, even if it is superior).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2018-12-28T14:20:19.137" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T14:20:19.137" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7991" CreationDate="2018-12-28T05:15:03.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you cannot revoke a vote to re-open. It's similar to casting a &quot;Looks Good&quot; vote on a post in the Low Quality Post review queue (say). Once it's cast, you can't take it back. However, you can retract close votes (&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/915/168244&quot;&gt;since Jun 2013&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't fret though, because you can cast a vote to close if the question gets re-opened, perhaps adding a comment to the post suggesting some support for your voting behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T05:15:03.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2018-12-28T07:17:29.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I could add prof. van Duck's tutorials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Section 3 &lt;em&gt;Asking effective questions on TeX.SE&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb38-3/tb120duck.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his first article in TUGBoat 38:3, 2017&lt;/a&gt; explains how to build an MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Section 3 &lt;em&gt;How to format a post in TeX.SE&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb39-3/tb123duck-format.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his third article in TUGBoat 39:3, 2018&lt;/a&gt; explains how to format your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2018-12-28T07:26:05.227" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T07:26:05.227" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-12-28T07:17:29.883" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-28T16:21:28.363" Score="13" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefox (64.0) which I always use in private browsing mode and with tracking detection enabled, indicates that &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; makes attempts to track my web browsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this happens whenever I view a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the site do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: I consider the software industry a peril to the humanity ethics, and that big data and the tracking industry are evils to the highest degree, and I am astounded by the general indifference to what is going on nowadawys with this move to the so-called &quot;connected&quot; world they are trying to catch us into accepting without revolt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do hope TeX could remain immune to the best possible to these satanic trends of our modern age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4686" LastEditorDisplayName="user4686" LastEditDate="2018-12-28T16:26:32.253" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T16:26:32.253" Title="Why does the site attempt to track my web browsing?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7996" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7997" CreationDate="2018-12-28T20:18:37.247" Score="7" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to know who favorited ★ a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, why does it have to be 'private information'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178403" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2018-12-29T03:29:37.287" LastActivityDate="2018-12-29T03:29:37.287" Title="Favorite a question" Tags="|support|questions|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7996" CreationDate="2018-12-28T22:13:54.750" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, it's possible.&#xA;I wrote a simple query, which you can find on Data StackExchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/954306/who-favourited-this-question?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes in an input of &lt;code&gt;Question ID&lt;/code&gt;, and returns a list of &lt;code&gt;User ID&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;User names&lt;/code&gt; who favourited that particular question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. Question ID &lt;strong&gt;8021&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8021/117534&quot;&gt;Is there a (La)TeX distribution running on iPad?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Running the query on this gives 11 favourites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yXW6L.png&quot; height=&quot;400&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lXrPb.png&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easy to verify that these people actually did favourite that question by going to their profiles and checking their activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to the privacy concerns, there has been a discussion on Meta before, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/140778&quot;&gt;Can there be an option to keep your list of favourites private?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Addendum&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who do not know how to get the question ID, it'll be on the URL. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8021/is-there-a-latex-distribution-running-on-ipad&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I decided to post the query here for posterity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-- Find who favourited a particular question&#xA;&#xA;DECLARE @QuestionID int = ##QuestionID##&#xA;&#xA;SELECT&#xA;  v.CreationDate AS [Voted On],&#xA;  v.UserId AS [User ID],&#xA;  u.DisplayName AS [User Name]&#xA;FROM&#xA;  Votes v&#xA;  INNER JOIN&#xA;  Users u ON v.UserId = u.Id&#xA;WHERE v.VoteTypeId = 5 AND v.PostID = ##QuestionID##&#xA;ORDER BY v.CreationDate DESC;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117534" LastEditorUserId="117534" LastEditDate="2018-12-28T22:44:16.327" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T22:44:16.327" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-29T00:36:45.370" Score="7" ViewCount="469" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose you see a question, which has an answer of which you think it solves the problem. Assume further that you'd now an alternative way of answering this question. Meta-Question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Under which conditions should one post an additional answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible attitudes, which are not mutually exclusive, include (but are not limited to):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post your additional solution. It cannot hurt to add some information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post your additional solution only if it has an advantage compared to the already existing answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the problem is solved, save your energy to solve unsolved problems, regardless of potential weaknesses of the existing answer(s).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If none of the previous answers has been accepted, this is a sign that the OP is not happy with those, and it is thus perfectly fine to add an alternative even if it has some weak points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only post an additional answer if none of the previous answers has been accepted. If an answer has been accepted, the OP seems to be fine with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the aim of this post (and what is it not)?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Since I have seen this discussion here and there, I'd like create a more official anchor in which different opinions can be presented and discussed. The aim of this post is definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to coin some &quot;master&quot; opinion which others are supposed to share and/or adopt. Nor is the aim to restrict anyone in their freedom to write answers. Rather, the aim is really to collect different opinions such that everybody who wants to can share their thoughts on this without entering a comment orgy under a regular question or answer on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T08:15:24.670" Title="When does it make sense to post an additional answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7998" CreationDate="2018-12-29T03:25:22.227" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can solve the question in an alternative way, then post an answer. Getting to the same destination in different ways often helps in diversifying the knowledge. One solution might be restricted based on package compatibility, or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an answer that is &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; but you feel it's an improvement, I'd post a comment with a suggestion in favour of my own code or an improvement. If the number of suggestions are numerous, I might post my code in a link to Pastebin, or just post my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the latter case happen often when a user wants to answer the question &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;, focussing solely on providing the means to answer it, without any other consideration. For example, other formatting considerations or alignments or code improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2018-12-29T03:25:22.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7998" CreationDate="2018-12-29T09:48:42.857" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Members of TeX.SE adding answers (I don't mean questions by new users that are accidentally posted as answers) to questions indicate that they appreciate the question and want to contribute solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those solutions can consist of a new way no one has thought of yet, i.e. based on a variant of existing solutions or of a different format, i.e. using ConTeXt instead of pdflatex, perhaps.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question provokes a new package that provides new possibilities to solve the question not yet found in already existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case it is quite useful to provide a new answer that is different, perhaps even more elegant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the package author can shamelessly advertise/promote his/her package ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt that questions might lead to further developments in existing packages/classes or even new packages, but the 'other way round' other (new) packages might provide facilities that can solve problems in the relevant question such that a new answer is totally justified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whenever a new feature of an existing package or a completely new package might provide another (I don't say better) way of solving the question, it is legitimate to add another answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, on the other hand, 'low reputation' user may be repelled of adding new answers to questions that already have answers that those my have been provided by high reputation users and being upvoted beyond sky level -- new answers are placed at the bottom of the page (most users sort by votes ;-)) and as such, the answer is to be found somewhere between Earth's crust and Earth's core, but definitely not at sky level ;-) 'No' one sees the new answer, 'no' one uses the new answer later on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not mean that no new answers should be added  -- but providing them can frustrate low rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31729" LastEditorDisplayName="user31729" LastEditDate="2019-01-01T08:15:24.670" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T08:15:24.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7998" CreationDate="2018-12-30T21:53:31.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of the five possible reasons that you suggest, I would ignore the last two. Basically as a long term information resource whether the person asking the question used a particular solution is not that relevant. Of course it's initially relevant, as a site you want to make sure someone's immediate question is answered, but that shouldn't stop you adding more information later, as another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice the third one has some merit. That is, often I would not look at, or only briefly scan, questions with existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the first one I don't post second answers normally, in particular not if I think it would &quot;steal a tick&quot; from a newish user (stealing a tick from egreg is of course a plus)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second, I would rephrase and say that an alternative answer doesn't necessarily need to be &quot;better&quot; than the existing one, but should demonstrate some tex feature not demonstrated. So perhaps its a picture mode answer to add to existing tikz ones, or an expl3 one, or one using some primitive tex manipulation rather than using an existing package, or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T21:53:31.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7998" CreationDate="2019-01-01T00:43:27.293" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing this hoping that this is the first answer in 2019 (UTC). ;-) Here are some views which a very similar to those described in the answers by Werner, Christian Hupfer (which unfortunately got deleted, and which I'd love to see undeleted) and David Carlisle, but not identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would like to argue that adding an answer makes only sense if it brings in a new advantageous feature compared to existing answers. The advantage does not have to be huge, and might be just the use of a different package such that users with compatibility issues have an alternative, as explained by Werner. However, I would refrain from adding an answer without additional feature or advantage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I also would like to argue that it is valuable to explain what distinguishes the new answer from earlier post. After all, if you write a scientific paper, you first comment on earlier works and then explain what your analysis adds. In this context, it might be worthwhile to avoid strong language. Instead of &quot;You do not need a sledge hammer like ...&quot; you may just say &quot;This can be achieved with arguably more basic tools ...&quot;, which contains the same information but cannot be misinterpreted as an aggression.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is already a comment going in the same direction as the answer I am considering to post, why not acknowledging this comment? Acknowledging this comment does not mean that I learned how to answer the question from this comment, it is just fair play IMHO. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Likewise, when elaborating on the weak points of previous answers, why not also honorably mention the strong points? Sometimes, when reading the second or third answer, from what is written there one can get the impression that the earlier answer was a complete failure, which it is not in most cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One should also take into account the history of an answer IMHO. It sometimes takes several iterations to make the OP clarify their question. Of course, after the hard (and sometimes, yes, somewhat frustrating) work by the first answerer has been done, and the question has become clear, it is rather easy to add a quick answer, which may be more elegant than the one by the first answerer who was initially being lead in the wrong direction. I think that in such cases one should ask oneself to which extent posting an additional answer is &quot;cherry picking&quot;, and consider letting it be. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And then there is of course the sociological aspect mentioned by David Carlisle. If someone answered a question in the sense that the problem got solved, and a second answer pops up, this may easily make the first answerer feel that their answer is considered inferior. This may have a particularly strong impression on new contributors. Therefore, once again, I would like to encourage users to avoid strong wordings and to politely explain what is new or better or different in the later answer. Even if the previous answer is by a more seasoned user with sufficient self-esteem, the posts will still get read by newcomers alike, and strong or inappropriate wording may discourage them from contributing. Always try to remember the days when you were new to this site, and how you felt then.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T00:43:27.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-01T02:43:24.387" Score="12" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's New Year's Day in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange land&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/a&gt; here, a significant amount of the &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; is done by ordinary people, using the privileges&#xA;they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together.&#xA;To that end, here is how the moderation done here on TeX - LaTeX breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                 Action                  Moderators Community¹&#xA;---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------&#xA;Users suspended²                                  3         15&#xA;Users destroyed                                   8          0&#xA;Users deleted                                     4          0&#xA;Users contacted                                  13          0&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue           122      5,016&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue                0      1,314&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue         74      8,591&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue                4      1,744&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue                 0     10,769&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue               55     18,187&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                             0          2&#xA;Questions unprotected                             0          1&#xA;Questions reopened                               17        154&#xA;Questions protected                               1         48&#xA;Questions migrated                                9          6&#xA;Questions merged                                  1          0&#xA;Questions flagged⁴                                5      1,052&#xA;Questions closed                                124      5,224&#xA;Question flags handled⁴                         227        830&#xA;Posts unlocked                                    0          1&#xA;Posts undeleted                                  16        497&#xA;Posts locked                                      1         75&#xA;Posts deleted⁵                                  445      6,955&#xA;Posts bumped                                      0      4,369&#xA;Escalations to the CM team                        3          0&#xA;Comments undeleted                               12          0&#xA;Comments flagged                                  0     13,493&#xA;Comments deleted⁶                             7,984     20,085&#xA;Comment flags handled                         6,604      6,889&#xA;Answers flagged                                   8      4,529&#xA;Answer flags handled                          1,155      3,382&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat             31          0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 3 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 3, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing you all a happy new year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T02:43:24.387" Title="2018: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2019-01-01T17:12:23.990" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results TeXmas: 2018&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all the &lt;code&gt;council of ducklings&lt;/code&gt; would like to share their appreciation for all the participants: &lt;em&gt;Thanks for joining this event and I hope was fun ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a long discussion -- in the midst of new year party -- by the &lt;code&gt;council of ducklings&lt;/code&gt; over the results of this competition, it has been finalisied that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Carlisle&lt;/strong&gt; is the sole winner of the event under the category for &lt;code&gt;beautiful avatar with a pretty sweater&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Skillmon&lt;/strong&gt; dont forget to get him a beer!*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skillmon&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;CarLaTeX&lt;/strong&gt; will share the winner award of the event under the category for &lt;code&gt;beautiful avatar with an ugly sweater&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On behalf of the council, I would again like to thank all the winners and participants for their participation in this &lt;code&gt;TeXmas: 2018&lt;/code&gt; and making this as a successful event (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you all had fun, and see you all in the next edition!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a very great new year ahead!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T17:12:23.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-03T06:28:04.417" Score="4" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry for the confusing title, but let's consider the following two questions, which are recently modified on the main site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/633/156344&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/633/156344&quot;&gt;Is there any way to get real-time compilation for LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked in 2010&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;64 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;21519 views (until 06:26 Jan 3, 2019 UTC Time)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/647/156344&quot;&gt;The accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; is posted in 2010 and has received 34 upvotes so far&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75844/156344&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75844/156344&quot;&gt;Real Time LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked in 2008&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;75 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;41417 views (until 06:26 Jan 3, 2019 UTC Time)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/75861/156344&quot;&gt;The accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; is posted in 2009 and has received 34 upvotes so far&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75844/156344&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) is marked as a duplicate of Question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/633/156344&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that Question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75844/156344&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) was asked and got the accepted answer &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; Question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/633/156344&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;) did! (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75844/156344&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) also has received more views and more upvotes, i.e., (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75844/156344&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) is more popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the two questions are a duplicate of each other, I think that Question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/633/156344&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;), instead of Question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75844/156344&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;), should really be marked as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think they are not a duplicate of each other at all. The accepted answers are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the same, or at least similar, at all, from my point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorUserId="123129" LastEditDate="2019-01-12T12:32:25.483" LastActivityDate="2019-01-12T12:32:25.483" Title="What is a duplicate of what?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8016" CreationDate="2019-01-03T16:41:16.437" Score="11" ViewCount="1257" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you probably all know, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Groundhog Day&lt;/a&gt; is approaching. As usual, it will be on February 2. And since probably nobody wants to have a long period of lousy weather, I think we should be better prepared this year. Therefore, I'd like to open a competition, very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7950/let-us-have-some-tex-mas-fun-completed&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, in which we try to find/elect the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;most beautiful avatar with the most compelling shadow&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone who's interested may post an answer. The winner will be the post with the most upvotes. Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Zlings are welcome to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner of the first prize will be allowed to determine the weather for seven weeks, and will get a special surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The competition is over and the winner is Ulrike Fischer. Happy groundhog day!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-02-02T00:08:25.523" LastActivityDate="2019-02-02T09:41:12.723" Title="Preparing for Groundhog Day" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8006" CreationDate="2019-01-03T19:49:41.230" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dtylp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dtylp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T19:49:41.230" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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  <row Id="8009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8006" CreationDate="2019-01-03T20:14:51.533" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;With all due respect to the Groundhogs ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yOlA0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, motivated by &lt;strong&gt;Skillmon's&lt;/strong&gt; ASCII arts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nvXwp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: Google images&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="70891" LastEditDate="2019-01-03T20:27:40.603" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T20:27:40.603" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8011" CreationDate="2019-01-05T07:29:54.187" Score="11" ViewCount="725" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just out of curiosity. Why people here (TeX.SX users) love ducks so much? What's wrong with other animals, like dogs, cats, birds, fishes, geese, swans, marmots, penguins, or much more other animals? They are all very friendly and lovely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VYa1S.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VYa1S.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I just make this picture myself after spending an hour learning how to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Zlings&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzpeople&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Zpeople&lt;/a&gt; package! :))&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minimal working example, as usual:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[margin = 2cm]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;\usepackage{tikzlings, tikzpeople}&#xA;\tikzset{every node/.style = {align = center}} &#xA;\usetikzlibrary{shapes}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;\bear[&#xA;    3D,&#xA;    scale = 2,&#xA;    sign post = {\large\color{blue}Hello guys!\\\color{brown!50!black}It's very nice\\\color{brown!50!black}to meet you!},&#xA;    speech = {Hey, why am I\\not in the list?},&#xA;    sign colour = brown!50!black,&#xA;    sign back = yellow!30&#xA;]&#xA;\node[name = me, person, minimum size = 3cm] at (-10,2) {Me};&#xA;\node[&#xA;    ellipse callout, &#xA;    fill = black!15,&#xA;    yshift = 2cm,&#xA;    xshift = -6.5cm,&#xA;    callout absolute pointer = {(me.mouth)}&#xA;] {Oh, I'm sorry,\\that's my mistake!};&#xA;\node[name = bearx] at (-1.5,2) {};&#xA;\node[&#xA;    ellipse callout, &#xA;    fill = black!15,&#xA;    yshift = 1cm,&#xA;    xshift = -3cm,&#xA;    callout absolute pointer = {(bearx)}&#xA;] {I'm so lovely,\\you see.};&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;PS1 -- I'm sorry, bears :))&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;PS2 -- I recommend @samcarter to make a little change in the Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Zlings package, so that the size of the board and the speech change automatically depending on the text written on it.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-01-16T18:58:32.937" Title="A question about ducks and other animals" Tags="|discussion|users|ducks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2019-01-05T08:07:45.443" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;We love any animal, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/387047/the-duck-pond-showcase-of-tikz-drawn-animals-ducks?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The duck pond&amp;quot;: showcase of TikZ-drawn animals/ducks&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some of them have a special meaning here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/lion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Duane Bibby's lion&lt;/a&gt; is the &quot;trademark&quot; of TeX, there are also Meta the lioness and the Hummingbird logo of LaTeX(3) project, for more info see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/419984/latex-mascots-associated-animals&quot;&gt;LaTeX mascots/associated animals&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/49087/why-does-tex-have-a-lion-as-mascot&quot;&gt;Why does TeX have a lion as mascot?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8006/preparing-for-groundhog-day&quot;&gt;Marmots&lt;/a&gt; are the favorites of our TikZ expert &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/121799/marmot&quot;&gt;marmot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bär (a teddy bear) is a very valuable member of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2388/ulrike-fischer&quot;&gt;Ulrike Fischer&lt;/a&gt;'s team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/117050/skillmon&quot;&gt;Skillmon&lt;/a&gt; is a rabbit, and he likes rabbits, especially with pepper cream sauce :) And his avatar is kind of a rabbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ducks, in particular, and birds, in general, are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3094/paulo-cereda&quot;&gt;Paulo Cereda&lt;/a&gt;'s favorites. He is the author of the the tool &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/arara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;arara&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;arara&quot; means &quot;macaw&quot;, which is a parrot, btw).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He started loving ducks when he made friends with a hearing-impaired girl. To impress her, he mentioned that he studied&#xA;ASL (American Sign Language), even if he remembered only: &quot;I love you&quot; and &quot;duck&quot;.&#xA;Since saying “I love you” to a just-met girl was not very appropriate, he chose “I love ducks”. The girl, of course, started laughing, and since then the duck mania has become to spread all over the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find the complete story at Section 2 &quot;Origin and evolution of the duck mania&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb39-1/tb121duck-tikz.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The article is by Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck, of course! He writes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/listauthor.html#Maggi,Carla&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DuckBoat columns on the TUGboat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; is a duck as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as a proof that we are not biased against other animals, you can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/305374856&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We love donkeys, too: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/312199/i-need-a-tex-donkey&quot;&gt;I need a TeX-donkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. = there are also users who think all this is insane.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Nevertheless, Johannes_B is Señor Pingüino (mister penguin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-01-16T18:58:32.937" LastActivityDate="2019-01-16T18:58:32.937" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2019-01-05T11:52:34.257" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dogs and cats don't taste so nice, but Duck is very versatile. Roast Duck, Crispy Duck Pancakes, Duck burgers, ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-01-05T11:52:34.257" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8006" CreationDate="2019-01-05T14:46:48.483" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must say, having such a complex avatar is creating some really fun and unique challenges for these things. I am thoroughly enjoying all these little contests (and learning a lot, too!). 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  <row Id="8014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8006" CreationDate="2019-01-05T15:22:52.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: This entry is just for fun (and maybe some advertisement for the tikzlings :), I'm not participating in the contest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code below might or might not produce a shadow. &#xA;(I hope @marmot doesn't mind that I borrowed (something similar to) his avatar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{tikzlings}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;    \marmot[ask phil]&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}   &#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ZD2q.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ZD2q.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2019-01-05T15:35:03.280" LastActivityDate="2019-01-05T15:35:03.280" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-05T15:22:52.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8006" CreationDate="2019-01-05T16:40:58.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not strictly using this as an avatar but I do use this hippo &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WHrab.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WHrab.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hippo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as a logo for a SQL (Seekoeie Language(s)) application and it does have a shadow (Strictly speaking hippos don't have shadows only ripples). The pixelation is due to misuse of image magick&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code should it be necessary for a little proof this was done in TeX&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}&#xA;%&#xA;% C:\cygwin64\bin\convert.exe -alpha off -density 600 logo.pdf -resize 240x240 logo.png&#xA;%&#xA;% C:\cygwin64\bin\convert logo.png -alpha off -resize 256x256 -define icon:auto-resize=&quot;256,128,96,64,48,32,16&quot; logo.ico&#xA;\usepackage{luatex85}&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{shadings}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;% \draw[ultra thin, gray] (-0.5em, -0.5em) grid[step=0.1em] (0.5em,0.5em);&#xA;% \draw (-0.1em, 0.3em) arc( 180:   0:0.05em) arc( 0:90:0.1em);&#xA;% \draw ( 0.3em,-0.1em) arc( -90:  90:0.05em) arc(90: 0:0.1em);&#xA;\path[ultra thin, use as bounding box] (-0.525em,-0.525em) rectangle (0.505em,0.505em);&#xA;\draw[very thin, fill=yellow!70!brown!20!white] (-0.1em, 0.3em) ..controls +(0.15em,0.05em) .. (-0.1em, 0.4em) -- cycle;&#xA;\draw[very thin, fill=yellow!70!brown!20!white] ( 0.3em,-0.1em) ..controls +(0.05em,0.15em) .. ( 0.4em,-0.1em) -- cycle;&#xA;\draw [upper left =brown!10!gray,upper right=brown!50!pink,&#xA;       lower right=brown!10!gray,lower left =brown!50!pink]&#xA;  (-0.40em,-0.40em) .. controls +(0.25em,-0.1em) .. &#xA;  ( 0.10em,-0.40em) .. controls +( 0.1em,0.1em) .. &#xA;  ( 0.30em,-0.30em) .. controls +( 0.05em,0em) and +(0.1em,-0.25em) .. &#xA;  ( 0.45em,-0.10em) arc(270:180:0.55em) -- % Ends at  ( -0.1em, 0.45em)&#xA;  (-0.10em, 0.45em) .. controls +(-0.25em,0.1em) and +(0em,0.05em) .. &#xA;  (-0.30em, 0.30em) .. controls +( 0.0em,-0.2em) ..  % For symmetry use +(0.0em, -0.1em)&#xA;  ( -0.4em,  0.1em) .. controls +(-0.1em,-0.25em) .. &#xA;  ( -0.4em, -0.4em) --cycle;&#xA;\filldraw[fill=pink]  (-0.35em,-0.25em) ..controls +(-0.2em,-0.0em) and +(-0.2em,-0.2em) .. (-0.35em,-0.25em);&#xA;\draw[ultra thin,fill = white] (-0.365em, 0.075em) ellipse (0.05em and 0.035em);&#xA;\filldraw[ultra thin, inner color = white!80!black, outer color=black] (-0.365em, 0.075em) ellipse (0.025em and 0.02em);&#xA;% \draw[ultra thin,fill = blue] (-0.35em, 0.06em) circle(0.05em);&#xA;% \filldraw[ultra thin,inner color = black, outer color=gray!30!black] (-0.35em, 0.06em) circle(0.05em);&#xA;% \fill[inner color = white!80!black, outer color=gray!30!black] (-0.355em, 0.07em) circle(0.035em);&#xA;\filldraw[ultra thin, ball color =teal, line cap=round, line join=round] (0em, -0.5em) .. controls  +( 0.1em, 0.05em) and +(0.0em,-0.05em) .. (0.2em, -0.4em) .. controls +(0.0em, 0.1em) and  +( 0.6em, 0.0em).. cycle;&#xA;\filldraw[ultra thin, ball color =teal, line cap=round, line join=round] (-0.3em, -0.5em) .. controls  +(-0.1em, 0.0em) and +(0.0em,-0.05em) .. (-0.45em, -0.4em) .. controls +(0.0em, 0.05em) and  +(-0.3em, 0.0em).. cycle;&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14593" LastEditorUserId="70891" LastEditDate="2019-01-06T13:47:36.323" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T13:47:36.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8006" CreationDate="2019-01-05T21:19:02.160" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y9sCP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y9sCP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{tikzducks}&#xA;\usepackage{tikzlings}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{scope}[xshift=-1.3cm]&#xA; \begin{scope}[xslant=1.2,scale=2]&#xA; \duck[body=gray,bill=gray,eye=gray,pupil=gray]&#xA; \end{scope}&#xA;\end{scope}&#xA;\marmot &#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit on Groundhog Day&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As winner I will ensure that over the next seven weeks the weather is perfect for some people in some places at some times. I already got a number of wishes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N824V.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N824V.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="2388" LastEditDate="2019-02-02T09:41:12.723" LastActivityDate="2019-02-02T09:41:12.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-05T21:19:37.123" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have difficulties working with TeX.SE. My OP system is Ubuntu and I use Firefox as my browser. Folk ask questions and and supply a MWE but I haven't found a way to get the MWE so I can try it out except by downloading the entire SE HTML file and deleting 90% of it. I can provide code as an answer but I have to do it by typing each line as code in my answer. I would like to just input my &lt;code&gt;answer.tex&lt;/code&gt; file without having to retype it. I have also not come across a method of adding my &lt;code&gt;answer.pdf&lt;/code&gt; file to my SE answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried searching on SE in general for answers but not seen anything that I thought was helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not directly related to TeX and friends but I'm increasingly inclined not to go to what is probably a lot of extra work to provide answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I could post this I had to supply a tag. I searched through the 54 pages of tags but found none suitable (I was after something like &quot;answers&quot;) but then I was unable to create a new &quot;answers&quot; tag. In the end I had to settle with &quot;code&quot; as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" OwnerDisplayName="Peter Wilson" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-01-06T01:18:31.197" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T15:25:57.303" Title="Extracting code, uploading code and typeset result" Tags="|support|code|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8017" CreationDate="2019-01-05T22:25:52.187" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How to use a MWE from a question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply select the code using your mouse and copy/paste it into your TeX editor to work on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to put code into your answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Select the code from your TeX editor, copy it, and then paste it into the editor box of the answer.  To format it as code, select it all and type Control-K or click on the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; icon above the editor window:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NgCWo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NgCWo.png&quot; alt=&quot;code icon&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to post an image of the output&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various methods available. You can't upload a PDF file; instead you need to upload a PNG or JPG file. Many of us just use a screenshot (on a Mac, for example, I can take a screenshot of any region of the screen (like the image above)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To upload the file, click on the Image icon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nFiuo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nFiuo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more ways to produce output images see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2781/2693&quot;&gt;How does one add a LaTeX output to a question/answer?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2019-01-05T22:36:20.177" LastActivityDate="2019-01-05T22:36:20.177" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8017" CreationDate="2019-01-06T15:25:57.303" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Adding a &amp;quot;copy code&amp;quot; button&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make copying code blocks easier I use an addon for my browser which adds a little &amp;quot;copy code to clipboard&amp;quot; button at the top left:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8r9GK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8r9GK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several different addon available for this, the one I'm currently using is available for firefox and chrome from &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/zenorocha/codecopy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/zenorocha/codecopy&lt;/a&gt; and not only works for stackexchange, but also on sites like github etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T15:25:57.303" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7926" CreationDate="2019-01-06T18:30:28.060" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally do answer question which lack an MWE or a perfect MWE if they are still answerable (e.g. they are using some local images instead of &lt;code&gt;example-image-duck&lt;/code&gt; I'll leave a comment saying that we don't have those files available and that he should use &lt;code&gt;example-image-duck&lt;/code&gt;, but still would work on an answer). I sometimes even answer do-it-for-me questions if I have enough spare time and like the challenge or think the answer is easy enough to not be a challenge at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user gets rude towards me for me requesting some work on their end, wherever I find it appropriate, I try to remember myself to not answer questions from that particular user if they are not well stated including an MWE. So in this case I'd ban the user you're anonymously referring to from my personal help/support list (or more precise add to a blacklist) for as long as they need to become well-behaving. Currently I have 1 user on said ban list and in that case I left a comment stating that he won't get any new answer from me unless said conditions are met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T18:30:28.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8006" CreationDate="2019-01-06T22:19:05.053" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uhm...let me see, a compelling shadow for my avatar?   compelling shadow,  compelling, ... What is compelling? What? maybe the dreams?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E04cm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E04cm.png&quot; alt=&quot;mwe&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T22:19:05.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7926" CreationDate="2019-01-06T23:32:14.223" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Alan's answer  here. No one should feel the need to justify answering or not answering a question. If you want to answer do, and if you don't don't. If you feel the OP is abusing the site and repeatedly asking poor questions downvote (if you wish).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had the time or inclination to learn tikz, I'd probably try to answer as many tikz questions as I could as I have always found that to be a useful learning strategy. Whether or not the person asking the question has made a reasonable attempt to answer themselves really isn't that relevant in such a case. Answering the majority of questions  posted to comp.text.tex a lifetime ago is how i learnt Tex in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently (as I'm quite happy with picture mode and not trying to learn tikz in depth) If someone posts a tikz question without a MWE I am quite likely to comment asking for one, as with a non working example I can often debug and make a reasonable answer, but without an example I wouldn't know where to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whether or not it's reasonable to answer poor questions is as much about the state of mind of the person who is answering as about the attitude of the person asking the question. I don't like &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of the boilerplate texts used on the site, and certainly would not like to see any standard texts used here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T23:32:14.223" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8006" CreationDate="2019-01-07T14:26:59.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another kind of shadow going on here ... &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dtqjU.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dtqjU.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[tikz, border = 5pt]{standalone}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{tikzducks}&#xA;\usepackage{tikzlings}&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{calc}&#xA;&#xA;\def\nframes{30}&#xA;\def\frame{5}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\foreach \frame in {0,...,\nframes}&#xA;{&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro{\time}{\frame / \nframes}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro{\marmotCoord}{1.5 / (1 + pow(abs((\time - 0.5) / 0.4), 5))}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro{\clockCoord}{\time &amp;gt; 0.45 ? (\time  &amp;lt; 0.55 ? 0.5 * sin(360 * (\time - 0.5)) : 0) : 0}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro{\clockH}{\time &amp;lt; 0.55 ? 50 : 90}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro{\clockM}{\time &amp;lt; 0.55 ? 210 : 90}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro{\clockS}{\time &amp;lt; 0.55 ? 150 - \frame : 90 - \frame}&#xA;\pgfmathsetmacro{\mouthR}{-0.15 + 0.05 / (1 + exp(-10 * (\time - 0.5)))}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;&#xA;  % to stage all elements properly&#xA;  \useasboundingbox (-3, -3) rectangle (3, 3);&#xA;&#xA;  % marmot&#xA;  \begin{scope}[rotate=45, yshift =\marmotCoord cm]&#xA;    \marmot[]&#xA;    \coordinate (marmot lmouth) at ($(marmot nose) + (-0.1, -0.15)$);&#xA;    \coordinate (marmot rmouth) at ($(marmot nose) + (0.1, \mouthR)$);&#xA;    \draw[black] (marmot lmouth) .. controls ($(marmot lmouth) + (0.05, 0)$) and&#xA;    ($(marmot rmouth) + (-0.05, -0.05)$) .. (marmot rmouth);&#xA;  \end{scope}&#xA;&#xA;  % clock&#xA;  \begin{scope}[xshift=\clockCoord cm]&#xA;    \fill[ball color=gray!20, even odd rule] (0, 0) circle (2.5 cm) circle (2.0 cm);&#xA;    \fill[red!75!green!50!blue!25] (0, 0) circle (2.0 cm);&#xA;    \foreach \t in {1,...,12} {&#xA;      \pgfmathsetmacro{\theta}{90 - 30 * \t}&#xA;      \draw[line width=3pt, black] (\theta:2.0) -- (\theta:1.8) node[pos = 2.0]{\t};&#xA;    }&#xA;    \draw[-&amp;gt;, color=red, line width=2mm] (0, 0) -- (\clockH : 1.0);&#xA;    \draw[-&amp;gt;, color=blue, line width=1mm] (0, 0) -- (\clockM : 1.5);&#xA;    \draw[-&amp;gt;, color=orange, line width=0.5mm] (0, 0) -- (\clockS : 2.0);&#xA;    \fill[ball color = gray!20] (0, 0) circle (0.15);&#xA;  \end{scope}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152462" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T14:26:59.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-08T02:45:41.660" Score="16" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as it is possible to automatically &lt;em&gt;highlight&lt;/em&gt; postings if they are &quot;tagged&quot; with various keywords, it is also possible to &lt;em&gt;ignore&lt;/em&gt; postings if their tags are on a user-specified &quot;ignore list&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: Is it possible to set up a user-specified &quot;ignore list&quot; not based on the postings' tags but based on who posted the queries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some background to this question: While this site is, overall, remarkably free of trolls and spammers, once in a while a user persists in posting poorly phrased and unclear questions -- and then is remarkably very quick to respond aggressively and challenge anyone who dares to point out that their postings are less than clear with over-the-top aggressive language. Such a user frequently has no qualms of accusing anyone of trolling, bias, lack of decency, and worse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've learned the hard way that trying to engage such users politely and attempting to have a productive discussion is utterly useless. Indeed, such engagements should be avoided entirely as they meet the criterion of the (originally Italian?) piece of advice, &quot;Don't wrestle with a pig -- you get dirty, and the pig enjoys the wrestling match.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, there should be a method to enable me (and others) to place all queries posted by pig-type users on an &quot;automatic ignore&quot; list. Does this site provide such a method, or can it be created without too much knowledge of html programmming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2019-06-13T20:37:03.650" LastActivityDate="2019-06-13T20:37:03.650" Title="How to set up viewing preferences to automatically exclude postings of certain specific users?" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="41" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8025" CreationDate="2019-01-08T13:38:45.237" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would find some kind of ignore/mark user functionality incredibly helpful primarily to make enforcing my personal do-not-answer-to-this-one (to use the the nice name @CarLaTeX invented) list easier, which is important because this is the only real lever(*) I have for users who (in my personal opinion) do something wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*comments and downvotes don't really have any effect, they are often just ignored)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why an ignore/mark functionality cannot be replaced by moderator actions or bans?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three kinds of users who end up on my do-not-answer-to-this-one list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;users who ask question after question without upvoting or accepting the nice answers they got to their previous questions. I usually leave a comment below their previous questions explaining how and why to accept an answer and if I encounter this user again and no answers have been accepted (or some other reaction, like the answer does not solve the problem because xyz) I add these users to my list because this shows that these users don't appreciate the time and effort we put into answering their question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;users who continue to post questions without MWE even after having been asked to do so multiple times&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;some other triggers, which can be summarised as &quot;users who don't appreciate that others sacrifice their spare time to help them for free&quot; (this is a bit vague, but various strange things happened which don't fit into a narrow category)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clearly shows that not all behaviour that (in my personal opinion) is incorrect behaviour of users is something that mods can help. Not accepting answers, ignoring comments etc. is all perfectly in agreement with the rules of this site, it is just something I personally don't like and I think the other options provided by the site (commenting and voting) are not as strong as not answering questions of this special kinds of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luckily this only affects a tiny fraction of the users. From the 145 000 users of tex.se I have 22 on do-not-answer-to-this-one list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Experience with ignore/mark user functionality&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;22 names sounds not so much, but with cryptic user names like user123456789 (dummy example) they are nevertheless hard to remember. Therefore I used a browser addon in the past, which would mark posts from users on my list with a red rule so I can easily notice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o3kkL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o3kkL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The addon I previously used was &lt;a href=&quot;https://bures.io/products/favorite-users/stack-exchange/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://bures.io/products/favorite-users/stack-exchange/&lt;/a&gt;, unfortunately the new &quot;responsive&quot; site design broke it and it no longer works for questions and causes various formatting issues) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main effect was that I was much more relaxed. My default assumption was that every user was well behaved unless the post had a red rule besides it and if the question itself was reasonable posted it should have an answer. This made spending time on tex.se much more enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in the post &lt;del&gt;apocalyptic&lt;/del&gt; new design world, there is this constant subconscious fear that I might be giving answers to users from my do-not-answer-to-this-one list (which is probably my own fault because I'm often too lazy to check each and every user name if it is on my list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Reasons against an ignore/mark user functionality&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two main reasons why this is a bad idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the philosophy of stackexchange always was that all actions (voting, answering etc.) should be based on the post itself and not the user, that all users should be treated equally. IMHO The Powers That Be broke this rule themselves by these &quot;new user&quot; warnings signs in triple occurrence, so I don't consider this a valid reason anymore&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the mission is larger than answering the question of a given user -- the aim is to also build a database of knowledge for future users. I think this is a valid concern. Personally I would therefore prefer a way to mark users instead of completely hiding the questions, then one could make exceptions if a question sounds useful enough for future users. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T14:40:26.737" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T14:40:26.737" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8025" CreationDate="2019-01-08T14:10:16.223" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This does not address the question itself, but my opinion regarding this &lt;em&gt;feature request&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have a list of &lt;em&gt;special ones&lt;/em&gt; and when i encounter a question of one of these users I think &lt;em&gt;Ah, it's you again&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But i don't just ignore them if i have the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine a high-school teacher or university professor would ignore a student just because he is a pain in the &lt;code&gt;\ldots&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to at least &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to treat everyone with respect. In real life and in this limited internet part of (real) life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T14:10:16.223" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8051" CreationDate="2019-01-08T17:00:01.843" Score="3" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to understand if Captcha, computer security codes to distinguish between humans and bots, often happen to me in this period when I have to add an answer on the site TeX.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last week I had to run at least ten: buses, pedestrian crossings, traffic lights, bicycles, houses, shops.  I am wondering if all this is specific to me, or a general occurrence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-01-24T03:48:57.157" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T03:48:57.157" Title="Captcha it is often only for my account?" Tags="|discussion|support|captcha|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8025" CreationDate="2019-01-09T03:08:50.367" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have slightly different view from what may be read between the lines in your post and the existing answers. Certainly it is not up to me to tell you what measures you may or may not implement to ignore users. However, if I understand your request correctly you feel disturbed (or even harassed) by the behavior of certain users. As I said, I do think that it is your right to automatically ignore such users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, who do you think will stand up to those if not high-reputation users like you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would like to argue, thus going to some extent into the direction of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8025/how-to-set-up-viewing-preferences-to-automatically-exclude-postings-of-certain-s#comment25200_8025&quot;&gt;Henri Menke's comments&lt;/a&gt;, that, as long we do not have clear rules that prevent users from misbehaving in the way you describe, it is our job to micromanage these issues by contradicting them in comments, of course without using inappropriate wording and so on. Given &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, I do not think we should dump this entirely on the moderators, unless they tell us we should not interfere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is not very strong, but I would like to argue that if these rogue users do not get moderated by ourselves, meaning in particular by the more senior users, then this may send unfortunate signals to those who are considering to contribute more to this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T03:08:50.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2019-01-09T17:39:35.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any strings of characters, that I posted previously or I will post in the future to this site, automatically belong to you and are not mine. I am not responsible for any gain or loss of using them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please refrain from contacting me for granting royalty or attribution. I am not collecting money let alone popularity. I will do an immense deal of good, if I don't care who gets the credit for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastEditorUserId="2099" LastEditDate="2020-11-13T14:14:50.250" LastActivityDate="2020-11-13T14:14:50.250" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-09T21:28:38.177" Score="3" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;For about a week I have noticed some small worsening on the visualization of the site TeX.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wkdIf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wkdIf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see from the rectangles that I highlighted with the color orange, the text has a smaller size than usual. I wanted to understand if this is a problem that only concerns me or some I have noticed this difference. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2019-02-11T13:10:43.073" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T13:10:43.073" Title="Has the size of the text in TeX.SE decreased?" Tags="|discussion|support|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-11T10:35:45.880" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I was typing a comment to reply a user. However, when I was typing my comment, I saw that -- with (might be due to) the new-interface -- overlapping texts which makes it hard to read (all of a sudden).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VfZpd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VfZpd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a know issue? Because, this is the first time I am encountering this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;code&gt;Windows 7&lt;/code&gt; with the &lt;code&gt;Chrome version 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1:&lt;/strong&gt; From &lt;code&gt;@Inquisitive Lurker's&lt;/code&gt; comment, it can be seen that this issue has also been reproduced with &lt;code&gt;Linux Mint 18.3 and Chrome 71.0.3578.98&lt;/code&gt;. No external add-ons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EktlM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EktlM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="70891" LastEditDate="2019-01-15T15:17:49.140" LastActivityDate="2019-01-15T15:17:49.140" Title="Multi-line texts overlaps in comment window" Tags="|discussion|support|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8033" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-11T21:22:35.897" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question and got several comments and answers which I wanted to print as hard copy (the paperless office is an enduring con). My browser is Firefox and when I pushed the Print button it prints as a single page with the majority of the Q&amp;amp;A off the bottom of the page. I estimate that at least 3 pages should have been printed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the way to print a full Q&amp;amp;A?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastActivityDate="2019-01-11T21:22:35.897" Title="How to print question and answer" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2019-01-12T14:31:33.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-11T21:41:40.720" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;On occasions when there are several commentators on a question or answer it can be useful to give a particular response to more than one of these, but SE only allows a response to be directed to a single person. I don't see why can't a message be shouldn't directed to multiple recipients. I think that this might involve a minor change to SE but save the users much time and effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastActivityDate="2019-01-11T21:41:40.720" Title="Responding to several commenters" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-12T08:49:11.050" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/469796/parallel-arrows-along-a-curve-with-tikz&quot;&gt;Parallel arrows along a curve with tikz&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP's code is clearly not compilable. The preamble of the code is not shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we can add a single line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[tikz, margin = 3mm]{standalone}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to the code to make it compilable; and it produces this figure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KbLn4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KbLn4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in cases like this, should I add the above line to the code and add the picture to the question? Or should I suggest like &quot;Please add an MWE&quot; and wait for the OP to edit the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-01-12T08:49:11.050" Title="Should I make minor edit in the code in the question to make it compilable?" Tags="|discussion|editing|code|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2019-01-12T09:15:35.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2879" CreationDate="2019-01-12T12:39:40.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Draw this table BAD! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Draw this picture GREAT! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Construct this&#xA;equation - BAD!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is the site rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have tons of just-do-it-for-me picture questions which are largely upvoted, even if asked by old users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas just-do-it-for-me tables are usually downvoted. This one, for example, was sensibly dowvoted two times: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/469813/create-table-question&quot;&gt;Create table question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same for just-do-it-for-me equations. This one, for example, was sensibly dowvoted two times before being deleted by owner:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/469824/i-would-like-to-learn-how-to-write-equation-in-latex&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/469824/i-would-like-to-learn-how-to-write-equation-in-latex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This inconsistent behavior is completely inexplicable to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-01-12T12:39:40.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-14T14:48:15.393" Score="4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's consider a brother site of our site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Math.SE&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{feature-request}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\item [Monospaced code in the title]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Math.SE, of course, is specified for mathematics, so the reason why MathJax is loaded there is clear. We can type math equations in the question &lt;strong&gt;as well as in the title&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cCiia.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cCiia.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't ask for loading MathJax in TeX.SE because we don't really need it. However, TeX.SE is a site about TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt, so what we really need is &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, we can now type code in questions very easily (all of you know it). However, we can't type code in the title of the questions, so the title now look not so good&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1uRUU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1uRUU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; prefer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Syntax similar to &lt;code&gt;\centering&lt;/code&gt; for right and left?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Syntax similar to \centering for right and left?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why a feature for &quot;coding&quot; sites, like SO, TeX.SE, etc., for code in the title, hasn't been introduced yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\item [Type \TeX, \LaTeX{} correctly in TeX.SE]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, let's look at Math.SE. We can type the word L&lt;sup&gt;A&lt;/sup&gt;T&lt;sub&gt;E&lt;/sub&gt;X in the right format by using MathJax:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EH8Ff.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EH8Ff.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why a site not too related to T&lt;sub&gt;E&lt;/sub&gt;X, L&lt;sup&gt;A&lt;/sup&gt;T&lt;sub&gt;E&lt;/sub&gt;X can show the word correctly when TeX.SE can not. It is a bit odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is no need to load MathJax here, but we should have a tool to type &lt;code&gt;$\TeX$&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;$\LaTeX$&lt;/code&gt; correctly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\end{feature-request}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note: I really think this question (or a part of it) is a duplicate, because the topic is quite popular. However, I can't find one question on Meta related to this. I'm sorry if this is a duplicate&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-01-14T14:48:15.393" Title="Code in title; word 'LaTeX', 'TeX'" Tags="|feature-request|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8041" CreationDate="2019-01-17T10:02:46.620" Score="4" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I down-voted the answer&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/343572/177954&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/343572/177954&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;because the websites where the images are from are not disclosed. I left a comment explaining this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed that my comment was deleted. Why is this? When I down-voted there was a pop-up that asked to leave a comment explaining the reason, that what I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user177954" LastEditorDisplayName="user177954" LastEditDate="2019-01-25T10:48:58.547" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T10:48:58.547" Title="Why was my comment deleted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8040" CreationDate="2019-01-17T13:55:19.593" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a few comments on that particular answer. Issues about 'legal' stuff are best handled by flagging rather than voting (a downvote indicates the answer is wrong on  a technical level, rather than having an attribution issue). After looking again, I've remove the answer entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T13:55:19.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8043" CreationDate="2019-01-19T07:13:57.963" Score="13" ViewCount="396" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed that one of my questions&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/460473/how-to-check-which-command-was-used-to-load-a-sty-file&quot;&gt;(&quot;How to check which command was used to load a .sty file?&quot;)&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;was deleted. As the two consecutive downvotes, after nearly two months,&#xA;without any explanation didn't help me to improve the&#xA;question, could somebody please tell me what was wrong with&#xA;that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174815" LastActivityDate="2019-01-19T08:16:43.380" Title="What was wrong with my question?" Tags="|discussion|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8042" CreationDate="2019-01-19T08:16:43.380" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been auto-deleted. The StackOverflow model is about having questions with answers. Questions which attract low interest, low up-voting and no up-voted answers are periodically removed from public view by the 'back end'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the question, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, and I'm surprised it didn't attract an answer. I'll undelete and post something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-01-19T08:16:43.380" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-22T10:43:47.053" Score="17" ViewCount="451" Body="&lt;p&gt;We got several questions on the main site about compilation and maybe other problems with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Overleaf&lt;/a&gt;, an online LaTeX-Editor. Most of them got closed as off-topic or another reason, with comments pointing the OP to the official Overleaf support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6470/2975&quot;&gt;troubleshooting questions are not off-topic&lt;/a&gt; in general, I personally think that bug reports and support questions should go to the author of the package or tool in question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your opinion here? If we agree that all support-level questions about Overleaf are generally off-topic then we should update the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overleaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overleaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overleaf&lt;/a&gt; tag description and link to this meta thread when closing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions on how to use Overleaf or similar are off course on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2021-10-25T13:20:06.627" Title="Support questions about overleaf off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|overleaf|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-23T11:52:09.037" Score="16" ViewCount="939" Body="&lt;p&gt;2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt;! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/8048&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T18:46:39.790" Title="Community Promotion Ads — 2019" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2020-03-05T10:56:50.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-23T11:52:09.037" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackTex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YGbeX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T11:52:09.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8028" CreationDate="2019-01-23T18:33:41.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general I block third party scripts, so I never see the actual captcha, but only the SX internal message that I'll have to solve a captcha. This happens to me every time I try to add an answer that contains only code I just copied pre-indented from my VIM:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SXztN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SXztN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then click outside of this banner and enter a few words to the beginning of my answer inside of the browser. After that I can post the answer without being prompted for a captcha again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is reproducible for me in 100% of cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T18:33:41.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-23T19:49:11.487" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latex.org/forum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vv98z.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX Community Forum - Talk about TeX and LaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T19:49:11.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-23T19:53:47.857" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texwelt.de/wissen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i86BI.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXwelt - Fragen und Antworten zu TeX auf Deutsch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T19:53:47.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-23T19:55:02.933" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texnique.fr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q5iDJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX questions and answers in French&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T19:55:02.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-23T19:57:19.190" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tex-talk.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HZ1ht.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX talk - news and interviews&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T19:57:19.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-23T20:15:38.183" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guitex.org/home/it/forum/index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ac9C6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T20:15:38.183" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-23T22:07:47.893" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MqJfh.png&quot; alt=&quot;TEXample.net&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T22:07:47.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8028" CreationDate="2019-01-24T01:44:22.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The appearance of the CAPTCHA should be based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/164899/168244&quot;&gt;The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide&lt;/a&gt;. I can see that the following scenarios might trigger it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seeing a question; writing up code that solves the problem; copy-and-paste the code &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; and posting as the answer and then working adding some mortar to your brick(s) to provide something more consumable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You want to be the first one posting an answer, so you want to post &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; the code as soon as possible. Once you have something working, you post it, but fall prey to the &amp;quot;within 5 seconds of starting new post&amp;quot; CAPTCHA trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Switching networks while being mobile and using the site to post content could trigger the CAPTCHA accidentally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A plausible scenario occurs that the system does not properly log your initiation of a post, triggering the CAPTCHA when you want to post, since it then thinks you may be within the &amp;quot;under 5 second limit&amp;quot; (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7510404#7510404&quot;&gt;this discussion in the Tavern on Meta&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being mobile &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7510513#7510513&quot;&gt;may send multiple requests to SE that are similar&lt;/a&gt;, triggering the CAPTCHA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue(s) around being mobile is difficult to replicate, since it's neither a code base problem (on SE's side) nor user error (on your side). It's probably just a small glitch in the network connectivity that isn't easily reproducible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T01:44:22.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8064" CreationDate="2019-01-24T07:46:07.543" Score="0" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you use social media, you may know that all comments others posted on your &lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt; posts can be deleted by &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; if you see that it is unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know TeX.SE, or SE in general, is not a social media site, but its format is somewhat the same as social media (there are posts, there are comments, there are up/down-votes (like &quot;Like&quot;/&quot;Dislike&quot;), there is even chat). So &lt;strong&gt;I think it is good if we can delete comments on my own post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments recently posted on my posts are very looooong and not useful at all. That is why I want this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorUserId="2975" LastEditDate="2019-01-24T14:28:47.897" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T14:28:47.897" Title="Delete others' comments on my own post" Tags="|feature-request|status-bydesign|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2019-01-24T18:45:30.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8062" CreationDate="2019-01-24T13:32:18.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is true that tex.stackexchange looks a lot like a social network of friends who greet each other, vote for each other (and point it out), ask for relevant comments to be deleted because the person who made the comment is not a friend or a buddy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, stackexchange is not a network of friends. It is a place of mutual support open to all and everyone must accept that others give their opinions and criticism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By allowing everyone to delete unpleasant comments, this place then becomes a real facebook, which it tends to become more and more, I regret it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I find this idea bad because it goes against the very philosophy of sharing and mutual aid of stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T13:32:18.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8062" CreationDate="2019-01-24T14:27:44.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature is not part of the stackexchange feature set. New features can only be requeseted on the primary meta site &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;. Feel free to post your request there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to have certain comments under your post removed, you can flag them for moderator attention. A moderator can then delete them. The neutral way is to flag them as &quot;no longer needed&quot;, while there are other flags if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T14:27:44.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2019-01-24T20:04:45.750" Score="5" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;Syntax highlighting? \relax &#xA;  \begin{tabular}[t]{ccc}&#xA;    a&amp;amp;b\\&#xA;  \end{tabular}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;Syntax highlighting? \relax &#xA;  \begin{tabular}[t]{ccc}&#xA;    a&amp;amp;b\\&#xA;  \end{tabular}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can force syntax highlighting by prefixing the block with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-latex --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;  as in the second block here, although the styling is so slight it's hard to see the difference but if you view the source of the generated hml in your browser you see the first starts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\documentclass{article}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the second starts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;kwd&quot;&amp;gt;\documentclass&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pun&quot;&amp;gt;{&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pln&quot;&amp;gt;article&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pun&quot;&amp;gt;}&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pln&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T20:04:45.750" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T08:26:44.063" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDlFZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;The TeX User Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T08:26:44.063" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-25T08:26:44.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T08:29:45.427" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.latex-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sx2ec.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T08:29:45.427" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-25T08:29:45.427" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T08:31:04.373" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gYqMV.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Live - cross-platform TeX software&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T08:31:04.373" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-25T08:31:04.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T08:55:14.133" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/tex.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;See all questions with active bounties&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T08:55:14.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T09:02:10.330" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dante.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9wN0o.png&quot; alt=&quot;DANTE e.V. - German language TeX users group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5763" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T09:02:10.330" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-25T09:02:10.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T14:01:09.300" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m2HMm.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Users Group&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2019-08-11T14:09:25.677" LastActivityDate="2019-08-11T14:09:25.677" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-25T14:07:32.067" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T14:13:01.547" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/Russian-Phd-LaTeX-Dissertation-Template&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QbDJC.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX template for russian PhD thesis (LaTeX-шаблон для кандидатской диссертации и её автореферата)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79756" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T14:13:01.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T14:26:43.673" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9D64.png&quot; alt=&quot;Detexify: automated LaTeX symbol recognition&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T14:26:43.673" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-25T14:26:43.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T14:29:58.430" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CYXdw.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX online documentation lookup system&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T14:29:58.430" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-25T14:29:58.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-25T14:45:31.167" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tug.org/FontCatalogue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4iHwK.png&quot; alt=&quot;The LaTeX Font Catalogue&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2019-07-31T05:08:48.587" LastActivityDate="2019-07-31T05:08:48.587" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-01-25T14:45:31.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-01-27T20:27:30.383" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-documentation+or+academic-writing+or+technical-writing+or+scientific-publishing&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HVaFo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Got content questions?  Writing.SE can help!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169608" LastEditorUserId="169608" LastEditDate="2019-01-27T20:44:57.747" LastActivityDate="2019-01-27T20:44:57.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8045" CreationDate="2019-01-28T20:22:07.083" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say, &quot;not as such&quot;. It is easy to imagine some support questions (&quot;How do I reset my password?&quot;) which are obviously not TeX-related. But a user, especially an inexperienced one, will often have little idea about the source of their problem. They may (wrongly) think they have a TeX problem, when they don't; and they may also wrongly think they have a frontend-related problem, when they don't. We often see questions which are obviously pure TeX issues where the user tells us that they are using MikTeX, or a particular editor, or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless one is a rigid purist, questions about how to compile, or where to place files, and the like are capable of being on-topic. This issue, as moewe notes &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8045/support-questions-about-overleaf-off-topic?cb=1#comment25320_8045&quot;&gt;in this comment&lt;/a&gt; is really not different from questions about any editor or compilation system. That doesn't mean that &lt;strong&gt;any and every&lt;/strong&gt; overleaf-related question is on-topic, just that we don't need any sort of &quot;special rule&quot; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practical terms, TeX and LaTeX are not just single executables, but (for all of us) a complex ecosystem of programs which all have to operate together if one is going to get any useful work done. Although some parts of the toolchain are more interesting, this site proclaims itself to be concerned with the &lt;strong&gt;system&lt;/strong&gt; not just the &lt;strong&gt;program&lt;/strong&gt;. Although I suspect overleaf questions will often be rather dull &quot;one-off&quot; ones, I don't think they deserve any special treatment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pragmatically: the extent to which new and inexperienced users receive (within reason!) patient answers to questions, asked in good faith, which an experienced user regards as pointless, obvious, or based on a fundamental misunderstanding is a fair measure of the extent to which a community will be regarded as welcoming. Policing boundaries over-relentlessly, especially when they are boundaries that aren't obvious to the person asking the question is nearly always a mistake. That commits nobody to answer anything. Although I'm sure it isn't the intention, a &quot;rule&quot; that &quot;overleaf support questions are not on-topic&quot; would send the wrong message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd always rather a person said &quot;When I started using TeX, I had a really dumb question because I just didn't understand how the system works, but I got it answered, and now I'm about to finish my dissertation&quot; than &quot;I tried using TeX, but I just couldn't get it to work, so I went back to Word.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5404" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T20:22:07.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-02-01T13:28:11.420" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dickimaw-books.com/gallery/#glossaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gbnK8.png&quot; alt=&quot;visit the glossaries gallery&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19862" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T13:28:11.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-02T13:38:19.580" Score="4" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was dismayed nay surprised to find that I cannot web translate a page from this site due to its underlying structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My intent was to point a shared link to a translator for the MWE guidance but that failed in my choice of translator due to the way this &quot;framing&quot; site is built. &#xA;Thus can totally understand why non english students hit their head on the wall when given a link to the standard request for a MWE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone provide a link to any good clear &quot;SIMPLE&quot; (translatable) web page (i.e. not this site) with &quot;How to build a MWE ?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my browser Google OR Yandex translate will fail miserably&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3SNlp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3SNlp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ONLY showing a blank page&lt;/strong&gt; when OK is clicked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bing will not show a message and will proceed&lt;/strong&gt; as intended with the same MWE url  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.translatoruser.net/proxy.ashx?&amp;amp;to=ru&amp;amp;csId=5adc1aee-4457-44ed-8a5e-74ca3a4c9b17&amp;amp;usId=264c56b3-5e68-4bd4-b593-e186e39f7dde&amp;amp;orefd=www.bing.com&amp;amp;ac=true&amp;amp;bvrpx=true&amp;amp;bvrpp=&amp;amp;dt=2019%2F2%2F2%2014%3A50&amp;amp;h=nDudiGEuT_hwQPH6VP9Pa1-2DCDTvfKo&amp;amp;a=HTTPS%3A%2F%2FTeX.meta.StackExchange.com%2Fquestions%2F228%2FIve-Just-Been-Asked-to-write-a-Minimal-example-What-Is-That&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.translatoruser.net/proxy.ashx?&amp;amp;to=ru&amp;amp;csId=5adc1aee-4457-44ed-8a5e-74ca3a4c9b17&amp;amp;usId=264c56b3-5e68-4bd4-b593-e186e39f7dde&amp;amp;orefd=www.bing.com&amp;amp;ac=true&amp;amp;bvrpx=true&amp;amp;bvrpp=&amp;amp;dt=2019%2F2%2F2%2014%3A50&amp;amp;h=nDudiGEuT_hwQPH6VP9Pa1-2DCDTvfKo&amp;amp;a=HTTPS%3A%2F%2FTeX.meta.StackExchange.com%2Fquestions%2F228%2FIve-Just-Been-Asked-to-write-a-Minimal-example-What-Is-That&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user170109" LastEditorDisplayName="user170109" LastEditDate="2019-02-02T14:56:49.020" LastActivityDate="2019-02-02T14:56:49.020" Title="Breaking the language barrier How to provide guidance for mwe in another language" Tags="|support|mwe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8083" CreationDate="2019-02-02T14:07:16.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several non-TeX.SX resources out there that explain the process of creating MWEs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://texfaq.org/FAQ-minxampl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://texfaq.org/FAQ-minxampl&lt;/a&gt; (English)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/&lt;/a&gt; (German and English)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/569/was-ist-ein-vollstandiges-minimalbeispiel-oder-kurz-vm-und-wie-erstelle-ich-dieses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/569/was-ist-ein-vollstandiges-minimalbeispiel-oder-kurz-vm-und-wie-erstelle-ich-dieses&lt;/a&gt; (German, could be shortened to &lt;a href=&quot;https://texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/569/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/569/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/minexample/html/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/minexample/html/&lt;/a&gt; (English)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://texnique.fr/osqa/faq/#custom-id-ecm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://texnique.fr/osqa/faq/#custom-id-ecm&lt;/a&gt; (French)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gutenberg.eu.org/ECM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.gutenberg.eu.org/ECM&lt;/a&gt; (very short in French)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the translation service of a well-known search engine also worked for me on our own &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/35864&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked a few of those with Dutch and got reasonable results (as far as I can tell), but I wouldn't know how the texts translate into languages further from German or English. With technical advice like this bad translations can cause more frustration and confusion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General, non-TeX advice is at &lt;a href=&quot;http://sscce.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sscce.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2019-02-02T14:27:01.117" LastActivityDate="2019-02-02T14:27:01.117" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8083" CreationDate="2019-02-02T14:24:24.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like German to me, you didn't say which translation site you used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&amp;amp;rurl=translate.google.com&amp;amp;sl=en&amp;amp;sp=nmt4&amp;amp;tl=de&amp;amp;u=https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&amp;amp;xid=25657,15700022,15700186,15700191,15700248&amp;amp;usg=ALkJrhgOadOjn1Q8fq89tAC3o_YZwOlpog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&amp;amp;rurl=translate.google.com&amp;amp;sl=en&amp;amp;sp=nmt4&amp;amp;tl=de&amp;amp;u=https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&amp;amp;xid=25657,15700022,15700186,15700191,15700248&amp;amp;usg=ALkJrhgOadOjn1Q8fq89tAC3o_YZwOlpog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-02-02T14:24:24.407" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8091" CreationDate="2019-02-02T22:09:07.253" Score="6" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a previous question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7170/a-clock-into-stackexchange-to-access-time-counting&quot;&gt;A clock into StackExchange to access time counting&lt;/a&gt;, given the numerous frequent changes and updates by the operators of the site I would like to know if there is a possibility of a time chart for a given period being printed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to me to motivate my professional development. A few months ago I saw some graphs in one of the many questions/answers asked by a user. At the moment I don't remember where it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-03T18:12:24.410" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T18:12:24.410" Title="Graphs on the duration of access to the TeX.SE site for professional training" Tags="|discussion|statistics|request-for-information|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7904" CreationDate="2019-02-03T14:09:58.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that this issue has been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gc3Sx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gc3Sx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T14:09:58.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8087" CreationDate="2019-02-03T18:11:38.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/975273?UserId=117876#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;query on SEDE&lt;/a&gt; that highlights the unique days you were active on TeX.SE and counting the number of actions (votes, posts, suggested edit reviews and comments) you performed (that's public):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQreC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQreC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To some extent, it echoes &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/117876/sebastiano?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;your reputation graph&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7uh1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7uh1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is to be expected since most reputation is earned within a short period of being active (posting content).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T18:11:38.217" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-03T22:06:21.707" Score="7" ViewCount="431" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1811&quot;&gt;utf8 or latin1 encoding - german&lt;/a&gt;. When you look at the wording, you may notice that this question makes no sense for UTF-8 compilers with their default settings (these compilers would correctly produce an error while processing &lt;code&gt;\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}&lt;/code&gt;), so there is an implicit assumption that &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;pslatex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt; are used, as opposed to &lt;code&gt;lualatex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt;. However, the answer (with which you may agree or not) &quot;use lualatex&quot; has been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the OPer is ready to sacrifice the underlying assumption, and, thus, the question itself in its current formulation. Based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1817&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;, my best guess is that the &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; question was &quot;Would you use latin1 or utf8 for creating German LaTeX documents?&quot; (Btw., I feel that &quot;use UTF-8 and compile with &lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;lualatex&lt;/code&gt;&quot; are pretty good general answers to the intended question, but this is off-topic here.) However, originally I read the &#xA;OP as &quot;Would you use latin1 or utf8 for creating German LaTeX documents &lt;em&gt;if you use the package &lt;code&gt;inputenc&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; The implicit assumption &quot;&lt;em&gt;if you use the package &lt;code&gt;inputenc&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is IMHO equivalent to using &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;pslatex&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt;. For my own documents, the two questions (the intended one and the way I read it) would be vastly different; the OP misled me (which is reflected in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/473197&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;). Moreover, the question might be considered outdated, as @AndrewSwann says (the OP is old and the defaults have changed), cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1878/what-shall-we-do-with-future-out-of-date-answers&quot;&gt;What shall we do with future out-of-date answers?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the community should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the OP &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1811&quot;&gt;utf8 or latin1 encoding - german&lt;/a&gt; (making it clearer and more narrow in one or the other way or marking it as out of date), or &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;DELETE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; it, or &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;CLOSE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; it rather than leave it there in its misleading form. Of course, I left a comment to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't feel senior enough to execute such a change or even ask the admin to do it without prior asking here, so, opinions are welcome: what to do with  the OP &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1811/utf8-or-latin1-encoding-german&quot;&gt;utf8 or latin1 encoding - german&lt;/a&gt;?&#xA;More generally, what to do with a broad, potentially misleading questions with several interpretations such that only the acceptance of an answer shows that the intended interpretation is notably different from the wording used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user165772" LastEditorDisplayName="user165772" LastEditDate="2019-02-08T02:43:12.760" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T02:43:12.760" Title="What to do with questions whose accepted answer invalidates the question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|accepting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8092" CreationDate="2019-02-04T04:36:23.073" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an OP accepts an answer, this means that their problem got solved by the answer. The decision whether or not an answer really answers the question can only be made by the OP asking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that this answer, nor any other answer given to this question, does not solve the problem described in the question, you can always ask a new question. In this new question you can link the related question(s), and explain why the (accepted) answers there do not solve your problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions do get edited, and usually it is checked that the OP agrees with the edit, or, at least does not object it. The question of whether or not one should &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7958/121799&quot;&gt;edit a question to fit an existing answer has been discussed&lt;/a&gt;, and judging from the votes I'd say that the consensus is a clear &quot;No&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel a question is not clear enough, you can ask for clarification in a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The model of this site is that votes will help to decide what the best or most appropriate answer is. That means that asking clear questions is supposed get rewarded. Every user has the right to judge themselves whether or not a question deserves an upvote. Whether or not these rewards really help to make the questions clearer I do not know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From all the above, my answer to &quot;What to do with questions whose accepted answer invalidates the question?&quot; is that, if you feel the question is not clear, you may just refrain from upvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T04:36:23.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8092" CreationDate="2019-02-04T08:04:21.990" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a common problem since it boils down to a fundamental problem of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;asking a good question&lt;/a&gt;. Not just asking a question, but asking a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;, well-formulated, clear, concise, researched question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community attempts to guide the questioner if it is unclear through comments or sometimes answers. And answers are sometimes edited multiple times as the questioner struggles with their ultimate goal. The system is set up well enough to deal with these oddities, but ultimately you're dealing with humans. Most notable amongst these are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377/168244&quot;&gt;X-Y type problems&lt;/a&gt; (also known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;communication problems&lt;/a&gt;) where the main focus is a &lt;em&gt;solution&lt;/em&gt; rather than addressing the OP's problem. Suggestions to the contrary or alternatives are often proposed in answers and it may be accepted without any consideration to the community or future visitors... that's just it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question can be changed (edited) with minor changes to the original request in such a way that it better-reflects the question-answer connection, then go ahead and (suggest an) edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the change would be substantial in nature and you have &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;knowledge over the subject matter being discussed, and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;feel that the accepted answer does not address the aim of the question, while&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;possessing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;close vote privilege&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then you should vote-to-close as being unclear. It can always be opened again if the OP rephrases the question to make more sense given the accepted answer. If you lack any of the above, consider discussing the issue &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt; (where seasoned veterans and moderators readily roam) or coming to &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; (like you did).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T08:04:21.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8092" CreationDate="2019-02-05T08:13:25.837" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expanding a little on my comment, note that the original question is from 2010 and the answer is marked as accepted the same year.  Much has changed since then...in particular &lt;code&gt;pdflatex&lt;/code&gt; was the standard choice, there was no &lt;code&gt;utf8&lt;/code&gt; default for LaTeX and as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1813/15925&quot;&gt;Caramdir's answer&lt;/a&gt; says &lt;code&gt;lualatex&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt; were still &quot;experimental&quot;/in development.  Given that context, I don't think the question formulation was too bad.  However, now for a new user of a modern latex it can indeed be unclear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1878/15925&quot;&gt;tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1878/15925&lt;/a&gt; discusses the issue of out-of-date answers, but what we have here is perhaps an out-of-date question.  I don't think this warrants closing though.  The answer of Caramdir is good, but old, and strongly upvoted.  A new answer could be added, pointing out the current situation.  It could be made more prominent if awarded a bounty.  As already discussed the accepted tick can only be changed by the OP, who I guess is no longer active on the site; but that is not a valid reason to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastEditorUserId="15925" LastEditDate="2019-02-05T16:22:21.680" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T16:22:21.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8092" CreationDate="2019-02-05T17:43:29.097" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the general question in the title could have some answers  or policy decisions, I don't think the example you give is an example of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you start out with an incorrect premise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let's consider utf8 or latin1 encoding - german. This question makes no sense for UTF-8 compilers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly there is a natural interpretation of this question being &quot;should I use UTF-8 or Latin 1 for German&quot;  You can't expect a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; to get all the tex details right, so you always have to interpret tex fragments in questions with a certain amount of good will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly even if you want to strictly interpret it as a question about inputenc, then it still makes sense to ask about inputenc use with luatex or xetex. &lt;code&gt;inputenc&lt;/code&gt;  may not be that useful with Unicode engines, but we see examples posted here &lt;em&gt;all the time&lt;/em&gt; that use inputenc with luatex or xetex.  In the case of &lt;code&gt;[utf8]&lt;/code&gt; it is harmless enough since it does nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also possible to configure both luatex or xetex to not use their built in utf-8 decoder and pass the raw bytes to the macro layer as characters, in which case inputenc would work as in pdftex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally while the collection of answers as a whole is useful as a resource for the general community, the choice of which answer to accept is purely the choice of the OP. &#xA;If someone uses a crystal ball and answers the OPs real problem irrespective of the words in the question, and they get a tick of acceptance, that is just how it is, it isn't a problem that requires a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T17:43:29.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8098" CreationDate="2019-02-14T17:10:35.470" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;In relation to a question already asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/480/what-does-community-wiki-mean&quot;&gt;What does &amp;quot;Community Wiki&amp;quot; mean?&lt;/a&gt;, what exactly does it mean? I, for example, have not understood why this option exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I already included in this community or is it a privilege that it has a certain usefulness?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have seen an answer for a few minutes with the indications given in the image. Is it possible to have an animated illustration in order to better understand the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T18:00:53.423" Title="Community wiki: simple and exhaustive explanation" Tags="|discussion|support|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8097" CreationDate="2019-02-14T18:00:53.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I understand your word &quot;included&quot;, you are already included in this community since your registration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine you were the leader of a company, and proposed a rule for all staffs (including you) and let everyone improve it. (i) Over time, your employees would find some inappropriate points, and they edited them for a better rule. (ii) Your rule is not your own, now it belongs to &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt;one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting a Community-Wiki post is like propose an uncompleted document, like the rule above. A reader reads it and thinks he can improve it, and he edits it. However, if that reader has under 2000 rep, his edit must be reviewed, in case the post is not a CW. That number is only 100 rep for CW posts. That is the first main difference (i) between normal posts and CW posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your post is CW, you don't own it (because almost everyone can edit it freely). You can still get badges on your post, but you won't earn a single reputation from that post. This is the second main difference (ii).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see that some posts on the main site should not be a CW if we consider difference (i), like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/474868/156344&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;. However, that answer is not mine, so I don't own it, i.e. I should not get rep on that post. That is the reason why I marked that answer as CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;You have 10k rep, so only difference (ii) works for you. Difference (i) is only for (thousands of) users who have between 100 and 2000 rep, not for (700) users with more than 2000 rep.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/26771/156344&quot;&gt;A big list of every keyval package&lt;/a&gt; is a CW question. Look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/26775/156344&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O9RG5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O9RG5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User Roald added a line in Revision 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGG21.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGG21.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a small adition, but it is good for the community. That is the usefulness of CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As stated above, you can improve a CW post if you think you can improve it. If your (improve?)ment is bad, someone will re-edit the post for you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This answer is CW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not good at writing. If I write a long answer, it is often (a bit or too?) confusing at some points. Thus I mark this as CW for free improvements!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reference:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;What are &amp;quot;Community Wiki&amp;quot; posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit-community-wiki&quot;&gt;Edit community wiki privileges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/community-wiki&quot;&gt;Create community wiki posts privileges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T18:00:53.423" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-02-14T18:00:53.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8099" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8100" CreationDate="2019-02-14T21:14:39.703" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does there exist a possibility on the site to save a draft of a question I am writing up, such that it will remain even if I leave the site but come back to it later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-15T01:31:13.137" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T01:31:13.137" Title="Draft function of a stand-by question" Tags="|support|asking-questions|draft|editor|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8099" CreationDate="2019-02-15T01:28:37.937" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a network-wide functionality that has been implemented since 2010 (with some modifications over time):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start asking a question, but do not successfully submit, you will see your last saved question draft the next time you visit the ask a question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start answering a particular question, but do not successfully submit, you will see your last saved answer draft the next time you visit that particular question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We save drafts automatically for all new answers and new questions once every 45 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drafts are not supported on self-answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drafts are not supported on edits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You only get &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; draft for an answer and one for a question. (If you start a new post, the old draft is cleared.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each site has its own draft storage, e.g. you can have multiple draft questions saved on multiple StackExchange sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drafts will be automatically cleared after a week.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drafts work for anonymous users as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pending answer draft is cleared on successful submission of any answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pending question draft is cleared on successful submission of any question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1177/168244&quot;&gt;Allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T01:28:37.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8101" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-02-15T01:31:59.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The standard editor used to write Stack Exchange questions, answers, wiki entries, user profile About Me field, and so forth. It supports a live preview of Markdown syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This editor is open source. &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/StackExchange/pagedown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PageDown&lt;/a&gt; is available on GitHub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-15T01:31:59.247" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T01:31:59.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8102" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-02-15T01:31:59.247" Score="0" Body="The standard editor for Stack Exchange posts, which supports a live preview of Markdown syntax." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-15T01:31:59.247" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T01:31:59.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8105" CreationDate="2019-02-15T17:57:07.963" Score="14" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/475056/138900&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed by a prominent contributor with 87 gold badges including the &lt;code&gt;boxes&lt;/code&gt; badge (which tags this question) at 4:48 pm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another prominent contributor with 9 gold badges himself, but not the &lt;code&gt;boxes&lt;/code&gt; badge, responded at 5:44 p. m., almost an hour later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that no one could answer a closed question and I realize that no: some contributors have unsuspected privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How is that possible? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the privilege of responding to a closed question without having to reopen it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastEditorUserId="138900" LastEditDate="2019-02-15T19:13:56.677" LastActivityDate="2019-02-16T16:41:24.253" Title="How is it possible to answer a closed question without asking for it to be reopened?" Tags="|discussion|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8104" CreationDate="2019-02-16T16:41:24.253" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/91922&quot;&gt;How was this answer posted after this question was closed?&lt;/a&gt; (found by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8104/how-is-it-possible-to-answer-a-closed-question-without-asking-for-it-to-be-reope#comment25587_8104&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;) the server accepts answers to closed questions for a grace period of up to four hours after they were closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one starts writing an answer before the question is closed or just has the question opened in a tab in un-closed state one can just still submit an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is even possible to submit an answer to a now closed question if one does not have access to an un-closed version of the question. The method is described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/91922&quot;&gt;How was this answer posted after this question was closed?&lt;/a&gt; and works by manipulating the HTML code of an open question to submit to the now closed one. I verified that that indeed works with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/474183/35864&quot;&gt;BibLaTeX Title goes into the margin in bibliography&lt;/a&gt;. I managed to submit another answer (which I immediately deleted) some two hours after it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lEYnz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lEYnz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the now deleted test answer: The question was closed &amp;#39;6 hours ago&amp;#39;, the answer posted and deleted &amp;#39;4 hours&amp;#39; ago&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you might ask whether I might have a secret privilege that allowed me to do that. If you want to absolutely make sure that that is not the case you (or you as unregistered user) can try and submit an answer to  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/474682&quot;&gt;(solved) mdframed - different skip heights after page break&lt;/a&gt; in the next 45 minutes or so. I didn't bother to do that because I have already posted enough (fake) answers today to annoy the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2019-02-16T16:41:24.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1564" CreationDate="2019-02-17T14:22:57.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When will you retire from this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2099" LastActivityDate="2019-02-17T14:22:57.707" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-02-17T14:22:57.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8108" CreationDate="2019-02-18T17:15:06.973" Score="3" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday somehow I can only vote 39 times, and today it has just told me that I have voted 41 times so I'm not allowed to vote anymore until tomorrow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VC0x1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VC0x1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see that by a simple subtraction: yesterday = this week (today &amp;amp; yesterday) &amp;minus; today = 80 &amp;minus; 41 = 39.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can this be possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3309/39-votes-and-i-cant-use-my-last-vote&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3190/how-can-i-have-voted-41-times-in-a-day&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; but I still can't figure out what happened to me :) Or did the site notice that yesterday it made a mistake so today it gives my vote back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T18:20:41.487" LastActivityDate="2019-02-24T03:21:01.473" Title="Maximum daily vote: 41 today and 39 yesterday?" Tags="|support|voting|voting-limits|rate-limiting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8107" CreationDate="2019-02-18T18:17:54.580" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are rate-limits with voting. While the default user usually maxes out at 40, there are times when you can &quot;max out&quot; under 40, or even exceed this limit. You'll be vote-limited if you only (mostly) vote on answers. This could lead to you not being able to cast 40 votes. Also casting more is possible when posts you voted on are deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since voting is private, you should be able to go back and look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/156344/joulev?tab=votes&amp;amp;sort=all&quot;&gt;your votes&lt;/a&gt; (only the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/156344/joulev?tab=votes&amp;amp;sort=upvotes&quot;&gt;upvotes&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/156344/joulev?tab=votes&amp;amp;sort=downvotes&quot;&gt;downvotes&lt;/a&gt;) and count them by question type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an excerpt from the linked reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;30 votes per day +10 for questions only (Q only votes can't be used after 25 votes cast on answers. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5213/168244&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If one of the posts you vote on gets deleted the same day as you vote, your limit is recalculated as if you never cast that vote (i.e. in most cases, you can cast one more vote in this case).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you vote and undo your vote 30 times, your vote gets locked in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JCzIx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JCzIx.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5212/168244&quot;&gt;What are the limits on how I can cast, change, and retract votes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/164899/168244&quot;&gt;The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T18:17:54.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8109" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-02-18T18:21:53.637" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Limited voting is in place to promote more deliberate voting decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Limits on casting votes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maximum 30 all-purpose votes per day per user (up or down) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maximum 10 additional question-only votes per day per user. These may be cast at any time during the day. However once you reach the &quot;N votes remaining&quot; warnings, you won't get the additional 10 votes anymore.  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/279732&quot;&gt;Actually, it's a little trickier than that&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post votes (on questions / answers) and comment votes are two different pools and are tracked totally independently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T18:21:53.637" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T18:21:53.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8110" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-02-18T18:21:53.637" Score="0" Body="You can cast votes on questions, answers, and comments but they are limited per-day. You can only cast 30+10 votes in 24 hours." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T18:21:53.637" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T18:21:53.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8111" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-02-18T18:23:11.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Activities such as searching, voting, editing your own posts, or suggesting edits are rate-limited on Stack Exchange sites. These restrictions generally exist to prevent abuse. If you attempt to perform these actions too frequently you may see a warning message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/164899&quot;&gt;The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T18:23:11.397" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T18:23:11.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8112" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-02-18T18:23:11.397" Score="0" Body="Activities such as searching, voting, editing your own posts, or suggesting edits are rate-limited on Stack Exchange sites. These restrictions generally exist to prevent abuse." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T18:23:11.397" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T18:23:11.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8114" CreationDate="2019-02-23T21:03:39.717" Score="7" ViewCount="378" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I commented a just-do-it-for-me question by an old user with something like &quot;More than 7000 (!) reputation points without trying to do something by yourself and adding an MWE?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the comment is deleted: why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If comments like this are not allowed, let us establish once and for all that just-do-it-for-me questions are perfectly acceptable, even if asked by an old user with high reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-02-24T08:09:30.723" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T15:06:29.000" Title="Is underlining the reputation of a just-do-it-for-me asker inappropriate?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8113" CreationDate="2019-02-23T22:31:07.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That comment was flagged as offensive and to be deleted. As that comment with the (non-) question was not on the topic but kind of caustically lecturing the OP, it was agreed to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replacing a &quot;Why (!) didn't you do X ...?&quot; by something like &quot;It would be great if you would do X&quot; would be more positive. Or &quot;Please do X&quot;. Straightforward. No indirect question for a reason why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2019-02-23T22:38:58.513" LastActivityDate="2019-02-23T22:38:58.513" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8107" CreationDate="2019-02-24T03:21:01.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This meta.SE question explains how you can get more than the maximum 40 votes per day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/124172/how-does-someone-get-to-cast-more-than-40-votes-in-a-day&quot;&gt;How does someone get to cast more than 40 votes in a day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get less than 40 votes/day, it's because you didn't maintain a high enough ratio of question votes to answer votes, as mentioned here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/279732/130540&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/279732/130540&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91182" LastActivityDate="2019-02-24T03:21:01.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-24T04:33:25.130" Score="18" ViewCount="562" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is, in a certain way, a reiteration of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7305/121799&quot;&gt;Henri Menke's question/request &quot;Please add more off-topic close reasons&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. At the moment of writing this, this question has one highly voted answer, which did, however, not get accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this post is simple: rather frequently questions are closed because it is &quot;unclear what you are asking&quot; or &quot;too broad&quot;. A non-negligible subset of these questions appears to be closed for other reasons: too little effort by the OP. Such questions are also referred to as &quot;do-this-for-me&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question here is: does the fact that &quot;too little effort&quot; (or something equivalent) is not among the options one can choose mean that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we are not supposed to close these questions, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we do not want to confront the OP with the statement &quot;you show too little effort&quot; and thus choose another reason to close it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the second option describes the situation, wouldn't it be better to add a new option that politely says that we expect more effort?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it is tricky because a good question does not necessarily involve a lot of effort. In fact, some of the highest voted questions are very basic and do not involve any MWE. So, in this sense, &quot;too little effort&quot; may not be a valid reason for closure on its own. On the other hand, &quot;unclear what you are asking&quot; does not seem to be right either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. If we add new options for closure, we may also consider adding &quot;Solved in the comments&quot; because this happens quite frequently, and usually the official reason is &quot;Off-topic: solved in the comments&quot; but I can't see why a question that has been solved in the comments &quot;off-topic&quot;. Of course, I do not disagree with closing it because it is really no longer an open question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-02-25T19:38:01.293" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T01:05:13.103" Title="Reasons for closing questions: too little effort" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|please-do-this-for-me|off-topic|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-24T15:58:12.227" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently a lot of new users do not provide a compilable MWE as part of their question because it is not mandatory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This must be made mandatory by providing a new section for MWE as part of the question itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastActivityDate="2019-02-24T15:58:12.227" Title="Section for MWE while asking a question" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2019-02-26T20:58:27.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8116" CreationDate="2019-02-25T08:02:33.400" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible custom reason could be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not generally applicable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is close to the old 'Too localized' reason we used to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the questions that closed after a comment trail or are 'do it for me' are probably only of real use to the person asking the question, but not more widely. That's for example the case if the question comes down to a typo/misunderstanding, or for 'draw it for me'. They are very hard to search for, and likely the answer won't directly help anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T08:02:33.400" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8113" CreationDate="2019-02-25T15:06:29.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment was removed because I felt it was offensive. So, I flagged it as such. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't been around for quite some time, and I guess I have forgotten the rules.&#xA;A simple request to edit the question, or a reminder of the rules, would have been more&#xA;effective I believe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3391" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T15:06:29.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8116" CreationDate="2019-02-25T16:39:45.137" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possibly true that do-it-for-me questions have wider applicability, but they would only be found by chance. It is unlikely that people will find posts in any meaningful way when you have a title like &quot;How do I draw this picture?&quot; or similar. So with the site geared towards a community of knowledge, it's often that these questions are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically we used to identify such questions as being &quot;too localized.&quot; That made sense. Now the broader reason is considered off-topic, which doesn't always sit well. However, I've grown to understand that it's only a means to an end for content that doesn't fit the other titles. This is a network-wide specification and would likely not be changed unless there is network-wide support for alternative/improved closure capability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the wording is something that you (or anyone) sticks to, then you should consider &lt;em&gt;voting&lt;/em&gt; accordingly as well. Do-it-for-me questions typically &quot;show little/no research effort&quot;, exactly what the downvote button is labelled as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0NeUl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0NeUl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's too often that people are scared to vote, because it may be seen as negative in terms of our supportive community (and cause loss of reputation when downvoting on answers). In voting accordingly, however, you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; supporting the community to separate good from excellent, and bad from horrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T16:39:45.137" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8116" CreationDate="2019-02-25T18:11:38.013" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I changed my mind, let them open!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My useless war against just-do-it-for-me questions is over, since it causes more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From now on, I'll join David's philosophy: I'll ask for an MWE only if it is stricly necessary to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll close a question only for the already specified reasons, but I'll continue to downvote the just-do-it-for-me questions asked by old users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T18:11:38.013" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8116" CreationDate="2019-02-28T11:45:08.367" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a nice discussion with &lt;code&gt;@marmot&lt;/code&gt; some time ago. After a long thought, my opinion is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a diplomatic and democratic way, I, for instance, decided to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;downvote and cast a vote to close (giving explanation on &quot;Why-I-Chose-To-Close&quot;) bad questions posted by members who have been here for a long-time now (irrespective of their reputation, but not applicable to new users).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, answer it, if I really have some spare time. But mention explicitly that they need to provide an &lt;code&gt;MWE&lt;/code&gt; (iff necessary). On the other hand, if I don't have time, I would choose not to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, irrespective of the rep/the user's time in our site, if the question is challenging/interesting, I would answer it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the OP gives a starting point, I will convert my downvote to an upvote and retract my vote to close the question. And, if the question is already closed, I suppose editing makes the question pop-up in the review queue. Hence, I will vote to re-open it anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please read the aforementioned points in an ascending linear sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="70891" LastEditDate="2019-03-03T01:05:13.103" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T01:05:13.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-01T07:16:58.133" Score="25" ViewCount="1060" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Now that the 4th prof. van Duck's article is in press; it's time to think to the next one.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barbara Beeton suggested to me to read this article: &lt;a href=&quot;https://latex-ninja.com/2019/02/26/guest-post-confessions-of-a-latex-noob/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://latex-ninja.com/2019/02/26/guest-post-confessions-of-a-latex-noob/&lt;/a&gt; and I've found it quite interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It talks about the difficulties tackled by a newbie when s/he's asking for help, especially if s/he is not a mathematician or a computer scientist, but a humanities scholar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not talking about the difficulties in learning (La)TeX itself, but the ones to deal with when you're asking for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with many of the things reported by the author, in particular, when she says that the experts criticize the (perfectly working) newbie's code only because it is not elegant, or when they use terms/acronyms a beginner could not know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I give her +1 for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you ever tried to get a nice document done with Word, including&#xA;  lots of pictures? Yes, there is a good chance you will kill yourself&#xA;  trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: which are the behaviors to be avoided when helping people, especially if they do not know anything about programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;the answers given till now (thanks to who answered) are referring to TeX.SE. I would like also some general advice. For example, if a colleague from the humanities department ask you for help, what should you avoid doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, as AndrewT pointed out, we already have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; who tells to be friendly, etc. I would like something more practical, like the two examples I wrote above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Your replies will be used by Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck in 5th article on the TUGBoat. He reserves the right to not include an answer because of moral scruples.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-03-01T18:09:05.033" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:49:41.450" Title="What NOT to do when you're trying to help a newbie?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-01T09:03:55.620" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do not confuse a newcomer with a previous newcomer. That is, try to disentangle users. Even if you are disappointed by the behavior of some newcomer, the next newcomer is a person who (most likely) does not know what happened previously and deserves to be treated with respect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-03-01T09:03:55.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-01T10:27:26.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Do not try to improve or optimize the code first.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has several disadvantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the newbie had known how to code otherwise, he certainly would have done it by now.  By modifying the newbie's code, we pose a second problem: understanding the improvements in the code. This is often not at all obvious: who has never read &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I didn't understand the solution to this question, so I ask the question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This suggests that the code can be optimized as if it were a beautiful mathematical demonstration. The shorter it is, the more elegant it is! What is true in mathematics is no longer true in computer science. When we write text code, it is compiled, so it is transformed by the compiler into a token. We have no control over this step at all. The compilation time, the material resources used during compilation and the result produced have no causal relationship with the length or optimization of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code optimization must be given in addition to the answer.&lt;/strong&gt; An addition that illustrates the weaknesses of the question's code and shows the interest and that there is a need to write this code differently. We optimize a code for a specific purpose, not to please ourselves &lt;em&gt;(even if it is true that we please ourselves)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastEditorUserId="138900" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T20:48:25.777" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:48:25.777" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-01T15:25:12.293" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking for an MWE can be confusing to a newbie, even citing the items that explain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often there is some code provided, but not a &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt;.  Since document classes behave in radically different ways, an explicit request to identify the document class is not as aggressive.  In addition, ask that the OP's example be compilable and produce the problem as described, so that potential helpers can have something to experiment with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this, of course, is in the &quot;canned&quot; MWE descriptions.  But those can be overwhelming.  A few, politely expressed, specifics could be acted on more easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm often tempted to add that my crystal ball is inoperative, but suspect that might be taken as an insult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2019-03-01T15:25:12.293" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-01T16:34:10.757" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;never Forget that for some newbies there may even be a Problem in grasping what the Problem actually is. most non-cs-people / non-math-People may only see &quot;Output not Looks like i wanted --&gt; this is error of machine --&gt; ask on se&quot; therefor never expect the noob to be able to even discribe the Problem after all. also it is quite tricky to tag a Question appropriately especially if s/he is not familiar with the tags existing (which is not difficult at all, because there is a metric ton of tags already).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174430" LastActivityDate="2019-03-01T16:34:10.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8131" CreationDate="2019-03-01T21:51:02.547" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask to the more experts of TeX.SE if there is the possibility of editing the comments of users, without having to write or observe some errors of typography or code with another comment that could create or discomfort or embarrassment... similar to being able to edit regular posts, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-03-01T23:05:29.093" LastActivityDate="2019-03-01T23:05:29.093" Title="Edit the comment(s) of an OP" Tags="|support|comments|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8130" CreationDate="2019-03-01T23:03:53.297" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users may edit their own comments any number of times for five minutes after they are first posted. Edited comments are marked with a little pencil icon, and a mouseover tooltip over that icon will provide a count of how many times the comment was edited, like this: &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s0kWJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pencil icon&quot; title=&quot;this comment was edited 2 times&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can edit any comment at any time. Moderator comment edits are logged and visible to other moderators, but no revision history is kept. Such edits &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66387/168244&quot;&gt;will&lt;/a&gt; also show the pencil icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all other situations, comments cannot be edited. However, in lieu of editing, they may be deleted and resubmitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756/168244&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-03-01T23:03:53.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-02T11:44:44.033" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Helping people effectively and to their satisfaction is an art and there are a great many aspects that come into play. I'll just list a few things here that come to my mind and that I picked up when I read the linked article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;People want to be taken seriously&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should probably not write 'people' in all generality here, but it is shorter and for that first point 'people' as in 'all people' is probably not too far from the truth. If you disagree, read this as &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;most people&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially if people feel uneasy about asking in the first place, feeling that their questions are not taken seriously or that they are belittled can make the entire experience much more unpleasant. What exactly people see as belittling, patronising and insulting of course varies wildly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people might see it as patronising if you explain things to them that they already know. Some may only have an issue with that situation if you (should) know that they already know.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people may find it belittling if you inquire about or (seem to) question the motivation behind a question or their goal (as in &quot;&lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt; do you want to do X?&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;People want information &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; can understand&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is obvious: When I ask a question, I hope for an answer that explains things to me in a way that I can process without having to look up tons of other stuff on the way. If I ask a &quot;how do I do X?&quot; question, ideally I want an actionable response (&quot;take this code and put it here&quot;, here is an example that shows it in action). In particular unnecessary jargon is to be avoided, necessary jargon should be explained etc. etc. It goes without saying that I'm looking for something that works for my situation and not for a hypothetically simplified (or more complicated) situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to get complicated, overly long solutions that I'm never going to understand, nor page-long essays explaining the solutions to me on a level that I don't grasp. I certainly don't want to feel that a person answering my question is just showing off and does not really try to address my question in a understandable manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two points already have the potential to cause conflicts: &lt;em&gt;Under&lt;/em&gt;explaining is clearly bad and &lt;em&gt;over&lt;/em&gt;explaining can also be seen as problematic. Knowledge about the background can be very beneficial for useful answers, inquiries that come across as overly critical of the background can be counterproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Modes of communication&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great many issues can be avoided in personal face-to-face communication. Tone and other non-verbal cues can help avoid misunderstandings. A back and forth of clarifications and questions helps settle things much quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On websites like this communication is less direct, even asynchronous at times. Besides the restriction to text-based communication without non-verbal components, there are other constraints like character limits in comments. That makes for a much different conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments on this site I cram in much more stuff at once than I would when talking to people directly or in real-time (chat-like). That can feel overwhelming and very demanding ('Did you do X? What about Y? Try Z.'). On the other hand that method helps to save time and inevitable breaks in the conversation may not be as abrupt and still leave some paths open for further research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TeX.SX and its rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For TeX.SX in particular the rules and workings of Stack Exchange and the customs of this place can be intimidating and cause frustration. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8127/35864&quot;&gt;user0's answer&lt;/a&gt;. In the grand scheme of things most of these probably have their use, but not in all cases and not for all people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently some people feel offended when it is suggested that their question might be a duplicate. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8126/35864&quot;&gt;AndréC's first point&lt;/a&gt;. I firmly believe that the general concept of duplication &lt;em&gt;in itself&lt;/em&gt; is a very useful and integral part of the workings of this site and in no way hostile nor should it be seen as such. Furthermore, I believe that (at least in general) there should not even be the suggestion that people just didn't look hard enough to find it. There are thousands of questions on this site and the nomenclature and notation in the LaTeX and typesetting world is not something everyone is familiar with. For me it becomes much easier to find duplicates once I know the solution or if I answered a similar question before and thus know some useful keywords. Duplicate questions have value: They serve as an entry point to the question they have been marked as a duplicate to. Especially if they add new search terms, they are extremely useful. But of course it is not a nice experience to have a question &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt;, so a healthy amount of kindness during the process won't go amiss. I think that it can help to add a few explanatory words instead of just a link or the system-generated message. If the question is still in its early stages it is also a nice gesture to ask for confirmation before you cast the initial duplicate vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Improving people's code&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one point where I have to disagree with the sentiments in the linked post (&lt;a href=&quot;https://latex-ninja.com/2019/02/26/guest-post-confessions-of-a-latex-noob/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://latex-ninja.com/2019/02/26/guest-post-confessions-of-a-latex-noob/&lt;/a&gt;, specifically the points under &lt;em&gt;fear of doing things wrong&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I answer questions on this site and I have the time I will 'improve' the code I post in the answer. My chief argument for this is that this site is public and answers are intended to help not only the OP, but also other people with a similar issue. Avoiding common pitfalls, issue or outright errors is a service to those who browse this site in search for working solutions. The answers are intended for others to copy and so it makes sense to write the code in a way that the answerer believes is best for use by other people as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are of course several levels here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are things that are errors or have a high probability of causing errors in slightly different circumstances. (LaTeX is quite forgiving in some respects. Things that 'should be errors' might not cause an error, because something unexpected saves the day.) Common things are the loading order of packages or multiple package calls that might work in a particular example, but could fall apart in other situations. I firmly believe that it is in the best interest of everybody involved to solve those issues, even if they might not cause an error at this time. I think it would be negligent knowingly not to point out problems just to avoid stepping on the asker's toes. I know you only came here to get your car horn fixed, but if I see that your driver door does not shut properly and thieves could exploit that and steal your car, should I not tell you about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are things that have known issues with other common idioms or have the potential to cause problems, even in those cases I would see it as a service to exchange them for something more robust (of course with a short comment, if possible). The same holds for deprecated, outdated or superseded code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On occasions I will even modify the indentation. Most of my answers are about bibliographies with &lt;code&gt;biblatex&lt;/code&gt; and some questions already contain a lot of modifications to begin with. In some cases it is crucial that I understand what the existing code does before I can even start suggesting an answer. If the formatting of the code is too compact for me to wrap my head around what is happening, I will re-indent it in order to be able to work on an answer more efficiently. I will then retain my style in the answer afterwards (what if I need to edit the answer or want to re-use it?). I am (now) aware that some people might see this as a low-key insult towards their coding style, but on balance I think it is not totally unreasonable to stick to my approach.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people also don't appreciate comments on code that is not directly related to the issue at hand. Since this is a public forum and people might get inspired by posts here, I firmly believe that comments pointing out issues have their merit even if the mere fact that issues were pointed out might upset the author of the code. Of course it is important to phrase such comments neutrally and not destructively, it helps to give a concrete example why the approach has issues. In my experience people are very happy to learn about better alternatives with fewer issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several interests to weigh against each other here. People want simple and short answers; additional changes to the code require additional cognitive load to understand. People may not want to be reminded of the fact that their code might have issues. Other people may want to know about potential issues in their code that could become fatal only a few days before an important deadline. Future visitors may want to use answers (or even questions) as starting point and hope that the code works properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of the art of helping successfully is in balancing the different interests and points mentioned here and elsewhere against each other. That might get easier if you know more about the person you are helping and their history. On the internet with new users that is always a gamble, which brings us back nicely to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8124/35864&quot;&gt;marmot's answer&lt;/a&gt;. It helps to tread lightly, but you can never know what exactly someone will find unacceptable and off-putting and what is still OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially I had planned to write something about underwear as well, but not now ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2019-03-03T09:51:37.250" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T09:51:37.250" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8116" CreationDate="2019-03-02T18:24:36.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually this is a Question of how do we define effort (or proof there-of) here. &#xA;i personally had already the Problem of having to typeset a very common Symbol that how ever not is among any of the common Symbols packages. and a quick Google for the Symbols Name + &quot;latex&quot; did not Show up anything. so in this case a do it for me Kind a Question was Born. and someone gave me as an answer &quot;just use tikz for it&quot; but in all honesty i would not expect someone to read like dozens of pages of documentation on some Latex package that s/he probably never used before and Maybe will never again after the Job is done. (i for example didnt even know that tikz is a Thing and i still dont know the least About using it...). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;therefor someone must first define how effort is to be proven. (or did someone already and i just never noticed?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174430" LastActivityDate="2019-03-02T18:24:36.433" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8116" CreationDate="2019-03-02T18:57:09.997" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We always had &lt;em&gt;just-do-it-for-me&lt;/em&gt;-questions and we will always have them. They are often answered and they will be answered in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, an answer &lt;em&gt;does help&lt;/em&gt; the person who asked the question &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; it gets the person who answers some free reputation from upvotes. &#xA;You cannot get coffee from Stackexchange reputation ... but still, nice to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37907" LastActivityDate="2019-03-02T18:57:09.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-03T01:40:57.000" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;dont try to overimprove their answer if not absolutely neccessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is probably a waste of time and also can lead to code the OP does not entirely grasp. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;few improvements are ok if totally obvious (with even the least latex skills imaginable) or well explained or commented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so just focus on what was asked no matter how extremely ugly the solution by the OP is and how tempted one is to do exactly that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in addition keep answers as short as possible because no one wants to read whole novels worth of text if not un-bypassable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174430" LastEditorUserId="174430" LastEditDate="2019-03-03T01:47:31.970" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T01:47:31.970" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-03T06:51:59.003" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being aware that posting a question is difficult in itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You must have understood how stackexchange handles question editing. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have to know how to use the buttons, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to format the text, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to work markdown, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to attach an image, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is not self-evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T06:51:59.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-03T06:54:12.557" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do not start hostilities by immediately pretending that the question is duplicated. But to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/467525/colour-only-the-text-in-a-tabularx-environment#comment1175860_467525&quot;&gt;do as moewe&lt;/a&gt; asked me if I agreed with him on this fact, and I quote....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question is probably a duplicate of&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31547/138900&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com/q/31547/35864&lt;/a&gt; then. Would you agree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T06:54:12.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8139" CreationDate="2019-03-03T08:20:05.620" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many questions bumped to the homepage by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot; title=&quot;moderator&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt;. Many of the bumpings are very good: they tell us of unsolved questions which we can't find out in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=unanswered&quot;&gt;the set of more than 11k unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/472689/latex-commands-directories-are-not-set&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has just been bumped to the homepage by Community ♦. But that question is clearly answered and the problem is solved (by the OP himself) as the self-answer. Community ♦ recognized it as unsolved though, because the self-answer is not marked as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above case is clearly a case when Community ♦'s system runs not correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I think we should make the &quot;action&quot; of Community ♦ a bit more advanced, or complicated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All question having a self-answer should be marked as &quot;answered&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All question having one (or more) answer(s) in which the OP commented something like &quot;Thank you very much&quot; should also be marked as &quot;answered&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All question solved in comments should be marked as answered.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Even more, I think Community ♦ should convert the &quot;answering&quot; comment to an answer if possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T16:24:55.027" Title="Should we make the actions of &quot;user&quot; Community more advanced?" Tags="|discussion|support|community-user|bumping|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8138" CreationDate="2019-03-03T08:25:59.890" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rule for Community here is simple: questions &lt;em&gt;without upvoted answers&lt;/em&gt; are possible candidates for bumping. In the question you link, the answer has received no upvotes, so it's not regarded as answered: the entire idea of StackOverflow is that &lt;em&gt;answers are important to more than just the person who asks the question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T08:25:59.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8138" CreationDate="2019-03-03T16:24:55.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that an automatism sometimes could be dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All question having a self-answer should be marked as &quot;answered&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may happen that the OP answers with a workaround, but s/he still looking for something better. See here, for example:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/468537/diagonal-arrows-consisting-of-smaller-arrows-in-xymatrix-package&quot;&gt;Diagonal arrows consisting of smaller arrows in xymatrix package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All question having one (or more) answer(s) in which the OP commented&#xA;  something like &quot;Thank you very much&quot; should also be marked as&#xA;  &quot;answered&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP says &quot;thank you&quot;, it doesn't automatically mean that the solution is perfect for him. S/he may simply thank for any other reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All question solved in comments should be marked as answered. Even&#xA;  more, I think Community ♦ should convert the &quot;answering&quot; comment to an&#xA;  answer if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of marking the question as answered, I totally agree that the comment which solves the problem should be converted into an answer (even if it's trivial, very often trivial answers are the most useful), but doing it automatically is problematic. A question may have many comments, it's very difficult for an automatism to decide upon which one is the actual solution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T16:24:55.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2019-03-05T00:12:58.623" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have several comments on what is helpful from my perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no standard reader. Try to provide an answer that will be intelligible to the less experienced while still helpful to the more experienced.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Understand that a MWE is not always easy: sometime removing &quot;extraneous&quot; code changes the behavior that you're trying to diagnose. It's bad enough for someone with decades of software experience; for a complete noobie it can be ghastly.          &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't just edit the code; explain what you changed and why.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day; if you teach him how&#xA;to fish you feed him for life. Try to explain how to diagnose similar&#xA;problems in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When your answer refers to arcane or fragile concepts, give the user enough information to understand what you're talking about and to understand potential risks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you close it as a duplicate, provide a link to the original question. No, an obvious search won't always find it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is RYFM, give the user a link to TFM.Either way, keep in mind &#xA;that the user may have &lt;strong&gt;already&lt;/strong&gt; RTFM and the information wasn't there, or &#xA;wasn't there in an obvious location.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you downmark a question or answer, explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110591" LastEditorUserId="110591" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T20:49:41.450" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:49:41.450" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-05T10:32:17.330" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I have a list like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;two&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and immediately afterwards code&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not render the code correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what the edit-view of this post looks like&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wHHGi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wHHGi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33758" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T04:50:01.413" Title="Bug in markdown when having code after list" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2019-03-06T06:57:17.607" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8142" CreationDate="2019-03-05T12:00:21.783" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Multi-paragraph items in a list&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at this example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed vitae lectus urna. In scelerisque quam et urna varius elementum. Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Vestibulum quis turpis lectus. In vitae viverra dui. Vivamus libero massa, dictum vitae metus eu, porta viverra metus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nam metus turpis, varius sed faucibus quis, vestibulum sed elit. Suspendisse accumsan augue eros. Nam eu justo sit amet purus iaculis bibendum quis quis arcu. Aliquam faucibus ex mi, eget dapibus augue placerat ut. Suspendisse nec purus sed turpis laoreet scelerisque non et neque.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Morbi lacinia, tortor feugiat mattis sodales, urna odio porta sapien, id finibus purus purus volutpat leo. Vivamus venenatis, orci et ultricies vestibulum, nisi urna venenatis nisi, vel pellentesque tellus eros ut justo. Vestibulum dolor eros, mollis ullamcorper varius vel, aliquet et purus. Vestibulum non orci turpis. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with the following code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed vitae&#xA;lectus urna. In scelerisque quam et urna varius elementum. Orci varius &#xA;natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus &#xA;mus. Vestibulum quis turpis lectus. In vitae viverra dui. Vivamus &#xA;libero massa, dictum vitae metus eu, porta viverra metus.&#xA;&#xA; Nam metus turpis, varius sed faucibus quis, vestibulum sed elit. &#xA;Suspendisse accumsan augue eros. Nam eu justo sit amet purus iaculis &#xA;bibendum quis quis arcu. Aliquam faucibus ex mi, eget dapibus augue &#xA;placerat ut. Suspendisse nec purus sed turpis laoreet scelerisque non &#xA;et neque.&#xA;&#xA;2. Morbi lacinia, tortor feugiat mattis sodales, urna odio porta sapien, &#xA;id finibus purus purus volutpat leo. Vivamus venenatis, orci et &#xA;ultricies vestibulum, nisi urna venenatis nisi, vel pellentesque tellus &#xA;eros ut justo. Vestibulum dolor eros, mollis ullamcorper varius vel, &#xA;aliquet et purus. Vestibulum non orci turpis.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that item 1 consists of 2 paragraphs, and this is normal, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;There are no standard solution, but there are tricky ways&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now consider using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1.-one&#xA;2.-two&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;----\documentclass{article}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[the dashes are spaces]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that you haven't told the &quot;&lt;code&gt;enumerate&lt;/code&gt;&quot; environment in Markdown that the list has now ended (the blank lines do nothing here &amp;mdash; as far as I know, three blank lines are considered to be only one blank line by Markdown). Therefore, the code piece will be considered as a part of the list, in a multi-paragraph item. Now Markdown will count the number of spaces in front of the code. Four spaces are already for the list, therefore there are no spaces left for the code, which means your &quot;code&quot; will not be formatted as code. If you add another 4 spaces, you will get something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hello world&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the reason of the &quot;bug&quot;. Now, how to solve it? You have to tell Markdown that the list has ended. The usual way is to use a paragraph of normal text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. one&#xA;&#xA;Loren lipsum&#xA;&#xA;    hello world&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Loren lipsum&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hello world&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in your case, no normal paragraph will be added. Therefore, you have to add a &lt;code&gt;\end{enumerate}&lt;/code&gt; in Markdown. Unfortunately, as you can read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/34292/code-blocks-after-a-list-but-not-within-a-list-in-markdown-is-it-possible&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3327/code-block-is-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-item&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;, there are no standard solutions. However, in the links I provided, there are some hacky solutions. You can add a HTML comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or a HTML tag which doesn't output anything visible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or as Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb39-3/tb123duck-format.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;her article&lt;/a&gt;, we only need three characters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. one&#xA;2. two&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- Hello --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    some code here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;two&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;some code here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; This question is answered by Jeff Atwood.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; This question is answered by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T04:50:01.413" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T04:50:01.413" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-03-05T20:44:48.823" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.contextgarden.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZmrQX.png&quot; alt=&quot;ConTeXt User Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T20:44:48.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-03-05T20:51:56.980" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2019/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5G8ss.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;13th International ConTeXt Meeting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T20:51:56.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8146" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-06T02:25:58.683" Score="4" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time, entries in the review dropdown menu are marked with a red dot and bold font for me instead of the usual gray dot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/thVqY.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/thVqY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even after doing the reviews and reloading the page this highlight doesn't disappear (it eventually goes away, not sure what triggers that, though). Can anyone explain why that happens? Is it a bug or a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T02:25:58.683" Title="Red dot in review dropdown menu" Tags="|support|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-06T13:10:07.987" Score="3" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a beginner in TikZ and using the PGF manual to learn the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer by an TikZ expert is prety rude and disappointing (especially observing the expertise the person has with the points) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/477960/petrinet-how-do-i-bring-the-figure-to-the-center-of-the-page/478028#478028&quot;&gt;Petrinet: How do I bring the figure to the center of the page&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such answers can demotivate beginners very easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a snapshot of the answer before it gets modified/deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DFS51.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DFS51.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I request the TeX Meta team to review this and provide a protocol to deal with such users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastEditorUserId="138900" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T15:07:26.493" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T16:22:21.607" Title="How to deal with people/answers who/which are rude and showoff skills" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8147" CreationDate="2019-03-07T09:43:20.923" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see something that violates the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; you should flag the post for moderator attention as already suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8147/how-to-deal-with-people-answers-who-which-are-rude-and-showoff-skills#comment25760_8147&quot;&gt;David Carlise in the comments&lt;/a&gt;. You can either choose &lt;em&gt;rude or abusive&lt;/em&gt; as reason or give a more detailed account in the generic &lt;em&gt;in need of moderator intervention&lt;/em&gt;. It may or may not help to state matter-of-factly what particular behaviour or language you found offensive or problematic in the comments to make the poster aware of the issue (especially since there is no auto-notification for &lt;em&gt;rude&lt;/em&gt; flags, cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8113/35864&quot;&gt;Is underlining the reputation of a just-do-it-for-me asker inappropriate?&lt;/a&gt;, though I assume people would be notified if their answer is edited). But you should not feel compelled to do that and comments run a risk of producing long discussions and arguments that go nowhere and result in personal grudges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code of conduct is pretty general and many terms are open to a wide variety of interpretation. &lt;em&gt;Subtle put-downs or unfriendly language&lt;/em&gt; are concepts with a lot of wiggle room and subjectivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that people here are from very different backgrounds and cultures. Some people may be from backgrounds where directness is valued, while others prefer a more indirect and subtle approach and perceive directness as outright rude. Furthermore, not everyone's mother tongue is English, so communication may not always be as smooth as one would hope. People may not pick up nuances that their words might have for other people and might not realise connotations and more hidden meanings that some phrases might carry (see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8147/how-to-deal-with-people-answers-who-which-are-rude-and-showoff-skills#comment25759_8147&quot;&gt;Ulrike Fischer's comment&lt;/a&gt;). Non-verbal components like tone and body language are absent in written communication, which can make nuances even harder to pin down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given all that, I suggest to give people the benefit of the doubt and suggest not to assume bad intentions where other explanations are equally plausible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for people 'showing off', again there is a lot of subjectivity involved in judging those situations. If I ask a question, I hope that someone may come along to show their skill and answer my question. So surely &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; kind of showing off is welcome, expected  and desired. When people share code that goes beyond what was asked in the question, improves on related or unrelated matters or approaches the question from an entirely different angle that need not mean that they just came here to brag, it can also mean that they have the sincere intention to help me make my code 'better' (easier to understand, maintain or extend; free of possible negative side effects or interactions; ...). Apparently 'improved' code in answers is a source of frustration for some (see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8123/35864&quot;&gt;What NOT to do when you&amp;#39;re trying to help a newbie?&lt;/a&gt;), but it is important to understand that wanting to show off one's impressive skills is not the only possible explanation for improving code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may help to take a step back and remember that improvements and criticism of code I wrote is not intended to be an attack against me personally nor should it be seen as such. Of course I have invested time to write my code and I am associated with it in some way, but if I see every suggestion to make my code better as a personal insult, then it can become hard to get help and improve. That is not to say that people should be able to say all kinds of unfriendly things and then make excuses along the lines of: 'But I didn't say ... about &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, I said that about &lt;em&gt;your code&lt;/em&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A perceived showing off effect may also occur when the answerer misjudges the expected level of expertise. An answer that over-explains things may look patronising and can be seen as showing off ('look at all these concepts that I know so well that I now explain all of them to you'). An answer that under-explains and uses many concepts that the person who asked the question may not be familiar with can equally look like the answerer is trying to show off. Balancing these extremes is an art and those who answer questions need to balance not only the interest of those asking the question (whose level of expertise might be hard to suss out), but should ideally also take into account the wider set of possible future visitors and readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again I believe that in general there are good explanations why people's posts can come across as showing their expertise even without them posting solely to brag about their impressive skills. Therefore I suggest again to give people the benefit of the doubt and suggest you don't assume people just want to show off and brag and have no intention to help you. (And even if you sincerely believe that people are just showing off, I don't think it makes a lot of sense to call them out on it. After all, you'll have a hard time coming by good evidence that it is true and 'accusing' people of just showing off can be seen as an unnecessary personal attack. At least I would find it hurtful if it was suggested that I just want to brag when I'm sincerely trying to help.) If people over-explain, don't see it as an insult and try to let it slide. If people don't explain certain things you don't understand or use concepts you have never heard of, feel free to ask in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just think that an answer is bad, you should feel free to cast a downvote. Again it may or may not help to explain your decision in a short comment, but you should not feel compelled to do so if you don't want to, even if people who are aware that a downvote happened comment about it and ask for an explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T16:22:21.607" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T16:22:21.607" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8150" CreationDate="2019-03-07T15:30:55.220" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know the following: since I had the opportunity to close, open, etc... questions I happened to see the words &lt;strong&gt;[on hold]&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;[closed]&lt;/strong&gt; (for old answers). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When does a question that is transformed from &lt;strong&gt;[on hold]&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;[closed]&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a length of time for a question or answer to go from hold to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-03-10T08:02:44.993" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T08:02:44.993" Title="Question on hold to closed: exist a time?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8149" CreationDate="2019-03-07T15:56:09.700" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&lt;/a&gt; explains the difference&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions are marked &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; for the first five days after closure to encourage edits and improvements to the question. If a question is edited by the original poster when it is marked &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt;, it will automatically be placed in a review queue to be considered for reopening. If it is not reopened within five days, the &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; notice automatically changes to &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;. There is functionally no difference between an &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; question and a &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; one; neither can be answered until it is re-opened, but they both allow comments, votes and edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, there is a time period of five days where a recently closed question is &lt;em&gt;on hold&lt;/em&gt;, it will only be marked as &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt; after that. But there is no functional difference between the two states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find more about the background behind &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/173497&quot;&gt;Every &amp;quot;close&amp;quot; has its thorn: replace &amp;quot;close&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;on hold&amp;quot; for the first five days&lt;/a&gt;. The only reason behind this transition between the two states seems to be the hope to avoid the psychological effect that &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt; has compared to the more 'temporary' and supposedly friendlier &lt;em&gt;on hold&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T16:01:13.863" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T16:01:13.863" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6507" CreationDate="2019-03-10T19:12:23.193" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rarely write RYFM in an answer to a question, but I will often give a URL for TFM and quote some relevant text. Even if you don't quote the text, it's a good idea to verify tat the information really is there and in an obvious location. Also check whether the relevant terms are in the index; often they are not. Alan Munn was being generous when he wrote &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even if you are a native speaker and have a programming background,&#xA;  some documentation is just plain crappy and hard to understand to&#xA;  begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some documentation doesn't even rise to that standard, and a polite request to read the manual can save you some embarrassment if it turns out that the information simply isn't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110591" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T19:12:23.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-14T11:18:42.903" Score="3" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;When someone is answering a question... the community (at least some members with a minimum amount of points -I suppose-)... can &quot;flag&quot; our post for deletion (through the button &quot;delete&quot;&lt;code&gt;\footnotemark[:P]&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Once one answer or a post of a user is &quot;flagged&quot; for any reason that is given through the procedure of &quot;flagging&quot; from some member... How can I see the reason of this &quot;flag&quot;. To be more specific, by flag I mean all the actions on the button &quot;delete&quot; or &quot;close&quot;, or &quot;flag&quot; that doesn't leave an automated or manual comment under the answer/question and I am asking because I found accidentally that an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/477724/120578&quot;&gt;answer of mine&lt;/a&gt; is &quot;flagged for deletion&quot; but never got a notification, neither can see now the selected reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, any member of the community (independent of its points) should get a notification when a post/answer is flagged and I don't mean to have access to the nickname of the one that flagged it, but at least to have access to the reason of this flag. Should we add it as a feature request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\footnotetext[:P]{&lt;/code&gt;To be honest I don't really know the difference between the buttons &quot;flag&quot; and &quot;delete&quot; or &quot;close&quot; under an answer or a post and I suppose that the &quot;flag&quot; is just a supperset of the others.&lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T14:02:32.393" Title="How can I see the reason that is selected on deleting my post?" Tags="|feature-request|flagging|moderation|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-14T11:43:04.053" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am quite new to TEX.SE, and I'm doing my best to reply to the posts I can and help out. Recently I noticed some edits being rejected, some of which I may understand, but then there's others which I can't wrap my head around, like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/166987&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/166987&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason provided makes it sound like vandalism (those who edit Wikipedia may have heard it as reason for reverting edits), but in my opinion if you look at the &quot;rendered output&quot;, my edit makes it so much easier to read, also there were mistakes in the &lt;em&gt;mwe&lt;/em&gt; which made it fail when compiling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to understand in order to improve my future edits according to community guidelines. Thanks for any clarification!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="182889" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T16:29:43.220" Title="More specific reasons for rejecting edits" Tags="|discussion|support|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8154" CreationDate="2019-03-14T11:51:17.683" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;On posts for example (since your question's title implies you're inquiring about posts and not comments deletion) you can see the reason behind a deletion at the bottom of the question, like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/399696/inside-a-minipage-centering-or-flushing-environments-disables-color-command-is&quot;&gt;this example of yours&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="182889" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T11:51:17.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8155" CreationDate="2019-03-14T12:41:27.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX.SX is not considered to be a forum but people can post questions and answers. Today, and especially in such sites that many people are living a big part of their life online helping other people (or not), each one of such users have an online identity connected with their nickname (and some times with their real identity out there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who spend so much time online being active users with posts and comments etc (and not just reading posts or just been logged in), is at least simple logic that they are interested a little bit or more about this online ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, changing many things on a post, is always a risk to make unwanted changes from the original poster. For example a rephrase of a sentence could improve its English grammatically but also could be using such a formal language that the original poster would feel sick about owning that post. (Just an example to make clear how careful we should be on editing and not just reformatting a post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my general opinion and it is not specific to the linked rejected changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the linked rejected changes, on the &quot;language&quot; changes, I already gave a reason above but it is not specific to your post since I already read it three or more times to understand it and try to find if there is an improvement on it (not good enough English -I mean my English-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my final answer is that we should be really careful with changing something more than the format of a post without being absolutely sure that this edit is not just improving the question/answer but is also acceptable by the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would have skipped this edit because of the &quot;language&quot; changes and would have leave it to the others to accept or reject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T12:41:27.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8155" CreationDate="2019-03-14T15:32:31.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: This is purely speculative, only the reviewers will be able to tell why they rejected this edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how the start of your suggested edit looks like in the (markdown view) of the review queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rvMmm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rvMmm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It clearly is not, but at the first glance this might actually look like vandalism to long time users, because the syntax of marking code blocks with ``` was only added a couple of weeks ago and before that the removal of the indention would have completly broken the rendering of the post (in fact many users might actually not yet know about the ```, because afaik there was no formal announcement about this new feature other than accidentally reading about it on main meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is indeed the reason for the rejection, this would also explain &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/167032&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/167032&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minor points which might have also influenced the decision:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Commenting out text in the MWE was not strictly necessary. Even if unrelated to the problem the additional text in the document body would not lead to a failure of the code&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;one might also argue that adding &lt;code&gt;indentation&lt;/code&gt; to the tags and removing the &lt;code&gt;formatting&lt;/code&gt; tag might not be the best course of action &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2019-03-14T16:29:43.220" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T16:29:43.220" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-15T12:04:57.207" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see so many people giving perfectly valid answers in comments to the question instead of answers. Why is that so? Comments cannot be marked as accepted answers, and people coming across the same problem in the future just see a question with no answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know leaving a short comment is quicker than taking a minute to formulate a more formal answer, but I find it really hard to understand why people (mostly long time users) don't use the website as I would guess it's supposed to be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="182889" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T23:09:37.537" Title="Answering in comments, why is it a trend?" Tags="|discussion|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2019-03-16T13:19:46.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8161" CreationDate="2019-03-15T17:03:21.237" Score="25" ViewCount="569" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/386598/conflict-between-mbk-and-mwrep-and-newfloat&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; is only one of many examples were a user has spotted a bug or incompatibility in one of my LaTeX packages. A (more or less) dirty work-around or patch is provided as answer, and the user is fine with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither the user nor the person who provided the patch seem to think about reporting an issue to the package maintainer. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does no one care because it's a win-win-situation for both parties, the user has a solution and the one who gave the patch earns reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/axelsommerfeldt/caption/issues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt; package bug tracker&lt;/a&gt; I mostly see bugs I have found on SX and have put it into the bug tracker myself. I must confess that I feel not motivated at all to fix them since no-one seem to care. And since I don't visit SX regularly these bugs are only the tip of the iceberg, I guess there are many more hidden in SX questions &amp;amp; answers I'm not aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2574" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2019-03-16T03:00:55.903" LastActivityDate="2019-03-27T16:16:17.550" Title="How to encourage people to send bug reports instead of using SX as kind of bugtracker, or at least send a bug report additionally?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8160" CreationDate="2019-03-15T18:35:59.257" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me give an answer from the point of view of a LaTeX user who is sufficiently expert to do most of the things they need but not enough expert to understand most of the underlying details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I look at the question and at Enrico's answer, I wouldn't be able to understand that that's a bug or that the incompatibility would be solvable by a bug report. So, I wouldn't even think to file a bug report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, starting from LaTeX 2.09, I've been using LaTeX for almost 25 years now. How can a common user really understand what's a bug and what's not unless explicitly told? The association from &lt;em&gt;it doesn't work this way&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;it's a bug&lt;/em&gt; is not automatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that many LaTeX users are not familiar at all with software development (something that many developers give for granted) and they are not aware of the possibility of filing bug reports at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it as one of my colleagues once told me after I solved one of their LaTeX problems: What could I have done without you? (which, at least, gives sense to my life :-p) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50910" LastEditorUserId="50910" LastEditDate="2019-03-16T08:45:16.143" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T08:45:16.143" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-15T18:54:31.097" Score="10" ViewCount="1109" Body="&lt;p&gt;LyX specific posts on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;tex.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; are not really been answered so often as a post that is specific to a real LaTeX editor (non &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;WYSIWYG&lt;/a&gt;) or even most if the post is not specific to an editor but to &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; distros or to &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; (The Last case is the best in order of the possibility to get an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation is almost like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;questions about installing Kali Linux&lt;/a&gt; in unix.stackexchange.com ... (And I mean that you have much less possibilities to get an answer when the question is not just tagged as LyX question, but when it is real LyX specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Of course I can understand why, and I am tending to answer myself since I didn't found such a question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" OwnerDisplayName="koleygr" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T23:18:16.263" Title="Why LyX specific posts on tex.stackexchange.com are often been ignored?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2019-03-15T18:54:31.097" Score="6" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; is a typesetting system that (initially) was designed to give a nice layout (ready to be printed and to be published) without the creator of the document need to take special care about the output during his work. It supposed to make its own calculations by the internal compiling procedure and give an already beautiful result (but of course adjustable with many ways).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such a system, the &quot;WYSIWYG&quot; approach seems to be completely inappropriate for it. The result after the compilation should be better that &quot;what you see&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;LyX is an approach of &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; typesetting that is preferred mostly by newcomers to &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; world. Mostly from people that can't (or don't want) get over the &quot;Office&quot; habit and in most cases they want to &quot;force&quot; their document to &quot;look like LaTeX&quot; but without the &quot;real coding part&quot; of creating a LaTeX document.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; user that will use &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; more than once or twice will expect to have something more specific than the default &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; abilities by pressing buttons, and will possibly come here to get an answer on how to accomplish this specific layout or behavior etc. So, the &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; user will have to use the non-graphical interface of &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; to add some real code hopping that the &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; will afford this code and will result a document behavior like if this code had been added to a  &quot;real&quot; &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; document. (But as far as I have seen here... this is not always the case).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any result of the above situation, surely (s)he will need again and again such a help and thus will be driven to learn at least some basic &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; commands in order to not make again and again the same question with just another variable/command/whatever. But then, by gaining soem basic skills in real &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; coding and getting to know how more abilities &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; &quot;coding-approach&quot; is offering, (s)he getting over the bad habit of the WYSIWYG approach and becoming a &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; user from a &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there are not really many people here familiar with &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; that are able to help in questions specific to &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; and in most cases their answer is a general &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; answer by using the &quot;code-mode&quot; of &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; and the hope that it should/could work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; specific, there are people that could help, but they possibly didn't needed much from tex.stackexchange.com and they are not active here, or they have already forgot the &lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt; interface as &quot;ex-&lt;code&gt;LyX&lt;/code&gt;&quot; users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" OwnerDisplayName="koleygr" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T18:54:31.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8160" CreationDate="2019-03-15T23:40:25.890" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I see a question that indicates a bug, I normally write in my answer or in a comment &quot;this is a bug, notify the maintainer&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I normally don't make the bug report myself as I think it is important that everyone learns to make bug reports. &quot;You discovered the bug, you should also report it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the bug affects an important current package (and I would count &lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt; as such a package) I try to keep track if a bug report is made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T23:40:25.890" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2019-03-16T03:59:16.540" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8164/121799&quot;&gt;question raised by KJO whether the data really substantiates the claim that Lyx is being often ignored&lt;/a&gt;, I would not be too surprised if Lyx questions tend to be less answered than questions other topics. The reason could be as simple as the fact that among the more expert users, i.e. the users that tend to answer the majority of questions, not too many are using Lyx. This is clearly speculative, but I have a hard time imagining that @egreg or David Carlisle, say, use Lyx to prepare their documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T03:59:16.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8160" CreationDate="2019-03-16T16:24:46.220" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer summarizes my comments to Ulrike's answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I solve a bug on the site, I usually file a bug report myself.  While I agree that it is good to encourage people to file bug reports themselves, I think there various reasons why the average user on the site is not so likely to do it, from feeling incompetent to do so to not really caring much, since their immediate problem has been solved.  For those of us who already use GitHub or the like, filing a bug report seems simple, but if you're not a computer person it's not so trivial. And emailing the author also requires some digging sometimes to get an email address. Filing a bug report has no direct benefit to the filer; the benefit is more abstract (it helps others) and long term, and these reasons alone probably account for why people don't file them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the site &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; become a de facto bug reporting system, I think those of us who do solve bugs should help out by additionally filing a bug report. Of course if the questioner is independently an active answerer on the site who is likely to file the report themselves, it probably suffices to just suggest they do so, but in other cases, we can be most helpful by taking on the task ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2019-03-16T16:50:50.810" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T16:50:50.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8170" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8172" CreationDate="2019-03-17T10:02:09.820" Score="12" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some meta-questions about bug reports evolving from questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8160/how-to-encourage-people-to-send-bug-reports-instead-of-using-sx-as-kind-of-bugtr?cb=1&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3326/what-is-our-policy-for-reporting-bugs-for-the-tex-family-of-software-that-were&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6988/questions-which-are-bug-reports-revisited&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;). One way to deal with this is to file a bug report to the package's maintainer or to encourage others to do so. If someone is confronted with this issue the first time, he may be unsure what exactly to do. So I ask this question, where we can link in the future for an &quot;tutorial&quot; on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a bug in a package and want to inform the maintainer. Where shall I look for the correct way to do so? Are there differences of the most common ways? What shall I include in a report? Are there other policies I should know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note, that I may or may not know anything about the process of software developement and the special features of open-source software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169990" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T12:00:03.823" Title="How to file a bug report?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8160" CreationDate="2019-03-17T11:51:45.900" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the problem is really solvable and has always been this way, before tex.sx there were far more bugs &quot;reported&quot; on comp.text.tex newsgroup than via the latex gnats bug tracker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take the example you give. You can't necessarily expect the original user to know where the bug is, or even if it is a bug not user-error. So asking on tex.sx is a reasonable course of action. Then given egreg's answer it still isn't clear that the bug should be reported on the newfloat bug tracker. It could be read as saying that the chapter test in &lt;code&gt;newfloat&lt;/code&gt; is not generic enough and so an enhancement request to &lt;code&gt;newfloat&lt;/code&gt;  should be made, or it could be read as saying the class is violating some (poorly documented) convention that classes defining chapter level constructs should follow, and so a bug report should be made to the class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual workaround posted would if anything favour the second reading, as it essentially patches the class to define &lt;code&gt;\@chapter&lt;/code&gt; rather than patching &lt;code&gt;newfloat&lt;/code&gt;, but that's just for ease of coding a workaround not necessarily suggesting a fix should be in either place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It often works best if general user questions on forums such as stackexchange get converted to more focussed bug reports by the developer themselves, for longtable for example I try to track reports from various places (with mixed success)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't follow the site regularly you could still get it to alert you with any questions tagged &lt;code&gt;newfloat&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/filters/364213/my-filter&quot;&gt;https://stackexchange.com/filters/364213/my-filter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or perhaps even just tagged newfloat and bug, then people would just need to use those tags to alert you, rather than needing a github  account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T11:51:45.900" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8170" CreationDate="2019-03-17T12:00:03.823" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no general answer. Hopefully the package has documentation, and that documentation tells you how to contact the author, it may be via email or via a bug tracker on github  or sourceforge etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there are many packages with no contact address, or contact addresses that no longer work, or the original author has stopped maintaining the package and doesn't respond to emails. In many cases posting a question on tex.stackexchange &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the solution: it provides a link for others with the same problem to find and a place for workarounds to be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if you can find out where to send the report the basic format should always be the same&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a small self contained test file&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a report (usually log file) showing what you got&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a description of how you ran the test file and what output you expected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(optionally) any suggested fixes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T12:00:03.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8237" CreationDate="2019-03-17T19:23:53.107" Score="4" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest to merge the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hyperlink&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hyperlink&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hyperlink&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/links&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;links&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;links&lt;/a&gt;. They mean the same here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/link&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oxford dictionary&lt;/a&gt; reports:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1.5  short for hyperlink&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;There is also a similar tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cross-referencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cross-referencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/a&gt;. Should we add &quot;avoid the tag &lt;strong&gt;links&lt;/strong&gt; and use &lt;strong&gt;hyperlink&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;cross-referencing&lt;/strong&gt; instead&quot; to links?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16227" LastEditorUserId="16227" LastEditDate="2019-03-31T16:24:54.977" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T11:56:43.773" Title="Merge {hyperlink} and {links}" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2019-03-18T16:07:42.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've set LyX as an ignored tag.  I'm probably not alone.  Looking at the 30 most recent questions tagged LyX, 18 are posts that would be pointless (too LyX-specific) for me to open based on the title and excerpt alone.  Several more are probably too LyX-specific but if I didn;t notice the tag I might open them anyway.  And that would feel like a waste of time once I did read the question, hence ignoring them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm probably not alone in ignoring a tag that I can't really contribute to. The downside is that some questions tagged with a particular piece of software are actually more general problems and I won't see them - but it's not much of a downside for me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T16:07:42.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8176" CreationDate="2019-03-18T16:51:15.983" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at my reputation today (+231):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/13TDL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/13TDL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got two accept ticks, which award me 30 reps in total. Therefore, I got 231 &amp;minus; 30 = 201 reps for votes received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get any reputation from the upvote on top, that means I hit my rep cap today, i.e. I can only gain reputation by acceptance or bounties, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I see that I hit the rep cap at 201 rep, not 200 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take note of the 21 rep I received for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/480087/156344&quot;&gt;Improve appearance of matrices as arrow labels in tikz-cd&lt;/a&gt;. I think it should be 20 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite surprisingly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;/reputation&lt;/a&gt; is correct:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PyEcX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PyEcX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorUserId="10916" LastEditDate="2019-03-18T19:45:27.143" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T19:45:27.143" Title="Rep cap today for me is 201 - is this a bug?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|daily-reputation-limit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8175" CreationDate="2019-03-18T19:45:20.937" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;/reputation&lt;/code&gt; report is an on-the-fly calculation of what your reputation should be. The information on the user profile comes from a rep history table that is rebuilt periodically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your account was scheduled for a rep recalc (that typically happens overnight unless triggered by something else - like a post deletion) to correct that 1 point discrepancy. I went ahead and kicked it off now, though, so both reports should be in sync now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10916" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T19:45:20.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-19T16:27:35.820" Score="10" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I've discovered that one user who I was, let's say, following is not any more in TeX.SX. His account is now a gray &lt;code&gt;user....&lt;/code&gt; without any link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I don't know the reason for this change, may be he deleted the account or SE referees decided to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, some of my answers show his original account name to link his answers. Should I anonimaze these references?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1952" LastEditorUserId="1952" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T16:00:05.687" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T07:46:02.583" Title="Should we reformat references to deleted accounts?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8177" CreationDate="2019-03-20T15:10:51.057" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO there are two possibilities. Either SE replaces all the explicit user names in comments by a generic name like &lt;code&gt;user...&lt;/code&gt; or they don't. In the first case, they will find it easy to also replace the explicit names in answers and so on. In the second case, our attempts to go through our own questions and answers to change the user names will be futile because we won't be able to edit the comments. Just deleting all the comments in which this user gets addressed is IMHO a bit too drastic a measure that could be taken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do see the point that a user can ask for all references to their (real or whatever) names being erased. Of course, it would be great if SE would offer such a functionality, not only when one quits but also when one just updates the user name. But this is not in the hands of individual users. Therefore, I would answer the question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we reformat references to deleted accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;addressed at single ordinary users with &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, I would like to argue that SE should provide us with a function that allows us to replace all explicit occasions of our user name with some updated name. (Of course, I understand that this is nontrivial because user names are not necessarily unique.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T15:33:22.103" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T15:33:22.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8183" CreationDate="2019-03-20T16:48:21.193" Score="4" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a strange error in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8071/156344&quot;&gt;one of the Community Promotion Ads&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ndash; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/tex.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;active bounty&quot; ad (&lt;code&gt;bounty.png&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;. Currently it looks like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L5wNb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L5wNb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there are 1 active bounty which worth 0 reputation in total. Currently there is indeed one active bounty, but obviously it doesn't worth 0 reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8pT80.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8pT80.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the &quot;worth&quot; number in the ad should be &lt;code&gt;+50&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug of the &lt;code&gt;bounty.png&lt;/code&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it won't show the total reputations if that number is smaller than 100? &amp;ndash; I think about this when I see that the &lt;code&gt;bounty.png&lt;/code&gt;s of other sites are working well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorUserId="10916" LastEditDate="2019-03-21T21:54:57.587" LastActivityDate="2019-04-20T22:00:47.050" Title="Bounty Community Ad Error" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2019-03-20T21:30:54.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started to venture into the TeX world using editors such as TeXStudio and LyX. After I learned how to handle &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.archlinux.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arch Linux&lt;/a&gt; agile, I undertook to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vim.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vim code editor&lt;/a&gt; inside my &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;xfce4 terminal&lt;/a&gt; to edit TeX and LaTeX code and mainly deal with &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/pgf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TiKz and PGF&lt;/a&gt;. To make my work smoother, faster, and efficient I've added &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;auto-save plugins&lt;/a&gt; to compile the code and display through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zathura view-pdf&lt;/a&gt;. Since then, I have felt no need to ask about LyX as there is an astounding wealth of questions about solving compilation problems here at tex.stackexchange.com if you ask only about the TeX's themselves, and I spend my time asking and some rarely answering questions as they are still a newbie as well. And I add that from what I read of Donald Knuth's books, like METAFONT and TeXbook, TeX was made to remain much more logical than aesthetic, which is typical of the daily work of programmers who are also mathematicians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178949" LastEditorUserId="178949" LastEditDate="2019-03-23T23:18:16.263" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T23:18:16.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8177" CreationDate="2019-03-21T07:46:02.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This really is a non-issue primarily because links to user profiles are far less likely to be followed than links to &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt;. There might be the odd user who want's to learn more about person X you mentioned through a profile link in your post, but it's definitely only a handful&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;. If someone finds a post that has a link to a deleted user, they can edit it out; there's no need to automate some removal process because the post content should still remain in tact and sensible even though the user link might not exist anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For future reference, it's far better pointing to a &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt; than a &lt;em&gt;user profile&lt;/em&gt; if you wish to attribute some solution to some individual, since posts will always remain (even if deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* I don't have any proof of this, but usually only high-rep users have a high number of profile views compared to the rest of the community. And by default, high-rep user accounts are unlikely to be removed... maybe abandoned, but not removed.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T07:46:02.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8180" CreationDate="2019-03-21T11:09:44.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 11:05, 21 March 2019 (UTC time), I just have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/tex.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;re-check&lt;/a&gt;, and it is fixed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bbiyG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bbiyG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm still looking forward to an explicit explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T11:09:44.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-21T17:32:41.900" Score="12" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;For one week, every day I received a large amount of upvotes which have been identified as serial upvotes and thus undone. Of course, I do not know who casted the votes. Given the definition of &quot;serial voting&quot;, the votes have been cast by one or at most a few users. I perfectly understand that the upvoter does not mean to do harm, but rather the opposite. However, because of the serial voting policy (which I am fine with) they may achieve the opposite of what they want, meaning that if among the upvoted posts there were one or two which they really read and found useful, the corresponding votes will be annihilated as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to politely ask the unknown user(s) to consider stopping that practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course, there is a chance that the serial upvoters read this post, and the problem will be solved by this. My question is also on the case that they don't. Could then the moderators contact the user(s) and ask them to consider stopping?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-03-22T18:46:57.563" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T18:46:57.563" Title="How can one politely ask unknown users to consider stopping serial votings?" Tags="|discussion|users|serial-voting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-22T10:01:02.033" Score="3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;When are questions and answers archived and what is the criteria for deciding whether to archive them or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41885" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-03-22T18:43:51.713" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T06:05:55.420" Title="When are the questions on Stack Exchange archived" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8185" CreationDate="2019-03-22T18:42:36.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers are always available to the public and never archived from view, so everything is always accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want an idea of the size of the content, you can take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/download/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;archived&lt;/em&gt; dump&lt;/a&gt;. There's actually far more information that is not shared in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T18:42:36.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-22T21:08:09.453" Score="1" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that in many cases the fix of a code to give a desired output is not the answer to the question if it asks about the reason of the failure of a provided code. Many times the OP can create himself a code that gives the desired output or make a fix to the provided code and get to it, but his actual problem is &quot;Why this does'n work?&quot; or &quot;Why LaTeX behaves like this&quot; in this case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am proposing of an addition of such a tag (that of course makes in the most of the cases more advanced the question and more difficult to be answered, so, may be have to be used carefully -and this makes my request a discussion here and not just a &quot;feature/tag request&quot;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Such a tag would possibly make the reviewers be more careful on removing this tag from questions like &quot;Why my code doesn't work?&quot; and such things (mostly from newcomers that could provide a code with an obvious wrong usage of a command, or that have not used a package etc) in order to have a useful tag that will be added in questions about the inner &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; features and behaviors and not being a tag added in every question that doesn't reflect a basic knowledge on &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; usage. Of course things seems to become more complicated, with this, and thus I would like from your answers to provide the proposed from you description of the tag, or the reason you think that such a tag would be a bad idea even with a good description -that doesn't leave people to use it in a bad way if they read the description-.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastEditorUserId="120578" LastEditDate="2019-03-23T17:17:26.713" LastActivityDate="2019-03-24T10:33:13.353" Title="Tag &quot;Why?&quot;: Could a tag for questions asking for the reason be useful?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8187" CreationDate="2019-03-23T00:19:34.140" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I do not like your proposal at all. Why? Please have a look &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp4dpeJVDxs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;at this answer by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman&lt;/a&gt;. I cannot explain as well as he does, but I would like to encourage you to think about what you are asking. &quot;Why?&quot; is a very relative term. In principle, most questions asked are, at least to some extent, &quot;Why&quot; questions. So it does IMHO make no sense at all to discriminate them by a tag. In other words, in some sense, most of the answers explain &quot;why&quot;, in some sense, none. At which level should the explanation of &quot;why&quot; something happened occur? TeX core? If not, why not? Every explanation of &quot;why&quot; something happened is, at some level, a cheat. So you will end up tagging most of the questions with this fabulous tag, which means it does not make much sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-03-23T02:33:42.603" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T02:33:42.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8185" CreationDate="2019-03-23T06:05:55.420" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If by &quot;archived&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8185/when-are-the-questions-on-stack-exchange-archived#comment25939_8185&quot;&gt;you meant&lt;/a&gt; &quot;&lt;em&gt;deleting the questions so that space on the server is preserved&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, then the answer is &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange in general only does soft-deletion; the content is almost never purged from the server/database (i.e. hard-deletion). Deleted posts are only hidden to some users, not necessarily deleted from the server/database. Any users with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10k+ rep&lt;/a&gt; and above have an ability to see those deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some questions are indeed automatically deleted when they meet some criteria (though unrelated to preserving space). The process is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;roomba&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, Stack Exchange does archive the posts, in a sense of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/01/23/stack-exchange-cc-data-now-hosted-by-the-internet-archive/&quot;&gt;making a data dump&lt;/a&gt; (again, no posts are deleted in the process). The quarterly data dump can be accessed on &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Archive.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64191" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T06:05:55.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8187" CreationDate="2019-03-23T06:53:14.767" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the purpose and its usefulness, I believe the [why] tag is the textbook example of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;meta tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The reason meta-tags are a problem is that they do not describe the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; of the question.&lt;/strong&gt; They describe some other aspect of the question, like the author’s skill level, or the author’s motivation for asking it, or generally what “kind” of question it is (poll, how-to, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The litmus test for meta tags is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can you tell you’re using a meta-tag? It’s easier than you might think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.&lt;/strong&gt; Every tag you use should be able to work, more or less, as the only tag on a question. Meta-tags, like [beginner], [subjective], and [best-practices], are useless by themselves — they tell you nothing at all about the content of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the tag commonly means different things to different people, it’s probably a meta-tag.&lt;/strong&gt; In a cruel, ironic twist, the meaning of the tag [subjective] itself … is actually subjective. Ditto for [best-practices] and [beginner]. Best practices to whom? Beginner by what criteria? These tags are impossible to define by anything remotely resembling an objective metric. In comparison, the meaning of tags like [java], [c#], and [javascript] are crystal clear to all but the nuttiest of nutbags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While [why] may almost exclusively mean to ask for an explanation/reason/cause of something, &lt;strong&gt;it can't be used as the only tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To further expand this discussion, if [why] tag is allowed to ask for an explanation, then [how] tag is also a valid tag to ask for how to do it, and [when] to ask when a syntax should be used instead of other syntaxes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64191" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T06:53:14.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8187" CreationDate="2019-03-23T12:01:13.753" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I haven't really decided yet if a &lt;code&gt;[Why]&lt;/code&gt; tag would be useful at all or if this could really offer to the community of &lt;code&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/code&gt; but I will post this answer that is mostly an explanation on the reason I made this question and on &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; (at the time I did the question) I thought  it   &lt;strong&gt;could&lt;/strong&gt; be a tag that can offer but also why it could be a problematic tag (and thus the question). (Of course this answer could be just an edit on my question  explaining the reasons of my &quot;request&quot; but I feel that it is mostly an answer to this &quot;discussion&quot; and doesn't really just describe the question because such an edit would  be unfair to the answers that have already posted in this question and because possibly my question was not clear enough at the time that the answers posted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction on my thinking while making this question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the years I am an active user in TeX.SX I have seen several questions here and many of them (may be the most I have seen) asks how to get a desired output. Some others asks why their code fails and where is the error/mistake. But if we search for the questions that a&lt;strong&gt;re not in this above two categories&lt;/strong&gt; there are just a few that asks about the &lt;strong&gt;difference between&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. two commands) or &lt;strong&gt;the reason&lt;/strong&gt; of a general behavior (and not just of the failure of a code)... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear (or almost clear) to me, that &lt;strong&gt;the tag &quot;How?&quot; would be a tag that would be useless&lt;/strong&gt; (refers to most of the questions asked). Question that doesn't care about how and are not too specific on code (or even in case of differences -possibly another tag-) are the case(s) I &quot;proposing&quot; (or better thinking about proposing) tag(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking why in some cases seems funny (If you ask &quot;why nature behaves like this?&quot; is just a funny question. If you ask &quot;why a person behaved like that&quot; -even if psychoanalysts are trying to do it- seems still funny to me because the behavior of a person is not so simple to have just one or more reasons but it is something complicated that in many cases comes from the whole life of of the person and neither the person itself can answer about this &quot;why&quot;...) But the behavior of a code under specific conditions is a reasonable question for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course if that tag was about not basic commands/usage/behavior of small and really basic &quot;code snippets&quot; but about the result (and actually the debugging) of complicated and not so small codes. The tag &quot;why?&quot; would be useless for me too....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in case that such tag had some rules like been added only for more general questions and thus small parts of code (if any) or general behavior of some command, or advantages/disadvantages and behavior of some non-too-specific code parts (that could for example explain why some syntax has to be avoided or why we a new command with an empty line creates an unwanted space/paragraph etc) could be a useful tag mostly for people that have gone over he stage that asks the basics from their TeX/LaTeX code and its output and are doing their next step in TeX/LaTeX programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this already seems to be complicated, because who will decide if the question is general enough?, or how can we avoid this tag in everyone of the huge amount of questions that asks &quot;Why my code gives this instead of that?&quot; or &quot;Why my code doesn't work&quot;? .. such questions with too specific code that asks for debugging and correction should not be tagged as &quot;why&quot;questions and this makes this additional tag a complicated situation that could possibly be added from moderators only etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Main part of my &quot;answer&quot; to make clear what I mean with examples&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question like the question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/503/120578&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why&lt;/strong&gt; is [ … ] preferable to $$ … $$?&lt;/a&gt; &#xA; has these &quot;characteristics&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; deals with &lt;strong&gt;&quot;How&quot; could someone get a specific output?&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; asks &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Where/What&quot; is the mistake caused a specific error/warning/behavior on a specific code?&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answers deals with the reason/differences/cases&lt;/strong&gt; (Here &lt;strong&gt;if this question was tagged like this&lt;/strong&gt; should deal with the inner &lt;code&gt;TeX/LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; features and the differences between &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; on their syntax and features).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Question &lt;strong&gt;could contain as &lt;code&gt;MWE&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some code that demonstrates that the OP &lt;strong&gt;could not find a difference/reason/case&lt;/strong&gt; in the output or in preference between the two ways on the syntax (and thus decided to ask) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some code that demonstrates that the OP &lt;strong&gt;could find a difference but could not decide/realize about the usage/reason/case&lt;/strong&gt; that is supposed to be the preferred and/or why LaTeX offers/replaces the old &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; syntax and if both syntax are finally valid or one of them is not valid, and if so, when to use each one etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or the question could just &lt;strong&gt;not contain a MWE at all&lt;/strong&gt; (since it is not really specific on some particular code but on differences/reasons/cases that one or the other syntax should(n't) be used.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;&quot;valid answer&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(in my opinion)&lt;/strong&gt; could contain (with or without examples): &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the differences&lt;/strong&gt; on the usage between these two syntax/commands (just in case that both commands/syntax was valid in &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt;). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the reason that&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; syntax was not enough for &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; and thus why &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; developers had to stand out of the primitive &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; syntax or &lt;strong&gt;the need of&lt;/strong&gt; this addition on &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; and on this replacement of the &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; primitive syntax by the LaTeX syntax and thus &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The inner way&lt;/strong&gt; that the &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; syntax works in contrast with the primitive &lt;code&gt;TeX&lt;/code&gt; syntax.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Similar &quot;characteristics&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; we can find in the questions (&lt;strong&gt;just examples&lt;/strong&gt; to help the discussion and this answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/150137/120578&quot;&gt;Why are some LaTeX macros defined using \newcommand and some using \def?&#xA;&lt;/a&gt; but also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/655/120578&quot;&gt;What is the difference between \def and \newcommand?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here the first question has the word &quot;Why&quot; in its title but the second deals with &quot;the difference&quot; but both questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have all &lt;strong&gt;the above characteristics&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are not really looking for a solution on &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; to solve a problem or get a specific output but are mostly about &lt;strong&gt;reason&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;difference&lt;/strong&gt; (of existence or of between commands -could be between packages or packages' features etc-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May be two tags would be useful (one about &lt;code&gt;why&lt;/code&gt; and one about &lt;code&gt;when/difference&lt;/code&gt; but this is something I didn't thought when making this question and had just the general idea about such a tag and I had not really separate them in my mind as did while writing this answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's talk about the usage. See this question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/480625/120578&quot;&gt;Extra space after @hangfrom&lt;/a&gt; try to &lt;strong&gt;imagine that the person that made that question, had already ways to create a code that gives the desired output even by using the \hangfrom command again&lt;/strong&gt; (for example by defining a command that doesn't take any argument or whatever) but was interested on &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; this code creates this undesired space and not really on ways to solve the problem or alternative code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer there, is not just offer a way (how) to solve the specific problem but explains &lt;strong&gt;the reason&lt;/strong&gt; that problem comes up with this code. Of course answers of this kind are very often (in order of explaining the reason of a failure) but &lt;strong&gt;could NOT be reasonable tagged with &lt;code&gt;why&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (not even in case that the desired of the question was only the &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; part because the code in the question is really specific and doesn't refer for example to the difference between &lt;code&gt;\nobreak&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\nolinebreak&lt;/code&gt; in general that would make the question a good question to be tagged as &lt;code&gt;when/difference&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now about the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/376953/120578&quot;&gt;How to print a text from inside a command without affecting its width?&lt;/a&gt;(sorry didn't found another question on this but I am sure it have been asked several times -in order of the unwanted space after the open tokens inside a command-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the real question was &quot;Why &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt; creates unwanted white space?&quot; with a typical &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt; usage without the &quot;%&quot; at the places that was actually needed, the answer could be the answer of @HenriMenke there with an explanation of the usage of &quot;%&quot; and how/why it is used in &lt;code&gt;TeX/LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; then it could be tagged with this &lt;code&gt;why&lt;/code&gt; proposed tag. But if it was too specific like it is posted there (with a specific usage of a &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt; and not just a typical one the &lt;code&gt;why&lt;/code&gt; tag would be a bad idea even if this was the desired from the answer and if some alternatives was already known to the noob that did that question -it was me, So, I have the right to talk like this-). Also, may be this kind of question (the generalized edition) would also be a bad question to be tagged as a &lt;code&gt;why&lt;/code&gt; question because it misses basic knowledge on how latex behaves on spaces and tabs/newlines on the end of the line (this is under the discussion of how could such a tag be used -if could be used at all-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, with such one or two tags, some questions that are interested only on the reason (and may be some on the &lt;strong&gt;difference/case&lt;/strong&gt;) would be tagged with this (one or two) tag(s) and should not be answered by solutions to achieve some output or alternative commands or... This would help the people that are trying to answer to not lose their time by providing an alternative when doesn't really know the &lt;strong&gt;reason&lt;/strong&gt; (or the difference etc) of the unwanted behavior or of the existence of the &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; alternative etc. Would also offer to the readers some tags that explain basic &lt;code&gt;TeX/LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; concepts that possibly had not realize a nice resource (by selecting this tag(s)) to learn more concepts than already know on the usage or on the difference between commands etc. But also, would be a difficult tag to manage in the case that it had to be added only to non-specific-code answers and could create real big problems to the editors/moderators etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: For the part that may be the tag could only be used in non-specific questions, it is just an idea (that I had during the question and still have under consideration) and not something that have to permit answers that want this tag as a general tag depending only on OP's expectations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastEditorUserId="120578" LastEditDate="2019-03-23T18:09:47.943" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T18:09:47.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8160" CreationDate="2019-03-23T18:41:30.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First the user has to find out, if it is only the own system, or a package bug. It is not trivial to test TeX packages: &#xA;Test routines are often missing. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most TeX users have no clue about packages and TeX internals. This is different for other areas. Someone who uses a python module can usually read its source well and write a bug report easily.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It should be easier for a user to file a bug in TeX packages. For the average &quot;part time TeX user&quot; it can take hours to find the current website, repository and mail contact of the broken package.&#xA;CTAN could force stricter package formats including this information in a human and computer readable format.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many packages are badly maintained or not maintained at all. I think the motivation to invest hours in a proper bug report, for a package without any updates in the last years is quite low for most users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16227" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T18:41:30.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8187" CreationDate="2019-03-24T10:33:13.353" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good (which is rare enough) tags are useful to search for questions, and also sometimes to decide if a question has a topic that doesn't interest me at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they shouldn't be needed to understand a question and shouldn't be used to explain the meaning or background of a question. If someone wants to know &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; some code behaves as it behaves this should be written down in the question and not be hidden in the tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2019-03-24T10:33:13.353" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2019-03-24T14:18:25.400" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be useful to have a short comment explaining why users should not ignore error messages, I propose as first draft the following text -- please feel free to edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please never ever ignore error messages! Even if you get something that on first glance resembles a pdf file, there can still be issues with it. After an error, TeX only tries to recover enough to syntax check more of the file, it does not try to make sensible output after an error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2019-03-24T14:18:25.400" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-03-24T14:18:25.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-26T04:07:04.703" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just reviewed at least three questions by new users and all of them just pasted a code excerpt that wasn't compilable, or worse, included uses of macros that aren't in the LaTeX base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is of course not the first time I see such incomplete code examples, it seems like 80% or more of all new users think it would be fine to paste only some small code snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For someone wanting to help, this behavior is incredibly annoying, because you always have to wrap extra code around to make the document compile or even have to search for what packages the user might have used and add them to the import list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't there a way to make new users, i.e. at least people who ask their first question here, aware that &lt;strong&gt;all code examples should be complete documents&lt;/strong&gt; but only include the parts that are relevant to the problem? And it shouldn't just be a link to an FAQ thread or such, but something that really makes them stumble and pay attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, an automatic trigger would pop up a big red box with a warning if the user used a code block in their question to make sure it really is an MWE, perhaps with a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal example, what is that?&lt;/a&gt; I guess it's not possible to add such custom hooks to only parts of the network?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T13:05:10.087" Title="Is there a way to make new users aware of the use of MWEs?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-26T04:41:42.880" Score="7" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a semi-serious question but I would like to ask for your opinions and/or have a discussion on this. Sometimes when I go through the review queue (closing, reopening, low quality) I am wondering whether my current mood has made me looking at these queues. That is, I do not have a fixed schedule, rather I go through the queues when &quot;I feel like it&quot;. This might mean that I only do it when something happened which I deem unfortunate, like a not so thoughtful post got upvoted or someone is copying from an earlier post without attribution, or something of that sort. Being marmot or human, this might imply that I am more likely to close a question than when I am in a neutral mood. Of course, if that's true (which I cannot objectively judge) this might potentially be a reason for concern. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did you ever have similar thoughts/concerns?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there a study or data on this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If that's a potential or known problem, is there a way to avoid it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-03-26T16:36:34.407" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T16:36:34.407" Title="Mood of question closing" Tags="|discussion|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8160" CreationDate="2019-03-26T06:59:35.383" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe one could build a system where all questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bugtracking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bugtracking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bugtracking&lt;/a&gt; are fed into CTAN's bug tracking system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129388" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-03-26T14:02:39.560" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T14:02:39.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8197" CreationDate="2019-03-26T16:34:48.257" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Did you ever have similar thoughts/concerns?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. The use of the review queue should not guide you on things that require attention. If you see something that needs attention and it's not in the review queue, that should not deter you from doing something. You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; use the review queue as a gauge, but if something needs addressing, manage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are often scared that making a decision that could affect a post negatively (this includes downvoting and voting to close or as low quality) will be frowned upon. As such, they generally refrain from such actions until someone else takes that first leap. The network is set up so that incorrect decisions are easily corrected, so don't fret about showing your opinion through voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are there a study or data on this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no way to report one's mood while performing reviews, so there's no data available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If that's a potential or known problem, is there a way to avoid it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem isn't really attributable to people's mood, but more that actions taken on posts in the review queues are directly related to badges and therefore people may misuse them in an attempt to gain some reward. My suggestion would be to identify what you perceive as an issue, check whether it is in the review queue and manage it there if it is, otherwise deal with it on the spot. Almost certainly (hopefully?) the reason for the post being in the review queue in the first place is because someone took that conscious approach to addressing some issue related to the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, and you're not sure what to do, you can consult the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; to get some community consensus, or flag it for moderator attention. The latter suggestion is really not necessary as moderators only need to step in if all else fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Review queues in general are still a good measure of what requires action on a site. It's often something you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/385/5764&quot;&gt;work through on a slow day&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T16:34:48.257" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-26T20:04:02.500" Score="5" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/q/481515&quot;&gt;specific question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed because of previous answers to the question. I disagreed and voted to re-open because the question was specific and there was a specific answer whereas the quoted answers did not address the specifics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I contact/persuade the no voters to re-open the question? I have added a comment about this after the question but will anyone see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastEditorUserId="89417" LastEditDate="2019-04-01T12:02:30.233" LastActivityDate="2019-04-01T12:02:30.233" Title="How to get a question reopened?" Tags="|discussion|support|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8200" CreationDate="2019-03-27T12:30:36.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You voted to reopen the question. After that, all users with 3000 reputations or more would see the question in the &quot;Reopen Votes&quot; review queue. They would go to read the question, read your comment and have their decisions. That is the only way you can &quot;contact&quot; all other eligible users to persuade them to reopen, as far as I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you can express your opinion and persuade many users (not all users) via &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. But your messages are never private.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-03-27T12:30:36.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8200" CreationDate="2019-03-27T14:47:05.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual approach is to vote to reopen (if you have that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;privilege&lt;/a&gt;). It's reasonable to add a comment suggesting why you want to reopen the post as other users who review it won't know what may have changed since the post has been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that fails, visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; where there are heavy-weights that could be persuaded to support you (including &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If chatting is not your thing, posting to &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; (as you did) is another option as it would get broader attention to a specific post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-03-27T15:00:34.163" LastActivityDate="2019-03-27T15:00:34.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1680" CreationDate="2019-03-28T19:44:15.500" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/kpym/0e595241caeaccefdecdb09d4186c376&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; that injects the following css (for print) :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-css prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;@media print {&#xA;  * {    &#xA;    visibility: hidden;&#xA;  }&#xA;  #content * {    &#xA;    visibility: visible;&#xA;  }&#xA;  header, #left-sidebar, #sidebar, form, .bottom-notice, .comments-link, .aside-cta {    &#xA;    display: none;&#xA;  }&#xA;  #mainbar {    &#xA;    width: 100%;&#xA;  }&#xA;  div.post-text {    &#xA;    page-break-inside: avoid;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The style is not perfect, but hide some of the content to make the page more print friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9335" LastActivityDate="2019-03-28T19:44:15.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-29T06:19:36.803" Score="26" ViewCount="1492" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joseph required me to set a threshold. Let's say that the answer to the title question is &quot;yes&quot; if this post reaches at least 30 upvotes in one month's time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;three top users deleted their accounts, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;two top users left the site (without deleting their accounts), one of them was suspended several times before (in my opinion, the past behavior of the people involved was not carefully taken into account in this circumstance, as far as I can judge with the little info available)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in general, I feel that touchiness and rudeness are growing (a couple of episodes make me think that).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we have only three mods, all of them are European. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of them is English and the other two are German, that is, all of them are Anglo-Saxon speakers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To cover all the time zones, I think we need, at least:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an American (better if South American, see below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an Asian&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a person from Oceania.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to better understand misunderstandings created by language barriers, we should also have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an African&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a South American.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As marmot suggested in his answer, it would also be great to have a more gender-balanced moderator team, since the current ones are all men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clear any doubt, I do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; want to propose myself as a moderator because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am European, too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no time at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am mean.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do the mod elections work? Can we have more than three mods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt; Christian Hupfer (one of the users who recently left the site and deleted the accounts) wrote to me to explain the reasons for his leaving. He authorized me to talk about them, I try to sum them up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a growing number of just-do-it-for-me and otherwise boring questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too many duplicates answered instead of being closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too much attention to Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z posts, and too few attention to the ones which would deserve it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too much childish talks in chat (ducks &amp;amp; Co.) and fun posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;growing rudeness &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ingratitude. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, apart from the growing rudeness, there is not much mods can do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-04-12T15:22:54.157" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T15:22:54.157" Title="Do we need more moderators?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="35" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8206" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-29T11:45:28.843" Score="3" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been wondering why there is no showcasing/preview tool like JSFiddle for TeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also a PDF viewer would work great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102927" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T05:59:04.080" Title="Why there is no showcasing tool for TeX?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8205" CreationDate="2019-03-29T15:27:06.123" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens that somebody leaves because of moderation action (with reasons). And every suspension is a moderator action. So you want to have more moderators? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suspended user who is proud of the reason can go ahead and tell here. Otherwise we don't make things public since we value privacy and a better future together. No finger pointing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And by the way, a medium/long suspension is not made easily. A short suspension is the second serious signal while the first is usually just a message. If it comes to a longer suspension, there's the &quot;past behavior&quot; you mentioned that you may not see in public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all can moderate here. Being friendly, welcoming, we all create and maintain the atmosphere. We current mods usually keep it relaxed and quiet and act when users can not solve it on their own and especially when our messages won't help. If you would like to have it it more &quot;organized&quot;, well, then get more moderators. ;-) We mods usually agree in decisions by writing emails between us. If you would like to have more opinions and emotions on the table, add more diverse cultural background and more timezones to have more time for working on it. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2019-03-29T15:32:25.777" LastActivityDate="2019-03-29T15:32:25.777" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8205" CreationDate="2019-03-29T21:11:34.127" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me start by saying that I am overall very happy with what the moderators were and are doing. Please do not forget that they are doing all this in their &quot;free&quot; time! (The only exception might be two suspensions of a top user which I may not have enough background information to understand.) So let me thank the moderators for all they have done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said this, one should also consider that in this millennium diversity is becoming increasingly important. That is, the composition of the moderator team may be something that sends certain signals to new and not-so-new users. For example, one may interpret the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7768/121799&quot;&gt;graphs showing the activity on this site vs. time of the day&lt;/a&gt; in (at least) two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for some reasons, LaTeX is most popular in Europe, and then it is no surprise that the majority of users, and hence the moderators, are from this region, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;our community is dominated by people with a certain background, which implies a threshold for potential users with a different background, such that they are less likely to join and/or contribute. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, I do not have enough data that might allow me to judge which of these interpretations is more accurate. On the other hand, it is known that adding diversity to the &quot;leadership&quot; is often instrumental attract talented contributors and to improve the atmosphere. Therefore, I feel that @CarLaTeX has a very good point, and would like to add to her wish list &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a more gender-balanced moderator team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8207/121799&quot;&gt;point by Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; that increasing the number of moderators may make it more difficult for them to make decisions. On the other hand, if they had a model in which only a certain number of moderator votes is required for certain actions to be performed, this may not be an unsurmountable difficulty. And such a model would also mean that the burden of moderation is shared among more users.  Let me stress that this proposal is not because our current moderators did something wrong (which they didn't IMHO) but because I think that CarLaTeX has a good suggestion that might be worth trying (and which does not seem to have any major disadvantages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. As you can see from what is written, I do not have a detailed picture how moderation works on our site. So these thoughts may be completely unrealistic because, say, there is a rule that the number of moderators has to be 3. In case I missed something of this sort, please let me know. I will be happy to delete this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-03-30T14:51:22.167" LastActivityDate="2019-03-30T14:51:22.167" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8216" CreationDate="2019-03-31T11:28:35.687" Score="2" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;This morning I have seen a clock for time travel in the toolbar at the top right &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5COBi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5COBi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and many colored stars with the font Comics Sans (under construction Big changes for Y2K). What do you mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ai7pl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ai7pl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone knows if they've finally put on a watch that marks the time of access. See one of my old questions&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7170/a-clock-into-stackexchange-to-access-time-counting&quot;&gt;A clock into StackExchange to access time counting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2019-04-01T17:42:24.603" Title="A clock for time travel" Tags="|discussion|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8215" CreationDate="2019-03-31T12:06:09.023" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're celebrating April 1: it's already new day &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/kiribati/kiritimati&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the Pacific&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user165772" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-04-01T17:42:24.603" LastActivityDate="2019-04-01T17:42:24.603" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8217" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-31T16:08:40.893" Score="16" ViewCount="461" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TeX packages have developed a lot since the first questions were asked on sx. Many high voted questions from 2011 do not reflect the situation today. &#xA;The users who asked and answered the question do not monitor this.&#xA;It would be unfair to down vote the accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we tag some of these historic questions as &lt;code&gt;historic&lt;/code&gt; question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas how to handle answers which were good in the past and wrong or bad in the present?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should help the user who finds a &lt;code&gt;500 up&lt;/code&gt; question from 2011, which has to be rethought in 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6301/referring-to-new-similar-questions-in-old-posts&quot;&gt;Referring to new, similar questions in old posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16227" LastEditorUserId="16227" LastEditDate="2019-03-31T16:29:07.060" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T17:14:09.540" Title="Should we mark historic questions somehow?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8217" CreationDate="2019-03-31T16:20:38.523" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that if someone downvotes an answer just because it made use of tools which were available at the time the question and answer were written, there is not much you can do. You can try to protect these answers by declaring them &quot;historic&quot; but, honestly, you will never prevent users of the above-mentioned type from doing harm. In addition, if an answer is tagged &quot;historic&quot; this may then lead to the impression that this answer is &quot;not so good and requires to be protected&quot;, but many of these answers are great. For these reasons I am a bit skeptical about your proposal (but see of course the good intentions behind it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some chat with moewe, I believe to understand the purpose of your question/suggestion better: you seem to want a clean-up of old posts. I fully support this but still do not think a &quot;historic&quot; tag will be instrumental to achieve this. Rather, we need to have competent users who are able to judge what is outdated, and are passionate enough to go through the older posts to &quot;clean up&quot;. Notice that this is a highly nontrivial task because it is often not black-white: method B is strictly superior to A. (To give you an example, the new command &lt;code&gt;\tikzmarknode&lt;/code&gt; which comes with the newest version of the &lt;code&gt;tikzmark&lt;/code&gt; library is clearly an improvement over some &lt;code&gt;\tikznode&lt;/code&gt; commands that you can find on our main site since it detects the mode and color and so on. However, often you get to hear that the solution is not useful because the OP are using overleaf, so they do not have access to newer packages and libraries. SIGH.) Another complication is that those competent and passionate users who you expect to go through the older posts know all-too-well that what they are adding now is likely to be outdated in a few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my proposal is that, in order to &quot;clean up&quot;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we may instruct newcomers that it can help to also look at the time stamp of a post, not only at the votes, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we agree that if we add a new answer we explain what is better or new compared to existing posts (and give proper credit to them, of course).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-04-02T20:41:43.950" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T20:41:43.950" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-01T23:44:29.723" Score="-2" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should we handle meta questions that ask for a yes/no answer &lt;strong&gt;that potentially affect the whole tex.se community&lt;/strong&gt; and set a threshold on the number of positive (or negative) votes for a clear &quot;yes&quot; (or a clear &quot;no&quot;) within a particular time frame? An example of such a question could strive to change some modalities of the moderator elections or change some parts of the code of conduct, for instance. Clearly, such changes might affect the way tex.se works in the long run, so they better be well-thought, unhasted, and enjoy a possibly vast consensus. (After all, we have good moderators now, who kick the nasty inhabitants only, and we do want to keep it that way rather than get mean bastards-of-hell moderators who kick everyone or noone, as is often seen accross the Web.) To ensure the consensus and protect the community, it is better that the community decides on this matter rather than the individual who posts a particular meta question. This applies both to the decisions that have to go to &lt;em&gt;the powers&lt;/em&gt; in the end (to be agreed upon and, if necessary, implemented there) as well as to the decisions that don't need to go to the powers: we need acceptance &lt;strong&gt;in our community first&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we try to interpret the aforementioned votes in some way at all? If the question is edited (except improving on typos) during voting, should we declare the votes as non-binding or even nullify them? Or should this ruling prohibit edits due to typos to be strictly fair?&#xA;If we interpret the votes, which values would make sense?  After all, some values are likely to be meaningless. For example, 30000 votes is likely to be unreachable, though we have 138855 tex.se users as of 22:54 UTC on 2019-04-01, and 30 votes would represent only a infinitesimally tiny portion of the tex.se population.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just to start with, concerning the threshold, one could have a formula such as &lt;code&gt;a*(number of views) + b*(all number of tex.se users) + c*(number of active tex.se users) + d*(number of active meta.tex users) + e*(number of days the [feature] tag is present) + f*(the number of days the question is alive)&lt;/code&gt; for the threshold, where a–f are certain constants strictly between 0 and 1 that are to be found out. The definition of the term &quot;active&quot; has yet to be clarified, too; opinions on both are welcome.&#xA;Some rationale: the time frame should probably correlate with the vote count: the longer period of time we grant, the more votes we should ask for; one could think of a surplus of at least some f=10 votes per day on average, for instance. Similarly, if the question is [featured], it gets more attention by being linked from the meta main page, so, more votes should be asked for such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, the above suggestion is a parenthetical one; to enable some discusion, I intentionally neither make the formula or the timeframe precise here nor make it precise on how we will decide on this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should we better ignore such thresholds (whoever the author may be) or the whole questions altogether and consider the contents of the questions only as starting points for discussions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinion answers are welcome on what the policy should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user165772" LastEditorDisplayName="user165772" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T03:36:00.487" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T03:36:00.487" Title="Meta.meta: how should the community decide on the thresholds to meta questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8222" CreationDate="2019-04-02T04:17:03.800" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great if the community could decide. In reality, decisions are made by entities which sometimes get referred to as &quot;the powers&quot;. For instance, there is a broad agreement within the community that the web layout leaves some room for improvement. However, whether or not these improvements will eventually be made does not really depend on votes, but on whether or not &quot;the powers&quot; are willing to implement. This means that even if your question had an answer, it will not really have immediate implications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I cannot resist remarking that your question has a logical issue: how would we decide on a formula? Only when we have a formula we can agree on which formula we agreed on. You see what I mean? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T04:17:03.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8222" CreationDate="2019-04-02T06:38:14.750" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll tackle the general point first, then give my view on the specific area that gave rise to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to note that meta is not particularly well set up for formalised votes. As such, selection of moderators in an election does not use the meta system but rather a dedicated election set up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, votes in meta are indicative and suggest a consensus on behaviour. Thus at best they tend to indicate an overall 'strength of feeling'. Where there is a strong feeling in one direction, this should be taken as a guide to behaviour, but cannot be seen as a hard line. This is by far the biggest category of meta questions: we get asked about some behavioural aspect and hope to come to a consensus. Notably, almost all of these 'decisions' are about how &lt;em&gt;the community as a whole&lt;/em&gt; acts: thus in the end, each reader may make there own judgement on what the 'outcome' is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one place we have had reasonably clear meta 'voting' is when selecting representatives for TUG. Based on having some years of experience, those have been run using a two-step process in which the timeframe and meaning of votes has been extremely clear. However, that can only happen if the question is posed &lt;em&gt;in advance&lt;/em&gt; with the knowledge of how it needs to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific question that prompted this one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8205/do-we-need-more-moderators&quot;&gt;Do we need more moderators?&lt;/a&gt;. There, the questions was 'do we need more mods' and I asked for some guideline on what would constitute a 'yes'. The reason is that a request for a new moderator election needs to come from the existing mod team (at least, that is the mechanism that is most common). Asking for a number of votes was not meant to imply a simple 'vote for this and it happens' mentality, but rather to give the existing moderators some idea of the level of feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At present, the answers to that question do not strongly suggest that the community as a whole has a fixed view. At the same time, a decision to ask for an election would not itself be a major issue. Most of the network sites have more than three moderators (we had five during beta). A decision to ask for an election would give the community (those eligible to vote) ample opportunity to talk to the candidates and go through the much ore formal voting procedures that are set up. As such, to me it does not feel like a formal 'pre-election' is needed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-04-02T20:26:32.087" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T20:26:32.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8205" CreationDate="2019-04-02T13:40:58.907" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that there are three different questions here. And I'm sort of agnostic about all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;More moderation?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question is whether we need more &lt;strong&gt;moderation&lt;/strong&gt; to counter rudeness or other sorts of dissatisfaction with the site. I don't generally find this site particularly rude or unpleasant. Like anyone else, I sometimes encounter behaviour that makes me wince. But that's life. I know nothing about moderation action, whether directed at well-known or not well-known users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I really doubt that we need more moderation, as such. Mostly, I think, the site community as a whole manages to make its feelings reasonably clear, as it did in fact on this thread. I suppose we can all help the moderators work efficiently by flagging things for their attention iff they really need their attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid I incline to the fatalistic view that if somewhere needs constant policing to avoid falling into antisocial rancour, then the game is up. I don't for a moment think we are in that position. But if we were ... I don't think more, or more aggressive, moderation would help us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;More diverse moderators?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second question is whether it would be a good idea to have a moderation team that represents a more &lt;strong&gt;diverse&lt;/strong&gt; range of backgrounds, points of view or (prosaically) time zones. I'm always in favour of diversity in leadership, because I find from my own practical experience that it helps encourage a diverse community. But, for all that, I rather doubt that in this particular case that would justify appointing extra mods. Why? Because -- and I think this is a &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; thing -- I don't think the mods here function as &quot;leaders&quot;; I don't think that they &quot;set the tone&quot; or dominate the discussion; I find that they largely disappear into the background, and I think they deserve credit for doing so. So in this particular case I doubt that having a wider range of moderators would have much impact. I don't know when elections are held. I'd certainly like to encourage as wide a range of candidates as possible when they are. But that's a different thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ennui and the end of days?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I detect in the question a certain sense that the site is currently a bit &quot;below par&quot;, compared perhaps to the early days, with people leaving and so forth. Well, I have mixed feelings. I don't think it's surprising to find people leaving. There comes a point, perhaps, when people have &quot;had enough&quot;, quite naturally; when the questions start to get dull, and the most dedicated expert wants to move on. That's not necessarily unhealthy: it can make room for new folk, which is a good thing. If you've been around here for a long while, I suppose it's easy to find that most of the most interesting questions have been asked and answered, and hunting down duplicates or answering very specific questions can get tiresome. I don't think we should be worried if people move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There probably &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; some basic defects, almost genetic defects, in the structure of this site. After a certain point, when the &quot;big, common&quot; issues have been addressed in canonical answers, there may not be all that much to do, and it's maybe natural that the site becomes dominated by sometimes rather tedious issues. Those issues matter for the users who post questions about them. They may be interesting enough for intermediate users to be willing to spend time on. But I think it's sort of inevitable that real experts are going to turn their attention elsewhere, and probably it's healthy for them and for the site that they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is there anything we &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; do?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. As always. We watch our own behaviour. If we don't like rudeness, let's make sure we are not rude. If we want to encourage questions, let's be encouraging. If we want to encourage real understanding of TeX, let's post answers that explain. If we want to &lt;strong&gt;discourage&lt;/strong&gt; DIFM questions, let's resist the temptation to Do It For Them. If we want to encourage new answerers, let old-timers be generous in &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; rushing to answer questions, and let's all be generous in upvoting carefully done questions and answers. Let's resolve not to close early and often. Let's resolve not to ask for MWEs on questions we have no intention of answering.  All those things, which we all probably know. Moderators cannot, however dedicated, to that for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5404" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T13:40:58.907" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8217" CreationDate="2019-04-02T15:10:26.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if that's possible with stackexchange, but couldn't this be added as a flag/review-queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestiosn: Once you discover an outdated question, you flag it to be closed for being too localized. The same should be possible for answers, i.e. users can raise an &quot;outdated&quot; or &quot;too localized&quot; flag on answers and then more experienced users can review those and either modify the answer or &quot;close&quot; them or mark them as &quot;historic&quot;. Closed answers are kept but visually set apart (e.g. by showing a remark), this should deter people from downvoting it, but encourage new answers to be given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33758" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T15:10:26.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8217" CreationDate="2019-04-02T19:19:32.403" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that some old but no longer applicable answers really &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; great, it would be a shame to remove them.  (They would be good grist for future TeX archaeologists.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, as has been pointed out in another answer here, adding a &quot;warning&quot; answer to a question with highly-upvoted answers would not necessarily be noticed readily by someone (in particular a newbie) as it will start off with zero votes, and the likelihood of it becoming the &quot;top&quot; answer is negligible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about trying to formulate a &quot;stock&quot; statement that can be added at the top of the question itself, that documents the fact that while the answers given were valid at the time, as of &amp;lt;date&amp;gt; they no longer apply for &amp;lt;reason&amp;gt;.  Such a statement could be inserted with a colored background, and whoever adds it should sign it.  Formulating such a &quot;warning&quot; statement would be a reasonable topic for a meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be happy to do this, at least for questions for which I submitted an answer, if I happen to come across them, or if prompted by someone else who finds such a problem entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; In a comment, @Skillmon points out that some old, highly upvoted answers are outdated, although the original question is still valid, so it would be misleading to mark the entire posting as obsolete.  In such a case, it would be appropriate to mark the answer(s) only, leaving the question intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even some &quot;current answers&quot; are bad, although they satisfy the OP and are accepted. I usually address those by adding a comment saying why they don't work (or don't work in a more general case). I suspect that such comments aren't often seen by a newbie looking for a quick fix, but I feel that editing the answer is bad manners. I don't feel that way about an answer that is several years old and outdated by an actual change in the core or a package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T18:47:50.427" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T18:47:50.427" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8229" CreationDate="2019-04-04T08:21:28.887" Score="2" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to complete a form on TeX.SE that can be sent directly (and privately) to moderators? If so, where can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-04-04T15:15:21.683" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T15:15:21.683" Title="Is it possible to send a private message directly to the moderators?" Tags="|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8228" CreationDate="2019-04-04T08:33:54.863" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no private form to contact moderators. You may either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag material with a free-form comment to alert moderators to an issue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contact the StackOverflow staff directly about serious issues: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-04-04T08:48:13.953" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T08:48:13.953" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8217" CreationDate="2019-04-05T08:25:03.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could add the &lt;strong&gt;year&lt;/strong&gt; when the question was asked to the &lt;strong&gt;title&lt;/strong&gt; like &quot;How to ... in 2011&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this leaves the old question in a good state&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we can open a new question &quot;How to ... in 2019&quot; on demand and link the questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a good question or answer will not see down votes if it was good in the past&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;transparent for the reader&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16227" LastEditorUserId="16227" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T15:27:14.427" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T15:27:14.427" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-05T10:32:47.300" Score="6" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marginnote&quot;&gt;marginnote tag&lt;/a&gt; is mentioned for questions about the package &lt;code&gt;marginnote&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{marginnote} is about typesetting non-floating notes in margins using the marginnote package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, AFAIK there is no tag for the feature of setting margin-notes. So often users use the tag {marginnote} also as a feature tag, even if they do not use package &lt;code&gt;marginnote&lt;/code&gt;. There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marginpar&quot;&gt;tag marginpar&lt;/a&gt; but it is describes as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{marginpar} is a command that adds content to the margin of documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is a command tag related to &lt;code&gt;\marginpar&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feature tags AFAIK should use the plural. So could and should the confusion about tag {marginnote} be solved by adding a tag {margin-notes} or {marginnotes}? The description could be something like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{marginnotes} is about how to place notes like text, pictures or other objects into the left or right margin. It can be used in addition to tags like {marginpar} (&lt;code&gt;\marginpar&lt;/code&gt; is a command that adds content to the margin of documents) or {marginnote} (&lt;code&gt;marginnote&lt;/code&gt; is a package to set non-floating notes in margins) or {sidenotes} (&lt;code&gt;sidenotes&lt;/code&gt; is a package that allows text, figures etc. in the margin) or other without such tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case all false usages of {marginnote} can simply be changed into the new tag (which also could be added to questions already using {marginnote}).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past I have already removed the {marginnote} tag of several question but I do not know, how to do so for questions about the feature of setting margin-notes without using package &lt;code&gt;marginnote&lt;/code&gt;, e.g, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/457398/9057&quot;&gt;Remarks in changes package with RevTex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/453659/9057&quot;&gt;How to get a column with keywords?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/447743/9057&quot;&gt;How can I get a prespecified clearance from `parmargin` to the page edge?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/418820/9057&quot;&gt;How can I combine overlapping marginnotes in ConTeXt?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/321874/9057&quot;&gt;Margin notes with the same behaviour as footnote?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/403192/9057&quot;&gt;What is the proper way to use marginfix in memoir?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/401820/9057&quot;&gt;How can I accomplish similar side notes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/393456/9057&quot;&gt;package with memoir-like sidebar functionality for standard book class&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/391383/9057&quot;&gt;asymmetric margins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/386010/9057&quot;&gt;Allocate margin for sidenotes only if there is one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9057" LastEditorUserId="9057" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T10:58:56.863" LastActivityDate="2019-04-11T12:30:07.180" Title="package tag marginnote vs. command tag marginpar vs. feature of setting margin-notes" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8217" CreationDate="2019-04-05T12:45:00.637" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem of high-voted question that do not reflect the situation today is a problem, but is it really a big one? If the question does not reflect the situation, does anybody searches for such problems? And couldn't such question not simply be closed with a new close reason »historic only«? Closing is not a vote statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem of high-voted answers that do not reflect the situation today is a related problem and I think the bigger one. Some of them are really good answers with useful information about how things work and exciting code examples, but nevertheless not longer recommended or even can result in errors. So for one purpose of a question-answer platform: “giving solutions for problems”, such answers are not longer useful. But for another purpose of such a platform: “providing know-how to find solutions for problems”, they are still useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for newcomers it would be useful not to be diverted by such answers that do not longer provide the solution or are not longer recommended to be used as a solution. If I find such an answer I usually write a comment in the hope, that the author of the answer finds a solution to improve the answers. But sometimes even the author is not able to do so. And sometimes removing such an answer indeed has been happened. Removing an answer does not mean, that the platform deletes it. It is just marked as removed and users with high enough score still can see them. So even removed answers are not lost. However, you cannot longer vote for them nor can you comment them nor can the average user see them. And you must read the answer and/or the comments to find out whether or it is still useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a second kind of removed answers could be useful: “Not longer an answer to the question but still useful.” We could also name them “closed answers”. The name does not really matter. Such answers should not be shown for newcomers by default but maybe even newcomers should be able to display them. And it would be useful to be able to comment such answers and vote for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this would be a completely new platform feature. So currently a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8227/9057&quot;&gt;stock statement&lt;/a&gt; indeed could be a workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But IMHO there is another problem: Who should decide whether or not an answer is still valid or not? Do we need to vote about? Or should everyone who has the privilege to edit answers be able to add the stock statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9057" LastEditorUserId="9057" LastEditDate="2019-04-06T06:12:23.190" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T06:12:23.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8173" CreationDate="2019-04-06T11:56:43.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree link and hyperlink should be merged. the tag wiki for link says explicitly it is about hyperlinks, and I don't think (this century) people do (or should) refer to non hyperlinked cross references as &quot;links&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the suggested distinction that hyperlink should only be used for external references is valid.  An in-document link is a hyperlink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T11:56:43.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6189" CreationDate="2019-04-07T08:04:58.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's now &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/121978&quot;&gt;a proposal for a TeXmacs StackExchange site on Area51&lt;/a&gt;. Any support you may provide is very much appreciated to get a proper home for this community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="185246" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T08:04:58.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-07T08:51:26.610" Score="1" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to use a red flag to indicate a profile that contains offenses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T09:00:14.837" Title="Flag a profile that contains specific offenses" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8241" CreationDate="2019-04-07T09:00:14.837" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really, unfortunately: the best one can do is flag a post by the user and explain in the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T09:00:14.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8232" CreationDate="2019-04-08T06:50:01.660" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are only around 500 questions altogether, 60 of which have both tags. If someone is asking about putting text in the margins an answer may quite possibly use &lt;code&gt;marginnote&lt;/code&gt; even if the questioner had not known of that package. So I don't think it is really possible to separate these things as tags on &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I  would suggest that we merge the tags making marginpar and marginnote synonyms for marginnotes and changing the description of marginnotes to say that it covers all marginal notes whether made with marginnote package or standard &lt;code&gt;\marginpar&lt;/code&gt; or other means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2019-04-08T10:08:26.170" LastActivityDate="2019-04-08T10:08:26.170" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8217" CreationDate="2019-04-10T11:01:37.413" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the purpose of post notices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skeptics SE uses post notices extensively; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-notice&quot;&gt;discussion on their meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13746" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T11:01:37.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-11T09:34:35.767" Score="23" ViewCount="1163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a very regular user of TeX.SX, from time to time, when I have time, I come here to write some answers (mainly TikZ) or ask a question, and from time to time I don't come here for months. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I've been back here for a few weeks and I've been accused: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to steal other people's ideas;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not to quote any comments;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;people asked me if they could answer a question to which I made a comment, as if a comment reserved the right to answer the question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and even I was accused to &quot;picking on&quot; users because I answered a question that changed (I didn't pay attention to it), without giving a user the time to correct his answer (even though my answer used completely different techniques). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This had never happened to me for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now feel like in an arena where the goal is to earn the most points and where there are leaders who tell others what can and cannot be done and how this should be done (by quoting them). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the impression that I am not the only one to feel this bad spirit because for the last year several very good users have left this arena.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: am I wrong to consider that we are not here to claim authorship of ideas, not to try to answer &quot;first&quot;, and so on, but simply to try to help people by writing answers as good and as varied as we can?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9335" LastActivityDate="2019-04-21T04:35:54.317" Title="Is TeX.SX a competition arena?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8247" CreationDate="2019-04-11T17:07:42.913" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I agree with you: eventually, there is someone else who thinks there is a problem, not only I (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8205/do-we-need-more-moderators&quot;&gt;Do we need more moderators?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/how-to-avoid-tex-se-decline&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/how-to-avoid-tex-se-decline&lt;/a&gt;)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not concerned if a user stops answering because s/he has something better to do, that's normal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am worried if s/he delete his/her profile: in this case, there is a problem! It takes years to become a top user and the decision to leave is not taken lightly, but this opinion of mine is not shared among many people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think someone is falsely accusing you, I think the best policy is to flag the messages &quot;in need of moderator intervention&quot; and explain your reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, moderators are made aware of the problem, and they can deal with the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you to never reply to annoying messages, let the mods work for &#xA;you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-04-21T04:35:54.317" LastActivityDate="2019-04-21T04:35:54.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8247" CreationDate="2019-04-11T20:45:38.847" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Giving proper credit to others is IMHO a good practice precisely because this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a competition arena. IMHO this is just fair play. Of course, a comment does not reserve the right to answer a question. However, I personally feel that if there is a comment which the answer I am going to write has overlap with, it does make sense to acknowledge the comment. And, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8247/is-tex-sx-a-competition-arena#comment26355_8247&quot;&gt;Johannes_B is saying&lt;/a&gt;, asking someone who answered a question in a comment to convert the comment into an answer is IMHO a good practice, I cannot see anything wrong with it. On other sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; sometimes even moderators convert comments into answers. Why is there anything wrong if someone asks you to convert your comment into an answer? Isn't that just fair play, and nice to see that others read your comment, acknowledge it, and ask you to make it an answer? Isn't that precisely the opposite of competitive behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is TeX-SE a competition arena?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This depends on how you view things. The stackexchange websites have some built-in competition just by the fact that there is a reputation score, and that you can &quot;rank&quot; users according to their reputation. So if you take this score and these rankings seriously, then there is a competitive element in our main site. The fact that there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/badges/61?page=1&quot;&gt;sportsmanship badge&lt;/a&gt; may be interpreted as the intention of the designers of our site to encourage a &lt;em&gt;fair&lt;/em&gt; competition. What one can read into some user with a high reputation score and many answers not having gotten this badge I am not entitled to say in public but one could argue that might correlate with a certain mind set which is against the the idea of fair interactions between the users. Of course, I do not know what the true purpose is of the reputation score, but it might be an incentive to provide novel questions and working, timely answers that work and solve problems. And yes, one can find statements that &quot;someone beat me by 3 seconds&quot; and the like. The slightly later user may (a) see no point in posting an answer with substantial overlap to the earlier answer and (b) be somewhat disappointed and try to speed up when attempting to answer the next question. You can call this competition. And this competition does have draw backs. For instance, I do see a point that this kind of competition makes us entirely focus on the new questions because everyone wants to be first. And I do agree that this is not necessarily a good thing. This score does make users go for the most &quot;lucrative&quot; posts, and it seems that the newer the more &quot;lucrative&quot;. If you have a concrete proposal how to replace that (IMHO stupid) reputation scheme by something that adds incentive to write useful, clear and timely answers from which all of us benefit, I am all ears. Yet I fail to see how anything you mention will help us to improve on this. It may be that I misinterpret your statements, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7998/121799&quot;&gt;question under which circumstances it makes sense to post an additional answer&lt;/a&gt;, where the opinions mentioned in the answers agree to some extent. I do not want to repeat my view here, but, yes, I would call it picking if you repeat an answer and the only novelty is that one saved, say, two keystrokes, and find it even somewhat inappropriate if one does not honorably mention the answer that one has shortened. If you have a very different opinion, you may want to explain it there as well. (I cannot resist mentioning that one user writing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8000/121799&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; left, which seemed to have played a role in CarLaTeX's decision to write &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/how-to-avoid-tex-se-decline&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe we should have taken their opinion more seriously. And please do not get me wrong, but there might be users who feel that those who write &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/481125/121799&quot;&gt;three answers to a question&lt;/a&gt; are those who are particularly keen on harvesting reputation and/or to &quot;steal&quot; the tick from another answer. I personally am fine with posting several answers but personally try to just write one in which I either add two options, or select the one that is most suitable. So I definitely do not want to criticize for posting three answers, but would kindly like to ask you not to criticize others for doing things that you prefer not to do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Competition and academic honesty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to this is the question of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7940/121799&quot;&gt;academic honesty&lt;/a&gt;. (Interestingly, there another user who sadly decided to leave our site made &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7949/121799&quot;&gt;a contribution&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe we should have taken them more seriously, too.) The upshot seems to be that, even though academic honesty is not enforced, several users feel that it is something good which precisely helps us to have a friendly atmosphere. Of course, there is the possibility that those who feel that giving proper credit to others is unnecessary just didn't want or dare to write an answer. Therefore it might be useful if you could add an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7940/121799&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that explains why that view is appropriate. I personally feel it just fair play to mention earlier posts with which newer answer overlaps, and also to &quot;cite&quot; related answers to different questions if they develop. Why? Because the author of the post I am borrowing from/overlapping with will in most cases like it, and it also prevents us from writing the essentially same answer to the same question over and over. After all, there is no mechanism to weed out duplicate answers in the same way we close duplicate questions. (I also cannot refrain from remarking that when it comes to new posts by others, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/477484/combine-tikz-curve-with-random-variation#comment1205798_477495&quot;&gt;you seem to share the opinion that older answers doing similar things are to be mentioned&lt;/a&gt;, so I really have a hard time understanding why you do not want to apply these standards to your own posts.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the current status and how can we improve the climate?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not experienced enough to judge whether or not our site is in a decline. Nor do I know &lt;em&gt;for sure&lt;/em&gt; whether the decision of two IMHO very good users, whom I really miss, to leave is related to this (but since you were mentioning this, shouldn't you be concerned that they left just after you became active again?  ;-), but I did see them complain about academic dishonesty, too. In any case, I do feel that giving proper credit to others is something that does help users to coexist in a good atmosphere. Apart from this, I do believe that most of us here have good intentions and a lot of tensions come from miscommunications, some of which are related to the fact that a substantial fraction here, including me, are not native English speakers. This is something that IMHO we should try to keep in the back of our minds when interpreting statements by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you are really desperate, you can ask Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z for advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{tikzlings}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\tikz{I can't \bear this any more, what should I do?}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/faiU6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/faiU6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-04-16T22:16:39.183" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T22:16:39.183" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8247" CreationDate="2019-04-12T01:40:06.383" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that this answer will not be popular among some, in fact, some who I generally hold in high regard as valuable users of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1090/david-carlisle&quot;&gt;A very wise person&lt;/a&gt; said &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/how-to-avoid-tex-se-decline#comment26302_8239&quot;&gt;recently&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behaviours are only annoying if you get annoyed by them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't think that the site has become more competitive, but I do think that there are some users who are deciding to be annoyed by things who might be better off following this advice.  Unfortunately you seem to have run into some of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't take many such users to make things seem unfriendly and competitive. As high reputation users they may also feel a sense of &quot;ownership&quot; of the site. I'm a long time user and contributor to the site, but I don't feel the need to police it.  This is not to say that I won't flag things; once in a while I do, but very rarely. What I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; do is get into comment discussions with people about their behaviour. Now maybe I don't interact with all the badly behaving people they talk about, since I mainly answer questions about linguistics and bibliographies, along with more general TeX questions and questions about trees. But I don't really think this is the case, instead I think that some people are more inclined than others to be annoyed by others' behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now are they justified in their annoyance? In some objective terms, probably. I too, have had people post almost identical answers to mine with minor changes. But my strategy is to simply ignore it and move on. I'm here because I like to help people, and when I was learning LaTeX, people were happy to help me. Of course that was before the site existed, so instead of helping people in my immediate circle of students or colleagues, I now help people all over the world. I also learn things from solving problems on the site, and this is fun too. But I'm not interested in trying to enforce rules. I don't ask for MWEs unless they're really necessary; I generally ignore &quot;just do it for me&quot; questions, although sometimes I might decide to answer one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, the site is a generally pleasant place to be. There's no drama in chat, and by and large people are nice. But the best way to keep it that way for myself, is to realize that I'm not going to change people's behaviour, and I should continue to do things on the site that continue to make it enjoyable for me.  This has been my pretty consistent position in Meta when issues relating to legislating behaviour arise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7255/2693&quot;&gt;Etiquette for poorly researched questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3628/2693&quot;&gt;(How much) should we wait for a MWE from the OP?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7926/2693&quot;&gt;Explicitly indicate the reasons why answering a just-do-it-for-me question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7757/2693&quot;&gt;Why answer a question that doesn&amp;#39;t deserve a vote?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7600/2693&quot;&gt;How to politely tell someone that his choice of answer is poor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6507/2693&quot;&gt;About RTFM etiquette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm being like the ostrich, who puts its head in the sand, but this allows me to continue to participate in the site with minimal angst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="3406" LastEditDate="2019-04-15T13:18:57.087" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T13:18:57.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8247" CreationDate="2019-04-12T11:53:36.900" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8250/&quot;&gt;answer of marmot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; that attribution/acknowledgment of other people's answers and comments is being polite, and as such the &lt;em&gt;opposite&lt;/em&gt; of competitive. Even more so when you refrain from answering if somebody else provided the (core of the) solution in a comment, because then you actively &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; competition in terms of reputation, or in terms of 'showing off' ideas, whether you acknowledge the other person or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do see the argument that the site should focus on maximizing the aggregated amount of useful knowledge instead of focusing on who contributed what, however I think it is important to realize that the community consists of volunteers that value politeness and recognition to make their involvement in the site enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think the issue has two aspects which can be addressed seperately. There is the issue of how to handle attribution, and there is the issue on what to do if somebody does not follow your preferred etiquette. In that case it is probably best to just try to 'show, not tell' or 'lead by example' or 'do upon others as you would have them do unto you', i.e., be non-competitive and hope that others will do the same. Maybe this has changed somewhat over the years, i.e., people are perhaps faster to speak their mind about such issues. This potentially causes misunderstandings and escalated disagreements and would therefore better be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I &lt;em&gt;disagree&lt;/em&gt; with marmot about adding answers: if you have an alternative solution to a problem (which was in my opinion the case for the recent answer of Kpym) then it is perfectly fine to post an additional answer without referencing other answers. I usually do add a line to the effect of 'as an alternative to the other answer you can also do X' but I wouldn't expect other people to do that at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;and a little proud of my self-exemplified statement :)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T11:53:36.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8206" CreationDate="2019-04-16T05:59:04.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://manuels.github.io/texlive.js/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texlive.js&lt;/a&gt;, which is pdfTeX from TeX Live 2012 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;transpiled&lt;/a&gt; to JavaScript using &lt;a href=&quot;https://emscripten.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Emscripten&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fzimmermann89.github.io/texlive.js/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One of the forks&lt;/a&gt; has been updated to use pdfTeX from TeX Live 2016.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T05:59:04.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-17T13:51:19.450" Score="1" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's assume that a user wishes to move away from TeX.SE and intends to delete all of the content they created up to the legally possible limit. Deleting tons of comments, unaccepted answers and unanswered questions is faster than creating them but doing it one-by-one is still a time-consuming operation; furthermore, there is a limit of 5 deletions per day on posts. Is there no &lt;em&gt;faster&lt;/em&gt; way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user165772" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-04-17T21:16:19.427" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T21:16:19.427" Title="Is there a fast way for a user to delete all of their content?" Tags="|support|comments|answers|questions|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8259" CreationDate="2019-04-17T21:14:55.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way to perform a speedy removal of content would be via programming. Support for this is provided through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange API&lt;/a&gt;. Here you can delete a &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/delete-question&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, an &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/delete-answer&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; and/or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/delete-comment&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;, all of which require authentication (since you're only allowed to delete content if you're a/the permitted user). You are still &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/throttle&quot;&gt;rate-limited&lt;/a&gt;, but it will be much quicker than deleting the content manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting your account is similar, but all content will remain, and all votes cast to individuals will be removed if the votes were legitimate votes and wouldn't cause too much disruption to the community. This is to avoid &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;high-voting users&lt;/a&gt; (often high-rep users, but not always) from causing &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/126470/168244&quot;&gt;reputation havoc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T21:14:55.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2019-04-18T06:30:31.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I have published or will publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; can be used under the terms of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LaTeX Project Public License&lt;/a&gt; either version 1.2 or, at your option, any later version. This license is granted &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to the terms that apply by default to contents published on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Florent Rougon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73317" LastEditorUserId="73317" LastEditDate="2019-04-18T09:54:55.247" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T09:54:55.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-18T15:31:43.367" Score="6" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question yesterday, but no one answered it and it only got a dozen views. How long should I have to wait before it is acceptable to post the same question again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167653" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T16:05:08.993" Title="How long should one wait before reposting a question that wasn't answered?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8262" CreationDate="2019-04-18T15:58:00.930" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forever. You should never repost a new question which is exactly a duplicate of one of your previous questions. If you do so, you will be flooded with downvotes and your question will be closed very soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way in this such cases is to modify the question so that it is bumped to the home page, and other users can see it. Edit the question; add more informations to it. Maybe consider editing the title to make your question more attractive and &quot;interesting&quot; to others is also a good option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also offer a bounty for it. Literally every bounty makes the question &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more attractive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I voted to close your question because it literally has nothing to do with TeX or LaTeX. Texstudio issues should be asked in Texstudio bug tracker.  This site is only for, say, issue with compiling with Texstudio, or customize Texstudio so that it accepts &lt;code&gt;shell-escape&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-04-18T16:05:08.993" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T16:05:08.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-04-20T20:15:03.107" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://szhorvat.net/mathematica/MaTeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tPjfW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Publication quality figure labels with LaTeX and Mathematica&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6302" LastActivityDate="2019-04-20T20:15:03.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-22T08:19:14.137" Score="15" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main site, there are two tags about code-formatting inside a LaTeX documents which all refer to &lt;code&gt;listings&lt;/code&gt; package: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listings&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lstlisting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lstlisting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lstlisting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listings&lt;/a&gt; currently has 40 watchers and 2.6k questions, and a very detailed description.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lstlisting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lstlisting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lstlisting&lt;/a&gt; currently has 2 watchers and only 83 questions, and it has no description text at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Literally &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lstlisting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lstlisting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lstlisting&lt;/a&gt; is only a sub-tag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listings&lt;/a&gt;. It is like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcbposter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcbposter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcbposter&lt;/a&gt; as a sub-tag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcolorbox&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcolorbox&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcolorbox&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore, I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lstlisting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lstlisting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lstlisting&lt;/a&gt; should be deleted and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listings&lt;/a&gt; should be used instead in questions, like what has happened with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcbposter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcbposter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcbposter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason, in my opinion, which is &quot;legal&quot; enough to keep the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lstlisting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lstlisting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lstlisting&lt;/a&gt; is that there are some questions about issues in &lt;code&gt;lstlisting&lt;/code&gt; environment and not related to &lt;code&gt;\lstinline&lt;/code&gt;. But we can still use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listings&lt;/a&gt; for such questions well. This reason seems to be insufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T08:19:14.137" Title="Should we keep [listings], [lstlisting] or both?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8268" CreationDate="2019-04-23T01:50:24.060" Score="8" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am considering using &lt;code&gt;wget -p -k -n Tex.stackexchange&lt;/code&gt; and thus save all posts to some future emergency if I or the site goes offline.  Do you think this is a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178949" LastEditorUserId="5763" LastEditDate="2019-04-25T07:22:08.580" LastActivityDate="2019-04-25T07:22:08.580" Title="Your opinion about locally saving all posts on tex.stackexchange.com" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8267" CreationDate="2019-04-23T02:51:03.680" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, scraping the site like that is a quick way to &quot;Too many requests from this IP address&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/download/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt; of all SE sites is available from Internet Archive, including &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange.com.7z    04-Mar-2019 16:44   484.3M &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This file includes questions, answers, comments, and more: see &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2677&quot;&gt;Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user69318" LastActivityDate="2019-04-23T02:51:03.680" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-27T02:43:04.603" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether it is just this site, but at least I have come across many SE sites that follow the specification stated below. According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/239938/autobiographer-badge-now-only-requires-sharing-what-you-want-with-the-communit&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Autobiographer&amp;quot; Badge now only requires sharing what YOU want with the community&lt;/a&gt;, as well as the description of the badge on TEX.SX, one only need to fill in the &quot;About me&quot; section to get the badge. However the other day I tried to fill in that field in various ways and I didn't get the badge until I filled in all the fields of that form, which seems to be the behavior before the change in the linked question occured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150221" LastActivityDate="2019-04-27T02:43:04.603" Title="Autobiographer badge is buggy" Tags="|bug|badges|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8272" CreationDate="2019-04-29T12:39:13.733" Score="11" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Not sure if this should be an answer in the linked question or not. Anyway, I think a question is better than an answer in this case.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8205/156344&quot;&gt;Do we need more moderators?&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] Let's say that the answer to the title question is &quot;yes&quot; if this post reaches at least 30 upvotes in one month's time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the question is exactly one month old, and it has got 37 upvotes (and 10 downvotes). Therefore the answer is: &lt;strong&gt;Yes, we need more moderators&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As far as I can see, rudeness is reducing. The number of related posts is reducing. The domino effect (is it a domino effect?) is stopping, or has stopped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behaviours are only annoying if you get annoyed by them. &amp;mdash; &lt;em&gt;David Carlisle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In my humble opinion, we don't really need anymore moderators. Our three moderators are moderating the site very well. I can see that by my recent &quot;moderator intervention&quot; flags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think CarLaTeX's intention is 30 &lt;em&gt;score&lt;/em&gt;, not 30 &lt;em&gt;upvotes&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: I think my answer is &lt;strong&gt;No. We don't need more moderators&lt;/strong&gt;. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-04-30T15:51:01.347" Title="We will have a moderator election... or will we?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8270" CreationDate="2019-04-30T15:51:01.347" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guessed my intentions well, I intended score not only upvotes. Otherwise, I could have had 30 upvotes and 40 downvotes and the proposal would have passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree with marmot, elections would be a sign of democracy, but there was a scarce enthusiasm about them. Hence, I think the Community doesn't consider them necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I also think the situation is a little better than at the beginning of April:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I saw just-do-it-for-me questions by old users downvoted or, at least, not massively upvoted as before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the TeXnical topics are prevailing in chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;last but not least, the trolls either left the site or calm down (it is likely the mods had a role in it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, the answer to my question is &quot;no&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-04-30T15:51:01.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8279" CreationDate="2019-04-30T18:17:35.840" Score="1" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many posts in the forum with both LaTeX source code and the resulting images from compilation.  Can anyone point me to the resources on posting questions in this format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to post a question involving LaTeX source using text commands with the resulting compiled image.  I'm unsure if the compilation process must be done on my end and image manually uploaded, or the LaTeX can be included inline with the post (which would be compiled automatically).  I tried latex2html, however noted that many figures and latex commands showed up incorrectly.  I also realize there is MathJax or the dollar sign to include mathematical notation, however understand this only covers math equations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="181373" OwnerDisplayName="Nick" LastActivityDate="2019-05-02T08:22:15.637" Title="How to post questions with LaTeX code? latex2html?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8273" CreationDate="2019-04-30T18:58:12.063" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on suggestion, the answer is &quot;post the code as text and then post a clipped image from your pdf viewer to show the output&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="181373" OwnerDisplayName="Nick" LastActivityDate="2019-04-30T18:58:12.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8277" CreationDate="2019-05-01T01:24:30.927" Score="14" ViewCount="931" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the dawn of time Elsevier recommended the &lt;code&gt;elsarticle&lt;/code&gt; class for authors. Recently they started promoting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.elsevier.com/authors/author-schemas/latex-instructions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;els-cas-templates&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; bundle &lt;code&gt;\rant{&lt;/code&gt;I have no idea why; &lt;code&gt;elsarticle&lt;/code&gt; worked just fine&lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; and the classes (&lt;code&gt;cas-sc&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;cas-dc&lt;/code&gt;) started to bring users to the main site asking questions about their &lt;s&gt;weird&lt;/s&gt; behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should these questions be tagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Options that I can think of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elsarticle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elsarticle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elsarticle&lt;/a&gt; and add &lt;code&gt;cas-sc&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;cas-dc&lt;/code&gt; to the description of the tag;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elsevier&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elsevier&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elsevier&lt;/a&gt; and add a suitable description to the tag (which contains none at the moment);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/els-cas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;els-cas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;els-cas&lt;/a&gt; for questions regarding this specific classes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 1 seems weird to me because it would be misleading. Option 2 seems okay, but it would raise the question of “why aren't &lt;code&gt;elsarticle&lt;/code&gt; questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elsevier&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elsevier&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elsevier&lt;/a&gt; as well?”. Option three adds another tag to the soup of the site, which seems okay as well for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T23:58:08.417" Title="The {elsarticle} tag and Elsevier's new classes" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8275" CreationDate="2019-05-01T20:34:42.367" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turned my comment into an answer so it can be downvoted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd vote for option 3, that is to say a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/els-cas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;els-cas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;els-cas&lt;/a&gt;. It seems to me that &lt;code&gt;elsarticle&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;cas-...&lt;/code&gt; classes are sufficiently different to warrant a new tag. &lt;code&gt;elsarticle&lt;/code&gt; is thoroughly LaTeX2e, while &lt;code&gt;els-cas&lt;/code&gt; makes heavy use of LaTeX3's &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;xparse&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might help to add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cas-sc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cas-sc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cas-sc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cas-dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cas-dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cas-dc&lt;/a&gt; as tag synonyms for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/els-cas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;els-cas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;els-cas&lt;/a&gt; so that people using the document class name as tag are automatically pointed into the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My justification for that goes pretty much along the lines of your reasoning in the last paragraph. Especially if Elsevier intends &lt;code&gt;elsarticle&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;els-cas&lt;/code&gt; to be used in parallel for some time it is useful to have questions properly separated between the two classes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2019-05-01T21:11:33.023" LastActivityDate="2019-05-01T21:11:33.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-01T22:49:42.773" Score="0" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some posts which give solutions for Latex, but no one seems to work here on StackExchange. Is it possible to use this toggle show/hide here on StackExchange? Like when I want to toggle show/hide a mathematical proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example (though math doesn't seem to work here...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theorem: $$n&gt;n-1 \forall n\in{\mathbb{N}}$$&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;proof:&#xA;\toggle_on show/hide&#xA;For $n=1$ the statement $1&gt;0$ is obviously true. Suppose it is true for $n$ then for $n\rightarrow n+1$ it follows $$n+1&gt;n-1+1=n \quad \square \, .$$&#xA;\toggle_off \show/hide&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; LoL? Are you guys serious? Read my question again... This is not about math displaying using MathJax. It was just used as an example, because somebody asked for it and then I realized math doesn't even work here. But I don't actually care! The question is about a toggle option you also sometimes find on Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_transport_theorem#Form_for_a_material_element&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_transport_theorem#Form_for_a_material_element&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107017" OwnerDisplayName="Diger" LastEditorUserId="107017" LastEditDate="2019-05-04T12:04:11.627" LastActivityDate="2019-05-04T12:17:45.373" Title="Toggle Show/Hide on StackExchange" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="18" ClosedDate="2019-05-06T14:42:20.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8273" CreationDate="2019-05-02T08:13:39.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Getting Help&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask a question&lt;/a&gt; you will have short &quot;How to Format&quot; in the yellow box right beside the editor box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6wUHD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6wUHD.png&quot; alt=&quot;How to Format&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;formatting help&lt;/a&gt; (in the image above I've put the mouse over it) leads to a more detailed page with examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editor field also has a toolbar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/86gEH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/86gEH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Toolbar&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here you can also find a button to get markdown editing help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vJJaY.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vJJaY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Markdown Editing Help&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note the help center button in the top menu of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0xK7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0xK7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help center etc.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How to Format Code Using the Toolbar&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copy some code to the editor field, separated by one empty line from the text above. Nevertheless, in the editor field it will be shown a spaghetti code without any formatting:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GHTXS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GHTXS.png&quot; alt=&quot;Code without formatting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the code with you mouse and click to the code button &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; in the toolbar:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N0gA2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N0gA2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Selected code and code button&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now your code will be indented by 4 spaces and the preview below the editor field will show nice code:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gGIsf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gGIsf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Formatted code&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How to Add an Image Using the Toolbar&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want to add a screenshot make it and save it as PNG or JPEG. Some PDF-viewers also allow you to export pages as PNG or JPEG. You can use any paint/image software (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gimp.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GIMP&lt;/a&gt;) to add additional information to the file. Currently TeX.SX does not provide making PDFs/images on the fly. So you have to compile the TeX code either using you own TeX installation or an online editor like overleaf. Use &lt;code&gt;tex4ht&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;latex2html&lt;/code&gt; only if they are part of the problem, because mostly the will not generate the same result as your preferred TeX engine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Place the editor where you want to add the image and click to the image button in the toolbar:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kf9Z9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kf9Z9.png&quot; alt=&quot;image button&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click to &quot;Browse&quot;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DBqdf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DBqdf.png&quot; alt=&quot;browse link&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the file you want to add. A preview of the file will be shown. You should verify, that it is the correct picture, before you click to &quot;Add picture&quot;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wNCNw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wNCNw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Preview&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something like &lt;code&gt;[![enter image description here][1]][1]&lt;/code&gt; will be added at the cursor position an something like &lt;code&gt;[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/4AtI7.png&lt;/code&gt; at the bottom of your question. And the preview below the editor field will show the image.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z73Jq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z73Jq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image added&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Last but not least, you should replace &quot;&lt;code&gt;enter image description here&lt;/code&gt;&quot; by an alternate text, e.g., &quot;&lt;code&gt;left aligned blackbox with centered caption text&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9057" LastEditorUserId="9057" LastEditDate="2019-05-02T08:22:15.637" LastActivityDate="2019-05-02T08:22:15.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8278" CreationDate="2019-05-04T12:17:45.373" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest we have to show/hide is the &quot;spoiler&quot; blockquote. But it always occupies the space it would occupy if the content were shown, so you don't win a lot if you want to save space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1191&quot;&gt;Add markdown support for hidden-until-you-click text (aka spoilers)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/72877&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the exact syntax for spoiler markup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! This is a spoiler&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;! This is a spoiler&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feature request for collapsible content has been declined: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5199&quot;&gt;Please add the ability to fold blocks of code in questions and answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, such requests should probably be brought forward network-wide on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; and not on this per-site meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2019-05-04T12:17:45.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-05T12:32:32.923" Score="6" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today there had been a close voting for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/489259/latex-users-make-more-mistakes&quot;&gt;Latex users make more mistakes&lt;/a&gt; which finally lead to the question being closed as a duplicate. After a more careful re-examination of the close proposal, the exact duplicate vote seems to be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took part in this close voting but unfortunately didn't pay close attention (no pun intended), as I just read the topic of the duplicate question and &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; vote to close, but as &quot;offtopic - should be migrated to the tex.meta site.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I still occur in the list of duplicate voters, although I've never voted to close this question as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that mean, a question will always be closed, no matter how many people vote for the different close reasons, as long as the &lt;em&gt;total&lt;/em&gt; close votes sum up to five? Also, what close reason will be the final one in that case, the one that got the first vote, the one with the most votes etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T12:32:32.923" Title="Why does my name appear in the list of duplicate voters when I didn't vote for that?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-07T18:49:28.540" Score="13" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I see that some &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt;-wrong answers are taken to the &quot;Low Quality posts&quot; review queue. Most of them are ended &quot;Looks OK&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in my opinion, such answers are wrong so clearly that they should not be posted or they should be edited right away to a different answer. In other words, such answers deserve deletion in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Am I too rude? What to be done here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know that we can wait for the answerer to have some replies to the feedbacks. However, in the meantime, the clearly-wrong answers may cause confusion to many users, especially LaTeX newcomers (I was sometimes confused in that way). And some users, as you know, are only online few times a month, or even a year. It may take very long to receive replies from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-05-07T18:49:28.540" Title="How to deal with answers which are wrong?" Tags="|discussion|low-quality-posts|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8283" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-08T01:27:16.863" Score="13" ViewCount="703" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/strong&gt;: I never used overleaf, nor have I the faintest motivation to ever use it. And this post is related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7898/121799&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am getting increasingly concerned by the fact that overleaf has their own installation, which produces error messages that are, well, let's say not as clear as they could be, and errors on codes that run fine on standard TeX installations. This means you can write a perfectly working answer that you tested and then get told&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;your code produces errors!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not on my standard TeX installation. What errors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know, I am using overleaf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile this has lead to very &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/474942/121799&quot;&gt;ingenious solutions to find out which version of, say, tikzmark one is using&lt;/a&gt;. This would not be necessary if overleaf&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;kept their installation relatively up-to-date,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provided their users with obvious means to get the information which version of what they are using, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provided meaningful error messages (instead of just &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7898/121799&quot;&gt;swallowing some errors&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current state of affairs can make it somewhat cumbersome to answer questions by overleaf users. Even worse, when they post answers, these answers may have errors that overleaf just suppressed and thus went unnoticed. What is more, if you answer a question by overleaf users you just cannot use more recent packages that may provide a much more elegant solution to the problem. One way one may think about this that there is a company which is making profit with LaTeX, a freely available tool which is maintained by a very enthusiastic team, and the packages of which are written by enthusiastic users. However, due to their policy the quality of the posts on this site run by volunteers gets affected in a negative way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: How should we deal with that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-05-08T02:42:52.510" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T06:24:57.423" Title="How to deal with overleaf incompatibilities?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8283" CreationDate="2019-05-08T04:26:29.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I use Overleaf quite often, but I am not in the Overleaf team (of course)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my thoughts about the points above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;kept their installation relatively up-to-date,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO it is not easy. In order to update, Overleaf has to turn down the whole system, or make the system inaccessible. You should not compile any document during a TeX installation, should you? But Overleaf is being used in every seconds all over the world (well or nearly so), and a 5-minute break can cause great trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I was compiling a short &quot;check&quot; document (well I never use Overleaf for my actual documents, I only use it for some &lt;code&gt;check.tex&lt;/code&gt; to test Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z pictures for example...) and got the annoying &quot;Server Error&quot;. I knew the Twitter account of Overleaf in advance, so I went to see, and yes,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/overleaf/status/1115621564563841026?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/overleaf/status/1115621564563841026?s=20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After about 5&amp;ndash;10 minutes or so, Overleaf came back. However, that is a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; interval to me at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But TeX distributions never take short time to update/install (yes it only takes minutes to update if we do it often, but Overleaf has not been updated for a very long time). Overleaf has only one way to update/install the TeX distributions: make a new version of Overleaf (Overleaf v3?). You may see that the TeX distribution of Overleaf v1 is &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; older than that of Overleaf v2, which is the current version.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;provided their users with obvious means to get the information which version of what they are using, and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; view the raw log anytime they want. The problem is whether the user is willing to know the version, not whether Overleaf has given some information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nCGIg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nCGIg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Open the image on a new tab to avoid blurry image due to rescale&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;provided meaningful error messages (instead of just swallowing some errors).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is not that Overleaf swallow error messages. It is that Overleaf &lt;em&gt;doesn't prevent the PDF file to be produced&lt;/em&gt; if there are no fatal errors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YuvKG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YuvKG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Open the image on a new tab to avoid blurry image due to rescale&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\mathbb&lt;/code&gt; is undefined so Overleaf just ignores it instead of terminating the compilation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is a major drawback of Overleaf, I think the user has a more responsibility here. They &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that there are errors (the big &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GHizD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GHizD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vutQy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vutQy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are there), but they don't understand the importance of fixing the errors. It is like me when I first used LaTeX: I just attempted to fix fatal errors. So the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; must be aware that they must not ignore error messages (I don't even allow myself to ignore warning messages now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if the user don't ignore the message, he/she can click on the &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vutQy.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; button and see a more detailed error message than the error message on my main editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qoI23.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qoI23.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Open the image on a new tab to avoid blurry image due to rescale&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-05-08T04:26:29.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8283" CreationDate="2019-05-08T04:57:26.620" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid we can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overleaf is an independent company, independent of TUG or similar.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They can do whatever they like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I use Overleaf to write the answers I post on TeX.SE and, in my opinion, they have much more merits than flaws.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For example, their help desk is very efficient (even to free-account users), and their templates are convenient.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I also think they have improved after merging with ShareLaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that they make money &quot;taking advantage&quot; of the work of volunteers, but we should also consider that they contribute to spreading the LaTeX culture all over the world (they also appear in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/instmem.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Institutional members of the TeX Users Group&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/donors/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUG donors&lt;/a&gt; lists, I hope they are generous).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's straightforward to use Overleaf by a beginner: nothing to install, no complicate compiling steps to learn, easy way to collaborate with others on the same document.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Imagine you're a poor student and you can only use the computer of your University of which you're not the admin, how could you write your thesis in LaTeX if it is not installed on the machine you're using?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't know if we can share a Twitter message here, but this is the reason why we should love Overleaf: &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/agodemar/status/1171353926618288128&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/agodemar/status/1171353926618288128&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use Overleaf with a free account, I have never paid them, nonetheless, I have always received a quick and correct help by their customer service every time I wrote to them.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if I was solving the Riemann hypothesis, I wouldn't use Overleaf to write my document, but that is another topic.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;After all, privacy/secrecy problems would arise in any case if you're on the Internet, even if you're simply using your e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they can't often update because it may create some problems for their users (and they have more than &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com/blog/wow-four-million-people-now-use-overleaf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;4,000,000 users&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As Barbara Beeton says: &quot;never update when you're close to a due date,&quot; but in such a huge number of users there will be a huge number of due dates!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As Skillmon pointed out in their comment, it is not a problem for the existing projects. Overleaf manages the different TL installations they have in such a way that the time the project was created determines which version is used. So even if they add the new TL version, it will not break any existing project.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However, I think that to install a new TL in a complex environment is not so easy as to do it on your computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we can do is to teach users how to find out and read the log of their documents on Overleaf or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/474934/how-can-i-detect-which-tikzmark-version-im-using&quot;&gt;other tricks if that is not enough&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, I would like to thank Overleaf because they are &lt;code&gt;tikzducks&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;tikzlings&lt;/code&gt; fans. See their blog post &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com/blog/tex-live-upgrade-september-2019&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeX Live upgrade—September 2019&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;And finally, you can now typeset ducks&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-09-25T06:24:57.423" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T06:24:57.423" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-08T07:17:14.223" Score="27" ViewCount="406" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I was browsing &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; and saw in the “Hot Meta Posts” sidebar that they are changing their site name from “Mathematica” to “Mathematica &amp;amp; Wolfram Language”.  Note the usage of the ampersand symbol to chain the two topics.  In the comments to the accepted answer I saw a link to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/50124193#50124193&quot;&gt;chat message&lt;/a&gt; which says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is also precedence for using &amp;amp; on Stack Exchange: Unix &amp;amp; Linux, Programming Puzzles &amp;amp; Code Golf, Music: Practice &amp;amp; Theory, Motor Vehicle Maintenance &amp;amp; Repair, Software Quality Assurance &amp;amp; Testing, Anime &amp;amp; Manga, Board &amp;amp; Card Games, Psychology &amp;amp; Neuroscience, Gardening &amp;amp; Landscaping, Veganism &amp;amp; Vegetarianism Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now our site on the other hand is called “TeX - LaTeX” which does not seem to fit in with the other &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt;.  In fact, I think our site is the only one that contains a hyphen in its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I'd like to propose to &lt;strong&gt;rename the site to “TeX &amp;amp; LaTeX”&lt;/strong&gt; (but something else would also be conceivable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2019-05-08T07:17:14.223" Title="Changing the site name" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8283" CreationDate="2019-05-08T08:40:39.260" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is not specific to overleaf: There are (and always have been) enough users without any clues what tex system (or even OS) they are actually using (&quot;I use texstudio&quot; is a frequent answer), or where they can find log-files and how to read them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;overleaf is actually easier to handle than some private TeX-installation in this respect as much more is known or can easily be found out about the system and there are a number of answers already providing the needed screenshots to teach the new users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also (and always have been) enough other users with outdated tex system. Here your options are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tell the user &quot;sorry it will work only in a current system&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adapt your answer so that it works in the older system (you can install older texlive for tests).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For overleaf users the first option is difficult. But I don't see why it should be  &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; difficult for overleaf to provide two tex systems, one stable, one current so imho if this gets implemented depends on if they see some gain in it and if enough of their customer requests it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2019-05-08T08:40:39.260" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8290" CreationDate="2019-05-08T18:59:30.747" Score="7" ViewCount="1255" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I strike through text (i.e. cross out, or put a line through it) &lt;em&gt;within the Stack Exchange environment&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NB:  There are many questions about how to strikeout using different packages, but this question is specifically about how to do it here on this website or on Math.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90057" OwnerDisplayName="Tim kinsella" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-05-08T20:22:58.890" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T09:23:21.033" Title="strikethrough text on Stack Exchange" Tags="|support|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8288" CreationDate="2019-05-08T20:22:02.203" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Formatting of posts can be done using the visual editor within Stack Exchange, &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1777/168244&quot;&gt;some HTML&lt;/a&gt;. The latter includes &quot;the following &lt;strong&gt;safe, whitelisted subset of HTML tags&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-html prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;              - hyperlink.&#xA;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;              - bold, use as last resort &amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;-&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;, and &amp;lt;strong&amp;gt; are &#xA;                   preferred.&#xA;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;     - specifies a section that is quoted from another source.&#xA;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;           - defines a piece of computer code.&#xA;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;            - delete, used to indicate modifications.&#xA;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;             - describes the item in a &amp;lt;dl&amp;gt; description list.&#xA;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;             - description list.&#xA;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;             - title of an item in a &amp;lt;dl&amp;gt; description list.&#xA;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;             - emphasized.&#xA;&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; - headings.&#xA;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;              - italic.&#xA;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;            - specifies an image tag.&#xA;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;            - represents user input (usually keyboard input).&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;             - list item in an ordered list &amp;lt;ol&amp;gt; or an unordered list &amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;.&#xA;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;             - ordered list.&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;              - paragraph.&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;            - pre-element displayed in a fixed width font and and &#xA;                   unchanged line breaks.&#xA;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;              - strikethrough.&#xA;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;            - superscript text appears 1/2 character above the baseline &#xA;                   used for footnotes and other formatting.&#xA;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;            - subscript appears 1/2 character below the baseline.&#xA;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;         - defines important text.&#xA;&amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;         - strikethrough is deprecated, use &amp;lt;del&amp;gt; instead.&#xA;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;             - unordered list.&#xA;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;             - line break.&#xA;&amp;lt;hr&amp;gt;             - defines a thematic change in the content, usually via a &#xA;                   horizontal line.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;s&gt;strikeout&lt;/s&gt; a piece of text using the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; HTML tag pairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-05-09T08:02:44.483" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T08:02:44.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8288" CreationDate="2019-05-09T03:44:43.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible to strikethrough a text on a post using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;text&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; possible to strikethrough on the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible to strikethrough a text on a chat using &lt;code&gt;---text---&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64191" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T03:44:43.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8288" CreationDate="2019-05-09T09:23:21.033" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a user script that adds a strikeout button to the stackexchange editor, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/3341&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/q/3341&lt;/a&gt; for instructions for installing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this script the editor will have additional buttons on the top right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TbqFs.gif&quot; alt=&quot;feature in action&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(animation taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/a/7932&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/a/7932&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user187977" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T09:23:21.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8293" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8297" CreationDate="2019-05-09T14:32:32.923" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had made quite a large number of upvotes before recently gaining the minimum 15 reputation points required to upvote, but now I can't see my past upvotes anywhere. This is very annoying because I had put quite some effort into choosing which posts to upvote. There was always a message that the upvotes would be visible once I get at least 15 reputation points. Could you please fix this bug? Hopefully, so that the fix works also retrospectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmGdF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmGdF.png&quot; alt=&quot;The message&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160474" LastEditorUserId="166651" LastEditDate="2019-05-10T03:32:30.123" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T03:32:30.123" Title="Are the upvotes from when we don't have enough reputation to upvote actually lost?" Tags="|support|reputation|voting|up-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7627" CreationDate="2019-05-09T18:22:50.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP flags his/her own question when he/she find it off-topic or figure out that the question is a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every when I go to the close vote review and see a close vote made by the OP, I automatically vote to close and upvote the OP's question without reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, at least the OP is showing some research efforts, and my upvote is for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T18:22:50.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8293" CreationDate="2019-05-09T19:04:17.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the message box suggests, the votes are recorded, but never displayed. Note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/1044754/how-many-users-with-rep-less-than-15&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;we have a large contingent of users that have very little reputation (below 15)&lt;/a&gt; (actually every network has). These are often only visitors to the site who get what they want (or not) and then leave; of course, this could also include illegitimate users, so recording votes from them might unnecessarily skew scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one can find these votes in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2677/168244&quot;&gt;PostFeedback&lt;/a&gt; database. Here's a tally of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/1044764/counts-of-different-votes-from-post-feedback&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;total &#xA;up-/down-votes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6sei9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6sei9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above, 2 = UpMod (up-vote) and 3 = DownMod (down-vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T19:04:17.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8293" CreationDate="2019-05-09T21:46:21.017" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a duplicate of&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271919/message-for-upvotes-is-misleading&quot;&gt;Message for upvotes is misleading&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;but I can't mark it as such because it is on a different SE--the global meta one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160474" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T21:46:21.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8299" CreationDate="2019-05-10T07:32:04.553" Score="6" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I am sorry for a series of questions on this topic recently. This will be the last question I promise :)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I flagged some answers. The following flags are disputed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/489419/156344&quot;&gt;How to vertically center a table on the page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason:&lt;/strong&gt; The answer is seriously lacking information. But... it is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/489651/156344&quot;&gt;Numbers in bold inside a table&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason:&lt;/strong&gt; The answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8282/156344&quot;&gt;clearly wrong&lt;/a&gt;, as it is what the OP had tried.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/489924/156344&quot;&gt;Increase LaTeX table row height&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; (now deleted by owner)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason:&lt;/strong&gt; The answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8294/156344&quot;&gt;a duplicate of a competing answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/490035/156344&quot;&gt;Can I create music sheets with LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason:&lt;/strong&gt; The answer has nothing to do with the question. It does load &lt;code&gt;musixtex&lt;/code&gt; which is related to music, but I can't find a bit about music inside &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}...\end{document}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As those flags are disputed, I know I am flagging in a wrong way. But how wrong it is? In what case should we flag an answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a general answer for the last question above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1: Only available for users having 10k+ rep.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T08:19:10.403" Title="When should we flag an answer?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8298" CreationDate="2019-05-10T08:19:10.403" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flagging is intended for cases where 'user' actions cannot suffice. For example, an objectively wrong answer can be downvoted: that's how the site is supposed to work. On the other hand, an answer with is about a totally different topic, or is itself a question, should really be removed entirely: that requires moderator action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not get hung up too much on whether your flags are 'helpful'. Some of that can be affected by review queues, etc., and there can be a 'diversity of views'. The helpfulness of flags is mainly there to allow the back-end to order flagged posts for mods: we have a sufficiently-short queue that this is really neither here nor there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T08:19:10.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-10T10:54:53.380" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am talking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/317897/156344&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. It doesn't work with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, because it uses a package which is written by the PDFTeX author and is specifically for LaTeX and PDFLaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40482/typesetting-any-language-vietnamese-for-example/317897?noredirect=1#comment1237107_317897&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;, the answer has got 2 downvotes and zero upvotes. I can think of some possible reasons why it is downvoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does not work with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does not provide a correct answer or sufficient information: the answerer should state clearly that the proposal only works with LaTeX and PDFLaTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For the first reason&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now: refers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/485593/how-to-write-capital-alpha/485595#comment1227922_485598&quot;&gt;a recent comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] Posting a solution that uses newer technology does not merit a downvote unless it fails to answer the question, i.e. ignoring the specified requirements. This site should encourage posting alternative solutions, some of which use LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we should not downvote answers which don't work for some compilers except when those compilers are mandatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First reason is, therefore, not applicable here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For the second reason&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, it is the answerer's fault. However, I edited the answers and added some information to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one must be in a very bad mood or one must be very rude to downvote such answer for such a reason. I have seen, on this site, hundreds of answers which are even less informative, they are not upvoted: okay, but they are not downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second reason is, therefore, not probable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why the downvotes? What is wrong here? And as usual, I want to add a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@downvoters: Please add a comment saying what is wrong. I see no reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is some fact about the proposal: in Vietnam, in every 10 LaTeX users, 8 uses this proposal, about 1.5 uses the proposal in some documents and &lt;code&gt;babel&lt;/code&gt; in some other documents, only 0.5 uses &lt;code&gt;babel&lt;/code&gt; totally. I don't have the official satistics, but I am pretty sure this approximation is close. If TeX.SE were a Vietnamese-speaking community, the linked answer would get at least twice as many upvotes as the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb29-1/tb91thanh-vntex.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TUGboat article&lt;/a&gt;, Hàn Thế Thành stated both answers as &quot;correct&quot;. The proposal in the linked answer is &quot;better for Vietnamese-only documents&quot; and the &lt;code&gt;babel&lt;/code&gt; proposal is &quot;better for multiligual documents which use Vietnamese&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T10:54:53.380" Title="Why is this answer downvoted?" Tags="|support|down-votes|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2019-05-20T04:42:36.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-10T21:23:08.467" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to contact or ping a TeX.SE user who does not use the chat  to send a private message, or comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct procedure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2019-05-10T22:15:24.720" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T22:15:24.720" Title="Corrected procedure to contact a user who does not write in chat" Tags="|discussion|support|user-accounts|users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2019-05-10T22:19:11.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8275" CreationDate="2019-05-10T23:58:08.417" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag &lt;code&gt;elsevier&lt;/code&gt; seems a good solution rather than specific tags for each separate class, template package, etc., as it seems they are expanding them. I have recently seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/elsarticle_rinp_microarticle_template.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; for journals with &quot;microarticles&quot; like &lt;em&gt;Results in Physics&lt;/em&gt;. It's the first I know that includes the full &quot;Elsevier heading&quot; in the template:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XiRVd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XiRVd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Microarticle template&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they keep expanding, seems better to have an overall tag to encompass all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3557" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T23:58:08.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8305" CreationDate="2019-05-19T14:10:31.947" Score="13" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main site I see a lot of edits that replace the indention by 4 spaces for code blocks with &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; ⟨&lt;em&gt;code block&lt;/em&gt;⟩ &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; (for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/447721/revisions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/447721/revisions&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean this syntax is to be preferred? And if yes, why does the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button indent the code instead of adding &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user189125" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-05-20T01:34:12.863" LastActivityDate="2019-05-20T01:34:12.863" Title="Is the ``` syntax for code blocks to be preferred?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8304" CreationDate="2019-05-19T17:09:22.237" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I generally use four spaces, but I use &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; whenever necessary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Four spaces is very good. Actually, I do not use four spaces, but the shortcut offered by Stack Exchange (&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;). It clearly takes much less time than using &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are two main drawback of using &lt;code&gt;    &lt;/code&gt; that I can see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Switching code language&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose that I want to post a C code,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-cpp prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;stdio.h&amp;gt;&#xA;int main() {&#xA;    printf(&quot;Hello, world!\n&quot;);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to use a very long string&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-html prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-cpp --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but if I use the &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; syntax, I just have to use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-md prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;```cpp&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly the &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; syntax is much better here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Listings inside a list&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever tried to post a code inside a list environment, like the above codes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you must indent your code by &lt;strong&gt;eight&lt;/strong&gt; spaces!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* This is some text in a list environment&#xA;&#xA;        This is some code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; or the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button don't work here. If I use those shortcuts for the above C code, the result will be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;include &lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;int main() {&#xA;    printf(&quot;Hello, world!\n&quot;);&#xA;}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where the &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; syntax shows its greatest benefit. I just have to use the shortcut to add four spaces and add the backticks to the indented listing. Result &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is where the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;```&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; syntax shows its greatest benefit. I just &#xA;have to use the shortcut to add four spaces and add the backticks to the &#xA;indented listing. Result&#xA;&#xA;    ```cpp&#xA;    #include &amp;lt;stdio.h&amp;gt;&#xA;    int main() {&#xA;        printf(&quot;Hello, world!\n&quot;);&#xA;    }&#xA;    ```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-cpp prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;stdio.h&amp;gt;&#xA;int main() {&#xA;    printf(&quot;Hello, world!\n&quot;);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, with a higherlevel list, like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is some code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it requires more spare time to manually insert spaces. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;However I disagree with the linked revision in case it is from another user&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The user who made the revision is the answerer himself, so any edits are very acceptable and welcome.&lt;/strong&gt; However, please note that your suggested edit will be rejected by me in the review queue if you propose such an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following part does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; criticize the answerer &amp;ndash; he just edits his post, so nothing is wrong here. I appreciate his revision. But the part criticizes all suggested edits with this style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Please do NOT propose useless suggested edits just for substituting four spaces with backticks!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I will reject all such edit suggests. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked revision has three parts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Substitute four spaces with backticks: I disagree with it. What is wrong with four spaces?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to the quote: Well, how does the output change then? Is it okay to have a multiline paragraph code with only &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;? Absolutely okay, so I disagree with this also.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;According to package [wrapfig][1]&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;According to [wrapfig][1] documentation&lt;/code&gt;: Alright, this is at least acceptable, but that is not a major edit and not so necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, if it is from a user less than 2000 rep and not the post owner, I will reject it right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-05-19T17:09:22.237" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-20T15:22:07.493" Score="6" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/491512/156344&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; is a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not surprisingly, it was taken to the Low Quality Posts review queue. Of course, it is a question not an answer, so it deserves deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/171375&quot;&gt;the review&lt;/a&gt; ended with an &quot;Edit&quot; revision. It makes the review complete, thus the answer is not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the intention of Pinnow is good: the post needs improvements in formatting. However, by doing so, he accidentally pressed the decisive &quot;Keep undeleted&quot; button, which is not appropriate in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I ask here is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we even improve formatting for posts which are going to be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that when you edit a post by the review queue, the review becomes completed right after that. So in my opinion, we can edit posts if necessary, but &lt;em&gt;not in the review queue&lt;/em&gt;, except you intentionally want to keep that post. And, I am sure Pinnow wants to delete the post rather than keeping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I flagged the answer after knowing that the review had completed. But &lt;strike&gt;it seems to me that&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/321056/410270&quot;&gt;there will be no new review queue&lt;/a&gt;, so we should really avoid situations like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The answer is now deleted by a moderator, but I am looking forward for a general answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastEditorDisplayName="user156344" LastEditDate="2019-05-24T04:02:03.007" LastActivityDate="2019-05-24T04:02:03.007" Title="Should we edit questions in answers when reviewing?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8309" CreationDate="2019-05-22T06:19:31.553" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I got the &quot;Announcer&quot; badge for having shared this link: &#xA;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/367140/insert-figures-for-a-subsection-and-start-another-subsection-after-image&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I find the place where I shared it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply searching for the link or part of it doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-05-22T10:27:55.923" Title="How to search for a link?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8308" CreationDate="2019-05-22T10:27:55.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Where you shared it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/370627/why-should-the-h-option-not-be-used-in-floats#comment915324_370627&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@StevenB.Segletes I know it (see the first words of this answer of mine: tex.stackexchange.com/a/367156/101651), I'd like to have an expert answer about the topic that can be linked every time one have to explain it to a new user. – CarLaTeX May 19 '17 at 19:05&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How I found it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What is the link?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get the Announcer badge, there must be a link which has got more than 25 views (from 25 different IP addresses, of course) &lt;em&gt;which ends by your UserID&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;/users/101651&quot;&gt;101651&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked question has three posts which can give you such a link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question itself, it will give you &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/367140&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/367140/101651&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stephen Mason's answer, it will give you &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/367141&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/367141/101651&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your answer, it will give you &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/367156&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/367156/101651&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those links, I think you must have got the badge for the link to your answer (the last listed above). So I only searched for that link and ignore the others, however you may try to find the other links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Search for the link inside questions and answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used the search filter of Stack Exchange and I found nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Search for the link inside comments (but also Qs and As as well)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/367156/101651+site:tex.stackexchange.com&amp;amp;filter=0&amp;amp;biw=1366&amp;amp;bih=667&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google search&lt;/a&gt; points me to only two posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your answer (of course we won't find it in your answer).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/370627/156344&quot;&gt;Why should the &amp;quot;H&amp;quot; option not be used in floats?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it is easy. Just read your questions and comments there, move the cursor to every link inside them, and check if the link is &lt;code&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/367156/101651&lt;/code&gt;. And I found the linked comment as the first result. (I &lt;code&gt;return 0;&lt;/code&gt; right after that, but you may continue searching there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-05-22T10:27:55.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2019-05-23T14:19:43.727" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hit this banner while ticking the &quot;packages I have used&quot; .. of course X)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b9LDd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b9LDd.png&quot; alt=&quot;of coourse&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make sense to make an exception for the poll?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72679" LastActivityDate="2019-05-23T14:19:43.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-24T07:38:28.407" Score="1" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can not reject that the number of just-do-it-for-me questions has been increasing over time. The chance of seeing a just-do-it-for-me &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-pgf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/a&gt; tagged questions is higher than before. We have been doing the following to deal with such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer it as a normal question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close it as off topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the number of just-do-it-for-me is increasing fast, I don't think the second option is good in the future, when I think the site will be flooded with such kind of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, option 1 is also not good, because by providing a complete answer to a just-do-it-for-me question, we are encouraging people to ask such questions in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should we do to deal with just-do-it-for-me questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two proposals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continue closing such questions (I don't really like this way though, but it is opinion-based) and answering them if you want (well it &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7935/156344&quot;&gt;has been discussed&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer them &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; completely, even when we are in free time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I will probably apply the second proposal since now (actually I started testing a few days ago), as such answers will help the OP, but those answers also require the OP to do some additional research, and gradually it will teach the OP of Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z-PGF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make it consistent, we should use only one of the above. What will you use and what do you think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, to make it consistent, if you generally use the former proposal, I will also  stop following the latter one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156344" LastActivityDate="2019-06-03T03:11:50.560" Title="Dealing with just-do-it-for-me questions" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8311" CreationDate="2019-05-24T07:58:53.977" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this just a duplicate of the linked question (and others in the same area)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reasonable definition of a &quot;just do it for me&quot; question nor any need for a policy that is shared between different people. It's your choice. For any question, if you want to answer it, answer it, if you don't want to answer it ignore it or vote on it or whatever else you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not try to force your choice on others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example all these questions could be classed as this way, but they all have answers which are perhaps generally useful so why are they a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/467177/how-to-draw-english-coastline-fractal&quot;&gt;How to draw &amp;#39;English coastline&amp;#39; fractal?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/462721/draw-curved-lines-simply&quot;&gt;Draw curved lines simply&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/459025/how-to-create-a-title-page-like-this&quot;&gt;How to create a title page like this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2019-05-24T08:15:13.937" LastActivityDate="2019-05-24T08:15:13.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8311" CreationDate="2019-05-25T10:02:56.073" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the situation is better now than some time ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just-do-it-for-me questions &lt;em&gt;asked by old users&lt;/em&gt; are downvoted now. That's a good signal that those questions are not written in a proper way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have your feeling that the percentage of just-do-it-for-me questions (among new questions) is growing, I feel just the opposite, perhaps due to what I've said above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's no need to close them, there are many of them with awesome answers, which could be useful to other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's good policy just to downvote them only if they are asked by old users who should know what an MWE is (and upvote them as soon as an MWE is added) and leave a comment explaining the reason of the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let everybody be free to answer, if they enjoy doing it, or not, if they think the question doesn't deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T18:32:42.620" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T18:32:42.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8319" CreationDate="2019-05-25T14:56:58.263" Score="4" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;When mentioning names of programs or &lt;em&gt;LaTeX&amp;thinsp;2e&lt;/em&gt;-packages or document classes  or files within questions/answers&amp;mdash;what is the best way of typesetting/emphasizing them?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often see such names emphasized by means of backtick&amp;nbsp;escapes in situations where they are not (parts of) a snippet of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to refrain from using backtick&amp;nbsp;escapes in such situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it sufficient in such situations to turn such names into links that point to resources where more information about the programs/packages/document classes/files in question can be found?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should emphasizing in such situations be done by means of &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt;&amp;thinsp;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should emphasizing in such situations be done by means of &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., the following phrase does not exhibit whatsoever code but it refers to the document class &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/article&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;article&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The document class &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/article&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;article&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; does not provide means for dividing documents into chapters.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., the following phrases do also exhibit snippets of code: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The document class &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/article&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;article&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; does not provide means for dividing documents into chapters. You can have &lt;em&gt;LaTeX&amp;thinsp;2e&lt;/em&gt; load that document class by placing the command &lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&lt;/code&gt; into the preamble of the source code of your document.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T16:41:56.827" LastActivityDate="2019-06-06T08:22:29.123" Title="How to typeset/emphasize names of programs or packages or document classes or files within questions/answers at TeX LaTeX StackExchange?" Tags="|discussion|best-practice|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8314" CreationDate="2019-05-26T11:23:53.973" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think backticks such as &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt; are fine, the word is not the usual English word &quot;article&quot;, it is a fragment of latex syntax, the argument to &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt;. Linking to ctan is (a) harder to achieve as you have to look up the link and add it by hand, and (b) is not clearly helpful to the reader as for most classes (and certainly &lt;code&gt;article&lt;/code&gt;) if you are fetching it from ctan then something is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-05-26T11:23:53.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8318" CreationDate="2019-05-26T14:42:20.807" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to understand if it's my problem only that when I get a positive score on the achievement icon (cup) you do not see the small green symbol that indicates the reputation. It's been happening to me since this morning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-05-26T16:10:35.743" LastActivityDate="2019-05-26T16:10:35.743" Title="Problem of failure to report a positive score" Tags="|discussion|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8316" CreationDate="2019-05-26T16:09:41.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is considered &quot;status by design&quot; where the achievements icon only shows aggregated reputation if it's positive. If you had an answer upvote (+10) and downvote (-2), the aggregation would show +8. If a user was removed and it influenced your reputation (-95 in your case) and you only had two answer upvotes (+20), the aggregated total of -75 won't show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the aggregation is made from the last time you clicked on the achievements icon. So, while it might not have shown anything for your reputation loss of -75 on 2019-05-25, once you clicked on the achievement icon, the aggregation timeline resets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/219652/168244&quot;&gt;Why do reputation drops not highlight the Achievements icon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-05-26T16:09:41.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8314" CreationDate="2019-05-27T10:30:49.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;On linking to CTAN specifically, I tend to think that the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; occurrence of a package or class name &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; need to linked. This will come down to how well-known the package is, whether the context suggests the reader may need the link, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, for core LaTeX material, I would only link if there was a strong reason: say pointing to &lt;a href=&quot;https://ctan.org/pkg/clsguide&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;clsguide&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. For an answer where the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; already mentions a package or class, I would not link (the reader presumably knows about the package), again unless there is a strong reason. On the other hand, if I'm suggesting a package that the question does not mention, and that is not so well-known as to be trivial, I would generally link &lt;em&gt;on the first mention&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-05-27T10:30:49.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8311" CreationDate="2019-06-03T03:11:50.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are just some thoughts since up to now I never really understood what a &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; (DIFM) question is. Originally I thought they may be synonymous to &quot;too little effort&quot; because in connection to classifying a question as DIFM very often one sees complaints about the lack of an MWE. However, &quot;too little effort&quot; is hardly a criterion as many of our most voted questions do not show much effort. Another thought I had is that these are questions the answers of which will not really be useful for many but the OP. However, why complaining about the lack of an MWE in this case? Regardless of whether or not there is an MWE, such questions are too narrow in scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet at this point it is important to recall whom we are writing answers for. I would like to argue that we do not write them only for those who are good at abstraction and are able to write a question which is rather abstract such that the answer can be applied to many problems. We also write answers for those who want to learn from examples. It is probably safe to assume that several of those who are good at LaTeX &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; originally learned from examples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, in a way, all questions are &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; since, after all, when answering them we do something for the OP, namely help to solve their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Altogether I feel that the whole discussion misses a very clear point as DIFM is not well-defined, and also got more emotional that it probably should. I agree with David Carlisle that everyone is free to deal with questions in the way they want, but we should not start imposing rules on how others deal with these questions, the more so since it appears to be not clear what &quot;these questions&quot; really are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-06-03T03:11:50.560" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8314" CreationDate="2019-06-06T08:22:29.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One option is to link to the tag here, ie: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt; (using &lt;code&gt;[tag:tagging]&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastActivityDate="2019-06-06T08:22:29.123" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-09T20:33:39.710" Score="5" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current name of Apple's desktop operating system is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;macOS&lt;/a&gt;. On this site, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; is used to refer to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But other Stack Exchange sites use the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macos&lt;/a&gt;, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot;&gt;Ask Different&lt;/a&gt; (Apple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt; (Gaming)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot;&gt;Game Development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot;&gt;Code Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot;&gt;DevOps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would like to request that we rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macos&lt;/a&gt;, thus making us consistent with the other sites. We can keep the former tag as a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, we should have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; (the operating system was formerly called &quot;OS X&quot;) as a synonym, as previously discussed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6876/189731&quot;&gt;Merge [mac] and [osx], making [mac] a synonym of [osx]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="189731" LastEditorUserId="189731" LastEditDate="2019-06-09T20:41:26.233" LastActivityDate="2019-06-13T06:20:41.457" Title="Request to rename [mac] → [macos], with synonym of [osx]" Tags="|discussion|tagging|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8324" CreationDate="2019-06-13T06:02:35.043" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take a look at the numbers of postings with various Mac-related tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;mac       559&#xA;macos      44&#xA;mactex    482&#xA;texshop   495 % a Mac-only front end&#xA;latexian   13 % another Mac-only front end&#xA;&#xA;macros   5752 % &quot;macros&quot; is among the &quot;top ten&quot; of all tags on TeX.SE&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The majority of the 44 &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt;-tagged postings is not actually related to MacOS (the operating system) in a meaningful way. If anything, many of these postings should be re-tagged as either &lt;code&gt;mac&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mactex&lt;/code&gt;. However, there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a handful of &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt;-tagged postings with a clear link to MacOS, so I wouldn't get rid of the &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt; tag entirely -- or make it into a synonym for &lt;code&gt;mac&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see no justification for re-tagging all 559 &lt;code&gt;mac&lt;/code&gt;-tagged postings as &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt;. The focus of the overwhelming majority of the &lt;code&gt;mac&lt;/code&gt;-tagged postings is clearly the Mac ecosystem, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the MacOS operating system (a small subset of the Mac ecosystem). One can easily verify that some of the &lt;code&gt;mac&lt;/code&gt;-tagged postings are not acually all clearly related to any part of the Mac ecosystem and hence that the &lt;code&gt;mac&lt;/code&gt; tag isn't appropriate for them. However, the fact that the postings are tagged incorrectly cannot be a reason for adopting the &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt; tag for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would certainly not advocate changing the tag of &lt;code&gt;mactex&lt;/code&gt; postings to &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some postings tagged with &lt;code&gt;texworks&lt;/code&gt;, a multi-platform front-end, and some of these postings are from users who use &lt;code&gt;texworks&lt;/code&gt; on a Mac. However, the focus of these postings is on &lt;code&gt;texworks&lt;/code&gt;, and it would be an error to change their tags to &lt;code&gt;mac&lt;/code&gt;, let alone &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thought: Currently, postings tagged with &lt;code&gt;macros&lt;/code&gt; outnumber those tagged with &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt; by a factor of more than one hundred to one. Since we should care about not creating unnecessary confusion, and because &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;macros&lt;/code&gt; do look rather alike at first glance, increasing the number of  &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt;-tagged postings by a factor of more than 10 could very well be rather counterproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2019-06-13T06:20:41.457" LastActivityDate="2019-06-13T06:20:41.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8025" CreationDate="2019-06-13T20:36:28.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as a side note: This quite comes to our policies which are not quite what The Powers encourage. The standard procedure for poor posts is (1) downvote, (2) wait for edit and improvent, (3) undownvote and possibly upvote. Users with repeated negative scoring get banned eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we don't like downvotes, the balance of the ban algorithm is off. I'm quite sure I know about specific users here that would have been banned a long time ago, given we had used to follow the standard voting procedure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a solution really, this is just a related observation, too long for a comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2019-06-13T20:36:28.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8332" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-14T19:07:47.843" Score="6" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Ulysses suggested in the comments of their question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8325/tex-art-fun-mandalas&quot;&gt;TeX Art Fun - Mandalas&lt;/a&gt;, I think the Community should decide if fun questions of that kind (i.e. contests, social events, etc.), which require some coding, are to be asked on the Main site or on Meta. Both have occurred in the past, as shown in the examples given below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what are some good guidelines for how to set up such questions? For example, does it matter if they can potentially give reputation (to either the question or the answer)? Should they be Community Wikis? Are bounties appropriate prizes? &#xA;What contest rules, prizes, etc are or aren't ok? What tags should be used? Anything else that should be considered? &#xA;These don't necessarily need to be rules as such, but can be simply etiquette and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few pre-prepared answers have been provided below as a rough poll. You can upvote any you support, and/or add a new answer to discuss things in greater detail. If there is a clear consensus we can perhaps adopt this as the official rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there was a misunderstanding, the types of questions being discussed are contests and/or social events. &#xA;The &lt;code&gt;fun&lt;/code&gt; tag is used for a lot of different things, not just what's being discussed here, and we don't want to &#xA;remove it or restrict its usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of such questions on Main:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39485/how-can-we-display-fireworks&quot;&gt;How can we display fireworks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/336768/seasonal-challenge-contributions-from-texing-dead-welcome&quot;&gt;Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/420083/pi-day-riddles-for-latex-users&quot;&gt;\pi day riddles for LaTeX users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/479395/welcoming-2019-pi-day-how-to-draw-the-letter-%cf%80&quot;&gt;Welcoming 2019 Pi day: How to draw the letter π?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/473287/welcoming-2019-lunar-new-year-how-to-draw-a-lovely-pig&quot;&gt;Welcoming 2019 Lunar New Year: How to draw a (lovely) pig?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/312199/i-need-a-tex-donkey&quot;&gt;I need a TeX-donkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of such questions on Meta:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7950/let-us-have-some-tex-mas-fun-complete&quot;&gt;Let us have some TeX-mas fun [completed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8006/preparing-for-groundhog-day&quot;&gt;Preparing for Groundhog Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: we are not talking about questions like these (which are tagged &lt;code&gt;fun&lt;/code&gt;, but are not specifically contests &#xA;or social events):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74878/create-xkcd-style-diagram-in-tex&quot;&gt;Create xkcd style diagram in TeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/424263/how-to-properly-typeset-a-rolling-r&quot;&gt;How to properly typeset a rolling r&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-do-i-make-my-document-look-like-it-was-written-by-a-cthulhu-worshipping-madm&quot;&gt;How do I make my document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman?&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-06-15T06:42:38.737" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T08:25:02.657" Title="Fun questions (contests/social events) which require coding: Main or Meta?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8332" CreationDate="2019-06-14T19:07:47.843" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should be asked on the Main site, that's why the &lt;code&gt;fun&lt;/code&gt; tag is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're worried because of some reputation gain which someone may deem undeserved, you could ask the mods to trasform the question in Community Wiki (but, for example, how could you say that this reputation: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/338377/101651&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/338377/101651&lt;/a&gt; is undeserved?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2019-06-15T05:32:48.017" LastActivityDate="2019-06-15T05:32:48.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8332" CreationDate="2019-06-14T19:08:50.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should be asked on Meta, there's a &lt;code&gt;fun&lt;/code&gt; tag also here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="117050" LastEditDate="2019-06-19T08:25:02.657" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T08:25:02.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8332" CreationDate="2019-06-14T19:09:57.767" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are off-topic on both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-06-14T19:09:57.767" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8332" CreationDate="2019-06-14T19:10:57.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let the OP decide where to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-06-14T19:10:57.990" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8332" CreationDate="2019-06-17T08:19:49.340" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Meta&lt;/em&gt; means &quot;behind&quot; or &quot;after&quot; in Greek.&#xA;When Andronicus of Rhodes compiled the works of Aristotle, he placed the book on &quot;First Philosophy&quot;, as Aristotle himself called it, after the works on Physics and it has been called Metaphysics since then.&#xA;While the book on Physics describes the reality, the Metaphysics describe the causes and first principles of the reality.&#xA;So while the first one works on the tangible world, experimenting and extracting the laws of Nature, the latter works in a very abstract way on what the reality is and, in last instance, what can be known about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there on, the prefix &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; has been used to describe things that say something about the things themselves, which is, of course, a bit confusing.&#xA;An example might help: metadata is data that describes something about the data I have.&#xA;For instance, I record an UV spectrum and I get a set of data of absorbance vs. wave length. &#xA;But then there is some other information that does not belong to the compound that I am measuring, but to the way I have gathered the data.&#xA;This includes which instrument and which settings I have used.&#xA;That is data of the data and thus, metadata.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here on TeX SE we have two sites, one is Main where TeX stuff is questioned and answered, and another Meta, where questions on how the main site should work are asked.&#xA;Some questions like &quot;How can I make this macro?&quot; belongs to Main, while a question like &quot;Can we ask questions in another language than English?&quot; belongs to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per why there is a fun tag in Meta, this is just to tag questions that are related to fun questions on Main.&#xA;For instance, this question has the tag fun because it is related to what to do with fun questions.&#xA;Another example: suppose there is a question on Main tagged fun which makes fun on small furry animals.&#xA;Someone could post a question on Meta, tagged fun also, stating that there are fun questions which are not respectful and asking: &quot;What are the limits of fun in fun questions?&quot;. Then a discussion would follow, with someone saying that it is, in fact, funny; others saying that it is not, etc., and some decision would, hopefully, come out of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the question starting a Mandala Contest, it is asking for code, so TeX stuff, so it belongs to Main, tagged fun.&#xA;If the question were: &quot;I want to start a Mandala Contest, but I do not know how to do it.&quot;, then it would belong to Meta, tagged fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A note on the fun tag itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am personally for the fun tag. &#xA;In fact, I asked to create the fun tag in Texample.net when I sent my &lt;a href=&quot;http://texample.net/tikz/examples/emoticons/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;contribution&lt;/a&gt; in 2011 (published in 2012), about three years before I found TeX SE.&#xA;I also created the fun tag in Chemistry SE when I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/87790/organic-structure-challenge/87946#87946&quot;&gt;challenge&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;This one was, however, deleted by the community.&#xA;The community has the last decision in all aspects of the site, so nothing to say about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53956" LastActivityDate="2019-06-17T08:19:49.340" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8332" CreationDate="2019-06-17T09:37:26.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions asking how to code something in tex belong to the main site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But beside this I don't see the need to discuss any rules or guidelines. Why should it be a problem if there are questions out of the ordinary?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was bit surprised to get two gold badges out of the donkey question, but looking back I realize that I did show the answers to quite a number of people to demonstrate the diversity of TeX and I reused some of the ideas in other places. So it had a larger impact then more serious but now forgotten questions. And your question about how to draw a duck had even more impact.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="2388" LastEditDate="2019-06-17T09:57:44.733" LastActivityDate="2019-06-17T09:57:44.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8343" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-01T14:53:38.203" Score="2" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at a couple of meta questions, including my own, I have the following (Meta)^2 question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To which extent does asking suggestive questions defeat the purpose of meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is the following: if someones wishes to substantiate that the community or majority of users supports a certain point of view, one could ask a meta question on that. However, if the OP has a certain opinion on that, they may, inadvertently or not, formulate the question in such a way that it strongly suggests some view, which will then get reflected by the answers. I am certainly not &quot;innocent&quot; in this regard, for instance when I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7940/121799&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; one of the aims was to get some confirmation that academic honesty is important. However, now I am no longer sure that these kinds of questions, when asked by someone with a clear opinion or agenda, are really the way to go. After all the OP can use a wording that strongly suggests something, which makes many just echo the OP's opinion, and, what is more, mark one answer as the &quot;accepted&quot; one, which may then suggest that this is the correct answer. This is particularly tricky when another user had a similar question before, and the new question gets closed as a duplicate. Then the choice of the first user which answer to accept will have an impact on all later related questions. My question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is that the purpose of meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we find out the opinions of our fellow users without, inadvertently or not, already suggesting one? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me stress that here I do not have any opinion and really want to learn more about the opinion of others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-07-03T15:14:28.237" LastActivityDate="2019-07-03T15:14:28.237" Title="(Meta)^2: How to ask a meta question?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-02T09:50:11.683" Score="1" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;this piece of latex can be rendered correctly on math.stackexchange.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$\operatorname{var}[\boldsymbol{\mathrm{AD}}+\mathbf{b}] = \boldsymbol{\mathrm{A}} \operatorname{var}[\boldsymbol{\mathrm{D}}]\boldsymbol{\mathrm{A}}^T$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives this figure&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ik032.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ik032.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how to render it correctly on tex.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="192089" OwnerDisplayName="baojieqh" LastActivityDate="2019-07-02T10:03:51.767" Title="how to render latex symbol in tex.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2019-07-02T17:31:14.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8344" CreationDate="2019-07-02T09:52:09.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot render tex code directly. tex.stackexchange has not enabled mathjax&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to have an image in your post, compile it on your computer and upload a screen shot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="188880" OwnerDisplayName="Åke" LastActivityDate="2019-07-02T09:52:09.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8343" CreationDate="2019-07-03T06:09:02.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're over-thinking it a bit too much...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will never be a clear black-and-white line on what is on- or off-topic on meta or on the main site. There will always be some subjective view that causes certain questions to fall within some grey area not covered by all the guidelines/suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are uncertain about whether or not something is on- or off-topic on a site, visit the chat room and feel out the audience there. If you're concerned that someone else will steal your idea and post it in your stead, then you're probably only after reputation... at that point, it's better to find a different platform where you can ask without the Stack Exchange voting behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's okay to ask questions with suggestive answering avenues. Many questions fall within that category, depending on what you mean by &quot;some extent.&quot; Those that agree will answer or support an answer covering that opinion. Since meta is more discussion-based, answers highlighting opposing views are also welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question uncertainty stems from a caution of having a duplicate question being closed, rest assured that having a question closed as a duplicate is not a sin. It does not tarnish your reputation or presents you as a non-researcher-of-similar-questions... in fact, it should be considered as a strengthening agent to the site's body of knowledge. Your take on something that seems completely different yet leads to &lt;em&gt;the same answer&lt;/em&gt; if a good way of connecting those with your view to &lt;em&gt;the same answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if you want polls, know that &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4294/5764&quot;&gt;it doesn't fit well within the model here&lt;/a&gt;, but can work to some extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-07-03T15:10:27.227" LastActivityDate="2019-07-03T15:10:27.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-03T10:16:03.597" Score="12" ViewCount="665" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know that the DuckBoats usually have two parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one &quot;Quacking in chat&quot; is about TeX.SE news and similar topics, till now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the double backslash problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;origin and evolution of duck mania&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvoting behavior &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Cinderella&quot; topics. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas the second one is a Quack Guide for beginners about some LaTeX package or TeX.SE feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the next issue, in the first part, I wanted to talk about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8123/what-not-to-do-when-youre-trying-to-help-a-newbie&quot;&gt;What NOT to do when you&amp;#39;re trying to help a newbie?&lt;/a&gt;, but Sarah Lang and Astrid Schmölzer were faster than me (see their article in TUG 40:1, 2019).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I run out of ideas, please help me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-07-10T17:54:50.633" Title="Help me to find a topic for the next DuckBoat!" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8348" CreationDate="2019-07-03T17:10:37.587" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to propose: Academic integrity/efficient way to handle &lt;code&gt;just-do-it-for-me&lt;/code&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="70891" LastEditDate="2019-07-06T15:55:31.560" LastActivityDate="2019-07-06T15:55:31.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8348" CreationDate="2019-07-03T19:19:45.813" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The professore could chat about quite a number of open questions/events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the tikzlings visit to france.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tikzlings quantum physics: is the dead &lt;code&gt;\cat[schroedinger]&lt;/code&gt;  entangled with a laughing or a crying mouse?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why is tikzducks a separate package (&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/samcarter/tikzlings/issues/8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/samcarter/tikzlings/issues/8&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does a Professore from Brazil and now living in Milan think about tourists wanting Hawaii and Nutella pizza at the winter olympic games in 2026? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to create deja-vu chains in the chat?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should tikzlings be in a beginners introduction? (Naturally, they are friendly and good tutors ;-))&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and for tex users in the humanities he could chat about language and script skills in the chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="2388" LastEditDate="2019-07-05T07:16:00.640" LastActivityDate="2019-07-05T07:16:00.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8352" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-07T03:50:58.163" Score="20" ViewCount="369" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, a number of old questions about typesetting South Asian languages have resurfaced in the review queue and on the front page.  Many of them boil down to, “How do I write in this language with LaTeX?” and might be closed as duplicates.  There’s not a lot of discussion of them here, but these are the native languages of more than a billion people.  We should try to make a web search give them a complete and up-to-date answer, and one that keeps up with new developments such as HarfTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, we have tags for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indic&lt;/a&gt;, and someone recently created &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brahmic-scripts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brahmic-scripts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brahmic-scripts&lt;/a&gt;.  I admit I know very little about the distinction, although I note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Unicode consortium calls&lt;/a&gt; Brahmic scripts a subset of Indic scripts. There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tamil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tamil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tamil&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hindi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hindi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hindi&lt;/a&gt; tags, but not for most (any?) other South Asian languages.  All or nearly all modern packages that can handle Devanagari can also handle Tamil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that some languages, such as Sanskrit, are commonly written in multiple scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do we clean this situation up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Burninate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brahmic-scripts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brahmic-scripts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brahmic-scripts&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brahmic-scripts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brahmic-scripts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brahmic-scripts&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indic&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Declare them different and edit questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tamil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tamil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tamil&lt;/a&gt; and a few other languages to remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/indic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;indic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;indic&lt;/a&gt; and add &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brahmic-scripts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brahmic-scripts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brahmic-scripts&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While we’re at it, do we want one canonical question for “How do I write Tamil/Kannada/Hindi/Sanskrit/etc. in LaTeX?”  Should at least three of the eight (as I write) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tamil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tamil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tamil&lt;/a&gt; questions, and several more “How do I write in Tamil?” that weren’t tagged, be closed as duplicates?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or just leave well enough alone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61644" LastEditorUserId="61644" LastEditDate="2019-07-08T17:11:39.503" LastActivityDate="2019-07-08T17:11:39.503" Title="How should we handle old questions about South Asian languages?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8354" CreationDate="2019-07-08T19:33:17.430" Score="4" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a LaTeX file called testglister2.tex in my directory ~/GlisterBook. How do I import it into TeX.SE as an MWE? I use emacs as my text editor and from there I can copy the file, but how do I paste it as an MWE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" OwnerDisplayName="Peter Wilson" LastActivityDate="2019-07-09T21:40:33.280" Title="How do I include a MWE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8353" CreationDate="2019-07-09T17:36:08.233" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no file upload but you can paste the text from your editor then mark as a code region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Select the text in emacs (eg &lt;code&gt;M-w&lt;/code&gt; to copy the current region) then (assuming you are using an emacs with bindings to your operating system GUI) that will be on the system clipboard so you can paste it into a text box in the browser (typically with &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;V&lt;/kbd&gt;) then while it is highlighted, you can type &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; which will indent the text by four spaces which is (one of the) markdown syntax to mark it as a code block with preserved white space and line ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-07-09T21:40:33.280" LastActivityDate="2019-07-09T21:40:33.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8348" CreationDate="2019-07-10T17:54:50.633" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A useful area centered on tex.sx could be strategies for finding previous questions on the same topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a posting on tex.meta entitled &quot;Often referenced questions&quot;:  &lt;code&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2419&lt;/code&gt;.  This is cumulative (I add to it whenever I find a particularly good question/answer in an area that isn't already covered, and encourage others to do so as well).&#xA;It's a sure bet that newbies don't know about this, and probably many tex.sx &quot;regulars&quot; don't either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat off-topic.  This link just fell into my in-box, and addresses the concern of whether animal references are &quot;professional&quot; when applied to serious topics:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/dr_know/status/1146399929138630656?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/dr_know/status/1146399929138630656?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2019-07-10T17:54:50.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-11T20:16:48.957" Score="1" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not necessarily a TeX meta question but I do not know where to ask it. From the arXiv I am used that submissions get flagged if they have substantial or some overlap with papers by the same or other authors, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://arxiv.org/help/overlap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. There the algorithm is rather simple, and extremely helpful because every once in a while one reads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Substantial text overlap with paper by other authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interpretation is then (rather) obvious. (Yes, there have been problems where author A wrote a report, B copied it but was the first one to post it on the arXiv, A recycled their own paper and got into major problems because it now said that their paper had substantial overlap with the submission of B. Let us not talk about such subtleties here.) My question is whether it is feasible to have something similar for our main site. Ideally it would not only check text overlap but also code overlap. Are there any ideas to implement such features on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarification (since at least one user does not seem to have gotten the point): this is (obviously) a question on the overlap of answers. For questions there is a mechanism in place, one can mark the copied question as duplicate. In fact, when typing a question, there is already a robot that identifies related &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; on the spot. And such lists appear for all questions. So this site does have software that allows one to identify potentially related &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;. (Whether or not the suggestions made by this software is always optimal is something I cannot tell.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question in more technical terms&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can one make the software that identifies related questions also list related answers, and attach these lists to the respective answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I understand that this is not fundamental research, and in a way you can find most of the things somewhere in some manual. Yet it would be nice if there would be some means to make users indicate the source of their codes and strategies. That way there will be crosslinks to other posts, which will add value to the answers because if everyone would add these links, the related posts are just a few mouse clicks away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-07-14T17:59:53.723" LastActivityDate="2019-07-14T17:59:53.723" Title="Substantial overlap with post by other user(s)" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|answers|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8356" CreationDate="2019-07-12T04:53:18.363" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I answer with a question, but why is academic honesty so important to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't misunderstand me, but if someone copies my code means that my code is good.&#xA;Of course, I would be happier if they cited me (it is also a rule of the site, I think) but the most important thing is that users get the answers they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An adage amog old Italian COBOL programmers says: &quot;The only one who wrote a COBOL program is Spoletini, anyone else did only cut and paste&quot; (prof. Spoletini wrote a famous COBOL manual).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I more or less copied from manuals, guides, TeX.SE answers, every line of code present in my documents. Honestly, after years, I would be very difficult to me to give the correct attribution to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is surely very unfair is someone copies an answer tel quel, but I think it's enough to put a comment that says &quot;Your answer seems to be copied from ..., it would be fair if you give the correct attribution&quot;. For the most serious cases there is also downvoting and/or flagging for moderators' attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2019-07-12T04:53:18.363" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-12T19:30:07.547" Score="21" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I've asked a question to which someone added an answer they put quite some effort into. At first glance the answer seemed to perfectly answer my question, so I accepted it. Now, after using the approach in my real code, it turned out there's a major flaw in it and the answer, in its current state, actually doesn't answer my question. Moreover, properly implementing a solution seems even harder than expected at the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it fair in this case to &quot;unaccept&quot; the answer as long as the problems in it still persists? The fault of early acception is clearly on my side here, so &quot;stealing&quot; credits back from the answerer could be considered unfair behavior. What would be the best practice here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T05:12:30.610" Title="Is it fair to &quot;unaccept&quot; an already accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8356" CreationDate="2019-07-14T17:56:28.383" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as being a valuable feature. Attaching a list of possible related (or duplicate) answers to an existing answer will clutter the answer space with some related, but also some unrelated information. Just like the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; suggestions feature a list based on some algorithm that results in hits and missed, you'll have the same with &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; and that's not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, post a comment with a link and it will show up in the related/linked sidebar. Don't worry about people getting upset about you posting a comment. If you think there's just cause, or you feel things are related/similar/duplicate, then act that way. Moreover, cast your votes accordingly. Downvote if you feel the answer shows unethical behaviour or, more primitively, doesn't answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can one make the software that identifies related questions also list related answers, and attach these lists to the respective answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, one can. But, for completeness,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Such a request would have to cover the entire network and it would therefore be a better fit on &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;. I'd encourage you to ask it there and see if you get any traction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It won't add the value you perceive that isn't already covered through other means (like comments).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-07-14T17:56:28.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8358" CreationDate="2019-07-15T04:52:40.703" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's assume the real problems are not with your query (say, unclear wording) but solely with the answer you accepted prematurely, before you discovered the flaws. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before un-accepting that answer, I believe that sheer politeness and good manners require leaving a comment first, detailing the flaws you've discovered and asking the answer-giver if it's possible to revise his/her answer. Be prepared to receive, and reply to, follow-up questions from the answer-giver as he/she grapples with the new information and tries to figure out how to best fix the flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't receive a reply and/or an improved answer within 48 hours or so, I suppose it would be ok to unaccept. Remember that people travel at times and might not have access to their computers at all times. It would be grossly unfair to set a tight deadline that they simply cannot meet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do contemplate the possibility that a rapid un-accept, done before the answer-giver has had a reasonable amount of time to think about improving his/her answer, might well alienate and antagonize that answer-giver. The answer-giver's reaction might well be not only to ignore your request for an improved answer, but any and all questions you might pose in the future on TeX.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've experienced many instances of OPs contacting me after they had already accepted an answer of mine, asking for an extension and, yes, sometimes a correction. I almost invariably address these follow-up requests with a positive attitude, even if the follow-up is mostly caused by unclear wording in the initial query. But here's how I handle what I consider to be impolite, inconsiderate, and sometimes downright belligerent [!] requests for follow-up work: I simply ignore the person's request, except maybe to delete the answer entirely (to make it less straightforward for them to continue their harassing behavior), and I make a note to myself to ignore any and all queries this particular user may post in the future, &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt;, no matter the merits of the query. Life is too short to waste time on being harassed by bullies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2019-07-15T05:12:30.610" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T05:12:30.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-17T11:40:18.560" Score="9" ViewCount="1635" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw that several of the high-rep users were getting suspended. Then it got to think me why are they getting suspended. By thinking in that direction, I see that when an issue occurs: the one who reports that issue and the one who caused the issue gets suspended. While discussing in the chat, two of the mods in TEXSE informed me that these moderations are performed in a &lt;code&gt;case-by-case&lt;/code&gt; basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that these are my concerns over the way the moderation is being done:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For all the years I have been in TEXSE, I was under the assumption that moderations are performed in democratic way. That is looking into an issue, and then determining who made the fault and then reprimanding them (by means of suspensions ofcourse). But recent issues made me think otherwise, that may be, moderations is not being fair anymore. Becausing suspending all the parties involving in the issues does not sound democratic to me. Because, in that case, we can in fact replace mods by bots. So, my question is this: TEXSE is more than a decade old, so don't we have prior knowledge to evaluate issues? (I am pretty sure there must be a data-bin where this information can be retrieved).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators should abide by a set of rules while evaluating cases. Where they must explain the involved parties why they are being suspended (of course not to everyone else). If that is not the case, why do we even need mods? All we need is a bot. More importantly, why don't we -- over time let's say annually or every two-years -- replace mods and have a democratic mod election?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So by reading these posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75189/who-are-the-diamond-moderators-and-what-is-their-role&quot;&gt;Who are the diamond moderators, and what is their role?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151606/handling-calls-to-remove-a-moderator&quot;&gt;Handling Calls to Remove a Moderator&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/site-moderators&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/site-moderators&lt;/a&gt;, I literally came to the conclusion mods are basically &lt;code&gt;invincible&lt;/code&gt;. They can do whatever they want and only the powers can take or at the least consider taking actions on them (though the rules says otherwise but made in such a way to refect the former). Because, if I have to report a mod, it will end-up getting reviewed by the another mod. Which in no way is going to have an implication. So are there any cases where a mod (who got reported for a biased actions) has been removed? This is one of my biggest concern because, if we see take a sport for instance cricket as an example, when we have a problem with the umpires, we have a governing body which is neutral. But here, if we get to report a mod, then it will still be evaulated by other mods, thereby, creating conflict-of-interest, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Final question, how are the days in suspension box determined? I saw in the SE link that for the first-timers, the duration will be a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer 1&lt;/strong&gt; I am only discussing about TEXSE, because I have no idea about how the mods in other site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer 2&lt;/strong&gt; I am discussing this with a local-scope, of course mods are needed for other issues and they are doing a great job in that aspect (at least from what I saw so-far).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-08-03T02:12:56.913" Title="Roles and actions: Moderators" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8361" CreationDate="2019-07-17T12:20:57.463" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general we don't discuss cases in public to protect privacy of all involved users. In the best case, it gets resolved and is over in a few days and can be forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it's a favour to anyone to discuss in chat or on meta. Not everybody wants to see his topics in public, and on the other hand, you know, in a discussion you get more and stronger arguments over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let me see the main concern in general, that it can happen, that several users are suspended because of a single issue such as a fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe in a comparison. If you consider this knowledge site like a TeX library, or a TeX seminar, or a TeX bar &amp;amp; club (like in the chat). What would you do if, again in theory of seeing strong debates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;several users have a noisy fight&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they are seriously asked to stop it here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but it repeats over months, spread over various questions/answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;both users flag other comments, of cause&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other non-involved users complain by flags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can ask the fighting users to temporarily (!) leave the library/seminar/bar/TeX.SE as emergency stop, and to cool down, re-think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you do instead? Options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;repeat asking, that did not help the first time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;let it continue to take time to &quot;investigate&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;try to find out whose reasons are more valid&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;follow each users answer texts and comments to watch if another verbal stinger or any dispute appears again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit answers to remove off-topic complaints and remove comments (and get complaints of cause)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do and try this and that. But it happens that we might chose the emergency action above, with a temporary suspension to stop the noise, to have a pause, to send a strong signal with one of the few ways we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.SE is still a friendly site. In chat I heard &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=51048596#51048596&quot;&gt;about Physics.SE yesterday&lt;/a&gt; and I hear about others, non-friendly sites. I think we may be good to stop aggressive disputes early, in the best case by just a temporary action and without pointing fingers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2019-07-17T12:20:57.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8361" CreationDate="2019-07-17T12:28:18.710" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dealing specifically with 'how long are suspensions for'. The model we are provided by StackOverflow is that a first &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; issue should get a 7-day ban, and second serious issue a 30-day one, and after that we go to a year-long ban. However, before using any bans there is the step of simply making a polite request. On the other hand, out-and-out bad behaviour can go straight through to a long ban (the staff can impose a permanent ban, for cases such as socket-puppets).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suspensions are a blunt tool, primarily about protecting the rest of the community rather than punishing a 'transgressor'. They are used only when necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-07-17T12:28:18.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8361" CreationDate="2019-07-17T12:37:29.290" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;On 'why suspend more than one person', this is an unusual step. In most moderation situations, there is a reasonably clear trail to determine the transgressor. For example, a user who posts unpleasant comments will likely be flagged by several people, will post such comments in reply to multiple users, etc., and we can see where action is needed. Similarly, if a user is using sock-puppets, this is typically obvious from (mod only) data in the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, where users have a dispute that is between two individuals, it may not be so easy to determine 'who started it'. The issue then becomes the 'fall out' from such a case, such as mutual negative comments, flags, etc. Where at all possible, the mods will try to untangle the source of such issue. But at the same time, the &lt;em&gt;reaction&lt;/em&gt; of both parties is important. Where there the situation that reactions on both sides are problematic, a suspension may be needed for both (after of course simply asking that they 'cool it').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of this lends itself to automation: the text of comments, timings, the scope of the issue, etc., are all important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-07-17T12:37:29.290" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8361" CreationDate="2019-07-22T16:58:56.373" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the moderators should&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave it up to the users involved to decide whether or not they want to be &quot;protected&quot; or want to go for transparency. The current state of affairs of not having transparency leads to a black box and practically unlimited power of the moderators.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not run different TeX Q &amp;amp; A sites. Or, at least, if they really want to do that, disentangle different sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should be appointed for a fixed term only, and then seek reelection.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I do think that moderators should try to find out who is right in the case of a controversy. (Of course, it does not mean that one should suspend users who make inadvertently wrong statements. Users who make wrong statements on purpose are a different topic.) That is, different sites have expert moderators for a reason. Otherwise we could have random moderators, some physicists for the linguistic site, say. I do not think that it is inappropriate to point out if an answer is incorrect, I personally learn from such comments when they are correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the statement on the physics site in Stefan's post is partly correct, it is true for a very different reason: users make incorrect statements over which users start to have heated discussions. The problem is that very often it cannot be decided who is correct. The LaTeX site is different in that, in most cases, the answers to questions contain codes that can be tested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be also interesting to know how many moderators are currently active on a daily basis, and to which extent it is realistic to say that if there are issues with one moderator, the other moderators will take care of that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I condemn, in the strongest terms, the actions of a user who insults&#xA;  others, steals their codes and claims others steal from them. This&#xA;  user is a danger for every honest user on this site. Not only because&#xA;  of the insults, but also because if moderators do not stop such users&#xA;  there will be on the long run no user from whom one can steal, i.e. no&#xA;  more original code. IMHO moderators should encourage users to write&#xA;  original code and to disclose the sources of their inspirations. I&#xA;  stress that I always tried to do that (after learning this behavior&#xA;  from Torbørn T., IMHO one of the greatest contributors to this site).&#xA;  I also condemn the action of a moderator who was, maybe inadvertently,&#xA;  supporting this user. Moreover, I find it inappropriate that&#xA;  moderators can run more than one TeX site, and that there is no&#xA;  working way to challenge moderator's decisions. And I believe that&#xA;  moderators should either be able to discriminate lies from true&#xA;  statements, or resign. It is not too difficult to figure out who&#xA;  copied from whom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, and please do not abuse the comments under this post for your own agenda. If you want to express your opinion, write a post, which others can also downvote. It is not the purpose of comments to pursue a personal agenda. I won't read those anyway. So if you disagree with these statements, feel free to downvote the post, and to write up your thoughts in your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-08-03T02:12:56.913" LastActivityDate="2019-08-03T02:12:56.913" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-25T18:30:36.857" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I saw this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eHZ7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eHZ7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the past, I used to see them in the right-hand top corner of the (already not-so-nice) layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a permanent or a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this added in order to make way for ads (atop the already to-be occupied space of hot-meta posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/387546/we-re-removing-hot-meta-posts-from-stack-overflows-sidebar-for-now-moderator&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/387546/we-re-removing-hot-meta-posts-from-stack-overflows-sidebar-for-now-moderator&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS1: please only see the highlighted part &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS2: I know that the removal of hot-meta posts column is only for stack-overflow (for now). But I suspect it will soon be rolled-out throughout the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T18:30:36.857" Title="New update or a bug in the main &amp; meta page display of a question's activity information" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8361" CreationDate="2019-07-30T03:44:34.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a different perspective on the answers by the moderators. I am able to substantiate my statements by emails and links, if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The official reason for my suspension were &quot;heated discussions&quot; with a certain user. I am still not sure I understand what this means. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;However, before this user become active again my suspension was predicted by one of the moderators in an email that I got after leaving TeXWelt.de. (It is true that I deleted almost all my answers on that site. It is also true that my account did not get deleted before I did that even though I asked for that. Also I deleted &lt;em&gt;my own posts&lt;/em&gt;, which is not against any rule I am aware of. In any case, what happened on TeXWelt.de should not be part of this discussion here.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were actions by that moderator which were IMHO unbalanced. I asked this moderator to disentangle TeXWelt.de from TeX-SE. Within a few hours after I sent this email, the moderator downvoted three posts of mine: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/460991/how-to-draw-3-components-diagram/460995?noredirect=1#comment1260378_460995&quot;&gt;How to draw 3 components diagram?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/498950/different-xtick-distance-for-different-x-ranges/498952?noredirect=1#comment1260375_498952&quot;&gt;Different xtick distance for different x ranges&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/493460/illustrating-symmetric-key-distribution/493463?noredirect=1#comment1260372_493463&quot;&gt;Illustrating symmetric key distribution&lt;/a&gt;. While downvotes do not require an explanation, the timing is very suspicious IMHO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is true that last year I got a request by the moderators to leave room for the other user. I am not sure if this is the &quot;warning&quot; that is mentioned by the moderators. I did not get another message, nor did I behave against the request to leave room. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My suspension did not follow a comment or anything that may be viewed as something that goes against the user. It followed my public question on the chat how long I have to endure the behavior of the other users. I asked this on the chat because their insults did not get removed for days even though they were flagged. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also the statement &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8363/121799&quot;&gt;that a first serious issue should get a 7-day ban, and second serious issue a 30-day one&lt;/a&gt;&quot; does not seem to reflect reality since this was (at least) the second suspension of the other user, who got suspended for 7 days only.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Moderators, if you feel that you need to suspend me for that post, or you want to delete it, go ahead, I will then just delete my account before I awarded all my points. However, the purpose of this post is not retaliation or anything of this sort. The reason for this post is that I got asked by several users why I am leaving, and this post is an attempt to explain it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-07-30T03:44:34.107" CommentCount="38" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="425" CreationDate="2019-07-31T01:45:35.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would name it &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Error-by-Design&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally the different possibilities for editing the question or only the tags should be used for a different handling of both: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Editing the question makes it active (of course that could be a important edit worth to be recognized at once).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Editing the tag(s) should the question do not make active. Tags are usefull for users following them or clicking on used tags on existing questions to get fast a list of simular questions or question for the same theme ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there are two different entry points it should be doable (more or less easy, depending on the used code to realize that) ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16550" LastActivityDate="2019-07-31T01:45:35.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2019-08-01T22:01:54.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that is published on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law, except when stated otherwise in the corresponding answer. Explicitly, I place such code under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T22:01:54.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8374" CreationDate="2019-08-01T22:19:51.967" Score="12" ViewCount="538" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to how I understand the fineprint under &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; and the rules of the web site, when I delete my account the rights of my answers will belong to the site. So if anyone, including me, ever decides to use these codes, they would technically be required to mention some stackexchange. This is not what I want. So I am wondering what my options are. Some thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I could keep my account and edit my answers to become useless. This may work but is absolutely not what I want. The users of this site deserve better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I could just ignore these rules. But then I expose myself to legal trouble.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these options seem to be acceptable to me. Is there a way to make sure that anyone, including me, can use these codes without mentioning stackexchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-08-02T11:24:08.393" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T08:32:54.820" Title="To which extent can I use my own codes after I quit?" Tags="|discussion|licensing|copyright|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8372" CreationDate="2019-08-02T05:08:19.553" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site license says that when you post code, the material is available to &lt;em&gt;others&lt;/em&gt; under the CC-SA conditions. That means that for example you can't simply 'pull' all of the content: important so that the material remains available for others, and particularly reflects the fact that as others can edit, it's hard to say content is '100% yours'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you retain copyright on material you post that you wrote. In particular, with code, provided it's 100% material you wrote, you remain free to use it under an alternate license. That's for example how companies offer GPL and commercial license versions of code: the &lt;em&gt;copyright holder&lt;/em&gt; is not restricted by the license, it's &lt;em&gt;other people&lt;/em&gt; who are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: you are free to use your code how you like. It's everyone else who has to respect the CC-SA (unless you've given them explicit permission otherwise: for example, I view my contributions as 'public domain' so make my code available as CC0). So you can use in closed source, re-license as MIT, LPPL, GPL, ... or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I say, you are copyright owner. You could therefore re-post your material elsewhere on a site you control. For example, I have various postings to my own blog, where I set the rules and which is explicitly CC0 (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.texdev.net/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.texdev.net/about/&lt;/a&gt;). If you do that now, you'd be be able to show from timestamps that the material was posted before any account removal here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear on the copyright part, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing&quot;&gt;terms&lt;/a&gt; say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All materials displayed or performed on the public Network, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, and animations (collectively “Network Content”) (other than Network Content posted by individual “Subscriber Content”) are the property of Stack Overflow and/or third parties and are protected by United States and international copyright laws (“Stack Overflow Content”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They then go on to describe Subscriber Content:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You agree that any and all content, including without limitation any and all text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, animations, and product feedback (collectively, “Content”) that you provide to the public Network (collectively, “Subscriber Content”), is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC-BY-SA), and you grant Stack Overflow the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, export, display and to commercially exploit such Subscriber Content, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by you as reasonably necessary to, for example (without limitation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;importantly saying &lt;em&gt;non-exclusive&lt;/em&gt;, which can only reasonably be interpreted as the author retaining copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-08-02T11:59:56.713" LastActivityDate="2019-08-02T11:59:56.713" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8372" CreationDate="2019-08-02T09:45:58.617" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the site is clear that you retain copyright, so as Joseph has already said, you are free to do anything with your own codes, including using them or making them available to others at a different location under a different (or same) licence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that option 1 is not really available: even if you edit or delete the text anyone with a moderate rep can see the post history and access the original post. Anyone with no rep at all can access it if it's been picked up by wayback machine or similar archives. I don't think option 2 is really applicable as the licence rules place no constraints on &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; only on others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2019-08-02T09:57:27.740" LastActivityDate="2019-08-02T09:57:27.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8372" CreationDate="2019-08-02T14:01:52.547" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not do option one.&lt;/strong&gt; The code will not be destroyed, but there are no good automated systems to repair the damage. This means SE employees, site moderators, and high rep users will have to do a lot of work to repair the vandalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for legal trouble, I don't think you need to worry. In countries in which there is a presumption of innocence, in order to get into legal trouble someone would have to prove that you don't own the code and you wouldn't have to prove that you owned the code. It would be extremely difficult for a 3rd party to fabricate ownership. If SE wanted to claim ownership, they would have to falsify their logs and find an employee that was willing to perjure themselves and say they wrote the code. To blow them out of the water all you would have to do is prove ownership of a single one of your answers (e.g., the code was originally in one of your packages or you used it in an archived document). Given that the code is already open source, the potential benefits to SE seem not worth potential criminal liability. If you want slightly better protection, keep your account. Just re-register it to an email you don't use and make all your questions and answers CW so you don't accumulate reputation. This still doesn't fully protect you against SE trying to steal you identity as they can still delete your account and fabricate the logs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following on that, deleting your account does not really accomplish anything. Your questions and answers will still exist. They can still be voted on and edited. It makes it more difficult for future users to find your great answers since there is no user page from which to branch out. As above, I suggest you re-register the account to some email you don't use frequently (or just filter emails from SE), change your username to user121799 and remove your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10038" LastActivityDate="2019-08-02T14:01:52.547" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8379" CreationDate="2019-08-03T06:24:17.357" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question has (at least) an answer, it remains always visible, even if it is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the contrary, closed questions with no answers, as far as I know, after some time are no more visible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it happen also when a question is marked as duplicate and has no answer? Or does it remain as it could be useful for future users, if they search for the same problem but with the words of the duplicate question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-08-04T03:30:32.743" LastActivityDate="2019-08-04T03:30:32.743" Title="Are duplicate questions with no answers deleted?" Tags="|support|duplicates|delete|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8377" CreationDate="2019-08-03T10:22:25.813" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?page=503&amp;amp;tab=Newest&amp;amp;q=duplicate%3ayes%20answers%3a0&quot;&gt;It does not look like it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could of course be subject to policy changes, but skimming through the pages of search results I could not find any gaps. (Only the text at the top of the questions changed a few times.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastActivityDate="2019-08-03T10:22:25.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8377" CreationDate="2019-08-04T03:30:00.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can happen, depending on the post score and whether the user is still present. Specific details on when/how posts are deleted is available here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/168244&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-08-04T03:30:00.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-04T06:42:33.580" Score="26" ViewCount="475" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few cases recently where the moderator team have taken action involving high-profile users, and that has lead to some of these high-profile users deciding to leave the site. There have also been &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8369&quot;&gt;some concerns raised&lt;/a&gt; about the moderation approach. I thought it would therefore be appropriate to give an overview of the way the current moderators (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; and me) work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing to say is that &lt;em&gt;almost all moderation is about 'tidying up'&lt;/em&gt;. I would say 90% of the flags I see are either 'Over 20 comments' or 'Not an answer' where something is really a comment. The cases I want to deal with here are toward the 'policing' end of the spectrum, and where there is something to actually make a judgement on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first important point is that moderation is only ever about actions &lt;em&gt;on this site&lt;/em&gt;. Yes, the TeX community is quite compact, and there are high-profile people who the moderators know or interact with elsewhere. But any decisions to take moderator action only ever stem from what gets said on TeX-sx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second, related point is that moderator actions follow from cases where something looks negative, problematic for other users, or whatever. That can happen &lt;em&gt;even when someone makes many positive contributions&lt;/em&gt;. For a 'no name' user, that's always I think clear, but when there is an issue involving someone with a high general standing, it's vital that the only thing we (moderators) look at is behaviour that has been questioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a reason my general advice if you see anything problematic is 'flag and do not respond'. That's because 'two wrongs don't make a right'. We do see cases where one user clearly is bating another. When that happens, if the second user simply flags, action is nice and clear. Life becomes much more problematic when they respond in kind: we are left seeing issues from both parties in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third important point is that we have human moderators because not everything is black and white. Some comments are easy to moderate: they are clearly offensive to someone, insulting, or just generally rude, and we can act directly. However, when it comes to questions about the content of answers, life can become more difficult. Straight-up copy-pasting is easy to address, but where there are questions about the overlap of ideas, it can become more difficult. In particular, many people are I'm sure aware that answers can get posted whilst you are writing one yourself. So a simple 'check the timestamps' approach isn't always going to yield useful information: two answers posted within minutes may well be entirely independent, in the absence of other information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, we do look carefully at every flag concerning content. Irrespective of who posts material or who flags, each flag is looked at in a 'stand alone' sense: 'Is this a valid concern based on what I can see in the relevant material'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX-sx is a relatively small site. We have few cases where strong moderator action is needed. That means that almost always any moderator messages or suspensions are discussed by the moderator team &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; acting. As such, it's very rare that only one person has looked at the evidence and tried to draw a (fair) conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When moderators take action, it's only natural that users want to know 'what is going on'. For people not directly involved, that is tricky as the moderator team cannot give full details. For example, for questions of sock puppet voting or similar, we use IP data that cannot be made public. In the case of rude comments, the entire idea of moderation is to remove them, so we can only say very general things. Where disputes involve multiple users, we have to be mindful that we have a duty to be fair to all parties involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who believes that there are serious flaws in the handling of a moderation case can raise this with the StackOverflow staff. They are copied in on all serious moderator actions (moderator direct messages including suspensions). The Community Management team are not involved in day-to-day decisions so are independent and able to review in a neutral way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(All serious moderation actions send a mail to all moderators too, so for example it's impossible to suspend a user without all of the moderators seeing that it's happened.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="15925" LastEditDate="2019-08-04T10:18:13.677" LastActivityDate="2019-08-04T10:18:13.677" Title="Moderation in non-trivial cases" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8372" CreationDate="2019-08-05T08:32:54.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all it should be noted that since you are the author of your codes, you will retain the full copyright under any normal jurisdiction (except maybe Cuba or North Korea).  At this point it is completely irrelevant what the TeX.SX FAQ or whatever says, because they are not above the law.  This is also a common misconception and people think it is necessary to put lines like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% Copyright (c) 2019 John Doe&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in their files.  This is in fact superfluous because you own the implicit copyright to any file you have authored.  The same applies to your TeX.SX posts.  Whether you have an account on this site does not matter.  Your are the author of the codes, hence you have the full copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception is if you have forfeited your copyright as it is common in big open source project by means of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Contributor License Agreement&lt;/a&gt; (CLA).  The purpose of a CLA is that an author transfers the copyright of their contribution to the project to prevent &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;patent trolling&lt;/a&gt;, i.e. a contributor submits a contribution and after it is accepted in to the project the contributor files a patent for that contribution and sues the project for infringement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T08:32:54.820" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8387" CreationDate="2019-08-05T21:42:40.333" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the grey circle of the closing request in my account very frequent in REVIEW QUEUES compared to other items? Is there a specific reason or is it something random?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT by comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VStlj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VStlj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DoAit.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DoAit.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T18:34:13.287" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T18:34:13.287" Title="What is the meaning of the dots within the review queue drop-down?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|review-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2019-08-06T03:17:11.033" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are the reflections of someone whose account can be deleted any second. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UTy1E.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UTy1E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kinds of sites seem to be attractive too many also because they suggest one to be very useful. (No, I am not saying that the answers are not useful.) So one can easily get used to get many positive answers and encouraging comments. And the human brain is longing for positive feedback, so we keep on answering and answering. A priori, there is nothing wrong with that since the answers seem to be useful for some. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I also see some danger in all that, and do not at all say I was immune to that. We may be wanting this kind of feedback too much. We learn how to attract positive votes, e.g. by adding nice screen shots, animations (I am very &quot;guilty&quot; of that) and so on. In a sense many of us are competing for reputation points (which is reinforced by the fact that if you click on &lt;code&gt;users&lt;/code&gt;, you'll find them ordered according to their reputation), badges, ticks, whatever positive feedback we can get. This leads to all sorts of complications. Apart from spending more time here than one should, some of us just copy an existing answer without disclosing their source, some of us disclose the source but self-advertise their post as being &quot;more concise&quot; and so on and so forth. And it is really unclear where one should draw the border between good and not so good behavior. On the one hand, it makes a lot of sense to reward the more complete and more elegant posts. After all we all want to have good and elegant codes. Also being quick is rewarded. After all, it is good to have timely answers. However, this also leads to the practice that some add a quick answer just to be first, and then to revise it drastically. Certain badges can only be obtained if one was the first to answer. I openly admit that I also sometimes just added the key ingredient of an answer, and then completed it. (Changes within the first 5 minutes do not even seem to get recorded.) Then there are those who see an idea and copy it. (Even though I did all the dubious things mentioned above, I claim that this is the one thing that I never did, at least not knowingly.) This kills a lot of motivation of newcomers to contribute since the first thing they see is that someone else absorbs their idea in another answer. I believe that the reputation cap of 200 is introduced to counter some of the most negative consequences, but in reality it seems to long those who exceed it even more for the tick and answer questions that are not really interesting but to provide one with &quot;easy rep points&quot;. (At least I did that.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I writing all this? Because I think that the whole site is in a way designed in such a way that we compete in this way. As I said, this serves a lot of purposes but also has some negative consequences. IMHO those who designed this site understand human psychology very well. I believe that it is not only our fault if we overdo it on this site, and spend too much energy. It is partly a consequence of the design, and I urge those who design this site to change the design in such a way that it becomes more cooperative, more democratic and less business-oriented. All these wishes do not concern myself (because I deleted all my accounts) but remaining and and future users of this and similar sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the answer to this question: one very efficient way is to delete the account. This is guaranteed to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T03:17:11.033" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-07T01:40:29.900" Score="11" ViewCount="580" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is in response to marmot's leaving of the site as discussed in the comments of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8361/roles-and-actions-moderators/8369#8369&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. Comments are disabled there, so I ask this as a separate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8361/roles-and-actions-moderators/8369#comment27071_8369&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz writes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To the fact, that you are moving your points to others, thousands already: I saw the answers with the bounties and they are great and deserve appreciation. Why didn't you set the bounties earlier? Just to clarify then: you are now misusing the bounty system to move points massively. That can be considered as &lt;em&gt;gaming the system and reputation manipulation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually quite surprised to read this. Bounties to me serve two purposes: Either to raise attention to a question that doesn't have fully satisfying answers yet, or to show appreciation to a certain answer that you consider worth more that just a 10-points-upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with a lower reputation score will certainly have to consider more carefully how much points they award as bounty and how often they do to not lose certain site privileges. But users with a 100k and above reputation clearly are able to award extra credits more generously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I still hope marmot changes his mind about leaving this site, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; he finally decides to do so, I really appreciate that he wants to give back some of his points to others before doing so. I know answering questions shouldn't be about collecting points, but it's sometimes still a bit frustrating when you put a lot of effort or time into solving a problem and writing an answer (usually an old one) that pops up in the recent activity list for a few minutes and then forever vanishes in the depths of the site. It leaves you with that uneasy feeling no one cares about what you have written and the time you have spent on this. Receiving a bounty for such answers will certainly give you extra motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I really don't follow the insinuation that giving credits to others, especially in this case, could be considered a &quot;reputation manipulation&quot;. I can't tell what criteria were considered to award the bounties, all of the answers seem TikZ-related, but it's not that bounties were given to random, low-quality answers or with the intent to push the reputation of certain users. To me the motivation just seemed to be &quot;my credits will disappear after leaving the site, why not giving some of them back to the community before that happens?&quot; That doesn't seem a bad intent to me at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Stefan: Why do you consider the awarding a misuse of the bounty system in this case?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;@All moderators: What awarding behavior in general is considered manipulative or a misuse of the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T16:45:11.090" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T17:53:01.893" Title="When is awarding bounties considered a misuse of the system?" Tags="|discussion|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8384" CreationDate="2019-08-07T11:20:35.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounties are great! Showing appreciation to posts by bounties is great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are possible ways of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/169547/bounty-fraud-quid-pro-quo&quot;&gt;bounty fraud&lt;/a&gt;, such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;shifting reputation to another account by bounties a lot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;circular bounties (moving rep point to another account, and that account moves it back, costs zero but a benefit may be visibilty and so gained rep/badges)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What that user now does, I just said it &quot;&lt;em&gt;can be considered&lt;/em&gt; as gaming the system and reputation manipulation&quot;. I didn't make a charge or an action, I gave a possible view point. So thanks for discussing it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only related situation I found is described in a comment by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/166924/whuber&quot;&gt;whuber&lt;/a&gt; (same link above): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only similar thing I remember anyone getting away with was a&#xA;  high-rep user who, instead of quitting SE altogether, first shed all&#xA;  his rep with a string of +500 bounties: but there was no quid pro quo&#xA;  there (and I suspect the SE team nullified the effects anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds the same to me, so that user is not the first one having that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty system is very transparent, and reputation changes can also be seen. So, as you refer to that case, until now it's already about 18,000 reputation points the user transferred within days, growing, of about 145.000. Moving points massively, that are already &quot;given up&quot; by initiating the account deletion, doesn't look like normal use of the bounty system to me. In case that effect would be nullified, some users may be sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T12:41:39.347" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T12:41:39.347" CommentCount="44" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8384" CreationDate="2019-08-07T17:06:06.043" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main intention behind the bounties is to reward answers that have done something original. They include, but are not limited to, posts that have lead to new packages or libraries. It is true that most of the bounties were awarded to Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z posts, and the reason is as simple as the fact that I am a bit more comfortable judging for those whether or not they are a major step forward than for other tags. Also I &quot;earned&quot; most of my points with Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z related posts, so I just pass these points to other Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z posts, and IMHO this does not &quot;take away&quot; anything from other tags. Altogether I do not understand at all why one should not be allowed to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. As for the &quot;why now&quot; question: true, the main motivation is that the points will decay once my account is deleted, which was scheduled for August 3. Why would it be &quot;better&quot; to let the points decay than to pass them to others? Let me mention that it is not the case that these are the first bounties I awarded. One bounty of 500 points I remember was to a user who wrote a stellar answer, but after she was done the OP changed the question. Unfortunately,  the user seems to have become inactive, yet the discussion why this happened is off-topic here. Nevertheless I'd like to reiterate that the purpose of all these bounties is to acknowledge &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; codes. And I feel that if there was a general agreement that originality (as opposed to just copying) is something valuable, many problems that surface here and there on meta could be avoided (and the current discussion would never have emerged). But this is just an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastEditorDisplayName="user121799" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T17:53:01.893" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T17:53:01.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8382" CreationDate="2019-08-07T18:33:22.740" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A grey dot appears next to the review queue if there is something to review in that queue. This grey dot turns red if there is a sufficiently large number of reviews within that queue, denoting some urgency in reviewing that specific content. At that time, the actual review queue button also gets a red dot. Here is that view on &lt;a href=&quot;//stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VEE8A.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VEE8A.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;//stackoverflow.com/review/reopen&quot;&gt;Reopen Votes review queue&lt;/a&gt; (at that time) had a large number of reviews that needed addressing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7oI0I.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7oI0I.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The review queues on TeX.SE is not that congested and therefore have the occasional grey dot, but rarely a red dot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qUKzg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qUKzg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T18:33:22.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-09T23:56:08.913" Score="6" ViewCount="554" Body="&lt;p&gt;Originally, when I joined the site, I was under the impression that users users are supposed to indicate the sources of their answer. That is, if a given answer makes use of something developed in another answer, this should be acknowledged. In fact, the discussion under &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7940/proposal-to-add-academic-honesty-to-the-code-of-conduct&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt; appears to indicate that many users think so, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, more recently I got more and more messages that essentially said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;even if an answer is copied, it can still be a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, according to this logic, there is no point in acknowledging the posts one got the inspirations from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, even more recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8380/121799&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright wrote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, when it comes to questions about the content of answers, life&#xA;  can become more difficult. Straight-up copy-pasting is easy to&#xA;  address, but where there are questions about the overlap of ideas, it&#xA;  can become more difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement only makes sense if it is not irrelevant where the information came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I got a private moderator message (concerning some sock puppets) saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They've been clever enough to 'reference' the sources in each case,&#xA;  which might mean they don't get flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, such a statement only makes sense if there is a notion of giving credit to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this is only to clarify what the standards are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Literally copying code seems not to be OK. Is that right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you rename a macro in a code from another answer, do you have to mention the original code?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you copy the strategy of another post, do you have to mention it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case there is a certain form of expected behavior, I'd like to know what the consequences are if one does not meet these expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I understand that sometimes it is hard to prove that someone &quot;adapted&quot; things from others. This question is not about ways to prove misbehavior (if there is any), it is more about what the general consensus is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121799" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T07:05:05.830" Title="Academic honesty: where to draw the line?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-10T00:54:56.140" Score="11" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;In today's discussion session at TUG2019, Jim Hefferon asked whether it would be possible to add a badge for user group membership to the user info box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a mockup of what I have in mind, where the TUG logo would be a direct link to the TUG homepage (similarly for other user groups, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZKMOD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZKMOD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The incentive is that membership numbers are declining throughout TeX user groups across the world and seeing a lot of high-rep users on the site prominently showing off their user group memberships would hopefully get more new users interested in joining and thus funding the ongoing development of the TeX ecosystem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2019-08-10T01:02:39.703" LastActivityDate="2019-08-10T01:02:39.703" Title="Show user group membership in user info box" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2019-08-10T22:00:31.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that is published on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law, except when stated otherwise in the corresponding answer. Explicitly, I place such code under the CC0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38080" LastActivityDate="2019-08-10T22:00:31.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2019-08-10T22:06:32.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law.  Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2019-08-10T22:06:32.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8388" CreationDate="2019-08-11T22:28:28.077" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow model encourages re-use of posted material, with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC-BY-SA&lt;/a&gt; license applying to all posts. As such, the issue comes down to what is reasonable re-use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, there's the question of whether re-used material is a &lt;em&gt;significant&lt;/em&gt; part of a previous post. Of course, this is a judgement call and involves how much material is posted for example in a question: it's entirely reasonable when posting an answer that code from the related question can be re-used without attribution. I think we can broadly say that all of a shorter piece of code (say up to a dozen lines) or a similar-sized block from a larger post would be 'significant'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two cases where such re-use would be problematic. The first is where no attribution is given: it's required by the license. Wholesale copying of an answer without any credit is of course likely to be easy to spot and pretty rare. The second is where re-use on the site doesn't involve some non-trivial change. Here, things like just renaming macros and making no other changes would be trivial. Adding to another answer's code ideally will credit it, and if there is a large amount of overlap I would anticipate action might be taken if that was not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Life is more complicated when changes are more substantial: certainly from a moderation point of view, action is only likely when un-credited reuse is pretty clear. In particular, it's very hard to prevent similar implementations using the same approach, even where it might appear that one person has used the idea from a second answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-08-12T07:05:05.830" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T07:05:05.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2019-08-13T09:26:59.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby place in the public domain to the extent governable by law.  Explicitly, I place it under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140850" LastActivityDate="2019-08-13T09:26:59.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8401" CreationDate="2019-08-14T14:15:12.630" Score="8" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;How similar should two questions be to qualify as duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking particularly of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/504192/87678&quot;&gt;Add an Arab Word within an English Document&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/479996/87678&quot;&gt;Arabic and greek inline text in russian document pdflatex&lt;/a&gt;. But the question is more general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conceptually, these questions are the same and the the user who asked to second question was able to answer his own question with the help of the older question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But adding and an Arabic word into an English document is not actually the same as adding one into a Russian document…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87678" LastActivityDate="2019-08-25T17:15:31.247" Title="How similar should two questions be to qualify as a duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-17T08:46:12.530" Score="17" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever looking at answers in the &lt;em&gt;Low Quality Posts&lt;/em&gt; review queue that are real answers (i.e. should not actually be a comment, edit or new question), just bad ones, I'm a bit conflicted about choosing between saying &quot;Looks OK&quot; and &quot;Recommend Deletion&quot;. Let me explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers usually fall in one of the following categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer lacks explanation or worded in a confusing manner and is only fully understandable to someone who already knew the answer beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer is a (partial) duplicate of an existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer is (essentially) a link-only answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the reasons provided for recommending deletion, &quot;This is a link-only answer (and not spam)&quot; clearly fits only 3. and the other reasons clearly do not fit here, leaving only the generic &quot;No comment needed&quot;.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6VETh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6VETh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reasons provided for recommending deletion&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, my feeling is that in all of these cases it would be better to just downvote the answer and leave or upvote a comment explaining why. This will keep the answer on the site but clearly mark it as unhelpful, giving everyone the opportunity to weigh in with their vote and the answerer the opportunity to improve or delete their post. Deleting on the other hand hides the answer from everyone but a relatively small number of people and likely discourages the author from posting another, improved version of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what I would like to do is say &quot;Looks OK&quot; and downvote, since the post is clearly an answer (just a bad one). In case 3. the provided option pretty clearly tells me not to do that. Furthermore the tooltip of the &quot;Looks OK&quot; button states &quot;this answer doesn't seem low quality&quot;, which clearly is not the case.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FO8ko.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FO8ko.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;Looks OK&amp;quot; tooltip&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the interface of the review queue does not provide the option to downvote; I would have to go to the question, downvote the answer there and separately say &quot;Looks OK&quot; in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all the system seems to push one to recommend deletion, for lack of better options with &quot;No comment needed&quot; (though one can of course still leave a comment), and that is what usually happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is that desirable behavior and I should stop worrying and &lt;strike&gt;love the bomb&lt;/strike&gt; liberally recommend deleting questions with &quot;no comment&quot; that I deem to be low quality? (Are downvotes on new answers merely a tool for identifying those low quality answers in the system?) Or would it be preferable to leave the question with a downvote and push for an interface change that reflects that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastActivityDate="2019-08-20T15:28:21.040" Title="Should we really delete low quality answers?" Tags="|discussion|review-page|deleting|down-votes|low-quality-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8398" CreationDate="2019-08-20T13:28:31.563" Score="12" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should I accept the answer that is favored by my personal taste?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking typography questions when I don't know what the right answer is (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/504351/spacing-in-d-2-dimensional&quot;&gt;Spacing in &amp;quot;$d=2$-dimensional&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; )&#xA;So maybe my own taste shouldn't be the deciding factor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be more scientific to wait for some votes and comments, so that I can try to accept an answer that captures the taste of the majority? (How long should I wait, for example in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/504351/spacing-in-d-2-dimensional&quot;&gt;Spacing in &amp;quot;$d=2$-dimensional&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; would you already accept a solution?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think references (like &quot;in Knuth's textbook this typography is used&quot;) should be considered very strongly in choosing which answer to accept. But should I wait until such a references are provided before I accept an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(PS: I think it is very important to allow users to ask mathematics-related and TeX-related typography questions on this site, because there is a large demand for it; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/701/128042&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/701/128042&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6651/128042&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6651/128042&lt;/a&gt;. I think the purpose of Stack Exchange is to help people and not to collect points. Therefore I do NOT want this post to start a discussion against typography questions in general.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128042" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-08-20T15:37:01.060" LastActivityDate="2019-08-20T15:37:01.060" Title="Deciding which typography answer should be accepted?" Tags="|discussion|support|answers|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8395" CreationDate="2019-08-20T15:28:21.040" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the processes are set up for the entire network, and in some (many?) cases the nature by one of the largest networks - &lt;a href=&quot;//stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; - governs the implementation. There you typically deal with a sharks den of coding experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Voting&lt;/em&gt; still reigns supreme in terms of the Stack Exchange ranking mechanism. We tend to favour the one direction (upward), but we should really be consistent rather than be concerned about what others would think. For example, if you &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; up-vote as a way of checking a question (or answer) as &quot;read,&quot; then do that. If you interpret the voting buttons &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; (up-vote = post shows research effort; is useful and clear / down-vote = post does not show research effort; is not useful or unclear) then use that as your guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the ever-present reputation link provides a disincentive for down-voting (since the voter loses reputation), which makes it difficult for everyone to contribute appropriately to &quot;speak their mind.&quot; Moreover, the suggested &quot;be nice and don't down-vote below -1&quot; sentiment doesn't help either since you may feel like you didn't get an opportunity to cast your ballot on some response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to &lt;em&gt;skip&lt;/em&gt; the review if the option doesn't meet your needs, then visit the post and vote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;If you want a change in the interface, consider asking on &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta Stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-08-20T15:28:21.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8396" CreationDate="2019-08-20T15:34:13.100" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;select the answer that benefits the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; the most (according to your opinion), hoping that future visitors to your question will find meaning in your choice; or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;select the answer that helped &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; most (based on your situation). Users who visit your post in the future should use their own judgement (and voting) to corroborate choices or find something better from the answer without the check mark.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the choice is &lt;em&gt;yours&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-08-20T15:34:13.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-23T21:54:36.957" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found explanations of how to include still previews of compiled latex documents on stackexchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2781/how-does-one-add-a-latex-output-to-a-question-answer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but my question is specifically for slides. Sometimes people include an animated preview of their slides, such as in the accepted answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/463537/refer-to-last-slide-build-stage-in-overlay-specification&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. What is the best way to achieve this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26139" LastActivityDate="2019-08-23T21:54:36.957" Title="How do I include an animated preview of slides on stackexchange?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2019-09-02T19:25:26.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2019-08-23T23:58:02.743" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the particular case of a beamer question with overlays, it is often useful to attach the output in the form of an (animated) GIF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to that (brought to me courtesy of @Schrödinger'scat) is that you can use convert from &lt;code&gt;ImageMagick.org&lt;/code&gt;: &lt;code&gt;convert -density &amp;lt;density&amp;gt; -delay &amp;lt;delay&amp;gt; -loop 0 -alpha remove multipage.pdf animated.gif&lt;/code&gt;, as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/136666/exporting-animation-created-with-animate-package/136919#136919&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just adding this here in case someone else is looking for this little piece of magic. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26139" LastActivityDate="2019-08-23T23:58:02.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8394" CreationDate="2019-08-25T17:15:31.247" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since my comment seems to have some votes, I'll add it as an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that is important about duplicates is that it is the question and not the answer that should define a duplicate. Of course at the right level of abstraction, all questions of the form &quot;How do I put language X into a document of language Y&quot; are the same, but I think there is definitely room for a few versions of these questions simply due to the fact that for some values of X and Y, different scripts and/or RTL vs LTR might be involved, so the answers may not always be the same. So in this particular case, it's probably fine not to close as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2019-08-25T17:15:31.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-29T10:30:58.160" Score="11" ViewCount="483" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new here, and have answered a couple of questions where MWEs weren't really appropriate because the solutions involved minor tweaks to really long &lt;code&gt;.bst&lt;/code&gt; files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made do with adding the specific code chunk within the context of the local section in my answers, and a screenshot of the result, but it would be better to allow people to actually see it working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work in Overleaf, and it seems simple to just provide an Overleaf link to the full project. Presumably people don't do this because of linkrot, but is there any other reason that it shouldn't be done, for example in addition to the code chunk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if I do include the link, an edit link or a read-only link? You don't need an account for read-only, but the trade-off is that you can't duplicate the project (sort of assuming - I don't have a second account with which to test this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See recent answer where I gave this a go: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/506195/publisher-name-does-not-appear-in-a-technical-report-bibliography-entry-in-acm-f/506205#506205&quot;&gt;Publisher name does not appear in a technical report bibliography entry in ACM format&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169285" OwnerDisplayName="Danny Garside" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-09-03T18:20:38.337" LastActivityDate="2019-09-03T18:20:38.337" Title="Adding an Overleaf link as well/instead of MWE" Tags="|discussion|mwe|overleaf|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8402" CreationDate="2019-08-29T13:38:48.570" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't put links to overleaf in public forum, even read-only links will show your email address to everybody&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;link from this answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/506205/195169&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/506205/195169&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;click on share and see the mail (I removed name, but you probably recognise that this is your mail)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hDpWm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hDpWm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="195169" LastEditorUserId="195169" LastEditDate="2019-08-29T13:49:29.990" LastActivityDate="2019-08-29T13:49:29.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8402" CreationDate="2019-08-29T21:26:53.097" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the security reason raised by Wang Ki Wun, there are other reasons that Overleaf links should not be accepted as replacements for MWEs. (Some of these you mention in your question, but they bear repeating here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, one of the main goals of the whole network is to be a set of self-contained questions and answers. So in the same way that a link-only (or link-mainly) answer is not an acceptable answer, a link-only (or link-mainly) question is an unacceptable question.  Links die, and for this reason both questions and answers should not depend on them.  Since a MWE is often crucial to a question, it should never be in the form of a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, encouraging Overleaf links will almost certainly lead to abuse of the sort &quot;Here's my whole document, please help me.&quot;, since there will be much less incentive to make examples minimal. This is not how the site is supposed to work.  Even though linking to a whole document isn't really be a good idea, I'm certain that it will happen if we allow Overleaf links for code examples.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2019-08-29T21:26:53.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8407" CreationDate="2019-09-07T15:48:03.617" Score="3" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have observed that several users vote very low. Are there, peraphs, any specific reasons that can be made public?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we all have 40 votes, why not use them when there are good questions and good answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2019-09-11T21:07:11.167" LastActivityDate="2019-09-11T21:07:11.167" Title="Why do some users not vote often for questions or answers?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8409" CreationDate="2019-09-09T11:45:42.427" Score="13" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/507288/minted-make-text-non-selectable-on-output-pdf&quot;&gt;minted-make-text-non-selectable-on-output-pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems like a duplicate of an older question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/477693/remove-selectable-text-from-source-code-pdf-output&quot;&gt;remove-selectable-text-from-source-code-pdf-output&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, neither the older question nor the new question have any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUESTION:&lt;/strong&gt; Should either be marked as a duplicate?  Is there a preference based on the age of the question which should be marked as the duplicate, or do we decide which question to retain based only on the question quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70641" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T21:26:16.630" Title="Should we mark a question as duplicate if old question has no answers?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8405" CreationDate="2019-09-09T15:29:37.327" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;People vote or don't vote as they see fit, and it's really not for us to be concerned about how much anyone votes. Overall we're a vote-happy bunch, and we also have a tradition of not downvoting excessively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But whether or not others vote is really not worth worrying about, at least on this site. Both questions and answers generally get enough votes to keep people engaged in the site, which is largely what the purpose of voting is (although it also can help users see the value of an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T15:29:37.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8405" CreationDate="2019-09-09T20:37:13.980" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is anonymous, so by definition you should not know who voted or why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say you notice that some users have low vote scores, but how do you define low? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote count has little relevance to anything, my two highest scoring posts have essentially no technical content, and in fact almost no content at all, whereas some that took some days to answer only score one or two votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I post far more answers than I vote as I think answering questions is a more useful activity than voting. (nearly 10 thousand answers, and rather less than 3 thousand votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T20:37:13.980" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8406" CreationDate="2019-09-09T21:26:16.630" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an option, if you try to mark one as a duplicate of the other, the system just reports that there are no answers and greys-out the vote button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given such a situation then (if you know the answer) you should answer one of the questions (typically the one with the clearest title) then vote to close the other as duplicate of the answered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T21:26:16.630" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-16T19:07:23.420" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the citation scripts add load time to the page (as I have been informed by the support) they are only provided on pages, which explicitly request it, like on &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1876/what-is-a-good-standard-for-publishing-a-reference-to-a-stackexchange-thread&quot;&gt;Math.SE&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/352/how-will-you-cite-a-discussion-on-this-site-in-your-paper&quot;&gt;CS Theory.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was asked to bring it before the meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems sensible to provide &lt;code&gt;bibtex&lt;/code&gt; style citations for TeX.SE, so technical references and acknowledgements can be given where they are due without too much work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is the consesus on this in this community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example citation for &lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/352/how-will-you-cite-a-discussion-on-this-site-in-your-paper&quot;&gt;CS Theory.SE&lt;/a&gt; looks like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@MISC {352,&#xA;    TITLE = {&amp;amp;quot;All-different hypergraph coloring&amp;amp;quot; - known problem?},&#xA;    AUTHOR = {Falk H&amp;amp;#252;ffner (https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users/251/falk-h%c3%bcffner)},&#xA;    HOWPUBLISHED = {Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange},&#xA;    NOTE = {URL:https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/352 (version: 2010-08-20)},&#xA;    EPRINT = {https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/352},&#xA;    URL = {https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/352}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RwhfV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RwhfV.png&quot; alt=&quot;The additional cite button&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NA68A.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NA68A.png&quot; alt=&quot;The citation as it is presented&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="189114" LastEditorUserId="189114" LastEditDate="2019-09-16T20:01:37.260" LastActivityDate="2019-09-16T20:01:37.260" Title="Should TeX.SE provide the citation extension?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-17T17:37:27.770" Score="6" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to thank the following people for their expert opinions. I would also like to include a name-surname or a nickname if they allow it in my amateur radio test book. If you forget names you can add. Allow = (1). No Allow = (0). Or you can e-mail me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;AboAmmar&#xA;Alan Munn&#xA;albert&#xA;Ambika Vanchinathan&#xA;AndréC&#xA;Andrew&#xA;barbara beeton&#xA;Bernard&#xA;bmv&#xA;Brent.Longborough&#xA;CarLaTeX&#xA;cfr&#xA;Cragfelt&#xA;David Carlisle&#xA;David Purton&#xA;egreg&#xA;Enthusiastic Engineer&#xA;esdd&#xA;ferahfeza&#xA;Frédéric&#xA;Gonzalo Medina&#xA;Heiko Oberdiek&#xA;Henri Menke&#xA;Ignasi&#xA;Jasper Habicht&#xA;jknappen&#xA;John Kormylo&#xA;Joseph Wright&#xA;karlkoeller&#xA;koleygr&#xA;leandriis&#xA;Mensch&#xA;michal.h21&#xA;Mico&#xA;Mike&#xA;moewe&#xA;naphaneal&#xA;nickie&#xA;Nico Boni&#xA;percusse&#xA;Phelype Oleinik&#xA;Przemysław Scherwentke&#xA;Raaja&#xA;Richard&#xA;Rmano&#xA;Robert Fuster&#xA;Sandy G&#xA;Scz&#xA;ShreevatsaR&#xA;Sigur&#xA;Skillmon&#xA;Stephen&#xA;Steven B. Segletes&#xA;Symbol 1&#xA;Thomas F. Sturm&#xA;Torbjørn T.&#xA;Troy&#xA;Ulrich Diez&#xA;Ulrike Fischer&#xA;@samcarter&#xA;Werner&#xA;Willie Wong&#xA;wipet&#xA;Zarko&#xA;@Harish Kumar&#xA;@Herbert&#xA;@ChristianHupfer&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ey75.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ey75.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33075" LastActivityDate="2019-09-17T17:37:27.770" Title="Can I add your names to my book?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-17T17:07:55.010" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to thank the following people for their expert opinions. I would also like to include a first name or a nickname if they allow it in my amateur radio test book. Allow = (1). No Allow = (0). Or you can e-mail me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to write down the list of names if what I want is right. If not, I will delete this topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33075" OwnerDisplayName="Özgür" LastActivityDate="2019-09-17T20:09:59.040" Title="Is what I want to do right?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2019-09-18T15:33:14.067" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8414" CreationDate="2019-09-17T23:26:18.210" Score="6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happened to me that I wanted to close a question as duplicate of another, but the site refused to do that, because the other question didn't have an upvoted answer. To my surprise there is an (at the moment of writing still ongoing) close voting, where the linked question doesn't have any answers yet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/508724/best-way-to-manage-long-documents-with-many-chapters&quot;&gt;Best way to manage long documents with many chapters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linked: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/508714/is-it-common-to-save-each-chapter-of-a-document-as-a-separate-file&quot;&gt;Is it common to save each chapter of a document as a separate file?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that close voting possible? Is there a certain reputation level you have to reach such that you can overrule the default behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23765" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-09-18T18:28:17.390" LastActivityDate="2019-09-18T18:28:17.390" Title="How to mark a question as duplicate of another one that doesn't already have an answer?" Tags="|support|duplicates|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8413" CreationDate="2019-09-18T15:42:31.500" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to be normal procedure and no special powers were needed in this case. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates&lt;/a&gt; says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The original question generally must have an answer;&lt;/strong&gt; questions may only be marked as duplicates of unanswered questions on meta sites, when the questions share the same author, or when closed by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably this exception is there to allow for duplicate closing when one user asks the same question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2019-09-18T15:42:31.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-24T17:58:46.903" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all other stack exchanges I use (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, etc.) I can just do $x$ and get x printed in a math-style font. In this question it didn't work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/509147/is-there-a-font-where-lower-case-x-and-z-look-more-like-x-and-z-and-how?noredirect=1#comment1287792_509147&quot;&gt;Is there a font where lower-case $x$ and $z$ look more like $X$ and $Z$, and how do I switch all my equations to have that font?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the syntax to get MathJax different in TeX stack exchange or do people here just not want math to be typeset by MathJax in questions here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14527" LastActivityDate="2019-09-24T17:58:46.903" Title="Is it possible to have MathJax in a question?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2019-09-25T13:15:00.150" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8416" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8418" CreationDate="2019-09-24T20:35:26.557" Score="7" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to auto-flag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/509295/33846&quot;&gt;my well-received question&lt;/a&gt; which is a duplicate of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/268313/33846&quot;&gt;closed question&lt;/a&gt; but, unfortunately, the closed question doesn't have an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I deal with this issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33846" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-09-27T00:38:38.027" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T00:38:38.027" Title="My question is a duplicate of a closed question without an answer. What now?" Tags="|support|duplicates|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8416" CreationDate="2019-09-25T02:09:08.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a comment to the closed question, there's a link to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/158775&quot;&gt;dictionary marks in biblatex&lt;/a&gt;.  If &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; question is a candidate for a duplicate, that would solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't give the answer you need, you could update your question to mention that one, and explain why it doesn't meet your requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, this would avoid the need to point to a question that was closed as unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T02:09:08.970" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8416" CreationDate="2019-09-27T00:37:49.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The network accommodates for this by providing the option to &quot;Vote to Reopen&quot; a question, even if it is merely to close it again for a different reason. So, here are a couple of suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;the privilege to &quot;Vote to Reopen&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (3k reputation), vote to reopen the (currently-closed) question and write a comment in the question stating your motivation for doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other users with the same privilege who follow the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/reopen&quot;&gt;Reopen Review Queue&lt;/a&gt; should use some common sense to see why the question should be reopened by looking at the edit history and/or the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, once the question has been opened, proceed as you wanted to originally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The above process can be sped up if you engage in some discussion within &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. There are many users with the above-mentioned privileges that can aid in the voting process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, flag the question for moderator attention, stating your motivation. They may be able to manage it without further intervention if the result improves the site/clears up confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the dust has settled, remove any comments related to the situation since they are no longer needed and otherwise just clutter any valid commentary already present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T00:37:49.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-17T11:45:05.737" Score="0" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/questions/515597&quot;&gt;posted a question&lt;/a&gt; and received an answer. Shortly after that the entire post (question and answer) was deleted. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, why was my reputation reduced from 433 to 399?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="197451" OwnerDisplayName="js bibra" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-11-17T22:00:26.720" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T22:00:26.720" Title="Why has my question been deleted?" Tags="|discussion|delete|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8421" CreationDate="2019-11-17T11:50:25.997" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reasoning of one of our moderators why it was deleted was given in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am deleting this questions since it contains content (copy of a letter) that seems to be without a license to be published. The issue has been solved, and it was about replicating and not like a common TeX problem/question, so it's probably not useful for others in the public anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T11:50:25.997" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8423" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-21T01:16:28.003" Score="14" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately when visiting sites on the Stack Exchange network, I have seen this announcement banner popping up, right underneath the top bar.  Here is a screenshot of today's announcement banner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j7EU3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j7EU3.png&quot; alt=&quot;announcement banner&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I absolutely don't care what some guy I've never heard of has to say about Git or any other thing on their pointless podcast.  To stop getting annoyed by this rubbish I'd just like to hide this announcement banner altogether but I can't find an appropriate option in the settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I disable the announcement banner &lt;strong&gt;permanently&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2019-12-17T21:30:14.177" LastActivityDate="2020-01-22T09:43:54.400" Title="How to disable the announcement banner?" Tags="|support|top-bar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-26T12:40:06.597" Score="16" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to decide between &lt;code&gt;babel&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;polyglossia&lt;/code&gt; for use with LuaLaTeX, so I googled &quot;babel vs polyglossia&quot;. The first result is the somewhat outdated question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/88481/decide-between-polyglossia-and-babel-in-2012&quot;&gt;Decide between Polyglossia and Babel in 2012&lt;/a&gt;, the second one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/303389/babel-or-polyglossia-with-lualatex?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Babel or Polyglossia with LuaLatex?&lt;/a&gt; from 2016, which is marked as a duplicate of the first. The much more current question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/482396/decide-between-polyglossia-and-babel-for-lualatex-in-2019&quot;&gt;Decide between Polyglossia and Babel for LuaLaTeX in 2019&lt;/a&gt; does not appear on the first page of the search results.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since most people stumbling on the 2016 question nowadays are certainly looking for the 2019 question rather than the 2016 one, should we change it to be a duplicate of the latter? What would be the process for doing so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;I am aware that more refined search queries do turn up the 2019 question, but that is not the point of this question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastActivityDate="2019-11-26T12:40:06.597" Title="Should we reroute duplicates if a better fit emerges?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-02T13:09:47.700" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why there is no copy button for TeX code area in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TSE&lt;/a&gt; like &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; code area?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user108724" LastActivityDate="2019-12-02T13:09:47.700" Title="Why there is no copy button for tex code area?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2019-12-05T15:54:07.030" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish or have ever published on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/a&gt; (version 2 or later) and under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LPPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5100" LastActivityDate="2019-12-05T15:54:07.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8429" CreationDate="2019-12-06T21:37:39.567" Score="13" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;This evening I have logged in and found some news on the site TeX.SE, for example on the explanations for closure of the questions. I also saw a new screen regarding the reopening of the questions previously marked with on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ql600.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ql600.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are others news on TeX.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T03:27:32.763" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T03:27:32.763" Title="Recent changes on the TeX.SE website" Tags="|discussion|design|new-features|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8428" CreationDate="2019-12-09T03:27:00.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Previously, different sites within the network may have had their own code base, even if it were subtle. Changes like this seem to bring sites like ours in-line with the rest of the network. This promotes consistency across sites and is far better for site improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most changes to the network are posted here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/59445/168244&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T03:27:00.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8431" CreationDate="2019-12-09T12:41:34.083" Score="2" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a direct counter where I can see the total daily votes (40 votes) without the need to subtract from the last vote given yesterday, for example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T17:31:11.293" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T19:42:11.777" Title="Direct counter for the total daily votes" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8430" CreationDate="2019-12-09T17:30:38.993" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on your user profile (defaults to the Activity page if for your own user). A summary (by period and type) of voting is listed in the bottom-right of the profile page; here's mine on Meta.TeX.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Px65C.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Px65C.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on &quot;View more&quot; will show you explicit voting actions (including up/down votes, closures, deletions, ...). A shortcut to this detailed view is available by clicking on the Votes Cast link in your profile (top-right):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tbzRS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tbzRS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T17:30:38.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8435" CreationDate="2019-12-13T07:37:53.310" Score="4" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/protect-questions&quot;&gt;the section on privileges&lt;/a&gt; it seems that I should be able to see a list of protected questions, however clicking upon the link leads &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools/protected-questions&quot;&gt;to this page&lt;/a&gt; explaining that I don't have the required 15,000 reputation to see the list of protected questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems sensible to me to require 15,000 reputation to protect or unprotect a question, however I'm wondering if this is a mistake as to why I cannot see a list of such questions or activity pertaining the process of (un)protection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this isn't a mistake, what is the reasoning behind such a high reputation barrier? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In support of transparent lists of what is protected and not protected, I offer the following reasons: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There doesn't seem to be strong reasons for the protected question lists to be hidden from users which can't change these lists, and so the site should be more transparent. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allowing more users to engage with the list may allow for greater feedback and monitoring of protected questions, such as a user being able to mention it to moderators that perhaps the question's protection status should be revised. This may help the moderators and generally improve engagement on the site by allowing users who wish to engage more to do so, without the harms of allowing these users to (un)protect questions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's simply more fun. I just found a &quot;Highly Active Question&quot;, and thought &quot;Hmm, I'd like to see more highly active questions (which might have a higher quality of answers, since that's the main intention behind protecting questions)!&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a user is on the verge of 15,000 reputation, surely it'd be more helpful for when they hit 15,000 reputation, if their capabilities on the site are already stronger, they can think about protection, learn standards better, prepare questions to revise the protection status of for when they become mods. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some images for those who don't want to click for themselves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKLFJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKLFJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;The privileges description page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon clicking the link in the region highlighted one arrives at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UcmSd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UcmSd.png&quot; alt=&quot;The page denying me access to a full list of protection status&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94523" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-12-14T06:52:04.057" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T06:52:04.057" Title="Why can't low-reputation users see protected questions?" Tags="|feature-request|privileges|protected-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8434" CreationDate="2019-12-14T06:49:37.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools/protected-questions&quot;&gt;protected question list&lt;/a&gt; is nothing special and compares well with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tools&quot;&gt;moderator tools page&lt;/a&gt; (viewable at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10k reputation&lt;/a&gt;). For some users it is helpful to identify posts that may need attention, while for others it's only something they visit once a month, or once a year, if at all. Both provide access to information that the average user most likely won't be interested in. Perhaps you're not average, sure, but that's how it's set up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view this list (or something similar) using &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/883235/protected-questions-by-their-number-of-deleted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a data query&lt;/a&gt; (knowing that question protection is recorded in the &lt;code&gt;PostHistory&lt;/code&gt; table where the attribute &lt;code&gt;PostHistoryTypeId&lt;/code&gt; is &lt;code&gt;19&lt;/code&gt;; see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2677/168244&quot;&gt;database schema&lt;/a&gt;). The data query list shows more questions, since it may also include questions that have since been unprotected. On the other hand, it also shows the number of answers associated with each protected question which is not listed in the 15k+ privilege list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the reason behind such a high reputation requirement? It's not so much related to the list as it is to the authority it provides on the site. It's the final moderation privilege before becoming &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;a trusted user&lt;/a&gt; (20k reputation) and provides the user with the power that could prevent certain users from answering a question when, technically, you can answer any (unprotected) question from reputation 1. &quot;With great power comes great responsibility.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some candid responses to your statements/questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure. The list is meant to give a quick overview of the questions that have had problematic behaviour previously. And it's often experienced users (those who've been around long enough) who concern themselves with behaviour that is unbecoming... newer users don't really show the same interest or care for the site and it's evolution, in general. So, it makes sense that there is some form of reputation criterion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Again, yes, sure. If you're really interested in feeling engaged but can't see the list, consider using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/883235/protected-questions-by-their-number-of-deleted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;data query&lt;/a&gt; way. If you feel that a question should be unprotected as a result of your investigations, flag it with a moderator for review.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A protected question is not always a question that is highly active. It may have been at some point, but isn't necessarily now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This seems similar to the notion of ones birthday. While you technically age 1 year on your birthday, you grow older every day and therefore feel very little in terms of change going from day 364 to 365, yet everyone only celebrates your birthday on your actual birthday. So, like with most milestones, wait until you achieve it before you celebrate it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T06:49:37.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8436" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-12-14T06:53:23.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions may be protected by users with 15k reputation or by diamond moderators, the only effect of which is only users with at least 10 reputation may answer it (110 if they have the association bonus).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are typically protected to deter spam answers or noisy answers from new users who may mistake the site as a traditional forum on popular questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can also be automatically protected by the Community user if they receive too many spam answers, answers from new users that get deleted, or answers from new users posted within a short period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52764/what-is-a-protected-question&quot;&gt;What is a “protected” or &amp;quot;highly active&amp;quot; question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/protect-questions&quot;&gt;Help center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-12-14T06:53:23.617" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T06:53:23.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8437" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-12-14T06:53:23.617" Score="0" Body="Questions may be protected by users with 15,000 reputation or by diamond moderators. Protected questions can only be answered by users with at least 10 reputation (110 if they have the association bonus)." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-12-14T06:53:23.617" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T06:53:23.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2019-12-14T18:46:39.790" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://latexdraw.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OGtXW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tagline to show on mouseover&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="203313" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T18:46:39.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8439" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-15T02:37:33.767" Score="1" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to request a button be placed with each post that allows for the printing of questions and their answers via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackprinter.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Stack Printer&lt;/a&gt;. Can this be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="197451" LastEditorUserId="134805" LastEditDate="2020-09-10T06:55:12.500" LastActivityDate="2020-09-10T06:55:12.500" Title="Adding the Stack Printer app button to each post" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8439" CreationDate="2019-12-17T04:07:15.107" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably not likely to be implemented on a network-wide basis. In the interim, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/179/27724&quot;&gt;StackPrinter&lt;/a&gt; can form part of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/77298.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; that you can install which will add a button with every question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2019-12-17T04:07:15.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-20T16:31:39.130" Score="12" ViewCount="857" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I had a discussion with an unfriendly user (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8430/direct-counter-for-the-total-daily-votes&quot;&gt;Direct counter for the total daily votes&lt;/a&gt;, in the now-deleted answer), who took their liberty to qualitatively assess my soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I tried to flag the information, the user deleted their answer. So, as a first attempt, I tried to raise it via chat room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There, one of the mod advised me to flag such cases. However, there is no more information to flag because the information doesn't exist anymore (for users with rep less than &lt;code&gt;10k (https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I decided to flag one of their comment in random explaining this situation. However, much to my surprise without any explanation, my flag was declined without a reason. Please note, I have no problems with my flags getting declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, I have been on this site for quite some time, and I still have not figured out how to handle such users. Because obviously flagging is not the way-to-go. Could anyone give directions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, does that mean I can publicly offend other users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PS: I'm asking this question because, none of the solution from here (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66444/how-can-i-report-a-specific-bad-user&quot;&gt;How can I report a specific bad user?&lt;/a&gt;) is applicable. So, I had no other option but to take the last bad option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70891" LastEditorUserId="70891" LastEditDate="2019-12-23T08:52:16.737" LastActivityDate="2020-01-02T22:24:10.990" Title="Dealing with and reporting not-so-friendly users (especially when they delete the post)" Tags="|discussion|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8441" CreationDate="2019-12-22T14:29:19.500" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleting helps in cleaning but doesn't undo an offense. This specific case was unclear so I left it at deleting (explained in my comments I'll delete as not needed any more and in chat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other background that can help moving on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer that quote &quot;Because obviously flagging is not the way-to-go.&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the primary way to go. Just flag in a very clear way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quickly some examples including clearly abusive stuff and stuff, that may or may not be considered as offensive but should be removed in any case (plus giving your opinion too):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;this post&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is abusive because of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;clear reason&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;this post&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is off-topic, and it even looks abusive to me because of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;reason&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;this post&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is no longer needed, and it even looks abusive to me because of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;reason&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;1. may sometimes be hard to confirm because there because there can also be irony, sarcasm, satire, misunderstanding, and I do not easily put a stigma on a user (&quot;has been abusive&quot;). Especially since flagging as abusive can also be used against others because of another ongoing conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm more than happy to delete a post that's cleary abusive. And even if unclear, I'm also happy to delete a post that is off-topic or no longer needed, as those are usually valid reasons to get rid of such undesired comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up, bad comments can easily removed by flagging, because there's a lot of reasons if it's not purely texnical. We do it a lot, though like 90% are just flagged as no-longer-needed (such as very old welcoming comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No complaint but answering: in this case here,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the flag was not placed on the specific post (since that post had been deleted) (now I don't even find this processed flag anymore in histories with 20 min searching)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an answer has been linked as being abusive, but it wasn't (I think you meant one of the comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that comment was not friendly but doesn't look dramatic to me to justify flags (abusive or harassment) and meta post follow-ups and mod acting on the user (warning? suspension?) who already removed that post (we can talk about this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that comment has already been deleted by the poster before the flag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the whole answer has already been deleted by the poster before the flag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what should a mod do now since deletion was already done and it doesn't look like anough reason to follow-up with warning or suspension&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For completeness, some generic examples of rather unclear flags, hard to handle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;this user&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is harassing me (what now, shall we try to find something? give links or post flags at where it happened)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;this user's&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; actions in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;for example review queues&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; are not good (shall we read all stuff for quality assessment?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more specific and the more justified the clear reason, the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mods are happy to act on a clear flag. Unclear flags though may sit for weeks in the flag review queue since it's neither clear to confirm and not clear if it could be omitted. In any case it's noted. And if there is a serious issue, it may show up again on another flag. If on the other hand it never happens again, well, peace perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To close the circle, flagging is better than attacking back or going into discussions that are actually not about convincing but, frankly sometimes about winning and being right and nobody steps back and it can escalate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's flag and remove stuff that doesn't belong to the TeX content on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2019-12-28T02:19:57.777" LastActivityDate="2019-12-28T02:19:57.777" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8445" CreationDate="2019-12-28T13:22:52.160" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;[on hold]&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; reference has been deleted from questions that are closed as being unclear. Now only the word &quot;&lt;strong&gt;[closed]&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there other types of options with the new names for the questions? Are there others details?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2019-12-28T18:35:53.947" LastActivityDate="2019-12-28T18:35:53.947" Title="What are the new displays associated with post notices?" Tags="|support|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8444" CreationDate="2019-12-28T18:33:15.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This formed part of a bigger &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/12/05/new-post-notices-improving-feedback-on-stack-overflow-questions/&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;post notice update&amp;quot; that was rolled out 3 weeks ago&lt;/a&gt;. The post notices now appear differently, depending on the viewer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed notice – Post owner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HfK8s.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HfK8s.png&quot; alt=&quot;closed post owner&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed notice – Users with 3,000+ reputation (the minimum requirement for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;vote to close/re-open privilege&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NlHHX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NlHHX.png&quot; alt=&quot;closed high rep users&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed notice – Public view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fL6vI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fL6vI.png&quot; alt=&quot;closed public view&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Where did the &amp;quot;On Hold&amp;quot; label go?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;On Hold&amp;quot; had been used to label recently closed questions. The idea was that this language would imply less permanence to the current state than &amp;quot;Closed&amp;quot;. However, user research showed that this distinction was generally found to be confusing to users at all levels, and did not seem to have an effect on reopen rates. So we have removed this label. All Closed posts are now labelled as Closed but only the label has changed. Edits within the first five days will still put the question in the reopen queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/339700/168244&quot;&gt;New Post Notices are live network-wide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2019-12-28T18:33:15.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-01T02:47:25.280" Score="13" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's New Year's Day in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange land&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/a&gt; here, a significant amount of the &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; is done by ordinary people, using the privileges &#xA;they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together. &#xA;And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers? &#xA;So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on TeX - LaTeX over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                  Action                  Moderators Community¹&#xA;----------------------------------------- ---------- ----------&#xA;Users suspended²                                   7         21&#xA;Users destroyed³                                   7          0&#xA;Users deleted                                     21          0&#xA;Users contacted                                   14          0&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue            132      5,909&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue                 0      1,217&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue           3      7,386&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue                 0      1,542&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue                  0      9,856&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue                 0     14,405&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                              0          5&#xA;Tag synonyms created                               0          3&#xA;Revisions redacted                                13          0&#xA;Questions reopened                                20        150&#xA;Questions protected                                2         56&#xA;Questions migrated                                13          7&#xA;Questions merged                                   1          0&#xA;Questions flagged⁵                                 7        856&#xA;Questions closed                                  61      4,076&#xA;Question flags handled⁵                          248        612&#xA;Posts unlocked                                     0          4&#xA;Posts undeleted                                   35        484&#xA;Posts locked                                       1         63&#xA;Posts deleted⁶                                   406      9,392&#xA;Posts bumped                                       0      2,270&#xA;Escalations to the Community Manager team          1          0&#xA;Comments undeleted                                12          0&#xA;Comments flagged                                   1     15,114&#xA;Comments deleted⁷                              4,642     28,365&#xA;Comment flags handled                          3,483     11,629&#xA;Bounties canceled                                  1          0&#xA;Answers flagged                                   21      4,154&#xA;Answer flags handled                           1,192      2,978&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat               7          0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &quot;Community&quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &quot;destroyed&quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8003/2018-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2018: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222019%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/341507/2019-a-year-in-closing&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing you all a happy new year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastEditorUserId="5724" LastEditDate="2020-01-03T02:17:16.347" LastActivityDate="2020-01-03T02:17:16.347" Title="2019: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8450" CreationDate="2020-01-05T14:52:02.197" Score="5" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;Reputation &amp;amp; Moderation page from the Help Center&lt;/a&gt;, we read that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A bounty is a special reputation award given to answers. It is funded by the personal reputation of the user who offers it, and is non-refundable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All bounties are paid for up front and non-refundable under any circumstances.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine you have a very big, complex, and time-consuming task to perform that you are not willing to do by yourself. Being an experimented StackExchange user (with 300 reputation), you know that you cannot straightforwardly ask for someone to do it for you, because your question would be quickly red flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you decide to split your hard task into (say) 3 easy ones. But now you want these problems to be solved as fast as possible, so you decide to place attractive bounties on top of your question. In order for your 3 sub-questions to receive the maximum (that you can afford) attention, you decide to invest your whole reputation, and place 3 bounties of 100 each on these sub-questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is how things should work, right?&lt;/strong&gt; (actually, you should not make others do your job, but that's out of the scope of this question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering how exactly setting bounties work, since apparently, with reputation &lt;em&gt;R&lt;/em&gt;, it is possible to place &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; bounties of &lt;em&gt;b_i&lt;/em&gt; reputation so that &lt;code&gt;\sum_{i=0}^n b_i &amp;gt; R&lt;/code&gt;. In other words, the sum of the bounties that you are placing can be strictly greater than your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is currently happening in TeX.SX, see these 3 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/522643/116691&quot;&gt;Externalizing pgfplots/gnuplots in Beamer — Too many plots generated&lt;/a&gt;, +50 bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/522652/externalizing-pgfplots-gnuplots-in-beamer-improving-performance-of-contour-pl&quot;&gt;Externalizing pgfplots/gnuplots in Beamer — improving performance of contour plots&lt;/a&gt;, +50 bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/522647/externalizing-pgfplots-gnuplots-in-beamer-including-jobname-in-filename&quot;&gt;Externalizing pgfplots/gnuplots in Beamer — including “\jobname” in filename&lt;/a&gt;, +50 bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These 3 questions are all asked by a person having currently 125 reputation. So my question is the following: did this guy had 125+3*50 = 275 reputation before setting the bounties or is there something going wrong is setting bounties. By that I mean that somehow your reputation is not escrowed when you offer a bounty on some question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116691" LastActivityDate="2020-01-05T15:35:02.647" Title="Placing more bounties than you have reputation" Tags="|discussion|bug|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8449" CreationDate="2020-01-05T15:28:43.633" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person you are giving as an example has more than 200 reputation on others SE sites, so she or he had a +100 association bonus when coming to TEX S.E. If you add his 17*10 reputations gained for Q&amp;amp;A on this site, +4 for accepting answers and 1 initial point, you have a total of 275 reputations before he offered those &#xA;three bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/why-register&quot;&gt;TeX S.E help center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have a registered account on any other site in our network with at least 200 reputations, you will receive a +100 points reputation bonus when you first log in &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64956" LastEditorUserId="64956" LastEditDate="2020-01-05T15:35:02.647" LastActivityDate="2020-01-05T15:35:02.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8453" CreationDate="2020-01-16T12:57:03.247" Score="10" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since a few minutes I saw that on the site there is the icon of the timeline to edit a question/answer. Is this available for all users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MfSVF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MfSVF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="134574" LastEditDate="2020-01-16T13:01:14.440" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T13:01:14.440" Title="Timeline...for some users or for all?" Tags="|discussion|new-features|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8452" CreationDate="2020-01-16T13:00:15.900" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;For all users, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/342316/383578&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;. This feature was (officially) introduced 12 minutes ago. Apparently it was a mod-only feature before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T13:00:15.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8459" CreationDate="2020-01-18T08:17:58.237" Score="4" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header&lt;/a&gt; tag is useless since there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be removed or rendered a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qFlJt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qFlJt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-01-18T19:44:23.287" LastActivityDate="2020-01-18T19:52:24.833" Title="&quot;header&quot; tag synonym of &quot;header-footer&quot;" Tags="|support|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8456" CreationDate="2020-01-18T13:36:14.413" Score="15" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens that I edit my own answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I often write spontaneously and hereby tend to write long sentences.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Later I realize how incomprehensible my wordings are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;English is not my mother tongue and I produce all sorts of linguistic mistakes. (Spelling/grammar/incorrect use of English vocabulary/...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My edits/changes often do not refer to the code that I present in my answer, but refer to the text passages in which I (try to) explain this code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it, if so, be good practice to note &lt;strong&gt;explicitly&lt;/strong&gt; within the edit summary that one has not changed the presented code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it, if so, be good practice to note &lt;strong&gt;explicitly&lt;/strong&gt; within the edit summary that one has only changed code comments that are not carried out in any way (the remarks behind &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; in (La)TeX-code)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why I think about mentioning explicitly that none of the code presented in the answer was changed is to indicate that the changes do not imply that those who use that code in their own work need to take action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally speaking, what kind of (meta-)data would prove useful within in the edit summary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any advice for writing good edit summaries is welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2020-01-19T13:43:13.137" LastActivityDate="2020-01-19T14:08:04.137" Title="Good practice for edit summary?" Tags="|discussion|editing|edit-summary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8455" CreationDate="2020-01-18T19:36:46.230" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to be concerned with writing an edit summary, but have since only used it sparingly. The only time I write something is when I think the edit itself won't explain what was done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? &lt;em&gt;Every&lt;/em&gt; user is able to view the (edit) history of a post - just visit &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;site&amp;gt;/posts/&amp;lt;postid&amp;gt;/revisions&lt;/code&gt;. That history shows a side-by-side change of what was done to the post in the event of an addition/removal; retags just show the relevant tags and their changes. Take, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/339/27&quot;&gt;my edit&lt;/a&gt; (revision 27) of the &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/q/339/5764&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editor/IDEs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wDcpo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wDcpo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the left is the post &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the edit. The right shows the post &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the edit. &lt;strong&gt;Additions&lt;/strong&gt; are highlighted in green, while &lt;strong&gt;removals&lt;/strong&gt; are highlighted in red. A &lt;strong&gt;change&lt;/strong&gt; is considered a removal and an addition. In this case I removed the personalised links in lieu of generic post links due to &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/posts/339/timeline#history_ca1e20fd-3dc4-4373-af5b-9794359388fe&quot;&gt;the post being a community wiki&lt;/a&gt;. Since I didn't add an edit summary for these changes, it was marked what an automated &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/posts/339/timeline#history_89b9531c-a708-4942-9c2a-e8677dcedd19&quot;&gt;added 35 characters in body&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; Moreover, it often feels superfluous to say something in the edit summary that is directly visible in the edit history. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/2422/6&quot;&gt;this edit&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2422/5764&quot;&gt;one of the answers&lt;/a&gt; in our ever-growing and awesome list of &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2419/5764&quot;&gt;Often references questions&lt;/a&gt; states the obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above example(s) aren't meant to discourage edit summaries. Instead, it shows that the site functionality already supports some logic for those who are knowledgeable about their existence. And, if you missed out on the perfect edit summary, consider leaving a comment in the post thread referencing what and why you did what you did. That sometimes help motivate ones intentions (since there is some additional, yet limited markup support in comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/6091/27724&quot;&gt;SOX browser extension/user script&lt;/a&gt;, you can have routine edit summaries be part of an option (under the top bar Help Centre &gt; SOX: Edit Reasons). Here, for example, I'm adding a &quot;removed thanks&quot; option to summarise when I've removed someone's thanks/signature from their post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmFts.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmFts.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These show up under the edit summary that you can then check as/if needed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vMQn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vMQn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2020-01-19T14:08:04.137" LastActivityDate="2020-01-19T14:08:04.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8457" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-01-18T19:42:30.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user edits a post, they are asked to optionally fill in a reason behind their change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit summary is a 300 character field that allows them to express to other users anything from the why or the what that prompted the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By default an edit summary (or commit reason) will display a count of the characters changed between revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-01-18T19:42:30.130" LastActivityDate="2020-01-18T19:42:30.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8458" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-01-18T19:42:30.130" Score="0" Body="Short reason, count of characters changed or motive behind why a post was edited" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-01-18T19:42:30.130" LastActivityDate="2020-01-18T19:42:30.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8454" CreationDate="2020-01-18T19:52:24.833" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/tags/header-footer/synonyms&quot;&gt;I've started the process&lt;/a&gt; of adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/header-footer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;header-footer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;header-footer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users with more than 2,500 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag, can &lt;strong&gt;suggest&lt;/strong&gt; tag synonyms. Users with a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can &lt;strong&gt;vote&lt;/strong&gt; for tag synonyms. Suggestions will be automatically approved when they reach a score of 4, and automatically deleted when they reach a score of -2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can vote on this, &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/tags/header-footer/synonyms&quot;&gt;vote here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iyHZ0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iyHZ0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also vote on any remaining/pending synonym requests &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?tab=Newest&amp;amp;filter=Suggested&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-01-18T19:52:24.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8423" CreationDate="2020-01-22T09:43:54.400" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In line with their &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange#Moderator_removal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;extremely poor attitude towards the volunteers&lt;/a&gt;, helping out on this site, the Stack Exchange team has not even denied this request, but chose to simply ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I decided to just ad-block the banner using uBlock origin (together with all other ads on this site).  The custom blocking rules for all Stack Exchange sites and Stack Overflow are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com###announcement-banner&#xA;stackoverflow.com###announcement-banner&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add these through the uBlock origin Dashboard under the tab “My filters”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2020-01-22T09:43:54.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8465" CreationDate="2020-01-22T21:17:03.973" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked a question which was partly about the list of figures. I typed &lt;code&gt;listof&lt;/code&gt; into the tag-input and both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listoffigures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listoffigures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listoffigures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listoftables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listoftables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listoftables&lt;/a&gt; appeared as suggestions. I selected both of them. However, after I posted the question the tags were gone and the unrelated tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt; had emerged out of thin air. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intended behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like both of these tags are synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt; which makes little sense on its own IMHO but nevertheless I don't understand why synonymized tags would be suggested at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178966" LastEditorUserId="178966" LastEditDate="2020-01-22T21:36:37.890" LastActivityDate="2020-01-23T04:12:06.470" Title="Tags are getting replaced after using them" Tags="|support|bug|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8463" CreationDate="2020-01-23T04:12:06.470" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a bug, but a feature. As you mention, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listoffigures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listoffigures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listoffigures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listoftables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listoftables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listoftables&lt;/a&gt; are both &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonyms&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt;, and each synonym is replaced by their target when posting. That explains the change after posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why the synonyms are suggested during tagging is because initial tags stem from a personal association; you (or whomever writes the question) would not necessarily know about these synonym associations, and would therefore not think that the question should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/table-of-contents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;table-of-contents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;table-of-contents&lt;/a&gt; rather than &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listoffigures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listoffigures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listoffigures&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/listoftables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;listoftables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;listoftables&lt;/a&gt;. Providing these suggestions is a way of covering a larger selection of tags that the poster may associate with the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-01-23T04:12:06.470" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8472" CreationDate="2020-01-30T14:15:49.047" Score="45" ViewCount="1353" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a big proponent of TeX. I want it to be accessible to a broad family of people, not just those who are sufficiently technically-minded to understand its inner workings, and/or understand the documentation (which, let's face it, is pretty poor much of the time unless you are already a TeX whizz).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX.StackExchange is an amazing resource for those who are not technically able, both in the existing answers to questions, and in the ability to ask a new question. It has, to a large extent, replaced the not-always-useful documentation supplied with different packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as is often the case in technical subjects, there can be a gap between what a &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; (asking a question) needs to know, and what an &lt;em&gt;expert&lt;/em&gt; (answering the question) supplies. Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requesting an MWE.&lt;/strong&gt; Often a valid request made by the expert before considering the matter any further, but does the user have the capacity to provide such a thing? For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4591/draw-this-for-me-etiquette&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Draw this for me&amp;quot; etiquette&lt;/a&gt;, one comment is that all questions need an MWE. If, say, a user has never heard of TikZ, then how are they going to provide an MWE? Isn't a mockup of the picture sufficient in such a case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referring to a similar (but not the same) post.&lt;/strong&gt; Does the user understand the answer in the other post well enough to enact the modifications? As TeX.SE grows its library of questions and answers, perhaps the calls for help are for experts to carry out this modification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Directing someone to the manual.&lt;/strong&gt; At least give a link and a page number (e.g. the TikZ/PGF manual is 880 pages long! (&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: it's now 1321 pages long!)), but is the manual actually user-friendly, or only expert-friendly? Perhaps they came to TeX.SE in the first place precisely because they found the manual impenetrable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criticizing users for not doing &amp;quot;research&amp;quot; before asking.&lt;/strong&gt; Sure, there are lazy users out there, just wanting a quick answer and letting someone else do the donkey work. But there are also users out there who spent 2 hours trying to get something to work, but without knowing the search terms to plug into google/TeX.SE they don't know where to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not answering the question, but pointing out all the other mistakes the user has made.&lt;/strong&gt; A user wants something fixed up, but they're using (e.g.) &lt;code&gt;$$...$$&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\[...\]&lt;/code&gt;. As a user, how does it feel to ask a question, not receive an answer, but get told everything else you're doing wrong? In this case, I think the etiquette should be clear: answer the question first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a criticism of anyone in particular, but really just a question: Now that TeX.SE is, for many users and experts alike, the place that they learn many aspects of LaTeX (rather than in package documentation), do we need to adopt a more empathetic approach? Do we risk turning people off LaTeX for being too technical, simply because we sometimes expect something of the users that they are not in a position to give?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I can't guarantee that we will always be able to tell the difference between a lazy user and one who has literally told us everything they can, but much of the time I think it's fairly clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96966" LastEditorUserId="47927" LastEditDate="2021-11-04T11:25:37.910" LastActivityDate="2021-11-06T15:08:30.130" Title="Empathy for those who don't know LaTeX well" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8467" CreationDate="2020-01-30T21:39:39.487" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of your sub-questions are addressed in other meta questions, but it's always good to have some further discussion. I'll post here some comments on each of them with links to the other discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requesting a MWE&lt;/strong&gt; This is an issue on which there is some partial disagreement. There are some who believe that (almost) every question should come with a MWE. These people sometimes reflexively ask for one even when the question could clearly be answered without one. Personally I don't think MWEs are always needed, but there are many cases in which it is simply impossible to help people without one.  Furthermore, if the question seems to imply that the user has some code that's not working, it is entirely appropriate to tell them to turn that into a MWE.  More discussion here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/477/2693&quot;&gt;Should minimal examples be required, or just encouraged, for questions to be answered?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potential duplicates&lt;/strong&gt; The site is not helped by having the same question asked and answered over and over, which is why there is encouragement for users who know the site contents well to find duplicates where possible. The recent change in the wording of the automatic comment from &quot;Possible duplicate of ...&quot; to &quot;Does this ... answer your question?&quot; is a real step in the right direction, since it encourages users to check the potential duplicate but gives them a clear indication that if the question &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; help them they can say so.  Of course, closing happens a bit too quickly in many cases, but it's really not that hard to get a question reopened. There are almost always enough users in chat to provide the requisite votes if needed. Also, if you think a potential duplicate &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; really a duplicate, (for example, different questions can have similar answers, but are not duplicates) you can add a comment saying so, and vote to keep the question open (if you have such privileges).  On the &quot;closing too early&quot; problem see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4622/2693&quot;&gt;Reviewers; what do you eat for breakfast?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pointing to the manual&lt;/strong&gt; Frankly I don't see this as a big problem here in that I don't see many comments simply pointing to the manual. I agree, though, that such comments are likely inappropriate.   That being said, it's definitely helpful to point out that the information the person sought was in the manual if you answer the question. It's also the case that many new users don't really know how to find documentation for the packages the are using.  See e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/380019/2693&quot;&gt;How to find the documentation for a package?&lt;/a&gt;. Also, it's sometimes clear from people's questions that they are &lt;em&gt;such&lt;/em&gt; a beginner that the only thing that will really help them is to point them to some beginner's resources.  This is also entirely appropriate in my opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criticizing users for not enough research&lt;/strong&gt;  This is fundamentally the &quot;just do it for me problem&quot; and people fall into three distinct camps here with respect to how to deal with it. Some people just answer the question. Some people first ask what the person has tried. Some people just ignore such questions most of the time. I'm in the last camp, generally. There's plenty of discussion about these types of questions on meta. See this question and the questions linked inside it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7255/2693&quot;&gt;Etiquette for poorly researched questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not answering the question&lt;/strong&gt; but pointing out other problems with posted code.  This is a form of the &quot;problem&quot; of people answering in comments, and as has been discussed before, there are many good reasons for this. When people post comments about code errors, they usually say explicitly that the comments are not related directly to the problem at hand, but I think they help new users by not perpetuating bad code practices. As for not answering the question but commenting instead see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3238/2693&quot;&gt;Why do people answer in comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some comments on the user vs expert distinction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the 'user' vs 'expert' dichotomy is really a bit of a false one. Of course there are many of us on the site who have years of experience with TeX and/or LaTeX, and in fact many of the LaTeX core development team are active members of the site. But 'expert' is really a continuum. Personally I know quite a lot, but compared to others I am certainly no expert, yet I definitely have more knowledge and experience than many others too. But remember that the site is built on the goodwill and volunteer time of its users no matter how much or how little knowledge they have. That means that users with little knowledge &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have a responsibility to try as best as they can to ask questions that have at least some effort put into them. Just because it's easy for me to answer a question doesn't mean that it doesn't take some time to do so. This fact alone is why MWEs are helpful: they reduce the time it takes an &quot;expert&quot; to produce a good answer, and this is a good thing for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some comments about empathy&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I'm not sure that we suffer too much from a lack of empathy for new/novice users. For one thing, from the very beginning of the site, there was agreement that downvoting should be used very sparingly, and comments should be used as much as possible to improve questions. See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4190/2693&quot;&gt;TeX.SE really are nicer voters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This practice is very much in effect still, and it's definitely a good thing, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think also, that most of us &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; show quite a bit of patience with new users, as you can tell from the sometimes quite extensive comment threads asking for more details that arise on questions. On other sites these questions might be almost instantly closed as unclear, but we tend to only close as unclear if the questioner fails to answer the questions in the comments, or simply disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I do think that we should all bear the points you have in mind when we deal with new/novice users. But there's one other thing that is also fundamental about making a community with many disparate views on interaction with others: you can't and shouldn't legislate behaviour, apart from the basic &quot;be nice&quot; edict.  To see the diversity of views on this, however, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7733/2693&quot;&gt;Should we &amp;quot;educate&amp;quot; (new) users by not answering until...?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; in particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7738/2693&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; which reflects my views too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think you're absolutely right in reminding people that they should take into account the novice user's perspective when they respond, but we should leave it as exactly that, a reminder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-01-31T22:14:05.117" LastActivityDate="2020-01-31T22:14:05.117" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8467" CreationDate="2020-01-31T00:29:42.683" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I can see that there are communication problems, I feel that the question somewhat neglects one important aspect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; question should be useful for as many users as&#xA;  possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be true that one reason why some users ask for an MWE is that it saves them some time when writing an answer. I can speak only for myself, but this is hardly the really important reason. IMHO many of the points that you describe/criticize are not to save some time but really to make the thread useful. In more detail,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requesting a MWE&lt;/strong&gt; is in many cases essential to define the question. It is very common that a potential answer clashes with some other package you load, and so on. An MWE will also allow future users to find more quickly the related post. So, in short, an MWE helps the one asking the question more than the one who answers it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referring to a similar (but not the same) post.&lt;/strong&gt; I cannot see anything wrong in pointing the OP to a related post. It happens quite often that this solves the problem. If it doesn't, all the OP has to do is to indicate that it doesn't, and why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Directing someone to the manual&lt;/strong&gt;. I can't speak for everyone, but usually the comment does not just say &quot;please have a look at the manual&quot; but something like &quot;see the example on p. xy of the manual&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;Very&lt;/strong&gt; often (according to my experience) this solves the problem. Again, if the OP is not able to use this to solve their problem they can just indicate that it doesn't, and why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criticizing users for not doing &quot;research&quot; before asking&lt;/strong&gt;. This &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a problem, yes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not answering the question, but pointing out all the other mistakes the user has made&lt;/strong&gt;. I guess this is a matter of perspective. While I understand that getting a comment that is not directly related to the main problem may be frustrating, you may want to look at the situation from the perspective of the one making the comment. In the case of most of the users the main intention is to help the OP (and not showing off, which applies to only a small number of individuals).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I feel that your post is very lopsided in the sense that you only describe the things from the perspective of the one asking a question. Even more, you seem to assume that the purpose of this site is only to provide a quick fix for some problem. And you seem to complain that users do not explain things. &lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, explaining things requires some information about the knowledge of the one who is asking the question. To see what I mean you may want to watch &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=video&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwi0p6yOwsDnAhWYjp4KHaA5DQkQtwIIKTAA&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencealert.com%2Fwatch-richard-feynman-on-why-he-can-t-tell-you-how-magnets-work&amp;amp;usg=AOvVaw1UA80Fl7YF0OUZt4z9PI6b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview with Feynman&lt;/a&gt;. You can only give a good answer if the question is well-posed and it is clear what kind of information the one asking the question is really seeking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I find the title of your &quot;question&quot; really off, and also do not think that this is a true question. Rather, this seems to be a broad attack on those who answer questions. Why you suggest that anyone looking at the problems of the OP and giving feedback may lack empathy is really mysterious to me. It seems not to be a question, but (sorry to say that) only an attempt to show off and demonstrate how empathic you are. IMHO you are not. You do not seem to care at all about those who spend time trying to solve the problems of others, and try, using comments, to gauge which information the questioner is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; seeking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-02-09T21:10:29.877" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T21:10:29.877" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8467" CreationDate="2020-02-02T12:13:38.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer will only deal with the 5th point &amp;quot;Not answering the question&amp;quot; and might perhaps just be an extended comment instead of a full answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that being said the following is what I'd do if I had to meet a deadline and faced a problem I couldn't solve after investing several hours:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask the experts (post on this or similar sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave the question alone until there is response to it (be it comment or answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime get as much work done as possible with the skills and knowledge I currently have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only if I get feedback on my question will I stop working on the project and care for the question asked. That approach is the most efficient way to spend my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What will be the outcome of all the work I do with my current skills and knowledge if no one points out that I shouldn't start displayed equations in LaTeX with &lt;code&gt;$$&lt;/code&gt;? I'll continue to do so, resulting in inefficient time usage because I later have to revisit all those places I made this mistake. The same is true for many other of the many mistakes a beginner in LaTeX could do (e.g., using &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; all over the place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if the problem I asked is so hard that it takes a week until someone answers my question, I have done a weeks worth of work in the wrong way, only because someone felt it would be inappropriate to tell me my wrongs and rights before he fixed my hard problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;tl;dr&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short: It is better for the questioner if those small mistakes are mentioned early, even if it might feel unkind. If a questioner is annoyed by honest help, then maybe he shouldn't have asked for help in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117050" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2020-02-02T12:13:38.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8467" CreationDate="2020-02-02T20:44:27.400" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking the points separately..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. MWE ... Isn't a mockup of the picture sufficient in such a case?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say here that a MWE is almost always an improvement, and should usually be asked for even though some people will helpfully provide a full drawing anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be that the user is a beginner and does not know where to start. That is fine, but in that case they should ask &quot;how do I draw a square in tikz&quot; and they will get an answer or be pointed to a similar duplicate beginner question that has the answer they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It simply isn't reasonable to say &quot;I am a complete beginner, how do I draw an entire technical diagram.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Closing duplicates.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just how the site mechanics work. It seems a bit odd at first, but it is not a criticism of the person asking the question. In fact rather the opposite, questions with lots of duplicates are weighted highly in searching the site. For future readers it is an improvement: when searching for their term rather than being shown dozens of more or less similar answers that they have to look at to realise they are similar, the site should have pre-filtered it, and show the one &quot;canonical&quot; example. That's the idea anyway, in practice it's always slightly subjective what is a duplicate (and whether someone answering wants to search for duplicates before answering).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Pointing at the manual&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's helpful to point at a relevant place in the manual if there is an obvious manual that has the information, but I don't think information being in the manual is reason for not answering the question here. More or less by definition all questions here should be covered by reading enough manuals, but that isn't the point. So manual references should be in addition to a specific answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Criticizing users for not doing &quot;research&quot; before asking.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There shouldn't be need to criticize anyone, basically there are no bad questions, only bad answers.  But as commented in the first point, it can be the case that users are asking a too complicated question and they should start with simpler examples and just ask when they get an error. If doing that then they always have some code that they can show, and always have a specific tex question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Not answering the question but pointing out other problems with posted code.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I commonly do that in comments (less so in answers). Seems no harm in being helpful, and sometimes the questioner has posted a lot of code, but missing important information like what document class is being used, the actual problem is unclear and the error described is due to code not shown. In such a case, you may as well comment on the code that &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; shown even if the comments are not related to the problem in the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2020-02-02T21:38:30.937" LastActivityDate="2020-02-02T21:38:30.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8467" CreationDate="2020-02-03T03:59:42.697" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take the opposite approach to the other answers (so far), addressing the question of empathy more broadly (rather than the specific 5 points), as I've been thinking about it for a while. I think there definitely &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a shortage of &quot;empathy&quot; sometimes, though this site is much &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; better than most other sites on the Stack Exchange network, or even internet forums generally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem IMO has not much to do with whether the user knows LaTeX well. Plenty of &quot;good&quot; questions from obviously novice users do get empathetic comments and answers that are appropriate to the user's level of knowledge. And there are also occasional &quot;bad&quot; questions from users who may have some expert level of knowledge, but (because of the way the questions are asked) are treated with not much empathy. Rather, the pattern I see, which is mostly just an inevitable consequence of people being human, is the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone &quot;joins&quot; this site and starts &quot;participating&quot; by looking at questions other than their own, what is their motivation? There could be many reasons why you  (not specifically you who posted this question, I mean a generic &quot;you&quot;) may start participating on this site: Maybe you just like helping people in need. Maybe your curiosity is piqued by the questions, or you like solving interesting problems. Maybe you have all this esoteric TeX/LaTeX knowledge, and want to put it to some use. Maybe you want to show off how brilliant you are. Maybe you want to &quot;give back&quot; to the community, having benefited in some way. Maybe you just like competing for internet points. &lt;em&gt;All&lt;/em&gt; of these are valid motivations! They can all (in principle) be good for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But over time, as you start looking at various people's questions, something happens to you: you become more discerning, and can clearly see that some questions are good and some are poor (by the standards of the site). This is because our brains do that with anything (&lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/915/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;xkcd 915: Connoisseur&lt;/a&gt;). There is reasonable consensus what a &quot;good&quot; question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hover text on the upvote button says &quot;This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear&quot;. This is generic across StackExchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, there are community-specific norms, like (here) the question includes a minimal example (wherever it makes sense), shows that the questioner has made an effort to solve the problem by reading relevant documentation, is otherwise well-written or well-stated except for the part the question is about, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, all very good. These considerations influence (as they should) whether or not someone clicks the up-vote button. But beyond that, when it comes to actually interacting with the person who posted the question, that is where the question of empathy arises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because you see, &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; know what good questions and bad questions are. &lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt; have seen the entire spectrum of users. When you see a poor question (and that too again and again), it is natural to get annoyed, consciously or not. &lt;em&gt;Grumble grumble, why can't this person state their question well -- look at the previous person: they asked their question so well? Questions like this are not what the site needs.&lt;/em&gt; So by now, especially if you strongly identify with this site or community, you may think to &quot;improve the quality of the site&quot; by telling the user how to make their question a &quot;good&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the person asking the question (typically not someone who has read enough of others' questions to have absorbed site norms) does not know or care. They are a separate human being from everyone else who came before and posted other questions, with their own goals and hopes and desires and attitudes and culture and everything. They have no thought or conception of &quot;good questions&quot;, the quality of this site, or any of that. They are just here because they had a problem and thought they might get some help. You may think you are helping them to ask a better question &quot;in future&quot; or &quot;the next time&quot;, but there likely won't be a next time -- more likely they'll just give up on the site, or even TeX/LaTeX itself, and move on to something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This IMO is the crux of the empathy problem: the disconnect between site regulars judging new questions and worrying about the site quality, and question-askers who are removed from all that context and just want help. From the asker's perspective, they came for help but got all this nitpicking about their question. From the site regulars' perspective, they gave the asker all this concrete advice on improving their question, but they showed no interest in improving the question and just went away. A mini-tragedy playing itself out day after day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the solution? I'm afraid there's no perfect solution, but I can think of a few things that we can keep in mind that may help. Well, I try to keep them in mind anyway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While it's good to improve the quality of this site or questions thereon (after all, most of the site' usage/help over the long run will not be to the person who asked the question, but later visitors with the same or similar problems), never get so involved in this secondary goal that you forget your original motivation (helping people or whatever).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Always remember that the person you're responding to is a real person, different from everyone else, not just a generic &quot;question-asker&quot; or the same as their question itself. While evaluating questions as good and bad is fine and possibly important, mentally keep this evaluation a separate step from the act of communication. Before writing anything, try to invoke a feeling of empathy with another human being. If the only thing you can think of saying is something not nice, consider not saying it at all; someone else can deal with this question. One more sub-optimal question on a random internet website is not the end of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This one is more subjective than most, but avoid pre-written text templates. I used to think they save time and can ensure everyone gets a consistent response, but I find I can manage better empathy (or at least be better aware of what I'm communicating) when choosing words afresh, in reaction to the question. The little details help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look for points of intersections between the user's needs on the one hand, and your/the site's needs on the other hand. Focus on and emphasize them. For example, instead of something to the effect of &quot;No MWE. Bad question&quot; (even if stated very politely) (remember, making questions &quot;good&quot; is not the user's immediate need), you could emphasize the benefits to the user (if you can honestly judge them to be true in this instance): &quot;Welcome. It might be easier to answer your question if...&quot;, etc. By the way, from this point of view, five of your points can be either acts of generosity or of unhelpfulness; the difference is only in the intent and communication:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Requesting MWE: Help the user get their question answered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Referring to similar post: Helpful if in the spirit of &quot;in case you haven't noticed, have you seen this question? Does it help you? If not, why not? [let's fix that]&quot;; unhelpful if in the sense of &quot;already answered (even if you can't figure it out), go away&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pointing out the manual: Similar. Note the user may have already looked at the manual but just forgotten to mention it or say what the difficulty was (it ought to be clear that &quot;nothing makes sense to me&quot; is fine too); bringing up the manual focuses the question and makes it easier to be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Criticizing users for not doing research: Well, merely criticizing per se is unlikely to be helpful, but pointing out &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to do research, and that many of the people best positioned to answer questions are likely to respond better to well-researched questions, can be a way of helping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pointing out stuff other than what the question is about: Again, can be either generous or nitpicking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference is all in the intent, and in the care taken to avoid coming off as rude, and sensitivity to what the user's immediate needs seem to be -- in short, in empathy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, retain your humour :-) Things won't be perfect: users will continue to post awful, lazy, poorly researched questions (by the standards of good questions on the site), and you yourself will often fail to be empathetic or helpful. It's fine, when you realize the situation laugh at human foibles and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T03:59:42.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8467" CreationDate="2020-02-06T22:00:07.120" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a much more complicated issue than it may appear, and by no means limited to SE or LaTeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen many instances where someone has written &quot;RTFM&quot; and TFM actually does not contain the requested information. Even where it does, a helpful answer will indicate &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; in the manual the user should look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse, the documentation is decentralized. If you point the user to the documentation, point him to all of the relevant files. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know of inconsistencies, warn the user of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometime a smaller document doesn't fail. That can make an MWE awkward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is good style subjective, but much of it is oral culture. I'm not aware of any single concise manual of good LaTeX style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to explain why you are asking for additional information, or why a specific construct is bad form. Be a teacher, not a disciplinarian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you provide examples, explain them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the user knows things that you don't. Even when he doesn't, it won't hurt to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe there is a legitimate reason for something that strikes me as bad form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you give a man a fish, you fed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish, you feed him for life. If someone asks how do something, don't do it for him, explain ho to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110591" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T22:00:07.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8467" CreationDate="2020-02-09T00:13:57.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a person who asks questions on this site, part of the problem re trying to find answered questions is knowing what search text to use. For example, and obviously I'm not posting it here, I have a problem today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a quite specific problem, and it's hard to know what search terms to use. So I search for every single phrase/set of words I can think of that might locate a solution. The upshot is spending over an hour reading irrelevant questions because they just &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; contain a solution to my problem. And this is what is happening every time I have a problem. I am unlikely to be the only one experiencing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be a great question with one or more great answers (giving viable alternatives to solving the problem). But unless the questioner has used the same words as exist in previously answered questions, the correct solution may not appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO and YMMV, LaTeX has so many packages, and some of them are quite complicated with hundreds of pages of manual, with an index that may not be helpful with respect to the problem. Using Rumsfeld, the problem is unknown unknowns: I don't know how to do this and I don't know what terms to use to find out how to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27408" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T00:13:57.827" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8482" CreationDate="2020-02-09T01:38:27.837" Score="15" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably many of you have seen low-quality answers, for which less versed users may not immediately see that the answer is low-quality. A specific situation could be answers to Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z questions in which &lt;code&gt;tikzpicture&lt;/code&gt;s get nested. The result of the answer may look fine, but if the OP uses it and modifies the code they are almost guaranteed to run into major problems. There are many more examples of similarly bad practice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to what I know the options of dealing with such posts are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ignore&lt;/strong&gt;. But this may be against the spirit of helping others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt;. According to my experience with certain users this leads to revenge downvotes and other interesting reactions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote&lt;/strong&gt;. Without a comment this may not lead anywhere, and once one leaves a comment there is a high chance of being subject to retaliation, see item 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag&lt;/strong&gt;. This is a drastic measure and may only be used sparsely if I understand it correctly. It may not at all be appropriate for the situation described above. Or is it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems to me that there is no real way of passing the information that this answer does something problematic without opening some kind of can of worms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is whether the above list of possible ways of dealing with problematic answers is exhaustive, and what the recommend way of dealing with such posts is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-02-11T01:52:57.620" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T22:59:04.173" Title="Is there a way to give anonymous feedback without flagging?" Tags="|discussion|comments|voting|flagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8475" CreationDate="2020-02-09T08:49:25.727" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would add another option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add another answer with the correct solution, explaining, &lt;em&gt;with a practical example&lt;/em&gt;, why the previous answer could be dangerous.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the previous answer, I'd just opt for 1 (ignoring is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; the best policy). If the OP (asker) solves their problem with it, it is OK, it is very likely the OP is using it for their thesis, and will never use LaTeX anymore in their life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add another answer, the future users will see it and will be able to make a conscious choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 2 (leave a comment) is very difficult because it is very difficult to write a comment saying &quot;you are wrong&quot; without seeming impolite, also taking into account that not everybody are fluent in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 3 (downvote) should be the correct way to go, but downvotes are not fashionable on TeX.SE, and without comment are not polite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think option 4 (flagging) is useless in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2020-02-09T08:58:33.133" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T08:58:33.133" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2020-02-09T15:59:47.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Teaching/learning resources, and examples&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11/&quot;&gt;What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner?&#xA;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner? ](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11/)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/84384/&quot;&gt;LaTeX Introductions in languages other than English&#xA;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[LaTeX Introductions in languages other than English ](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/84384/)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/230526&quot;&gt;List of books written in LaTeX with the source available&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[List of books written in LaTeX with the source available](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/230526)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/423566&quot;&gt;What research papers exist about TeX and friends?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What research papers exist about TeX and friends?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/423566)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2022-04-01T01:18:35.853" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T01:18:35.853" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-02-09T15:59:47.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8475" CreationDate="2020-02-09T19:18:52.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only anonymous way to give feedback is through voting (either up-voting or down-voting). All other means leave a community-visible record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to what &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;that Newton guy once said&lt;/a&gt;, every action has some form of reaction... give or take. You seem to have covered some reaction with every option you list. It is a bit extreme to assume that every option you list will result in an end-of-the-world scenario. If that happens to be the case, then it's best to step away. However, if your interest is in the greater good, then I propose the following sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment on the answer, suggesting a change with sufficient motivation as to why. Wait for a response.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there's no response and the person has clearly been back on the site, poke again and request a change. Wait for a response.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they still haven't responded, you can edit the post and make the necessary changes, keeping the solution similar. Leave a comment that you've changed it. The OP can roll it back if they wish - the site offers that option.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they roll back the changes, post your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that each of the above elements (or the sequence of events) support your notion of &quot;helping others&quot; - your main aim is geared at improving the site (which allows for multiple answers) and giving the original questioner (and future visitors) the best answer they can get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging here does not help, since the available options aren't valuable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spam&lt;/strong&gt;: It's not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rude or abusive&lt;/strong&gt;: It's not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not an answer&lt;/strong&gt;: It is an answer, just not using good practices.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Very low quality&lt;/strong&gt;: It does not &quot;suffer from severe formatting or content problems&quot; and the answer &quot;is salvageable through editing&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In need of moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;: This is not a job for a moderator...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging a question as &lt;strong&gt;very low quality&lt;/strong&gt; puts in the &lt;a href=&quot;http:////tex.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Low Quality Posts review queue&lt;/a&gt; which only allows for the options&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Looks OK&lt;/strong&gt;: It would be OK to some users who have similar coding practices&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: This is covered above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delete&lt;/strong&gt; (or &lt;strong&gt;Recommend Deletion&lt;/strong&gt;): This is not appropriate, since it still represents an answer, may have votes or even be accepted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skip&lt;/strong&gt;: This seems to skirt the issue or make flagging it useless.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T19:18:52.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8480" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-10T18:42:37.783" Score="9" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often, a question is not phrased clearly or lacks the terms that another user would use in searching for information.  This is often not the &quot;fault&quot; of the person asking the question, who may not be fluent in English or familiar with the (La)TeX or typographic vocabulary.  This affects the provided list of possible related questions; distressingly often, these are wildly inappropriate.  Usually, comments from other users include more familiar keywords when asking for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a general search on the site -- and (I have been given to believe) a web-wide Google search -- omits searching in comments by design.  This makes it difficult to find relevant information without making multiple guesses about what to search for or reading through numerous questions unearthed by &quot;approximation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will correct spelling or add tags when there's an obvious error or omission, and I will often ask for clarification in a comment.  But if I'm not sure, I do nothing else, knowing that the next person to look at a question will probably be similarly confused, or not even look at the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What action can one take to make it easier to find an entry later, especially if it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; get a good answer, and a similar question might be answered by the same information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, please offer an improved search strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2020-02-10T20:09:31.180" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T12:26:24.977" Title="How can we improve the &quot;quality&quot; of questions so a search for information is more reliable?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8475" CreationDate="2020-02-11T09:01:45.397" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that an anonymous comment option would work. If I added a comment &quot;you will get problems with hyperref with this code&quot; anonymously I would probably had to add some proofs and explanations — and then people would identify me anyway. As you said in a comment: at the end we are recognizable not only by our names but also by our actions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem to comment and I very seldom get bad responses. But I also very seldom insist that the answer is changed or removed. I also don't downvote — I don't think that this has any effect here apart from perhaps angering the writer. Everyone can see from my comment that I don't agree with the answer and make an educated choice. If they make the wrong choice it is their call, they are adults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that if you don't want to comment but can't ignore the answer either that you ask someone else to look at it and to comment if they see the need. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="2388" LastEditDate="2020-02-11T10:44:59.517" LastActivityDate="2020-02-11T10:44:59.517" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8475" CreationDate="2020-02-12T22:59:04.173" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My main advice would be: Do what you think is right (comment, edit, answer, etc.), and just ignore the downvotes (they cost almost no rep) and other &quot;interesting reactions&quot; you observed. Unless they get abusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the other user becomes abusive, report that behavior to the moderators. I'm not sure, but I think massive targeted downvoting of a single user's contributions is also considered abuse of the reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12440" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T22:59:04.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-14T10:32:18.633" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tex.sx has a tag for questions that is named &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;wiki&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and currently has this description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Topics linked to usage of TeX in wiki-type websites, such as Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia (run by Wikimedia, running on Mediawiki software) has long been using mathmode syntax inside &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;math&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; elements&lt;/a&gt; for generating formulas in articles. The exact way this has been parsed (client-/server-side MathJax, OCaml &lt;a href=&quot;https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EMAT/browse/REL1_23/texvccheck/README&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texvc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/wikimedia/texvcjs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texvcjs&lt;/a&gt;, Mathoid) and displayed (source code, MathML, PNG, SVG) has differed over time and may depend on browser capabilities and user settings. &#xA;However, it basically supports all of plain LaTeX plus AMSmath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/528274/same-height-for-matrices-regardless-of-fractions-inside&quot;&gt;question of mine&lt;/a&gt; about this particular flavor was closed as off-topic: are questions about the MW/WM Tex dialect &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on topic&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41085" LastEditorUserId="41085" LastEditDate="2020-02-14T13:43:16.363" LastActivityDate="2020-02-14T13:43:16.363" Title="Is Wikipedia &lt;math&gt; on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-15T00:49:11.950" Score="12" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;roomba&lt;/a&gt; requirements are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 and a deleted owner&lt;br&gt;&#xA;     has no answers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;     is not locked&lt;br&gt;&#xA;     has view count &amp;lt;= the age of the question in days times 1.5&lt;br&gt;&#xA;     &lt;strong&gt;has 1 or 0 comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;     isn't on a meta site  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it will be automatically deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're discussing this idea of dropping this condition on meta.SE:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/322197/modify-the-has-1-or-0-comments-requirement-for-removeabandonedquestions-scri&quot;&gt;Modify the 'has 1 or 0 comments' requirement for 'RemoveAbandonedQuestions' script&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/343683/examples-of-questions-which-would-be-roomba-ed-if-it-werent-for-the-has-1-or-0&quot;&gt;Examples of questions which would be roomba-ed if it weren't for the 'has 1 or 0 comments' requirement, which have important answers in the comments?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main concern is that there's valuable information in those comments.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/343700/351283&quot;&gt;Marijn indicated&lt;/a&gt; that TeX.SE is full of answers in comments, citing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3238/why-do-people-answer-in-comments&quot;&gt;Why do people answer in comments?&lt;/a&gt;.  Of course, the people with the most informed opinions about this are here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: If the 365-day roomba requirement 'has 1 or 0 comments' were dropped, would valuable contributions be lost?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/revision/1196606/1474020/the-roomba-365-day-rule-what-happens-if-we-drop-the-has-1-or-0-comments-requi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Data Explorer query&lt;/a&gt; it seems dropping the &quot;has 1 or 0 comments&quot; condition would result in &lt;strong&gt;the deletion of 5271 questions&lt;/strong&gt;.  The first three examples from each year are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2010:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3823&quot;&gt;Pros and Cons XeTeX vs pdfLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4871&quot;&gt;Disabling the colored box surrounding links in hyperref&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5112&quot;&gt;How do I give an equation a name instead of a number?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2011:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9202&quot;&gt;Externalize eps figure with TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11467&quot;&gt;includegraphics - inserting png image leads to blank picture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13614&quot;&gt;combining existing symbols&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2012:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39778&quot;&gt;Creating multiple PDF files from a single LaTeX file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40056&quot;&gt;Directly embedded images&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40132&quot;&gt;how to define a newcommand with several optional arguments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2013:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/88909&quot;&gt;What formatting should I use on &amp;#39;d&amp;#39; 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meta-information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2017:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/346527&quot;&gt;How to put this movie (.mp4) in my slide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/346830&quot;&gt;Equation alternative for text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/347130&quot;&gt;Compilation progress update for TikZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2018:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/408340&quot;&gt;Bibliography is only printing keyword in ArsClassica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/408380&quot;&gt;Exam class - customising question numbers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/408477&quot;&gt;Two-column book with `mwbk` messes up Table of Contents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2019:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/468177&quot;&gt;Is it possible, in theory, to take a file, let&amp;#39;s say a pdf, created from a tex source file, and convert it to said tex source file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/468183&quot;&gt;Import a single letter from a different font (and use it in text mode)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/468195&quot;&gt;processing part of a document with no output&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47311" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2020-02-15T08:13:58.977" LastActivityDate="2020-02-15T08:13:58.977" Title="If the 365-day roomba requirement 'has 1 or 0 comments' were dropped, would valuable contributions be lost?" 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  <row Id="8485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2020-02-15T15:06:39.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Lists, itemize, enumerate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/490872&quot;&gt;enumitem: Understanding the usage of asterisk and exclamation mark in setting the different lengths&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[enumitem: Understanding the usage of asterisk and exclamation mark in setting the different lengths](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/490872)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1669&quot;&gt;Resuming a list&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Resuming a list](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1669)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10684&quot;&gt;Vertical space in lists&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Vertical space in lists](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10684)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/86054&quot;&gt;How to remove the whitespace BEFORE itemize/enumerate?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to remove the whitespace BEFORE itemize/enumerate?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/86054)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/686246&quot;&gt;How do we create a &amp;quot;continuous&amp;quot; list enumeration in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How do we create a &amp;quot;continuous&amp;quot; list enumeration in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/686246)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/571975&quot;&gt;Add a space after itemize only if no text follows&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Add a space after itemize only if no text follows](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/571975)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/139547&quot;&gt;LaTeX Sublist Numbering&lt;/a&gt; (1.1, etc.) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[LaTeX Sublist Numbering](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/139547)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6437&quot;&gt;Front matter&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;ToCs, Lists of figures/tables&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6619&quot;&gt;Indexing and Glossaries&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;&lt;code&gt;glossaries&lt;/code&gt; package, lists and sorting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2425&quot;&gt;Math environments&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;Multi-line displays treated as list items&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4467&quot;&gt;Theorems and friends&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;Lists in theorem environments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-12-12T19:05:41.240" LastActivityDate="2023-12-12T19:05:41.240" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-02-15T15:06:39.070" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8480" CreationDate="2020-02-17T02:53:35.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Get more people to edit/cleanup/weed out questions. Yes, it is a thankless job, with little payoff. Perhaps a &quot;cleanup hero&quot; badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear that more documentation on &quot;how to ask good questions&quot; won't go very far, but perhaps it should be shown prominently to new users, and perhaps a short reminder/summary (for people with reputation less than some limit?) when asking a question. Perhaps show a very short tip selected at random, with the &quot;Similar questions&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21275" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T02:53:35.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8480" CreationDate="2020-02-17T12:26:24.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imagine the question was &lt;s&gt;badly&lt;/s&gt; not as well phrased as it could be, but received interesting answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such case, why not &lt;strong&gt;create a new question, and flag it as duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; of the former one, so that we have 2 entry points for the same good answer(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having similar questions answered multiple times is a waste of effort, but I believe that increasing good answers “catchment area” through creating similar questions phrased differently isn't a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64454" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T12:26:24.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8491" CreationDate="2020-02-28T22:01:57.773" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;On several occasions I have found that in the Suggested Edits review queue there are new (low-reputation) users who almost always suggest insignificant or irrelevant changes to questions or answers. Who are these users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-02-28T22:36:07.613" LastActivityDate="2020-02-28T22:36:07.613" Title="Unknown users within the Suggested Edits review queue" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8490" CreationDate="2020-02-28T22:33:40.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;Suggested Edits review queue&lt;/a&gt; contains edits that are suggested by members that have not reached 2,000 reputation. This limit is when the &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;Edit questions and answers privilege&lt;/a&gt; kick in. Until that point, users could gain reputation (+2) from suggesting an edit that is eventually approved. This reputation gain (up to +1,000 reputation per user) could encourage new users trying to improve the site, but might be frivolous (hence being put up for review).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-02-28T22:33:40.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-05T10:56:28.957" Score="11" ViewCount="1471" Body="&lt;p&gt;2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/8492&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastActivityDate="2021-09-19T13:10:03.603" Title="Community Promotion Ads — 2020" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2021-06-17T10:06:32.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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  <row Id="8497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2020-03-05T13:44:27.743" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.latex-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8EXPe.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="134574" LastEditDate="2020-03-13T18:36:06.583" LastActivityDate="2020-03-13T18:36:06.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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  <row Id="8504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2020-03-05T15:42:35.627" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CYXdw.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX online documentation lookup system&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T15:42:35.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8506" CreationDate="2020-03-05T18:00:55.280" Score="2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/187079&quot;&gt;edit to a question&lt;/a&gt; after it was suggested in another comment when I added some explanatory discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the edit got rejected on the grounds of changing the intent, although I only added braces to the code that make the syntax more clear and added one sentence about the semantics (search-replace-replacelength). Does that already &quot;change the intent&quot;? I'd rather not create a new answer basically quoting one sentence from the documentation, especially if it's an old and accepted answer and thus won't get much exposure so people would first see the accepted answer and still need to scroll through the others to find the explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the intent or idea of the answer is completely untouched, it helped me with my problem, I only added some background information about TeX that allows removing &quot; unnecessary &quot; brackets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90407" OwnerDisplayName="larkey" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-03-06T17:40:03.793" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T17:40:03.793" Title="Does adding an explanation in an edit make it &quot;deviate from the intent&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|answers|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8505" CreationDate="2020-03-06T17:37:48.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the rejection stemmed from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Code change (which is often suspect) while keeping the original code as a viable &quot;alternative&quot; in the comment. Also, some people use abbreviated code forms, like &lt;code&gt;\frac12&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\frac{1}{2}&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\newcommand\mymacro&lt;/code&gt; without bracing arguments; and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The additional description of what's going on which may have already been highlighted in the comments (and therefore already forms part of the post &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above two elements, combined with the fact that it's an old post may have made the edit seem less important or unnecessary. Regardless, consistency and more detailed explanations have always been a welcome component of edits for me. For example, it would have been weird (or even confusing) if you had some bizarre mixture like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\lstset{&#xA;  literate = &#xA;    *::1&#xA;    {abc}{def}{3}&#xA;    g{hi}2&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since the replacement components aren't clearly defined if you don't understand how TeX is consuming them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've updated the answer to reflect your suggested edit and promote consistency in interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T17:37:48.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2020-03-10T16:55:02.020" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://topanswers.xyz/tex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AnCjM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tagline to show on mouseover&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-03-11T00:12:42.947" LastActivityDate="2020-03-11T00:12:42.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2020-03-19T02:43:59.353" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AAwoJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7883" LastEditorUserId="7883" LastEditDate="2020-03-19T02:49:34.600" LastActivityDate="2020-03-19T02:49:34.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2020-03-19T05:30:33.027" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vbJes.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;ConTeXt Garden&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2020-03-19T05:30:33.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8511" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8512" CreationDate="2020-03-22T00:09:14.207" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering why some flags are highlighted with a pink background? I only have two pink ones. What's the reason? Thank you very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ulugd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ulugd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T09:38:32.903" Title="An information of a pink bar: flags" Tags="|discussion|support|design|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8511" CreationDate="2020-03-22T09:38:32.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pink background means that the flagged question, answer or comment has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T09:38:32.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8516" CreationDate="2020-03-29T16:38:31.403" Score="7" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw this addition at the bottom of posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3MDDg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3MDDg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this &lt;em&gt;follow&lt;/em&gt; option provide? Is there any guide that mentions what I can do and don't do with it? Who has used this &lt;em&gt;follow&lt;/em&gt; option and for what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T16:29:10.060" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T16:36:26.500" Title="A follow option: how does it work?" Tags="|discussion|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2020-03-30T13:10:28.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://szhorvat.net/mathematica/MaTeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tPjfW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Publication quality figure labels with LaTeX and Mathematica&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6302" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T13:10:28.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8514" CreationDate="2020-03-30T16:26:11.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The follow button is meant to give you inbox notifications for any changes related to that question or answer. Yes, it is specific to post that you follow, either an answer or a question. Here is the original pop-up notification pointing to the follow button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7XSP8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7XSP8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use cases here could vary. For some, they may downvote a poor question with some suggested changes in comments. Once the post is edited, they'll receive a notification in their inbox, when they can revisit the post and see whether their suggestions have been implemented (and reverse the voting). Others may literally want to follow changes to a heavily-linked post that might be on a site (like Meta.SE, say) they don't visit often to keep track of any updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's currently still under development and there might be short-term changes to fix bugs and implement new features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/345661/168244&quot;&gt;The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This was actually something &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/soscripted/sox/issues/215&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I requested about 3 years ago&lt;/a&gt; to form part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/6091/stack-overflow-extras-sox&quot;&gt;SOX Stack App&lt;/a&gt;. It has since been &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/8278/stack-exchange-post-watcher-firefox-chrome-extension-to-watch-posts-for-any&quot;&gt;implemented as a separate browser extension&lt;/a&gt;. However, it may become obsolete based on this native implementation by Stack Exchange.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T16:36:26.500" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T16:36:26.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8519" CreationDate="2020-03-31T09:36:34.240" Score="18" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realised that there is an option for dark mode for Stack Overflow. I was wondering if there is any chance our community could use it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150071" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-03-31T19:16:31.387" LastActivityDate="2020-03-31T19:16:31.387" Title="Dark mode in TeX Stack Exchange" Tags="|discussion|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-31T16:24:26.123" Score="2" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please undelete &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/534505/208429&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/534505/208429&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close comment says &quot;This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post. &quot;, but this makes no sense. This is neither a request for clarification nor a critique, but a simple solution to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208429" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-04-08T23:12:27.847" LastActivityDate="2020-10-04T12:22:03.360" Title="Request to undelete" Tags="|discussion|undelete-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8517" CreationDate="2020-03-31T19:15:43.430" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is being tested on &lt;a href=&quot;//stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; only. Plans to roll this out to all networks across Stack Exchange is currently unlikely as each graduated site has its own design elements that might not fit well with a universal dark mode switch. I would assume each site would have to initiate its own poll to see whether it would warrant the time to come up with a site-specific dark mode option. This, however, is all dependent on how well dark mode on Stack Overflow is utilised once the kinks have been sorted out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/30/introducing-dark-mode-for-stack-overflow/&quot;&gt;The Overflow: Introducing Dark Mode (beta) for Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-03-31T19:15:43.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8522" CreationDate="2020-04-03T08:57:58.553" Score="9" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many questions we're likely to post an image of what we're looking for.  And there are often multiple visuals for the answer. Is there a way to search the questions via the thumbnails posted on the thread?&#xA;A more visual approach like in &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Texample&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163874" OwnerDisplayName="Julien-Elie Taieb" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-04-03T17:15:52.513" LastActivityDate="2020-04-03T17:15:52.513" Title="Visual search on TeX.SE" Tags="|discussion|support|images|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8521" CreationDate="2020-04-03T16:28:32.197" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing one can do is to perform a Google image search for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;site:tex.stackexchange.com &amp;lt;search term(s)&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using this sometimes to find possible duplicates, and, according to my experience, this turns out to work surprisingly well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I sometimes wish that users asking questions could do that search themselves. If they end up not precisely finding what they are looking for, they have still a starting point and &quot;references&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be true, though, that this search works best if you have already a solution to the problem in mind because then you can add the relevant key words to the search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastActivityDate="2020-04-03T16:28:32.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8521" CreationDate="2020-04-03T17:15:03.963" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There doesn't exist a native way of doing that on the network. However, as already mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8522/5764&quot;&gt;Schrödinger's cat's answer&lt;/a&gt;, you can use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.ca/imghp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;image search option with Google&lt;/a&gt;, targeting this site via&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;site:tex.stackexchange.com&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note though that this may only be valuable in select instances where posters did use images. Some threads only post an image in the question, but the correct answers may have been simple enough to not post an image. Also, if you're looking for a specific issue, it's often better described in the post (with words) than in an image; the image might have been added, but without any visual indication of the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I doubt you'll find what you're looking for using a visual search, because the Q&amp;amp;A environment is not set up in that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-04-03T17:15:03.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-04T17:42:15.483" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happened to the quote block on this website that used &quot;&gt;&quot;? I remember it had a yellowish block. But now when I use it I see a grey bar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like this aesthetic very much, so I was wondering if anyone knew how I can use the old one if it's still an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="185170" OwnerDisplayName="Lex_i" LastActivityDate="2020-04-04T19:40:18.683" Title="Stack changed a text/quote block" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2020-04-06T01:16:55.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Debugging &amp;amp; log files (see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2429&quot;&gt;Source code related issues&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; reported as undefined &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/258617&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Undefined control sequence&amp;quot; at beginning of any simple document&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;quot;Undefined control sequence&amp;quot; at beginning of any simple document](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/258617)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/538&quot;&gt;How to best debug LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to best debug LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/538)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/309010&quot;&gt;Teach me to debug&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Teach me to debug](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/309010)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/71384&quot;&gt;LaTeX debugging strategies and brace mismatching&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[LaTeX debugging strategies and brace mismatching](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/71384)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/500695&quot;&gt;What does  etc. mean in TeX's error message&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What does &amp;lt;recently read&amp;gt; etc. mean in TeX's error message](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/500695)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/60491&quot;&gt;Latex \tracing commands list?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Latex \tracing commands list?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/60491)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32213&quot;&gt;Understanding the Log file&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Understanding the Log file](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32213)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/132551&quot;&gt;Unclean .aux file causes &amp;quot;file ended while scanning use of @newl@bel&amp;quot; error. Why is it not purged?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Unclean .aux file causes &amp;quot;file ended while scanning use of \@newl@bel&amp;quot; error. Why is it not purged?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/132551)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4047&quot;&gt;Write to log without wrapping&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Write to log without wrapping](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/4047)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-04-23T23:57:17.190" LastActivityDate="2023-04-23T23:57:17.190" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-04-06T01:16:55.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8529" CreationDate="2020-04-06T19:57:40.417" Score="14" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a very bad experience when downvoting an answer: I left in the comment the motivation of the downvote, and after that, the user clarified a little bit the answer I removed the downvote but the user seemed to have taken it very personally. I was very sorry that I had upset somebody but I thought that I provided my motivations and I wrote the observations kindly. Unfortunately, the user deleted some of its comment so the conversation is not complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YnpfD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YnpfD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I saw a strange trend in my account, and it seems that the user downvoted all my answers as revenge for my act:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWgcH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWgcH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It really left me with a bad experience. What was my mistake? Should I have avoided to downvote? Or to leave a comment with an explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33846" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-04-06T20:49:08.310" LastActivityDate="2020-04-07T08:43:43.177" Title="How to deal with downvotes and revenge downvotes?" Tags="|discussion|serial-voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8526" CreationDate="2020-04-06T20:47:42.937" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you went above and beyond, even explaining why you downvoted the answer. Explanations is meant to guide the user to provide an improvement, which in this case seemed to have worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The serial downvoting that followed me be from the original poster but may also be accidental. Regardless, such &quot;systematic voting [goes] against correct voting rationales.&quot; It should be corrected, automatically, within 24 hours. If this doesn't happen, flag a post with a suspected serial downvote for moderator attention and explain the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/126829/168244&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T20:47:42.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8526" CreationDate="2020-04-07T01:30:38.790" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an addendum to Werners answer. It helps you to rule out suspects. There is a rather simple way how you can rule out potential (serial) downvotes. Compare the number shown in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=week&quot;&gt;weekly statistics&lt;/a&gt; with the number you get from looking at the activity of the user and summing them up (of course for the same period). If the user has downvoted n answers, the second number is larger by &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; than the first number. (An additional, obvious test is to just look at the number of total downvotes. If this number is zero, clearly this user did not downvote you. If the number is smaller than &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt;, then the user cannot have downvoted you n times, and so on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if a user cannot be ruled out that way? This does not prove that they are responsible for the downvote, but you may have found a suspect. What now? I think those downvoters look mainly for attention, and by ignoring them you deny them that attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastActivityDate="2020-04-07T01:30:38.790" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8526" CreationDate="2020-04-07T08:43:43.177" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever you feel there has been targetted voting, please flag one of the relevant answers. That way, we can build up data on patterns of behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the current case, I see that the automated system has reversed the votes. I hope the incident is isolated, in which case no further action is needed . However, if there are repeated cases, the mod team will take action: serial downvoting is not acceptable from any user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2020-04-07T08:43:43.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-08T10:10:38.553" Score="5" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is whether or not it is useful to have meta questions that are (just) requests to reopen or undelete a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users seem to suggest that the answer is yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this a bit confusing. Can one answer such questions? If so, how? Who can? If it is not possible to answer such questions, how are these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say the post gets undeleted after such a question appeared on meta. Is the idea to then write an answer saying it was undeleted? Or what happens if it does not get undeleted within some amount of time? What is the benefit of having such posts around for many years? And if it is fine to post such requests on meta, why don't we have tons of such posts from the past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question here is what the proper way of appealing the decision to delete or close a post.  If it is fine to ask a question here, I'd like to ask what the the purpose of the &lt;code&gt;undelete&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;reopen&lt;/code&gt; buttons is. When should one choose one way or another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt;: I am not against the possibility of appealing decisions to delete or close some post. I just do not think one should use a meta question for such an appeal. To explain where I am coming from, consider this example: I'd say it is a perfectly valid meta question to ask about means to spell-check a post. A request to remove the typos from a specific post is IMHO not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ADDENDUM&lt;/strong&gt;: There seem to be almost religious disagreements in the opinions of users. One possible compromise could be to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make sure that requests to undelete are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/undelete-request&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;undelete-request&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remind users about the &lt;code&gt;ignore tag&lt;/code&gt; feature. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/undelete-request&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;undelete-request&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is qualitatively quite different from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vote-to-undelete&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;vote-to-undelete&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which, according to how I understand things, is a tag that collects meta discussions on the process of undeleting posts, and not a tag that collects posts that request to specifically undelete one post. Apparently, as of now a tag &lt;code&gt;reopen-request&lt;/code&gt; does not even exist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ADDENDUM 2&lt;/strong&gt;: I firmly believe that this site is called meta because it is a meta site in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;usual definition&lt;/a&gt;. If there is a disagreement on this, I'd kindly ask answerers to separate the topics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-04-10T16:04:44.350" LastActivityDate="2020-04-10T16:04:44.350" Title="About asking to undelete or reopen a specific post on Meta" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-reopen|vote-to-undelete|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8530" CreationDate="2020-04-08T12:44:01.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where a more complex discussion is needed than a simple comment, meta is the right place. For a main-site question that has closed or deleted, I'd expect the question to be to arguing for the reopening, and an answer either to be a 'yes because' or a 'no because' structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T12:44:01.953" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8530" CreationDate="2020-04-08T12:57:22.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer is based on my comment exchange with Schrödinger's cat below the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8518/request-to-undelete&quot;&gt;Request to undelete&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User requests for a specific question serve two different purposes: first to educate users by explaining why their question answer was indeed worthy of closing or deleting, usually paired with downvotes on the meta question, and second in some cases to correct a wrong decision by reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valid answers consist of an explanation why something was closed, which can be accepted if the OP understands the reason, or by explaning (or guessing) why a review mistake has been made, which can also be accepted by the OP. Votes are used to express agreement or disagreement with the closure. It's useful to have such things on Meta, because other new users can (ideally) learn how the site works by reading previous discussions on specific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to address the questions raised in this post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can one answer such questions, if so how?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can answer a reopen/undelete request by explaining why a post was closed/deleted, in more detail than through an automatic close comment. If this explanation is very similar to earlier cases then you can also close the meta question as a duplicate of another specific or canonical meta post explaining the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can also answer by acknowledging that the closure/deletion was unjustified or questionable, or start/respond to a discussion if this is indeed the case for the particular question being discussed. An answer of this type can also state that a reopen/undelete process is started (or completed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can answer such questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regulars on the site can answer most of these questions. For some of them the input of the specific reviewers or moderators involved in closing/deleting may be required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an answer is not possible, how is this a question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta has many different functions, for example company announcements such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8446/2019-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;yearly summary&lt;/a&gt;, or discussion topics in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; tag. These &quot;questions&quot; do not necessarily fit in the Q&amp;amp;A format, in terms of being answerable, how much sense it makes to accept an answer, or what the interpretation of votes on the question and answers is. For Meta that is not really a problem, as long as it serves a purpose. For the current category of specific reopen/undelete requests one of the functions is to allow people to engage with the community about their specific question or their understanding of the rules, as applied to the concrete example of their current question. Even if that is not answerable, or not useful for anybody besides themselves (which often is not the case, i.e., such a request &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; answerable, and useful for the community in terms of teaching by example) then such an interaction is still valuable in terms of communication and participation, or giving people a platform to discuss their question. An alternative is chat, which is indeed used for this purpose as well, but Meta has advantages over chat such as being more contained, more persistent, better presentation of information, better voting mechanisms, better visibility/discoverability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the idea to then write an answer saying it was undeleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happens if it does not get undeleted within some amount of time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A request may be unresolved, with or without a meaningful discussion. Then the system has failed, in a way. This happens on main as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the benefit of having such posts around for many years?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an archive of site policies and policy discussions, applied to example questions. This is useful for regulars to think about their own interpretation of the rules. It is also useful to be able te refer new users to previous examples, as a sort of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;case law&lt;/a&gt;. And it is useful for new users to educate themselves, i.e., their question is closed, they go to meta to complain, they start writing a meta question, related questions are suggested, they read the related questions, they decide not to post their request (ideally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why don't we have tons of such posts from the past?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On TeX.SE meta is not used much for anything, many people (especially the people who would like to have their question reopened) may not know that meta exists, or that this kind of questions can be asked. That doesn't mean that it is &quot;off-topic&quot; or not useful on meta. Note that the meta at Stack Overflow has a specific tag for this exact purpose: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopen-closed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-closed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-closed&lt;/a&gt; with as tag guidance &quot;A request to have a specific question reopened by the community, often resulting in explanations why it was closed and guidance on improving it&quot;. Many of those requests are downvoted. This does not mean the requests do not belong on meta, just that people disagree with reopening the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When should one use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/undelete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;undelete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;undelete&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen&lt;/a&gt; buttons and when to ask on meta?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use meta for explaining why a post should be reopened or undeleted, or to answer why you agree or disagree with the arguments presented. Use the buttons to actually reopen or undelete a post if the meta discussion provides reasons of doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T12:57:22.073" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8530" CreationDate="2020-04-08T17:08:01.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, this (requesting a discussion about a post that has been closed/deleted) relates to content on the main site and that is what the child meta is for. This falls under what is mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;What is &quot;meta&quot;? How does it work?&lt;/a&gt; in the Help Centre. Additionally, such questions are usually tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; &quot;for posts that may not have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would, however, also suggest checking in that &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; to see what other think about the situation. It's a good way to bounce ideas off of fellow site contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T17:08:01.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8536" CreationDate="2020-04-08T21:58:41.207" Score="7" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know how to tag questions regarding the TeXbook &lt;em&gt;contents&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. lessons, exercises ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going by the description of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/texbook.tex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;texbook.tex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;texbook.tex&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about texbook.tex, the source of The TeXbook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it does not seem sensible to misappropriate that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minor details, like me being unable to create a new tag on my own accord (due to low reputation), aside: what would be the appropriate tag here? Simply use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tex-core&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tex-core&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tex-core&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example question that I'd like to pose on the main page soon, but I refrained from it for now, because of the tagging &quot;issue&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exercise 5.6 of the TeXbook by Knuth reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you think you understand local and global definitions, here's a little test to make sure: Suppose &lt;code&gt;\c&lt;/code&gt; stands for &lt;code&gt;\count1=&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\g&lt;/code&gt; stands for &lt;code&gt;\global\count1=&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;\s&lt;/code&gt; stands for &lt;code&gt;\showthe\count1&lt;/code&gt;. What values will be shown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{\c1\s\g2{\s\c3\s\g4\s\c5\s}\s\c6\s}\s&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I tried to follow this in my mind and enter the &quot;expanded&quot; form, I came up with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{\count1=1\showthe\count1\global\count1=2{\showthe\count1\count1=3\showthe\count1\global\count1=4\showthe\count1\count1=5\showthe\count1}\showthe\count1\count1=6\showthe\count1}\showthe\count1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this gives me an error. In fact this MWE does as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\count1=1&#xA;\showthe\count1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;btw: my guess was 1 2 3 4 5 4 6 4, but I cannot verify. I know this is rated &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; dangerous bends, but I found it intriguing and so decided to give it a try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(example question ended at the horizontal rule)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3925" LastEditorUserId="3925" LastEditDate="2020-04-09T07:54:39.787" LastActivityDate="2020-04-09T14:37:54.980" Title="How to tag questions about TeXbook, but not the TeXbook source?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8530" CreationDate="2020-04-08T22:18:45.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I largely agree with Marijn, Joseph and Werner's answers, but here are a couple of other points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closure system is necessarily imperfect, and there are established cases of &quot;piling on&quot; close votes. This means that although the &quot;five high-enough rep users&quot; are needed to close a question, it's not uncommon that questions get closed for the wrong reasons. Sometimes people read the comments and reopening will happen. Sometimes someone will raise the issue in chat, and since our chat typically contains very high rep users and also a mod most of the time, it's probably the best way to get things reopened quickly. But if that fails, I see no reason why using Meta to raise the issue is a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who read Meta aren't necessarily the same as the people who are active close voters, so posting in Meta is another way to get a different set of eyes on an issue. This IMO is a good thing. There is nothing sacred about the first 5 people who initially vote to close something any more than there is about the people who might respond to a Meta post.  Furthermore, Meta gives people more room to explain their actions. Voting to close relies on canned reasons most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And frankly I don't see any increase in the number of reopen meta posts, so I don't see that there's an problem to be solved in the first place.  Most of the time when someone says &quot;We need a policy for X&quot; my response is usually &quot;No we don't&quot; unless a very strong case can be made for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-04-09T15:03:44.483" LastActivityDate="2020-04-09T15:03:44.483" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8534" CreationDate="2020-04-09T14:37:54.980" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the TeXbook is the core reference to TeX itself, then the &lt;code&gt;tex-core&lt;/code&gt; tag is entirely appropriate. As barbara mentions in her comment, it's possible that doing examples in the TeXbook using a modern engine such as pdfTeX as opposed to the original TeX (which is still part of the major distributions, but not the engine that you would typically use) may yield different results in certain cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2020-04-09T14:37:54.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8537" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8546" CreationDate="2020-04-10T22:44:13.113" Score="12" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally downvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/537919/579&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; that I really meant to upvote, and didn't realize it until it was too late.  (The answer not only gives the desired result, but includes a good explanation, so a downvote clearly isn't warranted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system says that I can't retract the downvote until and unless the answer is edited.  And I don't think that means I can change the vote if I edit it myself.  And even if I could, that wouldn't reverse the change in rep that I suffered because of the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that flagging the answer is the right way to go, but I think that only a moderator (or someone higher in the hierarchy) can do anything about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the proper action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2020-04-22T22:52:45.357" Title="How to deal with an accidental downvote?" Tags="|support|moderation|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-13T19:03:59.583" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;My simple question is this. If the number indicated below indicates the daily votes assigned to me, why do I have three votes remained? So I'll never get to 40 total votes. &#xA;Is the problem because I vote positively from 2018?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rtwKy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rtwKy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2020-04-13T19:03:59.583" Title="Non correspondence between the total votes and the numbering indicated in the orange rectangle" Tags="|discussion|voting|up-votes|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2020-04-13T20:31:50.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2020-04-15T09:52:22.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't find a snippet about links pointing to external pages instead of providing a MWE embedded in the question.&#xA;Links pointing to dropbox/overleaf/bitbuckets can become invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Please add a meaningful [MWE](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228) and a problem description here.&#xA;Don't just link to external pages containing the LaTeX code.&#xA;External links can become invalid or inaccessible, and the question could lose any value to future visitors.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please add a meaningful &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228&quot;&gt;MWE&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  and a problem description here. Don't just link to external pages&#xA;  containing the LaTeX code. External links can become invalid or&#xA;  inaccessible, and the question could lose any value to future&#xA;  visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="177" LastActivityDate="2020-04-15T09:52:22.370" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-04-15T09:52:22.370" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8542" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-17T13:23:29.137" Score="6" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a polite way to invite to take a deeper look at the &lt;code&gt;.log&lt;/code&gt; file?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is meant for a contribution to be added to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks/8540#8540&quot;&gt;Text building blocks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is agreed that to RTFL someone &lt;em&gt;in the answer&lt;/em&gt; is inappropriate. In the comments, it's debatable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some questions could easily be avoided at all just by looking at the log file. And to close a question just because we can spot the problem in the log can be even more frustrating for the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I'm suggesting a polite way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6507/about-rtfm-etiquette&quot;&gt;About RTFM etiquette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="177" LastActivityDate="2020-04-19T14:45:00.613" Title="RTFM, but for the log file" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8542" CreationDate="2020-04-18T18:01:57.897" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything I wrote in my answer to the linked question&#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6507/about-rtfm-etiquette&quot;&gt;About RTFM etiquette&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; applies even more strongly to RTFL. The log file requires some experience and training to read properly. If you want to instruct people on it, then recreate the error, show the relevant portion of the log file in your answer and then explain how to use that log file information to diagnose the problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a fan of the Text Building Blocks approach to commenting generally. It tends to lead to reflexive rather than reflective commenting, and I don't use them myself. So adding a text building block about the log seems like a really bad idea, given the difficulties people are likely to have reading it (or in many cases, even finding it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-04-19T14:45:00.613" LastActivityDate="2020-04-19T14:45:00.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-22T05:37:12.157" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that the feature to render TeX in between Markdown/HTML using the &lt;code&gt;\$&lt;/code&gt; as delimiters was disabled, or the powers that be decided not to adopt it because of the meta aspect of it, that people would want the actual code to be shown, if not more, then at least as often as how it would render. But does that mean using your own solution to generate an image and uploading it is the only way to include a rendering on the TeX SE? I would have thought an alternative way to denote notation that is meant to be rendered vs displayed as is in a code block would be here, out of all places, but so far it doesn't seem to be the case? Or is there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if it's not, I imagine I'm not the first person to bring this up, so does that mean there is a deeper issue that prevents some feature like e.g. a toggle/spoiler type &quot;render tex&quot; option being implemented on a single SE only? Obviously it can be turned off for one. Or am I part of an extremely small group who had such expectations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213385" LastActivityDate="2020-04-22T09:22:39.260" Title="Is there no way at all to typeset equations using TeX on the TeX SE at all?" Tags="|feature-request|markdown|tex-sx-package|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2020-04-25T06:15:44.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8544" CreationDate="2020-04-22T09:22:39.260" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue has been raised several times, and the central concern remains the same. When people &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to show what they are seeing from TeX, we all need to see &lt;em&gt;exactly what they see&lt;/em&gt;. Using some installed TeX system would run the risk of different package versions, etc., which might impact on the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More broadly, it's only in a minority of cases that TeX output needs to be shown to ask questions. So there is a question of 'message': lots of typeset snippets wouldn't really add to the overall site quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2020-04-22T09:22:39.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8537" CreationDate="2020-04-22T22:52:45.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is the voter's prerogative, and therefore they are the person who needs to intervene if something was done by accident and any correction period has lapsed. The best way to handle it is to edit the post, then reverse your vote or vote alternatively. Yes, this is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of voting corrections should be very few, and therefore shouldn't cause an issue with flooding of the active posts or misuse of editing privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only need for a moderator to step in would be if the person doesn't not have the reputation to edit the post. Even in that case, as a last resort, you could follow the post (click on the &lt;code&gt;follow&lt;/code&gt; link at the bottom of the post) and revisit it when you receive a notification about an edit, at which time you can take the appropriate corrective voting action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-04-22T22:52:45.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-23T08:37:56.520" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently approved an edit (within the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;Suggested Edits review queue&lt;/a&gt;) by mistake. How can I retract/revert the vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="177" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-04-24T23:21:07.580" LastActivityDate="2020-04-24T23:21:07.580" Title="Edit approved by mistake, what to do next?" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6507" CreationDate="2020-04-23T17:22:49.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, let me try to provide a perspective that I haven't seen mentioned much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; LaTeX since around 2000 or so. One would think that I know my way around. I have &lt;em&gt;mastered&lt;/em&gt; several programming languages since that time, TeX isn't one of them ;) ... I'm the proverbial one-eyed among the blind, &lt;em&gt;at best&lt;/em&gt;, when it comes to TeX et. al. And it's not helping that some colleagues, including those that introduced LaTeX for our documentation process know &lt;em&gt;even less&lt;/em&gt; than I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; appreciate a link to a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; manual, a quote from it and all that. Even a gentle &lt;em&gt;Read The Friendly Manual&lt;/em&gt; in the well-known acronym form won't offend me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I have my MWE condensed down to half a dozen lines of &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; and put considerable effort (and time) into working out &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; something doesn't seem to work the way it should (in my opinion anyway), it's not helpful to point me to &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm not the average user in my reputation range or whatever, but when I turn here, it's really because I am &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/537592/3925&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;literally reading the manual&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; I did my best to find a solution on my own (often including reading or at least skimming &lt;em&gt;several&lt;/em&gt; of the involved packages' manuals and usually several Q&amp;amp;As here on this site), usually having put in quite some time already. And sometimes the fact that the answer turns out to be trivial can be attributed to the same reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rubberducking&lt;/a&gt; works or because I didn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; understand what I was looking for in the first place (you can't understand recursion before you understand recursion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; manual mean anyway when I have half a dozen lines of &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt;? Which one ...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A lot&lt;/strong&gt; and I mean &lt;em&gt;really a lot&lt;/em&gt; of the issues I came across with LaTeX came merely from the fact that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somehow I got the order of &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; wrong ... and &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; this is probably even mentioned, but sometimes not. &lt;em&gt;Sometimes&lt;/em&gt; in fact the questions, answers and the comments provide so much &quot;between the lines&quot; here on TeX.SE, that I would say reading &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; manual isn't an option when the sort of knowledge I am seeking is &quot;floating around&quot; somewhere else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The package version for some particular package was wrong ... as an example &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt; - seemingly a frequent offender - seems broken (cells no longer colored) in the more recent 2.9 version, whereas the older 2.8 that comes packaged on my Ubuntu 18.04 has no trouble. If I use &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;tabu&lt;/code&gt; alone I cannot reproduce the error I run into. But with those three or four dozen packages used in the project in which I get this interop issue, I see it immediately. But creating an MWE from that behemoth of a project is ... not fun, or quick to do. And it's also not what I am paid for when LaTeX is &quot;just&quot; used to create beautiful documentation for &lt;em&gt;the actual product&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is so much contradictory advice out there! And while reading the TeX book can be enlightening (as I realized as of late), for LaTeX a lot of the Common Sense™ seems to have evolved. And sure, that's nice. But I am still being recommended books from 2004 and earlier (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/begin.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX were not around back then, if I'm not totally mistaken. The handling of all sorts of non-Latin characters (and the glyphs they are supposed to turn into) was a frequent thing I battled and it's gone with LuaLaTeX, but along with it I can also (it seems) throw out a whole lot of that Common Sense™ I picked up along the way. Oh well ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Fortunately for me as German native speaker the situation isn't quite as bleak. Numerous books on TeX et. al. are available in my native tongue. And yet some of them also don't touch &lt;em&gt;sufficiently&lt;/em&gt; on points like the next one (IMO) ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's hard to make sense of the log files. They often look like a dog rolled over the keyboard to type it out and it's seemingly more an art rather than a science to know what you're looking for. Thanks to the TeX book I am finally learning how to better read the log file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6507/about-rtfm-etiquette#comment18972_6510&quot;&gt;the comment on another answer here&lt;/a&gt; (and I am quoting, because comments are volatile) sums it up quite nicely (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have had invaluable help on tex.stackexchange with answers ( where I&#xA;  am still grateful for ) &lt;strong&gt;I could ( probably ) have found out myself but&#xA;  only after many hours, if not days, of study and trial and error.&lt;/strong&gt; For&#xA;  me, and I believe the majority of latexers, LaTeX is an invaluable&#xA;  tool but &lt;strong&gt;not a topic of research&lt;/strong&gt;. Having a background in programming I&#xA;  do provide MWE's when I have one. My point being: I don't think&#xA;  rtfm-ing people away is compatible with the daily practice of the&#xA;  site. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/6275/nilo-de-roock&quot;&gt;nilo de roock&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after all, if TeX and its family were a trivial subject matter, we would not have a dedicated SE site for it, would we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX is &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt;. In IT terms it's comparable to Earth's age when life conquered land masses for the first time or so. The corpus of available documentation is vast. Some is actually hard to come by (yeah, TeX book ... I'm looking at you!). Some is outdated (Git, btw, is another good example of a complex tool where this is an issue), in other parts the TeX book can still be of help even today. Some conventional wisdom isn't even in any manual ... or I've been reading the wrong manual all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to the experts &quot;in the room&quot; I want to say: Thanks for the help so far, please be patient and be gentle (but firm!). We, I, will get there! All things are hard until you master them ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3925" LastActivityDate="2020-04-23T17:22:49.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-23T18:21:50.017" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that increasingly when I look at an SE entry comments are overwritten by extraneous text and further that in at least one case the bottom of a question overlaps the answer. How can the various elements be separated and not overlap each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastActivityDate="2020-04-23T18:21:50.017" Title="Overlapping texts" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8547" CreationDate="2020-04-24T23:19:40.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reviews can't be corrected once you've made a specific decision, unless you skipped it (skipped reviews can be revisited). Keep an eye on the review to see what the final outcome is by clicking on any of the review actions associated with the post within the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/history&quot;&gt;Suggested Edits review queue's history tab&lt;/a&gt; (on the links within the marked column):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W9OxT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W9OxT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your select action goes against what others have suggested, your incorrect action will most likely not make a difference. However, if it influenced others and you feel that a different action should have been taken, review the post outside the review queue and perform the appropriate action (either edit, retag, roll back, or leave it alone because it wasn't the end of the world).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-04-24T23:19:40.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2020-04-25T14:49:31.227" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mathpix.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3VA7q.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mathpix Snip | Equation to LaTeX&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175859" LastActivityDate="2020-04-25T14:49:31.227" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-26T01:12:42.360" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/540686/how-to-center-a-circle-node-on-the-terminal-payoff-value&quot;&gt;this question I made&lt;/a&gt; I tried to make a new tag &lt;code&gt;istgame&lt;/code&gt;, but I misspelled as &lt;code&gt;istgames&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;istgame&lt;/code&gt; is the actual name of the package for LaTeX. Now I cannot remove the old tag or even make the correct tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204403" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-04-26T16:25:47.907" LastActivityDate="2020-04-26T16:25:47.907" Title="Made new tag, but misspelled it" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8552" CreationDate="2020-04-26T02:29:15.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've edited the tag to put the correct one there. Tags with no questions associated to them are removed automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19753/170190&quot;&gt;How can we get rid of misspelled and unused (or &amp;quot;zombie&amp;quot;) tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2020-04-26T02:29:15.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8554" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is used by staff when sharing concepts in the Discovery phase relating to product or configuration changes. In most cases a direction and/or goal has been established, and there has likely been some amount of time invested into discovery work and research. The post is being presented to the Community for feedback to be taken into consideration. Where possible, the post includes specific questions to help guide Community feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8555" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the post shares product or configuration change concepts during the Discovery phase. Open to receiving feedback from the Community preceding implementation." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Title="product-discovery" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8557" CreationDate="2020-04-28T22:08:16.453" Score="7" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first sample code paragraph for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#basic-links&quot;&gt;Basic Links&lt;/a&gt; at Markdown Help seems a bit messed up, with the links within the sentence being in the wrong order, and may not very helpful for a puzzled reader seeking help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reckon it should read like this, shouldn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Here's an inline link to [Google](http://www.google.com/).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same problem with the following two lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16493" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-04-29T17:10:41.613" LastActivityDate="2020-04-29T17:26:55.963" Title="Typo in Markdown Help" Tags="|discussion|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8556" CreationDate="2020-04-29T17:09:54.763" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed. This seems like a markdown &quot;typo.&quot; However, it is a network-wide issue and should therefore be addressed at that level. There is a similar question related to this posted on the main network meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/347211/168244&quot;&gt;Markdown help page is broken (badly presented/formatted) on every site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-04-29T17:26:55.963" LastActivityDate="2020-04-29T17:26:55.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8559" CreationDate="2020-04-30T22:51:13.767" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the site Math.SE. I have seen that there is also an icon (marked with an orange square in the image below) named &quot;insert citation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FNtIZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FNtIZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In TeX.SE this icon doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XDTic.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XDTic.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it important to have this icon also in TeX.SE, for a citation (&lt;code&gt;cite&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;BibLaTeX&lt;/code&gt;, etc) or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-05-01T19:59:49.727" LastActivityDate="2020-05-01T19:59:49.727" Title="TeX.SE editor: insert citation" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|design|community|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8558" CreationDate="2020-05-01T19:07:29.327" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. Most answers at best quote from package documentation, which is best inserted via a link if at all. There is very little published work on TeX itself apart from the TeXbook and the PracTeX journal. And this functionality has nothing to do with TeX bibliography packages. You can insert a link by clicking on the circled icon in the image below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do link to package documentation I would recommend using a link via &lt;a href=&quot;https://texdoc.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;texdoc.net&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But in most cases I don't think links to documentation are really necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UioN7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UioN7.png&quot; alt=&quot;edit window image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-05-01T19:57:39.580" LastActivityDate="2020-05-01T19:57:39.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-04T11:40:04.463" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample&lt;/a&gt;, there is an interesting &quot;Scientific and technical areas&quot; part that really helps to find more efficiently kind of canonical graphs in these fields. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On TeX.SE unfortunately, such &quot;field of expertise&quot; tags are not used whereas it would certainly help (?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot, tags shown on the right side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wxNdb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wxNdb.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something we should add to posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163874" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-05-05T22:45:59.557" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T22:45:59.557" Title="Additional &quot;Field of expertise&quot; tag when posting a question" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-04T17:23:09.437" Score="30" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear people who like to answer &quot;just do it for me question&quot; (especially of the TikZ sort, but possibly others.)  Many such questions have titles that are fundamentally useless for searching purposes. I won't link to specific questions, but generally they look like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I draw this graphic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I draw this in TikZ&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help drawing diagram&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use the following linguistic heuristic to decide if a question title definitely needs editing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the title contains the word &quot;this&quot;, it (the title, not the question) is useless to others.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this doesn't cover all the cases (like the third example above) but it is pretty exceptionless with respect to identifying a whole class of useless titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to answer such questions, that is certainly your prerogative, but could you also edit the titles of the questions you answer to make them more descriptive and useful to others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I intended this question title to be just &lt;em&gt;A plea to those who answer &quot;just do it for me&quot; questions&lt;/em&gt; but then I thought it might be too ironic. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some clarifications&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps because of my somewhat click-baity title, some of the points I'm making seem to have been lost, simply because I mentioned &quot;just do it for me&quot; questions.  To be clear, here is what I'm NOT saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not making any claims whatsoever about the value or lack thereof of &quot;just do it for me questions&quot; however you want to define them. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not claiming that a question with a useless title is a useless question. It's simply a question with a useless title.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not claiming that only &quot;just do it for me&quot; questions can have such useless titles, so my plea applies to anyone who answers a question containing the word &quot;this&quot; and other variants of the same sort. Although I suggest that the &quot;just do it for me&quot; type (as generally understood by the various meta posts about them) are particularly vulnerable to such non-contentful titles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not trying to make policy. This is exactly why I chose the word &quot;plea&quot;. If you've been around the site especially on meta for any length of time, you will know that I'm generally opposed to legislating behaviour, and I'm NOT trying to do that here. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could I have phrased the question in a less click-baity way? Yes, probably. In fact I could have used a title like &quot;Avoiding deictic pronouns in question titles&quot;, but that probably wouldn't have attracted the same readership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-05-05T19:27:20.617" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T01:48:46.123" Title="A plea to those who answer &quot;just do it for me&quot; questions: please edit question titles to be usefully descriptive as well" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8561" CreationDate="2020-05-04T20:49:01.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing titles of posts by others does not always get taken well, especially since one may simply misinterpret the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also not clear if this is most useful use of time, even if one was able to guarantee that the interpretation is correct. IMHO it would be much more useful to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the key words that reflect your interpretation in the answer. Given that, at least according to my experience, the search mechanisms on this site cannot really compete with Google at this point, this makes the post as searchable as it is after changing the title, but avoids the above-mentioned misinterpretation issue. (I personally find a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8521/visual-search-on-tex-se?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;visual search&lt;/a&gt; in most cases the most efficient tool.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add tags to the post if you are absolutely convinced that your interpretation applies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to earlier related posts. For instance, if you recycle, say, the &lt;code&gt;suspend join&lt;/code&gt; key, link to the original post which proposed it. Apart from being fair to the author of the earlier post, this has the advantage that now these related posts are linked by the mechanisms of the site. That is, no external help by Google is required to identify them.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I think that before asking users to edit posts by others one might want to remind them that everyone is responsible for their own post. That is, the priority should be making your own post clear, not misleading, and properly linked to earlier posts rather than changing the title of a post the interpretation of which you may not perfectly capture. Note also that many users answering questions are not native speakers. Asking them to edit a text in a language in which they may make grammatical errors more easily than in their mother tongue is also a bit delicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the bottom-line is that if it is important to you to have &quot;usefully descriptive&quot; titles, you can edit the titles, and hope that you do not get strong reactions. If you know what the ideal title should look like, even better. It is not clear to me why the ones who answer questions should be asked to do that, though. It is also not clear what a &quot;usefully descriptive&quot; title is,&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; personally I do not think that the title of this very thread is &quot;usefully descriptive&quot;, which is a bit ironic. However, one should keep in mind that users add &lt;code&gt;forest&lt;/code&gt; trees and &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; pictures and so on to their document precisely because it is hard to represent the information just using words. It seems to me ironic, too, that in this thread those questions are targeted. If you need a complex diagram to explain something it isn't that easy to describe it in a title. Sure, if it contains a tree, say, we could add tree to the title, but this is what tags are for, isn't it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your plea is extremely well packaged, i.e. the wording is great. However, content-wise it suggests that others, i.e. not you, should edit the titles of posts of yet other users over their heads. I am not as good at packaging messages as you, but if the aim is to go for better titles then maybe the content of the plea could be that all users, not just a subset, should suggest alternative titles to authors of questions with &quot;this&quot; in the title. At least I don't consider myself a superior user who can edit titles of posts by others without their consent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 As discussed in the comments, one cannot link every post that does something somewhat similar, and this statement was never meant like that. For instance, one version of the &lt;code&gt;suspend join&lt;/code&gt; key can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/304563/194703&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I never found out who originally proposed it but think it would be fair to give the real creator credit if I use it, and also link to the post so that, if there are problems, users have immediate links to solutions that are already on the market. Similarly for several other tricks of that sort.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;2 IMHO it is just a catchy expression without too much content. This is not the place to have another iteration of the discussion whether or not it is necessary to explain the expressions one is using. Of course, I do think that one has to explain what is meant by such phrases, but we can agree that we disagree.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-05-11T01:48:46.123" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T01:48:46.123" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6300" CreationDate="2020-05-05T11:06:37.430" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;PGF/Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z is now available on GitHub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This commit officially changed all the links:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf/commit/94fb28ef7e6c3323f8b81117095b82f2f0fbabb8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf/commit/94fb28ef7e6c3323f8b81117095b82f2f0fbabb8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T11:06:37.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8561" CreationDate="2020-05-05T15:24:08.483" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some who are not willing to change the meaning of the original question (or title), because they feel they may impede on the requirements originally posted, even if it's obvious that its useless, like &quot;How do I draw this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am in favour of changing the title purely because many of us answering have been here longer than those who post the question(s). And, the system allows for it through editing. If the change seems do deviate too far from the original I am confident the OP will suggest something to the contrary. At the very least post a comment suggesting that they change the title into something more meaningful, more representative, more... &lt;em&gt;betterer&lt;/em&gt; (because that's a word). This provides a means for the OP to give some feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second option in such instances is to cast a downvote since the question most likely &quot;doesn't show any research effort&quot; as it is close to a &quot;just do this for me&quot; request. You feel this is not the case? Well surely you can't upvote as that would go against what the the voting button suggests: &quot;it is useful&quot;? Don't just leave it sitting there, titled useless begging for a one-time answer so that can fade away with time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if all else fails and there's really nothing that can be suggested to change the title (or request within the post) into something meaningful, I'd suggest to cast a vote to close the question since it &quot;requires more detail/focus&quot;; this will not harm the site, since it can be re-opened and it will send a message to the OP that their post needs more detail/focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last two options can (and should) be done without feel emotional about it. This is a site meant to store ideas and solutions not just for the OP, but for the larger community. It's not easy asking a question, but it shouldn't be difficult to describe a question better than &quot;How do I draw this?&quot;, surely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T15:24:08.483" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8560" CreationDate="2020-05-05T22:41:47.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may add value to the search functionality so should be considered, since we rarely use up all five available tags for a question. More relevant tags associated with a post means there will be more ways to filter them during searches. Perhaps the &quot;field of study&quot; can be replaced by &quot;topic&quot; instead...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some things to look out for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some packages may have the same name as a &quot;field of interest.&quot; In particular, there already exists a &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/physics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;physics&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/a&gt;. So one would have to discern between (say) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics-package&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics-package&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics-package&lt;/a&gt; (and perform the appropriate steps to change a tag).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When creating a new tag, immediately complete the associated tag wiki so people are informed about their usage. If you're uncertain about this, post something to &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.Meta&lt;/a&gt; asking for direction on the description and excerpt. In other words, don't just create a new tag (because &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;you have the privilege&lt;/a&gt;) and leave the details blank.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be considerate when retagging older posts so as to not flood &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the home page&lt;/a&gt; with too many post modifications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't tag for the sake of tagging. Some posts may fall in none, or most of the topics you've created. So, they don't all have to have some/at least one topic. Only if it clearly makes sense or is evident from the post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T22:41:47.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-07T00:33:57.407" Score="8" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a huge number of questions using the term &quot;do it for me&quot; question (such as [&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8311/dealing-with-just-do-it-for-me-questions?r=SearchResults&amp;amp;s=1|88.1859&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;], [&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2763/just-do-it-for-me-text-building-block?r=SearchResults&amp;amp;s=2|80.3113&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;], [&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7926/explicitly-indicate-the-reasons-why-answering-a-just-do-it-for-me-question?r=SearchResults&amp;amp;s=4|74.8763&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;] and many more), and I would like to understand what the term means. The most precise definition I have come across has kindly been provided &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8561/a-plea-to-those-who-answer-just-do-it-for-me-questions-please-edit-question-t#comment27912_8561&quot;&gt;by Marijn in a comment&lt;/a&gt;, and says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;asks to draw something based on an image or a short description (&quot;I want to draw a normal distribution&quot;), &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not provide any code or evidence of research or effort, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the drawing that is asked is complex, and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is very specific and therefore probably not useful for anybody other than the OP &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(but 5. it may serve as a good showcase for techniques used in the answer that are useful for other people).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main question is very simple: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is this the meaning most of the users agree on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, if you have a (very) different definition in mind, please give it in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My subquestions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are &quot;do it for me&quot; questions necessarily drawings (and not tables or equations, say)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if the OP provides &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; code that can hardly be used to answer the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How is complexity precisely defined? That is, what if the OP asks for a complex output, which is however rather easy to achieve with some trick or package?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question is very narrow and the answer is unlikely to benefit anyone but the one who asked the question, do we have a separate way of referring to them (e.g. &quot;low general benefit&quot;), or even close them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any answer is welcome. In particular if it also explains why the &quot;do it for me&quot; term is used. Naively in any question the asker asks the community to do something for them, namely answering the question. (Which is what I am doing here, too. ;-) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;For the linguists, I am interested in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensional_and_intensional_definitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;intensional definition&lt;/a&gt; of the term &quot;do it for me&quot; question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;If otherwise useless this thread can be interesting to exemplify a clash of cultures between people from different fields. There seems to be a rather large number of users who prefer a vague qualitative approach over a precise one. Maybe language is inherently like this. On the other hand, mathematics is communicated in the usual languages, and at least in this context is possible to make precise, falsifiable statements.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-05-07T23:32:08.850" LastActivityDate="2020-05-15T08:21:11.890" Title="What is a &quot;do it for me&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|please-do-this-for-me|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8566" CreationDate="2020-05-07T03:38:15.933" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the characterization of a &quot;just do it for me&quot; you give matches quite closely with how I used the term in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8561/2693&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt;. It also matches various other characterizations to be found in the other meta questions you link to in your question. While people seem to disagree about whether they should be answered or not, most people do seem to admit that the rough description given is what fits the category. Like any categorization in regular natural language, the category will be fuzzy, and not definable in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answers to the sub-questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think table and equation images posted with no code fit into the category but they have a higher likelihood of being useful to others, perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asking how much code needs to be supplied can quickly lead to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sorites Paradox&lt;/a&gt;. There is no magic amount, but most people would like to see some code that shows that the person has tried something that resembles some or part of the image they're trying to reproduce.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Complexity is not precisely defined. This is the nature of language.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Again, there is no precise definition of what would count as very narrow, In the case of very specific diagrams, though, although there may be general techniques used in answers (one can obviously learn from any code) their usefulness seems limited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the term gets used because it picks out a class of questions that many users perceive to be a kind of abuse of the &quot;social contract&quot; of the site (and I'm specifically avoiding using the term &quot;rules&quot; here.) Namely, some measure of prior research is expected of questions, and these sorts of questions very clearly don't show any at all. This combined with the relative amount of work it might take someone to answer the question is why some think that they are an abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also think that most people have also realized that there will always be people who find it fun to answer these questions and therefore there's nothing to be gained by trying to legislate against them (something I agree with). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-05-07T03:44:33.930" LastActivityDate="2020-05-07T03:44:33.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8566" CreationDate="2020-05-07T18:04:05.933" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of a do-it-for-me question follows your collection of points, but with less precision. I'd almost define it more broadly with the following characteristics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asks to &lt;em&gt;create&lt;/em&gt; something based on an image or a short description.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does not provide any code or evidence of research or effort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This therefore includes things like drawings, equations, tables, layouts and the like. This even includes someone asking &quot;What is that symbol used in X to represent Y again?&quot; Why? For many reasons, depending on your interpretation of the question (because yes, they're using their &lt;em&gt;language&lt;/em&gt;, which may not mean the same thing for everyone). Here are some interpretations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's just looking for the name of the symbol, then it's off-topic here, so move along. Off-topic questions should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they know what the symbol looks like and only show you an image, then they can do a bit of research via &lt;a href=&quot;https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Detexify&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;//texdoc.net/pkg/comprehensive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List&lt;/a&gt; to search for the symbol. From there, if they didn't find anything, perhaps they can include an image of their drawing, show their search on Detexify and mention that they've covered the symbol list, but without that an observer can argue that this person is leaving &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the research on the community's shoulders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, and this echoes Alan's mention of language, its usage and interpretation or meaning, there would only exist rough guidelines for what the general audience would consider a do-it-for-me-&lt;em&gt;type&lt;/em&gt; question. It's not a list of definitive check-boxes, nor is it something that necessarily qualifies when it meets all the criteria. Go figure! We've seen numerous examples of this on the site as well, where a question is posed without much research effort, yet it's received acclaim beyond the average. Examples include (literally just taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?tab=Votes&quot;&gt;list of questions sorted by vote&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/246/5764&quot;&gt;When should I use &lt;code&gt;\input&lt;/code&gt; vs. &lt;code&gt;\include&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/823/5764&quot;&gt;Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39017/5764&quot;&gt;How to influence the position of float environments like &lt;code&gt;figure&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14/5764&quot;&gt;How to look up a symbol or identify a math symbol or character?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you look at any of the above question, they seem to meet both criteria listed above (create something from a short description and doesn't provide much in terms of research). Some of these may have stemmed from a conversation in chat, or on Meta, about a canonical question related to some set of FAQs. That is not always evident from the post and therefore the do-it-for-me phrase here may have a different &lt;em&gt;meaning&lt;/em&gt;. Others may be such generic or fundamental questions that there's no way around asking the question in that&amp;nbsp;way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the interpretation is inherently vague, it varies in how its handled from person to person. Some feel that the questioner may be a novice and should be guided or hand-held through the process from start to finish. Others feel that such posts should be dismissed as it doesn't deserve their attention. We can't fit everything into a particular set of rules or boxes, because invariably you'll one day find something that &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; fit the box, but doesn't... &lt;sub&gt;or fits a particular box but doesn't have the right &lt;strong&gt;colour&lt;/strong&gt;... &lt;sub&gt;or fits a particular box but doesn't have the right &lt;strong&gt;shape&lt;/strong&gt;... &lt;sub&gt;or...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answers to your sub-questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are &quot;do it for me&quot; questions necessarily drawings (and not tables or equations, say)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. There are a broad range of questions I feel that are not drawings that ask to &lt;em&gt;create&lt;/em&gt; something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What if the OP provides some code that can hardly be used to answer the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's okay, if it shows some form of research or effort. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How is complexity precisely defined? That is, what if the OP asks for a complex output, which is however rather easy to achieve with some trick or package?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do-it-for-me questions have nothing to do with complexity in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If a question is very narrow and the answer is unlikely to benefit anyone but the one who asked the question, do we have a separate way of referring to them (e.g. &quot;low general benefit&quot;), or even close them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scope of the question has nothing to do with do-it-for-me type questions. The question can be very narrow and have only a singular use/benefit, and that's fine. If it shows that the user has done some research and effort in trying to achieve their goal, then that's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-05-07T18:10:21.030" LastActivityDate="2020-05-07T18:10:21.030" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-08T07:29:20.330" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are ways to preview the output of snippets and &quot;minimal working examples&quot; in a question or answer posted on tex.stackexchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was asked to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://pastebin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pastebin&lt;/a&gt;, which requires a login. I guess, a static image is created and then inserted with imgur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about sharing a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3/compiling-documents-online&quot;&gt;online latex compilers&lt;/a&gt;, like overleaf (which nowadays needs login, too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any recommendation or guidelines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="199330" OwnerDisplayName="Friedrich" LastActivityDate="2020-05-08T14:49:39.953" Title="tex.stackexchange preview snippet" Tags="|discussion|overleaf|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2020-05-09T06:26:23.800" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-10T20:51:23.820" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like 1 rep today is earned harder than 10 years ago. Here is my reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very beginning, the simplest and more fundamental questions were asked on this site. Plus, there wasn't any &amp;quot;rep-guru&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;TeX-god&amp;quot; as we have today. Nowadays, as the documentation is higher than ever (this sx included), it is much harder to ask a question that hasn't been asked before (the famous &lt;code&gt;marked as duplicate&lt;/code&gt;), or even find a question you have the ability to answer. I found that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1867/175859&quot;&gt;Should high-rep users hang back a little ?&lt;/a&gt; provides good insight. Has anything been done to encourage new users ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could anything be done to have a higher level &lt;em&gt;overall&lt;/em&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit : I've just had the thought that the userbase is much bigger now, but I'm not sure on the effect it has and if the &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; userbase is actually higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175859" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:09:38.440" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T02:06:44.427" Title="Is the reputation value increasing?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8570" CreationDate="2020-05-10T21:21:37.343" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot answer the question whether or not it became harder to earn reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that it should never be the aim to earn reputation points easily. At least not if &quot;easily&quot; means &quot;with as little effort as possible&quot;. Examples of easily earned points include copying another answer, perhaps even without indicating the original post. This does not add real value. Rather, the aim should be to provide stable, working, original and possibly elegant solutions that serve as many users as possible.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More fundamentally, I do not think reputation points deserve the attention they seem to get. SX may close down this site tomorrow and all these points are gone. Moreover, whenever there is an attempt to measure some skill, say, by points there  will be some who figure out how to game the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What might be useful, though, is a site on which one can look up things. So, when you say that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nowadays, as the documentation is higher than ever (this sx included),&#xA;  it is much harder to ask a question that hasn't been asked before (the&#xA;  famous marked as duplicate), or even find a question you have the&#xA;  ability to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd actually think that, if that is true, this is a good thing because there is a resource that allows people (users or not) to quickly look up things and find explicit answers. Whether or not this also implies that it is harder to gain reputation points as quickly as some time back is IMHO unimportant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-05-11T02:06:44.427" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T02:06:44.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8566" CreationDate="2020-05-10T22:29:21.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still do not really know what a &quot;do it for me&quot; question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, from how the term gets used I see that this is a term that, willingly or unwillingly, divides the users. Ultimately, by using such categories there will be (or already is) a division between &quot;good&quot; users who ask useful questions and perhaps not so good users who ask (or even answer) &quot;do it for me&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some seem to look down on those who ask questions that one can instantly answer. I, too, would really love to be in a community in which everyone is somewhere close to my point of the learning curve at which I am, certainly this would help &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; most. It may just not be realistic to wish this to happen. There will always be some who know stuff better than I, and if I ask them something what they think is trivial, I'd still appreciate it to get some answer that helps &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; and is tailored to my needs.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask the community of users not to try to oversimplify matters, and in particular to avoid using divisive, oversimplified terms.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Rather, if you want to judge or rate something, vote on posts. If you are not excited about a post, just do not upvote (or even downvote if you must). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please avoid introducing terms that assess the quality of posts beyond&#xA;  what voting does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 I am aware that most users do not have the intention of dividing the users. Nonetheless the effects of using such oversimplified terms are unfortunately divisive.&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;2 I totally can see how a question which leaves all the efforts to the answerer may not very popular. Yet, for me personally, it is hardest to answer the question which come with an extensive preamble of unrelated stuff, which leaves the answerer with all the weeding tasks in addition to answering the question. To the best of my knowledge no one ever found a category for those. Let's keep it that way.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastEditorDisplayName="user194703" LastEditDate="2020-05-15T08:21:11.890" LastActivityDate="2020-05-15T08:21:11.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8566" CreationDate="2020-05-11T23:57:47.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, a &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; question is a question in which the circumstance plays a role that the questioner has a task to do and is &lt;strong&gt;not so much concerned with gaining the deeper understanding necessary for accomplishing the task&lt;/strong&gt; him-/herself.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For the questioner the &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; question is a means to &lt;strong&gt;have the task accomplished by those who answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;, or to have &quot;pieces&quot; delivered by those who answer the question, which he or she can then with little effort put together into a solution to the task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it casually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; question the focus of the questioner is not on acquiring the knowledge he or she needs for doing the donkey-work himself/herself but the focus of the questioner is on having the donkey-work done by those who answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Since the reasons for writing &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; questions can be quite diverse, I am not one of those who are fundamentally against &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; questions&amp;mdash;as long as the questioners deal openly with the circumstance that it is a &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; question. &#xA;If you already know a little bit, such questions sometimes can be a nice pastime.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But I don't like questioners trying to hide the fact that there is a &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; question. This often leads to questions being asked in a more general way at first&amp;mdash;in the hope that there is someone among the respondents who provides what is needed for solving the special case. If this doesn't work out, by and by the question is narrowed down to the special case: The questioner in his/her comments by and by mentions additional conditions that were not mentioned before&amp;mdash;or the posting containing the question is changed by and by accordingly&amp;mdash;, which makes it necessary to take a completely different approach, so that the work done in the initial answers is in vain. And those who answered arrive at the unpleasant realization that one could have saved oneself this work if the questioner from the start had said everything.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not confuse &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; questions with questions that also are motivated by attempts at getting a task accomplished, but where the problems have made the questioner aware that he or she lacks knowledge, and where the questioner now wishes to acquire this knowledge in order to be able to cope with similar tasks without assistance in the future. (That wish may be linked to the desire to get a concrete example where one is familiar with the underlying problem and therefore can more easily learn how to approach such things.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Classifying a question as a &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; question implies making a statement about the underlying motivations of the questioner. Identifying underlying motivations often is difficult. Cautiousness, thoroughness and conciliatoriness are needed here. Especially since TeX/LaTeX is something that for beginners is often accompanied by a steep learning curve, which means that beginners may quickly reach a point where they have to ask others for advice on the source code for documents they want/have to write with TeX/LaTeX. Furthermore, StackExchange is a communication medium which allows only very limited insight into the situation/motivations of the individual communication participants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I like the idea of TeX-LaTeX StackExchange of having a collection of questions that explains the many individual basic facts in such a way that you can &quot;assemble&quot; your own solutions to your specific problems/tasks using this collection.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But I see a problem and this problem is one of the main reasons why I don't reject every &quot;do-it-for-me&quot; question:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Many beginners are not familiar with the programming-paradigms, concepts and terms that underlie TeX and LaTeX. It is therefore difficult for them to break a problem down into partial aspects in such a way that individual aspects of the way TeX/LaTeX works can&amp;mdash;for the sake of re-usability&amp;mdash;be explained separately.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This breaking down and then explaining the individual aspects, and how they work together, needs to be done for them and shown to them by someone who is familiar with the subject.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2020-05-12T17:52:37.700" LastActivityDate="2020-05-12T17:52:37.700" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-12T10:31:12.760" Score="12" ViewCount="433" Body="&lt;p&gt;While checking unanswered &lt;code&gt;beamer&lt;/code&gt; questions (which are about 280 at the moment with little activity), I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/540978/alias-for-begin-end-frame-in-beamer&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP requests in this question something that seems to be a very bad practice (at least to me).&#xA;I know defining a so-called bad practice can be tricky, and I am probably not experienced enough to tell if something is a bad practice in LaTeX, but David Carlisle seems to agree on this one so I will trust his judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's admit it's a bad practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the fact that the OP requests a bad practice, I believe the question is unlikely to receive more than comments stating this is a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is : What to do with this question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should it remain open so that someone can answer, and therefore comply to the OP's demand? With the risk to encourage bad practices. Or nobody will answer and it will remain open forever.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should it be closed by the community, if enough people recognize it's a bad practice?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As often, this may be a duplicate / recurring question, but I could not find previous posts on this matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141947" LastEditorUserId="371" LastEditDate="2020-05-25T14:10:37.453" LastActivityDate="2020-06-08T07:08:02.120" Title="What to do with a question requesting specifically for a bad practice?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8574" CreationDate="2020-05-12T20:03:36.307" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the question is a question to the community, it may make sense to add the various options in answers so that users can vote on them. This answer reflects my opinion, which is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you think the post suggests some bad practice, leave a comment in&#xA;  which you point out that you think there is a problem with the&#xA;  suggestion, and explain why. Do not close the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if a comment of this sort already exists, you may just upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;bad practice&quot; is an opinion-based assertion. One should not close post for this reason. Maybe someone has an intelligent answer that avoids all, or at least most of, the complications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say that, since this is opinion-based, not everyone may agree on whether a given suggestion is to be called &quot;bad practice&quot;. So one has to also be a bit careful with such comments, they may get misinterpreted as picking on others. One has to weigh the positive effect of warning others that a suggestion may have unfortunate side effects against the effect critical comments may have on the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user194703" LastActivityDate="2020-05-12T20:03:36.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8574" CreationDate="2020-05-12T20:05:05.773" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are four main grounds for closing questions on the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Off topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opinion based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given these reasons, there are no grounds to close questions that are asking for bad practice, since such questions don't meet any of the criteria for closure assuming they aren't duplicates of another such question. Or unless of course,  they're bad practice like &quot;How do I do this in MSWord?&quot;, in which case they are off topic. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the best thing to do is to leave comments, or even better post an answer explaining why the practice is bad, and what would be better alternative. This is the most productive kind of response I think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone provides an answer that promotes the bad practice, then comments should also be made about why it's a bad idea,  and perhaps in certain circumstances downvotes. I wouldn't downvote the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; for asking about a bad practice, however, just an answer that promotes it.  Of course some bad practices are a matter of opinion, and this is why explanations of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you think it's bad (especially if specific problems can be shown) are important.  And since we don't generally downvote very much on the site generally, downvoting should be reserved for answers that are literally wrong or that will pose demonstrable problems for users who adopt them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-05-13T20:39:23.300" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T20:39:23.300" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8578" CreationDate="2020-05-23T12:05:19.240" Score="6" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In these days I have asked myself one question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;how many are the total users of &lt;strong&gt;TeX.SE&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9ZE6Z.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9ZE6Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/91YgE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/91YgE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the tables that I am attaching I do not see any global number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2020-05-23T12:12:10.183" LastActivityDate="2020-05-23T12:18:27.317" Title="Official number of TeX.SE users" Tags="|discussion|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8577" CreationDate="2020-05-23T12:18:27.317" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;One global number in that list is the &lt;strong&gt;179,089&lt;/strong&gt; users with 1 or more reputation (you can't have less than 1 reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to look at it is to check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;user list&lt;/a&gt;, note that it has 36 users per page and 4590 pages, which amounts to (a little less than) &lt;strong&gt;165,240&lt;/strong&gt; users. I suspect unregistered accounts aren't listed here, hence the lower number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites#traffic&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange site list&lt;/a&gt; lists the number of users on each site, and for TeX.SE it gives &lt;strong&gt;179k&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKnik.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKnik.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/1242112/number-of-users&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; says it's &lt;strong&gt;178,499&lt;/strong&gt;, but SEDE is updated once a week on Sunday morning, so it lags a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/users#order=desc&amp;amp;sort=reputation&amp;amp;filter=!bWTmHuO_e2w(6G&amp;amp;site=tex&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange API&lt;/a&gt; says the number is &lt;strong&gt;179,092&lt;/strong&gt;. Very similar to the one from the reputation leagues, but probably less prone to caching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-05-23T12:18:27.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8574" CreationDate="2020-05-24T21:56:48.137" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm named in the question I suppose I should give an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason for closing other than closing as duplicate if that's the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I commented that it's probably a bad idea but I don't agree with your assertion that such a question would get multiple comments saying the same thing: why would anyone do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with any question people should answer if they feel motivated to do so and if not, just move on and answer a different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kind of meta discussion questions never actually have any effect as they neither change the behaviour of people asking such questions (that would be hard as presumably people don't think what they are asking for is a bad idea) and  they don't change the behaviour of people who may or may not potentially answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2020-05-24T21:56:48.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8574" CreationDate="2020-06-08T07:08:02.120" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m not familiar with the specific question, but in general:  I would answer with a polite frame challenge, giving a better alternative—and if that’s not possible, is it really such a bad practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61644" LastActivityDate="2020-06-08T07:08:02.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-08T07:13:35.640" Score="10" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mapping&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mapping&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mapping&lt;/a&gt; tag on TeX.SX has absolutely no definition or guidance.  The questions about it are a grab-bag asking about everything from graphing a conformal mapping to the &lt;code&gt;Mapping=&lt;/code&gt; feature of &lt;code&gt;fontspec&lt;/code&gt; to the higher-order map function from computer science to character-set conversion to transliteration between scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it doing anybody any good?  If it’s worth saving, what should it be defined to actually mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61644" LastActivityDate="2020-06-08T16:30:02.340" Title="Should the mapping tag be burninated?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8581" CreationDate="2020-06-08T14:18:15.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that there are many tags like that. I'm of two minds about these kinds of tags. Another way of thinking of them that is different from the 'grab bag' characterization, is that they are  context-dependent tags. Another one is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/examples&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;examples&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt; tag. This tag is often added to linguistics questions since the major linguistics packages are designed for formatting linguistic example sentences (a technical term of art in the field completely analogous to 'equation' in math or 'formula' in chemistry).  But obviously in other contexts the tag will mean something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can think of a context dependent tag as one whose meaning will change relative to the other tags it appears with. Of course the tagging system isn't really set up like this, since tag descriptions are supposed to be unique categories.  But if the tag is meaningful in more than one domain, albeit with different meanings it may still be useful for people so long as its combined with other more specific tags. And tag descriptions could be made to include some of the ways in which the tag can be used, noting the conjunction with other relevant tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course if a tag applies to far too many contexts, then it's likely not very useful at all. The current &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mapping&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mapping&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mapping&lt;/a&gt; tag has only 20 questions, and so doesn't fall into this category. Certainly the cases that relate to XeLaTeX and perhaps fonts more generally benefit from the tag, but maybe some of the more random uses can have the tag removed from those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-06-08T16:30:02.340" LastActivityDate="2020-06-08T16:30:02.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-09T17:58:54.660" Score="18" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friends,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange network decided to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/348746/&quot;&gt;switch to CommonMark&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last time SE decided to make some changes, we experienced a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7168/double-backslashes-disappear-from-code&quot;&gt;lot of problems&lt;/a&gt;. Worse, any official position from the Powers That Be took more than three months to arrive; in the meantime, we were desperately waiting for a feedback. The community itself had to embark on a journey of its own and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7317/community-effort-in-fixing-the-double-backslashes-issue&quot;&gt;several users devoted a significant part of their online times to manually fix huge chunks of code in thousands and thousands of questions and answers&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to their meta thread, the migration of TeX.sx posts is scheduled for &lt;strong&gt;June 10, 2020&lt;/strong&gt;. By the time I am writing this thread, this event will take place tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the risk of sounding pessimistic, and to quote our friend Alan Munn, &lt;em&gt;here we go again&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to use this thread as a curated list of potential issues emerged from the migration, as well as a perennial reminder to the SE network and Powers That Be to treat us fairly. Because, frankly, you still owe us a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2020-06-09T19:28:23.227" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T12:48:36.297" Title="The CommonMark diary" Tags="|discussion|markdown|code|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-09T18:06:32.050" Score="11" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;tex.sx is scheduled to undergo a code conversion to CommonMark tomorrow (10 June 2020); for details, see&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/348746/169475&quot;&gt;We&amp;#39;re switching to CommonMark&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last time an under-the-covers code conversion was performed, we lost a myriad double backslashes, which were converted silently to single backslashes.  After many, many hours of manual labor, and some inspired identification of probable patterns that could be matched to locate corrupted postings, sanity was (mostly) restored.&#xA;Here's a commentary on that experience: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8583&quot;&gt;The CommonMark diary&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an effort to make checking somewhat more rational, this question is an attempt to consolidate possible/probable situations that might be subject to auto-corruption.  Please add your suggestions one per answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T03:52:59.873" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T06:18:02.397" Title="What potential problems should be checked for in the great CommonMark switch?" Tags="|discussion|request-for-information|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8583" CreationDate="2020-06-09T18:07:35.020" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;For users who are curious about how the automated edits look like, and who want to review them for potential issues: visit the profile of the Community user (ID -1), and navigate to 'all actions' &amp;rarr; 'revisions', or use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&quot;&gt;this direct link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be recognizable by the edit summary &quot;Commonmark migration&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O9sYp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O9sYp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(screenshot taken from Meta.SE pending the actual migration)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-06-09T18:07:35.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-09T18:49:41.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copied and pasted from the edit window of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/400900&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/400900&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pandoc doesn't like the option in brackets &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; the latex command. In order to make it work you have to use a recent version of pandoc that supports generic raw attributes. Now you can create a raw latex block around the offending command:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;```{=latex}&#xA;\Opensolutionfile{ans}[ex1] &#xA;```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or inline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`\Opensolutionfile{ans}[ans1]`{=latex}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2020-06-09T18:49:41.273" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-09T18:49:41.273" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T00:08:44.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a situation reported as a possible problem in a response to the announcement of the CommonMark switch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here is a multiparagraph quote, wrapped around another multiparagraph&#xA;  quote.  There are blank lines separating all paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Here is a multiparagraph quote  It is embedded in another&#xA;    multiparagraph quote, with a blank line between the paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Here is the second paragraph of the embedded multiparagraph quote  It&#xA;    is embedded in another multiparagraph quote, with a blank line between&#xA;    the paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here is the last paragraph of a multiparagraph quote, wrapped around&#xA;  another multiparagraph quote.  There are blank lines separating all&#xA;  paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The automatic formatting via the &quot;quotes&quot; icon has inserted an extra blank line above and below both quoted paragraph groups, i.e., an extra four blank lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T00:08:44.513" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-10T02:34:06.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T02:32:58.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44765&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44765&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;which had double backslashes trashed in earlier update. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{report} &#xA;\usepackage[left=2.00cm,right=2.00cm,top=2.45cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}   &#xA;\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm,amscd,amstext}&#xA;&#xA;\def  \st    {\backepsilon}&#xA;\DeclareMathOperator{\dom}{dom}&#xA;\DeclareMathOperator{\rng}{rng}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{proof}$ $&#xA;\vspace{-\abovedisplayskip}\vspace{-\baselineskip}&#xA;\begin{align*}&#xA;  \text{Let } y \in \rng{R^{-1}} &amp;amp;\iff \exists\; x \in Y \st (x,y) \in R^{-1}\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;\iff \exists\; x \in Y \st (y,x) \in R \hspace{15pc}\\&#xA;  &amp;amp;\iff y \in \dom{R}\\&#xA;\therefore \rng{R^{-1}} &amp;amp;= \dom{R}.&#xA;\qedhere&#xA;\end{align*}&#xA;\end{proof}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T02:32:58.397" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-10T02:32:58.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T02:42:04.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6797&quot;&gt;Problem with formatting tables with equal column widths&lt;/a&gt; which had double backslashes trashed in earlier update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    \begin{table}[h]&#xA;        \caption{Distribution of mappings for the SLA parameter $\pi$.}&#xA;        \label{tab:distPi} \centering&#xA;        \begin{tabular*}{0.45\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}|c|c|c|}&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\textbf{Name of the SLA parameter $\pi$}} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \emph{Cost} &amp;amp; \emph{Charge} &amp;amp; \emph{Rate} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                15\% &amp;amp; 15\% &amp;amp; 40\% \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\textbf{Unit of the SLA parameter $\pi$}} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \emph{USD} &amp;amp; \emph{GBP} &amp;amp; \emph{YPI} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                38\% &amp;amp; 2\% &amp;amp; 40\% \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;        \end{tabular*}&#xA;        \vspace{-0.3cm}&#xA;    \end{table}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this is how I've made the second table:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    \begin{table}[h]&#xA;        \caption{Distribution of mappings for the SLA parameter $\mu$.}&#xA;        \label{tab:distMu} \centering&#xA;        \begin{tabular*}{0.45\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}|c|c|c|c|c|c|}&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \multicolumn{6}{|c|}{\textbf{Name of the SLA parameter $\mu$}} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\emph{MemoryConsumption}} &amp;amp; \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\emph{Consumption}} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{70\%} &amp;amp; \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{30\%} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \multicolumn{6}{|c|}{\textbf{Unit of the SLA parameter $\mu$}} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\emph{Mbit}} &amp;amp; \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\emph{Gbit}} &amp;amp; \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\emph{Tbit}} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;                \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{5\%} &amp;amp; \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{55\%} &amp;amp; \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{40\%} \\&#xA;            \hline&#xA;        \end{tabular*}&#xA;        \vspace{-0.3cm}&#xA;    \end{table}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T02:42:04.920" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-10T02:42:04.920" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T02:57:14.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;emacs / auctex code, copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/3859&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/3859&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a few bits of junk in there as well, but most of it is focussed on this issue.  It works by rewriting the commands &lt;code&gt;tex-file&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;tex-view-file&lt;/code&gt; so that they can be modified according to options set by choosing an &lt;code&gt;output type&lt;/code&gt; (which is actually more refined than just the output type) for the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I just do &lt;code&gt;M-x set-tex-output-type xe&lt;/code&gt; and I get my file compiled using &lt;code&gt;xelatex&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-lisp prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;;(server-start)&#xA;;(load &quot;xdvi-search.el&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;(setq latex-block-names '(&quot;theorem&quot; &quot;corollary&quot; &quot;proof&quot; &quot;lemma&quot; &quot;defn&quot; &quot;thm&quot;))&#xA;;(setq tex-dvi-view-command&#xA;;          (if (eq window-system 'x) &quot;xdvi&quot; nil))&#xA;;(setq tex-dvi-print-command &quot;dvips -Pmirkti *&quot;)&#xA;(setq tex-alt-dvi-print-command &quot;dvips * -ta4 -o&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;(defcustom tex-output-type &quot;pdf&quot;&#xA;  &quot;*Default output type for TeX jobs.&quot;&#xA;  :type '(radio (const :tag &quot;Postscript&quot; &quot;ps&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;Postscript (rv)&quot; &quot;psrv&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;PDF&quot; &quot;pdf&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;PDF (rv)&quot; &quot;pdfrv&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;Dvi&quot; &quot;dvi&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;Dvi (draft)&quot; &quot;dvid&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;XeLaTeX&quot; &quot;xe&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tab &quot;LuaLaTeX&quot; &quot;lua&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;HTML&quot; &quot;html&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;XHTML&quot; &quot;xhtml&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;MathML&quot; &quot;xml&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;OpenOffice&quot; &quot;sxw&quot;)&#xA;        (const :tag &quot;maruku&quot; &quot;maruku&quot;))&#xA;  :group 'tex-run)&#xA;&#xA;(defcustom tex-ext-alist&#xA;  '((&quot;ps&quot; . &quot;ps&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;psrv&quot; . &quot;ps&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdf&quot; . &quot;pdf&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdfrv&quot; . &quot;pdf&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;dvi&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvid&quot; . &quot;dvi&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xe&quot; . &quot;pdf&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;lua&quot; . &quot;pdf&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;html&quot; . &quot;html&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xhtml&quot; . &quot;xhtml&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xml&quot; . &quot;xml&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;sxw&quot; . &quot;sxw&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;maruku&quot; . &quot;xhtml&quot;))&#xA;  &quot;*alist of eventual file extensions&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;(defcustom tex-command-alist&#xA;  '((&quot;pdf&quot; . &quot;pdflatex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdfrv&quot; . &quot;pdflatex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;ps&quot; . &quot;latex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;psrv&quot; . &quot;latex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;latex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvid&quot; . &quot;latex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xe&quot; . &quot;xelatex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;lua&quot; . &quot;lualatex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;html&quot; . &quot;mk4ht&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xhtml&quot; . &quot;mk4ht&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xml&quot; . &quot;mk4ht&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;sxw&quot; . &quot;mk4ht&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;maruku&quot; . &quot;maruku&quot;)&#xA;    )&#xA;  &quot;*alist for processing file into various types of output&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;(defcustom tex-start-options-alist&#xA;  '((&quot;pdf&quot; . &quot;\\\\nonstopmode\\\\input&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdfrv&quot; . &quot;\\\\nonstopmode\\\\input&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;ps&quot; . &quot;\\\\nonstopmode\\\\input&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;psrv&quot; . &quot;\\\\nonstopmode\\\\input&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;\\\\nonstopmode\\\\input&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvid&quot; . &quot;-src-specials \\\\nonstopmode\\\\input&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xe&quot; . &quot;\\\\nonstopmode\\\\input&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;lua&quot; . &quot;\\\\nonstopmode\\\\input&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;html&quot; . &quot;htlatex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xhtml&quot; . &quot;xhlatex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xml&quot; . &quot;mzlatex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;sxw&quot; . &quot;oolatex&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;maruku&quot; . &quot;-m itex2mml&quot;)&#xA;    )&#xA;  &quot;*alist for options that preceed the filename&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;(defcustom tex-end-options-alist&#xA;  '((&quot;pdf&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdfrv&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;ps&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;psrv&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvid&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xe&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;lua&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;html&quot; . &quot;\&quot;html,3,frames\&quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xhtml&quot; . &quot;\&quot;html,3,frames\&quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xml&quot; . &quot;\&quot;html,3,frames\&quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;sxw&quot; . &quot;\&quot;html,3,frames\&quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;maruku&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    )&#xA;  &quot;*alist for options that postceed the filename&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;(defcustom tex-post-command-alist&#xA;  '((&quot;pdf&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdfrv&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;ps&quot; . &quot;dvips * -ta4 -o 2&amp;gt; /dev/null&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;psrv&quot; . &quot;dvips * -ta4 -o 2&amp;gt; /dev/null&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvid&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xe&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;lua&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;html&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xhtml&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xml&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;sxw&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;maruku&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    )&#xA;  &quot;*alist for post-processing commands&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;(defcustom tex-mid-ext-alist&#xA;  '((&quot;ps&quot; . &quot;dvi&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;psrv&quot; . &quot;dvi&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdf&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdfrv&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvid&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xe&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;lua&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;html&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xhtml&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xml&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;sxw&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;maruku&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    )&#xA;  &quot;*alist of mid-point file extensions if we do a two-stage process&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;(defcustom tex-view-commands-alist&#xA;;  (cond &#xA;;    ((eq window-system 'x)&#xA;     '((&quot;pdf&quot; .  &quot;xpdf&quot;)&#xA;       (&quot;pdfrv&quot; .  &quot;xpdf&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;ps&quot; .  &quot;gv -ad=~/.gv_spartan_right.dat&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;psrv&quot; .  &quot;gv -ad=~/.gv_spartan_right_rv.dat&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;xdvi&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;dvid&quot; . &quot;xdvi&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;xe&quot; .  &quot;xpdf&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;lua&quot; .  &quot;xpdf&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;html&quot; . &quot;firefox&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;xhtml&quot;. &quot;firefox&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;xml&quot;. &quot;firefox&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;sxw&quot;. &quot;ooffice2&quot;)&#xA;     (&quot;maruku&quot; . &quot;firefox&quot;)&#xA;     )&#xA;;    (t&#xA;;     '((&quot;pdf&quot; . &quot;pdftotext * | cat -s&quot;)&#xA;;     (&quot;ps&quot; . &quot;ps2ascii * | cat -s&quot;)&#xA;;     (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;dvips * | ps2ascii | cat -s&quot;)&#xA;;     (&quot;html&quot;. &quot;lynx&quot;)&#xA;;     (&quot;xhtml&quot;. &quot;lynx&quot;)&#xA;;     (&quot;xml&quot;. &quot;lynx&quot;)&#xA;;     (&quot;sxw&quot;. &quot;false&quot;))&#xA;;     )))&#xA;  &quot;*alist for viewing the various types of output&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;;(defcustom tex-dvi-to-ps-command&#xA;;  &quot;dvips * -ta4 -o 2&amp;gt; /dev/null&quot;&#xA;;  &quot;*Command for conversion from dvi to ps.&quot;&#xA;;  :type 'string&#xA;;  :group 'tex-run)&#xA;&#xA;(defun tex-font-lock-type-alist&#xA;  '((&quot;pdf&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;pdfrv&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;ps&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;psrv&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvi&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;dvid&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xe&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;lua&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;html&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xhtml&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;xml&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;sxw&quot; . &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    (&quot;maruku&quot; . &quot;markdown-mode-font-lock-keywords&quot;)&#xA;    )&#xA;  &quot;*alist for modifying font-lock defaults&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;(modify-syntax-entry ?\\ &quot;.&quot; tex-mode-syntax-table)&#xA;&#xA;(defun set-tex-main-file ()&#xA;  &quot;Set 'tex-main-file' to something appropriate from the current buffer.&quot;&#xA;  (interactive)&#xA;  (make-variable-buffer-local 'tex-main-file)&#xA;  (setq tex-main-file (expand-file-name (car (find-file-read-args&#xA;                          &quot;(La)TeX main file name for buffer: &quot; nil))))&#xA;)&#xA;&#xA;(defun set-tex-output-type ()&#xA;  &quot;Set the 'tex-output-type'.&quot;&#xA;  (interactive)&#xA;   (setq newtype&#xA;      (completing-read &quot;TeX Output Type: &quot; tex-ext-alist nil t)&#xA;      )&#xA;  (if (not (equal newtype &quot;&quot;)) &#xA;      (setq tex-output-type newtype)&#xA;    )&#xA;  )&#xA;&#xA;(defun template ()&#xA;  &quot;Insert template.tex at the appropriate place.&quot;&#xA;  (interactive)&#xA;  (insert-file-contents &quot;~/tex/papers/useful/template.tex&quot;)&#xA;)&#xA;&#xA;(defun end-document ()&#xA;  &quot;Insert end-of-document commands at the point.&quot;&#xA;  (interactive)&#xA;  (insert &quot;\\bibliography{arxiv,articles,books,misc}\n\n\\end{document}\n\n&quot;)&#xA;)&#xA;&#xA;(defun find-end-document ()&#xA;  &quot;Skips to the end of the current document.&quot;&#xA;  (interactive)&#xA;;  (goto-char (point-min))&#xA;  (search-forward &quot;\\end{document}&quot;)&#xA;)&#xA;&#xA;(defun my-tex-file ()&#xA;  &quot;Modify \\[tex-file] to take into account the desired output type.&quot;&#xA;  (interactive)&#xA;  (let ((tex-command (concat&#xA;              (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-command-alist))&#xA;              &quot; &quot;&#xA;              (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-start-options-alist))&#xA;              &quot; \* &quot;&#xA;              (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-end-options-alist)))))&#xA;  (tex-file)&#xA;  )&#xA;  (if (&amp;lt; 0 (length (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-post-command-alist))))&#xA;      (let ((tex-mid-file (tex-append tex-print-file (concat &quot;.&quot; (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-mid-ext-alist))))))&#xA;    (if (not (file-exists-p tex-mid-file))&#xA;        (error &quot;No appropriate file could be found&quot;)&#xA;      (tex-send-command (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-post-command-alist)) tex-mid-file)&#xA;      )&#xA;    )&#xA;    )&#xA;  )&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;(defun my-tex-view ()&#xA;  &quot;Modify \\[tex-view] to take into account the desired output type.&quot;&#xA;  (interactive)&#xA;  (let* ((tex-suffix (concat &quot;.&quot; (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-ext-alist))))&#xA;     (tex-view-command (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-view-commands-alist)))&#xA;     (view-file-name (tex-append tex-print-file tex-suffix))&#xA;        test-name)&#xA;    (if (and (not (equal (current-buffer) tex-last-buffer-texed))&#xA;             (buffer-file-name)&#xA;             ;; Check that this buffer's printed file is up to date.&#xA;             (file-newer-than-file-p&#xA;              (setq test-name (tex-append (buffer-file-name) (concat &quot;.&quot; (cdr (assoc tex-output-type tex-ext-alist)))))&#xA;              (buffer-file-name)))&#xA;        (setq view-file-name test-name))&#xA;    (if (not (file-exists-p view-file-name))&#xA;        (error &quot;No appropriate file could be found to view.&quot;)&#xA;      (if (tex-shell-running)&#xA;          (tex-kill-job)&#xA;        (tex-start-shell))&#xA;      (tex-send-command&#xA;       tex-view-command view-file-name&#xA;       t))))&#xA;&#xA;(define-key tex-mode-map &quot;\C-c\C-n&quot; 'find-end-document)&#xA;(define-key tex-mode-map &quot;\C-c\C-d&quot; 'end-document)&#xA;&#xA;(define-key tex-mode-map [remap tex-file] 'my-tex-file)&#xA;(define-key tex-mode-map [remap tex-view] 'my-tex-view)&#xA;&#xA;(define-key tex-shell-map [remap tex-file] 'my-tex-file)&#xA;(define-key tex-shell-map [remap tex-view] 'my-tex-view)&#xA;&#xA;(defadvice server-visit-files (around save-buffers last activate)&#xA;    &quot;Try to emulate gnuclient behaviour with emacsclient.&#xA;Works only for visiting one buffer at a time.&quot;&#xA;    (let* ((filen (car (car (ad-get-arg 0))))&#xA;           (buf (get-file-buffer filen))&#xA;           (this-buf-modified-p nil))&#xA;      ;;; the following is copied from server-visit-files, with&#xA;      ;;; a modification for the `verify-visited-file-modtime' test&#xA;      (if (and buf (set-buffer buf))&#xA;          (if (file-exists-p filen)&#xA;              ;;; if the file has changed on disk, reload it&#xA;              ;;; using `find-file-noselect'&#xA;              (if (not (verify-visited-file-modtime buf))&#xA;                  (progn&#xA;                    (find-file-noselect filen)&#xA;                    ;;; if user answered `no', reset modtime anyway&#xA;                    ;;; so that server-visit-files doesn't realize&#xA;                    ;;; the difference:&#xA;                    (set-visited-file-modtime)))&#xA;            ;;; if file exists no longer, we let server-visit-files&#xA;            ;;; deal with that&#xA;            t)&#xA;        (setq buf (find-file-noselect filen)))&#xA;      (setq this-buf-modified-p (buffer-modified-p buf))&#xA;      (set-buffer buf)&#xA;      (set-buffer-modified-p nil)&#xA;      ad-do-it&#xA;      (set-buffer-modified-p this-buf-modified-p)))&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;(require 'markdown-mode)&#xA;&#xA;(defun markdown-font-locks ()&#xA;  &quot;Set the font lock to that of markdown mode.&quot;&#xA;  (interactive)&#xA;  (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)&#xA;       '(markdown-mode-font-lock-keywords))&#xA;  (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-multiline) t)&#xA;  (setq font-lock-mode-major-mode nil)&#xA;  (font-lock-fontify-buffer)&#xA;  )&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T02:57:14.997" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-10T02:57:14.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T03:24:06.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using double backticks to escape backticks in inline code, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/543571/134574&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/543571/134574&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\textbackslash&lt;/code&gt; is just for typesetting.  As the name says, it's a &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt; command, so it just prints the character &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; from the current font, and isn't of any use for anything other than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are looking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\catcode`\\=12&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The syntax for the &lt;code&gt;\catcode&lt;/code&gt; primitive is &lt;code&gt;\catcode&amp;lt;number&amp;gt;=&amp;lt;catcode&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, and it sets the catcode of the character whose ASCII code is &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;number&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;catcode&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.  This means that you could also use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\catcode 92=12&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it's a mouthful to remember all the ASCII codes, and your code becomes quite a lot less readable.  To improve on that TeX allows you to specify a number using an “alphabetic constant”.  To do that, the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;number&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; should start with a &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;, followed by the character token you want to make a number of. Valid alphabetic constants are &lt;code&gt;`a&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;`*&lt;/code&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem is that a catcode-0 character (here the backslash) doesn't produce a token, so neither:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\catcode`\=12&#xA;\catcode`\ =12&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;do what you want (the first one changes the catcode of &lt;code&gt;=&lt;/code&gt;, and the second the catcode of &lt;code&gt;&lt;/code&gt;).  To specify these characters, TeX allows you to escape the character with a backslash, so to specify the alphabeitc constant &lt;code&gt;`\&lt;/code&gt; you prefix it with another backslash: &lt;code&gt;`\\&lt;/code&gt;, so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\catcode`\\=12&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/516660/134574&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/516660/134574&lt;/a&gt;, using three backticks to escape double backticks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Mico noted, when two &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; are used (like in &lt;code&gt;``should''&lt;/code&gt;) you usually don't want to apply the special formatting. To detect this case you can check that the argument of active-&lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; is empty and then use the original &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt; character instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or more generally, using &lt;em&gt;n+1&lt;/em&gt; backticks to escape &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; backticks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;`````````````````````````&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastEditorUserId="134574" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T03:31:04.100" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T03:31:04.100" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-10T03:24:06.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T03:26:17.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code in lists, copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/461589/134574&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/461589/134574&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/455336/134574&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The values in the fractions matter because the boxes of the characters have different sizes. The &lt;code&gt;&lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/code&gt; has a descender below the baseline which the &lt;code&gt;&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/code&gt; doesn't, thus when you swap them, the box of the denominator get a little bigger and TeX uses a larger delimiter to make that fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a few possibilities to work around that (basically the same ones I listed in the linked question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can use a fixed delimiter size (&lt;code&gt;\bigg&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\Big&lt;/code&gt;, for instance):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$$\Bigl(\frac{x}{p}\Bigr)\Bigl(\frac{p}{x}\Bigr)$$&#xA;$$\biggl(\frac{x}{p}\biggr)\biggl(\frac{p}{x}\biggr)$$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;code&gt;\raise&lt;/code&gt; the &lt;code&gt;&lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/code&gt; so that TeX won't try to use a larger box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$$\left(\frac{x}{\raise0.35ex\hbox{$p$}}\right)\left(\frac{p}{x}\right)$$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or you can add an invisible &lt;code&gt;&lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/code&gt; next to the &lt;code&gt;&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/code&gt; so that the delimiter used will be the larger one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$$\left(\frac{x}{p}\right)\left(\frac{p}{\vphantom{p}x}\right)$$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or you can change change TeX's &lt;code&gt;\delimiterfactor&lt;/code&gt; (and &lt;code&gt;\delimitershortfall&lt;/code&gt;, which I didn't show here) and let TeX adjust the delimiters accordingly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$$\delimiterfactor=790&#xA;\left(\frac{x}{p}\right)\left(\frac{p}{x}\right)$$&#xA;&#xA;$$\delimiterfactor=970&#xA;\left(\frac{x}{p}\right)\left(\frac{p}{x}\right)$$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;% \delimitershortfall=5pt % Default&#xA;% \delimiterfactor=901    % Default&#xA;&#xA;$$\left(\frac{x}{p}\right)\left(\frac{p}{x}\right)$$&#xA;&#xA;$$\Bigl(\frac{x}{p}\Bigr)\Bigl(\frac{p}{x}\Bigr)$$&#xA;$$\biggl(\frac{x}{p}\biggr)\biggl(\frac{p}{x}\biggr)$$&#xA;&#xA;$$\left(\frac{x}{\raise0.35ex\hbox{$p$}}\right)\left(\frac{p}{x}\right)$$&#xA;&#xA;$$\left(\frac{x}{p}\right)\left(\frac{p}{\vphantom{p}x}\right)$$&#xA;&#xA;$$\delimiterfactor=790&#xA;\left(\frac{x}{p}\right)\left(\frac{p}{x}\right)$$&#xA;&#xA;$$\delimiterfactor=970&#xA;\left(\frac{x}{p}\right)\left(\frac{p}{x}\right)$$&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RG8r8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RG8r8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T03:26:17.390" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-10T03:26:17.390" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T03:36:25.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subscripts and superscripts, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/527538/134574&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/527538/134574&lt;/a&gt; (the answer is huge, so I copied only a paragraph).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;code&gt;\outer&lt;/code&gt; is a primitive, so &lt;code&gt;\meaning\outer&lt;/code&gt; is &lt;code&gt;\&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;o&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;u&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;t&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;e&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;r&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/code&gt;). In this case, the code will see the &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; and will do its thing with &lt;code&gt;\outer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[note&amp;nbsp;1]&lt;/sup&gt;. Later, it arrives at &lt;code&gt;\umbrella&lt;/code&gt; and hits it with &lt;code&gt;\meaning&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T03:36:25.190" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-10T03:36:25.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T03:41:04.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/426664&quot;&gt;Error with pygmentize when using minted package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get multiple undefined control sequences when using the package &lt;code&gt;minted&lt;/code&gt; and I believe it is caused by pygmentize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use the software &lt;code&gt;Texpad&lt;/code&gt; and the active LaTeX distribution is set to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;/usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-darwin&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then check both &lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;pygmentize&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;which python&lt;/code&gt; results in &lt;code&gt;/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;which pygmentize&lt;/code&gt; results in &lt;code&gt;/opt/local/bin/pygmentize&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have MacPorts installed and I check the active version by using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;port select --list python&lt;/code&gt; which results in &lt;code&gt;python34 (active)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where I get confused, shouldn't &lt;code&gt;which python&lt;/code&gt; also point to &lt;code&gt;/opt/local/bin/python&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paths&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I check my &lt;code&gt;paths&lt;/code&gt; by doing &lt;code&gt;nano ~/.bash_profile&lt;/code&gt;, which results in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;export PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:$PATH&#xA;export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-darwin:$PATH&#xA;export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH&#xA;export PATH=/usr/local/:$PATH&#xA;&#xA;##&#xA;# Your previous /Users/Batman/.bash_profile file was backed up as /Users/Batman/.bash_profile.macports-saved_$&#xA;##&#xA;&#xA;# MacPorts Installer addition on 2017-02-12_at_00:07:31: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.&#xA;export PATH=&quot;/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH&quot;&#xA;# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is required given the above information in order for pygmentize to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Minimal Working Example (MWE):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}&#xA;\usepackage[english]{babel}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{minted}&#xA;&#xA;\usemintedstyle[php]{autumn}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{minted}{php}&#xA;&amp;lt;?php&#xA;    try {&#xA;        // Connect to SQL database&#xA;        $dsn = new PDO('mysql:host=servername;dbname=databasename', 'username', 'password');&#xA;    }&#xA;    catch (PDOException $e) {&#xA;        // Prints out error message&#xA;        echo 'Error: ' . $e-&amp;gt;getMessage();&#xA;    }&#xA;?&amp;gt;&#xA;\end{minted}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T03:41:04.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2020-06-10T06:18:02.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;(also reported &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/349190/295232&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links to URLs with a &lt;code&gt;)&lt;/code&gt; in them will break. Consider this link to the Stack Exchange API documentation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions-by-ids#order=desc&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;ids=349185&amp;amp;filter=!)rTkraPYPefwELKox66q&amp;amp;site=meta&amp;amp;run=true&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you try to &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions-by-ids#order=desc&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;ids=349185&amp;amp;filter=!)rTkraPYPefwELKox66q&amp;amp;site=meta&amp;amp;run=true&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to it right now, it works, but after the update, it breaks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8oy8n.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8oy8n.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;(screenshot taken on Meta.SE which is already migrated)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T06:18:02.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8583" CreationDate="2020-06-10T07:11:43.403" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading some feedback on meta.stackexchange.com I got the impression that this community feels quite tense about the upcoming CommonMark migration. I feel that some extra levels of transparency shared right here might make your lives a little easier and help alleviate some of the tension, so let me try to address some of the concerns and give you a more detailed schedule so none of you needs to feel trapped waiting for the migration to kick off at any time today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Status&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;12:06 UTC&lt;/em&gt;: kicking off the migration for tex.meta.se. CommonMark is  enabled, posts are migrating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;12:11 UTC&lt;/em&gt;: posts on tex.meta.se are migrated. No problems detected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;12:16 UTC&lt;/em&gt;: kicking off the migration for tex.se. CommonMark is  enabled, posts are migrating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;12:48 UTC&lt;/em&gt;: migration for meta and the main sites are done. CommonMark is enabled for all new posts and incoming edits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Schedule for tex.meta.se and tex.se&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in no rush to get this migration started right away. If you want to be around during the migration to double-check that nothing broke that's great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I aim to &lt;strong&gt;run the migration around 12pm UTC&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things might shift a bit since my days are sometimes unpredictable, but that's roughly what I'm aiming for.  I'll update this post once I start the migration and once the migration has finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The migration run itself should not take longer than 15 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Will this break any posts?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know the history of the issues during the last migration first hand but did my best to understand what happened based on what you &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7168/double-backslashes-disappear-from-code&quot;&gt;shared on meta.se&lt;/a&gt;. I understand that this has been painful to find and fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reiterate what's going to happen during the migration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we take the Markdown source of each post on a site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we apply some fixes to make that Markdown CommonMark compliant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we render the new, CommonMark compliant markdown source with our new CommonMark renderer to produce HTML output&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we take that HTML and compare it to the current HTML version of that post (the HTML that has been rendered with the old Markdown renderer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if we figure out that there's a difference between the old and the new HTML output, we will leave the post untouched and continue serving the old HTML version until someone goes in and edits the post in question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if we think there's no difference between new and old HTML, we will store the new, tweaked markdown source as a new revision on the post. The new HTML will be served when viewing the post moving forward&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This mechanism itself is quite defensive and will prevent breaking a large scale of posts at once. If a post looks differently after the migration, we won't touch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using revisions allows us to undo things should we detect that something broke. We have a mechanism in place that can roll back &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; changes that have been done as part of this migration. I hope we never have to use it, but it's there just in case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These precautions might alleviate some of the concerns we have and I personally put a lot of trust into this process. I tried to do my due diligence and tested scenarios specifically related to the last round of issues that you mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also know that I'm fallible and things &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; go wrong for unforeseen reasons. Please don't take my word that things are going to be just fine. I appreciate feedback and double-checking that we didn't break anything - you all know this site better than I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope with this more detailed schedule and explanation we can make this experience as smooth as possible. I'll keep this post updated so that you know when you can start hunting for bugs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217917" LastEditorUserId="217917" LastEditDate="2020-06-10T12:48:36.297" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T12:48:36.297" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-25T18:58:01.587" Score="18" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TUG 2020 announcement&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 41st annual TeX user conference &lt;strong&gt;(TUG 2020)&lt;/strong&gt; is going digital on July 24, 25, 26. Register &lt;strong&gt;for free!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we move TUG 2020 completely online, we look forward to offering you the same vibrant programming, innovative and timely content from presenters, and opportunities to reflect and connect over the emerging topics in TeX and typography with users across the world. The online conference will include our regular offerings and opportunities for engagement, including sessions, workshops, keynotes, and space to connect with users, from across the globe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to participating in the live event, all attendees will have access to break-out rooms for networking and social engagement. Moving our face-to-face conference to a fully online format presents us with the unique opportunity to spotlight the best of what the online modality affords – meaningful collaboration and the ability to reflect and connect with colleagues around the world. We hope that you will join us for this reimagined event, and celebrate our collective resilience and dedication to forging connections without boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We look forward to welcoming you to the TUG 2020 Online Conference in July, and we are here to help you however we can with questions and requests for support.  Please feel free to reach out to us with requests related to TUG 2020 at &lt;code&gt;tug-conferences@tug.org&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Registration&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Registration is required. While access to the meeting will be free to everyone, you will be required to register to view the meeting. Registration for the meeting is open at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/tug2020/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;event website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PN, on behalf of the TUG 2020 Organizing Committee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fcqqu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fcqqu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;TUG 2020 Poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29161" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2020-06-26T10:46:27.160" LastActivityDate="2020-06-26T10:46:27.160" Title="TUG 2020 is going online July 24, 25 and 26th" Tags="|discussion|conferences|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-25T19:45:46.933" Score="12" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm bad at (La)TeX and appreciated the help of several contributors quite a lot here.  They saved my &lt;del&gt;ass&lt;/del&gt;day many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kudo points (reputation) at StackExchange are fun but probably have no real value to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life, I would send money, a bottle of good wine, or even a box of bottles of good wine.  However, this is likely to disclose my identity, which is an absolute no-go (or the identity of my friends whom I'd have to ask to send a gift on my behalf).  I won't use anonymous electronic money (bitcoins, etc.) unless it's &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; easy.  So, if the contributors would like to mention an anonymous way for me to provide some service to them beyond ticking boxes, I would welcome it: please provide such ways in the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Primarily, I'm interested in the answers from the folks that replied to or commented the questions I asked myself.  However, I imagine that other noob users have the same problem as me here, and they wish to support their own set of contributors. Therefore, I exclude no contributor from providing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user165772" LastEditorDisplayName="user165772" LastEditDate="2020-06-26T17:10:31.547" LastActivityDate="2020-07-09T14:13:47.787" Title="How to anonymously support the contributors?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8600" CreationDate="2020-06-26T10:39:31.963" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to take this opportunity to thank you for bringing awareness about the relentless work of uncountable people in this community (be named or anonymous), devoting themselves to share expertise for free, regardless of their time, social position or economic status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe that this community built a system in which generosity is spontaneously returned. Speaking for myself, I arrived here almost a decade ago, coming for help, as pretty much everybody else. Then, unsurprisingly, I stayed due to a strong feeling of gratitude and closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My path is probably not too different than anybody else who is a contributor to this community, as well as in the TeX world outside. I made friends (personal, close friends, by the way) with so many people here. I managed to come up with so many TeX-related projects because, back then, at a certain point in the very beginning of my path, I was given encouragement and confidence from people in here when I surely need them most than ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your initiative is very noble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An anonymous donation is a bit complicated due to how electronic transfers and bank deposits work. So we need to think of something in the meantime. Some contributors offer sponsorships in their GitHub profiles. A donation to TUG is always welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, when it is not possible to directly express your gratitude to TeX contributors, and I believe I speak for a significant amount of them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spread kindness around you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do it so gently, do it for your community. Read to residents at a nursing home, donate blood, volunteer to help at a charity auction, tutor children in schools, donate stuffed animals to children in hospitals, knit blankets to be donated to hospitals or homeless shelters, donate books to a school library, teach computer skills to the elderly &lt;s&gt;(that includes Microsoft Office)&lt;/s&gt;, mow an elderly neighbor's lawn, take care of cats and dogs at an animal shelter, plant a tree, sponsor an animal at your local zoo, donate your old clothes, volunteer at a soup kitchen, and so on. Start volunteering! I am sure you will do great, and every TeX contributor in this community will be greatly honoured to realize their selfless act of knowledge sharing sparkled an actual good being done in this world so full of racism, prejudice, hatred and bigotry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know you. But I can tell you are a good person. I am sure you will make a difference!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastEditorUserId="3094" LastEditDate="2020-06-26T12:27:28.070" LastActivityDate="2020-06-26T12:27:28.070" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-26T14:27:18.987" Score="5" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are hundreds of pages explaining how to &lt;em&gt;search&lt;/em&gt; your own questions, or answers to them, but nothing that I can see about just getting a &lt;strong&gt;list&lt;/strong&gt; of them. Some answers suggested using the Advanced Search, but that seems to apply only when you want to search for content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have probably missed it, but I'd be grateful if someone could point me at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it should be proposed as an enhancement, something like a profile menu item as it is with some other Q&amp;amp;A software, or even just a button beside your avatar &amp;quot;List own posts&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="355" OwnerDisplayName="Peter Flynn" LastActivityDate="2020-06-26T17:12:47.070" Title="How do I list all my own questions?" Tags="|discussion|lists|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8603" CreationDate="2020-06-26T17:12:47.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a list of questions in your profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XoorP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XoorP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's one direct link which works for all users: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=questions&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=questions&lt;/a&gt;. It will automatically redirect to your own questions. Alternatively, you can combine the two &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search options&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;is:q&lt;/code&gt; to search for 'posts by yourself' which 'are questions'; this might be useful when you want to combined it with e.g. &lt;code&gt;created:1y..&lt;/code&gt; which filters on posts from the last 365 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-06-26T17:12:47.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8600" CreationDate="2020-06-29T12:08:01.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Help others where you can help. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pay it forward&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65222" LastActivityDate="2020-06-29T12:08:01.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-04T00:42:07.653" Score="-2" ViewCount="1084" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Purpose: To improve the user experience of the &lt;strong&gt;visitors&lt;/strong&gt; of TeX.SX (who most likely provide the majority of the traffic), in exchange for the slight detriment of that of the questioners and answerers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a common practice in this community to request MWEs in questions without it. My personal observation is that they are usually taken as &lt;em&gt;the actual question&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;just an example&lt;/em&gt;.  I think this severely hurts the usefulness of the community as a resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions here do not have an answer. The &amp;quot;answers&amp;quot; in them provide solutions targeting only the particular instance in the example, sometimes going completely against the question body and title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questioners can use the checkmark to designate which &amp;quot;response&amp;quot; resolved their troubles, not to choose which &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; answers the question the best.  This can create the illusion of &lt;em&gt;answered questions&lt;/em&gt;, although in reality they are &lt;em&gt;resolved problems of the individuals&lt;/em&gt;, which isn't what the StackExchange communities, and Q&amp;amp;A in general is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Exhibit A&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/230660/coloring-a-node-after-its-creation&quot;&gt;Coloring a node after its creation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of things are very detrimental for the user experience with this Q&amp;amp;A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answer is incomprehensible to human eye.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;MWE of the questioner is 48 lines. Accepted answer? 62 lines of code, no text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; is not an answer to the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The question clearly specifies that the coloring should be done &amp;quot;after creation&amp;quot;, even in title.  Required me to have a &lt;code&gt;diff&lt;/code&gt; to find out that answer actually completely ignores that request.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questioner is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to blame for their lengthy WE either.  A true &lt;strong&gt;M&lt;/strong&gt;WE to that question would be the following, silly as it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\tikz{\node [draw] {A};}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, any questioner, due to such abuses of MWE, is forced to provide their entire code without simplifications.  Otherwise, they risk receiving workarounds as an answer to the MWE that do not apply even to their own real case!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, what if the questioner is just curious about something?  Well, the they cannot assume that answerers will answer the question in the body.  So they have to either make harsh warnings, or provide a bizarrely convoluted MWE so that the answerers are unable to outmaneuver the question with a workaround that applies only to MWE, and are forced to either answer the question, or don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all backed by the exhibit, and facilitated by the MWEs, and them being socially enforced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Exhibit B&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/134819/69346&quot;&gt;Array indexing does not work for the node label&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one shows how MWEs can harm the generality of Q&amp;amp;A's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answer is only for a specific case of the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A question with the same body and title now &lt;strong&gt;has to&lt;/strong&gt; be asked, only with a different MWE that instead provides a text/math array to use as the node label.  See that question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/551501/69346&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is much more mild, as the answer at least actually answers the question.  It still does it in a vision narrowed down by the MWE, focusing on arrays with numeric content.  This yields an answer simply isn't complete, as the question body does not make such a specification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a MWE, it would be easier for answerer to think about text/math node contents.  Perhaps they would even think about those first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Exhibit C&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/521405/start-aligning-from-another-equals-sign-after-some-line-of-equation&quot;&gt;Start aligning from another equals sign after some line of equation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;em&gt;pro&lt;/em&gt; MWE example.  It was not possible for the answerer to give a generally applicable answer.  Thus, they openly stated that their &amp;quot;solution&amp;quot; is just a &amp;quot;trick&amp;quot;.  It presents an example quirks with the solution, and speculates that there might be others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Of course, it's all posed, as it is a self-answered question.  I was just presenting my own workaround that wasn't perfect.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, MWE's aren't usually respected like examples as in this case.  If they were all like this, they would be perfectly harmless points to start for the answerers.  I do not object against the idea of MWE.  I think it's a great idea, misused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MWEs are taken as if almost the main question, with the rest as secondary to it.  This attitude towards MWEs make the questions very individualized, and damages the Q&amp;amp;A's applicableness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think every StackExchange community should take Q&amp;amp;A reusability as a performance metric.  I think the misuse of MWEs is harmful to TeX.SX's performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't just one solution to this.  Here are some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discouraging answers that put the example at the center.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disallowing &amp;quot;answers&amp;quot; from being marked as answers, if they;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fail to address the question title/body (e.g. Exhibit A), or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fail to address the question title/body for another MWE (e.g. Exhibit B).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A functionality to let the answerer prevent their &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; from being marked as answer could also be nice, for people that want to provide an individualized workaround for the questioner, while admitting that theirs is &amp;quot;not an answer to the question asked&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69346" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2020-08-10T09:59:58.373" LastActivityDate="2020-08-10T09:59:58.373" Title="MWEs and their wrongly assumed place in the question" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="33" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8607" CreationDate="2020-07-04T16:32:35.603" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it is definitely true that minimal examples are sometimes asked for reflexively, and it's possible to make questions that shouldn't require them, (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6813/2693&quot;&gt;automatic check for MWE&lt;/a&gt; for some prior discussion) I don't think that discouraging MWEs is at all the way to address the problem you are raising. Here are some counterpoints to think about (some are the same points raised by Ulrike Fischer in her comments):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questioners generally want to solve specific problems. But much of the time it's hard to tell what they are trying do without a MWE. And removing the need for a MWE doesn't make the specific problem go away and the question more general. Also, things like document class can matter a lot, even for general questions: how to change section titles is a general question, but doing it in the standard classes vs. &lt;code&gt;memoir&lt;/code&gt; vs KOMA requires distinct solutions.  Similar points can be made for font questions and bibliography questions, among others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even general questions can benefit from a MWE. What makes them general is not the lack MWE, but the specific question asked along with the MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions without examples can easily lead to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2449/2693&quot;&gt;XY problems&lt;/a&gt;. MWEs go a long way to clarify issues so that bad solutions don't get encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answerers are volunteers who give up their time and expertise to answer questions. Providing MWEs as starting code saves time and encourages answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;generalization&amp;quot; problem works in both directions. Depending on your level of expertise, applying a general solution to your specific problem may or may not be difficult. This relates back to point 1.  Conversely, applying the method used in a specific problem to a more general one may or may not be difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The site doesn't operate on rules, generally, but on conventions that people follow. So talk of &amp;quot;abolishing&amp;quot; anything is really not terribly productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt; Some other alternatives &lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the main point that answers to very specific questions may be of limited use to others, but there are ways in which answers can be made more general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you answer a specific problem, think about whether there is a more general version of the code that would be useful to others and include that in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you think that there is a general question that would help others, ask it yourself, but as with point 2 it's still helpful to have an example to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do what you think is best to help the site, in your own behaviour but don't try to legislate behaviour of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="117050" LastEditDate="2020-07-17T12:30:58.623" LastActivityDate="2020-07-17T12:30:58.623" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8607" CreationDate="2020-07-06T21:19:37.323" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your main claim appears to be,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a MWE forces [queries] to be way too specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @AlanMunn and others have already noted, MWEs are not essential for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; queries. However, for a great many queries, they are indeed &lt;em&gt;essential&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A disturbingly large number of queries starts out vague and unfocused. Postings such as &amp;quot;Ummm, I had some code that was working until last week, but now it no longer does. Why?&amp;quot; are sadly not unusual on TeX.SE. [Maybe you haven't seen many of them because they tend to get deleted if they aren't improved.] Obviously, these OPs need to be encouraged to provide some more, usable information. However, just telling the OPs that they need to provide &amp;quot;more information&amp;quot; often does no good at all. On the other hand, telling them that they need to provide an MWE (and, of course, giving them a pointer as to what &amp;quot;MWE&amp;quot; means) is often all it takes to get them to provide just the information that's required to solve their problems. Of course, sometimes it's only when a semblance of an MWE is produced that one comes to realize that the OP's vague question has no discernible connection to TeX, LaTeX, and friends to begin with. However, without the MWE, it might take a whole lot longer to figure that one out. [Such postings also tend to get deleted!]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some queries happen to be of a fairly general nature; e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35433/5001&quot;&gt;How do I create unnumbered sectioning headers?&lt;/a&gt; Most queries are much more specific, though. Without knowledge of the document class that's in use, the main packages that are loaded, and the actual LaTeX or BibTeX code that's causing grief, one simply would &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; get to the stage of performing an accurate diagnosis of the situation, let along getting to the stage of offering a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quite often, there are conflicts between packages. Unless the OP states exactly which packages are loaded, one will hardly ever be able to come up with a correct guess of what's causing the problems. For instance, the real problem in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/551718/5001&quot;&gt;eqref - showonlyrefs&lt;/a&gt; was caused by a fundamental conflict between the &lt;code&gt;mathtools&lt;/code&gt; package (specifically, one of that package's options) and the &lt;code&gt;cleveref&lt;/code&gt; package. Absent the MWE, the OP's valiant attempt at a description as to what might be going would have never allowed me (or others...) to figure out what the nature of the issue was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At other times, problems are caused by the OP not using the latest vintages of packages and/or external helper programs. (You'd be surprised to find out how many folks are still using TeXLive2014 in mid-2020 -- and express surprise and even dismay when they're informed that there have been software updates in the meantime.) Unless one can establish which vintages of which packages and programs are in use -- easily done once the OP has provided an MWE -- one will never come up with the correct diagnosis in cases of vintage incompatibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up: If the objective is to keep TeX.SE useful for a great many users, abolishing MWEs would be the wrong way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2020-07-07T17:59:18.303" LastActivityDate="2020-07-07T17:59:18.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-08T19:28:35.567" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers are typically sorted in each thread: accepted answer followed by answers sorted by the earned points. But my account has changed this feature a few days ago and I don't know how. Now, the answers are sorted randomly, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12668/&quot;&gt;Where do I start LaTeX programming?&lt;/a&gt; has 191 points in question and the answers are sorted by 215 (accepted), 0, 1 (deleted), -2 (deleted), 11, 7, 3 (deleted), 72. I want the normal sorting: 215, 72, 11, 7, 0, followed by three deleted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that it is an account-dependent problem but I don't know how to correct it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2020-10-03T22:19:27.133" LastActivityDate="2020-10-03T22:20:51.100" Title="Sorting answers in one question thread" Tags="|support|answers|sorting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8610" CreationDate="2020-07-08T19:47:04.963" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are buttons at the top right corner of the answer area for sorting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;by latest active&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;by votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;by age (oldest first)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you clicked one. If you don't see the buttons, try with a different browser. Click on &amp;quot;Votes&amp;quot; to revert to the original sorting by points (votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2020-10-03T22:20:51.100" LastActivityDate="2020-10-03T22:20:51.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8600" CreationDate="2020-07-09T14:13:47.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree about wanting to thank the folks who solve our problems. As someone who answers a lot of questions on Math Stackexchange, I like to think that some of the LaTeX folks who've helped me out might have benefitted from one of &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; answers over there. But like several of the answerers here, I'm not in it for the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion to &amp;quot;pay it forward&amp;quot; has appeared in several forms in the answers already, and I agree. But I want to mention a specific way that you &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; pay it forward:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By asking good questions, you provide a service!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's right: your questions become searchable, and the better they are, the more they help other folks like you. I'll bet that a lot of times, you search for &amp;quot;How do I get rid of annoying line breaks in longtable...&amp;quot; into Google, and the next thing you know, you're pointed to a great TeX Stackexchange answer, one that's there because someone before you wrote a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that on Math StackExchange, I love a well-written question, and I've been known to take a decently-written one and rewrite it either before or after providing an answer. One particular joy for me? Having someone make a comment on one of my answers 5 years later, showing that it really is being used even now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33524" LastActivityDate="2020-07-09T14:13:47.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-10T22:21:27.673" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have wanted to create for an existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timeline&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timeline&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; tag two synonyms called &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronosys&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronosys&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronosys&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it correct my work to create new synonyms tags or my procedure is wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do so that the two synonyms can be accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I have not very clear the explanation in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cYgfQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cYgfQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2020-07-12T16:00:00.840" LastActivityDate="2020-07-12T16:00:00.840" Title="To make a tag for a synonym tag: explanations" Tags="|discussion|support|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-14T01:13:42.663" Score="10" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often users are asked to show a MWE showing what has been attempted to solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've received a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/552967/87678&quot;&gt;good answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question. But the answer alone doesn't work completely for my real code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By adding a bunch of nasty hacks I've been able to make things behave fairly well, but I'm unhappy with the result … well … because of the number of nasty hacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could ask a follow-up question with more precision as to my actual document and incorporate the answer given (which is definitely a step in the right direction), showing where it fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or I could ask a follow-up question including my nasty hacks to show what I've attempted. But this makes the MWE less minimal and harder to see what is essential in my code and what is hack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is best?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87678" LastActivityDate="2020-07-14T01:13:42.663" Title="MWE with basic structure or lots of hacks showing attempted solution?" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2020-07-16T19:17:13.770" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://latexdraw.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/20eBc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Step by step TikZ tutorials&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216225" LastActivityDate="2020-07-16T19:17:13.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-17T12:05:08.057" Score="18" ViewCount="1248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within reason, users are free to choose their usernames freely. There are restrictions where names are potentially offensive, and 'we' have tended to avoid allowing those which &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1096/unusual-user-names&quot;&gt;might be misleading&lt;/a&gt; (notably 'moderator', 'LaTeX', etc.: a few very general terms). On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, the question arose about having promotional 'information' in user names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/349131/users-political-display-name-triggering-government-action-against-users-who-vie/349167#349167&quot;&gt;General network policy&lt;/a&gt; allows for advertising in usernames, with the proviso that these might be blocked in some jurisdictions if they are for example political in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, I'd like seek views on to what extent 'promotional' elements in usernames are welcome. This might be for example the name of a user's website, the name of another technical website or even a completely unrelated website/product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2020-08-10T10:00:15.483" LastActivityDate="2020-08-30T19:06:14.787" Title="Promotional material in usernames" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2020-07-17T13:02:11.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks @JosephWright for posting! I add my opinion. Quite frankly :-) other opinions welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's about abusing the &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; feature for &lt;em&gt;transporting an advertisement&lt;/em&gt;, by a single setting that's creating many (thousands) ad copies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Longer text follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Free speech is most important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple promotional (spam) posts though are usually flagged and deleted. That's ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are free in choosing our user name. Using that freedom for web site promotion is a danger for that freedom. Once users such as @user_likes_viagra.com or @user_is_at_bitcoin.cc (fictional addresses) appear visibly, our free choice of user names may be questioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/54972504#54972504&quot;&gt;chat of today&lt;/a&gt; and see if it's good for conversation to have full URLs in user names in each of their messages and the replies to them, running since some months that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suggest not to exploit that loophole of putting a web site URL into a user name to reference it in any question, answer, comment, and chat message the user participates. It's like using a tool for automatically adding a URL to any (actual) speech done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: For better understanding, this is, how the TeX.SE chat looks theses days, taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/54973284#54973284&quot;&gt;discussion that led us here&lt;/a&gt;, I highlighted the URL in Firefox to make visible how speech space is taken and what my brain has to skip each time, while living with the awkward grammar/sentences as result of combining with _is_at_longURL and likeslongURL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/06A4G.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/06A4G.png&quot; alt=&quot;chat sample&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An irony is, that the URL is rarely shown on the names in the left side, but those longish statements are automatically inserted when I reply to people, that's why you see &lt;em&gt;me involuntarily&lt;/em&gt; repeating the web site name here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry I &lt;em&gt;don't have other&lt;/em&gt; web site promotion in name examples as this is the only one I know as currently happening. And I want to show how the actual effect in chat looks like. I would like to show something like kind of a @user_likes_viagra.com example but &lt;em&gt;that spam&lt;/em&gt; doesn't happen. I show this to explain my point about web site statements in names and chat handles &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;, as in the beginning of my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=595#a803&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;5 months ago planned promotion&lt;/a&gt;. Now, see my screenshot above, it affects the TeX.SE chat experience too much for me. Not only that promotion text copies are there sometimes piling up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be commercial promotion, political promotion, religious promotion, or yelling about persons or communities one does or doesn't like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That technical way of unsolicitedly putting promotional statements via the reply user handle into my speech, is affecting my free speech. Yes, I click on reply and that &lt;em&gt;promotional statement with web site name&lt;/em&gt; is inserted at the beginning of &lt;em&gt;my speech.&lt;/em&gt; And I can't shorten that statement with the backspace key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not the intended us of the name feature. This and the sample depiction is just my opinion as contribution to the views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Advertisement is ongoing, and more than a month later, our TeX.SE chatroom still looks like this (color highlighting by me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/74tzu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/74tzu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Advertising&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(No) thanks for using your freedom to continuously put your advertisement straight into our face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2020-08-30T19:06:14.787" LastActivityDate="2020-08-30T19:06:14.787" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2020-07-17T13:30:08.923" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I normally speak names in my mind when writing, and addressing furniture, numbers, random letters, long sentences, political statements,  names written in scripts I don't understand, names containing too much &amp;quot;z&amp;quot; or the umpteenth &amp;quot;Guest&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Anonymous&amp;quot;  is odd. So I have a clear preference for names that are not too long, pronounceable, recognizable, and feel like real names of real people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't see a need to make a rule out of my preferences. If other people can bear with occasionally duck or bear outbreaks, then I can bear odd names. If someone wants to be known as an url address it's their choice.  I would only put a line at clearly offensive names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw: I know that my first name is a bit of a challenge to pronounce for non-german ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="2388" LastEditDate="2020-07-17T16:10:06.643" LastActivityDate="2020-07-17T16:10:06.643" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2020-07-17T20:12:18.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's do some examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nickname is me@awondefullink.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;awondefullink.com is a site that sells something --&amp;gt; no good, it is spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;awondefullink.com is a site of porn, violence, racism --&amp;gt; no good, we do not want to advertise it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;awondefullink.com is a site about TeX/LaTeX, totally no profit --&amp;gt; why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely, I can't understand where the problem is, it is enough to use common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2020-07-17T20:12:18.153" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-18T09:00:03.997" Score="-1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ns6Co.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ns6Co.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should have 10 points more since answer is accepted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="197451" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2020-07-18T11:47:45.290" LastActivityDate="2020-07-18T11:47:45.290" Title="points lost even though answer is accepted" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8620" CreationDate="2020-07-18T09:11:10.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did get 25 reputation from that answer, see your &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/197451/js-bibra?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;reputation page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S23Dd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S23Dd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why the upvote doesn't appear on your &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/197451/js-bibra?tab=summary&quot;&gt;reputation summary&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-07-18T09:11:10.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-19T01:27:34.397" Score="-3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7h6n.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7h6n.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my points should be 95 on the right hand side but shows only 50&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;please let me know if the site/moderators use bots for control&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="197451" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T10:40:38.017" Title="Losing points even after answer is accepted" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8622" CreationDate="2020-07-19T10:40:38.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation area of the &lt;em&gt;Summary&lt;/em&gt; tab on the &lt;em&gt;Activity&lt;/em&gt; page as seen on the right in your screenshot appears to show only 'recent' reputation changes (for some definition of 'recent').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/197451/js-bibra?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;reputation tab&lt;/a&gt; (either by clicking on &amp;quot;view more&amp;quot; or by going to the tab directly) and click on the corresponding day, you'll see all relevant reputation changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For yesterday I see +95 for your answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/554008/35864&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/554008/35864&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/554007/35864&quot;&gt;Latex: Align two tables side by side on top&lt;/a&gt;, so everything seems to be in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T10:40:38.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8626" CreationDate="2020-07-19T19:49:43.643" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I am urged to click through so-called captchas in order to prove to the machine that I am a human when posting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The captchas often are not precise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., some minutes ago I was asked/urged to click on all images that show vehicles although no image showed a vehicle at all while many images - like puzzle pieces - showed parts of a vehicle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the heck do I have to prove to such an imprecise virtual instance that I am a real human???    &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;    &lt;code&gt;;-(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I to feel comfortable about having to prove my existence as a real human being to a virtual instance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is this movie &amp;quot;A beautiful mind&amp;quot;. There is a scene where John Nash is addressed by a student and asks another student whether that other student too can see the student addressing him. If a human being for some reasons wishes to make sure that I am real, that's okay to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with these captchas I am not faced to a human. Here I am faced to a machine-driven program whose conversation is -eh- virtual and not even precise.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This means: I have to prove my real existence to a virtual instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really take umbrage when virtual instances behave like this towards me. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2020-07-19T20:42:39.837" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T20:42:39.837" Title="Why must I prove to a machine that I am a human?" Tags="|discussion|captcha|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8625" CreationDate="2020-07-19T20:14:48.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/164899/295232&quot;&gt;The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with ≥ 10k rep trip CAPTCHA* if more than once per 30 seconds, or within 5 seconds of starting new post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind this is that even high reputation users should spend &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; time writing their answers. Note that those 5 seconds include situations where the answer is saved as a draft, you reload the page and hit the submit button within 5 seconds. Or if you write the post in a text editor, copy/paste it into the answer box and hit the submit button within 5 seconds. So I agree it's not an ideal system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you could run into captchas when there is some spam being posted from the same IP address as you. You could try using a VPN or hotspot to avoid this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T20:14:48.393" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2020-07-19T21:42:52.800" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two issues here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advertisement in usernames&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Length of usernames in the chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if I choose a username &lt;code&gt;@yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo&lt;/code&gt;, it has the same appearance problems as any long name. This clearly shows that the two issues are perpendicular to each other and they should be discussed separately and policies made separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first issue, the answer by animuson at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/349167/1161631&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/349167/1161631&lt;/a&gt; that Joseph mentions seems to cover this with saying that it's allowed to be promotional in the username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second issue, there's ---either a missing limit on the username length, or--- an UI issue with the username being displayed in its fullness and without any visual clue when you &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;-mention someone, both in chat and in post comments. &lt;strong&gt;update:&lt;/strong&gt; its was pointed out in the comments that there is a 30-char limit; still there might be the UI issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastEditorUserId="11002" LastEditDate="2020-07-19T22:09:07.390" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T22:09:07.390" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2020-07-20T06:51:42.307" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the lead developer of TopAnswers, and I'm responding here as my name has come up &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8616/promotional-material-in-usernames#comment28129_8618&quot;&gt;in the comments&lt;/a&gt;, and because I want you to know that it makes a difference to me that you, and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8617/206657&quot;&gt;one other another moderator here&lt;/a&gt; would rather &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; name did not advertise TopAnswers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying I agree with your reasons, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; the method of trying to shape (or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8616/promotional-material-in-usernames/8617#comment28179_8616&quot;&gt;gauge&lt;/a&gt;) opinion here, but I was a moderator for many years on dba.se so I know that it's a tough job. I have no wish to make yours any tougher, without a very good reason. So I've changed my name here (and on SE generally) back to &amp;quot;Jack Douglas&amp;quot; and will keep it that way. I gently encourage others to do the same, though of course they may do as they please, I have no position here or indeed anywhere else, to tell anyone what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to admit I am impressed/surprised that the advertising bothers anyone at all, but I suspect that is less down to the TopAnswers 'name' in particular, and more down to the prolific and brilliant contributions of certain users active on &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; sites (of course on SE there are many other great contributors I do not mean to suggest otherwise — and I imagine that now this has become an issue, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8618/206657&quot;&gt;they would prefer&lt;/a&gt; not to have this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8616/promotional-material-in-usernames/8617#comment28153_8617&quot;&gt;friction&lt;/a&gt; ongoing, so I write this post out of respect for them too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best of luck with tex.se for the future — and I hope you continue to get full support from the SE network. If that ever changes…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206657" LastActivityDate="2020-07-20T06:51:42.307" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2020-07-20T14:24:15.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My sincerest apologies: Sometimes(?) I lag behind when it comes to looking through internet communication practices that are new to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before reading this question and the answers to it, I thought that these usernames, which included phrases like &amp;quot;Likes Topanswers.xyz&amp;quot;, were subtle messages, requesting high quality answers in good spelling, and probably were more or less subtly conveying the account-holder's impression of the general quality of answer-posts in this forum. I thought this might be a little extravagant and did not care much about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a good thing that I finally know that these usernames are meant differently - namely as an advertisement for some website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These statements do not answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are intended to draw attention towards the circumstance that messages conveyed in terms of rather short usernames can be misunderstood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastActivityDate="2020-07-20T14:24:15.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-22T14:09:30.373" Score="-2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QUORz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QUORz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see the last question on the right which has been accepted and upvoted but the points shown are only 15 it should be 25 -- why does this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="197451" LastEditorUserId="35864" LastEditDate="2020-07-22T15:09:08.613" LastActivityDate="2020-07-22T15:09:08.613" Title="Losing points again" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8631" CreationDate="2020-07-22T14:52:38.927" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been explained multiple times: the 'summary' of 'recent' events simply cuts off at an arbitrary number of events. So the accepted and upvoted points can be split, one appearing and one not. Your full reputation summary shows the values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2020-07-22T14:52:38.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8633" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-24T11:03:39.780" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that a reason has been added in the Close Question dialog, in the category &lt;em&gt;A community-specific reason&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fNQ2Z.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fNQ2Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reason is for non-reproducible or trivial questions, and it suggests to add an MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the close reasons have been modified by our own moderators (instead of by Stack Exchange the company, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/396597/&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/396597/&lt;/a&gt; for an explanation of this new feature). I do like the new reason (although I think that &lt;em&gt;non-reproducible&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;trivial&lt;/em&gt; should be two different reasons, but that is not the point of my current question). However, it seems to have replaced the old reason &amp;quot;this is not about TeX, LaTeX etc&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is currently the right option to select if a question is about something else and not related to LaTeX at all? For some cases &amp;quot;belongs on another site&amp;quot; could be appropriate, however, this option leads to another screen where you can only choose our own Meta and not for example Stack Overflow or Math.SE or Academia.SE or Super User. For other off-topic questions there is no other appropriate site, so even if there would be more sites available to choose from this would not be a good solution in general. So should we use Other - add a comment? If so, could we have the old reason back, and the new one as an additional option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the comment by moderator Joseph Wright below, I suggest to add the following close reason (which is the same as the formerly available reason) to the &lt;em&gt;A community-specific reason&lt;/em&gt; menu:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not fall within the scope of TeX, LaTeX or related typesetting systems as defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastEditorUserId="89417" LastEditDate="2020-07-24T12:48:45.157" LastActivityDate="2020-07-24T12:48:45.157" Title="Off topic close reason no longer available" Tags="|feature-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8681" CreationDate="2020-07-25T05:28:28.017" Score="4" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a gold badge for the &lt;code&gt;pgf-tikz&lt;/code&gt; tag. I know that this badge gives me the privilege of closing with my vote alone a question with this tag if I feel that it is duplicated.&#xA;This golden badge is a privilege and therefore also a responsibility.&#xA;Some holders of this badge say that they no longer vote to close or open questions on their gold badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there other privileges that gold badges give?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What attitude have you decided to adopt since you acquired a gold badge?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2020-07-28T14:53:52.933" LastActivityDate="2020-10-03T22:38:11.817" Title="What are the privileges and duties of assigning a gold badge in a tag?" Tags="|discussion|badges|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8635" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-07-26T12:12:49.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug report with this tag is neither declined nor destined for implementation/fix. When such a decision has been made, the tag will be changed accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple factors that may leave a report under review. There could be consideration of whether the proposed feature or bugfix is feasible or useful. There could be investigations on the complexity of the necessary solution. There could be insufficient information in the feature or bug report as presented. Site developers may provide additional comments to request more information or to provide status updates as appropriate to the status of the review, until such time as the decision for approval or decline is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by staff and ♦ moderators; the latter will only use this tag as part of the escalation process described here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/348642/295232&quot;&gt;What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Copied from: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-review/info&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-review/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastEditorUserId="117218" LastEditDate="2020-07-28T15:02:08.380" LastActivityDate="2020-07-28T15:02:08.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8636" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-07-26T12:12:49.993" Score="0" Body="Indicates that a change in functionality is currently under consideration, or needs further investigation." OwnerUserId="117218" LastEditorUserId="117218" LastEditDate="2020-07-28T15:02:01.613" LastActivityDate="2020-07-28T15:02:01.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-28T02:33:51.103" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am unable to  copy and paste a block of code from MikTex here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows up when I copy, then disappears when I click post your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that supposed to be what happens. It's kind of long to type it over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34241" OwnerDisplayName="user34241" LastEditorUserId="586" LastEditDate="2020-08-04T07:27:09.280" LastActivityDate="2020-08-04T07:27:09.280" Title="Using this interface" Tags="|support|code|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2020-09-15T11:32:20.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8639" CreationDate="2020-07-28T15:01:36.827" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Into my personal page I have voted down only 4-times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PzDmz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PzDmz.png&quot; alt=&quot;f&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I have 14 votes down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KPeF3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KPeF3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2020-07-28T15:46:24.560" Title="A different number of downvotes" Tags="|support|user-profile-page|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8638" CreationDate="2020-07-28T15:46:24.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The “all time” counter tells the total number of times you downvoted (without reverting later), but the 5 votes listed under the “Votes” tab only show votes on posts which still exist: the other 9 posts you downvoted were deleted after your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastActivityDate="2020-07-28T15:46:24.560" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-19T10:06:56.267" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/63875/110394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I thought it would enhance readability/access when having&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this question comes up so often, I thought I'd try to supplement&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/63853/110394&quot;&gt;ArTourter's correct answer&lt;/a&gt; with a more general comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this question comes up so often, I thought I'd try to supplement&#xA;ArTourter's correct answer with a more general comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already did that quite a several times - is it considered bad practice for some reason? I think, it also gives the author of the referenced answer more of the credit. This is because an interested reader can easily follow the link and doesn't has to search for the respective answer. This might not hold true in this specific case, but imagine a question accumulating 20 answers (actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/63875/110394&quot;&gt;the one referenced above&lt;/a&gt; could still be answered by more people).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110394" LastActivityDate="2020-08-21T14:58:56.427" Title="Link when referencing another answer" Tags="|discussion|answers|suggested-edits|hyperlinks|multiple-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8642" CreationDate="2020-08-21T14:58:56.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turning my comment into an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't edit the post just for that. Especially if the other post is mentioned by way of a friendly nod rather than for an in-depth analysis or for a comparison. But if you are already editing the post for other (substantial) reasons I can't see any harm in adding a link, provided you can be sure you are inserting a link to the correct post (which is easy here, but may not always be possible if the reference is more vague).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35864" LastActivityDate="2020-08-21T14:58:56.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8645" CreationDate="2020-08-25T12:35:33.020" Score="8" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to find posts that contain &lt;code&gt;\tikz{&lt;/code&gt; but using &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;\tikz{&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; does not help. Is this a bug? How can I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user108724" LastActivityDate="2020-08-25T13:06:56.360" Title="Exact search is not working properly" Tags="|discussion|bug|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8644" CreationDate="2020-08-25T13:06:56.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching for symbols isn't fully supported (just like regular search engines have problems with that). What you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; do, since &lt;code&gt;\tikz{&lt;/code&gt; is usually used inside code blocks, is to search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=code%3A%22%5Ctikz%7B%22&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;code:&amp;quot;\tikz{&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which does seem to produce the correct results; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65268/moving-tiles-of-the-pattern-in-tikz/65270#65270&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is the top hit right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LpHM3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LpHM3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-08-25T13:06:56.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8647" CreationDate="2020-08-27T07:43:32.523" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/f/info&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;f&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt; was creted today, along with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/560214/134805&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. My guess is that it was created by mistake. It should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134805" LastActivityDate="2020-08-27T08:19:25.137" Title="Deleting the `f` tag" Tags="|support|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8646" CreationDate="2020-08-27T08:19:25.137" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it's the only question using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/f&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;f&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;f&lt;/a&gt; tag, removing it from that question (I've just submitted a suggested edit for that) will automatically delete the tag when the tag pruning script runs (once every 24 hours): &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/40724/295232&quot;&gt;What *currently* happens to zombie tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-08-27T08:19:25.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8649" CreationDate="2020-08-27T16:10:30.940" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just out of mere curiosity, but I wanted to know if the line spacing of the text has been increased because I didn't notice the difference this morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aRwku.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aRwku.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image is taken from: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/560167/defining-a-bibstyle-and-citestyle-for-autocite-footnote&quot;&gt;Defining a bibstyle and citestyle for autocite footnote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2020-08-28T18:46:30.690" LastActivityDate="2020-08-29T20:02:18.263" Title="Text line spacing for questions and answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|questions|new-features|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8648" CreationDate="2020-08-27T16:19:58.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right, line spacing has been increased as mentioned here on Meta Stack Exchange: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/353446/295232&quot;&gt;New post formatting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people don't like the change, and posts like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/353525/295232&quot;&gt;Please revert the line-height change!&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/353529/295232&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; are very popular right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-08-27T16:19:58.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-28T12:04:22.167" Score="17" ViewCount="583" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was always confident that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/194703/&quot;&gt;@Schrödinger'scat&lt;/a&gt; (user: 194703) would answer most of &lt;code&gt;TikZ&lt;/code&gt; related questions. But today I realized that s/he has closed his/er account. What happened to Schrödinger'scat? Does anyone know about her/him?  I'm worried about her/him amid Covid19 and US protests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user108724" LastActivityDate="2020-08-28T12:04:22.167" Title="What happened to Schrödinger'scat?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8652" CreationDate="2020-08-28T21:54:15.937" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer earlier today and wanted to review it again, because I had another idea. However it is not in my list of answers. Can it be that the question was closed/deleted because of it’s poor wording? How could I still locate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156791" LastActivityDate="2020-08-29T06:01:04.157" Title="How can I find an answer I posted today that is not in my list of answers?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8651" CreationDate="2020-08-29T06:01:04.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=answers&quot;&gt;list of answers in your profile&lt;/a&gt;. At the bottom, there's a link 'recently deleted answers':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Na75Y.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Na75Y.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will lead you to a page which &amp;quot;shows answers you posted that were deleted in the last 60 days. This includes answers to questions that were deleted.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, you'll need 10k reputation to see deleted posts, but an exception is made for your own posts and for deleted questions you wrote an answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2020-08-29T06:01:04.157" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7787" CreationDate="2020-08-29T19:59:35.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Adjusting the line spacing&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The newest changes to the site have increased the line spacing in a way that makes text less readable to many of us. To change it back to something more readable add the following to your local &lt;code&gt;.css&lt;/code&gt; (I use Stylus, but you can also use the Greasemonkey approaches outlined in the other answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.s-prose { line-height: 1.3;&#xA;           margin-bottom: 1.2em; }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2020-08-29T21:25:40.723" LastActivityDate="2020-08-29T21:25:40.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8648" CreationDate="2020-08-29T20:02:18.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've added an answer to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7787/2693&quot;&gt;Make TeX.SX look nice again!&lt;/a&gt; question showing how to adjust the line spacing to something more readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8653/2693&quot;&gt;Adjusting the line spacing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2020-08-29T20:02:18.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-30T06:10:41.497" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often have the problem that I am using a template and there is just small changes I wish to make to the template, such as changing color scheme. However, opening open a .cls file and making changes may often seem to be a challenging task, and especially so for a beginner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across a question recently, which admittedly was not framed properly. I answered the question in a tutorial fashion so that it is beneficial to others as well and so that the author may figure out how to make other changes they may need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question got closed (reasonably so). I have made changes to the question so that it is may be more helpful to others. I feel that we often have this problem about making small changes in the class files and the essence of the question is relevant. How can we improve such a question further?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/560487/adjusting-a-resume-on-latex&quot;&gt;Link to the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48142" LastActivityDate="2020-08-30T06:10:41.497" Title="How to improve question related to editing class files?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-01T09:00:16.473" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two options on inserting image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;paste&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dj68R.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dj68R.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not pasting image url automatically if we choose &lt;code&gt;paste&lt;/code&gt; option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user108724" LastActivityDate="2020-09-05T11:06:42.647" Title="Why not pasting image url automatically if we choose it?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8656" CreationDate="2020-09-05T11:06:42.647" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That can't be done due to privacy concerns: Since the pasteboard may contain sensitive data, javascript in a web page is not allowed read access. There is ongoing work allowing this in very limited contexts, though. For example, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://webkit.org/blog/10855/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Async Clipboard API&lt;/a&gt; (WebKit); especially, the headline “Security and Privacy”. But if you have to respond to a privacy related popup, it seems not much is gained over just doing the paste yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1424" LastActivityDate="2020-09-05T11:06:42.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-06T19:37:10.643" Score="19" ViewCount="600" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed the following deleted answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/561476/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/561476/&lt;/a&gt; (only visible for &amp;gt;10k users because it is deleted). Screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yhYSD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yhYSD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was asking about how to change a year value (2016) that is hardcoded in a class. I provided an answer myself in September 2019 about patching the code with &lt;code&gt;etoolbox&lt;/code&gt;. The new answer was posted yesterday, so almost a year later, and suggests to edit the class file directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was deleted by diamond moderator Stefan Kottwitz because it is &amp;quot;not good practice&amp;quot;. Quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A class file should not be edited, there are other ways (such as&#xA;redefinitions). As the way of doing is not good practice I remove the&#xA;answer from public view (&amp;quot;deleted&amp;quot; but it stays here and can be&#xA;improved). Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised to see this course of action by a moderator. Generally it is recommended that &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; answers are downvoted, but not deleted, unless they are link-only or duplicate&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. A meta post by a different moderator makes this point explicitly in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3321/correct-flagging-or-bad-answers-are-answers-too&quot;&gt;Correct flagging (or: bad answers are answers, too)&lt;/a&gt;. That was in 2013, however more recently (2019) the point was made again in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8395/should-we-really-delete-low-quality-answers&quot;&gt;Should we really delete low quality answers?&lt;/a&gt;, i.e., the consensus seems to be that downvoting (to -1) should be the course of action for bad answers. Note that those posts seem to talk about actually wrong answers (i.e., answers that do not solve the problem), whereas the current answer is not wrong (it will work) but it is just considered to be bad practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, the question is&lt;/strong&gt;: do we as TeX.SE community agree with this policy of deleting wrong(ish) answers? If yes, what are the criteria for being &amp;quot;wrong enough&amp;quot; to delete an answer? If no, can this answer be undeleted, and can the moderators refrain from such deletions in the future (and regular users stop flagging wrong answers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the linked answer is just an example. The answer is very short and lacks detail, so it may be better to delete it and convert it to a comment (although it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an actual answer, and therefore does not belong in comments according to 'official' Stack Exchange policy, but that is a different discussion). However, for this meta question I'm not just asking about this specific answer, I am interested in a general discussion on how to handle &amp;quot;bad practice&amp;quot; answers, the opinions on criteria for deletion, and the policy on using moderator privileges to make content rating decisions on an on-topic and non-abusive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; These criteria apply to actual answers, i.e., posts that attempt to answer the question. Other types of posts are deleted as well, such as follow-up questions posted as answers, &amp;quot;Thank you&amp;quot; posts, spam, etc. This meta question is not about those types of non-answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2020-09-08T22:39:54.733" Title="Answer deleted by moderator because &quot;not good practice&quot;" Tags="|discussion|answers|deleted-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2020-09-07T10:57:07.443" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a more complete picture: that answer has been flagged two times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as being &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for having &amp;quot;very low quality&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for me the completed question becomes: &lt;strong&gt;should a moderator delete badly shaped answers with bad content&lt;/strong&gt; (see barbara's comment there to know why) &lt;strong&gt;after users complained?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You linked two good existing meta questions. Let's see what is said there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3321/correct-flagging-or-bad-answers-are-answers-too&quot;&gt;Correct flagging (or: bad answers are answers, too)&lt;/a&gt;: The actual request there by our fellow moderator was: &lt;em&gt;please don't flag such a case&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8395/should-we-really-delete-low-quality-answers&quot;&gt;Should we really delete low quality answers?&lt;/a&gt; The suggestion in the answer was to &lt;em&gt;skip the review&lt;/em&gt; in such a case. And the highest voted comment preferred to &amp;quot;recommend deletion and leave a comment&amp;quot;. (that's what I chose here too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, what should preferably not happen according to the meta suggestions above, happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user review queue action was done&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flags were posted to tell that there's an issue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once that is in the world, a moderator had to take a decision (such as keep it, delete it, or convert it) that may be a good choice for the site. Note, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8446/2019-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;in 2019 we got 4,154 answers flagged and 15,114 comments flagged&lt;/a&gt;. We work on fellow users flags the best we can. And as here, we are open to discuss even a single flagged and deleted answer - as you see I take much time for that. If the case is not totally clear and agreed, we simply can undo the deletion, as I will do here, you see. At the end it's for us users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the time we got the flags here, I decided to provide the helpful message above to the answerer regarding the issue of editing class files, in a light way and thanked them. I did not educate them on the not good style (missing punctuation, not capitalizing LaTeX) as it's not so important and it's a new user. Downvotes wouldn't be helpful either in being friendly. Converting to a comment would not be a good option because that bad advice stays and cannot be downvoted then to signal the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That answer does not really match quality requirements to an answer on StackExchange. What shall we do with that issue in the flag queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to the one-liner answer by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/223952/ardashir-mohammadzadeh&quot;&gt;Ardashir Mohammadzadeh&lt;/a&gt; that lead us here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open the latex class ieeeaccess, find the 2016 and change it to 2020&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here we have this several times flagged answer with &amp;quot;dangerous&amp;quot; advice, because editing class files can lead to issues, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/579/barbara-beeton&quot;&gt;barbara&lt;/a&gt; wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/561476&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two things wrong with this answer. First is a problem caused by the creator of the class file -- unless the article is actually accepted and published by the journal, identifying a purported volume and issue is unethical. The publication's editorial staff should be notified about the problem. Regarding changing a class file, even though it is to be used only by whoever makes the change, if the file escapes into the wild, it can cause serious confusion. Don't do it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that explains the reasons for me to decide to delete it, with adding friendly information to the poster. And again, no problem with undeleting it on request like here. And that's what meta is about: talk, solve, improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2020-09-08T22:39:54.733" LastActivityDate="2020-09-08T22:39:54.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8661" CreationDate="2020-09-13T22:04:37.837" Score="7" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone with reputation score 300+ please make a tag for questions about formatting legal documents using TeX/LaTeX.  Perhaps make it &lt;code&gt;legal-style&lt;/code&gt;?  I am feeling the lack of such a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag {legal-style} is for questions concerning (La)TeX and the exacting requirements of style guides (The McGill Guide, Bluebook, Australian Guide to Legal Citation, and many others) for legal documents and their citations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;Help Center:  Create tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="199046" OwnerDisplayName="Una" LastEditorUserId="199046" LastEditDate="2020-09-14T16:33:15.313" LastActivityDate="2020-09-14T16:33:15.313" Title="Please make a legal tag" Tags="|discussion|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8660" CreationDate="2020-09-14T00:31:53.853" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done!  Mission accomplished.  Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="199046" LastActivityDate="2020-09-14T00:31:53.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-15T23:55:53.843" Score="1" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I expect that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/562190/cleveref-fails-to-pick-up-the-footnote-number-when-using-svmono-5-6-class&quot;&gt;Cleveref fails to pick up the footnote number when using svmono 5.6 class&lt;/a&gt; is unlikely to get a valid answer “for free”.  Which company or which individuals would be appropriate points of contact to offer paid support for the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I am aware of Ulrike and a decent list of organizations listed under &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org/consultants.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.tug.org/consultants.html&lt;/a&gt; , but as the work can be done virtually anywhere on Earth, there is still the question whom to ask first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user224332" LastEditorDisplayName="user224332" LastEditDate="2020-09-16T16:08:33.783" LastActivityDate="2020-09-16T16:08:33.783" Title="Paid LaTeX support for svmono+cleveref" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2020-10-05T08:03:11.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-20T11:01:32.533" Score="2" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the first time I found myself in this situation (I remembered now it is not the first &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt;). &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/562979/2288&quot;&gt;My last bountied question&lt;/a&gt; has a compilable MWE with clear explanation and inquiries. However, I received no comment/answer/upvote/downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does it mean that the question is not interesting or worth putting effort into enough? Or may it mean that no answer is available at the moment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="2288" LastEditDate="2020-09-20T11:10:08.543" LastActivityDate="2020-09-20T11:10:08.543" Title="Is it always a bad sign to have a question with views and zero interactions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-25T14:22:16.430" Score="13" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange switched their syntax highlighting parser to highlight.js (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/353983/299024&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt;). This is a clear downgrade for TeX (for now). However, highlight.js is said to be &amp;quot;actively developed&amp;quot; which makes me hopeful that this can be resolved in the medium term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question can be used to collect issues with the new syntax highlighting and track progress on solving them. Please&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post one answer per issue with a code snipped showing the problem,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create an issue on highligh.js' &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Github page&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mark the problem as solved in the answer when it has been resolved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;While this is really, really annoying, I believe it could also be an opportunity. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/5dcc628e79704eddca5cdf42c75f0f568a2fdb7a/src/languages/latex.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source file&lt;/a&gt; for the highlight.js LaTeX highlighting looks rather rudimentary, so we might be able to &quot;take over&quot; and improve it to our liking, maybe even improving some aspects of the old highlighting. I will try to find some time to get to know their system and see if I can't do that myself. Who knows, maybe we can finally get the LaTeX3 highlighting (as a separate language) I have been dreaming of..&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-19T15:34:29.147" LastActivityDate="2020-10-22T06:36:41.327" Title="Problems with highlight.js" Tags="|bug|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8665" CreationDate="2020-09-25T14:23:54.290" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Backslashes are not highlighted as part of the control sequence&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fixed in &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; 10.3]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\foo\bar \\\\\baz&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/2708&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Github issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-17T19:02:24.943" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T19:02:24.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8665" CreationDate="2020-09-25T14:25:05.023" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There is (usually) no syntax highlighting inside braces&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fixed in &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; 10.3]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\foo{\foo\bar \\\\\baz}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/2709&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Github issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-17T19:01:59.243" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T19:01:59.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8671" CreationDate="2020-09-26T05:28:37.330" Score="17" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that a new, two-tone color scheme has gone into effect for formatted code  on TeX.SE. Consider, say,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{table}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commands -- &lt;code&gt;\documentclass&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\begin&lt;/code&gt; -- are rendered in pale orange (light brown?) and their arguments are rendered in an olive green if they're enclosed in curly braces. Maybe I should call it a &amp;quot;three-toned&amp;quot; color scheme, actually, since gray is used to denote comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I commend the underlying thought, the implementation of the new color scheme leaves &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; to be desired. I'll mention just six [6!] issues; I have no doubt that there are more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TeX comments, i.e., anything on a line after an un-escaped &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; symbol, used to be rendered in a pale gray. But under the new color scheme, a much darker gray tone is used for comments. The new, darker gray is quite close to black. As a result, the visual distinction between commented material and everything else has pretty much vanished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As long as one isn't red-green color blind, the color scheme may &amp;quot;work&amp;quot; fairly well, but only for very simple use cases, such as the two shown above. However, the coloring does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; operate correctly if a command name employs LaTeX3 syntax rules. E.g., in the command&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\cs_new_protected:Nn&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;only &lt;code&gt;\cs&lt;/code&gt; is rendered in pale orange, whereas &lt;code&gt;_new_protected:Nn&lt;/code&gt; is not. I can only assume that this breakdown occurs because the coloring software has been &amp;quot;told&amp;quot; that only letters are valid in LaTeX command names -- and thus that &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next, because LaTeX3-conforming macro names are not recognized properly, the argument -- &lt;code&gt;sort&lt;/code&gt; -- in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\keys_define:nn { sort }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;isn't colored in olive green.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is more! Even if the argument of a macro is recognized as such, &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the argument is rendered in olive green. That's distinctly inferior for use cases such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\newcommand\sorted[1]{\directlua{sorted(\luastringN{#1})}}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because the TeX directives &lt;code&gt;\directlua&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\luastringN&lt;/code&gt; are treated visually as if they were ordinary text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The coloring scheme for the argument of a command does not appear to handle nested curly braces (or other &amp;quot;fences&amp;quot;, for that matter) correctly. If you look closely at how&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\newcommand\sorted[1]{\directlua{sorted(\luastringN{#1})}}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is rendered, you'll see that the final three characters --  &lt;code&gt;)}}&lt;/code&gt;  -- are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; colored olive green. I can only assume that this is because the coloring software wasn't made aware of the fact that TeX directives can be nested. Hence,instead of looking for the &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; character that &lt;em&gt;matches&lt;/em&gt; the initial &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt; character, the coloring software just looks for the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; instance of &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least: Was the new color scheme ever run past color-blind users?? I am not color blind myself, but my friends who have red-green color blindness tell me that they are &lt;em&gt;essentially unable to distinguish&lt;/em&gt; between shades of red, orange, and green -- especially if the shades are a bit subdued -- as is the case with olive green and brownish orange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the powers-that-be at StackExchange have no staff, test users, or other acquaintances who are red-green color blind and could have raised a warning flag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: Until the powers-that-be get around to fixing these issues, is there a way to revert to the previous color scheme? Alternatively, is there a way to turn off coloring entirely -- and get a look similar to what's (still) in effect on Meta.TeX.SE? In my view, no colors at all would be distinctly preferable to the dismally inadequate color scheme that's been foisted on us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5001" LastEditDate="2020-09-27T07:17:26.950" LastActivityDate="2020-09-28T18:51:07.593" Title="What's with the new two-tone color scheme for LaTeX code?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-25T23:52:53.437" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm bothered with the prob for a long time. Everytime I open a stack link, the words can be presented well, but the image never show up (the case in my screenshot). I tried refresh, log in but nothing works. So do you have an idea that there is any way to solve it? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kHej4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kHej4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is always the case (image description blaaa)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KaTuN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KaTuN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="225431" OwnerDisplayName="yukun liu" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2020-12-09T22:32:31.710" LastActivityDate="2020-12-09T22:32:31.710" Title="No image presented when opening Stackexchange web" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2020-11-04T18:10:00.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8668" CreationDate="2020-09-27T02:44:41.277" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt; there is apparently a way to specify that no syntax highlighting should take place by specifying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at the beginning of the post and then you can get&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\keys_define:nn { sort }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202780" LastActivityDate="2020-09-27T02:44:41.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8665" CreationDate="2020-09-27T07:55:53.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;@ (&amp;quot;at&amp;quot;) isn't recognized as a valid character in a command name&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fixed in &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; 10.3]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many hundreds (thousands?) of LaTeX2 commands employ the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; character in their names -- usually after one issues an explicit or implicit &lt;code&gt;\makeatletter&lt;/code&gt;  directive. Consider the following example (taken from an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/360534/5001&quot;&gt;old answer&lt;/a&gt; of mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\makeatletter&#xA;\renewcommand\p@subsection{\thesection}&#xA;\renewcommand\p@subsubsection{\p@subsection\thesubsection}&#xA;\makeatother&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If coloring of macro names is to be performed at all, it is &lt;em&gt;crucial&lt;/em&gt; that the coloring scheme be informed that &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; can be a valid character in command names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-17T19:03:25.897" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T19:03:25.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8665" CreationDate="2020-09-27T08:02:28.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;LaTeX3-semantics for valid macro names aren't recognized.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fixed in &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; 10.3]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With LaTeX3, the characters &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; (underscore) and &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; (colon) may be (in fact, &lt;em&gt;must be&lt;/em&gt;) used in various macro names. Take the following code snippet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\seq_set_eq:NN \l__ralph_seq \l__alph_seq&#xA;\seq_set_eq:NN \l__rAlph_seq \l__Alph_seq&#xA;\seq_set_eq:NN \l__ralphAlph_seq \l__alphAlph_seq&#xA;\seq_set_eq:NN \l__rAlphalph_seq \l__Alphalph_seq&#xA;\seq_reverse:N \l__ralph_seq&#xA;\seq_reverse:N \l__rAlph_seq&#xA;\seq_reverse:N \l__ralphAlph_seq&#xA;\seq_reverse:N \l__rAlphalph_seq&#xA;\seq_set_eq:NN \l__custom_order_seq \l__Alphalph_seq&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the new coloring scheme is evidently unaware of the uses of &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; in command names, the scheme makes it very hard to figure out what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-17T19:03:43.227" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T19:03:43.227" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8665" CreationDate="2020-09-27T08:06:18.267" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Incorrect identification of scope of a macro definition&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fixed in &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; 10.3 (no such identification takes place)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\newcommand\sorted[1]{\directlua{sorted(\luastringN{#1})}}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Observe that the final three characters -- &lt;code&gt;)}}&lt;/code&gt; -- aren't colored green even though they clearly belong to the scope of the argument of the &lt;code&gt;\sorted&lt;/code&gt; macro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remedy would be not to look for the very first instance of &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; but for instance that matches the opening &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt; character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-17T19:03:13.947" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T19:03:13.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8665" CreationDate="2020-09-27T08:11:28.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Very difficult to distinguish comments from ordinary text.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hello World. % A comment.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shade of gray that's used to highlight what's a comment is quite dark, making it anything but straightforward to identify comments visually. Please reinstate the old scheme, which used a much lighter shade of gray to denote comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastActivityDate="2020-09-27T08:11:28.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8668" CreationDate="2020-09-28T18:51:07.593" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm... looking around after &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/354693/252737&quot;&gt;posting in Meta&lt;/a&gt; I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/2709#issuecomment-699072143&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this in the &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;«At best I'd consider our Latex support to be more of a &amp;quot;placeholder&amp;quot;&#xA;than a real grammar... If someone would like to pitch in here to help&#xA;I'd be more than happy to answer any HLJS specific questions about our&#xA;grammars, etc.»&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38080" LastActivityDate="2020-09-28T18:51:07.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8680" CreationDate="2020-09-30T22:37:46.293" Score="8" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times, I found my inquiries solved on the site by several answered questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I believe (without solid proof) that the packages used in the solution have undergone bug fixes, updates, and new features that might change the accepted solution approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there might be new packages that address the problem more accurately and efficiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when should I say that this old question should be revisited in a new post? And how to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastEditorUserId="134805" LastEditDate="2020-10-01T06:19:03.277" LastActivityDate="2020-10-03T00:55:44.410" Title="When is it better to revisit an old answered question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-02T12:54:38.393" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/298931/5640&quot;&gt;Getting the error: &amp;quot;! Argument of \MT@res@a has an extra }.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a while ago. Now someone has an answer, but the question is closed. They's just asked for help reopening it so they can reply. Can the kind readers of meta oblige us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2020-10-02T18:03:05.813" Title="Someone wants to answer my question, please reopen it" Tags="|support|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8678" CreationDate="2020-10-02T18:03:05.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw. there are many comments on the question, perhaps some are obsolete today and could be cleaned? If yes and if you would flag those you cannot remove yourself, we can help cleaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2020-10-02T18:03:05.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8677" CreationDate="2020-10-03T00:55:44.410" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;An old question may have existing answers with many votes already, so a new answer that's more up-to-date and even more recommendable would start with less votes. It may get better over time, commenting and adding a bounty on the question may help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you could post your concerns and recommendations to an existing answer with the suggestion to edit it: in that case the answer can be refreshed to be up-to-date and a better choice while keeping the existing votes. Especially if the answerer is still active here, that could be a good approach in team work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you could suggest an edit to an existing answer, or edit it directly showing more recent information: in that case one should know the improvement though. As in the previous option, it would keep the votes and may even stay on top of a list of answers: in that case one should be sure that the edit may be in the interest of original voters and answerer and in accordance with their assessment. Otherwise one better posts an own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, you can post your own answer and add a bounty to get visibility and votes helping to sort answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you don't know the answer, you can also add a bounty to get a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think adding a bounty to get visibility to work on the existing question and answers would be a very good way, highly upvoted existing but obsolete answers may seem to be in the way to highlight a new approach. In that case, well, you could post a new question, refer to the old question, state reasons why answers there may be obsolete and require in your question, for example, to use the specific new features, so that makes your question actually different so it cannot be closed as a duplicate. (That may happen to the older question then, if users vote for that.) In any case, add links with comments at both places to connect the information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2020-10-03T00:55:44.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8634" CreationDate="2020-10-03T22:38:11.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A tag score of 1,000 on a minimum of 200 answers shows that you have a huge experience in that field. The golden tag badge shows that, and it shows the trust in your expertise. This trust comes with the privileges to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;instantly close a question as a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;instantly reopen a question closed as a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that has that tag, with the condition that the question author originally used that tag. (Adding a tag and then using the tag privilege would not work, for logical reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no duty involved having by a tag badge: we are here voluntarily. And as you said: another privilege is just another thing we use responsibly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2020-10-03T22:38:11.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8518" CreationDate="2020-10-04T12:22:03.360" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As requested, the answer has been undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an example of how moderation by users works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After several deletion votes in the review process it got deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then, after several undeletion votes it got undeleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows that a status is not carved in stone and can be adjusted by fellow users. And as said in the comments, it's fine to discuss that process here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2020-10-04T12:22:03.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-15T15:27:52.810" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Background&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read a question about adjusting the indentation of a list a few hours ago.  I've copied the following code found in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-tex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\use{enumitem}&#xA;\setlist[itemize]{align=parleft,left=0pt..1em}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, I don't know why I can't find the question in my browsing history.  This leads me to finding a post with code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Initial problem&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I find a post containing the 2nd line of the above code block?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;My try&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;\setlist[itemize]{align=parleft,left=0pt..1em}&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; (with double quotes) in the site's search box:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22%5Csetlist%5Bitemize%5D%7Balign%3Dparleft%2Cleft%3D0pt..1em%7D%22&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=&amp;quot;%5Csetlist%5Bitemize%5D%7Balign%3Dparleft%2Cleft%3D0pt..1em%7D&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; gives me nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rZw5H.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rZw5H.png&quot; alt=&quot;in site search no result&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Solution&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I googled &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;\setlist[itemize]{align=parleft,left=0pt..1em}&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%5Csetlist%5Bitemize%5D%7Balign%3Dparleft%2Cleft%3D0pt..1em%7D%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/search?q=&amp;quot;%5Csetlist%5Bitemize%5D%7Balign%3Dparleft%2Cleft%3D0pt..1em%7D&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/91124/126386&quot;&gt;itemize, removing natural indent&lt;/a&gt;, which was what I had read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xEus1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xEus1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Refined problem&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know how can I refine the in-site search so that I get the desired question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126386" LastActivityDate="2020-10-15T15:27:52.810" Title="Retrieve a question from code" Tags="|discussion|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8687" CreationDate="2020-10-16T21:43:51.033" Score="7" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/566160/7880&quot;&gt;question about linebreaking in a bibliography&lt;/a&gt; and it got an answer that appeared good. However, when I tested it, it appears to only work with the specific example text I provided. How do I update the question to respond to this? Sorry if this is general knowledge: I've never asked a question where at least one of the answers didn't basically work before, or at least close enough to what I wanted to modify into the code I need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when I made the question I stripped things down as far as I could while still getting what I thought was a useful test case, that is, one bibliography example that shows the problem behaviour with that specific page geometry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got an answer that expanded that to three test cases, all by manipulating the text inside the DOI. Looks great I think, and today I go to test it..and it doesn't work. Or rather, it does, some of the time, and messes up most of my bibliography the rest of the time. What happens is the answer breaks if there is too much or too little text preceding the DOI. It will add a whackload of white space, or shove the DOI to a newline despite there being lots of space on that line for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I respond to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the original question to add more test cases? (This would make it much less minimal, and I'm not sure about editing the question to respond to a response? Is that OK? It would also look strange if someone else then responded with a totally different method, wouldn't it?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Respond in the comments (Hard, can't give an image or sample code. I've left a comment about how easily it breaks)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a totally new questions (This feels wasteful, given the QUESTION is the same, I just only provided an example of the problem behaviour in the MWE, not a set of test cases)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastEditorUserId="7880" LastEditDate="2020-10-16T22:40:11.233" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T10:26:08.563" Title="How to respond to an answer that ONLY works in the MWE and not generally?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-16T22:45:34.453" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the balance between test cases and minimalism in a MWE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently wrote a question with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/566160/7880&quot;&gt;MEW I thought was pretty good&lt;/a&gt;. One example, nice and clear what the issue is, but it gave me an answer that doesn't work, so I'm wondering if I wrote it badly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3225/7880&quot;&gt;The top response to&lt;/a&gt; it emphasis minimalism a lot, and I think I did a pretty good job there. (I could have removed a couple lines from the example citation, and condensed the usepackage command, but other then that I think it is as to the point as a question about line-breaking can be.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/566192/7880&quot;&gt;the answer I got&lt;/a&gt; doesn't work, despite clearly having been tested, since the author only tested changing the length of the &lt;code&gt;DOI =&lt;/code&gt; part of the bibliography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, while I was working on the MWE, I did have a couple of examples in there. But each one takes up a lot of text, and I wanted to try and be a good user of the stackexchange and include as little as possible. Should I include more examples in future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I included this as the example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}&#xA;    @inproceedings{Meshlab,&#xA;        booktitle = {Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},&#xA;        editor = {Vittorio Scarano and Rosario De Chiara and Ugo Erra},&#xA;        title = {{MeshLab: an Open-Source Mesh Processing Tool}},&#xA;        author = {Cignoni, Paolo and Callieri, Marco and Corsini, Massimiliano and Dellepiane, Matteo and Ganovelli, Fabio and Ranzuglia, Guido},&#xA;        year = {2008},&#xA;        publisher = {The Eurographics Association},&#xA;        ISBN = {978-3-905673-68-5},&#xA;        DOI = {10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/129-136}&#xA;    }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I could change the .bib file to read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}&#xA;    @inproceedings{Meshlab,&#xA;        booktitle = {Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},&#xA;        editor = {Vittorio Scarano and Rosario De Chiara and Ugo Erra},&#xA;        title = {{MeshLab: an Open-Source Mesh Processing Tool}},&#xA;        author = {Cignoni, Paolo and Callieri, Marco and Corsini, Massimiliano and Dellepiane, Matteo and Ganovelli, Fabio and Ranzuglia, Guido},&#xA;        year = {2008},&#xA;        publisher = {The Eurographics Association},&#xA;        ISBN = {978-3-905673-68-5},&#xA;        DOI = {10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/129-136}&#xA;    }&#xA;    @inproceedings{Meshlab2,&#xA;        booktitle = {Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},&#xA;        editor = {Vittorio Scarano and Rosario De Chiara and Ugo Erra},&#xA;        title = {{MeshLab: an Open-Source Mesh Processing Tool}},&#xA;        author = {Cignoni, Paolo and Callieri, Marco and Corsini, Massimiliano and Dellepiane, Matteo and Ganovelli, Fabio and Ranzuglia, Guido},&#xA;        year = {2008},&#xA;        publisher = {The Eurographics Association},&#xA;        ISBN = {978-3-905673-68-5},&#xA;        DOI = {10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap}&#xA;    }&#xA;    @inproceedings{Meshlab3,&#xA;        booktitle = {Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},&#xA;        editor = {Vittorio Scarano and Rosario De Chiara and Ugo Erra},&#xA;        title = {{MeshLab: an Open-Source Mesh Processing Tool}},&#xA;        author = {Cignoni, Paolo and Callieri, Marco and Corsini, Massimiliano and Dellepiane, Matteo and Ganovelli, Fabio and Ranzuglia, Guido},&#xA;        year = {2008},&#xA;        publisher = {The Eurographics Association},&#xA;        ISBN = {978-3-905673-68-5},&#xA;        DOI =&#xA;        {10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/ItalianChapConf2008/129-136}&#xA;    }&#xA;    @Article{ellip,&#xA;        author =&amp;quot;Brown, Matthew L. and Van Wieren, Ken and Tailor, Hamel N. and Hartling, David and Jean, Anthony and Merbouh, Nabyl&amp;quot;,&#xA;        title  =&amp;quot;Three-dimensional printing of ellipsoidal structures using Mercury&amp;quot;,&#xA;        journal  =&amp;quot;CrystEngComm&amp;quot;,&#xA;        year  =&amp;quot;2018&amp;quot;,&#xA;        volume  =&amp;quot;20&amp;quot;,&#xA;        issue  =&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;,&#xA;        pages  =&amp;quot;271--274&amp;quot;,&#xA;        publisher  =&amp;quot;The Royal Society of Chemistry&amp;quot;,&#xA;        doi  =&amp;quot;10.1039/C7CE01901G&amp;quot;,&#xA;    }&#xA;    @article{ModelHistory,&#xA;        author = {Peterson, Quentin R.},&#xA;        title = {Some reflections on the use and abuse of molecular models},&#xA;        journal = {J.~Chem.~Ed.},&#xA;        volume = {47},&#xA;        number = {1},&#xA;        pages = {24},&#xA;        year = {1970},&#xA;        doi = {10.1021/ed047p24},&#xA;}&#xA;\end{filecontents}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That shows off each error I get with the answer (and the three cases the author of the example provided that shows it works), but now the MWE lot longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noted that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/549749/7880&quot;&gt;there is a list of *.bib files you can use that come with TeXLive&lt;/a&gt;. So I tried to construct a MWE example using the files from it. &lt;code&gt;biblatex-examples.bib&lt;/code&gt; only has two examples with a DOI, neither which show the behaviours I want. I ran a search for DOI on all the *.bib files in my TeXLive2020 folder, and found a few other files I could use, but those tended to need additional code to work (I needed to add a definition of &lt;code&gt;\BibLaTeX&lt;/code&gt; in one case, for example), and several of them generate a ton of errors such as &lt;code&gt;warning: undefined macro &amp;quot;Leipzig&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;archaeologie-examples.bib&lt;/code&gt;, which seems bad for a MWE. So I think that is out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should I have included multiple entries in my *.bib files in future, so that I don't get answers that work with only that entry? Or should I keep my MWEs as minimal as possible to make them easier to read?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7880" LastActivityDate="2020-10-16T22:45:34.453" Title="Test cases vs minimalism in a MWE" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8684" CreationDate="2020-10-17T06:13:31.627" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A minimal example is intended to help debug an issue by making it clear where the problem lies. So if a 'MWE' is too small to show the issue in real use, I feel it's appropriate to go back and edit. I'd probably make it clear that the original MWE was solved by the answer but that this didn't address your real issue, then provide an updated MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the same as 'changing the question', rather it likely shows that there is a subtly in the issue that the MWE you first created does not capture. An MWE is there is &lt;em&gt;enhance&lt;/em&gt; a question, it's not the question in and of itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T06:13:31.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8684" CreationDate="2020-10-17T10:26:08.563" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The consensus on main meta seems to be that you can edit your question, unless it invalidates existing answers. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/167070/doesnt-the-asker-have-the-right-to-modify-his-question&quot;&gt;Doesn&amp;#39;t the asker have the right to modify his question?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/179215/edited-question-makes-answers-incorrect&quot;&gt;Edited question makes answers incorrect&lt;/a&gt; for example. If it does invalidate existing answers then you should ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that the invalidated answer may attract undeserved downvotes (because it does not appear to answer the question as stated), or in general it may confuse future visitors that have the same problem as in the new version of the question and find an answer that does not apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course here on TeX.SE we are not very inclined to downvote at all, and a comment or edit to either the question or the answer explaining that the answer applies to a previous version of the question will most likely prevent any downvotes or confusion. It also allows the answerer(s) to modify their answer to the new situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, 'officially' you should ask a new question, but in this case both options (edit the current question or ask a new one) are fine I think. So it's up to you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T10:26:08.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-17T18:53:42.287" Score="12" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our syntax highlighter &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; has received a complete ground up rewrite of the LaTeX grammar in its latest &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/releases/tag/10.3.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;10.3 release&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;This comes with some changes to the CSS classes used by the highlighter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it absolutely necessary to change the stylesheet defining the colors used for highlighting in tex.sx! It is desirable to perform these changes simultaneously with the switch to version 10.3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question serves two purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is an opportunity for the TeX.sx community to provide some feedback on the currently used colors (&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the highlighter, just the colors) and propose changes to them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A place for the Stack Exchange employee(s) responsible for implementing the change to find all the necessary information in one place and communicate how the changes will be performed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In version 10.2, these were the classes used for highlighting LaTeX:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;class       use                   color on tex.sx&#xA;-------------------------------------------------&#xA;tag         control sequences     unstyled&#xA;name        cs name (without \)   #b75501&#xA;number      dimensions            #b75501&#xA;string      macro arguments       #54790d&#xA;formula     math mode             unstyled&#xA;comment     comments              #656e77&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These categories were &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8665/48973&quot;&gt;inadequate and recognized unreliably&lt;/a&gt;, which is why the rewrite was done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new grammar uses the following classes (proposed colors not yet final):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;class       use                   proposed color on tex.sx&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------&#xA;keyword     control sequences     #934301&#xA;params      macro parameters      #523014&#xA;built_in    $, &amp;amp;, ^ and _         #934301&#xA;comment     comments              #75808a&#xA;meta        magic comments        #1474b8&#xA;string      verbatim text         #54790d&#xA;link        URLs                  #79750d&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list will likely grow in future versions of &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code background is &lt;code&gt;#f6f6f6&lt;/code&gt;, the default color is &lt;code&gt;#2f3337&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other programming languages are rare on TeX.sx but not unheard of. Most notably:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lua, which uses the classes &lt;code&gt;keyword&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;built_in&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;literal&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;function&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;params&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;string&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;comment&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python, which uses &lt;code&gt;keyword&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;built_in&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;literal&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;subst&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;string&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;number&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;params&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;function&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;comment&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other langauges that pop up from time to time will probably use a similar set of classes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In anticipation of additions to the grammar in the near future, I'd like to consider &lt;code&gt;section&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;attr&lt;/code&gt; as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the color values of all the mentioned classes (proposed colors not final yet):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;class       current color   proposed color&#xA;------------------------------------------&#xA;keyword     #015692         #934301&#xA;built_in    #b75501         #934301&#xA;params      unstyled        #523014&#xA;comment     #656e77         #75808a&#xA;meta        #015692         #1474b8&#xA;string      #54790d         #54790d&#xA;link        #54790d         #79750d&#xA;literal     #b75501         #015692&#xA;title       #b75501         #015692&#xA;name        #b75501         #015692&#xA;number      #b75501         #015692&#xA;function    unstyled        #015692&#xA;tag         unstyled        #015692&#xA;section     #015692         #015692&#xA;attr        #015692         #600193&#xA;subst       #2f3337         #2f3337&#xA;class       unstyled        unstyled&#xA;formula     unstyled        unstyled&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other ways of highlighting, like bold font, are also possible, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-18T12:35:29.453" LastActivityDate="2020-10-19T15:25:41.317" Title="Adapting the highlighting colors for the new highlight.js version" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8688" CreationDate="2020-10-17T18:53:42.287" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my own suggestion for how to change the colors. Notes and suggestions are very welcome (as well as other answers, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;class       current color   proposed color&#xA;------------------------------------------&#xA;keyword     #015692         #934301&#xA;built_in    #b75501         #934301&#xA;params      unstyled        #523014&#xA;comment     #656e77         #75808a&#xA;meta        #015692         #1474b8&#xA;string      #54790d         #54790d&#xA;link        #54790d         #79750d&#xA;literal     #b75501         #015692&#xA;title       #b75501         #015692&#xA;name        #b75501         #015692&#xA;number      #b75501         #015692&#xA;function    unstyled        #015692&#xA;tag         unstyled        #015692&#xA;section     #015692         #015692&#xA;attr        #015692         #600193&#xA;subst       #2f3337         #2f3337&#xA;class       unstyled        unstyled&#xA;formula     unstyled        unstyled&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I did:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make &lt;code&gt;keyword&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;built_in&lt;/code&gt; the primary orange color, but the old, slightly darker one from before the switch to &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt;. This also fits in better with the other colors (the blue and green below).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give &lt;code&gt;params&lt;/code&gt; a very dark orange.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make &lt;code&gt;comment&lt;/code&gt; slightly lighter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; slightly lighter, too, to fit in better with &lt;code&gt;comment&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave &lt;code&gt;string&lt;/code&gt; as it was.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give &lt;code&gt;link&lt;/code&gt; a different hue than &lt;code&gt;string&lt;/code&gt; (yellow instead of green).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give all of &lt;code&gt;literal&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;number&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;function&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;tag&lt;/code&gt; the secondary blue color (not used for LaTeX, for now).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give &lt;code&gt;attr&lt;/code&gt; a different hue than the aforementioned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave &lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;formula&lt;/code&gt; unstyled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some screenshots illustrating the colors. The code snippets are taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://highlightjs.org/static/demo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; demo page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H8XZ0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H8XZ0.png&quot; alt=&quot;The color table&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ow2Xi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ow2Xi.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/36Pf3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/36Pf3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lua&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nronl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nronl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Python&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-18T12:34:28.307" LastActivityDate="2020-10-18T12:34:28.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8688" CreationDate="2020-10-18T10:26:54.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I like about the highlighter I use daily (&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GtkSourceView&lt;/a&gt;) is that it colors the known control words differently from the unknown and user-defined control sequences. This makes it easier to skip over the standard things and focus your attention to the new command (which in many cases is the focus of the question as well). At the same time it gives a quick overview of the general structure of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rA3Xv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rA3Xv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The special status for &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; is not really needed I think, and also coloring comments the same as verbatim is a bit odd, and making comments blue instead of grey. So I'm not advocating this scheme in general, just the distinction between known keywords and unknown ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, what I liked about Prettify (the previous highlighter used by SE) is that it would highlight opening and closing delimiters. Old screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dVZSx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dVZSx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand this may be considered as a new feature for highlight.js. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/354422/&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/354422/&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current maintainer of Highlight.js here, though I'd add a few quick&#xA;comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;highlight.js tends to not highlight punctuation, which makes it a bit less colorful than other highlighters. This is considered a&#xA;feature. Not a deal breaker by any means, but something I should&#xA;mention regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something I'm open to improving if someone wants to work on&#xA;PRs and figure out a good way to go about handling this (work with&#xA;existing themes, not be invasive, etc).&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/2500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/2500&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really understand how the linked issue relates to punctuation, but that is something that I would like, and then possibly Benedikt would need to incorporate this in the language definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2020-10-18T10:26:54.283" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8688" CreationDate="2020-10-19T15:25:41.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer follows the same principle as my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8689/48973&quot;&gt;first proposal&lt;/a&gt;, only with all colors brightened up a bit, as requested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8688/8690#comment28378_8689&quot;&gt;the comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BKKZy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BKKZy.png&quot; alt=&quot;The color table&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/70mlZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/70mlZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y9NQb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y9NQb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lua&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AYbSM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AYbSM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Python&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastActivityDate="2020-10-19T15:25:41.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8665" CreationDate="2020-10-22T05:12:42.160" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Incorrect display of array or tabular parameters when there is &lt;code&gt;@{}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fixed in &lt;code&gt;highlight.js&lt;/code&gt; 10.3 (no such identification takes place)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;    \begin{array}{c@{}cc}&#xA;        a &amp;amp; b &amp;amp; c\\&#xA;        d &amp;amp; e &amp;amp; f&#xA;    \end{array}&#xA;    \begin{tabular}{c@{}cc}&#xA;        a &amp;amp; b &amp;amp; c\\&#xA;        d &amp;amp; e &amp;amp; f&#xA;    \end{tabular}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the above examples &lt;code&gt;{c@{}&lt;/code&gt; is green whereas &lt;code&gt;cc}&lt;/code&gt; is black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="48973" LastEditDate="2020-10-22T06:36:41.327" LastActivityDate="2020-10-22T06:36:41.327" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-29T23:04:15.693" Score="3" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions where many users of TeX.SE insert not only a code and an image but also a corresponding animation without using LaTeX animation packages. My question is: what is the method to animate them, rotate them, turn them, in order to better display the created output? You can help me with some examples because I have never tried this option. Thank you all for your collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2020-10-31T13:55:15.480" LastActivityDate="2021-02-04T14:06:16.393" Title="How to animate a code created in LaTeX in an answer or a question" Tags="|discussion|answers|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-06T20:53:41.760" Score="3" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;In these days I see that there are many users without a gravatar (image) like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2hPMc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2hPMc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addendum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jqmUB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jqmUB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2020-11-09T21:07:06.280" LastActivityDate="2020-11-09T21:07:06.280" Title="Users without gravatar (avatar)?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-12T05:07:42.673" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;How may one adjust the size of the displayed image when posting a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I posted the following question yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/570484/how-to-draw-a-rose-in-latex&quot;&gt;How to Draw a Rose in Latex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to scale down the image of the rose a bit, how may I do that? Also, is it possible to reduce the size of an image offered as an answer? (For example, in my question, the user, gernot, posted a nice answer but the displayed image is even larger than mine!) It would be nice to be able to view the entire image someone posts without having to scroll through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178952" LastEditorUserId="178952" LastEditDate="2020-11-12T05:15:55.257" LastActivityDate="2020-11-12T05:15:55.257" Title="Adjusting the Size of the Uploaded Image When Posting a Question" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8698" CreationDate="2020-11-15T02:44:16.673" Score="9" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see quite some &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; / Markdown questions recently. It fits the pipeline I use, so I'd like to share / post some questions with canned answers. However, no one asks me for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, more grave issue: It is more about &lt;em&gt;interoperation&lt;/em&gt; of LaTeX, &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt;, and what not. Basically, it is borderline with &amp;quot;programming&amp;quot; SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should I? More generally: are &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; topics welcome at TeX.SX? They involve some sort of LaTeX generation and &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; is often used as a front to LaTeX. But there is more to it. I would think that generating HTML from Markdown is off-topic. Where is the line? Do we want to deal with more &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; / Markdown / generated LaTeX questions in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directions in which this might go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, please do talk about &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is answered 2000 times on SO already.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are a forum for LaTeX wizards, not some weaklings who cannot even write &lt;code&gt;\emph&lt;/code&gt; on their own!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; to LaTeX and interoperation is allowed, &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6043/are-markdown-to-docx-using-pandoc-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;anything else&lt;/a&gt; is forbidden.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are not snobby, but all this &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; thing is really off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am more seeking after the spirit of the community than a quote of the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142180" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-11-16T16:51:30.613" LastActivityDate="2020-11-16T16:51:30.613" Title="Posting Q and A on pandoc" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8697" CreationDate="2020-11-15T20:10:04.967" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; questions that use LaTeX as the intermediary or output format are definitely on topic, and there are quite a few of us here who are also &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; users, and so these sorts of questions are usually answered quite happily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;/code&gt; questions, however (e.g. conversions between document types that use no LaTeX) are likely to be off topic, as in the linked meta question you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2020-11-15T20:10:04.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-16T19:12:27.127" Score="12" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realise that this is not directly concerned with TeX and friends but it is about improving my answers to such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try and provide an MWE in my answers and I want to show their typeset output which is a PDF file. I have seen that I should use &lt;code&gt;convert file.pdf file.jpg&lt;/code&gt; to produce a JPEG file for inclusion in my answer. However when provided in my answer the result looks small and blurry whereas I have seen many other answers with good looking graphics. How could I do that? (I have used GIMP to trim the JPEG files but this only removed irrelevant space and left the poor quality image as it was).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" OwnerDisplayName="Peter Wilson" LastActivityDate="2020-11-26T08:51:03.653" Title="How to provide good looking TeX output in StackExchange?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8699" CreationDate="2020-11-20T11:25:10.907" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;SX allows displaying embedded SVG, but does not provide an SVG upload facility itself. Thus, the SVG needs to be installed on a long-living, personal web page or third-party hosting service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I chose &lt;a href=&quot;https://pages.github.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GitHub Pages&lt;/a&gt; and created a minimal project page from a GitHub repository according to the given instructions. SVG files, later committed to this repository, are readily accessible by their URL. Another option could be &lt;a href=&quot;https://svgshare.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://svgshare.com&lt;/a&gt;, that allows SVG uploads without registration, but I am unsure about its reliability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To display an SVG on SX, embed the SVG URL in an &lt;code&gt;img&lt;/code&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&amp;quot;https://agrahn.github.io/mysvgs/svg/integral.svg&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;300&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://agrahn.github.io/mysvgs/svg/integral.svg&quot; width=&quot;300&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A useful tag attribute is &lt;code&gt;width&lt;/code&gt;, without which the image is scaled to text width.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SVG was produced with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-bash prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;latex example&#xA;dvisvgm --exact --font-format=woff2 --zoom=-1 example&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from input&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[varwidth]{standalone}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\[\int_0^1 2x\,\mathrm{d}x=1\]&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The chosen &lt;code&gt;dvisvgm&lt;/code&gt; options ensure accurate cropping to the content, embedding the needed font glyphs in a web-browser compliant format, as well as  scalability via the &lt;code&gt;img&lt;/code&gt; tag's &lt;code&gt;width&lt;/code&gt; attribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1053" LastEditorUserId="1053" LastEditDate="2020-11-26T08:51:03.653" LastActivityDate="2020-11-26T08:51:03.653" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-22T21:59:58.807" Score="9" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just answer this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/571958/2693&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; which is complaining about unexpected output from a sample document. The question was originally tagged with the &lt;code&gt;[overleaf]&lt;/code&gt; tag, which I removed, since it doesn't really concern Overleaf itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, upon answering the question it's clear that the Overleaf tag was very useful in understanding the OPs output, since Overleaf runs using &lt;code&gt;nonstop&lt;/code&gt; mode, and therefore always produces some sort of output. Using my regular editor of course just produced the actual error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking therefore that at least when questions concern errors and/or unexpected output, that we preserve the &lt;code&gt;[overleaf]&lt;/code&gt; tag, even though the question isn't really about Overleaf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2020-11-26T12:45:40.167" Title="Preserve [overleaf] tag if the question concerns an error/unexpected output" Tags="|discussion|tagging|overleaf|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2020-11-23T20:16:26.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any code of mine that I publish on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; or any other site of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;stackexchange network&lt;/a&gt; I hereby relicense under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wtfpl.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;WTFPL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120953" LastActivityDate="2020-11-23T20:16:26.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8706" CreationDate="2020-11-24T06:08:28.200" Score="5" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the accepted answer to a question is very long, we need to scroll down whether the next reply has more votes or not. I would like to request SE software development team to add a blinking arrow indicating that there is another answer having more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18654" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-11-24T17:52:14.047" LastActivityDate="2020-11-24T17:52:14.047" Title="a blinking arrow indicating a reply with more votes below" Tags="|feature-request|answers|user-interface|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8704" CreationDate="2020-11-24T17:50:56.543" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/6091/27724&quot;&gt;SOX Stack App&lt;/a&gt; provides a bunch of optional features, one being &amp;quot;an improvement to answer visibility&amp;quot; - a showcase of links to 5 other highest-ranking answers (by score) on that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t1cKc.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t1cKc.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the sorting order (between active, oldest and votes) will give you a different list of 5 answers. Since our average answers-per-question count is under 2 (207,945 questions with 267,598 answers ~ 1.3 answers/question as of Nov 24, 2020) this approach will work for most posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2020-11-24T17:50:56.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8702" CreationDate="2020-11-26T12:45:40.167" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, in case of errors or unexpected output, we should err on the side of more information rather than less.  This wouldn't be the first time an editor has caused a compilation error by sending something strange.  That's something I often deal with offline with my students as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28808" LastActivityDate="2020-11-26T12:45:40.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8713" CreationDate="2020-12-12T10:13:07.443" Score="14" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just took a look at the first page of site's users, listed by within-month rep count:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mTSpD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mTSpD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the names seem comfortably familiar, the rep point totals for many of the users seem high -- impressively high, in fact! So high, actually, that they seem off. E.g., how come that @egreg, far and away our most productive contributor, is only in fourth place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then calculated the actual month-to-date totals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;           shown  actual&#xA;        &#xA;Werner      5375    1605&#xA;ulrike f    3348     775&#xA;gonzalo m   3048     978&#xA;egreg       2530    2530 *&#xA;leandriis   2263     405&#xA;bernard     2168     715&#xA;moewe       2055     715&#xA;david c     1765    1765 *&#xA;mico        1647    1647 *&#xA;zarko       1583    1583 *&#xA;phelype o   1449     125&#xA;lockstep    1430     440&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, I was able to obtain a &amp;quot;match&amp;quot; between the reported and actual totals for only 4 out of the 12 top-ranked users; the matches are marked with an asterisk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;: Is this discrepancy something that should give us cause for concern? And, is this issue specific to TeX.SE, or is this a bug that affects all StackExchange sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-12-12T19:08:40.240" LastActivityDate="2020-12-12T19:13:50.380" Title="What's up with the current monthly rep point totals on TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8712" CreationDate="2020-12-12T11:27:09.777" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scheduled job running each month to reset the counters. It &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/403547/394787&quot;&gt;failed December 1, 2020&lt;/a&gt;, sorry for this. That's why the November values are included, so it's too high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE started a network wide recalculation that should fix it after some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/leagues/85/month/tex&quot;&gt;monthly reputation league page&lt;/a&gt; looks better already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2020-12-12T19:13:50.380" LastActivityDate="2020-12-12T19:13:50.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8714" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-12T18:37:29.603" Score="13" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of you kind folks have provided invaluable information that has improved my LaTeX skills, but along the way, has also provided some inspiration to improve my typographic style. I have a few questions on some style choices I make among various documents and am interested in sparking a discussion. Some examples are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captions on top of figures (as well as tables). I've seen some great discussion here about why figure captions should go on the bottom (due to how we process graphical information), but for a figure with footnotes, and because it is more consistent with tables, I feel that it wouldn't be objectionable to place figure captions on top.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am producing a document of technical requirements that has many, many sections, and is somewhat &amp;quot;legal&amp;quot; in nature. In some sections, we have small tables that I think look better in the section if the section was double-columned. Any objection to mixing sections that are single (page-wide) and double-columned in one document? I think the document I'm creating is aesthetically pleasing but is there something I might be missing logically?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any objections to hanging section numbers? I like that they clearly display when a new section begins, this is great for reference type documents. Perhaps in two-paged formats it could look ugly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Roman numerals in front matter. Just bothers me. It causes misalignment with some pdf viewers, and I don't think it needs to be pointed out in the pagination that the reader is seeing front matter. Roman numerals are antiquated and just don't add value, in my humble opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The saying I keep seeing is that the critical mistake in typography is ignorance. I don't have any colleagues that I can discuss these considerations (due to lack of interest), and am hoping to have them online with people of diverse backgrounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186406" OwnerDisplayName="likethevegetable" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-12-13T18:28:42.133" LastActivityDate="2020-12-16T23:11:00.207" Title="Is this forum an appropriate place to ask questions on typographic style?" Tags="|discussion|typography|site-recommendation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8714" CreationDate="2020-12-12T19:02:14.653" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best book I know of about typography is Robert Bringhurst's &lt;em&gt;The Elements of Typographic Style&lt;/em&gt;. Some way behind this you might find my &lt;em&gt;A Few Notes on Book Design&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;code&gt;texdoc memdesign&lt;/code&gt;) which is more related to LaTeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the fundamental principle is that the reader does not notice the typography and is able to concentrate on the content, not the display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Traditionally captions are put above tables and below figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I read a document where some sections were single column and others were double column I would assume that they had different levels of importance; be consistent with the number of columns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roman numbers are traditional in the frontmatter. Are you against several hundred years of typesetting in order to confuse the reader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" OwnerDisplayName="Peter Wilson" LastActivityDate="2020-12-12T19:02:14.653" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8717" CreationDate="2020-12-15T07:51:55.020" Score="12" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/574112&quot;&gt;Fonts appear in different sizes&lt;/a&gt;) gets close-votes because it &amp;quot;has been resolved&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that this is exactly the purpose of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which guidelines did I violate to get the question closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that this is not a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; question in the terms that it is very vague, but Marcel has guessed the correct answer that has helped me. And it might help other people in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T11:32:07.027" Title="What are the “TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange guidelines” - closing questions" Tags="|discussion|guidelines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8716" CreationDate="2020-12-15T11:20:37.067" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close votes and the reason (already resolved in comments) are not a flaw of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes&lt;/em&gt; it may be ok to close a question with that reason (such if the solution comment refers to a simple typo or an outdated TeX installation), the fact that the solution was decided to be posted as a comment instead of being an answer may indicate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, like here, sometimes a solution is just an unconfirmed guess and so posted as a comment. At occasions like this, it's good to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ping the comment writer and ask him to turn the comment into an&#xA;answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or post an answer with the solution, with attribution to the&#xA;comment writer (and then choosing community wiki status is common, to not earn reputation for just copying the solution into an answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The review queue process, that includes badges rewards for reviewers, unfortunately speeds up voting so 1. can be slower than getting close votes coming in. Note, your question also got 3 &amp;quot;keep open&amp;quot; votes in the review process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You did good as you did 2. and posted the solution as the answer and accepted it. An improvement would be adding attribution to Marcel, then all is well documented and we can clean up the comments so the solution is clearly visible without distractions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had such questions already here, so here are earlier discussions on that topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6156/should-a-question-that-is-answered-in-a-comment-be-voted-on-to-be-closed&quot;&gt;Should a question that is answered in a comment be voted on to be closed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3640/how-to-end-the-unanswered-status-of-really-solved-questions-in-the-comments&quot;&gt;How to end the “unanswered” status of really solved questions in the comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2020-12-15T11:32:07.027" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T11:32:07.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8714" CreationDate="2020-12-16T23:11:00.207" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I'm afraid that TeX.StackExchange is not for discussing purely typographical questions. Of course, since TeX is a typographic tool, the border between “pure typography” and “TeXnical ways to achieve a typographic aim” is a bit blurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions such as “should captions go above or below tables/figures?” are purely typographical in nature and should probably go to GraphicDesign.SE, a more specialized site for such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, while we're at it, my opinion is that there is no “right or wrong”. Consistency should be our guide; also, the graphic format of captions might command the same positioning for captions: there are so many factors involved, that no general guideline can be given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact, the standard LaTeX classes are designed so &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; captions should go below the object, be it a figure or a table. The author of the &lt;code&gt;caption&lt;/code&gt; package seems to think differently and the default when loading it is to place table captions above and figure captions below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A point I'm adamant about is that a figure or table caption must never be footnoted. Not only for TeXnical reasons (floats make this very difficult to attain), but because it's very hard for the reader to understand. Similarly, mathematical formulas should never be footnoted, because the footnote mark would be confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about page numbers? The real reason why the front matter is usually numbered differently than the main matter is that the number of pages in the front matter used to be unknown until the last minute. How many pages the table of contents consists of? Will the preface be two or three pages long? And so forth. With computers under our hands, instead of movable type, the problem no longer exists. To the contrary, document accessibility &lt;em&gt;demands&lt;/em&gt; continuous numbering. So the internal frontispiece is page 1 up until the last page: this makes navigating the document much easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2020-12-16T23:11:00.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8720" CreationDate="2020-12-20T18:43:55.617" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;In these days of Winter bash, I have observed that I have often two consecutive hats :-)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is normal or usual? Does this happen only to me or to other users as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TrzC7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TrzC7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-12-21T06:36:16.470" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T14:13:13.833" Title="Winter double hats for my gr(avatar) in TeX.SE and others communities" Tags="|support|bug|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8719" CreationDate="2020-12-20T19:44:46.080" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;These types of bug are not specific to TeX.SX, so you should report at the main &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;, as bug reports here are much (&lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt;) less likely to be seen by one of the devs.  That said, it has already been reported: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/357935/383578&quot;&gt;Hat duplicates when info is expanded&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/358152/383578&quot;&gt;After &amp;quot;run code snippet&amp;quot; winter hat image create duplicate image&lt;/a&gt; (no official reply at the time of writing this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastEditorUserId="134574" LastEditDate="2020-12-21T14:13:13.833" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T14:13:13.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8721" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-12-21T06:37:06.820" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-12-21T06:37:06.820" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T06:37:06.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8722" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-12-21T06:37:06.820" Score="0" Body="For questions about the Winter Bash (or holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2020-12-21T06:37:06.820" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T06:37:06.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8726" CreationDate="2021-01-02T13:36:33.707" Score="6" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past ten years, I asked a lot of questions and received a lot beautiful customized answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I found that the answer I got is very useful and should be highlighted in a package for future users, could I post a question asking for converting a specific answer into a package?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is acceptable, then should a tag be created for this purpose or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T17:28:18.173" Title="Should a tag of package-request be created?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8725" CreationDate="2021-01-02T17:28:18.173" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess asking to create a package in a question would &amp;quot;need more focus&amp;quot;, i.e., is too broad for the site. Converting an answer to a specific question into a generally applicable package is likely to be a lot of work, in providing sensible user commands, testing, writing documentation, and further maintainance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively it could be argued that such a question is focused - writing a package is a lot of work but answering a question about writing a package can be quick (yes or no, possibly with some arguments in case of 'no'). However, in this case it is likely to be opinion-based, because the answer is &amp;quot;this is/is not a good idea because X&amp;quot;. Also the voting on such a question would be problematic, it could be interpreted as a meta-style &amp;quot;upvote=support the request, downvote=disagree with the request&amp;quot;, which means you could loose reputation not because the question is bad but because people disagree with you that a package should be created. Asking such a question on Meta itself is also not a good fit because Meta questions should be about the site only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of the above arguments are reason for closure of such a question. Creating a tag therefore does not seem to be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could leave a comment under the answer to suggest the idea to the answerer. If they are interested then such a comment will be sufficient to initiate the process. Converting answers into packages has happened 73 times to date, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1721/which-questions-led-to-the-creation-of-a-new-package&quot;&gt;Which questions led to the creation of a new package?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T17:28:18.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8728" CreationDate="2021-01-03T08:47:25.987" Score="17" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in 2014, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/154873/whats-new-in-tex-version-3-14159265&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was posted, asking &amp;quot;What's new in TeX, version 3.14159265?&amp;quot;. I know that the upcoming version of TeX will have at least one important bug fix, and I think it would be nice to have a corresponding, moderator-sanctioned question. I don't believe the earlier question was planned by the site, but as far as I am aware tex.se has been around to witness only the one update. I'd also suggest that a single, official &amp;quot;What's new&amp;quot; post be made for each new update henceforth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope I'm not out of line here. The 2014 question and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/154880/192444&quot;&gt;egreg's answer&lt;/a&gt; were key factors in my getting interested in TeX. And there may be some interesting changes in this update.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="192444" LastActivityDate="2021-01-03T14:15:41.050" Title="Will there be an official &quot;What's new in TeX, version 3.141592653?&quot; question to go along with the 2021 TeX tune-up?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8727" CreationDate="2021-01-03T14:15:41.050" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that such a question should be &lt;em&gt;mandatory&lt;/em&gt;.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that TeX aims to be as bug-free as possible, fixes are nowadays rather on the esoteric side, mostly about obscure corner cases, but who knows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And surely, having a place where to look for “official” information, beside the usual TUGboat channel, would be handy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* I don't think I'll ask it, though. &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2021-01-03T14:15:41.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8693" CreationDate="2021-01-05T13:21:08.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put a disposition of the community one site&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.screentogif.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.screentogif.com/&lt;/a&gt; that I have just found yesterday to record the screen, webcam and sketchboard and convert it to &lt;code&gt;.gif&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here there is the screenshot with the different languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O7okX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O7okX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2021-01-05T13:21:08.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8732" CreationDate="2021-01-08T18:18:41.050" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I leave my computer running and so overnight TeXStackExchange kept running and I ended up with a reputation of 17,925. When I updated my view of the site to get the latest questions my reputation was decreased to 17,910. Why was this and how can I find out who caused the change? I would like to be able to ask for the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T18:43:48.440" Title="How to find out why my reputation has decreased?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8730" CreationDate="2021-01-08T18:43:48.440" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/12082/peter-wilson?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;the Reputation tab of your profile&lt;/a&gt;, which contains all your historical reputation changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p870X.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p870X.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user unaccepted an answer of yours which was previously accepted. In that case, you lose the 15 reputation you gained when the answer was accepted, as indicated in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7237/295232&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of your &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answers loses &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; status (i.e. unaccepted): &lt;strong&gt;−15&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T18:43:48.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-19T17:14:45.230" Score="7" ViewCount="147" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we welcome 2021, and in keeping with tradition, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pU1Al.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on TeX - LaTeX over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User suspensions lifted early&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;136&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,453&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;675&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,622&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,703&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10,425&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11,038&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms proposed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms created&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Revisions redacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions reopened&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;90&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions protected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;32&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions migrated&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions merged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions flagged⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,053&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;38&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,113&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;212&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;841&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts unlocked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;474&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts locked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;44&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;459&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,025&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,757&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Escalations to the Community Manager team&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,031&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,452&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9,319&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;847&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;188&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Bounties canceled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,414&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,201&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,215&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8446/2019-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2019: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222020%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/359735/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big thank you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/620/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; for writing the queries and script to facilitate fetching and posting this data to all the sites in the network, and to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/459488/brian-nickel&quot;&gt;Brian&lt;/a&gt; for the subsequent work making the whole thing more user friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2021!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-01-21T11:28:29.300" LastActivityDate="2021-01-21T11:28:29.300" Title="2020: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-19T19:37:00.453" Score="4" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am tryin to add an image and the image I selected is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what is displayed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/579563/4301&quot;&gt;Typeset Only First n Items or Items after n from a List&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have acreen shots of what I am trying to upload but of course since I can't properly include an image that does not help in this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4301" LastActivityDate="2023-09-03T22:42:22.440" Title="Image Uploader Using Random Image" Tags="|bug|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-19T19:56:05.733" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am attempting to upload a couple screengrabs to an Answer, and no matter which image I try to upload (tried on multiple computers and multiple browsers), it looks like what's below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking online, I can't find any explanation for this behavior.  The post I'm having a problem with is below.  Mine is the latest answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/308907/constructing-a-seismic-tripartite-graph-with-tikz-pgfplots/579560#579560&quot;&gt;Constructing a Seismic Tripartite Graph with TikZ &amp;amp; pgfplots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TlR11.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TlR11.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81543" LastActivityDate="2021-01-19T19:56:05.733" Title="Unable to Upload Image" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2021-01-19T20:50:48.303" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8734" CreationDate="2021-01-19T22:38:26.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue has been fixed (on Imgur's side). For more details on what happened, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/359778/168244&quot;&gt;I am getting the wrong image when uploading a picture&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-01-19T22:38:26.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8740" CreationDate="2021-01-22T23:43:50.717" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67053/putting-the-integration-bounds-below-above-the-integration-operator/67063&quot;&gt;Putting the integration bounds below/above the integration operator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is labeled as duplicate. However it doesn't point to any other question? How is it possible? Was the question it was pointing to deleted? How can we prevent that from happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="205432" LastActivityDate="2021-01-23T08:11:06.217" Title="Duplicate question of...?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8739" CreationDate="2021-01-23T08:11:06.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we prevent that from happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; old duplicate closures, look e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=duplicate%3A1+lastactive%3A..2013-02-03&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more examples. Questions closed after February 4th, 2013 always show a link to the so-called 'original' in their banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back then, the duplicate banner was edited into the post itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dnUIo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dnUIo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can start to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/67053/edit&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; the post to see the 'source code' of the banner. There is no 'official' link from this question to the original, hence the blue banner stays empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to solve this is to reopen the question, and close it again as a duplicate (and edit out the original banner). We do this sometimes on Meta Stack Exchange (there are many people with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/231212/295232&quot;&gt;dupehammers&lt;/a&gt; there); on main sites, basically only ♦ moderators can do that. But as you can see, they would have to do that on many posts. I don't think that's an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2021-01-23T08:11:06.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-23T14:51:00.277" Score="6" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about errors which in the end are caused by blank lines  in math mode pop up on a regular basis (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/580169/82917&quot;&gt;this is the latest one&lt;/a&gt;). Many new users haven't the experience to disentangle TeX error messages (or they simply ignore them), and in many cases the question describes what is &lt;em&gt;optically&lt;/em&gt; going wrong, so that it is difficult to find a &amp;quot;standard duplicate&amp;quot;; for example, the linked question describes the problem as &amp;quot;the equation number goes to the wrong place&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes someone writes a one-line answer; sometimes the question gets closed as &amp;quot;solved in comments&amp;quot;; sometimes the answer is solved in comments but neither answered nor closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think should be the preferred course of action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82917" LastActivityDate="2021-01-23T14:51:00.277" Title="Blank lines in math environments" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8743" CreationDate="2021-01-29T20:54:39.427" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen yesterday and today that there is a problem with my gold badges. Now I have this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x3Crd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x3Crd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and yesterday I had this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oRMQm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oRMQm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not interesting for the medals but is there someone that have the same my problem and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2021-01-29T20:56:41.730" Title="Problems with the gold badges or for the correct computation" Tags="|discussion|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8742" CreationDate="2021-01-29T20:56:41.730" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is part of an update to the review queues. You now get one Steward badge for every 1,000 reviews in a single queue. For more details, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/360279/295232&quot;&gt;Steward badge can now be awarded multiple times -- backfill details&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastActivityDate="2021-01-29T20:56:41.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8746" CreationDate="2021-01-31T19:15:35.867" Score="5" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/577042/exam-layout-with-geometry-and-tcolorbox&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the comments keep piling up.  I wish I had started a chat earlier.  Now it doesn't seem to be an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-02-01T18:57:31.133" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T18:57:31.133" Title="Can one turn comments into a chat retroactively?" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8745" CreationDate="2021-02-01T02:02:10.347" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators can move all the comments to chat (and that has promptly been done in this case), but it can only be done once for each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231539" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T02:02:10.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8747" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-11T23:40:09.613" Score="2" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have got a lot of fine answers and solutions from members of this forum.&#xA;How about a sign from the authors, that I may put into my documents, as a footnote or something like that, just to appriciate the origin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user186178" LastActivityDate="2021-02-13T18:28:58.573" Title="How about Thanks?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8747" CreationDate="2021-02-13T18:28:58.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always assumed that any posted answer was freely available for anyone to use which also included using the answerer's name in any acknowledgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastActivityDate="2021-02-13T18:28:58.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-04T22:41:52.110" Score="6" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like questions are not upvoted sufficiently. In comparison, answers are.&#xA;Would it not be fair, to upvote questions automatically by counting the answers and comments, just to make clear, that a question was interesting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user186178" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-03-07T02:38:55.400" LastActivityDate="2021-03-07T02:38:55.400" Title="When is a question upvoted?" Tags="|discussion|answers|comments|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8749" CreationDate="2021-03-05T07:02:55.470" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I talk for myself; others may have different opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't upvote just-do-it-for-me questions, but if they have good answers, I upvote the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't upvote unclear questions, but if somebodies manage to answer and the answers are good, I upvote the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I think those who ask for (free) help should put some effort into building good questions. If I don't see this effort, I don't upvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I upvote more answers than questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2021-03-05T07:08:58.270" LastActivityDate="2021-03-05T07:08:58.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8749" CreationDate="2021-03-07T02:38:00.653" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone has a different motivation for voting, and therefore an estimate of &amp;quot;fairness&amp;quot; between voting for answers and questions is difficult to assess. I vote based on the description associated with the voting buttons: It's useful/clear/shows research effort = upvote or not useful/unclear/doesn't show research effort = downvote. Others use it as a way to check that they've read the post, while others use it to correct any wrong-doing they've experienced from the community. So, voting is... complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, though, &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; posts tend to receive upvotes while &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; posts receive downvotes. Asking a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question is not easy, especially for new members. You need to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10647/168244&quot;&gt;write a good title&lt;/a&gt; that succinctly and adequately describes the problem. Then, you need to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;write a good question&lt;/a&gt; also...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having been on this site for quite a while, the above seems to be a basic problem with questions on the network that people have to learn over time to achieve and may be a contributing reason for the poor voting performance on questions; users often land here with a problem... something that's very specific to them that they need to solve in a short period of time before life can return back to normal. Such questions are then poorly written, without context (only code snippets), may not include images to highlight the problematic output and possibly the expected output, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377/168244&quot;&gt;asks something different than what they actually want&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is typically associated with new users, and we receive a bunch of those - daily! Here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/80302/new-users-per-day#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a graph showing our daily new user acquisition&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XJ8cX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XJ8cX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site seems to have stabilised at between 60-80 new users per day. This amount of new users per day is about the same as our &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites#questionsperday&quot;&gt;average questions-per-day&lt;/a&gt; = around 60/day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C1xGJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C1xGJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These statistics are also supported by the fact that new users are often just landing for a couple of questions, if that, when viewing this representation that depicts a type of &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/183696/user-retention#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;user retention&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/btuvl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/btuvl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lines represent new user posts by week as a percentage of answers. My interpretation is that users show up, ask their question(s), and then their question-asking drops. With that, their secondary contribution also drops - it's infrequent to see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;low-rep users with high voting tallies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it's not easy asking a good question, and sometimes questions take lots of time to answer, so the value may swing to be more answer-based than the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/9508/168244&quot;&gt;Why aren't people voting for questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10647/168244&quot;&gt;How to write a good title?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to write a good question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377/168244&quot;&gt;What is the XY problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-03-07T02:38:00.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8753" CreationDate="2021-03-12T18:38:58.100" Score="10" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently working on a custom table for a friend of mine and that question came up to my mind: &lt;em&gt;Should I post it on TeX.SE to hopefully help other people?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't find a place to post Latex examples, the only one I could encounter was &lt;a href=&quot;https://texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXample.net&lt;/a&gt;, but this one seems to be mostly dedicated to TikZ examples. However, I also don't know if TeX.SE is the right place for posting this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently read &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/390683/142706&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, so I took some inspiration from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why should I post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My situation gives me a great motivation: my friend uses Latex, but as a beginner he was unable to &lt;strong&gt;produce&lt;/strong&gt; the (somewhat complex) table. On the other hand, he could &lt;strong&gt;use&lt;/strong&gt; it after I explain to him how to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here are some pros and cons of posting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Pros&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The code could help someone else to solve their own problems by giving them inspiration or a template to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a beginner too, my code would be available for improvements made by more experienced users, then even me could learn more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It can show the owners of the package some demands from users (in my case, I had to make some workarounds in order to overcome some limitations of the package which, if weren't there, would make my life much easier).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The post could attract people's attention and receive other solutions that could be even better than mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Cons&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a beginner, there is a risk that I am making mistakes or doing bad&#xA;practices, hence I might teach someone wrong things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The code may become obsolete and stop working, as I don't intend to&#xA;give it actively maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that my main point is: for me, it's an opportunity to got my solution improved by people and, for others, it's better to have this than to have nothing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Of course I will comment the code before posting it so that the users can understand how to use it. I will also warn people that I'm not an expert Latex programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142706" LastEditorUserId="142706" LastEditDate="2021-03-12T18:54:14.397" LastActivityDate="2021-03-15T11:39:48.763" Title="Can (or should) I post Latex examples on TeX.SE?" Tags="|discussion|questions|code-example|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8752" CreationDate="2021-03-14T21:07:03.927" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Q&amp;amp;A format of the Stack network doesn't lend itself well to a standalone post (SO tried this with the documentation experiment; it didn't go well).  In that sense, no, you should not post your example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is an alternative.  You can transform your post into a true Q&amp;amp;A.  What is the trickiest part of the table?  You can create the rest of the table and leave the tricky part as the question: &amp;quot;How do I do this?&amp;quot;.  Then you can answer your own question.  Both will be voted in on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be forewarned that while self-answering is allowed on the Stack network, there are many people that look down on it.  Partly this is (IMO) because self-answers don't quite end up with a separate answer and question.  Your goal should be that if the author names were hidden, we wouldn't be able to tell that you answered your own question.  The other part is because some answers show how much of a beginner they are, but that's harder to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107497" LastActivityDate="2021-03-14T21:07:03.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8752" CreationDate="2021-03-15T11:39:48.763" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the answer of Teepeemm (with which I agree): to help future visitors to the site the most, it is important that a Q&amp;amp;A-pair focuses on a single aspect or issue to be solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get many questions along the lines of &amp;quot;how do I draw this complex table&amp;quot;, some with a code attempt and some without, but even if the question already contains a starting point in code then generally the question and answer is only useful for the person that asked the question. Other people may struggle with one or more of the same issues, but they will not be able to find the existing question when they search, or if by coincidence they do find it then it will be difficult to understand and to isolate their issue among the various issues presented in the complex table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore it is better to have separate Q&amp;amp;A-pairs for each issue. Things like: how do I put a double line between rows, how do I set a background color for a cell, how do I create a nested table, how do I make a table span pages, how do I align the contents of a row vertically, etc. Each of those should be a separate question, with a simple example that shows &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; this aspect and nothing else. This allows to make the title descriptive, the text focused, the tags relevant, and the example easy to understand. The first three help with searching and finding the question, while the last helps with actually solving the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you approach the table you made for your friend in this way, then you might find that some of the issues are already covered in existing questions. However, for other issues you can write a new, self-answered question, which will probably (hopefully?) be well-received if it is focused, not a duplicate, and the solution is indeed ok. A new Q&amp;amp;A-pair on how to solve a known issue but with a different package where existing solutions don't work is also fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your other goal of persuading package maintainers to add features however, it might be better to ask this directly on the Github issue tracker/mailing list/some other means of contacting the author. Some maintainers are active here on the site and are happy to collect and implement ideas from questions, but others &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8160/how-to-encourage-people-to-send-bug-reports-instead-of-using-sx-as-kind-of-bugtr&quot;&gt;prefer to be contacted directly&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2021-03-15T11:39:48.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8757" CreationDate="2021-03-22T14:50:28.603" Score="9" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is somewhat late, but I haven't seen any mention of it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little while ago (before February, I think), &lt;a href=&quot;https://texdoc.org/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TeXdoc.net&lt;/a&gt; changed their URL structure. Before, the link to the TeX &lt;code&gt;WEB&lt;/code&gt; documentation looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/tex/tex.pdf&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it basically mirrors the TeX directory structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that URL redirects to &lt;a href=&quot;https://texdoc.org/missing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://texdoc.org/missing.html&lt;/a&gt;, which I suppose is their 404 page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct link is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://texdoc.org/serve/tex/0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't done extensive testing, but it appears that the segment after &lt;code&gt;serve&lt;/code&gt; is more or less what you would look up, and the number selects one of the results you get. For example, searching for &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt; yields &lt;code&gt;tex.pdf&lt;/code&gt; as the first result, and the second is the documentation for a package called &lt;code&gt;mensa-tex&lt;/code&gt;; the link for &lt;code&gt;mensa-tex&lt;/code&gt; is indeed &lt;a href=&quot;https://texdoc.org/serve/tex/1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://texdoc.org/serve/tex/1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, all existing TeXdoc links from before the change, or at least all of the ones that I have encountered, are now broken. Tell your friends? I know that it is commonly assumed that everyone here has a TeX distribution ready; however, TeXdoc is quite handy if you are on a mobile device or if it is simply not feasible for you to have TeXdoc and all the documentation installed (e.g., if you don't have a lot of disk space). Some of the documents are available in PDF form from CTAN, as an alternative, but others are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that this isn't a question. It's also not a real issue: There is neither a problem with this site nor anything wrong with TeXdoc's new design, per se. (Although I can't help but feel that both URL structures could be supported.) Since TeXdoc is probably rarely used by most contributers here (I could be wrong), the change might not have been noticed. If/when there has been a mass link breaking in the past, either on TeX.SE or elsewhere in the network, what has happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="192444" LastActivityDate="2021-03-26T08:54:30.653" Title="TeXdoc links no longer work" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8755" CreationDate="2021-03-22T15:24:53.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a definitive answer, but here is some information / additional questions about this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange staff has a tool to mass update broken links, which (unlike manual edits) &lt;strong&gt;doesn't bump the posts to the front page&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://hinduism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1969/7988&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a recent example. Once it's clear which replacements need to be made, one of the ♦ moderators can ping a staff member for this. It only works if the update is a straightforward substitution; it can't determine what number should follow after &lt;code&gt;https://texdoc.org/serve/tex/&lt;/code&gt; by itself. Given the information in @StefanKottwitz's answer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/1388507/fixing-broken-texdoc-net-links&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is an example how such a substitution could work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering: how many (different) broken links are we talking about here? You can &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; for posts which contain certain links with the &lt;code&gt;url:&lt;/code&gt; parameter. Searching for &lt;code&gt;url:texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/tex/tex.pdf&lt;/code&gt; gives only &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Atexdoc.net%2Ftexmf-dist%2Fdoc%2Fgeneric%2Fknuth%2Ftex%2Ftex.pdf&quot;&gt;29 results&lt;/a&gt; but I assume that's not the only broken link. On the other hand, some texdoc.net links are still working, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/pkg/tcolorbox#page=135&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texdoc.net/pkg/tcolorbox#page=135&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/580438/117218&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; still works. Perhaps it's everything starting with &lt;code&gt;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/&lt;/code&gt;? That would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Atexdoc.net%2Ftexmf-dist%2F&quot;&gt;737 posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a script which is &lt;a href=&quot;https://german.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1506/15821&quot;&gt;specialized in repairing broken links&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/Glorfindel83/9d954d34385d2ac2597bbe864466259f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;images&lt;/a&gt;; you might have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/419533/revisions&quot;&gt;seen it in action here&lt;/a&gt; already). It can also just analyze the links and list them in order of frequency, as to determine the next course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117218" LastEditorUserId="117218" LastEditDate="2021-03-22T18:07:41.800" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T18:07:41.800" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8755" CreationDate="2021-03-22T17:26:41.447" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original TeXdoc.net site showed the link syntax on top of the start page (screenshot from old status on archive.org)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L9suM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L9suM.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeXdoc homepage&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plan was to have an easy to remember link to package documentation but especially some comfort in forums: if I click a package name, it directly brings me to the manual, with that standard syntax, so I don't need that full path. It would have been better to hide the full path since it may change over time within the TeX Live distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who used the official link, has still a working link, even with the WEB documentation mentioned in the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://texdoc.net/pkg/tex.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://texdoc.net/pkg/tex.pdf&lt;/a&gt; still works and is redirected to that TeX document on TeXdoc.org from the question. Such links don't need a fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeXdoc.org keeps the syntax (similar to ctan.org/pkg/packagename) and adds another syntax. The specific file path is now hidden to not result in broken links if people would use a full path URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the help of Ben Frank I made a redirection: every old deeplink link to a pdf file on texdoc.net is redirected to a texdoc.org query for that pdf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Test links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/lettrine.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/lettrine.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/silence/silence-doc.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/silence/silence-doc.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/mathtools/mathtools.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/mathtools/mathtools.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All should be redirected to &lt;code&gt;https://texdoc.org/serve/&amp;lt;name.pdf&amp;gt;/0&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2021-03-26T08:54:30.653" LastActivityDate="2021-03-26T08:54:30.653" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-04T19:14:36.440" Score="4" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a question that I have an answer to but it has been closed by several respondents as a duplicate and pointing to an answer. In my view the source duplicate is very specific whereas there are more general answers available. It seems that I can vote to reopen the question but with no opportunity to explain the re-open vote. So if I cannot give reasons against the closure why would anyone remove their vote to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" OwnerDisplayName="Peter Wilson" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-04-06T05:41:13.893" LastActivityDate="2021-04-06T05:41:13.893" Title="How do I get a question re-opened with providing a reason" Tags="|discussion|support|duplicates|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8760" CreationDate="2021-04-06T05:39:53.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are your options, in somewhat of a preferred sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make a regular comment on the question, stating why you want to re-open the question. This could include a brief description of your solution, or just stating why the question isn't a duplicate. Don't just state that you want to answer it, because the reason for duplicate closure in the first place was to avoid duplication of content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will push the question into the Reopen Review Queue for other &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;3k+ users&lt;/a&gt; can vote on it. They'll see your comment and make a decision based on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could garner support more quickly by joining the &lt;a href=&quot;//chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; and talking to regulars there about your proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Failing (1) above, you can join the &lt;a href=&quot;//chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; and ping &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;one of the moderators&lt;/a&gt; who commonly hang around there. Then explain your situation and I'm sure it will be opened without hassle. Their voting power for reopening is binding and doesn't require other contributions in support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a question on &lt;a href=&quot;//tex.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta.TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt; specifically pointing to the question, stating your reason for re-opening. Since your question deals about the main site, this is perfectly acceptable and, again, is an attempt at garnering support for your cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, your motivation stems from support of the community and that should always be welcomed, so you're bound to have success with any of the above options, as long as the reason is legit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-04-06T05:39:53.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-06T06:08:44.840" Score="6" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/591442/224762&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The corresponding question basically says: I want to draw this picture in &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer basically says: Do not use &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;, but another program and then import it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consequently, I flagged this answer as low quality since I thought it does not really answer OP´s question and does not meet his requirements using &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;. He also does not answer why &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; would be more trouble than it's worth in this case. Just recommends another program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it technically solves the problem (like any other “draw it with this program and import it” answer would do). It may be just a poor answer, because it ignores OP´s requirements and the technical feasibility in &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is like recommending Excel (or any other open software) when someone wants to make a table in &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this flag is pending for a while I thought that maybe some reviews have the same considerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are question which propose another program and do not meet OP´s requirements considered “poor answers”, “an answer that does not attempt to solve the question” or is it a “legitimate answer”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; A small edit to the question to make my question more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a Q/A site about LaTeX and TeX. So I assume questions posted here should primary solved using LaTeX (including its many packages, tools like matcha and macros like PSTricks). Recommending another program if the reason is comprehensible is a valid answer. I have no problem with that. Like recommending &lt;code&gt;R&lt;/code&gt; for statistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here are answers that address the problem and provide an actual solution by recommending another program (want to draw that -&amp;gt; use a drawing program) even if it is completely and easily solvable in &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to draw a red rectangle in &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt;. How can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer one 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; package:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[border=1cm]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz}&#xA;\begin{document}    &#xA;    \begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;        \draw[red] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);&#xA;    \end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use paint (or any other drawing software), save it as a png and import it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both answers address the problem and both solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are such answers ignoring what &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; can do valid in a LaTeX Q/A site? Should they be flagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224762" LastEditorUserId="134805" LastEditDate="2021-04-11T07:59:53.830" LastActivityDate="2021-04-19T08:09:50.430" Title="Difference between “poor answer” and “answer does not attempt answering the question”" Tags="|discussion|answers|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8762" CreationDate="2021-04-06T06:59:02.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, that answer should be a comment. I flagged it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also arguable that Inkscape is easier than TikZ. It depends on which one you know better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, reproducing a logo is against the trademark laws. I think also the question should be deleted. I also flagged it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2021-04-08T20:37:05.227" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T20:37:05.227" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8762" CreationDate="2021-04-06T15:25:55.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the answer addresses the 'core issue' of the question (here: add a specific logo to a document) then it is a real/legitimate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer does not follow the requirements in the question then it may be a bad answer, but still a real answer. It may very well be that an approach outlined in such an answer is actually better than the approach that the OP had in mind. However, if you don't think the OP or anybody else will be helped by the answer then you can consider downvoting it, in line with the standard Stack Exchange model (or leaving it at 0, more in line with the custom on TeX.SE). Flagging or reviewing as 'not an answer' should be reserved for actual non-answers that do not address the question under any reasonable interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here on TeX.SE we have a high standard for answers, with a full MWE, often a screenshot, and some explanation. Therefore answers with alternative approaches that are not fully developed/demonstrated, or that use an approach not based on code, are maybe quick to be judged as 'should be a comment'. However I don't think this judgement is always reasonable. If an answer contains an idea that adds something new to addressing the question, or that improves substantially on a solution already given by others, then it should be able to stay as a separate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2021-04-06T15:25:55.507" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8762" CreationDate="2021-04-19T08:09:50.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that the actual question is &amp;quot;how can I include the logo in a latex document&amp;quot; Tikz is just a suggested solution in the question. Ignoring suggested solutions in questions is the norm rather than the exception for answers on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For logos especially, the correct answer here is almost certainly to download the logo from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ifgoiano.edu.br/home/images/REITORIA/Imagens/2017/Jan_2017/logo_Rio_Verde.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.ifgoiano.edu.br/home/images/REITORIA/Imagens/2017/Jan_2017/logo_Rio_Verde.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then use &lt;code&gt;\includegraphics{logo_Rio_Verde}&lt;/code&gt; which uses essentially the same non-tikz latex code as the inkscape answer that you flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it is not just concerns about trademark infringement that may lead to suggestions to use alternative tools than the one suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114783/draw-an-aircraft-with-tikz&quot;&gt;Draw an aircraft with Tikz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explicitly asks for tikz in the title, but has some answers using tikz, some using other non-tikz latex code, some using external tools or fonts. That seems natural for any of these type of drawing questions that are on (or past) the boundary of where it makes sense to have  a purely tex soultion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2021-04-19T08:09:50.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-29T22:31:54.353" Score="6" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to find a comprehensive question about best practices to make a multicolumn document, but it looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/columns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;columns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;columns&lt;/a&gt; encompasses both table columns and text columns!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Table columns&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;378: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31672/column-and-row-padding-in-tables&quot;&gt;Column and row padding in tables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;185: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16519/adding-space-between-columns-in-a-table&quot;&gt;Adding space between columns in a table&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Text columns&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;137: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/89462/page-wide-table-in-two-column-mode&quot;&gt;Page-wide table in two-column mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;107: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/228271/creating-two-columns-in-beamer&quot;&gt;Creating two columns in beamer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps these should be separated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82290" LastEditorUserId="82290" LastEditDate="2021-05-04T02:38:08.077" LastActivityDate="2021-05-04T02:38:08.077" Title="Two [columns] meanings" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8766" CreationDate="2021-04-30T05:26:48.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;columns&lt;/code&gt; tag description says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;{columns} is specifically about columns in {tables} (though often the&#xA;latter tag will suffice). If your question is about {two-column}&#xA;documents or the {multicol} package, use the respective tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, &lt;code&gt;columns&lt;/code&gt; is for tables, sometimes it is wrongly used for two-column documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a post with the wrong tag, you may edit it and correct it. There is the button &amp;quot;Edit tags&amp;quot; just next to the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2021-04-30T05:26:48.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-16T12:32:49.437" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just attempted to post an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/554653/guidance-on-producing-screen-readable-documents&quot;&gt;a question of my own&lt;/a&gt;.  When I attempt to post that answer, however, I get a message ‘An error occurred submitting the answer’, with no further explanatory details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly relevant things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I mentioned a &lt;code&gt;code.google.com&lt;/code&gt; link as a bare URI rather than a Markdown link.  I tried editing this to a Markdown link, but that made no difference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I thought it might be something to do with the format of the Markdown, but it works in an offline Markdown reader, and renders fine in the SE preview, so there's nothing obvious here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I drafted the answer externally to TeX.SE and pasted it in, ie, the text appeared obviously faster than I could type.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I tried deleting the text and re-pasting it, and fiddling with the text after pasting, in case the system was trying to detect keystrokes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is quite detailed (about 1500 words); I have a modest but non-zero reputation on TeX.SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other meta.SE responses to similar questions are not particularly helpful, suggesting generic network problems, corporate firewalls, HTTP vs HTTPS, and other hand-waving.  The only suggestion that seemed plausible was the ‘cut-and-paste’ problem.  But I'd expect that problem to go away if I simply waited for a little and tried again, but it's been 15–20 minutes so far, and nothing's changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing ‘draft saved’, so whatever problem there is isn't a network problem or something obviously intrinsic to the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lack of an explanation – &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; error occurred? – makes me uncertain what to try next.  I'm tempted to say that the lack of further details would constitute a bug, but if this is some sort of anti-spam test, then I can see the rationale for being deliberately vague about the details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastActivityDate="2021-05-16T12:32:49.437" Title="‘An error occurred submitting the answer’ – puzzled" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-17T14:02:55.030" Score="5" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to search for &lt;code&gt;\l@figure&lt;/code&gt; and instead it searched for &lt;code&gt;\lfigure&lt;/code&gt; (finding nothing of course).  Should this be fixed (soon)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastActivityDate="2021-05-17T14:02:55.030" Title="Treatement of @ in searches" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-22T14:17:08.117" Score="10" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/598818/how-to-enable-shell-escape/598824&quot;&gt;How to enable shell-escape?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Please contribute with an answer for your own editor or toolchain.&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many questions where (part of) the solution is to compile with shell-escape enabled. The OP does not always know how to enable this flag. This can usually be resolved by providing a link to an earlier question about the specific procedure for the editor of the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few such questions, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82699/how-to-enable-shell-escape-in-texworks&quot;&gt;How to enable shell-escape in TeXworks?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37489/how-can-i-enable-write-18-on-a-miktex-installation?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;How can I enable write 18 on a MikTeX installation&lt;/a&gt; (answers for WinEdt and TeXworks), &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/99475/how-to-invoke-latex-with-the-shell-escape-flag-in-texstudio-former-texmakerx&quot;&gt;How to invoke latex with the -shell-escape flag in TeXStudio (former TeXMakerX)?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/374160/how-to-have-latexmk-always-use-shell-escape&quot;&gt;How to have latexmk always use -shell-escape?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be a good idea to make one canonical question about this to collect information about multiple editors in one place? It would have the same &amp;quot;one answer per editor&amp;quot; structure as the canonical &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;LaTeX Editors/IDEs&lt;/a&gt;, and be fully Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would have the following advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easier to link, no need to find the correct post for the editor/compilation procedure of the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More general, so no need to find out which editor the OP uses in a lengthy and regularly unsuccessful comment exchange&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not cluttered by question details unrelated to shell escape as such, as in some of the currently existing questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easy way for regulars to contribute to this question with the settings for their favorite editor or tool(chain)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More likely to be updated when a GUI of an editor or tool configuration procedure changes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some disadvantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Takes work to write and keep up to date&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibly difficult for a new user to find their editor in a large question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts? I can write the question and answers for some tools I am familiar with: Linux terminal, Windows command prompt, Latexmk, Arara, Overleaf. I don't have (current) experience with any special-purpose LaTeX editor, so that would need to be contributed by other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastEditorUserId="89417" LastEditDate="2021-05-27T13:13:53.093" LastActivityDate="2021-05-27T13:13:53.093" Title="Canonical question on enabling shell-escape in different editors" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|big-list|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-25T15:57:06.030" Score="0" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are 2021...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX/LaTeX is often imposed on scientists and students, while there are user friendlier alternatives around such as GNU TeXmacs.  It is a shame that TeXmacs does not get more attention, because its typesetting quality is actually superior to TeX/LaTeX, math typing is far more efficient, and it comes with e.g. an integrated picture editor, etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where on Stackexchange are we assumed to ask questions on TeXmacs?&#xA;Is Stackexchange some kind of banana-republic where useful software gets censored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242962" OwnerDisplayName="Gérard" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2021-05-28T15:01:27.130" LastActivityDate="2021-05-28T15:01:27.130" Title="Where can we ask questions about GNU TeXmacs?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8773" CreationDate="2021-05-25T16:05:33.800" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange sites in general have a defined scope based on community norms, which tend to derive from the range of expertise available. That of course means that lots of things are not on-topic for any of them. With software in general, &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; tends to be the place to go, whilst for more programmatic aspects, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/texmacs&quot;&gt;'main site'&lt;/a&gt; (StackOverflow) is the place to at least try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other community-based approaches have similar restrictions. For example, I note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=716&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TopAnswers&lt;/a&gt; say that non-TeX-based tools are off-topic for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2021-05-25T16:52:55.233" LastActivityDate="2021-05-25T16:52:55.233" CommentCount="56" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8777" CreationDate="2021-05-25T17:18:05.537" Score="14" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just looking for clarification of the off-topic close rules here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/598432/how-to-remove-indentation-from-one-section&quot;&gt;How to remove indentation from one section?&lt;/a&gt; was just closed as off-topic. The comments indicate that at least one person voted for closure because it was answered in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see this as a valid close reason if the question was due to a typo or was otherwise extremely localized, but I think both the question and the answer are broad enough to be useful to other users. It's also about LaTeX, as required by &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the on-topic rules&lt;/a&gt;, and it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;not subjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had invited the commenter to convert their comment to an answer as this would be the normal procedure on other stack exchange sites. I thought that since comments are not permanent it is more desirable to have the comment become an official answer, but instead my question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there may be other reasons that voters closed my question, and if it's off-topic for other reasons, I'm fine with it remaining closed, but I was surprised by the comment that it was closed for being answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81955" LastActivityDate="2021-05-26T14:07:07.440" Title="Is closing a question as off-topic for being answered in the comments a valid close reason on this site?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8775" CreationDate="2021-05-25T18:09:35.410" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your interpretation that a question about a problem resulting from a typo or failure to load a necessary package is fair game for closure, although &amp;quot;solved in comments&amp;quot; isn't very informative.  It's easy enough to point out the nature of the problem/solution in a closing comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is found among the answers to another similar question, then pointing out the duplicate is preferable,  But if there's no other evidence on the site, a brief answer is desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing as &amp;quot;solved in comments&amp;quot; if the commenter has been asked to post an answer is at least bad manners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2021-05-25T18:09:35.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8775" CreationDate="2021-05-26T13:05:47.927" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'official' way is indeed to convert the comment into an answer, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3640/how-to-end-the-unanswered-status-of-really-solved-questions-in-the-comments&quot;&gt;How to end the &amp;quot;unanswered&amp;quot; status of really solved questions in the comments&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7258/solved-by-comment-how-to-flag&quot;&gt;Solved by comment -&amp;gt; how to flag&lt;/a&gt;. The person writing the answer can be either the original commenter, or the asker (along the lines of 'from the comment of @johnsmith I found the answer and it is as follows [...]), or a third person, that may or may not use the Community Wiki feature. All three options happen regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on TeX.SE it is common that short answers are posted as comments, where the commenter feels that their solution is too simple for a full answer. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3238/why-do-people-answer-in-comments&quot;&gt;Why do people answer in comments?&lt;/a&gt; for some background on this practise - the main reasons are that it is untested, or that it is a near-duplicate (see question X but change Y into Z), or that it is a very small modification to the code of the OP (remove &lt;code&gt;\par&lt;/code&gt; in the third line). In this case the commenter does not always want to write an actual answer, for the same reason that they originally chose to write the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are regularly closed as &amp;quot;solved in comments&amp;quot;, as a way to mark them as being resolved. This is contrary to the Stack Exchange model of &amp;quot;comments are for clarifications and answers are for answers&amp;quot;, but it works well for us, mainly because these comment solutions are usually correct and therefore answer voting is not necessary to determine quality, as is needed on other SE sites. This kind of comments can effectively be regarded as permanent - our moderators will not remove comments providing an answer, and commenters also generally do not remove their own comment if it has the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may happen that a question is closed too early and the commenter actually would have been interested in writing an answer. However, this does not happen very often I think, and in any case if the commenter wanted to write an answer then they should have done so in the first place. Such a closure &lt;em&gt;does not mean&lt;/em&gt; that your question is off-topic. In that case (most) close voters will type &amp;quot;is off-topic&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;is not related to LaTeX&amp;quot; in the custom close reason box, instead of &amp;quot;solved in comments&amp;quot;. This is unfortunately not shown in the closure box at the top of the question, but it is visible in the auto-generated closure comment below the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastEditorUserId="89417" LastEditDate="2021-05-26T14:07:07.440" LastActivityDate="2021-05-26T14:07:07.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8775" CreationDate="2021-05-26T13:38:35.283" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing as &amp;quot;solved in comments&amp;quot; is the worst thing to do to a question. If the question does not have enough votes, the closure might make it eligible to be roombad (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&lt;/a&gt;) and all the knowledge will be lost. Further users with the same problem won't be able to benifit from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Solved in comments&amp;quot; should only be used for problems others won't likely repeat like blatant typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2021-05-26T13:53:43.870" LastActivityDate="2021-05-26T13:53:43.870" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-02T13:30:15.487" Score="6" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently found this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/422089/parts-of-my-text-disappears&quot;&gt;Parts of my text disappears!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had the exact same problem in my document and also cannot upload a MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/422089/parts-of-my-text-disappears#comment1081814_422089&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; to this question contained a &amp;quot;solution&amp;quot; which &amp;quot;solved&amp;quot; the problem for me. (The word &amp;quot;solved&amp;quot; is in quotes as the comment only helps against the symptoms of the problem, but was for me the only way to get a correct PDF.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion this comment should be an answer for future readers. I'd be happy to post it myself, but neither was it my idea nor can I post an answer to a closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is one of the following possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone else posts the referenced comment as an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is (maybe temporarily) re-opened, so that I can post the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217396" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T13:30:15.487" Title="Answering this 3-year-old closed question?" Tags="|discussion|answers|closed-questions|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8780" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8781" CreationDate="2021-06-03T14:13:16.200" Score="13" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX-LaTeX StackExchange is a forum where questions are addressed in a factual manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suppose a responder gets the impression that the questioner is frustrated or desperate because s/he can't figure things out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The learning curve for TeX/LaTeX is very steep for many beginners.  From my own experience I know that, depending on the expectations of those or the pressure exerted by those who demand that you get to grips with (La)TeX as quickly as possible, this can sometimes even be frightening or increase the stress in life situations that are already riddled with stress. The beginning of a university study, combined with a total change of environment and milieu can be such a situation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In such a case, is it appropriate to include encouraging/positive motivational remarks into the factual answer to a question, even if these remarks do not provide any relevant information with regard to the question asked?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am not concerned with excessive life advice, but with remarks such as:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;In your own attempts to approach the problem, you yourself have already come very close to the solution.&lt;/strong&gt;  The only thing missing for completing the solution is a tiny detail, which is mentioned in the last half-sentence of a double-dangerous-bend paragraph of the TeXbook in a way that can only be understood if you have already read the whole book several times, as recommended in the preface.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or remarks whose subjectivity cannot be doubted - such as how one felt oneself to be a beginner, but that things became clearer with time, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;When I first stumbled upon this problem, it was very confusing, and it took me a while to be able to unravel things as follows:&lt;/strong&gt; ...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2021-06-03T14:26:33.930" LastActivityDate="2021-06-03T15:07:15.380" Title="Is it appropriate to include encouraging/positive motivational remarks in the factual answer to a question?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8780" CreationDate="2021-06-03T14:58:10.300" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very good and very careful thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Written facts can be cold, and data doesn't build a community. We are humans and we enjoy a good conversation. And yes, for people coming here with a technical problem , sympathy and encouragement would be great. And when it comes to criticism of code or question shape, an effort to be especially positive would be appreciated. Even more important for beginners here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a big yes from me. It won't hurt readers later to see a story around code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, comments are also an excellent place for welcoming and for encouraging. I can imagine, that there can be motivating remarks as you wrote above in your question, pointing to and followed by an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, based on your words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment to Question: &amp;quot;When I first stumbled upon this problem, it was very confusing, and it took me a while to be able to unravel things. I will write an answer below that explains how I solved it.&amp;quot;  And an answer follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment to Question: &amp;quot;In your own attempts to approach the problem, you yourself have already come very close to the solution. I think I know how we can solve it, please see my answer below.&amp;quot;  And an answer follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way the site works, motivates to write an answer very fast. With respect to this, a fast answer can be accompanied by a later comment in the spirit above, so we still can do it. Or, such a comment shows that someone is already working on it, so no urgent need to respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment approach has the benefit that users can easily respond and it can be a slightly off-topic talk in a comment thread. Experience shows that years later personal comments, such as a welcome message, are flagged as obsolete and deleted to remove some noise in favour of a good solution database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2021-06-03T15:07:15.380" LastActivityDate="2021-06-03T15:07:15.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6148" CreationDate="2021-06-03T17:40:35.510" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;About &amp;quot;LaTeX hiding TeX from your thinking&amp;quot;: In my humble opinion the terminology introduced and coming along with expl3 does another one. :-&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully agree with you that you have to understand TeX in order to be able to use LaTeX in a really well-versed manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But someone who has to cobble together whatsoever paper with LaTeX on a one-off basis, because some profile neurotic instructor at university absolutely wants it that way, and for whom it is foreseeable that s/he will never use LaTeX again afterwards because in practical life everyone works with Microsoft stuff anyway, gets that as long as s/he has someone on hand to help her/him every now and then, even without knowing all the subtleties of the TeXbook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But someone like that has to be able to live with the awareness that, from a TeXnical point of view, her/his work is not an elegant masterpiece, but something that has somehow been put together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ask very personal questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do your activities at TeX.SE steal too much time from your real life?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call that &amp;quot;stealing&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because the consent of those from whose property something is taken does not play a role in stealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as my dealings with this forum are concerned, I don't see myself deprived of deciding myself about the amount of time I spend here. (Keyword: Self-determination.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The words &amp;quot;temptation&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;seduction&amp;quot; might be more appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, however, &amp;quot;temptation&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;seduction&amp;quot; are not that much due to deliberate (subtle) manipulation by this community or its framework with the nice reputation game and badges, etc., but more due to my own desire to find diversion and distraction from other things, and sometimes to find recognition.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If this community did not exist, I would probably find something else to distract me from these other things, and to seek/find recognition, which would then take the same place in my real life. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know they are common parlance. Nevertheless I have problems with phrases like &amp;quot;real life&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;virtual reality&amp;quot;, which you encounter everywhere these days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what other kinds of life is the word &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; supposed to differentiate a so-called &amp;quot;real life&amp;quot;? In what way is this differentiation important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I consider my whole life to be real. Otherwise, it might not come to the point sometimes that things involving concepts like virtuality or fiction bother me in a very real way.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I am now trying desperately to present my point of view in a short manner without this distorting the gist of my thoughts - you know I'm not good at that - should it go wrong, I hope that at least the goodwill is evident.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I become aware of aspects, this becoming-aware in any case is something real. The effects of this becoming-aware, e.g., the effects on my well-being, are real, also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several possibilities for initiating a process of becoming aware of whatsoever aspects. With a subset of these possibilities starting points for the process of becoming aware can be the &amp;quot;activities&amp;quot; of sense organs/perception organs, which deliver to the information-processing-system &amp;quot;brain&amp;quot; connected with them information about perceptible &amp;quot;things&amp;quot; lying &amp;quot;outside&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The perceptible &amp;quot;things&amp;quot; can be both real and have properties related to &amp;quot;virtuality&amp;quot; at the same time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Virtuality is the property of a thing not to exist in the form in which it appears to exist, but to resemble in its essence or effect a thing existing in that form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This definition also subsumes the following case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The property of a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; thing not to exist in the form in which it appears to exist, but to resemble in its essence or effect a (different) thing existing in that form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Someone might ask about non-real virtual things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The holodeck from Star Trek, which can represent pretty virtual three-dimensional objects that look like something, although according to the story they are just some photon conglomerates, does not really exist, but exists only in fiction. When you refer to these pretty three-dimensional objects, you refer to fictional virtual objects, not to real virtual objects.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you feel that you are absorbed by this site and your normal activities are faded?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fundamental question (also) in dealing with &amp;quot;social media&amp;quot; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does one spend one's time on social media intentionally and voluntarily and with pleasure, or is one taken in by all this in a way that is actually not good for one, that one sometimes even feels as an impairment of one's freedom of will or one's own control of one's own life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case, it might be good to get to the bottom of why one is putting up with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The medium itself, in which one spends that time, even though one is uncomfortable because of the time involved, and even though one could perhaps do otherwise, should not necessarily be the appropriate point of contact for this, because aspects often play a role that are to be located elsewhere, and whereabout other people know better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't take my activities on this site for abnormal (although others might not agree in this point ;-) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thinking about questions and &amp;quot;macro-puzzles&amp;quot; indeed sometimes absorbs me in a way where other things appear to be in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also happens that I get &amp;quot;carried away&amp;quot; when I try to explain to people how things work in TeX and LaTeX and how the different components / stages of processing intertwine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since I know that this can happen to me, I only go to TeX-LaTeX StackExchange when I know that it won't hurt if it happens to me, because the window of time in front of me is big enough, and the other &amp;quot;fading activities&amp;quot; are not really important things, but things where it won't throw me off track to postpone their getting done a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's make an analogy between this site and a forum (marketplace) in the Latin sense of the term:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion it's a nice and rather comfortable marketplace with lots of Markdown features that I've come to appreciate. E.g., inserting code-snippets and images and the like is easy. The user interface is straightforward. Pleasant to use. It is easy to find your way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am not &amp;quot;absorbed&amp;quot; by the look and the features and the comfortableness of the &amp;quot;marketplace&amp;quot;. In case TeX LaTeX StackExchange would cease to exist, I would not feel this as a great blow of fate. It wouldn't be nice, but I wouldn't have a big problem with moving to other places where TeX/LaTeX is also discussed, e.g. back to usenet, to comp.text.tex/de.comp.text.tex, where unfortunately there is rather little going on at the moment except for announcements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am fascinated by the &amp;quot;goods&amp;quot;: I am fascinated and thus sort of absorbed by the questions—like a chess player who is not fascinated by the room where s/he plays but who is fascinated by the challenge provided by the game itself and by the tricks/techniques she/he learns from the other players. (Btw: I have often learned new tricks for using TeX from the code you have written, and in such moments my heart has leapt.) Seeing/learning how others program is sometimes of similar fascination to me as the fascination of someone studying the elegant movement of a panther. Even if I can never achieve that elegance myself, it's still &amp;quot;real steel&amp;quot; and an honor and a joy to witness it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think that for all people the boundary between normality and abnormality of the extent of their activities on this site is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether the extent, be it normal or be it abnormal, is harmful also plays a role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., whether the extent causes one to mis-prioritize other aspects of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That in turn also depends on the living conditions. And whether the purpose of being here has to do with escaping other aspects of reality. And whether escaping these other aspects of reality for a little while is a good/recreational thing or whether it is a bad thing because the extent causes disregarding the need of improving living conditions and/or causes deterioration of living conditions due to neglect of other important aspects of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm here, I'm distracted from my state of physical health. At the moment I don't see any possibility, which could be restricted by my being here, to change it. So it's more of a good thing for me to be here and to have the feeling (hopefully not just the illusion) that I might still be useful for something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you spend too much time in front of your computer monitor with TeX.SE open?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely yes. E.g., when watching a video on YouTube while having forgotten to log out from TeX.SE. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from time to time, yes, when I am carried away by some intriguing macro-puzzle, or when I am carried away while writing about how TeX or LaTeX works. The process of learning how to explain things/how to word things so that they are more easily understood correctly is both fascinating and terrifying to me at the same time. Terrifying when I realize how awkward and incomprehensible my previous attempts have been and that my current attempts are just different but not better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I sit down and write an answer, it happens that at some point I realize that I should have eaten something long ago, or that my bladder almost bursts because I have not paid attention to the signals from my body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2021-09-09T15:47:44.600" LastActivityDate="2021-09-09T15:47:44.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6111" CreationDate="2021-06-06T10:44:41.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If TeX.SE would compile code for you, then people could abuse the resources provided by TeX.SE for &amp;quot;outsourcing&amp;quot; the process of creating .tex-files for their documents:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just start composing a new question containing a code-snippet which makes up the entire document that one is about to create. When one is done and the result is fine, then just copy the code snippet to text-file/.tex-file on one's own machine and abort the process of asking the question instead of submitting something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the weekend go to the computer center of your campus and compile the .tex-file in order to obtain the .pdf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 30000 character-limit and multifile-projects might be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless I assume that it might come to abusing TeX.SE-resources this way in favor of maintaining a TeX-System on one's own machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2021-06-06T16:45:15.093" LastActivityDate="2021-06-06T16:45:15.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2021-06-06T15:46:43.967" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;0. Starting point:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After compiling the .tex-file you have the .pdf-file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;1. Copy/paste things to/from clipboard&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many .pdf-viewing programs, when displaying a .pdf-file, let you select an area of what is displayed, and copy that to clipboard. Often copying as image is also possible here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively many operating systems provide a tool which can be used for making a screenshot of a selected area of the screen, which can as well be an area where a .pdf-viewing-program displays an area of a .pdf-file. (Under Windows, e.g., the so-called snipping-tool.)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;With many of these tools the screenshot can either be saved to file (.jpg, .png, .gif) or be copied to clipboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the TeX-LaTeX-StackExchange website the process of embedding an image into a question/an answer is initiated by clicking the symbol &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rQcTy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rQcTy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You find this symbol in the tool-bar at the top of the editing-window where you type your question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you do that, beneath other options, you are also offered the possibility of pasting an image from the clipboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With approaches involving screenshots, the quality of the obtained image also depends on the quality and settings of the hardware in use for displaying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2. From your .pdf-file via image-conversion-software obtain an image file (.jpg/.png/.gif) and embed that into your question/answer at TeX-LaTeX&amp;nbsp;StackExchange&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2.1 Obtaining an image file (.jpg/.png/.gif) suitable for embeddeding into your question/answer at TeX-LaTeX&amp;nbsp;StackExchange&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are countless methods and tools/programs for obtaining  .jpg- or .png- or .gif-images for embedding into a question/an answer at TeX-LaTeX StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many programs/methods have already been presented in other answers/comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some pdf-viewing-programs let you save selections and/or single pages as .jpg- or .png- or .gif-images.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;With this kind of approach, the image quality depends mainly on the algorithms and settings of the routine used for conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With .pdf-viewing-programs that don't offer such functionality you can obtain an image by displaying the .pdf file on the screen by means of the .pdf-viewing-program and then using a tool (e.g., &amp;quot;snipping tool&amp;quot; on more recent MS-Windows platforms) that takes a screenshot of a selected area of the screen and saves that screenshot as an image file in .png or .jpg or .gif format.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;With this kind of approach, the quality of the obtained image also depends on the quality and settings of the hardware in use for displaying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are also graphics processing programs and command line tools that can convert .pdf files to other file formats, for example .png or .jpg or .gif.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this kind of approach, the image quality depends mainly on the algorithms and settings of the programs used for conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2.2 Embedding the image file (.jpg/.png/.gif) into your question/answer at TeX-LaTeX&amp;nbsp;StackExchange&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you have your .jpg-file/.png-file/animated .gif-file, then you can upload it to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stack.imgur.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/&lt;/a&gt; and thus embed it as an image into your question/answer at  TeX-LaTeX StackExchange  simply by clicking (on the site of TeX-LaTeX StackExchange) the symbol &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rQcTy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rQcTy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You find this symbol in the tool-bar at the top of the editing-window where you type your question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;3. I myself usually go the second way:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use the program &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gimp.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GIMP=&lt;strong&gt;G&lt;/strong&gt;NU &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;mage &lt;strong&gt;M&lt;/strong&gt;anipulation &lt;strong&gt;P&lt;/strong&gt;rogram&lt;/a&gt; to convert .pdf files to other formats. I use GIMP because GIMP is under the GNU license, and because GIMP is available both for Windows and for Linux, so I don't have to get used to multiple/different tools for the two operating systems I use most often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both on Linux and on Windows I have GIMP 2.10.8, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gimp.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU Image Manipulation Program&lt;/a&gt;, installed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After compiling the .tex-file you have the .pdf-file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You start GIMP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In GIMP you select &amp;quot;File&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Open&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A dialog-box &amp;quot;Open Image&amp;quot; appears. Here you can browse and select the .pdf-file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then a window &amp;quot;Import from .pdf&amp;quot; apppears.  Here you can select which pages of the .pdf-file you wish to be loaded and whether to load them as single images or to load them as different layers of one single image/animation. Width, height and resolution can be adjusted, too. Then you click &amp;quot;import&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then the Window &amp;quot;Import from .pdf&amp;quot; disappears and the images are loaded into the main window of GIMP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If (selected) pages were loaded as single images, you can with any of the images do &amp;quot;File&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Export as&amp;quot; and export it as .jpg- or .png-image. Hereby several dialog boxes appear where you can do several adjustments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If (selected) pages were loaded as single images, you alternatively can use GIMP's &amp;quot;rectangle select tool&amp;quot;  and select an area of one of the images. Via &amp;quot;Edit&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Copy&amp;quot; you can copy the selected area to clipboard. Via &amp;quot;Edit&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Paste&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;as new image&amp;quot; you can paste the selected area as a new image. Then you can do &amp;quot;File&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Export as&amp;quot; and export the new image containing only the selected area as .jpg- or .png-image. Hereby several dialog boxes appear where you can do several adjustments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If (selected) pages were loaded as layers of one single image/animation, then at the top of the right side of GIMP's window you find a list with the names/numbers of the different frames.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The frame whose name/number is listed at the &lt;strong&gt;bottom&lt;/strong&gt; of the list will be displayed as the &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; one. The frame whose name/number is listed at the &lt;strong&gt;top&lt;/strong&gt; of the list will be displayed as the &lt;strong&gt;last&lt;/strong&gt; one.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In that list you can left-click names/numbers of single frames and while holding the left mouse-button move the corresponding list-entry upwards or downwards in order to change the order of the elements of the list and thus the order in which frames will be displayed.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In that list you also can select/right-click the name of a single frame. Then a context-menu opens up where you can do adjustments to the properties of the frame in question.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;E.g., you can append to the name/number of a frame something like &lt;code&gt;(1250ms)&lt;/code&gt; to specify that the frame in question will be displayed for 1250 milliseconds.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;There also is &amp;quot;Filters&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Animation&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Optimize (for GIF)&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;Optimize (Difference)&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;There also is &amp;quot;Filters&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Animation&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Playback&amp;quot; for watching the animation.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;When everything is according to your wishes you can do &amp;quot;File&amp;quot; → &amp;quot;Export as&amp;quot;, select &amp;quot;file type: gif&amp;quot; and save the thing as an animated .gif-file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., compiling the following MWE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{graphicx}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\scalebox{10}{\Huge{A}}&#xA;\newpage&#xA;\scalebox{10}{\Huge{B}}&#xA;\newpage&#xA;\scalebox{10}{\Huge{C}}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yields a .pdf-file from which via GIMP you can derive an animated .gif-file where pages are displayed one by one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I3RHw.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I3RHw.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2021-06-09T19:19:28.650" LastActivityDate="2021-06-09T19:19:28.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8786" CreationDate="2021-06-06T22:56:53.400" Score="-1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to download &lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;llncs&lt;/code&gt; file from Springer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it only shows a blank page.&#xA;Does somebody know how to get this working?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243849" OwnerDisplayName="gython" LastActivityDate="2021-06-07T10:07:51.770" Title="Cant open the Springer llncs downlaod" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2021-06-09T21:46:47.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8785" CreationDate="2021-06-07T03:58:47.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's going to download a zip file so you won't see output in your browser. Check your downloads folder which will probably be named &lt;code&gt;Downloads&lt;/code&gt; in your home directory. You may need to double click on the file to get to the contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202780" OwnerDisplayName="Don Hosek" LastActivityDate="2021-06-07T03:58:47.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8787" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-09T19:12:49.520" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the panel on the right I have highlighted a few tags that are my favorites. This generated a light pastel color  that let me know that the question was among my favorites and referred to a tag in my list. This option has disappeared and I wanted to know if you have the same problem or if there is work in progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I put an example where there is not the light pastel color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wvfCa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wvfCa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="2875" LastEditDate="2021-06-15T09:19:57.177" LastActivityDate="2021-07-15T10:01:01.043" Title="Watched Tags: no coloring questions" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-completed|tagging|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8787" CreationDate="2021-06-10T20:50:31.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the 22:48 (about) GMT+1 of 2021-06-10 it has been recreated the light background color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RYoCJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RYoCJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2021-06-10T20:50:31.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8791" CreationDate="2021-06-11T13:02:52.757" Score="16" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a systematic campaign of closing question just because the OP did not accept one of the answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m voting to close this question because it seems that OP is not active anymore and consequently (s)he will not accept any of received answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question seems clear, does have a MWE, got multiple answers and the OP gave feedback in a comment with thanks and acknowledging that the solution worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(the question was reopened in the mean time)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m voting to close this question because OP after one and half year still not respond to comment nor to received answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question might not have a MWE but looks reasonable clear and shows some code. The question received multiple good answers. The OP posted feedback and follow up questions from a new account as a (non-)answer, so maybe simply has no longer access to the old account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(the question was reopened in the mean time)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the time and effort the of the users writing answers be valued and the information be preserved for future users regardless of some green tick being clicked or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not providing links, because I don't want to call out a user. I'll put them in a deleted answer for trusted users to see)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2021-06-16T12:59:16.807" LastActivityDate="2021-06-16T12:59:16.807" Title="Should questions be closed just because the OP did not accept one of the answers?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8789" CreationDate="2021-06-11T13:16:38.450" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions should only be closed if they do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; meet meet the criteria of being clear, objective and on-topic, with perhaps the proviso that things like out-and-out typos, misunderstandings and issues which are best solved by updating a TeX installation can be closed. (The latter would otherwise tend toward some rather repetitive and low-value answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow model is that answers are for people well beyond the original poster/questionner (OP), and so whilst there is of course a need to help the OP, the majority of 'value' is in helping others. That is why the site prioritises community votes over the OPs 'acceptance' in indicating answer quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, questions should not be closed simply as the OP has lost interest, moved on, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="14649" LastEditDate="2021-06-13T15:26:12.003" LastActivityDate="2021-06-13T15:26:12.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-17T10:06:22.167" Score="7" ViewCount="502" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September update:&lt;/strong&gt; Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from the CM Team explaining why it wasn't selected). Go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;the main post on MSE&lt;/a&gt; for a list of the ads that are being displayed. And stay tuned for 2022's edition for the next opportunity to submit more ad proposals!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AUGUST NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; This post has now been locked and new submissions are not being accepted. Ad submissions are now undergoing review by the Community Team, and this question will be updated once the ads are live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're almost halfway through 2021, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;in case you missed it&lt;/a&gt;, Community Promotion Ads are gonna be a bit different this time! &lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: submit and vote for ad proposals before August 2nd!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, or on other sites in the network. They can show up in the right sidebar, or in banners in question pages. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be considered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/99341/208518&quot;&gt;the Community Management Team&lt;/a&gt; to be displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. The goal of this initiative is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. You may want to promote external resources, or Meta guidance for newcomers, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This initiative has an added goal of providing your community with &lt;em&gt;an opportunity to showcase exemplary questions from your main site, as well as frequently-linked-to guides from your Meta site&lt;/em&gt;. While the latter makes sense to be shown solely on this site, the former can be shown all across the network. These should avoid hot button topics, and instead focus more on evergreen questions that show what your community’s all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. Historically, we've reset the ads every year — since this is the first run of a new format, we'll run the ads collected in this post through the end of 2021 and reassess the rotation cycle then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a previous exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Are there restrictions to the ads I can post?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All proposed ads need to abide by &lt;a href=&quot;/conduct&quot;&gt;our Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/advertising/guidelines&quot;&gt;Our ad creative guidelines&lt;/a&gt; also generally apply (note that the first 2 bullet points on the “Tracking” section do not apply, and a lot of the guidelines surrounding claims, comparisons, proof, etc., while still applicable, may not be particularly relevant). Finally, ads can not be promoting products nor soliciting programmer time or resources for: knowledge sharing or collaboration tools for technologists, or for sites where ad buyers are primarily targeting technologists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Each answer must relate to a single ad submission.&lt;/strong&gt; Please do not post multiple ad submissions in the same answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers must be in one of the below formats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have an image for the ad you want to display on this site (must be the case for ads to external sources):&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-none prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Image name. Example: &amp;quot;community_ad_name_300x250&amp;quot;][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: https://image-url&#xA;  [2]: https://clickthrough-url&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to create an ad for a question from your main or meta site, to be advertised on this or other sites in the network (staff will generate a frame for the ad with this site's theme, for brand consistency):&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-none prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Question title  &#xA;Question URL&#xA;Ad size (right sidebar or banner ads)&#xA;Site(s) to be displayed in. Can be:&#xA;  - &amp;quot;self&amp;quot; for ads to be displayed on this site&#xA;  - &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; for ads to be displayed all over the network&#xA;  - a specific subset of sites&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels for right sidebar ads or 728 x 90 pixels for banner ads. Images can be double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF, PNG, or JPG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Selection process&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This post will remain open for ad submissions and voting until August 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;. At that point, the question will be closed/locked, and no more ad submissions will be accepted. For ad submissions to be considered for selection by the Community Management Team, they must have &lt;strong&gt;a minimum score of 6 at the time the post was closed/locked for submissions.&lt;/strong&gt; Given this is the first run with this new format, we may adjust the score threshold to be a bit lower if we see ads struggling to get to it (especially if the ads are not getting downvotes) by the time submissions and voting are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reporting statistics&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once this cycle is over, at the end of 2021, the Community Management Team will provide you with reporting statistics, as described in the &amp;quot;reporting&amp;quot; section of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to use the question's comment section to ask for any clarifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-09-09T11:29:05.887" LastActivityDate="2021-09-09T11:29:05.887" Title="Community Ads for 2021" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-17T14:50:11.497" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l3H4E.png&quot; alt=&quot;The LaTeX Font Catalogue&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7883" LastEditorUserId="7883" LastEditDate="2021-06-17T15:05:05.573" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T15:05:05.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-17T15:09:15.903" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.latex-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8EXPe.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX Project&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-08-04T11:09:41.643" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T11:09:41.643" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-17T15:09:15.903" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-17T15:13:11.337" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tug.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDlFZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;The TeX Users Group&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-08-04T11:17:46.453" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T11:17:46.453" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-17T15:13:11.337" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-17T15:14:44.257" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tug.org/texlive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gYqMV.png&quot; alt=&quot;TeX Live, cross-platform TeX software&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-08-04T11:12:35.927" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T11:12:35.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-17T15:16:03.533" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9D64.png&quot; alt=&quot;Detexify, automated LaTeX symbol recognition&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-08-04T11:14:38.233" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T11:14:38.233" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-17T15:16:03.533" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-17T15:17:27.990" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m2HMm.png&quot; alt=&quot;The TeX Users Group&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-08-04T11:18:29.870" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T11:18:29.870" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-17T15:17:27.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-17T17:47:04.347" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.learnlatex.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dnKmy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Learn LaTeX at LearnLaTeX.org&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-08-04T11:20:05.663" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T11:20:05.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-17T17:48:35.037" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.learnlatex.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4lVvo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Learn LaTeX at LearnLaTeX.org&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-08-04T11:21:06.960" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T11:21:06.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8792" CreationDate="2021-06-18T17:14:57.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/Russian-Phd-LaTeX-Dissertation-Template&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QbDJC.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX template for russian PhD thesis (LaTeX-шаблон для кандидатской диссертации и её автореферата)&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79756" LastActivityDate="2021-06-18T17:14:57.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8803" CreationDate="2021-07-02T12:26:18.253" Score="4" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;When typing answers in an edit-box of the TeX-LaTeX-StackExchange website, which is based on markdown, then from time to time I introduce control-sequence-tokens/sequences of inline-code not via nesting between backticks as in &lt;code&gt;`\macro`&lt;/code&gt; but via nesting between HTML-tags &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; as in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\macro&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Usually this yields &lt;code&gt;\macro&lt;/code&gt;, i.e., the leading backslash &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; of the phrase &lt;code&gt;\macro&lt;/code&gt; is present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I do this with control-sequence-tokens whose name's first character is &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;, then the preceding backslash doesn't show up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\@currenvir&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;  yields:  &lt;code&gt;@currenvir&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The phrase &lt;code&gt;\@currenvir&lt;/code&gt; is between HTML-tags &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and as far as I know neither the backslash nor @ is a special/reserved character in HTML.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the preceding backslash not show up in the output at the TeX-LaTeX-StackExchange website if in my markdown/HTML-input it is trailed by &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I overlooking some subtle rule regarding syntax of markdown-input or HTML-input or HTML-inside-markdown-input?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If not: Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case things render differently on different browsers here is a screenshot of what I get when viewing with Chromium under Debian Linux:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Aafv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Aafv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2021-07-02T14:00:18.147" LastActivityDate="2021-07-02T14:00:18.147" Title="Problem writing the sequence \@ in inline &lt;code&gt;...&lt;/code&gt;-blocks" Tags="|bug|markdown|code|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8802" CreationDate="2021-07-02T12:43:59.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The markdown backtick syntax does not only the formatting like the HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block, but it also escapes special characters, so a &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt; or a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; have no special meaning.  Inside a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block this escaping does not happen, so a backslash introduces an escape sequence.  To have a backslash you need an escaped backslash, thus: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\\@currenvir&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, which renders as &lt;code&gt;\@currenvir&lt;/code&gt;.  You can see the same thing with other non-alphanumeric characters like &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;!@#$%&amp;amp;*()_+=-'?/&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (in the source of this answer, all of those are preceded by a backslash).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's also what you have to use when you want to type &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; outside of a backtick pair (or a markdown code block): &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\&amp;lt;/code\&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; renders as &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, but without the backslashes it would render as &lt;code&gt;&lt;/code&gt; (an empty HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block, plus a stray &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastActivityDate="2021-07-02T12:43:59.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-03T16:31:49.227" Score="9" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently running a kickstarter for my LaTeX book. I was thinking that I might change my display name to something like &amp;quot;Don Hosek—author of The Preppy Lion: An Author's Guide to LaTeX&amp;quot; but I don't want to be gauche either, so if there's &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; objection, I won't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202780" LastActivityDate="2021-07-03T17:40:35.063" Title="Would it be OK to reference the existence of my LaTeX book in my name on this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8804" CreationDate="2021-07-03T17:08:41.193" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could add your book name with cover and description to your profile text and also add a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could even use your kickstarter campaign URL as your homepage link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could write a blog post on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex-talk.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tex-talk.net&lt;/a&gt; (formerly it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tex.blogoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; as TeX.SE blog). I could build and host a book website for you, similar &lt;a href=&quot;https://latex-cookbook.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://latex-cookbook.net&lt;/a&gt; including on-page-compiling of sample codes. (I was too lazy to add that book to my profile, but did it for my first book.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be glad to help in supporting and promoting like above. In my opinion, advertisement in a user name may not be a good choice. A bad sample name to get a feeling: &amp;quot;Jonny—author of Buy Bitcoin&amp;quot; as author of some hundreds of answers or chat messages. Sorry for that :-) it's Jonny not you. And your book is on-topic. Book promotion and kickstarter promotion is good, user names are user names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Twitter announcements of start or progress may be good, such as this one that I made right now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/TeXgallery/status/1411376621223809030&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/TeXgallery/status/1411376621223809030&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RXigK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RXigK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Preppy Lion Tweet&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2021-07-03T17:40:35.063" LastActivityDate="2021-07-03T17:40:35.063" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-08T17:01:25.400" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to share some findings on package &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/g-brief&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;g-brief&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was designed to write business letters with layout, as used in Germany.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it's not a question I'm about to ask... it's a description of how to make this package work to create serial letters. I'd be presenting the approach from a website I found, with some adaptions to make it more digestible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where/how should I post it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245790" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-07-08T19:27:09.653" LastActivityDate="2021-07-10T05:35:41.470" Title="How to post a &quot;how to&quot; question on the main site?" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8810" CreationDate="2021-07-08T18:24:47.220" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider phrasing your &amp;quot;how to manual&amp;quot; in the form of a question. Here's a fictitious start:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to create some business letters with layout using the &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/g-brief&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;g-brief&lt;/code&gt; package&lt;/a&gt;. However, I'm uncertain how to go about it as the documentation isn't clear on what to do and where. I'd like to specifically put X in some specific spot and ensure that Y is always in some other specific spot. How can I achieve this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a minimal document that I've set up with the information I currently have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{&amp;lt;class&amp;gt;}&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage{g-brief}&#xA;&amp;lt;more preamble stuff&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;document stuff&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the specifics about the problem should be updated to match what you aim to show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-07-08T19:28:21.543" LastActivityDate="2021-07-08T19:28:21.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-15T12:56:18.107" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;on the main-site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX-LaTeX-StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;, the look of things shown while editing/typing to the editor-window differs from the look of things after submitting the question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this behavior is my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/496965/how-do-use-setup-in-tl-set-rescannnn-to-replace-scantokens/577183#577183&quot;&gt;answer to the question How do use {} in \tl_set_rescan:Nnn to replace \scantokens?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bottom, where I typed the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-none prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\verb&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;control&amp;amp;nbsp;word&amp;amp;nbsp;token&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;12&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;e&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;x&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;12&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while editing/typing, things looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/khSXt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/khSXt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After submitting/cancelling the edit, things look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NI3ID.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NI3ID.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This behavior is new and it distorts answers of mine given in the past.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the look of things change after submitting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for testing-purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-none prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\verb&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;control&amp;amp;nbsp;word&amp;amp;nbsp;token&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;12&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;e&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;x&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;12&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\verb&lt;sub&gt;control&amp;nbsp;word&amp;nbsp;token&lt;/sub&gt;+&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;t&lt;sub&gt;11&lt;/sub&gt;e&lt;sub&gt;11&lt;/sub&gt;x&lt;sub&gt;11&lt;/sub&gt;t&lt;sub&gt;11&lt;/sub&gt;+&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems the behavior occurs at TeX-LaTeX-StackExchange (the main site)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;but does not occur here at TeX-LaTeX-Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Syntax-highlighting at the main site has something to do with it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At TeX-LaTeX-StackExchange you have syntax-highlighting and things are colored in blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At TeX-LaTeX-Meta you don't have syntax-highlighting and things are black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If on the main site you prepend &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, i.e.,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-none prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\verb&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;control&amp;amp;nbsp;word&amp;amp;nbsp;token&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;12&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;e&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;x&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;11&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;12&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;, then on the main site &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;..&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; are not ignored and things are not colored in blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the past on the main-site you didn't need to prepend &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and in the past things while editing looked the same as after submitting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the the way in which syntax-highlighting at the main site works change recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2021-07-15T15:01:33.197" LastActivityDate="2021-07-15T15:01:33.197" Title="Seems due to syntax-highligfhting tags &lt;sub&gt; &lt;/sub&gt; not working any more on the main site" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-20T20:22:37.693" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not understood the reason of the different color of my avatar on TeX.SE.meta and the main site as the up/down vote and other backgrounds are all colored with the color orange. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vaGeq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vaGeq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2021-07-20T20:22:37.693" Title="Color changed (orange) for up-down vote on main site and for my avatar on meta.tex.se" Tags="|discussion|design|meta|avatar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2021-07-21T05:38:25.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-23T20:11:25.297" Score="32" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a question but a subjective opinion I have expressed elsewhere as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am on SE for 12 or so years and I was always disappointed by the toxicity of many main &amp;quot;SE network nodes&amp;quot; (with SO being at the very top).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discovered SE LaTeX a few years ago by wandering in the Hot Network entries. having used LaTeX in my past life (physics) I was borderline interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What really strikes me here is the welcoming atmosphere, the quality of the answers etc. Even basic questions are responded to with kindness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks for that.&lt;/strong&gt; SE LaTeX has become some kind of psychologically soothing journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166508" LastActivityDate="2021-07-23T20:11:25.297" Title="This SE site is probably the most welcoming of the whole network" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="32" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8819" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-24T00:55:35.173" Score="7" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's assume a user tries to find an answer for a question posed by another user. After a while, he addresses the question posed but he bumps into a new issue stemming from the solution he found. What is he supposed to do? Post the answer, explaining the issues coming up or post a new question that uses almost the same MWE but focuses on the new issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150071" LastActivityDate="2021-07-24T00:55:35.173" Title="Coming up with a question, while trying to answer another one" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8821" CreationDate="2021-07-26T23:29:17.623" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to find out information about voting behaviour against me on this site (Main and/or Meta). Does such information exist? If so, where can I find it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example these are related only on &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt; that summarises users by their downvoting behaviour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/meta.tex/query/781493/25-most-downvoted-users&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/meta.tex/query/781493/25-most-downvoted-users&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/meta.tex/query/691667/top-downvoters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/meta.tex/query/691667/top-downvoters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-07-27T18:26:16.000" LastActivityDate="2021-07-30T17:43:16.317" Title="Targeted downvoting: information related to my profile" Tags="|discussion|support|down-votes|serial-voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8820" CreationDate="2021-07-27T18:22:58.373" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting (specifically up/down-votes, not votes for closure or other review voting) has always been anonymous to avoid negative (or positive) consequences that result when people target specific users. This type of targeted voting is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/126829/168244&quot;&gt;serial voting&lt;/a&gt; (or voter fraud which stands opposite to regular, expected voting rationale) and Stack Exchange has attempted to automate the reversal of such habits using a script that runs every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the above in mind, there is no way of identifying &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; downvoted post. At best you can &lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt; who did this by tracking people's reputation in real time and seeing a -2 difference if there's a downvote on an answer of yours (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/90324/168244&quot;&gt;question downvotes a free&lt;/a&gt;). But this is speculative because reputation changes due to many site interactions (editing, up/down votes cast and downvotes received) and there could be new users you don't know about casting downvotes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, let's assume you know who downvoted your post. What is your next step? Sure, you want them to tell you &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they did that. They don't have to if they don't want to, leaving you now with the same negative feeling... which often results in retaliation (a completely human instinct) through downvoting that person in a commensurate fashion. Such behaviour doesn't help anyone but you; the community (or greater good) either doesn't notice it, or when they do and don't agree with it, would easily reverse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of note here is that there's also a distinction between voting behaviours on Meta vs Main: The former has a focus on the Main site and often discusses ideas. Upvotes are therefore commonly seen as support for or in favour of the suggestion (question and/or answer). Since the voting is somewhat different from the Main site, it also provides a reason why Meta doesn't have its own reputation. Of course one can equate the two voting systems (a -1 on Meta might feel like people don't like you, personally, just like a -1 on Main feels like people don't like you rather than your question/answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting system and its associated behaviour is something that is perceived very differently by different people. So it will probably be a point of discussion for the foreseeable future. And since it's perceived so differently, it's probably equally difficult to persuade people to think of it in a less threatening or negative manner if they've been &amp;quot;done in&amp;quot; by other's negative voting. We've lost a number of community members as a result. But from a bigger perspective, the principle remains solid and mostly objective - people get to express their opinions through voting and the general consensus should prevail in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view a graph of your site-specific reputation changes by viewing &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/9574961/sebastiano?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;the reputation tab of your network profile&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SvTcv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SvTcv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interactive chart allows you to zoom in and see the reputation changes on a day-to-day basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/126829/168244&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/90324/168244&quot;&gt;Should downvotes on questions be “free”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GA8CA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GA8CA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/353532639473550527/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-07-27T18:22:58.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-28T06:48:31.657" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;my qustion on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68554208/i-have-connected-my-stack-overflow-account-to-tex-se-and-meta-se-cant-login-wi&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68554208/i-have-connected-my-stack-overflow-account-to-tex-se-and-meta-se-cant-login-wi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am @Gomesz785.(&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/16485526/gomesz785&quot;&gt;SO account&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/247020/&quot;&gt;Tex.SE account&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One week ago I setted up &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/16485526/gomesz785&quot;&gt;this SO account&lt;/a&gt;. I was active in the site. Then When I went to Tex.SE and &lt;strong&gt;I logged on/connected Using &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/16485526/gomesz785&quot;&gt;my SO account&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I am &lt;strong&gt;on a different Computer; Logged on to SO&lt;/strong&gt;. But When I go To Tex.SE there is no option to &lt;strong&gt;Login with a connected-SO account&lt;/strong&gt;. I &lt;strong&gt;created My SO account with my GitHub account&lt;/strong&gt;; but there seems to be &lt;strong&gt;no option for that either&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing somewhere In auth-ing or Simply misunderstanding something? Why can't I log in to Tex.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&quot;tex.se-login-window&quot;&gt;Tex.SE login window&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Ofth.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Ofth.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel Free to comment &amp;amp; ask questions from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&quot;abrvs&quot;&gt;ABRVs&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO = Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tex.SE = Tex Stack exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta.SE = Meta Stack exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I still get notification updates from the Tex.SE posts from the SO notifications tab/the section in the bar, But can't reply, upvote, mark as answers because i can't login.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: One can notice that I should/can/must answer this in Meta.SE but Can't login to it either :( .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="247128" OwnerDisplayName="user247128" LastEditorUserId="247128" LastEditDate="2021-07-28T07:29:37.953" LastActivityDate="2021-07-28T07:29:37.953" Title="Can't login with an another device: I have connected my Stack-overflow account to Tex.SE" Tags="|discussion|bug|user-accounts|login|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2021-08-04T22:27:10.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Disaster recovery&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8503&quot;&gt;How to convert PDF to (La)TeX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to convert PDF to (La)TeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8503)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/528262&quot;&gt;Are there any dangerous commands in LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Are there any dangerous commands in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/528262)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2022-09-08T13:50:01.727" LastActivityDate="2022-09-08T13:50:01.727" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-08-04T22:27:10.883" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-07T12:38:04.713" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed, and I hope that I'm not wrong, that every user profile is missing &lt;strong&gt;the time&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;the date&lt;/strong&gt; when they last logged in TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question, although synthetic, refers to the &lt;em&gt;opening&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;closing&lt;/em&gt; of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I generally wait 12 or at most 24 hours from the last connection of the user.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2021-08-07T12:38:04.713" Title="Missed the time of the day, hour, minute on every profile?" Tags="|discussion|design|closed-questions|user-profile-page|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-10T08:19:09.113" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;In posting an answer to a question, I get the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ax6tA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ax6tA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can not see the CAPTCHA box in the page. What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106776" LastActivityDate="2021-08-10T08:19:09.113" Title="I can not see the CAPTCHA box" Tags="|support|captcha|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-28T18:19:48.070" Score="6" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just another beautiful day and I was thinking about&#xA;what closing as duplicate means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly the rule of thumb/motivation is that&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;if a question is answered once, don't answer twice&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there is this situation, where some hard-working beginner&#xA;worked out an MWE, and immediately be marked as a duplicate&#xA;of something asked 5 years ago, and the MWE therein included&#xA;unnecessary, obsolete packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing the beginner did wrong is being born late by 5 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we think twice and treat the &lt;em&gt;most minimal&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;most up-to-date&lt;/em&gt; working example&#xA;as the original copy, answer that, and mark the others as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51022" LastEditorUserId="51022" LastEditDate="2021-08-28T20:58:29.760" LastActivityDate="2021-08-29T15:50:16.000" Title="Closing as dup, while the linked Q/A takes longer to decipher than the current one?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8830" CreationDate="2021-08-29T15:50:16.000" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm posting this as an answer -- even though this question itself is a duplicate -- because I've answered an equivalent question before in a comment and I can't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is clearly well thought out and contains a usable MWE, I may vote to close it as a duplicate, but also post a straightforward &amp;quot;complimentary&amp;quot; answer to get the OP going.  This is my recommended practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite true that answers given for the question marked as a duplicate are often a bit &amp;quot;obscure&amp;quot; to a newbie, or even require rather a lot of untangling by someone with more experience, while not being amenable to updating, as that could make them inapplicable to the question they originally answered.  Perhaps a new answer could be added to that question, giving information that is more easily tied to the question marked as duplicate; however, such an answer is likely to be marked as not relevant to the question it's associated with, and closed.  It's evident that the format of this forum is lacking in some respects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the situation here in meta: If a query is entered for the word &amp;quot;duplicate&amp;quot;, the response is over 400 entries, where the reason for some being recognized is actually closure as duplicate.  If the search is for the tag &amp;quot;[duplicates]&amp;quot;, the count is only 66.  So at least some of the questions found by the word search and are legitimately about duplicate questions are not tagged as such; this is confirmed by reviewing the questions themselves.  I'm tempted, when time permits and I'm looking for something to do, to go back through these questions and add a [duplicates] tag where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2021-08-29T15:50:16.000" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8833" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-02T06:45:56.053" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it about time to add &lt;code&gt;texlive-2021&lt;/code&gt; tag? There is already &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/612777/why-did-my-installation-of-texlive-2021-from-source-code-fail-on-ubuntu&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; concerning the newest distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="222980" LastActivityDate="2021-09-02T06:45:56.053" Title="Is it about time to add 'texlive-2021' tag?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8834" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-06T02:53:35.903" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is showed as &lt;code&gt;deleted&lt;/code&gt; in my following list. So I can not open and read it. Then how could I remove it from the list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/560686/using-rowcolor-with-csvsimple-and-longtable-always-prompts-no-align-error&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/560686/using-rowcolor-with-csvsimple-and-longtable-always-prompts-no-align-error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106776" LastActivityDate="2021-09-06T02:53:35.903" Title="How to remove a deleted question from my following list?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-08T21:35:00.657" Score="14" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13201/is-there-any-way-to-get-latex-in-onenote?answertab=votes#tab-top&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about LaTeX support in OneNote have changed a lot since the question was asked, and since the currently accepted answer was chosen (accepted answer was written in 2011, edited [but trivially so] in 2020).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short of upvoting more up-to-date answers and hoping that the OP comes back to re-assign a checkmark to a more up-to-date answer, is there anything to do so that casual readers won't get the wrong idea from the top-listed answer (which in my case is at the top, and occupies all of the space 'above the fold', whether I have &amp;quot;Active&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Oldest&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;Votes&amp;quot; selected for the answer order) ... ?  Would editing a more up-to-date answer bump it up, and would that be a legitimate activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11435" LastActivityDate="2021-09-08T21:35:00.657" Title="How to get a more up-to-date answer to rise to the top?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8838" CreationDate="2021-09-10T08:20:45.530" Score="7" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is probably a duplicate, but since I was unable to find one, here it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any other Stack Exchange site that I use, if you click the &lt;code&gt;Close&lt;/code&gt; link under a question and then you choose &lt;code&gt;A community-specific reason&lt;/code&gt;, the first option that you get is that the question is not within the scope of that site. In our case, that would mean that the question is not TeX-related. However, our first option is that the problem is not reproducible or that it is due to a typographical error. And there isn't the option of closing for not being within the scope of our site. Of course, an user can always choose the &lt;code&gt;Other - add a comment&lt;/code&gt; option (and many do), but why isn't it part of the canned options?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134805" LastEditorUserId="134805" LastEditDate="2021-09-10T12:06:55.210" LastActivityDate="2021-09-11T09:42:58.033" Title="Why isn't there the possibility of closing a question for being off-topic?" Tags="|support|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8836" CreationDate="2021-09-11T09:42:58.033" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a discussion about close reasons here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3632/text-for-off-topic-closure&quot;&gt;Text for 'off-topic' closure&lt;/a&gt;. It seems that it wasn't completely discussed and finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I activated an off-topic text, that was already prepared:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not fall within the scope of TeX-LaTeX Stack Exchange as defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;. These reasons may include the use of out of date packages/distributions, bug reports or simple typing errors. The comments on the question should describe the main reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears within the community specific close reasons, as off-topic is community specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2021-09-11T09:42:58.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-13T22:30:30.107" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;In different occasions when I see a question tagged &lt;code&gt;MathJaX&lt;/code&gt; I think many times if I should answer it or not. Generally on the &lt;code&gt;TeX.SE.&lt;/code&gt; site the questions marked with this tag are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which are the criteria, or the indications, or the signals that help me to understand if I can answer or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2021-09-13T22:30:30.107" Title="Question with MathJaX tag" Tags="|discussion|support|tagging|mathjax|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-14T03:40:33.270" Score="5" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is now September 13, 2021. The TUG'21 (online) conference took place on August 5-8, and the community ad for the event was &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; only in the 2020 community ads for the TeX-LaTeX thread at tex.stackexchange.com. But it has just popped up on a new question. So the 2021 ads haven't been activated yet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(However, the detail for both the 2020 and 2021 ads has been removed, so it's no longer possible to check anything.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, please fix this!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To have this reappear so long after it's ceased being useful is a major embarrassment!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This same complaint has also been posted at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/369797&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/369797&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2021-09-30T13:55:15.360" LastActivityDate="2021-09-30T13:55:15.360" Title="Community ads for 2020 still showing up" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-17T13:45:10.140" Score="16" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title is the same as in the corresponding topic on Meta.StackExchange.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/369568/179195&quot;&gt;Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today we changed the way we sort answers on Stack Overflow. We no longer pin the accepted answer (with the green checkmark) to the top of the list of answers. By default, we now sort strictly by votes (descending order by highest score), and the accepted answer's order in the list is based on its score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The history of feature requests to unpin the accepted answer on Stack Overflow dates back to 2013 and has been raised almost every year since. This year within the Outdated Answers project we did research that showed that we are good to proceed with the accepted answer unpinned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can change the way the engine sorts answers in site settings. We would like to hear from you all if it is something you want to see on your site. (Please let me acknowledge in advance that we will not be able to run a test on each site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that we should discuss about this also here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2021-11-03T09:36:44.840" LastActivityDate="2021-11-08T17:32:37.437" Title="Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8841" CreationDate="2021-09-17T14:17:16.563" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran the query posted on the main meta for our site (&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/edit/1462421&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/edit/1462421&lt;/a&gt;) which shows there are currently 8958 questions where the accepted answer is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the highest scored answer and would therefore be impacted by this change, which is 4% of the total number of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was more than I had expected. I think unpinning the answer would therefore be a good idea on TeX.SE, as the higher scoring answers are usually better and therefore deserve to be shown first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2021-09-17T14:17:16.563" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8841" CreationDate="2021-09-17T14:30:35.800" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that some users are a bit fast in accepting answers: “I have a problem, ask it at TeX.SX, someone answers, problem solved, tick.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While in many cases the first answer is good, in particular when the problem is simple, in other cases the first answer glosses over some aspects of the problem, proposing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a not very general solution, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a solution that's suboptimal, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a solution that works by chance, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a solution that's altogether wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the last case happens. Here is a simple case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/385968/4427&quot;&gt;Unicode Three-D top-lighted rightwards equilateral arrowhead Symbol XeLaTeX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is simply wrong. Not because it suggests Wingdings, but because it uses &lt;code&gt;\font&lt;/code&gt; and we all know (or should know) the shortcomings of this primitive command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes later answers generalize a correct accepted answer, making the solution applicable to other situations. Pinning the accepted answer at the top can hide better answers, maybe given months or even years later when new tools have become available: &lt;code&gt;nicematrix&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;tabularray&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; come to mind, but also package updates that provide the feature asked for in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastEditorUserId="4427" LastEditDate="2021-10-25T16:47:45.347" LastActivityDate="2021-10-25T16:47:45.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-19T22:16:21.693" Score="22" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is meant as just a gentle nudge to remind people who are pre-disposed to vote but who, maybe, have let it slip a bit to get back in the habit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little background for others: this site is, generally, viewed as one of the friendliest on the SE network (I'm speaking relatively, I know that there are times when some haven't felt that it is but compared to the others then it is).  One aspect of this is, I think, that we try to be welcoming - we recognise that there is a significant initial barrier to switching to TeX (or one of its friends) and that new users can flounder quite a bit.  While we encourage people to ask well-formed questions (with MWEs) and help them to do so, &lt;em&gt;at the same time&lt;/em&gt; we can acknowledge that asking for help is a Good Thing and worth encouraging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way that we can say, &amp;quot;Hey, well done for trying TeX!&amp;quot; is to vote up their question.  It's amazing how positive such a little thing can be.  Even for a user such as myself, getting a vote on a question &lt;em&gt;is nice&lt;/em&gt;.  It says that someone else recognises that I've struggled with something and have done the right thing in asking for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of late, though, I get the sense that this sort of voting isn't happening so much.  As evidence, I see questions which have several answers but that have no votes.  This just feels wrong to me.  I would urge people to consider &lt;em&gt;at the least&lt;/em&gt; the following two principles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question is worth answering, it is worth voting for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an answer is worth voting for, so is the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are exceptions.  But they should be &lt;em&gt;exceptions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that there will be people that disagree with me.  That's fine.  Ignore me.  But I suspect that there will be people who do agree with me, but who - like me - have forgotten how much those first votes can mean on a question and have forgotten the importance of voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And to those who do disagree with me - just please don't &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; a question if you just think it's gotten a few too many votes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2021-09-28T18:34:06.723" Title="Don't forget to vote" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8844" CreationDate="2021-09-20T13:17:17.133" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also like it that TeX.SE is welcoming, and I would like it to stay that way. In my view the way of implementing friendliness is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post personalized, constructive, actionable comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if a previously unclear question is improved (with an MWE, description of how the result should look, etc.) &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But upvoting a question that is not very clear or specific goes a bit too far in my opinion &lt;em&gt;(I know you asked people that disagree to ignore the request, sorry!)&lt;/em&gt;. I sometimes answer them but many times I regret it because the answer turned out to be not applicable to the asker's situation - however more importantly it gives the wrong signal, i.e., it may seem that a post does not need to show effort or be clear in order to get upvoted. I want new users to think &amp;quot;if I post an MWE then I get upvotes and a useful answer&amp;quot;, and upvoting just to reward asking for help does not accomplish that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do see the risk that people may not stick around without some initial upvotes - but many new users do stay, or at least interact positively on their first question by means of comments, edits, accepting an answer, so the overall balance of using votes as quality metric vs. being welcoming is still ok I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T13:17:17.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8896" CreationDate="2021-09-20T15:42:41.570" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I look for answers/question of an inactive user, for instance &lt;strong&gt;user121799&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I obviously tried the search bar with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EhLFk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EhLFk.png&quot; alt=&quot;![enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am surprised I get only 16 results for a former active user (like Marmot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I then try &lt;strong&gt;121799&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vw00g.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vw00g.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get more results but the query seems to go through text and not user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I doing wrong ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163874" LastActivityDate="2021-12-15T18:11:21.700" Title="Search for inactive user?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-22T12:39:33.667" Score="6" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens from time to time/all the time that I realize that the answer someone else has given to a question is better than the answer I gave.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This also happens in situations where the questioner has already marked my answer as &amp;quot;accepted&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I then feel embarrassed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from informing the questioner in a comment or via an edit of my own answer that I think another answer is better than the one I gave, what other options do I have as an answerer to push for the marking to be changed so that instead of my answer, the better answer is marked as &amp;quot;accepted&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2021-09-22T12:58:35.507" LastActivityDate="2021-09-22T12:58:35.507" Title="How can I push the undoing of marking as accepted an answer I gave in favor of marking as accepted a better answer given by someone else?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|accepting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-22T13:47:03.637" Score="8" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assume someone asks a question and you can think of several fundamentally different approaches to the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., when actually the question is about maintaining data via TeX, often different approaches are possible, e.g., based on the package datatool, e.g., based on the package zref, e.g., based on the kernel's &lt;code&gt;\label&lt;/code&gt;-&lt;code&gt;\refstepcounter&lt;/code&gt;-&lt;code&gt;\ref&lt;/code&gt;-mechanism, e.g., based on the kernel's &lt;code&gt;\@starttoc&lt;/code&gt;-&lt;code&gt;\addtocontents&lt;/code&gt;-mechanism, e.g., based on datatypes provided by expl3, e.g., based on (expandable) tail-recursion, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With any approach, one may feel the need to explain in more detail how things are intertwined and therefore what to be aware of at usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case, is it better to write one big answer, presenting each approach in a separate, clearly delineated section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case is it better to write several answers and to explain exactly one of the approaches in more detail per answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of my thoughts/considerations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you explain many different approaches in more detail, if you do that in just one answer, you might run up against the 30000-character limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you write multiple answers, each one can be upvoted or downvoted.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;On the one hand, this could be seen as an attempt to get many upvotes by writing many answers.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;On the other hand, an upvote or downvote refers to a particular approach and you can better see the level of appreciation for each approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If only one approach is presented per answer, commenting may be easier, since you don't have to make clear ad nauseam which thing/approach/code example you are referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not yet clear on which &amp;quot;answering-policy&amp;quot; most closely matches the spirit of the community/platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastActivityDate="2021-09-22T13:47:03.637" Title="Spread different approaches over several answers or keep them all in the same answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-24T09:36:05.660" Score="55" ViewCount="663" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX-sx left beta in 2011, and since then we have had a team of three moderators: me (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright&quot;&gt;Joseph Wright&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/213/stefan-kottwitz&quot;&gt;Stefan Kottwitz&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975/martin-scharrer&quot;&gt;Martin Scharrer&lt;/a&gt;. All of us have worked hard to make the community work, mainly doing the 'garbage collection' part of the moderators role with (luckily) little of the Big Stick work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderation on TeX-sx remains quite a light task, but there is an amount of work to do. Martin has over recent times found that real life has kept him busy, and has decided that it's time to hand over the baton. Stefan and I could manage the workload on our own, but there are benefits to having a team of three people: there's sometimes a need to discuss complex cases, and having a few people helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there will be an election soon for a new moderator: the Powers That Be will be announcing and organising. Here, I'd just like to record Stefan and my thanks to Martin for his work on the site over the last decade, and wish him all the best in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2021-10-05T13:15:07.233" LastActivityDate="2021-10-05T13:15:07.233" Title="Many thanks to Martin Scharrer" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8849" CreationDate="2021-09-24T12:15:14.050" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;A very &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;big&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; thanks to Martin who beat me in the race for the first “Legendary” badge, which he earned on 11 November 2011, three weeks earlier than I. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although he stopped writing answers a while ago, his contribution to the site and to the TeX world has always been great, both as a TeXpert and as a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2021-09-24T12:15:14.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8852" CreationDate="2021-09-25T03:53:19.683" Score="3" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be instructions on how to format questions, which included such things as it displaying the compiled mwe. Are the instructions still available, and if so, how??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24406" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2021-09-25T08:04:33.100" LastActivityDate="2021-09-25T08:04:33.100" Title="Where are the instructions?" Tags="|support|editing|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8851" CreationDate="2021-09-25T08:00:46.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find instructions in the help center: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, there's a question mark button at the top right of the editing window, when you write a post. Click it, and you get a help menu where you can click a topic (links, images, lists, code etc.) And if you click on Advanced help, you get a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown editing help overview&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2021-09-25T08:00:46.463" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-28T00:39:20.057" Score="3" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: After not being notified of both answers today that were posted to my question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/631553/how-to-display-the-page-number-only-no-header-for-chapter-pages-header-only&quot;&gt;How to Display the Page Number Only (No Header) for Chapter Pages; Header Only, Elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;. I have added this as an update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original Post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed over the past week that I am not always notified by the system that an answer has been posted to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first instance that I noticed was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/616073/putting-a-code-to-the-right-of-an-item-in-a-new-enumerate-environment&quot;&gt;Putting a Code to the Right of an Item in a New Enumerate Environment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second occurred yesterday (first posted answer): &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/616743/scalefont-not-scaling-strictly-monotonically&quot;&gt;\Scalefont Not Scaling (Strictly) Monotonically&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone had a similar experience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what is or mighty be) causing this malfunction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178952" LastEditorUserId="178952" LastEditDate="2022-01-26T18:27:37.667" LastActivityDate="2022-01-26T18:27:37.667" Title="System (Still) Fails at Times to Notify the OP When an Answer is Posted" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8844" CreationDate="2021-09-28T18:34:06.723" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your gentle nudge has made me think. It has never occurred to me to upvote a question, although on the very rare occasion I have downvoted one or voted for closure. I will in future consider whether or not to vote positively on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However my viewpoint is more from an answerer's side. I don't know what reputation an OP requires to acknowledge an answer but there are many, many unacknowledged answers and it can get disheartening to spend effort with no response. There was recently a question that got three workable answers; none were acknowledged. Then a week or so later the OP basically asked the same question again, asking why his code didn't work, ignoring all the answers to his original question. I admit that this is an unusual occurrence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that I have tended to judge a question on the number of answers. If there are none then there is probably some problem with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that if OPs acknowledge, in some way, answers then there might be more folk willing to spend the effort to help OPs. If you get some recognition for an answer then you might well be more likely to upvote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--- GOM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. I have just upvoted your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastActivityDate="2021-09-28T18:34:06.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8840" CreationDate="2021-09-30T13:55:07.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;These ads were being served by a system native to our code base, in parallel to ads being served via Google Ads Manager. We identified the bit of code responsible, and removed it, so you should no longer see any more of these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reiterate &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8840/community-ads-for-2020-still-showing-up#comment28861_8840&quot;&gt;what I said in the comments&lt;/a&gt;, the 2021 Ads were already being served, just in parallel to these older ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any more weirdness, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastActivityDate="2021-09-30T13:55:07.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8841" CreationDate="2021-10-05T08:19:27.820" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;POLL&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote if you prefer to unpin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote if you prefer to keep accepted answers at the top&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2021-10-05T08:19:27.820" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-10-05T08:19:27.820" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8841" CreationDate="2021-10-05T18:55:41.330" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add my contrarian view here. While it's undoubtably true that there are accepted answers that are either no longer valid or not as good as other answers, I'm not sure that this fact alone is enough of an argument to unpin accepted answers. Surely the measure of whether it makes sense to unpin is if that number is sufficiently large, and other than the measure that @marjin gives in his answer, it's not obvious that we really know how many answers deserve to be unpinned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the vast majority of accepted answers are valid 'best' answers, then users lose out when all accepted answers are unpinned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better approach IMO (although presumably not one that the SE network would like to implement) would be some way to unpin &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; accepted answers, perhaps via a voting system like the close voting system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But absent such a system, I'm not convinced that unpinning all accepted answers isn't like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2021-10-05T18:55:41.330" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-10T17:27:56.923" Score="13" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since a few days TUG has an official chat on the Matrix network.  Below you can find some instructions on how to join the chat.  Please let me know in the comments if anything is unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Matrix chat&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matrix is an open, federated messaging platform.  Like old-fashioned IRC channels, Matrix chats are organized in rooms.  To join a room you need an &lt;strong&gt;account&lt;/strong&gt; on the Matrix network and a &lt;strong&gt;client&lt;/strong&gt; to connect to it.  There are several options to obtain an account and a number of clients to choose from.  Some of the options are outlined below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have made an account and chosen a client, you can join the TUG space at &lt;a href=&quot;https://matrix.to/#/#tug:matrix.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;#tug:matrix.org&lt;/a&gt; and explore the rooms.  A space in Matrix is simply a collection of rooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Get an account&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple ways to get an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The easiest way&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far the easiest way is to just navigate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://app.element.io/#/register&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://app.element.io/#/register&lt;/a&gt; and fill in the fields.  You can either choose a username and password to register (email is optional but helps recovering a forgotten password) or you can connect with one of the several authentication providers like GitHub, GitLab, Google, Facebook or Apple.  You will still have to choose a username but the authentication of your account will be performed via the chosen provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A less easy way&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the introduction, Matrix is a federated messaging system and the previous instructions will set up an account on the main server &lt;code&gt;matrix.org&lt;/code&gt;.  It is not at all necessary to set up an account on this server and you are free to use any other provider like &lt;code&gt;tchncs.de&lt;/code&gt;.  Your account will then be tied to this server and every server offers slightly different functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The hard way&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As outlined in the last point, Matrix is federated and it is also open-source.  In fact, you can run your own server and use that to connect to the Matrix network.  Of course, this option is only suited for technically proficient users but this way you will completely own your data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Choosing a client&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Matrix protocol is an open standard and there a number of clients implementing this protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The easiest way&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far the easiest client to use is the web version of the Element client.  Just navigate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://app.element.io/#/login&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://app.element.io/#/login&lt;/a&gt; and log in with your username and password.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The less easy way&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also desktop and mobile versions of the Element client which you can download from &lt;a href=&quot;https://element.io/get-started&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://element.io/get-started&lt;/a&gt; or from your operating system's app store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The hard way&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are a command line warrior or you use an exotic operating system or you have some specific needs, you can have a look at the collection of alternative Matrix client on &lt;a href=&quot;https://matrix.org/clients/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://matrix.org/clients/&lt;/a&gt; and choose your favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10995" LastEditorUserId="10995" LastEditDate="2021-10-11T07:52:42.013" LastActivityDate="2021-10-11T07:52:42.013" Title="Enter the Matrix" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-11T20:14:11.833" Score="17" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/2#questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;next week, 2021-10-18&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s how it’ll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until 2021-10-18 at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The following two questions are guaranteed to be included:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc. a question that you feel shouldn’t have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The community team may also include the following three questions if the community doesn’t supply enough questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the nomination phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. We exclude any suggested questions that are negatively scored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We will post the final questionnaire on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;Election page&lt;/a&gt;. Candidates will have the option to fill out the questionnaire, and their answers will appear beneath their intro statements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246777" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2021-11-03T10:17:21.153" LastActivityDate="2021-11-03T10:17:21.153" Title="2021 Moderator Election Q&amp;A – Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8859" CreationDate="2021-10-11T21:21:55.673" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In which time zone do you live?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2021-10-11T21:21:55.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8859" CreationDate="2021-10-11T21:47:29.293" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An earlier question is a duplicate or near-duplicate of a new one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The top answer to the older question appears out of date&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new answer to the old question would be buried at the bottom and would never realistically be seen by people who would benefit from it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61644" LastActivityDate="2021-10-11T21:47:29.293" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8841" CreationDate="2021-10-11T22:11:15.113" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site covers technologies that are actively under development, and it’s been around for a long time.  It’s sometimes the case that an old question has an accepted or highly-voted answer that worked well at the time, but has become obsolete since then.  We might want a newer, updated answer to be at the top for anyone trying to solve the same problem today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61644" LastActivityDate="2021-10-11T22:11:15.113" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8859" CreationDate="2021-10-12T00:12:35.380" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you handle this situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A newbie has posted an answer that should more properly have been a comment, but the newbie doesn't have enough rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enough votes have been posted to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A flag has been posted requesting conversion to a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you leave the deletion and ignore the flag, or convert the&#xA;&amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; to a comment as requested by the flagger?&#xA;Or would this depend on the content of the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2021-10-12T00:18:57.357" LastActivityDate="2021-10-12T00:18:57.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8859" CreationDate="2021-10-12T07:17:41.103" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will you handle a disagreement with another moderator over an action one of you has taken (or will be taking) on a post that requires moderator attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244085" LastActivityDate="2021-10-12T07:17:41.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8866" CreationDate="2021-10-13T05:56:30.753" Score="3" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;The left most screen shows a user's reputation, the middle screen shows my reputation, and the rightmost screen shows the reputation stats displayed in the chat. The numbers seem awfully off - just before when I was in chat it once displayed my reputation as 307 and in the message after as 319.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What maybe causing the bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mozilla Firefox 93&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Windows 7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;URLs of the pages: leftmost - user page of the user, middle - user page of me, rightmost - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/130453/discussion-between-vscode-fanboy-and-marijn&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/130453/discussion-between-vscode-fanboy-and-marijn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SgYy4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SgYy4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="247020" LastActivityDate="2021-10-13T10:05:50.833" Title="Reputation stats not showing correctly in chat" Tags="|support|bug|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2021-10-22T05:28:53.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8865" CreationDate="2021-10-13T06:00:11.277" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The chat system is network wide, rather than being site-specific. As such, the reputation you see in chat is the overall value for all network sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2021-10-13T10:05:50.833" LastActivityDate="2021-10-13T10:05:50.833" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8859" CreationDate="2021-10-13T14:11:46.450" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much time do you spend on TeX.SE a day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2021-10-13T14:11:46.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8868" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-14T07:04:54.813" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The posting &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/618893/110998&quot;&gt;How to add a background image to a tabular?&lt;/a&gt; states quite clearly the problem, from the outset (no edits). Nevertheless, the community bot feels the necessity to comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to&#xA;highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard&#xA;to tell exactly what you're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to tune the bot to react more sensibly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110998" LastActivityDate="2021-10-14T07:04:54.813" Title="Re-configuration of community bot?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8859" CreationDate="2021-10-16T07:08:32.487" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would you like to change of the current style of moderation? (If you would like to change anything.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastActivityDate="2021-10-16T07:08:32.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-18T20:00:03.723" Score="7" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2021-11-03T09:36:32.973" LastActivityDate="2021-11-03T09:36:32.973" Title="2021 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderation|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-10-18T20:00:03.723" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-19T01:08:47.733" Score="7" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always found it irritating that on the question site you cannot jump to pages in the middle of the site. As you see in the picture you can jump to page &lt;code&gt;2-5&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;4501&lt;/code&gt;, but the questions in the middle are out of reach. You basically will never find out what questions are on page &lt;code&gt;2035&lt;/code&gt;. You have to click your way through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ZBlj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ZBlj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course one can say &amp;quot;why would you need that&amp;quot;. If you have a question you can either ask for it or search for a keyword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think it will be beneficial to have something like a &lt;code&gt;go to page X&lt;/code&gt; button, so that one can occasionally scan through old questions to edit, comment or flag questions he would otherwise never have seen. This would imho help to keep the site clean. I know that there are all kinds of filters but sometimes I just like to read here a little to learn new things. But I will never see what (maybe useful) questions are on page &lt;code&gt;2035&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to jump to other pages? Is it possible to establish a &lt;code&gt;go to page X&lt;/code&gt; button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224762" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2021-10-24T15:08:05.813" LastActivityDate="2022-11-18T18:04:06.063" Title="Go to page x button" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-19T08:10:09.533" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently reached the limit of daily upvotes and to my suprise the review queues of &lt;strong&gt;late answer&lt;/strong&gt; and and &lt;strong&gt;first answers&lt;/strong&gt; disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5hUpn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5hUpn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the details of the &lt;strong&gt;late answers&lt;/strong&gt; it informs me that I reched the daily vote limit, but the &lt;strong&gt;first answer&lt;/strong&gt; only show a blue box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vaMNB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vaMNB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224762" LastEditorUserId="224762" LastEditDate="2021-10-19T08:15:32.070" LastActivityDate="2021-10-19T08:15:32.070" Title="Review queue shows an empty blue box when reaching the daily upvote limit" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-19T22:24:36.900" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the next reputation history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iotmK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iotmK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, I'm all for reversals, because they help prevent people from dishonestly earning reputation, but isn't this a bit of a stretch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Periods between votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Month&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1+ Month&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I don't even know if it's the same person. But if it were, shouldn't they then take away all my reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="240558" LastActivityDate="2021-10-23T13:34:40.803" Title="Why do I have a reversal If I'm not very active?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8873" CreationDate="2021-10-20T05:25:39.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The details of the vote-reversal algorithm are not public. Presumably here there was an issue with the account that gave you the votes: I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; see which account that was, and it looks like it may have been subject to manual intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="134805" LastEditDate="2021-10-23T13:34:40.803" LastActivityDate="2021-10-23T13:34:40.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-24T12:01:12.223" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I saw a post on StackOverflow in which a code snippet could be run by pressing a button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44380104/c-drawing-scatter-plot-on-ms-charts&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44380104/c-drawing-scatter-plot-on-ms-charts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/enKE2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/enKE2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was indeed really helpful. I brought the link in TeX/LaTeX chatroom and I found that David Carlisle has already developed a very useful and similar code which allows run of the LaTeX codes. The feature is being used in &lt;a href=&quot;https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&amp;amp;t=34570&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;latex.org&lt;/a&gt; forums. The link to the code is &lt;a href=&quot;https://texlive.net/run?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway to add such feature to our site too? It is very handy and useful, specifically when the codes are small and need just a click to see the results. No need to copy it to the editor environment and running it on the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GAQUo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GAQUo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52417" LastActivityDate="2021-10-24T12:01:12.223" Title="Run the codes in posts with a button" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|code|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2021-10-30T20:21:41.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8871" CreationDate="2021-10-24T15:12:25.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can jump to a specific page eg this is page 7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?tab=newest&amp;amp;page=7&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions?tab=newest&amp;amp;page=7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W1Ccb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W1Ccb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once there, there are buttons for the next few pages eg 8 and 9 so you can click through to those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2021-10-24T15:12:25.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8045" CreationDate="2021-10-25T13:20:06.627" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm Tom and currently I work at the Overleaf Support.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are actively monitoring the main site for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/overleaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;overleaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;overleaf&lt;/a&gt; tag, so when a question is related to our platform, we shall get notified about it. (And Overleaf is not tagged, feel free tag it and/or to ping me in the chat, I'm often hanging around.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question is an Overleaf bug/imperfection, we try to explain it in the comments, or if a solution is available, we might even answer it &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/600941&quot;&gt;(example)&lt;/a&gt;. The same goes with general questions about some Overleaf functionality &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/580510/11002&quot;&gt;(example)&lt;/a&gt;. We believe that these questions (if answerable) are beneficial to the general community, so from our point of view it makes sense to keep them. Of course, questions that are clearly only solvable by the Overleaf Support shan't stay open and the user shall/may be pointed to us at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.overleaf.com/contact&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.overleaf.com/contact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11002" LastActivityDate="2021-10-25T13:20:06.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-26T06:24:15.277" Score="7" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;In questions/answers we type keyboard keys using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;KEY&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; which renders &lt;kbd&gt;KEY&lt;/kbd&gt;. It does not work in comments. How can one type keyboard keys in comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114719" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-12-24T18:52:11.577" LastActivityDate="2021-12-24T18:52:11.577" Title="How to type keyboard keys in comments" Tags="|support|comments|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8880" CreationDate="2021-10-26T06:44:32.660" Score="14" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is certainly a minor issue but I still decided to report it, just in case&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TJFwW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TJFwW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it says &lt;code&gt;candidates 6&lt;/code&gt; the ballot contains 5 candidates only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48166" LastActivityDate="2021-10-26T08:33:45.890" Title="Election page shows contradictory info about the number of candidates" Tags="|discussion|user-interface|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8879" CreationDate="2021-10-26T08:22:40.307" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &amp;quot;nomination&amp;quot; itself best describes what happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/2?tab=nomination#post-620218&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/2?tab=nomination#post-620218&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eD8BU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eD8BU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2021-10-26T08:33:45.890" LastActivityDate="2021-10-26T08:33:45.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-26T14:25:23.840" Score="5" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;To upvote answers or questions I have to have 15 points. To get these I have to first create questions.&#xA;I don't understand the reasoning behind this.&#xA;Does creating questions make my upvotes more reliable or give them better quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155746" OwnerDisplayName="Wolf" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-12-15T20:52:15.323" LastActivityDate="2021-12-15T20:52:15.323" Title="Why can't I upvote posts when my account is new?" Tags="|discussion|support|voting|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-31T08:59:35.257" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to suggest that the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chinese&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chinese&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chinese&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/japanese&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;japanese&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;japanese&lt;/a&gt; (the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/korean&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;korean&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;korean&lt;/a&gt; does not exist to date) should be treated as synonyms of the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cjk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cjk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cjk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that this page primarily deals with typesetting and typographic considerations regarding Chinese, Japanese or Korean, and relevant questions virtually always relate to all three languages. Prominent examples are questions regarding the set up of CJK fonts or regarding the typesetting of languages with scripts that use ideographic characters (although Korean rarely uses them, Korean script is still typeset in a way that matches typesetting ideographic characters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are welcome to vote for or against this proposal on the relevant &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?tab=Newest&amp;amp;filter=Suggested&quot;&gt;sub page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note that you need to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;a total answer score of 5 or more&lt;/a&gt; on the relevant tag to be able to vote for tag synonyms.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47927" LastEditorUserId="47927" LastEditDate="2021-11-03T12:28:36.973" LastActivityDate="2021-11-03T12:28:36.973" Title="{chinese} and {japanese} tags synonym of {cjk} tag" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-02T20:11:11.637" Score="27" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;Moderator election #2&lt;/a&gt; on TeX - LaTeX has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/5764&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/flair/5764.png&quot; alt=&quot;Werner&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please join me in thanking the following user, who will be stepping down as moderator:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/2975&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2975.png&quot; alt=&quot;Martin Scharrer&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/5149632783974400&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246777" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2021-11-18T10:10:09.393" LastActivityDate="2021-11-18T10:10:09.393" Title="2021 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8467" CreationDate="2021-11-05T15:28:57.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The subject is &amp;quot;Empathy for those who don't know LaTeX well&amp;quot;.  You find a list of five key points that answerers of questions at TeX LaTeX Stack Exchange are asked to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like this list for various reasons. But I wonder whether these points really have to be mainly about empathy, or whether they could also be about behavior that, empathy or not, makes dealing with each other more pleasant and that makes dealing with problems more efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requesting an MWE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase &amp;quot;Minimal &lt;em&gt;Working&lt;/em&gt; Example&amp;quot; is misleading for many newcomers. Many newcomers think that it refers to an example that runs perfectly and without error messages during compilation. And that is exactly what they cannot deliver.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;When I ask for code examples, I usually leave out the word &amp;quot;working&amp;quot; and explain that the point is that the code contains everything (and nothing else) that the person who wants to get to the bottom of the matter needs to reproduce the error-messages/the erroneous behavior during/by compilation and to be able to track down and fix things afterwards. Of course I also mention other &amp;quot;requisites&amp;quot; that make tracking things down easier—e.g., the messages on the console and in the .log-file using &lt;code&gt;\listfiles&lt;/code&gt; (for package versions etc) and probably &lt;code&gt;\errorcontextlines=...&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When do I ask for code examples to reproduce erroneous behavior?&lt;/strong&gt; Usually when someone wants to know why error messages occur and what the correct remedy is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a newcommer/beginner - due to a lack of familiarity with the &amp;quot;TeX/LaTeX-world&amp;quot; - does not know how to approach a problem related to accomplishing a specific typesetting-task, or related to organizing whatsoever data using LaTeX, or related to parsing some user-input for conditional-branching depending on that user-input, I do not ask for minimal examples but I explain how I would do it and provide examples of implementation on my part, and if I have the impression that it is necessary for understanding, I also explain what the individual code sections are for and how they intertwine when you put the whole thing together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By providing code examples myself, I show that the problem can be solved using LaTeX. I show that things can be done in LaTeX. I do this on the assumption that people will be positively motivated to read in and to delve into the matter and to try things themselves when they see that you don't always just get stuck, but that things can actually be done.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Perhaps this is &amp;quot;answering do-it-for-me-questions&amp;quot; and therefore is not in the spirit of this site. But it is in the spirit of showing people that TeX is not terribly complicated and unusable, but that only the beginning of the learning curve may be terrible and that - after mastering the learning-curve - you can do things.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I hope that questioners will feel that they are not alone and abandoned when dealing with TeX/LaTeX. Many people shy away from Linux or LaTeX with the argument that they would be left alone with it as no one in their circle of acquaintances uses these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Directing someone to the manual/Impenetrability of manuals/instructions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I read the TeXbook many years ago, I realized at some point that my problems were not necessarily caused by the &amp;quot;manual&amp;quot;, but by the way I (ap)perceived and comprehended information while reading it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Schoolbooks and introductory books are nice. There are a lot of nice filler words and things you can read over and still get the context/the gist. The TeXbook is written in the spirit of academic textbooks that convey information in a very condensed way. Once I got used to the fact that, as with legal contracts and rules, every sentence/syllable really does matter, and that slackening in attention easily leads to missing connections/implications that arise from passages/sentences placed far apart from each other, I no longer found the book impenetrable. But it requires one to be very concentrated and focused and picky. When I first read the book seriously, I very nitpickily made notes whenever I had the impression that terminology was used or a concept was taken up that would be explained later, and when I read the later chapters and the (double) dangerous bend paragraphs, I always checked my notes to see if something was being discussed that could refer to these notes.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;When I refer to a manual, I usually assume that there were problems in understanding the manual and I quote the relevant sections and explain what is meant. For one, this shows how one puts the picture together from the individual terms. For another: The need for explanation often is due to the fact that instructions are written in English while English is not the native language of the reader/questioner and may not be the native language of the author of the manual, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would like to take up the keyword &amp;quot;empathy&amp;quot; again&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Empathy also has something to do with social competence. I am painfully aware that my own social competence is far from perfect. But as a rule, I try to give an answer that helps to solve the problem. And I expect questioners, even if they are not satisfied with the amount of empathy revealed by me, not to lose sight of what they are trying to achieve, which in the first place is not to find empathy but is to find a solution to the problem they present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used the term &amp;quot;reveal&amp;quot; because I often feel empathy and imagine how frustrated a questioner might be. Due to my own deficits in social competence I often ask myself what degree of showing the empathy I feel is appropriate.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The wrong ways of expressing empathy can give the other person the feeling of being helpless and unable to act themselves in the matter. And that in turn can be demotivating if not devastating.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I know from my own experience that it is frustrating to get stuck when working with TeX/LaTeX. But TeX/LaTeX is only a small aspect of life. So questioners, too, shouldn't let frustration dominate, but take things with humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Donald E. Knuth writes in Chapter 6: Running TeX of the TeXbook:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Error messages can be terrifying when you aren’t prepared for them; but they can be fun when you have the right attitude.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's emphasize one of unknowns that you will probably always have to deal with in the question-answer scheme of the StackExchange-platform:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, the questioner and the respondent know nothing/know only little about each other's situation/circumstances. This in turn introduces a certain imponderability in assessing expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can lead, for example, to detailed, long answers being perceived as incompatible. For example, an answer written with a lot of commitment, peppered with academic reflections and digressions and references to many other sources, may show that the responder assumes that the questioner has the time and leisure to delve into the matter and to devote her-/himself to the fascination of the prospectus opening up. But the questioner is stressed at the moment and has no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or the opposite: Someone who is delving into the matter and is fascinated and enthusiastic, and not only pragmatically wants to get rid of an application problem but also wants to gain deeper/fundamental insights into the matter, is disappointed when answers are quite pragmatically focused on slamming down the solution for the application case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2021-11-06T15:08:30.130" LastActivityDate="2021-11-06T15:08:30.130" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8885" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-07T09:41:40.587" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, there are questions about this software.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=plasTeX&quot;&gt;44 questions about plasTex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is available here : &lt;a href=&quot;http://plastex.github.io/plastex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;plasTeX is a Python package to convert LaTeX markup to DOM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we create a tag for plasTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138900" LastActivityDate="2021-11-07T09:41:40.587" Title="Do we need to create a new `plasTeX` tag?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8841" CreationDate="2021-11-08T17:32:37.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there might be room for an intermediate solution here. For example &amp;quot;Sort the accepted answer as if it had 10 upvotes more than it really has.&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Pin the accepted answer, unless another answer has more than twice the amount of upvotes.&amp;quot;. More specific cases are thinkable like &amp;quot;Except if the OP changed the accepted answer when a new answer was posted long after the original question, then pin that answer.&amp;quot; if one wants to get fancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is that pinning an answer can be useful, especially if it is given after some other answers were already present (if for hours or for years). Do we have to ditch this entirely just because it can also be harmful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I do realize that there is precedent on the network for unpinning the top answer but not for these suggestions. Who knows, maybe the Powers are open for suggestions for once..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastActivityDate="2021-11-08T17:32:37.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-16T08:12:32.343" Score="10" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/622683/2288&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt;, it has been voted for close as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316870/using-if-in-a-tabularx&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, however, I didn't manage to make the suggested approach work for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can there be a message to the voters to carefully check if the possible duplicate can be applied successfully to the question without further modifications?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2021-11-18T05:46:02.087" Title="Testing the possible duplicate technique before voting for close" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8887" CreationDate="2021-11-17T17:55:25.497" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens sometimes and even in worse case than this one, when a duplicate is hinted at which is not applicable to the new question's setting or even solves a completely different problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the strategy you can adopt in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, when a vote for closing as duplicate is issued, a comment by the user who voted first is automatically added and you can reply to the comment, so that user can retract their vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as far as I know, that comment is removed when the question is actually closed, either by getting five votes or with the golden hammer. I'm not sure that comments addressed to one of the voters are notified to them, but that's certainly something you can try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also edit the question explaining why the suggested duplicate isn't really good to solve the problem. The question will be bumped up in the front page and somebody may notice that the title has something like “not a duplicate” in it and investigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the duplicate is actually good and all it takes is some small change that can be added in comments (or in an answer to the duplicate) and in this case all is well. The title can be changed back or the question can be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If after investigation it turns out that the question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate, it will quite certainly be reopened. Wasn't it the case with yours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2021-11-17T17:55:25.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8887" CreationDate="2021-11-18T05:46:02.087" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an incentive to process content listed within the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close&quot;&gt;close vote queue&lt;/a&gt;, because there is a badge associated with it. It is, however, expected that reviewers will take the time to actually &lt;em&gt;review&lt;/em&gt; the two posts and consider whether the one can be used (in some way) to solve the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the site allows for discussions related to inaccurate closures (like you did here on meta). Even if you didn't, an edit to a closed question (in this case stating that the suggested duplicate doesn't solve the problem &lt;em&gt;and why&lt;/em&gt;) ends up in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/reopen&quot;&gt;reopen review queue&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt;. So I don't think there needs to be a site-wide change/feature&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; to provide &amp;quot;a message to the voters to carefully check if the possible duplicate can be applied successfully to the question without further modifications.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my suggested pathway for incorrect duplicate closure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit your (now-closed) question stating why the suggested duplicate doesn't solve your problem. Effectively, you're showing the community you've tried what they suggested and it didn't work, and there's why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question automatiicaly goes into the reopen review queue where reviewers will read your reasoning and &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this doesn't resolve the closure, consider either posting on meta asking for some feedback - this is a valid reason to post on meta since the question deals with the site content; or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; where regulars are happy to support your efforts (like reopening or otherwise) and discuss things like ducks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; Features are not child-site specific, but rather network-wide. So a request for that should, if valid, should be posted to &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-11-18T05:46:02.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8892" CreationDate="2021-11-28T21:29:37.220" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use a low-medium range smartphone. I don't understand why when I log on to CTAN and want to download a pdf this doesn't happen. What is the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2021-11-29T19:56:13.787" Title="No display of CTAN documentation of a package in pdf format on smartphones" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2021-11-29T19:56:43.210" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8891" CreationDate="2021-11-29T19:56:13.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing content on CTAN, linking to files is done through mirroring, which poins to some readily-available server for the actual content. This mirroring may target servers that don't respond fast enough, possibly dropping the query. One way around it is to use a dedicated server. In the case of documentation (or PDFs), this is provided by &lt;code&gt;https://texdoc.net/pkg/&amp;lt;pkg&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (where &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pkg&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; represents the package you're interested in). The server finds the closest match to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pkg&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. For those packages with multiple documentation versions (which might be in different formats, or separate documentation for code and user interfaces, say), you're still forced to go the CTAN route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-11-29T19:56:13.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8894" CreationDate="2021-12-09T00:24:31.920" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently when I visit my user page and select &lt;code&gt;Activity&lt;/code&gt; and then &lt;code&gt;Summary&lt;/code&gt;, the vote count for the &lt;code&gt;Answers&lt;/code&gt; portion appears to be the vote count for the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; rather than for my answer. Was there a recent update to the site that caused this? I don't believe the issue was present yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screen shot below shows the issue. The vote counts are for the questions, not for my answers. The time also represents the time the question was posted, not the answer. If I select the &lt;code&gt;Answers&lt;/code&gt; tab on the left of the screen the correct information appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/07JId.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/07JId.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125871" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2021-12-09T20:47:24.993" LastActivityDate="2021-12-09T20:47:24.993" Title="Is the &quot;Activity&quot; portion of the User page malfunctioning?" Tags="|bug|design|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8893" CreationDate="2021-12-09T20:46:35.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Activity section on the user profile page is currently very fluid as it's undergoing a heavy redesign. This redesign was rolled out on Dec 7, 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/1hPjjvp4b8I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a 5-minute tour&lt;/a&gt; outlining the original redesign, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/372049/168244&quot;&gt;feedback from other network users&lt;/a&gt; have been quite negative in general. So, expect things to change (for better or for worse) within the next little while. Also consider providing feedback (like a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;) on the original Meta post, as the changes are being made network-wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/372049/168244&quot;&gt;New responsive Activity page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-12-09T20:46:35.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-14T02:33:01.893" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some inexplicable reason, the normal $ notation for LaTeX is not supported on SE (other than math). How can I otherwise use TeX and LaTeX on this SE site at least?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="258620" LastActivityDate="2021-12-14T02:33:01.893" Title="Why is LaTeX and TeX not supported in the TeX stackexchange?" Tags="|support|formatting|request-for-information|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2021-12-14T06:16:21.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8846" CreationDate="2021-12-15T18:11:21.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the user profile is removed, you'll have to search via the &lt;em&gt;display name&lt;/em&gt;. So, &amp;quot;John Doe&amp;quot; with user ID 123456 that has been deleted will have a display name &lt;code&gt;user123456&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/1531254/posts-from-user-by-display-name?UserId=user121799&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This query&lt;/a&gt; displays all posts for &lt;code&gt;user121799&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KJGS2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KJGS2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can enter a different user display name (highlighted above) and click Run Query to see a list of the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-12-15T18:11:21.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8881" CreationDate="2021-12-15T20:51:31.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The intent here is to avoid gaming of the system through &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/40353/168244#:%7E:text=See%3A%20Stack%20Overflow-,Sock%20Puppet,-%5BAccount%5D&quot;&gt;sock puppets&lt;/a&gt; - accounts set up by a user with the intent on using them to cast illegal votes, either on their own posts, or on others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 15 reputation threshold is very small, and can be achieved through minimal contribution on the site. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7237/168244&quot;&gt;this list&lt;/a&gt; of how one can gain reputation on a site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of your posts is upvoted: &lt;strong&gt;+10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of your answers is &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; by the author: &lt;strong&gt;+15&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You &lt;em&gt;accept&lt;/em&gt; an answer, not written by you, to a question of yours: &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/q/76251/168244&quot;&gt;suggested edit of yours is approved&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; (up to a total of +1000 per user)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of your answers is awarded a bounty by the user offering the bounty: &lt;strong&gt;+ full bounty amount&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of your answers is awarded a bounty automatically: &lt;strong&gt;50% or 100% of the bounty amount&lt;/strong&gt; (see &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/a/16067/5764&quot;&gt;bounty FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for details)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You &lt;em&gt;associate accounts&lt;/em&gt; of two or more Stack Exchange network sites, and at least one of those accounts has 200 or more reputation: &lt;strong&gt;+100&lt;/strong&gt; on each site (awarded only once per site) (this reputation bonus does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; count toward the required 10 reputation to answer protected questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/41347/168244&quot;&gt;Why are 15 reputation points required to upvote?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-12-15T20:51:31.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-20T10:09:51.917" Score="41" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is with great sorrow that I write this thread to inform you of the passing of our dear friend Brent Longborough, on December 6th, 2021. According to his family, he passed with honour and grace, at home in their care, beside him until the very last minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He will be sorely missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rest in peace my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3094" LastActivityDate="2021-12-20T10:09:51.917" Title="Passing of our friend Brent Longborough" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8878" CreationDate="2021-12-24T18:51:32.977" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments provide only a limited amount of markdown formatting, including &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; (via single/double backticks), magic/shorthand links (for sites &lt;code&gt;[tex.se]&lt;/code&gt; or tag &lt;code&gt;[tag:tag]&lt;/code&gt; or...), regular links (like &lt;code&gt;[text](URL)&lt;/code&gt;). This excludes the use of HTML tags (like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;bold&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) and the shorthand image inclusion format &lt;code&gt;![text](imageURL)&lt;/code&gt; commonly used in posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's not HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; keyboard tag formatting supported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;Markdown help - comment formatting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2021-12-24T18:51:32.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-28T03:25:09.893" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that it may be a more general question, but TeX.StackExchange is my main community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I choose &amp;quot;Profile&amp;quot;, I have on the left-hand side two frames: &amp;quot;Stats&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Communities&amp;quot;. However, only 5 (with the highest reputation?) of them are visible. Is there any possibility to set this value for a larger number?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; My profile looks as in the picture:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ffVsP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ffVsP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26134" LastEditorUserId="26134" LastEditDate="2021-12-28T21:43:56.740" LastActivityDate="2021-12-28T21:43:56.740" Title="Enlarging the number of visible communities?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-12T14:51:17.387" Score="10" ViewCount="135" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2021, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KZntT.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on TeX - LaTeX over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;29&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,590&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;766&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,301&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,523&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First questions queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,769&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,027&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First answers queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,098&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;24&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10,863&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms proposed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms created&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions unprotected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions reopened&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;110&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions protected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;40&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions migrated&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions merged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions flagged⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;963&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;104&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,012&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;187&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;764&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts unlocked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;457&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts locked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;49&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;415&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,901&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,464&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,216&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,347&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7,931&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;928&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;290&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;33&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,763&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;979&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,824&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8733/2020-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2020: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222021%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/374784/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2022! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastActivityDate="2022-01-12T14:51:17.387" Title="2021: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8906" CreationDate="2022-01-19T14:32:36.550" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/630739/118714&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;listings - How to expand special characters inside lstinline?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; I have two almost identical code-snippets. The only difference is that the first code-snippet additionally contains the command &lt;code&gt;\normalfont&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Syntax-highlighting produces different coloring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aSwzV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aSwzV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastActivityDate="2022-01-25T10:40:51.123" Title="Almost same code - syntax-highlighting produces different coloring - why?" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8905" CreationDate="2022-01-24T22:18:11.983" Score="3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//tex.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange directions state&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To mark an answer as accepted, click on the check mark beside the answer to toggle it from greyed out to filled in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the comments to my question do not have green outlined checkmarks.&#xA;I want to mark a comment as an accepted answer. How can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260476" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2022-01-24T22:40:09.270" LastActivityDate="2022-01-24T22:40:09.270" Title="Where are green outlined checkmarks in comments to my question? Cannot mark a comment as accepted answer" Tags="|support|comments|accepting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8904" CreationDate="2022-01-24T22:31:30.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you've already noted, only &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; can be accepted. Comments are considered transitory and therefore doesn't have this option. You can upvote a comment, but not &amp;quot;accept it as an answer.&amp;quot; If you feel that a comment answered your question, here are a number of steps you can follow (in order of preference):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a comment pinging that specific individual (using an @-mention) and request them to write up an answer. Once an answer is written you can proceed with the usual voting behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there's no response from the commenter after some time, write up your own answer (possibly as a community wiki) referencing the original comment/er (as a form of recognition). Again, from here, you can proceed with the usual voting behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2022-01-24T22:31:30.167" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8903" CreationDate="2022-01-25T10:40:51.123" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Author of the highlight.js grammar for LaTeX here. Phelype Oleinik identified the issue correctly in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8903/almost-same-code-syntax-highlighting-produces-different-coloring-why#comment29042_8903&quot;&gt;his comment&lt;/a&gt;: The grammar doesn't know about the possible optional argument of &lt;code&gt;\lstinline&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of history: Back in 2020 the powers changed the SE parser to highlight.js without much warning which totally broke all highlighting here. After &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8665/48973&quot;&gt;collecting issues&lt;/a&gt;, I completely rewrote the grammar and that is pretty much still what we have today. Sadly, the powers weren't very responsive when it came to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8688/48973&quot;&gt;adapting the colors&lt;/a&gt; to match the old site theme, even after repetitive prodding. Maybe it's worth &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/1527/syntax-highlighting-discussion&quot;&gt;trying&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/StackExchange/Stacks/pull/551&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;again&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't have high hopes. I say all this just to clarify that even if the issue is resolved in highlight.js, there is no guarantee that the fix will be used here any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, for the issue at hand. Feel free to open an issue on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;highlight.js issue tracker&lt;/a&gt; and ping me there. I'm currently rather swamped but I can try to find some time to look at it. One difficulty is that LaTeX has quite a varied syntax and covering all of it is impossible (and out-of-scope for highlight.js). I tried to cover the most common verbatim cases back then, as that will otherwise often mess up highlighting, but obviously not all of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another difficulty is that putting all the possible sequences of arguments into a highlight.js grammar is rather cumbersome due to it's mode of operation. I don't quite remember the limitations of what I came up with back then. I'll have to check if this can be easily fixed. There was already quite some &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/3146&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; about adding a feature to hightlight.js that would make this much simpler (and I was kind of hoping that would be available when I finally sat down and went through my list of improvements for the grammar), but it isn't here yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you decide to open an issue over on GitHub, it would be great if you could include a list of all the common verbatim environments with all the possible usages. That way we could discuss beforehand what makes sense to include and then try to address all of it at once. Maybe it even reignites the sequence discussion. You are of course welcome to contribute to this yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48973" LastActivityDate="2022-01-25T10:40:51.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8909" CreationDate="2022-01-27T02:11:52.283" Score="6" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I create multiple consecutive empty lines in Stack Exchange post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried searching for this, and nothing seems to work in my post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Any advice on edits to this question are welcome.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262342" OwnerDisplayName="user3146" LastActivityDate="2022-02-08T14:06:21.327" Title="How to create multiple consecutive empty lines in Stack Exchange post" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8907" CreationDate="2022-01-27T09:17:52.337" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can cheat with &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;test&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;test&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastActivityDate="2022-01-27T09:17:52.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8907" CreationDate="2022-01-29T18:21:58.677" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need &lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt; empty lines, then you can use the html-tag &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;i&gt;(n+1)&lt;/i&gt; times—in the following example &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is used 6 times which yields 5 empty lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-html prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;A&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;B&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In markdown ending a line with a backslash means introducing a line-break:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;A\&lt;i&gt;&amp;langle;end of line&amp;rangle;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;\&lt;i&gt;&amp;langle;end of line&amp;rangle;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;\&lt;i&gt;&amp;langle;end of line&amp;rangle;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;\&lt;i&gt;&amp;langle;end of line&amp;rangle;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;\&lt;i&gt;&amp;langle;end of line&amp;rangle;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;\&lt;i&gt;&amp;langle;end of line&amp;rangle;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;B&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;i&gt;⟨end of line⟩&lt;/i&gt; is the linefeed-character or carriage-return-character + linefeed-character.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2022-02-08T14:06:21.327" LastActivityDate="2022-02-08T14:06:21.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-31T11:16:23.220" Score="9" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently there has been a discussion on Meta Stack Overflow (again) about whether to ask LaTeX questions on Stack Overflow or on TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered that question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/415691/&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/415691/&lt;/a&gt;) stating that at TeX.SE we welcome questions about LaTeX itself, tools and libraries that produce LaTeX code like pylatex and knitr, and export-to-latex functions in other tools, but that questions about MathJax and KaTeX are off-topic on TeX.SE and should be asked on Stack Overflow instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user suggested in a comment that the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;latex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;latex&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow should be updated to reflect the above guidelines, to inform visitors on Stack Overflow whether they should ask their question there or at TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently that &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/latex/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;, curated by Werner in 2018, does mention that TeX.SE exists and that questions about &amp;quot;LaTeX and related technologies&amp;quot; are better asked on TeX.SE than on Stack Overflow, but no further details are provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: do you think we should edit that tag wiki to mention MathJax and KaTeX specifically as topics to be asked about on Stack Overflow and not on TeX.SE, and/or to explain what the scope of &amp;quot;related technologies&amp;quot; is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further question: do you think we should edit the wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/katex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;katex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;katex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mathjax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mathjax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mathjax&lt;/a&gt; on our own site to suggest people with a question about these two libraries to ask on Stack Overflow instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want you can answer this Meta question with a suggested wording for edits to the relevant tag wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: after several weeks my edit suggestion on Stack Overflow is finally approved :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastEditorUserId="89417" LastEditDate="2022-03-23T19:05:50.267" LastActivityDate="2022-03-23T19:05:50.267" Title="Updating tag wiki on Stack Overflow" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|tagwiki|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8912" CreationDate="2022-01-31T21:59:23.630" Score="4" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/632204&quot;&gt;Why is there too much white space over my tikzpicture&lt;/a&gt; references an image that's already in Imgur using the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; HTML mechanism.  I attempted to display the image via the icon mechanism (from the toolbar), but the output showed the input code rather than the image.  (The input code is correct syntactically, when checked against other successful attempts.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I can think that this might have happened is the presence of the same URL in the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; HTML code.  I didn't try to remove that.  (I deleted the attempt; it can be seen in the edit history.)  I left a comment explaining what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't this doing what I expected?  I certainly have enough rep to enter an image and have it appear if it exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2022-02-01T00:56:41.510" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T00:56:41.510" Title="Failure to show image that already exists in imgur" Tags="|support|markdown|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8911" CreationDate="2022-02-01T00:55:16.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the issues with the markdown provided in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/632204/5764&quot;&gt;the linked question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The use of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/632204/5764&quot;&gt;HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt; is incorrect. The correct usage would be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&amp;quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEcmY.png&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEcmY.png&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEcmY.png&amp;lt;/img&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markdown for code blocks used to be an indent of 4 spaces. However, this has been updated to allow for a triple backtick that would initiate the code block, and a closing triple backtick to finish the code block. Based on the examples in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;markdown/editing help&lt;/a&gt;, these triple backtick sequences need to be on their own line. Sure, in some cases they can be mixed in with the code, but proper identification of the code block (and just because you're showing that your coding style is nicely structured) requires the opening/closing triple backtick sequence to be on their own lines. So, the correct usage would be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;```&#xA;&amp;lt;your code here&amp;gt;&#xA;```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;```&amp;lt;your code here&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;some more code&amp;gt;```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;```&#xA;&amp;lt;some code&amp;gt;```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main issue with the post during &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/632204/3&quot;&gt;your revision&lt;/a&gt; was the last triple backtick on the same line of code, which caused issues with the markdown image notation &lt;code&gt;[![description][1]][1]&lt;/code&gt;. When the post was post was &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/632204/5&quot;&gt;updated&lt;/a&gt; to use the regular 4-space indentation as code block markdown, the backticks were removed the problem didn't show anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've updated the code in that question to reflect the correct use of markdown (by removing the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tagging; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1777/168244&quot;&gt;SE only supports a subset of HTML tags&lt;/a&gt; anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a mockup situation similar to the original question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zbWAn.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zbWAn.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T00:55:16.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-01T02:59:57.203" Score="3" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please advise. I asked a question and a submitted answer had code that solves the problem. However, the answer also starts with statements about TeX macros that contradict commonly used TeX documentation. If I accept the answer as is, readers may rely on incorrect information. But the submitter's code solved my problem and could help others. I don't want to offend anybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260476" LastActivityDate="2022-02-03T20:29:36.220" Title="Submitted answer has incorrect statements about TeX, but code solves problem" Tags="|discussion|accepting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8913" CreationDate="2022-02-01T06:27:25.063" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking the general question, if you feel there is an issue with an answer then it is always best to comment to that effect. You can for example ask for clarification, point to information that part is incorrect, etc. In particular, I would remember that there is no requirement to accept any answer to a question: you can say that the code works but that you have concerns about the information, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T06:27:25.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-01T18:30:54.050" Score="3" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have come across one user who has asked 168 questions and never helped any other questioner with their problem. The OP has stated that their only interest is in posing questions and will not answer any. To me this seems against the interest of the site which is folk helping each other. Should anything be done to discourage this behaviour, and if so, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastActivityDate="2022-02-02T00:45:09.690" Title="A user never answers questions, only asks them" Tags="|discussion|questions|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8915" CreationDate="2022-02-02T00:45:09.690" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We like questions, especially if they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;good&lt;/a&gt;. Poorly-formed questions&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, not so much. In fact, we have more than 20k users&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; (as of early 2022) that have only asked questions In general asking a good question is not easy, so as long as the quality isn't poor it's completely fine. And our decision on quality is founded in &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, if the person posts good (quality) questions that are worthy of answer(s), that should build on the knowledge base of the site. If the quality is lacking, vote accordingly. When things become increasingly lackluster address it explicitly through (down)voting or consider bringing in a moderator as a last resort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h5&gt;Some background considerations on posts and voting behaviour&lt;/h5&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/161411/site-activity-and-votegraph#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the following query result&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GaJ5I.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GaJ5I.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is shown above is a moving average of 24 weeks (or 6 months @ 4 weeks per month) of questions (in blue), answers (in orange) and new users (in gray). It shows roughly 350-400 questions per week during the period from 2015 to 2019, with pronounced correlation between the peaks of new users. This is not new news, since we often see new users bounce after asking just the odd question. Now 2 years into the COVID pandemic we see a slump in the questions, echoed in the number of answers (of course, an answer needs a question). Fewer questions, again, isn't bad, as long as the questions are still good... right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now view the same setup, but this time for voting behaviour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FaxBK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FaxBK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this shows a moving average of 24 weeks (or 6 months @ 4 weeks per month) of votes on questions (in blue) and answers (in orange). There is a clear downward trend in voting behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the land of TeX.SE, voting is often the deciding factor in quality. The more votes (often upvotes), the higher the quality. So, seeing a decline in voting could either imply that people are less-inclined to vote, or that the quality may have degraded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;These are questions that resulted from a typo, some technical setup unrelated to (La)TeX, or general questions that either could have been solved by some basic search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/1551085/top-users-with-no-answers-since-date?date=2000-01-01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This query&lt;/a&gt; provides a ranking of users that have no answers to their name, arranged in descending order by their current reputation. A filter on reputation above 101 (typical starting reputation on this site with an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/141648/168244&quot;&gt;association bonus&lt;/a&gt;). Filtering out users below a 101 threshold may exclude users with questions that have been downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2022-02-02T00:45:09.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8913" CreationDate="2022-02-03T20:29:36.220" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting an answer to wrap up the comment thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Joseph says, for the general policy question you are not obliged to accept any answer. You could post your own answer and accept that if you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However for the specific question that you are asking about, the answer is in fact correct.  &lt;code&gt;\(&lt;/code&gt; at that point (as at almost all other points in a LaTeX document) will start typesetting math. &lt;code&gt;\(x+y\)&lt;/code&gt; will put &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; + &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt; into the PDF it will not do any grouping of actual arithmetic calculations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the nature of TeX, any command may in fact have different local definitions in different contexts, although you usually don't highlight that every time you mention every command in an answer.  For example in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{verbatim}&#xA;\(  ..\)&#xA;\end{verbatim}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\(&lt;/code&gt; will typeset the two characters &lt;code&gt;\(&lt;/code&gt;   and in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{&#xA;\renewcommand\({A}&#xA;\renewcommand\){B}&#xA;\(...\)&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\(...\)&lt;/code&gt; will typeset A...B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that if you load the &lt;code&gt;ifthen&lt;/code&gt; package (that by coincidence I wrote) and use &lt;code&gt;\(&lt;/code&gt; in the first argument of &lt;code&gt;\ifthenelse&lt;/code&gt; it will be used to group any predicates in the test, however there was no reason to consider that package here as it was not mentioned in the question and it is unrelated to any tests used by the &lt;code&gt;\loop&lt;/code&gt; construct under discussion. It did not occur to me to mention it when I wrote the answer and I choose not to add a mention now as it would not add anything to the answer as it is completely unrelated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2022-02-03T20:29:36.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-06T00:43:25.973" Score="7" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;^^ see title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should be okay? Compare &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2330/should-we-post-a-catch-all-question-answering-whats-this-font-on-tex-sx&quot;&gt;Should we post a catch-all question answering &amp;quot;What's this font?&amp;quot; on TeX.SX? - TeX - LaTeX Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What's the current problem?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answerers keep having to repeat the explanation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they don't, visitors (those who want to learn TeX-programming-language) don't understand what is going on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It happens quite frequently (maybe more frequently, this is not easy to search for) – see below.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Meta&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are 3 types. (if this is made) should they be split into 3 different questions, or only 1?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the duplicate close vote policy?&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Immediately close questions as duplicate of the corresponding one, unless they (later edit to) mention that they already read the linked question and what exactly they don't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Write separate answer that have code to solve OP's specific issue, then link to the corresponding question for the repeated explanation part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CW or not? (the font question above isn't CW.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example question.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a macro &lt;code&gt;\innermacro{...}&lt;/code&gt;, when it's used alone it typesets &lt;code&gt;123&lt;/code&gt; on the document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, I have another macro &lt;code&gt;\outermacro&lt;/code&gt;, such that &lt;code&gt;\outermacro{123}&lt;/code&gt; results in &lt;code&gt;456&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I try to use &lt;code&gt;\outermacro{\innermacro{...}}&lt;/code&gt;, but it raises mysterious errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example existing questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally I think there are 3 types:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\innermacro&lt;/code&gt; is catcode-changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/128676/what-can-and-cant-occur-as-macro-argument&quot;&gt;What can and can&amp;#39;t occur as macro argument?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/489767/macro-that-takes-any-latex-code-as-an-argument&quot;&gt;Macro that takes any latex code as an argument&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\innermacro&lt;/code&gt; is not expandable. (&amp;quot;obviously&amp;quot; this category is the most common)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48198/issue-with-fp-missing-number-macro&quot;&gt;Issue with fp &amp;quot;missing number&amp;quot; macro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94250/ifsubstr-does-not-work-when-used-as-parameter-of-another-macro&quot;&gt;\IfSubStr does not work when used as parameter of another macro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/452922/my-if-condition-does-not-work-any-idea-why?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;My if condition does not work. Any idea why?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/632499/dim-set-failed-when-using-str-if-in-in-latex3?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;\dim_set failed when using \str_if_in in LaTeX3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/632603/how-to-extract-year-from-date-in-iso-8601-format?noredirect=1#comment1578029_632603&quot;&gt;How to extract year from date in iso 8601 format?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/186041/what-can-go-wrong-when-using-macros-as-arguments-of-other-macros&quot;&gt;What can go wrong when using macros as arguments of other macros?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/158827/what-is-expansion?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;What is &amp;quot;expansion&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4736/what-is-the-difference-between-fragile-and-robust-commands-when-and-why-do-we-n&quot;&gt;What is the difference between Fragile and Robust commands? When and why do we need \protect?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;\outermacro&lt;/code&gt; does not expand its arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/593293/how-to-create-a-new-command-for-parameters&quot;&gt;How to create a new command for parameters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250119" LastActivityDate="2022-02-06T00:43:25.973" Title="Should we post a general question regarding &quot;why can't I use this macro inside this other macro&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2022-02-22T10:54:08.747" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code snippets are sufficient when we are talking about TeX. We can show only the problem in pair lines and relevant macros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But problem is that most of questions here are not about TeX itself, but about LaTeX. And LaTeX brings a huge number of problems mentioned here by other posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastActivityDate="2022-02-22T10:54:08.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8923" CreationDate="2022-02-22T17:23:55.890" Score="7" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the most appropriate way to proceed if you think that a question or an answer that you did not write yourself probably needs to be edited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., something trivial to the experts and the experienced, but which a novice might not necessarily spot her-/himself. E.g.,  within a piece of code insertion of a forgotten &lt;code&gt;\endcsname&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\fi&lt;/code&gt; or closing brace or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should one just make the edit? Should one not make the edit but draw the author's attention towards it via a comment and wait until the author takes action her-/himself, and then delete the obsolete comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel good when a post written by someone else also has my name listed in a big way under &amp;quot;edited by...&amp;quot;, even though my edit can't be seen as a significant contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something like an &amp;quot;editing policy&amp;quot; or a code of conduct for editing other than not doing trivial edits and not doing edits that distort the gist of an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastActivityDate="2022-02-27T17:31:22.563" Title="What is the most appropriate way to proceed if you think that a question or an answer that you did not write yourself probably needs to be edited?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8922" CreationDate="2022-02-27T16:55:59.243" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the first approach to problems you find with answers should always be through comments. This is especially true if the answer is active/new, and it's likely that the poster will see the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the SE model is designed to encourage collaborative editing, posting comments is a much more collaborative act, IMO, and it shows more of a sense of community than just jumping in and editing a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course on older answers, commenting is less likely to work unless you know that the poster is generally active on the site. In such cases it's probably fine to edit without commenting first. Even in that case, I don't think it's a bad idea to add a comment explaining what you did (independent of the edit history comment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that editing the actual code of an answer is much more the kind of edit that should warrant commenting first than, e.g. simply correcting typos/English, or applying code formatting, which I do fairly routinely without commenting. But since code is usually the core of any answer, I think it should be up to the poster to fix it, even if the fix is relatively minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system also already has a method for truly collaborative answers: the Community Wiki status. These types of answers are designed to be freely edited and I don't think that commenting first in that case is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastEditorUserId="2693" LastEditDate="2022-02-27T17:31:22.563" LastActivityDate="2022-02-27T17:31:22.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-03T20:22:01.737" Score="7" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been trying to find something on this site which provides guidance for someone asking a question as to how to do it in order to help someone answer it. I have failed. I'm sure that there must be something on this topic but if I haven't been able to find it  how might a new OP come across it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that such guidance would at least suggest that the OP provided an MWE (from &lt;code&gt;\documentclass...&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt;) that could be compiled to show the OP's problem. Many questions seem to assume that everybody knows what the OP has done in general but there is a specific problem related to a couple of lines of code. Often the problem is with the anonymous code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many comments about questions ask for MWEs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how OPs can be persuaded to look at any suggestions that might help them get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just hope that the OPs can be encouraged to help those brave souls trying to help them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--- GOM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" OwnerDisplayName="Peter Wilson" LastActivityDate="2022-03-03T20:46:21.580" Title="A good way to ask a question?" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3343" CreationDate="2022-03-15T20:43:54.640" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A minimal MWE is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass...  % we must know the class any any of its used options&#xA;% possibly some preamble code, including any necessary `\usepackage{...}`&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;% code exhibiting the problem, without anything irrevelant&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There must be no &lt;code&gt;\input...&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;\include...&lt;/code&gt; of files that we do not have --- the problem might be inside them and so is hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need illustrations then the &lt;code&gt;mwe&lt;/code&gt; package provides several that are accessible to all of us. Otherwise something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{figure}&#xA;\centering&#xA; AN ILLUSTRATION&#xA;\caption{A picture} \label{pic}&#xA;\end{figure}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and similar for tables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need some text to fill up a space then the &lt;code&gt;lipsum&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;blindtext&lt;/code&gt; packages provide many lines of input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compile your MWE before submitting it to make sure that there are no errors (except for your problem) with it. There is nothing like compiling someone`s MWE when trying to answer their question to have to keep LaTeX going on while ignoring errors --- the result could well be nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider your question and MWE as though you might answer; is there everything there to enable a potential answerer to provide an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12082" LastActivityDate="2022-03-15T20:43:54.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8928" CreationDate="2022-03-21T00:01:13.553" Score="8" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/637705/125871&quot;&gt;question posted here&lt;/a&gt; the OP uses suitable tags for the question, namely &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;tikz-arrows&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;graphs&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer (mine) uses &lt;code&gt;tikz-cd&lt;/code&gt;. Is it appropriate to add the &lt;code&gt;tikz-cd&lt;/code&gt; tag to the question? The use of &lt;code&gt;tikz-cd&lt;/code&gt; in the answer is somewhat atypical (for beginners), using nodes for cells, so I thought the tag might be helpful from a search perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125871" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T18:42:52.493" Title="Is it appropriate to add a tag that applies to the accepted answer rather than the question?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8927" CreationDate="2022-03-21T10:20:10.193" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general position has always been that tags are about questions, not answers. So tagging because an answer (accepted or not) uses a particular package has not been regarded as desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2022-03-21T10:20:10.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-22T16:19:07.593" Score="9" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Context&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I noticed a very common behavior about new users, they ask questions without providing MWEs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/638024/citation-inconsistency&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; have more than one comment about lack of MWE.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yKSx9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yKSx9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While review questions I notice there are two default comments to &lt;code&gt;question unclear&lt;/code&gt;and &lt;code&gt;question is too broad&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cowTP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cowTP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Suggestion and question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think adding a third one: &lt;code&gt;Please a MWE&lt;/code&gt; with some default links would be quite useful.&#xA;Mainly the links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-working-example-mwe-what-is-that?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal working example (MWE), what is that?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3343/what-makes-a-good-mwe&quot;&gt;What makes a good MWE?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I would say &lt;code&gt;question is unclear&lt;/code&gt; is not specific about the lack of a MWE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could such feature be added to the &lt;code&gt;Share Feedback&lt;/code&gt; default answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Justification&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there is a link to &lt;code&gt;how to ask a good question here&lt;/code&gt; on the right side&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WY1cr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WY1cr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and (probably) a pop-up also appears for the very first question, as it showed to me here at my first question on &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zvGug.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zvGug.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with these tools, it seems many new users only understand the need for a MWE when a comment doing so is done. Creating a default comment with links would be a nice shortcut for the Community. It is easier than remembering the necessary links or searching for them. Those links are very useful and are (should be) used quite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By the way&lt;/em&gt;, I notice while typing I don't know if asking a question in Meta is the best way to present a suggestion of feature to the own website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140133" LastEditorUserId="140133" LastEditDate="2022-03-22T21:32:19.570" LastActivityDate="2022-03-22T21:32:19.570" Title="Could a default comment about MWEs be added in reviews?" Tags="|feature-request|comments|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8930" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-26T15:36:06.057" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every day I make a point of going on all of the Stack sites I'm subscribed to so that I can get the badges for consecutive days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today they were all okay, except for the Tex site that has reset from 18 days back to 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've been on it in the last 24 hours and the others all updated, so my question is why would that one be different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="264953" LastActivityDate="2022-03-26T15:36:06.057" Title="How are days visited figured?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-01T14:08:22.043" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/springer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;springer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;springer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/springernature&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;springernature&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;springernature&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sv-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sv-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sv-classes&lt;/a&gt;. The last one is the more widely used tag, with over 130 questions currently. The other two have only around 10 questions each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we synonymize and merge the two smaller tags into &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sv-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sv-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sv-classes&lt;/a&gt;?&#xA;I'm not sure that there is a need to disambiguate the questions about the class files of Springer-Verlag and Springer Nature, even if they are technically different publishers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2699/244085&quot;&gt;Tags for Springer-Verlag classes&lt;/a&gt;, though that was discussed over 9 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244085" LastActivityDate="2022-05-20T23:12:48.070" Title="Should [springer] and [springernature] be synonyms of [sv-classes]?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8934" CreationDate="2022-04-01T16:45:59.467" Score="10" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a possibility to edit your own answers some time later, without the question being pushed somewhere to the top of the &amp;quot;Active Questions&amp;quot; and without the question attracting attention and thus distracting from more current problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this because I tend to tinker for rather aesthetic or &amp;quot;didactic&amp;quot; reasons with older answers written by me.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;For example, English is not my native language and sometimes it takes me a while to figure out how to more eloquently phrase things in English language.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Sometimes I realize later that I assumed knowledge of matters that should be explained.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Sometimes inaccuracies/flaws in my text need rectification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often I don't introduce fundamentally new aspects or changes to code examples, but I go more into reference to basic concepts —which the advanced questioner may not need, but which could be useful to the novice looking for answers with the search function—, or I rephrase text passages so that my explanations become more understandable and/or more precise, or at least seem more understandable and/or more precise to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often it's about answers to questions that aren't pressing anyone at the moment, so it is not useful to push them up in the Active Questions, but despite this I'd like the text to look good for those people who are looking for answers with the search function.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Besides, in such cases my editing could be interpreted as hustling for attention and upvotes, and I would like to avoid this impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T16:57:41.140" Title="Is there a possibility to edit your own answers some time later, without the question being pushed somewhere to the top of the &quot;Active Questions&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|editing|best-practice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8933" CreationDate="2022-04-01T16:53:49.297" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, by design all&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; edits move material to the top of the active page. This is to avoid e.g. self-destruction of posts, 'minor' edits which make significant changes, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; The Powers can of course make edits where this is not the case.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2022-04-01T16:57:41.140" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T16:57:41.140" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8927" CreationDate="2022-04-01T18:42:52.493" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally there are answerers that put a tag at the start of an answer, as a visual way of saying &amp;quot;This answer uses such-and-such package or technique&amp;quot;. Stack Exchange has markdown for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;code&gt;[tag:tikz-cd]&lt;/code&gt; looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-cd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tikz-cd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tikz-cd&lt;/a&gt;. This button is also a link to all the questions with this tag, i.e., &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-cd&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-cd&lt;/a&gt;. On the main page this also shows the tag excerpt on mouseover. For Meta the equivalent (with a link and mouseover) is &lt;code&gt;[meta-tag:tagname]&lt;/code&gt;, for example &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find any guidance on TeX.Meta or on Meta.SE if this is a good idea, but personally I find it helpful to add such a tag in case you use an approach that the asker did not know about, or an approach using a different package than mentioned in the question (which is perfectly valid by itself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer would look for example like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ibJFd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ibJFd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/afTA1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/afTA1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answer could then similarly be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pstricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pstricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pstricks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T18:42:52.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8938" CreationDate="2022-04-10T14:47:07.197" Score="4" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main site of TeX-LaTeX-StackExchange within comments&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; you can use backticks &lt;code&gt;`code`&lt;/code&gt; for writing code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems this does not work when the piece of code has a leading sequence of spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., typing  &lt;code&gt;`      code`&lt;/code&gt; within a comment&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; does not work out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to write code which has a leading sequence of spaces within a comment&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Comment—the kind of short message which you can write after clicking on &amp;quot;Add a comment&amp;quot;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2022-07-22T15:09:38.463" LastActivityDate="2022-07-22T15:09:38.463" Title="How to write code which has a leading sequence of spaces within a comment?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8936" CreationDate="2022-04-12T15:44:19.513" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use a zero width space (eg U+200b) at the start&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;    ​    abc xyz 123&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That looks the nicest, but if you are expecting someone to copy the code as code it will have the unicode space character and give errors or warnings most likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is probably best to use a visible marker and tell the user to omit it as in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the code between the two &lt;code&gt;|&lt;/code&gt;.        &lt;code&gt;|         abc xyz 123|&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note this is network wide (and been asked for and rejected on the network meta), eg&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83522/preserving-white-space-in-comments&quot;&gt;Preserving white space in comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so nothing that can be changed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2022-04-12T15:44:19.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-05T20:27:44.743" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/643158&quot;&gt;Why are there two commands doing the same: \&amp;gt; and \:?&lt;/a&gt;, the title looks a bit weird:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Why are there two commands doing the same: \&amp;gt; and \:?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, the title would profit from adding a space to avoid misreading the question mark as a part of the control sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Why are there two commands doing the same: \&amp;gt; and \: ?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea how to do this?  When I add the space manually, the Web-page software removes it. No-break space and hair space also get removed. Perhaps, any other way to make &lt;code&gt;\&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; visually separated from &lt;code&gt;?&lt;/code&gt; in the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user224332" LastEditorDisplayName="user224332" LastEditDate="2022-05-05T20:33:01.940" LastActivityDate="2022-05-05T23:32:37.410" Title="Space before the question mark in the title" Tags="|feature-request|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8939" CreationDate="2022-05-05T23:32:37.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little rewording solves the problem. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2022-05-05T23:32:37.410" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8943" CreationDate="2022-05-18T11:08:28.037" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this question a few days ago:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/644065/missing-a-tick-label-that-has-been-named&quot;&gt;missing a tick label that has been named&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered the following, and it got downvoted (3 times), then deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this give what you want?&#xA;xtick = {-3.14, -1.57, ..., 9.42},&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone gave the following comment 2 days later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replacing your xtick={...} with xtick={-3.14,-1.57,...,9.42} works for me (which avoids the rounding errors).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to which the asker replied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It worked too on me! Thank you so much&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to understand what caused this huge difference is these two replies.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I know the most probable explanation is that the 3 people saw something bad in my answer, and not in the other comment.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But, reading and re-reading the 2 replies, I can't see it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;For me, the question was clear, the context was clear, and the 2 replies are short, clear and helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the difference is in fact so obvious, could anyone explain it to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;After reading some advice on how to post a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; answer, I tried a different approach and edited my deleted answer, but nothing happened (no upvote, no accepted answer, etc.):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TikZ probably just expects two numbers before &amp;quot;...,&amp;quot;, in your xtick list, so, giving it three numbers may lead to this unwanted behaviour.&#xA;The pgfmanual (&lt;a href=&quot;https://pgf-tikz.github.io/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://pgf-tikz.github.io/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf&lt;/a&gt;) mentions this two-numbers rules for the foreach statement: &amp;quot;If you provide two numbers before the ..., the \foreach statement will use their difference for the stepping&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe this answer had a problem too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="243292" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2022-05-18T13:01:13.853" LastActivityDate="2022-05-18T13:01:13.853" Title="Explanations on why my answer had been downvoted (and removed), but a similar one accepted? Things I can improve?" Tags="|discussion|answers|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8942" CreationDate="2022-05-18T12:26:16.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion to remove the values from the list solves the problem in this specific case, but the explanation is incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is perfectly fine to give more than two values before (or after) the &lt;code&gt;...&lt;/code&gt;. The documentation you quote, just wants to say that if you provide more than one number, the step size is calculated from the difference of the two numbers before the &lt;code&gt;...&lt;/code&gt; instead of using the default step size of 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is actually happening in this case is the rounding precision of pgf is just not really good and by removing the value, the calculated step size is slightly different. This difference means that the last calculated value is now inside the interval instead of outside, thus one more tick is calculated. Compare the following two loops:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{pgffor}&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\foreach \x in {-3.14, -1.57, 0., ..., 7.85, 9.42}{&#xA;  \x&#xA;  &#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\bigskip&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\foreach \x in {-3.14, -1.57, ..., 9.42}{&#xA;  \x&#xA;  &#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the question you link to this means that by allowing a bit of margin for rounding errors, e.g. &lt;code&gt;xtick = {-3.14, -1.57, 0., ..., 7.851, 9.42},&lt;/code&gt; the problem can be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2022-05-18T12:36:42.760" LastActivityDate="2022-05-18T12:36:42.760" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8932" CreationDate="2022-05-20T23:12:48.070" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal&lt;/strong&gt;: Keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/springer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;springer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;springer&lt;/a&gt; as the master tag, and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/springernature&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;springernature&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;springernature&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sv-classes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sv-classes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sv-classes&lt;/a&gt; as its synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244085" LastActivityDate="2022-05-20T23:12:48.070" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8946" CreationDate="2022-05-21T06:05:26.170" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you please tell me what's wrong with this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/644971/overleaf-pdf-causing-compilation-timeout&quot;&gt;Overleaf: PDF causing compilation timeout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="268759" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2022-05-24T05:17:29.050" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T13:35:37.877" Title="Why was this question downvoted? How to improve it?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8945" CreationDate="2022-05-25T13:35:37.877" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The downvote could be caused by the problems with the provided code. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/644971/overleaf-pdf-causing-compilation-timeout-due-to-an-infinite-loop#comment1607387_644971&quot;&gt;comment from Ulrich Diez&lt;/a&gt; summarizes these issues. Basically, the code you provided will result in errors unrelated to the problem asked about in the question, and therefore anyone interested in answering the question needs to clean up the code first to get to the actual issue. This is what David Carlisle did in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/645023/&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt;. The code sample provided there is the minimal document that is needed to reproduce the error. You should have provided something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general strategy is to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a copy of your original document and continue with this copy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If needed, delete any privacy-sensitive or classified information. Make sure the error you get is still there after removing this information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then remove &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; other content from the document that you think is not relevant. Check if the problem is still there. If the problem has disappeared then you removed too muich. Put back the last thing that you removed and remove something else instead. Keep checking if the problem persists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove all &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\newcommand&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\def&lt;/code&gt; etc. statements that are not relevant. Keep checking if the problem persists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post the code you end up with after you can't find anything else to remove.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your specific question this would of course be rather impractical, given that the problem was a timeout - so you would have to do a lot of waiting every time you would check if the problem persists. However, since you already knew it was probably caused by &lt;code&gt;pdfpages&lt;/code&gt; you could zoom in to that part of the code fairly quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the downvote is a bit unusual. Your posts wasn't bad at all except for the problem with the code, and here on TeX.SE a downvote is quite rare, even for posts that are much worse than yours. Also you have been constructive in the comments which normally dissuades people from casting downvotes. Maybe people were indeed thinking that the problem was caused by a part of the code that you didn't show, which was indeed a possibility although it turned out that it is an actual bug in &lt;code&gt;pdfpages&lt;/code&gt;. If your code would have been more minimal then this could be easily verified or falsified, but with the code provided it was not so easy to check that it was in fact 'not your fault'. So your question was just a victim of an unfortunate set of circumstances I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T13:35:37.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8947" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-26T12:13:07.840" Score="7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/629545/how-to-create-bibtex-entrys-for-web-pages-automatically/629546#629546&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; here once, to share my efforts on finding a tool to create Bibtex entries from websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now someone anonymous posts an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/231414&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; which adds a new tool and clearly favors this new tool. I did not test that tool so I can not compare it to the previously mentioned ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the recommended way to respond to such an edit? It could add beneficial information for everyone, but I am unable to verify the credibility of the information myself right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/101891/can-we-edit-a-post-to-change-its-content&quot;&gt;situation&lt;/a&gt; happened before. Answers were positive towards approving the edit, if there was a name to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="261111" LastActivityDate="2022-05-26T12:13:07.840" Title="How to handle edits with information I can not verify myself" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8948" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:00:41.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug with this tag is something that has been evaluated as positive on potential,&#xA;but it is not present in the current work timeline. It is also not guaranteed to be implemented - when&#xA;it resurfaces the proposal may be re-evaluated and declined depending on how the situation has changed since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt;, in which a feature is something that the site developers have&#xA;definitively approved for implementation but the timing is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-28T21:30:12.607" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T21:30:12.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8949" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:00:41.170" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the feature request or bug is something that is intended to be implemented or fixed, but not in the near term." OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-28T16:27:08.287" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T16:27:08.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8950" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:01:17.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug with this tag is something that has been evaluated as definitive to implementation.&#xA;However, either there is ongoing investigation on the methods to implement the proposal, or there are other&#xA;active projects that are ahead of it in priority for the site developers. Ideally, this tag indicates that&#xA;the proposal is intended to be implemented in the near term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;, in which the feature is of lower priority and may be re-evaluated&#xA;on feasibility at a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-28T16:29:28.240" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T16:29:28.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8951" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:01:17.100" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the feature request or bug is something that is intended to be implemented or fixed, ideally in the near term." OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-28T16:29:51.707" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T16:29:51.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8952" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:23:04.723" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before posting your question, please check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;FAQs&lt;/a&gt;, and do a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; to see if your problem already has a known solution or procedure. If you cannot find an answer, we will be happy to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-28T21:29:51.283" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T21:29:51.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8953" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:23:04.723" Score="0" Body="You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features." OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-30T00:11:57.570" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T00:11:57.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3372" CreationDate="2022-05-28T16:24:02.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those of us who have worked in this area for a long time tend to use &amp;quot;X&amp;quot; as shorthand for terms that begin with the letters &amp;quot;ex&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;XML = eXtensible Markup Language&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;STIX = Scientific and Technical Information eXchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's second nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T16:24:02.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8957" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-29T12:53:09.460" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered not reproducible if it is a bug that the site developers&#xA;would fix, but cannot due to an inability to recreate the problematic behavior in&#xA;spite of attempts to do so. Reports that are not reproducible typically represent&#xA;bugs that come from using unsupported browsers and tools, or because of sunspots&#xA;and other activity entirely unrelated to the site creating a momentary issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a bug can’t be reproduced due to being immediately presented as being through&#xA;an unsupported browser, thus bypassing the need of the site developers to even&#xA;attempt to reproduce the bug, then &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are the reporter of a bug that receives this tag, it may indicate&#xA;that the bug was intermittent, or merely that you didn't thoroughly explain&#xA;the circumstances under which you encountered it. First, verify that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;can still cause the bug to appear, and (if you can) then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe in detail what you were doing when it happened. Include links to any relevant pages / posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;List the steps you took to encounter the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe your environment: browser make and version, OS, add-ons, userscripts (if applicable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include screenshots if applicable. Use hand-drawn circles to highlight key portions&#xA;of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-30T00:12:11.417" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T00:12:11.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8958" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-29T12:53:09.460" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the site developers were not able to replicate the behavior reported." OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-29T22:09:48.403" LastActivityDate="2022-05-29T22:09:48.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2022-05-29T12:53:28.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a sandbox post, please ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code iterates through different combinations of jot, baselineskip, lineskip, and create a normal &lt;code&gt;gather&lt;/code&gt; environment and a &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt; environment. Then for each item use &lt;code&gt;zref-savepos&lt;/code&gt; to measure the vertical distance between the 2 lines, then report the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replace &lt;code&gt;\pretty&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;\tl_show&lt;/code&gt; if you want. (will print the log on the terminal)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RqlrQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RqlrQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;rendered document&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The log: (there are 2 wrong entries unfortunately...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q7LTB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q7LTB.png&quot; alt=&quot;result log&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;%! TEX program = lualatex&#xA;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{amsmath}&#xA;\usepackage{prettytok}&#xA;\usepackage{zref-savepos}&#xA;\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}&#xA;\setlength{\fboxrule}{.1pt}&#xA;\errorcontextlines=100&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOn&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\def \__index {0}&#xA;\clist_map_variable:nNn {&#xA; 0sp/0sp/0sp,&#xA; 0sp/0sp/5sp,&#xA; 0sp/5sp/0sp,&#xA; 0sp/5sp/5sp,&#xA; 5sp/0sp/0sp,&#xA; 5sp/0sp/5sp,&#xA; 5sp/5sp/0sp,&#xA; 5sp/5sp/5sp,&#xA; 0sp/0sp/1cm,&#xA; 0sp/1.1cm/0sp,&#xA; 0sp/1.1cm/1cm,&#xA; 1.2cm/0sp/0sp,&#xA; 1.2cm/0sp/1cm,&#xA; 1.2cm/1.1cm/0sp,&#xA; 1.2cm/1.1cm/1cm&#xA; } \__a {&#xA; &#xA;&#xA; \edef\__index{\int_eval:n {\__index+1}}&#xA;&#xA; \def \__match #1/#2/#3/ {&#xA;  \def\jot{#1}&#xA;  \baselineskip=#2\relax&#xA;  \lineskip=#3\relax&#xA; }&#xA; \expandafter \__match \__a/&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA; &#xA;\begingroup&#xA;&#xA;%\savebox\strutbox {}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{gather*}&#xA; a=b \zsavepos{a\__index} \\&#xA; \dfrac22 \zsavepos{b\__index}&#xA;\end{gather*}&#xA;&#xA;\endgroup&#xA;&#xA;\dim_compare:nNnTF {\baselineskip} = {0sp} {&#xA; \edef\customskip{\dim_to_decimal_in_sp:n{\dimexpr\lineskip+\jot\relax} sp}&#xA;} {&#xA;\let\customskip\jot&#xA;}&#xA;\[&#xA; \renewcommand\arraystretch{0}&#xA; %\baselineskip=\baselineskipx\relax&#xA; \edef\oldbaselineskip{\the\baselineskip}&#xA; \edef\oldlineskip{\the\lineskip}&#xA; \begin{array}{c}&#xA;  %\baselineskip=\normalbaselineskip&#xA;  a=b      \zsavepos{c\__index} \copy\strutbox \rule[\dimexpr-0.3\dimexpr\oldbaselineskip\relax\relax]{0pt}{\dimexpr\oldbaselineskip\relax} \\[0pt] \\[\customskip] \\[0pt]&#xA;  \dfrac22 \zsavepos{d\__index} \copy\strutbox \rule[\dimexpr-0.3\dimexpr\oldbaselineskip\relax\relax]{0pt}{\dimexpr\oldbaselineskip\relax}&#xA; \end{array}&#xA;\]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\pretty:x{&#xA; case~\__index.~&#xA; \int_eval:n{\zposy{a\__index} - \zposy{b\__index}}sp&#xA; =&#xA; \int_eval:n{\zposy{c\__index} - \zposy{d\__index}}sp&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\int_compare:nNnTF &#xA; {\zposy{a\__index} - \zposy{b\__index}}&#xA; =&#xA; {\zposy{c\__index} - \zposy{d\__index}}&#xA; {&#xA; }&#xA; {&#xA;  \pretty:n{ERROR!}&#xA; }&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;\ExplSyntaxOff&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250119" LastEditorUserId="250119" LastEditDate="2022-06-12T01:49:30.400" LastActivityDate="2022-06-12T01:49:30.400" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-05-29T12:53:28.130" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8960" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-29T12:53:43.390" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered reproduced only if the site developers have successfully reproduced the bug.&#xA;This tag should only be applied if the site developers cannot immediately address the bug, such as if&#xA;it requires further investigation into solutions or if the implementation of a fix would be stalled&#xA;for other reasons. When a fix is eventually implemented, the tag should become &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-30T00:12:06.307" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T00:12:06.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8961" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-29T12:53:43.390" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the site developers were able to replicate the behavior reported, but cannot address its cause at this time." OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-05-29T14:14:57.320" LastActivityDate="2022-05-29T14:14:57.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8962" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-06-01T02:23:35.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered &amp;quot;by design&amp;quot; if, after review of the detailed erroneous behavior, it is determined that the behavior is desirable to keep in place rather than fix. This is independent of whether or not the behavior was formerly known to the site developers prior to the time of the report - the important thing is that the behavior will not be altered because its current behavior is preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should only be used on questions reporting what is purported as erroneous behavior and suggests them being fixed/reversed. For when a question that is requesting a new feature that addresses a behavior that the asker believes to be erroneous, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="95441" LastEditDate="2022-06-02T09:45:06.930" LastActivityDate="2022-06-02T09:45:06.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8963" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-06-01T02:23:35.773" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change" OwnerUserId="9954" LastEditorUserId="9954" LastEditDate="2022-06-02T09:45:15.690" LastActivityDate="2022-06-02T09:45:15.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2022-06-02T01:08:41.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Made this &lt;a href=&quot;https://jsfiddle.net/juanmf/Lz7nycxm/latest/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;JSFiddle script&lt;/a&gt; for basic markup + latex editing / printing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allows to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copy-paste src (original, markup with rendered math, html with rendered math) to a math question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Print rendered HTML.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** EDIT:&#xA;Just found out about &lt;a href=&quot;https://hackmd.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://hackmd.io/&lt;/a&gt; which does a very good job for latex sandbox and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271615" LastEditorUserId="271615" LastEditDate="2022-06-02T19:59:38.897" LastActivityDate="2022-06-02T19:59:38.897" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-06-02T01:08:41.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-04T14:54:09.700" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;My lately asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/646656/2288&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; (deleted by me) about solving a problem using Newton's Method has been voted for close since it allegedly was not related to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, can't I ask to solve any math problem using pgf or expl3, for example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have already seen many answers about using those as programming tools to solve similar problems but I would like to make sure that such a question is valid to ask or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T14:27:06.867" Title="Is it acceptable to ask for solving a math problem using latex as a programming tool?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2022-06-05T09:24:29.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that most people can not follow the link you gave, you need to be you, or have a high enough rep to see deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about programming in LaTeX would be clearly on topic, but the way you worded that question, it read as a math/programming question about Netwon's method that had been accidentally posted to this site  insead of stackoverflow, and collected close votes for that reason. See the comments from daleif under the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wrong site? How is this related to latex and friends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it had been worded to make it clear that you had a specific known algorithm but were asking how to program that in tex,then the outcome might have been different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, a complete small test &lt;em&gt;latex&lt;/em&gt; example showing how far you had got and showing what tex issue you had faced trying to program that would have improved the question and made the intent clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2022-06-05T09:44:07.383" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T09:44:07.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2022-06-05T14:27:06.867" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at your last 2 questions I think you're somewhat in a XY problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Write about what you want to &lt;strong&gt;typeset&lt;/strong&gt;, instead of what you want to compute (which you will probably typeset the result anyway.) or restrict the answerer to use a particular programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/133317/how-to-add-subtract-multiply-and-divide-in-plain-tex&quot;&gt;How to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in plain TeX?&lt;/a&gt; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, in a similar manner you could write something like the following (I think. My English is not that good)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I have the following code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass ...&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;...&#xA;&#xA;\def\theequation{sin(x)}&#xA;\def\startpoint{1}&#xA;&#xA;which typesets the following&#xA;&#xA;[insert an image here] (recommended!)&#xA;&#xA;It takes 5 iterations for Newton's method to find the root of \theequation\ starting from \startpoint.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I have to change the equation &lt;code&gt;sin(x)&lt;/code&gt; or the starting point &lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt;, and currently I use the following Python/Lua/whatever code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sympy&#xA;sympy.solve(...)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to compute the number of iterations needed (e.g. 5 in this case), and edit the TeX file accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is error-prone, how can I improve the process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's very clear it's a question about TeX and typesetting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does not restrict answerers from using any particular programming language. They could use expl3 (difficult), Lua, Python, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They already get an example Python code. So even if they don't know Python they can just show you how to integrate Python into TeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here the assumptions is that you already know how to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;compute the value (not necessarily in TeX)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;typeset the result manually, once you're given the result&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If either of the above are not satisfied, first ask a question on how to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side note, you can optionally &amp;quot;nicely&amp;quot; ask users to keep using Python code because e.g. you're familiar with Python and can easily modify the code later. They aren't required to do that however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250119" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T14:27:06.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-10T06:38:24.003" Score="5" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you all know, there are two ways to format blocks of code, four leading spaces in every line vs. three backticks around the code. Many new users know about the first method, but not the second. When I edit a posting due to a spelling error or some other issue (which I frequently do), I often surround a block of code with ``` as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @moewe pointed out to me, this can leave four leading spaces in each line of code (unless there was no code formatting in the first place at all). Are we supposed to remove those spaces? Is there a policy? Does it matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26614" LastEditorUserId="26614" LastEditDate="2022-06-10T07:48:11.633" LastActivityDate="2022-07-27T20:40:37.270" Title="How to properly edit code blocks when going from “4 spaces” to “3 backticks”?" Tags="|discussion|code|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-28T00:45:19.583" Score="6" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;This meta question arises from the closure of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/648786/how-to-define-new-key-properties-in-l3keys&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. I am not going to try to reopen the question, because I am not a close/reopen button lover. Just let the question be part of the silent history of TeX.SE site. What I want to know are the guidelines of TeX.SE about the relations between accepatble questions and user opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please read first all the comments below the closed question and its answers before reading forwards. Thank you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the closed question, I find two general questions that I want to asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The First Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Queston 1: Are questions of &amp;quot;how to do something with some package&amp;quot; acceptable on this site, if the asker knows with 90% certainty some feature is not supported in some package?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this queston, I think the answer is YES. In general, an asker gets the certainty of whether or not some feature is supported by searching in the web or in the documentation. Sometimes, there are undocumented features in some package (for example, some months ago, an user ever asked how to break from &lt;code&gt;\int_step_inline&lt;/code&gt; loop). Also, if the feature is really not supported, other users could still answer the question, providing some workarounds or hacks of the dirty code, which may be useful to the asker and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Second Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Queston 2: Are his/her questions acceptable on this site, if the asker believe the vote and bookmark numbers of every question are positively correlated to how many users need some feature of some package?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this queston, I also think the answer is YES.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) On TeX.SE main site, users can not open polls. So every post is either question or answer, and &amp;quot;a disguised poll&amp;quot;&#xA;is a meaningless statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) I will not change the above belief. So If the answer is NO, then all of my questions can be closed for this reason, which I think is ridiculous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(3) My belief is for all questions, not only for my questions. For example, when writing my package, I sorted by votes all questions with &lt;code&gt;[tables]&lt;/code&gt; tag. And the first three questions are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;819 votes: How to add a forced line break inside a table cell&#xA;421 votes: Column and row padding in tables&#xA;289 votes: How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I decided these features in tables are mostly wanted by users and implemented them in my package. Everyone has his/her right to disagree with me. But I don't think it is the proper reason to close my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will add two answers below as polls for these two questions. Please upvote or downvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106776" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2022-06-28T05:36:24.430" LastActivityDate="2022-06-29T12:57:14.737" Title="Acceptable Questions and User Opinions" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|off-topic|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8969" CreationDate="2022-06-28T00:47:20.033" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Queston 1: Are questions of &amp;quot;how to do something with some package&amp;quot; acceptable on this site, if the asker knows with 90% certainty some feature is not supported in some package?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;POLL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote if you think these questions are acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote if you think these questions are unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106776" LastActivityDate="2022-06-28T00:47:20.033" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-06-28T00:47:20.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8969" CreationDate="2022-06-28T00:48:34.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Queston 2: Are his/her questions acceptable on this site, if the asker believe the vote and bookmark numbers of every question are positively correlated to how many users need some feature of some package?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;POLL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote if you think these questions are acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote if you think these questions are unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106776" LastActivityDate="2022-06-28T00:48:34.360" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-06-28T00:48:34.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8969" CreationDate="2022-06-28T07:35:56.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without going too much into the general discussion, let me add some words as to why I ended up voting for the closure of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You, @L.J.R., have at least two relatively large &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt;-based packages on CTAN, of which at least one is known to have a sizable user base. This suggests that you are a more experienced &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; developer than yours truly. When you asked about whether &lt;code&gt;l3keys&lt;/code&gt; supported custom key properties, it took me more or less one minute to find the source code of &lt;code&gt;l3keys&lt;/code&gt; and the line of code that added the &lt;code&gt;.code:n&lt;/code&gt; property:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\cs_new_protected:cpn { \c_@@_props_root_str .code:n } #1&#xA;    { \@@_cmd_set:nn \l_keys_path_str {#1} }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took twenty more seconds to find out that &lt;code&gt;\c_@@_props_root_str&lt;/code&gt; expanded to &lt;code&gt;key~prop~&amp;gt;~&lt;/code&gt;. From all of this, it was immediately quite clear that this was a low-level implementation using private macros. There was not even a private command like &lt;code&gt;\_@@_new_key_property:npn&lt;/code&gt;; it was all being done manually. In other words, it was clear that it was not the developers’ intention that anyone (perhaps not even themselves) should add any more key properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, I came to that conclusion in two minutes. As mentioned, you probably have more &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; programming experience than I. Are you going to tell me that you hadn’t already gone through the same steps and reached the same conclusion? Or that you didn’t know how to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really wanted custom key properties, why didn’t you ask a question like “Why does &lt;code&gt;l3keys&lt;/code&gt; not support custom key properties?” in order to start a proper discussion of the thing you were actually interested in, instead of disguising the intent of the question like that? It would be as if @egreg got tired of TeX’s lack of metrics for the positioning of left superscripts and added a question like “Where are the metrics for left superscripts stored?” (which of course he would never do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, your explicit motivation for your question was that you simply found it easier and prettier to replace &lt;code&gt;.code:n&lt;/code&gt; by &lt;code&gt;.mycode:n&lt;/code&gt; than to replace &lt;code&gt;.code:n =&lt;/code&gt; by &lt;code&gt;.code:n = \MyFunction&lt;/code&gt; in the source code of your pakcage. And in order to save yourself that bit of work, you requested a feature which, even if it was ever added, would only appear in something like 10 years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And by the way, how would you ever avoid package clashes if packages used custom key properties with names like &lt;code&gt;.mycode:n&lt;/code&gt;? Or did you want custom key properties only for custom key modules? The current implementation of key properties (see the code above) proves that this would require an extremely radical redesign of the underlying code of &lt;code&gt;l3keys&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="19809" LastEditDate="2022-06-28T07:42:26.717" LastActivityDate="2022-06-28T07:42:26.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8969" CreationDate="2022-06-29T12:57:14.737" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the close voters I will try to address the current meta question and explain my reasoning for voting to close the question on main.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the meta question: I think the statement &amp;quot;some feature is not supported in some package&amp;quot; is often not very meaningful for LaTeX packages. Half of the questions here on the site are to &lt;em&gt;extend&lt;/em&gt; the functionality of a package in a way not supported by the provided package macros and/or envisioned by the package author. The solution in such cases is to write additional macros or to patch existing commands to allow for the additional feature. LaTeX being extensible, all code in plain text, and limited name spaces/encapsulation means that it is almost always possible to make a package support a new feature, although it may not be easy and it may not be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;code&gt;expl3&lt;/code&gt; the situation is maybe a bit different because it is an actual language rather than just a package. However, as the comments and answers on the question on main demonstrated, there are solutions/alternatives/workarounds for the requested functionality, which means it can be &amp;quot;supported&amp;quot; in a sense. Such a question and its answers are obviously fine for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer the meta question posed here directly: &amp;quot;some feature is not supported&amp;quot; is not really a meaningful or clear-cut criterion, and questions asking about how to do something with some package are clearly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why I voted to close the question on main: from the discussion in comments I got the idea that the question as posed was not genuine. As Gaussler said &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8969/acceptable-questions-and-user-opinions#comment29200_8972&quot;&gt;in a comment here&lt;/a&gt;: there were just too many little things with that question that it no longer made any sense as a question on TeX.SX. It was &amp;quot;not a real question&amp;quot;, which is no longer an official close reason (it was until a few years ago), now you could classify it as &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot;, as it was intended as a poll/discussion. This is not what the site is for, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;host=tex.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;TeX.SE chat&lt;/a&gt; for this or a relevant mailing list or the issue tracker of expl3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a new user that accidentally mixes some opinion-based aspect with an actual how-to question this can be overlooked, but a high-rep user should adhere more strictly to the Q&amp;amp;A format in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2022-06-29T12:57:14.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-21T02:38:19.830" Score="19" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I usually post under my real name, but for this question I don't wish to reveal my real name.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A somewhat odd, but—my state of physical health is deteriorating rapidly—relevant question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I ensure that upon my demise, ownership of all my contributions in the StackExchange network  is transferred to Community Wiki and that my account is closed and my profile deleted or edited to inform that circumstances indicate that the contributor can no longer be contacted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What evidence of my demise and wishes in this regard, if any, need to be provided to whom for this to happen smoothly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it legally sufficient to testament that a designated person of trust receives my credentials to log into StackExchange in my place, transfer the rights to my contributions to Community Wiki, and then delete my account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an easy way, when my account is logged in, to transfer all my contributions to Community Wiki at once?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it even a good idea to transfer ownership of my contributions to Community Wiki? (Basically it is about code snippets in TeX LaTeX Stack Exchange which should probably be made available under the LaTeX Public Project License or similar.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user274780" LastEditorUserId="249944" LastEditDate="2022-07-22T21:29:33.960" LastActivityDate="2022-07-22T21:29:33.960" Title="How to ensure that upon my demise, ownership of all my contributions in the StackExchange network is transferred to Community Wiki?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|community-wiki|licensing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8976" CreationDate="2022-07-21T05:45:07.763" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the short answer is that there is no official method to do this. To understand why, we need to think about how StackExchange operates (or at least the model that is &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to apply).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts can be edited by others without any special steps. Edits are intended to be in the spirit of the original author, but that is a question of community agreement: edits can be rolled back, but even the original author can be prevented from making changes to a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on answers is intended to be about the content not the author. The 'use' of votes is pretty limited, certainly once one has acquired a modicum of privileges. Making posts CW stops votes adding to an account, but is otherwise rather limited in effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The license for posts to the site allows reuse of the text, and &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be applied to code (it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing&quot;&gt;currently&lt;/a&gt; CC-BY-SA 4.0). Many people choose to make clear a more classical code license in their profile for their posts, and that can be done at any time. (For example, I use CC0.) The legal effect of the latter is not to my knowledge fully-tested, but I feel it is reasonable clear in intention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than for moderators, there is no direct user-to-user messaging. A poster can ignore comments on their post, and the chat is entirely optional.&#xA;That means that there is a very limited 'social' aspect to the site, and that in general the license that applies to content is the one discussed above, rather than any 'directly agreed' case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the life of the site, we have of course had some users where we know they have died: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/344/brent-longborough&quot;&gt;Brent Longborough&lt;/a&gt; is one who posted under his own name so is easy to point to. Brent's account is unchanged, and for most site users, the fact that he is no longer with us doesn't feature. In that sense, it's not different to someone who simply makes a post then life takes them elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2022-07-21T19:06:12.487" LastActivityDate="2022-07-21T19:06:12.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8968" CreationDate="2022-07-27T20:40:37.270" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both four space indent and surrounding with &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; are supported markup for a code block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an existing post uses one there is no reason to change to the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an existing post hasn't marked up the code, so line endings are lost in the display, add either form (I usually use &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; these days)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a existing post uses one form, Never add the other as well, such double markup is a destructive edit. Certainly if any edit did that to one of my posts I would roll it back, no matter what other edits had been made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2022-07-27T20:40:37.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-31T05:48:55.350" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;See title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[unicode] seems to be more popular at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's any reason against -- there might be questions about utf8 encoding &lt;em&gt;in particular&lt;/em&gt; but that seems rather unusual and utf8 is default encoding anyway. And we don't have dependent tag for now &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2781/could-we-make-tags-imply-other-tags?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Could we make tags imply other tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't have enough score to suggest synonym myself)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250119" LastActivityDate="2022-07-31T05:48:55.350" Title="Should we make [unicode] synonym of [utf8] tag?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-12T21:10:36.437" Score="7" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I regularly delete answers if other answers to the same question are better. Sometimes I delete answers because I'm not sure whether they are &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; (e.g. expandable, or conflicting with standard packages, or whatever). In the latter case I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; look into the issue again, and undelete the answer when I'm satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To be honest I've got quite a lot of accepted answers which I'd like to delete but can't.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trouble is that when searching for deleted content with &lt;code&gt;deleted:1&lt;/code&gt; I hget of course both &amp;quot;kinds&amp;quot; of answers, and it's more than 250 by now. In the first situation (bad answers) I would really like to delete the answer completely, such that the search returns only results I should look into. Is that possible without moderator intervention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82917" LastActivityDate="2022-08-22T15:46:07.473" Title="Is there a way to completely delete posts?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|deleting|best-practice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2763" CreationDate="2022-08-15T22:51:17.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a version of this comment, which I recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/654153/can-someone-help-me-reproduce-this-resume-in-latex#comment1630216_654153&quot;&gt;made use of&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436/134641&quot;&gt;Welcome to TeX.SE&lt;/a&gt;!&#xA;This site works best as a helping hand, for when you get stuck with&#xA;something. So questions like this, that look like, &amp;quot;please do this&#xA;complicated thing for me&amp;quot;, tend not to get answers, because they&#xA;require a great deal of effort on the part of the community. To make&#xA;the most of this site, it would help if you made some substantive&#xA;efforts, and show what you have done so far (via a&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/134641&quot;&gt;MWE&lt;/a&gt;). This will&#xA;help to ensure that you stand a greater chance of getting assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plaint text (manually wrapped for display), for ease of copying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Welcome to TeX.SE](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1436/134641)! &#xA;This site works best as a helping hand, for when you get stuck with something.&#xA;So questions like this, that look like, &amp;quot;please do this complicated thing for me&amp;quot;,&#xA;tend not to get answers, because they require a great deal of effort on the part of the community.&#xA;To make the most of this site, it would help if you made some substantive efforts,&#xA;and show what you have done so far (via a [MWE](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/134641)).&#xA;This will help to ensure that you stand a greater chance of getting assistance.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;N.B. This is &lt;em&gt;6 characters under&lt;/em&gt; the comment character limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comment was adapted from (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2764/134641&quot;&gt;a prior answer here&lt;/a&gt;). While I originally provided attribution in my version of the above that I used, I no longer do so in the above prose (mainly to make room for linking to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/134641&quot;&gt;MWE Meta post&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134641" LastActivityDate="2022-08-15T22:51:17.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8980" CreationDate="2022-08-22T15:46:07.473" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some approaches for organizing your deleted answers have been suggested in the comments. However, it may be of interest to discuss the underlying usage pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the Stack Exchange model, &lt;strong&gt;you should not delete answers&lt;/strong&gt; unless they are rude or they don't answer the question. The &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; category is quite narrow, it only contains things better suited as comments or follow-up questions, and answers that do not address the question at all because they are about a completely different and unrelated topic. Specifically, an answer that is bad/suboptimal/worse than another answer/a horrible hack is still an answer and it should remain on the site. Through comments and (lack of) votes it will be clear for everybody that there are issues with an answer and possibly another answer is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could argue that when you know your answer is not good and/or another answer is better, it is sensible to delete the answer to prevent harm or confusion. However, it could very well be the case that your approach can help some future visitor with a similar problem where a 'best practises' answer does not work at all for some reason, or a best practise would work but is rather overkill, or the future visitor gets an idea from reading your answer that can put them on the right track. And even if your answer is completely wrong (for example suggesting &lt;code&gt;{\it\bf Try this}&lt;/code&gt;) then somebody will leave a comment that it is wrong and the future visitor will learn that they should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; use that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, don't delete your own answers, they contain knowledge that is useful to preserve. This applies to users with 26k reputation and 7 years of experience who have demonstrated time and time again to be knowledgeable, but also for new users that are just starting out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2022-08-22T15:46:07.473" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8986" CreationDate="2022-09-14T12:03:32.990" Score="7" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/637833/17&quot;&gt;following question&lt;/a&gt; I posted, I received several responses and decided to write a small review of these answers regarding to my specifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that I discussed the use of each solution regarding to my requirement (compatibility with a Tikz  &lt;code&gt;foreach&lt;/code&gt; in this case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made all of these review and discussion into my question post, by editing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This permits to improve the answers because all of them where tested and compared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wounder if it was a good idea to do that or not (the main inconvenient is the size of the question, which maybe become unclear).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In other word, should I do it again for future questions when I receive several answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262081" LastEditorUserId="262081" LastEditDate="2023-05-30T08:35:09.243" LastActivityDate="2023-05-30T08:35:09.243" Title="About Making Answers Review and Discussion in Question Post" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8985" CreationDate="2022-09-14T20:04:29.030" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This kind of discussion does not really belong in the question. You have turned the post into a forum-style 'story' of what you did, how you have used the answers, what you think about all of them, including &lt;strong&gt;EDIT (date)&lt;/strong&gt; headers. That goes against the model of Stack Exchange, which is strict Q&amp;amp;A: a well-defined, clear question, with one or more answers where each answer describes a particular approach to the question. Any information that is not necessary to answer the question should not be in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case that means that everything except the first paragraph and 'Edit 1' should be deleted. Regarding Edit 1 itself, the phrase &amp;quot;EDIT 1 (Mar 21):&amp;quot; should be deleted, as well as the sentence &amp;quot;At first, I didn't explain why I want the solution generates a comma-separated list of characters (e.g. \myCSlist) which can be used as argument of a \foreach.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the strict Q&amp;amp;A format is that it allows future visitors that have a similar problem or requirement to quickly see if this question and the answers apply for their situation as well, without distractions. It also allows to close other questions as a duplicate of this question or vice versa if the problem is the same. Both of these reasons fall under the general goal of Stack Exchange to build a high quality comprehensive library of questions, where people can easily find what they are looking for. Forum-style 'story' posts run against this goal and are therefore discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to discuss particular answers or ask clarification then you can use the comments under each answer to do so. You could also consider to add your own answer for a comparison between all the existing answers, although that would strictly speaking not be an answer to your own question and therefore such an answer would also be against the Q&amp;amp;A format. Usually here on TeX.SE we are not so strict about this kind of answers though, as long as the question itself and the other answers remain free of distractions. However, do try to avoid asking for specific clarifications about other answers in a new answer, or posting additional information that belongs in the question as an additional answer (such as your Edit 1 here, which belongs in the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also consider to write a blog post about this somewhere on a blog platform. This would keep the Q&amp;amp;A here cleaner, while you would still be able to share your thoughts and experiences. All code and text in answers (and questions) on Stack Exchange is licensed CC BY-SA, which means you can copy it elsewhere as long as you provide attribution. You could link such a blog post in a comment to your question (not in the question itself, because it is not necessary information for answering!) to invite answerers and future visitors to read the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2022-09-14T20:04:29.030" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8985" CreationDate="2022-09-16T23:23:48.270" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post as it appears now does not fit the site format at all, and is very hard to read with all the &lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; headings which make no sense unless you previously had read all the previous versions so have the timeline in your head. The question should make sense &lt;em&gt;as a question&lt;/em&gt; without implicitly referencing previous versions of the question and without referencing the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should revert the question to the form it was in at the point answers were posted. It is generally inadvisable to make major changes to a question after answers are posted as it makes it very unclear what question the answers are answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2022-09-16T23:23:48.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-23T06:48:46.537" Score="21" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that somebody is allergic to OpTeX: Whenever I mention the example using OpTeX then a down-vote occurs. :) I use such examples only if there is a reason for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question doesn't mention LaTeX explicitly, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/657658/l&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (note that this question still waits to LaTeX solution, then we get a comparison),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problem is independent of used macro package, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/49043/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is good to show an comparison of LaTeX and plain TeX code, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/657763/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you are solving specific LaTeX problems then I am typically silent (because I know that such problem simply doesn't exist in OpTeX:).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am allergic to LaTeX but it doesn't mean that I down-vote all answers where LaTeX is mentioned:).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastActivityDate="2022-10-01T13:14:33.197" Title="Down votes when OpTeX is mentioned" Tags="|discussion|voting|fun|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8988" CreationDate="2022-09-23T07:26:26.183" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like it could be a single user, so it's hard to say much beyond 'this is not the usual pattern'. From the earliest days of the site, it's been clear that alternative approaches are allowed in answers. That can mean OpTeX or ConTeXt or ... for a LaTeX question, or &lt;em&gt;vice versa&lt;/em&gt;, or using alternative packages/modules, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2022-09-23T07:26:26.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8988" CreationDate="2022-09-23T19:31:21.657" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never downvote OpTeX answers (or answers using other non-LaTeX flavors for that matter). However, I also mostly don't upvote them, unless the question asked about that specific system. This is not because I dislike OpTeX, but because I think that in a large majority of cases such an answer is not useful for the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you like it or not, within the TeX world LaTeX is the standard for document processing. This means that people that come here to ask a question almost always &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; an answer for LaTeX. This is the language (or variant, or macro package, or however you want to call it) that their document is written in up to the point of asking the question, they can understand answers given for LaTeX, they can use LaTeX answers when continuing to write their document, and they can combine the knowledge from such answers with other information they find online or discuss with their fellow students etc. For these reasons you can safely assume if a question does not mention the language that it is asking about LaTeX and nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing answers for OpTeX or ConTeXt can be interesting as a comparison, and maybe as a bit of evangelizing for awareness and potentially also the use of such systems, which is fine of course. But I think that often it will only confuse the asker, and it will not help them because they are unable to use it in their workflow. The same applies to future visitors to the question. Therefore I am not particularly enthousiastic about OpTeX answers, and I don't upvote them - but downvoting is a bit uncalled for in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2022-09-23T19:31:21.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8988" CreationDate="2022-09-24T12:45:17.147" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a bit of advice from my experiences with Tikz and pstricks. It may be that you do this already (I haven't clicked through to read your answers) but I'm not just answering for you but also for the benefit of others reaching this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, personally, think that seeing different ways of doing things is a really valuable part of this site and is part of why I read answers to questions I have very little interest in. Without that I wouldn't have learnt about Context or even heard of OpTex so please do continue to post such answers. In contrast to what others have said, I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; tend to upvote such answers to show that I value the contribution even if I might not fully understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I find myself writing an answer using something not asked for, sometimes even explicitly, then I do try to acknowledge that fact in my first sentence. Something like &amp;quot;I know you asked for a pstricks solution, but for anyone else who might be interested in the same problem with Tikz, here's how I'd do it with Tikz.&amp;quot; It may feel a bit wordy, but I find it sets the tone better than just &amp;quot;With Tikz&amp;quot; as that can come across as &amp;quot;Don't use XYZ, use ABC&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, the OP in this example explicitly invited other solutions, but nevertheless I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/3894/86&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/3894/86&lt;/a&gt; illustrates both the value of alternative contributions and my phrasing of introducing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2022-09-24T12:45:17.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2022-09-25T21:29:36.370" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; regularly, and I hope that questions about &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; will be allowed on the &lt;em&gt;tex.stackexchange&lt;/em&gt; website in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All code which is valid in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is also valid in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LaTeX&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, we have the following &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; code which will execute on &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;math.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; and it will execute just fine in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LaTeX&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;$$\sum_{i=0}^n i^2 = \frac{(n^2+n)(2n+1)}{6}$$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above works fine in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LaTeX&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; just as must as it works in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A screen capture of the results is embedded below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pWSITm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pWSITm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SCREEN CAPTURE OF A WEBPAGE ON math.stackexchange.com&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The website, &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgur.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;imgur&lt;/a&gt;, compresses images. The &lt;code&gt;.JPEG&lt;/code&gt; image above looks much blurrier than it does on &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference/10116#10116&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;, when actually rendered by &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that, someday, there will be an alternative to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  However, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is the only tool I have seen for rendering mathematical equations on the stack exchange family of websites. For now, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MathJax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is one of my favorite tools for that job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178952" LastActivityDate="2022-09-25T21:29:36.370" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8988" CreationDate="2022-09-27T15:21:28.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue is about someone maintaining the habit of downvoting without explaining why doing so. I think a downvote should always come along with a comment which explains why the downvote took place. Downvoting is not the same as not upvoting. E.g., when I am aware—I say &amp;quot;aware&amp;quot; because I've had moments where I had fallen prey to the Dunning-Kruger-effect...—that I don't grasp the gist of a contribution I neither upvote nor downvote it because I think judging about things which one does not sufficiently understand is not good practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking the fact that a contribution refers to OpTeX as a criterion per se for &lt;em&gt;down&lt;/em&gt;voting does not seem rational to me.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I find it difficult to comment on irrational behavior, especially irrational behavior of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since voting behavior seems not always to be oriented to the matter at hand/sometimes seems not to be based on rationality/objectivity, but sometimes seems to be more a matter of the amygdala being triggered one way or the other—in the context of voting-behavior you also find keywords like &amp;quot;sympathy-likes&amp;quot; which means that with some people voting behavior also depends on the level of antipathy or sympathy they feel for the author, I form my opinion about the quality of a contribution not by looking at the voting results, but by reading it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that our interactions on this platform did not start all too well, which I am not innocent of, and which, by the way, I would like to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC I did not downvote any of your contributions. IIRC I never saw a reason to do so, as they use to be focused on helping to solve problems and/or presenting facts accurately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the three examples you linked, I notice that downvotes were made, but there are no comments referring to the downvotes and explaining why they were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is not good style on the part of those who made the downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that those who downvote should leave a comment as to why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A downvote is a way of stating that you believe the downvoted statement deserves criticism. Part of freedom of speech is being allowed to express this in an acceptable way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one should justify this rationally. The practice of just conveying by anonymously clicking a button that there is someone who finds something worthy of criticism, but not what and why, does not necessarily contribute to an exchange of ideas/views that might lead to something constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have now composed an answer yourself, in which you wrote the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is LaTeX only site then rename it to latex.stackexchange.com and I will stop to use it. Or (better): try to educate users that there is no only LaTeX when TeX is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that someone is using the downvote feature in a way that is not in the spirit of the site. I think this someone is an individual and does not represent the broad user community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't object about notes regarding how to use the up- and downvote-feature in the spirit of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't know whether detecting and reaching (for educating) single users who don't use the up-/downvote-feature in the spirit of the site is easily possible. (Probably this is something which people can comment on who have more insight into the ways in which StackExchange is administered.) It should be considered whether confronting the broad user community with &amp;quot;educational measures&amp;quot; for behavior outgoing from one or two accounts corresponds to the principle of proportionality. (I say &amp;quot;accounts&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;users&amp;quot; because of the scenario of a single person maintaining several login-accounts.) I think the broad user community doesn't need &amp;quot;education&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the downvotes are not accompanied by comments that refer to them and provide reasoning as to why downvoting was done, everyone except the person(s) who downvoted can only speculate about the reasons for which these downvotes were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps an individual assumes that there is somehow a consensus that non-LaTeX answers are generally to be rejected.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Such an assumption seems audacious to me, to say the least. One should be careful about using assumptions about opinions of others as a means to an end or for justifying the belief that on can speak/act in behalf of everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are often united under one subject, which is not related to a specific format/flavor of TeX.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It may be that the text of a question mentions that the questioner is interested in LaTeX. But in most cases subject lines returned by the search engine do not reveal this.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This site addresses all variants/flavors of TeX. Therefore I think it is legitimate to think of answer seekers besides the questioner her-/himself and to give answers which refer to other formats/flavors of TeX but still address the matters raised in the subject line.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Besides, it doesn't hurt to be introduced to alternative tools/approaches. It even is often pointed out that it would be easier not to do a (sub-)task with whatsoever flavor of TeX at all but to do it with another program, and a corresponding workflow incorporating that other program is suggested without being taken umbrage at. So pointing to ways of approaching matters still with means related to TeX, even if probably not LaTeX, should not be a problem, too.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It often seems to me that a question is not only about how to implement the thing in LaTeX, but also about how to implement it at all. I.e., not only experience in implementing some algorithm in (La)TeX is missing, but the question is also about finding an algorithm at all that can be implemented efficiently for some TeX-engine. Therefore: If someone provides ideas by giving an answer that refers to OpTeX or some other format/flavor of TeX, that might inspire more experienced users to look at that code, to grasp the gist of the algorithm, and to re-implement one or the other of it in LaTeX. Et voila: A reference to LaTeX would be there even if the code provided in the answer is not based on LaTeX but is based on some other TeX-format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be sad if you were put off by a single user who might be using features of the site in ways in which they weren't meant to be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if someone should think that they can somehow speak for a general public through their downvote behavior, that doesn't mean that the general public agrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2022-09-29T13:26:00.600" LastActivityDate="2022-09-29T13:26:00.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8988" CreationDate="2022-09-28T05:04:04.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you all for your discussion posts. That is sweet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But someone is trying to disgust me here and he is very succeeding.&#xA;For example my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/659493/conditionally-remove-trailing-period/659756#659756&quot;&gt;last answer&lt;/a&gt; (two downwotes are here).&#xA;I decided that it is useful to add an answer to the existed&#xA;answer strictly dependent on Expl3. My answer has two parts: the solution&#xA;independent of format based only on TeX primitives.&#xA;And the second part is the solution based on OpTeX macros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose that somebody using plain TeX or OpTeX needs a help with&#xA;&amp;quot;Conditionally remove trailing period&amp;quot; and (s)he googles it and found this page.&#xA;IMHO it is useful to have such answers here despite the fact that the OP&#xA;illustrated the problem using LaTeX code. Moreover, the first part&#xA;of my answer works in laTeX too and it is independent of Expl3.&#xA;Maybe somebody don't want to use Expl3. But there is two downvotes here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is LaTeX only site then rename it to latex.stackexchange.com and I will&#xA;stop to use it. Or (better): try to educate users that there is no only LaTeX&#xA;when TeX is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is interesting idea here that downwoting should be connected with a note&#xA;why it is done. For example, the popup window should say something like&#xA;&amp;quot;Please, put your comment why you decided to down voting here&amp;quot;.&#xA;Of course, voting is anonymous, so this should be only optional or site&#xA;can enable to add annonymous comment in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51799" LastEditorUserId="51799" LastEditDate="2022-09-28T05:41:35.100" LastActivityDate="2022-09-28T05:41:35.100" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8988" CreationDate="2022-10-01T13:14:33.197" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are annoying, we all get them from time to time, but it really isn't possible to ask here why it happens or what can be done about it. The site has thousands of users and it seems one or two object to you posting optex answers. Those people probably don't look here on the meta site so won't see this question and we don't know who they are or how to persuade them not to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have, I think, around 50 posts with downvotes. It's not really possible to ask why those get downvoted any more than it's possible to ask why completely worthless joke answers like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/94891/1090&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/94891/1090&lt;/a&gt; get hundreds of times more up votes than some answers I spent hours on working out the TeX details for just a handful of votes.  It's just how the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2022-10-01T13:14:33.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-11T06:53:21.363" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you think about adding tags to answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. for this one &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/661315/songs-package-lyrics-printed-in-two-columns-title-and-song-information-across-t&quot;&gt;Songs Package lyrics printed in two columns, title and song information across the two columns&lt;/a&gt; I suggested switching the package used. So it would be natural, in my view, to tag my answer, e.g. with &lt;strong&gt;leadsheets&lt;/strong&gt; and perhaps &lt;strong&gt;multicol&lt;/strong&gt;, as these are part of the proposed solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would feel unatural to me adding those to the question, as the TO didn't know about or ask for those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No idea whether or not this would spoil a tag-search, or if it's useful to allow searching tags in questions, answers or both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A consequence would certainly be, and it might be useful, that frequently used or healthy approaches in solutions can become more prominent over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245790" LastActivityDate="2022-10-14T03:54:02.143" Title="Tagging answers" Tags="|feature-request|tagging|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-13T17:42:01.120" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is a duplicate, I searched on meta but could not find this question. I recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/661256/273733&quot;&gt;flagged a question&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;code&gt;Needs detail or clarity&lt;/code&gt; which was essentially a paragraph and an image with 0 code. I flagged it as I thought that questions that include an image and a little text needed more detail i.e. a MWE or even a code fragment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My flag got declined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LOIzE.png&quot; alt=&quot;t&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but then the question was closed (later on I presume) for the reason I flagged it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jDRcN.png&quot; alt=&quot;t&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should questions of low quality that do not feature MWE/code be flagged as &lt;code&gt;Needs detail or clarity&lt;/code&gt; at all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So I can learn from it, but what was the issue with my flag in this particular case, should I not have flagged it as there was enough information for someone to build an MWE if they were so inclined (and I think somebody did indeed do that in an answer)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;TeX.SE flag posts page&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;code&gt;Needs detail or clarity&lt;/code&gt; is not described and I could not see if it was linked to another page (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;spam&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/167641&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;very low quality&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). What is the threshold for &lt;code&gt;Needs detail or quality&lt;/code&gt; here on TeX.SE, is having no MWE and no description of packages/class used enough?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would appreciate any advice so I can contribute to the site more effectively even if this flag &lt;code&gt;declined&lt;/code&gt; was an error or automated by the &lt;code&gt;community&lt;/code&gt; bot, if the question had not been closed for the very same reason I flagged it I would have just assumed that the question &lt;em&gt;barely&lt;/em&gt; contained enough information but now I am unsure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273733" LastActivityDate="2022-10-13T17:42:01.120" Title="What type of questions qualify as raising the &quot;Needs details or clarity&quot; flag?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8998" CreationDate="2022-10-14T03:54:02.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange interface doesn't consider tagging of answers; tagging is only connected to questions. Questions are the primary driver for the answers. Even if you search for (say) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aanswer+%5Btikz-pgf%5D&quot;&gt;answers tagged &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;is:answer [tikz-pgf]&lt;/code&gt;), the results will return &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; associated with &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; that are tagged with &lt;code&gt;tikz-pgf&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really not advised to tag a question with something that was used in an answer, because questions may be generic in nature and have a diverse set of answer utilizing a variety of packages/concepts. As an odd example, someone asks about formatting a list, and an answer uses &lt;a href=&quot;//ctan.org/pkg/enumitem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;enumitem&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to provide the necessary formatting. The question should not be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enumitem&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enumitem&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enumitem&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;enumitem-container&quot;&gt;enumitem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2022-10-14T03:54:02.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-21T17:02:33.997" Score="22" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a site-wide feature, but this is becoming unbearable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eLEY9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eLEY9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9UHlj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9UHlj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4kmdZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4kmdZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l4RzG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l4RzG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples 1 and 2 are execrable, borrowing &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/375081/new-post-summary-designs-on-site-home-pages-and-greatest-hits-now-everywhere-el/376201#comment1263928_376201&quot;&gt;barbara beeton's understatement in a comment to a Meta question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example 3 is very confusing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example 4 shows that in most cases there is no space saving whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it would be possible to deactivate question title hyphenation on selected sites and that we should pressure the Powers to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2022-10-21T17:02:33.997" Title="Hyphenation in question titles" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-05T15:42:11.747" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32886/how-to-fit-a-large-figure-to-page&quot;&gt;How to fit a large figure to page&lt;/a&gt; is marked as duplicate, but no duplicate post is shown, only a &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yu2CO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yu2CO.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the linked post&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is intended behaviour, the colon should be removed and reworded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While searching for possible duplicates of this bug, I ran across &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87104/closed-as-an-exact-duplicate-possible-duplicate&quot;&gt;an instance of this&lt;/a&gt; on the Meta site. Perhaps it exists on all of SE? I haven't checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="284347" LastActivityDate="2022-11-05T15:42:11.747" Title="Closed as duplicate, but only possible duplicate linked" Tags="|bug|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2022-11-09T07:51:54.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-10T13:04:19.123" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reference to &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt;, I have seen varius questions that you know an image and pay directly &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; code that draws such image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For someone like me without much experience in &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; I see it as something that honors this place, however, I see it as something vague; since it directly asks for the code to clone the image instead of doing it yourself and asking more specific questions about the drawing process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question, as someone new to &lt;strong&gt;Tex-LaTeX Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it legitimate to ask these questions? Is it well seen in this place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="198138" LastActivityDate="2022-11-10T13:04:19.123" Title="tikz drawing requests following an image" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2022-11-14T00:29:21.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Page layout and output&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42063&quot;&gt;Illogical twoside margins&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Illogical twoside margins](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42063)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/341&quot;&gt;How to create posters using LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/42063&quot;&gt;Illogical twoside margins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to create posters using LaTeX](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/341)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Insertion between columns: &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45958&quot;&gt;Implementing a pullquotes algorithm in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Implementing a pullquotes algorithm in LaTeX](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45958)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/89721&quot;&gt;Different column widths using multicol&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Different column widths using multicol](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/89721)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33874&quot;&gt;geometry, fancyhdr: \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} is not really centered&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[geometry, fancyhdr: \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} is not really centered](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33874)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/266520&quot;&gt;Including pdfpages renders rotated RevTeX 4.1 pdfLaTex output&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Including pdfpages renders rotated RevTeX 4.1 pdfLaTex output](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/266520)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/320459&quot;&gt;How to insert a A3 PDF into a A4 Latex document with PDFLatex?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to insert a A3 PDF into a A4 Latex document with PDFLatex?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/320459)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/18943&quot;&gt;How to add an invisible watermark to PDF documents?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to add an invisible watermark to PDF documents?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/18943)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Design examples and methods&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17579&quot;&gt;How can I design a book cover?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How can I design a book cover?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/17579)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23477&quot;&gt;Fancy chapter headings&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Fancy chapter headings](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23477)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2024-01-15T18:48:41.403" LastActivityDate="2024-01-15T18:48:41.403" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-11-14T00:29:21.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-16T22:11:54.167" Score="28" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had an accepted answer on the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/569512/how-to-denote-line-segment-lengths-of-a-triangle/569522#569522&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/569512/how-to-denote-line-segment-lengths-of-a-triangle/569522#569522&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is two years old and suddenly OP does not like it anymore. My answer was un-accepted and OP wants me to delete it citing ridiculous reasons. OP wants to use the figure in a thesis and believes that in OP's non-specified country it is not allowed to show a figure with a circle and lines, if it already exists on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The figure is very generic - a circle and a couple of lines and labels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WG5zV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WG5zV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Circle with lines and labels&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is a moderator willing to help OP by deleting a question from this site? The question has a title, that could help others find the relevant information, so it hurts the site.&#xA;I am also not amused - first my answer is vandalised and now deleted together with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8650" LastEditorUserId="89417" LastEditDate="2022-11-18T13:22:46.187" LastActivityDate="2022-11-22T07:09:34.363" Title="Why did a moderator delete an on-topic question with a well-received answer?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9006" CreationDate="2022-11-17T06:57:22.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am the moderator who took action here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a long-standing approach on the site that one of the things to bear in mind with moderator decisions is that each post has an association with an original author. This is visible for example in  the history and on the main page as linked to the post. That means that their view has particular weight over-and-above 'general community standing'. This comes up from time to time where requests are made to delete questions which have answers posted that have a positive score: something the questioner ('OP') cannot do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case at hand, the OP asked for redaction of the question and the answer to remove some information. As you note, the question here does not contain personal information and thus redaction did not make sense. However, they remained very unhappy about the presence of the question on the site. I therefore had to weigh up their right as the person with their name on the question against the wider considerations, in particular your time in answering and the community usefulness of the answer posted. I took the view that the usual balance applied, and that the right of the OP to request removal therefore took priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure that the other moderators will review this decision in light of your post: they will have been notified of the presence of this new meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that as a moderator, I am following established community norms in acting here and elsewhere. The community over time can and does evolve those norms. So if the consensus is that OPs should have less say in controlling their posts, that will inform future decisions on individual actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the discussion here, I have undeleted the post. It is clear that the community feeling is that the OP here is likely exceeding their rights in wanting the content to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2022-11-22T07:09:34.363" LastActivityDate="2022-11-22T07:09:34.363" CommentCount="44" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9006" CreationDate="2022-11-18T15:50:00.693" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's not mince words; the OP at least &lt;em&gt;appears&lt;/em&gt; to be attempting to commit academic fraud. It seems they are trying to pass off hpekristiansen's work as their own, and asking for the evidence of this to be removed from the internet. I would argue that this is academically really quite serious, especially since academic integrity, knowing how to reference outside material and give appropriate credit, and building on the work of others are all crucial research skills and important parts of what a thesis is supposed to demonstrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mod says in one of his comments that &amp;quot;the presumption is to look favourably at the request unless there is a strong reason not to&amp;quot;. &lt;strong&gt;I believe academic fraud is a strong reason not to.&lt;/strong&gt; Even if it's just a simple diagram (and that's what's so incredible about this - one can construct a diagram like that in about the same time than it took to write this answer) the OP is demonstrating an overt lack of good faith. I would argue that too ought to diminish the weight of their request, since it undermines the integrity of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I think someone mentioned in one of the comments on this page, I would suggest to the author of the answer to post an equivalent question, along with their answer. I'd then go further, and cite/link this thread somewhere on there. That way the bad faith party will be forced to either acknowledge the work, or make their own diagram, since a Google image search of 'their' image will immediately discover the thread, and its true origin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="222013" LastActivityDate="2022-11-18T15:50:00.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-25T15:42:50.367" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a tag for questions that concerns producing errors? I am thinking of &lt;code&gt;\PackageError{package-name}{error-text}{help-text}&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\ClassWarning{class-name}{warning-text}&lt;/code&gt; and other similar ways of raising errors and warnings when writing a package. Is there a tag for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, I think it should be a tag. It might not be popular, but sometimes I find myself asking questions concerning how to produce errors and warnings for my packages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="199568" LastActivityDate="2022-11-25T15:42:50.367" Title="Tag for &quot;error writing&quot;: produce package errors and warnings" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9013" CreationDate="2022-12-04T06:03:16.147" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find my bookmarks anymore. I post as a screenshot as proof. Are they somewhere else now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VV1uV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VV1uV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239148" OwnerDisplayName="Z.J" LastActivityDate="2022-12-05T05:25:18.807" Title="Bookmarks disappeared in stackoverflow" Tags="|discussion|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9012" CreationDate="2022-12-04T08:45:07.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bookmarks are now at its own &amp;quot;Saves&amp;quot; tab, since you can now bookmark not only questions, but also answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pq6Rd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pq6Rd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/382019/168244&quot;&gt;Bookmarks have evolved into Saves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213149" OwnerDisplayName="antshar" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2022-12-05T05:25:18.807" LastActivityDate="2022-12-05T05:25:18.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-05T14:40:17.510" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;When, while typing a question or an answer, a block of code is introduced via &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; one usually can have html-tags inside that block of code like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for doing one's own formatting/highlighting with some portions of the code displayed within the block of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the main-site syntax-highlighting being enabled (which is the default) currently leads to  one's own highlighting/formatting via html-tags like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, etc within code-blocks of pattern &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; being ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this makes sense.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think giving one's own highlighting to code while features for automatic syntax-highlighting are available usually is not good practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in my humble opinion TeX is a special case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When explaining things you sometimes cannot easily get around the need of writing &amp;quot;code&amp;quot; which actually does not refer to source-code as it would occur in a .tex-input-file but does refer to tokens in the token-stream after tokenization, so that sometimes you like to indicate a property of a token, e.g., a category code or the like, via subscript-text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two approaches to the matter of (ab?) using code-blocks for giving a visual impression of larger sequences of TeX-tokens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turning off syntax-highlighting completely. Then tags &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; etc within &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;-blocks are not ignored.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somehow getting the syntax-highlighting into not ignoring tags &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; etc while syntax-highlighting is turned on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this situation I tend to prefer the first approach: Syntax-highlighting is focused on displaying a piece of TeX-code as it might occur in a text-file which is to be read/processed by the TeX-program.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The scenario described by me actually is not about displaying a piece of TeX-code as it might occur in a text-file. It is about sort of abusing blocks of code for giving sort of a visual impression of the token-stream which actually is not source code but is a sequence of data structures which exist while TeX is running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I like to display (portions of) the content of a .log-file, hereby emphasizing specific messages, e.g., by having them in boldface. In such situations I'd rather have the .log-file displayed as a block of code without automatic syntax-highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My first question is: How can I turn off syntax highlighting?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;(When doing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, right now, when typing in the preview window, syntax highlighting seems to be turned off and tags &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; etc  seem to be obeyed. But when you post the answer, unfortunately the syntax highlighting is there after all and tags &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; etc are not obeyed any more.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So the preview is not correct but misleading.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think this might be a bug.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My second question is: How can I have tags &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; etc inside &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; not being ignored while syntax-highlighting is turned on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Not my favored approach, however. When not displaying TeX-code as it might occur in a text-file but giving a visual impression of tokens that exist while the TeX-program is running, one should not pretend the displaying of TeX-code as it might occur in a text-file by also applying the automatic syntax-highlighting for such code.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My third question is: What other/better approaches do you suggest for displaying large lists of TeX-tokens, not TeX-source-code?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, my answer to the question &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/522506&quot;&gt;Expandable test for an empty token list—methods, performance, and robustness&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; describes three scenarios of how the expansion-cascade initiated due to a piece of code might work out. Each description is interspersed with code-listings. But expansion-cascades in TeX actually refer to tokens, so actually these code-listings are not about pieces of TeX-code that might occur in a .tex-file but are about sequences of tokens. In the expansion-cascade the fact plays a rôle that applying &lt;code&gt;\string&lt;/code&gt; to an explicit &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt;-character-token of category 1(begin grouping) returns an explicit &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt;-character-token of category 12(other). So in some places subscript is used for noting category-codes. I thought about additionally putting a frame around each sequence that makes up a token via abusing the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;-tag, e.g., &lt;code&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;\secondoftwo&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;{&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/code&gt; instead of just &lt;code&gt;\secondoftwo{&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/code&gt;, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that would make a lot more code:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;\secondoftwo&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;{&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;12&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;instead of&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...\secondoftwo{&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;12&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the font in use with the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;-tag is of considerably smaller size than the font in use when just displaying code—this affects readability.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My fourth question is: Would the idea of introducing another &amp;quot;syntax-highlighting-language&amp;quot; not for displaying TeX-code as it might occur in a .tex-input-file but for displaying larger lists of TeX-tokens that only exist while TeX is running make sense?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't tell me that blocks of code are to be introduced via &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; or via indenting by four space characters unless you know a way of having subscript/bold/italic text in blocks of code that are introduced in one of these ways. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2022-12-06T11:26:24.780" LastActivityDate="2023-04-08T17:45:26.107" Title="Turn off syntax highlighting? / How can I have tags inside &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;...&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; not being ignored? / Displaying large lists of TeX-tokens?" 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  <row Id="9015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9014" CreationDate="2022-12-05T16:45:54.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This answer refers to the first question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays you can work only with the tag&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: lang-&lt;i&gt;⟨language⟩&lt;/i&gt; --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-&lt;i&gt;⟨language⟩&lt;/i&gt; --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;does not work any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for turning off sytax-highlighting with a single block of code don't work out any more &lt;em&gt;although in the preview which is shown while editing this is not indicated&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you can still switch the syntax-highlighting-language to &amp;quot;none&amp;quot; for all subsequent code-blocks by placing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: lang-none --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; the code-block in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that code-block you can switch back to syntax-highlighting-language &amp;quot;latex&amp;quot; for all subsequent code-blocks via &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: lang-latex --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems tags of pattern &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: ... --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; must be on a line on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-none prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;With the code&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: lang-latex --&amp;gt;&#xA;```&#xA;\firstofone{\macro{X}}%&#xA;```&#xA;expansion of `\firstofone` leads to the following tokens&#xA;being delivered to TeX's gullet:&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: lang-none --&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;\macro&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;(control&amp;amp;nbsp;sequence&amp;amp;nbsp;token)&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!--&#xA;line too long, thus use html-comment for breaking it&#xA;--&amp;gt;{&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;(1)&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;X&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;(11)&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;}&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;(2)&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: lang-latex --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\firstofone{\macro{X}}%&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;expansion of &lt;code&gt;\firstofone&lt;/code&gt; leads to the following tokens&#xA;being delivered to TeX's gullet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-none prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\macro&lt;sub&gt;(control&amp;nbsp;sequence&amp;nbsp;token)&lt;/sub&gt;{&lt;sub&gt;(1)&lt;/sub&gt;X&lt;sub&gt;(11)&lt;/sub&gt;}&lt;sub&gt;(2)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2023-04-08T17:45:26.107" LastActivityDate="2023-04-08T17:45:26.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-06T07:00:09.950" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at my comment under &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/667414/87996&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OMFVP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OMFVP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My OS is an up-to-date Archlinux, and the browser is &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;qutebrowser&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87996" LastEditorUserId="87996" LastEditDate="2022-12-06T17:30:09.390" LastActivityDate="2022-12-06T17:30:09.390" Title="Code in comment overflows page horizontally" Tags="|bug|comments|code|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3253" CreationDate="2022-12-10T17:31:40.463" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stumbled upon the following choices of the few FOSS editors that are targetted at live preview of Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z. Should they be put in a section of their own? Any suggestions on how can this be handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tikzit.github.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tikzit&lt;/a&gt; (not in answer) - seems highly feature rich from its website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;q&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hackenberger.at/blog/ktikz-editor-for-the-tikz-language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ktikz&lt;/a&gt; (in answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1321&quot;&gt;already&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tikzedt.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tikzedt&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;not in answer, was shared as more feature rich alternative to qtikz in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66/which-manuals-are-on-your-tex-reference-shelf/10649#comment98830_10649&quot;&gt;comment on &amp;quot;TeX reference manuals&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gummi.app/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gummy&lt;/a&gt; (in answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/923&quot;&gt;already&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206969" LastActivityDate="2022-12-10T17:31:40.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-20T19:27:26.063" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;My image appears with different aspect ratios in different locations, making it difficult to wear a hat properly.  I tried replacing my old GIF image with a PNG version, but it still changes.  The problem isn't getting to work at all, but getting it to look the same everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TR0td.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TR0td.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KCMH5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KCMH5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastEditorUserId="134805" LastEditDate="2023-01-15T10:05:05.017" LastActivityDate="2023-01-15T10:05:05.017" Title="Inconsistent aspect ratio" Tags="|bug|user-profile-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2022-12-23T15:53:42.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Core concepts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8260&quot;&gt;What are the various units (ex, em, in, pt, bp, dd, pc) expressed in mm?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[What are the various units (ex, em, in, pt, bp, dd, pc) expressed in mm?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8260)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/157267&quot;&gt;How does a TeX engine read and render the input stream?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How does a TeX engine read and render the input stream?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/157267)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/438359&quot;&gt;How does TeX look for delimited arguments?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How does TeX look for delimited arguments?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/438359)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-09-04T13:55:40.573" LastActivityDate="2023-09-04T13:55:40.573" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-12-23T15:53:42.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-01T15:47:12.340" Score="3" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand why StackOverflow does not have syntax highlighting for &lt;code&gt;inline code&lt;/code&gt;, as there is simply not enough code for the syntax highlighting system to guess the language being used (at least I assume that this is the reason). Therefore, only&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-latex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;displayed code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;receives syntax highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But TeX.SX is different, as probably 99.9 % of all code posted here is TeX code. So why is &lt;code&gt;inline code&lt;/code&gt; not syntax highlighted here, and could this be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastActivityDate="2023-01-01T15:47:12.340" Title="Why no syntax highlighting for inline code?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-02T23:08:55.543" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;my first question is extremely silly...&#xA;how can I attach a tex file to the messages here, to give an example ?&#xA;in the bar above I see many ikons ( bold ,slanted  link etc. ) but no &amp;quot;append&amp;quot;.&#xA;I tag &amp;quot;lualatex&amp;quot; because my next questions will be about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="205944" OwnerDisplayName="Ste64" LastActivityDate="2023-01-12T18:12:29.590" Title="How to attach a tex.file to this message?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-11T08:30:38.613" Score="0" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I show LaTeX renders in Tex.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;$\dfrac{1}{2}$&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;$$\dfrac{1}{2}$$&lt;/code&gt; seem to work for other StackExchange, but not Tex StackExchange. Any clue why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess LaTeX rendering to be most important for the Tex StackExchange, so I'm assuming there's some other way to render LaTeX in questions and answers. Help would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="278907" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2023-01-11T08:55:53.083" LastActivityDate="2023-01-11T08:55:53.083" Title="Inline and Block LaTeX?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2023-01-11T08:55:42.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9021" CreationDate="2023-01-12T18:12:29.590" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't attach a file to a post. Instead, insert code directly into posts and mark them as code following the direction in &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1192/5764&quot;&gt;How do I mark code blocks?&lt;/a&gt; or the wider Stack Exchange FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/22186/168244&quot;&gt;How do I format my code blocks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your code chunk is too big to fit within the post (too many characters), consider reducing it down so it only highlights the problem. By doing this you may even find out the source of the problem yourself and be able to correct it! For more on how to trim your code down for a question, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/5764&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve just been asked to write a minimal working example (MWE), what is that?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2023-01-12T18:12:29.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-15T18:55:25.533" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several times I saw newcomers struggeling with posting the right amount of code, which causes them problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many time they are &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3225/245790&quot;&gt;linked to MWE advice like this one&lt;/a&gt;, but certainly will feel overwhelmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to do it step by step,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;starting with ones own problematic code,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;showing enough to replicate the problem (by copy and compile)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and leave out irrelevant parts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245790" OwnerDisplayName="MS-SPO" LastActivityDate="2023-01-15T20:56:18.667" Title="How to reduce (prune) my code so it becomes a MWE (Minimal Working Example)?" Tags="|discussion|mwe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2023-01-16T15:01:36.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2023-01-15T18:55:25.533" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;1 Start a fresh file&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one certainly will compile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[10pt]{article}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; well known document class&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; you can't compile without&#xA;hi world%         &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; some content to compile&#xA;\end{document}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; you can't compile without&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zETUn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zETUn.png&quot; alt=&quot;hiWorld&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2 Include your problematic code&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as an example let me pick &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/671754/245790&quot;&gt;The sign pi doesn't appear&lt;/a&gt; for educational purpose only. So, let's include the two lines of code which are claimed to not show the pi-symbol:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[10pt]{article}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; well known document class&#xA;% ~~~ NO package specified (which can be a problem for us, your reader) ~~~&#xA;\begin{document}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; you can't compile without&#xA;&#xA;% ~~~ the posted problematic code ~~~~~~~&#xA;\textbf{Perímetro:} $2\pi r$\\&#xA;\textbf{Área:} $r\pi^2$\\+&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; you can't compile without&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCiP5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCiP5.png&quot; alt=&quot;compile1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it compiles, it's not an MWE ... because it shows the pi-symbol, it doesn't cause the problem claimed (not showing pi).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;3 Digging deeper&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The orignal post mentions some font changes, where it is not too clear, what is needed, and what's irrelevant here. As a reader I'm in a bad position, as I have to guess, what else might have been coded. So, let's try this from the posted question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[10pt]{article}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; well known document class&#xA;&#xA;% ~~~ changing font IS part of the problem ~~~~~~~&#xA;\usepackage{fontspec}&#xA;\newfontfamily{\miletra}{MILETRA}[&#xA;  NFSSFamily=MiLetra,&#xA;  Path=./,&#xA;  Extension=.ttf,&#xA;  UprightFont=*,&#xA;  BoldFont=*,&#xA;  BoldFeatures={FakeBold=3},&#xA;]&#xA;&#xA;\renewcommand{\familydefault}{MiLetra}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; you can't compile without&#xA;&#xA;% ~~~ the posted problematic code ~~~~~~~&#xA;\textbf{Perímetro:} $2\pi r$\\&#xA;\textbf{Área:} $r\pi^2$\\+&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}% &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; you can't compile without&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm done as a reader, because I simply haven't installed the Miletra font on my system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;4 What can you do instead?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I have to guess, you have your code. Try copying only those parts, which make it compile again AND shows your problem. Be &lt;strong&gt;minimalistic&lt;/strong&gt; (hence the name), by leaving out. If you are not sure about some code fraction, try compiling with and without said part. If it can compile without, do without.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also do it in reverse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;save your current file under a new name, say &amp;quot;mweOfMyProblem.tex&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete parts, while ensuring &amp;quot;compiles AND shows my problem&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whichever route you follow, please make sure your code is &lt;strong&gt;ready for copy&amp;amp;compile&lt;/strong&gt;, i.e. &lt;strong&gt;has at least this content&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% ~~~ what we need to see in your MWE ~~~&#xA;\documentclass% ...&#xA;&#xA;\usepackage% ...&#xA;\newcommand% ...&#xA;% ...&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;% ~~~ just your relevant code here ~~~~~&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245790" OwnerDisplayName="MS-SPO" LastActivityDate="2023-01-15T18:55:25.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9029" CreationDate="2023-01-23T04:25:36.130" Score="12" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is inspired by a recent interaction, with one of the most helpful and prolific users of this site, as outlined in comments to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/53614/134641&quot;&gt;an old answer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53612/best-and-recommended-way-to-write-prime-on-i-in-ith/53614#comment1671309_53614&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really this community's intention to &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; comments, prior to down-voting? I was unaware of this. Is it documented in any official pages (e.g., any side panels or the site's Tour page)? (This &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1299/134641&quot;&gt;prior answer&lt;/a&gt; is relevant, but not definitive, nor sufficient in scope to address this inquiry.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does a majority (or perhaps majority of Moderators) really subscribe to this notion? I can see the argument and perhaps it might indeed make people feel better (which I naturally do consider important). I never personally viewed a down-vote as particularly negative nor rude, however—simply an efficient mechanism to express one's preferences regarding a question or an answer, and to effectively motivate improvements or (mostly) signal extrinsic accuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this putative policy differ (if at all) for questions, vs. answers? How does it differ concerning old questions, for which newer information or additional research might be relevant? Are users really expected to have to engage substantively, prior to their being able to express a hopefully constructive preference? In particular, is it not desirable to allow quick expression of preferences, for users willing to express them (and take the Reputation penalty), especially in situations in which an answer is old and may be improved? Is the onus to suggest edits or to comment really to be delegated to the user, as opposed to merely being preferred?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular situation, I had admittedly not initially noted that I was down-voting such an active user. So naturally, more constructive engagement could have been preferable. Nonetheless, I am surprised that this appeared to be interpreted negatively and might be contrary to policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to run contrary to the usual practice across Stack Exchange or at least how the model is generally outlined and presented. If this is to be the determination of the relevant quorum, perhaps this ought be more substantively outlined and documented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134641" LastEditorUserId="134641" LastEditDate="2023-01-23T04:46:45.667" LastActivityDate="2023-01-31T23:13:32.910" Title="Does this community really subscribe to a policy on down-voting, that requires prior commenting?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9028" CreationDate="2023-01-23T07:14:37.400" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's never been a &lt;em&gt;requirement&lt;/em&gt; to provide a reason to downvote, more a sense that downvoting is sufficiently unusual that where it's used, giving an explanation is probably useful. (At a technical level requiring comment is not enforceable locally in any case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As questions and answers start at zero votes, most of the time one can show approval by upvoting and simply leave other content entirely alone. The exception is spam or similar, where a rapid application of downvotes can trigger automatic removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2023-01-23T07:14:37.400" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9028" CreationDate="2023-01-23T08:50:26.023" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never personally viewed a down-vote as particularly negative nor rude, however—simply an efficient mechanism to express one's preferences regarding a question or an answer, and to effectively motivate improvements or (mostly) signal extrinsic accuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well you own example shows that starting an interaction with a down-vote is not really efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't explain why you downvote it seldom improves a question or answer as people typically don't understand the reason and ignore the downvote (or are slightly hurt).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you explain why you downvote you not only have to explain what is wrong with the answer but additionally why you thought it fit to downvote. And you have to do some extra work to motivate people as downvotes don't motivate: they either depress or make angry or are ignored. Personally I don't like to do something for people who think that they can push me by first giving me a slight slap on the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have been much more efficient to leave a comment which clarifies your open point and ask friendly if the answer could be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2023-01-23T08:50:26.023" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9028" CreationDate="2023-01-23T10:06:18.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/325416/why-isnt-providing-feedback-mandatory-on-downvotes-and-why-are-ideas-suggestin&quot;&gt;no&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everyone doesn't take downvotes personally, would the site be a better and more efficient place? Probably yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, in real life there are many people who don't _want_ their posts to be downvoted. And there isn't much can be done about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the efficiency, I think this site is small enough (at least for now) that it can afford to take every user to look through every questions without them getting downvoted (we I is the real purpose of downvoting questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if you leave a comment for improvement and downvote at the same time (which is what you did in this case), it would probably be a good idea to set a timer to check the answer later for improvement to retract the downvote. But if you do that, you might as well set a timer and downvote _after_ there's no improvement for X days if you  still want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250119" LastActivityDate="2023-01-23T10:06:18.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9028" CreationDate="2023-01-23T10:18:33.637" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is, by design, anonymous, so you should not be required to comment on a downvote. However since a downvote with no explanation will be percieved as (and in fact, is) unfriendly and unconstructive, it's better to simply leave it. If you have no time or desire to comment or edit the post or post a new answer, simply leave the post without voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that other sites on the network use downvoting more freely but that isn't something that makes those sites welcoming and it doesn't really affect the way downvotes will be perceived here. If you post a badly formed question on stackoverflow you may get to -10 within minutes, it's just the way it is. But here as it is obvious that very few posts get downvotes, a person who receives one is likely to feel it as personal criticism and you should consider that before downvoting.  It does not require any site policy statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastEditorUserId="1090" LastEditDate="2023-01-23T10:57:01.823" LastActivityDate="2023-01-23T10:57:01.823" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9028" CreationDate="2023-01-23T15:30:39.537" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the people posting to this site are (relative) newbies.  Many are also not fluent English speakers.  Furthermore, (La)TeX is often not welcomed in many environments, with a preference for Word clearly expressed by management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions:&lt;/strong&gt;  A question that is poorly or not clearly phrased or doesn't contain precise details usually won't get a usable or correct answer, and wastes the time of someone trying to help.  Not providing information on &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; a question can't be answered in its original form simply discourages an OP and is unlikely to win an enthusiastic user; that's what an unexplained downvote does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers:&lt;/strong&gt;  Sometimes an answer is simply wrong or will have unintended consequences.  A downvote without explanation is unhelpful, especially if the answer looks plausible or attractive, which it often does.  Of course, if an answer is clearly spam. a downvote is justified; but in that case, there's also the option to flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personal experience:&lt;/strong&gt;  On another site, I once posted, in answer to a request for information, an announcement that a manual, published by my employer, previously available only for sale at a nontrivial price had been released as a free PDF file.  This was very quickly downvoted, with the reason given that the posting was for personal aggrandizement.  It was my first posting on that site, but not intended personally.  A poster on tex.sx, experienced on the other site, intervened to rectify the situation, but that was my last posting, and nearly my last visit to the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be taken as personal attacks.  I strongly prefer to avoid that possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2023-01-23T15:30:39.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-26T15:01:15.587" Score="10" ViewCount="113" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2022 (and where did January go, right?) and dive head first into 2023, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V0TPg.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on TeX - LaTeX over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;950&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,448&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;45&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,356&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Bounties canceled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,059&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;285&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,486&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,914&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,344&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,990&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;385&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,075&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts locked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;67&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;393&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts unlocked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;175&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;824&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;104&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,863&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions flagged⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,044&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions migrated&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions protected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions reopened&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;85&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Revisions redacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms created&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms proposed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tags merged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Close votes&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10,154&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;First answers&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,834&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;First questions&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;31&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7,531&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Late answers&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,294&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Low quality posts&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;46&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,278&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Reopen votes&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;611&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Suggested edits&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,378&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;45&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes). Community can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8902/2021-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2021: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222022%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/386090/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2023! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2023-01-26T18:00:42.183" LastActivityDate="2023-01-26T18:00:42.183" Title="2022: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-26T17:34:17.967" Score="0" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;About two-and-a-half weeks ago I received an email from the Trust &amp;amp; Safety team in reply to a ticket I had opened. The email informed me that I should hear from them in the next few days, but that it might take longer to get a response. I haven't heard from anyone in the matter since then. My two messages asking for a followup, sent a week-and-a-half, and a week, ago, respectively, have not been answered. How can I find out the status of my ticket? Also: who are the members of the Trust &amp;amp; Safety team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, February 9, exactly 1 month after receiving the first email from the Trust &amp;amp; Safety team informing me that I should hear from them in the next few days, I finally received a followup email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The brief, 3-sentence email, which was signed by a member of the Community Team, rather than the Trust &amp;amp; Safety team like the previous email, did not acknowledge, much less explain, let alone apologize for, the exorbitant amount of time it had taken to follow up on my report. It informed me that my original report would be kept around as reference material, and forwarded to the appropriate team. It didn't clarify which team was deemed the appropriate one. Finally, it stated: &amp;quot;I won't be able to further update you on the results of this report.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I understand the meaning of the title &amp;quot;Trust &amp;amp; Safety team&amp;quot;: those who turn to this team should &lt;em&gt;trust&lt;/em&gt; that their report has been taken seriously and acted on, despite the lack of evidence and transparency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21685" LastEditorUserId="21685" LastEditDate="2023-02-10T06:07:32.213" LastActivityDate="2023-02-10T06:07:32.213" Title="How to find out the status of a Trust and Safety Team ticket?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9028" CreationDate="2023-01-31T23:13:32.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a saying, along the lines of: &amp;quot;A written job reference tells you nothing about the applicant. It only tells you something about the person who wrote the reference.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it is the same with downvotes. Unless a post is clearly spam or utterly wrong, a downvote tells use something about the voter, rather than about the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That can also be said about upvotes, but good answers deserve attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="287367" LastActivityDate="2023-01-31T23:13:32.910" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2419" CreationDate="2023-02-03T20:55:54.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Cooperation with editors and non-TeX applications&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Input (editors)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/173317&quot;&gt;Is there a LaTeX wrapper for use in Google Docs?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Is there a LaTeX wrapper for use in Google Docs?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/173317)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/78101&quot;&gt;When and why should I use % !TEX TS-program and % !TEX encoding?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[When and why should I use % !TEX TS-program and % !TEX encoding?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/78101)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/99475&quot;&gt;How to invoke latex with the -shell-escape flag in TeXStudio (former TeXMakerX)?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[How to invoke latex with the -shell-escape flag in TeXStudio (former TeXMakerX)?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/99475)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Output (PDF readers)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/155518&quot;&gt;Tooltip that works with all pdf readers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Tooltip that works with all pdf readers](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/155518)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/301386&quot;&gt;Why is 1.5 the default pdf version?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Why is 1.5 the default pdf version?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/301386)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51320&quot;&gt;Going &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; when using hyperref&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Going &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; when using hyperref](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51320)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other tools&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/83663&quot;&gt;Utility to Strip Comments from LaTeX Source&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Utility to Strip Comments from LaTeX Source](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/83663)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6333&quot;&gt;Grammar-checking tool for use with LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[Grammar-checking tool for use with LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6333)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-12-29T20:58:56.710" LastActivityDate="2023-12-29T20:58:56.710" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2023-02-03T20:55:54.210" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-22T19:48:19.527" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to post a question on this site (or mathoverflow mathstackexchange) such that it uses a new command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I just type:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\newcommand{\bracket}[1]{\left ( #1 \right )}&#xA;\newcommand{\curly}[1]{\left \{ #1 \right \} }&#xA;\newcommand{\squared}[1]{\left [ #1 \right ]}&#xA;\newcommand\tab[1][1cm]{\hspace*{#1}}&#xA;&#xA;Some math equations are:&#xA;&#xA;\begin{equation*}&#xA;    \begin{split}&#xA;    &amp;amp; \tab[0.4cm] \iota_{\theta} = \mathbb{E}_{\theta} \squared{\dot{l_{\theta}}^2} &#xA;    = \int_{\mathbb{R}^d} \bracket{4 \sum_{i=1}^d (x_i-\theta)^3}^2 C \exp{- \sum_{i=1}^d (x_i-\theta)^4} dx&#xA;    \\ &amp;amp; = 16 C \curly{\sum_{i=1}^d \int_{\mathbb{R}^d} x_i^6 \exp{- \sum_{i=1}^d x_i^4}  dx +&#xA;    2 \sum_{i=1}^d \sum_{j=1}^{i-1}\int_{\mathbb{R}^d} x_i^3x_j^3 \exp{- \sum_{i=1}^d x_i^4}  dx }&#xA;    \\ &amp;amp; = 16 C d \bracket{\frac{1}{2} \Gamma \bracket{\frac{1}{4}}}^{d-1} \frac{3}{8} \Gamma \bracket{\frac{3}{4}}&#xA;    = 12d \bracket{\Gamma \bracket{\frac{1}{4}}}^{-1}\Gamma \bracket{\frac{3}{4}}&#xA;    \end{split}&#xA;\end{equation*}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not going to implement my new commands on this site. How do I fix this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262753" OwnerDisplayName="温泽海" LastActivityDate="2023-02-22T20:49:29.077" Title="NewCommand LaTeX on This Site" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2023-02-22T22:13:43.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-23T16:09:38.963" Score="23" ViewCount="453" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that many users of TeX.SE are scrimpy with their downvotes, but please don't upvote non-answers (e.g. comments erroneously posted as an answer) above a score of -1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can (not) see in the picture below, a post with a score &amp;gt; -1 is missing the delete button. This makes voting to delete such posts unnecessarily complicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RtEcq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RtEcq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, please don't upvote them above a score of 0, then even the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/259763&quot;&gt;unanimous delete votes of 6 users&lt;/a&gt; won't be able to delete such answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2023-12-20T13:16:31.160" LastActivityDate="2023-12-20T13:16:31.160" Title="Please don't upvote non-answers above a score of -1" Tags="|discussion|voting|deleting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-24T12:02:19.223" Score="6" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/440511/195804&quot;&gt;Package minted Error: Missing Pygments output&lt;/a&gt; is closed as &amp;quot;needs details or clarity&amp;quot;, but I can't figure out why. To me the question perfectly clear: they post a minimal example of their code, post the error message that they get and ask how they can fix it. The only thing that I can see that might be wrong with this question is that they posted an off-site link to their log file, but it's not necessary to open that link to understand the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this question by googling because I got the same error, and the only answer there didn't help me. And looking at the votes, I'm not alone. At the time of writing this, the question has 15 upvotes and the answer only has 1 upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apparently ran into this problem before and posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/1550051&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; with my solution. I would like to post that comment as an answer, but I can't since the question is closed. Since answers are more visible than comments, posting this comment as an answer could potentially help people with the same problem in the future. Posting this as an answer would also allow me to elaborate on how I changed the permission settings in case someone doesn't know how to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this closed? How can it be edited so that it can be reopened? Based on the score of the question, this seems to be a relatively common problem, so reopening it and allowing more answers could potentially help future users with the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="195804" LastActivityDate="2023-02-24T12:02:19.223" Title="Why was this question closed as needing details or clarity?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9039" CreationDate="2023-02-28T16:42:02.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The case presented is indeed a good example. But not of what you're trying to convey, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reported answer states a correct fact and it's important to see the question. Once we see it, it becomes apparent that the answer is completely off, so the upvote was definitely out of place. However, this is not always the case. I have flagged posts as “not an answer”, but the flag ended up to be disputed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the situation, a member of the community might find that an answer with only downvotes is not deserving it and upvote; I've done this a few times. Context is important, reading both the question and the answer is even more important. Whether a post is “not an answer” is subjective and your opinion is as good as anyone else's. You're not the ultimate judge, community and the moderators are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you deem a post to be “not an answer”, flag it, perhaps with a downvote, and move on. You can return to it and vote for deletion if it's still with only negative votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2023-02-28T16:42:02.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-01T15:18:27.663" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;The package is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/koleygr/flexible-cv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://gitlab.com/koleygr/flexible-cv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I am tending to upload on TUG soon, but surely some testing is needed and as I have developed the most of its parts a while (some years) ago, I would like your comments/ feature requests etc before upload&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual questions except the too general above test/feature request&#xA;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think I could upload on TUG with a licence similar to the one on my gitlab project? If not... Is there a way to add the source somewhere easily discover-able that could use such a license&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The license:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;flexible-CV project is lisenced under these terms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You should always be available to share the code or any edit that you have made in the template (So, this project and its derivatives will remain always open source)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You may use it without any charge for personal reasons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you use it for any kind of commersial reason, and if you have the ability to do so, you have to donate to someone (not nesesserily the creator) that has survival needs of money or of your donation in any way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This license has to be used in any derivative work of this original project with an active link to this project too inside the lisence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120578" LastEditorUserId="120578" LastEditDate="2023-03-01T15:29:31.773" LastActivityDate="2023-03-01T15:29:31.773" Title="Call to test a flexible CV package on LaTeX under final stages of development" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|licensing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2023-03-02T06:09:54.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-01T20:12:58.760" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When entering a chat I do not see the updload button next to the send button as my conversation partner does. I tried with firefox and chrome (both v.110) and I did not use the mobile site (which was already mentioned as a problem in the past) ...??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what it looks like for me in chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ppK1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ppK1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is what it should look like (received from someone else):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ry8K1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ry8K1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="280085" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-03-02T17:35:44.303" LastActivityDate="2023-03-02T17:35:44.303" Title="No upload button in a chat" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9044" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-02T00:07:57.093" Score="8" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few questions lately on problems with &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; on Linux (specifically Debian/Ubuntu) being the wrong version (&amp;quot;you cannot use TL2021 &lt;code&gt;tlmgr&lt;/code&gt; to update TL2022&amp;quot; or similar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it worth having one 'definitive' answer (as a Community Wiki), which we can refer people to? I can see from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2419/often-referenced-questions&quot;&gt;often referenced questions&lt;/a&gt; that there is a (quite old, but somewhat detailed) description of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1092/how-to-install-vanilla-texlive-on-debian-or-ubuntu&quot;&gt;installing TeXLive on Debian&lt;/a&gt;. While this is fine for installing, it doesn't seem to cover the problems with attempting to install the latest version when there is a previous version already present. A few questions have had the problem of a previous version being there, unknown to the user, as a dependency of something else due to the package manager, and the previous version is generally the one selected by &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am happy to write up a question and start the answer if people think that it is a worthwhile endeavour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244233" LastActivityDate="2023-03-02T00:07:57.093" Title="Is it worth having a Community Wiki post for installing TeXLive directly (not package-managed) on Linux/Mac" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10055" CreationDate="2023-04-06T06:22:27.193" Score="14" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently flagged an answer because generated by AI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag was declined because they found no evidence of it:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wqdqj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wqdqj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; evidence, because at the beginning of the answer it is written it is got from an AI:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xZo7P.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xZo7P.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in the comments it is reaffirmed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mPDn0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mPDn0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which other evidence is missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="101651" LastEditDate="2023-04-10T08:21:39.903" LastActivityDate="2023-04-10T08:21:39.903" Title="Is there a way to reply to a declined flag?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-07T23:15:33.400" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Checking the review queue for &amp;quot;first questions&amp;quot;, the first question in the queue was accompanied by the message &amp;quot;Our system has identified this post as possible spam; please review carefully&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/682173&quot;&gt;TeX4ht does not generate correct paragraphs when I use in-line footnotes and KOMA-script&lt;/a&gt; , looks perfectly reasonable, although the topic (&lt;code&gt;tex4ht&lt;/code&gt;) isn't one I'm particularly well-versed in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What characteristics of a post can trigger this sort of spam warning?  (I've observed that &amp;quot;flag&amp;quot; isn't offered as an option on questions/answers in the review queues,  That would often be convenient.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm familiar with real spam, and immediately flag it when I see it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2023-04-07T23:15:33.400" Title="What will trigger a spam warning on a &quot;First question&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|spam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10097" CreationDate="2023-04-08T08:22:12.667" Score="30" ViewCount="1500" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10047/is-there-a-way-to-reply-to-a-declined-flag#comment29453_10047&quot;&gt;As samcarter told me&lt;/a&gt;, Stack Exchange failed to make a network-wide ban for AI posts and leaves it to every site to decide themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sites have already decided to ban them, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384922/is-there-a-list-of-chatgpt-or-other-ai-related-discussions-and-policies-for-our&quot;&gt;Is there a list of ChatGPT or other AI-related discussions and policies for our sites?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my option, I would ban them. I do not like answers produced by any automatic tool. Sometimes I see TikZ answers of this kind, which are uselessly complicated and impossible to modify by a human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101651" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-04-10T04:25:56.180" LastActivityDate="2023-08-17T22:24:02.937" Title="Should AI answers be banned?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-04-08T09:49:16.750" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am an AI language model and do not have personal opinions or beliefs. It is up to the moderators of TeX stack exchange to decide if they want to ban chat GPT or not, based on their own community guidelines and policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat GPT has spoken. Jokes aside, it should be banned. For example, I just asked Chat GPT this: &amp;quot;Write a latex programme that sets the header and footer in German&amp;quot; and it produced this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}&#xA;\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}&#xA;\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}&#xA;\usepackage{fancyhdr}&#xA;&#xA;\pagestyle{fancy}&#xA;\fancyhf{}&#xA;\fancyhead[L]{Deutscher Titel}&#xA;\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}&#xA;\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;&#xA;\section{Erster Abschnitt}&#xA;Hier steht der Text des ersten Abschnitts.&#xA;&#xA;\section{Zweiter Abschnitt}&#xA;Hier steht der Text des zweiten Abschnitts.&#xA;&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which works in this simple case. I then asked Chat GPT to solve this recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/682201/long-box-around-some-objects-in-tikz-cd&quot;&gt;Long box around some objects in tikz-cd&lt;/a&gt; and it outputted this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To draw a long box around some objects in a tikz-cd, you can use the&#xA;\fbox command with the tikz option. Here's an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;\usepackage{tikz-cd}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{tikzcd}&#xA;\fbox[tikz]{\begin{matrix}&#xA;A &amp;amp; B \\&#xA;C &amp;amp; D&#xA;\end{matrix}} \arrow[r,&amp;quot;f&amp;quot;] &amp;amp; E \\&#xA;F \arrow[ur,&amp;quot;g&amp;quot;]&#xA;\end{tikzcd}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This code draws a box around the matrix A&amp;amp;B\C&amp;amp;D, and includes it in&#xA;the tikzcd diagram with an arrow going to E and another arrow going&#xA;from F to g. The result looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[broken image]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can adjust the size and positioning of the box by tweaking the&#xA;options to \fbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This breaks with the error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;! Missing } inserted.&#xA;&amp;lt;inserted text&amp;gt; &#xA;                }&#xA;l.15 A &amp;amp; B&#xA;           \\&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, as it can be used to answer questions and the question has the veneer of acceptability, it should not be used. The human touch is still required for now I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273733" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2023-04-08T12:34:17.550" LastActivityDate="2023-04-08T12:34:17.550" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-04-08T10:39:49.190" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support banning AI generated content. Up to now, I've seen two types of automatically generated answers and I don't think either of these makes the site better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Working solutions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AI has come a long way and from a technological standpoint, I find them fascinating. Some of their answers even work and produce actually more idiomatic TikZ code than some human users who use tools like mathcha.io.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could argue that such answers aren't doing active harm, but I think users come to TeX.se with the expectation to get answers written by humans. If a user would like to get a bot answer, they could easily ask one of the AI bots instead of visiting TeX.se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Nonsense answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is more problematic and actively harmful are answers which look like well written answers but turn out to be complete nonsense. For example this answer was posted yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0ZJ8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0ZJ8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On first glance it looks like a well written answer. The tool described there exactly solves the problem of the op and it gives detailed instructions on how to use it. The only problem is that all the facts are made up. The linked github repository does not exist and the described workflow makes no sense when one looks at the details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such posts are designed to actively deceive readers and sent the poor users, who search for a solution to their problem, on a wild goose chase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2023-04-08T11:35:00.430" LastActivityDate="2023-04-08T11:35:00.430" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-04-08T22:56:11.763" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that an outright AI ban is the wrong way to go. A good answer is good and a bad answer is bad, regardless of if they were written by AI. Instead, I think that we'd be better off specifically targeting the issues of answers written by AI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Problem 1: Incorrect/Nonsensical answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using AI generators will often produce code that doesn't compile (or compiles only with a large amount of errors) and will often suggest packages/sources that don't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Solution&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any AI answers that contain TeX code should also have to include an image of the output. This will show that (1) A human was involved in creating the answer; and (2) that the code compiles and gives the correct output. Most good answers from a human include screenshots of the PDF anyways, so this isn't much of a hardship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any AI answers that recommend a package/resource should be required to include a (working) hyperlink to either the CTAN page for that package or the website of the source. Again, any good answers from a human would do this anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Problem 2: Plagiarism&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AI generators will often print out parts of its training material verbatim. The entirety of TeX.SE is available in a bulk archive, so most AI generators would have been trained on it. Even when an AI prints out a novel solution, it is the work of the AI, not the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Solution&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers from AI generators should be clearly attributed to the AI. Placing the response from the AI in &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; blockquotes&lt;/code&gt; is best, but as long as the answer contains a sentence like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what ChatGPT has to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then I don't think that there's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that are copied verbatim from another answer without acknowledgement should be flagged, just like if a human did the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wrote more than, say, 80% of the answer yourself and just used an AI for minor help, then I don't think that it needs to be mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Problem 3: Correct but confusing/overly complicated answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a problem with human answers too. We have human answers doing things like using &lt;code&gt;\\&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\par&lt;/code&gt;, using generators for Ti&lt;em&gt;k&lt;/em&gt;Z that give unreadable code, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctan.org/pkg/xii&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xii&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution here is downvoting, not flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Problem 4: Users can just use the AI generator themselves&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all users are aware that these AI generators can answer TeX questions. And as we've seen, they often give incorrect code that still needs some editing from someone knowledgeable in TeX. And most AI generators require either payment or a cell phone number, which isn't something that all users have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using similar reasoning, you could also say &amp;quot;users can just read the package documentation to find the answers&amp;quot;. Indeed, that is correct for many questions, but no one is proposing to ban those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5280&quot;&gt;Official policy is to embrace questions/answers that can be easily Googled&lt;/a&gt; so long as they're not duplicates of other questions on the site; I see no reason for our AI policy to be any different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Problem 5: Users can post answers too quickly&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers are bad, then they will be downvoted/flagged and the system will prevent them from posting more. If they're good, then what's the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And besides, anyone writing terrible answers using AI too quickly probably won't be stopped by an &amp;quot;AI ban&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Problem 6: Potentially harmful answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bad AI-generated answer could lead to real-world harm on sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Chemistry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Electronics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Law&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://travel.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Travel&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Medicine&lt;/a&gt;. Bad AI-generated answers on &lt;a href=&quot;https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Bitcoin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://crypto.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Cryptography&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; could break or cause serious issues to a computer. It may make sense for these sites to ban AI because of the serious effects that a subtly-incorrect answer could have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX&lt;/a&gt;, the worst that a bad AI-generated answer could do is causing an infinite loop, and that is easily fixed with &lt;code&gt;Ctrl-C&lt;/code&gt;. Even that is quite unlikely; most bad AI-generated answers just won't compile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good answers are good, and bad answers are bad regardless of how they were created&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Copy-and-pasting answers directly from an AI generator without any human modifications should be forbidden&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AI-generated answers should always clearly indicate that they were made by AI&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AI-generated code answers must be compilable. To prove this, they should include an image of the PDF output by TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AI-generated answers mentioning a package or other resource should include a functioning hyperlink to CTAN or another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270600" LastEditorUserId="26614" LastEditDate="2023-04-30T06:36:03.723" LastActivityDate="2023-04-30T06:36:03.723" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-04-08T22:58:24.363" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Added for completeness since &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;voting indicates approval, not quality on Meta&lt;/a&gt;; I don't agree with this answer, so go ahead and downvote me!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AI answers should not be banned, flagged, or treated differently from  human-made answers in any way. Instead, users should just downvote bad answers, regardless of their source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270600" LastEditorUserId="270600" LastEditDate="2023-04-09T04:53:40.093" LastActivityDate="2023-04-09T04:53:40.093" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2023-04-08T22:58:24.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-10T00:21:08.300" Score="3" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a notification that my old question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/508744/revtex-4-2-bibliography-missing-space-after-first-author-name&quot;&gt;REVTex 4.2 bibliography missing space after first author name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was closed for lacking detail. Why did this happen? The question has a specific description of a problem I encountered which, as per comments, was also encountered by at least one other user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, the question just needs me to go back and convert the partial answer I left in a comment into an actual answer (which I can’t do because the question was closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97638" LastActivityDate="2023-04-12T18:14:21.603" Title="Why was my REVTeX-error question closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10047" CreationDate="2023-04-10T05:01:54.093" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the one who declined the flag; here are some of the considerations I had:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We (TeX.SE) don't have any policy on AI-related posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer didn't seem off-target nor was it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer came from the OP (who mentioned through comments that it works for them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the above I made a choice from the following list of options when declining a flag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using standard flags helps us prioritize problems and resolve them faster. Please familiarize yourself with the list of standard flags: see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;What is Flagging&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other: (custom comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second option seemed appropriate at the time: I reviewed it, didn't think the use of AI was a problem, nor did we have something in place to prohibit or even discourage it. So, the flag itself wasn't supported, nor the statement in it... Nothing against you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answer to your question of whether there is a way to reply to a declined flag: No, there's no official way. Options include chat or the child meta; you followed the correct route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, personally, had/have no objection with AI answers supporting the needs of the community. Based on the assumption that answers are often tested, at worst only by the OP, but at best by the rest of the community, there will be some form of communal vetting of whether or not the answer is valid... and these types of things can therefore be dealt with by the community (through, for example, flagging content as Low Quality so it ends up in a review queue where others can provide their opinion; alternatively, through voting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the answer in question explicitly mentioned the use of AI in the generation of some of the code, this may not be the case in general. So, identification of AI-generated content and its approval/disapproval should be handled by the community as a whole. And the best way to achieve this is through voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some different thoughts on the process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question was answered without mention of AI involvement (whether or not there is some policy in place), do you think you would have handled the situation differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are often questions on this site asking to create something (an image, or a table, or some structure, often in a do-this-for-me fashion), which is then answered - literally - with &amp;quot;Like this?&amp;quot;, followed by some code... could those also be coming from AI-generated prompts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2023-04-10T05:01:54.093" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-04-10T10:01:57.750" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not agree that AI-answers should be handled only through community or voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across a number of AI generated answers, and they were very long, very detailed, and it needed considerable skills and knowledge to realize that they are nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The confused comments below the answers reflected that: they often said &amp;quot;this looks perfect and exactly what I want but why doesn't it work for me?&amp;quot; and then showed that the OP and other wasted considerable time to understand and work with the nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And naturally they didn't downvote because they couldn't see that it was wrong as it looked so well written, instead they believed it is their own fault, that they are too dumb to use this, or that their system is buggy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So asking that the community handles that is effectively asking that a rather small number of power users check all answers - and I don't want to waste my time with this, I have better to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imho AI answers should be banned, unless&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they contain at the top a reference of the source of the answer (including the question that was asked to the bot), and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;say if the answer of the bot was tested or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;say if they edited the answer (and where)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addition:&lt;/strong&gt; If a user (as it happened in the last case) posts 10 long answers in less than an hour then the system should interfere and add an automatic warning. (Naturally not if the user has a reputation of more than 1 million points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastEditorUserId="26614" LastEditDate="2023-04-30T06:25:11.567" LastActivityDate="2023-04-30T06:25:11.567" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-04-10T14:50:53.693" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly support a complete ban on AI-produced answers on TeX.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may not be easy to enforce such a policy at all times. However, that's not a reason for not proclaiming such a ban. After all, most (all??) societies strongly condemn and outlaw murder. The fact that murders still occur is not a valid reason for not outlawing murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5001" LastActivityDate="2023-04-10T14:50:53.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10054" CreationDate="2023-04-11T01:42:28.047" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started the close voting on this question, this was done under the needs details or clarity basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user commented they were struggling to reproduce your issue, and asked if you could provide a minimal example, this comment seems a clear and reasonable request for more details which was not acted on.&#xA;I have had no issues with references to two-author publications in revtex4-2 so upvoted that comment and, as three years seems ample time to provide more details, voted to close.&#xA;The question simply does need more details, just a single bib entry would have helped rule some things out, while a compilable example would have led rapidly to package versions which was apparently the real issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions&quot;&gt;Closing a question isn't permanent&lt;/a&gt;, a closed question that's edited will automatically go into the reopen review queue and normally be reopened if improved.&#xA;It does seem (from additional information you are providing now) that there is a reproducible problem with a clear answer, that may lead to its being reopened as is.&#xA;Given it's been reasonably closed as unclear though, I'm not convinced it's worth reopening just to post notification of a bug in a version of revtex that was on CTAN for a week four years ago.&#xA;While such an answer would have been great while the question was open, I see nothing in the accepted nor the most upvoted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6988/106162&quot;&gt;Questions which are bug reports, revisited&lt;/a&gt; to support reopening an unclear, closed question to post such an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment did not give any kind of solution, it just claimed to have tracked down the issue, nothing in it improved the question or evidenced that you had a genuine answer.&#xA;When another user commented asking if you had solved the problem, you did not respond.&#xA;It looked instead like you had abandoned the question, and that any future user would have been better off asking a new question, with more detail, as the close reason would hopefully encourage them to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106162" LastEditorUserId="106162" LastEditDate="2023-04-12T18:14:21.603" LastActivityDate="2023-04-12T18:14:21.603" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-04-11T10:37:05.660" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest we should &lt;strong&gt;add flagging/closing/banning criteria to cover the common problems of AI answers&lt;/strong&gt; — but those criteria, at least for flagging/closing, should not depend essentially on the answer being AI-written.  The flag option could look something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shows no genuine understanding.&lt;/strong&gt; This answer may seem superficially high-quality in style and details, but has serious flaws in its core content.   This problem is typical of AI-generated answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the ban justification for users could be based on a pattern of repeatedly posting such content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This proposal is meant as a mild tweak to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10056/1635&quot;&gt;Ulrike Fischer’s&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10051/1635&quot;&gt;Sam Carter’s&lt;/a&gt; answers proposing banning AI-generated content, whose arguments I largely agree with.  This aims to keep the main payoff, while reducing the cost/difficulty a bit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This gives users a clear option for efficiently flagging AI-like answers, and gives moderators a clear way to crack down on abusive users.  (As &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10056/1635&quot;&gt;Ulrike Fischer’s answer&lt;/a&gt; notes, the existing criteria aren’t sufficient to defend against such abuse.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But this doesn’t create any burden of proof (even perceived) for showing that the content is AI-generated before flagging it.  On the one hand, this makes it easier for users to flag such content quickly and confidently; and conversely, if users receiving flags/bans want to dispute or appeal them, they have to defend the content (which we can all see) rather than its means of generation (which only they can really know).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastEditorUserId="1635" LastEditDate="2023-04-12T08:40:04.990" LastActivityDate="2023-04-12T08:40:04.990" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-21T12:29:41.007" Score="7" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because, even after reading a few resources, in particular on TeX.SE, I don't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it applied in this stackexchange differently than in other SEs ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I signed up 12 years ago and contribute now very rarely on TeX.SE, and I felt like a clueless newbie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TeX.SE community gave me quickly the hint I needed in comments to the first version of my question.&#xA;I felt this was the end of the matter.&#xA;I tried to put these comments together as an auto-answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then my question was closed as &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot;  after two days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted from my original question what could be viewed off-topic considerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself is unimportant to me.&#xA;The question can even be deleted if the editors feel like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even the wording &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot; has the taste of an offense or a misdemeanor.&#xA;I don't recognize the inspiring spirit I felt when I SE started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my native language &amp;quot;opinion&amp;quot; is not a dirty word anyway, and perfectly compatible with digital technical communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please enlighten me, I want to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4371" LastActivityDate="2023-04-23T20:54:54.123" Title="Can someone clarify what is considered an &quot;opinion-based&quot; question on TeX.SE" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2023-04-21T16:32:16.947" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I find a question in the review queue marked for deletion because it's &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot;, I usually ignore it, especially if someone has already given a reasonable answer.  Even the question &amp;quot;What is the best editor?&amp;quot;, which can easily raise a flame war, can get a reasonable answer: &amp;quot;The one you're most comfortable with, that does what you need.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By adding a few distinct requirements to the question, and a relevant example, answers &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; express opinions, but useful information can be shared.  (The person posting the answer can always say &amp;quot;This is &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; opinion, but I share it because others may find it useful in &lt;em&gt;xxx&lt;/em&gt; situation.&amp;quot;  In other words, give a hook to hang it on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this isn't an answer, but an expression of sympathy with your confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2023-04-21T16:32:16.947" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2023-04-22T08:23:19.797" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was closed based on the initial version (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/revisions/682989/1&quot;&gt;revision 1&lt;/a&gt;). This contained a rant, or how you refer to it here &amp;quot;off-topic considerations&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot; close reason used to be called &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot; with the explanation that &amp;quot;the question will likely solicit debate, arguments or extended discussion&amp;quot;. That would be applicable here, you basically said (and later removed) &amp;quot;why is TeX Live so crappy in many ways&amp;quot; and the counter-argument would be &amp;quot;I like it the way it is&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current close reason focuses more on opinions and only mentions that &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; (as opposed to the question itself) will likely be opinion based, such as the example that Barbara gave of a &amp;quot;what is the best X&amp;quot; question. However, I think that the wording &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot; is actually more fitting, and that many people doing close vote reviews also interpret it as such, i.e., angry remarks about the quality of software do not belong on the site and questions containing those, even if there is also a genuine question being asked, should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after it was closed you edited out the rant part. From within the reopen queue I edited it a bit further to keep a clear separation of question and answer, which is another important consideration of the StackExchange model. Afterwards I thought the question was fine, and the answer that you gave yourself was useful, so I voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually a bit surprised that three people still voted as leaved closed because &amp;quot;the original close reason was not resolved&amp;quot;. However, three other people voted to reopen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0HMhV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0HMhV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a split vote like this the status of a question is not changed, so it is still closed now. I will ask in chat if some people can take another look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this whole process could have been prevented if you didn't include the rant in the first place, which may be worth considering in writing any future questions about workflow issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2023-04-22T08:23:19.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2023-04-23T20:22:23.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;An opinion is a subjective matter, a judgment, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive, rather than facts, which are true statements.&amp;quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems, those who run the site want users to lay focus on asking for facts and provably/demonstrably true statements and insights and experiences (e.g., about ways things are done, about ways things work, about experiences with specific workflows) rather than demanding subjective judgements that are not conclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the word &amp;quot;based&amp;quot;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think a question being posed so that utterance of opinion is not mandatory but optional and therefore may or may not come along with the rest of an answer might be fine as long as asking the question on the part of the esteemed questioner is not motivated by a great desire of uttering an opinion/of going on a rant themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2023-04-23T20:54:54.123" LastActivityDate="2023-04-23T20:54:54.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-24T21:36:44.940" Score="7" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;What possible ways are there to roughly detect if an answer or question has been wrote by &lt;a href=&quot;https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ChatGPT&lt;/a&gt; or other artificial intelligence (AI) applications?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any advice is appreciated and will go nicely with the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10049/273733&quot;&gt;Should AI answers be banned?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; featured discussion where some support banning and some support flagging/allowing with declarations/notices etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273733" LastActivityDate="2023-04-25T20:06:10.483" Title="Is there a way to detect AI answers from ChatGPT and co?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10064" CreationDate="2023-04-24T21:36:44.940" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a start, there are multiple ChatGPT detectors. From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6455/44533&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;politics.meta.se&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on this topic, the website &lt;a href=&quot;https://sapling.ai/ai-content-detector&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AI-content-detector&lt;/a&gt; was provided that could scan text to see if it was produced via AI. Additionally, on another forum (who I cannot remember sadly), the website provided was named &lt;a href=&quot;https://openai-openai-detector.hf.space/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GPT-2 Output Detector Demo&lt;/a&gt; that supports Q's (questions) or A's (answers) being copy and pasted into the provided box to determine the likelihood of the Q or A being produced by ChatGPT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if you are using Google Chrome and want to install the extension &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tampermonkey.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tampermonkey&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, then you can have a button at the bottom of every question or answer to have them evaluated for AI likelihood (using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/161015/simon-dispa&quot;&gt;@Simon Dispa&lt;/a&gt; as an example as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/683820/273733&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was at the top of the feed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hL5Wm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hL5Wm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where the &lt;code&gt;Detect OpenAI&lt;/code&gt; button is present you can click on it to receive a score, in this case 38.4% which is reasonable as much of TeX code has already been published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4p69E.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4p69E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further advice on this script is contained on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/9611&quot;&gt;Stack Apps site&lt;/a&gt; but it may be helpful to you if you want an automatic script to determine whether or not to raise a moderator flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273733" LastActivityDate="2023-04-24T21:36:44.940" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-05T09:25:48.460" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the TeX Stack Exchange have an online compiler where I can view the output of my code and include it in my question/answer instead forcing people to screenshot them manually? If it doesn't exist, is there a plan to integrate one in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296386" OwnerDisplayName="oee45865" LastActivityDate="2023-05-05T11:32:48.590" Title="Is there a built-in compiler that processes my TeX code and includes pictures of the output in my question/answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10070" CreationDate="2023-05-08T20:59:44.067" Score="8" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;My particular question is &amp;quot;how to contribute to LuaTeX?&amp;quot;, but in general I am wondering if questions of this kind are deemed on-topic on the main site or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of the question I want to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I contribute to LuaTeX?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official repository of LuaTeX seems to be located on a private&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GitLab site, here&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;It doesn't appear to allow contributions, not even in the form of&#xA;defect reports or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is unconventional for a FLOSS project -- and per its&#xA;license it is one -- and I appreciate and comprehend the remarks from&#xA;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.luatex.org/faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; I was wondering about these&#xA;items in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Several of the points mentioned around the topic of contributions and even user feedback appear out of date (both sockets and UTF-8 no&#xA;longer seem to be a concern; ancient versions seem to be referenced; &lt;code&gt;trunk&lt;/code&gt; ist referenced instead of the &lt;code&gt;master&lt;/code&gt; default branch).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having specific plans and a specific design doesn't generally preclude outside contributions. The only thing it does is to provide a&#xA;boundary within which contributions &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; (?) be welcome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Small team of decision-makers doesn't preclude outside contributors or contributions. I've even heard of instances where FLOSS projects&#xA;gained new core team members by taking in contributions and promoting&#xA;regular high-quality contributors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that the upstream project -- as per their own statements&#xA;-- doesn't seem to be inclined to take any outside contributions, is there &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; way to contribute &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular I imagine the TeXlive project could be willing to maintain patches rebased against the upstream (just a guess with lots of wishful thinking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I know how voting works on meta sites, so I suggest upvotes if you think it's on-topic and downvotes otherwise -- for those not writing their own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PPS: in the event that this is considered off-topic, I would very much appreciate -- in comments and answers -- suggestions of where to turn with such requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3925" LastActivityDate="2023-05-09T08:25:14.207" Title="On-topic or not?: &quot;How to contribute to ...&quot;" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10069" CreationDate="2023-05-08T21:25:41.860" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's a hard line here, because the exact 'How to I contribute to X' question will depend on X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we take an arbitrary (La)TeX package, then it might well be developed by one person who has no public code setup at all, and 'email the author' would be the only answer, and really could only be posted &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; the package author. So a question about such a package would be off-topic by virtue of being impossible to answer by 'the community'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, asking about the structures that apply to a more complex project like LuaTeX, with the context you suggest you'd include in your model, I think would be on-topic. Here, there are several aspects that many people could comment on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think this is one of those 'don't ask if you can ask, just ask' situations: if it turns out that the question doesn't have the right scope, you'll find out, but not until you ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2023-05-08T21:25:41.860" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10069" CreationDate="2023-05-09T08:17:53.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (both this one on Meta and the blockquoted one for main) seem on topic to me. The answer that I'll write below is certainly off-topic for Meta though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official repository of LuaTeX seems to be located on a private &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GitLab site, here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the main &amp;quot;upstream&amp;quot; repo is indeed &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex&lt;/a&gt;. Throughout the year, commits/updates are made to this repo. However, sometimes changes are made directly to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/&lt;/a&gt;. Occasionally, the GitLab repo pulls in the changes from the TL repo, then once a year (ish) the TL repo pulls in the changes from the GitLab repo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't appear to allow contributions, not even in the form of defect reports or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The GitLab site doesn't allow any contributions directly, but the LuaTeX team still accepts them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I appreciate and comprehend the remarks from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.luatex.org/faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of luatex.org is pretty old, so I wouldn't take anything there too literally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story here is a little complicated, but here's a short version. LuaTeX  started when NTS was going to be the next big thing, but NTS ultimately failed because there was more discussion than actual coding. This was a big problem since computers had changed a lot since 1982, but the only major new engine was pdfTeX, and TeX couldn't afford to stagnate if it wanted to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, LuaTeX was originally developed only for ConTeXt. So at the start, LuaTeX gained whatever features that it needed for it to work with ConTeXt. Pretty much every previous TeX engine had near-perfect backwards compatibility with Knuth's original TeX, but LuaTeX intentionally had a few minor backwards incompatibilities. These incompatibilities are to this day controversial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days, things are much different. At the start, LuaTeX would change radically from year-to-year; now, there haven't been any major changes for about 5 years. At the start, LuaTeX was entirely driven by ConTeXt's needs; now, the most recent update broke ConTeXt to fix bugs with LaTeX and Plain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1. Several of the points mentioned around the topic of contributions and even user feedback appear out of date (both sockets and UTF-8 no longer seem to be a concern; ancient versions seem to be referenced; trunk ist referenced instead of the master default branch).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct, this is all ancient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2. Having specific plans and a specific design doesn't generally preclude outside contributions. The only thing it does is to provide a boundary within which contributions should (?) be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3. Small team of decision-makers doesn't preclude outside contributors or contributions. I've even heard of instances where FLOSS projects gained new core team members by taking in contributions and promoting regular high-quality contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was written back when LuaTeX was only for ConTeXt, and to this day ConTeXt has very different wants/needs compared to the other TeX engines. Generally speaking, some of the loudest users in the TeX community want nothing to ever change, but this conflicts with ConTeXt's goal of continuous improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside contributions are &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; welcome in LuaTeX; I made a first-time contribution (bug fix) two weeks ago. And if you look through the changelogs, LuaTeX still adds new features every year or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that the upstream project -- as per their own statements -- doesn't seem to be inclined to take any outside contributions,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I agree that this page makes them look semi-hostile to outsiders. But the LuaTeX team (Hans and Luigi these days mainly) are actually quite friendly. Keep in mind that there are also some language/cultural issues here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is there any way to contribute at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Send a patch (in an attachment, not inline) or a bug report to &lt;a href=&quot;https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;dev-luatex@ntg.nl&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (current archive is stale, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mail-archive.com/dev-luatex@ntg.nl/maillist.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;use this one instead&lt;/a&gt;). If it's something simple/obvious, Luigi will usually merge/fix it in about a day (although it won't end up in a binary until the next annual TL release).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a feature request or something more complicated, then it will probably take some more time. Generally speaking, LuaTeX doesn't like to add new features anymore, but anything simple or important has decent odds at being accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patches generally aren't needed for bug reports, but they'll help a lot for a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular I imagine the TeXlive project could be willing to maintain patches rebased against the upstream&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL never patches upstream projects (except for things like &lt;code&gt;web2c&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;kpathsea&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;pdftex&lt;/code&gt;, etc. where TL itself is the upstream). But if you did manage to get a patch into TL, it would eventually get pulled back into the main LuaTeX repo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[added by me] How do you build/install LuaTeX from source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-sh prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ git clone --depth 1 //gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex.git&#xA;$ cd luatex&#xA;$ ./build.sh --parallel --luahb&#xA;# cp build/texk/web2c/luatex build/texk/web2c/luahbtex &amp;quot;$(kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOLOC)&amp;quot;&#xA;# fmtutil-sys --byengine luahbtex&#xA;# fmtutil-sys --byengine luatex&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270600" LastEditorUserId="270600" LastEditDate="2023-05-09T08:25:14.207" LastActivityDate="2023-05-09T08:25:14.207" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10073" CreationDate="2023-05-10T13:30:49.743" Score="12" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently rejected an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/250483&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/541644/273733&quot;&gt;an answer by @Paul Gessler&lt;/a&gt; where the main thrust of the edit was editing out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm on support staff at Overleaf.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at the beginning of the answer. I rejected it as I thought that declaring interests in answers, particularly to a potentially paid-for service like Overleaf, was appropriate and potentially even mandatory. It has since been approved which is democracy but now I am confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct protocol for edits that edit out someone's affiliation to a company, product or service please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273733" LastActivityDate="2023-05-16T09:33:15.003" Title="Editing out someones professional affiliation to a company" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10072" CreationDate="2023-05-16T08:03:18.660" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the 7 upvotes, comments, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/promotion&quot;&gt;SE guidance&lt;/a&gt; and time elapsed since the question was asked, I think the correct course of action is to not edit out professional/financial disclaimers declaring interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that edits that remove professional/financial affiliations to a product/service should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Outright rejected if they solely edit out the disclaimer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Approved but edited to re-include the disclaimer if they remove the disclaimer whilst improving the rest of the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit by @Chris Chudzicki to the linked question acts as a good template for using when reverting or editing back:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Restore Overleaf disclosure as required by https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/promotion ; see also https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10072/editing-out-someones-professional-affiliation-to-a-company?cb=1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273733" LastEditorUserId="273733" LastEditDate="2023-05-16T09:33:15.003" LastActivityDate="2023-05-16T09:33:15.003" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10075" CreationDate="2023-05-16T21:43:25.210" Score="8" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I edited my first post &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/3886/262081&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (about &lt;code&gt;tfrac&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sfrac&lt;/code&gt; commands) by adding a MWE and an output picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did it because I like to see these two elements in an answer. In this particular case, it also permits to compare the size of the different commands &amp;quot;outputs&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is: &lt;strong&gt;Is it always a good idea to edit an answer in order to add a MWE and the corresponding output?&lt;/strong&gt; Even if the answer just give a simple command like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/63782/262081&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (where the &lt;code&gt;neq&lt;/code&gt; command is given)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, &lt;strong&gt;can I do it without any hesitation when I see an answer without these two features?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if the author likes his/her answer to be very concise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I understand that edit should be carefully used, so I don’t want to disturb anything by doing this…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262081" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-05-16T23:28:44.823" LastActivityDate="2023-05-16T23:28:44.823" Title="Should I edit an answer to add a MWE and the corresponding output?" Tags="|discussion|editing|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10074" CreationDate="2023-05-16T23:27:48.997" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; editing others' answers and adding MWEs with output, because invariably your choice of what is &lt;em&gt;minimal&lt;/em&gt; might not be the same as someone else's. For example, some people use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{article}&#xA;% preamble stuff&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;% stuff&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as their MWE template, while others use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[12pt]{article}&#xA;% preamble stuff&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;% stuff&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(when a font-specification is independent of the answer/solution) or even&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass{standalone}&#xA;% preamble stuff&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;% stuff&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(when &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; is a non-standard or base class for a document and therefore is technically not minimal. In fact, &lt;code&gt;standalone&lt;/code&gt; may not be included in all (La)TeX distributions.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best suggestion would be to comment on the post and request the OP to do that, or write up your own MWE and output and post that in a comment for future visitors (code can be posted on &lt;a href=&quot;//pastebin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pastebin&lt;/a&gt; and images just with a link after adding it to a dummy post). Something like &lt;code&gt;This answer, [compiled into an MWE](&amp;lt;URL&amp;gt;), produces [this output](&amp;lt;image URL&amp;gt;).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your &lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt; answers, I'd highly recommend posting a minimal example and output, because it makes the content far more consumable to the viewer. Spoon-feeding viewers with readily-consumable content means less effort to understand what's going on and should be more valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2023-05-16T23:27:48.997" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-22T09:45:07.407" Score="6" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tvoUG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tvoUG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This morning I have seen that my avatar is changed in the other communities than TeX.SE. Why there is this change? How to have all avatars the same for each community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2023-05-22T10:02:39.607" LastActivityDate="2023-05-22T10:02:39.607" Title="A different avatar on Math.SE., Physics.SE and Graphic.SE" Tags="|discussion|support|bug|avatar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10077" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2023-05-26T01:06:30.100" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-05-26T01:06:30.100" LastActivityDate="2023-05-26T01:06:30.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10078" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2023-05-26T01:06:30.100" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-05-26T01:06:30.100" LastActivityDate="2023-05-26T01:06:30.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-27T06:25:05.847" Score="6" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I saw the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/latex-to-word/info&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;{latex-to-word}&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt; for the first time and decide to add this &lt;em&gt;tag wiki&lt;/em&gt; (because there was none):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{latex-to-word} is for questions about conversion from TEX files to DOCX files (MSWord).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now, I wonder if there is a tag for latex-to-word (&lt;em&gt;MSWord&lt;/em&gt;), why not creating one for &lt;em&gt;OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer&lt;/em&gt; and also &lt;em&gt;PowerPoint&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;OpenOffice Impress&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Keynote&lt;/em&gt;...? &lt;strong&gt;It's endless&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;{latex-to-wysiwyg}&lt;/code&gt; could be more generic tag but it cannot differentiate &amp;quot;report-like&amp;quot; document (produced by WYSIWYG softwares, e.g. &lt;em&gt;MSWord&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;OpenOffice/LibreOffice&lt;/em&gt;, etc.) from &amp;quot;presentation-like&amp;quot; document (produced by WYSIWYG softwares, e.g. &lt;em&gt;MSPowerPoint&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;OpenOffice/LibreOffice&lt;/em&gt;, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, any idea of two new tags able to differentiate conversion to &amp;quot;report-like&amp;quot; document (produced by WYSIWYG software) from conversion to &amp;quot;presentation-like&amp;quot; document?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, &amp;quot;&lt;code&gt;latex-to-word&lt;/code&gt;&amp;quot; could be used to designate all &amp;quot;report-like&amp;quot; documents produced by WYSIWYG softwares, but it's maybe too much implicit...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I know that probably most of people here don't understand the point of converting LaTeX to word but please avoid the discussion on this post&lt;/em&gt; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262081" LastEditorUserId="262081" LastEditDate="2023-05-29T05:30:05.327" LastActivityDate="2023-05-29T05:30:05.327" Title="What would be more generic tags about latex-to-WYSIWYG produced document (differentiating &quot;report-like&quot; from &quot;presentation-like&quot; document)?" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-31T11:15:01.637" Score="33" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;TeX.SE lost its iconic voting icons in The Great Undesign of 2018, while some other sites were allowed to keep their custom voting buttons. That was a very tragic day for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily SO now introduced new voting buttons which are so unusable that a lot of user scripts/styles popped up to revert this change. That's good news, because they can be adapted to bring back our loved pen nibs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;User style&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For users who prefer user styles, here a modification of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389568/237989&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389568/237989&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  /* voting arrows, adapted from https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389568/237989 */&#xA; &#xA;  button.js-vote-down-btn, button.js-vote-up-btn {&#xA;    border: none !important;&#xA;    border-radius: 0 !important;&#xA;    background: none !important;&#xA;    padding: 0 !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;  button.js-vote-down-btn:not(.fc-theme-primary-500):not(.fc-theme-primary),&#xA;  button.js-vote-up-btn:not(.fc-theme-primary-500):not(.fc-theme-primary) {&#xA;    color: inherit !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;  &#xA;  button.js-vote-down-btn &amp;gt; svg, button.js-vote-up-btn &amp;gt; svg {&#xA;    width: 36px;&#xA;    height: 36px;&#xA;  }&#xA; 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 }  &#xA;  .fc-white, .h\:fc-white:hover, .f\:fc-white:focus, .f\:fc-white:focus-within {&#xA;    color: var(--theme-button-color) !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CHhoK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CHhoK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(this user style can for example be used with Stylus &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openstyles/stylus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/openstyles/stylus&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;User script&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For users who prefer user scripts, here an adaptation of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/9443/revert-stack-exchanges-new-up-down-vote-buttons&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/questions/9443/revert-stack-exchanges-new-up-down-vote-buttons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name         SE Pen Nib Vote Buttons&#xA;// @description  modified from https://stackapps.com/questions/9443/revert-stack-exchanges-new-up-down-vote-buttons&#xA;// @match        https://tex.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @match        https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;(function() {&#xA;    let allbtns = document.querySelectorAll(&amp;quot;button[class^='js-vote-']&amp;quot;);&#xA;    let downsvg = document.querySelectorAll('.js-vote-down-btn .iconArrowDown');&#xA;    let upsvg = document.querySelectorAll('.js-vote-up-btn .iconArrowUp');&#xA;    let downpath = document.querySelectorAll('button.js-vote-down-btn svg.iconArrowDown path');&#xA;    let uppath = document.querySelectorAll('button.js-vote-up-btn svg.iconArrowUp path');&#xA;&#xA;    // set attribute values for the SVG elements&#xA;    downsvg.forEach ( x =&amp;gt; x.setAttribute('height','36'));&#xA;    downsvg.forEach ( x =&amp;gt; x.setAttribute('width','36'));&#xA;    downsvg.forEach ( x =&amp;gt; x.setAttribute('viewBox','-12.5 -36 23.5 36'));&#xA;&#xA;    upsvg.forEach ( x =&amp;gt; x.setAttribute('height','36'));&#xA;    upsvg.forEach ( x =&amp;gt; x.setAttribute('width','36'));&#xA;    upsvg.forEach ( x =&amp;gt; x.setAttribute('viewBox','-12.5 0 23.5 36'));&#xA;&#xA;    // set SVG path values to resize the SVGs themselves&#xA; 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background: none !important; }&amp;lt;/style&amp;gt;`);&#xA;    allbtns.forEach ( x =&amp;gt; x.style.setProperty('background-color','transparent','important'));&#xA;&#xA;    //revert :focus styles&#xA;    document.head.insertAdjacentHTML(&amp;quot;beforeend&amp;quot;,`&amp;lt;style&amp;gt;button[class^=&amp;quot;js-vote-&amp;quot;].s-btn:focus { box-shadow: none; }&amp;lt;/style&amp;gt;`);&#xA;&#xA;    //revert :active styles&#xA;    document.head.insertAdjacentHTML(&amp;quot;beforeend&amp;quot;,`&amp;lt;style&amp;gt;button[class^=&amp;quot;js-vote-&amp;quot;].s-btn:active { background: none }&amp;lt;/style&amp;gt;`);&#xA;&#xA;    //de-emphasize color brightness of buttons while leaving brightness of score&#xA;    //allbtns.forEach ( x =&amp;gt; x.style.setProperty('color','rgb(105, 111, 117)',''));&#xA;    document.head.insertAdjacentHTML(&amp;quot;beforeend&amp;quot;,`&amp;lt;style&amp;gt;button[class^=&amp;quot;js-vote-&amp;quot;].fc-black-700 { color: rgb(186, 191, 196) !important; }&amp;lt;/style&amp;gt;`);&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E5Fk7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E5Fk7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the script can be used e.g. with a user script manager like Tampermonkey, available for most commonly used bowsers &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tampermonkey.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.tampermonkey.net/&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2023-10-22T14:37:58.293" LastActivityDate="2023-10-22T14:37:58.293" Title="Changing vote buttons back to pen nibs" Tags="|discussion|design|voting|user-interface|user-script|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-17T15:32:18.493" Score="3" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would to to know what is how I can  to contact Stack Exchange Staff to send a private message via email or through a private form. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/contact?referrer=https://stackoverflow.co&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/contact?referrer=https://stackoverflow.co&lt;/a&gt;? Or this? &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/contact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastEditorUserId="117876" LastEditDate="2023-06-17T16:10:49.160" LastActivityDate="2023-06-19T19:31:34.793" Title="Contact Staff Stack Exchange or with form or an email" Tags="|support|stackexchange|request-for-information|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10082" CreationDate="2023-06-19T19:31:34.793" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link for the staff is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/contact&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117876" LastActivityDate="2023-06-19T19:31:34.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10091" CreationDate="2023-07-07T03:31:50.507" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering about statistical data for questions on a specific Stack Exchange site. For example how do we determine the average number of views per question in say Mathematics SE for a certain period. Other detailed statistical questions can be explored, as in what is the probability density function of number of views, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1849/how-can-we-explore-the-content-of-tex-sx&quot;&gt;How to explore the content&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10827" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-07-07T19:14:32.700" LastActivityDate="2023-07-10T17:45:19.273" Title="How to find the average number of views" Tags="|discussion|support|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10090" CreationDate="2023-07-07T19:13:47.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your best source for statistical (or raw) data is using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; where you can search for existing queries, or build your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/213319/average-views-per-question-by-month&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This query&lt;/a&gt; provides average views of &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;code&gt;PostTypeId = 1&lt;/code&gt;) and average views for &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; with a score &amp;gt; 0 per (post creation) month. &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/1768201/average-views-per-question-by-month?FromYear=2016#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A modified version of this query&lt;/a&gt; limits it from a user-specified year:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iHYG9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iHYG9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-07-10T17:45:19.273" LastActivityDate="2023-07-10T17:45:19.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2023-07-15T07:49:53.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The icon on the farest right opens a drop down menu. There is a link to the chat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zdZ8G.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zdZ8G.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the button with marked &amp;quot;chat&amp;quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9075" LastActivityDate="2023-07-15T07:49:53.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-07-19T04:49:53.513" Score="7" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself in an unexpected situation. I've been working with an AI provider (who shall remain nameless) to use the pgfplots package to provide a graph with separate, but synchronized, axis (one on the left side and one on the right) with the appropriate titles, 'tick' marks and labels for each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought to myself, the answer should be simple for an entity that contains all of human knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that was not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were certain details on the labelling of the right pgfplots ordinate axis that the AI could not address. The AI and I were able to get very near to the end, but only so far before the AI simply stopped offering solutions, and started making suggestions that I should consult other sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I never would have expected to be in this situation, SE has for years been a stalwart companion to resolve too many instances where I needed assistance. On the other hand, if memory serves, SE may not be sanguine with the idea of acting as a backup to an AI bot. I'm just not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am posting here to ask, before I go any further, if it would be appropriate for me to post an MWE of the pgfplots LaTeX code in it's last incarnation here on SE to see if anyone has any ideas that the AI bot did not to complete the vision I had for my particular graph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may very well be that pgfplots simply cannot accommodate what it is I am attempting to do. The limited research I have done seems to suggest pgfplots can do what I want, but I am not an expert on pgfplots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave this issue here for now and await to hear what the community decides. If the SE community approves, I will post the pgfplots MWE code for others to commiserate on. If not, I'll pursue other avenues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213365" OwnerDisplayName="RosesBouquet" LastEditorUserId="47927" LastEditDate="2023-07-20T13:38:49.353" LastActivityDate="2023-07-24T19:04:50.173" Title="Asking a question about a (partly) AI-generated PGFPlots graphic" Tags="|discussion|policy|artificial-intelligence|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10093" CreationDate="2023-07-19T19:48:53.513" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Turning my prior comment into an answer:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally see no problem with you posting what you achieved so far, be it with the help of an AI bot or not. At least I will be happy trying to help and I am sure others around here will, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The animosity against AI on this site is rather related to answers I would say: Answers that are generated by an AI should not be posted here in general (there might be exceptions), especially not without prior testing whether this answer really works. There exist a wide range of arguments about why AI generated answers are more likely harmful than helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as for questions, I would argue, that posting some AI constructed (non-working) code is totally fine, especially if you already tried to fix it on your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47927" LastEditorUserId="273733" LastEditDate="2023-07-19T21:03:11.510" LastActivityDate="2023-07-19T21:03:11.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10093" CreationDate="2023-07-24T19:04:50.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the question posted on main (posted after this meta question suggested it was fine) and the question indeed seems ok, reasonably focussed and answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for completeness/future reference I would like to add an answer here that this workflow, i.e., working with an AI chatbot to generate code and asking here to tweak some details, may not be the best approach. Again, in this case it worked out ok, but in general this may lead to questions that contain code or details that distract from the core question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be best, as for all questions, to reduce the question to the core issue, in this case how to display a left and right y-axis where the left one has scientific notation and the right one has the same numbers but in simple notation. For an MWE that means you would remove essentially everything (i.e., all axis options, all addplots (or leave one with just f(x)=y), the legend etc., and just display the simplest possible plot with two axes in some range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the advantage that the question is maximally focussed and easier to answer. It will be more searchable and reusable for future visitors. And furthermore, it will increase your understanding of &lt;code&gt;pgfplots&lt;/code&gt; in a more fundamental way. Currently the answers that you got (although they contain useful explanations) are more or less the final step of your interaction with the AI bot, i.e., the answerers acted as the bot trying to improve the existing code (and succeeding where the bot could not). If the question would have been fully minimal then you would have needed to take that final step yourself, which would have improved your knowledge and skill more robustly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side effect such a minimal question would be easier to identify as a duplicate, for example of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/621570/pgfplot-with-two-y-axes-not-showing-correct-ytick-values&quot;&gt;Pgfplot with two y-axes not showing correct ytick values&lt;/a&gt; which has the same solution as given in the answer by Rmano on your current question - minus the exact positioning with log10(1050) etc, but you said you only wanted an approximate correspondence so just putting the second set of tick marks at equal distances would have worked fine I think, and if not then you could search for questions on how to position y ticks (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/428288/yticklabels-and-ytick-wont-work&quot;&gt;yticklabels and ytick wont work&lt;/a&gt;) or how to use calculations inside tick mark position lists (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/425277/89417&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/425277/89417&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2023-07-24T19:04:50.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-03T15:50:21.893" Score="8" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a dialog box on SE (all sites, not just this one) that capitalizes it as &amp;quot;TeX-LaTex Stack Exchange&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems odd to me, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia uses a capital X in LaTeX&lt;/a&gt;. That said, I'm not super active on this site. The lack of spacing surrounding the hyphen also seemed odd. What is the preferred capitalization for the site name? Also, should there be spaces around the hyphen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus question: after reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2008/use-dashes-in-page-titles-instead-of-hyphens&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;, what's the correct dash (or hyphen) to use in the site name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267218" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-08-26T00:15:36.913" LastActivityDate="2023-08-26T00:15:36.913" Title="What is the preferred capitalization/spacing for the name of this site?" Tags="|discussion|design|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-08-05T20:04:28.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a kind of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/391847/202073&quot;&gt;agreement&lt;/a&gt; on stackexchange meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has agreed to allow the removal of content based on a single strong indicator of GPT usage, or on several weaker indicators. Effective immediately, the interim standards that we have agreed on will serve as policy until a more permanent policy is established with the help of the broader community, including determining further heuristics and what category they will fall into. Moderation should follow the standard escalation for suspensions, beginning with a warning and then escalating suspensions if infractions continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastActivityDate="2023-08-05T20:04:28.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10096" CreationDate="2023-08-13T15:46:14.727" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Capitalization first.  The &amp;quot;X&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;LaTeX&amp;quot; is definitely capitalized.  First, it is based on &amp;quot;TeX&amp;quot;; second, that is the way it is rendered by LesLie Lamport in his definitive manual that launched LaTeX publicly.  (What does the &amp;quot;La&amp;quot; represent?  Leslie won't say, but he did say, at a DECUS meeting many years ago, that one could say &amp;quot;LayTeX&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;LahTeX&amp;quot;, anything but &amp;quot;ELL Ay TeX&amp;quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why is the &amp;quot;X&amp;quot; capitalized?  As explained by Knuth in Chapter 1 of &lt;em&gt;The TeXbook&lt;/em&gt;, it is a roman-letter rendering of &amp;quot;tau epsilon chi&amp;quot;.  To make it distinct, the &lt;code&gt;\TeX&lt;/code&gt; logo was created, with the lowered &amp;quot;E&amp;quot; to make it distinctive, and because &amp;quot;epsilon&amp;quot; is not a tall letter.  (Nowhere is it explained clearly why the &amp;quot;T&amp;quot; is uppercase; perhaps because it's the initial letter of a proper name.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An attempt was made by the AMS (the American Mathematical Society) to register this as a trademark.  But Honeywell Information Systems, which had already registered &amp;quot;TEX&amp;quot; as a trademark for their &amp;quot;Text EXecutive processor&amp;quot;, complained by means of a stern letter from their lawyers, insisting that the name be changed.  But word got around in the computer science community, of which Honeywell was also a part, and the high level of community support for Knuth persuaded Honeywell to withdraw their demand.  &amp;quot;TeX&amp;quot; was agreed as a compromise, as long as the &amp;quot;e&amp;quot; is lowercase in situations where it's not possible to render the actual logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, a number of bibliographic services and tools still don't manage to get this right.  But anyone who knows the background can help by watching for correct usage and pointing out infractions when seeing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding hyphens vs. dashes, I will agree with the answer to the cited question that endash is more appropriate than an emdash.  I will avoid saying anything about the spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastActivityDate="2023-08-13T15:46:14.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-14T20:32:20.660" Score="7" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can users ask questions regarding WYSIWYM typesetters that bear similarities to TeX? For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://sile-typesetter.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SILE&lt;/a&gt; owes a lot of its syntax from TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="302437" LastActivityDate="2023-08-15T09:30:41.633" Title="Can I ask questions about typesetters that are not strictly variants of TeX in tex.se?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10099" CreationDate="2023-08-15T09:30:41.633" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that that it would be very confusing to ask sile specific questions (and in general a bad place to ask if you want to have it answered by people knowledgeable about sile). Of course questions asking for comparisons between the two may still be on topic.  Mathjax for example is (for math at least) much closer to tex than sile but is generally considered off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2023-08-15T09:30:41.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10049" CreationDate="2023-08-17T22:24:02.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask the question to ChatGPT...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should AI answers be banned on TeX.se?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is its answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, I'm not aware of any specific discussions or decisions on banning AI-generated answers on TeX Stack Exchange (TeX.se). However, I can provide some perspectives on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The decision to ban AI-generated answers or any other type of content on a platform like TeX Stack Exchange would likely depend on the community's goals and the potential impact of AI-generated content on the quality and integrity of the platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros of allowing AI-generated answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Increased Speed and Quantity: AI can generate answers quickly and in large quantities, potentially helping users get answers faster.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assistance in Complex Problem Solving: For particularly complex problems, AI might be able to offer unique insights and solutions that human users might not think of.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Additional Resources: AI could provide supplementary resources and references to further help users understand and solve their problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons of allowing AI-generated answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quality and Accuracy: AI-generated content might not always be accurate or reliable. Poorly trained models could provide incorrect or misleading information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lack of Understanding: AI may generate answers without truly understanding the underlying concepts, leading to solutions that are technically correct but not well-explained.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Diminished Human Interaction: One of the strengths of platforms like TeX.se is the human interaction and expertise shared. Overreliance on AI might reduce the human-to-human engagement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the TeX Stack Exchange community were to consider banning AI-generated answers, they might base their decision on factors such as maintaining the quality of answers, ensuring the content is understandable and accurate, and preserving the collaborative and educational nature of the platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important for the community to have a clear and well-informed discussion on the topic, considering both the potential benefits and drawbacks of allowing AI-generated answers. Keep in mind that opinions on this matter can vary widely, and the final decision would ideally reflect the consensus of the community and the platform's mission. For the most accurate and up-to-date information, I recommend checking the TeX Stack Exchange website or community discussions directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14500" LastActivityDate="2023-08-17T22:24:02.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-21T20:17:58.337" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of the time the questions I ask on the TeX stack exchange regard projects using specific class/style files (.cls, .clo, .sty, fonts, etc.). My approach to these questions has been to provide the relevant TeX code in the question and set up an online TeX repository (on Overleaf, repl.it, tutorialspoint, or similar online services), which functions as a MWE, containing all the relevant files. However, people on SE dislike outside links for various reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the norm here for such questions? I don't see a way to upload the files to the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167553" LastActivityDate="2023-08-22T00:07:14.990" Title="Uploading custom cls file" Tags="|discussion|questions|asking-questions|mwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10102" CreationDate="2023-08-22T00:07:14.990" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very rare to need an entire custom class. Almost always you can use a standard class, or failing that a publicly available class, and add whatever custom code is needed to the preamble of the test file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making such a file helps narrow down the problem for anyone trying to help and protects the question (which is archived forever) from changes at an external link such as an overleaf project&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2023-08-22T00:07:14.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-22T16:02:14.973" Score="2" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/694038/parenthesis-sizing-within-macro&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was closed because 'it needs more details or clarity'. However, nobody has queried any aspect of the question, and it has already received a useful answer. What am I supposed to clarify or explain better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262745" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-08-24T00:26:30.990" LastActivityDate="2023-08-24T10:54:22.323" Title="What is wrong with my question?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10104" CreationDate="2023-08-23T21:00:33.773" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the question was reasonably clear (at least clear enough to get an answer that was useful for you), there were two things that could have been better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A minimal example (MWE) was missing.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is bad because now Mico had to write all the code himself, including inventing some math with different heights. You could have taken the time to provide this and make answering easier.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is also bad because no documentclass or other packages were given. This may lead to a solution that does not work for your actual document, which is frustrating for you and for the person that writes the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question asked for &amp;quot;the most effective/elegant way&amp;quot;. This is opinion-based and unclear, as you don't provide criteria for when something is effective and/or elegant. It is more or less implied in the question what you mean, and indeed the answer shows a method that can reasonably called effective and elegant, but it would have been better if you had asked a concrete question such as:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to define a macro &lt;code&gt;\func&lt;/code&gt; that when called as &lt;code&gt;\func{x}&lt;/code&gt; it produces output that looks like &lt;code&gt;f \left( #1 \right)&lt;/code&gt;, and when called as &lt;code&gt;\func{\frac{x}{y}}&lt;/code&gt; produces output that looks like &lt;code&gt;f \Bigl( \frac{x}{y} \Bigr)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that these two issues have prompted people to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89417" LastActivityDate="2023-08-23T21:00:33.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10104" CreationDate="2023-08-24T02:34:48.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close the question as &amp;quot;Opinion-based&amp;quot; because of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the &lt;strong&gt;most effective way&lt;/strong&gt; to achieve the same thing within a macro? Of course, I could just define \funcbig, \funcBig etc., but &lt;strong&gt;is there a more elegant way&lt;/strong&gt;?   &lt;em&gt;[emphasis mine]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/54917&quot;&gt;a long-standing bug, only one close reason is listed&lt;/a&gt;, despite the fact I don't think that the question &amp;quot;needs more details or clarity&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/694038/timeline#history_7e323be1-1768-4bbb-9f88-7046505cdc1b&quot;&gt;edited out the offending phrases&lt;/a&gt; and voted to reopen the question. Enough votes have accrued, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/694038/timeline#history_ffff1b70-eb88-4b3c-9b26-f23803af8620&quot;&gt;so the question has been successfully reopened&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270600" LastActivityDate="2023-08-24T02:34:48.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10104" CreationDate="2023-08-24T10:54:22.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted for closing as “unclear”. You wrote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a macro that typesets its arguments inside a set of parentheses &lt;code&gt;\left(...\right)&lt;/code&gt;. For simplicity, let's say it's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\newcommand{\func}[1]{ \ensuremath{ f \left( #1 \right) } }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;though the real one has more symbols in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you mean by “more symbols”? Different function symbols than &lt;em&gt;f&lt;/em&gt;? Maybe. Large arguments? No, because &lt;code&gt;\left(&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\right)&lt;/code&gt; would suffice. You also say that this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the code you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, everybody should know that &lt;code&gt;\ensuremath&lt;/code&gt; isn't good for this job and that &lt;code&gt;\left&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\right&lt;/code&gt; don't really solve the issue of large arguments, but this might go in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question lacks examples of use and it's not possible to guess what you have in mind, so the question is unclear and should be either edited or closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4427" LastActivityDate="2023-08-24T10:54:22.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10109" CreationDate="2023-08-30T20:31:12.980" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/protein&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;protein&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag for those of us in protein/enzyme/peptide engineering but when I tried to add synonyms, it wouldn't let me as I do not have sufficient rep/score in the &lt;code&gt;protein&lt;/code&gt; tag or for another reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst we are a small niche, we still use TeX and friends extensively and lots of my questions on my profile concern it or ancillary purposes. Proteins, enzymes and peptides are composed of amino acids, the main difference being that peptides are less than ~20 amino acids in length, proteins don't typically possess catalytic activity whilsts enzymes do. All 3 possess amino acids as their main structure (ribozymes comprises nucleotides for catalytic activity, it is for the ribozyme engineers to proposes that!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to help this site with our biochemical stuff to help future readers, I am working on a package called &lt;code&gt;aminosymb&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;aminosymb-lua&lt;/code&gt; for my protein/enzyme packages I have created for my PhD, but I was wondering on how this site feels about making &lt;code&gt;peptide(s)&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;enzyme(s)&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;protein(s)&lt;/code&gt; synonyms to each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conventional Chemistry packages, whilst incorporating some of our material in protein engineering, don't quite make it specific enough. I am aware a serious developer of Chemistry packages, Joseph Wright, is active so hopefully the difference is understood by our little niche that does this. For instance, the &lt;code&gt;enzyme is:question&lt;/code&gt; search yields 43 results, &lt;code&gt;protein is:question&lt;/code&gt; yields 162 results and &lt;code&gt;peptides is:question&lt;/code&gt; yields 7 results for 212 questions that could potentially be similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the thoughts on these synonyms please and what next steps could be taken? I have never proposed a synonym before so not sure how this site works for it, forgive me if this post is unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273733" LastActivityDate="2023-08-31T12:55:36.470" Title="Synomyns for a newly created tag suggestions, namely protein tag" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10108" CreationDate="2023-08-31T12:55:36.470" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the candidate synonyms don't currently exist as tags, there's probably limited benefit to creating a synonym, the bar for creating a tag is not high so no &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enzyme&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enzyme&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enzyme&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-enzyme-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;enzyme&lt;/a&gt; suggests very few would use it if it existed (directly or as a synonym), although it's possible the tag has frequently popped in and out of existence in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because a synonym could exist doesn't make it valuable, questions which already exist are findable if appearing in a search for &lt;code&gt;enzyme&lt;/code&gt;, can be added to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/protein&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;protein&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;protein&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-protein-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;protein&lt;/a&gt; where appropriate, and wouldn't benefit from a tag synonym. Not that most of the existing questions from &lt;code&gt;protein is:question&lt;/code&gt; should be retagged, most of them wouldn't lose meaning if you replaced the instances of &lt;em&gt;protein(s)&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;lorem ipsum&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also unsure (not a chemist/biochemist) that, if they both existed, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enzyme&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enzyme&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enzyme&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-enzyme-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;enzyme&lt;/a&gt; would be an exact synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/protein&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;protein&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;protein&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-protein-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;protein&lt;/a&gt;, they might co-exist frequently (which isn't a problem for tags), but looking at the  questions returned by &lt;code&gt;enzymes is:question score:2&lt;/code&gt;, they all seem to me to either be enzyme/catalyst-specific (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/445801/106162&quot;&gt;Drawing enzyme with TikZ&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/74763/106162&quot;&gt;Easy way to write below arrow (\arrow{-U&amp;gt;}) in chemfig?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/137056/106162&quot;&gt;Anchor point seems incorrect for Chemfig package&lt;/a&gt;) or incidental to proteins/enzymes altogether (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/413826/106162&quot;&gt;How do I align these inline bullet points?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/413826/106162&quot;&gt;How do I align these inline bullet points?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/676929/106162&quot;&gt;How can I change a sentence based upon input to a command?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/180976/106162&quot;&gt;Bioinfo.cls leads to strange ignoring of header&lt;/a&gt;). So while a synonym may aid discovery of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/protein&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;protein&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;protein&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-protein-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;protein&lt;/a&gt; tag, I would be concerned about automatic retagging losing some of the meaning the user wants from an &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enzyme&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enzyme&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enzyme&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-enzyme-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;enzyme&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106162" LastActivityDate="2023-08-31T12:55:36.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-06T19:13:19.490" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/695263/infinite-page-or-finite-pages-depending-on-how-viewed&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Infinite&amp;quot; page or finite pages, depending on how viewed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is NOT a duplicate of the question to which it was redirected, since it contains an additional question not at all included in that question nor addressed by the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a thread on meta to which one posts requests for reopening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the person who redirected it read more carefully?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13610" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-09-06T20:23:57.690" LastActivityDate="2023-09-14T04:23:55.450" Title="erroneously closed question" Tags="|support|duplicates|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10110" CreationDate="2023-09-06T20:22:42.657" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've voted to re-open the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question can benefit from the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A minimal example&lt;/em&gt; that creates a simple document that spans a number of pages. This will make it clear what document class and setup you're using to produce your output. This way answerers don't have to reinvent the wheel, however small a wheel it may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;visual&lt;/em&gt; of what the different output should look like between the PDF and its non-paginated counterpart. This will make it clear to the answerers what you expect as an output. This would circumvent questions like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should the unpaginated output also be PDF, or HTML?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do you want to indicate the page break on the unpaginated output?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clarity on what you mean by &amp;quot;depending on how [the document] is viewed.&amp;quot; The ultimate output will be electronic, so the assumption is that there will be two different electronic versions, yet you mention a physical print-out and an electronic PDF view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2023-09-06T20:22:42.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10113" CreationDate="2023-09-07T01:39:06.230" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to write an answer on StackExchange using better styling for the names of the different TeX engines. The upper/lowercase approximation in text looks silly and unprofessional. (BaCtRiAnCaMeLCaSe?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had hoped something like &lt;code&gt;$\LaTeX$&lt;/code&gt; would work, but nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried images, but it doesn't appear that I can make them inline with text. For example, this doesn't work &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zHFFO.png&quot; alt=&quot;LaTeX&quot;&gt; in the middle of a sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also tried HTML tags, sup and sub, to get L&lt;sup&gt;A&lt;/sup&gt;T&lt;sub&gt;E&lt;/sub&gt;X, but that is hardly better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any help is appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140192" LastActivityDate="2023-09-07T07:51:00.793" Title="How do I stylize the logos for TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX in an answer?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10112" CreationDate="2023-09-07T04:47:49.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't: we don't have MathJaX enabled on the site, and there is a longstanding convention that outside of TeX systems, the 'proper names' can be written in simple mixed case. (This was once important for TeX itself, as there was a trademark issue with another system of the same name.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2023-09-07T07:51:00.793" LastActivityDate="2023-09-07T07:51:00.793" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-08T06:55:06.187" Score="4" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, as a relative neophyte here, I was all excited to share my &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/695349/140192&quot;&gt;nifty answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question about making PDF files reproducible, but when posting it, I found that tex.stackexchange.com converted my &lt;kbd&gt;Tab&lt;/kbd&gt; character to spaces, which made my answer seem to be inexplicably broken to anyone who cuts and pastes it into a file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can sort of see why other stackexchange sites might want to untabify everything, but it doesn't seem to make sense here. Is there a workaround for this? Or maybe some toggle switch that the admins of tex.stackexchange.com can flip?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140192" LastActivityDate="2023-09-12T02:35:36.870" Title="Add literal Tab in answer?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10114" CreationDate="2023-09-08T07:22:18.057" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tabs are standardised by both plain TeX and LaTeX to spaces, so for almost all cases there is not really a need for 'us' to worry'. However, tab replacement is not controlled 'locally' for the site in any case: this is something that only the Powers can alter. I suspect it may be a feature of the editor system ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2023-09-08T07:22:18.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10114" CreationDate="2023-09-12T02:35:36.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must use the HTML entity &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#9;&lt;/code&gt; for the tab character. Since this only works in HTML, not MarkDown code blocks, you'll also need to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; for the &lt;kbd&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/kbd&gt; character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you select this, you can see it has embedded tabs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;A&gt;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;lt;B&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above can be written on stackexchange as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;A&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#9;&amp;amp;#9;&amp;amp;#9;&amp;amp;#9;&amp;amp;#9;&amp;amp;lt;B&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Thanks and credit goes to @ulrich-diez who provided this brilliant answer at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/508103/140192&quot;&gt;https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/508103/140192&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140192" LastActivityDate="2023-09-12T02:35:36.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10120" CreationDate="2023-09-14T04:42:32.527" Score="9" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been pretty much going on an editing spree for answers with poor grammar. I want to make sure that it is allowed, since it is telling me I have too many pending edits and now I'm worried... In particular, is this considered spam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304098" LastEditorUserId="304098" LastEditDate="2023-09-21T09:19:14.380" LastActivityDate="2023-09-21T09:19:14.380" Title="Is it allowed to mass edit answers for grammar mistakes?" Tags="|discussion|editing|suggested-edits|spam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10119" CreationDate="2023-09-14T12:19:45.810" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't bulk edit old posts (*). One of the central concepts of the stackexchange site is that edited posts are bumped to the top of the active question page. This normally allows users to easily see if there are posts with new activity, for example if an OP has clarified their question or a post got a new and interesting answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Language edits aren't that exciting to see in the active question list. It is understandable that a post here or there might be improved with an edit and that's a nice thing to do. However if done in bulk, they will take over the active question list and re-direct the focus away from posts, which actually need the attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post is already on the top of the active question page, editing is normally OK. Just keep in mind that as long as you are below 2000 points, 3 people will have to review your edits. So make sure you write understandable edit summaries to make their job easy and take a second to check if your edit is actually useful for the post before causing work for 3 reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*) &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7317/community-effort-in-fixing-the-double-backslashes-issue/7326#7326&quot;&gt;unless there are very special circumstances, like Stack Exchange Inc invalidating thousands of posts and then refusing to help fix them.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36296" LastEditorUserId="36296" LastEditDate="2023-09-15T08:02:49.193" LastActivityDate="2023-09-15T08:02:49.193" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-16T20:19:51.400" Score="13" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;An aspect of learning about the concepts that underlie TeX and LaTeX is learning how to apply terms correctly that are TeX jargon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it on topic to ask about how to apply terms of TeX jargon or about their meaning on the main site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of a question about TeX jargon (using TeX jargon/terminology for naming things in TeX correctly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the delimiter of a delimited argument to be considered a component of that argument?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user301872" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-09-18T19:52:43.950" LastActivityDate="2023-09-18T19:52:43.950" Title="Is asking questions about TeX jargon on the main site okay?" Tags="|support|off-topic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10119" CreationDate="2023-09-16T20:26:49.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually the following does not focus on whether it is allowed, but on whether it needs to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to do a proper edit, one needs to get the gist of the posting.&#xA;If one can get the gist of the posting, why edit it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the posting is the &amp;quot;baby&amp;quot; of the author and if something needs to be done, it is up to the author in first place. Therefore I prefer suggesting edits to the author of a post via chat or comment to doing the edit oneself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that suggesting edits via comments is not 100%ly in line with the company's policy regarding comments. Therefore, nowadays part of my commenting-policy is that I delete comments of mine myself when I realize that they turned obsolete. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said &amp;quot;it is up to the author in first place&amp;quot;. Of course, if an author of a posting cannot be reached any more, another way of handling the matter is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From time to time with postings of mine I experience someone editing in order to make the text more readable. As English is not my first language I usually am thankful for that. In cases where the gist of the explanation gets distorted/turned into s.th. wrong, I undo the edit and add a note about the subtlety of why the attempt of explaining in the way of the one who edited would yield s.th. wrong. I do so as that info might lead to a better understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118714" LastEditorUserId="118714" LastEditDate="2023-09-18T20:50:25.543" LastActivityDate="2023-09-18T20:50:25.543" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2023-09-18T19:48:34.327" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is definitely on topic for the main site, as jargon deals with (La)TeX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastActivityDate="2023-09-18T19:48:34.327" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-22T05:27:46.987" Score="-7" ViewCount="782" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/393127/168244&quot;&gt;post in Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; that is seeking some volunteer sites to test an adjustment of voting privilege (currently set at &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;15 to upvote&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;125 to downvote&lt;/a&gt;). There are a few changes, but the highlights are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would change for sites participating in this test?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three main privilege changes happening here as part of our test:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation required to cast upvotes is changing from 15 to 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation required to cast downvotes is changing from 125 to 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 1 reputation cost to downvote answers will be removed&#xA;We will notify logged-in users with &amp;lt;125 rep to let them know that they can vote with a popup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To understand motivations for new downvoters, the first few downvotes from a &amp;lt;125-rep user would require them to explain their downvote - this information will not be posted anywhere, but will instead be collected by our research team and bucketed into categories so that we can better understand reasons people downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our community's voting behaviour is most likely different from other sites. Even so, we do have many new users who take part in our platform, so the base of contribution here might be big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we volunteer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvote&lt;/strong&gt; = Support this test&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote&lt;/strong&gt; = Oppose this test&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider adding an answer or comment explaining your motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2023-09-26T17:02:14.587" LastActivityDate="2023-10-02T12:45:57.857" Title="Do we want to volunteer to test the lowered voting privilege?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|voting|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10127" CreationDate="2023-09-25T20:05:15.310" Score="6" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm working on a LuaLaTex project for which there are, as far as I know, only three appropriate fonts in existence, all of which I have to upload to use and all of which produce the issue I'm trying to deal with. But if I put together an MWE using a standard font, the issue doesn't crop up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to post a useful MWE on &lt;code&gt;tex.stackexchange&lt;/code&gt; referring to a specific, non-standard font?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215301" LastActivityDate="2023-09-25T21:12:17.717" Title="How to provide an MWE if my question is about the behavior of a specific font I've uploaded to the project?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10126" CreationDate="2023-09-25T21:12:17.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the fonts are proprietary, then there’s not too much you can do except for mention that those fonts are the ones that caused the problem and hope that somebody has a version of them. If the fonts are available freely, but not part of the standard distribution you can just provide a link to the font. It would be important, in either case, however, to give a minimal example that would reproduce the problem with the font that you’re using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2693" LastActivityDate="2023-09-25T21:12:17.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10129" CreationDate="2023-09-27T07:29:36.837" Score="11" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is missing an important feature: a button for copying &lt;code&gt;LaTeX&lt;/code&gt; code and co to the clipboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6880" OwnerDisplayName="projetmbc" LastEditorUserId="249944" LastEditDate="2023-09-27T16:39:36.670" LastActivityDate="2023-09-27T16:39:38.717" Title="Better experience on this website - Copying code to clipboard" Tags="|discussion|status-declined|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10128" CreationDate="2023-09-27T08:04:34.563" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be possible, but stackexchange powers declined adding it. There's a long thread on the main meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32625/shortcut-or-button-for-copying-posted-code-from-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Shortcut or button for copying posted code from Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be so useful, I keep meaning to add one of the user scripts that adds it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that is a very old thread, and some of the earlier excuses for not adding this refer to security. At the time there was no standard clipboard API and the common way was to use a flash plugin which had &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot; security implications. That hasn't been an issue for a decade or more. All common browsers provide native clipboard access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you install a user script (greasemonkey or similar) there are several available scripts that would add a copy button for stackexchange sites, but it would be better if one was there by default (or Ctrl-a Ctrl-c was adjusted to select all of a code block, not the whole page, which would also be possible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2023-09-27T08:04:34.563" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10128" CreationDate="2023-09-27T16:39:38.717" Score="-18" Body="&lt;p&gt;After discussing this with the other CMs, we've decided to decline this request. We already has enough issues with folks copying and pasting without attribution, so this would require further investigation to determine whether it would be worth implementing (and how to mitigate the risks). Our developers also have limited bandwidth to investigate and implement this at the moment, so this isn't something that's likely to be implemented in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, you can use the workarounds of simply copying and pasting manually, or using a userscript as others have suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249944" LastActivityDate="2023-09-27T16:39:38.717" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10124" CreationDate="2023-10-02T12:45:57.857" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest: &lt;strong&gt;Yes, provided StackExchange Inc. promises to help mods clean up the mess in case the experiment goes badly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut feeling is to agree with the major reservations expressed by others. I’d expect this to lead to more “engagement” in the short-term, but to hurt the quality of the community (both content and atmosphere), and hence to hurt all aspects, including engagement, in the longer-term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the proposed experiment is relatively short (1 month), so it seems the worst-case scenario is a big mess of low-quality voting and other activity to clean up.  Expecting the mods to deal with this unsupported would be a big ask, but if StackExchange is willing to support the mods with some custom tooling and/or person-hours, then it seems it should be pretty reasonable. Some ideas already proposed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/393127/if-more-users-could-vote-would-they-engage-more-testing-1-reputation-voting-on&quot;&gt;the meta.SE thread&lt;/a&gt;: a script to revert votes/activity that wouldn’t have been possible with the existing thresholds; perhaps an “abort button” that the mods can hit to end the experiment early if it’s clearly causing problems — of course, the mods will know best what would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I think it’s in our long-term interest to work with StackExchange Inc on things like this.  If we’re too conservative about helping them to figure out ways to make the network profitable enough while keeping what makes it good, then they will surely switch back to just imposing changes on us without consultation.  I’m skeptical that this particular proposed change would be good, but I think SE’s &lt;em&gt;approach&lt;/em&gt; to it is good, and we should reward that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastActivityDate="2023-10-02T12:45:57.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-10-21T06:36:09.847" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;When search for a problem of my latex file, I found the answer in this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/267277/latex-error-file-ieeetran-cls-not-found&quot;&gt;! LaTeX Error: File `IEEEtran.cls&amp;#39; not found&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest voted answer solved my problem precisely, and apparently did the same for many other users, as the answer has 29 votes and 27K views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the question is closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2063/how-can-i-manually-install-a-package-on-miktex-windows&quot;&gt;How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows)&lt;/a&gt;, which is way more specific than the original question, since it only deals with miktex on windows, and not the general error. The closure could be said to be &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; in a sense, but only if one considers a comment by the OP, where he specifies using windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for the general case asked in the question and answered in the answer section, it seems non-nonsensical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my meta-question is the following: Is it valid for a question to be closed just based on a comment by the OP, without considering the general case that is asked in the question and covered in the answers? Or alternatively should this question be reopened, as the posted (correct) answer is not covered in the duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people may say that it's pointless to reopen a question that is already well answered, but in my opinion reopening would make sense for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the future, a better answer could be posted, due to changing technology, or just by someone wanting to expand further on the problem and the solution (the actual answer is quite terse).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It sends a wrong message that the question is covered by the duplicate, when in fact it isn't, so people click on a link that isn't useful in many cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32925" LastEditorUserId="32925" LastEditDate="2023-10-21T06:43:58.187" LastActivityDate="2023-10-21T17:02:53.543" Title="Should a question be closed based on a comment of the OP, when the best answer is not covered by the duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|duplicates|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10132" CreationDate="2023-10-21T16:42:58.783" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a reasonable question, and shows a limitation of how this forum works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question where you found your answer is about Windows, but that was only identified in a comment, and never added to the question itself.  The answer that solved your problem is for Linux, so even though it's a great answer for Linux, it's not relevant to the actual question.  Even making the tagging more specific wouldn't have helped you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the circumstances, the decision to close seems reasonable to me, although I wasn't among those who voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps adding a new, very specific, well-defined and well-tagged, question, would be an appropriate resolution, copying in (as an answer) the &amp;quot;irrelevant&amp;quot; answer with proper attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, there's a meta question titled &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2419&quot;&gt;Often referenced questions&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, where one of the categories is &amp;quot;Installing, updating, restoring, other system operations&amp;quot; with a subcategory &amp;quot;Installing packages&amp;quot;.  One of the items there addresses Linux systems, with an answer containing the information that helped you, although in a less compact form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorUserId="579" LastEditDate="2023-10-21T17:02:53.543" LastActivityDate="2023-10-21T17:02:53.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-01T17:01:57.093" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I just wanted to report the following:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; I received this notification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/epyTj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/epyTj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; However, when I went to check it, I got&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PaZBU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PaZBU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102342" LastActivityDate="2023-11-01T17:01:57.093" Title="Unmatching views count between question counter and badge earned" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-20T08:53:02.920" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/701131/eb-garamond-percentage-glyph&quot;&gt;EB Garamond percentage glyph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closing message says that the comments should explain why the question was closed. I don't think they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could argue that the question as formulated is not strictly about TeX but I think that the accepted answer is very much about TeX so I am not convinced. Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastActivityDate="2023-11-20T08:53:02.920" Title="Should a question be closed for being off topic if it has an accepted answer that is on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2023-12-04T09:40:52.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new user asked for a kind of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/702992/adding-diamonds-to-the-line-between-nodes-in-forest-diagrams?noredirect=1#comment1748905_702992&quot;&gt;checklist to turn a short code snippet into a MWE&lt;/a&gt;. Here's a starting point, as many new members may face similar problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1. Requirements of a MWE&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides all the details mentioned in this question, a few requirements always need to be fulfilled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] the code compiles or reproduces the compilation error, when some member copies it into his/her La/TeX environment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] it show all, what's needed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] it removed code, packages etc., which are not needed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] it shows your problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2. Assumptions to execute this checklist&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you opened a new file, best in a new location&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you repeat the compile-cycles with each and every step mentioned below&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;3. Checklist&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;3.1 Minimal syntax&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you started with a suitable &lt;code&gt;\documentclass{}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you placed &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt; and ended with &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;3.2 Adding your code snippet&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] it's now at a useful place between &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you added the relevant package(s) you know your code will need via &lt;code&gt;\usepackage&lt;/code&gt; and/or &lt;code&gt;\usetikzlibrary&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you commented out/removed all packages, code lines etc., which are not needed to demonstrate your problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;3.3 Final steps&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] make sure, it  compiles or reproduces the compilation error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] make sure, you followed syntax from Latex and packages you need to use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] make sure, it still shows your problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] clean-up the code a little (consistent formatting, delete not needed parts etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] create a screenshot from your codes result, if useful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] check/rethink what you are going to tell and ask&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;3.4 Post it&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you described your problem and attempt(s)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you posted the screenshot image, if useful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[_] you posted and marked your code from &lt;code&gt;3.3&lt;/code&gt; as code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example 1: you can make it compile&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;X1: as posted&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code is taken as an example for this checklist from this &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/699845/tensile-load-a-load-that-stretches-or-pulls-the-body-or-structure-along-its-leng#comment1739533_699845&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, which actually doesn't ask anything ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;\draw[thick] (0,0) -- (4,0); % rod&#xA;\draw[-&amp;gt;,&amp;gt;=stealth] (0,0) -- (-1,0) node[left] {$P$}; % left force&#xA;\draw[-&amp;gt;,&amp;gt;=stealth] (4,0) -- (5,0) node[right] {$P$}; % right force&#xA;\node[below] at (2,0) {Tensile load};&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A compile results in several errors, where the first one is the relevant message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JqdLe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JqdLe.png&quot; alt=&quot;error1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like it's a good idea to load the &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; package ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;X2: following aboves checklist 3.1 and 3.2&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one now compiles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[10pt,border=3mm,tikz]{standalone}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;\begin{tikzpicture}&#xA;\draw[thick] (0,0) -- (4,0); % rod&#xA;\draw[-&amp;gt;,&amp;gt;=stealth] (0,0) -- (-1,0) node[left] {$P$}; % left force&#xA;\draw[-&amp;gt;,&amp;gt;=stealth] (4,0) -- (5,0) node[right] {$P$}; % right force&#xA;\node[below] at (2,0) {Tensile load};&#xA;\end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vMo48.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vMo48.png&quot; alt=&quot;result2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the code may need some clean-up, both for better read-ability and improving the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, as a novice, THIS is your problem (&amp;quot;I'd like to show ... but don't know the syntax for it&amp;quot;), that's a good thing to ask in your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you provided a MWE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we see your attempt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you stated a goal, which you can't reach at the moment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;X3: step 3.3 almost finished&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you present here depends on your experience with Latex. Something you can always do is introducing consistent formatting (indents, way of commenting etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are experienced enough with the package, which is &lt;code&gt;tikz&lt;/code&gt; in this case, try using its features to clean-up code. This is my result, after asking myself: &amp;quot;what does the member want to show?&amp;quot; Probably he/she wanted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a thick rod&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;two forces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that's what I tried to emphasize&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[10pt,border=3mm,tikz]{standalone}&#xA;\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA; \begin{tikzpicture}[&#xA;    arr/.style={-&amp;gt;,red},&#xA;    &amp;gt;={Stealth},&#xA;    ]&#xA;    \draw[line width=3pt]   (0,0) -- (4,0); % rod&#xA;    \draw[arr]      (0,0) -- (-1,0) node[left] {$P$}; % left force&#xA;    \draw[arr]      (4,0) -- (5,0) node[right] {$P$}; % right force&#xA;    \node[below] at (2,0) {Tensile load};&#xA; \end{tikzpicture}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c9TAr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c9TAr.png&quot; alt=&quot;result3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example 2: you can't make it compile at all&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/702992/245790&quot;&gt;forest-code&lt;/a&gt; is used as an example to show, what you can prepare, when compilation continues producing errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Y1: as posted&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following code was created somehow and posted, which obviously doesn't pass the syntax check in &lt;code&gt;3.1&lt;/code&gt;. It doesn't compile and complains about &amp;quot;missing forest&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    \begin{forest}&#xA;        for tree=draw,&#xA;        [Main(), [Level Setup],[Game], [Win_Game()]]&#xA;    \end{forest}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ilIGa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ilIGa.png&quot; alt=&quot;errorA&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Y2: following the checklist&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the code starts looking more like a MWE, it still doesn't compile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[10pt,border=3mm,tikz]{standalone}&#xA;\usepackage{forest}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;    \begin{forest}&#xA;        for tree=draw,&#xA;        [Main(), [Level Setup],[Game], [Win_Game()]]&#xA;    \end{forest}&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6yqDy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6yqDy.png&quot; alt=&quot;errorB&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point you may decide to post after completing steps 3.3 and 3.4 as good as possible, and ask for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, the forest code still has some errors in itself. The difference to the code snippet is that you removed almost all guessworking about your code before you post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To verify, you might e.g. replace the forest-environment by some code from the forest manual. If it compiles, you know the MWE status is fine. You can mention that together with posting the problematic code above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245790" LastEditorUserId="245790" LastEditDate="2023-12-04T16:43:44.847" LastActivityDate="2023-12-04T16:43:44.847" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2023-12-04T09:40:52.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-12-04T15:37:32.507" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95058&quot;&gt;This post on the solution of &amp;quot;Could not start the command:&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, I wrote the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another probable situation is you (maybe unintentionally) typed two consecutive spaces '&lt;code&gt; &lt;/code&gt;' in the file name. If you require your filename to have two consecutive spaces for some reason, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/529144&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it was deleted. I think my answer neither coincides with others', nor is off-topic. (I met the situation myself, and has consulted to the first post. Therefore I add the answer to add one possibility.) Why is it downvoted and removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="303488" LastEditorUserId="303488" LastEditDate="2023-12-04T15:54:16.363" LastActivityDate="2023-12-04T15:54:16.363" Title="Why this one of my answer is removed:: &quot;Could not start the command:&quot; probably because the filename has two spaces?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-13T06:44:35.197" Score="12" ViewCount="660" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a recent &amp;quot;poll&amp;quot; here on Meta.TeX.SE asking about the use of generative AI in answers. Read all about it here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10049/5764&quot;&gt;Should AI answers be banned?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The results from that discussion were mixed. However, current network policy is to disallow AI-generated answers. While there's no effective way of moderating this (as there's no guarantee of always getting true positive/negative evaluations from posts by heuristics), &lt;em&gt;content moderation of such answers is allowed&lt;/em&gt; (see the discussion under the heading &lt;strong&gt;AI-generated posts&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/391847/168244&quot;&gt;Moderation strike: Results of negotiations&lt;/a&gt; ; also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10097/5764&quot;&gt;accepted answer here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consequence is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/395881/168244&quot;&gt;a request from Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; to have a per-site discussion on whether or not to place a banner at the top of the answer box stating that AI-generated answers are not allowed. A pilot was recently graduated on SO; here is a visual of the banner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fy4N7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fy4N7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current proposal, if the community wants this banner, is to have one of the following options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will initially offer two banner text options that all sites in the Stack Exchange network can opt-in to. Those options are the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reminder&lt;/strong&gt;: Answers generated by artificial intelligence tools are not allowed on TeX - LaTeX. Learn more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reminder&lt;/strong&gt;: Answers generated by artificial intelligence tools must be cited on TeX - LaTeX. Learn more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both options have a &amp;quot;Learn more&amp;quot; link, which will point to a help center article, whose contents should also be a part of the community discussion - this article should explain what the site's policy on AI-generated content is (here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/ai-policy&quot;&gt;SO's article&lt;/a&gt;, as an example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The banner will display once users select the answer field, removing the ability to show the &amp;quot;new contributor&amp;quot; banner. All users will see this banner when posting an answer with the option to dismiss. Once dismissed, logged-in users will not see this banner again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;For Action&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Participate by casting a vote to this question either in favour of such a banner (up-vote) or against it's display in the answer box (down-vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to add a general item of discussion on this topic or propose content related to a specific help center article, please post an answer below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no real success in this endeavour (minimal voting, a close-to-zero score with plenty of votes, or complete community disinterest with a large negative score, for example), the status quo will probably remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update (Feb 10, 2024)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The response to this question has very low. A total of 17 votes (14 in favour and 3 against). That doesn't sound like sufficient evidence to make a decision either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, StackExchange has made the decision to roll out a network-wide Help Center article that will become available as of February 14th, 2024 (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/396626/168244&quot;&gt;Proposed changes to Help Center articles to include mention of AI-generated content policy&lt;/a&gt;). This article will contain the default messaging related to AI-generated content as mentioned in the Code of Conduct, which is that it should be cited (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/393682/168244&quot;&gt;Is uncited LLM usage considered a CoC violation under the Inauthentic Usage policy?&lt;/a&gt;). Sites can update the article to suit their individual needs/recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Debate around the activation of a banner is still open as &amp;quot;no site will have either banner on by default&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2024-02-10T06:22:11.103" LastActivityDate="2024-02-10T06:22:11.103" Title="AI-generated content policy banner in answers. Do we want them?" Tags="|discussion|answers|announcements|chatgpt|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10140" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2024-01-13T06:45:31.053" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2024-01-13T06:45:31.053" LastActivityDate="2024-01-13T06:45:31.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10141" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2024-01-13T06:45:31.053" Score="0" Body="For questions about Stack Exchange announcements, or announcements from the Stack Exchange team that detail recent changes across the network." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2024-01-13T06:45:31.053" LastActivityDate="2024-01-13T06:45:31.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10142" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2024-01-13T06:46:13.060" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2024-01-13T06:46:13.060" LastActivityDate="2024-01-13T06:46:13.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10143" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2024-01-13T06:46:13.060" Score="0" Body="For questions about ChatGPT (and its ilk) as it relates to the Stack Exchange Network (e.g. AI-generated answers)." OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2024-01-13T06:46:13.060" LastActivityDate="2024-01-13T06:46:13.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10139" CreationDate="2024-01-15T21:11:19.900" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted down (no banner) the network policy of allowing each site to make its own policy, but only offering a choice of one of two fixed texts for the banner makes little sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many levels of AI use and it doesn't make sense to ban everything. Chatgpt for example is very good at English but not that good at TeX. If someone for whom English isn't a first language writes a good technical answer but then asks chatgpt to re-write the English prose should that be banned? Is it logically any different from writing the answer in French then getting google translate to write it in English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second banner intends I think that any such answer adds &amp;quot;written with the help of ...&amp;quot; although as @cfr commented, what it actually says doesn't make sense. So that would be more or less acceptable, but not reliably enforcable and serves no practical use. A bad answer is a bad answer whether or not AI was used to generate it, and similarly a good answer is a good answer. I can't see that it matters how the answer was constructed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1090" LastActivityDate="2024-01-15T21:11:19.900" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-22T14:23:29.160" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/707587/124071&quot;&gt;This question of mine&lt;/a&gt; was just closed as unclear. I haven't really received any feedback as to what people find unclear. One user said they didn't understand the question and suggested to rework the title, but that's not really much for me to go off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this is totally fair. It is very common to know you don't understand something, but to not be able to explain why. Noone owes me that explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am taking what I view as the next step, and asking a broader audience.  How do I clarify my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124071" LastActivityDate="2024-01-22T14:23:29.160" Title="What is unclear about my question?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10139" CreationDate="2024-01-23T13:14:41.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I share the same opinion as @marjin in the comment replies to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10139/a#10144&quot;&gt;this post by David Carlisle&lt;/a&gt; on the current question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Human-written bad answers have certain characteristics given below that are immediately obvious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very short&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Out of context (if copied and pasted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easy to judge the direction in which the person is going&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If human content is any longer than a paragraph, it requires some effort to make it at least appear meaningful. This is not the case with AI-generated content, where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is very easy to generate long answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers almost always seem relevant to the context at hand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if no solution exists for the current &amp;quot;thing&amp;quot;, AI can still generate a solution by taking components from other things and adapting them to the current context, making it difficult to determine if it will actually work or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answerer is willing to put in the effort to write a good answer, per can certainly use AI for perself and use those hints to &lt;em&gt;form&lt;/em&gt; per's own answer. In this case, having the citation guidelines (the second proposed option above) will help, requiring citation for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;model&lt;/strong&gt;* (e.g.: OpenChat Aura)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;client&lt;/strong&gt;* (e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.lmsys.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://chat.lmsys.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;prompt&lt;/strong&gt;* (e.g.: &amp;quot;How to accomplish this using context typesetting?&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;parameters&lt;/strong&gt;*:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;temperature: (e.g.: 0.2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;top P: (e.g.: 0.2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if there is no deterrent to AI answers, the positive use (the latter point) will be far outnumbered by poor quality, unverified mass AI postings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other factors that don't help in motivating quality AI answers include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE (Stack Exchange) does not allow flagging answers based on whether they are correct or not, which doesn't help with this situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most popular LLMs (Large Language Models) do not provide options (temperature, top-p, etc.) to tune the generation, and many people don't know or use them either, resulting in more &amp;quot;creative&amp;quot; answers than &amp;quot;definitive&amp;quot; answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if the generator is tuned to &amp;quot;definitive&amp;quot;, the &amp;quot;mold other related things to the current one&amp;quot; aspect still applies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;The comment from @cfr motivated a very nice summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Problem&lt;/strong&gt; is that the answers from AI can't be &lt;em&gt;easily&lt;/em&gt; determined if they are problematic or not; and require good amount of effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Enforcement&lt;/strong&gt; is to eliminate direct AI answers, whether problematic or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Idea&lt;/strong&gt; is that the non-problematic AI answer is &lt;em&gt;substantially&lt;/em&gt; vetted by the answerer perself before posting for fear that if done otherwise &amp;quot;guidelines explicitly warned&amp;quot;, so &amp;quot;downvotes&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;negative comments&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;mod actions&amp;quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- cfr &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;If problem is &amp;quot;can't spot problematic answers&amp;quot;, how's the rule¹ supposed to be enforced? Is the idea that [it₁] serves a purpose [regardless]?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206969" LastEditorUserId="206969" LastEditDate="2024-01-26T07:02:06.750" LastActivityDate="2024-01-26T07:02:06.750" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-24T16:39:51.597" Score="8" ViewCount="108" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks — folks like you. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference in ensuring Stack Exchange sites remain a valuable source of high-quality content on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2023 (and January 2024… ahem) and move into 2024, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmN7M.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on TeX - LaTeX over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community User¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community²&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;23&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags 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right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ This refers to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² This refers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of TeX - LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes). The community² can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁸ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9034/2022-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2022: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222023%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/396299/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2024! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75272" LastEditorUserId="75272" LastEditDate="2024-01-24T18:41:52.783" LastActivityDate="2024-01-24T18:41:52.783" Title="2023: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-27T03:30:06.270" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;My browser refuses to follow links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://texample.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texample.net&lt;/a&gt; on the grounds that the site is not available via &lt;code&gt;https&lt;/code&gt;. But earlier questions link to the site using &lt;code&gt;https&lt;/code&gt; e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/707594/problem-with-tikzpicture-and-matrix-for-flowchart&quot;&gt;most recent such question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warning suggests to me something bad has happened and I'm being directed to an imposter, say. But I'm guessing the site has automatically changed &lt;code&gt;http&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;https&lt;/code&gt; and the reality is less sinister: the site simply hasn't made the leap to &lt;code&gt;https&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to figure out whether the site made the changes or the &lt;code&gt;http&lt;/code&gt; is an imposter? There's no edit history, but I wouldn't expect any if the url was altered as part of an automated mass change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2024-01-27T03:30:06.270" Title="Links to texample.net use https but site seems to use only http" Tags="|support|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10139" CreationDate="2024-01-30T00:46:47.937" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people are asking the wrong question. The question isn't whether to remind people of site policy on AI-generated content. It is whether to single this policy out for special treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to convey the importance of a message is to repeat that message again and again. If a single message is repeated every time somebody writes an answer the implication is clear: this message is extremely important. If the message is repeated over and over to the exclusion of all others, it must be of overwhelming importance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better question might be: Is TeX SE's policy on AI-generated content one we want to draw &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; attention to? It's not enough to think the policy matters. Do we want to give this degree of priority to this policy &lt;em&gt;as opposed to any other&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is no. I see no evidence that violations of TeX SE's policy on AI-generated content are causing problems which justify prioritising that policy, let alone doing so to the exclusion of all others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39222" LastActivityDate="2024-01-30T00:46:47.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-06T17:31:12.437" Score="7" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/708840/file-perpage-sty-not-found-makeperpage&quot;&gt;File `perpage.sty&amp;#39; not found. \MakePerPage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and with the help of a commenter, answered it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A while later, the question was marked as a dupe of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/73016/5640&quot;&gt;How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;despite the fact that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question did not regard a Linux system&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question clarified that there was no need to explain how to install individual packages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer to my question involves an implicit dependency between two packages within TeXLive - a matter not addressed by answers to the supposed-dupe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I explained some of this on the bug page, and yet - the question was marked as a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, first, I ask for your help reopening it; but second, I am puzzled by this situation. When I was more active here on TeX.SX I did not experience this kind of over-aggressive closures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2024-02-14T13:28:53.423" Title="Question unreasonably marked as dupe" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10150" CreationDate="2024-02-06T23:47:44.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;What to do about OP's question?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it's not a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/73016/5640&quot;&gt;How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?&lt;/a&gt; - but there is a different existing question, which generalizes OP's predicament:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/274536/5640&quot;&gt;Find the right package for missing files in TeXlive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and its answer solves OP's problem. It would be fair to mark OP's question  as a dupe of this one. But it was not until after the discussion here on meta that @UlrikeFischer pointed me there (thank you Ulrike :-) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Dupe-marking admonishment&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users appear to have forgotten when questions should be marked as dupes of other questions. Quoting our &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates&quot;&gt;help center page on the matter&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fundamental goal of closing duplicate questions is to help people find the right answer by getting all of those answers in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, if a new question Q2 has an immediately-serviceable answer as an answer to an existing question Q1 (and assuming the two question are at least somewhat related etc.) - Q2 can, and perhaps should, be marked a dupe of Q1. However, if the answer to Q2 is &amp;quot;Take action A&amp;quot;, and Q1 is &amp;quot;How do I perform action A?&amp;quot;, then Q2 should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be marked a dupe of Q1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2024-02-06T23:47:44.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-12T18:13:04.257" Score="4" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am quite hesitant to post here, but as of today I can't log into the TeX SE chat room. I can log into the main site just fine but when I attempt to enter the chat room I get a reminder that I must have 100 reputation points, which obviously I have. When I attempt to &amp;quot;complete the login&amp;quot; by clicking at the bottom of the page I get a stalled page that doesn't do anything. Have I done something wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="218142" LastActivityDate="2024-02-13T17:40:52.700" Title="Why can I not log into the chat room?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10152" CreationDate="2024-02-13T17:40:52.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem was apparently a known transient issue and has been resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="218142" LastActivityDate="2024-02-13T17:40:52.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10150" CreationDate="2024-02-14T13:28:53.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1. Indirection level&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fundamental goal of closing duplicate questions is to help people find the right answer by getting all of those answers in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, if a new question Q2 has an immediately-serviceable answer as an answer to an existing question Q1 (and assuming the two question are at least somewhat related etc.) - Q2 can, and perhaps should, be marked a dupe of Q1. However, if the answer to Q2 is &amp;quot;Take action A&amp;quot;, and Q1 is &amp;quot;How do I perform action A?&amp;quot;, then Q2 should not be marked a dupe of Q1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, it makes sense. In practice, chances are the following will happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the answer to Q1 lists 5 different cases to follow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone independently rewrites that for Q2, but because the new answer is less well-tested, misses some edge cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2. Solving the problem isn't all there is to an answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though &amp;quot;how to install package&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;how to find the correct package name to install&amp;quot; together solves the problem, the information given in the new answer is still &lt;strong&gt;useful&lt;/strong&gt; --- that the user is informed that the package is &amp;quot;supposed&amp;quot; to be available by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in this case, there is already a top answer that does not (incompletely) duplicate the target question, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; provides useful additional information that would otherwise not be there, it should be kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that un-logged-in users will be automatically redirected to the argument question when they click on the link e.g. from search engine result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;General clean-up&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is indeed a problem that the target question states it's Linux, which makes users (like the OP here) unhappy with the duplicate closure. Looking at the questions and the answers, I think there's no harm to edit the title of the question to say &amp;quot;TeX Live&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Recommendation for the OP&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I know how to install TeXLive and individual TeXLive packages, please stop marking this as a duplicate of a question about doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;maybe it would be better to &lt;strong&gt;demonstrate&lt;/strong&gt; it by rephrasing the question to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have already fixed the issue by installing &lt;code&gt;tlmgr install ⟨somepackage⟩&lt;/code&gt;. However, I would like to know why in my default installation ⟨explain what is your default installation⟩ does the error occur, because [I assume that if &lt;code&gt;footmisc&lt;/code&gt; needs &lt;code&gt;perpage.sty&lt;/code&gt; - it should have installed it.].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250119" LastActivityDate="2024-02-14T13:28:53.423" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10156" CreationDate="2024-03-03T05:59:01.830" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/712014/50146&quot;&gt;Are there visual illustrations on the struggle of Word on formatting in comparing with LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt; is closed for being opinion-based. How is it be different to the rest of &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/big-list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;big-list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-big-list-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;big-list&lt;/a&gt; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4256/50146&quot;&gt;Do we follow StackExchange rules?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50146" LastActivityDate="2024-03-03T10:00:53.670" Title="When are big-list questions not opinioned-based?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|big-list|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10155" CreationDate="2024-03-03T08:03:43.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;[big-list]&lt;/code&gt; questions tend to be either showing equally-valid approaches with some critiera (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides&quot;&gt;the IDE one&lt;/a&gt;), or  demos of (La)TeX concepts which have some 'artistic' element (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/509692/big-list-of-beautifully-typeset-package-documentations&quot;&gt;Big list of beautifully typeset package documentations&lt;/a&gt;). In the first case, the reader can use the criteria to choose the answer they like best. In the latter, the 'sales pitch' is for people &lt;em&gt;already using (La)TeX&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue with &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/712014/are-there-visual-illustrations-on-the-struggle-of-word-on-formatting-in-comparin,&quot;&gt;Are there visual illustrations on the struggle of Word on formatting in comparing with LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;. to me, is that it's about Word vs LaTeX. That makes it opinion-based - comparison with non-TeX software is a matter of opinion that's out-of-scope, as anyone reading the site should assume we have already made that judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, I don't see that it would really &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt; as a big-list question - but that's a secondary thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2024-03-03T08:03:43.783" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10155" CreationDate="2024-03-03T10:00:53.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well already the title of your question was opinion based: You asked only about struggles in Word with the implicit assumption that LaTeX is &amp;quot;struggle free&amp;quot; and that you are looking for some nice &amp;quot;Word bashing&amp;quot; examples. But a fair &amp;quot;big list&amp;quot; comparision should also show the things that are easier in a text processor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2388" LastActivityDate="2024-03-03T10:00:53.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10160" CreationDate="2024-03-03T16:44:02.700" Score="-1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tex is a notorious typesetting tool, but it's not the only one. I wonder why shouldn't the site scope be broaden to that? That includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Typesetting theories&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Typesetting industry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Typesetting tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course one can propose a new site, there is no problem in keeping the current scope. But if there is no harm and there are benefits for that, then we can make use of the current knowledge and user bases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I understand about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typesetting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Typesetting - Wikipedia&quot;&gt;Typesetting - Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, only TeX is the dominant player in the field. (Word or InDesign are not typesetting tools obviously). So non-TeX questions wouldn't swallowed TeX questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50146" LastEditorUserId="50146" LastEditDate="2024-03-04T04:31:12.147" LastActivityDate="2024-03-05T08:51:16.843" Title="Should the site scope be broaden to typesetting?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10158" CreationDate="2024-03-05T08:51:16.843" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. This site is meant to focus on typesetting/programming using TeX (and its derivatives and closely related software) and it should stick to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typesetting in general is too broad a topic to be covered on this site and it has so many aspects (think of typesetting math, music, in a certain language, on specific materials using a certian technique ...) which alone are worth discussing on their own site. Cartain aspects of typesetting are therefore better asked at &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://academia.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://math.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; or somewhere else entirely (maybe even on a new site) depending on the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typesetting can actually be done using a huge variety of tools (digital as well as analog). You say that TeX is the dominant player which to my understanding can only be true if exclude all tools that are not programming languages explicitly dedicated to typesetting. But if we say that this site is about &amp;quot;programming languages explicitly dedicated to typesetting&amp;quot; this feels just like rephrasing things and using a description of TeX in exchange for its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you actually &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; typeset using whatever programming language you choose. If we expand the scope of this site to typesetting (even in the most narrow sense), the original focus on TeX might well vanish completely and people won't be able to find answers to questions related to TeX. Finally, TeX can do more than only typesetting, and questions related to such things are on-topic on this site currently, whereas they might not be if we change the scope as you suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47927" LastActivityDate="2024-03-05T08:51:16.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2024-03-07T04:08:48.140" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;ConTeXt&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite being geared towards LaTeX, the other answers are all still broadly&#xA;applicable to ConTeXt (so go read those first!). However, there are a few important differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A small, but &lt;em&gt;completely valid&lt;/em&gt; ConTeXt document looks something like&#xA;this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-tex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\starttext&#xA;    Hello, world!&#xA;\stoptext&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Beginning and Ending the Document&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With LaTeX, &lt;code&gt;\begin{document}&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;\end{document}&lt;/code&gt; are the only valid ways&#xA;to start and end the document. With ConTeXt, you have a few more&#xA;options. Options that are recommended for MWEs are in bold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Begin&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;End&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Description&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;\starttext&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;\stoptext&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most common method.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\startdocument&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\stopdocument&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Runs &lt;code&gt;document:start&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;stop&lt;/code&gt; setups. Useful for title pages.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\startcomponent&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\stopcomponent&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;For large, multi-file documents.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\startproduct&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\stopproduct&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;For large, multi-file documents.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;\startTEXpage&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;\stopTEXpage&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A single page tightly wrapped around its content.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\startMPpage&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\stopMPpage&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;A single MetaPost page.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Document Classes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ConTeXt does not use document classes. Style modules&#xA;(&lt;code&gt;\usemodule[&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;]&lt;/code&gt;) and environments (&lt;code&gt;\environment &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) are&#xA;roughly equivalent to LaTeX document classes; however, there are no&#xA;“standard” styles or environments—it is expected that every user will&#xA;define their own. But answerers won't have access to your custom styles,&#xA;so you should copy any relevant content into your MWE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Packages&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with LaTeX, it's best to remove any unnecessary packages from your&#xA;MWE. However, the average ConTeXt document uses zero packages, so this&#xA;is rarely an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sample Files&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Images&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-tex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\startTEXpage&#xA;    \externalfigure[sys:///cow.pdf]&#xA;    \externalfigure[sys:///hacker.jpg]&#xA;    \externalfigure[sys:///mill.png]&#xA;\stopTEXpage&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Text&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-tex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\starttext&#xA;    %%% Short&#xA;    \samplefile{jojomayer}&#xA;&#xA;    %%% Long&#xA;    \processcommalist[&#xA;        bryson, carrol, davis, douglas, greenfield, jojomayer,&#xA;        klein, knuth, linden, lorem, montgomery, sapolsky, stork,&#xA;        thuan, tufte, ward, weisman, zapf&#xA;    ]{\par\samplefile}&#xA;\stoptext&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Bibliography&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your MWE doesn't depend on the exact contents of the bibliography,&#xA;you can use one of the built-in bibliographies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-tex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\usebtxdataset[mkiv-publications.bib]&#xA;\usebtxdefinitions[aps]&#xA;&#xA;\starttext&#xA;    One \cite[article]&#xA;    two \cite[phdthesis, book]&#xA;    three \cite[authoryear][inbook].&#xA;&#xA;    \placelistofpublications&#xA;\stoptext&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, you can include the contents in a buffer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-tex prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;\startbuffer[bibliography]&#xA;    @Book{texbook,&#xA;        author = {Donald Ervin Knuth},&#xA;        title = {The {\TeX}book},&#xA;        publisher = {Addison--Wesley},&#xA;        address = {Reading, MA},&#xA;        year = {1984},&#xA;    }&#xA;\stopbuffer&#xA;&#xA;\usebtxdataset[bibliography.buffer]&#xA;\usebtxdefinitions[apa]&#xA;&#xA;\starttext&#xA;    \placelistofpublications[method=dataset]&#xA;\stoptext&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fonts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ConTeXt documents tend to use non-standard fonts much more frequently&#xA;than LaTeX documents. Try and stick to the fonts &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_distribution%27s_Fonts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;included with&#xA;ConTeXt&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;or &lt;a href=&quot;https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/opentypefonts.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;included with TeX&#xA;Live&lt;/a&gt; if your issue&#xA;isn't about a specific font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Version&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LaTeX has been on the same major version for 30 years, and it almost&#xA;never makes breaking changes, so the version isn't usually relevant.&#xA;However, ConTeXt currently has two extant versions—MkIV (LuaTeX) and&#xA;MkXL (LuaMetaTeX)—and breaking changes occur more frequently, so it's highly recommended to include your ConTeXt version somewhere in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get the version by running &lt;code&gt;context --version&lt;/code&gt; in a terminal, by&#xA;placing &lt;code&gt;\contextversionnumber&lt;/code&gt; somewhere in your document, or by checking the top of your log file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;system          &gt; ConTeXt  ver: &lt;b&gt;2024.02.27 09:21 LMTX&lt;/b&gt;  fmt: 2024.3.6  int: english/english&#xA;[...]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;system          &gt; ConTeXt  ver: &lt;b&gt;2023.05.05 18:36 MKIV&lt;/b&gt;  fmt: 2024.1.27  int: english/english&#xA;[...]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Testing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To figure out if there's a problem with your ConTeXt installation, you&#xA;can try running your MWE at &lt;a href=&quot;https://context-on-web.eu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ConTeXt on Web&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(no account or sign-in required). If it works there, then the problem is&#xA;likely with your installation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Documentation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With LaTeX, there are &lt;em&gt;tons&lt;/em&gt; of tutorials, “how-to” guides, example&#xA;documents, and previous questions, but there is quite a bit less&#xA;reference material. ConTeXt is the opposite: the reference material is&#xA;&lt;em&gt;excellent&lt;/em&gt;, but there’s not much beginner material or ready-made&#xA;examples. This can make “how do I do X” questions very difficult since&#xA;it’s hard to know where to start, but it makes “why doesn’t this work”&#xA;questions much easier since nearly every command is documented in&#xA;detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ordered by my subjective opinion of usefulness, some good reference&#xA;materials are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/qrcs/setup-en.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Command Reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?search=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mail-archive.com/search?a=1&amp;amp;l=ntg-context%40ntg.nl&amp;amp;haswords=ConTeXt&amp;amp;o=newest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mailing List (search interface)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/context&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;context&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-context-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt; Tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Documentation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Manuals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acontextgarden%2Fcontext&amp;amp;type=code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270600" LastActivityDate="2024-03-07T04:08:48.140" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2024-03-07T04:08:48.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-03-26T18:15:51.910" Score="0" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given this MWE;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\documentclass[12pt]{report}&#xA;\usepackage{fontspec}&#xA;&#xA;\def\ee{\=e\=e}&#xA;&#xA;\begin{document}&#xA;    sh\ee{n}g ur k\=asn&#xA;\end{document}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to eliminate the curly braces that prevent the macro processor from becoming confused and looking for another macro name? Similar to the way that &lt;code&gt;\=a&lt;/code&gt; does not consume the following s. I have just now noticed that the &lt;code&gt;\ee&lt;/code&gt; will consume the following space for reasons I do not have sufficient LaTeX-Fu to correct other than with a pair of closed braces &lt;code&gt;{}.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3850" LastEditorUserId="3850" LastEditDate="2024-03-26T19:14:04.890" LastActivityDate="2024-03-26T21:51:51.163" Title="Macro processor tries too hard without curly braces" Tags="|discussion|macro|prosessing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2024-03-26T21:52:01.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-03-30T13:55:25.647" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I tried to use the TeX &amp;amp; LaTeX search bar to find examples of code that use the macro &lt;code&gt;text_expand&lt;/code&gt; (a macro from the l3text module)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following lists what I tried searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;text_expand&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=text_expand&quot;&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;text_expand&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22text_expand%22&quot;&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;\text_expand&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Ctext_expand&quot;&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;\text_expand&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22%5Ctext_expand%22&quot;&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;code:\text_expand&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=code%3A%5Ctext_expand&quot;&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;code:&amp;quot;\text_expand&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=code%3A%22%5Ctext_expand%22&quot;&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all those searches, I got the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;We couldn't find anything for &amp;lt;&amp;lt;my input&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&#xA;Search options: &amp;lt;&amp;lt;options for my input&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&#xA;Try different or less specific keywords.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I tried searching &lt;code&gt;site:tex.stackexchange.com &amp;quot;text_expand&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; in DuckDuckGo &lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&amp;amp;q=site%3Atex.stackexchange.com+%22text_expand%22&amp;amp;ia=web&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt;, I found three results (see screenshot below.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NMVlq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NMVlq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't the search bar list those answers that are found by DuckDuckGo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224170" LastEditorUserId="224170" LastEditDate="2024-03-30T14:31:45.680" LastActivityDate="2024-03-30T14:31:45.680" Title="DuckDuckGo finds some answers that are not found by the search bar" Tags="|bug|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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